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Year: 1875

Anna Cornett, young girl of more than
ordinarily prepossessing appearance. resid-
ing ia Plainfeld, n j., was placed at the
bar If the Union County Court On Tuesday,
to answer to charge Of burg glary. Ii ap-
peared that the charge preferred 10y neigh
Dor Of the Cornett-, grew out OF some spite
between the families. On the stand the
young girl toll her story in suet an artless,
honest and winning way that verdict Of
not guilty WAS rendered by the jury without
leaving their seats. The audience burst into
applause which the judge could not stop.
Hats were swung and the floor stamped
wildly. While the judge was about to dis
charge the prisoner she sprang upon the
bench, threw her arms around his neck and
kiss. him repeatedly This was signal
Tor snothar outbnr~t of popular sympathy,
whiei, it took considerable effort to stop.
Year: 1875

rumbling from the Choctaw's bowels. AZ


ter the confusion of the first moment, Muir


ply succeeded admirably in catching every
infection of the Indian voice, and when
Murphy read his notes to an interpreter, so
clear were they taken that the Interpreter,
was able to easily translate them so that the
report thus made corresponded with tho
official Interpretation.


Taere are sad. cynical people who believe
IN nothing that never happended before,
who say that Murphy thada combination
with the interpreter to sell his friend, but
this story is rejected with scorn BY the trust
ing people who have confidence in the sub
lime Advancement of the noble art of phono-
graphy.
Year: 1875

The act to provide for a national currency,
known as the national banking law, also
provides a penalty for the taking of usury,
which Is much less severe than that, of
New York, and more than that of YER
mont. Ii IS 10 the effect that in note or
bill oi exchange involving an agreement to
pay usurious interest, the borrower may re-
fuse to pay the interest when due, or, if the
usury has been paid in advance. then double
the amount of interest so paid may be re-
covered in an action brought for that pur-
pose. Under this law, one Of the Buffalo
banks had discounted note for one Drew,
charging and dedueting rate Of interest in
excess Of that allowed by law. Upon the
maturity of the note, he refused payment,
whereupon suit for the recovery of the
amount was brought in the State conrts Of
New York, and under the State aw-. a judg-
ment rendered for the defendant, the court
holding that, on account Of the usury, both
the principal and interest of the note were
forfeited. The case was then taken, by ap-
peal, to the supreme court Of the United
States, and Il decision rendered IN favor
Of the bank for the amount Of the
PRINCIPAL Of the note. The court held
that in the matter of losning money and the
taking % interest, national banks were solely
governed by the laws Of the United States,
the former being paramount tO the latter.
Year: 1875

ANSWERING l.ErrERs.-A great many
people in this country are sI,amefnlly
negligent about answering their let
tcrs. Nothing is more annoying.
In European countries it is regarded
as the height of ill-b:ceding to allow a
letter which needs reply to go unan-
~wrnd, and ST. it ought to be consid-
cred here. This is a point on which
parents should lay great stress to their
children. They should be taught to
consider it as rude not to reply to
letter which needs attention as to
hand fork with the prong end. The
busiest people are generally those who
are the most exact in this respect.
The late Duke of Wellington, who, it
will he admitted, had good deal on
his hands at different times Of his life.
replied to every letter, no matter from
how humble source. Once a clergy
man, who lived in distant part Of
the kingdom, wrote to his Grace, on
when neither ne nor his parish had
shadow of claim, to beg for sub
scription to rebuild church. By re-
turn of mail came back letter from
the Duke to the effect that he really
could not see why in the world he
should have been applied to for such
an object; but the parson sold the
letter as autograph for Sc, and put
the Duke down for that amount
among the subscribers Detroit Free
Press.
Year: 1875

gave the best efforts of my life. From my
poverty to my prosperity felt 1t duty to
fight his battles, because he was powerless to
fight his own. He was down, ground down.
by the iron heel of q social system whose lep-
rous influence spread like sitting pail over
the whole world, and when once thoroughly
realizing the terrible wretehedness of his
oppression, I consecrated my life to the
cause of the total and permanent abo-
lition Of human slavery throughout the
world. AS long as lived that conservation
was sacred. As long as lived I employed
my every talent in this most righteous cause.
My heart was the champion of freedom: my
journal was the exponent Of human liberty;
my life was given to the work, and. when death
checked this career my last wish was that the
Tribune should continue to stand upon the
firm and uncompromising ground that man.
kind was not created for bondage. This wish
has not been gratihed. You have sacrificed
the slave for policy. You have suffered the
existence of inhumanity to appease a morbid
desire to oppose an administration. You have
attempted to satiate an avaricious desire by
bartering the influence of my psptr for the
glitter of filthy lucre. You have aided and
abetted the master in Cuba in his barbarity to
his serf by courting Spanish favor through its
columns. You have sold its body to the devil
and its influence to hell, and may 4 gracious
and pitying Heaven have mercy on your
pinched and paltry SOUL" which last words
found Whitelaw sitting in an upright position
in bed, clutching the coverlid as a drowning
man clutches a straw.
Year: 1875

SIMMONS, the collector of the port of
Boston, is an excellent officer. No one
denies that. When he was appointed,
? however, the President was sssailed by the
Opposition because 1t was asserted that he
was a follower or supporter of General
Butler Now comes Mr.. Charles B.
Gnawdhoff, of Southern romancing noto.
riety, and claims that it was the Methodist
Church, and not General Butler, which got
Simmons his place. The reason for this is
plain. The General is temporarily out of
politics, and the Opposition is determined,
if possible, to get the Methodist Church
temporarily into politics. We will not stop
to discuss the comparative loss or gain to
the public by this attempted substitution
of Church for General; but we cannot
refrain from the remark that the enemies
of the Administration would be as apt to
assail cne as the other, or anything else for
that matter, if by so doing they imagined
they could injure the President.
Year: 1875

A SPECIES of red granite has been dis
covered near the st. Cloud river, il Min
nesota, which IS said by competent judges
to be equal, if not superior, to the famous
Scotch granite of Aberdeen. Within three
fourtbs OF q mile of railroad transportation,
it covers an area of about eight acres.
rising TO o height of fifty feet from its
base, is very besutiful in color and tex
ture, and is now being developed by
this company, Red and white granite lie
side by side, and blocks of immense size
have been quarried with great facility. 1t
is cheaply quarried, is cut and dressed as
easily and rapidly as the Eastern granite,
susceptible of a perfect polish and marvel
ously beautiful when polished. We can
see no impediment to its ultimate adoption
for building our public edifces. CutIor in
the rough stone it would be inexpensive,
durable and decidedly attractive. Mime
sofa, already rich in her grain, lumber,
iron, copper and silver, adds another valu-
able industry to her revenue list, and in
time will take rank among the wealthiest
States of the Union.
Year: 1875

THE New York Tribune hopes that Con-
gress will keep its hands of the st. Louis
whisky csses until after they have passed
through the crucible of judicial trial. This
hope will hardly be realized. The Demo
Gratis in the House are 50 anxious to begin
to throw mud that they will undoubtedly
begin to investigate everything as soon as
possible, even at the risk of making public
a great deal of information which should
be concealed from the members of the ring.
In other words, the Democrats are not so
anxious to subserve the ends of justice as
they are to iDjure the Republican party by
making out a partisan committee or &C
Parte case against certain members of that
organization.
Year: 1875

IT MAY BE as well to remember at all
times in the discussion of the Cuban ques-
ton that other nations than the United
States have claims against Spain for dam
ages TO the property Of their citizens on
that island. This fact seems to indicate
that il the event of the United States at
tempting to effect an adjustment of the
unfortunate difficulties which now exist
between the Government of Spain and the
Islanders they will be supported by other
great Powers.
Year: 1875

THE New York Sun has discovered that
Speaker Kerr appointed subsidy Com
mlttee on Pacific Railroads Sin the face of
literal anti-subsidy instructions from the
"whole House" Thereupon it denounces
him for not subordinating his private senti-
ment to the prevailing sentiment of the
House. In this the Sun betrays its ignor-
ance of the peculiarities of the House, par
ticularly now that it is under Democratic
control. One OF those peculiarities is to
promise at the beginning of each session to
do and not to do anything and everything
that is good, bad or Indifferent, and then
to proceed to do just as the majority may
please thereafter. Mr. Speaker Kerr has
had great experience in pursuing this
Year: 1875

Saturday morning next VIC shall publish
list of those who will receive their friends
New Years Day. This list will include
only those names we are authorized in
writing TO publish, and will be kept open
till 1s O'Clock Friday night. Great pains
and care will be taken on our part to make
it complete and satisfactory, and it will
certainly be the largest.
Year: 1875

The tramp is one OF the component parts of
the genus hoodlum of California. He is the
principal constituents man with all the fail
ings of a robber, ravisher, sneak thief, ineen.
diary and general nuisance. The State is
overrun with them. The blasts of winter have
driven them suddenly from the Northeast, and
like herd of wandering cattle they have filled
up the vacant places of the Golden State
caused by the exodus of the innumerable cara
van Of speculative hunters who have hereto
fore overrun that section Of the Union in search
of the almighty dollar. They are there, and
in the halmy atmosphere of that sunny cline
they find so much comfort that they refuse to
migrate. For the past two months the State
has suffered more from this particular pest
than during whole years before. A lone man
wandering in the country is sure to be pounced
upon by the human hyenas, robbed, and in
case Of profered resistance, murdered. Women
are not safe anywhere without an escort, and
If perchsuce, by negligence, farmer forgets
to bar his cellar door the tramp is GER
tain TO discover the fact and profit by it.
The truth is, this pcstilence, and lit can be
Justly characterized as SUCH has become
SO general that measures are being taken
to secure some kind of punishment to these
men that will be more summary and effective
than the simple operation of the law in fine
and imprisonment. II is proposed to make it
justifable assault and battery to fog these
men wherever found without waiting for the
slow process of law. Whipping posts are to
be established, or rather any thing in the
country of sufficient strength and stability is
to be common property to all as a whipping
post. If tramp is discovered suspiciously
lettering in the neighborhood of granary
the ewner Of the property has the right to cap
ture him, bind him to fence, stake, tree, stump,
or anything else convenient, aud administer
the lash without incurring any risk of q legal
process. Wherever the trampis found he is
liable to be captured and without trial pun
ished in this summary way. By this process
it is believed that the constituent part of
hoodlumism found in the person of tramp
win so be abolished.


Whitelaw Reid had laid away his velvet
jacket, hung up his striped pants, and was
snugly slowed away in his couch, firmly en-
braced by the arms of Morpheus, when g
vision came to him in his slumbers. He may
have been partly sleeping or sound asleep, but
the vision was vivid one at least. Horace
Greeley stood before him, with his old white
hat in one hand, while the other rested lightly
on the shoulder of Cuban slave manacled,
and bearing the lacerated marks of the mas
ter's lash. iThis," said Mr.. Greeley, looking
at the bondsman, sis human being, born
of the flesh and blood, having a soul, and pos
sessing the inalienable rights which belong to
every mortal creation of God. For such as he
Year: 1875

A boy that will spend two dollars out of a
Centennial fund of five dollars for skates, must
not expect much sympathy next Fourth of
July because his financial supply is not equal
to the fire-cracker and torpedo demand.
Year: 1875

For the past four years the Liberals and
Independents have been playing into the hands
of the Democracy, and now that the latter has
a brief authority in the House, it completely
ignores the claims of either Of these parties.
How long will they submit to such discourtesy
and disrespect?
Year: 1875

The finance committee OF the city
council resolved, last evening, to receive
ninety thousand dollars Of the police and
fire scrip, lately issued in payment OF
merchants taxes due in November, and
as an inducement for prompt payment
of tine same to allow one and half per
cent. for each month in advance OF the
period when the tax is due. The effect
of this will be to increase the demand
for scrip and increase its price.


The above appeared in the Avalanche
OF yesterday, and, as the closing SEN
tence states, was no doubt honestly in
tended TO increase the price at which
police and fire scrip has been ruling the
past few days. But, Of course, it fell
short OF its mark. At the close Of the
day yesterday the rates were unchanged,
the price being seventy-fve cents buying
and eighty cents selling. Perhaps the
communication Of City-Attorney Han
son had the effect of q counter-irritant to
this paragraph, and so operated to bar
any increase in the price Of the much
disputed scrip. But this is mere per-
haps. For ourselves, We don't think it
had any effect. So loose, disjointed,
rambling q Letter could not affect even
an infant in the financial world. Cen
tlemen who deal in money are usually
very shrewd and deal in fsc.s, Lot
Euesses or hap-hszard statements, ,.or
what careless people call ground mum.
bers." They generally call for exact
figures, such, for instance, as We give
this morning, furnished by the comp
troIler-fgures which that official says
he will swear by. No, We don't think
the city attorneys letter had the weight
Of q feather on Madison street


Therefore the cause Of the continued dis
gusting condition Of scrip lies in
the dislike people have to 1t. They
know, as the APPEAL has said
time and again, that it was scrip issues
that male our city debt what it is, and
they don't want to encourage that sort
OF business. They know that if there is
any discount Of scrip it must come out
of the polieeman's pocket, who at sew
enty-five dollars per month, is poorly
enough paid without reducing it by the
exaction Of even one per cent. We are
unaIterably opposed to this scrip issue
being put upon the market by the
policemen. II scrip must be is.
sued, aud We are assured there
is no help for it, We suggest that
it would be better for the city TO
negotiate the whole amount issued,
month by month, as money is needed
10 pay the police and fremen, and bear
the loss in discount herself, paying those
worthy employees cent for cent. We
Year: 1875

believe that the finance committee can
make such an arrangement. The banks
are well disposed toward the city, and
will doubtless willingly take scrip that
is, by the seventy-third section Of the
new charter (under which it is i=suedJr
receivable for licenses and tax On me-
chants privileges and PeddleEs, especial
ly when they learn that on the tenth Of
January next one year Of such taxes
will be due and payable. This would be
a much more dignified transaction than
the present mode Of peddling the scrip
TO Tom, Dick and Harry, and is more
becoming a great corporation. Besides,
il would secure the police aud Ggemen
in their full dues, aud would keep the
scrip out OF the market, and so prevent
daily price being put upon the city %
credit in a disTeputsble way.
Year: 1875

appointed, which committee made report
and Republican members thereof made a mi
A3rity report. All these were conclusive
facts; but they were omitted by Gen. Sheri-
dan. No matter whether Gen. Sheridan was
lawyer or not, it was his duty to tell the
whole truth. He knew when he wrote those
kilograms that the Senate was in the midst
Of heated debate on the subject. He knew
the resolutions calling for information would
pass, and that his kilograms would form
part Of that Information. Why, then, twere
these facts left out? Gen. Sheridan said the
request to restore order was reasonable, and
in accordance with law. He tThurman) did
not know in accordance with what law, IN
less il was the law that Gen. Sheridan wanted
to allow him TO hang men.


He commented at some length on the tele-
grams of Gen. Sheridan, and said he would
like to know where the law was for placing
the military under the Governor OF State.
The whole truth was, his military interference
took place for the purpose of usurping the
Government Of Louisiana, just as it was
usurped two years ago.


Mr.. Thurman said if as many murders had
been committed in Louisiana since 1866 as
was stated by Gen. Sheridan, it showed that
the administration Of the Republican party in
that State had bcen a failure and it was time
TO let some other party try. Why was it that
the party had applied no remedy for all these
troubles? 1t had been in possession since the
State was reconstructed.


In conclusion he said: "If outrages did
exist, they were to be deplored; but there
was something still more deplorable than out
RACES. When an attempt was made TO over
throw the free institutions of the American
people, an evil was perpetrated which could
have no parallel. The people of this country
were not accustomed to see the military place
itself above the civil power. 1t was a bad
thing to assassinate man, but worse act
10 assassinate the Constitution of State.
These acts of the military in Louisiana have
driven dagger to the heart of free institu-
tions III til is country"
Year: 1875

Is it better to keep house or board?
is question which is raised every day
in society. Let anyone consider the
facts, and judge accordingly. In keep
ing house ones actual expenses are pos
sibly fourth greater than when board
ing. This difference in expenditure,
however, is balanced by the pleasure
and incalculable benefits connected with
housekeeping. There is, in the first
place, privacy and quiet. One avoids
the scrutiny of scandal-mongers and the
gaze of gossips. The wife escapes the
communicating influences of boarding
house surroundings, and finds pleasant
occupation in daily house superintend-
ence. This is source both of physical
and moral health. The result is energy
rather than eranui, and lively interest
in other things than the petty trifies
which would otherwise absorb the at
tention The home is permanent, and
hence becomes basis for accommodating
for the future. The boarding house is a
wayside stopping place, and leads to un-
rest and waste of energy. The very
aspect of the two places shows their
vital difference, and is in favor of the
home. In conclusion, housekeeping, with
all its trials and tiiscomforts, is infinitely
superior to boarding, and the difference
in the cost is not to be considered in
comparison with the difference in bene-
fits-IKs Housekeeper.
Year: 1875

| KNOW not VII at the day may bring


cf sorrow or Of sweetness,
/ only know that God must give


Its measure OF completeness;
| reach for wisdom in the dark,


And God fills up the measure
Sometimes with tears, sometimes with cares


Sometimes with peace and pleasure.
From hours Of grief and saddened face


True wealth of heart | borrow,
And heavenly wisdom oftenest comes


Clad in the guise of sorrow;
know not which is best for me


OF all His mercy bringeth,
know His praises every day


My willing spirit sipgeth.
| know not what my life may Weld


Oh fruit that viii not perish,
l know God gives both seed and SOIL


And all the growth must cherish
How great His work. How small my part


/ wonder at my weakness,
And Ills great patience fills my heart


With gratitude and meekness.
know not what e'en Heaven can give


To blessed souls who gain it;
| know Gods goodness it must show,


For earth cannot contain it.
And if Eternity but rings


With love the same sweet story
That earth is telling every day
" Thine, Lord, shall be the glory.
Belle w. Cook, IN ". J. Indepeaas7.t.
Year: 1875

AS a Louisville girl was taking leave
of gentleman at her fathers house one
evening recently she said to him: "If
you ever hear that am in the habit of
allowing my male acquaintance 10 kiss
me good-by you mustn't believe it, as
seldom allow such liberties" The close
of that interview may be imagined.
Year: 1875

Jarves, the art writer, pronounces tobac-
co the active agent in the decline OF fine
manners in Europe. Whatever the bene-
Git or the harm the use of tobacco may do
the consumers body, its common tendency
is to render the mind indifferent to the
well-being of his neighbors. The supreme
test of the virtue of the knight in the
days of chivalry, which was the highest
ideal of fine manners, was his selfdenial
and desire to succor tho oppressed. The
severest test Of the moiern gentleman is
his willingness to forego his pipe for the
comfort and health of another. It takes
thoroughly well-brcd man to withstand
this form Of self f-indulgence when it can
only be practiced to the annoyance of an
other. Germans are the worst examples
of bad manners in this respect, for it never
seems to enter into their comprehension,
however courteous and willing to oblige in
other matters, that what is q sensual hap
piness to them may tc absolute misery to
another. Frenchncn are rapidly losing
their proverbial politcness also by this spe-
cies Of self Indulgence. Englishnen and
Americans, to certain extent, invoke the
law to protect them, and with both peoples
there is more consideration for the rights
and welfare Of others than obtains in gen.
eral among civilizel nations. But selfish
ness of this sort has taken less firm root in
Italy than elsewhere. precisely because
amenity of manners and consideration of
others in public are still the social rule.
Not only do Italians refrlin from smoking
where it is prohibited, but l have seen
them voluntarily give it up, when they
noticed that it incommoiel, whore by reg
ulation they were entitled to smoke. and
this not only by gentlemen but by peas
ants. On the other hand have known a
German of rank with his daughter get into
a ladies compartment in a railway carriage
and insist on using his pipe, despite the
expostulations OF the lldy occupants, who
were compelled to apply to the guard for
protection. when he was made to so into
the smoking carriage, the scene occurring
in Italy. As he reluctantly went, his
daughter angrily turned to the ladies, ex-
claiming, "See what you have done to my
poor papa; you make him leave his place
to smoke away from mo-" The tendency
of an iuorIinatc use of tobacco to develop
boorish manners re iuires no better Illus
tration, for il is one which. is now-a- days
too common not t. have been experienced
by most persons who travel.