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Year: 1875

A recent issue of the Nash ia, n
H Telegraph gives the particulars
of the alleged murder in louisiana
of two graduates of Dartmouth Col
lege. These two men, it says, were
college mates; one, A B. Long, a
talented, strong-hearted young man,
graduated in 1858; the other, Frank
W. Perkins, was still in college when
the rebellion broke out, and at the
first call for troops enlisted and went
with the Second Regiment to battle
for his country. He was the first
soldier Dartmouth sent to the war.
When the war closed, Long, having
read law and been admitted to the
bar, was in n. Orleans, and for time
his friends at the North heard of
him as iustifying all the bright
promise of his college days. After
ward he was appointed to judicial
position in the city. Still later the
news came that he had committed
suicide by cutting his throat in his
own Office. This report in time
reached his old friend Perkins, who
by his ability and integrity had come


to be the agent Of line OF steam


ships running between st. Louis and


New Orleans, and he went to New
Orleans to investigate the report


Arriving there, he learned that Long,


instead of committing suicide, had


been murdered in cold blood by a


band of White Leaguers to whom he


had become obnoxious by reason of


some of his judicial findings. 1t was


also learned that no attempt had


been made to discover his murder


ers. and that the whole White League


organization was glorying over this


summary removal Of hated Radl-


cal. Upon learning these facts PeT


kins published a card offering rss


ward of $4,000 for the arrest and
conviction of those who had commit
ted the murder, and in less than a
week he was hunted down and shot,


and his corpse kicked into the street.
Year: 1875

The Reese bill, amending the Adair law,
was so amended before its final passage as
to take away its most Objectionable feature
TO Temperance people, and really to render
the law a far more efficient Temperance law
than it was before. It certainly looks now as
if the dramsellers have been caught in the
net they had so cunningly spread for the
friends of Temperance. This is the view
taken of the matter by the Cincinnati Ga
zette. We will publish the amended law in
our next issue.
Year: 1875

The young people in the upper
part of the State are filling the pa
pers with their answers to this little
problem:


eff three cats can eat three rats in
three minutes, how many cats will it
take to eat one hundred rats in one
hundred minutes 2


If the pupils of any of our schools
feel inclined to indulge in a whack at
this little problem, they may send in
their figures to this Office.
Year: 1875

Here is a new game very popular
in the country just now: A young
man takes q chestnut, cuts around
the hull with sharp knife, and then
takes one-half the chestnut in his
mouth, and q pretty girl takes the
other half in her mouth; and then
they pull and the hull comes right
off. There may be quicker methods
of hulling chestnuts, but none more
soothing to the feelings of the young
folks; and they don't get mad and
dance wildly around if the hull
doesn't come off for five minutes or
so. Country games are not to be
despised, after all.
Year: 1875

SENATOR KEY, of Tennessee, has passed
the ordeal of an interview upon the cur
repcv question. His public record has
begun. He is decidedly opposed to forcing
things. He would not force resumption
because the South could not, in that in
stance. pay her debts. Pray can she pay
them ANYHOW unless she fosters her labor
and encourages her production? Does she
find any difficulty in getting the money for
her productions as fast as they are marketa-
BILE? But Mr.. Key wants the old system
of State banks instead of national banks
WHY? Is it because they were more safe
No That is not pretended. He even
claims that the circulation of such State
institutions should be secured by the
national Indebtedness. Is the national
banking act too restrictive in its exactions
and requirements Is it not the fact that
Senator Key wants lot of banks secured
upon plantations which will advance upon
the contingency of Hnproduced crops and
carry the planters over from year to year
if the crops fail? Will anything short Of
this satisfy the South? If this is what is
wanted the only way to secure it is 10
organize the free labor system in such
manner that crops can be relied upon with
tolerable certainty. The South Is not
doing this now. She is demoralizing her
labor day by day, so that it is growing less
reliable for crop making. If she would
grow rich she must cherish her labor by
prompt rewards and elevate it by educa-
tion, making it more and more effective
through a higher intelligence. She will
then be able to produce an annual surplus
and thus accumulate capital for banking
and building railways.
Year: 1875

The great affair of the Centennial ami
versary and international Exposition to be
inaugurated in Philadelphia May 10 is now
commanding somewhat of the attention it
deserves, and the excitement attending it
will constantly cumulate until the opening
day. 1t bids fair now to be full worthy of
American enterprise, science, art and in
dustry, and the Commissioner of this Dis
trict calls upon our people to come forward
and take advantage of all the rights and
privileges to which they are entitled.


Washington never had an opportunity so
golden for display Of its arts and indus
tries, and there are patriotic as well as sell
Year: 1875

We understand that the Mormon prophet is
in custody for contempt of court in failing to
pay into the registry of the court the alimony
pending the adjudication of a certain suit.
What has the Department of Justice to do
with question of this sortl
Year: 1875

And now the Star claims that the apparent
revolution in Mississippi indicates the unpopu-
larity of Governor Ames, rather than White
Liner intimidation. We shall soon expect to
see our cotemporary welcoming JEFF Davis
back to his old scat In the Senate.
Year: 1875

This great nation complains of poverty, ,.and
yet pays annually thousands of millions for
beer and spirits in the shape of drinks and the
crime and poverty directly resulting from such
drinking. This is voluntary taxation that
might easily be avoided. Do the politicians
make any noise or fuss about it!
Year: 1875

Rather more than three hundred years
ago, ship partly laden with little green
birds captured in the Canary Islands, having
been wrecked near Elba, the birds made
their escape, few to the island, and there
settled themselves. Numbers of them were
caught by the inhabitants, and on account
of their sprightly viyacity and the briliancy
Of their voice they soon became great favor
ties, and rapidly spread over Europe. ]The
original color of the canary is not the bright
yellow with which its feathers are generally
tinted, but kind of dappled olive green,
blacl, and yellow, either color predominating
according to circumstances. BY careful man
agement the bird-ianciers are able to procure
canaries of every tint between the three col
ors, having instituted set of rules by which
the quality and arrangement of the colorng
is reduced to q regular system, Still the
original dapplod green Is always apt to make
its appearance, and even when two colored
birds are mated a green one is sure to be
found in the nest. For my own part care
little for the artificial varieties produced by
the fanciers, and to my mind an intelligent
bird and good songster is not one whit the
less attractive because the colors of its plum
age are not arranged precisely according to
the iancier's rules,
Year: 1875

A Dubuque boy was rather troubled for
fear that he would not know his father when
they both reached heaven, but his mother
eased him By remarkng' "Au you have to
do is to look for an angel with red nose ON
him"
Year: 1875

Ifyou wish 10 inliict tortureupon a neigh
Dor, tell him some disagreeable news before
breakfast or any other meal. What can be
heard with calmness by the owner of full
stomach will set hungry man wild,
Year: 1875

noring all other questions, will
take sides and vote upon that
aILimportant matter. The New
York Democracy give notice that on this
ground they will not compromise, The man
who refused to compromise with Tweed
outside OF the penitentiary, and who is
to-day fearlessly indicting. arresting, and
prosecutiny leading Statesmen" for rob-
bing the canal funds, will compromise with
no proposition to pay the wages Of labor with
dishonest money. They but proclaim the
purpose, which is much stronger in the Re-
publican party than in the Democratic, to
vote for honest money, in their own party
if they can. but, if not in their own party,
them in whatever party that is pledged to
carry out that policy. Shall this element
Of the Democracy vote with the Republi-
can party next year? The question will be
answered by the action Of the next National
Democratic Convention. ...s. Il
Year: 1875

One way is to give something TO every
cause that is presented, without inquiring
into its merits This careless way, but
better than none,


A second way is 10 give from impulse, as
much and as often as love and pity prompt.
This is adapted TO those OF the rich who are
kind-hearted.


A third way is TO save the cost of luNu-
ries, and apply them to purposes OF religion
and charity. This is for the self-indulgent
With the frugal it is apt to be accompanied
by narrowness, ascetism, and pride in good
works.


A fourth way is to make special effort to
earn money for the benevolent objects. This
is for lazy people.


fifth way is TO lay aside. as an offering
to God, definite portion of our gains one
tenth, one-ffth one-third, or one-half This
way is adapted to all, but especially TO the
psnurious, economical, the hard-working, the
extrayagant and the poor, whose gifts would
be largely increased il it was generally prac-
ticed.


sixth way is to give to God and the
needy Just as much as we spend on ourselves.


A seventh way is to limit our own expendi-
lures 10 a certain sum, and give away all the
rest of our income. This was John Wes-
ley's way.


We should not confine ourselves TO one
way of giving, but practice, and teach our
children, different modes, each in its proper
place, as occasion requires. Presbyterian al
Work.
Year: 1875

EVERY life requires some intervals. of per.
feet privacy, Friendship may delight, and
duty never cease her calls; yet the whole
world must occasionally be shut out, while
the soul turns solemnly upon itself and its
eternal destiny. The friendship or the sup
posed duty that prevents such introspection
is O fatal snare.
Year: 1875

startling claim is made that the whole capital OF
some Of these companies Is composed Of forged
and stolen bouds, and there will evidently be \
stir-sbout that will be more lively than agreea-
BILE to some parties. The way Of the transgrsss-
or is uncomfortable.


Our places OF amusement all do we'll at pres
ent Mr.. Fechter at the Walnut, Mr.. Adams at
the Arch, Byron's Comedy of Weak Women"
at the Chestnut all attract fine audiences night
ly. 1t is clear by this time that We have not
enough first class places Of amusement for the
Centennial season-but it is now too late to
better the CASE The giving up Of the Centre
Square Theatre project was mistake, both be-
cause another theatre is really needed, and be-
cause the Chestnut never can be much Of d
property. Under its present management, how
ever, this house has more than made good every
promise TO the public, and It's stage Ia the most
complete OF any ever seen In this city.


TNDEy
Year: 1875

An attack on the Delaware Fire Insurance
Company Of this city, in the Philadelphia Her.
att, is supposed to have been written by we'll
known scalawag. There is large corps OF such
writer's in the country, who systematically at
tempt the blackmailing Of the insurance compa-
Year: 1875

What does q man take with him when from
the extreme verge of life he launches in what
lies beyond 1t looks rs if he took nothing.
Death seems to pass 8 sponge over all that
gone, has before. Be it the end, or be it
new beginning. 1t seems total breaking off
from all that life has hitherto consisted in
This is what makes it terrible.


But if we look at it truly, his past life is
just the one thing that man takes with him
when he dies. He takes himself. And that
self is the product of all his past experience
and action. AS an oak bears in itself the re-
suit of every shower that through long years
has freshened it, of every gale that has tough
ened it, of every gale that has toughened it or
stripped its boughs, of sunshine that has fed
it and the drouth that has parched it, so q
man, when he stands at the end of life, is what
he has been made by all his joys, and suffer
ings, and actions. That is what he takes into
another world-his own character.


The life to come, and the life that now is,
are parts of one another. They are related.. j.
The man is not the same that the boy was, but
what the boy was entered into the man as part
of him. The strength we gain by our vic
tories this year, and the weakness into which
we come by defeat, will be part of us next
year. So, there Is not an act, not word but
casts its influence forward into the tomorrow
that lies beyond DEATH Er.
Year: 1875

Our laLdlady's daughter Is q young


lady of some pretensiOns to gentility.


She wears her bonnet well back upon


her head, which is known by all to be
ia mark of high breeding. She wears


her trains very long, as the great ladies


do in Europe. To be sure their dresses


are SO made only to sweep the tapes


tried fiuors Of chateaux and palaces; as


those odious aristOcrats of the other
side do not go dragging through the


mud i'm silks and satins, but, forsOoth,


must ride in coaches " hen they are In
full dress. 1t is true, that, considering
various habits o. the American people,
also the little accidents which the best
kept sidewalks are liable to, a lady who
has swept mile of them is not exact
ly in such a condition that one would
care to be- her neighbor. But confound
the nake-believe women We have
turned loose in our streets! Where do
they come from? Not out of Boston
parlors, / trust. Why, there isn't a
beast or n bird in the way these Great
or a duchess wears long robes on great
occasions, a maid of all work or fact
ory girl thinks she must make herself
uuiSduCo ny tfdiiiuS dDOuI Will Hcr
path! that's what i call getting vui-
garity into your bones and marrow
Making believe what you are not, is
the essence of vulgarity. Show over
dirt is the one attributed of vulgar peO-
pie. If any man can walk behind one
of these women and see what she
rakes up as she goes, and not feel
he has got tough stomach.
1 wouldn't let one of 'em into my room
without serving them as David served
Saul at the cave in the wilderness-cut
OF his skirts, sir, cut off his skirts
Don't tell me that a true lady ever
sacrifices ths duty Of keeping all about
her sweet and clean to the wish of ma
king a vulgar show. l won't believe
it of lady. There are some things
that no fashion has right to touch,
and cleanliness is one of those things.
If woman wishes to show that her
husband or father has got money, which
she wants and means to spend, but
doesn't know how, lie: her buy yard
or two of silk and pin it to her dress
when she goes out walk but let her
unpin it before she goes into the house.
-['The Professor at The Breakfast Table.
Year: 1875

not only show this, but the mineral
areas, the timber land, and the extent
OF stony harrenneSs which Is so large q
feature Of all Toontain regions. A
light brown color distinguishes the
arabic patches, a green the timber and
grazing country, blank white the sterile
mountain tops; and where gold, silver,
coal or iron hns been mined there an
appropriate patch of color points it out.
Thus d glance at these charts gives the
observer n more complete idea of the
nature and resources of the country he
is looking at than an hours la5orious
reading of written description or dry
statistics. Geological maps are also
prepared, as perfect in their way as
the Others. Glancing over these charts
of our yet unoecupied territory, the
idea begins to dawn on one that if
Uncle Sam is now, according to the
accepted saying, rich enough to give
us all farm, the time is not far dis
tant when he won't be.


OUTEIr FOR THE FIELD.


In conversing with Prof. Hayden's
assistants was little curious to know
what sort of outfit was required for the
field. Extremes of heat and cold are
daily encountered. In tho valley the
sun may be pouring down its scorching
rays and sending the mercury up 10
llOO, but make the ascent of one of
those lotto peaks, and it is possible to
get caught In SnOw-stOrm or a freeZ-
ingly cold rain. Then there are rough
climbing, rough riding, AMI rough
camping to be provided for. For these
an outfit of a special character is neces.
sary. All the gentlemen agreed, first,
that the most Indispensable article was
IA rubber blanket, and second, that two
good woolen blankets for sleeping and
thick coat must be had. Beyond
these article. every one had his special
fancy. Some were for wOolen clothing
entirely; Others for merino underclOth-
ing and wOolen shirts; one thought
buckskin the best material for outer
garments, and others preferred some
thing else. One gentleman said he
cohld not wear high boots because he
had TO climb so much; another said he
had to wear them for that very reason.
They agreed, however, in stating that
whatever the boots were, they must be
heavily nailed. AS to weapons,
rifle # large bore, fit for
grizzlies, and stout butcher. knife,
were all that would be requiaed. Above
everything it was necessary to make
ones outfit as simple as possible, to ap-
proach as nearly as might be to the
Spartan simplicity of that western
senator who started for six months
session ut Washington with nothing
but two shirt fronts ami revolver.
Year: 1875

The New York Tribune has this
timely suggestion for the benefit of the
Catholic ecclcsiastics in this country ::
1T is to be hoped that the leaders of the
CateOlic Church in this country will
have the wisdom to see that the regi-
men OF freedom under which their
Church has prospered so long, is the
only safe and Wholesome one, and will
discourage all ill-advised efforts to in
terfere with legislation for the purpose
of gaining sectarian advantages, which
would surely end in serious damage to
that prosperity and peace which have
hitherto excited the envy of brethern in
other countries
Year: 1875

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May H.-Rain
has poured down in torrents almost in
cessantly for the past twenty-four hours
and is still coming down. The reports
brought in by trains on all the roads
running into the city show that the rain
has been general in every direction for
over one hundred miles from this
point. Considerable damage has been
done to fences land railroad embank-
ments and in some places to growing
crops, the low lands having been flood
ed and washed out. But the greatest
injury is to the grasshoppers; untold
millions OF the insects have been de-
strOyed by the flood. They were wash
ed into the sewers of this city, and the
streams in this vicinity have been full
of them to-day. The Missouri river
opposite the city has been black with
them, and the engineer of the railroad
bridge reports there is hardly any esti-
nation OF the number that have fioated
past. The levels have been visited by
hundreds to witness the gratifying
sight. There is no question but that
the bulk of the insects in this vicinity
have been destroyed by the food. II
it continues through the night, which
there is every prospect of, there will
be few left to trouble the farmers. In
the open fields the ground is covered
with dead hopperS that have been
killed by the beating rain. The feel
ing of dread is rapidly giving way to
one of rejoicing, and Governar Harden
will doubtless be called upon to issue a
proclamation Of thanksgiving instead
Of one of fasting and prayer.
Year: 1875

President Jcwett was appointed on
Wednesday Receiver for the Erie rail-
way on suit brought by the Attorney
General of the State on a general allega-
tion of insolvency Of the company.
Year: 1875

What reason can the Enquirer have
against Geghan's denomination? 1t says
his bill "is just and proper enough"
Then why affect to repudiate his nomina-
ton 1t offers the feeble pretext that
"Mr. Geghan procured his nomination in
such way as to convince the outside
world that the Catholic Church is a fac
tor in politics" Indeed The Church
declared that fact when the Geghan bill
was up. The Catholic Telegraph, anent
that bill, uttered this menace to the
Democratic party: "Withdraw the sup
port which Catholics have given to it and
it will fall in this city, and county, and
State as speedily as it has risen to its
longlost position and power That party
is now on trial Mr.. Geghan's bill will
test the sincerity of its professions.
And wnen the Democrats succumbed to
this threat and passed the BILL the Tele-
graph said "The unbroken, solid vote of
the Catholic citizens of the State will be
given to the Democracy at the fall elec-
ton" A factor in politics, indeed 1t
is the Democratic partys master.-Cin-
cinnati Gazette.
Year: 1875

The Enquirer is trying to rob Geghan
of the merit of the Geghan bill by assert
ing that "the Enquirer did as much to-
ward the passage of that bill as did Mr..
Geghan." And then it turns upon itself
by declaring Geghan IAN empiric in both
religion and politics" whatever that may
be. But when the Enquirer did so much
for the empiric Geghan's bill, it was un-
der the threat of the Cetholic Telegraph
that the Democracy must pass that bill
or lose the Catholic vote. The Enqsirer
got down on its belly to that threat and
submit. Now it affects to think that
Geghan's denomination recognizes that
the Catholic Church is factor in the
Democratic party. And it is going to
show the contrary by affecting to repudi-
ate Geghan's nomination. This is ex-
ceedingly thin Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1875

The Democratic campaign of this year
in Ohio is as humiliating to every honest
American as its national campaign was
in 1864. Then the party tried to carry
the country by an appeal to fear, now by
an appeal to prejudice, Then the Dem
ocratic cry was that the war was a failure,
and the longer it continued, the worse it
would be for the country. Now the cry
in Ohio is that of the poor against the
rich. Cary, the Democratic candidate
for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, the chief Dem.
ocratic orator, merely mischievous po-
litical adventurer, daily addresses crowds
of Ohio citizens, and tells them in effect
that the people who supplied the money
to carry on the war are tyrants and op-
pressor's of the poor. The times are
hard and labor is scarce, and Cary
breaches to workmen out of employment
that the cause of the trouble is the want
Year: 1875

1t is wonderful that such bowling
demagogue as Sam Cary should be able
to fool anybody into believing word he
says. But there is no mistake about it.
Cary is gradually taking the most promi-
nent place in the Democratic canvass,
while poor old man Allen is being pulled
back by the coat tails They tell him he
has spoken an hour, when he has been
pulling along for only fifteen minutes.
And who knows-perhaps the poor devils
may think it is an hour. Fifteen min
utes under torture seems long time to
the sufferer Journal
Year: 1875

Not the greenbacks issued to enable
the nation to put down Democratic Sc
cession; not the greenbacks which Re
publican faith sustained when the Dem
ocratic party tried every means to dis
credit them, are meant by the term rag
money; but the greenbacks which Dem
ocratic quacks propose to make by
abandoning the promise of payment, and
by new and unlimited emission in time
of peace, for no other object than to de-
preciate them. The money which is to
be inflated In order to debase it. is what
is called rag money.-Cincinnat Gazette.
Year: 1875

The Democratic party of Ohio, with
the Catholic vote lost, would be like
tail with the dog cut off. And the tail
would be mighty stumpy one at that
So you see the Hamilton County Conven-
tion knew what it was about, when it
meekly opened its little mouth and took
the Geghan pill without a murmur.-
Columbus Journal