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Year: 1873

The day Mr.. Ruby across the way was
to be buried, Mrs. Moriaty told her
daughter Clarinda that she guessed she
would attend, as she wasn't feeling very
well, and ride would do her good
She knew there would be several COW
cred carriages furnished at the expense
of the family, and she was equally con-
fident it could be 30 managed that she
would occupy portion of one OF them.
She was among the first at the house,
and occupied a prominent position. AS
the other friends arrived she took oc-
casion to recall "reminiscences OF the
late Ruby that brought tears to their
eyes, and when the services were over,
as the first coach drove up for its load,
the distress of Mrs. Moriaty at the
death of Mr.. Ruby was so marked as
to excite the liveliest sympathy. Then
the second coach came up. Mrs. Mo-
riaty had got down to the gate by this
time, and as the door of the second
coach was opened, Snd call made for
the occupants, it seemed extremely
doubtful If she could hold up another
instant. She leaned against the post,
and stared into the coach, and over its
rich upholstsring, and said the late Ru'
by seemed more like son to her than o
neighbor. Whereupon the usher
looked appropriately sad, and called up
the third and last coach. This had yel-
low cushions and pink straps, and Mrs.
Moriaty didn't hesitate to protest that
in the death of Mr.. Ruby the commu-
nifty had met loss it was not possible
to recover from, and that she would fol-
low him to his last resting-place if she
had to do il on her knees, and would
feel grateful for the opportunity. Then
the third and last coach filled and drove
off to take its place in the line, and
Mrs. Moriaty dried her tears, choked
back the sorrow of her heart with one
mighty gulp, and strobe into her own
house. shutting the. front door without
the aid of the knob. She told Clarinda
that it was the scaliest affair she ever
went to, and had it not been for the
body there would have been no funeral
at all
Year: 1873

"She is o saint she is heroine|
This exclamation was made respecting
o lady, Mrs. -, resident in Nash
vile during the gloomy days OF June,
when large numbers of persons little
way beyond her residence were sick
and dying of cholera. The woman,
moved by the goodness and sustained
by the heroism of her noble heart,
devoted her days and nights to the
sick, the dying, and the dead. She
went in the darkness OF the night, in
the rain and mud, when the air was
loaded with pestilence, to the houses
of the sick. And she went not only to
speak words of cheer, but to do with her
own hands whatever could be done to stay
the progress of the disease, to relieve
the distressed, and to prepare the dead
for decent interment. When told that
she ought not to leave her comfortable
home and family, and expose health.
especially in going to the novels OF ,i
the poor, her reply was: 81 think 1t
would be wrong to neglect the sick and
dead at such time as this" On the
night after the day when so many
deaths occurred in the city we saw this
heroic woman at midnight preparing
corpse for burial. She did the hard
work thoroughly. She washed and
dressed the dead, carried ont the IN.
fected bedding and clothing, disinfected
the room, and quieted the bereaved
children. The world lauds the courage
of great men who risk their lives on the
battlefield; but do not those Nashville
ladies. who, like the one to whom we
now refer, braved the perils OF the pesti'
lence in the performance OF duties tc
the sick, dying, and dead, deserve even
higher need Of praise?
Year: 1873

The following is comparative statement of the
export of specie for p years from the port Of New.
York to foreign ports from JAM to Jan. e SS and
for the corresponding period of the undemoted
Year: 1873

The Legislature of Connecticut assembled at
Hartford yesterday, and Gov. Charles H. In
gersoll delivered the annual message, an
abstract of which will be found elsewhere
For the first time in twenty years the Demo
Gratis have one branch of the Legislature, with
all the State officers. They have. during that
period elected their State officers three tlmes'
but both branches of the Assembly have been
invariably Republican, so that they have never
had or scarcely shared in the responsibility Oh
legislation. This year they have the State
officers and the House, while the Senate is
Republican by one majority. The subordinate
officers, accordingly, in the organization OF the
Senate are Republicans, and in the House
Democrats.


The message of Gov. Ingersoll is we'll
written document, devoted very properly to
State affairs almost exclusively. He favors de-
cdedy the calling of Convention to revise
the Constitution, and states his reasons there
for with much force. With regard to the
Usury law, which was repealed by the last
Legislature, and which was so much question
in the late canvass that ex-GOv. English, who
was in the Legislature last year and urged
the repeal, was afraid to stand as candidate
for Congress on that record, and wrote letter
backing down from it. Gov. IngersOll says but
little, and that little in guarded way, simply
commencing the subject to the attention of the
Legislature. His only reference to national
politics is in the closing paragraphs of the
message, in which he comments fOrcibly upon
the corruption of the party of the Administra-
ton and the effects of Federal interference in
Louisiana. The message is dignifed in tone
and in excellent temper.


The Legislature enters at once upon its
work. The principal topics of Importance to
be considered by it are the revision of the
Constitution, the single capital question, the
rcenactment of the Usury law, which public
opinion seems to demand, and more or less of
general railroad and insurance legislation.
After so long an abstinence from power and
office it would not be strange if the Demo-
crats should be disposed to rush into unwise
and hasty legislation, to the damage of their
own future prospects but the Republican ma
jorty in the Senate will be likely to exercise
restraining influence and to save them from
indiscretion and folly.
Year: 1873

There is a gay young Massachusetts, preach
er in Pittsburg named White who appe rs to
be fuller of fun than is usual wita men Of his
cloth. 1t is said he lately drank too freely Of
old Monongahela and got on an unrighteous
spree. 1t would not have made so much
difference if the man White only had got
drunk, but in this case the preacher White
became tipsy and played tricks upon his
Office. He was roaming around generally,
and at length went to the Western Hotel
to take rest. Here he found young COM
pany enjo, ing themselves in one of the par
lors, and he gradually mingles with them
and talked himself into their federation, II
not c. nfidence. At length, to vary the pro-
gramme of pastimes, he proposed that there
should be a marriage, and said he was . good
preacher to perform the ceremony. They
agreed that he was and took up the idea.


A young man and young woman were


found who had never seen each other before
that night, and they consented to stand for
the groom and bride. Preacher White per-
formed the ceremony and pronounced the
couple man and wife. He then astonished
the company and especially the couple
aforesaid, by announcing very solemnly that
the marriage was no joke so far as he was
concerned, that he was duly ordained min.
lister and had tied a very hard knot. In this
extremity old Donaldson was sent tor, and
before him White testified that the couple
were legally and lawfully married. Nothing
further could be done then. TIE papers do
not state how the young couple finally settled
it. At last accounts they were consulting
whether, in their curious predicament, It were
better to take their wedding as joke or
q practical reality.
Year: 1873

In the parlors the narrow range of tbouoht
and conversation is even more noticeabls
than at the clubs. Here the ladies t',J,s set the
tone; and, kind as they usually are. bright
ana pretty as they often are, there d unmis.
taKaoiy among them an unconsciousness of
an outside certain narrow limits that custom
mas prescribed for them. The freedom and
gayety which are not uncommon in the par
iors OF Americans OF the best class will be
nard to find in the drawing-rooms of English
iashicnables. They talk, professedly. Upon
those common topics which should form the


ordinary conversation they do very well, and,
Year: 1873

Iloved him not-and yet, now he Is gone
feel am alone.
For reasons not to love him once sought
And wearied all my thought


To vex myself and him;
now would give my love could he but live
Who lately lived for me, and when he found


Twas vain, in holy ground
He hid his tace amid the shades of death.


waste for him my breath
Who wasted his for me, but mine returns


And this lorn bosom burns
With fervent heat, heaving it up in sleep


And waking me to weep
Tears that had melted his soft heart-for years


Wept he as bitter tears;
sGodr'-such was his latest prayer


"These may she never snare"
Quieter Is his breath, his breast more cold


Than daisies in the mould
Where children spell athwart the church-yarl cate


His name and lfe's brief state. 90
Pray for him, gentle souls, whoe'er We be.


And, oh, pray too, TOR me.


-Watter Savage Landor.
Year: 1873

A Louisville man who had only
been acquainted with his girl two
nights, attempted to kiss her at the
gate. In his dying deposition he
told the doctor that just as he kiss
ed her the earth slid out from un-
der his feet, aud his soul went out
of his mouth, while bis head touch
ed stars. Later dispatches show
that what allied him was the old
mans boot.
Year: 1873




Worse laws have frequently been enacted
and enforced without arousing one-tenth
the Indignation and odium. We don't un-
derstand that It increases the rate or grade
of taxation. One thousand dollars OF per-
sonalty is still exempt from taxation. The
law simply reaches out to ascertain II some
of us who used to report little less than
that amount haven't got little more now
An excess upon which we ought to pay a
tax. We now have to render schedule In
detail and swear to it, while formerly not q
few Of us ma le a rough guess and just
swore at the Pile. When the forms OF as
sessment are eimplifed, as they ought to be
at the earliest possible moment, so that the
average intellect Of the State can compre-
hend them, much that at the present time
seems so Objectionable and odious will dis
appAar. though even then there will be Of
fensiveness enough left in the law to make
it's repeal among the first acts Of the sue
ceeding Legislature.
But mind, we didn't set out to defend
| this obnoxious measure. We are not COM
| petent to do that, though sometimes there
is more pleasure in facing the bowling
storm than in quietly falling in with the
swelling popular current. We only intended
to suggest that, perhaps, there was more
noise icing made than the case really called
for, and that possibly the sober second
thought might show that some of us had
been making asses of ourselves without
| sufficient provocation. Ifthe business man
the banker, the bondholder, the brokers and
money-changers, they who loan at ten anc
twelve per cent. and compound the interest
every month, who take tithe, and mint and
| cumin-if th Sc can stand the new assess
ment law, surely the farmers can, for j
affects the last good deal less than th'
| others.
Year: 1873

LONDON, June "a dispatch from Dub
lin says great fire is raging in timber
yard Of that city. The crowd, whose OBJ
ject is plunder, are interfering with the ire
men and stoned them, and detachment Of
p lice were ordered out to preserve order
The latter charged on the mob, woundipg
many. The Mayor of the city was hit by
one of the stones. Intense excitement is
prevailing in the vicinity, and the scene
during the charge of the troops was fearful
Property to the value of one hundred thou
sand pounds sterlingpl has already beer
destroyed.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, d. T., June "a report
TO the Commissioner of Indian Aft 'irs from
Special Commissioner Kellogg at the Red
Cloud agency says the Indians there are
more friendly than be had been led to be
lieVe. The Commissioner cannot yet de-
termine in regard to the expediency of
stalioning troops at Che agency, but it may
De necessary to order mounted company
10 patrol on the other side of the river, as
much to prevent whisky trading as to stop
stock stealing.
Year: 1873

THERE was once an old woman who,
in answer to a visiting almoner's inqui-
ries as to how she did, said: 20, sir,
the Lord is good to me; I've lost my
husband and my eldest son, and my
Youngest daughter, and I'm half blind,
and T can't sleep or move about for the
rheumatism; but I've got two teeth left
in my head, and, praise and bless His
holy name, they are opposite each
other I" 1t has been said that tins old
woman was thankful for small mercles-


Oats should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for young one, because
the former through age and defective
teeth. cannot chew them properly The
young horse can do so, and they are
thus properly mixed with saliva and
turned into wholesome nutriment.
Year: 1873

THE FORTY -FOUR MILLION RESERVE.
There appears to be but little doubt now
among those in Congress prominently
connected with the committee on finance
that the $44, ,000, 900 reserve will be issued
by the Secretary of the Treasury. A
member of the ways and means commit
tee says the progress of the country de-
mands this issle, and when once out the
doubt which somewhat prevails as to the
authority of the Secretary to issue it will
be settled and dispelled.
Year: 1873

THE BANKRUPT LAW AND CIVIL
RIGHTS BILL.-At the meeting of the
House Judiciary committee yesterday
morning the ub-committee on the subject
reported bill providing for the total repeal
Of the bankrupt law, which was agreed
to, and will be reported at an early day for
the favorable action of the House. They
also agreed to report favorably the supple
mentary civil rights bill.
Year: 1873

New BRIDGE.-The city council have
recently erected u most substantial bridge
at the north end of Second street, across
Bacon's branch, but up to this time the
approaches to the abutnents (which are
elevated about ten feet above the original
bed Of the road) have not been filled.
Year: 1873

will be added to the amount Of said remaining
half OF the tax charged in every case where the
party assessed shall fail to pay said remaining
half within the time so limited" fsiF =.


"But in case any person having failed to pay
in the MONTH OF JUNE one-half of the city
taxes due from such person, shall fail to pay the
whole thereof on or before the 3lST DAY OF
DECEMBER, there shall be added ,s..irs
Year: 1873

FAST DRIVING. The weather for sew
eral days past has been, as we all know,
very warm and springllke, and, as mat
ter Of course. it is indeed pleasure to sit
behind spanking team and be hurried
along at lively rate. This is sometimes
an expensive business. Such it proved in
the matter of driver of wagon belong
ing to Moore & Goodwin, who was fined
81 by Justice White to-day for driving OF
a faster rate than the law allowed.
Year: 1873

A man named Weston was lately
murdered at farm house near Albany
y. Y, where he was stopping Weston
had friends in Brooklyn who set them
selves about discovering the murderer
and bringing him to justice. There
were three ladies in the farm house,
one of whom was a very pretty young
girl, named Mary Cochrane. 1t was
deemed necessary by the authorities to
secure the ladies', in case it might ar-
pear upon investigation that they were
in some manner connected with the
murder. They were accordingly TAX
en- to Albany, placed in a hotel, and a
trusty officer, Amos Il. Walker, was
selected to keep guard over them. He
performed his duties remarkably well,
and scarcely ever allowed the fair prls'
oncrs to be a moment out Of his sight.
1t was cherries and lonely outside ot
their apartments, and so he went Inside
to keep a closer watch upon them.


lie tried to make himself agreeable
and entertaining, and found his prison
crs very pleasant, especially one Of them
MARY. In fact he. so far from
thinking that Mary Cochranc could
have had anything to do with a muir
der, began to coas.dcr her the very best
woman in the word. On the other
hand, she regarded her jailor with a
growing respect, and the two watched
each other more aud more attentively.
When one evening, the officer told Ma
ry that he loved Err, and asked her to
allow him to watch over her for life,
she readily agreed 10 the proposiiion.-
The next day the prisoner and the
faithful guard were dEly married, and
officer Walker affords bright exam
pie of integrity in the performance OF
police duties. Business strictly attend
ed to sometimes becomes the greatest
pleasure of life.
Year: 1873

As for our own day, and its pro
gressive doctrines on this subject, they
hideously combine the spirit OF feudal
licence and classic sophistry with some


nsufferable new mixture of pharisaisn
proper to the spoilt Puritan. This last
trait, by the way, crops out in some re-
markable methods Of attatk by the re-
formers, which we pause to notice
Taking their stand as high moral ac-
cusers, they not only hurl unlimited
charge Of hypocrisy on the marriage
institution because some who are under
its VOWS break them by leading lives
of covert immortality, but they sweep
into the same catalogue of peijured sin
ners all those who, entirely faithful in
life and conduct, yet wander IN any
inmoSt thoughts from their married
mates.


Their favorite proo,-text for this dog
ma is saving of our Lord, rebuking
gross imaginations, whose monstrous
perversion to such an application is a
sufficiently fatas betrayal of what is
their conception of love. And on this
dogma they raise an unspeakable
creed whose whole practical outcome,
so far as it can oa spoken, is, that mas
much as by the wandering thought
above described marriage is instantly
broken, and inasmuch as to remain in
a broken marriage is a deadly sin,
therefore the aforesaid wandering
thought of another is not merely per-
mission but of the natuie of a divine
injunction to fee out of the false bonds
into the new ones, as from the wrath to
come. And snch a programme of vir-
tue is wound up by one Of the reform
ers with the sober aSsertion-"We are
austere moralists on MARRIAGE


So was Henry the, Eighth. lie aus
terely cut off the heads Of his series of
wives as fast as they dropped out o:
his fancy; if there was anything that
pure spirit was scrupulous about, it
was to have the old love well murder
cd as soon as he FL in with the new
Lulu Gray Noble, in Scri6ner's Mag
dztRe.
Year: 1873

RAILROAD. MANAGEMENT IN GrRNANY


-Decidedly..surprising it is 20 read o


the dangers to which the olidIhuigher:


Of solid German towns are exposed by


the eccentric notions ofTeutomic loco


motives. Instead of crushing each other
into metal tit for the scrap heap, the
railroad propellerS Of the new Empire
of William ! aid otto Won Bismsrk
seem to have a peculiar prediction for
flying from their tracks at 4 tangent
and penetrating tie massive walls OF
adjacent dwelling houses, and cntfench-
ing themselves firmly il dining room
and parlor. Recently in the famous
art town of Dusseldorf an e. gine came
crashing through the solid masonry Of
a tall and substantial warehouse. Says
one Of the owncrs of the wrecked
structure:


The locomotive had driven through
the warehouse, ha6broken through the
boards aud partition wall, and sto' d
putting Ivy the staircase beyond. q, ID
be praised, the house did not fall down.
But my next fear was that there would
be a fire. | could not reach the stair
case, the way being through smoke and
steam. climbed over little roof, by
means Of ladder, down to the yard
behind, in order to open the escape
valve. Unfortunately this was so
injured that it had become useless.
left the ladder lying against the end of
the house, to which my family had fed,
in order that they might escape from it
to the street, and this was DONE
Through the help of my own work
people, and of some thirty masons and
servants, further misfortune was averted.
| Immediately caused all the windows
to be propped and supported, in order
to prevent the falling of the gable,
which, up to the present moment, has
happily not occurred. The engine went
on snorting until half-past eleven. It
still remains in the house. aud it cannot
be removed for some days.


Evidently there is something wrong
in sthe usual well-m nageG railroad sys-
TEN of newly united Germany.
Year: 1873

INSURANCE DECIsIoY-A recent insurance deci.
sion in Boston will be of interest here. although
the decision may be OF no binding force In this
locality. A fire occurred which destroyed proper
" on which the insurance had inst previously ex
plred, and had no been formally renewed through
the neglect Of an insurance agent to collect the
newly accrued premium. The court decided
that the plaintiff should recover his Insurance. al
though lac had not paid his premium or actually
taken out his policy, the decision being based on
The facts demonstrated by the evidence that the
plaintiff lad made verbal contract with the
agent, lis custom having been TO insure with
that agent, aud to pay the premiums whenever
the agent sent TO collect them, A verv lAr0a
proportion of the insurance business done bv our
best companies As transacted through agents
who Aeep running accounts both with The COM
panies and their customers
Year: 1873

RHNARKABLE INSTANCE OF ANIMAL INSTINCT


Our readers are no doubt familiar with the his.


tory Of the celebrated dogs Of st. Bernard, and


the extraordinary feats performed by them in end


Ing and relieving travellers who lose their wav In


the d6ep snow Of the Alps mountains The story
of the remarkable sagacity and instinct of those


dogs lind counterpart in the following, which
occurred in our city the other day. A gentleman
from Crumpton, Nd, while visiting friend he-e
was presented with black and tan dog, which
lac GREATLY admired, ana which he took home with
him when he returned. PontO. however, was NOT
to be easily recODciled to his new home, and bv
some means getting lose from where he was tied.
started on IN search Of more congenial auarteFs'
taking hone which had been given him, along.
About o'clock on Saturday morning the former
oWner was awakened by the barking Of dog.
and hearing him scratching on the door, got up
to see what was the matter. On opening the door
Ponto picked up his bone from the step and
bounded in, glad once more TO get back home
On Monday the gentleman received lettsr from
hB friend IN CrumptoD, stating that POnto, to-
gether Wi:h the bone and part Of the rope, disap-
Deared from there sometime Wednesday niaht
The cars seem TO be the special object OF Pontos
IverSi0n since his return, and nothing can iRduos
i'm 70 topPProaeh the railroad.
Year: 1873

ANOTHER INNATE.-Joseph Edwards is the
latest inmate of the City Hospital He was form
erly painter, and was sent TO the hospital a few
| days ago being totally inCapaciaied for work, by
| Old age and infrmihes.
Year: 1873

breathing before she replied. Then
she spoke briefly, as seemed to be
her mind, for she was very pale
Her gentle answer fell like thunder
on my ear.


She was engaged to my brother
Malcolm.