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Year: 1873

credulous expression of countenance,
put his hand into his pocket. He had
already done so when he showed signs
of confusion, and. drawing his hand
out, brought with it the watch, winch
he quickly passed to the cardinal, as If
afraid of burning his fingers.


There was great astOnishment among
the dignitaries Of the church when his
eminence, on examining the watch,
declared it was the very one that had
been made for him By Breguet, and
which they had seen crushed to pieces
by the conjure. The mystery was in
creased when Torrini declared that he
had fulfilled his promise, and had only
tested the superiority of the chronme-
ter.


The next day the pope sent him a
rich diamond snuff-box, with thanks
for the pleasure his performance had
afforded. His fame was now at it's
height. Attracted by the news of his
wonderful exhibition, crowds focked
to see the magician who had accom-
plished such maryels. They did not,
however, have the qualification of wit.
Messing the famous trick of the
g broken watch " for the expense of
undertaking an experiment, which
could never again be repeated under
such favorable auspices, would be war
ranted only by the circumstances
which originally brought together the
pope and the conjuror.


ALEXANDER YOUNG.
Year: 1873

In response to the House resolution
calling for statement of amounts paid
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
for army transportation and an estimate
of what said transportation would cost
If the railroad had not been constructed,
the Secretary has transmitted the report
Of the Quartermaster General showing
that he has paid the Union Pacific Com
pany for such transportation the fol
lowing amOnntS:
Year: 1873

A SCRANTON man who came home the
other night and found his door locked IN
alter infinite trouble managed to gain en-
trance at back window, and then discov


cred on the parlor table note from his
wife, reading: 81 have gone out; will
find the key on one side of the door stem y
Year: 1873

HoRRIBLEs.-At the meeting on Sat
urday evening. between thirty and forty
were present. An Executive Committee
was appointed and some other business
done. They then adjourned to meet at
the same place on Saturday evening
next at & O'Clock
Year: 1873

BIG BEAR.-Mr. G. Proctor, who lives
on an island in Lake Washington, to-
day brought to this Office the foot of a
bear measuring eight inches in length
and four inches in breadth, ami he SAYS
the carcass of the animal was over seven
feet in length. On Sunday he saw the
bear near his premises. armed himself
with rifle and gave chase. The bear
took to the lake; he followed in a skitf.
overhauled and shot the animal in the
vtter and towed it ashore. The weight
he did not ascertain, but it is believed
to be the largest black bear ever seen in
this section.
Year: 1873

FLooD.-The usual June freshet in
the Columbia river and its tributaries,
has flooded the banks and bottoms Of
those water courses to greater extent
than has been the case for several years
past. We are informed that the wharv-
es at kalama and the business portion
of that town are about fifteen feet under
water. The lower portions of Portland
and East Portland We understand are
also flooded. 1t is great advantage to
live in town where the ebb and flow
can always be measured in advance and
depended upon to go no higher.
Year: 1873

BY making all its departments fuller and more vau
able.


The growing Importance OF Portland asa distributin
centre for Maine and its increasing wholesale trade
make full Daily paper imperatively necessary.


With larger Editorial corps than any paper in
Maine with unexcelled facilities for collecting new
and more space devote to details the Publishers
will make every exerton to render the DAILY PRESS


fuller and complete paper than 1t has hitherto
been, and in every respect
Year: 1873

A Democratic member of the Indiana
Legislature has introduced q bill forbidding
the marriage of persons of different colors,
and declaring the issue of such marriage ille-
gitimate. 1t is difficult to find two persons of
precisely the same color, but we understand
the member declares it is not the intention Of
his bill to prevent to prevent the inter-marry-
ing of sallow complexioned men with fair
skinned women, or of blonde gentlemen with
brunette ladies'.
Year: 1873

The dog that enjoys coasting so much that
he steals sleis and tugs them by his teeth to
the top of the highest hills, sliding thence, is
filling brief engagement at Leavenworth.
That dog, however, cannot adequately enjoy
the fun like the boys. He cannot have the
supreme luxury of wearing out his new
trousers.
Year: 1873

II man has been rash enough to engage
himself to be married and allow the wedding
day to be set, he is paltroon and a craven il
he does not face all the horrors of the situa-
ton and plunge into matrimony like man.
1t requires deal of courage, and it is no
wonder if poor human nature sometimes fails
under the trial. A Pittsburg coward lately
turned his back on the perils that he had
courted aud endeavored to escape by writing
letter to his betrothed in another's name,
stating that he had been killed by railroad
accident 1t was disgraceful conduct, but,
poor man he deserves commiserat:on.
Year: 1873

A Chinaman was summoned as a witness
in New York, the other day, and, to ascertain
bis views on the nature of an oath, the judge
asked him what would be his punishment il
he should swear to lies. 81 shall never return
to China, but always remain in New York."
was the reply, and he was at once sworn.
Year: 1873

HOW beautiful is the marriage ceremony Of
Tue native Australian. He gets his eve on a
glrl, knocks her down with a club, and draps
her off to spend the honeymoon in cooking
dogs, and feasting on the bones the old man
leaves,
Year: 1873

ClAAI 1AA nOlNDSs
We are glad to know that the posi-
ton taken by the JOURNAL in relation
to the Special Tax Bonds, so-calied,
meets the approval of good men
throughout the State. A member elect
of Congress in the western portion
of the State, writes to lis under


date of November 9Th. as follows
Having just had time to read your


letter (the second) on the subject of


the State Debt, &c, / cannot refrain


from expressing to you my high graft


fcation at the thoroughly satisfactory
manner in which you treat the subject
Not one cent should be paid on the
Special Tax Bonds, if we had noun
tains of idle gold


Another prominent gentlemen living
still further west, writing on 25th Oc-
tober says


81 have read with great deal of in


terest your letter to your London cor
respondent. 1t meets the issue squarely,
and without fattery, is certainly the
best document 1 have seen upon the
subject, and should be widely circzla-
ted i'll and out of the State. In the
State to convince our own people of
the iniqnities that have been perpetra-
ted upon them in contracting and out
of the State to convince our neighbors
and strangers that We DO but right not
to pay q cent of the fraudulent debt
concocted by Littlefeld, Swepson &
Co. You have sounded the ''key note"
and am sure that it will meet q re-
sponse and an echo in every valley and
mountain of our good old State. Send
me three or four hundred copies of
the letter, with bill and I will remit
the amount"
Year: 1873

1t is already pretty we'll known says
the New York Evening Post that the
'new party in Ohio was effectually
squeezed to death between the old
parties. Its vote was considerably
less than that on the temperance
ticket and its vote in Allen
county, where it was born, was
even less than was at first reported,
that is to say, about sixty. But the
most significant fact is that nearly one
half of its Whole vote in the State came
from Cincinnati, the home of the only
newspaper of any influence that sup
ported it. Its returns decrease every
time we hear from Ohio.
Year: 1873

The Radical press is indulging in
some plain talk in accounting for the
recent defeats its party has met with.


The New York Ercning Post says:


s.It will not be denied, we believe,
by the most prejudiced adherent of
the Republican party that it has failed
to come up to the requirements of its
opportunities. It has been many
years in power. with brilliant pres
,ise--.iie .JlIae.,aci4cr of Successful
civil war-and with every chance of
doing pretty much as it pleased, and
has yet left several of the most serious
difficulties of the nation quite un-
touched, or has touched them in so
awkward way as to increase the
number and complication Of them"


The Baltimore american says


We need not search long to find the
cause of the disaster For two years
there has been growing discomfort in
our ranks. The plain people of the
country are impressed with the con-
victlon that we are spending too much
money Congress has been too lavish
in its appropriations. With all our
immense revenue, only a small per-
centage has been applied to the extin-
guishment of the national debt. The
army, the navy, the civil service, the
pension list, and the Indians, consuE2e
nearly all that is left after the interest
on the funded debt has been paid. We
do not think that there has been more
fraud and peculation in the disburse-
ment of the public money than is inev-
liable even in the best regulated civil
service; but the people are beginning
to feel that everything is done upon q
scale entirely too e1travagant. They
want retrenchment. Eleven hundred
dollars per annum for repairing a set
Of harness used by one of the Treasury
officials seems to be an insignificant
item to be complaining about, but as q
type of the prevailing looseness IN the
Eeeping of accounts It is most sugges.
Year: 1873

Reflect that sound mind and body are tho
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happincss Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, tie
prospect hourly darkcns to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and fl!od with
the melancholy reflection that tne happiness of
another is blghted with our own.
Year: 1873

Under orders from Superintendent ThOne
workmen were employed, on Tuesday. in leyeng the
snowbanks along the sides of several OF the principal
streets spreading the in the roadways, that
IL might be readily melted by the sun. gang OF
the men, who working, under the supervision OF an
Inspector East Broadway, threw the snow in such
large quantities upon the street railroad tracks that the
ears Of the Dry Dock line prevented from passing
Capt Mount of the Seventh Precinct having been sent
for by the officers Of the railroad company,
Informed the Inspector that the workmen would
all be arrested if they persisted in thus impeding travel
and during the remainder of the day the not
thrown upon the tracks in sufficient quantities to oD-
sruct the superintendent ThOrne received yester
day letter from President White of the railroad
pany threatening suit against the Street Cleaning De-
partment should the tracks of the Company be again
similarly obstructed The Superintendent states that
he has unusually large force OF men, with 500
engaged in removing from the streets,
but that IL cannot he cleared away un-
less he can, where practicable spread IL in
the of the Streets that t be melted He
also says that the railroad companies have carted
snow from their tracks, but, the contrary. have
greatly impeded travel by pilng the snow along the
sides Of the tracks He thinks that the city ought to be
called upon to remove the snow piled up by the rail
road companies He will, nevertheless, continue to
spread upon the tracks, but has instructed his
wOrkmen to try to avoid impeding the cars.
Year: 1873

Some time since the sugar refiners of this
city and its immediate vicinity formed themselves into


Sugar Reners Association, for the purpose OF for
wardDg the interests OF their branch Of trade About
80 members belong to IT, representing aggregate
of eco sl5OOOOOo meeting held Tues
day. at the Of the Importers and Grocers Board
OF Trade The Committee Trade Statistics reported
that depressed condition or the business proceeded
from surplus production. The Committee asked for a
recommittal OF the subject From what occurred IL
admitted that the present capacity OF tbs reners
abed them months manufacture all the material
that was consumed in H. The remedy Is TO be consid
cred at the next meeting.
Year: 1873

The fees must printed and kept posted in the Offices
under penalty of fine Of $500 thalf to the informer
Each official shall also keep Textbook TO which the pub


lie shall have access. In this book all fees received for
official service shall be entered. and temzed account
shall be transmitted the City Treasurer monthly, said
account to be made under affidavit before Judge. This
affidavit shall also set forth that other fees moneys
or consideration has been paid TO the officer, 70 any
person In his employ for official services Upon the ap
prova Of this act by the City Treasurer and Controller
the Controller shall draw his warrant for the salary Of
the official and assistants Each officer may have one
assistant at 600 per anDum, and such additional clerks
tof frstclass $500 and OF secOndcass at $1,000
the Court of Common Pleas shall deem necessary on
formal application The accounts of each assistant shall
be under affidavit and the chief officer shall certify that
their full time was occupied in the discharge Of their
duties. All officials who publish legal advertisements
shall present itemzed of the same, setting forth
that the charges just Any officer who receives ie
gal shall be guilty of misdemeanOr, and fined not
exceeding 5000 in OF chief officer and $1,000 IN
case Of an assistant. The offender shall be removed
from Office and declared ineligible 10 hold any office OF
honor prof; for three years.


a Philadelphia bill also introduced, leaving the
control OF the police with the Mayor. The House bill TO
increase the salary of the Governor TO $1,000 was amend
ed TO read $4,000 and passed to third reading The
two Houses JOINT convention footed the returns on
the Constitutional amendment making the Office OF state
Treasurer elected by the people three ana
announced the result6S 900 votes for and 1888 against
part of the Constitution The House refused TO take any
action on the subject of the geological survey Of the
State, a complete survey of which made EX-
ensiYe arrangements In progress for the Guberna
will probably be the largest and most imposing ever had
Year: 1873

THE STOCK MARKET


was not 80 steady to-day as usual, and prices suf-
fered a reduction, which disappointed not lew
who have counted on much higher figures. The
tendency was downward and the early steps OF
the movement were shown before and Immediately
after the second call, when the decline ranged
from Il to 23a per cent. subsequently there was
recovery In some OF the leading features, which
induced the hope that prices would be stronger to-
morrow. The best business was done in Western
Union, Lake Shore, New York Central, Pacific Mail,
Northwest common, Union Pacific and c., G. and
i. G. One or two transactions were made in Erie,
but they were not encouraging Evidently some
unpr0mising news has been received from
abroad The prevailing impression is that
several OF the largest operators in the recent
rise have unloaded and are prepared to take
another tack. Many OF the speculative Influences
OF the day, especially during the rallies, were
occasioned by reports from Washington of the in
PRODUCTION OF sundry bills suggestive oil further
imitation. 1t Is question whether much of this
Congressional buncombe Is not displayed in the
interests OF Wall street, and by men who have
something at stake in the various small pools that
abound


HIGHEST AND LOWEST PRICES.


The following table shows the opening, highest
and lowest prices OF the day.
Year: 1873

Our little messengers met halfway, and sa was only to be expected, stopped to play a while amid the primroses and wood anemones. However, got your letter in time to read it and send postcrip to my own before the post goes out Strange that the two first letters we should ever write to each other have crossed. But wr1te no more. Come.
Year: 1873

yetferson's ten rules are good
yet especially so for those who have
the training Of the pupils IN our
public schools. They are so short
and consise, and embody so much
of value, that it would be well if
they were clipped oat and put
where we could see them often:


Never put off till to-morrow
what you can DO to-day.


Never trouble another t0r what
you can DO yourself.


Never spend your money before
you have it.


Never buy what you do not want
because it is cheap.


Pride costs more than hunger,
thrift and cold.


We seldom repent Of having
eaten too little.


Nothing is troublesome that we
do willingly.


How much pain the evils have
cost Us that have never happened.


lake things always by the
smooth handle.


When angry, count ten before
you speak; If very angry, count
4 hundred.
Year: 1873

why WILL YE DIE, On YE OF LIT
TIE FAITH ?"-The following we'll written
article is from the Davenport Democrat Of
December 10, 1872, and is a powerful re
minder to the afflicted


The most insidi0us, deadly and distress
ing nIalady attacking the human frame, is
pale consumption, STEALING into the maid
ems bosom, flushing her cheek, blanching
her skin, and feeding like living worm Of
death upon her vitals. \ lover may
fondly gaze into her eyes, the brilliant
sparkling is but a forerunner of dissolu-
ton. A mother may listen to her mid
night breathing, it is but muffied drum
beating her death knell \ father may
| fondIy try to save her, but too frequently
his efforts are in vain, her bridal bed is the
burial case her bridegroom, death, the
| silent consumer of her lungs is at work,
and physicians have no remedy, the phar-
macopgia no drug which can keep her from
her destiny. Sad as this view is, there is,
happily, bright side Providence has
garnered up in the storehouses of vegeta-
ton, sovereign balm in the Juices Of
plants to arrest the fell DESTROYER, to heal
the eating ulcer, to renovate the failing
lung, to bring health, strength and yigor
to the wasted frame The keen eve of
science has searched for it, the chemist
skill has seized upon it, the retort and
alembie have extracted it, and the remedy
is produced which will stay the progress Of
the stealthy death fend The result Of
this careful study Of nature is Aliens


I1lng Balsam, this is the consumptive'
hope, the declining patients cure. Thou


sands have entered upon trial of it witt


distrust and fear, who now live to reeort


ITS snatching them from an early grave, ant


who are ready to testify to its merits. lie
the eonsumptive take it and be benefited


W ny will We die, oh, ye of little faith ?
Year: 1873

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

Rennes Pain Killing Magic Oil is the
best thing you ever used for curing pain.
1t is safe and clean to use, and does not
lose its virtues by age or exposure Try
it for headache and rheumatism Sold by
John Bengston.
Year: 1873

DoN'T SUFFER your hair to fall off when
Il bottle or two of NATURES HAIR RE-
sTORATTvE will check it Splendidly per
tumed and clear as crystal. All wide
awake druggists sell it See advertise
mcnt
Year: 1873

The drav,lg will be conducted ON the stage Of
the Academy oi Music in full view of the audience.
and under PERSONAL supervision Of the following
well known and disinterested gentlemen who have
kindly consented TO act as Il
Year: 1873

TO THE EDITOR or THE HERALD


In your issue of the 14th inst. noticed an
article, entitled "Young Gentlemen of the Mercan-
tile Library, Beware" and signed LEGION In
which the wrtter-who claims to represent a num-
ber OF ladies-complains OF the insolence and in
attention OF the clerks of the Library. This
Legion" is doubtless some bilious old maid or
dyspeptlc man, who cannot and does not appre.
cate polite and prompt attentions when received
The writer OF this article has been a subscriber OF
the Mercantile Library for the past twenty years.
and feels bound, In justice to the clerks of that in
stituton, to deny Ia toto the statement OF Legon
and to further state that, at no time have the
clerks OF the Library been polite and
to the wants OF its members than those now in its
employ, all OF whom are gentlemanly, prompt and
attentive, as every wel-bred person will testify
ask, therefore, that as an act OF justice you will
give the above space in your columns, and obliQe
yours respectfully, LADY SUBSCRIBER
Year: 1873

The reason assigned for the threatened abdica-
tIon OF King Amadeus Of Spain is that An old mis-
understanding with the Ministry growing out of
the appointment Of Don Hidago to the Captain
Generalship Of tue Basque Provinces The truth in,
the Carlst insurrection Is spreading daily ana
growing In strength. The Cuban trouble wears on
the young King, and on top Of all this comes the
hostility OF the New YORK HERALD. 1t Is not sur.
prsing that the young man is anxious to quit
Spain.
Year: 1873

From the Bridgeport Conn.) Standard


The Spanish authorities in Cuba have threatened
to shoot the HERALD correspondent, Mr.. James ].
O'Kelly, If found within the camp OF the insur-
gents. We hardly think that even the blind and
foolish Bombastes Furiosos who manage the AFFAIRS
OF Spain in Cuba would undertake so desperate q
piece of business as that Is it not time that our
country taught these high-Strutting, black Spanish
roosters that they have no business to insult us
eternally as they may think ftY We have put up
with not few of their high h-sQuRding and airy in
suits, and it is beginning tobe question OF how
near we are to that point beyond which patience
ceases to be virtue. We may find 1t necessary to
take the buckram out OF these bepuned and
bepadded swaggerers, and II thereby Cuba
secures her freedom, and some other needed
improvements follow incidentally, we, person.
ally, shall not be sorry. The cause OF the HERALD
correspondent may yet become the cause Of
American progress and American honor as against
Spanish bombast and idiotic impocy, and there
is very little question: II 1t does come to that as to
what we shall have to do. We have q man at the
head of affairs who has tanned more dangerous
bipeds than these, and this would be work to
which he would bring an especial fitness, and in
doing which he could not be otherwise than
backed by the whole people.
Year: 1873

You can't fool me, said an Irishman
10 a merchant who was trying to sell him
a bottle of something instead of Renne's
Pain Killing Magic Oil Mister. you
cant fool me. An i've used Renne's 5
Magic lie ever since Mike jane his foot
so bad, and did Mt the Magic He cure it in
tirely? An it's good stuff, an its me
that wants a bottle of that same. You
cant fool me - Patrick was right.
Year: 1873

We see by the Chicago papers that
PROCTOR & GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
brand NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con
su r,ers. 6-23d3m
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commlssary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starches in the country
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch" was the best that could be proeur


ed and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention OF conSum-
Year: 1873

1t was great trial to me. had had the
care of aunt Patsy for so long, that it made a
blank in my life, to look for her in her accus-
toned place, and find her gone! If | had
been at all superstitious, I should have thought
a death occurring so soon after my wedding
day foreboded misfortune to me in my married
life. But was not superstitious, and l 90
not think I could have borne aunt Patsy's
death even as I did, but for the comforting
presence Of my husband.


My husband! How strange it seemed to
me after all the past years of pain and sorrow,
and of patient waiting, that our dream Of hap
piness should be at last realized. For we
urre happy-too much so, perhaps; for we