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Year: 1875

ALEX. d. HAMILTON, who fled from
Jersey City with some SIS, 900 belonging
to that city in his possession, was last
week sentenced to State Prison for three
years. The money which Hamilton stole
never did him any good. When he fed
from Jersey City he went to Mexico.
There Cortina's gang of marauders got
hold of him and plucked him clean.
When the detective who went in search
of him found him, he was lying sick
and penniless. Now, stripped Of char
acter, of wealth, of everything which
makes life endurable, he enters State
Prison. May thus fall all who betray
the people.


This time it is negro who is sued un-
der the Civil Rights law. A white man
in Washington has begun suit against a
colored man who bears the unusual
name of Smith. 1t appears that during
the temporary absence of Smith his
mother hired room-for Smith keeps
lodging-house-to the Caucasian.
When Smith returned he closed the
door on the, pale-faced gentleman, tell
ing him that he had no accommodation
for people of his color. Thereupon the
white man had warrant issued against
Smith for eiecting him from the house
contraryto the provisions of the fifteenth
amendment to the Constitution.


OK the LIST of July it was one year
since little Charley Ross was kidnapped.
Though the search for him has been
thorough, there has been no clew dis
covered which gives hope that the parents
will ever recover the lost boy. 1t is
feared that in the hunt for the boy those
who had him in their possession were
compelled to SO often change their quar-.
ters that the boy died through fatigue
and want of care, or that the men mur-
dered him to escape detection. This is Q
fearful conclusion to arrive at, but il
seems the only reasonable one. Had the
boy been alive it is almost certain tha
he could not have escaped detection ere
this.
Year: 1875




Two English tourists were arrested at May
ence, not long since, by Prussian authorities,
on the supposition that they were French spies.
When it became known who they were, they
were released with profuse apologies.


The American rifle team has declined an in
vitation to shoot match at Wimbledon with a
picked eight from all England. They announce
that they cannot depart from their original in
tention to shoot but one match on that side Of
the Atlantic.


Later accounts have been received Of the re-
cent terrible storm in the harbor Of Valparaiso,
which more than confirm the previous reports
Of tho destructiveness Of the cyclone, The
loss of life is estimated at over two hundred
souls. Forty boys belonging to the naval train
Year: 1875




Last Sunday, Just as one OF Our
straightest deaeOns was getting ready
TO shake the lines over his horses
backs and say "ge dap his wife hap
pened TO remember that the eaIl
hadn't been fed The deacon looked
at his Sunday clothes. and observed
that be did not deem it incumbent up
on him 70 suffer for the negligence OF
others; to which the deaconess re-
piled that such language in the pres
enee OF the children on a Sunday
morning, and from s pillar Of the
church, was enough to shake ones
belief in the Professions that had been
made by some one she could name.
The deacon handed the lines to his
eldest boy and elm Oed over the wheel
without saying q word. He went
round to tue front door and took the
door key from under tue mat, came
around to the back door, and IS be
was trying to put the key in the hole,
the Key slipped from his hand and
slid down into the snow. Finally he
got into the kitchen aud started for
the barnyard with the milk. He set
the pail down on the ground and


NaO U4L the Ucl4St
Whisked its tail In the air and below
ed at him. Then ne Captured the
animal and pulled it along BY the
ears and jammed its head into the
pail, but the calf gave q sprinx, send
ing the milk in cloud of spray over
the deacon's shiFt-front. In trying to
recapture the beast the. deacon drop
ped his hymn book out OF his pocket,
ard before he could rescue It the calf
stepped both feet on it and tore the
cover OH The deacon got mad. He
took a hop pole and bela0Drsd the calf.
One end of the pole struck the shed,
and, bounding up. knocked the des-
cons plug hat off. 1t rolled directly
under the calf, who set his foot
through the tile, and then went tear
ing around the yard with his tail in
the air and that hat fastened lust
above the knuekle joint. The deacon
went into the house, and as he un-
buekled his shirt collar, he called out,
Maria, you go 70 church, aud 70 any
body asks after me tell them I staid
home to feed the ealsp-N Marshall, "
Y. Statesman
Year: 1875

A serio-eomic accident occurred In
the West End yesterday. A stilI-bOrD
babe which came into the family Of
Mr.. j, few squares west Of Gen.
trail avenue, was swaddledu up and laid
on chair to await the arrival Of the
undertaken. Meanwhile, a lady Of
the house who had been out shopping,
returned and laid q valuable package
Of goods on another chair in the same
roOD. When the undertaken came he
was shown into the room and by mis-
take cOffined the dry goods, which he
afterward buried with thesympathetic
tears Of mourning relatives. In the
evening the lady shopper took bevy
Of friends to examine her purchases Of
the day in the dry goods line. I'M
agine their horror when the bundle
was unwrapped to find the dead baby
instead OF the silks and Isces. or
course the newly-made grave was
opened and the bundles exchanged in
a manner pleasant to Cincinaad
Enquirer.
Year: 1875

The Rutland Herald says "TherC
is a maple grove in St. JohnsbUry,
Vermont, which has been twice thin
ned out and is now held at 500 pen
acre, and seventy years ago the same
field was covered with growing corn.
The fine sugar orchard has come up
as natural growth, and the opiLion
Is quite prevalent among those fami-
liar with the subject that the best
way is TO grow trees from the seed"


All our forest trees yield annually
millions Of seed. The maple and elm
are very prolific. These and some
others OF our fine shade trees are OF
slow growth, they attain good size
In fifteen or twenty years and q large
size in seventy years. We have
seen elms and NAPLES sixty and sew
enty years old which had attained q
diameter Of twelve and eighteen inch
es, and a height of fifty and sixty
feet. The locust and chestnut will
grow much faster.
Year: 1875

received vigorous treatment for some
episodes of innocent Irritation by
which she had made further exist
ence cherries blank for various
stalwart youths of her acquaintance.
However, the heightened flush OF her
cheek, which accompanied her phi lip
pic did not lessen her fascination, as
was evident from Doty's lifted eye
brows and separated lips, and, en-
couraged by tine interest manifested
By the listener, she continued


"Weli, L do hope that things will
turn out well, just for Ralphis sake.
Poor Ralph How hard he has work
ed for US First he was q district
school teacher, but he was always
ashamed of himself for meddling
with a woman's work, and he was
not bit sorry when the trustees dis
charged him, having learned that he
was moral suasion man and had
scruples against cudgeling their off
spring, as they richly deserved.
Next he tried photographing until his
cheeks were hollow and his cough
scared rs, when we Joined with the
doctor in talking consumption, and
persuaded him to take hold of our
village newspaper, and it was in writ
ing editorials for its columns that he
fastened on the hobby which has
brought US here. Many and many q
time be sat up all night and scratched
sheets full Of sanguine stuff about the
promised land and the virgin soil of
the great West, urging the young
men and maids OF his readers to leave
the barren side-hills aud stony pas-
lures of horse-sorrel which made up
their old homesteads, and emigrate
to the ground which was either black
with soil or yellow with gold. Away
after midnight he would stare at the
fiickering shadows on tue wall with
eyes that seemed to see q thousand
miles away, until it was really pitiful
to watch the glowing smile on his
face, which was sure to last while he
wrote out from his Imagination some
beautiful picture Of a California farm,
for rancho and hacienda were strange
words to him then"
Year: 1875

1t is two years and four months since
the collapse of 1872 precipitated its
gathered effects on the country, and
there has been no marked progress made
in revival from those effects yet. The
event was called panic, and it was be-
lieved by many that the country would
recover It's old position as soon as the
pang had passed away that credit
would be restored; that new conf
dence would be diffused through the
avenues OF trade that prices would
rise again that demand would be
strengthened that the colossal fabric
OF debt which had been accommodating
for twelve years would be tided over, in
one way or another, and that the country
would enter anew on that career of
prosperity which had been marked by
dividends of 10, - and 30 per cent. on
all sorts of well-manaeed investments
That these things have not taken place
that there has been no general restora-
ton OF confidence and credit +; no gen
erI rise In prices no speculative de-
mand Tor products no embarkation of
money IN new enterprises, and no return
OF what we took to be an era of pros
perity-is n fact known to all. The.
shock of 1872 has passed, but the pros
tration which followed it continues.
What was supposed to be passing panic
proves TO have been a general collapse
and, though we have done something
in the way of recovering from it, the
process appears slow TO our impatient
people, and they wonder when the old
condition of things will be restored


1t certainly would be pleasant thing
to see Western farmers getting $l.25 for
wheat, 80 cents for corn, and so, all
around, for tobacco TO see new rail-
roads being built to see the iron fur
naces of Pennsylvania, Ohio and other
States reopened in full blast; to see the
coal miners strikes ended, and the
strikers industriously and cheerfully at
work at good wages to see the thou
sands of suffering male and female oper-
atives in New England busy once more,
amid humming spindles--itnd idlers in
all parts of the country brought into
active employment and III due time we
shall see all this But there is pre-
hminary process to be gone through be-
fore the picture is possible-and that
process we are now experiencing. The
collapse of 1872 was as inevitable re-
suit of the turgid prosperity that pre-
ceded it as debt-paying is of going in
debt. If a universal going in debt
makes prosperity, the era that ended in
the fall of 1872 was certainly prosper
Gus one-the most strikingly prosperous
era, perhaps, that has ever been seen in
this country. On the other hand if, as
unromantic economists declare, a time
of paying debts and squaring up gen.
orally is an era of health, our condition
just now is one of surprising salubrity.
One is the result of the other, and the
two together make up that cycle of bust
ness which young men engaged in trade
rarely think of, and our experienced
b1siness men are apt to lose sight Of
81. Louis ReDublic0n.
Year: 1875

Cut from card two disks or circular
pieces, about two inches III diameter in
the center of one Of them make hole,
into which put the tube of q common
quill, one end being even with the sur
face of the card. Make the other piece
of card little convex, and lay its center
over the end of the quill, with the con-
cave side of the card downward the
center of the upper card being from one
eighth to one-fourth of an inch above the
end of the quill Attempt to blow off
the upper card by blowing through the
quill, and il will be found impossible.
If, however, the edges of the two pieces
of card be made TO fit each other ac-
curately, the upper card will be moved,
and sometimes it will be thrown off but
when the edges of the card are on two
sides sufficiently far apart to permit the
air to escape, the loose card will retain
its position, even when the current of air
sent against it be strong. The expert
ment will succeed equally well whether
the current of air be made from the
mouth of pair of bellows. When the
quill fits the card rather loosely, com
paratively light puff of air will throw
both cards three or four ethigh. When,
from the humidity of the breath, the
upper surface of the perforated card has.
little expanded, and the two opposite
sides are somewhat depressed, these de
pressed sides may be distinctly seen TO
rise and approach the upper card, di-
rectly in proportion to the current of air.
Another fact to be shown with this simple
apparatus appears equally inexphcable
with the former. Lay the loose card
upon the hand, with the concave side
up, blow forcibly through the tube, and


the same time bring the two cards
toward each other when within three-
eighths of an inch, if the current of air
be strong, the loose card will suddenly
rise, and adhere to. the perforated card.
II the card through which the tube
passes have several holes made in 1T, the
loose card may be instantly thrown of
by slight puff of air.
Year: 1875

eyes, as if about to roll to the bottom of
the abyss, and / gave to my body sud
den impulse on the side next to the ha-
cienda, the surface of which offered not
n single projection, not tuft of weeds
to check my descent. This sudden
movement, joined to the desperate strug-
gle of my horse, was the salvation of my
life. He had sprung again on his legs,
which seemed ready to fall from under
him, so desperately did / feel them
tremble.


l had succeeded in reaching, between
the brink of the precipice and the wall
of the building, Il spot some few inches
broader. A few more would have en-
abled me to turn him round, but 10 at
tempt it here would have been fatal, and
l dared not venture. / sought to resume
my backward progress, step by step.
Twice the horse threw himself on his
hind legs, and fell down upon the same
spot. 1t was in vain to urge him anew,
either by voice, bride, or spur; the ami
NAL obstinately refused to take single
step in the rear Nevertheless, did not
feel my courage exhausted, for / did not
desire to die. One last, solitary chance
of safety appeared to me like a flash of
light, and L resolved to employ it.
Through the fastening of my boot, and
i'll reach of my hand, was placed sharp
and keen knife, which j drew forth from
it's sheath. With my left hand / began
caressing the name of my horse, all the
while letting him hear my voice.


The poor animal replied to my ca
ressing by plaintive neighing; then,
not to alarm him, my hand followed,
little by little, the curve of his nervous
neck, and finally rested upon the spot
where the last of the vertebra unites
itself with the Uranium. The horse
trembled, but 1 calmed him with my
voice. When l felt his very life, SO to
speak, palpitate in his brain beneath my
fingers, / leaned over toward the wall,
my feet gently slid from the stirrlips,
and with one vigorous blow buried the
pointed blade of my knife into the seat
of the vital principle. The animal
fell as if thunderstruck, without a single
motion; and, for myself my knees almost
as high as my chin, | found myself a
horseback across corpse / was saved
/ uttered triumphant cry, which was
responded to by the Colonel, and which
the abyss re-echoed with hollow sound,
as if it felt that its prey had escaped it.
L quilted the saddle, sat down between
the wall and the body of my horse, and
vigorously pushed with my feet against
the carcass of the wretched animal,
which rolled into the abyss. then
arose, and cleared, at few bounds, the
distance which separated the place where
1 was from the plain; and, under the
irresistible reaction of the terror which |
had long suppressed, sank into n swoon
upon the ground"
Year: 1875

The New York Daily Bulletin of
March has an article giving the result
of its inquiries as TO the prospects of the
spring trade in New York. 1t says


Appearances leave no room for qlles-
ton that the worst point of depression
has been reached, and that we are now
fairly on the way towards healthy con
dition of business. The degree of re-
covery varies in the different branches of
trade. The dry goods and grocery
trades are most hopeful while those
trades which furnish goods less necessary
TO subsistence or comfort are naturally
later in exhibiting the symptoms Of re-
covery.


The South is in a condition of extreme
mercantile depression. The merchants
of that section can do little without
credit from New York, and a pretty lib
eral one, as TO time and yet, under the
threatening uncertainties that surround
the cotton States, our merchants are dis
posed to contract such credits very
severely. A large amount of population
dependent on the iron trade and upon
the various ramifcations of the railroad
interest have as yet found no relief from
IIldl upon
with greater severity than upon any
other class. And, again, the extraordi-
nary severity of the winter has, in very
marked degree, checked travel and the
forwarding of products over nearly the
whole populated area of The country.


We have this substantial fact to rely
upon: that the agricultural population,
the main stay of our commerce, have
suffered comparatively little from the
panic. They have had abundant crops;
the condition of the foreign markets
suggests the probability of better prices
for the surplus remaining from the har-
vest of 1874; and there is, therefore,
every reason to expect they will require
an average quantity of goods, and the
more so as the late decline in prices has
virtually increased their purchasing
power. SO far as respects majority of
the trades, we seem to have reached n
condition in which q fair show of
activity would greatly strengthen conf
dence and create a marked revival of
business.
Year: 1875

IT cost them two dollars to get black
smith to pry open a Philadelphia chari-
ty box, and when he got in it and
emptied out four cents, the charitable
ladies' who had been engineering that
box for year looked an awful look at
each other
Year: 1875

Matter, in which Professor Tyndall dis
Germs the potency and promise of every
form and quality of life, has often been put
by him to a very satisfactory nse for the
preservation of life. One of his many dis
cOveries, discussed at a recent meeting in
LoDdon, will be apt to convince his enemies
that he is not a mere visionary speculator


His experiments to obtain pure air in con-
-nection with scientific investigation showed
him that cotton wool was one of the most
effective of air filters. To this he added
glycerine, and found that the usefulness of
the cotton greatly increased. BY an ingen-
ious combination of pulverized charcoal,
cotton and glycerine. Captain Shaw, chief
of the London Fire Brigade, and Professor
Tyndall, together have constructed mack
for the use of firemen, accoutred with
which they can breathe for an hour, with
out discomfort. air impregnated with car
bonic acid, azote. sulphurized hydrogen,
fire damp. or any Of the poisonous vapors
which would destroy them in few minutes
without the respirator. The helmet is worn
over the mask, which is said to impart to
the wearer an expression so hideous that
flames seem to be his natural atmosphere.
And this monster asks no fec Or patent for
his inven ton!
Year: 1875

The Cleveland Leader of the tenth instan,


says:


A salute of 100 guns was fred in New
Orleans, Friday. to commemorate the sign
ing Of the civil rights bill. The delay in
firing the salute was not due to any lack OF
enthusiasm but was caused by the impos-
sibility of obtaining powder. Immediately
after the reception Of the news the firing OF
q salute was determined upon, but not one
pound of powder could be purchased in the
Crescent City for that purpose. At last a
telegram was sent to the Secretary Of War
who authorized the officers in charge Of the


ordnance department at New Orleans to


sell the needed ammunition. The Aesociat-


ed Press agents neglected to mention this


little demonstration in favor of the bill,


and it only reached the North through the


slow medium OF the mails. Whenever any


fault WAS found with the bill or the slight
est symptom Of trouble it was flashed over


the wires without any loss of time.


The Leader, under nisapprehension of
facts, does an injustice to the keepers Of
our gunstores, or White League arsenals.
So far a. selling anything is concerned there
ls no prejudice on account of color except
in the case of selling rum by the glaes. New
Orleans is literally supplied with powder.
and the dealers generally would as soon
sell it to colored men for jubilee purposes
as they would to White Leaguers to kill
policemen and Governors with. The delay
in firing the salute was occasioned by the
want of certain kind of prepared ammuni-
ton, intended for guns of twelve pound
calibre. An abundant supply Of this am
munitiOn was on hand at the State arsenal
up to the fourteenth of September. but it
was then borro wed by the insurgents and
has not yet been returned or made good to
the State by the White League treasury.
So far as telegraphing the fact of firing
salutes to the North is concerned, that is
too much for Republicans to expect Of
Associated Press agents. The crack of q
whip in the hand Of Democrat would be
heard from one end of the Union to the
other, but the sound of 100 cannon fired for
civil riphfa wOn1d not he heard af all
Year: 1875

Mile. lima De Murska will appear again
in opera at the Opera House on Wednes.
day evening. A bill is being prepared for
the occasion which will be sure to attract
another large audience. This lady has re.
stored the old time eclat to ope ratio per-
formances in this city. People sitting under
the spell of her wonderful voice forget that
they are poor, or that the season is Lenten.
They hear and praise, applaud, and go away
to come again for more music and other
songs,
Year: 1875

For some time it has been known that
the Metropolitan Police were to loee their
chief by an appointment which may be
considered q promo ton. Tomorrow he
will take posse ssion Of the Office of tax col.
lector of the Fourth District, and will enter
it with the good wishes of ell.


In the six years General Badger has held
the office of Superintendent, his ability,
zeal and courage made the police model
of efficiency, and if it ever fell from it's
high standard, it was from causes beyond
his control. He possessed the confidence
Of his superiors, the affection of his men,
the esteem Of the community. and his high
character made him respected even by the
few enemies politics created. Wounded
and almost disabled in the discharge of q
perilous duty, it was eminently proper that
bis services should be recognized by a re-
lief from the arduous labors he has per-
formed go long and so well.
Year: 1875

The tribulations Of the modern organ
are given by the new York Times. 1t
tells how it stood up for Grant and the
party in 1872, when the New York press
went off almost bodily after strange gods,
how it fought the great battle through
much obloquy, and how it depended on
the voluntary patronage of the public
for support. After the election it saw
fit to denounce some of ths Presidents
appointments. several administrative
measures. and oppose third term, for
which it has been rewarded by the ad-
milistration organ. living by official ia
vor, pronouncing its publishers male
factors of the deepest dye" and fling
ing some of the mud of Washington in
the direction Of our households" by two
papers started to overthrow the Times;


by being read out of the party on an
average twice week" while great
Senators" have condemned it and man
ayers have demanded that it must be
suppressed-all because, as it says, we


are not u sufficiently reliable organ. =
And yet the Times prospers and man
ages to get along rather better without
the party than the party can get along
without it.
Year: 1875

"A millionaire Of Granville, Wis,
has recently faade will, in which no
leaves $4,000 to any incorporated
town or village in Wisconsin that
will not tolerate brass band Sen
siblo man that.


No man can become thoroughly
acquainted with his family history
without running for Office