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Year: 1875

In the additional particulars of the


Deutschland's wreck, which are cabled
over, there are two or three features
which tell badly against human nature,
and which ought to cause additional


penal sections to be inserted in the in
ternational maritime code. The captain
of the Deutschland declared that several
vessels passed near the ill-fated steamer,
and that she signaled them for assist
ance, but they passed either without
noticing or without needing the signals


Evidently, among the many vessels which
constantly pass between the North Hin
der and the Galloper lights, it is impos-
sible that some captains should not have
seen the signals, and they should be pun
ished by another tribunal than that of
their own conscience. The same can be
said of those Harwich men who refused
to go with the coastguard men in a tug
boat, and aid them in their attempted
rescue. The small modicum of human
sentiment contained in The bosom OF
those men is sufficiently shown by their
unanimous answer that "they thought il
was only collier which was lost" But
are there no men on board those steam
cOlliers, which ply by the Thousands
the dreaded and sandy Eastern coast OF
England, between London and the coal
harbors of Sunderland, Hull and the
Tyne2 A third observation to be made


and which may serve as lesson, is that
Harwich is the only place on the line ol
that British shore which is without q
life-boat. This is an oversight of Grim
inal negligence as great as IL we had nc
life stations on the American coast, in
the neighborhood of Bamegat or Cape
Hatteras-New York Commercial Adver
Year: 1875

The materials required for this cushion
are half yard of fine white silk canvas,
a yard and half of thick satin ribbon
three inches wide, blue or rose colored, a
few skeins of floss silk, and silk cord
and tassels.


Cut the ribbon into three pieces, to be
basted at equal distances on the canvas,
one in the middle, the others at either
side half way between the middle
and the edge. Feather stitch the
ribbon down on both sides with pale yell
low Aoss. In the spaces left between the
ribbon stripes, embroider graceful little
pattern in fosses which harmonize with
the shade of the ribbon. Make up the
cushion with lining of plain silk OF
satin, and trim the edge with the cord
and tasstl IL.


This is an easy cushion 10 make, but
the effect Is real charming, and we re
commend some Of you to try 1t. Th'
cushion from which our description Il
taken comes from England, and we have
never seen similar one in this country
Black satin ribbon and brilliant embroid
cry would be an effective combination
81. Nicholas.
Year: 1875

The folly, nay the very madness of
strikes, receives another exempli6cation
in the case of the coal miners of Pennsyl-
vania, whose work has been stopped, and
who have now the chilling prospect of a
winter of enforced idleness before them.
Their long strike last spring, and its pn-
satisfactory results, leaves them with an
empty treasury. What should have
been left for an occasion such as the one
now before them was madly squandered
in idleness, when work could easily have
been obtained. There is but another
proof of the fallacy of strikes, and
another indication of the foolishness
werkingmen far too often betray in per-
mitting themselves to be led by lot OF
idle, incendiary vagabonds, who incite
strike that they may live for time on
the associations treasury. Without
family or ties of any kind TO bind them
to domestic life, they have no care or
thought of the results Of the movement
they instigate. But in spite of all that
has been said and written, in spite of the
many examples before him, the working
man will permit himself to be led and
duped whenever some designing and
worthless fellow wills it. Strikes have
ever been failures. They have been
tried in the East aud West and met with
uniform defeat. They have caused i'm
mense suffering to the miners and fam
lilies, and great expense to operators and
manufacturers. Every strike increases
the cost, and when defeated the expense
is ultimately thrown back on the striker.
But this moralizing will not relieve the
unhappy condition of the miners, who
have q long winter before them. Their
condition Is. never the best, and at this
time it is particularly hazardous-M y.
| Commercial advertiser.
Year: 1875

A strange accident occurred at Rock.
vile, few days ago. Mr.. Robert Smidt
an employee of Mr.. Barker, potter, hav.
ing occasion to arrange some pieces Ol
sheet-iron on the summit of the kiln,
then in full blast, placed the top of a
twenty foot ladder against square pro.
lection of the brickwork there, over
which the poles of the ladder fitted
snugly, leaving space of about two in
ches between the brickwork and the first
rung. The kiln was in full blast, and an
intense heat radiated to distance OF
twenty feet therefrOm. Shading his face
as much as possible with his hat, TO pro-
tect it from the intense heat, he mounted
the ladder hastily, and reaching the top,
had clasped both hands around the up
permost rung to steady himself before
proceeding with his work, when the
ladder slipped forward, catching his
hands as in wise between the brick
work and the first rung of the ladder.
He struggled desperately to escape, but
his own weight, added to that of the lad
der, prevented his withdrawing his
hands, and he had to give up in despair.
Meanwhile his cries for help and yells of
agony had raised the whole neighb0r-
hood. The utmost excitement prevailed,
and no ladder of sufficient length could
be obtained for time. The cries of the
poor man, literally roasting above them,
drove the crowd nearly frantic, while, to
add Ito the horror of the scene, Mr..
Smidts agonized wife rushed up and
down, shrieking and imploring the horror
stricken bystanders to save her husband.
After few moments delay, which
seemed hours, a ladder was procured,
quickly raised, and Rufus Dooley
mounted it and released the poor sufferer.
His face, neck and shoulders were burned
to crisp, and not vestige of hair was
left on his head. There is but small
hope of his recovery.
Year: 1875

tNorristown (Pa.) Herald and Free Press.l


"a good artist will throw a great deal
of soul into his work." So will good
shoemaker.


An exchange says: chickens never
wrote for Punch but once" We suspect
he was not ashamed TO 60 right up to the
bar and call for it like veteran.


1t is said to be lamentable fact that
"not a single journalist was converted at
the Brooklyn revival" But it is mat
ter for congratulation if they succeeded
in converting as many as two or three
married ones.


Don't throw dice for turkeys or chick
ems. Your conscience will trouble you
for days afterwards-unless you should
be lucky enough to win good fat fowl
three times out of six.


Question for debating society: Why
do 20 many persons persist in closing the
door after them when the thermometer
is ninety-nine in the shade and invaria-
bly, leave it open when the mercury dr"ps
to zero.


A Pittsburg editor is to furnisi IN
original ode for the Welsh festival to be
held in that city on the Oath of Decem-
ber. He is now inventing word to
rhyme with "Zewddyhfedwrffehd."


Henry Wilson, Vice-President of the
United States, had funeral only week
long, whilst that of Guibord, who was
"only printer" extended through sew.
eral months. But, nevertheless, we'd
just as lief be Vice-President as a
printer.


About two years ago young man
from the country, while visiting our
he repeated his visit, and while walking
up Main street, about dust saw something
glittering along the curb, and hastily
picking It up was greatly surprised to
find--a backing box lid, instead of his
long-lost watch, as he had hoped.


A seventeen year old girl in Southern
Georgia can cut up one-horse load oi
hickory wood in one hour and twenty
minutes, and carry the same in the house
and gather up all the chips in fifteen
minutes, make rolls for breakfast, and
learn four different lessons before noon.
But the fact that she sits up until mid
night reading dime novels is great draw
back to her getting husband.
The Centennial managers have evi.
IDENTIFY not heard that Martin Farquhal
Upper, poet and dramatist, intends tc
bring Centennial drama to this coun
try next year. Work on the exhibition
building Is being pushed forward just Al
rapidly an IL the announcement of hi
coming had never been made. Perhap
they think 1t would be cheaper to xii
Tupper than to abandon the exposition
after spending 20 much money on it.
Year: 1875

1t is understood that the next New
Jersey fox hunt will take place on
Hoboken ferry-boat. The fox will be
trained TO run through the cabin on one
side, then around and down the other
side, the huntsmen meanwhile galloping
furiously up and down the cabin between
the cabins, and the hounds yelping
around the pilothouse. BY the time
four or FIVE courses of the cabin have
been made, the boat will run into her
slip at Hoboken, and the fox will then
start for the Jersey fats, pursued by the
huntsmen 10 the first fence, and the
sport will then cease for day. II Is ex-
pected that one fox will last the whole
season, and there is hope that some
huntsmen will drop overload In the cx-
element Of the chase. Hartford Times.
Year: 1875

lQuoted by the Christian Union from the Golden


Rule


One of the most difficult things for a
pastor to do is to keep his weekly prayer
meetings out of ruts, and its OppOrtuni.
ties of exhortation and remark out OF
the hands of bores. There is a certain
class of men in nearly every church that
are endowed, for some inscrutable pur-
pose not TO be fathomed by human un.
derstanding, with the gift Of gab. The
exercise of this gift is sufficiently dread.
full in a street-car or parlor, or at ones
own table. But when the possessor OF
this gift is converted he becomes, to Dor.
row line from Pope


"a monster OF such frightful mien,


That to he hated needs hut to be seen."


Whoever has heard one of the fellows
once will never forget the type. They
generally occupy the same seat every
evening; you know just where to look
for them, from what point of the com.
pass the explosion is to come. To listen
while they expound Scripture is agony.
To hear them exhOrt is to wish that you
were in the bottom of the Red Sea. But
when they attempt to lead the meeting
in prayer, the torture to sensitive and
reverential soul is beyond expression.
Paul said that he died daily; many
pastors, in conducting a series of pro-
tracted meetings. could truly exclaim,
"We die nigbtlyr


Mark Twain, we believe, made care.
full analysis of this genus, and after one
of his most profound examinations into
the merits of the species, and after con-
sidering all the evil inflicted on men and
the suffering that they caused,-gave it
as his solemn opinion that the only posi-
BILE course to pursue, in order to head
them of, was Z" to murder them"


Personally, we are strongly opposed to
capital punishment. As a rule we be-
lieve that the ends of justice and the
requirements of mercy are more fully
met by imprisonment for life. But
every rule has its exception, and recall
ing to mind all that we have suffered
from this class /; recalling all the agony
we have endured, all the torments we
have expe perienced at their hands-we are
grieved to say it-but we are actually
inclined to think that the great humor-
list was right.
Year: 1875

The Arkansas Legislature has passed
bill donating all State lands lying in
counties in the north western part of the
State for the building of a railroad from
some point on the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad, in Missouri, via Fayetteville,
Ark, to point on the Little Rock and
Fort Smith railroad at or near Ozark.
Year: 1875

The President of the Boston and
Providence railroad has been discovered
in freak of eccentricity which has been
the occasion of much talk. Before re-
ducing the wages of the workmen on the
road, he has authorized the reduction of
his own pay.
Year: 1875

When fer time dark masses OF storm
bcladened clouds have stretched across
the Sky. when the lightning's vivid flash
and thunder's deafening roar have made
more appalling the gloom, with what
throb OF delight do We hail the little rift
through which the joyous sun does
slightly peep How eagerly we watch
the slowly discovering mass, and when
the "bue dome Of heaven we see." we
are at perfect ease, the storm is Ger


We need not draw the analogy it is
plain to every one. Suffice it to say
that the dark, ominons, and portentious
clouds that. like a huge funeral pail,
have hung across the political armament
Of our nation, are giving way. Here and
there we behold a rift in the angry mass,
and little CLEANS oflight are seen, Every
now and then a new CLEAN breaks through
and we feel sure the tempest is nearly
done Don't be impatient; you must
remember it cannot clear OFF, in mo
ment after sueh a,frgh.fux6erw do, Let
us be satisfied with the riffs, for they are
tell tales of a brightness to come.


The happy day is coming: looming
events cast their shadows before" The
dreadful political enormity, the republi
can party, is about to " shuttle off this
mortal coil" 1t sees the little rift in
the clouds, and reads its fate AL that
it can do will not save it. and it must die.
May it find in the grave what it never
brought to the country. /" Peace"
Year: 1875

We regret to announce that the Hon.
James Greig has resigned his seat in the
Legislature. Coming home from the last
session sick, he has not been since that
time really well Having for the last
two or three weeks been completely pros.
trated, he has felt it duty to himself as
well MS his constituents to tender to Gov.
Garland his resignation We regret, we
say again, that any circumstance has ren
pered it imperative for Mr. Greig to re-
sign his seat. A clear headed, good man.
honest and conscientious in every act, it
wi! be hard to I'll his place.


In casting about for his successor, the
name of Judge John j. Burrow has been
advanced. Speaking for ourself alon,,
we know af no one that could or would
fill tue position more aceeptabIy to the
masses of the people Of the County, at
this time, than him. The term is but a
short one, and really, no one could de.
sire it, as it must necessarily prove an
expense to the occupant


As the time is short before the election,
we have presented the name of Judge
Burrow, without thought Of dictation
to the people whom they should choose,
hoping that it will be accepted in that
light and that he may have the unanimous
vote OF the County
Year: 1875

s The Evening Star is after the Peni-
tcntiary man with n sharp stick We know
nothing of the matter. but our svmpatllies
ave with the editor and with all editors who
teariesslv endeavor to abate wrong and do
good. Perhaps he cuts too wide swath AS
farmers say. in striking at the Gazette and
others but that is natural when one feels tha.
he has big job on hand. We shall hope to
see Dan come out victor --Lerisbu}g State.


good deal has been said, we Judge. by the
Evening Star. in regard to the Pcnitentiary
ut having the Star in exchange we have
never seen the charges ETC If outragcs have
been committed, they should be EXPOSED, and
the lessee should be held accountable But
we do not hope, with the editor of the State
to see Dan. come out victor" Rather that
for the credit of the state. as we'll as the les
see, he shall have satisfied the Governor that
there is no foundation for the charges.
Year: 1875

There is but one class OF men on the
face of the earth who are more poorly
or more reluctantly paid than the newspa-
per man, it is the minister, Before he
can obtain tho wages of his service, he
must almost beg for them. TO the or
binary clergyman, this is an offensive
and disagreeabls task, and he frequently
goes without even the necessaries Of life
before la viii resort to this cxpedieut TO
obtain that which should be paid him with
out such requirement We recommend
the annexed article from the pen of the
Rev. j. G. Holland, D. D., to the mem
bers Of churches and our community
generally:


If a man is fit to preach, he is worth
wages If lie is worth wages, they should
be paid with all the business regularity
that Is demanded and enforced in bust.
ness life. There is no man in the com
munity who works harder for the money
he receives than the faithful minister,
There is no man--in whose work the
community is interested--to whom regu-
lar wages, that shall not cost him even a
thought, are SO important. OF what pos
sible use in pulpit can any man be whose
weeks are frittered away in mean cares
and dirty economies? Every month or
every quarter-day, every pastor should
be sure that there will be placed in his
hands, as his just wages, money cloush
to pay all his expenses, Then, without
sense Of special obligation to anybody,
he can preach the truth with freedom,
and prepare for his public ministrations
without distraction. Nothing more cru
el to pastor, or more disastrous to his
work, can be done than to force upon him
feeling Of dependence upon the chari-
ties Of his flock. The Office of such man
does net rise in dignity above that Of a
court fool. He is the creature of the
popular whim, and preacher without
influence, to those who do not respect
him or his Office sufficiently To pay hin
the wages due to a man who devotes his
life to them. Manliness cannot live in
such man, except it be to torture---a tor
ture endured simply because there are
others who depend rpon the charities
dolcd out to him.
Year: 1875

E5- The Little Rock Gazette says
1t is reported that Jonn Morrissey has
selected site at Hot Springs for an 'cs-
tablishment that will stand without ri
val. We suppose it will be an establish
lishment intended more for the relief Of
the pocket than OF the ills that flesh is
heir to. Nevertheless, John is keen
judge Of human nature and affairs, and
by backing the future Of the Springs with
his good Judgment, does much to bring
ABOUT the greatness to which that world
renowned resort is destined to reach. A
few more years, and the Hot Springs
will have become the Saratoga of the
continent
Year: 1875

esS 1t is with great regret that we learn
that Judge Mansfield was called home, last
Wednesday, to the sick bed Of his wife. The
Judge received information from hi. family
physician that hs could not consistently re-
fuse to listen and give heed to. The bar re-
gret the extreme and unavoidable cirum-
stances that called him home. hut all agree
that his course was only consistent with his
duty to his family We hope. however, that
the Judge will find on his arrival home, that
his wife is isrecoverng. At the suggestion of
the Judge that some gentleman of the bar be
selected SIS special Judge and after some con-
sultation among the members of the bar. Jno
J. Burrow, Esq., was elected to the position
hr. Burrow although young man, will, We
feel confident do honor to himself and the
position he has been selected to fill.
Year: 1875

The Gazette of Thursday says that under
the supervision Of Centennial Commissioner
George E. Dodge, the chamber OF commerce
is being fitted upas an exhibition hall, where
all specimens for the centennial can be seen.
This will make fine show for our editorial
visitors from the north, who will be here
ahnut the 2Sth.V
Year: 1875

A year ago the Republicans of Iowa held
convention and constructed platform, which
began with the following spacious resolution :


Resoecd That It. the policy Of the Republican party in
relation 10 tho finances has afforded the people only


safe sound and popular Of equ and uniform
worth in every portion of oW Commonwealth, hut has
likewise greatly improved the credit Of the country at
home and abroad point with pride to s record aud
accom- Ilishncnts iii this regard, and. while re-
affirming the policy announced by the party in
the National Conventions OF 1s6s and 1872, and
trumphantly indorsed by the people at the
polls-a policy which. while contributing TO the public
credit has also enhanced the individual and collective
prosperity Of the American people We favor such ces-
laon as shall make national banking free to all under
lust and equal laws, based the policy OF specie
SUMPTION such time is consistent with the material
and industrial lit ercsts OF the country to the end that
the volume Of currency may be regulated by the natural
laws of trade


To say the truth, there is not oxygen enough
in the above to support life in the body Of Il
toad. Its big swelling words are suggestive of
initiation, and that is all there is of it. On
Wednesday last the Iowa Republicans held
another convention and made "a fresh plat
form, which expresses the views of the party
on the currency question in the following pithy
declaration


Resolred That gold and silver the only reliable
legal tender ana currency convertible into coin should
therefore, bo gradually attained.


We put these resolutions of the Iowa Re-
mblicans on record as a cheering sign of
progress. We believe that the great majority
of the American people in all parts of the
Union have not only honest instincts but clear
common sense. We believe that imitation will
within three years be voted down in such II
Year: 1875

When the Jury was finally discharged yes
tcrday, one of the counsel for the plaintiff is
reprcsented as venting his delight in an cXcla-
nation, which certainly seems rather odd
when we consider what lie was rejoicing
at. He and his associates had just fin
jshed a labor of six months only to
find it useless. Their client had riskcd
evervtbing-family, fortune, reputation, peace
of mind-to crush his adversary, and the dis
charge of the jury was the announcement of
his failure. Yet he has good cause for salts
faction that the result was no worse. He has
broken up his home and discarded his wife
Gor we must remember that whether she is
innocent or guilty he clung TO her until ii be-
came necessary to east her OIL Ill order
TO strike BeechcD; he has sacrificed the
GOOD opinion of the world and we suppose he
has spent his last dolar-all this for nothing
but if Mr.. Beechcr had been triumphantly
acquitted Tilton would have gone down into
an abyss of ruin and infamy without CLEAN
of hope. That fate he has-pcrhaps-escaped,
and it is only to save him from that fate that
his counsel have recently been fighting.


Whatever further legal proceedings may
grow out of the case, it is not probable that
the SUIT for damages will ever be tried again.





All the evidence that Tilt0n can ever produce
has been put forth; the letters of the defend
ant have been read, and Mr.. Bcccher has been
submitted to the most searching cross-exam-
ination. The plaintiff cannot make his
case any stror ger second time than it
was the first. And it is a significant fact
that the jury divided only upon question of
the credibility of certain witnesses. All seem
TO have agreed that Mr.. Beecher's letters,
which caused so much pain and ombarrass-
ment to his friends, were capable of an innO-
cent explanation or at any rate did not prove
the guilt which TiltOn alleged. Three of the
twelve, however, could not bring themselves to
say that Mrs. MOultOn sworc falsely, and one of
the threo was an acQuaintance-sOme say a
friend Mrs. Moulton's husband. Consid-
ering everything it does seem as if Tilton had
made very narrow escape, while the friends
of Mr.. Beecher have good reason to regard the
end of the trial as substantial justification
of the confidence they have repOsed in their