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Year: 1870

LIFE INSURANCE POLICIES RENDERED ! Old
By VIOLATION OF LAVA Mr. Clulfclicc;cd
an insurance on his life in the Mutual Benc-
fit Life Insurance Company of New York,
and afterward transferred it with the
knowledge Of the company. The policy


provided that in case the insured should
die !" in the known violation of any law d"
of the United States, it should he void.
Clutf entered the army, and III the State of


Louisiana Got Il claim against one Cox, and
on meeting him III the street requested
payment. This WAS refused, and OH Cluil@ s
Proceeding to llHhitch the horses from the
wagon, Cox shot him, intlicting mortal
wound. An action was brought to re-
cover the amount of the policy from the
company. who based their defence
on the ground that at the time OF his
death Cluil was engaged il the known
violation of the law Of the state. Upon
trial the complaint was dismissed, and
thereupon an appeal WAS taken TO the SUI
premc Court, general term, which yester-
day affirmed the Judgment of the lower
court. Judge ln@raham, i'll long opinion,
holds that two questions are lnVolVed-
whether the exception in tho policy applies
to any other violation OF law than lclOnl-
Gus act. and whether Clutf's act was Il vio-
latiou of the law Of Louisiana. In the alb
sence of any proof, we are Justified ID pre-
suming the law OF Louisiana to be the same
with the law Of this State, and that what
ever would be Il violation Of law here may,
for the purposes Of this caSe, he considered
Il violation of law there. That Cuffs act
was a violation OF law there can be no
doubt. | cannot concur in those views
which limit the violation Of the laws to
criminal acts. but conStruc this exception
as intended to prevent the insured from
doing any act in violation Of law which
would naturally lead to IL conflict by which
his life would be cndansered.-Neeo York
Tribune, 3Oth
Year: 1870

DONG TOO MUcH BUsINEss.-Thc law of
formity Herewith, were violated on last
Sunday by William Mays in keeping open
his store and doing business on tnat day.
He is only one among a hundred or more
who do the same thing on every Sabbath
day that passes over Il poiiccman's head,
and if they would take care to keep the sun
out Of their eyes as they pass along Broad
street and the lower end Of Main, they can
observe numerous ilaerant cases which
should be brought before the proper tribu-
mails. These seven.day merchants had bet
ter take warning from this one who was
fined $40
Year: 1870

OEcial Reports from Efghteen Grain


Growing States and Three Terrific


ries.


In Illinois the soil is in a measure
exhausted from incessant cropping !;
but on good land, where the seed was
sown by the 2th of September, the
crops look about as well as in average
years. A great breadth of land has
been sown, and the prospects are that
what is lost in the fertility of the soil
will be made up in the number OF
acres under cultivation.


Very little winter wheat was sown in
Year: 1870

WoMAN's rights are beginning to be
powerfully asserted in various directions.
In one of the counties of Indiana, recently,
a party of 'ladies," not satisfied with the
doings of a female of bad repute, who
dwelt in their midst, disguised themselves
by backing their faces, then arming
themselves with switches and turpentine,
they dragged the erring female from her
bed, (this occurred at night stripped her
and whipped her terribly. They then
poured turpentine upon her wounds, after
which debate ensued as to the propriety
of applying match to the turpentine
This docs not promise to be the end of the
matter. The whipped woman's chief ad-
mirer is desperate, and has promised to
mete out the same punishment to every
woman concerned in the whipping as fast
as he can ascertain their names. That
must be delightful community for q
peaceful person to abide with.
Year: 1870

.SA contemporary says: awe have be-
fore US letter from q young hero near
the Colorado line who writes 10 his faith
er: & tell you it is tough to come in
worn out with the hard work of breaking
prairie, and have to go to making bread
and broiling bacon. | can't stand this,
must go East and get cook that doesn't
wear trousers. ," Here is a chance for
the girls.
Year: 1870

One cut shows the Bedstead as it appears with the crib or single bedstead not in use; the other represents the Bedstead with the at- tachment drawn out. It can be entirely separat- ed from the bedstead and rolled about at
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib, the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten,

 with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded

 down over the mattress when not in use. The when closed in Each bedstead can have & single
Year: 1870

That editors keep reading rooms. That
they have plenty of time to talk to every
anything to fill up the paper. That
they have plenty of time to correct bad
manuscript. That they should puff
everybody for nothing That they must
have no opinion of their own. That
they should know everything, whether
informed of it or not. That they have
plenty of money. That they should
"notice" every scalawag show that trav.
els That they should have news
whether there is any or not That they
should print every mans name who at
tends dog fight or a horse race.-[Ex
change.
Year: 1870

a


Canada Fires.


A woman, who escaped the fire fiend
in Canada, gives thrilling account OF
her adventure. She harnessed :. horse
to a wagon (which had but Stag ie
seat and placing in it her uncle and
aunt, an aged couple, three of her own
chill iren, and the few clothes and beds
saved from the house, she started to
seek the shelter of her mothers house, a
mile or more away. She had not gone
far before five more children were added
to her load, and to make room for them
this brave woman stood upon the step
at the side of the wagon and drove the
horse down the valley with the fire
racing and roaring on either side, and
sometimes close upon her. Indeed the
cotton dress she wore was burned of
her, as well as the hair from her head
The clothes and the bedding in the
wagon took fire and had to be thrown
out. Then, as the fires closed in and
the smoke grew denser, death came to
the old man, as told in former letter.
Twice he fell into the lad and was
lifted into the wagon again, but the
third time he was unavOidably left to
his fate, Not dozen rods from where
the old man perished, the wagon was
halted by the roadside. To go further
was impossible. To remain seemed like
tempting death; but still there was
hope. The children and the old woman
were placed under the wagon, and an
attempt was made to shut out the flamt 8
by h nging up sheets and blankets.


The horse, which was one the farmers
wife had been in the habit of driving,
seemed to understand the situation, and
stood perfectly still, though the fire
bur led the hair from his body, and the
roaring of the wind and the flames was
enough to strike terror into the heart OF
the boldest. The faithful animal turned
his head now and then, as I'll ough to see
ifthe party were safe, but never moved
an inch. Had he ran, or even gone p
few yards farther on, nine lives more
wonld have been added to the death
roll.


The children escaped with but slight
ir ju les, from the fact that they W re
dressed in woAlen clothing. They ''ut-
tered neither moan or cry, " save that
the youngest, four year old girl, SOuld
sometimes say, az the parks fell upon
her, Pm burning up.n The old lady
was badly burned from having on cot
ton dress, and her ecovery is cOnsio cred
doubtful. The party remained some six
hours in this painful position, when,
daylight appearing and the fire having
somewhat subsided, they were enabled
to reach place of shelter. 1t was learn
ed later that the morher's house had
been burned before the daughter left her
own house.
Year: 1870

In the treatment of influenza, the
strength of the patient must be support
ed. If what has been called heroic treat
ment is resorted to, viz, bleeding and
purging, influenza proves very fatal
disease. From the beginning the
strength of the animal must be sus-
tanned. The horse shou be placed in
a comfortable airy box or stable, and the
body clothed according to the state OF
the temperature. 1t is generally advi-
sable to give stimulants and tonics from
the first, as quart of good beer three
times day, in which might be mixed
one ounce of nitrous ether. The bowels
should be opened gently by means OF
clysters, and if the throat is tender a
stimulating embrocation should be well
rubbed into the submaxillary space, or
head of the windpipe. Of course many
of the stimulants used in veterinary


practice are useful in influenza, but we


Just mention such as can he easily pro-
cured The horse should also be encour-


aged to take food that is easily digested,
and the clothing should be renewed at
least twice a day, and the body well
rubbed over. As recovery takes place
SLOWLY it is greatly expedited by the use
of tonics.
Year: 1870

A NEW CovENANT.-A singular in
cident occurred in the office of an at
torney at law in Louisville, recently. A
couple who had been married sixteen or
seventeen years had wearied of the
matrimonial harness and the wife had
brought suit for divorce, on the ground
of cruel and inhuman treatment. The
affidavit had all been made out in true
form and filed in the court, and she had
called at the Office of her attorney that
day for the purpose of urging him to
push the suit. While seated in the
Office, her husband came in. He sat
and looked at his wife for some time, and
then said, "Old woman, we lived to-
gether for long time" The wife re-
piled, "Yes, we did," The husband
said. Don't you think we had better
try it again?" The wife replied, "Yes if
you will treat me right" The old man
rose up, and lifted his hand to heaven,
and with voice tremulous with emo
ton, repeated his vows to nourish, cher
ish, love, honor and protect until death
the bride of his youth, and then folded
her to his bosom, and they wept togeth-
er for joy. Even the flitty-hearted at
torney, who sa " good case with big
fees fading forever from his sight, was
moved to itears. The gentleman then
paid the fees and costs and the attorney
was authorized to withdraw the pend
ing suit. and the old people left the Of
flee hand in hand and as happy as June
bugs.
Year: 1870

1t is the practice amoung waggish
printers, when green 'un enters the
office as deviL, to play jokes on him by
sending him on an errand to a neigh
boring Office for something that he would
be sure not to find, and he returns with
some strange article or other, thinking
that in printers phrase he has got what
he was sent for. A joke of this kind
was once perpetrated in neigboring
town. A boy who was rather 'verdont,
went to learn the printing business, and
journeyman, loving sport, sent him
one day with dish to certain editor,
to borrow "a gill ofeditorial.' Theeditor
understanding the game, returned the
picture of jackdss. The first one, find
ing himself rather come over,' set his
wits to work to think how he should he
even with the other, at last he called
the lad. and told him to go and tell tie
editor that 1T was editorial heAwanted
and not the editor.
Year: 1870

AFTER DINNER NAPs.-Many persons
are in the habit of sleeping for half an
hour or an hour Immediately after din
ner. This is bad practice. Ten min
utes sleep before dinner is worth more
than an hour after. 1t rests, and re-
freshes, and prepares the system for
vigorous digestion. If sleep is taken
after dinner il should be in sitting
posture, as the horizontal position is
unfavorable to healthful digestion. Let
those who need rest and sleep during
the day, take it before dinner instead of
after, and they will soon find that they
will feel better, and that their digestion
will improve thereby.-[H Herald OF
Health.
Year: 1870

Some leatherhead is trying to frighten
the women by statement that milk in
cup of tea, combined with tannin,
forms leather in minute flakes, and that
enough calf and sole will be imbibed in
the course of years drinking to make
a pair of bo0ts. This chemical fact will
probably account for the tanned and
leathery appearance of veteran tea
drinkers skin.
Year: 1870

No young lady can be too well instructed
in anything which will affect the comfort of a
family. Whatever position in society she oc-
cupies, she needs practical knowledge Of
household duties. She may be placed in such
circumstances that it will not be necessary
for her to perform much domestic labor but
on this account she needs no less knowledge
than if she was obliged to preside personally
over the cooking stove aud pantry. Indeed,
have thought 1t was more difficult 10 direct
others and requires more experience, than to
do the same work with our own hands


Mothers are frequently so nice and particu-
lar, that they do not like to give any part Of
the care to their children. This is great
mistake in their management, for they are
often burlened with labor and need relief
Children should be early taught to make
themselves useful to assist their parents
every way in their power, and to consider it
privilege to do So


Young persons cannot realize the import
ance ota thorough knowledge Of housewitery
but those who have suffered the inconvenience
and modification OF ignorance eau well appre-
ciate it, Children should be early INDUCED
4
various ways 1t is often but q troublesome
help that they afford still it is a great ad-
vantage to them. know little girl who
at nine years old made a loaf of bread every
week during the winter Her mother taught
her how much yeast, salt aud -four to use
and she became quite an expert baker When.
ever she is disposed TO try her skill in making
simple cakes or pies she is permitted to do 80
She is thus while amusing herself, learning
an important lesson Her mother calls hel
little housekeeper, and often permits her tC
get what is necessary for the table. She
hangs the keys by her side, and very mus
cal is the jingle to her ears. | think befor,
she is out of her teens, upon which she ha,
not yet entered that she will have some idea
how to cook.


Some mothers give their daughters the care
Of housekeeping each week by turns. Ii
seems to me n good arrangement and a mos
useful part of their education. Domestic Ia
Dor is By no means incompatible with tn,
highest degree of refinement and mental cul
ture. Many of the most elegant and accom-
plished women ! have known have locke,
well to their household duties, and have hon
ored themselves and their husbands by 81
doing.


Economy, TASTE skill in cooking and neat
ness OF the kitchen, have great deal to d,
in making life happy and prosperous. Tn
charm of good housekeeping is in order, econ
: omy and taste displayed in little things anC
these things have wonderful influence.
dirty kitchen and bad cooking have driver
many one from home to seek comfort an,
happiness somewhere else. None of our ex
cellent girls are fit to be married until the.
are thoroughly educated in the deep and pro
found mysteries Of the kitohen.-PresJy
teriaR.
Year: 1870

h" Oh, dear, how it sticks y cried Willie
who while passing through street where
men were laying new pavement, formed of
asphalt, ran against one Of the workmen who
was carrying kettle of the boiling pitch
some of which made great black patches on
his clothes.


Pitch is not the only thing that sticks.
There are bad habits-oh how they stick
and the little everyday sins that you do not
think anything Of and bad companions
oh how these stick Far better, children,
that you be covered with pitch from head to
foot, than to consent to 60 with bad compa-
ny, or learn bad habits, or read bad hooks, or
say bad things. Remember that there are
many other things as black as pitch.
Year: 1870

God has three houses-one for instruc-
ton, another for correction, and third for
destruction.


Vice does not pay; the sin is less sweet
than we fancied, and it costs more than We
bargaiued for


The Christians cup may be brimful O.
sorrow but for him the Overlooking drop i
never added.


--Consolation heals without contact some
what like the blessed air which We need bu
to breathe.
Year: 1870

HUMILTY.--A farmer went with his sou
into wheat-feld, to see if it was ready for
the harvest. "See, father" exclaimed the
boy how straight these stems hold up their
heads. They must be the hest ones. Those
that hang their heads down, am sure, can
not be good for much"


The farmer plucked stem of each kind,
and said, "See here, foolish child This
stalk that stood so straight is light-headed
and almost good for nothing, while this that
hung its head so modestly is full of the most
beautiful grain"
Year: 1870

When two conflicting truths are brought
face to face, we must accept neither. We
must tell ourselves that there is third with.
held among the secrets Of God which, when
IL is revealed, will reconcile them.
Year: 1870

fully appreciated by u.s. Our public school
system affords facilities for the humblest child
to procure an excellent education. Foreign
talent is quickly recognized and native talent
Is equally well rewarded. Music and the
drama here find satisfactory encouragement.
The taste Of our citizens in this respect has
improved with their general culture, and sue
cess is dependent upon merit. Now that all
Europe is unsettled by the war, other fine
foreign artists should follow the example Of
Nilsson, Seebach and Janauscheck. and we
promise all Of them success in proper
ton to their talents. The amenities and
graces of social life are cultivated in New
York as much as in any city Of Continental
Europe. Hitherto Paris has been the great
centre of fashion for the world, but now New
York already rivals Paris. While the Grand
Hotel is turned into hospital, the theatres
are closed and the Grand Opera House is
transformed into a provision depot, oil the
hotels in New York are filed with guests and
the places of amusement are crowded every
night. The splendid display Of beauty and
fashion on the closing day of the fall meeting
of the American Jockey Club at Jerome Park
this season surpassed anything Of the kind to
be seen in Europe. We should not be sur
prised If hereafter the annual meeting
Of the Jockey Club will be to New
York what the Derby day now is to
London. Foreigners will find how much that
species ofsport has been elevated by us. And
horaa or inataad NJ y,atrnpi1in0 Do rio OIL Tho
world will look to New York for the latest
fashions. This Empire City will become the
centre Of all that is most advanced in litera-
ture, art and science. The most vivid imagi-
nation can scarcely picture the progress that
New York must make in single genera
ton. The work of transformation Is fast
progressing, and we can compare it
only to the establishment of Paris under
the reign of the third Napoleon. Bridges
will bind together this and our sister city
Brooklyn, and the advancement that each
is making will be shared by both in common.
An extensive system of substantial docks will
afford convenient accommodation for our ship
ping. Increased facilities for travel will fur
nish rapid transit between the marts of busi-
ness and the homes of thousands situate far
away from the commercial heart of the me-
tropols. The great number and variety of
improvements on colossal scale already
in course of completion or in contemplation
point to New York, in view Of its central
situation, as the future great cosmopolitan
capital of Christendom
Year: 1870

tance Of Fort Pickens, where the gallant Slem-
mer, with q handful Of Indifferent and un-
trusted soldiers, was holding the most impor-
tant position In the country, and when the
s'relief" that MIR. Welles claims TO have
been sent into the fort was kept about fv Q
miles of tied up with so much red tape that
the commander of the squadron dared not land
without special orders from the President.
We remember the satisfaction OF the public
when 1t was announced that the gallant Slem-
mer had been reinforced by Captain Meigs and
General Harvey Brown, and that the Pow
hatan was lying alongside the fort protecting
it and the stores with her guns, while Mr..
Welles' squadron, five miles off, never moved
tack nor sheet until forced from very shame
to take part in the landing. We remember also
that Mr.. Welles' squadron was the rendezvous
Of rebels, where the traitor Renshaw came on
board with an empty bread bag and left with
1t FULL while the indignant old sailors stood
by the gangway as he passed over and groaned
for the wretch who deserted his flag and
afterwards came to the squadron for food.
Mr.. Seward thought he could not trust the
fate of Pickens in that quarter, and we incline
to the belief that the willy old diplomat, who
fitted out navies and armies of his own, was
the right man in the right place. He saved
Fort Pickens. Mr.. Welles lost Sumter, and,
what was worse, lost his temper. What
matters it how many vessels he had or how
many he sent when he confesses that his feet
arrived off Charleston bar (Which none of them
could cross, owing to too much depth of keeD
only in time to witness the bombardment? |?
And yet he says that the expedition failed for
want of the flagship.


We are sorry to have to criticise
Uncle Gideons romances, but we must
guard the truth Of history. 1t is too early
yet to write the history of the rebellion.
People sometimes use history as cloak to
ventilate their animosities, and there seems to
be too much Of that style in the late attempt
of Uncle Gideon to throw light on vexed
question which is quite as clear as mud
Let us wait and see what the venerable and
sprightly Seward says on the subject. He has
written many volumes on matters relating to
the war, and will, no doubt, enlighten us in
the present instance. He will certainly notice
Uncle Gideon's attack on him, and we shall,
no doubt, have lively passage at arms
between these two gentlemen of the old school.
Year: 1870

UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OSBORN
has decided that the officers appointed spe-
cially to enforce the new law Of Congress,
under which the elections are to be held, have
no authority to arrest offenders. If this deci-
sion is to hold good, we do not see that the
law can be enforced at all, especially here in
New York, where the only terror the law
possesses for the roughs consists in its being
able, by prompt arrests, to prevent their vot-
ing at all. If they are not to be arrested, or
If the process of arrest is heightened out to
the traditional Indebtedness Of the course of
the law, they will all be enabled to cast their
numerous individual votes and snap their
Year: 1870

HARD Upon THE REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE
FOR GovERNoR.-Mr. Stewart L. Woodford
is paying the usual penalty of venturing to be
candidate for a political Office. This republi-
can nominee for the chief executive Office of the
State had the misfortune Of having been once
Assistant United States District Attorney in
this city; and it is now charged against him
that in that capacity he was untrue to his
official duties, and did, for the sake of personal
gain, connive at the escape of vessel engaged
in the slave trade. The charge was publicly
made by Mayor Hall, Immediately after Mr..
Woodford's nomination for Governor, and has
been one of the staple arguments against him
in the political campaign. The Tribune has
been recently criticising the action of Mayor
Hall in that matter, and the Mayor replies, in
card to Mr.. Greeley, which we publish this
morning, together with an extract from COM
munication Of ex-Marshal Murray intimating
that an extraordinary pressure was brought to
bear upon him by leading republicans to sup
press his disclosure OF the facts in the case.
We publish these documents as contributions
to the political history of the day.