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Year: 1870

and If the Judge goes on at the same rate lit
tie time longer, there will be such exodus of
alarmed rogues as has not been seen since the
days of 55. That a stern Judge has much
more to do with repressing crime than most
people think, is instanced by the falling off in
Chinese outrages. When provinces was on the
Bench in the Police Court-a nominal penalty
was inflicted for the offence of half numbering a
Celestial. Judge Sawyer astonished his first
few culprits by some righteous fine, and since
then the roughs have been much more cbary
Of endangering their liberty by making anti
coolie demonstrations on individual Cinnamon.
The Chinese have not yet replied to Vim
cool document informing them that it will be to
their advantage to keep ont Of the way Of an
indignant populace, but have addressed letter
to the President and Secretary of State inclos-
ing copy of it, and setting forth in extenso the
manner IN which their countrymen are treated
here by portion of the white residents and
calling upon them for protection, as stipulated
by the treaty existing between China and the
United States. In addition, Convention of
Chinese has been called and delegates from al
parts Of the State will be present, vi en- the Chi
nese question will be thciougbly discussed from
a Chinese standpoint, and the conclusion arrived
at forwarded to Washington.


AcToRs' CONSUMPTION"


johnny Mack the popular minstrel performer,
died at San Rafael, on Saturday, of consump-
ton. He had been sick for several months, but
with the deceptiyeness of his disease, the end
did not appear near as it proved to be- He
commanded the largest salary Of any man on the
coast in his line Of business, and had he not
fallen into the great temptation of his profession,
might have made for himself a name and fame
which would have been long remembered. 1t is
only short time since another exponent OF
burnt cork harmony went under the sod, vic
tim to the same good mans fault - and others
of our local stage celebrities are so fast follow
ing in their footsteps that, unless the warning is
needed the heading " Death of n Negro MinstreT'
will before long again be called into requisition


By the way, what wonderful vitality of con
stitutlon Harry Courtaine must have. ! met him
on the street this morning, and he seemed no
older than he did nine years ago. He always
had a careworn, haggard look when off the stage
but times heavy hand has dealt very lightly
with him. HI was at Dashaway Hall on Sunday
night, in conjunction with Mr.. Educational Fitz-
gerald, the text book manipulator, and as the
Dashaway Association is a temperance body, the
inference is that Master Harry has again clad
himself in the armor Of total abstinence.


OUR SAND.


What to do with our sand-hills, has long been
puzzling question, but there is now chance
Of converting them to some useful purpose
stone, has arrived here, to take charge of the
company formed some time ago for the manufac-
ture Of that article. Sand is used as a base and
quartz, melted or reduced to a silicate of soda,
is the binding material A few months will de-
termine the value Of this enterprise to our COM
munity. SCRIBBLER
Year: 1870

that those bold, defiant, energetic, persevering
successful business men, are always those whose
generative organs are in perfect health2


You never hear such men complain of being
melancholy, of nervousness, or palpitation of the
heart. They are afraid they cannot sue
ceed in business; they don't become sad and dis
couraged; they are always polite and pleasant
in the company Of ladies' and look you and them
right in the tace-none of your downcast looks
or other meanness about them. do not mean
those who keep the organs inflated by running
to excess. These will not only
Year: 1870

Judge Lake, of the new criminal court, deals


out justice in a style that almost frightens the
unconvicted into honesty. Three knights of the
jimmy got twelve years each on Saturday for a
small burglary two Others were secluded from
society for three years, in consequence Of their
lax notions respecting the rights Of property,
Year: 1870

For two years past have been laboring
to save an inebriate. After several re-
lapses he became perfectly sober and gave
good hope of permanent reform. His
wife remarked, ''if he falls again it will
kill me-" Things went on smoothly sew
eral months That once darkened home
had become once more a sunny spot. But
one day the reformed man met an old
friend who invited him to dinner. At
the table wine was furnished, aud the en-
tertainer pressed the reformed inebriate
to take glass with him. He knew the
mans former habits. The unhappy man
swallowed one glass, and it unclaimed the
demon in a moment. From that hour to
this my poor friend has hardly seen so
ber day, and nothing but miracle of
Gods grace will ever lift him from the
bottomless pit into which one treacherous
glass of champagne hurled him in an in
slant. In this case it is not difficult to de-
eide who was the greatest sinner. The
man who urges reformed inebriate to
touch drop of intoxicating liquors. de-
serves to be imprisoned for ten years at
hard labor. He is not safe person to
run at large, for where Is the moral differ
ence of assassination with knife, and as
sassin with ''social glass" of poison?


DR.. Cuyler.
Year: 1870

Lamartine tells story that exquisitely
illustrates mothers love: "In spring
freshet, river wildly washed its shores,
and rent away bough whereon bird had
built cottage for her summer home.
Down the white and willing stream drifted
the green branch, its wicker cup of un-
fledged song, and futtering beside it, as it
went, the mother bird. Unheeding the
roaring river. on she went, her cries OF
agony and fear piercing the pauscs in the
storm How like the love of the old-fash-
ioned mother, who followed the dove she
had plucked from her heart all over the
world. Swept away by passion that child
might be, it mattered not; though he was
bearing away with HIM the fragrance of
the shattered roof tree, yet that mother
was with him, "a Ruth through all his life,
and Rachel at his death.n
Year: 1870

ceremony on land, TO take the January morn
ING air off the coast, and it wasn't necessary
to invite me more than once. As we neared
Boon Island Light the sea became smoother,
and we passed close inside that famous bea-
con. 1t stands on bare rock, perhaps half
an acre in extent, from which shoots up the
column Of granite that bears the lantern In
heavy storms the seas sweep completely over
the rock, and in the great September gale
the keepers lost their boats, nets. and fishing
apparatus generally. II must hc a lonely
and secluded life, but there is no lack of men
to undertake the duties. The next point of
interest was the Isle of Shoals, OFF the New
Hampshire coast which showed as we pass
ed, thriving village of white buildings-a
noted summer resort From the northern
side shOrrWard, there stretched long lines
of breakers, rs white and hungry-looking as
the fangs Of q wolf The large hotel of the
locality was burned year before last, and
Capt Stanley mentioned that he had headed
the steamer for it at one time during Il night
passage, thinking it u burning vessel.
As we approached Cape Ann the fishing
vessels became frequent the craft that sup
l. ply Boston and other markets with fresh fish
They fish generally in dories anchored at
short distances from their vessel, looking like
a hen and chickens. We passed close to one
that had seven of these frail little boats out
with q man in each, pitching ana tossing ON
the wintry sea. How they manage to stay


in them is Il mystery to me. 1t seems like
cold hard, dangerous and eXhausting work
Tennyson writcs-


''Ol, well for the fisher lad


That he sings in his boat on the bay.


But if those poor fellows sang that morn


mo, it must have been mourntul music How
little a large part Of the world appreciates
the toll by which their fellow men win the
bread they eat


Passing Cape Ann, with its double light
we were in Boston Bay, amid a thickening
crowd of vessels, and thence 70 the city. the
run had few incidents, So greatly had the
heavy head wind detained us that it was fully
three o'clock in the afternoon when the pas
sengcrs landed


50 much space has been taken up in getting
here, that there is no room to speak Of what
tie city affords Of interest Ny soiourn
comprises in its incidents but one word
"'business." | haven't even looked in to pay
my respects to the Cardiff Giant, who holds
out On Washington street The weather is
exceedingly warm tor winter. with no snow
to Be seen, and heavy oycrcoats are q burden.
Three years ago this month ! found the
streets of Boston impossible from heavy
snow-drifts. Business men complain Of .
lack Of trade, but the hotels are full, The
American House people tel me they haven't
had % many guests At one time since the
great Jubilee
Year: 1870

The Report of the Commissioners on the
Equalization Of Municipal War Debts, has
been printed and laid before the Legislature.
AS was expected, it contains some strange,
though not unexpected Developments. The
Commissioners, as they proceeded in their
work, stumbled on these paper men in the
claims for reimbursement by certain towns,
and like honest men, declined to cover ulO
the iniquity and allow the people to pay q


second time for men that had never been
furnished. The facts which they set forth
justify all that has been said and surmised


respecting the iniquity Of these transactions
The report says:


And finally. viewing he whole matter of these


called paper credits in the best light Uf all the


facts that we have been able to obtain and the best


reasoning we have been able to apply to it, it is the


honest conviction Of the Commissioners that the
whole transaction was wrong and iniquitouS-a
wrong to the Government then struggling for its
very eXistence-a wrong to the people Of the mll-
inequalities whose money was paid aWay-snd a
double and cruel wrong to the brave men of the


army then lying in the trenches of the Appomattox
| and the James; and that all who actively partic-


paed in it. or pasSyely consented to II have uf-
pleasant account to settle with their conscpn-
ttS Scil-TtSpctt dl ttst. IL HfNtl Win me
wrongcd people and institutions.


We shall publish the document more fully
next week. Now having got hold of the
thread, the Legislature must keep pulling ut
it until the whole iniqmtous web is unravel-
led. The people will be content with moth
ing less than q thorough exposure. Shall
they have it
Year: 1870

The passage of the bill by which the radi
Gals profess to go through the farce of adj
mitting Virginia, was finished last week,
when the bill received the Presidential sigma
ture 1t will be found in another column. OF
its many ilegalities and absurdities we do
not now propose to speak, but rather to no.
tice some of its probable effects. The same
pect to the remaining states Of Texas, Mis-
sissppi and Georgia-the terms of one are the
terms ofall. When the process is completed, the
turn in the tide ofradical affairs will have come
pressed the views in these columns, that our
first care should be to get the States into the
Union, and out from military control With
the return OF peace, order and self-govern-
weighing of the public good, will come re
turn to Democratic ideas and principles.


But the radical politician counts on the
negro vote Of the south to keep in the CON
troll the Southern States. And he counts,
likewise, on the disabilities and disfranchise-
ment of many white inhabitants in conse-
quence of the penalties Of rebellion. But
it must be remembered that race of young
men are coming forward, who, with no
troublesome record in the past, will be anti
radical in every fiber Of their bodies. The
number disqualified from voting are very
few indeed.


As for the negroes, we have always MAIN
tanned that their votes will be very largely
controlled by the employers to whom they
must look for work and pay. The radicals
declined to put into the enfranchising provis-


ion any property Or intelligence qualification,
thinking that the colored men would blindly
follow their lead But the result in the cleo
tions thus far has not made good these an
tcipations 1t is found that the negro is
greatly under the influence Of the white peo-
pie of the locality. With the whites demo
cratic almost exclusively, and the negro
vote divided every Southern state will be
Democratic. The state governments will be
reyolutionized, and the delegations in Con-
gress changed as fast as the terms expire.


The radicals see the shadow of these com
can be no excuse for longer keeping states
under military control They are defeated if
they do endeavor to keep them there, and de
feated if they don't The democracy have
only quietly to let events work, and wait for
the good time coming.
Year: 1870

Sen tor Benedict has introduced bill
of great Importance, which contemplates
the ultimate abolishment of the district
system of schools and substituting there
for the town or municipal system. 1t
provides that at the annual town meeting
next to be held in the several towns, the
voters thereof shall vote, by ballot, upon
the question of abolishing the school dis
tricts in their respective towns. Any
town not abolishiug school districts at
that time, Is authorized to do the same at
any subsequent meeting legally named.
Every town failing to accept the change
at the annual town meeting, and having
within its limits three or more school dis.
tricts, in each of which the number of
children is less than fifteen, shall re-
district the same SO that no district shall
contain less than twenty children of
lawful school age. In towns where the
school district system shall be abolished, !,
a board of School Directors numbering


three or six shall be elected-on one-third of
whom shall be elected for one year, one
third for two years and onethird for
three years. The selectmen are en-
powered to fill any vacancy occurring in
said Board. When any town votes to
abolish school districts, they shall cease to
exist after the 1st of April following the
date such vote was taken. The school
houses and other school property shall be
Year: 1870




The bill introduced by Mr.. Bull oi
Hancock, to Incorporate the Air Line
Railroad provides that it is for the pur-
pose of building a road from some poiut
on the north line Of this State through
the several counties and towns in the
State to rome point on the sourh line
thereof, and with the right TO build as
many branches as may be necessary; ; and
may connect with all railroads without
this State a~ the interests of the ComptIy
or the public good may require. TIE
several towns in this State may aid in
the construction of said road or my of its
branches to an amount not exceeding the
total value of all the property, both real
and personal in laid towns. The capital
stock is fixed at one hundred million dol
lars. The bill also provides for the cleo
tion of fourteen directors by the people,
bieunially IT has been referred to the
committee on railroads The reading Of
tho bill created no little amusement, and
Mr.. Bull desired TO have it distinctly
understood that he introduced it by re.
Year: 1870

A PROFITABLE DoG-John Q. A.
White of West Rochester, is the owner OF
spaniel which he shears as regularly as
a sheep, and the fleece is sufficient to keep
a man and boy in nice, soft, warm stock
ings throughout the year. That's the kind
Of dog TO keep and we call upon the
gentleman from Leicester to make him an
honorble exception from that Herod.like
bill Of his now pending in the Legisla-
ture. If Mr.. Bull would not shake his
head too violently, the Legislature should
go further aud exempt him from taxation,
by way of encouraging home industries.
Vermont is purely an agricultural Srate,"
You knOw.-S. AlJanS Messenger.
Year: 1870

GALAXY-The Galary has printed and
sold of the November number four edi-
tiens. The first edition was as large as has
ever been called for heretofore during an
entire month; but this time the entire
edition was sold within five days of its
publication, and three times since then
the publishers have teen obliged TO stop
all other work to get out fresh editions.
This looks like succ1.s.
Year: 1870

To CURE TOOTHACHE "A well-known
dentist of Troy, who has tried the remedy
on some nervous people who have old
roots of broken teeth, and are too timid
to permit an attempt to remove them,
makes the following public for the benefit
of all whom it may concern: To persons
having q hollow tooth, allowing the air to
reach the nerve, I would advise that they
get some spirits of nitre and mix with
alum saturate little cotton with it ard
apply it to the cavity. If the pain ex-
tends upward to the eye, or takes the
form Of neuralgia, procure some horse
radish leaves, take out the stems, wet
them and apply on the face over the pain,
and I think you will get relief If you
have no radish, try beat leaves they may
answer the purpose.
Year: 1870

HOTEL STEALING.-We learn that in
one of our hotels, wearing apparel and
other articles have, from time to time
mysteriously disappeared, and to such an
extent as to cause a serious annoyance not
only to the victims but to the proprietors.
Investigation demonstrated the fact that
one of the employees was endeavoring to
provide stock of goods for the future
without individual expense. The guilty
party, as we understand, was at once dis
charged.
Year: 1870

lent my love a book one day;


She brought it back; laid it by,
Twas little either had to say


She was so strange and so shy.
Bnt yet we loved Indifferent things


The sproutng buds, the birds in tune
And time stood still and wreathed its wings
With rosy links from June to June.
For her, what task to dare or do?


What peril tempt? what hardship bears
But with her-ah! she never knew


My heart, and what was hidden there.
And she, with me so cold and coy,


Seemed, little maid, bereft of sense:
But in the crowd. all life and Joy,


And full of bushful impudence.
She married-well-a woman needs


A mate, her life and love to share
And little cares sprang up like weeds.


And played around her elbow chair.
And years rolled by-but I, content,


Trimmed my one lamp and kept it bright
Till ages touch my hair besprent


With rays and CLEANS of silver light.
And then it chanced I took the book


Which she perused in days gone by;
And as I read, such passion shook


My soul, [ needs must curse or cry.
For here and there her love was writ
In old, half faded pencil signs,
AS if she yielded-bit by bit


Her heart in dots and underlines.
All! silvered fool too late you look.


know it: let me here record
This maxim; lend no girl book,


Unless you read 1t afterward!
Year: 1870

The ship builders and ship owners on the
Penobscot river held meeting at Belfast
Me, on Thursday, and passed resolutions
deploring the present condition of the ship
ping interests, endorsing the report of the
committee of congress and the bills reported
by them on the subject, and asking for speedy
legislation by congress as friendly as that en-
joyed by citizens of other commercial nations.
The protection insanity has pretty nearly run
its course. We have protected manufactures
so much that they have almost disappeared.
We have tied ourselves up so tight with pro-
hibitory duties that we cannot move, and the
ship building interest can only flourish again
when these artificial bonds are removed. and
there is no longer tax upon every article
used in the construction of ship. While
we are about it let us strike at the root of the
matter and not lop off the branches. Give
us a tariff for revenue only, as the Indiana
Republican state convention demanded the
other day, and every article used in ship
building would be free and the builders of
the Merrimac and the Penobscot would again
compete successfully with those of the Clyde.
[Newburypolt Herald, Repuhlican)
Year: 1870

w ASIIINGTON, March Z


Secretary Fish has received dispatch from
the captain of the British steamer Bombay,
which run into and sunk the Oneida, in which
the commander says the Oneida was under
both steam and sail at the time of the colli-
sion, and making about thirteen knots an
hour, while his steamer was making but six.
and he was cognizant of striking the Oneida,
but says the jar was so light that he had no
idea any injury was done to her, and there
fore kept on his course. He makes no refer
ence to hearing the guns of the Oneida.
The truth of the matter is probably that the
captain of the Bombay was fully aware of the
collision, but kept on his course for fear of be.
ing found out if he should stop, and his com
pany would therefore be compelled to pay
damages
Year: 1870




A BIG BACKER. Mr.. C. S. Henry tells the
following dog story in the last number of
Hours at Home:


Those admirable gentewomen of the old
school, the Misses R., long time my neigh
bors on the Passaic, had carriage-dog that
commonly accompanied them in their drives.
Their course often took them across the river
over bridge some four miles from their res
idence. The keeper of the dollhouse had Il
big, surly mastiff that always sailed out and
attacked their dog, who was no match for
him, and sometimes Beaujeu suffered severe
ly; so that at length he declined accompany
ing them if they took the road up the river
toward the bridge. The way through the
lawn from their house to the high road was
nearly half mile. One day, when they
came down to the gate, they found the dog
there waiting for them. AS soon as he saw
them take the up-river road, he turned and
ran with great speed back to the hou,e. In
very little while he returned and overlook
the carriage accompanied by a very power
full dog that ordinarily kept about the house
and grounds, and never went with the carri-
age. The two trotted along, side by side,
following the carriage, until they came to the
bridge, when the mastiff sailed out as usual
The little dog then held back, and his big
comrade went at the assailant and gave him
tremendous punishment, evidently to the
little fellows great satisfaction.