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Year: 1873

Action to Recover Tor COunSel Fees.


Before Judge Gross


Herman Hernscin VS. Sarah NJ. Chandler.-This action
was brought by the plaintiff, assignee Of the law firms
of stevens Reymert and Reymert Talmadge, to re-
500 counsel fees for conducting two suits The
defendant testified reference to the first suit that the
counsel agreed to take compensation for their
vices onehaf of the amount recovered in the suit and
that nothing recovered. In the secona which
that the defendant in this action brought against
that her counsel allowed MARITIME TO be released
up as q counter claim that in order 10 hurry
up matters, she copied the papers in the
herself The Court, in charging the Jury, said that the
services of professional man stood upon somewhat
different footing those of mechanic the labor
being that OF the br ain mind and even though the
papers copied by the defendant, that fact alone
would lessen the value OF the services because that
mechanical transaction As to the questions
OF fact between the two parties he would leave them
entirely with the jury trusting they would do Justice
the parties they deserved The jury found verdict
Tor the plaintiff tor $50


Interesting TO Builders and Landlords.


George Derr vs. Adolphus Koffman-The plaintiff
built houses for defendant in Spring street. and
recover S523 balance due the contract Defendant
claimed that OF the work badly done. and
that plaintiff bound by the contract obtain the
architects certificate that the buildings properly
finished The brought in sealed verdict giving
cents the plantin. n. Chedsy for plaintiff j. Soils
Ritterband for defendant
Year: 1873

Lord Brougham's definition Of lawyer that he was
gentleman who rescnes your from your enemy
and keeps himself does appear TO be entirely


rect At castsuch is not shown to be the fact in the
final winding up OF the iong-contlnued litigation OK.
tending indeed, over period OF nine years
in the case OF the estate Ien by George I.ovitt
The particulars Of the two suits contesng the will
and the other involving the question Of the partition Of
the estate both OF winch went TO the Court Appeals


have frequently given In the HERALD to require
recapiluation iba nstate IT will be remembered.
Year: 1873

Yesterday in the United States Circuit Court decision


a rendered the of the Second National Bank of
Erie Pa VS. The Ocean National Bank Of this city The
suit was brought S27s "a the alleged value
OF certain deposits made by the plaintiff with the de-
fendant and which taken from the safe of the
Ocean Bank when II robbed. The plaintiff claimed
the robbery could have been prevented by due dill
eence and care. The tried before Judge Will
liam D. shipman short time before his retirement
fom the bench and In his decision, which he hled yes
terday. he gives Judgment for the defendant the
ground that the absence of diligence and has not
been proved.


In the United States District Court yesterday, before
Judge Batchiord the case OF the United States Viii
liam Coland concluded II was action TO recover
Che value quantity Of cigars alleged TO have been
smuggled by defendant The jury found verdict Tor
the plaintiff for S6ll 10.
Year: 1873

In the case reported in yesterdays HERALD under the
above heading correction Is necessary TO this extent
that the question OF the patent still undecided and bat
IN Tue ineanine patentees NAV IN On


as before, at their risk. may - W
Year: 1873

The Board OF Health met yesterday and trans
acted some routine business. The following report
OF the work done during the week ending Novem-
Der in the several bureaus was received and
Year: 1873

A small man or even boy with a
team can haul long stick of timber,
cithor round or square, with compara-
tive case if he understands how TO
load it. Let us suppose, for example,
that ono has q quantity OF round tim.
Der TO haul from the forest perhaps
some of tho sticks are fifty feet in
length. Take tho hind wheels Of a
strong wagon, fit pole to the axle
aud hounds for @ tongue, then sling
the timber beneath the axletrec, and
lash the end Of the tongue to the tim.
bcr. Tho timber should be rolled
upon a skid a foot from tho ground
and the wheels should be secured TO il
trife back OF the middle, so that the
forward end will be about one hundred
pounds heavier than the rear end
Then when the team is hitched by O
chain to tho fore-end, the stick will be
kept clear of the ground The team
can be hitchcd 10 either end in case ol
necessity. Timber is frequently slung
beneath the axlctree Of cart or wag
on, and tho rear end is allowed tc
drag on the ground. BY this mcan'
nearly half the load will drag heavily
requiring double the amount of team
TO haul i. Several long and heavy
poles can be hung beneath an ax!etreo
and transported with ease by hitchinl
the team to tho end. Comparatively
few persons in the rrrpl districts have
over hoard of this convenient mode o.
handling long timber. They should
understand Il, as il will often save al
immense amount of heavy drawing
When going down hill the weight
Of the driver on the foreend of tho tim


Der will usually be sufficient to contro
the rate of speed, except down steer
grades. Whom one employs oxen ant
cart sling the long timber beneath
the axletree, lash the end Of the tongue
TO the timber, and hitch tho oxen Il
either end of the stick. A yoke o
oxen could be able 10 draw a stick II
this way with comparative ease, ,whicl
tbey would scarcely move by hitchint
one end beneath tho axletrec and al
lowing the team to draw by the tongue
of tho cart.-Americdn Builder.
Year: 1873

The principle Of industrial subdivis-
ion and specialization is just branch
ing into an art that is as interesting
as it is novel. An inventive Kcntuck-
ian proposes to contribute exotic hair
culture to the curiosities and exquisite
elegancies of modern civilization.


That hair plucked up by the roots
from one animal soil and inserted rad
ically in another, would grow and
prosper in its new habitat, has been
no secret 10 science. But as each hair
required a separate cavity OF its own,
the labor and expense involved in such
process Of transplantation would not
allow it to go beyond experimental
culture on very small scale.


So, until recently, the matter stood.
People whose heads had become hair
less, and people who preferred exotic
hair to their own, had TO be content
with wigs, chignons, and tho like con-
trivances. Now, however, they arc
promised by this inventor the privi-
lege Of having hair Of any color, or
from any animal actually rooted and
naturalizcd in their own scalps.


His plan is TO cut locks from con-
venient hoada, backs, or other hirsute
parts, and TO plant them at once in a
compost of chemical substances
Hero they grow with prodigious ra-
pidity into magnificent luxuriance.--
The human surface which they are
destined to adorn is then scarified !;
the locks Of hair are placed roots down
ward upon this freshly plowed ground,
and there are confined by bandages
until the roots have firmly taken bold /,
and the wearer can claim the capilar
acquisition for his or her own, not only
as an article purchased, but as a part
of his or her personal identity.


The vista Of transformations which
this invention opens is somewhat diz-
zying and bewildering to the cleanest,
coolest faculties. 1t is not at all i'm
probable that, in the progress OF taste,
human hair will be discarded in fash
ionable circle as insufferably vulgar.
Choice will then range, fancy free,
over tho whole animal kingdom out
side Of the human family. Some may
prefer the spots of the leopard or the
stripes Of the zebra. Some may pre-
fer the brush of the red fox or the
grey squirrel. 1t may be that the
flowing mane OF wild Texas mus.
tang will be more to the fancy of the
"girl of the period" 1t may be--for
feathers, being Of the same organic
nature with hairs, can be transplanted
by the same process--that the tail Of
the peacock will suit the "style" Of
the aloud" fine lady best. Or, posi-
bly,, aspiring bolles, painting to soal
to the acme of capillary novelty and
establishment, will not be satisfied
until they shall have crowned them
selves with tho capillary spoil of nj
uncomfortable little animal as beauti
iul as it is mal.odorous.-Erie Times
Year: 1873

Tho Danbury News says: 1t is
little singular how well pair of boots
can DO made to lit at the store. You
may not be able to get your foot
only part way down the leg at the
first trial, but that is because your
stocking is swcaty, or you haven't
started right, and the shoemaker sug-
gests that you start again aod stand
up 10 It, and he throws in little pow
der from pepper box to aid you
And SO you stand up, and pound down
your foot, and partly trip yourself up,
and your eyes stick out in an unplcas-
ant manner, and every vein in your
body appears to be on tho point Of
bursting, and all the while that dealer
stands around and eyes the opera.
tion as intently as if the whole affair
was perfectly new and novel to him.
When your foot has finally struck bot
tom, there is faint impression on
your mind that you have stepped into
an open stove, but no removes it by
solemnly observing that he never saw
a boot ft quite as good as that. You
may suggest that your toe presses too
hard against the front, or that some Of
the bones in the side Of tho foot are
too much smashed, but he says this is
always the way with now boot, and
that the trouble will entirely disap.
pear in few days. Then you take
tho old pair under your arm and start
for homo as animated as relic Of
1872, all tho while feeling that the
world will not look bright and happy
to you again until you have Drained
that shoemaker. You limp down
town tho next day, aud smile all tho
while with your mouth, while your
eyes look rs if you were walking over
an oyster bed barefoot. When no
one is looking you kick against post
or some other obstruction, and show a
fondness for stopping and resting
against something that will sustain
yonr weight. When you get home
at night you 90 for those old boots


with an eagcrness that cannot be
described, and the remarks that your


wife has disposed Of them TO q widow


woman in tho suburbO, are calculated


to Immediately dspopulato the earth


Of women and Ehoemakcrs generally
Year: 1873

Perhaps tho greatest improvements
for facilitating tho rapid introduetion
of newspapers, since the introduction
Of the power press, Is that BY which
newspaper forms arc quickly and
cheaply storcotyed. In fact, 1t would
hardly be possible TO use either tho
Bullock or the Walter press to print
from type, as the cylinder which tho
stereotype form is made to ft % so
small that the type could not well be
held in place. Even with tho Hoo
presses, however, if it were not for the
process of stereotyping, great difficult
ty would be experienced, and was iolt
in former years, in printing mn addition
of anything more than twenty or thirty
thousand copies with sufficient rapidi-
ty to meet the demands of a daily
newspaper. To obtain and mako
ready all tho news, and have the types
set up and put in the form, requires
tho full force of editors, reporters and
compositors up to and o'clock in
the morning, Then stereotype plates
are made Of each page, for as many
presses as desired, according to the
number of copies to bc printed. If
three of the ten cylinder presses arc
to be used, by making three sets OF
plates, fifty or sixty thousand copies
can be printed per hour instead OF
only twenty thousand per hour, which
was the maximum before the intro
duction Of stereotyping.


Newspaper stereotyping was first
made successful about ten years ago.
1t must not be supposed that this was
the first successful stereotyping for
any kind of printing, as printing has
been done from plates almost as long
as types have been used but by tho
ordinary method of making sterco-
type plates from plaster ofParis molds,
the time consumed was so great as to-
render this method totally unavaila-
bic for newspaper work.
Year: 1873

A rich broker in San FraL cisco late
ly made desperate effort to prevent
his pretty daughter from marrying a
man who mendcd harness for sos a
month. The girl loved the man, and
seemed determined to go ahead with
the business Of true love. The broker
offered the harness mender 81 900 to
desert bis daughter forever The
young man refused the bribe as no
equivalent for his claim. Ho then
went to the young mans employers
to get them to discharge him. They
could not think of doing this, as he'
was q good, faithful fellow, and gave
entire satisfaction-so the old broker
didn't know what 10 do next. His
daughter helped him out of his uncer-
tainty, but plunged him into deeper
trouble than he had ever known be-
fore. She disappeared one day, and
search for her proved unavailing. In
two or three days traces of tho miss
ing girl wero found in the office Of
Justice OF the Peace. There was a.
record there of her marriage with the
faithful harness mender. The broker
draped his house 10 mourning accord
ing to the custom of bis religion, and
Of course regards his daughter as.
dead. She Immediately found place
as saleswoman in millincy store at
SIS month, and s45 and s65 make
Sll0, which is not SO bad figure after
all for a young married couple 10 cut.
1t is just tho sort of beginning that
POUNDS happy home, into which
mothers-in-law are not apt to enter
with their disturbing influences, and
fathers do not break through and steal
thcii daughters away.
Year: 1873

STRANGE BiRDs.-Australia abounds
in strange things, and particularly in
animal forms, singularly deyiating
from all other types on other conti-
nents. Among them the bird called
the cipog, mound builder, is truly
remarkable on account OF peculiar
habits and instincts. The male and
female concur in the construction. of a
mound of leaves, grass, and materials
that in their decay generate heat
They seem to know exactly when
warmth will be evolved by the chemi-
cal disintcgration. On the top they
excavate y hole, and into IL an egg is
dropped. Some Of the mounds are
twelve feet in circumference by three
in height. Each egg to the number
of eight, is srtistically lodged, and
covered with loose sand. All this is
done in the darkness of night, so that
no eye of an enemy may know where
the treasure is hidden. Both parents.
then pursue an earnest plan for secur-
ing tho propagation Of new genera
tion, with a degree of precision, skill,
and apparent knowledge of certain
natural laws that imply reasoning
faculty. Thus the eggs are incubated
without the detention of the mother
bird on the nest in climate that
would otherwise DO fatal to her
Year: 1873

BY MARIE.
There are two graves far, far apart,
And the deep sea rolls between;
Ger one they've piled the marble high,
Ger one the grass grows green.
In the one within gorgeous fame,


Lies she whom | called my bride,
Before whose feet knelt of old,


In her fathers hall of pride.
In the other behind the village church,
Where wild-fowers nod in prayer,
Is resting the shade of the purest dream,
That frightened my life of care!
But one had waves of raven hair,


Bound round with diamonds bright.
Like cIrclet Of the evening stars


Upon the brow of night.
The other had curls like threads of gold,
And a smile as faint and mild
As those which the olden artist paint,
In their dreams Of the young Christ-child.
l welded the one with stately pomp


In grand cathedral aisle,
And bells were ringing, in high church towers
i sounding chime, tho while.
l welded the other as Quakers wed,
In the forest still and deep,
When hushed were the sounds of noisy life,
And the flowers had gone to sleep.
0, blithe was my dark-haired love ween,
With the light in her bright black eye:
But dearer far was my cottage girl,
In her angel purity.
The demon wandering over earth


For the one spun out n shrOud,
And they laid her low, where wax lights glow,
IN the old cathedral proud.
The other, when holy stars shone down,
Was hearing the angels sing,
And truant seraph folded her


In the clasp of his viewless wing.
The one lies still in her far-of tomb


Where the tall wax-tapers CLEAN,
And their soft rays shine on the marble


shrine


With a fixed and ruddy beam.
But over the other the night stars swing.
When the light Of day has fed,
And the wild winds sigh her gentle name
TIL l wish that l were dead.
Year: 1873

The Platform OF the COnScrya-
tive Party.


We, the representatives ofthe ConSer-
vative people of Virginia, III COnven-
ton assembled do declare


First That Il contrast of the con-
dition of Virginia under Conservative
government with the condition of
those Southern States which have been
under I,adical rule, illustrates the
wisdom of the people of Virginia in
the adoption of their plan of State
policy, and demonstrates the necessity
of continuing the powers Of the State
in the control OF the Conservative peO-
pie of this Commonwealth.


Second That the chief purpose of
the Conservative party of Virginia is to
secure to every citizen of this Com
mOnwealth, whether native or adopted;
of the white or colored race, exact ami
impartial justice, and to promote by
wise and beneficient legislation, the
prosperity of our whole people.


Third. That the Conservative party
of Virginia. disclaiming all purposes OF
captious hostility to General Grant,
will judge him impartially by his
official action, and will cordially CO.
operate in every measure of his admin
istratiOn which may be beneticent in
its design, and calculated to promote
the welfare of the people and to culti-
vate sentiments of good will between
the Union.


Fourth, That the interests OF large
section of this Union, no less than
those of Virginia, demand the speedy
enlargement and completion OF the
great james River and Kauawha wa
ter line that should connect the wa
ters of the Ohio with those of the Ches-
apeake, affording to She teeming pops
ulation of the West cheap traEsporta-
ton of their products to the point OF
of shipment and marts of trade in the
East. The completion by the govern
ment OF this great design of George
Washington would be an additional
bond of union between the commu-
mites whose products and commo-
dities would pass over the line OF the
great national work.


Fifth. We recognize as funda-
mental political truth, that upon the
intelligence and virtues of its people
must rest the prosperity, and powers



with pride to the successful establish
ment and. d.progTess of the free school
system of Virginia. inaugurated and
conducted under circumstances of pc
culiar difficulty. for which we are
indebted TO the wisdom and zeal of a
Conservative State government. Lib
eral provision ought to be continued
for the support and retention of the
free schools for the white and cOlored
races respectively.


The resolutions were considered
seriatim.


General Early objected to the reso-
luton relative to James River and
Kanawha Canal, as ne thought it a
matter in the interest of the Great
West and entirely beyond the control
of the United States Government.


The report and resolutions OF the
committee ere carried almost unani-
mously, only one vote being cast in the
negative.
Year: 1873

81 Can Never be a Drunkard.'


In our youth we had very dear
friend who often used this expression.
He was proud Toy and a prouder
man. He was fond Of what the world
calls pleasure. and finally rushed into
the vortex that leads to ruin. Social
in his nature, ne was often
tempted at parties to take wine, and
,berated his friends who refused when
he accepted. And when, in his calm
moments, these very friends would
warn him of his danger, he would re-
ply, IL can never be a drunkard."


The habit grew upon him, and after
awhile he commenced taking his dram
regularly. Ashamed of his habit. and
fearful that his family and friends
would discover it, he used cloves and
other articles to destroy the smell of
his breath. Often demonstrated with
by watchful friends, he would deny
that he had gone to any excess.


The writer removed 10 Texas, and
returned To his old home where his
friend lived, about seventeen years af-
forwards, and the first time he saw
Lin he was down on'the sidewalk
drunk, and year afterwards he was
one morning found dead in the same
street.


Young men beware! There is not
yne in ten thousand that can always
he moderate in drinkiG. II you touch
10 all, YOU are in danger The deviiish
ingenuity of man has truly given yOu
;he means of destroying the smell OF
liquor upon the breath, but not of saw
ing you from a drunkard's fate.
Year: 1873

The late Convention at Rich
mond, adopted by the following
plan OF organization for the party
in Va. 1t is quite an Improvement
on the old one.


TIE .Stijte Committee.


!. There snail be a State Committee,
composed of three members from each
congressional district. such members
shall be appointed by the President of
the Convention on the nomination of
their respective congressional delega-
tiuns provided that such nomination
shall be made by at least majority of
such districts cOncuering; otherwise
and in default of such nomination, the
president snail make the appointments
f6r such districts,


Vacancies in any such delegation af-
ter the same shall have been formed.
shall be filled by the committee upon
the nomination of the remaining mem
bers from such district.


The State Committee thus constitu-
ted is charged with tie affairs Of the
party, and shall have power to perfect
lis organization and to direct its con-
duct in obedience to the declarations
and policy of the party as the same
shall be sent forth by this Convention.
1t may decide all questions at issue
which may arise in election districts
calculated to effect the harmony and
the interest of the party.


The state committee shall meet at
such times and places as they may
themselves determine, but especially
at such time and place as the EXecu-
tive committee may designate.


,. There shall be an Executive Com
mittce, resident at Richmond, COM
posed of three persons, TO be appointed
by the President of the Convention
and secretary to be appointed by such
committee.


This. the Executive Committee,
shall have no power to originate any
measure. 1t shall be their express
and single duty to execute and carry
out the plans Of the State Committee,
as the same shall, from time to time,
be laid down by that Committee, un-
der whose authority il shall act, and
to whose revision all the acts of this
Executive Committee shall be subject.


CITY AND COUNTY ORGANIZATION.


3. Each city and county, by popu-
lar meeting, after due notice or through
the medium of existing organizations,
may appoint q city or county committee
to. consist of two members from each
township or ward i'm each city or cOun-
ty, who shall be charged with the af
fairs and conduct of the party in such
city or county regulating and directing
the same, either by wards and town
ships or otherwise, as such committee
may prescribe.


SHch committee shall elect chair
man, whose duty it shall be TO appoint
all meetings and regulate all affairs as
to the party, which may embrace the
city or county.


In the election of delegates to any
district convention, it shall be
the duty Ofsuch committee of the city
or county to prescribe 10y public notice
whether such appointments shall be
made by ward township, city, or
county meeting, and the number of
delegates to which such ward, town
ship, city. or county shall be entitled.


ResOLUed, That all Nominations
made by COUNTIES. senatorial or cleo
ton districts. and all that may be
hereafter made by delegates already
appointed under the plan of organiza-
ton heretofore adopted. are hereby de-
clared regular and valid.