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Year: 1873

The following is the true will of the
late Emperor Napoleon under which
letters of administration are now ap-
piled for. The estate is sworn to be
under one hundred and twenty thousand
pounds sterling, and this sum is subject
to claims which viii reduce it one-halk


''This is my viii: I commend my
son and wife to the high authorities of
the State, to the people, and to the
army. The Empress Eugenie possesses
all the qualities requisite for capably
conducting a regency, and my son dis
plays a disposition and Judgment which
viii make him worthy of his high des-
TIMES. Let him never forget the motto
of the head of our family Everything
for the French people Let him fix on
his mind the writings of the prisoner of
St. Helena. Let him study the Empe-
ror's deeds and correspondence, and f.
nalIy let him remember, when circum-
stances permit, that the cause of the
people is the cause of France. Power
is a heavy burden, because one cannot
do always as he could wish, and because
contemporaries seldom render justice,
so that in order to fulfill ones mis- ion,
one must have faith in and conscien-
tiously appreciate his duty. 1t is ne
eessary to consider that from Heaven
above these whom You have loved re-
gard and protect you. 1t is the soul of
my illustrious Gncle that has always
inspired and sustained me. The like
VIII apply to my son, for he viii always
be worthy Of his name. leave to the
Empress all my private property.
wish that at the majority of my son, he
shall live at the EIysee and Biarritz. I
trust thai my memory will be dear to
her, and that after my death she will
forget whatever unhappiness Imay have
caused her. With regard to my SOD,
let him keep, as a talisman, the seal I
wore attached to my watch, and which
comes from my mother. Let him care
faIIy preserve everything that came to
me from the Emperor, my uncle, and
let him be convinced that my heart and
my soul remain with him. I make no
mention of my faithful servants. am
convinced that the Empress and my son
viii never abandon them. 1 shall die
in the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman
religion, which my son viii always hon
or by his piety.


"Done and signed with my hand at
the Tuileries, the oath day of April
1866 NAPOLEON"
Year: 1873

Q child o new born deuizsn
OF life's great city : on thy head
The glory Of the morn is shed
Like q celestial benson!


Here at the portal thou dOst stand,
And with thy little hand


Thou opo1est the mysterious gate
Into the EutIres's undiscovered land.
by what Gstiulogy OF fear or hope
Dare 1 to cast tiny Horoscope .
Like the new moon thy life appears
A little strip Of silver light
And w.Geuiug outward into night,
The shadowy G:5k Of future years
4 prophecy and intimation.
A pale ana feeble adumbratioB,
OF the great world Of light, that
Beyond all human destines.
Year: 1873

A dispatch from Port Deposit, Mary
land, says the water is lower than il
was on Tuesday. The fears of break
up Of the ice are now subsiding and the
water is gradually wearing tho ice
away. There is no change at Williams
port.
Year: 1873

Committee to-day, Judge Sherman reit-
Grated his statement as to his course in
the matter Of the New York Stock Ex-
change. He had not been in Washing
ton for three years, and never attempted
to influence the legislative conduct of
his brother, Senator Sherman, or any
other person whatever.
Year: 1873

We commonly regard the moon as a
satellite of the earth, aud we are taught
at school and in our tex books, that while
the earth travels round the moon ravels
round the earth. But in reality this is
erroneous, or at least is suggestive of er-
ror. The moon ought to be regarded as
companion planet, traversiug with the
earth around the sun. The distinction
is not at all fanciful one. The earth is
not the body whose force the moon chiefly
obeys. On the contrary, she is attracted
more than twice as strongly by the sun
If the motions Of the earth and moon
could be watched from some far distant
stand point, the observed movements
would by no means suggest the idea that
the moon was circling round the earth !;
and in fact, if the earth were concealed
from view while her satelliate was thus
watched, the moon would appear to cir
cult round the sun in an orbit which
could not be distinguished from that
which the earth herself pursues.- Corn
hill Magazine.
Year: 1873

The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
decides that regular liquor and tobacco
dealers holding special tax stamp as such,
may close their ordinary place of business
for the time being, aud, on registry Of
the facts with the collector of the district,
may do business under such stamp at one
stand in the fair grounds situate in the
said district, without the payment of ad
ditional tax, but before opening again
their regular places of business should
make new registry with the collector
of the district.
Year: 1873

ANY person of sound body and mind, of
either sex, not ,ess than fifteen nor more
than sixty five years of age, and not enga-
ged in any occupation, exceedingly danger
Gus 10 life, may become member of this
Company, by paying an admission fee, as
follows:
Year: 1873

by JAMES JENKINS.
What a strange world is this with its ups and it's


downs,


With its joys and its sorrows so blended.
have seen sweet smile changed first into frowns,
Then to smiles ere the moment was ended.
We are rich and then poor, we are sick and then


well,


We are gay and then sad altogether;
We laugh or we cry at this sound OF bell,
We changed with each change in the


weather.
Why then, knowing this, are we ever unkind
In our words or our looks to each other
These heart-strings so tender were only designed
For the delicate touch of a brother.
Have you found defect in your friend or your


wife,


BE choice in your words reprimanding
Half the wounds we receive in the battle of life
Are the offspring of Miss Understanding.
How often this poor illegitimate boy
With his cousin, from Miss Apprehension,
Have been fostered in two loving hearts made for


joy


rnl they kicked up a world of contention.
Then Willie, my nephew, be careful say,
In your little attentions to Sallie
With your smiles and kind words and kind looks


pave the way,


Down the hillside Of life to the valley.
Year: 1873

We are all of us following some
aspiration, some light that in after
days we hope will halo our path
yet few of all the number count
themselves the devotees of duty.
Happiness, wealth and fame know
not the multitudes of their follow
ers, while duty, the real princess of
every life, sits always ungnarled
and unworshiped, sits silent in q
room whose walls are unhung with
pictures, whose inmates are ever
mourning at their lot in life. And
yet it need not so be-duty faith
fully followed for her own sake,
will yield cheerfulness and smiles
to the life that honors her-will
make the heart musical with joyous
strains from full-toned purpose,
will return a thousand fold of good
for the transient pleasures, the
doubtful enjoyments we sacrifice
for her upholding. Let the weary
and downcast take heart and follow
the teaching of the monitor-duty,
so shall they be led to the altar of
thankfulness, shone upon by the
tapers of peace.
Year: 1873

Society is not, and ought not to
be, exclusively above serious con-
Germs. The beneficent Creator Of
the universe would not have adapt
ed human beings to the enjoyment
of his gifts, unless He intended
that they should be enjoyed. With
the law which enjoins industry
comes the law of function. Why
should the eye be formed to per-
ceive natural and artificial beauty
if it is not to be used for that pur-
puse! Why has the capacity


to make instruments capable Of
emitting sweet sounds been given
if such sounds are not to be heard :
Why should the human structure
be capable of the sweetest melody,
and of graceful action, and of the
delightful expression, beaming from
innocent and heavenly countenances
if pleasure from such sources were
forbidden us! Why does the grape
ripen, and the silkworm toll, the
annual fleece return, the diamond
sparkle, the marble yield to the
chisel and the canvas catch and
preserve the inspiration of genius,
but to awaken human desire, ami
mate industry, and reward with
frutitionl 1t is the excess and the
abuse which are forbidden.
Year: 1873

out pistol and open fire; and 1t seems that
men who are not supposed to be able to afford
many luxuries, who have to labor hard for the
necessaries of life, carry their pistols when they
90 to their daily tasks. Is this one OF the con-
ditions of our advanced civilization Ii not
let us have somo action taken about it. We
do not need to wait the overt act. Had
Nixon understood that for carrying pistoi
he was subject to arrest and punishment
his victim might have been alive TO-
day and he himself would not have hung
strangled between the heavens ana eartn,
as he did yesterday. 1t is pretty good
time to catch and punish these budding mur-
derers before they have taken life Let IL DO
understood that the man who carries loaded
pistol is an unripe assassin, to be plucked and
punished, as a preventive of crime. without
waiting TO cure him after he has ripened for
the scaffold by some deliberate murder. This
man Hurley is a good subject to make an ex-
ample of. Let him be shut up for as long a
term as the law will permit, and then let swift
punishment overtake any and every man who,
in whatever station in society or walk In
life, invites into his heart the devil OF murder
by strapping on his hip the invitation TO crime
and the means for its commission.
Year: 1873

Next Wednesday, it is said, the Civil Ser
vice Reform Board is to meet in Washington.
I'VE have the very best wishes for the real
success of this ghostly pantomime of reform
but considering all that has gone before, its
performance seems quite superauOus.
Year: 1873

The report from Albany that the Governor
will veto the Local Option Prohibition bill
has been anticipated. Whatever may be said
of the popular feeling on this measure, we be-
lieve it is coming to be generally admitted
that its fundamental principle is a sound one.
1t relegated the whole question of license or
no license to tho communities Immediately
affected by the sale or prohibition of liquor,
just as the Cincinnati Platform referred
the tariff question to the COngression-
al districts. The friends of the bill
very forcibly urge that in the framing of this
scheme of law they have avoided the possibil-
ity of enacting another law which could not
be enforced they say that they have con-
suited the saving value of public opinion in
framing the law, and have depended on the
Republican party and its promises for its en-
actment. They find the vanity of putting
trust in the politicians.
Year: 1873

Three enterprisng San Francisco men propose to
try the foolish experiment of voyaging to Japan in
bit of boat only 30 feet long, 19 feet depth OF
hold and 10 feet BEAM It stated that their friends


are trying to entice them inland" From day to day
we are forced to chronicle such instances OF self
conceited bravado-of passion for doing what no
fellow has done before. Sometimes the undertaking
is so absurd as to call for writ dc Iandeo Courage
exhibited in attempts which may benefit mankind
is always admirable. but courage and patient en-
durance and the most perfect pluck are all thrown
away upon enterprises which can have no good
result.
Year: 1873

Another ghost. We did mean to cut ghosts they
are grown such everyday affairs, and there Is rally
no sort of sense In their prancing about the country
so, frightening people and making items for news
papers. But here is such grand, gloomy. and
peculiar one that he is irresistible He appeared in
Detroit lately at 10 o'clock at night, and unto
mild hammered and temperate laborer who was
found next morning apparently dead upon the side
walk. On being coaxed back to life he explained
that while walking quietly homeward he heard
somebody following him. and he stopped, and
ghost came up and gracefully shook hands with him.


This salute did MT seem just genial and pleasant
as it ought because the specter eight feet high


dressed all in white. and had hand of Ice. The
person he thus politely treated. happening to re-
member at that moment that he had particular
engagement at homeL hastily started oh without
Year: 1873

Pounding as persuasive has had fair trial in St.
Joseph, No. Less than two months ago, Harrington,
lawyer and widower. married Mrs. Sallie Van Horn,
widow whose deceased husbands life was insured
for s. OOO Recently Harrington bargained to sell ms
wfes house and lot for 81 OO and asked her to sign
the deed. which she declined to do. Though she
was sick at the time, he had recourse to muscular
Establishments and did so beat and bang her that at
last she executed the deed. If Harrington bad been
much of n lawyer he would have known that con-
yevance thus cxtorted was good for nothing but he
will have an opportunity to study the subject mas
much as he las been locked up for felonlous as
sault.
Year: 1873

Before the lofty candor the delicate sweetness Ana
kindness Of certain Boston editor We are almo.,
srrucK dumb. He observes that no was about %
express astonishment at the Atlantic Bank robberv
but upon second thought he wouldn't Which !,
really good OF him. The reason he gives IS beautiful


IL Is that ne Is prepared 10 accept anything howeyo,
remarkable and outrageous as regards robbery and
murder which may be reported from this locality
Such Christian resignation makes us feel that wa
could, like the artless Twain sit up night after night
r, aiding about it over and over again, and CRYING
And we are grateful TO be told that mot only The
eyes OF the whole country are constantly directed
bither by the reign Of misrule, Of financial pancs
of pubic and private dishonesty. of rapine and Of
murder; but the whole world has learned to Iook
upon New!Hork riyaling all other cities in tbeso
sad experiences OF modern times" More than this.
our gentle critic says that we "defy parallel in any
history with which nc is conyersant." "Are things
what they SCENT Or is visions aboutp Can an
Athenian be so false to the holiest emotions of his
nature as to acknowledge consciously that NewYork
defes parallel in anythingi
Year: 1873

We arc credibly informed that Gov. Dix
will refuse his signature to the Westchester


Annexation bill. on the ground that the pro-


iect has not been submitted to popular
vote. There is, however, very general
informal expression of acquiescence in the ex-
pediency of the proposition, THE TRIBUNE's
lucid exhibit of the various questions in
voved materially strengthening the case. The
defeat of the annexation scheme now only
temporarily postpones its final acceptance by
the people of NewYOrk and that portion of
Westchester which is chiefly concerned therein.
Year: 1873

1t is not certain that the police detectives
will be able to establish any connection be-
tween the unsolved mystery Of the Sullivan-st.
dance-house and the murder in Thompson-st.
reported in the city columns But these two
dismal discoveries reveal, as by flash of
light, something of the utter shamelessness
and abasement Of low life in great city.
The white paramour of a negro ruffian found
murdered, and bloody traces of what seems
to be another foul crime,-these show how
the substratum of life is made up. To add to
the tragic events of the past few days, sew
eral peculiar suicides are noted elsewhere,
filing up a dark chapter of sudden and
violent death.
Year: 1873

If a man is q man, 1t Is not the property he can
eat up, or wear out or consume Immediately in any
way that he most enjoys. But it is that which Is
most safely secured for those be Will leave to
mourn when he dies.
Year: 1873

far exceeding any legal and sure rate of interest it
has many fold proved blessing to thousands who
would otherwise have been left destitute.


The Society issues all the most desirable Forms
OF Life and Endowment Policies, on which Diyi.
dends will be paid annually.
Year: 1873

A beautiful and high-spirited horse
would never allow shoe t. be put on
his feet, nor any person to handle his
feet. In an attempt to shoe such a
horse recently, he resisted all efforts,
kicking aside everything but an anvil,
and came near killing himself against
that, and finally was brought back to
his stable unshod. This defect was
Just on the eve Of consigning him to
the plow, where he might work bare
foot. when an officer in our service,
lately returned from Mexico, took a
cord about the size of a common bed
cord, put it in the mouth Of the horse
like bit, and tied it tightly on the ami
mails head. passing his left ear under the
string, not painfully tight, but tight
enough to keep the ear down and the
cord in its place. This done, he patted
the horse gently on the side of the head
and commanded him to follow and in
stantly the horse obeyed, perfectly SUBJ
dued and as gentle and obedient as a
we'll trained dog; suffering his feet to
be lifted with entire impunity, acting
in all respects like an old stager. The
gentleman who thus furnished this ex-
ceedingly simple means Of subduing a
very dangerous propensity, intimated
that it is practiced in Mexico and
South America in the management Of
wild horses.
Year: 1873

One of the most sensible letters we
have seen in the Farmers Union on the
subject of the State Agency comes from
Bro. E. T. Nelson of Fillmore Co. We
append what he says upon that subject:


My attention has been directed for
sometime past, to the correspondence
that has appeared in the columns Of the
Union, between our State Agent and
the (probably bro. J of our order, in re-
gard to the action of the executive COM
mittee and Of Bro. D. in particular.
For my own part I must say that I re-
gret very much to see such spirit dis
played as seems to be manifest in these
communications That these questions
are Of Importance to all members of the
order, none will deny, but are we gain
ing anything by such discussion, Ga
sort Of family quarreD over the first i'm.
portant question raised in the order p
Brothers, the eyes and ears of our oppo-
nents are open, and if We wish to accom-
plish anything for our mutual benefit:
let us have unity Of action, let us en-
deavor to discuss all questions in ! spir-
it Of brotherly love. For my own part,
Il believe that I can view this question
impart;ally. Now in behalf of the Exc
cutive Committee, and Bro. D., after
reading carefully this correspondence,
I fail to see anything upon their part
that would intimate an intended wrong
to the order, or that it was not their in
tention to do all in their power to &C.
complish the work assigned them. l
believe the plan proposed to be defect
i've in some respects.


But do we expect perfection imme-
diately out of chaos? If We do we sure
ly shall be disappointed. Is not an
imperfect plan (subject to discretion,
better than to plan at all ? Bros, one
great difficulty with us is, we lack con-
fdence in our fellow men. We are too
jealous Of each other. But let US start
upon some plan, imperfect though it
may be, and as its imperfections become
apparent, don't blow it to atoms as one
Bro. proposed, but let us endeavor to


perfect them in the proper spirit.


This is one privilege, and no one pro-
poses to usurp it as l understand it. I
1hink plan somewhat intermediate be-


tween those already proposed would be


avery good one. But believing that


in a, multitude of council there is


strength. I leave this to the good


sense of the members Of the State


Grange. I think that the action Of
the Executive Committee has been crit


icised rather too freely, and that Bro.
Year: 1873

An exchange says "A Sioux
City Justice of the Peace said to a
'ccuple he was about to marry Hold
up your right hands; now, what do


know about this case ?" 1t should be


taken for granted that they did not


know much, if anything, about the case
just THEN. They merely wanted to


know.
Year: 1873

great works will also be produced; bua' IL
must not be expected that the manager can d0
this at his own expense. Three weeks OF the
season have already expired, but so far the
opera has been greater artistic than fnan-
cial success. Both are necessary if we
would make opera a permanent institu-
tion in New York. Should we allow
the present season to fail it will prove dis
aster that will be felt for years. We have
good company-a company excellent in every
artistic sense, and it is our duty to support it
manfully that we may have like companies in
the future This fact is one which we desire
especially to impress upon our readers The
Academy of Music ought to be crowded every
night The performances are of the highest
order-better we believe, than even in Paris
and crowded houses can be the only adequate
recompense. 1t may not be a very aesthetic
view of the matter, but the New York public
must remember that they must make opera
pay if they would have opera.
Year: 1873




On Friday night severe storm Of consider
able cyclonic dimensions swept over the
Northwest and upper lake region, and all
day yesterday was advancing in this direction.
This gale, as reported by telegraph, was at
tended with very dangerous winds and with
heavy rains, and, necessarily, with very low
glass. 1t is to be feared that its results on the
whole chain Of lakes-now that navigation is
at its busiest and all vessels are seeking to make
the most Of the few days remaining of open
water-have been very disastrous; but there
is one bright view which relieves in measure
the apprehension felt for the consequences Of
this storm. Following close behind it comes
the long and agonizingly prayed for cold
weather, destined to visit the plague-stricken
city of Memphis and drive back the pesti-
lence which is already on the point of waver-
ing The weather probabilities" yesterday
indicated cold. clear weather for the Ohio
Valley and southwark, and this was good
news in the scene of the great desolation
wrought by the scourge. The powerful and
frosty Northwestern that must scour the Mis-
sissippi Valley to-day and tomorrow will lift
the veil Of horror that has so many weeks
hung over this region and admit the rays of
hope to its sorrowed and death-stricken people
It is by no means unlikely that attending this
great western gale, the whole Southwest will
be visited by chilling and biting frost, and
that even Texas will experience a norther
never SO welcome as now. We may hope that
this tempest will verify the poets ideal


O, not more propitous the Favonian breeze


To Natures health than purifying storms


The storm in question was fully and abund-
antly premonished by the Signal Office, and if
it's Friday storm warnings were needed on the
lakes, as we doubt not they were, many q
vessel has been spared the danger otherwise
encountered.
Year: 1873

reduction in other sections in order to equal
ize rates and thereby remove the inducement
for competing lines to extend still further"
In other words, the Western Union has only
given the people the benefit of fair rates and
relieved them from extortionate charges when
it became necessary to crush out or prevent
the extension of opposition. ''No public
business of equal Importance" says
Mr.. Orton, sis so sensitive to compe-
tition as that of the telegraph" and
he naively complains that among
those persons who persist in promoting COM
petition are the ''senders OF messages who
selfshly desire to save money ''from the re-
duction of telegraph tolls which competing
line is expected to secure" This certainly
affords striking illustration of the Iberality


of telegraphic monopoly, and the people will
not be very well pleased to learn from the
report that the Western Union is about to
swallow up the Pacific and Atlantic lines, as
it has already swallowed SO many other OPP
position adventures The country will soon
discover that the only hope of bringing the
great advantages of the telegraph within the
reach of the masses of the people and of re-
ducing the tariff to reasonable amount is in
the adoption of the government postal sys-
tenn. We are now paying treble the rates
paid over European lines for the benefit of
private corporation which avows its determi-
nation to crush out competition, and which
only brings its tariff within fair bounds when
driven to do SO by healthy opposition.