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Year: 1872

The famous Tichborne Case came to a sudden
end, to-day. The claimant orten, who pretended
to be Tichborne, seeing that his effort was hope
less, instructed his lawyers to announce that
they abandoned land is supposed to have fled
to avoid arrest for perjury. That twenty day
speech from Sir John Coleridge was not for
nnIlIinR.
Year: 1872

LONDON, Mar. 6.
The famous Tichborne case has come to an
unexpected conclusion. This morning, the
counsel for the claimant announced that he had
decided, in view of the declaration of the Jury
that they had heard sufficient evidence, to with
draw his suit


A warrant was issued for his arrest for perjury,
but he is supposed to have fled.
Year: 1872

As was we'll known in advance, the people of San Diego have met in mass convention and enthusiastically en- dorsed the action of the citizens con- mittee with President Scott, wherein it was agreed to concede certain lands, the right of way through the county and city, and all the rights of the San Diego and Gila Railway Company, to the Texas and Pacific Company, n consideration of the latter esta blishz ing its permanent terminus ln th9 pueblo and building its road as di- rectly east from the city as should be found practicable. The company now stands pledged to make San Diego the western terminus and to commence the work of construction at that point just as soon as several parties of en- gineers can develope line through the mountains. The engineers are busy at work and everything is in the most hopeful condition. Work will soon be going on with great vigor

 at both ends of the great line. The question of-Will the 32d parallel railroad be built ? has given away entirely to the one of-When will it be completed? Upon the latter there is some doubt; upon the former none whatever.
Year: 1872

nor will he support him for rcnonli.


nation with such a weapon in his
grasp. There is not a State, district,


township or precinct into which he
may not now enter, as he did into
the terrified village OF Laurensville,
and control the ballot at his person.
al pleasure. 1t was for this very
purpose that his party III Congress
originally clothed him with this ssl-
soiutis,n. Though they may agree
to prolong its tenure, the better elc-
ments of the party outside are in re-
volt against it and the gross abuses
it shelters. The reform movement
is not day too early in the field. If
this powerful weapon cannot be
wrested from the hands of Grant be-
fore the election, the Liberal Repnb-
licans will find they have got to fight
a fearful opposition, for whose exist
ence they must themselves share the
unwelcome responsibility.
Year: 1872

There are people who hint, and
others who pretend to fear, that
Gen. Grant will use his military pow
er to secure his reelection or con-
tinuance in the Presidency. This
idea has been boldly avowed by some
Of his champions. If he finds he
cannot get enough votes, he will call
out the bayonets to keep him in his
present place. Even members of
Congress do not hesitate to make
this threat. That great political
bully and whipper-in, Morton, Of ln-
diana, does not hesitate to say to
strangers, visiting Washington City,
that if the people have not sense
enough to return Grant, he will be
brought in by other means in spite
of the popular decision. The pur-
port of this was stated to some Re-
publican politicians who lately visi'
ted the Federal capital from this
State. We have little apprehension
that such threats will be carried out
or that they will not be resisted b.
such an uprising of the people a


will send terror to the souls OF Gran


and all his courtiers and satellites


and forever extinguish in this coun


try the base-born idea that Ameri


can citizens can be controlled il
their dearest rights by military ant


physical power. There could be II
better issue, and no more favorabl
occasion to try it than the present.
n. 0. Times.
Year: 1872

We copy this from the Houston
Telegraph:


Astrology has had its believers in
all ages and countries, nor can the
general reader but he aware that
there are on record not few re-
markable predictions that were ap-
parently verified, whether accidently
or not. Napoleon l. was a firm be-
lever in it, and used to consult an
astrologist in Paris nor is there a
clearer historical fact than the SIN
gul,r faith of that extraordinary man
in his star, which he conceived ruled
his destiny.


Such were the reflection of this
local yesterday, on hearing from
Professor Margrave, at his rooms at
the Enterprise Hotel, singular pre-
diction in regard to the issue of the
great political ce mpaign on which
the country is now entering. Indeed,
this astrolosist, who produced such
a sensation in the theatre the other
night while DeCastro was perform
ing his tricks, asserts that General
Grant was born under the influence
of the planet Saturn ; that the stars
show that he will never be President
again, even should he be renominat-
ell, which is doubtful. The astrolo-
eist also limited at another and u
foreign war his theory being that
great wars are generally followed by


other wars at about the period of


seven years.


If we live, we shall watch with
: deep interest for the fulillment OF
) Professor Marsraye's prophecy in
/ November next.
Year: 1872

A Western female who was thrown into
high state Of enthusiasm from the refusal OF
husband tO devote his weeks salary to the
purchase Of Dolly Warden. slew their only
hog with an axe Or such are fashions vota
rice
Year: 1872

It makes one homesick in this world
to think that there are so many rare
people he can never know; and so many
excellent people that scarcely any one will
know in TACT One discovers friend by
chance, and cannot but feel regret that twenty
or thirty years of life maybe, have been spent
without the least knowledge Of him. When
he is once known, through him opening is
made into another little world, into a circle of
culture and loving hearts, and enthusiasm in a
dozen cOngenial pursuits, and prejudices, per-
haps How instantly aud easily the bachelor
doubles his world when he marries, and enters
into the unknown fellowship of the, tn him,
continually increasing company which Is known
in popular language as "all his wiie's rela
tiOns."


Near at hand daily, no doubt, are those
worth knowing intimately, if one had the time
ami the opportunity. And when one travels
he sees what vast material there is for society
aud friend, ,bip, Of which he can never avail
himself. Car load after car-Oad OF summer
travel goes by one at any railway station, out
of which he is sure he could choose score Of
lifelong friends il the conductor would intro
duce him. There are faces Ot refinement, OF
quick wit, Of sympathetic kindness, interesting
people, travelled people, entertaing people, as
y0u would say in Boston, mice people, you
would admire 10 know, whom you constantly
meet and pass without sign of recognition,
many of whom are no doubt your long lost
brothers and sisters. You can see that they
also have their words and their interests, and
they probably know great many mice >
people. The matter of personal liking and
attachments is good deal due to the mere
fortune OF association. More fast friendships
and pleasant acquaintanceships are formed on
the Atlantic steamships between those who
would have been only indifferent acquaintances
elsewhere than one would think possible on a
voyage which naturally makes one as selfish as
he is indifferent to his personal appearance.
The Atlantic is the only power on earth |
know that can make woman indifferen. to
her personal appearance. -Scribner' for July.
Year: 1872

KISSING AND NEWSPAPERS IF a young
lady wishes gentleman to kiss her, what
papers would she mention? No Spectator, no
Observer but a. many Til3es as you please
We wish to add that she would like it done
with Dispatch, no Register or journal kept OF
it, and Tor him not to Herald it or mention il
to Recorder or Chronicle it abroad Her lip,
should be the only Repository, and the Sun
should be excluded If pnSsble IT "A MesSen-
ger got it, the World would know it, for News
is now carried by Telegraph where it was
formerly done by the Courier, who was always
ready to Gazette it. In the act the Press upon
the lips should be light and the Union perfect,
assuring ourselves that no Argus eye was upon
us, and the only Reflector present the Mirror.
Review the case as you will, no Plain Dealer
in fact could be more Independent in this fast
Age.
Year: 1872

They sat in the sun together,
Till the day was almost done
And then, at its close. an angel
Stepped over the threshold stone.
He folded their hands together.
He touched their eyelids with balm,
And their last breath tloated upward
Like the close of a solemn psalm.
Like Uridal pair they traverSed
The unseen, mystical road,
That leads to the Beautiful City.
Whose Builder and Maker is God.
Perhaps. in that miracle country,
They will give her lost youth back,
And the flowers of vanished spring-time
Shall bloom in the spirits track.
One drauRht Of the living waters.
Shall restore his manhoOd's prime,
And eternal years shall measure
The love that outives time.
But the shapes they left behind them
The wrinkles and silver hair
Made sacred to us by the kisses


The angel imprinted there
Well hide away in the meadow,


When the sun is low in the west.
Where the moonbeams cannot find them,
Nor the wind disturb their rest.
Bat we'll let no tell-tale tombstone.
With its age and date arise
o er the two who are old no longer
In their Fathers house in the skies.
Year: 1872

The best Dolly Warden story yet is told of
young lady in Little Rock, Arkansas, who had
a very small kitten she named Dolly Warden,
but as it progressed in age and other develop
ments she discovered it was not that kind of q
cat, so she rechristiEed it Thomas Warden.
Year: 1872

The Boston Post is responsible for the follow
ing on the marriage of Thomas Hawk to Miss
S. j. Dove:


1t isn't often that you see


So queer kind Of love.


Oh, what savage he must be,
To Tommy Hawk dove. .as is.
Year: 1872

The New York Tribune of the 7th instant contained the following;

 A CARD.-The undersigned resumes the editorship of The Tribune, which he relinquished on embarking in an- other line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be the endeavor to make this @ thoroughly independent journal-treating all parties and all political movements with judicial l, fairness and candor, but courting no favor nor deprecating the wrath of any one.

 If he can hereafter say anything which will tend to heartily unite the whole American people on a broad platform of universal amnesty and impartial suffrage, he will gladly do so; for the present, however, he can best command that consummation by silence and forbearance. The victors, in cur late struggle, can hardly fail to take the whole subject of Southern rights and wrongs into an early and earnest consideration and to them, for the present, he remits the subject.

 Since he will never again be @ can- didate for any office, and is not in full accord with either of the great parties which have hitherto divided the coun- try, he will be able and will endeavor to give @ wider, steadier regard to the progress of science, industry and use ful arts than a partizan journal can do. He will not be provoked into the indulgenceof those bitter personalities which are the recognized bane of journalism, but sustained by @ gen erous public, he will do his best to make The Tribune a power in the broader field 1t now contemplates, as when human freedom was in peril, 1t was in the arena of political partizan- ship. HORACE GREELEY.
Year: 1872

This finely uniformed and disciplined
body of men were out on the streets last
night, making their first parade of the
season. With such good soldiers as Ed
wards, Peck and Beanham to handle them,
their fine marching qualities are not to be
wondered at. As they passed our office
Captain Edwards formed his men in line
and salutedi while the excellent band
played an air, for which they will please
accept our Acknowledgements.
Year: 1872

According to the papers of that State, a
domestic servant in Michigan town has
turned out to be Pennsylvania heiress
who was abducted from home in her or
phaned infancy at the instigation of her
DESIGNING next Of kin.
Year: 1872

You may have seen in the Capital,
published last Saturday, at Washing
ton, what purpOrts to be q converse
ton between the editor of that paper
and me. have no right to suppose
that my utterances would influence
the opinions of o. even excite the
curiosity of the general public. ButI
wish it to be understood here at home
that lay no claim to the elOquence
of the remarks which Colonel Piatt
has attributed to me. That gentle
man did certainly not intend to mis-
state me; but his poetic imagination
and elegant taste has given color to
my commonplace remarks which a
less gifted person would not put on
them. Besides, he is an ardent friend
of the Cincinnati nominee and most
"Liberal Republlcan"-sO extremely
liberal, indeed, that he thinks it mean
in the Democratic party not to sur
render their organization into the
hands of its enemies, and this gener-
GUS sentiment of his own has made
him miscOnceive my notion about the
duty OF the Democracy to stand firmly
together for Il ewhOle country. While
I am about it I may as well say
another word. The aggressive and
violent temper of the Cincinnati
movement is breaking the Democracy
to pieces. There are many thousands
of men in the party who will refuse
to be dragOOned or bullied into the
support of that ticket. The Greeley
men had better suspend their plan of
operations Immediately. The longer
they continue it the less likely they
are to succeed either in July or No
vember. ave the people," the rank
and file, the yeOmanry of the country,
can not be driven TO the polls as ne
grOes are driven in the South by the
carpet-baggers and scalawags.


J. s. BLACK.


Nyorr- D. Mo-, 90 1870
Year: 1872

The NOrwalk Gazette, says: A
friend of ours who suffered horrible
tortures from neuralgia, hearing Of a
noted physician in Germany who in
variably cured that disease, crossed
the ocean and visited Germany for
treatment. He was permanently cured
after a short sojOuIn, and the doctor
freely gave him the simple remedy
used, which was nothing but a pOul-
tiee and tea made from our common
field thistle.


The leaves are maeerated and used
on the parts affected as a pOultice,
while a small quantity Of the leaves
are boiled down in the proportion Of q
quartz to pint, and a small wine-gIass
of the decOctiOn drank before each
meal. Our friend says he has recon-
mended 1t far and near, and he has
never known it to fail Of giving relief,
while i'm almost every case it has
effected a cure. It is certainly worth
a trial.
Year: 1872

It is stated that Jefferson Davis in
tends making Baltimore his future
home, and that he will soon publish
vindicatiOn Of his administration
while President of the Confeder-
ate States.
Year: 1872

TRUE AND FALSE MODEsTY. Nothing is
more amlable than true modesty, and nothing
more contemplate than that which is false
the one guards virtue. the other betrays il.
True modesty is ashamed to do anything that
is repugnant to right reason false modesty is
ashamed to do anything that is opposite to the
humor of those with whom the party con-
verses True modesty avoids everything that
is criminal; false modesty everything that is
questionable. the latter is only general,
undetermined instinct; the former is that
instinct limited and circumscribed by the
rules of prudence.
Year: 1872

The RooT OF THE EVIL" Doctor" said
wealthy patient to his physician, II want
you to be thorough-stike at the root of the
disease. "Well, will, said the doctor, AZ
he lifted his cane and brought it down hard
enough to break into pieces bottle ahd glasses
WHICH stood upon sideboard. 1t was his last
professional visit in that house.
Year: 1872

The LATEST THING IN RITUALIsM.- this
the Boston transcript is responsible An en-
thuslastic rtualist, wishing to make gift TO
his rector at Easter, ordered beautifully en-
broldered clerical vestment to be made in
another city. He gave directions that the
garment should be sent by express and marked
7. .. D;-and so it was, in the most elegant
style OF fancy needle work, and probably upon
the back, where it could be plainly seen of men
Year: 1872

A girl of sharp wits in Western city dis
covered recently that her lover was about to
take another girl to ball. She thereupon
bribed his hackman to permit her TO take The
reins at the proper moment, and instead of
driving the pair to the ballroom, She took
them several miles out Of town to dense wood
where she left them exposed to a pelting rain
storm-the young lady in low necked muslin
dress and kid slippers, and her escort in full
party toggery and"thin boots Their situation
was not comfortable, but they found shelter in
nelIghboring farm house. where there happened
to be an accommodating minister, and the two,
being lovingly disposed by reason of their mis-.
adventures, were married The other young
woman now sits in sackcloth and ashes, sadly
brooding over her misadventure.
Year: 1872

At late Baptist revival young lady who


had been leading somewhat irreglar life sud.
denly became open to conviction, and was CON
verted. When the minister had submerged


her and came out Of the water, he asked her
now she felt in her mind She replied: "All
Year: 1872

A soldier who was an nveterate joker and
punster, having had his nose, left cheek and
portion of his chin carried away by shot, in
the battle of Shiloh, was asked by some of his
comrades If they could do anything for him.


should like drink of water mighty well, if
l only had the face to ask for il
Year: 1872

SNEER Nor AT OLD CLoTHEs.-They are
often made holy by long sacrifices, by careful
foldngs away, that they may last until the dear
ones are provided for. If many an old coat
could speak, what tales it would tell of the
noble heart underneath
Year: 1872

In an article on recent fair held in that city.
the editor of a Macon paper says brother
editor took valuable premium; but an unkind
policeman made him put it rig ght back where
he took it from.
Year: 1872

THE Liberal Republicans of Tennessee
whose numbers are hardly computable, are
showing rather a grasping, not to say dog
in-the-manger disposition, about the Presl-
dental race. As the Presidential candi-
date is the man of their choosing, they
surely might leave the Democrats the poor
privilege Of naming the electors who are to
20 through the formality of casting their
votes for him.-LouiSUiJle Commercial.
Year: 1872

HOtBfss


among new bills introduced was one by
W.lR. Roberts, Of New York, directing the
President to intercede with the Canadian
authorities for the discharge Of Fenian
prisoners.


Much of the morning hour was wasted in
reading KeIY's bill, sent up by Mr. FL
bridge, with its title altered, the object be-
ing to prevent action on Mr.. Hooper's sup
Elementary civil rights bill. .


Mr.. Voorhees, rising to a personal expla-
nation submitted a paragraph from the
Washington RepUblicGR TO the effect that
be was halting and hesitating on the ques-
ton Of


Supporting Greeley


and as all his Democratic colleagues were
all sal to be IN favor of Greeley he was
likely to lose the favor of the district where
his voice had so long been potential. He
declared be did not halt or hesitate as to the
nominee of the Cincinnati Convention.
Whoever believed in bis high protective
tariff principles might support hiiW, but he
CVoorheesl would not. Greeley was the life
long champion of doctrine that he (Voor
hees) opposed, the great champion of pro-
lection, the most clamorous advocate in all
the land for the Ku-Klux legislation which
desolated the homes of the Southern people,
while the. present administration had
simply executed a 8: law dictated
to Congress by the Cincinnati
nominee. Within a recent date Greeley
had desired further extension of the Pre-
sident's power to suspend the hapeas corpus
and be was an earnest and urgent advocate
/ of the present force-bayonet election law. He
/ had two months ago clamored in his great
organ for law to place the elections in the
State of New York under Federal control,
and in certain contingencies under military
control. Was such man fit to receive his
vote or be a Presidents Was he called Oh
as friend of the Southern people to vote
for man who advocated the right of seces-
sion and yet when the Southern people did
what he told them, no wild beast y
| .. , Hungry for Blood


ever screamed over its prey as Greeley had
Year: 1872

The Standard this morning in an article
on the approaching Presidential contest in
America is quite severe in denunciation of
President Grant accusing him of nepotism,
Jobbery and improper use of the military
in the administration of civil affairs.
Year: 1872

shouted sOn to Richmond" to XIII every
one Of them for Edoing awhat be told
them they had a 4 right to do.
A red sea of blood has not been
enough to satisfy this man, but
he had also insisted on the confscation
Of the homes and property Of women and
children Of the South. Others might do
as they liked, but as for him (Voorhees)
and his household, he would not do this
thing. Parties to be successful must be
banded together on common principle
No other combination of men were worthy
of success. No one desired success more
than himself, but there was something
better and sweeter to the heart than sue
cess. TWAS - I