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Year: 1872

To He Editor Of the Commercial:


Among the names mentioned in connection
with the candidacy for nomination for Council
riage manufacturer.


We have many men-good men amongst us,
we'll deserving of merit and patronage, but th ey
are not quite 40 rare as those who are generally
qualified for city legislators. Few Offices within
the gift Of the people are deserving Of more
carful consideration in their selection than is
Councilman.


In these days of degeDeracy, no doubt more
integrity is needed aud it il evident that our
national and municipal legislatures require some
publication. These remarks are impartial as
regards party-we should seek the public good
through men rather than issues bury old proju-
dices aud allow the flame Of party discord aud
strife to waste away by returning to simple
honor, honesty and faithfulness, as in those old
times towards which many a longing glance is
turned by the American people.


MIR. Green is plain, unassuming practical
man, man of the people, fair, upright, and
above all, pure, and the assertion might be VEN
tured that II he were elected to fill the position
Tor which he has been proposed, many worthy
public improvements would receive an impetus.
and extravagant ones a check, emitting him to
gratitude. He possesses some observable quail
ncations for public othcer-a thorough at
tention to, and execution of details,
admirable discernment and Judgment,
IN 30 far as to the laying aside that which seems
at present proper and expedient for some good
remote He has shown himself capable OF mana
ging the affairs of the public by his own ad-
vancement in life, by the accumulation OF consid-
cradle property, and the successful establish
ment OF sale and prosperous business. Hav-
ing been once a mechanic himself, he can nm
derstand and appreciate the wants OF the work.
ingmen. He possesses foresight and analytic
powers and is eminontly gifted with social quail
tiles, and is connected with our most promi-
neut branch of industry, which should be repre-
sented in our Council. Having given sufficient
proof of his entire fitness nothing more re-
mains for me than to urge, as dsinterested
nen-polltclAn, his nomination. as a man who
will dare do right when the public welfare re-
quires it, CITIZEN.
Year: 1872

To The Editor Of Ule COMMERCIAL


A new danger threatens us in the above Ring.
The things that have threatened the destruction
of political parties, and which the best people
have been trying to break down, in our midst
Rings-appeared to culmnate on Saturday night
when the "Silk Stocking Ring met and nomlna-
ted City Council ticket for The lDhole city.


What right have the poor people to say who
shall be their Councilmen Or what right have
the residents OF the Wards to select their own
representatives in Council2 FAIR PLAY
Year: 1872

"Thou must be true thyself.


II thou the truth wouldst teach;
Thy soul must overflow, II thou
Another soul wouldat reach:
1t needs the Overflowlng heart


To give the lips full speech.
Think truly, and thy thought


Shall the worlds famine feed;
Speak truly, and thy word


Shall be a fruitful seed;
Live truly, and thy life shall be
A great and noble creed
Year: 1872

General Sherman has written letter to
friend in Boston in regard to the rebuilding of
the burned district OF that city. The most inn
portant suggestion which he makes is that OF
initiating London in storing the great bulk OF
goods in strong. plain warehouses outside Of
the city, simply keeping sample goods for the
stores in town. The location Of such ware
houses would naturally be at Convenient docks
or stations, so that the goods could be easily
and cheap1y handled, and the buildings erected
for this purpose would hot need to be other than
plain, unpretentious structures. The general
idea is that the bulk Of valuable stocks being in
remote warehouses, city fires would not be at
tended BY such great losses as now; and that
the warehouses would be less subject to the dan
gers Of fire by reason Of their isolation.
Year: 1872

examined. Our existing Liquidation,


as we ventured to point out at the time, WAS too


hasty. It Vas not preceded by investigation.


It Was not based upon anything but desire for


cheaper transportation. The simple question


whether the railways generally, or any railway in
particular, could afford to carry at cheaper rates,
was not asked. That the whole Vest is suffer-
ing for the want Of cheaper transportation, es-
pecially to the eastward, will be admitted with
out argument. But an act Of the Legislature,
unaccompanied by detailed information Of any
kind, will never furnish us transportation nor
enlighten us as to- the means Of getting
it. If the Legislature wishes to do any
thing really useful in this direction,
let it improve the time, while this decision OF
Judge Woods and the counter decision from
Mclean County are grinding through the su-
preme Court, in making as thorough an inVesti-
CATION into the cost Of building and operating
railways, and the profit made thereon, as posi-
ble. This is the first step to any successful
solution Of the problem before us.
Year: 1872

The testimony in the case Of the recent rail-
road disaster on the Pennsylvania Central Road,
near 11iflin, shows that what is termed an acci-
dent Was nothing more nor less than murder.
The train that was standing at the depot
was half an hour behind time, and the
train that ran into it was half an hour
ahead Of time. The result was col
lision between two trains which should have
been an hour apart. A clearer case Of human
butchery, without excuse, was never developed,
and yet what hope is there that the guilty par
ties will ever be punished No precaution was
taken by the conductor Of either train, although
neither Of them was On time, and must have
known that danger was to be apprehended at
any moment. The Pennsylvania Courts have
now an excellent opportunity to rebuke the
recent boast Of q railroad official, that the
public has no rights that railroads are bound
to regard.
Year: 1872

The question Of the liability Of cities for ao-
cidents that occur within their limits is becom-
ing serions one. Every man who breaks leg,
or an arm, or meets with any injury, seeks to
recover from the municipality compensation for
the damage. The Supreme Court Of Illinois, in
recent decision, places wholesome restraint
upon this kind Of action. In December, 1870,
fire occurred in Centraia, which, among other
things, damaged piece Of sidewalk on one side
Of street. The city did not repair the side
walk, though its damaged condition was known.
fall of snow and frost followed, rendering
this piece Of sidewalk more dangerous. Within
week after the fire. q citizen, while seeking to
reach his own house, passed over this sidewalk
and was seriously injured, for which he sued
and recovered damages. The Supreme Court,
in setting aside this Judgment Us against law and
evidence, held that, under the circumstances, the
city had not been guilty Of negligence in repair
ing the sidewalk. It also held that q municipal
corporation is not liable for every accident that
may OCCUR within its limits; that ita officers are
not required or expected to do every possible
thing that human energy can do to prevent the
happening Of such accidents; that, when they
have exercised reasonable care, they have dis
charged their duty to the public, and that there
is an obligation On the citizen to exercise
care and caution; that the sidewalk in this
instance was unsafe was q fact known to the
plaintiff, and, there being good sidewalk On
the other side Of the street,he should have used
it that if persons will persist in passing over
what they know to be 9 defective sidewalk. any
injury they sustain must be attributed to their
own folly, and that, when person is aware Of
the danger and deliberately assumes it, he as
sumes also whatever risk there is in the UNDER
taking. This decision explodes the doctrine
that the city insures all the inhabitants against
injuries by accidents, and that it must pay for
limbs broken under circumstances where tho
danger was known to the sufferer.
Year: 1872

The City Of Chicago is limited by law to the
collection Of one mill tax for sewerage. The
whole Of this tax, II collected, would be not
over 9290, ,000 but it is not all collected. Owing
to the various legal e1pedients to which certain
large property-oWnets resort, the city loses Of
this SUM about 10 per cent, or $780, 900. The SOW
erage tax is also chargeable with the cost Of
maintenance and repairs OF existing Sewers,
which amounts to perhaps 1000 year, leav-
ing for actual purposes of sewer construction
about $780, 900. An average main sewer will
cost about $75, 900 per mile, and the whole avail
able fund Of the city is equal to the
construction Of about three miles Of main
sewers annually. The sanitary condition Of
many districts render the construction Of sewers
therein essential to the health OF the whole city,
and even for tho construction OF the sewers in
these districts the fund annually raised by taxa
ton is not sufficient. In the meantime, there are
many square miles Of territory upon which per-
manent buildings have been built, and which
will next season be still more improved by resi-
denceg, which are not severed. a million Of
dollars might be judiciously and pro6tably e1-
pended annually during the next five years in the
construction Of sewers but there is no power in
the Council to increase the levy Of one mill on
the dollar Of the assessed value Of the taxable
property OF the city. The necessity Of
essential to the health Of the city and to the
comfort OF every household. They are one Of
those public improvements which cannot be dis
pensed With. Under our law, it is possible for
lays Of levying special assessments By making
their own contracts and having the work done
at great saving Of expense. But there is no
such thing possible in the matter of sewers. They
have to be constructed by the public and at the
expense Of the public. However willing the peo-
pie OF neighborhood may be to have sewers,
they cannot, as in the case Of streets, do the
work for themselves; they must wait until in
the evolutions OF time their locality becomes go
pestilential that the Health Officer is compelled
to order sewer to protect the health OF people
living in other parts Of the city,


The City Charter needs several changes to
meet the extraordinary circumstances Of the last
two years, and in these changes there is none
more important than some provision for an ex-
tension of the sewerage. It would, perhaps,
greatly facilitate the sewerage Of the city if the
public cost was confined to the construction Of
the mains, and, with an extension Of these to al
parts Of the city, leave to neighborhoods the
comparatively small cost of obtaining connec-
tion by the smaller and pipe sewers, To con-
struct these latter would not cost but very
small sum per front foot, which cost would be
readily borne by those who cannot obtain sew
ers by any other means,
Year: 1872

UlhECI VUIlNG EOR PRESIDENT.


The divided action of the Electors chosen by
the Liberal party at the last Presidential cleo
tion has prompted the New York World to re-
open the question OF e1ecting the President and
Vice President by direct vote Of the people. It
supposes acase which might have occurred at the
recent election, and which would almost surely
have precipitated the country into revolution
and bloodahed. II MIr- Greeley had been elected
such a division among the Electors that the
most likely result would have been in the choice
OF General Grant against the expressed wishes
Of the people. It would have been next to
impossible to unite all the Electors upon any
one man, while the Grant Electors would have
remained solid for their choice, A case might
occur where bribery might be used successfully.
The Electors vote by ballot, without even at
taching their names to their votes, go that it
would be difficult to convict any one Of them Of
bad faith, for which there is moreover, no pre-
scribed penalty. The remedy proposed BY the
World ia in the four following reforms /. The
direct vote Of the people for President and Vice
President. 2. Limiting the President to single
term Of (say) six years. 8. Giving
all the appointed Federal officers 8
term equal to that OF the President,
but commencing and ending at the middle OF the
Presidential terms. 4. Requiring all State cleo
tions to be- held on the same day when the
people vote for President. The purpose OF the
two first propositions is we'll understood. The
intention Of the third is to preclude appoint
ments as rewards for party services, and to
enable Presidents to become familiar with the
requirements Of the VARIOUS Offices and the
qualifications Of the incumbents holding over.
The fourth reform is suggested as guarantee
of an honest expression Of the people Of all
States, uninduenced By concentration Of money
and official favor in certain localities as a pres
sure upon the vote for President. These pro-
posed reforms will very probably attract general
discussion and serious consideration.
Year: 1872

The heavy shipments Of hogs, cattle, beef, etc;
days, are at length making al easier money
znarket in Chicago. The movement Of these
products is leaving IN accumulation Of credit in
bank, as is shown by an increase Of deposits
within few days. This is an instance showing
that it is not lack Of currency, but the low
prices and slight movement Of the crops, that
have been the main Cause Of stringency.
Year: 1872

Another plan for bringing our currency to par
lis given in the bill introduced into the Senate
iproviling that after next June customs duties
may be paid in legal-tenders to the extent Of 20
per cent the first year, and an additional 20 per
cent each year until 1877, when all may be paid
in notes or gold.
Year: 1872

The position which Mr.. Carl schurz assumed
in his answer to the Democratic caucus, which
requested him to take the place on the Foreign
Relations Committee which had been allotted to
the pemqcrate, is one which should be taken by
Year: 1872

Only two Baptist papers In the world have larger
circulation than the Reliqious HcrdH of this city.
Il Is read In every section of The country aud Is the
hest medium In the South for advertisers Its charges
for advertising very moderate considering the
GA tent and character of It's circulation.
Year: 1872

How TO PUT THE CHILDREN TO Bed
Not with reprooi for any of that days sins
of omission or commission. Take any other
time but bedtime for that. If YOU ever
heard little creature signing or sobbing in
its sleep, you could never do this. Seal
their closing eyelids with kiss and a bless
ing The time will come, all too saon, when
they will lay their heads upon their pillows
lacking both Let them at least have this
sweet memory of a happy childhood, of
which no future sorrow or trouble can rob
them. Give them their rosy youth. Nor
need this involve wild license. The judicious
parent will not so mistake my meaning. If
you have ever met the man or the woman
whose eyes have suddenly filled when little
child has crept trustingly to its mothers
breast, you may have seen one in whose
childhood's home dignity and severity stood
where love and pity should have been. Too
much indulgence has ruined thousands of
children; too much love, not one.-Tanny
Fern.
Year: 1872

SLABBERISG HoRsEs.-Give daily, for two
weeks or more, one spoonful of iron scales,
such as may be taken from the anvil block
where horse nails are made. Mix with the
oats or other feed
Year: 1872

EDITORS CHRONICLE: At the April
term of the County Court Of Jefferson
county, there was an election ordered to
be held on the first Thursday of August.
The question to be voted upon is, whether
or not Jefferson county will endorse as Sc
cuTity $4,000 in mortgage bonds of the
Clifton and Knoxville, or, as the style of
the charter will be, the East Tennessee
and North Carolina Railroad, the county
to retain first lien upon the road bed.
Those in favor of the proposition are
to have written upon their tickets
Railroad" and those opposed to it are to
have written upon their tickets, "No rail
road" Ourifriends of the north side of the
county now have an excellent opportunity
to harmonic past differences. Will they
extend to the south side that courtesy and
gratitude that has so long been due her.
Let us do away with sectional preiudices,
keeping in view the fact that whate yer is
of interest to one part of the county will
be of interest to the whole. That the in
terest of the people of the county are one
and inseparable.


Then let every one who loves his coun-
ty or country, let every one who wishes to
make money plenty and thereby lessen
Ihe purthen Of our taxes, come out at the
august election and vote Railroad upon
MS ucket no matter what candidate he
wants to vote for for county officer, or
what his political sentiments are.


PRO Bono PUBLICo,
Year: 1872

WooL.-The New Albany Ledger states
that there is now being brought to that
city larger quantity of wool than was
ever before marketed there in a single sea-
son. The. Ledger is also informed that the
wool clip in Southern Indian, is much lar
ger than it has been in any previous year
of the States history,
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, June 2G.-The Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue will hold a
consultation tomorrow with several keep
ers of export bonded warehouses and the
chairman of the New York Tobacco Board
of Trade, with regard to the new tobacco
regulations.
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
syt lncontinence Of Urine Brights disease Albumin
the water is thick. cloudy, mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there


morbid, dark, bilious appearance. and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is pricking, burning
sensat and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOinS. In all these conditions Railways Sarpari-


Ian Resolvent aided by the application Of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back. and
the bowels regulated with one or two of RadWay's
Regulating Pills per day will, soon make complete
cure In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge waser naturally without pain. and the
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

Has made the most astonishing cures. So
quick, so rapid are the changes tho
body undergoes under the infu-
ence of this truly Wonderful


Medicine that
EVERY DAY AN INCREASE IN
FLESH AND WEIGHT IS SEEN


AND FELT.
Year: 1872

Price. s1.50,
Is now in Season. All who wish to make noise in
the world may easily accomplish It by taking up the
practice of this fascinatieg instrument, with the
sid Of this excellent Method.
Year: 1872

HENRY REED, Of the Capital, who was
assaulted in cowsrdly manner by
Judge Dent, writes Of the result Of the
trial Of his assailant: THE President
will remit the fine, or the officers of the
law will fail to collect, srd if it has
been handed over it will be refunded,
and here is the end. Redress in the
courts OF civil jurisdiction for per-
sopal injuries inflicted by the relatives
OF General Grant, there is none in the
District OF Columbia, and can be none,
so lorg as General Grant is Presiden, OF
the United States. Men who conduct
themselves in ways that are not agree
able to the members OF the Executive
family must do il on their own
responsibility. The danger, perhaps, is
not great, for such individuals as Louis
Dent will only assassinate under cir
cumstances which will not admit Of
personal risk TO themselves"
Year: 1872

BEES dislike foul weather. They are
exceedingly susceptible to atmospheric
changes; the passage of heavy cloud over
the sun will sometimes drive them home;
and if an easterly wind prevails, however
fine the weather may otherwise be, th y
have a sort of rheumatic adherence Of It's
Influence, and abide at home. The cause is
said to be the deficiency of electricity in
the air,
Year: 1872

A MICROSCOPIC lens was recently made
in London, at cost of ESQ, from a dia-
mond. The magnifying power of the lens
is an increase over that of glass in the pro-
portion of eight to three.
Year: 1872

THUNDER STORM HINTs.-As the
season of thunder storms is rapidly an
preaching, its advance guard having made
its appearance few days ago, some re-
marks upon some of the methods by which
people attempt to shield themselves from
the danger of lightning may not be unwel-
come to our readers. Fear is great
magnifier Of danger, and people seldom
think that there is more danger, as an
English writer says, on the best
regulated railroad than during the
heaviest thunder storm. Most Of the
dangers from lightning can be avoided by
paying attention to well known rules Of
safety. Naturally, frightened people draw
together III some room or place, seeking
safety in each others society, unconscious
that they are attracting danger instead of
preventing it, as ascending currents of va
por caused by their perspiration are excel
lent conductors of electricity. People
seem to think that they are safer in a crowd
and in the neighborhood of some tall build
ing, and some of the most horrible acci-
dents on record have been caused by this
mistaken belief Others believe that lying
upon several mattresses will prevent
their being injured, unconscious of the
fact that persons have been killed while
endeayering to shield themselves in this
manner. 1t will be seen that these acci-
dents have mostly occurred to persons who
were ignorant that the yapor of their per-
sons, or the mattresses upon which they
lay, were conductors. The safest spot in
thunder storm is the centre of the room if
you are in the house, or a place at some
distance from tall houses or trees if out of
doors. But the laws of electricity, if that
capricious power has laws, are yet un-
known; and the best course is to trust in
God and keep your lightning rods in order.
Year: 1872

PROTECTION AGAINST MoTH.-We
have every spring many modes offered of
protecting furs and woolens against the
destructive attacks of the moth during the
warm weather. We have seen various
preparations sold for this purpose, with
long accounts appended of their being per-
feet remedies. Red cedar chests and
closets are recommended and many people
cumber their houses with them at consid-
erable expense, only to find out how griev-
ously they have been disappointed.


The best protection we have tried has
been to tie up in close cotton bags all furs
and woolens at all convenient to be so
treated, after giving them thorough shak-
ing and cleansing, and letting them there
until they arc again wanted. These
bags can be hung anywhere out of the
way. If there are no moths in the arti-
cles when tied up there certainly can
none get in afterward if the bags are
sound. All can see that. But when the
clothes or articles are too numerous to
make this convenient or desirable, hang up
in the wardrobe, after good shaking, and
place little bags of camphor ali over
the wardrobe, laying few in the bottom.
Then, about every three weeks take out
the clothes and shake them up well. No
moth will ever disturb them.
Year: 1872

DON'T fail to ask for Sewing Machine
casters when You go to the office. The
agents have other things to think of that
yield better profit, and may not invite
your attention to casters.
Year: 1872

{ A CONTEMPORARY hits the nail on the
head in this style: The idea Of reforming
the Grant administration, by having investi-
eating committees and civil service reform,
q simply preprosterous. The only way to
reform il is to remove Boss Grant aud bis
whole crowd, and put men in their places
who will have some regard for decency'
honesty and the welfare of the nation.
Year: 1872

JUVENILE numskulls who use chewing
gum as luxury, may find it profitable to
learn what it is made of. How do they
''like this picture"


"Chewing gum is made at Podunk, Mas
sachusetts, of gum-arabic, rOsin and coarse
fat. ANY kind of fat, even of dead dogs, is
used in the manufacture, and when all the
ingredients are placed in boiling kettles, a
small quantity Of the most nauseous liquid
foam is put in to whiten the gum"
Year: 1872

The last Iowa Senate rashly elected a
young lady to one of Its clerkships. The re-
suit is that there is now furore among
female aspirants for legislative honors, and
the contest in the coming Assembly will be
likely to test the gallantry of the Legisla-
fIrra