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Year: 1873

n. F. THOMPSON, the second grand
officer of the State in the l. o G. I.
will be present at the Convention at
Union Church on Goth inst. and ad


dress the public. He is an able and
eloquent speaker The friends of
Temperance here are in hopes that he
viii be induced to visit our town, aad
lecture on the Sunday night following
Year: 1873

From the following advertisement,
which we clip from the the Troy Times
it will be seen @hat our Lake county
neighbors are moving in earnest in our
Levee enterprise A special term Of
the Chaucery Court will be held at
Tiptonviile, the 1st Monday in
August, and we presume there is no
doubt charter of incorporation will
be obtained:
Year: 1873

There must soon be an end to the very
convenient shifting of responsibility from
President to Congress and back, and from the
party In power to irresponsible representatives
Of the party, in the matter of the financial
mismanagment and barefaced robbery to
which the Southern States have been and
still are subjected. 1t has been treated here
tofore as a matter of politics, and very small
and contemplate politics at that. 1t demands
and must soon have in its treatment, honesty.
common sense, and something as near like
craftsmanship as the dominant party can bring
forward In the juggle of reconstruction these
States fell into the hands of carpet-baggers
and thieves. That they have been plundered
almost to death is matter of public notoriety.
No testimony to it is needed The staring,
stupendous figures of their several State debts
is proof unmistakable and unanswerable. The
robbery has been carried on in the face and
eyes of Congress and the country by men who
claimed to be supporters of the Administra-
ton. and who were in fact the Republican
party Of the South. 1t cannot be denied that
they have been countenanced as the repre-
sentative men of the party, and sustained in
their outrageous usurpations by the Ad-
ministration and the dominant party.
But the party, while receiving their
support and maintaining them in power, dis
claimed all responsibility for their acts, and so
they held on their career with entire impunity.
Congress and the Administration, though ready
TO interfere in behalf of these thimble-riggers
and thieves whenever they asked aid, held off
from answering any call of the plucked vic
tins and shifted from one to tho other all re-
sponsibility. In one case, Congress would do
nothing because the President had adopted
policy of his own; in another, the President
would not interfere because Congress had neg
lected to legislate for the protection of the
PROSTATE States.


In this state of things the condition of mis-
rule and robbery has gone Oh unchecked.
Year: 1873

We would be content to let the facts which
appear in another column, showing that the
Ring members of the Brooklyn Bridge direct
Ory have paid up the stock which they owe,
speak for themselves were it not that two or
three points need to be impressed upon the
public mind. The men who now pay up are
the master spirits of the Ring. Every cent
they have put into this enterprise they have
previously made out of it. That which they
now pay into the treasury is nothing more
nor less than conscience money, forced from
them by public condemnation of what they
have tried to do and have failed in, because
exposed at the critical moment.


This present restitution is an admission that
they do not expect the Governor to sign the
Bridge BILL and confession that they do not
need it. They virtually admit by their act
that they can 60 on better with their own
subscriptions added to the fund due from the
two cities than without it; and they have
finally resolved TO do this without asking fur
ther legislation. Now, when the rest who are
delinquent have paid up, tho Company will
have $1,115,OOO to run them for another year.
Meantime more money is to be asked for, and
more legislation will be required. Be-
fore any moro money is subscribed
the people of Brooklyn will insist upon
legislation which shall give them q proper
representation in the Board. They will never
again consent that Ring subscribing only
half million shall spend five millions ad
ditional of their money. To secure that legis-
lation is the work now in hand. And first, 1t
might as well be said now as later, that to
effect this they have to send from Kings
County other representatives than Senator
Murphy and his associates in both houses of
the Legislature. That is to be one of the
gravest issues of tho coming campaign in
Brooklyn. If the Ring is to be broken Senator
Murphy must not again be elected to repre-
sent at Albany the dozen or two great corpo-
rations who pay him large fees as counselor
Year: 1873

Whether cholera visits the city or not in the
perilous interval between July and October, every
householder has enough to do to protect the lives
and health of his family. Jealous reporters and
physicians who protest against defective pipes and
untrapped sewers, neglect TO mention the aorta Of
bad air outside our chamber doors which feeds our
lungs perpetually The hallway of every house acts
as great duct or reservoir for oil the vitiated air.


whether from waste-pipe open or leaking closet,
bedroom OF gas fixture. Direct ventilation is cut
OIL by the end bedrooms and the mephitc gases Of
the honse cling day after day in the entries while
the skylight is shut close. as the enemy of human
life delights to see it. Sewers might leak, but if
the skylight stood open il should, every hour of
day and night when there was not drenching rain.
the poison gases, diluted many times with the free
air rushing in the front door and up the stairway


would lose their concentrated venom In dwelling


houses the only means of airing the center of the
house ~ by the scutle in the roof which Is seldom
open save an inch two for GOODNESS in very hot
DAYS. Stingy draughts of finger width will not
thoroughly air a house from top to bottom, as 1t
must be- aired daily, unless the inmates want cholera
or typhuS vt home in the best bedroom Every
Year: 1873

the Monarchists did not deem it necessary to
rid themselves of an inconvenicnt antagonist.
The permission to try him (probably by court
martial), which has been granted by the AS,
sembly at tho requcsC of the Governor Oh M
Paris, is very much like conspiracy, ana Will
not tend to diminish the disfavor Win wlicn
the majority of the Assembly is regarded oy
the majority of the peODle.
Year: 1873

full that time be had to make full INQUIRY as
to their qualifications and characters we "io
anxious TO see new men confirmed III oiuoi W
be rid Of the old ones but let not iiouuicious
haste fasten upon us either such corrupt
iudrcs "a we have had, or such hn Ignorant
one oa WE were threatened with in recent
en1
Year: 1873

We prepared for an unusually large demand
for THE TRIBUNE lecture sheet containing the
Agassiz series but after all, we had under
rated the interest it would excite, and our
supply yesterday was exhausted before noon.
The plates were put on the press again last
night, and We are now ready to fill all orders.
Year: 1873

The announcement reaches us at an early
hour this morning of the death of HOr-
ace f. Clark from rheumatism of the
heart. When Mr.. Clark left New
York, a few weeks ago, on his Western
trip, he seemed in perfect health, though as
all his friends know he had for years been
heavily overwOrked. He was one OF
our most active business men, and
q citizen whom New York can i'll af-
ford to spare. His death will cause many
establishments OF financial and railroad inter
ests, and in many ways leave wide gaps not
10 be soon flied.
Year: 1873

II is an oddty of Scotch humor that II plays con-
tinually around the seyerest religions faith IN the
world. Any reader of Dean Ramsay is prepared 70
believe the story that this notice lately posted
in the vestbule of kirk in Scotland: The person
who stole Songs Of he Sanctuary from pew No. -
should improve the opportunity Of singing them
here as be will have no occasion 20 sing them here
aftprN
Year: 1873

The following is an extract from the letter of a
prominent man in another city: 90 rejoice also III
the evident prosperity of THE TRIBUNE. lt Is q
noble newspaper, and il is pleasure that only
father earnest about his growing children can feel
to have il in his power to say, Read TnE 1mBUNE.
IL embodies all the news-al that is first in heFa-
ture all that is now in science oil that is pure III
pohtics. without a taint of impurity in either
Year: 1873

The Aldermen wisely deferred until the next
meeting the confirmation of the ten Police
Justices who have been nominated by the Mayor.
They are generally unknown in Ward poll
tics; this much can safely be said in commen-
datiOn OF the appOintees. But the fact that
they are unknown makes it all the more need
Year: 1873

Yesterday was an earnest of what we may
expect for Summer weather. The thermometer
marked ninety-fve in the shadej and ten
cases Of sunstroke are reported. There are
many, doubtless, who think this a fearful
spell of weather, forgetting that we had tiercer
heats last year much earlier in the Summer.
In the Summer of 1872 we had long term OF
severely hot weather before the middle OF
June, with many sunstrokes. The present
season is uneOmmOnly dry, though compare
lively cool one until yesterday, which was the
hottest day of this Summer.
Year: 1873

From the Anti. .Bn,lCr Article in August Atlantic


Beginning as lawyer Of low reputa.
tion, 10 worked his way up to the posi-
lion of q strenuous partisan; and then,
converting his reputation for party fidelity
into :aplIal, he placed It at the disposal
Of the party 10 which he was tho sworn
foe Then cnlistlng in the war, and dis
tinguishing himself for his administration
OF a captIred city, he made US OF this
reputation to gain for himself the COM
mand OF other military expeditions, in
which he succeeded in burlGsquing every
operation OF war. Atthe return OF peace
he got himself elected member
ol Congress, and has since then advo'
Gated every scheme Of plunder which bis
or any ones ingenuity has been able to
devise; his latest performance has been
the passage OF an act securing for these
services the increase Of his own salary
lie Is neither a fine orator nor q skilllul
legislator. None Of his political schemes
have as yet come to anything Of impor.
tance; but with each new failure his pow
or has increased, while his wealth already
places him beyond all reach Of disaster
He has always displayed the utmost con
tenn, even for the appearance oI decency
and has Svowed himself almost in on
breath a reGormer and cynical skepti
as to any attempt at reform.
Year: 1873

GOVERNMENT TAX ON LIQUOR DEAL
EB.-The article in this mornings paper
touching the Internal Revenue law ex-
plains some points not generally under
stood in regard to the taxes on liquor
dealers, and those in that trade would do
well to give the article their attention and
preserve II Tor reference.
Year: 1873

It criminal offense to sell any mess of


chemical compounds that human inge-
auity can concoct for wine We should
strike a blow at crime and insanity by
entting off the streams of poison, and
casting out the deleterious drugs, that
make the drinks of our people deadly.
rhis can be done; and this every motive
of interest, selfprotection and humanity
requires us to DO. Give our people pure
wines to drink, and then we shall be in
condition to determine whether it is
the adulteration or the wine that causes
crime and madness
Year: 1873

One man with any trade is worth
thousand without one A return 10 the
old plan of apprenticing boys to trades
is being advocated. The hosts of young
men in every large city who apply for
employment and fail to get it, for the
reason that they cannot truthfully affirm
that they are educated. or especially fit
ted for any particular business, consti-
tute.a a potent argument in favor of reform
Under the apprentice system we would
have fewer ignorant mechanics, and IN
competent business men. "a trade is
half q mans fortune"
Year: 1873

All men who avoid female society have
dull perceptions. are stIpid; have gross
tastes, and revolt against what is pure.
Your club swaggerers, who are sucking
the ends of billiard cues all night. call
female society insipid. Poetry is nni1i-
spring to n yokel; beauty has no charms
for blind man; music does not please
poor beast, who does not know oneatnne
from another; but as a true epicnre is
hardly ever tired of water, sauce. and
brown bread and butter protest can
sit for q whole night talking to a we'll
regulated. kindly woman about her
daughter Fanny, or her boy Frank. and
like the evenings entertainments One
of the great benefits a man may derive
from womans society is that he is hound
to be respectful to her The habit is of
great good to your morals, men, depend
upon it. Our education makes US the
most eminently selfish men in the world,
and the greatest benefit that comes to n
man from woman's society is that he. has
to think OF somebody to whom lie Is
bound to be constantly attentive and
respectful
Year: 1873

DR. THRALL, of Philadelphia has made
a very unpleasant discovery In about
seven years Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune will approach nearer the earth
than they have been in l 800 years, and
the result will be pestilence. When
Congress has the manlness to make as
tronomy an indictable ofiense, then we
shall have relief, but not before. 1t was
not long while since that some one pre-
dicted that the earth would be swamped
wish deluge, and you couldn't borrow an
umbrella or a pair of rIlbbers from any
one. The next idiot said that a comet
would strike and dcmolish the earth in "a
twinkling. Whereupon many excellent
people tied their beds and carpets about
their premises, and put cotton in their
ears and sat down on the cellar bottom in
dreadful expectation of the shock. Hardly
had this alarm passed off when another
astronomer came around to tell the people
that the Niagara Falls would be dry in
less than $4,000 years, and nothing would
do but that people should hurry right out
there for farewell look, and in less than
twenty -four hours there weren't people
enough in Danbury to entertain japanese
hermit And now here is Thrall with
the tObacco-chewers are TO be killed, ana
young ladies who wear stays, and men
who bet on the wrong horse. Ii we un-
derstand the old scoundrel correctly, the
only people saved are those who drink
lemonade out of dipper and play Copen


hagen with their aunts-Ddnbury Ne,cs.
Year: 1873

A FIsHY SNAKE-SToRg.-Ay young man,
while herding stock a few days ago, on
the reclaimed tule lands in Sutter County,
belonging to w. II. Parks and others, met
with a singular and unpleasant incident.
The man, while watching his tiOcks by
day, lay down upon the grass, and soon
fell asleep, while basking in the sunshine.
Like many others, while sleeping, our
hero opened his mouth, and it is supposed
that on this occasion the aperture was at
its fullest extent While thus slumbering
in the arms of Morpheus, and may be
dreamin. of many lambs and the low
price of wool. he was suddenly awakened
by a strangling sensation, and making a
grasp with his right hand at his mouth, he
caught the tail end of snake, and his
grip was so firm that the body of the rep
lille was torn asunder-the forward half
going down into the mans stomach, and
the latter half hauled out and held up to
the view of the frightened herder. We
understand that the reptile was only small
snake Of the grass species, and perfectly
harmless, whether on the outside or in
side of a mans stomach. But snakes, at-
ter all. may not be considered the most
epicurean dish for cold lunch.-lfdrys-
rifle (CdI) 4ppeaI,
Year: 1873

A COUPLE appeared before a clergyman
in Sandy Hill, n. Y, a few days since,
and desired to be united in the bonds of
matrimonv They were directed to place
themselves in position, and, just as the
ceremony was about 10 begin, little
urehin forced his way into the minister's
study, yelling at the top of his voice,
" Don't do it, Mister; mother don't want
yer to-" This produced stay of pro-
ceedings," and the last seen of the disap-
pointed pair they were walking arm IN
arm in search of some one empowered TO
consummate their bliss by making the
twain one flesh
Year: 1873

A fireman was once striving 10 save person
ip danger pf peliahing ina burning house, but
tiie flames leaDed out Of the windows and beat
him back. "He'll never do il p cried one.
"He'n have to come down r. "Cheer him p
shouted another, and IN n moment three stirring
hurrahs went up from the crowd. 1t nerved the
mans arm and strengthened his spirit. II
quickOned his movements, and in another min.
ute he bore the child down in safety to its moth
ers arms.


What power is in that cheering So it often
Is with those who are ready to give out by the
way. They would have perished but for some
stirring void of cheer. God put 1t in the heart
OF some one TO speak TO them. Have you ever
cheered dsspOnding heart thus? Or have you
let the opportunity slip by with the feeling
IAN my brothers keeper p We are all, In
sense, our brothers keepers. Is there poor
down-hearted man in your community whom
sickness and misfortune have reduced DOM
give him the cold shoulder, as il the worlds
custom when n person is unfortunate. Cheel
him, and see If it will not infuse new life into
his heart. DO more. Lend a helping hand.


What would you have done that day your
wheel got stuck in q rut, II neighbor had no
happened along who could lend you helping
hand for five minutes? It was very little fol
him to do, but 1t was worth q great deal TO you
A little after, you were rolling along prosperous.
ly, as if nothing had happened Just 80 littl'
cheer and little help often puts poor neigh
Dor on the road again. Surely il we're worse
than churish to refuse to give what costs yO'
snch little effort, yet it is worth 30 much.
Year: 1873

PoTATo RoF.-The late potato crop in this vi
cinity was unusually heavy. Owing 70 the sea
sonable ain and warm weather the tuberB grew
to enormous size. 1t seems however that owing
to their rapid growth and wet weather they con-
tain an unusual amount of water, and unless
carefully kept, q large proportion will decay. An
experienced farmer informs Us that he arrested
the decay in his by spreading them thlnly in q
warm dry room and evapOratDg the moisture
Milford Meas.
Year: 1873

Every reader knows one or two friends


who have "knack" Of knowing things,


but it occurs to few people that this


"knack" is not gift, but a cultiyatable


habit. Indeed, our system of education


is more defective in this than in any other


respect. We train our children in the


knowledge of books, which is well, but we


almost wholly omit to train them in men


and things about them; and the conse-


quence is that very many people go thro'


the world with eyes practically shut. The


boy who leaves school with fixed habit


of observation is really just beginning his


education. He is passing from the tuition


of imperfect teachers to that of instructors


whose store Of knowledge is boundless and


whose methods are always the best. There


is really no more curious study than that


Of mems habits in this particular. To or
dinary observant people il seems simply


marvel that some men and women can see
so much and learn so little. We ourselves


have known many curious cases of the
kind. We have known, for instance, per-
sons of fine ability, occupying editorial po-
siiions, who could never learn how to
indicate desired alteration on proof.
sheet, and that, too, when they were called
upon to so indicate their wishes every day
on proof-slips on which similar alterations
were marked already. We knew a ship
ping clerk once who, after dealing directly
with steamboats, for years, was astonished
to learn that a part of every steamboat is
under water. The tendency to this habit
Of observation, together with its conse-
quent habits of comparison and reflection.
nature implants in every human mind, and
it is this that gives birth to the perplexing
questionings Of children. When il is al.
lowed to develop itself, it becomes the
best and surest Of all educators but for
tho most part it is rudely repressed in early
childhood, by reason of the Incidence Of
parents, and so we find Il existing very
feeble, if at all, in half the people we meet
Your child wants to know the facts about
everything he sees, and the reason for
them. He naturally asks his father or
his mother, who to him are the repositories
of all wisdom. 1t is not always very easy
to answer him, and as the average parent
cares good deal more for his or her own
comfort than for the future character Of |
the childs mind, the matter is commonly
disposed Of by an injunction against ques |
tioning, which is as great an outrage upon |
the child as anything can be. He has the |
right TO ask questions. The God who put |
II into his mind to question you made It |
your duty to answer him to the very best |
of your ability. And your ability TO an
swer depends largely upon your industry |
in trying to learn how. If you do not |
know the thing concerning which he asks,
and cannot find it out, or II II be some |
thing which you cannot make him under
stand you have only to tell him 50, leaving |
him free to ask about the next thing that |
interests or puzzles him. If you repel |
him with a mocking saw, or forbid his
further questioning, you injure him for
life, quite as really and seriously as If YOU |
did him physical hurt
Year: 1873

II the family be settled in any part away
from the neighborhood Of their ancestral
burying-place, 1t becomes necessary for
them to seek out lucky spot for the
burial Of their deceased relative. In many
cases the coffin is kept for years in the
room where the ancestral tables are. and
sometimes it is temporarily laid in a sort
Of dead-house, hired or constructed for the
occasion, until it can be transported to the
original sepulehre of the family, or until a
lucky spot can be discovered. The Chinese
are very superstitious on this point, and
even in times Of epidemic will often insist
or retaining collins in their houses, and, as
far as We are aware, there is no sanitary or
other authority to interfere and protect
the health of the community. Many will.
doubtless, say that all danger on this score
is sufficiently obyiated by the care with
which most cofiins are prepared; but the
evidence Of our senses, in cholera season
at Pekin, has taught us that the contrary
is frequently the case. Families at the
very bottom Of the social scale, for econo-
mys sake, often inter their deceased rela-
tions within a few days Of their death,
but this practice is much looked down
upon, and is considered proof of the
parties being sunk in the lowest DEPTHS of
penury, as well as wanting in due respect
TO the departed. Professors Of tae art Of
Fengshui Literally wind and water,) or
geomancy, are consulted CD the subject of
lucky place for sepulture. In Central
and Southern China the SUBMITS and
sloping sides of uncultivated hills are the
most favorite spots, especially if near water,
and with south aspect. Collins are
also buried in fields, more particularly in
the north, and, If our memory serves us.
we have seen more than one large cemetery
tlled with low graves, and surrounded by
dwarf mud fences, in the fat country out
side the walls of Pekin. Again to the
west of Chinkiang--once a fourishing city
on the bank of the river Yangtsze, at the
enterance to the southern portion of the
Grand Canal-we have rambled over hills,
where the graves are as thick as they well
can be; many of these, in shape, very much
like horseshoe, are even now still well
kept and carefully tended by pious rela-
tives of the departed, although the town
itself is sadly fallen from the position it
enjoyed before the rebels held it and
levelled its prosperous suburbs with the
ground. Rich families often spend large
sums of money over their burial places,
adjoining them with lifesize figures Of yari.
GUS animals in marble, but the remains of
friendless and poor strangers are deposited
in any waste and vacant piece of ground,
with merely slip of wood to mark the
spot. All classes in the country, however,
do their very best to have as snowy a
place of sepulture for their dead as they
possibly can, and to obtain this end they
are willing to make great sacrifice. ce.-"Aa
the Year Round"