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Year: 1873

In Indiana it has been judicially de-
cided that the purchase of railway
ticket is also the purchase of a seat in
the car. Otherwise, we suppose, no
tice should be given the purchaser
that no seat could be furnished. In
this case the purchaser refused to
give up his ticket until furnished with
a seat. His request was not needed,
and it was in evidence that it could
not be complied with in consequence
OF the crowded condition of the car.
The passenger was therefore elected,
his baggage being thrown after him,
for which injury he has now recovered
$4,000.
Year: 1873

The press denunciation of the
salary grab, reminds Ben Butler of
the bowling of dogs, but he begs the
pardon of the dogs for thus associat-
ing them with the press of the coun-
try! And that is the kind of man
@e people of Massachusetts -''the
Athens of America" asked to
elect to the most honorable position
within their giftI
Year: 1873

The Athens journal relates the following
remarkable death: Mrs. Thos. Brewer,
who lived about two miles east of Zaleski,
on the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad,
was walking along the track last Monday
evening, when the fast line passenger came
along, and stepped aside to avoid the train.
The current of air which was set in motion
by the rapid moving train caught her
clothing, drawing her toward the cars, and
stepping upon a pebble she stumbled, fall
ing so that her head struck the iron railing
of the rear car, fracturing her skull near
the temple, and causing her death in about
an hour after. She was about thirty five
years of age.
Year: 1873

HAIR SNAKEs.-I have noticed good
deal said in the Rural about d" Hair Snakes"
would like to give my experience in the
matter II was walking one warm day with
friend beside brook STOPPING down for
something, noticed the water in spots
seemed alive with what looked like minute
snakes, and they were squirming around
lively enough. | called to my companion,
who looked at them; as we had seen moth
ing like it before, we went to the house for
information and were told we had seen
Hair Snakes" made from hair falling off
the cattle in drinking at the brook My
friend insisted it couldn't be, but if hairs
ever did turn to snakes, she was bound to
know just how it was done. She pulled
number of short hairs from her head, put
them in saucer of water and placed the
saucer on high shelf out of the way. A
few days afterwards, as l was passing her
house, | was called in to "look," and what
do you think? Every hair was rushing
around and across that saucer, putting one
in mind of flock of young ducks, some hot
day. in pursuit of swarm ofhies. A great
many examined the creatures; !" they SEEM
ed as perfectly formed as any snakes, the
roots of the hair looking like heads. My
friend could tell nothing Of how it was done,
she had come that morning as usual to take
peep into the saucer, when she found in it
snakes instead Of hairs, as she had expected
to. Now this is fact; no living person
knew of the experiment but we two, for
fear of ridicule, till it was tried, in case she
failed.--Rurd Ne,c Yorker.
Year: 1873

REMARKABLE CUREs.-By working on tne
imagination, many cures which have baiiied
the skill of the most scientific physician have
been effected by some ignorant quack, some
boastng charlatan. Even under peculiar
circumstances the genuine medical man re-
sorts to artifice He administers some inert
article-a bread pill, for instance-and trusts
to the workings of imagination to eject
cure. Now, we have heard a very singular
and amusing circumstance connected with
this. A lady had been treated for some
time by doctor for q nervous disorder.
She did not, in her own estimation, improve,
and she wished the doctor to give her more
medicine; but he advised her to the contra
ry, and would not prescribe for her. Sill,
she insisted that something more must be
done for her, and was about sending off for
quack, when the physician, learning her de-
termination, adopted the following course.
He told her that he had just thought of a
remedy which had never failed in curing a
disease like hers He gave her an oddly-
shaped VIAL with directions that she was to
smell it at certain hours. To bring her imap
ination into play, he told her that the first
day she would have a headache the second
day, an itching about the breast and on the
third day would be perfectly we'll On each
day she complained Of the effects he describ-
ed, said the remedy operated precisely as he
had stated, and that she was getting much
better. On the third day she declared her
self perfectly we'll This is certainly a very
remarkable circumstance but it is true,
nevertheless.


But there is more extraordinary one on
record OF the imagination curing the most
fatal disease. During the siege of Breda in
Holland in 1925, when the garrison was on
the point of surrendering to the enemy on
account Of the ravages of the scurvy, the
Prince of Orange ordered few bottles of
sham medicine to be carried into the fortress
and distributed among the scorbutics. 1t
was stated to be an infalIible specific, most
valuable, and that one or two drops could
effect cure. 1t was then shared among the
soldiers in doses of few drops Those who
had not moved their limbs for months were
seen walking in the streets, sound, straight
and whole. Many who declared they had
been rendered worse by other remedies re-
covered in few days.-Io-day
Year: 1873

bottom, that he is not only carried along
the six hundred feet of this icy level below,
but clean up to the top of a second ice-hiil
like the first, with another slope on the
other side, down which he skeels with
the same rapidity as before and away
away again to an equal distance on the level
below. A succession of these fair-goers,
fur-mantled, seated in their sliding trays,
balancing themselves as they cut along, one
close upon another, yet no chance of over
taking each other unless by some very un-
lucky and very unusual upset., presents
most peculiar and extraordinary scene.
Whenever the balance does happen to be
lost by man, down he goes all the same, to
the continual peril of his limbs or his neck,
and it is impossible to predict whereabouts
his headlong career will be stopped. Boys
sometimes will do any thing-by
way of delightful increase of the danger,
skate like fash down the bright inclined
plane, balancing themselves on one legl-
Hwper's Magazine.
Year: 1873

How w HITTER FIRST BECAME KNOWN
How William Lloyd Garrison came to find
out, forty years ago, John G.. Whittier,
and how Whittier's poetical career was de-
veloped, is thus narrated by a gentleman
who knows the facts:


Mr.. Garrison was then editing a weekly
paper in his native town of Newburyport,
and the other was at work on his fathers
larm in East Haverhill, and was unknown
beyond the limits of an obscure village.
One morning Mr.. Garrison picked from the
floor of his office entry poetical effusion,
written on coarse paper with blue ink
Thinking, at first sight, that it was a COM
mon doggerel, he was about to consgn it to
his waste-basket, but on reading it he found
it to be poetry of more than ordinary merit.
1t was published in the Free Press, and
was followed 10y other pieces of still great
er merit. Anxious to know the author of
these unknown contributions, Mr.. Garri-
son made inquiries of the post.rder, who
informed him that every week he left
parcel of papers with boy at a farm
house in East Haverhi. Mr.. Garrison
at once rode to this secluded locality,
which has since become SO well known to
the readers of "Snow Bound" where he
found the youthful poet, bashful boy, at
work with his father, who, though a man
of excellent sense, and degree of intelli-
gence which made him a sort of oracle among
his neighbors, was decidedly unitarian in his
views, and was anything but pleased with
the literary labor of his son. Mr. Garrison
earnestly entreated him to place no restraint
upon the poetfcal tendencies of the gifted
boy who stood before him, little dreaming
that he would be an efficient co-laborer in
the work to which he was about consecra-
Grating long years of his life, and that the
youth would live to celebrate in immortal
verse the downfall of American slavery
Year: 1873

CONTACT WITH MES-The man who does
not 90 out among his fellowmen enough to
permit the rains and the dews of sympathy
to fall upon him, is predestined to hope
less dryness; and dryness is generally caus-
ed by the want of variety and newness in
the application of truth. A thousand times
better be personal than to run to the other
extreme Of perpetually hitting at the Phari-
Sees They have been killed million times
before Here was the great power of our
earlier ministry. 1t was neither distinguish
ed by learning nor adorned by elegance, but
it struck home with an affectionate, manly
earnestness to the personal, present life Of
their hearers. And, to-day, while we lack
not the old truths, we need newness in indi-
viduality, in Illustration, and application.
Year: 1873

Your cosy crib is in the corner yet;


l sit and watch it, as the day is dead.
You cannot press again, my vanished pet,


Its pi low with your drowsy, golden head
You cannot reach plump arms to get my kiss,


Or dart about with rosy, naked feet,
Babbling soft syllables Of that and this,


A tiny, night-gowned fairy, blithe and sweet
Once and for all you have lain down to rest,


Not to rise up because of birds or beams, =
Once for all, with white flowers on your breast,
To slumber coldly and to dream no dreams.
Empty the home where, frolicsome and fair,


Your precious presence made so bright part
Empty your little crib, your clothes, your chair,
But emptiest of all your mothers heart
Year: 1873

FROM the Port Jervis IN. ~ Gazette.1


The manager OF the NRw YORK HERALD IL Ger
tainly possessed OF vim and enterprise. Not coz
tent with having sent On expedition TO md Living
stone, this busy y-body HERALD Is now going to send
out an expedition TO discover the North Pole. We
are not very positive as to StanIey's veracity
regarding Livingstone, but if the HERALD and
stanley told the truth in that matter we are free
TO admit that we believe that journal will be the
means Of discovering this long looked for Mecca Of
modern explorers. At any rate, whether the ex-
petition Is successful or not, Its protector deserve
the hearty goodwill Of every person Interested In
science, for the expedition will not return witnsst
acquiring some Information that will be valuable
even though said information be no more than y
knowledge OF the folly OF attempting further cx-
ploraiions In that direction. At any rate. the
Gazette gives tho HERALD Arctic expedition =
uearty Gga sgeea. Aaa yahes y success.
Year: 1873

The TEMPLEroN TRAGEDY. time it is
. wife, in good circumstances and moving in
the best society, who is shot by her husband
in the open street in broad daylight. Mrs.
Templeton, who is daughter Of General Bab-
cock, lived unhappily with or had only recently
separated from her husband He shoots
her in his anger and disappointment. The
crime, though exceedingly base and cowardly,
differs only from many others which were
recently committed in the social standing of
the criminal and his victim. 1t is another and
. most painful evidence of the depravity
which underlies our social system 1t is vain
to preach sermons on assassinations of this
kind except through stern and severe punish
ment There is no possible excuse or pallia-
tion for an offender base enough to assassinate
o woman in the street, and the offence is all
the more damning when the victim is the
assassin's wife.
Year: 1873

A serious blow TO the projected cxplors.
ton in 1874 of the North Polar region il
the famine in Greenland, caused by the fail
ure of the seal and whale fisheries. Wo
learn from despatch in yesterday 8 HERALD
that the inhabitants of one entire vii
lage. consisting of one hundred and
fifty persons, was swept away by star
vation. AS any expedition which goes
to the Arctic Circle with an honest in
tention of reaching the Pole must depend
upon hourishing bases Of operation, whore
supplies can be deposited and drawn from,
this disastrous failure of the fisheries will fall
like wet blanket on those ardent geograph-
ers who hoped that the spring of 1875 might
find the great geographical problem solved.
There has been amazing activity among the
learned societies Of Europe to induce the gov
ernments to fit out creditable and co-operat-
ing fleets to take up the highway left by
Captain hall at latitude eighty-two degrees
sixteen minutes, and follow it out until the
Pole should be reached. We hope that the
Danish authorities will not permit their settle
ments TO languish. because it is Of interna-
tonal importance that they should be maiA-
tanned until we know more tabout that
mysterious region Of ice and night of over
twenty-four hundred miles in diameter.
Year: 1873

vIcToR EMMANUEL FROM THE Throne
''Order and safety" Victor Emmanuel told the
Italian Parliament yesterday, were the two
indispensable conditions of industry and prog
ress. He thought that Rome might become
the capital without encroaching upon the in
dependence Of the Pope or the exercise of
the spiritual functions and relations of the
Catholic world. He would respect the Pope's
religious sentiments and liberty, but be would
not permit attacks on the nation and her in
sntuuons. We are inclined to the belief that
the Italian government has been unneces-
sarily harsh oftentimes in dealing with the
Papal question, and has hastily and often
unjustly disposed Of questions. and in a
manner calculated to produce bitterness which
might have been avoided by more prudential
policy. But, taken all in all, Italy is rising
star, and her King may be proud Of his life
time's work,
Year: 1873

The FRENCH ASSEMBLY ON THE PREsrDEN-
1TAL TERM OF OFFICE The Prolongation
Committee Of the French Assembly has re-
ported to the legislative body on the subject
which was referred for its consideration, the
propriety of prolonging President Mac
Mahon's term Of Office, and the period of time
to which it should be extended, five or ten
years. The sitting Of the Assembly yesterday
was excited during the early part of the day,
and an adjournment to the evening was voted
amid scene which approached very nearly to
tumult The committee appears to have been
cautious in its consideration of the case and
conservative in its resolve and expression.
The report, which was presented at the even
ing session, goes to show that a prolonged
personal Presidency, in the absence of organic
laws, assumes the appearance of disguised
dictatorship. 1t conjures the French con-
servatives to help in founding the Republic,
now that the monarchist schemes have
failed, and concludes with the assertion that
lit is impossible TO grant President MacMahon
more than five years power" The report
will come up for Assembly debate on Monday.
Paris remains excited in the meantime. and
the intervening moments will be moments Of
vast importance to the French nation.
Year: 1873

Every one who has the slightest familiarity
with the history of accidents throughout the
past year will join with US in the profound
hope that this latest calamity at Harlem will
not be classed among those which led to no
good result No one who has average intelli-
gence and humanity will fail to wish that the
party ultimately responsible will be found.
and that punishment adequate to his
crime will be inflicted. One or two i'm
portant developments have already taken
place. Among these is the arrest of one of
the contractors, and the probability Of the fact
that regularly licensed engineer, some days
before the explosion occurred, called the
attention of responsible party to the equivo-
cal condition Of the boiler. Such accidents
are sins against humanity quite as enormous,
just as worthy OF punishment as any Of the
offences forbidden in the Decalogue. They
are crimes growing out of the venaity Of
men whose indifference to the calls
of natural feeling renders them un-
worthy to be placed in the category
Of humanity. If fearless and impartial
investigation is not made, if heavy punish
ment is not permitted to fall, no matter whom
it may strike, these accidents will go on re-
peating themselves until some general and
vast calamity shall wrench society to its lowest
bottom and the law is remedied as with the
throes Of convulsion. The material from
which such offences are manufactured does
not abound along the upper section Of Fourth
avenue alone It would be difficult not to
mention quarter Of the city which some time
during the past twelvemonth might not easily
have become the scene Of just such an out
rage. If steam threatens to kill its thousands,
nitro-glycerine threatens to kill it's tens Of
thousands, The perils from blasting are
numerous and frequent and passengers in
more than one line Of cars give authentic
accounts Of showers Of stones and heavy
masses Of earth, caused by criminally con-
Quoted processes in blasting, and spreading
terror, confusion, and not unfrequently acci-
dent and death. We repeat that unless severe
punishment is inflicted in the proper quarter
there will soon be scarcely such thing as the
probability Of mans leaving his house in
the morning and returning alive or un-
wounded
Year: 1873

The SHIPPING Act AND THE SEAMHN-
sailors made their demonstration yesterday,
with the intention Of strengthening by show
Of numbers their application to Congress for
repeal OF the Shipping act The procession
was a fair one and while it may have con-
tained many who have an improper interest
in the proposed repeal and who are not such
good friends of poor Jack as they profess to
be, there were no doubt some sailors in the
ranks who feel the oppressive character Of
certain of the provisions of the law. 1t is
unfortunate that an act, which is designed to
be protection to the sailor from the harpies
who are always ready to prey upon him,
should in some of its provisions, or in its
practical operation, infict hardships upon the
class 1t is meant to serve. The sailors have
too long been the victims Of unlicensed
ruffians; they should not be subjected now
10 official oppression. The present law should
be amended so az to remove its Objectionable
features; but its repeal would leave the sea-
men without any protection, subject to the
notorious rascAlity of the worst ruffans in the
city
Year: 1873

uphold the honor and dignity or the Spanish name.
can without the hot blood OF shame rushing 10 his
have shipped or TO spain the FIRST author
ity in the land, the representative OF the
OF reform; that they have prevented the lul-
filment OF Senior Moret's act, which had been
passed by the Cortes OF the spanish nation. and
victims in cold blood With what dignity can IL be
said that after these acts, which are dif1cut TO
conceive in this nineteenth century that the Hs-
vana volunteers defend the interests OF Spanr


The man who, with his fellow republicans,
thus protested under the reign of Amadeus is
among the leaders of Spain to-day. Their
words have not been forgotten in Havana,
and from behind the bayonets of the
volunteers the slave owners scof at
the hampered government Of CASTELAR,.
When the orders from Madrid have been,
even in the present case, set at naught,
what chances are there that the brutal volun-
teers will obey the order to repair what they
have so systematically done2 Once more we
ask whether the vain ways Of di-
plomacy are to be made the media
through which the juggling Spanish fiends
shall be permitted to ''palter with Us in .
double sense" The fact that some lives are
yet in jeopardy should forbid it. What is due
to the nation from the insult to its
dag, and what extent the punishment
for the murders already committed must
reach, is, we believe, in the hands Of
Congress by the law, but we have laid down
clearly what the Executive is competent to
command by virtue OF his Office We have
left out of mind the fact that the sympathy
Of civilization is with us in all we may do to
wash the island Of Cuba clean from its Span
ish butchers, for in this matter the American
people must rest the consciousness Of recti-
tude in the approval of their own souls.
Year: 1873

LET Us HAVE PEACE "A short time ago the
particulars Of an outrage alleged to have been
committed by negroes in Grant parish, La,
were published in the press, but it was hoped
that the statement was hoax. The details
were too revolving for belief and the whole
story was denied by the so-called government
Of the State. We now have the sequel in a
few lines from New Orleans Seven OF the
nine negroes who were implicated in the
outrage have been killed by citizens SO the
irrepressible contest goes on, and so we receive
illustration after illustration Of the advantages
Of such popular government as federal bay
onets have forced on the people Of Louisiana
Year: 1873

How THE PooE ARE LODGED IN THE STA
TIos HOUSES We desire to call attention to
an article in another column showing how
the poor who require nights lodging are
accommodated in our station houses There
seems TO be unnecessary hardship exercised
by the police in disposing of these night
'vagrants, whose only crime is poverty, and
we trust the Police Commissioners will insti-
tute inquiries that shall lead to some salutary
reform in this connection.
Year: 1873

The CoSsrrTUTIoNALITY or THE poLIcp
JUSTICE LAW WAS discussed at the Special Ses-
sions yesterday by the new justices and the
counsel Of prisoners who refused to plead to
the charges made against them on the ground
that the Court AZ at present constituted is not
legal tribunal The sooner the constitutional
question is settled the better will II he for the
dignity aud the security Of justice.
Year: 1873

The Panic, the Opera and the Theatres.


He who when the year is concluded, under
takes the task of summarizing its peculiar
cerned, will not find that the influence Of the
panic has been as disastrously felt in these
quarters as he would at first be disposed to
imagine. Doubtless there have been some poor
houses, and possibly the lowering of the prices
at most of the places Of public amusement
has not been quite SO generously responded to
as sanguine managers hoped. But the fact
remains that as a rule the theatres have not
done badly during the last few weeks. The
people who complained of tight times and
high prices could not forget that man was
made not only to grumble, but also to be
amused, and that the theatre offered one of
the cheapest and least Objectionable means.
The same assertions can be made with equal
truth in regard to the opera. When the
heavy shadows Of the financial cloud
were first felt there we're those who
predicted total collapse for both
of the impresarii. The tactics pursued by
these rival managers differed widely. The
one adopted sort of guerilla warfare, pop-
ping down upon us at unexpected times and
places, and suddenly breaking out again when
everybody thought he had permanently with
drawn The other is now ambling not un-
prosperously through the last evenings of his
ten weeks season, wisely reserving the best
things until the last We are glad that ad-
versity has not swamped either enterprise
not because we are disposed to sympathize
sentimentally with individual successes, but
because the preservation Of the prosperity
proves that the cloud is not so dark as the
Jeremiahs foretold. Even while we write
news comes to us Of the opening Of two new
theatres-that of Mr. Daily at Twenty-eichth
street and Broadway, and that of Mr.. William
Stuart at Broadway and Twenty second street


The public's intimate experience of both these
gentlemen, and Of Mr.. Boucicault, who is to
be Mr.. Stuarts coadjutor, renders it unnec-
essary for us to allude in detail to the policy
to be pursued by each. All we can add is
that the encouragement already given to the
theatres and operas during q season of
financial depression warrants the expectation
that neither Of these enterprises will be
near or q remote failure.