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Year: 1873

Edmund L. Morton, Com modore New


Jersey Yacht Club.


On the evening OF October Is, while returning
from regatta OF the club the yacht Julia. OF which
Commodore Morton was in command, was run into
by the ferryboat James Fisk belonging to the Erie
Railroad Company, and the Commodore drowned,
all the others on board being saved. He was last
seen standing up, endeavoring to "fend ofr'' and
tighten the shock of the colliding boats and
whether the jar Of the collision Knocked him over,
or the boom of his own vessel struck him, or the
paddle wheel OF the ferryboar rendered him sense
less is not known but he disappeared in the gloom
OF the night and forever. The Commodore was the
second son Of Captain Charles r. Morton, United
States Army, an officer during the war OF 1912, and
grandson OF General Jacob Morton, very well known
to the old residents OF New York.


During the late rebellion Commodore Morton
served as second oficer OF the United States gun
boat Naugatuck, and was with her during the
whole time OF her service of City Point. In his
business relations he was prompt, active and be-
loved by all who came in contact with him; and
his urbane and genial manners and disposition
will render his loss very greatly felt, not only in
his own home, but generally throughout the city
OF Hoboken. The New Jersey Club in the death OF
Commodore Morton will lose stanch friend, as
ton, a thorough yachtsman, and TO whose energy
and skin no little OF the glory OF the club is rightly
attributable. Commodore Morton was vestry-
man OF Trinity Episcopal church, Hoboken, and
displayed the same zeal In church AFFAIRS that he
applied to all the other concerns OF life.
Year: 1873

Charles Schwabb and Phillip Baker were
brothers-in-law ana worked IN carpenter shop In
Fifth street, although they were both natives and
residents OF Laurel HILL L. I. Saturday after
noon they became engaged in a quarrel Ia
an clubhouse connected with the shop. and, af.er
the usual interchange OF nattering epitfets.
schwabb struck Baker powerful blow, telling. MIN
TO the door. On getting up Baker seized club
and dealt Schwabb q blow on the head with such
force as to fracture the skull. me injured
man was found by the po.ice lying
on the sidewalk and he wss taken uD
and removed to the station house ord from there
to Bellevue Hospital, where he dtSu at SIX O'CLOCK
last evening IL was at first suppoxed that SchwabD
had fallen against the curbstone, and injured him
self while In state OF nsoxica.sion, but during the
afternoon of yesterday the Above information was
given to the police and last evening an oircer az,
rested Baker and locked hra up TO await the acson
OF the Coroner.
Year: 1873


Both parties now concede the election OF Allen
democrat) by between COO and 700 majority. Some
lew democrats still hope to figure out the election
oi Burns as Lieutenant Governor, but there Is
little doubt that the republicans have elected their
Whole state ticket with the exception OF Governor.
Omcial returns have as yet been received from
only thirty-six counties
Year: 1873

THE suspense is over at last
We have now a final summing
up of the achievements of the
Ohio election. The Democrats
elect a Governors and the Repub.
cans the remainder of the State
ticket. MI LITTLE, the gentle.
man who was marked for de-
feat as the candidate for Attor-
ney-General, is a Republican
politician of crossroads caliber,
who has a local name and hab-
itation in Greene county. He
distinguished himself in the last
General Assembly by engineer.
ing a measure known as the
LITTLE Lottery Bill, with view
to "making himself stout" in
certain newspaper quarters. 1t
is not to be presumed at all
that his connection with that
remarkable piece of legislation
had any thing to do with his
defeat Cincinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1873

never thought Of such q thing,
and besides allthat, it will re-
quire more expense than / am
disposed to waste on othef
peoples children.


You do not suppose that
you would be waSting money
in using it for the Lord ? No,
| know that you do not, and it
would be devoted to the glory
of God if expended preparing a
minister for the Church."


II don't think there is any
use talking, if this is the
strange thing you had to tell
me, | must confess that it is
passing strange, and would so
Interfere with my plans that |
cannot entertain the suggestion
for a moment. 3e 'f's


" What were, and are yom'
plans then ; please inform me?
for | have freely expressed my
sense Of duty"


" Well, to be plain, and not
waste precious time, for | must
be going; it is my intention to
pursue the following course
with the boy"
Year: 1873

New Haven is trying to find
the names of the twenty-five
gentlemen in that city who vo-
ted in favor Of the capital
amendment. The tar, ieath-
ers and pole are all ready for
them. 9l'sWe'af'A
Year: 1873

The Home Journal thus dis
courses on the etiquette of bow
ing. The difference between
courteous and a familiar bow
should be remembered by gen.
tlemen who wish to make a fa-
vorable impression. A lady
dislikes to receive from a man
With whom she has but a slight
acquaintance, bow, accompan.
led by a broad smile, as though
he was ON he tmost familiar
terms with her. 1t is far better
to err on the other side, and
give one of those stiff ungra.
clous bows which some men in.
dulge in. Those gentlemen
who smile with their eyes in.
stead of their mouths, give the
most charming bows. As for
men who bow charmingly at
one time and with excessive
hauteur at another, according
as they feel in a bad or good
humor, they need never be sur
prised if the person thus treated
should cease speaking altogeth-
er. A man should always lift his
hat to a lady.
Year: 1873

Hickory bark will color a
beautiful bright yellow that
will not fade by use. 1t will
color cotton and wool. Have
the bark shaved off, and chop
ped in small pieces, and put in
a brass kettle or tin boiler with
soft water enough to cover the
bark, and boil till the strength
is out; then skin out the chips
and put in Alum. Have it
pounded pretty fine. For a pail
full of dye | should put in two
good handsful, and wet the
goods in warm water so there
will be- not dry spots on them
wiring them as dry as you can,
shake them out and put them
in the dye. Have a stick at
hand to push them down and
stir them Immediately SO they
can have a chance all over alike.
If the color is not deep and
bright enough to raise the goods
out OF the dye, lay them across
a stick over the kettle and put
in another handful of alum
Stir it we'll and dip again. 1t
will want to be kept in the dye
and over the fire to a scalding
heat about an hour, and keep
stirring and airing so they will
not spot.
Year: 1873

Buying Poultry.


Few housekeepers, and fewer
cooks, are as good judges of the
age of poultry as they ought to
be. We all know when poultry
comes to the table, whether it
is tender or tough; and there
should be no difficulty of know
ing just as certainly, whether a
chicken, duck, goose or turkey
S old or young, when it is Of
fered for sale. Now the follow
ing is offered as a rule by which
poultry can be safely judged
which if read over for a few
times, and then laid away for
veady reference when needed,
no person need purchase old,
tough poultry unless from
choice.


If a hens spur is hard, and
the scales on the legs rough,
she is old, whether you see her
head or not but the head will
cOrrOborate your observation.
If the under bill is so stiff that
you cannot bend it down, and
the comb thick and rough,
leave her, no matter how fat
and plump, for some one less
particular. A young hen has
only the rudiments of spurs ;
the scales on the legs are
smooth, glossy and fresh color
ed, whatever the color may be
the claws tender and short, the
nails sharp, the under bill soft,
and the comb thin and smooth.


An old hen turkey has rough
scales on the legs, callosities on
the soles of the feet, and long
strong claws; a young one is
the reverse Of all these marks.
When the feathers are on, the
old turkey cock has a long tuft
or beard, young one but a





sprouting one and when they
are off, the smooth scales on
the legs decide the point, be-
side the difference in size Of the
wattles of the neck and in the
elastic shoot of the nose.


An old goose when alive is
known by the rough legs, the
strength of the wings, particu-
larly at the pinions, the thick
ness and strength of the bill,
and the fineness of the feathers;
and when plucked by the legs,
the tenderness of the skin un-
der the wings, by the pinions
and the bill and the coarseness
of the skin.


Ducks are distinguished by
the same means, but there is
this difference-that a duck
ling'S bill is much larger in pro-
portion to the breadth of its
head than the old duck. A
young pigeon is discovered by
its pale colors, smooth scales,
tender collapsed feet, and the
yellow, long down interspersed
among its feathers. A pigeon
that can fly has always red
colored legs and no down, and
is then too old for use.


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Year: 1873

for there never could have been q surreude,
had we anticipated what followed, and W
could to-day have been Free" He still had
hopes of the South, he observed, because what
ever the men might be, he never yet had seen
reconstructed Southern woman, and while
the men of the day were mightier than the
principles for which they had struggled, he
yet hoped the children who succeeded them
would grow up to maintain and perpotu ate
them, and regain oil that we had lost.


Air. Davis remarks contained no sentiments
OF hostility to the Federal Government, but
eVineed an earnest devotion to constitutional
liberty for which the South had struggled, He
was listened to with deep interest and fire.
quently applauded.


A resolution, offered by Admiral Semmes
that His Excellency President Grant be re-
quested to permit the secretary of this society
to examine all the papers of the archives of
the Government captured by the Federal
forces from the Confederates during the war
and to make copies of such of them as he NAV
think fit, was adopted. Tho Convention then
adjourned, and the Historical Society met


A resolution was adopted admitting ladies
who had lost relatives in the war to member
ship. The society then adjourned, to meet in
Richmond at the call of tho President.
Year: 1873

To the editor of the Morning Star:


have often hoard priests complain of the
small number of men who approach the COM
munion railing on feast days. 'Tis sad truth,
and albeit do not mean to shelter those ab-
sentees behind any excuse, yet 1 think can
discover the plea of many of them. Some of
your readers, am sure will feel it's force
approach the subject with fear and trembling,
because it is of woman that must complain
and that is ever an ungraoious task For
have the profoundest respect for woman; 1
honor, reverence and love her, and avow N.Y.
self ready at all times to break lance in her
dear behalf. But sho sometimes sets us too
severe task she is, ut times too tho gbtless,
inconsiderate and erigcdnfe, she ever exacts the
fullest measure of gallantry, and too often
forgets those nameless little arts of kindness
and of love" which charm us so much and fl
her SO gracefully.


am n mld-mannercd man, Mr. Editor, with
the bump of combativeness but imperfectly
developed, and possessing a large fund of
patience. / confess my sins sometimes-not MS
often, perhaps, as l should. On several occa-
sons have approached tho tribunal of PEN
ance, and, with becoming humility, taken my
position at the end of the line to await my
turn Slowly the line shortens, and it becomes
at length my turn to enter the awful box.
Suddenly, up pops Belinda from behind me,
and sails into the confessional. She must be
very wicked, for not longer is IIomer's cata-
logue of ships than the list Of her sins! She
is followed Immediately by Mary Jane, who
comes from some distant corner of the church
and takes position before me. And so it goes
on, and i wait with exemplary patience, hour
after hour, and feel, at length, that must
quit the church unshriven, and seek the worn
priest at his house, or return a day after the
feast" Many men, l fear, who had just then
reached the sticking point" after many
struggles and delays, do not return a day after
the feast, and for many days thereafter. That
is very wrong,tO be sure; but we must pardon
something to human weakness.


/ / have stated the case to you briefly and
mildly, Mr. Editor. / could present it in
stronger colors, and fortfy it with examples,
but deem it unnecessary. It's truth will he
felt by many of your readers. That many con-
fessions are lost every year on this account
have not a doubt, nor do l doubt that whole
some lessons of example are thereby lost also.
The subject is fruitful of suggestion, and
worthy the thoughtful consideration of priests.
To them 1 commend it, with the confident
hope that they will give it due attention. In
conclusion, would entreat the ladies to en-.
deavor to be more thoughtful. The time o.
the men is generally very valuable; indeed,
many of them have but little time of their
own. Do not drive them from tho confession


ais on these great feast days, but rather use


your pretty arts to encourage and lead them to
| the sacred tribunals. CSCs.


Mobile, august II, 1873.
Year: 1873

To see how eagerly human being will
catch at straw, it is not necessary to witness
q drowning. The phenomenon is now manifest
chiefly within saloons, where one end of the
straw is immersed in tumbler.
Year: 1873

not having been able to keep his
promise to go down to them. You
may believe he took good care not
to inform the father Of the real rea
son that had prevented him from
paying his duties to his betrothed.


The red-faced man, however, had
no intention of breaking off his mar
riage, until he was accosted one
morning in the streets of Marseilles
by the mustached gentleman, who
asked if he still persisted in his in
tention to marry the young lady.


"Certainly," was the reply.


"Then," said the other, "if you
want to reach her hand you will
have to mount first on my dead body,
and secondly, on the dead body of
the lieutenant. Are you prepared
to scale these fortresses?"


"Certainly not"


"Then 60 home; write to the la
dy's father that circumstances COM
pei you to abandon your promise to
wed her. ! shall know by The day
after tomorrow r. that letter has
been written. If yes, will be your
friend and help you, rs l have help.
ed the lieutenant, in any honorable
love scheme you may choose to en-
ter upon; if no, be prepared to meet
me in the evening""


The letter was written, and six
months after tile young lady was
married to the lieutenant.
Year: 1873

Mrs. Davis, directing the letter to
st. Joseph, Mo. In about two
weeks he received reply from her,
dated at Weston, same State, his
letter having been forwarded to
that place. She stated that her
brother had been dead nearly eight
years, and that she had never known
ofa will. The property had been
divided between four near relatives
of the deceased, or should have
been, but three of them had cheated
her out of most Of what fell to her
in dividing up. She further stated
that her brother had a cousin in De-
troit years ago, and that he was in
this city on a visit, about the date
of the will. The Cousins name was
signed as one OF the witnesses, and
Mr.. Johnson, now in Cincinnati,
was the other witness. Rowell sent
on the will and Friday last he re-
ceivcd grateful letter from the
woman, who said that the will had
been admitted to probate there, Me
witnesses called on, and that she
had been put in possession of near
ly $4,000 through his finding the
will. She cautioned him to look
out for an express package and will
probably send him something hand
some. The puzzling thing Of the
whole is that Rowell can't tell when
or where he got the will, nor imag-
inc how the deceased came to leave
it where it would fall into the hands
of stranger. Mr.. Whitworth
might have lost it, or left it where
he could not find it, and finally con-
cluded that it was destroyed, and
for reasons satisfactory to himself
did not make another will. The
case is very curious one, but Row
ell has the letters to prove that it is
4 true one.
Year: 1873

GREAsING BUGGIEs AND WAGoEs.--
Crossing buggies ani wagons is o


more importance than some imagine


Many a wheel is ruined by oiling toe
plentifully. A well made wheel vii


endure constant wear from ten tC
twenty years, if care is taken to use
the right kind and proper amount of oil
but If this matter is not attended to
the wheel will be used up in five or siJ
years, OF may be sooner. Lard should
never b. used on 8 wagon, for it vii


penetrate the hub aud work its way
around the tendons of the spokes and
spoil the wheel. Castor oil is a good
material for use on an iron axle just
oil enough should be applied to a spin.
die to give it hight coating; this Is
better than more, for the surplus put
on will work out at the ends and be
forced by the shoulders and nut into
the hub around outside of the boxes


To oil the axletree, first wipe the
sp:ndles clean with a cloth wet with
turpentine, if it won't wipe wishou,
it. On buggy or carriage, wipe and
clean off the back and front ends OF
the hubs, and then apply very small
quantity OF castor oil, or mere especial
Iy lubricator near the shoulders point
Year: 1873

1t is the worst possible policy TO XII
all the best and handsomest fowls, anC
save Only the mean and scragyy one,
to breed from. This is precisely The
way TO ran out your stock; for like
tends to breed like, and the result Is
that, by continually taking away the
best birds, and using the eggs OF the
poorest, your stock will grow poorer
and poorer every succeeding year.


1t would seem as though this was
too plain to be insisted upon, but, in
fact, "line upon line" is needed. 1t it
the crying want of the poulterers up
on the farms the country through
this careful and intelligent selection of
the best for breeding.


Nothing is lost by little sel;-denlal
to start with. The extra pound or
two of poultry flesh that you leave on
its legs, instead of sending it to The
market, is as good seed, and will bring
forth ten fold and twenty-fold in your
future broods. Save your best stock
for breeding.-Poultry World.
Year: 1873

The Icelanders are beginning to
emigrate quite extensively to the
United States. They are said to re-
semble the Scotch in appearance, and
are bright. clean and healthy locking
class OF people
Year: 1873

Other things being equal, the
courteous and afable always have
the preference over the blunt and
rude. Whether it is the selection
of the store at which we deal, the
employer whom we will serve, the
workmen we will engage, or the
road we will travel, this element
will largely influence our choice:
In the Instructions which general
manager of a leading railway has
issued to his subordinates, he says:


Treat people as if you appreciated
and were willing to acknowledge
their custom. Try to accommo-
date and pleuse. In short, act as
any good business man would to
his customers. Don't treat people
as if you were comforting a favor
on them by letting them ride.
Rather seek to make the line pop
ular, because its business is depend
ent on the good will of the people.
You need not be ashamed to let
people understand that you ac-
knowledge this Such orders
fully recognize the policy of pleas
ing manners and their necessity to
ensure success. 10 be really wor-
thy and enduring, polltcness must
be based on kindly feeling. An
old provcrb says, If the staff be
crooked, the shadow can not be
straight So if our hearts are
cold and hard, they will not cast
the shadow Of kindly deeds and
gentle manners. Yet they act and
react upon each other, and the
effort to correct the shadow may
induce us to reform the substance.
Year: 1873

That all the girls used to be in love
with him.


That all the widows are now.


That If he were widower he could
marry again whenever he chose.


That all the other fellows ara foolss


That he wouldn't introduce any feI.
low he knows, to his sister or his
daughter.


That his wife Is little jealous.


That she used to be pretty girl.
That his mother could make good
bread; that his wife cannot.


That he wouldn't trust most women.
That II he should ever speculate he
would make his fortune.


That he would enjoy country life.
That his girls will never be SO silly
as to marry.


That his mother-in-law may be fine
old lady, but


That smoking never hurt man yet.
That with . little management the
servants would always do well. and
heser give warning.


That his shirt-buttons are greatly
neglected.


That he is going 10 make his fortune
some day.


That he despises old bachelors.
Year: 1873

Tho Supreme Court of Ohio has re-
Gently made decision touching life
insurance that may be a matter of in
forest to some. The policy of insur-
ance stipulated that if the person in
sured should die by reason of intem-
perance in the use of alchoholiC stimu-
lants the policy should be void and the
company not bound to pay. The
court below, 1t seems, held against the
insurance company upon this question
-and the case went to the Supreme
Court. The insurance was effected
eight months preceding the death of
the party, and it was clear that at the
time of taking the insurance and from
from that time on, the deceased party
was addicted to the habitual use of al
coholic stimulants,. and that they were
the cause of his death. The Supreme
Court, in giving its opinion, held that
those who drink habitually so as to be
oil the time, or nearly all the time, nn-
der the influence of stlmulants, and
those who refuse to drink at all
for month, or for months, and then
take debauch of days or weeks, come
under the provisions of the policy and
where death is the result, the policy
becomes void. The Supreme Court,
therefore, reversed the decision of the
lower court.
Year: 1873

A curious petition for an amend
ment to the Constitution was recently
presented in the Senate, to the effect
!" that hereafter and throughout all
time, all persons, whether Of the State
or National Government. who shall
recommend civil war, shall register
their names in book TO be kept by
the Secretary OF State at Washington,
and that when the war breaks out they
occupy the front ranks in the line until
the war closes : and that, in default OF
SO doing, they acknowledge themselves
ready and worthy OF being taken out
and'shot at any instant that the Prcsi-
dent of the United States, or any Gov
ernor Of State shall SO order and
direct
Year: 1873

The Sea Cliff Grove and Metropolitan


Camp Ground Association.


Before Judge Van Worst.


In the case OF Mrs. Elizabeth Langdon vs. The
Sea Cliff Grove and Metropolitan Camp Ground As
sociaton, in which she charges the officers OF the
association with fraud in the exchange OF lands of
hers ior lands OF theirs, the iu particulars OF
wntch have been given in the HEBALD. the defend
ants nave put III their answer, denying the alleged
don, compelling her to specifically perform the
contract. Mr.. Cnauncey Shaffer yesterday moved
lor issues to be tried by jury upon the questions
OF fraud insisting that the questions OF fraud III the
case should be tried by q jury and not by Judge
only al special Term MI. A. X. Dyett, the counsel
OF the defendants, opposed the motion, contending
that there was no necessity Tor jury trial. which
would create great and unnecessary delay;
that on an analysis OF the plaintlns
complaint there was no charge OF fraud
If what tie plaintllr alleged was true; that in ref
erence TO the chief charge that one OF the officers
OF The association read the agreement to the
plaintiff as 10 give her different impression OF
its contents and effect than that which she AFTER
wards discovered its contents ana effect to be-
the semblance OF fraud about it-that the plain
TINS complaint was lndustriOuSly silent as TO what
impression she got from the Rev, DR.. Du rays
reading OF the agreement, or what speclhc part or
the agreement he misread or the difference be-
tween the complaint and his reading; that this
charge OF fraud was vague and indefinite and unfit
to be sent TO a jury, and that there was no ques-
ton OF TACT in the case which an intelligent Judge
could not determine as well as jury.


After briei and OrclDle argument on both sides
and some pleasant passages at arms between the
counsel, the Judge took The papers and reserved