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Year: 1871

There have been ten other cases OF this frignsrul
disease reported at the Health Department since
Saturday last, making further increase OF that
number OF those suffering iiom the virus in the
city. The subject is to up today in the poard
OF Health, when the cause Of the presence OF the
disease among the Inhabitants OF this island as
we'll as the remedies to be used to stop 1t VIII be
discussed. Tie several members OF the Sanitary
Committee felt hopeful yesterday that the necessary
means would be soon forthcoming 10 enable them
10 put nna stop to the growth OF the peStlence.
Year: 1871

1t is an old saying that if you do
man nineteen favors, and for any reason
decline to do him the twentieth, he
will forget the nineteen requests that
you have granted, and only remember
the one that you have refused-and for
that refusal he will hate you ever after.
ward.


And this is true of some men; it is
true of men of mean and narrow ma
tures but 1t is not true of all. 1t is as
natural for a noble soul to cherish a
lively recollection of kindness received,
as it is to breathe. And while we are
often shocked to see acts of friendship
towards Others, which have cost us
good deal of time and of labor, entirely
overlooked and forgotten, we not un-
frequently, on the other hand, are sur.
prised by the grateful reciprocation of
some favor long since rendered, and the
very performance of which had passed
from our own recollection, until re-
minded of it by the recipient.
We have always regarded gratitude
as feeling which is hardly susceptible
of being taught to any one. A lecture
on gratitude, to whomsoever addressed /,
instead Of awakening that emotion, is
very apt to engender feeling of indig-
nation and hatred. People never like
to be told to be grateful. And it is of
no use to tell them. 1t is not natural
to soul to appreciate the good nature
of others, it can never be taught such
appreciation. .t .
Year: 1871

by MATTE WEAVER.
The twilight is falling around me
Sunbre and dark and gray;
E'en the light of the stars is wanting
At the close of this long bright day.
And know that, as over the village
The shadows are gathring in wrath,
30 the sunhine and light and brightness
Are fadipg from out my path.
Slowly and sadly the sun went down:
watched 1t In silent pain
Tomorrow twill dawn In the brlght'ing East
For me, oh never again.
Oh. sunless life 1! Oh, king path
shrinking turn from the cup of woe;
From the shadows dark and midnight gloom
Through which my weary feet must go.
OH Star OF Life rise in my sky
The sombre dreary skies above;-
Oh, tender hand my footsteps guide
To the sunbright land of love


DeIipfontc Pa
Year: 1871

IMMIGRATIoH.-The "leading" papers
Of the State california are all bowling
for more liberal immigration. They all
seem to think that the great panacea for
all the wantsof California is to be found
in larger immigration. But the most
careless observer must be aware that CAL
ifornia and especially San Francisco is
now full of unemployed persons. We do
not need an increased immigration of per-
sons in quest of employment, the worse it
is for that very large portion Of our own
population who are vainly seeking for
work which they can do on such terms
as will enable them to make decent
living. The undisguised and undisguis-
able fact is, that under the existing con-
difion Of things California has quite as
large a population of men who expect 70
earn living by. work as she needs. Ihere
does not in truth seem to be enough hon
est work to do for the honest WORKERS
Figaro. - SO
Year: 1871

SHE ATTEMPTS TO CUT HER THROAT


AND THEN TAKES ARSENIC.


The suicide mania which has been raging
in our city for some months past came near
finding another victim ON yesterday-this
time in the person of Mary Ware, bright
mulatto girl about eighteen years of age
The facts as we have learned are these
Mary, who resides in house of ill-fame on
Leight street, corner of Adams, has, fol
some days past, expressed herself as being
tired of life, without giving any particular
cause. On Friday last she obtained a
razor and attempted to cut her throat, but
was prevented by some of her friends and
again on yesterday she sent to drug store
and purchased quantity of arsenic,
which she swallowed, and then returned to
her chamber. s


When found she was in an almost insen-
BILE condition. DR.. Bright was called in,
and, after considerable time and trouble,
succeeded in restoring her to consciousness.
Last evening she was almost entirely recov-
cred. She still declares she will yet sue
ceed IN putting an end to her unbearable
life. She is from Chnstiansburg, and has
been in this city but about month, and
nearly ever since her arrival here she has
suffered from fits of melancholy.


We had hoped this epidemic had passed
entirely from us, but fear we will again be
called upon TO record the untimely end Of
other victims.
Year: 1871




The review of the management of the
national finances, published recently in the
New York Tribune, is admirably designed
to inspire with pride and qualification every
patriotic citizen of the Republic. 1t is a
noble exemplification of the resources of
the country, as well as an eloquent testi-
monial to the general ability with which
tho great financial system of the nation has
been handled. Friends Of the Republican
administration of the government may well
be proud of such an exhibit, showing, as it
does, great reduction in the national debt,
year by year, as well as gradual amelio-
ration in the burdens of taxation, which
the long and costly war of the slave-hold-
ers' rebellion imposed upon the people.
We should have been glad to have seen
more vigor infused into some details of the
management Of the Treasury, and especial
ly more decisive measures looking toward a
speedy return of specie payments. Such
return was long ago possible, and though it
may be claimed that the worst is over, we
must regret the prolonged existence of our
present system of floating an immense vol
ume of irredeemable currency. The as
pect of the bond question, as presented in
the review, is novel, and highly encourage
ing it would have been more cheerful in
its general tone if the new loan had been
managed with more vigor.


During the two years and one month
ending April !, 1871, the public debt has
been reduced .$2l5, 1858, an amount
which will surprise these cavillers who have
contended that the government of the Uni
ted States must eventually become bank
rupt. Then the burden of interest has, by
wise legislation and prudent management,
been greatly reduced. In March, 1863,
the monthly charge was $40, ,532 ,4G2 so;
in April, 1871, it was $9,527 ,2l2 G7, be-
ing decrease of 81 ,005, ,249 93, OF round
twelve millions for the yearly interest
charge; and this relief, it should be borne
in mind, is permanent. -ni


Meantime, the credit of the government
has everywhere advanced, and nice calcula-
tions show that our borrowing power is
now enhanced 16 per cent, as compared
with what it was at the close of Johnson's
administration. Other reductions appear
in the financial management of our excel
lent postal service, in which depart
ment an annual Saving of at least 5000, 900
has been effected. And the reduction of
taxation is equal to $25l 1927 per an
mum. These figures, and other telling
points brought out in the review, are full of
encouragement to those who wish well of
the Republic. 1t is matter of congratu-
lation with all members of the great Re-
publican party that its administration of
the financial affairs of the nation can safely
challenge scrutiny.


What Republicanism does for the ma
ton these figures show. What Democracy
does for New York the figures of the city
accounts as published show; those still
concealed, apparently because too bad for
publication, by their very absence show
still more eloquently. ..as
Year: 1871

4 R,ma,oay.-This morning about 8
o'clock horse attached to wagon belong
ing to III. M. Smith, standing in front of the
gate at Talbott's foundry, corner of Seven
teenth and Cary streets, became frightened
and dashed off up Seventeenth street to
Main, which he crossed, and attempted to
run in the arch of the Old market, when
one of the hind wheels struck the lamp
post and brought the frightened animal to a
dead stop. The wagon was badly injured,
while the horse received no injury except a
few scratches.
Year: 1871

EVERY one is familiar with the old
homely adage, "Take careof the pennies,
the pounds will take care of themselves,


and the following anecdote Qor the truth
of which the writer vouches, being &C
quainted with the parties to whom IL re-
ters) is strikingly illustrative OF the power
that lies in the hands of even the very
poorest of our readers if they VIII Dut
take care of the pennies.


A Manchester calico printer was, on his
wedding day, persuaded by his wife to al
low her, as her share, two half pints of ale
day. He rather WINGED under the bar
gain, for, though a drinker himself, he
would have preferred a perfectly sober
wife. They both worked hard, and he,
poor man, was seldom out of the public
house as soon as the factory closed. The
wife and husband saw little of each other
except at breakfast; but as she kept things
tidy about her, and made her stinted and
even selfish allowance for Housekeeping,
meet the demand upon her, he never com
planned. She had her daily pint, and he,
perhaps, had his two or three quarts; and
neither interfered with the other, except,
at odd times, when she succeeded, by dlnt
of one little artifice or other TO win MN
home an hour or two earlier at night, and
now and then to spend an entire evening
in his own house. But these were rare
occasions. They had been married a
year; and on the morning OF their wed.
ding anniversary, the husband looked
askance at her neat and comely person


with some shade of remorse, as he OBJ.
served, Mary, wen had no holiday sin
Year: 1871

Mr. WILLIAM BEER is a dealer in un-
redeemed pledges at 5S Newington- butts,
London. lie had a servant in his employ
named Agnes Norman, aged 10 years On
Good Friday Beer and his wife went out
to spend the evening. leaving their three
young children in the care of the servant.
On returning home, they found one of the
babies on the floor by its bedside un-
dressed, and another dead between the
bedstead and the wall. 1t had evidently
died from suffocation. The theory of the
parents was that the servant girl had
killed it, and they introduced evidence at
the coroner's inquest to support their the
ory, which they had gathered subsequent
to the death of their child, from those IN
whose employ the servant girl had prevl-
ously been


While at one place friend of the mis-
tress came there with her baby TO make
visit, put the child on the bed, aud soon
after it was found dead. At the same
place, three dogs, a cat, parrot, anumber
of goldfish, and nearly dozen fancy
birds were found dead at different times
without apparent cause. Atanother place
she brought home a child she had been
taking out on the street, in a state of in
sensibility. and said that it had fallen out
of her arms. The infant recovered, but
in few weeks she brought it back from
another airing dead. In another family
a boy of seven years awoke with chok-
ing sensation, and afferward told his
father the girl lad placed her hand over
his mouth, and then given him money not
to say anything about it; and in the same
family several domestic animals died sud
denly In another situation, a child in her
care was found insensible in bed, and
when it recovered evinced great terror at
the sight of the girl Again, in her ca
reer, she locked child up in a wardroDe,
took it out and put it to bed, and soon
after it was found desd.-Pdl Mall (LoH-
dom Gazette.
Year: 1871

A story is told of a little four year old
fellow who, having disobeyed his father,
was about to incur the penalty-a switch
ing. The father deliberately prepared
rod, while his son stood a sad and silent
spectator. AS the parent approached to-
the unpleasant duty, the boy started at a
brisk run toward neighboring hill The
father pursued, and for time the young
ster increased the distance between them
but gradually his strength began to fail,
AID when he reached the hill and began
to ascend he soon lost his vantage ground.
Nearer and nearer the irate father ap--
preached, and just as the top of the hill
was reached, and as he came within arms
length of the little fugitive, who was ready
to fall from exhaustion, the boy quickly
faced about, dropped upon the ground,
and with an indescribable cast of counte-
nance exclaimed: Papa, that-makes a
fellow-blow-don't it" This chang
ing of the subject" was SO extremely lu-
dicrous that the father laughed heartily
over the strategy which his hopeful son
exhibited, and the rod was not used,
Year: 1871

Lord Seaforth, who was born deaf and
dumb, was to dine one day with Lord Mel
vile. Just before the time of the com
pany's arrival, Lady Melville sent into the
drawing room lady of her acquaintance
who could talk with her fingers to dumb
people, that she might receive Lord Sea
forth. Presently Lord Guilford entered
the room, and the lsdy, taking him for
Lord Seaforth, began to ply her fingers
very nimbly; Lord Guilford did the same,
and they had been carrying on converse
ton in this manner for about ten minutes
when Lady Melville Joined them. Her
female friend Immediately said, Well, i
have been talking away to this dumb man


Dumb cried Lord Guilford; bless
me, thought you were dumbT
Year: 1871

The week closes on q decided undercurrent
Of excitement pending further developments Of the Eu-
ropean monetary condition. The cable states this morn
ING that at special meeting held tCiay for that purpose
the minimum rate Of discount advanced By the Bank
OF England from to per cent and that money WAS
active the open market at TO 81 per cent As re-
suit the new American loan scrip fell to discount OF %
per cent against per yesterday with fevcrish and
unsettled feeling IN American securities predominating
at the close. This is not particularly cncOurag-
ing to a buOyant condition of affairs at nome,
and calculations for the moment upset; but calm
survey of the situation does incline to the snppos


ti0n that any financial disasters are In store Tor as the
heavy decrease of bullion in the Bank OF England occa
sios the higher of money do not judge that
long period will clapse before the money movement on
this continent will become adjusted to the advance How
do we expect that the foreign capital held 50 largely
here viii any great extent withdrawn On former
occasions the hue and cry OF return Of European cap
ita has been heard in financial center without pro-
duciug any financial disaster and We presume tie pres
cut cry OF "wot" will prove equally harm
lr.s The opening day Of the Jerome Park
races has taken from the street large number
of operators aud spectators, and the result has been
tame and dull market for railway and miscellaneous
shares The market opened quite firm, and has since
made scarcely enough fluctuations to give criterion Or


ar opinion ~ S temper In the afternoon stocks all
around almost entirely neglected. and prices closed
barely steady the bank statement apparently eXerting
no Influence whatever There special feature II we
except Union Pacific and Pacific Mail which we're quite
actively traded ill., the old Old story Of harmonious in
trrcsts In the rc4 the It business about equally
distributed The investment shares quiet but gen
orally strong Miscellaneous stocks shared the dullness
Of the railways, Express shares being neglected The
following table SLOWS the highest and lowest prices OF
Year: 1871

The money market siil rules easy despite the reduced
OF the bankr, and borrowers have been readily
accommodated at ana ami exceptionally at There
change to uote IN commercial paper aud the follow
ing Is the basis OF rates:
Year: 1871

A New Orleans correspondent Of the Gin
clnnatl Commercial, writing concerning
State politics and Republican differences,
says:


A proposition has been submitted to the
national committee to send a board Of arbi-
t1ation here, and settle the difficulty by de-
mittee. The Warmoth side il willing to
submit to this, but I understand that the
other committee insist that theirs is the
right one, and will fight it out on that line.
Year: 1871

Business generally has been quiet during the
week, the farmers are all busy in getting their
crops in, and do not care to take time to market
their grain or do much shopping while the
weather is 30 favorable for farm labors.


The money market remains quiet, and the de-
mands for money are not very great, but fully
up to the supply.


In Chicago the market is reported very easy,
with loans the street at per cent. The
banks, however, find use for their funds at the
usual rate of ten per cent


Gold has been quite steady during the week,
and the tendency seems towards higher pre-
MUM The market closes strong at an advance
of about !, per cent. on last week.


Government bonds remain about the same
price as last week, and the demand is good and
prices little higher.


Ravens McKnlay & Co. furnish che following
Ottawa quotations:
Year: 1871

The second thing is patients must stay In warm room
cold The lungs are diseased but it must be I
azure can not be effected Fresh air and riding out especial
y In this section OF the country in the M winter season
are all wrong. Physicians who that course lose
ss y in S E nSHs ns s are oa no St
they must walk about the much and as fast as The
patients must Keep GOOD ou N GoSa m sa The
rms has great deal to do with the appetite and the great
DESPAIR Of cure such evidence of its possibility in
Dr. Schepck pcrsona emen i M IN s 0hes s. Is 81 sntu
cure was in these modest words:


confned 10 bed, and at time my physicians thought
that could not live week then like drowning man catch
oas to m, the s Poc and they 3 made peec, Of


@ sSss the s @ a my %n SnS
would spit up more than pint OF offensive yellow matter


AS that began subsde my cough fever pains
and night sweas all began to leave and appetite be-
from ea9G too much soon gained my strength


weighed shortly after my recovery" added the Doe
tor then looking like skeleton; my weight was only
twenty pounds and years have enjoyed unn;e mi s


schenck has discontinued his visit. to New
continue patients their office No Is North Sixth St
wish d1s0SSa s with the Eesomeer w Be
OF the lungs and patients readily learn whether they are
intelligence of child Follow these directions and ii Kind
ra Se & T 40 e resi- excepting that In some the Man
cnes need no Other accompanments than ample
,ions that sccompany them First appetite OF re-
turning health, hunger Is the most welcome When
It Comes IS VIII come let the desparng at once be good
night sweat abated In short time both of these orbe
symptoms sym SI are re- gone forever.
sands OF families As laxative purgative the Mandrake


is are o standard perarson while ihe ronc syrup
lactsc against consumption in any OF its forms
syFR na &
For sale by all druggists and dealers.
Year: 1871

The work of cure Is beginning. The yitiaed mu
cous deposits in the bowels and in the amenary canal
eJeced The liver like clock is wound up II


Its orpidy The stomach responsibility the patient
begins to feel that he is getting. al last,
Year: 1871

ernOr Davis, of Texas. The commit
tee intend to make a report before the
close Of the session, if possible.


BUREAU OF EMIGRATION.


Representative Finkelnburg viii en-
deavOr on Monday, by moving a sus-
pension of the rules, to introduce
bill prepared by the Committee on
Commerce, and have the same set for
discussion next week. The bill ere
ates a Bureau Of Emigration, but
places the whole matter under the
control of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury, with a superintendent at the
port of New York, and making the
United States collectors at all other
ports ex.oficio superintendents Of
emigration, and also all Communication
money; and it also provides for a
great reform in transportation by sea
and land, and ample protection after
arrival in this country.
Year: 1871

UYOULD respectfully inform their friends
w and the public In general that they
have re opened their new store, at No ~
Front street, where they keep constantly on
hand q new and excellent assortment OF
Year: 1871

A sad story is told of radical congress
man, new to the ways of the House, who
mistook the meaning of the clapping for
pages which always follows the chaplain s
opening prayer. "Well, that beats me, -
said he. 81 don't see anything in that prayer
worth cheering"
Year: 1871

Dora, have done the lest for you
know how. Had YOU inherited any
OF your fathers genius or your moth
ers beauty, l might have died with
more courage at my heart; but, as 1t
is, l must leave YOU to struggle alone.
It is hard fight at best. and 1 pity
you" Cold pity il was: for D0ra's 5
father had little or no sympathy with
anything outside OF his art. and Dora
was ? perpetual disappointment.


She was not particularly sensitive,
but her fathers words stung her terri
bly,; for he was dying,and those harsh
words were bitter legacy to leave a
loving child.


She had done her very best. With
any less practical person John Lacy
might have starved on into recogni-
tiOn, as many another genius has
done before him; but, with DOra's
willing ifands and ready assistance De
had been enabled to keep the vol
from the door while he worked away
at his easel. Not Of the highest. order
or genius was this man who hac
painted his last picture, and was wait
ing, with nerYeless- hands, the ap
prOach Of the death angel.


Poor DOrai Life seemed blank ant
desOlate enough, without her father
and she felt as though she herself Nyer'
approaching dissolution; and deatl
was far less terrible 10 her than life
But it was over at last. The neigh
bOrs came in to the funeral and attest
ed their sympathy, the little eeme
I terry had another tenant and Dora La
/ cV was alone in the world


] No genius, no beAutyI Not gifted
Year: 1871

A respectable man, of the county Of
Montgomery, resided on the Hudson
River. One day he went 10 bay on
the river to shoot ducks or wild geese.
When he came to the river he saw six
geese beyond shot. He determined to
wait for them to approach the shore.
While sitting there, he saw fox come
down to the shore, and stand some
time and watch the geese. At length
he turned and went into the woods,
and came out with a very large bunch
of moss in his mouth He then enter
ed the water very silently, sank him
self, and then, keeping the moss above
the water,-himself eoneealed-he
fiOated among the geese. Suddenly
one Of them was drawn under the
water, and the fox soon appeared on
the shore with the goose in his mouth.
He assembled the bank, and found q
hole made by the tearing up Of a tree.
This hole lac cleared, placed i'm the
goose, and covered il with great care,
strewing leaves over it. The fox then
left; and while he was away the hunt
er UNMARRIED the goose, and closed the
hole, and then resolved to await the
issue


In about half an hour the fox re-
turned, accompanied by another.
They went directly TO the place where
the goose had been buried, and threw
out the earth


The goose could not be found. They
stood regarding each other for some
.ime, when, suddenly, the second fox
attacked the other furiously, rs if Of
Tended by the trick Of his friend. Du-
ring the battle the man SHOT them.


MlITnHiS CrentiOn.
Year: 1871

They voted in Massachusetts, the
other day, on the question Ofallowing
the sale Of beer. In some of the towns
young ladies attend the polling places
charged with ballots, on which was
printed the firm "nO," instead Of the
persuasive Eyes" These paper ballots
they distributed to the voters, and
woe betide the young man that did not
accept one and then vote it. It were
better for him that he had never been
born There is hencefOrth no wO-
mans smiles for him. The move
ment was a practical application of
the new Victoria plan to Influence"
the votes Of men, and it was success
full in many places.
Year: 1871

A German statistical writer remarks
that the invention Of the sewing ma
chine has enabled one woman TO sew
as much as 4 hundred could sew by
hand a century ago; but he continues,
one woman now demands A much
clothing as hundred did "a century ago
so that matters are not much changed
after all.