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Year: 1873

Misses Gunsop & Middletown are
dressmakers and milliners, doing pros
porous business at No. All ST.. Clair
street, BY means of industry and econ
omy they had been enabled in a few
months TO save $500 to pay the last in
stallment, we believe, Of the purchase
money Of their place. To prevent any
dishonest person from stealing the
amount it was slowed away in an old
satchel, which was thrown under the
counter in an apparently careless way,
and which looked altogether innocent of
having any valuable contents. A few
drys since, as the day for payment ap-
preached, one of the ladies took the
satchel to see if the money was safe. To
her astonishment the satchel was empty.
What had become of the greenbacks was
n mystery for time. At length a tiny
hole was discovered gnawed through a
corner of the satchel, and then the ladies
remembered having lately seen little
mouse running about the shop in the vi
cinity of the satchel. Putting these cir
cumstanLes together, clew was obtained
to the thief. The next step was to verify
the suspicion that the mouse was the
real thief. By carefully serutinizing the
floor the course OF the diminutive burg
lar was tracked by bits of greenbacks to
a hole in the wall, inside of which was
found nest made of the missing 5000.
But the bill and scrip had been torn to
fragments. so that not cent could be
saved. In this nest lay the mouse which
had done the mischief, and it was dead
having probably been poisoned by the
arsenic contained in the green colorine
on the money! Cleveland CO.,, Plain
laolar
Year: 1873

c. B. LOWELL, who has been engaged
in putting the Asbestos roofing on the
new Wasatch Hotel, met with an accident
yesterday afternoon at o'clock, which
came near terminating fatally. He was
going up ladder, when brick from the
third story fell. striking him on the back
part Of the head. knocking him of the
ladder senseless, in which condition he
remained for the space of half an hour,
when he osme to. The wound was a
severe one, and it is wonder the brick,
which fell distance of twenty-eight feet,
did not kill him outright. The supposi-
ton is, that it struck him broadside,
otherwise it would have proven fatal
Two hours previous to the accident, Mr..
Lovel informs US a scantling twelve feet
long, came down by him as he was going
up the same ladder, and barely missed
carrying him below with it. He was
able to be around last evening, but his
wound was extremely painful Salt
Lake Tribune. 18th.
Year: 1873

THE tomb of Elihu Yale, Governor of
the East India Company and founder of
Yale College, who died in 1921, and was
buried at Wiexam, in the north of Wales,
has recently been visited by Yale tour
ist, who reports in the College Courant
that the stones are fast crumbling to de-
cay, and suggests that fund be raised
by the alumni for the erection of mon
ument and statue upon the consecrated
spot ere its site be altogether forgotten.
Year: 1873

The Phoebe Daily RECORD has just
closed its fiIst volume. Three years ago
lhe RECORD was started as a weekly
paper. 1t was first changed into semi
weekly, and finally into a daily, which
goes to show that the RECORD is an en-
terprising journal, and determined to
grow up with the prosperous and thriv-
ing city of Phoebe.
Year: 1873

The committee on postoffices at Wash
ingtou has decided that the postmaster
generals construction Of the postal law
was an improper one. The committee
have concluded that when one full rate
Of postage has been prepaid as required
by law, on mail matter, such mail matter
shall be forwarded to its destination
charged, with the prepaid rate to be


collected on delivery. and that no double
rate of postage shall be collected where
such partial pre-. payment has been made.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Mcdonald has introduced In the
lower branch of the legislature bill to
amend the revenue law so that where the
assessor shall list the same piece of land
twice In one year, he shall for each Of
fence forfeit one dollar. The second
provision provides that where the collcc.
tor returns land once paid for as delin-
quent, he shall forfeit five dollars for each
and every offence.
Year: 1873

Those congressman who invested in
Credit Mobiier stock, either with their
votes or their money, have received large
dividends on their shares. 1t now turns
out that these dividends were nothing
more nor less than the funds of the Pa
cifc railroad company, which should
have been used in the payment Of the
interest duo the United States on its
guarantee deeds. 'Tis thus our con
gressmeu have helped to swindle the
people.
Year: 1873

A bill was introduced in the lower
branch of the general assembly to give
road overscers two dollars per day for
summouing and experimenting hands
provided that "ir he summon less than
five hands on any one day no shall re
ccive only one dollar for such days"
Year: 1873

An amendment to the constitution has
been referred to the legislative committee
on judiciary. providing for an extension Of
the governors term of Office, after the
next general election, to four years, and
cop6Dipe him TO one term,
Year: 1873

The state senate has referred to the
judiciary committee bill providing tina,
in rendition Of judgment and all business
transactions where the rate of interest is
not agreed upon by expressed stipula
tions, that not more than per cent. per
auuum can be charged special contracts
however, can be agreed upon.
Year: 1873

The lower house of the legislature has
voted to supply the members with only
two 1aily papers instead Of three, as
heretofore. The Times correspondent
thinks it doubtful that there is much re-.
trenchment and reform IN this, as it ia
denying the me mbers of the privilege Of
knowing the general news Of the state,
If they are men who will profit by read
ing, they would buy their papers if moi
furnished them, and we see no reason
why they should not, as other people do,
without making the state pay !aem.
Year: 1873

Ex Treasurer Hays, in his report
thinks that the action of the Twenty
sixth general assembly, in passing an act
directing the payment Of certain state
bonds in currency, the face of which
stipulated that they should bo paid in
coin, has seriously impaired the credit Of
the state. lie says the full consequence
must be realized shortly. when the state,
unable to discharge its obligations Us they
become due from current revenues, shall
again become a borrower it will then be
made manifest, unless. as is hoped, tho
policy be reversed by the present general
assembly, as tis much moro economical
to rigidly adhere to and fulfil contract
than to avoid it through technical plead.
iss.
Year: 1873

SALT LAKE CITY, November 22.-Th9
sentiment here regarding the virginius
atroclty Is that ample reparation must be
made.


A public meeting last night adopted reso
lutions declaring that the people will rails
to the support of the government should it
be necessary to declare war to sindicate
the honor of the nation.
Year: 1873

A writer To the RanSa, City Times sounds a
note of warning with Tefcrrnce tu an iEdiscrimi-
nate emigration to Colorado. He SAYS:


No poor man with family has auy business
i'll Colorado without home 10 20 tu or means tn
secure "ne rs soon as he arrives there. The in
dncemenIs oiir'ed to poor people are mcagr,.
indeed, and the writer can assert from actual oh
srryation that during the present SUMMIT there
mas been more real want and suffering felt in
Colorado than in any Western State. This has
beer caused by fault of the country itself or
fr"m the people residing in it. but has been ere
atrd by the unprecedented immigral ion " bicb
has been pouring into the Territory from all por-
tiOns of the world. Colorado has a boundless
expanse of unoccupird dry. sandy plains, which
are open To settlement. But these broad acres of
alkali sand plains rs dry as kilndried brick
for six or eight feet deep To render these lands
"f any value tn the Farmer they must be irrigat-
cd and the water brought from ten to fifteen
miles III ditch from the maintains


Thousands of einigrants who have gone to Col
nrado passing over the fertile acres of Kansas
have found on their arrival in Colorado that in
order to get hume in the new land they must
either pay such prices those who have dug
ditch above a certain section of cnuntrv demand
or JOIN with a colony or company and ditch
themselves. Thus, for example, il a settler would
locate in any of the settlements north of Denver.
and south of the Cache la Pondrp, he must he
prepared to pay from so to SlOO per acre, and
from 81 to 81 per square inch for water for his
land; or If not beneath the ditch he may take up
land at government prices
Year: 1873

A GRAND OLD PARTY.-Different parties have
accomplished great achievements in their day, but
one of the grandest parties that ever existed in
this country, was one that never had an opportu-
nifty to test its doctrines We mean the old Wing
party. 1t died, because the Slavery issue over
shadowed everything else, and had to be settled,
and it was too honest to deceive the people.
While its members held antagonistic views on
that question, it could not become a sectional
party, like the Democracy did; it would not, as
an organization, enter into conspiracy to de-
stroy the Government; and it would not act the
hypocrite putting different faces to secure the
support of different sections. So it dropped its
issues, dissolved, and its elements united with
the Republican and Democratic parties, accord
ing to their way of thinking


But that the principles of the party still lived,
is evidenced by the fact that, in the greatest
straits the people always seek relief by means
of some great principle of the old Whig party.
The tariff much as it is denounced, and unfair as
1t seems in occasional instances, always has been
and always will be a necessity. When the rebel
lion was in its full tide the only thing that saved
the nation was the adoption of the Whg measure
of National Bank currency; and it cannot be
dispensed with yet. And now, when the question
of Slavery and Disuniou settled forever, and
the great question Of cheap transportation is ag-
itated blythe farming masses, public opinion is rap
idly settling into the belief that the only remedy
is transportation by water; and they are begin
ming TO cry out in favor of another leading plank
in the old Wing Platform-the Improvement of
Western rivers and harbors by the General Gov
ernment.
Year: 1873

The nomination of tickets by Farmers Con-
ventions is attended with one difficulty which,
if not Temedied. will make their nominations OF
but little force except among themselves. Every
free American wants hand in any business that
he is expected to favor. IL ticket is to be NOM
mated for him to support, or laws are to be en-
acted for him to obey, he wants to have voice
in selecting those who make ,hs ticket or frame
the laws. The farmers are in large majority
in every County in the State, except q few which
contain large cities, and could elect ticket
without any outside help, If they were united
among themselves. But farmers are like other
people, and experience shows that they will not
all take hand in the movement, nor support
Farmers Ticket. The result is, they become
like other parties, and must receive aid from
other sources, to make up for losses from their
own class.


We find very many persoas in this County,
who say they like the Farmers ticket well
enough, but do not like that way Of nominating
a ticket. Farmers claim that there are abuses
and corruptions to be pnt down, and honest men
are wanted to do it. They form Clubs and Be-
cret Oranges, allowing none but farmers to par
ticipate, as not to be depended upon in the great
reform. They hold Convention, and say to
outside candidates: "Here, this is our Conven-
ton; if you are willing to risk your claims, we
will give you a chance; but'yoa must solemuly
bind yourself that, if we do not endorse you, you
will not permit any other Convention or class Of
people to do so." They get mp ticket, and
place it before the people rs genuine, honest
ticket, the work of farmers exclusively, without
the influence of corrupt Outsidersi and ask
everybody to support it. VI


Most people labor under the belief, that If
they are good enough to vote for ticket, they
are good enough TO be represented in making it.
They do not see by what right certain class of
community, and that class but very partially
represented, assumes to itself the exclusive priv
jlege of saying who the people shall vote for.
1t is bound to come to this: that mechanics, Ia
boring nen, and other classes, must be admitted
to the Conventions, or the farmers will be left
to support their own ticket, and take the chanc-
es of treachery and divisions among themselves.
Then would come another dificulty-the party
would be just like all other parties that ever ex-
listed, composed of the same elements and liable
TO the same abuses. This being so, what would
be the use of new partyi Would it not be-
just well to let the old parties fight it outi


This movement is yet in its infancy, and is yet
susceptible of much improvement; and it yet
remains to beseen whether the farmers uprising
eau accomplish the results expected of it.
Year: 1873

Y If Senator Ingalls, possesses the natural
repugnance of sensible men to being puffed,
praised and slobbered over without provocation
every and all occasions, he must have on a big
disgust constantly. His appearance in any town
is the signal for fulsome eulogy BY the local
paper, telling what a magnificent man he is, and
how he is bound to shoot up to the pinnicle Of
fame the first pop. He has not yet had an op-
portunity to do anything in the Senate, asd is
even unknown to some of bis colleagues; yet the
Kansas papers have already made him the lead
er of the Senate, while the other members are
sitting around gaping at him in wonder and ad
mirati"n, letting him run the whole machine
himself Ingalls, will no doubt make his own
way in the Senate, and be a credit to himself and
State, If he is not smothered in gravy before be
gets q chance TO show what be csn do.
Year: 1873

The Pittsburg Commercial says hat the horror
which is to freeze the marrow in the bones of
the Democracy during the coming political cam
paign Is "CBsarism." What the worl means
and what particular danger to the Government
II Indicates not one man in thousand eau tell
but it is just as good a bngaboo Us any other;
and the average Democrat, always in terror
about something terrible that is going to happen.
may as well get scared at "Casarism" as any
thing else. 1t will trench terribly on the diph-
thong box in small country Offices. and cause a
sudden run on the type foundries for sorts,
besides cansng confusion among Democratic
orators as to the proper pronunciation and mean
ing of this word; but after all these difficulties
cured, there will still remain behind tn. chief
difficulty as to what all this fuss is about any
how
Year: 1873

SCHOOL TRoUBLEs.-There seems to be diff
Guilty in some of the Kansas towns, over the
question of admitting colored children to the
same schools with the whites. IL the truth were
known, il would be found that rhe trouble, in
nearly every instance, comes from the meddling
or the demagoguery of white men. If the color
ed people are allowed suitable schools of their
own, and left to their natural incliuations, they
do not wish to mix with the whites. In most
places where the coiored population is sufficient,
they have separate schools. But there are whites
who must have something to meddle with, or
who wish to get up cheap regulations for being
the champions of the rights of the black man,
who bring on the mischief. fair illustration
was witnessed in White Cloud, last Spring.
The colored people there had an excellent school,
and as good a building. any people would
wish for, that was abandoned by the whites on
ly because it was too small. But certain set
wanted to get control of the School Board, and
the colOred people held the balance of power
These men went to the blacks. telling them that
there was vacant room in the new school house.
aud that they had much right iu it as any
body. They were urged TO turn ont and elect
new Board, who would stand mp for their rights,
aud put them in the new school house. They
did turn out almost to q man, and elected new
Board; and nOw-they remain in their former
house!
Year: 1873

~ correspondent wants to know why it is
that some of the virtuOus people of White Cloud
are so much troubled about house being rented
to what they style a "Magd.lenf" We think we
can give the true cause. A Magdalen is defined
ae being repentant siuner, or n reformed pros
titute. Those who are making all the fuss, prob
ably are displeased because she has reforncdi
Year: 1873

The PANIC-The bank panic throughout the
country stands about the same as it did a week
ago, nearly all the banks in the country having
suspended. Day after day. a better feeling and
renewed confidence are reported; yet the banks
do not resume. However the general impression
seems to be, that the panic will not seriously
cripple business, but that in a short time the
trouble will he over. As we cannot talk learn
edly on finance, and rs a careful examination of
our valuable papers shows that we have no very
extensive balances in any of the banks, we shall
not attempt an essay upon the situation, but cool
ly wait to see what turns up.
Year: 1873

The system of charges eXacted by the Brook


yn Board Of City Works for water and patent
stopcocks was Investigated by special Committee Of
the Common Council last evening. James Armstrong
plumber OF No. 223 Fulton-st. testified that under
recent order OF the Board three sopocks required
he placed in each house under the curb and one
in the cellars One OF these patent which can only
he obtained at one place The plumbers obliged to
this patent stop-cock, Of which John II. Rhodes
Purveyor OF the Board OF City Works is the patentee
The patentee gets royalty Of each Of these
patent cocks. witness believed that any other stop
cock was Just good that ordered by the Board.
The witness then detailed the trouble experienced by
some plumbers in obtaining permits from tho Board.
Year: 1873

which was for marketable beef CATTLE 10 conform to
your advertisement in quality age. weight and time OF
delivery for whole amount" The Board understood


this TO refer TO the first inferior cass OF CATTLE and
the contract was not awarded 20 Mr. Dawson because
Others bid lower. After the proposals were all
in. Mr Dawson wished to explain that his bid
referred to cattle of both classes half Of each but the
Board concluded that II they allowed him to put what
they considered supplemental bid they could not
sonably refuse the privilege TO all the proposers
who had been underbd. Mr. Cree said that n Mr.. Daw


sons original bid had been the the he
wished make after hearing those OF his competitors
the contract would certainly have been awarded 70 him
Year: 1873

Two contests of highly interesting character are
going on in two widely separated parts of the
7ry The police of Massachusetts are harassing the
liquoT-tealers; the police OF Omaha making
1iyely war upon the three card monte men. Hereto
fore the enforcement of the Prohibtory Law IN the
Bay State has usually commenced with ferOcious
energy and then grown small by degrees and mis-
erably less. The spasmodic style of dealing with
the Nebraska gamblers may prove equally short
lived. If reformers only had the fires and the dun
geOns of the Inqusion at their service they might
crush out the objects of their wrath Protest
antism was crushed out in Spain; but at present
they must be content with limited success. II is
something. however, TO try and it sbetter to make
an effort 70 enforce the law, even if it be a miserable
failure than 70 allow plain statutes to lapse into
dusty and rusty disregard.
Year: 1873

much for the service as he would do II
mis- employer were a Londoner The charges for
% attendance" in the bill large yet every ser
want expects a gratuity. And it is not always
possible OF probable that the guest Will be served.
An American friend of this correspondent, staying at
n famous West End hotel. tried very hard to get a
glass Of water and biscuit at hafpast IL at night.


He rang repeatedly, but no one came. Meanwhile


re was paying unreasonable charges for attendance


THE Editor of The Tines in leading article cOnfesses
that English hotels and inns are among the most
piiscreditable of the countrys belongings differing al


most wholly from their sOoalled continental models
THE fare particularly meager and monotOnous one
ks made to pay ike millionaire while he lives likean
nnchOrite In short. the English hotels in all their
grades and phases are bleak cheerless disagreeable
and absurdly and dishonesty expensive The
american who, after reading Irvings delicious
5ite description OF the provincial inn. fances that


e s going TO find such another paradise at his first
step on English soil viii certainly take his last step
with the dream unrealized.
Year: 1873

We regret that our limited space will not allow MS
50 print all of the crisp and sparkling address Of Mr.
Henry WattersOn before the Press Association OF In
diana Journalists are sometimes called an irritable
zace but discussion of the duties and capacities of
Journalism so broad and genial and universally SYM
pathetic "a that of the brilliant editor of The Louis
slle CouierJourRGi goes far 10 vindicae the whole
profession from such a reproach. Especially worthy
Of notice were his remarks 70 the members of the
country press upon their duties and responsibilities
in face Of the public and of corporations. Words
pike these are becoming every day Of more exacting
Importance.
Year: 1873

The Senate is timidly turning over the Gardiner
Railroad and Warehouse BILL as if afraid that some
body would see it. This scheme cOntemplates an
efectual girdling of Manhattan Island by double
track railroad with special and enormous privileges
at various points along the waterfront. IL is pro-
posed thus TO give the entire foreign trade of the
city into the hands Of great monopoly. The Legis-
lature has no right to grant such vast privileges to
any corporation. Let US have the whole truth about
this business.