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Year: 1870

REVENGE. defeated and badly whipped
Mantilinis of the copperhead school are trying
to revenge themselves for the late waxing Old
Tsmmany gave them in Albany by making
mouths at Bill Tweed.
Year: 1870

The CATHOLIC BISHOPS FROM AMERICA in
Rome refuse to assent to the proclamation of
the dogma of Papal infallibility. All efforts
to conciliate them have proved futile" Free,
independent and happy! One flag, one coun-
try and one God Such men as these can
afford to GO without hat little longer, and
as for silk stockings, they win hear quite
enough about tlem when they get home.
Year: 1870

Recently there occurred ir Bullitt
county a strange affair, which is vet
unsolved in it's particulars, but which
was one of those very peculiar tran
sactions that seem TO have no motive.
A widow lady, with daughter eigh-


teen years of age, lived near Mount
Washington. They were without male


protectors, and lived quietly and
securely. One day the Old lady re-
ceiyed some $4,000 in payment Of an
old account, and locked it up in her
trunk. The night following was dark


and gloomy. and one that would cause
people naturally to bar and lock doors
and windows, and cause on. 10 hesitate
TO open them to stranger. Towards
night an old bent up decrepit man
came TO the door, and on its being
opened, asked for shelter for the night.
The widow told him she was alone,
with no men folks about the house.
and she disliked to take stranger un-
Year: 1870

PROPERTY OWNERS INDIGNATION MEETING.


The owners of property upon East Fourth
and East Ffthsts met last evening at No 5Avenue to
protest against the action Of the Common Couns In Or
aering the Robbins preserved wood pavement 10 be
laid apon those streets The Common Council ordered
this pavement 10 he laid withsanding veto OF the
Mayor and petition Of almost every propertyowDer
upon the streets against its imposition The pavement
will be Laid from the Bowery 10 the East River and will


cost % 30 per square yard The property-0wners


willing 70 have pavement, but prefer the Belgian and
10 petiticned, but the Common Council paid
attention 10 either their remonstraDces or prayere
AT the meeting last evening a petition 10
the Legislature that il would pass general law
foTbddug all Common Councils from ordering any pave
uen without the consent Of two-thirds Of the property
Owlers upon street. signed BY Ill present The 20
Year: 1870

The stamp account of ex-Collector baliey oi
tho Tbirtvsecond New-York District, who abseonded
several weeks ago. has fully overhauled and was
stated at the Revenue Bureau at Washington yesterday
according to Dispatch that the account comes out cor
rectIy 10 a cent with the account OF the Department
Bailey had from time time much az 100000 worth
OF stamps in his possession Nothing is yet learned OF
his whereabout, and there does not seem to be much
anxiety to his probable capture by the Revenue officers
Year: 1870

The Far R0cknway Inlet Washed Away-A


Dwelling House Afoat-The Long Island


Oyster Beds Destroyed-Loss $4,000.


There was time when the attractions OF Far
Rockaway were superior to those of any other water.
ing place in this country but the sudden establish.
ment OF an inlet by the furious storm OF one night
greatly impaired the comforts Of bathing and helped
TO build up Long Branch and Saratoga In numeri-
cal point OF view. About four years ago bar was
formed about one hundred yards seaward from
good swimmers were at liberty to bathe,
but making 1t decidedly dangerous for those not ex.
perts, and In more than one case have sdventurers
narrowly escaped watery grave. This deferred
many from venturIng into the surf, and henceforth
Its popularity as watering place diminished.
system OF boating was finally established, and for
five cents person would be conveyed across the in.
let and back, where the usual bathing accOmmOda
ti0ns were available and the bathing exceedingly
good, though somewhat dangerous This impedi-
ment has been removed to the great Joy of many
while 1t Will prove disastrous TO others. As
Is well known, the waters OF Long Island are thickiy
planted with oysters. and the finest the market
affords are Rockaways. The beach which divided
the inlet from the ocean was washed seaward for
about three miles, and settled to the depth OF nine
feet upon the oyster beds, killing millions OF them
and causing loss OF fully $25, ,000 The house OF
Mr. David Langdon went anoat but was afterwards
washed upon the beach, where It now lies total
wreck. Mr.. Langdon was an extensive dealer in
OYSTERS and his aggregate loss Will amount to about
$4,000 The natives, however, are jubilant over
this change, as they think they foresee return OF
the palmy days OF Rockaway In Old times.
Year: 1870

Members Of the Fenian organization have threat
ened vengeance against the office Of the Pau AdN
Gazette on account OF the vigorous course taken by
that Journal In ravor OF enforcing the law for the
protection Of life and property in Ireland. The
proprietors Of the Gazette called upon the police
authorities for protection, and every night since
that time heavy force has patroled Craven,
Northumberland and other streets In that vicinity.


house In that neighborhood, but few doors
from the bureau OF the New York Associated
Press s supposed to be the base Of the Fenian ope
rators, and Is, consequently, closely watched.


There is considerable excitement In that quarter
OF the city.
Year: 1870

Knox the Hntter.-T0 Keep In Good Humor
10 not always an easy matter in world full OF worrmen
one OF the most direct means OF doing however take
the bull BY the hons rather the By the head and put
good hat upon him: with hat 10 too Offer
man with bad head If he has good head no VIII SEQ that


properly provided for Go therefore 70 KNOX No 2il
Broadway.
Year: 1870

STILL OpEN.-The ladies of the United
Presbyterian church have concluded to keep
their Fair open few days longer, and in
vite the continued patronage Of their
friends, and particularly Of such as are In
want Of any of the many articles of fancy
work which they have on sale. The doors
will be open daily at IL NJ, and lunch may
be had at any hour thereafter. The Fair Is
held in the lecture-room of the church,
corner Of Fourth, and Grace streets.
Year: 1870

A N old lady used to relate the following
IN anecdote of her Revolutionary remem
brance:


The afternoon of one of the last days OF
1776 when was few months short of 8
years old, notice came to Townsend, Massa-
chusetts, where my father used to live, that
fifteen soldiers were wanted.


The training band was instantly called
ont, and brother that was the next old
er than I, was one that was selected. He
did not return till late at night, when all
were in bed. When l rose in the morning
found my mother in tears, who informed
ms that my brother John was to march
| next day after tomorrow morning at sun
rise. My father was at Boston, in the
Massachusetts Assembly. Mother said that
though John was supplied with summer
clothes, he must be absent seven or eight
months, and would suffer from want of
winter garments. There were at this time
no stores, and no articles to be had except
such as each family could make itself. The
sight of my mothers tears always brought
all the hidden strength of the body and
mind to action. Immediately asked what
garments were needful. Shereplied "pan-
falcons"


'Oh, is that is all we will spin and weave
him pair before he goes"


"Tut," said my mother, "the wool is
on the sleeps back, and the sheep are in
pasture"


Immediately turned to a younger broth
eli and bade him take a salt-dish and call
them to the yard.


Mother replied 'Poor child, there arc
no sheep-shears within three miles"


81 have some small shears at the LOOM


But we can't spin and weave it in so
short time"


81 am certain we can, mother"


"How can you weave it? There is a
long web of linen in the LOOM"


mo matter, can find an empty loom"
By this time the sound of the sheep made
me quicken my steps toward the yard.
requested my sister to bring me the wheel
and cards while | went for the wool. [
went into the yard with my brother and Sc
cured white sheep, from which sheared,
enough for web we then let her go with
the rest of her fleece. / sent the wool in
by my sister. Luther ran for black sheep,
and held her while l cut off wool for my
filing and half the warp, and then we al
lowed her to GO with the remaining part OF
her fleece.


The good old lady further observed that
the wool thus obtained was duly carded
and spun, washed, sized, and dried a loom
was found few doors of, the web got in,
woVe, and prepared, cut and made two or
three hours before the brothers. departure
that is to say, in forty hours from the
commencement, without help from any
modern improvement.


The good old lady closed by saying, 81
felt no weariness, wept not was serving
my country, / was relieving mother, l was
preparing a garment for my darling brother.


The garment being finished, Iretired and
wept till my overcharged and bursting
heart was relieved"


This brother was, perhaps, one of Gener-
al Stark's soldiers, and with such spirit to
cope with, need we wonder that Buigoyne
did not execute his threat of marching into
! the heart of America?
Year: 1870

The following recipe was
furnished to a correspondent,
by B. P, Ware, of Marblehead,
Massachusetts,, who considers
the liquid grating wax invalu-
able. having used it for several
years


''Melt one pound of resin
gently, then add one ounce of
beef tallow stir it we'll, take
it from the fire, cool off a little,
then mix with it one table
spoonful of spirits of turpen-
tine, and add seven ounces of
alcohol, 95 per cent. proof; this
will cool it down 50 rapidly
that it will be necessary to put
it over the fire again, stirring it
constantly, taking care that it
does not infame; remove from
the fire as soon as the lump be-
gins to melt again, and contin-
ue stirring until thoroughly
mixed. 1t will appear like
strained honey. After setting
the scions, apply a thin coat
ing with a small brush; the
wax will soon harden, and it
is impervious to air and water"
Year: 1870

The Radical party prides itself on
"equal and exact justice for all
men," Massachusetts and Rhode
Island are two Radical States over
which that party holds undisputed
political control. Now listcnl In
Massachusetts, fifty thousand white
men are disfianchised by an educa-
tional test; and in the little State
of Rhode Island seven thousand are
disfranchised because they do not
own one hundred and fifty dollars
worth of real estate, Both Of these
States ratified the 18th amendment,
giving negroes the right Of suffrage
without making such test, a requi-
site to the ballot boz. There is
"equal justice" for you, white men.
A poor, lazy, ignorant, ragged ne
gro, who does not own the value OF
the worthless clothes on his back,
walks up to the polls and votes;
whilst ON industrious, intelligent
white man who can not show he is
worth one hundred and fifty dollars
in Real Estate must stand back
White men think Of this while you
are rraecting how you shall vote to
secure your own rights, and best
subserve the interests Of your coun-
try
Year: 1870

Mrs. Lincoln has been able
to get q pension of $4,000 per
annum from the tax payers OF
this country. Why she should
receive for the balance of her
life the interest Of fifty thous-
and dollars, when she is worth
one hundred thousand in her
right, the widows of soldiers
who died on the battle field
and who are now struggling
for bread, cannot understand.
Neither can we.
Year: 1870

READER, when you hear of any
accidents, incidents, OR anything Of
o local nature, worthy of note, eth
er send or bring tho same to this
Office. Give it to us in your own
language, and we will fix it up O.
U
Year: 1870

The Republican party came
into power in 1850 like sky
rocket, whizzing and sparkling
full of promises, protestations
and expectations, and at the
same time deluding, cheating
and pleasing the masses; but
now it has exploded, leaving a
very bad smell. The people
are trying to get it out Of the
way.
Year: 1870

Let parents talk much and talk well
at home. A father who is habituaIly
silent in his own house, may be wise
man but he is not wise in his silence
We sometimes see parents, who are
the life of every company which they
enter, dull, silent, uninteresting al
home among children. If they have
not mental activity and mental stories
enough for both, let them first pro.
vide for their own household. ireland
exports beef and wheat, and lives on
pOtatOesy and they fare as poorly who
reserve their social charms for com.
paniOns abroad, and keep theil
dullness for home consumption. It is
better to instruct children and make
them happy at home, than it is tc
charm strangers or amuse friends. A
silent house is a dull place for young
people, a place from which they will
escape if they can. They will talk
or think, being "shut up" there, and
the youth who does not love home is
in danger.
Year: 1870

BHlwer says that property is only
an idea, nine cases out Of ten. Some
men with only $4,000 a year suffer
more for want OF money than others
with $500. The reason is, the richer
man has artificial wants. His income
is $4,000 and he suffers enough by
being dunned for unpaid debts to kill
a sensitive man. A man who earns a
dollar day and does not run in debt
is the bappiest Of the two. Very few
people who have been rich believe this,
but it is true. There are thousands
and thousands with princely incomes
who never know a moments peace,
because they live above their means


There is really more happiness among
the working people than among those
who are called rich.
Year: 1870

Henry Clay used to say that there
were three classes Of people with
whom it was never safe to quarrel.-
First, ministers; for the reason that
they could deDounee me from the pul.
pit, and had none through which 70
reply. Second, editorsj for they had
the most powerful engines from which
they could every day hurl wrath aud
fury upon me, and had mono through
which to reply. And, finally, with
womenj for Lhey would have the lass
word anyhow.
Year: 1870

An Ohio hog grower says that the
following treatment will make the
biggest hog out of the pen in twelve
months: Take two parts of barley,
two of corn, and one of oats. Grind
them together, then cook and feed
cold. He says that it is the cheapest
food, and that any pig Of good i'm
proved breed can be made in this
manner to gain a pound day until a
wear old,
Year: 1870

"A gentle Quaker mad Two horses, &
very good and q very poor one. When
seen riding the latter it turned ous
that his better halt had taken the
good one. "What F' said a sneering
cid bachelor, show comes it that you
let your wife ride the better horseT'
The only reply was: "Friehd when
Thee be married thee'll know
Year: 1870

mote the SUCCESS OF any desired legtSlatiohi
he certainly labors under u dclusion.


In regard to the other reason for a fu-
sion-a deliberate design to abandon party
assOcintiOns,-we do not imagine such u
purpose is entertained by single Rcpub'
lcan member


We speak of this matter, thus freely and
earnestly, because we are aware that ever
since the election the Democratic mana.
gers have been trying to get control Of
those Republican members who are known
to hold liberal views regarding disabilities
they acting on the assumption that eve
nv such man Is IL ruscnl who cheated the
constituency tint elected him and is ready
now to receive the price Of the swindIe.
We believe these Democratic gentlemen
arc wasting their valuable time 10 no pur-
pose. We feel more free to speak us we
do, because having made the same proGcs.
sions offaith made by these members last
fall, we feel that this attempt TO buy them
over to the Democracy Is sort Of reflec.
Ii0n on all Republicans OfOur school, out
of the Legislature as well Ns in il. We
were all charged by some of tie
more harsh and incOnsidcrAtc OF
the purity with intending to brlr0y ourpo'
litical friends. We said then that time
would tell who was faithful to principle
and who was not. The opportunity is At
hand for the liberal Republicans wh0werc
then successful to give this calumny II
practical rcfutNtiOu.


We 0re thoroughly satisfied, not only
from the course Of events elsewhere, hut
from recent developments Of opinion
here, TINT the measures Of reform and
concession which we have advocated will
he substantially iMugurated at IN carly
.lny by the Republican minority in the
Legislature. We think, therefore, there
Is no shadow Of excuse for II Republican
who really desires these measures and
wants them inaugurtctl by the Republic
rans in preference to the Democrats, to go
outside of his own party for them. For
ourselves we never have accepted, and dO
not mean to accept, the position outside Of
The party which some persons under
OOk to assign lls, and we trust every
who feels himself in harmony
with us will evincc u like determination.
Year: 1870

THE remains Of Gen. Thomas are
now being earted from the Pacific to
the Atlantic as a side show, and
every day furnishes us with twenty
columns OF telegraph as to his where :
abouts. We hope be may be planted
soon.-Rockport Democrat.


This paragraph, which appeared
originally in the Evansville Courier,
we now find as editorial in the Rock
port Democrat The latter paper has
added petit larceny to the crime of
defamation Of the illustrious dead.
Year: 1870

L THE Ecumenical Council voted, al
most unanimously, on Wednesday
last, in favor Of the entire text of the
schema of the dogma of Papal infalli-
bility. So there is one infallible, hu-
man being at last. He is made in
fallible by convention of fallibles.
Year: 1870

WILL the Register please inform Its read.
ers once more who It Is that Is frightening
away immigration from tho State, by call.
ing In Federal troops 1t turns out to DO
a Democratic Judge. Isn't 1t awNllN
Year: 1870

ST. LOUIS, June 18.-The case of
the city against the Independent Fire
and Marine Insurance Company, of
New York, to compel the payment of
$500, annual license levied on foreign
Insurance Companies, for doing bust
ness here, was decided to day by the
Criminal Court, in favor of the city.
This was test case. and will decide
sixty or seventy other cases OF the
sona eharaotar
Year: 1870

Never whip your horse for becom.
ing frightened at any object by the
roadside for If he sees stump, log,
or a heap Of tan bark in the road, and
while he is eyeing it carefully and
about to pass it, you strike him with
the whip, it is the log, or the stump,
or the tan bark that is hurting him, in
his way of reasoning, and the next
time he will act more frightened. !.
Give him time to examine and smell
these objects rrtyu-r
Year: 1870

A marriage ceremony was brought to
an abrupt termination ct Kingston, n.
Y, last week, by q sudden awakening
Of conscience on the part Of the BRIDE
who declared that she had husband
still alive. n-
Year: 1870

James Brennan, thirty-hve years OF age, commit
ted suicide last night py hanging himself to the door
Of cell at the Fortythird precinct station house.
The unfortunate man was arrested about six
O'Clock last night for intox.cation. He appeared
to 10 quiet. and the doorman supposed he would
go to sleep In looking into his cell at ten O'CLOCK
the doorman was somewhat startled to md MIN
hanging to the cell door by strap His body was
Immediately cut down, but life had been extinct for
anna TINA.
Year: 1870

In consequence OF the nclemeucy OF the weather
last evening the mass meeting announced
10 be held at tho junction OF East Broad.
way and Grand street mas been postponed
until saturday evening next. mass
meeting or the democracy OF the Thirteeuth ward
win be heid IN Clinton Garden Clinton street. to-
morrow evening for the purpose OF endorsing the
course pursued by Senator William NJ. Tweed Mar
shall ToOKer Is chairman OF the committee OF ar
rangenents, and Mayor Hail. Senator Tweed and
other prominent men will be among the speaKers
Year: 1870

The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Con
ven'ion at Boston, yesterday, resolved to
support no candidate for office unless he or
she went in for the ballot for the women.
Several speakers indorsed Wendell Phillips
for Governor. After an animated discussion
it was resolved ts defer the formation of an
independent party until in their coming
conventions of the other parties shall decide
Whist ground they will take on the question
nf al fFrara
Year: 1870

Our fair female darlings have invented
another Irritation sigh. Il is made by placing
the little finger of the right hand up to the
mouth, and struggling the shoulders. The
effect la wonderful
Year: 1870

That thieves have no good opinion Of the
law is an old story, and the representatives at
Albany of the disorderly and dangerous classes
Of this city therefore only act on their own In
stincts and In the interests OF their c0nstitu-
ents in proposing to abolish courts OF any sort.
1t il not strange that the delicate Manhattan
Club democracy should be with them, since the
greedy for power are generally not scrupulous
az to means. II is, of course, still less strange
that they should be sustained, encouraged and
bounded on by the copperhead sheet In this
city that is the recognized organ of the thieves,
bullies and repeaters But it is Of some inte-
rest to the people not to have crime made so
free as it will be in the abolition Of every
restraint upon the class that now declaim 80
loudly, in the name of virtue, through their
mouthpiece, the copperhead organ. II may be
fun to the bruisers, but it is something else to
the people, to have the precedent plainly
made that no court can stand in this commu-
nifty whose judge Is not in the hands Of the
cutthroats. Could there be more startling
proposition made than that for the abolition Of
the Surrogate's Court in this county2 People
would naturally inquire, what Is to become Of
the very important business that is done in that
court-bnsiness 80 vital to society, touching so
intimately the incest relations of property ?
Could it be credited but for the fact that legis-
lators would tamper with such interests merely
to displace Judge to whose election they did
not consent-merely to reorganize the court
and put in another man In defiance of the re-
suit Of regular canvassp Never mind the
voice Of the people, never mind social safety,
never mind anything but the voice Of group
Of men who have been sent to the Legislature
because things are topsy-turvy here, and
who, if things were otherwise, would have
been sent to the State Prison or hanged for
heinous crimes a dozen years ago. And this
is the kind Of democracy that is preached up
in the name of reform and purity-in the name
of crusade against ''the ring" When the
copperhead organ gave US its samples Of de-
mocracy during the war, when IT rejoiced over
every national defeat and decried every nation
al success, we thought that was pretty bad
democracy but there was something of angelic
purity in that by comparison with the demo-
cracy IL favors now. The democracy that would
have given the country into the hands of the
JEFF Davis party was not 80 bad as that which
would destroy civil society and give the people
and their property into the keeping of Jail birds
and desperadoes.