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Year: 1873

A most susceptible young gentleman
was Frank Chandler, late OF Fryeburg,
Me. First of all, he fell in love with his
fathers housekeeper, and secretly mar
ried her. But, upon the avowal Of this
union, old Chandler declared, we don't
know by what authority, that he did not
approve of it, and so the wife went home
to her family. But it is of no use to
waste sympathy upon young Chandler
for he straightway fell in love with an
other lady, and wanted to marry her be-
fore the divorce proceedings were finished.
To this the old gentleman naturally OBJ
jected, which so discouraged the youth
that he took a great dose of laudanum,
and is no more in the flesh. The father
is one of the wealthiest farmers Of that
region.
Year: 1873

A lion tanner at Turin has been iD the
habit of entering den populated with
lions, bears, tigers and other gentle play
mates, taking with him lamb, which he
not only made to lie down with the lion,
but actually put the little innocent's head
in the monsters mouth, but the lion on
thinking it over, concluded that it was
only sham millennium, after all,-real
one wasn't due,-and so one day there
was suppressed bleat, crunching sound
and the royal quadruped was enjoying n
lunch of young mutton, rare, without
gravy, and nothing but mastery retreat
saved the tanner from furnishing the next
mouthful.
Year: 1873

The jury in the case of Jennie Daily,
the queen Of the Indianapolis courtesaus,
sat all night before agreeing that the
woman kept an Objectionable house and
should be fned So. The smallness Of the
fine was probably in consideration of her
poverty, as she is only worth about s40,-
900.
Year: 1873

ard the Deacon. in his excitement. dis
tanccd the choir, and the organ, aud the
congregation, and almost brought the en-
tire musical service to stand-stll,


The Deacon, who had intended to watch
closely all degrees, now expresses be-
lief in the mighty power Of the Spirit
from on high. Otncr moneyed men have
been smitten and changed and the pastor
OF the Pawkin Center church daily
thanks the Lord for such revival as he
never heard Of before.
Year: 1873

Those who have witnessed the cele-
brated box and bag trick recently per-
formed by Professor Hartz IN this city
concur in pronouncing it much more
mysterious than the supposed spiritual
exhibition Of the Davenport Brothers.
Any one laboring under this delusion
can easily have il dispelled by Professor
Hartz. The trick is thus described in
the New York Tribune:


IAN unpainted box, about two feet
long and seventeen inches deep and
wide was carried upon the stage, and
put down in the center. II had turn
over lid, fastened at the back with three
common iron hinges, and two stout iron
hasps fitted TO two staples driven into
the front OF the box. A few air holes
had been bored through the top and
sides. The box had been put together
with clinched nails, and the ends being
bound with sheet-iron. Three gentlemen
from the audience stepped upon the stage
at Hartz's request, and having given
the box a thorough examination, bound
it round and round in expert fashion,
tying a multiplicity Of curious knots at
every possible place. Even the rope
handles were made use Of and the hasps,
after being placed over the staples, were
fastened by taking turn through the
latter. A narrow red ribbon was tied
tightly about the first knot aud sealed
with sealing wax. A canvas cover in
the shape of a Roman cross was placed
around the box and the committee
bound this around with another rope,
sealing the knot as in the other case.
The professors assistant, full grown
man, divested himself of his coat and
waistcoat, and submitted to have a long,
tight-ftting sack of thin muslin drawn
over his head and body Then, lying
upon the box on his back, he drew in
his legs so as TO enable the professor to
get good grip on the open end. One
of the committee tied this tightly with
his own handkerchief, and it was further
secured by another piece of ribbon, which
was sealed Three common screens were
then placed around the box, and the
professor and his other assistant and the
committee stepped aside. This was at
halfpast nine. exactly. Two minutes
later rapping was heard, the screens
were removed, and the muslin sack was
seen lying empty upon the box. All
seals we're unbroken The committee
undia the ropes and lifted the lid Of the
box and the man who had been tied in
the sack stepped out, looking none the
worse, except for flushed face for his
close quarters, The sack having been
untied his handkerchief was found in it.
The professor had in vain offered $1,000
to any one who could take it out without
breaking the seal, cutting the material,
or ripping the seams He disclaimed
any spiritualistic aid. 1t is certainly a
much more wonderful illusion than any
which spiritualists have heretofore pro
dueed.
Year: 1873

SUBsIDED.-Tbe freshet in the BrandyWine
has subsidized and although the creek remains
filled with Ice, the current is no longer strong
enough TO break it,and force it down theslream.
Year: 1873

As big as the grand Pyramid might be built o.
the teeth that have been ruined by neglect. Shal
this thing 60 in lace of the great fact that $3.50
DON'T Is certain prsservatiVe Of dental decay?
Year: 1873

ADVICE TO A You're NaLAwYER.-The follow.
ing isthe advice of an examining judge to Q
young lawyer, on admission:


Sir, 1t would be idle to trouble you further.
few words Of advice, which yon will do very
well to follow. You will dnd 1t laid down aH
a maxim Of civil law never to kiss the maid
when you can kiss the mistress. Carry out
this prinRlple sir, and you ARE safe. Never
say "boo" to goose when she has the power
to lay golden eggs. Let pour face be long,
your bills longer. Never put your hand In
your pocket when anybodS's else Is handy
Keep your conscience for your own private
use, and don't trouble it with other mems
matters. Plaster the Judge and butter the
jury. Look rs wise as an owl, and be as ora.
money honestly If you can, my dear sir, but
get money. welcome you atthe bar. "a
Year: 1873

Cut your coat according to your cloth
is an old maxim and wise one; and if
people will only square their ideas accord
ing to their circumstances, how much hap
pier we might all be five would come
down a peg or two in our notions in accord
ance with our waning fortunes, happiness
would be always within our reach. It is
not what we have or what we have not
which adds to or subtracts from our felici-
ty. II Is the longing for more than wo
have, the envy Of those who possess more,
and the wish TO appear in the world Of
more Importance than we really are, which
destroys our peace Of mind, and eventually
leads ia ruin.
Year: 1873

One of the most singular murder
trials on record has recently been con-
cluded in Bordeaux. Some months ago
the hous, Of postman named Mano,
situated III the wild flats of the Landes,
vas entered in the night in the absence
Of the postman, and his wife, her father
and mother and two of their children
were brutally murdered in their beds,
the weapon used being pickaxe. The
only person left alive in the house was
Bernard Mano, son of the postman,
eight years of age. There were several
lunatics roaming about the forests OF
the Landes, and at first it was supposed
that one of these had committed the
bloody deed. Some months after the
murder the boy Bernard one day was
sharpening knife, and in answer to an
inquiry said that he intended to kill his
papa with it because the latter had kill
ed the boys brother, sister, mother,
and grandparents. On this evidence
Mano, who was not n man of bad char
acter, was arrested. 1t was proved that
the accused went to bed in the Post
Office, twenty-four miles distant from
his house. on the evening of the murder.
He walked habitually in making his
rounds thirty miles day. and if he was
the guilty person he must have got up
after having done his usual days work
and walked twenty-four miles to murder
his family without any apparent motive,
and twenty -four miles back again after
doing The deed, making seventy-eight
miles of pedestrianism during the twen-
ty-four hours. 1t was shown that the
boy was addicted to lying. and in his
evidence he contradicted himself. lie
said that the man with the pickaxe look
ed like his father, but he could not be
sure that it was he that he heard his
mother crying murder, and hid his face
under the bed clothes. When asked
by the man with a pickaxe whether he
was sleep, he did not answer from
fear. The presiding Judge, according
to the French custom, pressed the ex-
animation of the boy very closely, and
after good deal of coaxing induced him
to repeat several times that the man he
saw was his father, and that he did not
divulge the secret at first for fear OF be-
ing beaten. So,ely on the evidence of
this boy the prisoner was convicted, the
verdict of the jury being Guilty with
extenuating circumstances" Tne ex-
tenuating circumstances undoubtedly
consisted only of the scruples OF the
Jury in regard to condemning man to
death on such testimony, method OF
compromising with the conscience quite
customary with French iuries. The
sentence in this case was imprisonment
with hard labor for life.
Year: 1873

In the case OF Timothy Hogan, one
of the striking horse-shoers, for threat
ening and assaulting Peter Pilkington
for going to work in the Railroad Com
pany's horseshoe shops, at Boston,
Judge Parmenter decided that the Of
fense came within the statute in rela-
tion to compelling persons to do acts
against their will by threats, the pun
ishment for which is Imprisonment in
the State prison not exceeding ten
years, or by a fine not exceeding 3d.
900, or by both imprisonment and fine.


In reviewing the matter, Judge Par
menter quoted the following from the
records of the Supreme Court in SINH
lar case Freedom is the policy Of
this country, but freedom does not i'm
ply right in one person, either alone
or in combination with others, to dis
turb or annoy another, either directly
or indirectly, in his lawful business or
occupation, or to threaten him with an
noyance or injury, for the sake of com.
pelling him to buy his peace, or, in the
language of the statute, with intent to
extort money or any pecuniary advan-
tage whatever. or to compel him to do
any act against his WILL" and added:
The facts alleged and proved in this case
are peculiarly offensive to the free prin-
ciples which prevail in this country, and
if such practices could enjoy impunity
they would tend to establish tyranny
of irresponsible persons over labor and
mechanical business, which would be
extremely injurious to both.


Judge Parmenter held Hogan in ST.
600 ON both complaints for trial at the
Superior Court.
Year: 1873

The gold furry in Wall street is the
event of the day in commercial and
financial circles. Some light is thrown
by the New York papers upon the cause
of the advance and who are manipula-
ting the movement. From an editorial
in the Herald we quote:


the vast amount of imports during the
past few weeks, and now we learn that
they amounted last week to nearly four
teen millions of dollars, over three and
a half millions being the value OF dry
goods, and little less than ten and
half MILL ms of general merchandise.
The rise of the gold premium
may be accounted for in part from the
unusual amount of the precious metal
r,ur importers have needed to pay du-
ties on these large importations, and
partly also from the recent action of the
Bank of England in raising the rate OF
discount. But there is, evidently, an
other and more general cause operating,
for gold has been rising steadily from
112 toward the close OF last year to llSi,
which it touched yesterday. The ex-
port of gold to greater amount than
the production of our mines lessons, OF
course, the stock in the country. Since
the first of January we have exported
S13,347,318. This is at the rate OF
S53 ,3S9,27 year. We do not know
what the present gold production of the
mines is, but, probably, not over twen-
ty-fve millions year. The product OF
both gold and silver will hardly amount
to fifty millions. Then the stock of
gold in the Treasury is much less than
it was last year, or than it had been
from year to year since shortly after the
close of the war. The demand for gold
to take up the hve-twenties, and 20 fund
the debt, together with the amount re-
auired to pay interest on the debt, will
keep down the surplus, though the ex-
cessive importations of merchandise will
furnish the Secretary with a considera-
BILE sum from duties. Nor do we see
how the export Of specie is to be check
ed, while imports are 80 excessive and
the balance of trade is so largely against
us. Heretofore Government bonds and
other securities have gone abroad to
balance the account, but there is limit
to this resource. We cannot always pay
in bonds. We must either pay in gold
or by the export of produce, unless, in
deed, our foreign creditors choose to
let what we owe them remain on this
side for investment. But drawing from
us gold at the rate of fifty-three mil
lions year looks as if they preferred to
have the hard cash at home. Nor must
we neglect to notice the vast amount of
specie taken or drawn from this eide by
the thousands of Americans crossing to
Europe or living there.
Year: 1873

The Corr,hiU Magazine has an inter
esting anecdote related of large dog
kept in Algiers by Miss Emily Napier,
daughter of Sir William Napier. The
dog was sent every morning to fetch
bread from the bakers and regularly
brought home twelve rolls in basket.
At last it was observed that for several
mornings there were only eleven rolls
in the basket and, on watching the
dog, he was found to stop on his way
and bestow one roll on poor, sick and
starving lady-dog, hidden, with her
puppies, in a corner, on the road from
the shop. The baker was then instruct
ed to put thirteen rolls in the basket,
after which the dog delivered the twelve
faithfully for a few days, and then left
all the thirteen in the basket-the token,
as it proved, that his sick friend was
convalescent, and able to dispense with
his charity.
Year: 1873

two years. and 1t is probable nat before long peo-
pie will agree that MacMahon is firmly seated
enough to admit OF everybody recommending
those high links for which the Second Empire was
specially famous. 1t would be quite unprecedented
II the French people to allow the shoddy
trade TO stagnate for more than two years at
time, for the entire country would become melan-
ehofy.
Year: 1873

About seven O'Clock last evening, while she Ter
ryboat Commodore Perry was lying In her slip at
the foot OF Broadway, Williamsburg, an unknown
man was seen to Jump Off the outer end OF the
boat, and before assistance could be rendered he
was drowned. on account oil tue darkness no de-
RcrlptlQn could be got az the man.
Year: 1873

TIE following record will show the changes in the
temperature for the past "a hours in comparison
with the corresponding day OF last year. as indi-
Gated by the thermometer at Hudnuts Pharmacy,
HERALD Building:
Year: 1873

A.-Furs for the Wife or Daughter and


HAT the husband eul holiday gifts and
they can be advantageously procured at either OF tho
KNOXS No 22 Broadway, in the Prescott House,
and Filth Avenue Hotel Call carly and anticipate tho
Year: 1873

A ring is organizing here to make
Memphis big city. The adoption Of
the Memphis parellel Of latitude as the
line of the Southern Pacific railroad
suggested tue creation of this proper
organization. Forty or fifty men of
brains and money can do what they
please, and shape the fortunes Of Mem
phis as they like. They will meet at
the hall of the chamber Of commerce
fbis week
Year: 1873

instantly and drew the knife from his
side, but becoming deathly sick was
compelled to lie down again. The blo9d
flowed freely from the wound, which,
from its peculiar location, it is feared
may prove to be very serious. MIR. Camp
bell came through on the Sleeper, and is
now at his boardinghouse in this city,
HEOlf0O1l7e1u Mil
Year: 1873

We learn that an outlaw, by the name
Of John Melton, entered the house of a
colOred man, named Clabs, living in the
fifteenth district, and finding him alb
sent, forced his children to carry all the
household furniture out in the yard,
and pile it up in heap. He then made
them bring out the family bible, and lay
it on the top of the other articles, and
when all the arrangements were COM
pleted to the satisfaction of this fiend in
human shape, he ordered the children
to bring out fire and ignite their little
all, stating that If they refused he would
cut their heads off with an AK. OF
course, the children obeyed, and soon
all they possessed was heap of ashes
The colored man, it is said, is very in
offensive man, and no one has the slight
est idea of the existence of any cause
for the commission of this foul act
RIl0TUil!e Chronicle.
Year: 1873

We hear great deal about our coun-
try friends being afraid to visit Knox
vile, on account of the reported preva-
lence of cholera in our city. Knowing
the true facts in the matter, we would
be derelict in our duty should we fail to
disabuse the minds of our country
friends,of this erroneous idea. True, we
occasionally have case of cholera in
our city, but the cause of it is invariably
traced TO some act of imprudence. All
over East Tennessee, we hear of isolated
cases of the disease, and Knoxville is as
safe as any place. Come to town, do
your trading, and you need suffer no un-
easiness.- Rg1o1Cilie Press and Herald.
Year: 1873

By very singular accident Conductor
Campbell, of the South and North-Bend


road, came within trifle of losing his
life, at six o'clock yesterday morning.
The mail-agent on the road had been
using small pocket-knife, which, when
he had done with it, he laid upon his
table half-elosed and with the blade
pointing upward. A little while after
ward the conductor entered the car, and
being fatigued, doubtless by his labors
during the night, threw himself languid-
ly down upon the table In such a man
ner that the upturned blade entered his
right side near the heart, up to the very
handle, say two inches. He sprang up
Year: 1873

We learn from a reliable and undoubt-
ed source that Colonel A. S. Buford,
president of the Richmond and Dam
vile railroad, has called special meet
ing of the directors of the North Carolina
railroad, to take place at the company's
shops in this city. While it is not GER
tainly known what the real object of the
meeting is, yet it is currently reported
that Colonel Buford will surrender the
lease of the North Carolina road which
was made to the Richmond and Dan
vile railroad, and thus put an end to
the litigation now going on touching the
legality of the lease and the right of the
Richmond and Danville road to change
the gauge of the North Carolina road
from Greensboro to Charlotte. This act
of the president of the Richmond and
Danville road, If the report turns out to
be true, cuts the gordian knot which our
judicial officers have not yet unraveled.
Raleigh IN C) NeaOs.
Year: 1873

The color of the ink on the Postal Cards is
saddening. 1t looks as if they had been printed
in the time Of Benjamin Franklin, with vener-
able and weak decoction of poke-berry juice
Pokebery-juice, some people think, is good
whiting fluid, but it will fade.
Year: 1873

She is perfectly willing to help. She
tells her mother she would as lief stay home
a week as not, and informs her teacher, with
a triumphant air, that she has TO stay at
home next week to help clean housa.


The carpets are to de taken up first, and
that girl, delcately reared though she be,
bravely sits down in the middle of the floor
and reads a paper while her mother and
hired girl pull out the tacks and make frau
tic efforts 10 use the same form of common
prayer that the head Of the house uses when
his boots don't come in early in the morn
ing ,,t.


The carpet is rolled up and taken out into
the back yard and hung on the clothes line
to be busted. Now the girl comes out
strong and shows the latent energy that is
in her. She seizes an old broom and starts
toward the swinging carpet with an air of
determination. On her way she spies her
friend Kate passing and goes off to the side
fence to talk about an hour and half about
well, about whatever girls find to talk
about under the same circumstances. Then
she goes into the house and eats her dinner
and complains Of being tired


III tne ditciHOou sue UeBIn5 uuStlnT ana
arranging the books in the bookcase. She
finds, pretty soon, one of Onida's novels.
and sits down on the floor to read, while the
ink, from a bottle she knocks over when she
throws her duster on the table, runs all ovei
the parlor curtains stuffed under chair neal
by. Her mother finds her there, and sends
her into the parlor to gather up her music
ready for to-morrow's campaign. She gets
along well enough with her finger exercises
and marches, but presently she comes across
"Don't be angry with me, darling," that
Robert gave her last week, and begins to
hum it. She opens the piano to find the
keynote, TO lie certain she can take the
high note nicely, and begins TO sing. Ii
don't sound well without the accompaniment
that Robert thought 20 sweet, so she sits
down and begins to play. While she is
praciicng Robert comes along. He hears
her He stops. He enters. She stops
He wants to hear that sweet song. Game
in only for that She is too hoarse. She
couldn't think of singing with her hair tied
up in a towel, but she does. m


Robert sigbs as the song ends, and she
proposes a game of croquet. They 60 out
and play croquet till teatime. .-Te,re Haute
Free Press.
Year: 1873

claimed Herring, as he TUNED from II e
fearfu! spectacle with shudder, "and I'm
mighty sorry for it, too, seeing as he was
such brave man. He was the first reb
that ever felt any respect for, and hope
bis soul will go to some place where he can
still Of .wrasting.'


We have only to add that Herring in
formed his comrades of what had happened
that the dead body was buried in the woods
by detail selected for that purpose, and
that for many weeks afterward the story Of
the "Death Wreste" was the principal
topic Of conversation in the Union camp.
Year: 1873

To-day found, in a drawer


Where had not looked for years,
A volume of little poems;


My eyes grew dim with tears
AS turned the yellow pages


And found some daisies dead,
That marked the last sweet poem
My darling ever read.
How well l can remember


That afternoon in M&yl
We saw the white-sailed vessels
Go drifting down the bay.
We heard the robins singing,


And all the world was fair
With sunshine not more golden
Than was my darling's hair.
She read me this quaint, sweet poem,
Her little hand IN mine;
can hear the ocean sobbing,


And see the blue waves sh ne,
And, like some dream of sorrow,
The years have passed away,
And l am by her side again


This cheerful summer day.
look in her eyes. and listen


To her voice so soft and sweet,
AS her lips this sweet, strange fancy
OF the poets brain repeat,
And think that love is a poem,
So old and yet SO new;-
The sweetest of all sweet poems
To those who make it true.
All but the poem is ended;


The beautiful dream is done,
The fairest flowers are the frailest
OF all flowers under the sun.
My book of life has its poems,
But the sweetest poem there
Is the memory OF my darling,
Safe where the angels are.