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Year: 1873

Where the rocks are gray aad the shore Is steep,
Ana the waters below look dark and deep,
leans gloomily over the murky tide;


where the reeds and rushes are long and rank
ana ana the weeds grow thick on the winding bank;
mhere the shadow is heavy the whole day through,
There lies at its moorings the old canoe
The useless paddles are idly dropped,


Like sea-brd's wings that the storms had lopped
And crossed on the railing, one DER one


Like the folded hands when the work is done;
While busiiy hack and forth between


The spider stretches his silvery Screen


And the solunn owl with his dun " too-hoou
Settles down on the side Of the old canoe.
The stern half sunk in the Shiny wave,
Hots slowly away ia its living grave


And the green moss creeps Ger fts dull decay
Like the hand that plants DER the tomb a flower.
or the ivy that mantles the falling tower;
While many blossom Of lqvelst hue
Springs up Ger the stern Of the Old canoe
The currentless waters are dead and still
But the light wind plays with the boat at Will,
And lazily in ana out again


It hoats the length Of the rusty chain
Lake Lake the weary march Of the hands Of time,
Ihat meet and part at the noontide chime
And the shore a. Kissed at each turning aneyv
By the dripping bow Of the old canoe.
Oh, many time, with careless hand.
l have pushed Il away from tho pebbly strand
ana & paaaled i down where the stream runs quick,
Mhere the wlrls are Wild aud the eddies thick,
And laughed as I leaned DER the rocking side
And looked below in the broken tide,
10 see that the faces and boats were two.
That were nirrored back from the old canoe.
But now. as lean DER the orumblnR side,
And look below in the sluggish tide,
The face that see there Is graver grown
And the laugh that hear has a soberer tone.
And the hands that lent TO the light skin wings
Have grown familiar with sterner things
but love to think of the hours that sped
As rocked where the whirla their white spray she'd
Ere the blossoms waved, or the green grass grew,
Ger the mouldering stern Of the old canoe.
Year: 1873

As long as a capital punishment is
the law of the land and hanging the
mode of accomplishing it, there is salts
faction IN the thought that men are to
be found who, regarding it as sclen-
tific process, or an art, if you viii, are
ready with advice to make 1t perfect.
An English clergyman, Rev. S. Haugh
ton, who is also fellow of the royal
society, has been publishing a work on
the " Principles of Animal Mechanics,
in which he does not disdain to devote
a portion of the space to the subject.
He says that the method In use Is un-
worthy of the present state of science,
and the long DROP which causes in
Simultaneous death by the fracture OF the
vertebEse, is recommended, the length
of the drop to be obtained by the fol-
lowing rule. Divide 2240 by the weight
of the "patient In pounds, and the
quotient viii be the required length in
feet. This rule is simply obtained by
supposing, as was found to be actually
the case IN one instance, that 224O foot
pounds of shock is sufficient to cause
fracture IN any case, no allowances be-
ing made for differences of age, weight
or sex; thus by this rule, the lighter
the criminal or " patient, the longer
must be his drop, and the longer the
time of his agony IN the air. Besides
an immense number of measurements,
of dissections and experiments on the
bodies of animals IN order to obtain
data for his calculations. DIR. Haugh-
ton has made experiments on the living
subject, sometimes of q somewhat
amusing character.
Year: 1873

MANSFIELD, OHIO, June 10.
To the Editor fthe Cincinnati Gazette:


se 1 notice a telegram in yesterdays
Gazette in which Gen. Boynton CLASH
fies me with the Senators who have
not returned their "back pay" This Is
literally true, fer, as I have not re.
ceived it, ] have not returned it. Still,
the telegram conveys a false impress
sion. The simple truth is, that within
a few days after the passage of the SAL
ary bill, after consulting with some of
my colleas ues, and in Difference to
the general sentiment Of my constitu-
ents, determined / would not receive
the back pay, but would leave it where
it now is-in the Treasury Of the United
States. so notified the discussing Of
ficer of the Senate, and, when asked by
any one about the matter, have an
swered that would not receive it. 1
Old not, and do not now deem it neces-
sary formally to receive the money,
and then pay it back again.


TWAS not my purpose to make any
public statement of my action in this
matter, and L do SO now not from any
desire to claim any merit for what 1
have done, nor even by implication to
censure such of my associates who,
though voting against the salary bill,
yet received the pay allowed by it, but
simply to assure those who take an in
terest in the matter that have not,
and will not, receive any portion of the
81 1886 40 allowed me by the salary bill
for shack pay" Very truly yours,


JOHN SHERMAN.
Year: 1873

The Washington Star says: evil
liam II Powell, the artist, has been
working some more on his picture of
the battle of Lake Erie, at the Capitol,
and has filled In about an acre of un-
finished canvass since the adjournment
of Congress. 1t was great picture
then, but is now very much more so.
Thirty or forty additional cannon have
been brought to bear upon the devoted
skiff that carries the gallant Perry to
his new flagship. These guns are pour.
ing hot shot upon the hero in the most
concentrated manner. Sixty or seven
ty new cannon balls have been painted
upon the water in the vicinity OF the
boat; and the bottom of that frail vessel
is so clustered up with them that the
men can't row with any satisfaction at
all. The boatswain has been floored
by some of the balls, and he exhibits a
good deal OF discompOsure at the
weight Of sixty-four FOUNDER on the
small of his back. Two or three of the
rowers have caught crabs in conse-
quence of the water being so full of
cannon balls; the commodore's boot
legs are jammed with spent balls, and
very large one rests directly on the
top of his uncovered head. His little
son tugs at his coat-tail, and pleads
with him to sit down out of harms
way; but this remarkable man will not
sit down, he will not bulge, and with
his head laid back upon his shoulders,
and his breast barred to the iron temp
eat, he gazes calmly in the blue en-
pyrean. The artist, it should be added,


has thrown out the chest of the hero
considerably more than it was last win
ter, so that straight line from his chin
to his waistband would cut him into
three pieces. 1t is great picture"
Year: 1873

The Chicago Inter Ocean has this tc
say ON the question of minority repre-
sentation:


Minority representation was foist.
ed into the Constitution of Illinois by
sharp practice on the part of Jos,
Medill. The measure was scarcely dis.
cussed at all except by Mr.. Medill, and
its submission to the people was q
piece of trickery utterly unworthy the
enlightened spirit of true statesman.
ship, and:against the instincts of fair
dealing. No tickets were printed
against the minority representation
clause. If the voter cut off the line he
did not vote against it, but lost his
vote; ifhe scratched out the word for
and put in against he did not vote
against the proposition. The only
possible way to vote against the mi
nority representation clause was to
scratch out the line. And even with
this trickery, the majority for the prop
osition was only 2S. 942, while the Con-
stitution was adopted by about $780,
600 majority. Under fair submission
there is scarcely doubt that the prop
osition would have been overwhelm-
ingly defeated.


"The arguments in favor of the new
experiment are generally utterly false
and easily proven so. For instance: it
is claimed that the power of the caucus
is destroyed by the adoption of minor
ity representation, whereas directly
the contrary is the fact. The caucus is
made supreme. The contest is trans
ferred from the polls to the nominating
conventions. How? In every district
where one party has respectable ma
jority of the voters, the stronger will
nominate two candidates, and the
weaker one; and all three are sure Of
election, because the minority plumps
on one and the majority divides its
vote equally between the two. The
election is, therefore, settled when the
respective party caucuses adjourn. The
result is, if money is spent, it is all con-
centrated in the caucus; there is no ne
cessity to nominate the best men on
the one or the other side, because the
Constitution has determined that three
candidates-two of one party and one
of the other-will surely be elected.


"The caucus argument of Mr. Medill
is as good as any of the utterly soph-
istical reasoning by which this system
has been foisted upon Illinois; it proves
too much for the system, and quite
enough for its overthrow"
Year: 1873

UDDRREooK-The sentence Of Uddersook does
not az yet appear TO work any effect upon his
spirits, more than whit was noticeable prior to its
being passed upon him. 1t is evident that be has
stvong hopes OF his being granted new trial by
the Suprome Court. As Sheriff Gill was conduct
ing him back to his cell Saturday last, after he
had received his sentence, the Sheriff remarked
to him the fact Of two bloody shirts having been
found under o bridge near Ba0I's woods, and near
the ecene Of murder. UdderzoOk at first evIncsd
some surprise. bnt subsequently remarked that he
supposed they had been placed there by the In
suranee companies On Saturday morning last,
in the absence Of Undertook from his cell, search
Of the apartment was made by the prison authori-
ties which resulted in the finding Of q common
table fork which had been hidden away in some
pars Of the bedding. To what uses this implc-
ment WasAO be applied in the future, is difficult
to determine, but We can scarcely think 1t was IN
view of any attempt to escape, inasmuch as the
walls of the cell are strongly lined with sheet
iron.-West Chester NeicS
Year: 1873

The food that has been cooked in the kitchen
must be re-eooked in the stomach before It can be
means OF facilitating this second cooking in cases
where the process is slowly ana imPerfect.y per
formed. HOstetter's Stomach Bittefs is invaluable
lt promotes the generation of heat in the living


laboratory in which the crude materials for build,
ing up and recruiting the human frame are turned
acts bene6ciAly upon the cellular membrane which
secretes the gastric joice. upon the liver. WHICH
produces that natural laxative the bile, upon the
vessel hich receive the digested food, and upon
the absorbants which connect the digestive organs
with the channels of circulation. If any portion OF
this complex machinery is out Of order the Bitters
Will set it right, thus promoting vigorous digestion
healthy secretion, and the production Of pHTe rleh
life'sustaining blood. decl0toH
Year: 1873

ANOTHER REvIvAL.-A revival is now in pro-
press at Kingswood Chapel, over the Eleventh
Street Bridge, which is quite successful. Quite a
number of penitents were at the altar last right,
and tho interest is increasing.
Year: 1873

The increase OF the public debt this month
Is put at $4,000 Secretary Richardson
has written letter to Mr.. Dawes, in which
he estimates the increase at million at the
present time. Whatever may be the amount,
the fact Is sufficient to show that additional tax
alton Is necessary, and so vanishes the much
vaunted "free breakfast table" under the tax
on the tea and coffee, both Of which the Sec
retary recommends be PLACED in the tariff.
Year: 1873

CONCORD, N. H., July Q, 1873
An attempt was made last night to throw the
Boston express train or the track near Suncook
Two men were seen placing ties upon the track
by woman, whom they beat to insensibilty
and dragged to concealment among the bushes
She recovered consciousness and managed to
reach the SuncOok depot gave notice OF the
The assailants robbed the woman OF her satche
containing nearly $400. The satchel was found
but In place OF the money was piece OF paper. on
which was plainly written In lead pencil 1--WE
made more money than we should II we had tipped
OIL the train you fool" No traces OF the men could
ha
Year: 1873

1t is profitable sometimes to be senti
mental. Let Us to-day remember that it is
spring time, however gloomy the weather
may be, and recount simple love story:


Last summer German boy and girl,
Henry and Susie, living in Minnesota, fell
in love with one another. Her family, at
first Indifferent, early in the winter put
themselves in opposition to the match.


But this Romeo was no drawing room
lover. Desperately in earnest himself,
and confident of the fidelity of his Juliet,
he bravely went to work TO make a home
for her. He already owned a quarter sec
Gion of land. Taking his axe he went to
his "estate," and there cut down trees and
hewed out logs enough to make a cabin,
which he put up without help, and fur
nished in a rude but comfortable fashion.
This done he asked Susie to come and be
his wife. She consented. Unfortunately,
the young man had not yet set up his car
riage; and, since it was unbecoming for a
bride to go on foot, hand-sled, drawn by
the bridegroom, was pressed into the serv-
ice of the pair.


Thus they went forth in secrecy to their
new home in the woodland, she riding
trinity on the sled, he tugging braeely at the
strap. 1t was about eight mics to the little
cabin, but love made the journey short.
There the wedding was to take place, a
clergyman having promised to be in waiting
to make them man and wife.


Unfortunately the clergyman was not
there, aud Susie was frightened and asham-
ed. She wanted to go home. But Henry,
grieved at her distrust and yet secretly
pleased with her modesty, proposed that ur
til clergyman could be found the cabin
should be divided by partition wall into
! two cabins, of which one should belong tC
her and one to him. To this she agreed,
and the young man went eleven miles
through the snow after the boards for the
wall, dragging them home on the sled whit
had just carried more lvoely burden.
When the parents found their runaway
Gretchen it was under these circumstances
she keeping house by herself; he living
like a bachelor, and bearing himself il
every way with a chivalrous courtesy
worthy of Henry Esmond himself, The
father and mother, notwithstanding theil
grief snd anger, were touched by the un'
conventional honor and purity of the young
people, and wisely concluding that th'
match was made in heaven, gave thei
heartiest assent to 1t.
Year: 1873

'Bucky" Taylor, Newark policeman, became in
volved himself the other night in a quarrel with
some OF his neighbors, which wound up by ms
arbitrary arrest Uf one Peter Dooan. Mrs. Doolan
followed her husband to the station house to see
what would be done with him. Bucky pounced on
her too, and dragged her before the sergeants III
command. 1t being made known that the
poor woman had lett family OF children at home,
one OF whom was dangerously I'll with scarlet
fever, Sergeant Mcdrum assumed the RESPONSE
bllity ofettlng ncr go on her own parole. Bucky
Is severely ccnsured for his alleged outrageous as
sumption Of authority and it is likely that he Will
nave To answer before the Mayor. The Newark
police force numbers about one hundred and
seventy men, and includes officers good, bad and
very Indifferent. IL is completely under the control
OF the Common Council so far as organization Is
concerned, and hence Is IN "a great measure a mere
asylum Tor small fry politicians too lazy TO do an
honest days work at their trades or callings-the
hangers on of the ward statesmen OF the city. In
consequence OF the constant interference OF Alder
men, the Chief OF Police Is poweress to weed out
the worthless members OF his force. Cases of gross
cowardlce and other conduct unbecoming officers
arc quite numerous. Meanwhile the people are de-
manding that the Police Department nc entirely
lifted out OF the slough OF ward politics. ana then
the chief officers can be held responsible for any
apparent shortcomings.
Year: 1873

william Costigan, the young man who was ar.
rested in New York recently on suspicion OF being
connected with the Little Neck murder, where the
unfortunate shoemaker James Graham, met his
death. was again before Justice Lawrence yester-
day. at Flushing. The young man looked little like
n murderer, and the evidence thus far is decidedly
in hIs lavor. An important witness was absent
yesterday, in consequence or which the case was
adjourned till Friday morning. Justice Quarterman
was not well yesterday which left the case entirely
to Justice Lawrence. only three or four more wit
nesses are yet to be examined.
Year: 1873

The relief fund started for the purpose OF afford
ing succor, in the form Of medicines, food and
clothing TO poor sick children Of destitute parents
is meeting with deserved success from all quarters
and from all classes OF our citizens, as Will be
readily seen by the reports appended. Since the


last Acknowledgements were made public the fol-
lowing additional subscriptions have been received
Year: 1873

A CARIsrlAN church must be gather
cd about the feet of the Lord Jesus
Christ as the visible presence and III
carnation of Gods everlasting love Tor
man. That divine personality ~ the
bond of union by which its members
are held together. lu loving the Christ
they cease to despise, hate, crltlclse,
avoid, or suspect each other; MI ma
the best and deepest of each other in
that glowing love OF the Master A.
ID. NayO.


WHEREVER I find truth, / will ap-
propriate it, for it is an estray from
Gods word, and belongs to me and to
all. Eminent masters, parties and sects
claim truths as theirs, because they
have most fully expounded them but
men never make truths, they only re
copnize the value Of this currency o
God.


The aspirant for a place i'll tn
heavenly Jerusalem will be interested
to keep clean the city where he lives
They who sigh for an eternal Sabbatl
make their worship below sincere
None look forward to heavenly home
who do not make their earthly home
as lovely as they can. And they tha
anticipate heaven of progress will Sc
that they are up and doing. The mai
ing of heaven here is the pledge {
heaven hereafter. Heaven must be


state of mind before it will become
, state of existence. %. B. F'Othinghdn
Year: 1873

Tho price Of license to soil liquor was re-
Gently raiaed by the Common Council Of Wauke-
Call to $G00 Their action llaa boon vetoed by
tho Mayor, who holds that il liquor-selling is
legitimate business it ought to DO accessible to
moor men aa we'll as to tho rich.
Year: 1873

there can be no doubt Of the right of society
TO inflict it. We merely state the point with
ont going into the argument. 1t is well TO
understand Just Of how much weight are GER
tain propositions which are cften taken for
granted without much investigation of their
sOundness.


This Ia a matter In which we often contra
dict ourselves. 1t is not true that we really
consider life to be more valuable than anything
else-for our poetry, our drama, our highest
philosophical speculations all contradict us
when we say so. death before disboDor
has been mouthed by whole generations OF
mankind, and we have exhausted our epthets
of praise in honor Of those who have dled
nobly for noble cause. The soldier who runs
away like o coward from the battlefield may
save his life, only to be spit upon and buffeted
by his fellows during tho whole Of its miser-
able continuance. 1t is not, therefore, so much
living az living nobly which is desirable.


To the individual these must necessarily
seem TO be cold and somewhat heartless
speculations. They are widely different from
the sentimentality, full of shrieks and OF
tears, with which death Is usually regarded.
II Is as natural, somebody says, to die as to
be bOrn-why, then, il we smile at births,
should we sigh at deathsf 1t is over our own
folly which causes 80 many Of them that we
should weep. The victims of Ignorance, of
recklessness, of culpable carelessness by sea
and by land, sleep well enough, no longer
burned by fire, no longer smothered by the
cruel sea, no longer starved by social selfish
ness and greed, no longer writhing in diseases
which neglect has engendered. 1t was but
one death to EACH Our duty is with the llv-
ing Our duty is to remember not the great
tragedy as a whole, but the shame and SIN OF
which we were guilty toward each actor in it.
Substantially, our laches is the same whether
twenty die or twenty thousand. We may re-
form our ways altogether, but not by becom-
In rnanllin
Year: 1873

We have not full enough nor Trustworthy
enough particulars of the shocking tragedy at
the village of Colfax, Louisiana. TO decide
whether the blacks or the whites were the
more to blame in provoking the conflict. 10
is only certain that the negroes took forcible
possession of the place, drove away the white
inhabitants, fortified themselves at the court
house. and were finally dislodged and either
massacred or put to flight by an armed force
of whites from the neighbOring parishes The
last scene seems to have been one Of aggra-
waited horrors The courthouse was set on
fire, and the negroes were shot down as they
attempted to escape from the flames. From
sixty to one hundred are said to have been
killed, and five or six white men
were either killed or wounded. As usually
happens in such cases, both parties are ac-
cnsed of extreme barbarity. 1t is alleged that
the negroes opened the assault by an attack
under cover of u flag of truce; while on the
other hand, the whites are charged with
murderons massacre of defenseless fugitives.
We may suspend our judgment on these points
until we have "A more exact narrative Of the
riot In whatever way we view it, the crime
was inexpressbly shocking. We need not at
tempt to darken the. awful picture with any
additional horrors, or to iniame fhe public
indignation with doubtful stories.


But whatever may be the facts of the con
Hict, is remote origin is not hard 10 discover.
1t is found in the same act OF usurpation
which placed kellogg in the Governors chair,
and sustains him there in the face of the de
velOpmcnts of the Senate Investigation and
the vigorous denunciatiOns of so many of the
Republican leaders in Congress The outrage
committed upon the election returns in the rest
of the State was also. as well as the facts can
be sifted from the conflicting and con-
fusng reports, perpetrated in Grant Parish,
where the Kellogg board dsregardcd the
votes actually cast, and gave the certifi
Gates 20 the Republican candidates. who Ger.
tainly had not received q majority of the bal
lots. For some reason not explained. only
one of these persons qualified during the time
fixed by law. Mr. Kellogg thereupon issued a
new set of commissions, and by the advice of
resident of the parish (whO seems to have been
one of the first sufferers from the rot) he gave
them TO the candidates who had been honestly
elected, whether Republicans or Fusionists.
II was then that the negroes, under the lead
er,hip of q colored man named Ward. who
had been defeated Us a candidate for the Leg
islature, but admitted 10 the scat by tho