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Year: 1872

FROM the washington STAR


We wagered small sum with a friend once
that he could not get out of that paradise of
snobs called the Fifth avenue Hotel, without
being forced to fee the waiter. He was a
plucky fellow. He had behaved handsomely
under fire in the field, and passed with
credit from under all sorts of social batteries
in the battle of life. We watched him close
ly. He marched from his room, valise in
hand, and began his descent of the grand
stairway, scorning to take advantage of the
elevator. He passed servants eyeing him as
if he was a sneak thief, as he was. His first
sk1rmish came of i'll the hall opposite the din
ing room, and our friend proved the victor.
The last fight was trying. Directly facing it
is that heavy battery of clerks whose dia-
mond shirt fronts, shiny hair, stunning
clothes, and elevated manners so Oppress poor
humanity.


We saw our friend draw deep breath and
begin the descent. He took the fire of lofty
contempt from the clerk battery, and turn
ing to the left encountered heavy reserve
of whisk brooms. This charged on him in
platoon; while one detachment attacked his
baggage another assaulted him on flank and
rear with whisk brooms. He fought thronol
gallantly. He had nearly reached the en-.
trance when huge African bore down upor
his right and the two passed out Struggling
for the valise. Victory hung doubtful, Wien,
unfortunately for our gallant friend, two
ladies OF his acquaintance, who happened to
be passing, paused to bid him farewell. This
was fatal. He relinquished his valise, bowed
TO his friends, was thrust into hack and
meekly paid the African counterfeit nfty
cent fractional currency that he held III re-
serve in case the worst came 10 10 tne
worst.
Year: 1872

The CULTURE OF THE HAIR.-Just as surely
a soil infested with Canadian thistles can be
made to produce fine crops of golden grain, the
scalp now sparsely covered with harsh, dry.
unmanageable hair may be made prolific of
silken tresses. All that is necessary to effect
the change in either case is the right kind of
fertilizer. Leaving the agricultural chemists
to determine how the barren land shall be
fruitful, we positively assert that Lyons Ka-
thairon is unequaled as fertilizer and 6eauti-
fer of the hair. Twenty-Five years of success is
the basis of this unqualified statement. Dur
ing that time it has been used by many millions
of both sexes, and the first instance in which Il
has failed to fulfil the expectations of ration
al purchaser has yet to be discovered. twill
not cause hair to grow on a vanished gourd;
but where ever the roots of the hirsute fibers
remain undisturbed it will cause them to put
forth new shoots, and in all cases where the
hair has become thin it will increase its vol
ume nov11-eod1w&1w
Year: 1872

1t requires a good deal ofskill and good
taste to write a neat puff for an undertaken.
A newspaper editor in Council Bluffs says: :
''Since We have to use coffins, we prefer those
which Riley furnishes. We took view of
his supply of the commodity, yesterday after
noon. His stock would even carry the city
pretty well through an average siege of
cholera
Year: 1872

''Come in, there's fire in the parlor,"
were the whispered words we heard while
passing house on one of our principal streets
last evening. 1t is such little courtesies as
these that increase the coal dealers profits,
and tend to make the baker sweat over six
story wedding cakes before the winter is
Over.-TttusriUe Press
Year: 1872

THE TRIBUNE has a well-known and inyet
crate habit of calling a spade a spade and
untruthful folks by the expressive name they
receive in the Scriptures. Whenever it does so,
however it expects to make good its word
and fix the brand where it places it. Natu-
rally it has also, on the other hand life
long aversion to publishing man as a thief
until it has the absolute proof of his Grim
inality; and even then it does not proceed
to condemn without giving him chance TO
be heard. This will hardly be understood by
The World and The Times as a response to
their insnuations of yesterday that THE
TRIBUNE defends the Rings which they have
chosen to attack with much vituperatiOn and
little fact, for evidently they cannot appre-
ciate the improperly of calling a man thief
without proof of their assertion. We will,
therefore, reply in less general terms, and We
begin with The Times.


1t talked yesterday of THE TRIBUNE's "per-
forming its allotted task Of defending Tam
"many" because we gave, without approval or
comment, alderman COman's statement re-
garding the Tammany frauds of 1868. The
Times republished the story for the same rea-
son probably that we gave it originally, because
it was found interesting. We have neither
defense nor explanation for Mr.. Conan or
Gov Hoffman, and we have already said that
their connection with the issue of the warrants
lately recorded in The Times required some
sort of explanation. We have probably az
little faith in the Ring az The Times has, but
we have not thought il advisable indiscrim-
inately to denounce some of the members
Gov Hoffman and Mayor Hall for
instance-as thieves on the evidence which
The Times has produced. And we will tell 1t
very candidly the reason. 1t never brought
forward any legal evidence whatever that Hall
had stolen dollar of money. while Mr.. Charles
O'COnOr and Mr. Samuel J. Tilden, whose
Investigations into the bank accounts of the
Ring secured the only conclusive evidence
against Tweed and the others, have assured u5
that not a dollar of the stolen funds could be
traced to the Mayor. The Times has never
produced any legal proof of what it
has so frequently reiterated, and its pub
Usher when invited to submit the proofs he
claimed to possess, positively and indeed
rather Indignantly declined 20 do so. No re-
sponsibe individuals of all the citizens and
Supervisors who investigated the Ring ac-
counts, or the new Controller himself, or the
new Attorney General OF his associates, who
have had the collection of the evidence against
the Ring, have ever made themselves jointly
responsible with The Times for saying that
Year: 1872

There is to be a meeting at the Cooper In
stitute tonight under the auspices of the
United States Indian Commission, at which
Red Cloud and Red Dog are to be present, and
at which none but rose-cOlored views of our
frontier relations will be expressed. The public
Is gradually losing hope of any speedy ameh-
Grafton in that direction, but it is always in
terested in seeing and hearing the representa-
tives of 4 vanishing race.
Year: 1872

are not as encouraging as former ones have
been and as the well wishers of the labOring
class especially would like to have them. The
fact is, and it becomes more and more pam
fully apparent each succeeding year, that the
labor market of Massachusetts is OyerstOcked.
Although the manufacturing interests are
rapidly driving out those of agriculture, ana
farms are Transforming themselves into town
lots, the supply of labor more than equals the
demand, and the individual prosperity OF the
manufacturing classes does not keep pace with
that of the general prosperity. The remedy
for this is more difficult to find than Is the
evil itself; but the final solution which must
come is, of course, the emigration which is
relieving to-day the overcrowded districts of
Europe. Happily our own country ahords
ample fields and offers grand inducements 10
the laborers in the crowded districts.


One of the strikers made deliberate though
unsuccessful attempt yesterday, to murder
fellow workman who presumed to WORK zen
hours day. Another was put under Sl'VVV
bonds to restrain him from executing tnreaC
to set fire to a factory because the men EN-
ployed in it refused to join the elght-hour
movement. The police reserves are held IN
readiness for immediate action, and Superntend-
ent Kelso " does not attempt to disguise the tact
"that a serious breach of the peace may be
"precipitated at any time by the more reck-
"less among the strikers" Incendiary appeals
are uttered and even published by reckless
agitators and the moderation and fairness
which ought to accompany a demonstration
by American wOrkmen threaten to give way
to riot and lawlessness. Fortunately many of
the workmen are still cool enough and rea-
sonable enough to see that violence and
bloodshed can only bring swift and sanguinary
punishment, and that burning factories will
merely make it impossible for the owners to
grant the eight-hOur demand, or even to fur
nish any employment whatever to their men.
Until compelled to do otherwise we shall put
faith in the ability of these Clear-headed
artisans to control their more reckless fellows
and to restrain them from disgracing the city
and the workingman's cause by bloody and
fTuitess "labOr riot"
Year: 1872

Here is a piece of information which will rejoice
the hearts not only of Mr. Bergh and his kind asso-
ciates but also of the pigeon-shoOteTs The Denrer
Tribune has been shown artificial pigeon. con-
stTucted as to like thing of life The wings
so arranged as to receive a violent motion from a
spring compressed within pedestal upon which the
pigeon is placed and the thing is raised in air by
the pulling of a trigger. The specimen seen by The
Tribune flew about 200 yards This is a French in
venton. and will give sportsmen an opportunity to
show their skill without making a massacre of the
innOcents.
Year: 1872

The capture of Gen. Ynclan i'll Cuba appears
to be confirmed. There are further details of
the skirmsh in which AgramOnte was said to
be wounded. These are losses which the IN
surgent cause cannot but feel. The Spanards
appear to have been favored by fortune lately
more than by any energy of their own. The
easy way they have of dealing with important
social questions is seen in the dispatch an
nouncng that the InternatiOndle is in league
with the rebels, and that therefore it is to be
taken care Of.
Year: 1872

The Quoquinnapssakesoscona House al Hamp-
ton Beach TO let What do people call it for short
what hotel do they ask for when they want to go
there The owners probably want to let il ON ac-
count of its name 1t Is almost as much of an in
cumbrance a mortgage. Fancy discomGted tour
lists with the fingers on the unpronouncabe name in
tho hand-bllls, saying to stage-drivers, I'VE want
to go TO hat house.. and the That House Il doubt
less remains To mOet visitors.
Year: 1872

From all our exchanges we get the information
that all over the country preparations are making
Tor the celebration of the Fourth Of July There is
a good deal of uniformity in our observance of the
day. In the morning there is a Naturalization of
the bells bells bells" of the bell, if the village
has but one. Then an old honey cOmbed cannon is
brought out and discharged. with OF without dam
age to life OF limb may be. Then there is pro-
cession, and an Grafton, and dinner and sometimes
picnic and then the patriotic people go TO
bed extremely tired. 1t is pity that somebody
cannot hit upon method of nationally eelebrat-
ing something which shall not involve cOnfagrations
and noise and bad rhetoric. The matter. however,
seems to be settled for all time TO come The Fourth
must be celebrated according to the traditional pre-
cedents; and better so than not celebrated at all
Our fathers not We are responsible for its being
kind of Guy Faux day though it might have been
quieter and more domestic anniversary if the Fourth
of July had happened to come in December.
Year: 1872

The Conservative Lords have gained great
moral victory over the Gladstone Government
The Grenader Guards Band was at Liverpool
ready to sail TO the Peace Jubilee, when the
Marquis of Hertford and the Duke of Rich
mond asked sternly what it meant. Earl
Granville thought it would please the United
States and help the Treaty. But the protest
was effectual, and the Guards Band will not
play Rule Britannia nor the Mabel Waltz in
the Coliseum this time. That JOY win be left
to us after the next war. by which time it is
TO be hoped that Mr.. Gilmore will have trained
the thunder to join his chorus; so that the
minstrels of the Guards may carry back with
them something really worth remembering,
Year: 1872

TIE following is an extract from the
Constitution Of the Fergus Falls Anti
Horse Thief Association. We should
judge they mean business


''l0th. It shall be tho sworn duty Of
any sad al members Of this society cap-
turing horse thief having in his posses
sion tho property Of any member Of this
association, to promptly execute the said
horse thief, BY hanging. or in the absence
Of the facilities for hanging, BY shooting,
or in any other manner, but in any and Ill
events 70 take such effective neaeares %
shall preclude The possibility Of the rstu,a
Of said horse thief to commit any further
dstredatisas."
Year: 1872

The German words lager beer signify
stock beer. g., beer that has been
stored away. The story, IS told in
Germany, is an old one, aud runs thus :
Many years ago = shoemaker, near
B.mburg, sent his apprentice to get a
bottle Of Bamburg beer, which Va. sold
At that place; but the boy, not know.
ing this, went to the city itself On
returning he met On acquaintance Of
his, who told him that when he would
come home his boss would whip him
for stsping 50 long. The poor boy, who
VAS frightened At this, thought it bet
ter not to 60 homo At al, but took hi'
bottle, buried it under tree, aud ran
Amy. He vent among tho soldiers,
where be distinguished himself 50 that
in short time be became an officer.
When one day his regiment was quar-
telsd in this small town, the officer
thought proper to pay visit to his OLD
boss, but not before hs had got the bot
tie OF beer which he had buried some
some year before under the tree. When
he entered he said, "Well, Dir, here I
bring you your bottle Of Bsmburg beer
that you sent me for" The shoemaker
not knowing what this meant, was told
by the officer al about it. The bottle
Was then opened, and the beer was
found to be of superior quality. When
this fact was known, some Of the brew.
ers built deep vaults, where they put
their beer, and called it, after it had
l'in there some time, lager, which
meant nothing more than lying. The
officer afterward married the daughter
Of tho shoemaker, and drank = good
deal Of lager beer, receiving in that
occupation the assistance of bis father
in-laW.
Year: 1872

REMOVAL OF OFFIcEs.-The office of the
Chief of Police has been removed to the
Town Hall. This Office will also in future be
the place Of iflectiilg Of the Board of Irus-
tees, and the Police Justice will also hold his
court at this place: We learn that in future
no trials will be allowed in the Town Hall by
the township officers, as this building is to be
occupied exclusively by the town officials
nor will any prisoners not charged with iel-
ony be received therein.


POLICE CopRT.-Polly Taylor, arrested for
having in her possession lot Of clothing
stolen from Misses Hill and Keenan,, was AZ
raigned and sent on for further trial.


j. C. Butts, charged with violation of the
Sunday law in keeping his confectionery
open, was fined $40.


In this connection we would state that from
and after this date the Chief Of Police Will
rigidly enforce the law requiring all parties
to keep their shops closed on Sunday. We
understand that this apnlics particularly to
places where liquor is s0Id.


MEETING OF TIE County CoURT.-The re-
glllar monthly session Of the County Court
commences on Monday. On Monday night
the conference between the town and county
authorities takes place when it is hoped that
the controversy over the title to the court
house and grounds will be settled. We have
heard of no very important cases to be con-
sidered,


PERsoNAL.-Sfr. John Charlton, long O
well-known resident of our town, has left fol
Scottsvile to take charge of the we'll
known flour mills at that place. We wish
him great SUCCESS in his new home and pro
fcssion.


AT THE GRANITE HEADoUxRTEEs.-The ut
most activity prevails at this place. Two
blacksmith shops are already in operation
and Il third one Il being built, the company
expecting to have use for over thirty forge:
when they get in full operation. Railroads
have been built upon both sides of the shed
one for the purpose of bringing the stone
and the other for carrying it oil when dressed
A large force of fhouse-carpentcrsar are engaged
in building other sheds for the accommoda
ton of the increased force expected. The
company has had built for its accommodation
very substantial office, and is now engaged
in repairing all Of the old buildings arounC
the late Confederate marine headquarters
The blacksmith shops are very substantial
and commodiolS buildings. In very shor
time the entire force will be at work, and the,
our community will begin to appreciate thcil
value.
Year: 1872

FUNDING BILL INvEsTIGAT1oN.-The COM
mittee appointed by the House of Delegates
to investigate the charges of bribery and cor
ruption in connection with the passage Of the
funding bill by the last Legislature is hard at
work, holding daily sessions with closed
doors
Year: 1872

Found GUILTY OF AssAULT.--Pat MaXfcld
was before the Hastings Court Yesterday to
answer the charge of assauting James Free
man. He was found guilty, fined one cent,
and sent to Jail for thirty days.
Year: 1872

RISE IN TIE RWER.-The recent heavy
rain. together with the melting snow and ice
In the mountains. have had the effect OF swell
ing the river slightly and changing the color
of the water
Year: 1872

HESR1co COUNTY CoURT.-The drawn jury
for the February term of this court has been
discharged Not one case remains on the
docket to be disposed of except the Anna6le
case, which, no doubt, will be decided to-
day, Judge Minor having decided to render
his decision at that time.
Year: 1872

Every citizen will concede that the ice and
snow left to accumulate in our thoroughfares
are far more inconvenient than oil the dust
and mud Of the warm season. Yet we have
year after year, seen the contractor utterly fail
In Winter, for months at q time, to remove
load of the filthy compound. A thaw was
alone to be relied on, and then the
condition was horrible for a time.
Now, when the city does this business
by its own agents it has q right to expect
them to do what the contract system so
uniformly failed to do-keep the streets clear
from nasty accumulations during the cold
season. Possibly it may require an unusual
amount of labor and q heavy outlay of the
city funds if SO, we are sure no city disburse-
ment will be more generally and heartily
sanctioned by the taxpayers than that used
business will be promoted by this reform,
which it is to be hoped the Street Cleaning
Department will thoroughly carry out during
the Winter. Besides the sanitary and COM
mercial advantages the city will reap if
this duty is thoroughly performed, its prose-
cution may be made the means Of vast good
by aHording employment and livelihood to
large body of men willing to work, but not
likely to ind such labor as they are compe-
tent for The department has already begun
with commendable promptness the work of
carting away from Broadway the immense
piles of snow encumbering it. This is right,
and should be applied Immediately to all the
principal arteries of city travel. IF this is
done the public will not fail to award due
praise to the faithful officers who shall
merit IT,
Year: 1872




Wanted.


1t is disagreeable to think that the snow
storms Of year to come may find New York
as much in their power as the present storm
finds us now. Travel has been impeded
everywhere in the city, and the difficulty of
going from one end Of the island to the other
is something appalling to the ordinary mind
Three hours journey in a crowded horse car
on snowy day, with the thermometer twenty
degrees below freezing point, is an experience
once gained never forgotten. For the first
fifteen minutes it may be jolly enough. Peo-
pie incline to gayety on snowy days as per-
sistently as they bend to moroseness on rainy
days. The new arrivals in the horse car keep
up the joviality. The insidious cold all this
while is seeking out the very marrow of the
traveller who entered the car at the HERALD
Office on his way to Harlem. The fun be-
comes hateful. He stamps his feet claps his
hands, rubs his ears and almost resolves on
He may be n man of some endurance and he
comes through without mishap, although
every joint in his spinal column
is aching This is explained by the
fact that during heavy SHOWS the
horse cars have an uncomfortable liking for
running off the track. If this man, while
under the malign influences of his ride up
town, thinks for a moment of the benefits an
underground or overground steam railroad
would confer on New York his pangs will be
almost unbearable from the contrast. The
thought must have suggested itself to, nay,
forced itself upon, thousands of citizens who
rode up or down town in the horse cars within
the past two days. 1t was, perhaps, more
constantly present to those whom the snow
and the all-but-disabled horse car lines pre-
vented from leaving their homes at all. Rapid
transit we want and should have. If the
misery entailed by its absence is more visible
in bad weather, its want in all weatbers is
pressing. We have had scheme after scheme
presented, only to fail when brought into the
first steps towards being carried out The
Legislature has passed several bills authorizing
the construction of lines, but they have not
progressed further than the plans. We do
not now propose to trouble ourselves about
what mode would be the best we believe
that any plan, if only safe enough, over
ground or underground, would pay. Let
something be done.
Year: 1872

with wrecks. Many lives have been lost, but
the lists were not complete. The British
metropolis rejoiced over the failure of the
gas-stokers to plunge the city in darkness.
The gas companies had completely triumphed
over the strikers, some of whom had been SEN
tenced to imprisonment and others remanded
for trial The recent French crisis was
largely commented upon, its result being
generally considered temporary advantage
Tor the Right, while the cause of the moderate
republicans was sure to gain upon the inevita-
BILE dissolution Of the Assembly. Bismarck's s
victory over the Prussian Junkers was
esteemed the sign of popular progress and an
indication Of stability for the new Empire
which the Prince Chancellor is crystallizing
out of the heretofore antagonistic elements of
Fatherland. The Gladstone Cabinet was to
meet on the 18th for the last time prior to the
holiday recess. Irish University education
reform was believed to be on the slate as its
leading measure for the next Parliamentary
session. Game laws and scarcity of food ere
discussed among the people.
Year: 1872

What is the worth of a maiden's heart ?
This question has come to be decided by
cool, unsentimental experts. The daugh-
ter Of a poor widow in Berlin, Germany,
died of heart disease, and young phys
ician who attended her during her i'll
ness persuaded the mother, in the inte-
rest Of science, to give him the poor
girls heart. After the lapse of some
time the doctor asked the widow for an
honorarium of eight thalers Fifteen sill
yer groschen) for all his visits and
trouble. She delayed payment; he com
plained, and then she gave out that she
considered the gift Of her daughters
heart as equivalent to the sum de-
manded. If this was not acknowledged,
she required the heart to be returned or
the fee in dispute to be handed over to
her. The doctor cannot now produce
the heart, but persists in his claim; so
the question must be tried, whether
maiden's heart is or is net worth eight
thalers (fifteen silver groschen.)