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Year: 1873

The New England Farmer cautions the
farmers to wage an unceasing war of ex-
termination against tho Wild Carrot, which
it says is gaining ground and spreading
over the farms of New England at an alarm
ing rate, and threatens to become rs great a
pest as the ox-eye daisy. 1t is believed
to be nothing but the common field carrot
let loose. 1t is worthless for feed nd very
exhaustive to the soil. 1t Is probable that
II comes 10 US In grass seed from the West.
Year: 1873

c. pays taxes on his land Mr.. A. is for
that reason exempted from paying taxes
on his capital. The bill is intended to
invite capital from abroad to seek in our
State safe and remunerative investment,
both in business enterprises and in liens,
deeds of trust and mortgages on our real
estate. The bill, if your correspond
eut is competent judge, will
certainly be the most important
one which a Tennessee Legislature
has entertained since the war. No part
Of our people are uninterested in it, and
if Il passes all will be benefited, from
the poorest laboring man to the richest
nabOb. Mrs. Meriwether deservingly
smashed Mr.. Kerr. Her memorial was
read from the Clerks desk in the House,
and was received with the attention
which such a document should COM
mand. | think Mr.. Kerr will be found
the only advocate of his bill before Mrs.
Meriwether is done with him.


Advise your people 10 ask for what
they want, and my word for it they will
get all the relief which legislation can
give them.


Representative Mulvihill is preparing
a mechanics lien law, which will give
equal and exact justice, and your work
ingmen can rest easy, for he is their
friend, competent and anxious to give
them what they should have.
Year: 1873

On Wednesday last a jury rendered 8
decision In the case between the Wheel-
in favor of the plaintiffs for thirteen
thousand four hundred and ninety dol
lars. The suit was brought to recover
Year: 1873

Tom Marshall was captain of com pany in Col. Humphrey Marshall's s regi- ment of cavalry in the Mexican war. One evening, when very much under the influence of liquor, he went to the quar- termaster with whom he mas intimate, and behaved in so outrageous manner that the latter was compelled to kick him out. Next morning, of course, the quartermaster was the recipient of @ cartel from Captain Marshall. The challenged office declined to fight duel for the several reasons that he held a profitable position, from which he de- rived comfortable support for his fam fly, who depended upon his exertions for a living; that he was constitutionally opposed to dueling anyhow; that he had taken an oath when sworn to his com mission not to engage in Q duel so long as he was an officer in the United States army, and he did not desire or intend to forfeit that commission and suffer ig- nominious dismlssal from the service by gratifying Captain Marshall's very evil dent, mania for the duello. 'tBut, " wrote the quartermaster in conclusion, Gas Captain Marshall is dissatisfied with one kicking, I will pledge myself to give him kicking every time he comes about my quarters and misbe- ha1es himself as he did on the occasion complained of"

 "Gentlemen," Tom would say, in that peculiar serio-drol way of his, ''I would rather the rascal had shot me dead than decline my challenge in that manner O
Year: 1873

The other day Charles B. Sumner, q worthy farmer and merchant near Suf- folk, Va., kissed his wife and children and rode over into Gates County, NC, to look up 0 stock of chickens and eggs, About monday Q severe storm came up, and Mrs. Sumner had just laid the table-cloth and fixed the knives and forks for dinner. Her twin boys, nine or ten years old, and one of them deaf, came to the house as Mrs. Sumner sat in her chair, after some nails, to go out and nail up the fence. Just as they got to the door going out, the lightning struck the chimney of the house and the little boys fell dead out of the door. Mrs. Sumner ran to the door and faint ed, fell out, apparently dead, by, the side of her little boys. A can of ker- osene in the same room on the mantel- piece had taken fire and caught the clothes of Mrs. Summers little girl, and the house was catching fire as the grown daughterof Mrs. Sumner ran out from the kitchen and this scene met her eyes. She and an old woman put the fire out in the little girls clothes, and smothered the fire in the house. The little girl, it is thought, will die. Mrs. Sumner, whose condition was very delicate at the time, Is in precarious state of health.
Year: 1873

There was boy in Nelson street, Danbury, yard cutting wood, yesterday, and he worked at it in strikingly nat ural manner First he set the stick on one end and prepared to strike it when it tumbled down. Then he stood it up, and put silver under the weak side to sustain 1t, and lifted the axe for the blow, when it tumbled again. As he had got the axe up quite ways this time, and was fairly quivering with ex- dectation, the reaction was not pleas ant. It appeared to weaken him, and before another trial, he leaned on the axe and looked around on the scenery. At the third trial he put several slivers under the stick, and was some five min utes doing it. Then he raised the axe carefully, deliberately took aim, and brought the blade down with terrible force, and within about an inch-and-a- half of the stick, which immediately tipped over. This surprised him. He looked at the axe, then at the stick, and then around at the houses to see if anybody was looking. He was ten minutes propping the stick up the would stand without being held, he IoOh up bIlS aAS, huu h1boA S0FOAdA Aioch motions so to get the right aim, he swung the implement down again. The blade struck the stick with terri ble force within about sixteenth-of- an-inch from the edge, and took off a slip about five inches long: We don't suppose there is anything quite so az gravating as this. Splitting your shin open to the bone is pastime in com parison. The Nelson street boy stood that stick up again without any cere- mony, and with the least display in the world swung the axe over his head and brought it spitefully down. The blade this time clipped off half-inch chip, and then swung around with such mo- mentum as to throw the boy off his feet and drive him headlong over pile of other sticks, every one of which he struck with his knees or face. We don't think we ever saw any boy get on his feet as quick as that boy did. And we were not in the least surprised to sec him snatch up that axe, and with screams and sobs, beat that stick until he was exhausted. With this unpleas- ant duty performed, he flung the axe in among the tomato vines, and went in the house for piece of cake.
Year: 1873

The spirit of malicious mischief which has given no respite to the tortured spirit of George Russ, of Jonesville, found an aperture for whole sale exit in the numerously attended party at the Harris Works, says local

 paper. After long and patient watch

 ing, his expectant vision took in the grand opportunity to relieve himself at desire to infict his mischievous in- genuity upon his fellow creatures and

 achieve that sudden distinction which

 spirit of energy upon the consummation Q quarter of a pound of cayenne pepper pocket. That night he attended the party. He had no invitation, but George stands not upon the conven- him recognition. He had business entered the crowded room, threading his way here and there, meandering to the right, to the left, forwards, back wards, and as he progressed in his travels the quarter of pound of cayenne pepper which he had bought in the afternoon, spread itself in ser pentine shapes upon the floor of the room. Then George withdrew to Q retired corner and enjoyed the sneezing and excited remarks of his two thou sand victims. He went home happy that night, and doubtless would have been so still had not Marshal Crotzen- berg pulled him from under the side- walk on North Main street the next morning and taken him to jail. He was brought into the presence of Justice Smith to answer to Q criminal charge, and the upshot of the affair is that he was sentenced to forty days in jail and fine of $14.90.
Year: 1873

The Shreveport (La.) Times of late date says:

 The epidemic exhibits but little change, and that the decrease in the number of new cases is greatly owing to want of material. The number of deaths is fearful to contemplate the mortality is beyond precedent, and it looks as though but comparatively few will get we'll Thus far very few have got about, while some finger along between life and death. In some few instances whole families have been swept out of existence in the short lpace of one week. The sudden change in the weather last Sunday night sent scores to their beds, which accounts for the large number of interments in the last day or two. In the language of one of the New Orleans physicians, they drop ped off like sheep dying with the rot. Medical treatment of the most skillful kind does not appear to do any good in great many cases, whereas, in many others, the temporary relief afforded is quickly followed by death. Our stores are all closed, and all our dwelling houses turned into hospitals ip fact, Shreveport is one great hospital one great charnel-housel

 The Times publishes death record. That journal says the number of inter ments since the 1st of September sums up 342 the nunber of sick is estima- ted, variously, at from 500 to 800.
Year: 1873

There is young girl employed in the factory at Ottawa, Canada, where the Bank Note Company turns out Canadian greenbacks by the cord, whose life from her very cradle has been @ romance we'll worth telling. During the "cholera year. "-about 1855, unless my memory is at fault-there came to Ottawa, then Bytown, 8 young American couple, travelling, it would seem for pleasure, or seeking a home in Canada. Hardly had they arrived here than both were smitten by the fatal disease and died with that terrible rapidity which marks the most aggravated cases. They died at hotel, leaving behind them baby daughter but few weeks old, and nothing whatever to indicate their iden- tity beyond the fact that they came from New York. The proprietor of the hotel was about to send the child to the Foundlin4 Hospital when & childless woman of middle age, whom he had employed to wash the infected clothing of the sick, offered to take charge of it and, if it lived, adopt it as her own. The mild lived and thrived and grew uE handsome and clever girl, unaware

 nat any one but the woman she called mother had given her birth.

 It was not until some four or five years since, hat @ gentleman from New York inter sted in the publication of weekly journal, happened to be passing through Ottawa and heard the girls queer his- tory. A little investigation sufficed to show that she was his niece, the son of his brother who had died here so many years before, and the manner of whose death the survivor had been unable to trace. The result of his conference with the girl and her foster parents was her departure with him for New York, where she remained until last summer, enjoying every advantage of education and position which wealth and affec- ton could confer upon her. Then she came to Ottawa to pay her foster mother 8 visit. She found things with the old woman changed for the worse. Her husband, who had been in his lifetime @ sort of crier or tip-staff in one of the courts, was dead, and she had been compelled in her old age to take to the tub and mangle again to earn Iveli- hood. What put it into the girls head devotion, fancy, or what not-I can not say, but certain it is that she vowed not to leave her old "mother while she lived, but to stay with her and work for her. Her uncle came from New York so soon as she had appraised him of her intention and endeavored to induce her to alter her determination, but she was infexible. She gave up her easy home in New York with all the accessor- ies of society, dress, and prospects, doffed her silks and put on humber but quite as becoming prints, obtained employment in the Bank Note Printing Company's office, and is there still, living with her old foster-mother, to all appearances as happy as when in New York she was budding belle and probable heiress. Who, after this true recital, shall say that there are no TO- mances nowadays?
Year: 1873

It seemed, however, as if Charlie were actually afraid of the money that was so temptingly near Jessie's grasp, for he commenced 0 series of interviews that bore entirely upon the subject of an immediate marriage.

 "What is there to wait, ,for?" he would ask, and then enter upon calculations of his present expenses and those'of the future, proving most conclusively that there was decided saving for both in uniting their incomes"

 You remind me-" said Jessie, ''of the Dutchman who said he could al- most support himself alone, and it was pity if two of them could not do it entirely"

 But though she laughed at him, Jes- sic was quite willing to admit the force of his reasoning and one bright June morning, six months after Aunt Jessie's death, there was wedding in the viii lage church, and breakfast in the cot tage for few chosen friends. Among these was Aunt Jessie's lawyer, for the will stipulated that the sealed codicil was to be opened at Jessie's wedding, if she preferred love to money.

 The bride was little paler than usual when with solemn face the New York lawyer broke the big red seal. Visions of John Garland holding drunk en revels in her aunt's house fitted across her mind, and then she looked into Charlie's face, and over her own crept an expression of peffect content.

 The will was opened and found to contain only letter directed to Jessie, and short, legally worded formula, making herself and her chosen husband joint inheritors of her aunt's fortune. Truly the bride opened the letter from the dead.

 With loving. words Aunt Jessie blessed her and wished her happiness.

 1T do not," she wrote, "approve of the money power in family being en- tirely in the hands of a woman there fore you will find, dear Jessie, that half of my fortune only is yours, the remain ing half to go to the husband who has proved that he loved you for your own sweet self, not for your fortune"

 During the wedding tour of the young couple, Mrs. Markham, at their earnest solicitation, took an affectionate fare we'll of her pupils, and removed her household treasures to the New York mansion, to which n dpe time came Charlie and Jessie to brighten the long silent rooms with their happiness, and establish that loving circle that makes home of any house, however grand or humble.
Year: 1873

We have read carefully the addresses delivered before the different editorial associations in the United States this season, and must say, that as whole, they do not come up to the standard point. As to the poems, they have been, taken as @ whole, bad.

 Taken generally, the effort of the committees has appeared to be, to secure somebody whose reputation warranted an interesting discourse. This is laud- able, perhaps, but editors and pub- fishers do not care much about listen may be, when he talks about subject with which he is not familiar. We claim that no man not @ thorough, prac- tical printer and editor, can deliver an address that will interest or claim the attention of an editorial association. On this occasion something connected with the printing office is expected something practical that will benefit.

 Of the many addresses we have seen this year, few by printers have con tained this information; but we regret printing and publishing of newspapers dI COuCSIu0u, uatNo tS IuuCu GO uO WIUIl the subject as Q dime novel. Theoreti- cal newspapers will do to talk to the outside world, but to newspaper men something little more tangible is needed. We trust that the experiments tried by association committees have been sufficient to satisfy them, and that hereafter when an address is wanted, a veteran out of the ranks will be taken some man who went into a printing office determined to learn his trade, re- mained there until it was learned, and when he sat down into the editorial chair, assumed a position that he had earned. Such a man will never fail to tell editors and publishers something that will interest and benefit them. N, y. Union.
Year: 1873

The London Times, commenting on the financial panic in New York, says, in view of the extraordinary prosperity of the United States and the high price of government bonds, the present gust must be regarded as simply an effort of the financial system to get rid of it's dishonest clements,

 The Daily Telegraph says such local troubles as the suspensions in New York seem to be are merely the rank out growth of an exuberant prosperity, and accessories to Q progress which does not for moment halt.
Year: 1873

This will be good news to
millions of City and Country
customers, for they will gain
the profit Of PANIC PRICES.
We are willing to give up our
Profits now, and we say, with
out exaggeration, that this is
Year: 1873

Now that it is clearly ascertained that Con-
eressmen have become debauched, and that
virtue has gone out of Congress, there is gen.
eral inquiry as to the cause of the detection.
One of our cOtemporaries, for example, afflicted
with a sort Of economic strabismus, and con-
vinced that love of high tariff is the root of
all evil, is sure that Congressman are demoral-
lied by voting to protect home industries; if
we had free trade, the temptation would be
removed; this is not so much locking the
stable-door after the steed is stolen; it is
locking the wrong stable-dOOr Another
thinks that Congressman are underpaid, and
should have larger salaries, that they may
no longer be obliged to use the last part of
the prayer of Agur--"lest be poor and steal"
This is though one should increase the wages
of his salesman TO keep him from pilfering at
the till; and this is the wrong stable-dOor
again. No one who thinks we'll of the Con-
gress of the Republic would be willing to
believe that Congressman are made venial by
voting to foster industries in which they in
common with every citizen of the Republic,
may have an indirect interest. No man who
must be hired to be honest is worthy a seat
in Congress.


Money, of course, is the radical difficulty.
The love of money debauched the Congress-
men whose names have broken up in a wreck
with the Credit MObilier Investigation. Con-
Year: 1873

gressmen are human (yery much 30, let us
say), and they share in the general weakness
for costly living and SNOWY equipage. They
grumble that they should have 10 give up
their lucrative callings and trades Tor the not
extravagantly large pay OF Congress
man. They cannot abide the trial Oh NoV-
ing on measures which make MILLIONS ioi
canitalists in trade and do not leave penny
in their own fingers. They think IL a
hard case that mon all about them
sbouId be making money, while they are
,rrrod off with $1,000 a year and mileage; 30
tbey think of voting themselves an additional
80 900; and they turn an honest penny oh
the outside" when opportunity o1ers Ills
is the door through which the virtue OF tno
average Congressman has been taken. by
and by. men will be candidates for C0n-
oresS for the sake of the opportunity 1or
money-making which seat in the Capltoi
will assure them. Some censonous people
COW this il already true; we hope not. 1t is
no use to preach economy and temperance Ill
living to the people, even though the popular
example has infected Congress. But the men
who are in Congress, or who expect 10 go
there, must return to the old, simple Re-
publican idea OF their station IN Vhe
better days of the Republic, the honor of
serving ones country in the halls of Congress
was thought sufficient incentive for a generous
strife in the election, as well as an exceeding
great reward to the Congressman. Cannot we
get back to that old-fashioned idea of public
lfeY If we cannot, the better part of public
virtue is gone out of us. Senators and Repre-
sentatives are paid, not as manufacturing ex-
perts or famed manpulators of stocks, but as
men with reasonable wants and requirements.
If they have not fortitudc enough to keep at
their patriotic public duty while other men
roll up wealth, they are not fit for the places
which they mcumber. That is the whole
story. When Congressman and others who
fill positions of public trust and honor learn
this, we shall have no more Credit MObiler
scandals
Year: 1873

for that purpose to the Japanese Government;


or it might be 40 used by the State Depart
ment. We do not want college for japanese
and American youth in California, or any
where else in the United States. The Chinese
and Japanese are well satisfied with the course
of study which they find in our country we
need educational institutions at Picking ana
Yedo for the benefit of the youth OF both
races but especially are these schools needed
for our own people in those countries. Ihe
establishment of such colleges would not only
dispose handsomely of the indemnities, but
would be highly useful TO the great nations
interested in them, and would pleasantly facil-
tate our intercourse through all coming time.
Year: 1873

The breach has come. when last Autumn
THE TRIBUNE pointed out the absurdty OF a
union between sincere Reformers, and the
politicians who sustained the General Order
business and kindred evils, in common et-
fort for good municipal government, we were
met with the instant and angry response that
this was a campaign of slandeT. Nothing more
was thought needful to be said, to put us down


Well the coalition held together Under such
pressure as the adverse criticism of The TRIB-
UNE and other advocates of real reform
brought about a good candidate for Mayor
was named. We favored another but upon
the election of Mr.. Havemeyer we instantly
and heartily congratulated the City on its escape
from the O'Brien danger which Gus
tom-house intFigues at one time made
so imminent, and expressed our belief
that Mr. Havemeyer would give us an
administration which true friends of reform
could consistently support But straightway
one wing of the coalition began to show
signs of Indigestion of its victory. Hints
were abundant that the reform Mayor was
proving impracticable. The party managers
claimed to have elected him, and insisted
that they should have the use of
him. Presently the controversy took
the shape of disputes at Albany as to the pro-
nosed new Charter under which the fruits OF
tbe Autumn victory were to be garnered. For
a time they seemed capable of adjustment
Gradually the divergence was found to be
more radical At last the breach is openly
announced, in the letter addressed yesterday
by Mayor Havemeyer to the Committee OF
Seventy, and published in other columns this
morning.


The letter is an arragnment of the Custom
house wing of the coalition; and an appeal to
the Committee of Seventy, the most powerful
organization seen in our city politics since the
downfall of Tweed, to rally once more for
Reform We can afford to take ample time
to contemplate the situation. The new pro-
positions of the Custom-hOuse managers are not
vet disclosed. The cOunter-scheme of the Com
mittee of Seventy must be adapted to con-
front the latest plans of their late allies. For
ourselves we do not expect too much from
any measure Albany under any leadership is
likely to give us. While the members of the
coalition are getting fairly under way with
their intestine fight, we may repeat that the
City will have cause to rejoice at the triumph
of any party which will give us a simple, resDon-
sible, nOn-pOlitical city government. Any other
will but start us again In the vicious circle OF
fresh irrespOnsibility, fresh msgOvernment
corruption, robbery, and spasmOdic and abor-
tive reform. We want Mayor with power to
secure good government, and we want to hold
him responsible for it, We want an end to
the business of truck and dcker in appoint
ments to office in the City Council. We want
fewer officers, simpler government, and
elections in the Spring. We do not care
rush who gets the temporary po-
Htical benefit, provided the legislation for the
City secures the City good government. And
the whole community win cordially thank
any party that secures this boon, no matter
how named, by whom led. or with what State
or national organizations affiliated.