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Year: 1873

In the recent debate in tho II ouse, say
the St. Louis RepuL'icon, on Louisiana
affairs, Mr.. Hale of Maine, a Republican
member. did himself the credit Of admit
ting the whole truth in these words:


For the last few wears the infamy and
disgrace of certain Southern State GOV
ernncnts have been constantly on tue in.
crease There have been corrupt electors
and corrupt elections there have been
corrupt legislators and corrupt legisla.
ton there have beendouhe legislatures,
double governors, double Representatives
ia this house, and double senators ycai
byi year in many States There have
been bad men in these Ststes who have
bought power by wholesale bribery, and
have enriched themselves at the expense
of the people by reculation or open
handed robbery. Corruption and anarchy
have oCCUPIED AND POSSESSED THESE UN
FORTUNATE STATES | felt the force OF all
this when it was charged in the canvass
before the late election.





In my opinion it is time, and hope
all Republicans will appreciate this, that
we take this matter with u strong hand.
And the last men to object to such action
on tho part Of the government, taken
with due regard to the spirit Of our con-
slitution, are the gentlemen on the other
lie, who have claimed that the Republic
can party is accou Stable because il will
not interfere hut allow thieves and rob-
bers to pillage the South Let us go to
the root of the NATTER IL necessary. let
Us take entire charge there for the time.
put down the pre- cnsions OF usurpers,
drive out thieves from high places TO
which they have never been duly elected,
find out if there is any real State govern
ment with proper authentication, and if,
as 1 suspect, there is none. give to the
people, of this dcsolated and plumdered
State an opportunity for fair election,
and when a government has been set up
under such guarantees stand by it with
the whole force of the general govern
ment, civil and military
Year: 1873

A man, says the Danbury News, may
lose friends, home, position, fortune.
They are different from an umbrella.
He may lose them; he is sure to lose
that. But he keeps on buying or borrow
ing them. If he buys one, some one
borrows it and returns it to the wrong
person without knowing it. If he bor-
rows one, some one steals it outright,
and he has to borrow another from an
other source to make it good. We don't
understand it. Nine of every ten men
who to-day possess umbrellas, are not
the owners of them. Heaven only knows
where the owners are. Perhaps they
are dead-perhaps in exile, and perhaps,
which is more likely, they are under
other umbrellas People will borrow an
umbrella when they wouldn't borrow
anything else. They will borrow the
stick while the slide is in it. While
it bears the remotest semblance
to an umbrella, they will borrow
it, and-keep it. We never yet
saw an umbrella so reduced but that
some one would take it in. The only
time an umbrella is really available is
Wnen you want III, anu tudJ IL Tue eAdct
time it fails to appear.


When the sun is shining brightly and
the dust is about five inches thick on
the level, an umbrella is the most re-
pulsive object in Christendom. On
such occasions it meets you at every
turn. You shut a door and down it
comes and spreads out and trips you up.
You haul down your linen coat from the
closet and find something is holding to
it. 1t is that umbrella. You move the
-four barrel to look for rat, and out
comes that miserable umbrella and
scrapes your shins. 1t raps you on the
head in the stairway and trips you up
in the hall, and falls down on your head
from the asFret, and when 1t amt doing
anything else it stands in the corner and
Wrings its hands and swears at society.
Year: 1873

An Iowa raftsman had bad fall from
a hotel Findow in Davenport tho other
night, and explained the accident to his
physician. He said that his name was
John Fett, his residence being Franklin,
Lee county. where his brother and
mother reside. For fifteen years he has
bsep a raft pilot on the Mississippi.
Tuesday evening be arrived with raft,
and took rooms in the Mississippi House,
where he had frequently stopped before.
He took drink or two before going to
bed, and lay upon the couch with his
clothes on. After midnight he had a
terrible dream. He said he thought he
was guiding a raft on the rapids in the
midst of an awful storm, and at last the
stFiass we're caught by whirlwind and
scattered kither and thither in the air
and in the water. The crew were
drowned. He himself was hanging to
single log which was rolling and pitch
ing oa the waves so that be could hardly
maintain his grasp. AT last his hands
and arms became too tired to hold on
any longer, and let go. Down ha fsnk,
ia water one hundred feet deep, 6lt oner-
ing no more resistance TO his descent
than ala would, strnck the bottom with
A force which Jared hin almost to
pieces. Then he avokel He could not
AZ frst tell where be was, but bis whole
frame seemed 10 be twisted aud bTekenl
and be was in torture BE sooH realized
lis situation, and he knew that be had
fallen from ths window. He cried for
L.in h,t No ona cana 10 his relief and
there be lay until after daylight, when a
policeman arrived. Examination at the
hospital proved the poor man TO be fatal
ly injured. Four Of his ribs were broken,
and his spine was fractured.
Year: 1873

WAPELLo, Iowa, September 25.-A bal.
loon ascension by Prof. j. W. Bailey was
advertised to take place at the Fair
Grounds near this city this afternoon,
and large crowd gathered to witness it.
At $3.50 o'clock the balloon was cut loose,
Bailey hanging by his hands TO the hor-
lzontal bar beneath. Just after the bal
loon (which was inflated with hot air)
left the ground it took FIRE near the
mouth. Bailey did not apparently see
the fire until he was too high to let go
with safety, but hung on until be had
reached an altitude of 1900 or 1900 feet,
when the canvas that held the hoop from


which he was suspended burned away
aud he fell, reaching the earth not far
from the point Of starting. His body
was fearfully mangled, his legs being
driven into the ground up to the knees.
Year: 1873

The principal features OF the sale to occur at
the Art Rooms, No. SIT Broadway, this evening,
are the Gobelin tapestries covering set Of antique
furniture. The love OF Gobclin tapestries in this
country, like the love OF vtrtu everywhere, is
limited to q few. But, where people do appreciate
them, they accept TO appreciate them very thor
oughiy. All that need be said at present is that
the display to which we have alluded Is extremely
1t is handsome and brilliant relic OF the antique
time forming the outer border of the Middle Ages,
when the tapestry worker wOve his very vitality
into the warp and woof over which he toiled for
wears.
Year: 1873

A CORRESPONDENT writing from New
York says: "The crowd of good writer's
seeking employment on the great journals
is painfully surprising" In this he is
somewhat mistaken. Good writers are
generally in demand, and readily find en-
ployment on respectable newspapers. In
fact they are SO scarce that journalist
generally seizes one on sight and holds him
until he can make place for him. The
crowd that is continually seeking employ
ment is composed of the bad writers-the


scum of the profession, as all professions
have scum-men and women who have
thrown away their lives under the mista-
ken impression that they are good wri-
ters,. and who stick to this impression
despite the fattering inducements held
out to them every day by the pickaxe
and the spade, the waslitub and the darn
ing-needle, or even a country grocery
Chicago Post. .g-
Year: 1873

ToBACco.-The sale of the weed, manu-
featured or leaf, in this city, is not
progressing at a rate sufficiently speedy to
induce dealers to indulge in sanguine
hopes of fortunes to be thus accumulated
during the summer months. In fact the
tobacco trade is just now so very dull
that many of the leading manufacturers
seriously contemplate closing their factories
for the season, and some have done so.
Year: 1873

HE MAILs-There was no mail
north of Baltimore again to-day. These
Irregularities are of such frequent occur
renee of late as seemingly to be almost
chronic Either delinquent officials or
deficient railroads are trying to keep light
from the people. We are naturally oppos-
ed to this both in business and pleasure
point of view, and on that line we
defiantly PROFOUND the interrogetory !:
Why is this thus ?"
Year: 1873

The CoLoRED HoME.-The meeting
announced to take place at the Third-street
Methodist church last night, in favor of a
home for aged and INDECENT colored people,
was postponed until tonight at the same
place and time.
Year: 1873

TO be lifelike It 10 not necessary 70 make bodily
translerrence the actual some ideal tints alb
solutely necessary TO attain such resemblance 70
nature as shall touch and move us Az an cxposi-
tion OF individual human character, therefore, and
OF that intertangle OF passion, motive and exter-
nal incident OF which Life Is made up, 'The Gilded
Age is entitled to no rank at all; but as clever
though rude satire upon certain customs and IN
stifutions, many OF which deserve contempt and
reprobaton, IL win scarcely be too highly praised.
1t would be pleasant 30 have encountered more
frequent specimens OF that serious and even
poetical writing OF which both these au-
thors are capable. 1t would be pleasant
to have seen the same grim and im-
placable humor now and then softened
by the charms Of q more mellow style. But then,
again. we are met by the slalwark undeniable fact
that the treatment which the authors have seen
ft to give to their subject wi probably win for it
In this country larger number OF readers than
any other treatment could have done. With the
ridiculous ana wicked rauds satirized all OF us are
more or less familiar. In this book they have all
been grouped together and shown In strong
and humorous light, which win prove very attrac-
tive to the mass 1t is painful to be compelled to
own that such q book may be justified; 1t is more
painful 10 be obliged TO admit that American
sensitiveness win not be wounded by it.


.rhe Gilded Agcn BY mark Twain and Charles Dud
ley Warner Published by tho American Publishing
Company, Hartford.
Year: 1873

It is estimated that thirty-tive or for


ty thousand persons viii be thrown OUT
Of employment in New York during
the coming winter. and that great DIS
tress must attend the working classes,
Year: 1873

An anonymous circular calling meeting
at the Fifth Avenue Hotel Monday, has
been sent to bank officers opposed to what
is called by some the Clearing House Re
form. The propositions submitted by the
committee OF the Clearing House at the
recent meeting are now made the subject
of spirited discussion, and whatever merit
they may possess will be well known when
the Clearing House meets to vote ON them.
Year: 1873

There were frequent fluctuations in Wall
street to-day. Atthe opening the gold room
was affected with the Spanish war fever to
a greater extent than on Friday. Later,
speculators took more peaceful review OF
the situation. On Exchange buoyancy pre-
dominated and there was sharp rise in
prices.
Year: 1873

It is astonishing how cool a COW can
be when che is well posted in the stat
ute law OF Ohio. Almost any day you
choose to take a ride on the Marietta
and Pittsburgh railroad, you will see
one OF these knowing beasts get on the
track to stop the train. o! course the
engineer tries to scare her of by whist
ling, but she won't scare worth a cent.
She knows perfectly well that If she ia
run over the company will have to pay
two prices for her, and 60 she just stands
and looks that locomotive right out OF
csuuteuauce. Then the engineer gets
madder, aud he lets of few shrieks
that would make an ignorant COW jump
clear out OF her hide. But this coz is
always calm and placid, and when the
cursing engineer stops the train within
ten feet OF her she looks as If she j:..
happened 10 think Whist be wanted, gnd
walks of wsgging her tail az conte1-
edly as if she had been Invited out to
dinner.
Year: 1873

An American lady was recently
shown through Newgste. On coming
to the alley in which executed crimi-
mails are buried, this lady-wbo is a
good Q1sker-shuddered at that, and
the warden ssid


"You will notice here that ours is a
great improvement over the American
plan. In America they give the bodies
OF executed criminals to their friends
who, as likely as not, make q hero Of
him, and bury him with pomp. But
these scoundrels dread being buried
away in this alley almost as much as
they dread the gsllows. This is q chief
part OF their punishment.


The lady having suggested that ex.
ecution was quite enough, the warden
replied, Not bit OF it. | was showing
our place the other day to a remarkably
Intelligent American who admired our
arrangements exceedingly, only be
thought we were too lenient. That
gentleman ssid that the great mistake
in America was lenisncy. Would you
believe it, said be, we caught a rascal
in America the other day whom we
ought Immediately to have burned, and
We only hung him, But We are coming
to our senses, and we are now making
arrangements to burn certain men for
whom the gallows is too good"


will thee be good enough to tell me
the name Of the American gentleman
who made the remark 10 thee 2 said
the Quakeress.


"Ah, yes" said the warden reflective.
ly; net me sect was Mr.. Mark
Twain"


The lady gave emile Of relief and
went of.
Year: 1873

The next important election is that
which occurs in Virginia ON the 9TH OF
November The campaign is partIc-
ularly lively one and the indications
are that the Conservative majority will
be overwhelming The old State Is
stirred to the very centre.
Year: 1873

ESCAPE FROM DRowKING.-Yeste morn
ing drunken negro, in attempting to walk
across the BrandyWine railroad bridee on fbr
ties, fell through into the water below. lie was
somewhat bruised by striking the rocks in his
descent, but had presence OF mind enough to
swim TO some logs, when a white man came 20
his assistance with boat, and took him Of x
Year: 1873

DIsHEAR is cheap and easy
to destroy. There is not a joyful boy or
innocent girl buoyant with fine pur-
poses of duty, in all the street full of
eager and rosy faces, but cynic can
chill and dishearten with single word.
Dependency comes readily enough to
the most sanguine people. The cynic
has only to follow the hint with his
bitter confirmation, and they go home
with heavier step and premature age.
They will themselves quickly enough
give the hint he wants, to the cold
wretch. Which of them has not failed
to please where they most wished to
please? or blundered where they were
most ambitious of success? or found
themselves awkward or tedious or in
capable of study, thought or heroism,
and only hoped by good sense and fidel-
ity to do what they could and pass un-
blamed? And this wicked malefactor
makes their little hope less with satire
and skepticism, and slackens the
springs of endeavor. Yes, this is easy;
but to help the young soul, add energy, o.,
inspire hope, and low the Goals into a
useful flame; to resist defeat by new
thought, by firm action, that is not easy
that is the work of divine men.--Enl-
e1SOn.
Year: 1873

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Fashionable young ladies are on the
q,a cire for the new bonnet.


Trained skirts for the street have gone
entirely out of fashion.


Embroidery will be the rage for
spring and summer promenade COS
TUNES.


The English fashion of wearing gait
ers is gaining footing among some
young gentlemen.


Amber, as choice article of jswelry,
will retain its ancient popularity.


Colored hose has been much worn by
the ladies during the winter, scarlet be-
ing the fashionable hue.


Something new in lockets is a large
Roman gold star, with a neat mono
gram in the centre.
In imitation of the gentlemen, GER
tain ladies are wearing colored linen
collars and cuffs.


Peach will be one of the Fashionable
colors this spring especially for car
riage toiletttes. -


There will be no shabby, rag bag
Dolly Vardens next summer, for which
Heaven be praised.


a new style of collar-French, we
believe-it is to have the first letter of
the fair wearer's name embroiered
thereon.


Roman sashes will be fashionable
next summer, and are especially styl-
ish an effective when worn with light
muslin dresses.


Young m irried ladies wear neat lit
tie lace breakfast cap, tied with gay
colored ribbon.


Long or pendant ear. rings have had
their day, and now our fashionable Ia
dies are wearing small stud-like bits of
gold in their dainty ears.


We are promised an early revival of
the old fashioned lace collars, such as
were worn by the excellent wife of G.
Washington, Esq.


High combs, something like the Span
ish style, ''are all the rage" Those of
jet or amber are most popular among
those who can afford to buy them.


Dresses of Vistoria lawn will be fash
iOnable, extremely so next summar and
if you want to you can put embroidery
on the skirt.


There is no decided change yet in the
arrangement of the modern BELLS hair
save she parts it on the side and cover
her forhead with what our grandmam-
; mas called "spit curls."


A new style of feather trimming is
Called. peacock" and is intended to en-
hance dresses of black silk.
Year: 1873

A good story is told of the students
of an institute which is located in the
New England State. A year or two
since, just before Lent, the Principal
of the school lectured the boys upon
the propriety of abstaining from some
accustomed article of diet DUNG Lent,
and desired each one to write the name
of the article upon slip of paper, and
hand them to him the next moring at
the opening of the school. The papers
were handed in, and upon every one
was written !the significant word
CLASH"
Year: 1873

A Providence woman was puzzled to
know why she attracted such general
attention during ashopping expedition,
the other day. An hour or two earlier
she had been "down street." and re-
turning had taken off her overskirt,
but left the bundle of papers forming a
hustle still in position.
Year: 1873

DERSONS IN SEARCH OF A
l. HEALTHFUL LOCATION, far from
the fogs and damp winds of the coast, should
not fail 10 visit the COLONY OF RIVER
SIDE. The climate of this location is
The Hest III the State for Those


Afflicted with Lung OF


Bronchial Diseases.
Year: 1873

against granting aid to said company. If a
majority Of the votes cast shall be in favor OF
granting aid, the county commissioners shall
Immediately cause bonds to be printed, the
same not exceed the sum of two thousand
dollars for every mile the road is to be con-
structed in the county, and payable in thirty
years and upon the county commissioners
receiving the same. they shall sign and the
clerk of the board shall countersign and seal
the same with the seal of the board ofcounty
commissioners The bonds shall then be
numbered and registered in the Office of the
clerk of the county. The county commits
sioners shall then cause the y Is to be de-
posted with some banking or trust compa-
ny. ?,
Sec. 3. Whenever the said company shall
actually commence the constructor Of said
railroad within the limits and confines OF
any county voting aid, as provided in section
2, and shall deposit with the treasurer OF
such couutya bond duly executed, with good
and sufficient sureties, and approved by the
circuit judge in sum sufficient to guarantee
the payment of the interest On said bonds
during the time the said railroad shall bo in
construction, the county commissioners shall
transfer the bonds to the Charleston, George.
town and Conwayboro Railroad Company,
and shall publish such transfer in official pa
per of the county. and the bonds shall com
mence to draw interest from the date Of such
official commencement. Upon the compile
ton of said railroad, the county commission
ers shall receive from the Charleston, George
town and Conwayboro Railroad Company an
amount of county bonds issued in aid Of said
company, the preferred stock to bear inter-
est at one per cent. per annum more than
the county bonds. The bonds of the county
shall bear interest at the rate of Blk per cent
per annum.


Sec. 4. The county commissioners shall
invest the additional one per cent received
from the preferred stock in securities, or in
any safe p,anner whereby the same shall
draw interett semi-aunually, and shall con-
timue to invest the one per cent so received,
together with the interest on the same: until
sum shall have accumulated sucfflcient to
pay and cancel the bonds of the county is
sued in aid of said company, when the bonds
shall be paid and cancelled. All moneys re-
ceived as interest on said bonds and prefer
red stock shall be held by the county trea-
surer and paid out on tho order of the county
commissioners.


Approved February 26, 1873.
Year: 1873

Charles T. Quintard, Episcopal bishop Of
Tennessee, is q rare man. He is apart from
the common herd of humanity, and his type
is not met with often in the daily hapnts Of
life, as we will set forth. In an age ofsneer.
ing in6delity, replete with all the cynicism
of modern matsrialism, he laid aside the com.
Portable revenues of an honored and lucra-
tive profession to shoulder the cross. To
many men this may not be heroism, but to a
calm and philsophic thinker, who knows the
workings of the human problem aroun dhim
it is heroism of the highest type. We say
it with shame for our race that it has be-
come the fashion of small intellects to cast
doubt and ridicule upon the sacred mystic
ries of the gospel. 1t is in their atrophied
brains all indication of an investigating skep-
tical and learned apprehension. The modern
crusader has to encounter all this in his
fight for the cross, and although he does not
have to face the viliant and fiery Saracen,
and is not burned at the stake, yet his task
is hard one, and his foes are thousand to
one There is one consolation, however, he
should carry like jar of precious oil wher-
ever his destiny may be cast, and that is he
is the genuine benefactor Of his race, the
conservator of order and society and the
foundation stone of order and government.
Charles T. Quintard never hesitated, but fol-
lowed the footsteps of Him who on the
distant hills Of Judea opened the gates of
mercy for mankind. He never stopped to
reason about the matter of dollars and cents.
We doubt very much if he knows or cares
for their proper or commercial value. His
work was cut out by. the Master, and he
goes forth almost literally with scrip and
sandal, aud with-a cheerful, hopeful counte-
nance, and does it bravoly. Is not such q
man, in this sneering age, a hero? But this
is not all. What southern soldier, who
bears with his breast the heart of a man,
that does not look upon this good msn with
love and veneration? On many bloody
field ofstrife he has knelt beside the dying
patriot and pointed the way 10 the pearly
gates of bliss, and his prayers have risen up
in the smoke of battle and have been uttered
amid the awful thunder of artillery. and
the rattle of muskstry, and the groans Of
the wounded, like white winged messeu-
ger from an unhappy earth to heaven. He
has whispered words Of hope and comfort in
the ears Of men dying for their country


He has heard the last uttered human wish
mauy brave soul, and he has been faith.
fnl to all taoir sacred requests. He stood
upon the field of battle the representive Of
no earthly power, but of a power which the
armaments of embattled nations are but as
toys and playthings Of an hour. He did his
duty we'll and nobly in those psrilous and
trying times, and he has not faltered in its
unerring line. He still bears the the cross
of the Master with meek and christian
grace that shines out in world much
troubled by spiritualism, infdelity, material
ism, and coarse and vulgar sin, like
raiment of light.
Year: 1873

Some body is advertising a preparation
which, among other merits, is warranted to
keep lady's hand free. from chaps We
know another way to effect this. Let her
dress in tho present fashion, and have il
known that she has no money. Chaps, il
if they are sensible chaps, will let her hand
alcne very severely.