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Year: 1871

A Coop BEGINNING FOR A RUSSIAN VIM
TER-Not the coming of the Grand Duke but
the fierce cold and heavy SHOWS of this rough
December. The weather last week, for instance,
in Vermont, was the coldost they have had
there for thirty-two years; and while over the
Great Plains the temperature has gone down
to thirty degrees below zero, the SHOWS on ths
Plains and in the Rocky Mountains have been
the heaviest known by the Oldest settlers so
early In the season. Even here, in New York,
where our wintry climate is softencd by the
air from the surrounding waters Of the sea,
our average temperature all through this
Year: 1871

TIE New CABINET OF ONTARIO. The
members of the old Ministry having placed
their resignation in the hands Of the Lieu
tenant Governor, he has lost no time in seek
ments of President of the Council and Premier,
Provincial Secretary, Commissioner of Agri-
culture, Immigration and Public Works and
Attorney General have been made. Accord
ing to our dispatches the other portfolios have
not been taken up.
Year: 1871

A GREAT SENSATION IN TENNESSEE and
Arkansas was yesterday occasioned by the
confirmation of report that mob of excited
negroes had taken possession of Lake City,
Chico county, Arkansas, after having Iynched
three men who were confined there charged
with numbering the colored lawyer Wynne
After shooting these men they put to flight
many respectable citizens, who left the place
for safety, not knowing but that the
colored mob might inaugurate Commune Of
their own pro tena., and despatch whoever else
happened to be opposed to their mode Of pro-
cedure.
Year: 1871

THx SAME OLD SToRY.-From the report
of the Board of Health, just out, we have the
pleasing information that the majority of the
streets in the city have not been cleaned at
all within the last month, and that in some Of
them where the sweepers have shown them
selves they have not disturbed onc-tenth part
Of the loose dirt. What can we do? Hav.
ing exhausted oil other sources of relief, we
can only appeal to Judge Bedfords Grand
jury
Year: 1871

THE WHEREABOUTS OF PETER B. SwEEYY.-
1t is customary, under the new reform dispen-
sation, to brand every person who has been
unfortunate enough to have been connected
with the Tammany city government, and who
happens to leave New York on business or
pleasure, as fugitive thief. The political re-
formers, indeed, appear to have so much to
occupy them in indiscriminate abuse of all
their political opponents that they could do
nothing to prevent the escape Of the real
rogues. Ex-Park Commissioner Peter B.
sweeny, who has been reported to have fed
from the city, telegraphs us from st. Catha-
rines, Canada West, stating that he is staying
there for few weeks, that when he left New
York there was no imputation against
him, and that he is ready to answer at any
time TO any charges that may be made against
his official integrity.
Year: 1871

Tho Massing Of Troops at Farfs-A Signin-


cant Movement.


The discomfort ard uneasiness manifested in
Paris at the present time is not confined to any
class Of its inhabitants. President Theirs evil
IDENTIFY feels uneasy and anxious. Large
bodies OF troops are stationed in and around
the vicinity of Paris. Though the people have
no arms In their possession, still the govern
ment Is manifestly apprehensive Of something
which may give cause for disturbances. There
are at present close on one hundred and fifty
thousand soldiers In and surrounding the city.
According to one of our Paris correspondents
extraordinary military measures are taken for
some purpose as yet underlined. On the night
of November the approaches to the camp at
the Park Of st. Cloud were strongly guarded /;
outpost pickets were stationed at the bridges,
and guards and sentinels doubled at all points.
What is the meaning of all these military de-
monstrations? Does President Theirs fear a
rising of the people2 Such calamity in the
present condition Of affairs would have a most
disastrous effect on the country, and tend, we
fear, to paralyze, if not overthrow, the repub-
lie. Marshal MacMahon is IN command Of all
the forces now surrounding Paris, and the old
hero, true soldier as he is to his country, is
nevertheless a strong imperialst at heart.
When we consider the present disturbed con-
dition of the political atmosphere, the anxiety
pervading all classes, the discomfort of the
working people, the effect of neglected work.
shops and silent machinery, the intrigues of
parties and the massing of the military around
the city, feeling of apprehension arises for the
future, and it is difficult, indeed, to think what
even day may bring forth.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER FLANK MOVEMENT ON CARL
ScHURz.-At Fighting Joe Hooker's" battle
Of the Wilderness, Stonewall Jackson, by an
unexpected flank movement, made short work
Of the advanced covering column Of General
Carl Schurz but the unexpected flank move
ment just made on him by General Grant, in
the matter Of civil service reform, is quite as
decisive.
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON MARKET is now in all its
Christmas glory; but if there is more dis
gracefully dilapidated mass Of old shanties
than this grouped together for market in any
other city in the whole world we have yet to
hear Of it. City reformers, how long is this
thing still to last9 ''How long, O Lord, how
lnnn ~
Year: 1871

IT IS STATED in Southern paper that the
ladies Of New York will entertain their guests
on New Years day with tea instead of wine.
New York danes have long been noted for
their fondness for tea, to say nothing Of their
ability to tease.
Year: 1871

TWENTY MILLION DOLLARS MoRE.-The
Secretary of the Treasury gives notice that
in ninety days hence, or on and after March
20, 1872, he will redeem twenty million dol
lars more Of the fve-twenties of 1862.
Progress at this rate will soon do away with
any need for Congressional interference to
help specie paym ents, for before the many
bills now cogitating are engrossed their OBJ
ject may have been achieved. At least one
thing is evident, Shat Congress ought to let the
whole matter Of specie payments alone, or the
convalescent patient may undergo q relapse.
The people are paying in the money at the rate
of hundred millions year in excess of ne
cesstles, and Mr. Boutwell,, seeing sufficient
provision for the future, is beginning at last
to utilize the enormous balances lying idle in
the Treasury.
Year: 1871

BY the act of 1913 the area of assessment for
benefit from opening streets and avenues was made to
include half of the blocks adjoining the streets TO DC
opened In act passed extending the area OF


to the lots the whole street when the i'm
provement was the continuation Of a street already
opened Madisonave only laid out on the old map
of the city as high Eighty-sxthst but by an act
passed In its extension to Observation-Disclosures
tiethst was authorized Mr. Lee and others own
ers OF lots on yfourths and below near Madison
ave and were assessed for benefit They brought SUIT
against the Mayor, Aldermen and Commonaty to have
the assessments vacated claiming that the act OF 1916
did not apply any street openings not provided Tor III
the original map. The defendants demur ed to the com
plant and the demurrer was argued In the Supreme
Court at Special Term before Judge lngraham, who has
rendered the following opinion holding that the assess
ment is legal:


provision making this Of MdsOnaye OF the street, Of
had been laid out by the Commls-
rules applied TO
the map The limitation assessment on ot be-
block understand applicable only streets adjoining
portion the opened Where the has been partly


and adjoining streets opened not
cd from liability assessment The plaintiffs lots come within the
II illegal Judgment for defendants
demurrer with leave plaintiff to amend on payment Of costs
Year: 1871

SCALDs AND BURNS, which are not
much more than skin deep, are instantly
relieved of pain by excluding the air that
which does it most perfectly gives the
most decided relief, and that which is
most likely to be at hand in an emergency is
to that extent, the best. Plunge the part
in water, cool or warm. But as this is
not applicable to some portions OF the
body, except for time too short for the
healing process to take place, it must be
regarded as temporary expedient while
some more permanent application can be
prepared. Sprinkle common flour over
the burned part until it is entirely covered
over; the moisture of the wound causes
the flour to form a plaster impervious to
air. If this plaster cracks or scales off,
the part can be moistened with warm wa
ter and flour applied as before. In few
days beautiful new skin will form With
out scar, and the cakes will fall off, or
apply warm water until they became So
soft as to fall off themselves; do not pick
them off with the finger nail. The incon-
veniences of the hard coating can be
avoided by using another application made
of oil and lime water. Pour water on a
lump of unslacked lime, as soon as it is
clear stir in sweet oil until it is as thick as
thick cream, by Stacking, and apply it
freely at the time, and subsequently, as
often as any discomfort arises. If boiling
water is poured on the lime rock, it will
clear in few minutes,-good druggists
always keep lime water ON hand. Families
would do well to keep bottle of the mix
ture always on hand; it will keep year,
and it can be taken and used ut moments
notice, the natural skin growing again
without scar, and without the inconven-
lent hard cakng Of tlour.-Dr. Hall.
Year: 1871

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OFFICE or SUPERVISING ARCHrrgCT,l


WAsHIN6ToS, May "A, 1871. !
Sealed proposals will be until II O'Clock NJ Of
the a2d Of June 1871 At the onice of the Supervising
delivering at the site OF the proposed building all the dmen
sion granite required for tho exterior Of the State De-
parent for which about cubic feet will be required
whose dimensions do twenty cubic feet h
Of increase In price for exceeding cubic
feel The exact average size Of the stones cannot
qusrried and delivered according schedule os szcs
that will be furnished the One inch will be
allowed for quarry dimensions each worked face OF the
Zach bid must be accompanied by . sample block II
inches cube OF the granite Ia proposed TO furnish, which
must sound durable OF uniform color and good gaip
from dscoorng other foreign and capable OF
ndng the action Of the elements and that has boon
fully BY buidlngs and from auaries capable
OF furnishing the quality and quantity desired within
year. and from which stone has been being used
Bidders Wi, state how soon they can commence the de-
livery OF and the amount they deliver.
They will also state the and maximum sizes OF
that can be obtained from their quarry.


OF the quares from which the proposed TO be fur
nished.


All proposals be made the printed
tanned OF supervising architect and be accompanied by
that the bidder will execute and perform the contract II
awarded to him. aud bond therefor In the penal OF
hundred thousand dollars 00OO0 and valid and
binding the the security
for te faithful OF the contract the lease 10
effect upon failure OF the comply with
the terms Of the said lease authorize the govern
men to take full possession OF the and ork at tho
expense OF the contractor In case OF such Default


The right to all bids received reserved.
Proposals must be enclosed IN a sealed envelope,
dosed Proposals for Granite fer New State Department."
and addressed to A. Is. MULLETT,
Supervising Architect Treasury Department Washington,
ID. Y.
Year: 1871

rrrncr c.RpozO DENIES STAY OF PROCEEDINGS.


motion has been before Judge Cardozo for
some tse past for writ Of and stay Of proceed
ins In the case OF wm Foster sentenced to be hanged
on the ith Of July for the murder of Avery d. Putnam


decision was rendered yesterday, both writ of error
and stay OF proceedings being denied. long opinion
was also written which various given for
not granting the writs This does not, however, neces
say deprive the prisoner of his last hope, for Judge
Stuart Is pledged argue his before Supreme
Court Judge in the State and expects to obtain what he
requires frome of them. In his argument be-
fore Judge CardOzo he offered to proceed with the umos
haste arguing before the General Term of the
Supreme Court and to the Court OF Appeals at its
earliest session. However the time has far advanced
toward the day Of execution that it would almost
foregOne conclusion that Foster will suffer the full
penalty of the law.
Year: 1871

g There is one touching incident in the
life Of William Writ. In his younger
DAYS he was a. aSvietim to that passion
for Intoxicating drinks which seems
pecuIiarlythe bane Of the profession.
Affianced TO q beautiful and accomplish
ed young woman, he had made and
broken bfepeated pledges of amend
ments; and she, after patiently and kind
ly enduring his disgraceful habit, had
at length dismissed him deeming him
ineofrigible. Their next meeting, after
his dismissal, was In a public street in
the city of Richmond. William Writ
lay drunk and asleep, on the sidewalk,
on a hot Summer day, the rays Of the
sun pouring down on his uncovered
head, and the flies crawling over his
swollen features. As the young lady
approached in her walk, her attention
was attracted by the spectacle, strange
to her ewes, but alas,s so common to
Others who knew the victim, as to at
tract little remark. She did not at
first recognize the sleeper, and was
about to hasten on, when she was led
by one of those Impulses which form
the turning points in human lives, to
scrutinize his features. What was her
emotion when she recognized in him
her discarded lover! She drew forth
her handkerchief and carefully sprea.l
itoyer his face, and hurried away.


When Writ came to himself, he found
the handkerchief, and IN one corner
the initials Of the beloved name. With
n heart almost breaking with grief and


remOrse, he made new VOW Of refor-


nation. He kept that vow, and he


married the owner of that ,handker-


chief. Well might he preserve the


handkerchief, as he did, all his life,
guarding 1t with the jealous care with


which Othello kept the Egyptian char


mer's gift, and "making it a darling


like his precious eye."
Year: 1871




The New York Telegram has an
interesting article under the above
caption, which we give as follows:


The press dispatches from Europe
to New York during the last four
weeks numbered about one hundred
thousand words. New York has
been better posted on the issue of
the war each day than London, Paris
or Berlin. These dispatches have
almost wholly been sent by a single
cable, full one third of the whole to
single paper, and with marvellous
rapidity and accuracy. Familiar as
we are with the work of the tele-
graph, it has been a marvel to US.
To hundreds ofthousands Of minds
the whole process is and has been a
deep enigma.


Here is man sitting in darken-
ed room at Hearts content. The
ocean cable terminates here. A fine
wire attached thereto is made to sur
round two small cores of soft iron.
AS the electric wave, produced by a
few pieces, of copper and zinc at Va
lentia, passed through the wires
these cores become magnetic enough
to move the slightest object. A
looking glass, half an inch in diam
eter, is fixed on a bar of iron one
tenth of an inch square and half an
inch long. On this tiny glass a
lamp is made to glare so that its
light is reflected on table on the
wall. The language of the cable is
denoted by the shifting of this refec.
ted light from side to side.


Letter by letter is thus expressed
in this fitting idiom in utter silence
on the wall. There is no record
made by the machine except as the
patient watcher calls out to a COM
rade the translated flashes as they
come and which he records. 1t is a
miracle of patience. Something of
awe creeps over us as we see the evi-
dence Of human touch three thou
sand miles away swaying that line
of light.


By such a delicate process as this,
and after being repeated from line
to line five times before its ultimate
copy is in New York, have the late
great battles been recorded in our
daily papers with great particularity,
and sent throughout the Union.
Nothing like it has ever before been
accomplished.
Year: 1871

A Pittsburgh lady recently called
upon an old man who had just lost
his wife, with whom he had lived for
forty years. She found him sitting
with folded hands in his lonely room,
and while engaged in conversation
her eyes rested upon something
bright and soft which lay upon his
pillow. With a tremor in his voice
he said: "Ah, madame, it is only my
dear wife's wrappers. You may
think me childish, but at night 1 put
the sleeves around my neck, and it
comforts me-" Could human love
find a more affecting exPression2
Year: 1871

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The owner of the lost money then
stated that the merchants testimony
was correct. He had lost seventy
dollars in the manner described
that he saw no one in the store but
this boy and his master, and the lac
had disappeared on his immediate
return to the store, upon discover
ing his loss. He was very positive
lie had not taken his wallet with
him, but remembered just where he
had left it upon the counter, near
where this Johnny was engaged, put
ting up the goods. He had no
shadow of a doubt that he had pur-
loined it, and got away with it dur
ing his brief absence; for he had
not been seen about his business for
three DAYS afterward by anybody,
and he noticed that the boy seemed
uneasy and restless during his stay
there. He could not afford to loose
this money, and thought such young
rogues should be made an exam
'Now, boy" said the Judge, shave
you anything to say? You have
heard the testimony of your former
employer, and this person who lost
his money, and the case is very
much against you. DO you wish to
say anything, or to explain-eh?'


The little fellow was so much al
armed at the apparent severity of
his Honor, though he was a just
man and a good Judge, and did not
intend to intimidate the culprit at
all, as knew from a long acQuaint-
ance with his grave but sterling
characterize boy was so confused
that he said:


mo, sir-I can't"


'Gt is a kind of case," said his
Honor, shat is getting lamentably
Year: 1871

GENTLEMEN:--In bringing this sub
ject before you, shall not ATTEMPT to
analyze or make any rational display, but
simply to mention Il few facts to substan-
tiate my argument.


WOman's rights have been the one ab-
sorbing theme, set forth by writer's and
lccturers,f for the last quarter of Il century ;
but mans rights, like the heroic men of
the revolution, haze seldom received even
IA passing thought You smile, perhaps
sncer, at the idea that mans rights need
vindicating. You think you stand on so
firm basis that you cannot be moved /;
but listen a moment and will show how
this basis is slowly but surely giving
way You say have we not always had
the right of government, socially and
politically. Perhaps in our own country
you have generally, in name but not in
reality. All sensible women have things
entirely their own way; by careful con-
cealmcnt of this fact and with all due def



stronger cord, than the fine fibre of a
spiders web to lead you. OF this you are
not sensible, but Where ignorance is
bliss 'twcre folly to be wise Eve did
not command Adam tn eat the apple, no
indeed he never would have consented 10
taste it with that kind of argument She
told him it was really very nice. that she
had tasted it, and he had bitter try very
small piece, and after all there must have
been some mistake about its being wrong
to eat it, that she should not enjoy it at
all unless her dear Adam participated /;
and thus succeeded in having her own
way. Have not all Ewes daughters been
equally successfuls Much has been done
towards forcing from you, those natural
rights, in which you have been endowed
with superior strength, and there VIII be
sad confusion in society If you do not
make an effert to maintain them. Nearly
all the institutions of learning are now
open to woman This is as it should be.
She is not your INFERIOR In lnteilectuai
ability, but you must not permit her to
carry off the laurels. She is fast learning
the professions, and shingle hanging
out with DIR. Susan or Matilda printed
upon il, is not among the things which
have not been seen. Soon Miss Ida, at
torney at law, will be sending out her
cards, and the Rev. Anna Maria will be
pastor of your church. In business too,
they may be showing you aside. Md's
Smith and Jones proprietors of that hrge
wholesale establishment, Madam Brown
and Sisters, of the largest retail dry goods
store on Lake street, employ all lady
clerks except in the errand department, in
which boys will be employed, the work
being too laborious and menial to suit
girls. And this is not all, they are clam
mering for suffrage a meeting for thi
Year: 1871

BENEFITS OF LAUGHTER.-Probably
there is not the remctest corner or little
inlet of the minute blood vessels of the
body that does not feel some wavelet from
the great convulsion produced by hearty
-sUghter shaking the central man The
hood moves more lively-probably its
chemical, electric, or vital condition is
distinctly modifed-it conveys different
impression to all the organs Of the body.
rs it visits them on that particular mystic
journey, when the man is laughing, from
what it does at other times. And thus il
is that good laugh lengthens q mans
life by conveying distinct and addition
al stimulus. to the vital forces. The time
may come when physicians, attending
more closely than they do now to the in
Vulnerable subtle influences which the
soul exerts upon its tenement Of clay,
shall prescribe to a torpid patient, so
many peals of laughter, to be undergone
at such and such time" just as they do
that far more objectionable prescription
"a pill or an electric or galvsnic shock.
-Seaentifc. Ansev-can
Year: 1871

purpose was retently held in New York,
when one speaker stated: ''If the next
Congress refuse woman all legitimate


rights of citizenship, we shall proceed to
call another convention expressly to frame
new constitution, and to elect new
government, complete in all its parts, and
TO take measures to maintain il as cffectu-
ally as men do theirs, and shall be in
every way higher and tiore scientific
development of the governmental idea We
mean treason-meaD secession, and on "a
thousand times grander scale than was
that of the South. We are plotting revo-
luton We wilt overthrow this bogus
republic and plant a government OF
righteousness in its stead. You call thi>
a ranting. No matter the seeds of reyo-
luton are being sown, and rest assured,
they will not all fall in stony places All
new ideas hase had fana,ical leaders. Did
not "John Browns body lie mouldering
in the tomb while his soul went march
ING on" until every American slave was
emancipated." You see little truth in
this do you: 4 ray of light is breaking
upon your vision. Then exert yourself to
hold your position in all its departments.
Provide for your own households in a
general, pleasant way, that viii give salts
faction, and not in penurious, selfish
manner; which gives woman more the
feeling of a vassal than an equal. Her
rights meted out in this kind of measure
have contributed largely to her ambitious
aspirations: to trespass upon your
part of the work Don't fiatter yourselves
that you can let woman have all her
rights or wrongs If she is 80 determined,
and you take her place which you think
so much easier. Whyl you could no
more enter into or appreciate the refined
minutia of woman's duties, than you
could make balloon excursion to the
moon, or take Journey To the north pole
in lark canoe Now my brothers, |
hone you are sufficiently aroused TO
sense of your danger, to grid on your
armor and prepare for the conflict Who
will be brave enough for leader You
must reform You must hold meetings,
and consider the cause of all this distur
bance. You must appoint a convention
and send delegates. You must compro-
mise with your dangerous sisters. Make
"a treaty with them. Do all that is your
duty. Don't think yourselves secure in
your castles, and suffer yourselves to he
dcfTauded of your rights by inactivity AID
indifference.