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Year: 1875

A recent English case of extreme cru
city, passing under the guise of justice,
has been much commented on in the
papers on both sides of the Atlantic.
There seemed to be something peculiarly
revolving In the circumstance that lit
tie girl of thirteen, who had plucked a
geranium- bud in an almshouse garden,
should be sentenced to Imprisonment
for fortnight in Jail, and for four years
longer in penal institution all too mild
ly termed reformatory. But, as
matter of fact, severe sentences such as
this are by no means rarely pronounced
from the benches occupied by the cum
paid magistracy" of England. Justice,
in the hands of the gentlemen who are
called upon to administer punishment to
petty offenders in the English rural dis
tricts, is especially stern with those who
in any way invade the sacred rights of
"property." Theft or trespass, in their
eyes, is too apt to be regarded rs worse
than wife beating, or slander, than per-
jury or murderous assault. Such SEN
tences as that accorded to poor little
Sarah Chandler are far from being rs
uncommon rs the conspicuousness of her
case would imply: The very same
clergyman who sought, in his capacity as





"jail-bird," because she plucked n
flower, sentenced, not long ago, small
boy scarcely out of his pinafores to
prison for u month, because he scraped
the leavings of discarded tobacco cask,
and sold his scraps for half-penny !;
and condemned a young servant girl to
six weeks in Jail for putting some photo
graphs, which she found in waste
paper basket in the house where she
served, into her pocket to show to some
friends. Not long ago sixteen fishermen
and women, living on the Northumbrian
coast, were cast into Jail for month for
picking up mLssels on the shore, with
which to bait their hooks. It was an
audacious assault upon the property
rights of the squire whose estates ran to
the waters edge and the clergymen
and squires who administered the law
without pay in that region could not let
the fragrant defiance of the rights of
property pass. In Essex three very
reputable and not disorderly lads, aged
about sixteen, sailed out for IN after
noon walk. In crossing the fields they
came to brook n grassy knoll on its
banks tempted them, and they threw
themselves upon it and began to read
some books they had brought with them.
Suddenly up rode the owner of the field
on horseback, and roughly demanded
their names. Soon after they had re-
turned home they were taken in charge
by a policeman, brought before the
magistrates, accused of trespass, and
heavily fined. A little girl Of thirteen
was recently condemned at Dorchester
to twenty-one days imprisonment ut
hard labor" and five years in re-
formatory, for stealing an earthen milk
jug. 1t turned out that the Jug, which
was cracked, had been given to the girl
without authority by servant. The
supposed thief, too, was ascertained to
have the best character tor honestly
Appleton's Journal.
Year: 1875

The Washington Chronicle contains
tho following A rather suspicious cir
cumstance occurred in the printing
bureau of the Treasury department,
which resulted in the dis m issal of
the principal actress. 1t appears that
one of the young lady employees was
passing from one room to another, when
four five-dollar notes fell from the folds
of her dress, to which they had acci-
dentally adhered, or in which they had
been concealed. Two other Young
ladies engaged in the same room, who
were following almost in her footsteps,
observed the notes fall and picked them
up. The fact being reported to the
chief of the division, he confronted the
unlucky girl and demanded an explana-
tion of the circumstance. She asserted
her innocence of any guilty knowledge
of the money being about her person,
and stated that she believed it must
have stuck to her dress as she brushed
by the tables on which the notes lay
piled, previous to the accident. Although
the belief was generally entertained by
the attaches of the bureau that the girls
story was truthful, the rigid rules of the
Office required her dismissal as warming
against tho recurrence of similar mis-
haps.
Year: 1875

nothing. Seek your happiness where
you may, Reginald Vickers; it has never
been dependent upon mine. I heard
your words to Jessie =


And if you did, he broke in, what
then2 They were the first fond ones 1
ever said to her, and these were wrung
from me by her sorrow for our parting.
1 never meant to do you wrong, Pamela,
and was not disloyal to you in heart.
It was q mad, foolish impulse forgive
it, pray you. Do not let this one fault
make misery for both our lives. will
promise never to see her again.


"And do you think L cried, that
her agony will mend mine p


&c Nonsense, Pamela it is not ill a
nature like hers to suffer long,


"' But it is in nature like NINE, 1
said. Nevertheless, Reginald Vickers,
your path and mine lie apart henceforth
and foreverp


"'But it so, then,' his face white
ming to his lips. Let your pride
be the cause, as it has always been. Had
you been less cold, had not sinned
against love strong and perfect as its
birth, but stinted and starved every day
that lived. beg of you, as you atleast
value the peace of others, to breathe no
word of this to your cousin Ephraim (;
ho lisa good fellow, and deserves well of
happiness. Let him win and wear his
wild blossom, as pure and sweet, so help
me Heaven rs when first he found it.
AS for me, I will trouble all of you no
more J!


"He went, and with him went the
rest of my life; for tn >ugh am nearly
fifty years old, only lived to the age of
twenty. It was fortunate, at least, that
mine was the only life bereft for Regi-
nald married five years after, and Jessie
took up the thread of her love for Eph-
rain where it could be so readily mend
ed that my honest cousin never knew
it was broken"


"Dear me, Aunt PAM" said Belle,
her eyes full of tears, "in NIL those five
years, before he married that other wo-
man, why didn't you make up? Why
didn't you write to him, or fall in his
way somehow, or pretend that you want
ed to consult him as a lawyer


CT was too proud, Belle" said Aunt
Pamela, brushing the tears from the
young eyes looking wistfully into her
own. And then there was a clatter at
the door, and Jack came bounding up
the stairs two at time, leaping from
the landing into the parlor, and taking
Aunt Pamela and Belle into one hearty
embrace. IL was noticeable that Belle
found no fault with this lack of dignity,
nor found Jack too demonstrative.


How jolly it is here, Aunt Pamela !"
said that ardent young lover. "Belle is
like blamed icicle Mt the house yondcr,
and L never had any yearning toward
the polar regions"
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer writes from Washington {:
"Treasury girls" be it known, are not
all young in fact, some of them, no
doubt, have children as old as your cor
respondent, while many are yet in the
full bloom of girlhood, and more have
entered the cypress-hung portals of old
maidenhood, or have worn, or still wear,
the widows weeds. Still, according to
ye festive correspondent, all ladies en-
gagged in the Treasury department are
"girls," even though they be gray
haired n2atrcns and mothers of families.
AS I have said, "Treasury girls" are
not all either young or pretty, as is gen.
orally supposed, and in looking over the
"sea of faces" I have discovered but
few who look as though their owners
consider life as great Irritation made up
of little fiirtations F.; on the contrary, the
majority of faces belonging to the '"Treas-
ury girls bear the impress of an earnest
purpose earnestly pursued, while many
are evidently shadowed by sorrow or
disappointment in fact, the ladies who
are engaged in the Treasury department
are only small detachment of the great
army of women who find themselves de-
pendent upon their own resources, and
have, as is natural, sought out the best
place they could command. The aver
age Treasury girl" does not go to work
in silk and lace, according to the popular
idea, but, on the contrary, wears loose
sack and overdress of some light wash
goods over a worsted skirt, and, by way
of taking all romance out of the matter,
carries little lunch done up in paper
or pinned up in a red napkin. Neither
do all "Treasury girls" preserve the
lines of beauty in form or face on the
contrary, there are thin, angular, and
perpendicular women among them, and
there are some who arc burdened with
flesh {; most certainly there are many
who evidently did not win their positions
by means of personal beauty.
Year: 1875

An unfortunate and unprecedented &C
cident occurred Mt the Geological Gar
dens in the Regents Park, London, to
one of the elephants. The female African
elephant, being very fidgetty and rest
less, is usually tethered by ring round
one of her fore feet to the corner of her
stall while the elephant-house is being
cleaned out i'll the morning. On the day
in question, about half-past eight A. NJ,
the keepers were alarmed by this ele-
phant calling out suddenly, rs if in great
pain, and on running to the spot found
that she had actually torn off the top of
her trunk. 1t seems that she had thrust
the end of her trunk underneath the
ring by which her foot was confined, and
then, pulling against the ring with her
foot, hurt her trunk. This caused her
to exert such force in the attempt to
withdraw her trunk that the end of this
organ was torn off in the effort. For
some time after this extraordinary event
the elephant was in great pain and very
uneasy. She has now begun to feed
again, and seems likely to recover the
use OF her trunk, rs the wound has not
ilifiamcd much, and is gradually healing
over.
Year: 1875

Massachusetts, papers are printing tho
following story John Manning, a young
man of North Adams, went to work in
some print works in New York about six
weeks ago, and did the work of two men
who had been discharged. After he had
been in his new situation week, he was
invited by these men to go with them on
an excursion. The next day his employ
ers missed him, and his continued alb
sence led them to think that something
was wrong. A search was made, which
resulted in finding him in q piece of
woods not far from the city, raving mad
and almost dead from exposure. Word
was sent to his father, and he was taken
home in q sad condition, it requiring
four men ut times to prevent him harm
ing himself Or others, and he had to be
sent to the Northampton asylum. The
physicians having charge of the case
pronounce it a bad one. The insanity is
supposed to have been the result Of
some drug given him maliciously by the
men with whom he was last seen. When
found he had been robbed of his watch
and some money.
Year: 1875

The reports which have appeared of
the short address of Sir Thomas Watson
on the occasion of the recent deputation
to Mr.. Gross gives an imperfect idea of
his words and meaning. Short as was
his statement, as under the circumstances
was useful, it was so pregnant with
meaning and will have SO permanent
value that we take an opportunity of
presenting the actual words: SIR-My
humble advocacy of this petition may be
expressed in O very few sentences. I
must preface them by saying that, al
though for much the greater part of my
long professional life 1 was profoundly
incredulous of the permanent reforma-
tion of habitual drunkards, facts have
more recently come to my knowledge
which have made me an almost sanguine
convert to q better hope and belief.
Among habitual drunkards there are
many in whom what was begun as a vice
passes into frightful bodily and mental
disease. The frequent use of intoxicat-
ing liquors in excess, and especially of
alcoholic drinks, leads at length to an
accumulation of the specific poison of al
cohol within the system, so that the
bodily tissues, which include the brain,
becomes so impregnated, so charged
with the poison, or so affected somehow,
as to produce degree of craving which
the unhappy dipsomaniac-for 80 he is
rightly called-is utterly unable to resist
control. So imperative is this morbid
craving, that in some instances, by his
own confession, he could not refrain
from swallowing the customary stimulus
even if he were certain that death would
be the instant result. Now, of such
persons, it is found that, if they can be
strictly debarred from all access to alco-
hoic drinks, they will surely, though
slowly, recover from this form of mania !;
that the Incorporated poison will be
gradually dislodged and eliminated from
the system by the silent and sole efficacy
of that benefcent force which we medi-
cal men acknowledge so thankfully, the
Wis medicatrix natur@ and the wretched
able, and in no small percentage of cases
willing, and even anxious, to abandon
the vice which had been the first step to-
ward the induction of the maniacal dis
ease. Now, if this be so-and from all
that have seen and heard and read on
the subject, from experience gathered on
large scale in America, from the teach
ings of some of our own lunatic asylums,
and from the testimony of private OBJ
servers-I am fully persuaded that it is
so; I might even appeal on this point to
some members of the deputation now
present-then conceive that the sane
tioning, by some Legislative measure, of
retreats and reformatories, wherein, at
the instance of his relations or friends,
or by his own wish, or by the sentence
of a magistrate, such sufferer could be
legally detained for a time (Which has
been estimated to be between three and
twelve months, though, in my judgment,
three months would be far too little, and,
of course, ample provision should be
made against any possible ahnse of snch
detention), such Legislative action, I say,
less than a national blessing. g.-Britisi
Medical Journal.
Year: 1875

A heavy gale of wind set in the from
southeast on Wednesday night and con-
tinued ever Thursday. to tho disad-
vantage of boatmen and others doing
business on the waters. The steamer
North Pacific was unable to lay along
side the wharf. and kept away on the
other side of the bay and finally went
to Ludlow. The wiser course would
have been for her to have taken position
al the head of the bay where the water
reposed with the smoothness of mir
ror, undisturbed by the warning ele-
ments. The steamer Goliah. while lay.
ing at the wharf Thursday morning,
had her wheel-house and guards on the
starboard side considerably damaged
argus,
Year: 1875

~ A few years ago Moody and San
key were on their knees begging the
Chicago Christians to assist in their
evangelical work, and but very few
would pay any attention to them. Now
that they have achieved a great success.
Chicago Christians are on their knees
begging the now great evangelists to
come to that town and there inaug,,rate
their campaign against Satan in this
country. We certainly hope that they
can be induced to go there first. If they
really mean to wage an effective and
earnest war against Satan. they should
go at once to headquarters, and beard
the lion in his den, the devil inhis hall.
Detroit Ne,os.
Year: 1875

LAscARs.-W We saw in town
this morning a couple of Lascar
sailors, who came to the Sound.
we believe, on the ship Messen-
ger. We believe they are the
first of their race to visit this
part of the country, though near
ly every other country has a
representative among our popn-
latiOn.
Year: 1875

Turning from the enclosure we took
our course along the edge of the vale
and ascending several short stairways
we were received by a priest of the
poly-theistic State Religion, and were
ushered into the Temple of "Arimada
Sama, the Japanese Goddess of Mer-
cy." The roof was thatched with straw
and grew over the body of the temple
and the cornices sloped inward with q
graceful curve, and the only fault We
had to find with this unique architecture
was the total lack Of coloring except
that pertaining to the wood which is
naturally of dead, leaden color.


Looking about we saw whole lines of
lesser Goods" and one in particular.
the "God of Wealth." q corpulent fel-
low with broad smile upon his face,
standing with each foot upon a full bag
of rice at some distance from each
other, and which on the whole was q
jolly take-off on the generally received
opinion on the matter of lucre. The inn
age of Armada Sama was hidden from
view by the shutter that is kept closed
for seven consecutive years with the
exception of sixty days at the end OF
said time when they take upon theC,-
selves the liberty of presenting their
wants and requests to cher most gra-
cious majesty"


However giving couple of "rios"
to the priest we were shown behind the
scene and stood before gold-plated
figure, sixty feet in height. Standing
erect with eyes looking heavenward and
a slight drapery falling from her shoul-
ders, in her right hand a long crosier
stood leaning against her shoulder; in
in her left rosary with her fingers
clutching a bead; with dim perpetual
Year: 1875

lights burning about her, her graceful
posture give token of fine esthetic Gull
ture three thousand years ago, for at
time she was cast and set up in her
present position.


We could not help but smile at the
sharp manner in which the priest called
cbak q devotee who had failed to give
his tempo" offering. Such is the prizes.
in most parts Of the world. thought wet
as the poor fellow dropped bis piece of
money in the contribution box. From
here we started for the sacred island Of
Of Enoshima. distant seven miles, with
a Keen appetite of the scenes thereon.


Passing through fields of variegated
colors. ranging from the dark green of
the Just sprouting crop to the bright
yellow of the ripe grain, with here and
there fields of white cotton and tho red
Japanese cockscombs to aid the color
ing Of the scene, we scarcely noticed
the distance until we reached the shores
of the great Pacific and saw looming
up in the distance the billy island,
Enoshima. Following along the ever
complaining shore we at length reached
the sandy strip that has but lately rem
dered this lso-calledl sacred place a
part Of the mainland.


Tho village lies at the bottom Of the
hill and creeps along the shore irregu-
larly as the rising hill permits, and is
somewhat more profuse in regard to the
use of tiles with which to build the
houses. than any other place we had so
far met. At length reaching its decor
ated streets We made for the hotel and
were well pleased to find that it was
we'll stocked with American and English
edlbles in the shape of preserved meats,
oysters, vegetables, &C., and an invig
orator in the shape of Bass pale ale.
This was better than We expected and
for fear of disappointment We did our
own cooking and thus sat down on the
floor to our first meal ut the Mecca of
Japan. Feeling too tired too ascend
the steep hill upon which were situated
the temple and shrines, we passed the
rest of the day listening to the daughter



Of our host play upon her one string
and three string cross between lthe
banjo and the guitar, and passed very
pleasant afternoon teaching the rather
pretty girl operatic airs, which we
hummed while she accompanied on her
instrument in way that was astonish-
ing to us as it seemed pleasant to her.
She was apt as well as handsome, and
while you, gentle reader. who is reading
this, may we'll think that our day was
we'll spent, for our hostess was a cute,
sympathetic, little lady, and sorry we
were when the unwent down aud our
entertainment came to an end.
Year: 1875

SCHOOL MEETING.-The school
meeting last evening was we'll
attended. The report of the
committee on finance was read
and adopted. A resolution was
passed requiring the school di-
rectors to hold meeting at least
once q month.
Year: 1875

RIVER UP.-White and Duwa-
mish Rivers were up very high
the early part of the week, and
such large quantities of driftwood
came down that the steamer
Comet was obliged to lay over
one trip. The river is falling
now,
Year: 1875

A FLORIDA VoLCANo.-Form many years
past there has been noticed a column
of smoke or steam rising from an inn
penetrable swamp short distance from
the Gulf coast, in Waukulla county.
Many attempts have been made to dis
cover the cause, but thus far no party
has been successful in penetrating to the
location, in consequence of the !charac-
ter of the surroundings. A. short time
since Judge White and party of gen
tlemen in Leon and Gadsder counties
formed an expedition to reach, if possi-
BILE, the undiscovered wonder. They
started from st. Marks in sailboat
and made their way eastward to the
mouth of Pinhook Creek. One of the
party. in writing says: I" The coast here
is very singular and suggests the pres
euce of volcanic action at some time
in the remote past. We look upon it
as favorable indication of the volcano
we we're in search of. The whole coas
is q mass of rocks. One, called the
Gray Mare forms a natural bath
house, walled in on all sides.
The bed of the river is mass of rock,
and two miles from its mouth its whole
volume is vomited up with immense
force from the yawning jaws of rifted
rock. Here the river proper terminates
and then commences q series Of sinks,
which extend for twenty miles back"
Year: 1875




and contrasts TIE life of the merry mlkmaid,
who sings outside, with her own troubled exis-
tence-and wishes that she too might be milk
maid, ..E
To sing, love, marry, churn, brew, bake and die
Then have my simple head-stone by the church,
And all things lived and ended honestly.
is perpaps a little conventional in design, but
is graceful and serves to relieve the fierce dark
ness of the tragedy In Act w. Scene /, Thrill
by's pathetic plea for Cranmer ends with these
nobly imaginative lines:


To do him any wrong was to beget


A Kindness from him for his heart was rich,


OF such fine mould that if you sowed in it


The seeds of Hate, it bossomed Charity.


The scene between Elizabeth and Feria is
fine, and her generous solicitude for Mary is
another touch in the Brilliant and charming
portrait that Mr.. Tennyson has drawn of the
youth of the maiden queen. The sad death
hour of Mary, and the succession of Elizabeth
to the crown, end the drama. 1t is with sincere
pleasure that critics and the general literary
public will recognize the revival of Mr.. Tenny-
sons talent to even more than its old power
With the instructive sympathy of poets ma
ture, while he sang of the decadence of Ar.
thurs Round Table, of the deceit, the loss of
faith, that made its chvalry memory and a
mockery-his genius seemed to lose force of
Year: 1875

The decision of Judge Knight of the Mu-
sisepal Court was of course not unantlci-
pased, and the matter goes to higher
tribunal. The appeal takes it to the Superior
Court, to be tried at the next September
Year: 1875

AZ earnest desire to justify your generous conf
dence and strong regard for the honor and vel-
fare OF our State inspire me NTH the firm resolue to
spare no effort and to consider other consequences
IN me endeacor to hlly discharge the duties that
so'H De incumbent on me If your choice shall prove
TO be the choice Of the people also. pledge you and
thousands for aohons you act in that erent honest
purpose and fred determination to make the public
good my single aim and constant care.


Gen. Connors Acceptance.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and commupi-
cations The name and address of the writer are in
AZ Indispensable not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nscations that are not used,