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Year: 1873

IT is said that if Maud Muller had her
life TO live over again, and should meet
the judge in this year Of grace 1873, she
would sue him for breach Of promise and
obtain sufficient damages to make her
family happy, or else shoot him, become
a lecturer. and die rich and respected by
all.
Year: 1873

The jury retired at o'clock, but the large
crowd present in the courtroom still remained I'm their
seats Ex.Mayor Hall was surrounded by his
trusted he would be able to spend mis- Christ
mas at home. During the absence OF the Jury
ne appeared to be very nervous and when spoken to
seemed to be replying In an absent-mnded manner :
At Sis one OF the Court officers cleared the iurymens
seats and instantly much commotion and excitement
among the bystanders manifested. The Jury took
their seats and Judge Daniels entered the Court Mr.
Sparks, the clerk, read off their names


The FOreman-Your honor, we wish to ask you few
questions. First, wish your Honor To inform us
whether simple neglect Of duty requires verdict of
guilty or whether must be shown wifu neglect


His Honor replied that it must DO whliu neglect
and q single act was sufficient ...... ...t


The Foreman-3econdy. IL 1t for us to decide whether
the neglect OF duty willful or not I'D.


Judge Daniels you are to decide upon that
point will remain here for an hour or all hour and
a-half longer, and II you agree by that time I will
receive your verdict not you viii have to be locked
up for the night.


The fury then retired again. Their appearance caused
considerable discussion among the lawyers lockers on
and friends OF Mr. Hail. and verdict OF mot Guilty.,
was expected by all. Tho ex-Mayor scemsd
much relieved when he heard the QUESTION:
asked by the Jury, and o rumor was prevalent
that at this time jury stood ten for acquta two
for conviction. The jury retired again, and after an
absence OF two hours returned court. This st
1850 O'Clock and the jury had been considering thoir
verdict Tor a hours Tho COURTROOM wss styl crowded
Year: 1873

whose state was already desperate.
it was not due to any miscarriage Of
the operation itseif. The disease of
the kidneys was pronounced to be of
such nature and so advanced that it
would in any case have shortly de-
-termined a fatal result. Death follow
ed within twenty minutes from the
time the Emperor was seized with the
fatal symptoms, be having been un-
conscious throughout, aud. of course
also insensible to pain and spared
from the pangs of death.
Year: 1873

On Thursday night of last week, a
denutation Of citizens of Richmond,
left with the Vice President of the
Chesapeake & Ohio r. R., on a spec
iaI train to witness the laying of the
last rail of the great through line
The evert is one worthy of special
mention, Upon it many of the oil,
der architects of Virginia's ante war
glory, have waited until the angel of
death took them to new field Of
work. For it, many have grown sick
in waiting, until despair drove them
to the beautiful fields of the far west.
The G. & 0. will open up new
channel for national commerce. and
will become a power in the land.
Year: 1873

the substantial results to some point
where the victims should be power
less of redress or restitution? The
State of Tennessee owes it to the De-
mocracy that this small specimen of
Credit Mobilier business was nipped
in the bud. r -
Year: 1873

have Just dropped in to dine, and /
haven't a thing in the house. How do
you think your hired girl would work up
into a stew2 Can borrow her for a few
days2" Then she seizes that domestic
by the hair, and drags her over; chops
her up with parsely and carrots and Gel.
cry tops and cloves, and lets her simmer
over the fire. Or maybe the other
woman sends over and says: " I'm en-
tirely out OF meat; can't you lend
me your little William Henry for
hash, or your Mary Jane for a pie2 "
Aud over goes William Henry and
Mary Jane, and they are stuck with
fork and basted, and put on 10 cook
gently; and the debt is paid of the next
week by the borrower sending back her
aunt, already boiled and suitable for
cutting down for tea, or one Of her twins
corned so as to make q nice lunch.
Sometimes a wsman in this manner will
work oil couple Of her mothers-in-law,
or q rich uncle, or plump second cou-
sin, and then she will sit at her window
and sniff them as they are cooking in
the kitchen next door, or watch one OF
the company in the dining.room nibbling
at the elbow of the late hired girl. The
custom seems to us an excellent Que,
particularly when it is applied to hired
girls. We have had girls whom we would
have loaned to a neighbor at any time
under solemn promise that they should
be butchered and boiled as quickly as
possible.
Year: 1873

Housekeepers will be surprised to
learn that their custom Of sending in to
a neighbor 70 borrow q little butter or
sugar or other articles Of diet is quite
common among the savages Of FIJI.
When q lady in Fiji has some friends to
dinner Unexpectedly she goes over the
way and says: "Yakyak aRd bis family
Year: 1873

Yesterdays dispatches state that
the confirmation of Attorney General
Williams as Chief Justice still hangs
fire in the Senate, the judiciary COM
mitteo thus far refusing to confirm
him. Tho telegraph says that just
about the time favorable report
was to have been made to the Senate
telegram making a serious charge
connected with alleged attempts to
control political rnattors in Oregon,
was received from Oregon by the
judiciary Committee, and the charac-
ter of signers caused the Committed
to ask that the nomination might be
recommitted. After consideration
they have asked for power to send
for persons and papers, and chances
now are that no report can be made
until after recess.
Year: 1873




We claim to be, to some extent, a
philanthropist. At least we always
feel the truth Of Byron's beautiful
couplet which says in part


"Hero is a tear for those who love me,


And a smile for those who hate"


Now we have every reason TO be-
lieve that the Oregonia'a loves us
at least to the extent Of treating us
respectfully and kindly. This being
the case we naturally feel pang of
sorrow when any untoward circum-
stance interferes with the happiness
of the Oyegonian, Our bowels Of
compassion have recently been moved
at witnessing the dilema in which our
friend the 0regonidn has become en-
tangled in regard to the appointmentof
Geo. II. Williams as Chief Justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court. When the
telegraph first announced the nominaI
tion of Williams for the position OF
Supreme Judge the Oregonidn went
off into panegyrics in expressing its
qualification over the news Figura!
lively speaking it swallowed old
Flaxbrake without pinning back his
ears or taking either of the four or
five distinct crooks out of his colossal
corpus. In fact We were surprised at
the Oregoatian'S manifestations of Joy
over tho appointment of a meAber Of
"the ring" to such an exa'1sd position
and we knew that in the course Of
time allthose laudatory remarks would
have to be taken back, Oh explained
away. But one short week elapsed
until Williams, then Attorney Gener-
al, used his official power to shield
the repeaters and brihers whom the
Oregonidn had labored for months TO
bring to justice. To do this effectual-
ly it was necessary for Williams 10 Sc
cure the removal of Addison G, Gibbs,
a friend of the Oregonian, from tho
position of U. S, District Attorney
for Oregon and at the same time pro-
cure the appointment of Rufus Nal
lory, member of the ring, to that
position. This action on the part Of
the Attorney General was "the most
unkindest cut of all" and our Portland
contemporary boils over with indigna-
tion at the outrage. 1t even goes 50
far as to arraign Williams for his
fragrant, if not criminal interference
in tho course of justice. But it has
not yet suffered sufficient humiliation
at the hands of tho ring to take a
stand with the people and against the
corruptionists who control the govern
ment, commencing with Grant and
extending down to, the Portlahd Gus
tom House. 1t was unfortunate for
the Oregonian that 1t gdlped down
tho Williams nomination in such hot
haste, Under existing circumstances
he is terrible load on that papers
stomach. II is no wonder that il
heaves and retchos to eject the loath-
some norsel. The whole exhibition
reminds US Of a chicken with tumble
bug in its throat Still, as we stated
at the outset, we sympathige with the
OregOnia's and trust that it may sue
ceed in clearing its throat of the Of
fensive lodgment and assuming q
more Independent stand where it will
be out OF reach Of the corruptionisti
with whom it is at war.
Year: 1873

A BILL is pending in Congress


granting a pension to the widow Of
Gen. Candy. We DO not object to
this but wo would like also to have
tho widows of tho murdered Lost
River settlers included in this pen
sion bill. Why not? v3 tlg5m
Year: 1873

At a recent tea party in Salt Lake
City 4 young man, who had been re-
lating his moro than wonderful ex-
ploits in various parts Of tho globe,
was not a little set back by a remark
Of an old traveller: "YouDg man,
amt you ashamed TO talk 80 when
there are older liars at The tgblos'
Year: 1873

THE LEBANON CONCERT, to be given
at Santiam Academy, in that village,
tonight, for the benefit Of the Leba-
non Brass Band, is to be the rarest
event of the season. We understand
those eminent tootists, the Albany
Brass Band, will go out and lend their
valuable services in making the enter
tainment success. We hear OF
others of our citizens who design being
in attendance. Would that we could
be of the number.
Year: 1873

A Salt Lake restaurant keeper sent
an order to a San Francisco friend
for two dozen tcrtapins, promising
his boarders terrapin soup, for
Thanksgiving. His friend sent him
twonty-four ten pins, the order being
written in rather an illegiblO hand.
Year: 1873

Owing TO the desolation and demoral-
ization occasioned by the fire in the
DEMOCRAT Office we are compelled to
furnish our patrons with only piece OF
a paper this week, and probably for two
or three weeks to come, at the eX-
piration of which time we expect TO
receive new supply of newspaper
type and job material from Sar Fran
cisco. In view of our present eXtremi-
ty we most earnestly ask our patrons
to be as indulgent as possible.


We this week insert a part of our
advertisements and will next week let
those that are lefto take the place
of those in the present number and so
on alternately until we are able to get
out full sheet. Intlle meantime, be
patientand all " i'll be we'll t8A = "


ENTERTAINMENT. We acknowledge
the receipt of an invitation to attend a
literary and musical entertainment,
to be given at the College Chapel on
next Tuesday evening, by the Sigma
Phi Society, assisted by the aesthetics.
Front the programme we learn that
the exercises will consist Of music,
recitations, charades, tableauX, ETC.,
making the entertainment perhaps the
best that has ever been given in this
city. The money realized by the en-
tertainment will be used for the pur-
pose of furnishing tho society room
and increasing the library, and when
such objects are in view our citizens
should respond literally. The talent
which these two societies are known
to possess is sufficient guaranty that
everything will go off in strictly
recherche manner. Admission, So
cents. Children under y, 25 cents.


SKATING ITEM.-We learn that a
young lady, who is engaged in teach
ing country school a few miles from
Albany, while out skating one day
last week, met with quite little acci-
dent. While she was skimming over
the CLASSY surface of the frog pond
with the speed of the wind, the ice
suddenly raised and came in violent
contact with her frontispiece, causing
the dislocation oftlie fifth joint of her
nasal protuberance, and demoralizing
to some extent two of her front teeth.
Go not upon the ice until thou hast
learned to skate.
Year: 1873

THE full returns from New Hampshire
show that the Rep blicans have elected
two Congr-ssmen out of three, gain Of
two. Th II d, es no seem to indicate any
any frig ltfV decay of party strength
Year: 1873

The Toledo Comm eTcidE has this
q Don Piatt is nothing il not sensa-
tlonal. But his last venture calls for
an explanation, and possibly for
something stronger. In the last issue
of the Washington Capital Piatt re-
views the controversy between Judge
Holt and Ex-Presidenr Johnson con-
cerning the hanging of Mrs. Surratt
to prove that the latter was the one
who told an untrUth. Whatever Mr..
johnson may have done, We do not
think that his worst enemy even
thought that he was Implicated Ia the
assassination Of President Lincoln,
but Pistt throws out dark insinus-
tisns concerning him as follows:


There is lying back of the man Mr.


JohnsOn) dark shadow that we be-
lieve covers a horrible crime. We
purpose ere long 20 bring forward :
few facts bearing upon this terrible
mystery, and we are impressed with
the belief that we can form a far
more plausible statement than this
given by q great criminal. Looking
at the faded record in the Office Of the
Judge Advocate q neral, we saw
shadOwed out the fact, we believe, In
the signature to the order that DOOM
ed the poor wretehes, men and Wo-
men, to death in thirty-six hours. Ii
is the signature Of 3 man palsied with
terror, The poor girl who sank faint
ing in agony ut the foot OF the steps
did not know that at the other end Of
the fight was one paralyzed with ter
ror as deep almost as her own. What
was it that be feared, and why In his
terror did he hasten to silence IN
death the only witnesses who could
have thrown light upon the real in
stigator of that awful crime?
Year: 1873

Just at the conclusion Of a recent circus per-
formance in North Caroinl town, the clown
stepped forward and informed the vast assembly
that they had taken in about 5000 that day
more money, he ventured to say, than any
minister of the Gospel in thst county would
receive for a years service. He tEeu plainly
told them that large portion of the audience
were church members, who would plead their
poverty when asked for money to support the
Gospel and severely exposed their Inconsistency.
A few Sundays after he preached in the same
community. and made strong appeal for mis- :
siOns. when collection was taken up amounting
10 443S.
Year: 1873

The Origin Of the Credit MobiIIer.


In the Constitutional Convention Tuesday on,
the subject of the Credit Mobilier, Mr.. Smith of
Lancaster said;


The gentleman from Norristown has given
you an idea Of the origin Of the Credit Mobilier,
and has implied thai our Legislature could be
bought much cheaper than those Of New York
or New Jersey. / have n correct version of the
history af that corporation. which / will briefly
give you. A distinguished Democrat Of this
commonwealth, who had been Clerk of both
Houses, met me on one occasion and told me
that gentleman who was usually full Of specu-
lative theories came up to the Legislature enc
session. The protest that he had in hand at that
time was the organization in this county ofa
corporation similar to the Credit Mobilier
established in France He framed n bill and
had It passed by the Pennsylvania Legislature
before the Pacific Railroad was barely conceived
Of The company was organized in this city,
and each Of the directors there selected were
voted thirty shares Of paid up stock, "they
being on the ground Aoor," at 81 600 a share
Afterwards at another meeting the name Of the
corporation was changed TO the Pennsylvania
Fiscal Agency, but nothing was ever done by
the organization. The charter, stock book, and
the papers we're STOLEN and bodily carried of to
New York, where the Company known az the
Credit Mobilier was organized The changed
name was s:rickened ont and they returned Lack
10 the original title. The father Of the bill said
that he would have been entitled to receive at
one time II he had held on to his paid up stock
for when the question of paid up stock came
up in New York they sent party to Phiadel.
Phia to buy it ali up-he would have received
according TO his calculation 81 100 600, whereas
the thirty shares brought him when lie sold it
$40"
Year: 1873

The present is the most remarkable winter eN


pariencel for many years The Garth has beer


pretty well covered with snow since the middle o.


December, and the ice crop nevcr was so bonn'l


fall More difficulties have been encountered by
the railroads and more disasters TO life from acci
dents and persons l'cing frozen from exposure
have occurred than was ever known The cold
has not only been intense, but it has been long
continued.


We read of an ice gorge thirty miles long. And
towns and whole sections of country being in
dlnger of being swept away should there come a
warm rain or a sudden thaw. To add to this
threatening danger the Garth has just been car
peted anew with about six inches of snow,ln tins
region. The amount OF water which the melting
of this snow would add, flowing from the hill
sides into the Susguehanna, which is gorged now
TO such an extent tia; il can hardly discharge the
regular 1Ow, would DO immense, and it would no
doubt produce au overflow that would do i'm
mense damage


Below Columbia on the Susquchanna, there is
q dam about ten feet high; the ice is gorged and
piled high on this dam, and the gorge extends up
the river to the railroad bridge, one mile long,
which crosses at Columbia. This bridge cost
$4,000. The ice is now within six feet Of its
foor and rise in the river sufficient TO break the
ice will sweep the bridge away and do vast
amount OF damage. From this bridge the gorge
extends almost unbrokeu TO Harrisburg, twen-
ty-nine miles above. Marietta, said TO be the
greatest lumber depot in Pennsylvania, is in
great danger, as well as Port Deposit. The peo
pie living on the front streets in both OF these
towns have deserted their houses, and are in daily
dread of tremendous food Of water and ice that
will undermine and damage their houses should
they not be carried away entirely as well as
sweep away an immense amount OF lumber and
other property.
Year: 1873

Mr.. CoGx, the Radical Vice President of the
United States, made speech before the Commit
tee OF Investigation on Tuesday, which is more
remarkable for its attempts to parry and smooth
over the charges made against him than for meet
ing the evidence Of Oakcs Anles with rebutting
testimony and proving it false. Mr.. ColiaX can
not escape from the damaging position. lie is
guilty and deserves the public condemnation
which is sure to follow him
Year: 1873

A PREACHER who had recently lost his
wife, after commenting on her great moral
worth, concluded with the following pathet-
ic remarks "My dear brethren and sisters,
for six long mouths before my poor wife's
death she suffered from divers diseases and
torments. If she tuck medicine for an
ailment it was sure to infict her with an
other and the last case was worse than
the first. But rheumaty pains and a codicil
Of the brain tuck her off But thank God
she had her breath to the last, and went a
shouting clear through to glory. My bfeth
rem. I've lost sheep, and I've lost cows, bu
| tell you the death of my wife was the
worst lick l ever got. ] still feel like at
orphin, and for one whole mouth arter


put her away felt like ] could fall dowr
and 60 to sleep anywhere"
Year: 1873

body against the juttiug stones. heard
him spring like an animal on along the
track | felt his hot breath like steam
the foam Of bis set jaws flung across my
face, and he stopped. ! felt that he was
feeling for me ! that lie wss crouching on
the stones. saw the red Of his eyeballs
glare up at me through the darness. ! felt
the touch Of his icy flesh on my hand
Like lightning he raised himself, throwing
his vast weight against me, pinioned me to
the stones. And the mad rage Of man
at bay surged upward to my brain. clasped
my knife convulsyely, and seized him by
the throat, resolved to die hard. 1t was
hair-it was shaggy. The hands against
my chest had thick coat of far clasped
him to my breast. II was Lion-my dog
Lion!


Great heaven, Keene what kept you
the whole night in that cursed dead house 2
II is near day and the door has been open
this two hours, and Derby and King have
been asleep. was getting on my boots to
look for you'


"Why in the namo Of common sense
did you let this dog out after ne? viii
you tell me that n


why, he howled like maniac, and
clawed at the door till | thought you were
in some danger, and could not keep him
in"


Danger Well, We cant talk now
Rouse yourself l have had an interview
with your maniac, and be is prowling round
the grounds after me now. Call up tht
men. must 60 after Philip Immediately


"You don't say so? r.


"Yes don't waste second"
In five minutes the whole force Of this
hospital was out in the grounds
We took him in at an angle Of tbs
great door, crouched behind the iutting
wall, waiting for me He drew his lips
back over his t0eth, in the dumb ferocity
Of mad brute, as he saw me, and his eye,
settled into a dull, lurid glare, impos
sible to describe, as he hissed out, "Ha
this is twice twice you have triumphed
wait till the third time"


Around the blazing CRATE, in tbs
closing lIsur Of the tempest tossed night
we shook hands over our reunion, and afte
the story was over and the horror first, an,
the laughter Iat the close OF my adventure)
and Derby and King had left, and Farr
Leigh and stood at the window watching
the young winter day rise over tho hills
there was something very much like tear
over the bold, bright blue eyes as he poiut
ed TO the granite walls Of the mad-hous,
and said "ConstaBce would have gon
there, Keene, or died, and mine would hay
been heavy, heavy life after"
Year: 1873

The following is translation of the
comments of La Cronica on Los An
geles subsidy in its issue Of Wednes-
day last:


"BelOw we translate an article that
appeared not long ago in the San
Francisco Bulletin. AS it contains
good advice for our people generally
and for our Supervisors in particular
We publish it, hoping that our
authorities, albeit they place the
most implicit confidence in the good
faith of the r. r. Co. will not fail to
take that precauti0n in the interest of
the people whose guardians they are.
In the first place, it is anything but
superfiuous and besides, suppOsing
that tomorrow or any other day the
railroad should change hands, which
would not be anything improbable or
strange, it would not be bad to have
some security that the new proprietors
would fulfill the engagements of their
assignees. Here is the article alluded
to:


The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany are pushing forward the different
lines of road in Los Angeles county
with commendable zeal, and will
doubtless complete the roads to the
several designated points in the time
specified in the contract with Los An
geles county Supervisors. But the
end is not yet. In this contract the
Railroad Company stipulated and
agreed to connect the city of Los An
geles with the city of San Francisco
within five years after the subsidy
was voted to the company. Until this
connection is made the contract is not
fulfilled. If the Board of Supervisors
are wide awake when these bonds of
the county are issued, they will put in
little proviso, that will insure the
completion Of railroad to San Fran
cisco, or those bonds will be forfeited.
1t Is easily done, and if the Supervis-
Ors wish to protect the interest Of the
people they will do it,"
Year: 1873

The boys are Oh stllLs this month.
Walking on stills is an operation that
calls into play considerable agility,
and this was especially the case when
they made the footholds of leather.
Then when boy went down he didn't
roll over on his back and burst his coat,
as they do now. He was merely split
open lengthwise, because his feet were
held, and slapped against this globe
with ferocity that he never could
understand. We don't know how it
is now, but in those times pair Of
stills generally preserved their perpen-
dicular until a mud-puddle was reach
ed, when they would suddenly and
mysteriously give out.
Year: 1873

The manufacturers of Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, to avoid the necessity
of closing their shops, have agreed to
pay their employees half their wages
weekly, and credit them with the bal
ance, till the financial crisis Is over.
This is much better than being forced
to the alternative of discharging half
or more of their operatives.