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Year: 1872

THE BAR Room REMEDY for weakness of the
stomach is dose of Rum Bitters. They are
surcharged with Fusel Oil, a deadly element,
which is rendered more active by the pungent
astringents with which it is combined. If your
stomach is weak, or your liver or bowels dis
ordered, tone, strengthen and regulate them
with VINEGAR BrrTERs, pure VEGETABLE
SToMAcMc CORRECTIVE AND APERIENr, free
fromalcohol, and capable of infusing new vital
ityinto your exhausted and disordered system.


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Year: 1872

The fayorite Partisan toy just at presents
a teetotum, on the four sides of which are in
scribed the words Legitimacy, Orleanism,
Bonapartism, and Republic. The game con-
sists in spinning it and betting on the side
which may turn up.


1t is curious fact that poor people are
never afflicted with kleptomania, though they
are sometimes given to stealing.
Year: 1872

A Partisan named M. Duplat recently be-
came blind in one eye and in very singular
way. He was indulging himself with a
stiffiy starched shirt, when the edge of the
bosom cut into his eye and the humors ran
out
Year: 1872

1t is considered much cheaper for large
family to spend the summer in Europe, where
they can live at the rate of one dollar apiece
a day, while at Saratoga or Newport it would
cost five times that amount
Year: 1872

The wholesale German emigration to
America is attracting great attention in Eu-
rope, and various theories are given to ac-
count for it, the best of which is that the peo-
pie are poor and want to do better.
Year: 1872

The Louisville Courier thus speaks apro-
pos to newspapers: ''Some people estimate
the ability of newspaper and the talent of
its editor by the quantity of original matter
the publication contains. 1t is comparatively
an easy task for frothy writer to pour out
daily column of words-words upon any
and all subjects. His ideas may flow in one
weak, washy, everlasting food, and the COM
mand of his language may enable him to
string them together like punches of onions,
and yet his paper may be a meagre and poor
concern. Indeed, the mere writing part of
editing paper is but small portion of the
work. The care, the time employed in Sc
lecting, is far more important, and the tact
OF good editor is best shown by his selec-
tions than anything else; and that, we know,
is half the battle. But, as we have said, an
editor ought to be estimated and his labor un-
derstood and appreciated by the general con-
duct of his paper; its tone, its uniform con-
sistent course, its aims, its manliness, its dig
nifty and its propriety. To preserve these as
they should be preserved is enough to occupy
fully the time and attention of any man. II
to this be added the general supervision of
the newspaper establishment, which most ed
itOrs have to encounter, the wonder is how
they can find time to write at all !"
Year: 1872

The rush of strawberries and peas from Nor
folk for the north last week, Tuesday were so
great that all the steamers were loaded down
to the fullest capacity, and good deal of the
"truck" had to be left behind.
Year: 1872

SOCIETY FoR THE PREVENTION OF CEuELTY OF
ANINArs-A circular letter has been addressed t.
large nunhei of citizens, asking their attendance
at fneetin. IN the Board Of Trade Rooms in The
Masonic Tenpe,this evening at n O'Clock, for the
purpose Of forming society having TOR its object
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Animals. Tho OBJ
ject Of the meeting cannot be objected to by any
and must meet the APPRECIATION Of every citizen
who Is not disposscssed Of that humane feeling that
distinguishes the civilized from the savage. Tho
brutality which is frequently witnessed i'll the
open streets by drivers toward their horses is suf


icient alone to prompt Tho movement to which we
call attention The animal that Is use!essly beat.
en- is not the only sufferer in most Of such cases.
On the contrary the moral sentiment of every pas
ser-by is often offended well by the use OF oaihs
and bad languageas by the unmercful application
Of the dubbed whip. 1t were worth the effort if
thereby only the ugly words that SO frequently
fall upon the ears OF the youth should bs checked


But the beneficial effects OF such societies have
been experienced in other cities until nov their
x'stence is no longer Il novelty but necessity
Year: 1872

is an offence which, upon conviction, is punishable by fine of not more than $500, or imprisonment in the county jail of not exceeding six months. Rowell and Reavis, one as district attorney and the other as Judge, did compound or compromise such criminal charge. Even if the case had been one that could have been legally compromised, the order of Reavis as certified by his clerk in th1s case, is an illegal one, because it does not comply with the statute thereon, which says: "but in such tease the reasons for the order must |" be set forth therein and entered on "the minutes" The Judge and Powell may plead that the $45O con- sideration to Rowell and $150 to Dr. DeCorse would not have looked well in the order and "on the minutes - and with show of reason but these facts would have been as just as the illegal order itself, and as they have no regard for law, (according to the Supreme Court in every case of theirs passed upon by that body), they ought not to stand upon looks, especially as the Court record is not seen by as many people as THE CITIZEN.

 In asking our readers to read and reread the foregoing, and at the same time to consider that Reavis is under oath to administer law impartially ac cording to justice, we especially ask them to bear in mind that one of the parties whom Lyon assaulted and Reavis oppressed, is now on crutches, probably a cripple for life, and an ob- ject of charity in Yuma county.
Year: 1872

A FELLOW started a store in Kansas lately. The following was the sign he hung out: "Dry goods by John Smith, who wishes to get married. '" This sign drew all kinds of custom. The single ladies went, of course; and the married men always told their wives to go, under the impression that they could easily cheat so great fool.
Year: 1872

4 SISGULAR PHENoMENoS.-Th
Worcester Mass SPY says: "a sin
gular electrical phenomenon is manifest
at a dwelling on Pleasant street. In
passing around the room and rubbing
the feet on carpet a person becomes
highly charged with electricity; upon
touching the register or any good CON
ductor, brilliant spark of large size is
developed. The gas can De readily light
ed by just turning ii on, and then rub
bing the feet on the carpet and holding
one finger over the jet. a spark often
darts from the feet when passing over
certain places in the floor, producing a
painful sensation. The electricity is
only developed by rubbing the feet on a
carpet laid with Manila paper When
three or four persons take hold of hands
and walk around they all become power
fully charged, and the one first touch
ing a conductor would not care TO repeat
the experiment What peculiar arrange
ment in a house is necessary to produce
this phenomenon, and its influence ON
the health of its inmates being constant
ly charged with electricity, is question
for the scientist"
Year: 1872

TROUBLE WITH SPAIS.-It is given
out that bill of damages, in connection
with Cuban affairs, is being made out at
the State Department against Spain,
which will make an American case as
ugly as that before the Geneva Confer
ence.
Year: 1872

A PECULIAR OLD LADY.-Thc heirs Of
Betsy Williams, Il lineal descendent
Of Roger Williams, who died recently in
Providence, leaving the larger part OF
her property, estimated at -, 900, 900,
to the municipal authorities there, say
she was of uns0und mind at the time of
her decease, and are on the eve of enter
ing a suit for recovery of the property
in the courts in that city, as several Of
them have taken up their residences
there. The old lady was very penurious,
and never wrote to her relatives, deClar-
ing paper, envelopesand postage would
ruin her. She lived on the plainest of
food, and had it not been for the care of
relatives would have starved herself to
death. Her peculiarities We're many
She was monomaniac On the subject
of cleanliness, and made visitors take off
their shoes in the hall. 1t was her fixed
opinion that the two greatest men who
ever lived were George Washington and
Roger Williams. Her house was cover
ed with portraits of the latter, and no
visitor must presume to wear his hat or
sit down in the presence of the likeness
of the deceased Roger. She had sim
gular religious belief. and had a little al
tar, on which were placed daily after
breakfast, three inverted cups, which
Year: 1872

CoI~ FoRSEY. Among the various
reasons given for the resignation of Col
John w. Forney is this; That he has
an entirely natural and laudable ambi-
tiGn to succeed General Cameron in the
Senate of the United States, and wishes
to he unfettercd to enter the canyass,
If this he hi@ purpose, certainly the re
signation Is a wise ana proper step. We
have seen no better explanation OF the
course Of Colonel Forncy than this, ln-
less We accept the statement in his letter
of resignation as simply true. Why,
after all, should we not do that
Year: 1872

Every now and then We hear of pain
full accidents from the thoughtless and
reprehensible manufacture OF explosive
cigars. Some cases have occurred
lately in which severe injury was done
to the eyes of the victims. The cigars
in question appear genuine to the pur-
chaser, but contain q minute squib or
cracker, which. when the cigar has


been consumed to certain point, ex-


plodes, the cigar itself flying to some


distance from the mouth of the smoker.


Joking with these dangerous articles


should beseverely punished. The Paris


Figaro states q case especially trying.
It seems that not long ago gentleman,
happening to have some in his pocket,
and believing them to be the ordinary
cigars. offered one to his uncle, whose
property he expected to inherit, and
who wore q set of artificial teeth.
Great was his horror when he saw what
appeared to him to be the entire jaw Of
his avuncular relative briskly shot from
his mouth and iasten ON the nose of .


high official dignitary, who was heard


to shrek out, Indignantly, Monsieur
you have bitten me-" We trust thi
painful example will have its weight il
doing away with the circulation o


these miserable traps for the unwary
| As a joke they are about as humane q


placing nitro-glycerine balls in chswin
tobacco. t
Year: 1872

word more he must sav. lie elt that for all the
light that had been lately reflected on this subject
they were indebted to the lab0rs OF Livingstone.
(Cheers.) He was afraid that their chair
man had been rather too sanguine In
supposing that he should probably have the
opportunity OF meeting the Doctor before. ne re-
turned from his mission. II he knew the Doctor
rightly so long as any part OF his work remained
undone no inducement whatever-not even the
presence or all the members OF the Cabinet at Zan
zibar-la laughl-would induce him to abandon II.
tCheers.l He felt, however, that-thOugh at Q ter
rible distance-they were now following in the
steps or Livingstone, and endeavoring to Aid IN
the great work to which he had devoted hlmselt-a
work that was always the avOrite object Of interest
OF the late president OF their society, and which
had also always been most congenia to the members
OF It's council IL was for this reason that he felt
Iney should enter upon the undertaking with .
good guarantee OF success. (Cheersl They would
adopt for their motto the words which, he believed
were the motto OF Or. Livingstone, and which had
80 long been the motto Of India-"May Heavens
nght be our guide" loud cheers1
Year: 1872

APPLICATION FROM THE COUNTY CLERK.


The Mayor read an application from County
Clerk L0ew asking for an appropriation Of $l0 450
for the payment Of salaries


The COMPTROLLER said that the appropriation for
this account was already exhausted and If the
Board were to increase these appropriations, one
after the other, he thought that was not the way
to reduce the expenses Of the city. The County
Clerk had already received $35 900.


Mayor HALI-The County Clerk has, / know In
order that his clerks may be paid foregone ths
drawing OF his own salary, and think any man
who does that, from the President downward, Is
very estimable man.


The CoMrTR0LLER-That is q very easy thing for
the County Clerk TO do. His fees give to him one
Of the most lucrative Offices In the city, and his
salary, az fixed by the Legislature Is $4,000. Mr..
Loew has his fees.


After a long discussion 1t was decided that the
application should lie over until the next Meeting.


THE MARINE COURT.


An application from the Marine Court, which is
now Court Record for the payment OF 81, ,s43
tor salary OF re additional clerks was opposed by
the Comptroller on the ground that the appropria
tion was exhausted and that these clerks had been
appointed after q notification to that effect had
been received rom the Department or Finance.
This was also laid over


The Board adjourned about four O'Clock.
Year: 1872

this money was for Boston, but that she had to
take 1t. Her sewing girls and others out OF employ
it. When the speaker was here last year he was
told that the very district now in ashes was inde-
structible by fire. Boston should see to 1t when
the top Of her iron and granite buildings, and that
she widened her streets SO as to give a lesser
chance to the flames Mr.. Collyer concluded amid


The Secretary then read the long list OF names
which Mr.. Kidder proposed to add to the com-
mittee.


Mr.. RICE's SPIRITED MEASURES


Mr.. ALEXANDER H. RICE was the next speaker.
lie said no one could contemplate the calamity
Who could tell, not only the loss s'I Of property
hut the loss OF hope that lies buried beneath
the ruins 1t was useless to waste time
and future must be improved He had not found a
dcsponding man In the city; the buildings and
merchandise were gone, but they had left oil that
Of material advantages they had city
admirably situated Tor foreign and do:
mesS vast amou San NO o.
calamity was nothing more than healthy stimu-
liant to enterprise lapplause) little bioodet-
Mr. Rice then gave some statistics OF the
merce, showing that more than ten thousand for
eign and domestic vessels arrived at the
RSnarea q gs,on tOan IN e. than s
Of New York during the same period
With this statement Of facts none should be dis
opportunities before them. The hour OF trouble
and sorrow was already Frightening with hope and
confidence. One man whom he asked as to his
straight up to God and thanking Him for hope and
energy" And this was the general feeling.


THE VICE PRESIDENT ELECT.


Senator WILSON was greeted with overwhelming
applause. lie said the moments were too precious
for words. 1t was time for action and deeds, and
& dod in gratitude for His mercies. He iikened the
faith which wDs npW exhibited to that which car
Year: 1872

pected Of him, not only by those with whom he had
whom he had been connected by the dearest ties
OF fellow service during the whole OF his lifetime.


tCheers.) Nothing could have touched him more
India Company's service. Far more than justice
had Ieen done to the services he had been able to
render to his country; but he could truly say that
he felt from the bottom OF his heart that whatever
he might have done In his Indian career had only
been possible to him by the aid he had received at
the hands Of those associated with him at the time
In the service OF the country. ("Hear, hearty He
was deeply sensible OF the compliment they had
paid him that evening. The Geographical Society
had always struck him as emlnenty characteristic,
In Its constitution and working, OF the practical
genius OF the English people. Men OF all pro-
fessons and OF the most abstract studies belonged
TO 1t, and worked with It,, but he had yet observed
which had not for its object some practical good.


(sHear, hear.'o For that season he felt sure, as
the consideration OF the society had been extended
to his MISSION that 1t was capable OF being made
the means OF achieving practical results (.sHear,
hear.'1 And surely he might say that there was
no end to which our energies could be better
applied than that end which the English nation had
had in view for so long q time-which had become
sort OF tradition with IT, namely, the suppression
OF the slave traflc. (Cheers.) He was also glad to
that feeling; on the contrary evidences or sym.
pathy with the approaching expedition had
been offered to England by the civilized nations
of the -(cheers)-indeed, he thought
he might SAFELY say that there was no nation
that boosted itself TO be civilized one that had
not sent into the Foreign ONCE tenders OF its SYM
pathy with the efforts the government were about
East Coast OF Africa. (Cheers.) At the same time
he must admit that he hardly hoped that this mis-
sion could lead to the forever OF the
traf1c. 1t was so deeply seated on the cupdity Of
human nature that 1t was pretty certain to spring
up again unless closely looked after; but he did
believe that the measures which the government
CONNECT all nations having any claim to cieiliza-
ton from that abominable uafnc tCheersJ one
Year: 1872

Commodore Worden reports to the
Secretary of War that the Japanese
youths who have been admitted to the
Naval Academy st Annapolis are max
ing creditable progress. Commodore
Worden says:


"The conduct OF the Japanese stu
dents has been excellent, and 80 far
from their interfering in any way with
the discipline of the Academy, the ex-
ample they have set of amisbility and
strict regard for regulations have been
worthy of all praise. They have been
and are now subject in all respects to
tho same rule and routine a.
the cadet midshipmen of tho
Academy, even to attending morn
ing prayers and divine service on the
Sabbath. In the latter regard their
interest and respectful department is
not at all behind that of their Chris
tian fellow-students. They add moth
ing to the expenses of the academy, as
all charges are paid by their own Gov
ernment. From the character of the
young Japanese who have been admit
ted 10 the academy, the interest they
take in their studies, and their seeming
susceptibility to the influences by
which they are surrounded, I do not
think I am wrong in urging the best
results to American interests in Japan,
as well as to the common cause of
Christian civilization from the wise pro.
vision of Congress by which limited
number of her young men are permitted
to be educated ut this institution"
Year: 1872

Before the circumstances connected with the
murder Of Cooch Turner by Dr. West. Were fully
known, the Commercial, OF tins city, stated that
there was much sympathy expressed for the Doc
tor This is being quoted in various sections, and
is doing injustice to the people OF Dover, who
detest the crime and doubt also the criminal for
bringing such terrible disgrace upon one of the
most moral and orderly towrs in the country.
Year: 1872

The other day communication appeared
in a Buffalo paper to the effect that, notwith-
standing the number of eligible young men
in that city, bu. a few Of them ever took la
dies to an entertainment. The young aris-
tocracy of the city is in ferment in conse-
quence, and letters without number are be-
ing written on the subject, both pro and con.
Year: 1872

A Texas vigilance committee recently
hung several horse thieves, but the great and
good teeth of one of the suspended saved his
life. Grasping the slack rope in his teeth
just before the cart was drawn from under
him, he hung in that manner until the exc
cutioners were out of sight, when he ascend
ed the rope and released himself.
Year: 1872

SCOTTISH LANDsCAPE.-This nice bit
of description of Edinburg may serve as
a hint to American tourists who propose
to 60 do " Scotland this Summer: From
Callander to Edinboro is one contin-
uous scene of cultivated landscape,
which realizes to the eye the idea of
Emerson, that British landscape is
so fine that it looks as if finished with
the pencil rather than the plow. In
this beautiful tract of country the farms
assume the aspect of estates as COM
pared with the small rentholds in Ire
land, in all parts of which the dry stone
wall and hedgerow literally cut up the
whole face of the country into little
patches and fragments. As the train
shoots along over the smooth, solidly
built road, glimpses of magnificent man
sions, surrounded by velvet lawns and
highly ornamented ground, are caught,
and the mind is made sensible of pu-
rity of atmosphere and a depth and
beauty of verdure such as one must see
to appreciate. 1t IS an effect as the
twilight which is of such clearness and
duration that the regular Summer even
ing stroll in Edinboro ends at the post
office, where the letters are taken out
and read on the street ct half past 8
O'Clock.
Year: 1872

A SUFFERING MANA man was
picked up recently by the Cleveland
&Ohio) police who seemed to be suf.
fering from mental alteration, but on
recovery gave this account Of himself:
When he left his happy home early In
the morning his wife kissed him good
bye, as was her custom when she wan
ted any errand performed, and then
asked him to Ego to the dressmaker and
tell her that she (his wife) had changed
her mind, and would have the watered
silk made up instead of the poplin, and
be sure and tell her, dear" said the
wife, '.that if she thinks it would look
better with ten bias hounces without
putting, and box-plaited below the equa-
tor, which should be gathered in hem
stitched gudgeons up and down the
seams, with gusset stitch between,
she can make it up that way, instead of
futing the bobinette insertion, and
piecing out with point applique, as l
suggested yesterday. p"
Year: 1872

The North China Ne,os tells the fol-
lowing An extraordinary feat has been
performed by a Buddhist priest, with
the view of raising money to build a
temple at Soochow, whence the man
had come on begging expedition. He
found people Indifferent to his holy OBJ
ject and very unwilling to part with
their dollars. With devotion more
than worthy of the cause, he resolved
to stir up some interest and cause mon
ey to flow in by an extraordinary expe,
dient. He announced among the Chi
nese that he would allow himself to be
locked up in a wooden box for seven
days, during which period he would re-
main imam upright position, and with
out siood or sleep. On Wednesday af-
ternoon he was accordingly placed in
cage about 21l feet wide and 21a high,
just sufficiently large to admit him
standing upright. The bottom of the
cage was studied with nails, so that his
feet should have space only between the
nails sufficient for them to rest on, and
a couple of light bars in front formed
rest for his arms. The native public
were invited to prove the genuine char
acter of the modification, by locking
the good man themselves if they pleased,
and about 80 people brought locks of
different kinds and secured the door as
many times over. The cage was close
one, with q few open bars near the bot
tom for the admission of air. 1t was
placed in jossroom in Hoopeh road,
passing in and out of which crowd of
people might be seen day and night,
during the seven days, religious exer-
cises being engaged in the while, by the
priests. The devotee endured his pain
full incarceration with remarkable forti-
tude, the only relief afforded him being
an occasional glass of water, and he
emerged looking to all appearance little
the worse. On examination, his pulse
was found to beat sixty-four and was
steady, while the skin was moist though
hot. After his release, the cage was
broken up and sold piecemeal to the
Chinese, every nail bringing more than
its weight in silver. The desired result
of calling forth liberal subscriptions
was also attained.
Year: 1872

BLACKBERRY WNE.-Don't can, or
dry, or eat up all your blackberries.
Save some of them for wine, of which a
most excellent article can be made
good alike for the table and kitchen,
and highly valuable for the sick room.
In some classes of disease, especially
affections of the bowels, frst-class ar
ticle of blackberry wine is more valua-
BILE than the most costly foreign wine,
even when made from the pure jnice of
the grape. One great why black
berry wine is not more appreciated is
because it is SO seldom properly made;
and yet there is no difficulty in making
a good article, and by very simple
process. bss