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Year: 1873

The Press expresses strong faith in Mr.


Cookies sagacity and resources, and says


That Dir. Cooke and the Messrs Clark viii


emerge from the fiery ordeal unscathed, we


have not the slightest doubt. TO express


any other opinion would be an imputatior


against the gratitude of the Republic. The


capitalists should and will forward to their re.


llet. The nation owes more to Jay Cooke


than 1t can ever repay. His Titanic achieve


ment in placing its loans, after the repeated


failures OF even so great a man as Mr.. Chase;
when its resources were nigh exhausted and


its bonds were being hawked about the mar


kets of the world ut ruinous discount
when its soldiers in the field and in the face


OF an exulting enemy were unpaid and unfed
won for him the deserved thanks of the
nation. AS citizen he has been public-spir-
tied and generous to fault His counting
room has been an almonry, and his bene-
factions have blessed thousands. Shall such
a man fall for the want of a helping hand
One word about the effects of yesterday 8
sad events. They may be the end of an un-
toward accident, or the forerunner of the
ruin of thousands, and the arrangement of
the business life of the continent, if not of
the world. But everything depends upon the
people; upon their GOODNESS, their prudence,
and, above all things, upon their quietly al
lowing affairs to take their natural course.
There is more cause for sorrow than for
alarm. Jay Cooke s. Co. are confident that
they will weather the storm, and their word
is to the world of commerce what the Bible
is to that of religion.


The Inquirer says: "Whoever says, as
some did yesterday, that the disaster was ow-
ing to gold or stock gambling. says that
which is not true. The house suspended be-
cause its chief essayed to assist to success
full conclusion the great Northern Pacific
railroad. Had it succeeded in thus connect
ing by a new line of rails the two oceans the
honor of doing so would have been equal to
what it achieved in placing the great war
loans, for it is a work for the common good
of the country and of humanity. 1t was a
scheme of such imposing importance as to
be worthy to enlist the genius and sympa-
thies of so public-spirited man as jaw
Cooke. Believing in the good that the North
ern Pacific railroad weuld do, he loaned it
vast sums of money as construction fund.
and hoped to be repaid by the prompt sale
OF its bonds. The loans were made; the
sale of bonds was not made, and the result
was that yesterday the house temporarily
closed its doors. AS for the dauger of q
general financial panic there is no reason
why one should follow the suspension of
this house. We are past the time when Wild
Cat banks were in vogue. Our banks, safety
and trust companies, and saving fund insti-
tutions are in strong and healthy condition.
What is now required to bridge safely over
the financial current of the next few days is
the maintenance of public confidence in our
institutions. Unwise action, re-
sulting from unwise fears, can only embar-
rass the situation. Public GOODNESS and trust
only can improve it.
Year: 1873

The heroism of ''Bad Bill Casey" is told by a Pittsburgh correspondent Casey was killed in the recent railroad accident at Scrubgrass. He is describ ed as Ca character who richly deserves to be done up in verse to have his name written in characters of living light in that book where the good and evil of mans thoughts, words and deeds are recorded" Casey and number of others were confined in car which was hurled over the embankment.

 The fierce flame of petroleum sur rounded the car on every side but the occupants, Casey among the number, kicked out the windows, crawled out, and perched themselves upon the trucks At this moment the pitiful cries of Jimmy Scott, @ newsboy, was heard, too small to help himself from the wreck that entangled his legs. Casey made his way through the smoke and flame and water to where the little fellow was. He entered the wreck in 6 moment afterward there was Q crash. The weight of the trucks had caused the bottom of the car to give way, and all within, three in number, perished. After the fire had been extinguished, the boy and Classy were found near each other, the latter fastened in such 6 manner in the wreck that he could not extricate himself. The fire had not touched 0 hair of his exquisitely- ranged moustache, and he appeared so natural as to be easily recognized by his acquaintances. His neatly kidded hands were firmly clenched, and his arms were perfectly rigid and extended as in the act of clasping the child to his breast.

 His countenance wore look of stern determination, as if the stubborn spirit had yielded to the relentless destroyer not without a fierce struggle. Casey was about 32 years of age, handsome, reckless, devil-may care fellow, of splendid physique, and had the carriage of an autocrat. He had fought prize battles, gambled for large and little stakes, and bore on his person as many scars from fistic and other encounters as the revolving turret of 8 war mon- itor. Only few weeks ago, at Petro- lia, he drubbed man soundly in re- tsentment for an insult that had been offered him, and the editor of rural newspaper who commented on the deed was threatened with having his ears split. Casey was devotedly attached to his aged mother, and though the years of his fast, fierce existence were spent with associations that cared little fol God and less for man, he supported and provided for her with every comfort until her decease, about year ago The recording angel, surely, with the latest and noblest and brave act of poo1 Bills sinful life, will drop tear of pity over his errors and blot them out for ever."
Year: 1873

Very unpleasant nuptials these are which were celebrated in Hubbard, Trumbull County, Ohio. As the pair was an extremely old pair, the young men of the community sarcastically serenaded the couple. After a short specimen of their musical powers, the bride appeared at the door and tender ed the crowd five dollars for refreshment if the intruders would only go peace fully away. This proposition was accept ed, and three delegates approached to receive the hush-money, when the vicious old lady sprinkled them freely with sulphuric acid. One of the min strels will lose both eyes, another one eye, and the third was dreadfully burn ed, and will not join the festive epitha- lamic chorus again for some time to come
Year: 1873

Black net bonnets will be made plain on the shape like mourning bonnets. A lady-like model had twist of the bril- liant bronze scarabee, with great stand ing bow behind, and coronet of shaded metallic leaves with tress of dusky rose berries directly in front, high above the brow.

 A black straw Michael Angelo hat, with brim upturned all round and far ing, was stylish with ciel blue scarf, demi-rosette on the left of the brim, pink tea rose, and short blue plume.

 A bonnet of golden bronze armure with bronze green ribbon folded round the crown, was finished by rose and bronze shaded wing with standing bow, at the back ribbon loops and long and short ends together. The most charm ing hat was black lace, with jet-fringed bandeau, half wreath of verdigris ber- ries and holly leaves in natural purplisn shades, with dark bronze ribbon loops, to suit the style which orders dark colors and autumnal treasures to be pressed into summer service.
Year: 1873

A Michigan father wrote to lottery agent: "I do not approve of lotteries /; l regard them as no better than gamb- ling schemes. My son bought ticket No. 5 in your drawing, but if it drew anything don't send the money to him send it to me-" The father will prob ably feel relieved to learn that the tick ct didn't draw anything.
Year: 1873

THOUSANDS OF PROMISING YOUTHS, of both sexes, go down to untimely graves, from general debility and weakness who might be saved by fortifying their systemsI with Iron. The Peruvian Syrup is an Iron Tonic prepared expressly to supply this vitalizing element, and is the only preparation of iron that will assimi- late at once with the blood-Com.
Year: 1873

From the Danbury News.l


A retired clergyman writes an account
of little affair that happened in his
place. 1t appears that there was a young
woman, fine spirited girl, engaged at a
wash-tub opposite an open door. just
behind her was young man, as is gen.
orally the case, and in the yard was an
old buck that was allowed the freedom
of the premises, which is not always the
case, we are glad to say. Well, this
buck came up to the door and looked in,
and the young man going close behind
the young woman, pointed his finger
straight to the buck, and the old fellow
recognizing at once the pressing charac-
acter of this mute invitation, put down
bis head and dashed forward, and the
miserable man stepped one side and
fed, and the young woman, sli uncen-
scious Of the arragements. received the
awful shock without warning, and
passed over the tub, and the air for an
instant seemed to lie full of slippers and
wet clothes and hot water and suds.
And the next minute that goat came fly
ing out of that door at a dreadful speed,
bald the whole length of his spine, and
with wild look in his eye. Aud for an
hour afterward he stood pack of the barn
scratching his chin and trying to recall
all the circumstances in the unfortune
affair
Year: 1873

Suggestive Hints 10 Welded Folks.
From the Golden Age.l


There was much more than mere wit
ticism in the remark of the old bachelor
who had paid attentions to maiden lady
for twenty years, visiting her regularly
every night, when rallied for not marry
ing, IF / we're married, l should have
nobody to court, and no place to 60 at
night he had deeply felt the contrast
between his own delicate and ethereal
enjoyments, and the hard, discontented,
fretted life Of too many married people;
and his answer was irony. He saw there
was something in courtship which too
often exhales and expires after marriage,
leaving a cold, dull, monotonous burden
where all was beauty, buoyancy be-
fore. Let me see what that some
thing is. In courtship nothing is taken
for granted. Both parties are put on
their good behavior Love keeps itself
fresh and active by constant expression
in word and act But, strange to say,
the courtship usually ends with marriage.
Very soon both parties yield to the sense
of possession, and the feeling of security
robs gallantry of motive, and extracts
the poetry from the mind The beauti-
full attentions which we're so pleasing be-
fore marriage are too often forgotten af-
terward; the gifts cease, or come only
with the asking; the music dies out of
the voice; everything is taken for
granted, and the love that, like the silver
Jet of the fountain, leaped to heaven,
denied its natural outlet, ceases to flow
altogether. Then come dull, heavy, hard
days, with two unhappinesses tied to-
gether wishing themselves apart; and
not always content with merely wishing.
This is unnatural, and wrong What
married life wants to give it new
tone and sweetness is more of the
manner as well as the spirit of the
courting time. Very much of the pleas
ure of courtship comes from the con-
slant attentions of the parties to each
other. Their affection voices itself in
all possible ways. Every sentence is
edged with compliment and spoken in
tender tones. Every look is confes-
sion. Every act is a new word in the
exhaustless vocabulary of love. Kiss
and caress are parenthetie clauses and
gestures in this dialect of love, and gifts
and sacrifices are the more emphatic ex-
pressions of the spirit no language can
fully articulate and no devotion declare.
And it is the fact that affection confesses
itself continually in look and word
and act, making the voice musical and
the fingers poetic in their touch, and
doing that makes the experience so
beautiful, the only Eden many a woman
has on earth. Love must have express
sion or it will die. 1t can be kept for
ever beautiful and blessed as at the first,
by giving it constant utterance in word
and act. The more it is allowed to flow
out in delicate attentions and noble SER
vice, the stronger and more satisfying
and more blessed it will be. The house
becomes home only when love drops its
heavenly mama in it fresh every day,
and the true marriage vow is made not
once for all at the altar, but by loving
words and helpful service and delicate
attentions to the end
Year: 1873

The New Y YorkyIin,es thinking that the
meteorologists are correctin assuming that
we are to- have a, cycle of very hot sum-
mers, calls attention to certain sugges-
tion of an eminent sanitarianin the health
department, DIR. Stephen Smith, as to
measures during the coming summer
which shall preventth the fatal effects of the
expected heat. One of these is to equalize
the temperature of the city and purify its
atmosphere by causing large number and
variety of shade trees to be set out in vari-
Gus streets and squares The effect Of trees
is to cool the temperature in summer and
soften the cold in winter
Year: 1873




The fashion of dancing is not at all
cosmopolite-Dot even national. In
Saratoga the different styles make a
medley.


If you see 200 pound man and wo-
man perspiring around with their
pompous bodies tossed lightly and
springily in air, arms swaying, keep
ing good time, and making grand
Persian salaams for a bow in the
Lancers, you can set them down as be-
longing to the old Tweed Fisk Leland
Americas Club school.


IF you see two heated young people
tripping fast away ahead of the music,
taking short steps, and jerking TIN ough
a square dance as if the house was on
fire and the set must be completed be-
fore any one could take to the frees
capes, you can set them down as from
the plantation districts of. the South
or the rural districts of Pennsylvania
and the West. 1t is the steamboat
quickstep.


If you see black-eyed youth with
long hair, and young lady with
liquid black eyes, and she has her two
hands on the young mans shoulders at
full length, and she stands directly in
front of him, and they both go hop
ping around like Siamese twins with
wire springs under them, you can wa
ger they are from Louisville, Memphis,
or Little Rock. They have the square
toed wrestling step.


If you see a young fellow grasp
young lady firmly around the waist,
seize her wrist, stick her hand out like
the bowsprit of Sound yacht, and
both hump up their backs like a pair
of mad cats on door-yard fence, and
then 60 sliding slam-bang against peo.
pie, over people, through people, up
and down the room, sidewise, back
ward, and up and down like saw
mill gate, you can bet on them having
learned their dancing from the Morris
town, Riverdale, and Workers. socia-
bles. 1t is the suburban New York
saw-mill jump-up.


If you see a couple sliding gently
and slowly and lazily through the Lam
GERS, just half as fast as the time, but
keeping step with the music, quietly
sauntering through the "grand chain" /"
too languid to whirl partners, talking
sweetly all the time, as if they were
strolling in graveyard, you can rest
assured that they are from New York
and from the most fashionable section
between Madison square and the Park.
This is the graveyard saunter step.


If you see a fellow clasp girl melt
ingly in his arms, squeeze her hand
warmly, hold her swelling bosom to
his, and they both go floating down
the room locked in each others en-
brace, looking like one person, his feet
only now and then protruding from
profusion of illusion and lace and SO
on, rely upon it you can set the two
down as belonging to the intense Boston
school. 1t is the melting Harvard
jacket-race embrace.


Massachusetts, take our hat!-Eh
Perkins.
Year: 1873

The Flushing, Long Island Times
tells this: The wife of prominent
judge in this county, while riding home
by rail recently, was approached by
the conductor for her ticket. With
out looking up from the pages of the
book in which she was absorbed she
thrust her hand into her pocket and
handed him what she supposed to be
a ticket. In a moment or two she be-
came conscious that he was still stand
ing by her side, and looking up she
beheld, to her infinite notification and
the 40 small amusement of the pass
engers, the conductor gazing with the
utmost disgust upon fine-tooth comb
1t was remarked by the passengers
that the scenery along the route was
remarkably fascinating to Mrs. Judge
the remainder of the journey.


An experienced husband in Lafay-
ette sent two switches home to his wife,
from which she was to make a selec-
ton, but before doing it he changed
tho tags, putting the S25 one on the
$40 switch, and vice versa. After a
critical examination hy herself and
lady friends, the choice fell upon the
one labeled S25, and she decided tC
keep it, Notwithstanding her husbands
plaintive protest that he could not af
ford to pay more than SO for such an
article.


After Mr.. Casey had finished read
ing the Declaration" on the Fourth
at Mound City, Illinois, a man ros'
and moved that the speech be pub
lished, as it was one of the best speech
es he had ever "heern" in his life.
Year: 1873

A gentleman who, before he reformed,
had a good deal to do with the wheel
of fortune" SO often seen at race-courses
and show-grounds, suggests that one OF
the constant lodges resorted to by those
who exhibit these wheels" may explain
the principle upon which the chiromagie
toy is constructed. In the wheel OF
fortune a gold watch is placed, at a
point which it seems probable that q
revolving ball viii touch it, and the
watch is offered TO the l'acky indiTidusi
who, at dollar chance, viii turn the
lucky ball so as to touch tie watch; but,
hidden at the point where the gold watch
is placed, is a magnet that repes the
whirling ball, which will often stop Just
on one side or the other Of the magnetic
influence, and thus incite the unsuspi-
eious better to try again From the fact
that n the chiromagie toy the question
has TO be placed at a particular point,
the probability is that cloiug so forms
magnetic line TO that part Of the toy
which forms the regular answer, and
the terminus Of which I k.ecomes the point
Of attraction for the magnetic hand


BGifim0rc American.
Year: 1873

-. At recent meeting Of the Massachusetts State
Temperance AllianceD the expedieney of taking up


General Butler for total abstinence candidate


was warmly discussed. No final decision was ar
needed q man with brains and backbone, and that
the temperance people had been cheated enough.
Gen. Buder had told him pnyately that he would
enforce the law impaftiany, on the Parker House
as well as other ppees, and he (Robertsl believed
else. He never knew the man to 20 back on his
word. If the temperance people did not have an
independent candidate, General Dutlsr was the
man for them. They had better have man ID
which they lo.q nOt put q much cGnnaenee. u l, ne
the chief constable Of the State gong to resign
because Governor Washburn would not let bim
enforce the Law. he beheved they had better
have man of pluck, even If he drank whiskey
every morning before breakfast ,IElql
Year: 1873

ANDREW JOHNSON was attacked by the cholera
during his recent visit to Greenville, Tennessee.
After fierce struggle with the disease he rallied
and got better, but afterwards took q relapse and
came near dying. His physician was immediately
sent for. and watched at hts bedside for one whole
night, never leaving him for moment, and finally
succeeding in enabling him to pass the crisis. II
Is said did all be could TO administer TO the wants
Of the sick and the dying. He thinks Of return
ing TO Washington TO live. ..
Year: 1873

Adrian, with the unconscious good fortune of youth, slept as he usually did, one deep, refreshing sleep, all night long, and awoke, as one should awake; not with sticky eyes, a sense of having been slowly boiled, sluggish un- willing recognition of returning, conscious thought, and under an after-night or spiritual darkness of i'll nature; but altogether clean, as one rises promptly from piece of work handsomely done and fin ished, bright and jolly.

 Not that he sprang instantly out of bed, as the exemplars de- confound them! Is there any, thing So hateful or so impudent as a good example? The Duke of Wellington used to say, "When it's time to turn over it's time to turn out" N. B. He's dead. Adrian had more sense; he knew enough 10 lie still a little while and be comfortable. The moments between healthy waking and ju- dicious rising are the honeymoon of the day; in them we welcome the sunlight and it's life; rejoice with it before settling down to those sober, conventional utilities of the days work which begin with clothes and breakfast. The soul is calm and happy, and the thoughts are either quiescent, while a mere sense of sufficient Well-being, of sweetness and light, fills the consciousness, or they brood, with that spontane- ous, lucid, unconscious evolution which belongs to the highest ac- tivitics of the mind over any sub- jeet that is present. Genius is simply the action of the mind, as in lying awake in bed before get ting up to breakfast. Not that there are not other climaxes of genius. Perhaps it would be more accurate to turn the statement end for end. The action of the mind in bed, while we lie awake in the morning before getting up to breakfast, is of the nature of genius. and NeaU.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, October 27.-The Secretary of the Treasury, in a statement relative to the contem- plated issue of silver instead of currency in making payments by the Department, says he does not exactly know how much silver will be paid, but he expects that it will be convenient for him to issue this week a quarter of 8 million in the regular course of business.
Year: 1873

The church is never purer, on the whole new
er more devout, and never increases more
rapidly than when she enjoys the bad opinion
of society but when We begin to be thought
very excellent people, and our church is honor
ed, es,eemed and respected, and corruption sets
10, we get away from Christ, and prove again
that the friendship of the world is enmity with
God iSDuroeon
Year: 1873

The strange fascination OF ladies to attend
auction sales Of dry goods has been exempli6ed
at a certain auction il New York City during
the past week. A auctioneer says the pre-
sencs of those who attend merely to see the
fun is eudurable, but the lady who bids a GER
tain article of cloth up to nine cents yard and,
when 1t is knocked down to her decides to take
one yard, he regards as blot on the "civiIiza-
tion Of the nineteenth century,
Year: 1873

by H. Mn.
Dear sister received your letter,
So entreating and so kind
And have on to the conclusion
That yours Is far the better mind,
know was hasty in leaving,
But thought l was doing nc harm
For work to me was unpleasant
While chained to the hated old farm
You know that life in tho eo~ntry
Is seldom much liked by boys
Who've entered the stage of manhoor
And wish for stupendous joys;
But father always was willing
To do whatever was just;
His ways cannot complain Of
Him false l cahnot mistrust.
told dear mother at departing
That would ever be true,
And labor on the farm forever
At least till father was through
She said that these were her wishes,
And hoped that wonld ever be firm,
And stay on the dear old homestead
10 help father improve the farm.
l know dear father is weary
Has grown very old and gray;
No doubt he earnestly wishes
That l would come home and stay;
And so, after think ng it over,
| see my unscrupulous wrong,
And think that MS soon as convenient
I'll go back to where l belong.
All, yes! those few months Mt college
Did me but very little good;
They gave me II notion to wander
And 60 wherever | coul'
| think that the place for Herbert
The place that will bring him the harm,
Is back in the beautiful country
At home and work ON the farm.
My business done mp in the city
| haven't got much to do
And then will start for the country
To meet dear father and you.
l know that | will be Welcomed
Will be greeted sincerely warm;
And these words, pei haps, will be cheering,
Dear sister, I'm come to the farm"