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Year: 1873

THE MERCANTILE BANK-THE DUTY or
DIRECTORS In the course of conversation


with one Of our reporters most important
statement was made by one Of the directors
Of the Mercantile Bank. According to this
director the temporary difficulties in which
the bank found itself involved were due to the
'oser-confdence which the president had in
the transactions Of the Domestic Sewing Ma
chine Company. Too much money had been
lent them altogether and upon insufficient Sc
curity" When such statements are 80 freely
made one naturally asks himself the ques-
ton, What is the use of bank directors Is
it not their duty to look after the general in
terests of the bank, and, among other things,


to see that neither cashier nor president
abuses the confidence reposed in bim2 We
have had many examples of late of the re-
missnoss of bank directors. They have been
too much in the habit of leaving all to be
done by the president; tho president again
leaves everything to the cashier, and so in
Year: 1873

speculation has been carried to anTnwarrantI
able extent, and the decision of the Aldermen
is rebuke to all 'jobs" of this kind. Not
withstanding its glittering prospectus and tho
boundless promises made by its engineers, tho
Exhibition job is happily disposed of without
injury to the municipal exchequer.
Year: 1873

many instances the peoples money has been
squandered. Directors must be made to feel
their responsibility. When trouble comes to
bank through their neglect of duty they
must be made to share the blame with presi-
dent and cashier.
Year: 1873

A VOICE FROM NEW HAMpsH1RE-That Of the
Manchester Mirror thanks God that Presi-
dent Grant is man of war" Several of that
class of warriors have lately departed for the
Ouhan waters.
Year: 1873

two hundred and four he was declared guilty
of criminal neglect and corruption in
his capacity as one of the Board OF
Audit. These counts cover all those arising
out of the Davidson, Garvey and Keyser
fraudulent accounts. These counts embrace
fifty-one claims, which cover one hundred
and two offences. 1t was stated as the inten-
ton of the prosecution to move for Judgment
on each offence separately. The maximum
penalty which this would entail is one hun
dred and two years in the Penitentiary and
twenty five thousand five hundred dollars fine
Arguments of counsel on both sides will be
heard on this interesting point tomorrow
when the question will be decided and SEN
tence passed It would be tantamount, Of
course, to imprisonment for life, if the pro-
secution succeeds, and will be fought on the
other side while money is of avail


While the friends of the prisoner are looking
forward to the chances of new trial being
granted there are to be heard, in some quar-
ters, the usual captious reflections upon the
Judge who presided at the trial We are
not astQnished at this. No convicted
knave ever believed his Judge his
best friend 1t is the Judges duty
to charge strongly where the evidence war
rants it, and if the weight Of evidence makes
leniency injustice, the chatter about personal
hostility, of henchmen who have lost their
leader, is very idle. In looking over
this case we cannot forget one point,
which served as a hint to the jury.
When they were in the box before the
trial the eighth juror OF the Stokes case was
sentenced to thirty days imprisonment. The
jury box like the ballot-box cannot be too well
guarded 1t is triumph for republican in
stitutions when justice is preserved from
taint, and we say, let the javelin of justice
strike fear to every man who hungers after
what made Tweed famous three years ago and
infamous to-day.
Year: 1873

The belief that money will make some differ
ence is grasped at by those who do not wish
to see Tweed punished as he deserves.
Now the question becomes serious one
whether these men are in the right. We have
seen in this case how potent money is to de-
lay justice by the quirks and bubbles it can
find to throw in the way. Il is a very differ
ent question, however, whether anything can
prevent the execution of the sentence which is
that Tweed was not taken to the Tombs
when committed to the Sheriff's care. We
do not cry for anything inhuman when we
want to know why this man, convicted on
two hundred and four counts of misdemeanor,
should be made an exception to the rule.
Has this convicted "Ring" chieftain so much
OF the king-hedging divinity about him that
the officers Of justice fear to wound his feel
ings by taking him to prison at first, or has
this Marius of the Seventh ward got the
glance of the Roman in his eyes that it pals;es
the sheriff and his deputies in doing their un-
pleasant dutyr We point to this because,
with such criminal, looseness of this kind is
not only servility paid to once-prosperine
fraud, but positive danger to justice should
Tweed be bent on escaping bodily. If this
servility Is found in the Sheriff's Office how
Will the officials on Blackwell's Island ever
offer him convicts suit to swathe his portly
form withal9


Ihe Indictment on which the verdict of yes
terday was reached covered two hundred and
twenty counts. On sixteen alone of these
inc verdict was not guilty On the remaining
Year: 1873

IHURCH OF THE DISCIPLES MADISON AVENUE
- and Forty NTH street-By universal request tho
ing BY the Literary Society will be repeated Tuesday
5Oc only limited number will be sold
Tickets for sale Florence Sewing Machine CompanyA
Hotel Fifth avenue
Year: 1873

WANTED-A COLoRED COOK; MUST BE FIRST
w class in every way; one who can refer TO former
EMPLOYER; thoroughly clean experienced cook, smart
and active who quits good but visitors
allowed Address giving name and residence, A. d. box
2252 Post office New York.
Year: 1873

There Is a general impression IA our city, uct
flily five hundred houses OF moderate size should
b. erected in this city curing the present year to
satisfy the demands. But the season has been
backward and there Is 50 much difficulty IN plo-
curing money, that we ind builders are very eau
t;Ous about adopting any extensive plans, not
withstaHding they acknowledge the demand for
houses, botn by those who want to buy and those
who want to rent Those who last year built for sale
have succeeded in disposing OF most of those
they did not conclude 10 keep; but in most cases
they are sold on lime, and thus capital is locked
uP and with the high rate of interest, they say It
Will not pay to borrow and build.


As there is now no large buildings under way
requiring the services of large number of men,
has been the for several years, 1t is feared
our mechanics who are employed at house build
ing, under the circumstances, will not be able to
tnd constant employment heretofore This
Is TO be Tegret:ed. 1t was hoped that much larg-
er number Of dwellings would be erected this year
than in any former one. But so far we see no
very encouraging indications that such will be the
case.
Year: 1873

1t appears almost impossible Tor Every Eceai,ag
to tell the truth without following it with an un.
truth. We did say the legislature had 'been very
foroearing," but we did not add Gin not cxpellipg
Mr. Pride long ago" There is little wonder that
Inc correspondent has no more respect for the
eouitchios and amenities that are due to gentle
men when the principals set such an example,
Ihe paragraph on Saturday, referring TO the Ga.
zErTE, is fair sample of The vulgar slang with
Whichits columns have been freighted from Dover


No man who read the letters ofthis correspond
ent could fail TO perceive that the writer them
was incapable OF properly clothing his dis
senung opinions in language becoming fair and
truthful criticism and he therefore resored TO the
application Of vulgar epiihets known TO such
persons as frequent the low brothals where bad
Whiskey stupe6es and renders men senseless to
shame and regardless OF the respect Of decent
people.


Had there been but six Democrats in the House
and twelve Radicals and Democratic correspond
ent had written Of the majority as Pride has done
h. would have been expelled long ago. This
man, it is now believed was placed there for the
very purpose OF abusing the privilege granted
He was expected 10 rehash and repeat through
the columns Of paper wholly controlled In the
interest Of Radicalism, whatever the Radicals
whispered in his ears or placed in his hand


The GAZETTE needs no correspondent for such
puPoae; when it does employ one 1t will see to
itthat 1t does not place boy in a position and
commend tc him the work Of slanderer for
the purpose Ofeatcldng penny or two BY the
circulation aud sale Of what was as fale and dis
creditable as the obscene Iiterturo that is now 20
much condemned by all genteel people.


The many threats the GAzETTH has withstood
In battling for the right Of men to freely express
their opinions arc recent and wen remembered;
when, not like "Dlgger Indian" but like
tyrant and coward, sconced behind bayonets the
Of FVeyy Ersaing was threatening ana
abusing even women who chose to express their
opinions of the vilainoGs conduct Of official par
.lsans then in power. When ''the monkey behind
glasses" assumes to be the champion Ofth peo-
Pies rights approhenslOns win follow that there
s something wrong and dangerous In the air.
Year: 1873

THE WEDDING FIxaER.-Much has
been said and written about the
wedding ring. but the more lovely
part engaged in the mystic matter,
the taper residence Of this ornament,
has been neglected. Now this is
rather curious, as there are facts
which belong to the ring finger
which render it in peculiar manner
an appropriate emblem of matri-
monial union 1t is the only finger
where two principal nerves belong to
two distant trunks; the thumb is
supplied with its principal nerves
from the radical nerve as is also the
fore finger, middle finger, and the
thumb side of the right finger, while
the ulner nerve furnishes the little
finger and the other side of the ring
finger, at the point or extremity Of
which q real union takes place. It
seems as If it were intended by ma
ture to be the matrimonial finger.
That the side of the ring finger next
to the little finger is supplied by the
ulnar nerve, is frequently proved by
q common accident, that of striking
the elbow against the edge of the
chair, door. or any narrow, hard
substance; the ulner nerve is then
frequently struck, and thrilling
sensation is felt in the little finger,
and on the same side of the ring
finger. but not on the other side of it.


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Year: 1873

Chief-Justice Chase, says the Bos-
ton Traveller, was unfortunate
death as be bad been in life. The
cause OF his death was
ruptare of the cerebral artery,
wheace followed rush of blood to
the brain; and as the rupture took
place when he was asleep, he never
knew pains passing calmly away.
Mere dying. it is probable, never is
painful, but the circumstances that
attend death sometimes are very
painful; yet men suffer as much in
cases from which they recover as they
do in those that terminate fatally.
A strictly natural death would make
no more impression on q man than
was made on him by his birth. Ma
ture is not such o blunderer as to
make the inevitable source of pain
that can do no good. What is disa-
greeable in dying is the result of
violations of natures laws. To die
is simply to sleep, death being the
rounding of life as SHAKESPEARE says.
To the properly constituted mind,
death IS no more horrible than Is
sleep: but then the properly. con-
stituted mind has not yet been found.
Even those who die calmly or gladly,
do 30 because they have found life q
Gordian knot, which can be cut only
by the dart of Death, and not be-
cause they have philosophically con-
vinced themselves that it is matter
Of no moment. Be q man the most
confirmed of believers. or the most
confirmed of unbelievers, he must
have some doubt--and where there
is no doubt. be it ever so small, there
must be fear. So that when one de-
parts in his sleep he avoids the last
perplexity, that which waits on the
death bed Of the Christian as well as
on the death bed of the philosopher
which was felt by Adam, and which
will be felt by the last of Adams de-
scendants. Human egotism has not
yet reached to that point in which
death can be q matter of absolute in
difference, and probably it win never
reach it.
Year: 1873

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A ToUcHINa INcnENr.-A short
time since, in this city, a brilliant
and much admired lady, who had
been troubled for some time with an
affection of the eyes, was led to fear
a speedy change for the worse and
Immediately consulted her physician.
An examination discovered sudden
and fatal failing in the optic nerve,
and the information was impaired as
gently as possible. that the patient
could not retain her sight more than
few days at most, and was liable to
be deprived of it at any moment.
The afflicted mother returned to
her home, quietly made such ar
rangements as would occur to one
about to commence SO dark ajourney
of life, and then had her two little
children, attired in their brightest
and sweetest costumes, brought be-
fore her, and SO with their little
faces lifted to hers, and tears gather
ing for some great misfortune that
they hardly realized the light faded
out of the mothers eyes, leaving an
ineffacable picture OF those dearest
to her on earth-a memory of bright
faces that will console her in many
a dark hour. ~ Couingto,a nl KY
journal.
Year: 1873

II is bad enough to see bachelor
sew on a button, but he is the embod-
iment OF grace alongside Of o married
man. Necessity has compelled ex-
perience in the case of the former, but
the latter has always depended on
some one else for this service, and
fortunately for the state Of society, II
is rarely he is obliged to resort to the
needle himself. Sometimes the pa
tient wife scalds her right hand, or
runs silver under the forefnger of
that hand and it 10 then that the man
clutches the needle around the neck,
and forgetting to tie knot in the
thread. commences TO put on the but.
ton. II is always In the morning,
aud from five to twenty minutes after
he is expected 70 be down street. He
lays the button exactly on the site of
its predecessor, and pushes the needle
through one eye, and carefully draws
the thread after, leaving about three
inches OF it sticking up for the lee
way. Hesays to himself-"Well, ifwo-
men don't have the easiest time ever
saw" Then he comes back the other
way, and gets the needle through the
cloth well enough, but in spite Of q
great deal of patient jabbing, the nee
die persists in bucking the solid part
of that button, and finally, when he
loses patience, his fingers catch the
thread, and that three inches he had
left TO hold the button slip through
the eye in twinkling, and the button
rolls leisnrely across the floor. He
picks il up without single remark,
out Of respect for his children, and
makes another attempt TO fasten it
This time when coming back with the
needle he keeps both the thread and
button from slipping BY covering
them with his thanh, ana 3: - out ci
regard for that part Of him, that be
feels around for the eye in q very
careful aud jndicious manner, but
eventually losing his patience and his
philosophy as the search becomes
more and moro hopeless, he falls to
jabbing about in lose and savage
manner, and il 10 just tten that the
needle finds the opening and comes
through the button and part way
through his thumb with celebrity
that no human ingenuity can guard
against. Then he lays down the
things, with a few familiar quotations,
and presses the injured hand between
his knees, and then holds 1t under and
finally jams it into his mouth, and calls
upon heaven and earth to witness that
there has never been anything like il
since the world has been created, and
howls aud whistles, and moans, and
sobs. After a while he calms down,
and puts on bis pants, and fastens
them together with stick, and goes
TO business changed man.
Year: 1873

Suicide.


Some days before the C ose OF the late
session of the East Tennessee University,
q student from Georgia was one day taken
suddenly i'll, and 50 deported himself as to
attract the attention of his fellow students.
His first evidences of a1y trouble was one
night after discussion with student over
the Modoc war. H9 gave it as his opinion
thTt there was no glory to be gained by
fighting little baud of prosecuted In
dams. On closing the discussion be re-
marked that he ,elieyed he would 90 out
and kill himself lie went out of the build
ing aud the students with whom he had the
conversation noticed that he went beyond
the grounds to which the students Of the
University were limited at night. Thinking
he meant to carry ont his Unrest, hisfriend
hastily summoned few students and fO-
lowed after him down towards the liver.
They fnslly found him lying on the brink
otSecoDd creek, with a large stone in each
hand, evidently about to execute his threat.
Ou seeing his fellow students approaching,
he started to throw himself down the bank,
but they were too quick for him. Will
great difficulty they got him back to his
room. Several times during the nigh he
tried to kill himself with knife, bayOnet
and several other weapons. By close
watching he was prevented from infiicting
any violenc5 cn his own person. Several
doctors examined him, but the differed as
to the origin ofhis troubles. He continued
morose, Tightly and violent for few days,
but fioslly seemed to quiet down. A few
days after the attempt at suicide, he began
feeling soTethiDg working down towards
his ear, and by some effort he finally took
from his head good sized, dead black
bug. 1t hid crawled into his ear without
bis feeling it. lts movements in the inter-
ior of his head had evidently been attended
with more serious results than usually fol-
low the operations of such small creatures.
The head is evidently not convenient
place to carry bugs. he is now all right
KROrUMe Chronicle, July3.
Year: 1873

A CURIOUS circumstance is reported from
West Hlwley, Mass. An sprle tree on the
highlands had expanded into full and luxu-
RANT blossom on the 18th of June, standing
in the midst of snow drift several rods in
extent. While the tree was thus laden
with blossoms the drift Immediately suu-
rounding its trunk was upward of four feet
in depth.
Year: 1873

I A New JERSEY proletaire says: '.Stand
up for the Sabbath, fellow-w Orkmen Re-
fuse on holy days to fire up locomotive, or
drive your employer TO church if be Is able
to walk. believe the time is close at hand
when a Christian woman will refuse to
work on Sunday in any mans kitchen,
solely that her employers family may feast
on dainties. Speed the day
Year: 1873

The Springfield Republican says Vice
President Wilson has passed into that stage
of health which Chase so long occupied, a
paralytic invalid to whom life is of most un-
certain duration. The nature of ofhis dis
ease may not utterly destroy his usefulness
as man s-d public servant, but it will un-
1Crhfa1lv
Year: 1873

THE double murder and lynching in Aroos-
took county was terrible affair, but not more
terrible than the fact that hundreds are dying
daily from consumption and other ills follow
ing in the train of distressing coughs and colds,
which might be readily and permanently cured
by that valuable remedy-Adamson's Botanic
Cough Balsam. may7-d&w1t
Year: 1873

GRAND PICTURE SALE.-The second grand
annual sale of fine oil paintings by Schumacher
Brothers. opens at Lancaster Hall next Mon
day afternoon, and will continue two days.
The collection embraces nearly. two hundred
pictures, many of them very fine. Winter
scenes and autumn foliage abound, though
the collection is rich in fruit and cattle pieces
The pictures have been hung, and will be on
exhibition on and after this morning. None of
our readers should fail to pay a visit to the hall,
for the paintings will amply repay the trouble.
Many of them are from the brushes of we'll
known artists, whose names are warrant of
the merit of the work. The arrangement of
them has been tastefully carried out, and the
result is an artistic treat
Year: 1873

PEEP O. DAY.-We hope our readers will not
fail so see the beautiful drama of ''Peep O.
Day or Savourneen Deelish by the Amateurs
of the Emerald Boat Club. We have no doubt
the play will be a success as the young ladies
and gentlemen are determined to make it SO,
they having been at considerable expense and
labor to procure the correct costumes, scenery
and music. We hope to see crowded house
as it is for very worthy object The popular
prices of admission are So, so, and rs cents.
Reserved seats for sale at Stockbridge music
store and at the hall during the day.
Year: 1873

OLD Folks CoNoERr-This evening an Old
Folks Concert will be given by the friends
OF the Congress street Methodist Society, at the
church AT the close of the concert hulled corn
nd milk will be served in the vestry. A very
easant time is anticipated, and it is hoped


there will be a large attendance.
Year: 1873

SUICIDE AT ScARBoRo' Miss Lottie Libby,
an old maiden lady, aged 81 years, committed
suicide at the residence of her brother, Mr..
William Libby, in Scarboro, yesterday morn
ing about o'clock. Miss Libby had always
enjoyed excellent health till within about a
year, when at times she would act somewhat
strangely, but has never been sick so but that
she could attend to the domestic affairs of the
house Tuesday morning after partaking of
breakfast she went out in the chamber of the
cider house, and taking chair placed it under
beam and then put very small line over it
and just risingup from the chair placed the
cord under her chin, and leaning forward must
have choked te death, her feet resting on the
floor. Miss Libby was deaf and dumb, as was
also her brother, with whom she was living
She was woman very much respected in the
neighborhood and greatly beloved by her broth
ers family in which she has been greatly inter-
ested.


Coroner Gould, as soon as notified, repaired
to the house, and after learning all the facts
satisfied himself by the statements of the fam
lily and neighbors that an inquest was not war
ranted and so decided,
Year: 1873

A great many curious things hap
pen to babies IN this round world of
ours one thing is-planting them.
This is done by the dark-skinned wo-
men of Guinea, and isn't half so
dreadful as 1t sounds. The mother
digs a hole IA the ground, stands baby
in it, and tLen packs the warm sand
around him To keep him in place, as
you would set out a rOse-bush. 1t
keeps him out Of mischief, and he can
play in the sand while his mother
works. All day long he stays III his
odd crib, and at night, when she j.
done with her work, he i dug out. If
you don't fancy crib Of sand for a
baby, what do you think Of a big
shoe, stuffed with moss TO make it
more comfortable ? the drOll little
Laps, cradle their babies III that way.
The shoe is large, Of course, and made
Of reindeer skin. II sOmes up high at
the back, like the slippers we Wear
nowadays, and is turned up at the
toes. The moss with which it l. stuff
fled is the famous reindeer moss, soft
and white and the odd little black
eyed baby looks very comfortable
hanging from the tree, or slung across
it. mothers back.
Year: 1873

THE REAsoN.-The reason of the un-
preeedented demand for Dr. Price 5
Cream Baking Powder and Special Fla
vorings, Vanilla, Lemon, etc, is the result
of their being just as represented, of su-
perior strength and uniform quality
coupled with the equally potential fact,
that they contain not one grain of adulter-
alton Having thoroughly tested them
ourselves we have no hesitancy in saying
that they will accomplish just what is
claimed for them, and one single trial will
readily convince any person as to the truth
of our assertion.