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Year: 1872

Senator Conkling has not satisfied himself
that his petty resolution inquiring into the
recommendations to Office made by his fellow
Senators, should be judiciously strangled'
Yesterday, he squared off and AIMED ano'her
blow at his fantastic antagonist, an impalpabie
monster in the air which he is fighting, but
made neither progress nor reputation 10
spcnd an hour and half i'll petty squabbie
over appointments TO Office does not seem
exactly statesmanlike.
Year: 1872

We publish to-day q full account OF the 10
;ncs Of the so-caled Southern Improvement
Company which have been designed with IN
tent to throttle the industry OF the Pennsyi-
vonia oil region. Happily their efforts have
been thwarted, as readers OF The TRIBUNE
know; but the information afforded by our
correspondent throws considerable hght on
the extraordinary combination which so nearly
proved tho ruin Of the great oil interest Oh
Pennsylvania.
Year: 1872

Two precocious youths attending the
Upper Fourth street school, concluded
they would like to recreate for a week
|or two. These fast boys were brothers,
and hit upon the smallpox dodge. They
requested their teacher for permission
ITO go home. When asked what for,
they responded that their mother was
sick. The teacher Of course wanted TO
know the nature Of their mas illness.
and after much apparent reluctance, they
frightened the teacher nearly out of her
wits by informing her that "ma's got
the smallpox" OF course they got per-
mission to 90 home and left school i'm q
hurry. But they did not long enioy
their release. The teacher determined
to adopt stringent sanitary measures.
and forthwith sent all the children homo
residing in the vicinity of the infected
district This lead TO an inquiry, which,
Of course resulted in the explosion oil
this smallpox hoax. The precocious
boys were thrashcd and sent back toI
school, and wouldn't dare now to tell
the teacher their mother had the small.
pox, even il she was scabbled all over
with it-(New Albany Ledger.
Year: 1872

EMBARRASSING SITUATIoN.-Ma Adeler
says: That little affair of Needbam's that
some of the papers have been telling about was
certainly unpleasant-at least to Needham;- :
Needham owned deep-mouthed watchdog
which always bayed him welcome home, and
snatched mouthtuls of chops out of the legs OF
strangers. Needham took that faithful animal
along with him one day to guard his clothes
while he went in swimming. Needham bathed
Tor an hour, and meanwhile the dog went to
sleep on Needhams garments. When Need
ham came out the dog did not recognize him
in his nude condition, and refused to let him
come near his garments. Every time that
Needham would grab for suspender or sock
the dog would bite mouthful out OF his arm
or leg, and whenever Needham would make
dive Tor boot or undershirt that animal would
seize him by the calf and shake him. GO
Needham stood there in the sun pretty nearly
roasted, and he spent the afternoon dodglng IN
and out of the water to avoid the Dorcas socle,,
ties and female students at the boarding school
and the factory girls coming down the road
AT last when the dog went to sleep Needham
crept up behind him, caught him suddenly oy
the tail and flung him across the stream. be-
fore the dog could swim back Needham got
most of his clothes upon his bleeding body ana
limbs, and the dog came Siding up to hun
looking as if he expected to be rewarded for
his extraordinary vigilance. And yet they say
that the dog is man S best friend.
Year: 1872

MUDDY WATER-Y Yesterday and to-day the
hydrant water was SO muddy and discolored as to
be unfit for use. This was doubtless caused BY
the heavy rain and freshet up the Brandywine on
Saturday afternoon.
Year: 1872

AGENT. n. Lhappeil has been ap-
pointed Freight Agent at ReddiDg by the
r K. Company. He is good business
man and will fill the position in manner
that will be satisfactory to all concerned.
Year: 1872

The writer of this paragraph hits the
nail on the head-would that he could
make the fellows feel the blow: GLOW
young men can consent to loaf about the
corners as they do, when good dose Of
strychiuine can be bought for six pense,
is really surprising
Year: 1872

If there be'anv kind of peculation which
properly arouses the wrath of the public. it
is peculaton in the postoilices. If a thief
steals your pocket-book, you know the fact
immediately and can act upon it : but if a
YOU are lett for some time in doubt whether
they have been made or not, while the
chances of recovering your property are in
man in the distributing department of Bos-
ton postotiice, Marshall Laws by name-a
very nice young man, of unsullied private
lite, with every appearance of ntegrity-in
fact a perfect treasure OF clerk. While he
was operating largely upon valuable CORES
pondence the expedient of decoy letters was
tried by detective in charge of the case
but Laws was a cautious, if not an old bird,
and that kind of chatf failed to catch him.
until at last his patron, the devil, deserted
him, and he was personally inspected with
out any warning by Detective Field, who
found package of thirtytwo letters in his
undercoat, and another package Of seven
teen letters in his nvercOat Then he made
clean breast of it. Within the last twenty
nine months he has stolen about $4,000.
He asserted that he had "a mania for
stealing letters. and no doubt he was right.
He did not squander his ill-gotten gains, for
he had $1,000 in savings bank, and the
balance he had invested i'll desirable real
estate, telling those who wondered at his
remarkable prosperity that he had drawn
prize in the Havana lottery amounting to
$4,000. He has given up all the property
standing in his name, and is now living in
strict seclusion in Boston jail.
Year: 1872

Miss Olive Logan will lecture in New Or
leans this week on Nice Young Men and
on Girls" The Baltimore -4nerican says
Of these lectures:


Miss Logan is too well known to our read
ers to call for eulogy at our hands. Last
night she lectured ON Nice Young Men, to
the large audience which Invariably awaits
her here. This was her third season, and
her seventh successful appearance in Balti-
more, where her popularity may now be
looked upon as firmly established.


An immense throng gathered last evenin g
to hear Miss Logan repeat her brilliant lee
ture on Girls This was her third appear
ance before Baltimore audience and the
enthusiasm of the vast assemhlage was. if
possible. even greater than before. Miss
Logan's popularity in Baltimore is almost
without a parallel.
Year: 1872

The Vicksburg News says this about river
mails:


There is a continuous stir of inharmonious
complaint arising from postmasters and
others living on the river between this and
New Orleans in regard to the uncel tainty
and scarcity Of the mails from our city.
With view to getting at the right of this
matter, we examined the mail register in
the postoffice here and found that since
kouns took the contract on the fourth of
February, there has been but four mails re-
ceived here from New Orleans by river and
there has been but two sent from here by
the medium of the Kouns contract. And
these were on tfasient boats. which post
masters on the route were not looking for,
and consequently did not meet them to send
their mails. Surely this is a pleasant state
of affairs
Year: 1872

A Washington special to the Louisville
Co,,rierJoug1,al says:


The Committee on Ways and Means to-
day, in answer to a request of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, finally decided that it
would not recommend the abolition OF tho
collection of the income TAX for 1871 There
is no reason, therefore, to doubt that this
tax will be collected at the rate of two and
half per cent, with $4,000 exempt, and
that the Commissioner OF Internal Revenue,
will at once order the printing of the blanks
for the assessment of the same. One of tho
reasons given against the abolition of tho
collection of this tax is, that the amount of
revenue to be derived from it has been esti-
mated in the receipts of the prese Mt fiscal
year. OF course, part of section fifteen Of
the old law, which levies a tax on the earn
ings OF corporations, and on the intel at. ON
coupon bonds, remains unrepealed, though
the direct tax on Incomes expires with the
collection tor 1872, and it is not believed
that the committee propose to revive it.
Year: 1872

Last evening about ten o'clock the moon
presented a most singular appearance. A
clearly defined ring or halo of about six or
eight diameters of full moon surrounded
it. Inside of this ring the sky was of a
peculiarly clear blueish green color. The
moon itself was moderately bright, though
there was more radiation of the rays than
is usually the case. The phenomenon was
so different from any ever before observed
here that it was matter of general remark.
1t must be noticed here that it was entirely
unlike the common appearance the moon
wears on the approach of rain. The ring
was first seen by gentleman in our Office
who has a superabundance of wigglers for
his limited supply of cistern water. 1t was
generally voted as the "sign" of very
small shower at best.
Year: 1872




According to the original announcement,
the Southern Exposition will continue open
only until the twentieth instant-one week
longer. Itis hoped that it will either be
extended some weeks longer, or continued
for an indefinite period.


Those who do not know the attractions
there can form no idea of the multitudes
who thrOng the spacious halls evening after
evening, in addition to the great numbers
who just drop in during the day.


In few days the exterior finish of the
building will be entirely completed; the
rubbish will be removed, the banquettes
fully laid, and then ladies will not, as they
need not now, hesitate about going in.


However, in the meantime the attractions
from day to day become greater and more
tempting, and the goods on exhibition make
a more magnificent show. Jaegers band
can be heard and all the nice things seen
for only twenty-five cents.
Year: 1872

The First Greeley Club in the Field.


The employees of the REPUBLICAN Office
have formed an association under the
name of the Greeley Base Ball Club.
They play the first game on Sunday next
at the Park with the Morse Base Ball
Club, composed of the operators of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, No. 81
Camp street. As both clubs are composed
of some really fine players, we expect to
witness a close and exciting contest.
Year: 1872

state Organization Initiated


In accordance with previous notice, a
large number Of the Cincinnati delegates
assembled in the Senate Chamber at noon
yesterday Hon. G. H. Braughn was called
to the chair, and a resolution passed look
ing to the immediate organization of the
Liberal Republican party of Louisiana.


From each Congressional district the
Liberals will choose two members, and
Chairman Braughn was authorized to ap-
point ten from the State at large, thus con
stitutng a Provisional State COmmittee,
whose duty it will be to call convention,
and enlist the people actively in the great
cause of Reform.


Another meeting will be held to-day, at
which it is probable definite arrangements
will be concluded to hold, in this city at an
early day, grand mass meeting, to ratify
the nominations of Greeley and Brown.
1t is evident the Liberal Republican party
is made up of workers.
Year: 1872

IMPROVED REAL ESTATE IN THE SECOND
DISTRICT AT AUCTION BY THE SHERIFF.
We call attention to the sales at auction,
to be made this day at noon, at the St.
Louis Auction Exchange, in the basement
rOtunda Of the st. Louis HOTEL of a lot of
ground with the buildings and improve
ments thereon, situated at the corner of
White and Cont streets, Second District
For particulars and terms see advertise
ment.
Year: 1872

To be member of State Legislature,
particularly in a great State like New
York, is not at all times what fancy might
paint it. The present session has been a
lengthy one, and many farmers were elect
ed to it who had no conception of the tri-
ais and tribulations to which they would
be subjected. In place like Albany it
does not take long to make away with the
pittance Of pay, and many nave been
obliged to use this pay in meeting daily
bills, while their board bill for the session
is still unpaid. Such p;nching and fgur-


ing do not believe were ever before seen
in Albany. Members borrowed money
until there was no more to borrow, and
when the day came that even the three
dollars day was taken from them, the
prospect looked blue enough. Of course
| do not wish you to understand that these
economical regulations applied to members
from this city or other large cities, for they
generally know how to live well and lay
up something Oh theirpay per diem. The
members who suffered were those from the
interior, who awoke Suddenly to find them.
selves transformed from plain, honest, re-
liable, everyday farmers or merchants to
a political field OF which they knew moth
ing If | may be judge, there are at
least twenty members whom YOU will not
catch in the Legislature any way, and as
many more who will not 90 again If they
can help it. ] saw one member who was
actually placing a mortgage Of $500 on his
farm to pay his board and other bills, and
he said that he was actually compelled to
do this Said the gentleman: = fully
appreciate the honor, but it is too expen-
sive for me. | want no more Of it," 9th.
er members, who can lily afford it, are pay
ing big margins for money to meet their
bills.
Year: 1872

This term in medicine, according to
some comprehends the whole regimen OF
life, with regard to air, meat, drink, sleep,
watching, motion rest, the passions, reten-
tions and excretiops. [ restrict the term
to eating and drinking alone. The natural
constitution of the body of man is such,
that 1t can easily bear some changes and
irregularities without much injury. Had
it been otherwise we should be almost
constantly put out of order by very slight
cause. This advantage comes from those
wonderful communications OF the inward
parts, whereby when one part is affected
another comes Immediately to its relief
Thus, when the body is too full, nature
causes evacuation through some OF the
outlets; and for this reason, diseases from
absolute inanitionIape generally more dam
gerous than from repletfjh, unless the lat
ter be excessive; because we can more ex-
peditiously diminish than increase the
juices of the body. Upon the same &C
count though temperance be beneficial to
all men, the ancient PHYSICIANS advise per-
sons in good health, now and then to eat
and drink more abundantly than usual.
But of the two, intemperancc in drinking
is safer than in eating. If man be
obliged to fast, he ought TO avoid all labor
ious work. From safety it is not proper
to pass directly into sharp hunger, nor
rom hunger to safety; neither will it be
safe to indulge in absolute rest Immediate
" after excessive labor, nor suddenly to
fall to hard work after long idleness. In a
word, all changes in the way of living
should be made by degrees. The softer
and milder kinds of aliment are proper for
children, and for youth the stronger. Old
PEOPLE ought to lesson the quantity of
their food, and increase that of their
drink; but some allowance is to be made
for,custom, especially in cold climates like
ours; for as in these the appetite is keener,
so is the digestion better performed. Milk
pottaee is far more wholesome than tea
with bread and butter: and, if made after
the following manner, is in many respects
preferable to milk alone: Let equal guam
titles of milk and water be boiled up with
a little oatmeal, which will break the vi
cidity of the milk, and be at the same
time more easily digested than the latter
in an undiluted state. Besides oatmeal is
a much warmer nourishment than wheaton
-four and agrees better with weak stom-
achs.
Year: 1872

that wealth can do is accomplished, our
buildings seem literally to be baptised IN
architectural beauty until they glow in
Gothic, Corinthiau, Composite, cornice,
entablature, interlace console, scroll ver-
incubation, portico, veranda, baldachln,
and all the ornamentation that the artists
pencil and the mechanics skill can produce
at the command of millions.


Our grand Central Park stretching away
for miles in the beauty of miniature
Eden, is the pride and envy of our city the
world over. The very. inland steamers
that tie to our rotten docks are the finest
palaces that float upon the water, and, yet,
of these docks, what are we to say, what
language in its severity will do justice to
the cause. 1t would be blessing to our
city if an earthquake could sink them
without any other serious result.


We have strange contrast as striking
in appearance as that OF the lady at dress
ball representing poverty in her skirt OF
rags, and wealth in her glittering diamonds
that sparkled on her rich clad bosom, and
cleaned like stars in her raven hair. |
refer to that splendid revetment wall of
masonry that skirts the Battery, construc-
ted under the engineering plan and super
vision of Gen. Geo B. Mcclellan. Such
wall should belt the island round, and
long piers of masonry should reach out to
take our commerce in. The old piers of
rotten, Shiny spiling should be torn away
until not one would be left as relic OF
the former alapidation. The piers should
be filled in solid and tagged with heavy
stone, and not plank should be used IN
their construction to rot away. All should
be kept clean, no rotting rubbish OF logs
and spars and worn out boats should float
within single dock, and the cargo boxes
of steamship and steamboat companies
should be built of corrugated iron, making
all incombuStible. A board Of inspectors
should enforce the most perfect system of
regulation, and then we would have docks
the pride of our city and the admiration
of the world This great and desirable
Improvement would cost no more than
our fine buildings, and if our merchants
do not need fine docks to & o business on
they do not need fine buildings to do bus
mess in, and we should not have marble
palaces on Broadway and rotting old
docks on South and West streets; let US
have uniformity by all means and not
have it like


Spotless Moreen filthy horror inclose,


Or gaiter boots laced DER detestable hose.


Let the press of our city raise their
united power against these dilapidated, in
secure and inadequate docks, and the evil
will soon cease to exist.
Year: 1872

Mr.. RO6t. y. Bell, an Assistant ODSeFFef
at the United States Signal station on the
summit Of Mount Washington, writes to
the Phi'adelphia Bulletin an account of
his everyday experiences above the clouds.
He was detailed to take the place of Will
liam Stevens, who died in mid-winter
with no friend near him save his solitary
companion, Sergeant Hearne. A party of
stalwart mountaneers climbed to the sum-
nit and took the body down for burial.
They placed it in box fitted to runners,
which was permitted to slide down the
mountain side, the men holding On to
ropes attached to the rear to regulate the
motion and direct the course. Mr.. Bell
says:


awe occupy the depot Of the Mountain
Railroad, in which we have two rooms
partitioned off (ten by twelve, securely
chained to the rocks, so that the wind
may not blow US away. One we use as
kitchen and dining room, and the other as
a parlor, bed and dressing room. We also
occupy the latter as our Office, in which
we keep our barometars and telegrapbic
instruments. the wire connecting with
Littleton, n. H., by which means we are
not wholly excluded from civilization, al
though must admit that visitors are very
few-not a single one since my glorious
ascent.


1--WE generally supply ourselves in Sep
tember with canned provisions sufficient
to last throughout the winter, reckoning
at the same time to give our visitors a
square meal when they come. Our time
we must occupy chiefly by reading and
studying, for our outdoor amusements
are very scarce. In case we do have the
pleasure of going outside to ramble amid
the snow and ice on the rocks, we are
obliged 10 take advantage of the same, and
exercise ourselves by hauling ice, frostwo1k
and snow, so that we may. procure the
water necessary for cooking and drinking
purposes, as the weather is very severe on
the summit, the thermometer since my ar
rival having been most of the time below
zero, and the wind at hurricane.


"I will give you small idea how we
felt, the thermometer standing at forty
nine degrees below zero, and the wind
raging at hundred and twenty miles per
hour. The cold weather which | have
reference to occurred on the 5th of March,
and the mode we adopted to keep ourselves
warm was to bring all the coats and over
coats into requisilion during the day,
with two large coal fires continually burn
ing. At night we took advantage Of our
little bed (which is not bad cne) /, with
covering enough to suffocate any man in or
dinary winter weather, and then | must
confess we suffered with the cold. 1t was
the cpldest time that my comrade and |
ever experienced. We do not mind dur
ing the day TIE thermometer standing at
ten below zero, if the wind does not blow
too hard, for then we can have little hol-
iday by going outside. But at night, un-
less the wind is blowing at least sixty
miles an hour, we cannot sleep well, for
we are too accustomed to hurricanes"
Year: 1872

WHAT lie DID.-A Chicago girl hearing
that her lover had been stricken with
smallpox, insisted upon flying to his bed
side and becoming his nurse. 1t was a
case, but she Was unceaSDg in her devotion,
and principally through her care and skill
the patient recovered. And now she her
seltfell a victim to the complexion-destroy
ing monster, and although she survived
the attack, ut its close the beautiful pink
and white of her fair face had flown for
ever, and from being the prettiest girl in
Chicago she became one OF the plainest.
Her lover had attended her through her
illness, but when he saw how feartully she
was changed, his love for her departed, and
when the marriage-day drew near he re-
fused to fulfill MS part of the contract
She took his refusal very calmly; no ro-
proaches came from the once pretty mouth,
which had lost its prettinesS IN saving the
ungrateful one from death; her cheek,
which the tell tale blood used so often to
tipge with rosy-red, retained its color, and


she married an octogerarian worth $500,
mn
Year: 1872

If dogs are the besetting evil of the
country, so they are of the city. New
York, as well as Brooklyn, is over run
with these worthless ours, and you find
them everywhere under your feet at one
moment, swapping at your legs the next.
a warfare is waged against the ours, but
it seems as though when one rs shot
a hundred spring up to do honor to his
memory or revenge him, | scarcely
know which. On the west side Of the
town, between Fifty-ninth and 109th
streets, running from Tenth avenue to the
Hudson, there is a settlement of shanties,
about nine hundred in number. This
place is without doubt one of the greatest
dog kennels in the city, as the ratio Of
dors to shanties is as three to one. From
this it will be seen that there are no less
than two thousand seven hundred dogs in
this place. If they were kept within the
periphery of the settlement one might
not care how many there were; but they
are allowed to prowl around the streets in
quest of food, which their hungry eyes
sometimes see in the leg ola mans pants.
The same fatality attracts to other parts
of the city. From 10th street on the
east side, to Jones Wood is one dense
dog kennel, and many are the cases re-
ported of persons bitten by the ours. 1t
is said that over 25, 900 dogs exist in New
York, and certainlyit seems as though
no family was without one, from the fash
ionable ladies lap dog, to the Five Points
urrhin's mangey cur.
Year: 1872

New York Harbor almost equals in
beauty the famed bay Of Naples, possessing
more commercial advantages for shipping
than almost any other city on the globe,
and presenting one of the most animated
ziews of business and pleasure that the
ewes could wish to dwell upon; and yet
ssents an irregular, dilapidated dockage
h is as mortifying to the people as it is


the wants of buiness. Every


soud metropolis is marked


Ff improvements, as


cent. Every thing