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Year: 1873

The old men must learn to act
fairly by their boys. In Mo
nongaheIa City old John Glenn
ems wouldn't give up all his
property to his son James, and
afterward when he went and got
a few step-mothcr for him the
spirited boy determined that
the thing should be stopped.-
So the boy procured a knife at
the nearest butchers stall and
ripped out the old mans bowels,
and then with the same knife
ripped out his own heart. This
cast quite a gloom over the
Clemens family, but it didn't
prevent the old man from Civ
ing the remainder Of his prop
erty to the good-looking young
stcp-mOther.
Year: 1873

The circulation Of forged pa
per money is greatly on the in
crease in Russia. At fair at
Nijni-Noygorod there were
quite openly two different Pri-
ces demanded for goods, accor-
ding to whether the price was
paid in genuine or forged notes.
The Circassians suffer most by
this, as they do not properly un-
derstand paper money. It is
said that most of the forged pa
per money is manufactured in
Siberia.
Year: 1873

Her name is Jerusha Ann Tay-
Tor, and, when she lived down in
Massachusetts she used to faint
away at the sight of mouse
Since she moved to Kansas she is
brave enough to ride thirteen
miles on horseback in the dark to
see a circus. And yet they say
our American women have MOTH
ing to bring out their latent traits
Of character.
Year: 1873

A young man in ton du Inc
was a party to a mock marriage
Mt festive gathering, and it
proves that the man who marriGd
them was n magistrate and so the
marriage is binding The girl
holds him to it. But he is engaged
to another girl who threatens a
suit for breach Of promise. 1t is o.
complicated case.
Year: 1873

We are much obliged to a
Boston friend for a copy of a
Chinese supplement to the
Hong Kong Adrertiser. AS ev-
erybody cannot get hold of a
Chinese newspaper, but would
like to know just how it looks,
the effect can be produced by
covering a sheet Of white paper
with inverted and kicking cfn-
die bugs.
Year: 1873

What relation is a loaf of
bread to a locomotive? Its
mother. Why? Because the
bread is a necessity, and loco
motive is an invention, and we
all know that necessity is the
mother Of invention.
Year: 1873

An Iowa wife eloped with a
young fellow recently, and as
soon as she got intimate enough
with him to have access to his
pockets, stole 500 therefrom
and triumphantly went back to
her husband,
Year: 1873

An exchange telIsus that "they
are going to take the lightning
rods off Sing Sing, because they
have aided thirteen prisoners to
escape during the last year.
"What do you notwithstanding
rods on such a place as that for,
anyhow? Did yon ever know
lightning to strike anybody that
it oughtn't TO have struck"
Year: 1873

]


the Death of Judge Nelson.


Judge Sneed, on behalf of
the court, spoke as follows:


MIR. ATTORNEY GENERAL
In responding to your touching
tribute to the memory of our
departed brother, l may say, on
behalf Of my brethren of the
bench, that there is no man
whose honorable fame as a law
yer and a Judge is more deserv-
ing Of preservation on the rec
ords Of this court than his.


AS a statesman, his name will
be perpetuated in the historic
annals Of his country. AS a
citizen, in the memories Of his
admiring countrymen; as the
head of a family, among his
own cherished household gods:
but this was his forum, and
here he achieved substantial
Irenown.


He was a great orator. AS
was said Of Lord Ellsmere, "he
was a great and grave orator,
and greatest when he was most
provoked" In the proceedings
Iof the bar meeting some allu-
sion is made to a great effort Of
his in the United States Con-
gress. | was present in the gal
lery Of the House, and remem-
Der the occasion well. He was
struggling to avert the threat
.ened disruption Of the Govern
ment which followed soon after.
| remember how his elOquence
thrilled me, and how proud | felt
at the moment, that | too was a
Tennesseean. | remember that
great bitterness of spirit was
manifested against him by some
extreme men Of the House and
how he sood against them


Like the hope of Troy


Against the Greeks that would have entered


Troy


For he was man Of peerless
courage and knightly honor, and
there was one grand historic
character Of whom he then re-
minded me, as | looked down
from the gallery upon him. 1t
was Cato, the great Senator, as
described amid the falling for
tunes Of Rome:


"a brave man struggling with the storms


Of fate,


And greatly falling with falling State"


He was not only an oratOr,a law
yer and astatesman, but he was a
man of a most exquisite literary
taste. He was a fiuentand pol
ished writer of his mother
tongue, and gifted with the fin
est poetical talent and tempera-
ment. Lord Campbell tells us
that the envious dispositions Of
men induce them to believe that
a man of general accomplish
ments cannot possibly be a law
yer; and a converse, if a man
has shown himself, beyond all
contrOversy,to be deeply imbucd
with law, that he is a mere law
yer, and nothing more. That
this is a great error, no better il
lustration could be afforded than
the fine and rare combination
that made up the mentality of
this eminent citizen.


He death is a public calamity.
It is a special bereavement to
the jurisprudence of the State,
and the deep fountains of feel
ing that were so visibly stirred
in this hall on Saturday morn
ing, show that it is rooted
sorrow to the bar of East Ten
nessee.


Gentlemen of the bar: The
world will still move on with
its fluctuating tide Of thrift and
adversely, of joy and of sorrow,
but for many a year to come we
will sigh


"For the touch Of vanished hand,


And the sound Of voice that is still"


The proceedings Of the meet
ing will be entered upon the rec
ords Of the court and published
in the next volume Of reports.


What relation is a loaf of
30
Year: 1873

It is almost incredible that
the old Mexican General, Don
Antonio Lopez de Santana, is
still alive. 1t would seem that
like the Jackass and Parson
BrOwnlow he is


One of the few confounded things


That were not born to die.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE GRATING WAX --Thos


Ma,teson, Mexican county, Pennsylvania,
writes Take two parts mutton tallow,
three parts resin, three parts beeswax ;
melt the tallow first, and put the beeswax
and resin into it, Be careful and not
burn it. When it is all melted, stir It all
up and pour it into cold water and work
it over. II there are Jumps in it, mash
them with your thumb and finger. The
longer you work it the more sticky it
grows When it begins to stick to your
hands, put some tallow on them Work
it till it is as sticky as You want 1t. Put
il in tin pan with cover to it will keep
for number of ears. think it is good
as sticking salve to put on any sort oil
sores. Some people put in more tallow
than they put in resin or beeswax, TO
mako it softer to work in cold weather; ;
but il there is too much tallow in 1t 1t
will melt and run out in hot weather.
have had about forty years experience in
grating and used a number Of sorts OF
grafting.Nax. Some people put it in hot
water, and make moro trouble than there
is need of wet my fingers with my
tongue, and don't find any difficulty in
putting the wax on. put little wax
on the end Of the graft
Year: 1873

Orders were received at the naval re cruit-
ing depot in this city to send all sailors whs
may enlist hereafter for service in the navy
to Key West, instead of New York, as here
tofore. Detachments have been forwarded
heretofore in squads of about twenty men
per week.
Year: 1873

SECURING THE GAs-PIPEs.-A force of hands
under the direction of the superintendent
of the Gas.Works were engaged yesterday


in securing the city gas-main on Cary street
near Eleventh against the caving IN OF the
earth in an excavation for cuvert which Is
being made ut that point.
Year: 1873

EXCURSION PosrroNED.-The select eXcur-
sion TO West Point. which was to have been
given to-day by the Bible classes of the Clay
Street Methodist church, has been postponed.
The committee will announce future day
far the trim.
Year: 1873

Washington Express train, due in this city at
eos, did not arrive here until o O'Clock. The
cause of this delay was the breaking down Of
freight train, which preceded the express at Mon.
mouth Junction n j.
Year: 1873

the industrious classes have assumed


control Of society that the work


ingmen have gone in unusual mum.


bers to the polls; that the voting


was conducted with rare good order;


that even Gambetta urges modera.


tion and obedience to the law. Ii


the better element OF the French


population can be brought into pow.


er, with no desire except to do JUS


tice, and no wish but to reform the


nation-if the industrious and pru.


dent can maintain rule over the
frivolous and the indolent-we may
at leastobtain new France, and the
reform that was crushed three cen.
turies ago by priests and kings may
at length be perfected.


The latest revolution in French
politics, the resignation of Theirs
and the election of military official
to the Presidency of great nation,
by no popular vote, but solely by the
choice Of an Assembly which has
long ceased to represent the will Of
the people the deep and overruling
excitement of the vast republican
IN Paris, and probably
throughout all France; the apparant
triumph Of the mona rchial faction,
aud its evident purpose of resorting
to extreme measures-may seem to
throw new cloud upon the hopes
of those who had wished we'll to the
French republic. That this act of
the Assembly was done in defiance
Of the recent elections, and in scorn
OF the wishes of the nation, is plain.
A Mcmahon and DeBroglle can
have no sympathy with tho honest
working classes of their country.
Even IN the corrupt Assembly the
majority for the reactionist was ex-
ceedingly small. Yet we still believe
that the republic will be peacefully
inaugurated, and tho priests, mon
archists, and Napoleonists disappoint.
ed in their plots against freedom.-l
Weehly.
Year: 1873

An intoxicated printer in a west
ern city wandered into shoe shop
in q fit Of mental alteration, set up
several sticks full Of shoe pegs, aud
took proof Of his matter in tho boot
press before he realized his awful
condition,
Year: 1873



 Captain Dove, in command of force building this end of the San Diego and Arizona Military Tele- graph, is soon to be relieved by Lieut.. Clague.

 Gov. Bashford, Secretary of State of Arizona, who is now in the East visiting old friends, will return by way Of San Francisco and this place about the middfe- of October. We are informed that he will leave his family in San Diego to spend the winter.

 The Unions Tucson correspon-- dent writes that the San Fran cisco gold mines are about fifty miles above the Pueblo Viejo set clement, and the Governor says there are about 50 miners there now. One company is engaged in digging a taii-race on one of the bars of the river, but the gold mostly lies in the gravel banks and ravines adjacent to the river, and cannot be proftably worked without carrying the water into a ditch to them. A survey has been made, and it is found that ditch about 15 miles in length will be required. The miners are too poor to construct it, but most of them have so much confidence in the enterprise that they offer to work on the ditch for their mere subsistence and take their chances of payment after the com- pletion of the ditch.
Year: 1873

The PRESS few days since contained an ar
ticle descriptive of a new invention, designed
to protect roofs of buildings against fire.


On the invitation of the inventor, Hon. E. S.
Tobey, our committee on Fire Department were
afforded special exhibition of its operation in
Boston ON Wednesday last. The building to
which the invention is now permanently at
tached is known as the Congregational House,
corner of Beacon and Somerset Streets and
from the large size of its roof, afforded a very
satisfactory display of the merits of the inven-
tion.


The flow of water upon the Ioof is regulated
by the firemen on the sidewalk, and in case the
usual pressure should be insufficient, it is SO
arranged that steam fire engine may be at
tached and the water forced to the roof in
few moments. On the occasion referred to- by
ordinary pressure, in less than four minutes the
water completely covered the roof in a continu-
Gus flow, and falling over the sides of the build
ing gave protection also to the window-slls and
wood work beneath.


The inventor claims that by this means roofs
of any description, and even domes can be
effectually protected.


The committee express themselves as highly
pleased with the exhibition, as demonstrating
to their satisfaction the practical value of the
invention. There were present on the occasion
other gentlemen representing the fire depart
ment and insurance interests of Boston and
New York, who testified to their appreciation
of the invention by many lighly favorable ex-
pressions.


We understand that the invention is to be at
once applied to the City Hall, Public Library
and other public buildings in Boston.


In view of these facts it would seem to be
the duty of our city government to consider
this subject with a view to its adoption here
The people of Portland certainly need not be
reminded of the danger to which we, in COM
mon with all cities, are exposed Many who
read this can remember when large contia
grafton was the event Of decade, but now it
has become semi-annual sensation; and the
probability is that great fires will continue to
occur until some great change is made in the
construction of buildings, and especially of
roofs, or improved means are more largely
adopted for extingushing and preventing the
spread of fire. But our chief source of danger
lies in the unprotected roof, Especially if built
of pine covered with tarred paper,) for when a
fire gets there, if gale is blowing, confagra-
tion is as certain to result as any effect follows
from a cause.


The invention above referred to certainly
meets this danger by a complete protection of
that which in general is the least accessible
part of a building; and we are sure it is worthy
of the immediate attention of our City Gov
ernment and citizens generally.
Year: 1873

We had occasion some days since to critcise
the management of the State Fair on account
of the limited amount of advertising done tor
tion as to the programme of the Fair, the
means of access to 1.-THE provision for the con-
veyance of goods intended for exhibition and
the premiums assigned to the several classes
of articles. We have published for some
months one square advertisement contain
ing simply an announcement ofihe time of the
Fair and the gross amount Of premiums. This
is good as far as it goes but the people seek
more detailed information and the interests of
the Fair demand more extended announce
ments. The argus and one or two other
journals of minor circulation poke little
good natured fun at us for crticising the judg
ment of the managers on the question of ad
vertising, when we were ourselves publishing
their notice. To relieve the agitation of these
journals we now explicitly approve the taste
of the management in their selection of me-
dium for reaching the people, while we con-
demn them for not doing more of good
thing





gives, also, an opportunity TO invite the scru-
tiny of advertisers. as Fall business is opening,
to the comparative desirability of the various
advertising mediums which are offered them.
The fact that the PRESS has long had very
much the largest cir. ulation of any daily pa
per in Maine,is well understood by intelligent
advertisers; we wish 10 call special attention
to the large increase of this disparity during
the past year in which our circulation has
made remarkable advance,-so much in
deed as will compel us shortly to procure a
new press of double the speed of our present
one, although this was purchased new less
than two years ago. This announcement will
be gratifying to our friends, but it has prac-
teal interest to those who propose to adver-
tise.


Another point important to advertisers is
the class reached by the journal through which
they address The public. The PRESS is read
by the best class of people both in the city
and suburbs and throughout the state This
is the class most desirable to reach by any ad-
vertisement which we would take. The char
acter, standing and reputation of journal
influence also the effectiveness of advertise
ments contained in it, and on these points we
appeal with confidence to the public judg-
ment. Our advertisements are clearly and
distinctly printed, well classified, carefully
scrutinized and the grossly Objectionable rig
idly excluded; all which is to the advantage
of those accepted.


The judicious advertiser will deliberately
consider all these points and will conclude
that the lowest price does not always imply
the cheapest advertising. Some of our neigh
bors having rather incautiously opened the
subject, we welcome the opportunity to invite
scrutiny of which we can avail ourselves, un-
der these circumstances, without the appear
ance of seeking to oppress smaller and weak
er journals.
Year: 1873

In addition to the usual number of speclous
enterprises known as land grants and claims
which will be pressed upon the attention OF
Congress dnriug the coming session, there
will be an unusual number and great variety
of other Jobs, all having the same objective
point-the national treasury Thelast session
was not thrifty season for the lobbyists, an6
now they will appear more eager than ever.


Under the guise of opening new avenues of
TRANSFORMATION from the west tc the seaboard,
there will be numerous schemes, demanding
MANY millions of dollars 10 build railroads,
canals, etc. 1t cannot be expected that any
oneof these proposed enterprises will receive
government aid as others equally deserving
would oppose it, so that the only danger to be
apprehended is, that general schemes may
combine to harmonic sectional interests and
carry through Congress an omnibus railway
and canal subsidy bill involving an immense
expenditure and opening tho way to numer
GUS Credit Mobilier affairs.


The steamship lines that usually demand
subsidies will be there with re-inforcements.
One of these lines will ask the nation to pay
ten dollars head for every emigrant brought
to this country in American built vessels and
sailing under our national flag


A most determined attempt will be made
to pass bill refunding the tax collected on
cotton amounting to nearly sixty millions.
These tax claims have nearly all been secured
by spectators and lobbyists who can afford
to pay handsome bribes to carry measure
that has hitherto failed but which has gained
strength every year.


1t is also stated that Il scheme has been
concocted to induce Congress to assume the
debts of the States that went into the rebel
lion and which have been so profiigate in their
expenditures since the war. The advocates
of the measure do not expect immediate sue
cess but hope by continual presentations, with
such seductive arguments as they well know
how to use,to bring the national Congress in
to such frame Of mind that it will finally con
sent to increase the national debt tour or five
hundred millions. 1t is understood that their
principal arguments is that the large indebted
dess of those States is chiefly due to the de-
mands consequent upon their wastec and
wrecked condition resulting from the wal, ,and
that such extraordinary expenditures ought to
be borne by the nation.


The pending distribution of the Geneva
award affords rich prospect for the lobbyists
and if Congress is not very cautious large
part of this money that should go to those
who xvara ruine1 hv the Anolo- -rphn1 niratps
will bn seized by underwriters who have once
received their pay in excessive insurance
rates.


On the whole, the public treasury was nev.
er beset By SO large and so skillfully equipped
dinary vigilance is demanded to meet and re-
pei their insGious approaches.
Year: 1873

WE do not read anonymous letters and commune
cations. The name and address ofthe writer are IN
all cases indispensab necessarily for publication
but as a guaranty ofgood faith.


W cannot undertake to return or reserve COM
municauons that are not used.
Year: 1873

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with card certificate countersigned by Stanley L.
Pullen. Editor. All railway, steamboat AMI hote
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
Journal, as have information that several bum
mers'' are seeking courtesies in the name of the
Press, and we have no disposition to be, pas
ivey a party to such fraud
Year: 1873

Reader, the merchant, druggist and gro
Ger where you usually trade, keeps Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil for sale II they
are out, they will get a new supply at your
request, but be sure and call for it by the
full name, and take nothing else in its
stead 1T works like a charm
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
erS
Year: 1873

ARGUMENT OF THE DEFENSE - THE TESTIMONY OF


CoNvICTs PRONOUNCED NOTWITHSTANDING


ITY OF A DISAGREEMENT AMONG THE JURORS.


On the opening of the Hudson County
Courts yesterday morning, the room was densely
crowded deep interest being felt in the conclusion Of
the trial OF exChief Of Police McWIliams and Detective
DOYLE At o'clock ex-Chancelor Williamson began
the summing up for the defense.


This was the first case he said in Hudson County. and
he thought in the state, where convicts had been
transported from the state Prison in the hope that their
testimony would convict conviction could be had
evidence unless 1t was strongly corroborated The
spectacle singular one The witnesses were con
victed burglars from another state Whe DOth the ac
cused had been born and Dred IN the county ana had


lived in 1t all their lives. Neither had been absent
except while one them In the army. With all the
appliances at the command OF the state IL came
here with no new evidence but with tne same
convict. The bank officials have never pressed this
case and apparently did not believe In the quit or the
accused The whole story was one fabricated Dy tle
burglars to please e County prosecutor ana pteEeht
their trial the other indictments pending against
Them Tue testimony OF McDOnOugh worthless, and
there had never been any attempt 10 prove the
tOn OF the defendants with the prior to the 6t
tempt been made TO corrobOrate the testimony on the
burglars what occurred before that date Was 1t
likely tnen, that a man Of McWliamo's acknowledged
ability would 90 TO NewYo aud hawk ths job as they
say he did Was II likely that he would, If once In It, go
away to Philadelphia at the time when he could be OF most
service by remaining I'D the cly1 WOuid nc not on re-
ceving SandfOrd's dispatch have haslened 10 Jersey
CITY, and, saving the burglars, save nlmseHi Inc
testimony given could not be twisted into proof OF
guilt Mrs Devereauxs testimony worthless, since
She could not be found at the last trial. and only
came forward give her story she has read II IN the
papers Moreover, she il her testimony 10 be
trusted, involved herself The flight OF McWilams was
no evidence OF guilt, and could not be so construed
under tine law.


At this point, Mr. O'Brien, Of the jurors, was
taken 30 i'll that he had 10 be excused and the court ad
iourned Should the sick be able to attend this
morning. the case will be given TO the jury to-day AS
the trial proceeds the feeling grows stronger that
another disagreement will In such an event is
not likely that the prosecution will ever be resumed