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Year: 1873

Yesterday morning, about nine O'Clock. q balance
derrick, 20 one end OF which large arch stone was
attached, suddenly turned and both the end OF the
derrick and the stone descended with q tremen-
dous crash through the timber work, distance OF
about twenty feet, where they hung. Fortunately
none OF the workmcn were injured. The work OF
nicnced yesterday and the nrst stone was being
bolsted In position when she accident Qccurred.
Year: 1873

A Telling Speech from HOE. w. G.


WhitthOrne.


In the House of Representatives on the
26th ult. Hon. W. C. Whitthorne go.
chance to deliver telling shot in regard to
the Credit Mobilier scandal. BE said:


Mr.. Speaker, no one can underrate the
Importance and gravity Of the question
which now engages the attention of this
House, Its interest and importance are
felt by every member upon this floor.
When we come to regard our relations to
our felloW-members, those relations Of feel
ing and sympathy which belong to gentle
men who associate on this floor; when our
recollection goes back 10 all our associa-
tiors with them, to all the pleasant ties
that knit and bind men together, to all that
can call for our sympathy and regard, and
particularly when we remember that that
association here is with gentlemen
who have held high and important posi-
tions in the Government, whose character
has become part of the history of our coun-
try. whose position as lawmakers has made
their names and their reputations part or
the pride and Of the glory OF the country;
while all this is calculated to enlist our
sympathies and our regard, and has ten
dency to warp our Judgment, yet, sir, as
Representatives of the people, charged with
a high trust, charged with high duty to
the power that lies behind US, whose Rep
-esentatiyes we are, whose property and
whose interest and whose name and whose
reputation are as we'll in our hands as the
character and reputation of these gentle
men: and when we remember, Mr.. Speak
er. further, that what we are to do to-day
is to affect the integrity and permanency Of
our institutions, and likewise the integrity
and permanency of our Government, | say
that we should approach the consideration
Of this question waving all mere feelings of
sympathy, as well as all feelings of preju-
dice. and if we have such they ought to be
discarded.


AZ the threshold, sir, ofour consideration
of.his subject, is the question Of jurisdiction.
Mr.. Speaker, am one OF those who believe
that this House has the jurisdiction over
the person of every member OF this House;
and that this House has jurisdiction over
not only the person, but over every particle
ofbis conduct now and in the past. But
the serious part of the question is, is it safe
to exercise that jurisdiction fo- past of.
fenses? Is it safe and proper to intrench
upon the rights of the great body of the
electors by arraigning members for often
ses in the past? In my Judgment, Mr..
Speaker, it is not safe, it is not prudent, it
is not proper.


While l am ready to admit that In every
body there and should be the inherent
power of publication, and while l know
that that Is the object of the article of the
Constitution which gives the power of ex-
pulsion to this body, yet, sir, looking az
the risk that we may run, think it the
Year: 1873

metes and bounds, which | dearly love,
! and allow the most to the will of man.
but L have set my heart on honesty in
this chapter, and | can see nothing at
last, In success or failure, than more or
less of vital force supplied from tho
Eternal. The results of life are uncal-
culated and uncalculable. The years
teach much which the days never
know. The persons who compose our
company, converse, and come and 90,
and design and execute many things,
and somewhat comes Of it all, but an
unlocked for result. The individual
lis always mistaken. He designed
many things, and drew In others as
coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all,
blundered much, and something is
done all are little advanced, but
the individual is always mistaken. 1t
turns out somewhat new, and very un-
like what he promised himself.


JOHN STUART Mills TRIBUTE TO


HIS WIFE.


The death of John Stuart Mill recalls
an incident which revealed the depths
of his tender nature. His work on
''Liberty'' appeared in 1889, soon after
the death Of his wife, and the memory
of the lady's singular abilities and wom-
anly virtues was embalmed by him in
the touching and eloquent dedication
of the volume. 1t was as follows:


''To the beloved and deplored mem
ory of her who was the inspirer, and in
part the author, of all that is best in
my writings--the friend and wife whose
exalted sense Of truth and right was
my strongest incitement, and whose ap-
probation was my chief reward-I
dedicate this volume. Like all have
written for many years, it belongs as
much to her as to me; bnt the work
as it stands has had, in very INSULT
cient degree, the inestimable advantage
of her revision; some of the most i'm
portant portions having been reserved
for more careful reexamination, which
they are now never destined to receive.
Were | but capable of Interpreting to
the world one half the great though
and noble feelings which are buried in
her grave, should be the medium ola
greater benefit to it than is ever likely
to arise from anything that I can write,
unprompted and unassisted by her all
but unrivalled wisdom"


Mrs Mill lies buried at Avignon,
long the home Of the well-mated pair,
and in the spring of every year since
her death he has made a pilgrimage to
her grave. During the last of these he
died. The world now pays to him a
tribute as sincere and just as that which
he paid to her.
Year: 1873

"You'll have to spell ability first. .
growled the doctor savagely.


Then suddenly taking out his hand.
kerchief, he gave his nose tremen.
dous blow. "There" said he, chow
is that for high? -


II know how 'tis myself meekly
replied hS wife. This capped the
climax. The knowledge that her faith.
er must have heard the afternoon con
versation was COO much for Nellie.
She burst into tears and left the room.
The sage doctor nodded wisely to his
wife, and when she had got out of hear.
ing, exclaimed


There, wife, I guess we shall hear
no more slang phrases from her.


The next day the good doctor called
his daughter to his study, and said to
her:


my dear girl, don't you see how
very foolish all these phrases are
They mean nothing, but are exceeding
ly injurious to those who use them.
BY ever so sparing use, ones speech
gets SO corrupted that person often
makes use of these expressions at times,
which afterward he would be sorry to
remember. They sound very silly to a
listener, and often the usage of them
leads to something 'worse. 1t is bad
enough to hear boys use them some
times, but girl is expected to be too
refined and ladylike to sully her lips
by such expressions The use of them
is sim ply bad habit but bad habits,
like cuts in the bark of tree, grow
and widen with age, and if they once
get firm hold, they are hard to get rid
Of. Then there is great deal in com
panionship. If We keep company, and
are intimate with those who use bad
language, We are apt to make use of it
ourselves. Persons are known by the
company they keep. When you see a
person using these phrases, you may
be sure that such person knows not
what is called good society,""


Such expressions as by CORY or
by darn are not only foolish but wick
ed. For does not the Scripture say :
Swear not at ALL neither by heaven
nor by earth, but let your communica-
ton be yea, yea, and nay, nay, for
whatsoever IS more that these cometh
Of evil. There, my daughter, said
the doctor, "we have made quite a SER
mon Of it-so let US hear no more
slang phrases.
Year: 1873

About the river of human life
there is a wintry wind, through heav-
emily sunshine =. the iris colors its agita-
ton the frost fixes upon its repose !.
Let us beware that our rest becomes
not the rest of stones, which, so long
as they are torrent-tossed and thunder
stricken, maintain their majesty, but
when the stream is silent, and the storm
is passed, suffer the grass to cover
them, and the litchen to feed on them,
and are plowed down into the dust.
Year: 1873

AS the stag which the huntsman
has hit flies through bush and brake,
over stock ard stone, and thereby ex-
hausts its strength, but does not ex-
pei the deadly bullet from its body, so
does experience show that they who
have troubled consciences run from
place to place, but wherever they go,
bear with them their dangerous wounds.
Year: 1873

"A just man does justice to every
man and every thing and then, if he
be also wise. he knows there is a debt
of mercy and compassion due to the in
irmitics of mans nature, that is to be
paid and he that is cruel and ungen-
tie to shining person, and does the
worst to him, dies in his debt and is
unjust.
Year: 1873

The experience Of the western farmers this
winter in burning corn is claimed to have
settled its cheapness as fuel, ind it is thought
will lead to its adoption TO 3 great extent
for that purpose. Six acres will annually
yield enough corn for fuel for family ior u
year, and the cost of raising it is less than
would he the cost Of coal or wood tor the
same time at present rates.


The japanese are about to adopt an Ame-
rican patentscafTold and galiows for the exc
cution of criminals. @


There are nearly two thousand children in
New York under fifteen years OF ago en,'
ploysd In making paper cellars.
Year: 1873

SUPREME CoURT OF APPEALs.-This court
met yesterday and sounded the Common
wealth's docket. The court will commence
to call the Commemorative docket in the
proper order to-day. and dispose Of the cases
in the order mentioned in Tuesdays Dis
patch.


In the case Of Berkely us. Smith and ais. an
appeal was allowed from a decree of the
Circuit Court Of Alexandria.
Year: 1873

SPECIAL Court OF APPEALs.-This court
will not bear any arguments before Tuesday
next, in consequence of the absence of Judge
Mclaughlin, who Is detained from the city
by sickness in his family.
Year: 1873

IlSozoDoST.--All dentifriccs had their drawback:
until the salubrous bark Of the soap tree was brough
from the Gillian valleys to perfect the fragrant So
zodont, the most wholesome, reliable, and delight


full article for the teeth that brush was ever dipped
into
Year: 1873

An East Indian Prince, his Highness,
Maharajah Takht Singh, Of Joudhpore, hay-
ing died on the 18th Of January last, at
the age Of 81, latter brilliant reign of
2S years his funeral solemnities were
Immediately proceeded with. Early in
the morning Of a day soon after his de-
cease, his body, arrayed in the royal robes
Of brocaded cloth, was borne in sedan
chair to the funeral pile. 1t was further
enveloped at the pile in costly Cashmere
shawls. The value Of the jewelry alone
upon the corpse is stated $4,000. The
pile was Of sandal wood intermixed with
combustibles, and upon being lighted, the
flames shot up with fierce intensity. The
heat was so extreme that no one could ap-
proach the burning mass. In two hours
the body and the wood were reduced to
ashes. Two days were allowed for the
remains to cool, and the ashes were then,
with much pomp, carried back to the pal
ace, thence to be sent in lots, to the "Ho-
ly Places with largesses to the Brahmins
and other religious mendicants. For a
week or more Eve thousand Brahmins re-
ceived each rupee day at the palace
gates, and their necessary food. A silver
rupee is about fifty cents, gold rupee
about seven dollars. Taking the silver
rupee as the dole, the daily aims amounted
to S2500. On the road from the palace
to the funeral pile $4,000 were thrown
among the crowd who lined the way, and
the scramble for the coin was fearful. Two
elephants bore the burden Of this gold and
silver.


The amount Of money given and thrown
away fell probably partly into the hands
Of poor wretches who needed it. Even
mendicants must eat. A proximate cal
culation would give from one hundred to
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
coin scattered and given away, to say moth
ing of the after largesses when the ashes
are distributed, or of the disbursements
for sandal wood for the pile and food for
the crowds. In these days of gold at III
to 118 it would be worth while to burn a
Rajah in Third street occasionally, only
that new element would be introduced
thereby into the facilities for stock gam
bling. And the positive destruction of
the pearls and other treasures on the body
would be discount from the ''relief to
the money market However, the "opera-
tors might possibly find some way to
'water the pile" and pocket the treasure.
II is not quite moral certainty that the
Brahmin jugglers themselves do not rescue
some of the portable property"


Another circumstance Of the ceremony
is that the loyal subjects of the deceased
Rajah shave off their boards, moustaches,
and the hair of their heads. Hair for
moustache purposes ought to be at a dis
count at Joudhpore-Marwar The living
successor of the Rajah takes Office without
the ceremony of election. The show of
the "polls" is for the defunct. 1t was a
great deprivation Of privilege to some
dozen or so of the wives Of the deceased
that they were not permitted to burn with
the body. Christian influence has abolish
ed this fearful part Of the funeral rites,
and it is to be hoped that it will eventually
do away with the unnecessary waste Of
treasure.
Year: 1873




1t was wild and dreary part of the
country, in the plains of India, while jour
neying, that one day friend and self sat
down under the shade of an umbrageous
bunyan tree, and we were enjoying a meal
of various edibles to be washed down by a
glass Of Bass best, when we we're disturb
ed by the arrival and the noise Of troop
oflarge black faced monkeys the branches
overhead literally swarmed with them.
They looked on us as interlopers, no doubt,
and for some time their gestures appeared
so menacing that we were apprehensive
they would dispute the ground with us.
But after time things seemed to settle
down, and we went on with our repast in
peace. We had Just risen from our meal.
and were strolling forth from under the
shade, when, to our surprise, one of the
monkeys-a young one-fell down from a
high branch at our feet II was ouite
dead. The clamor that arose above us on
Year: 1873




The skill, the art, the mighty toll, that
have been devoted to the adornment, and
to the desecration, Of this most ancient
place Of worship, have been Of extraordi-
nary magnitude. The grandest legacy Of
Egyptian antiquity, the Great Pyramid,
demanded, indeed, larger amount Of
naked human labor, but in Moriah there
is a conipulsion of the features of Nature
herself to the service of the builder In
actual bulk, the Great Pyramid is TO the
temple rock, as five to nine, ii we descend
but as far as the sills of the five double
Gates of the mountain of the house. IL
We carry the comparison down to the level
at which the lowest foundations of the walls
is inlaid in the rock at the angles Of the
enclosure, the bulk is three times that of
the Great Pyramid The cubic contents
of the mason's work may not amount to a
tenth part of that piled up by Souphis.
But the hill has been honey-comed with
chambers and galleries; and the declining
part to the south covered with vaults aud
arches, TO which Gheezeh can show no
parallel. No merely artificial structure
could have so successfully resisted the
| efforts Of the two greatest military nations
of the ancient world to destroy its exist
ence and obliterate its memory. No other
monument, long surviving the era of
Asiatic and Italian power can ever, like
the noble Sanctuary, mark by its very
ruins, the successive periods Of its glory
and its fall


If we regard not SO much the evidence
Of the labor devoted to the work of the
Temple as the effect produced on the mind
by its apparent magnitude, we may suggest
the following comparisons: the length of
the eastern wall of the Sanctuary is rather
more than double that of one side Of the
Great Pyramid Its height from the
foundation on the rock at the south, and
near the northern angles, was nearly a
third Of that of the Egyptian structure.
If to this great height Of one hundred and
ffty-two feet of solid wall be added to the
descent of one hundred and fourteen feet
to the bed of the Kedron, and the further
elevation of one hundred and sixty feet
attained by the pinnacle of the Temple
porch, we have total height of four hun
dred and twenty-six feet, which is only
ffty-nine feet less than that of the Great
Pyramid The area of the face Of the
eastern wall is more than double that Of
one side of the pyramid. Thus the magni-
tude of the noble Sanctuary of Jerusalem
far exceeded that of any other temple in
the world. Two ampitheatres of the size
of the Coliseum would have stood within
its colossal girdle, and left room to spare.
The Coliseum is said to have seated eigh.
ty-seven thousand spectators, and accom-
modated twenty-five thousand more in its
arena and passages. For such number
to have been crammed within its circle,
the space for each person must have been
limited to seventeen inches by twenty
inches. Allowing two cubits each way, or
four square cubits for each worshipper in
the temple, the Sanctuary would have
contained thirty thousand the Chel, in
cluding the Priests Court, twenty thousand
more, and there would yet have been room
in the Great Court and the cloisters to
make the total reach to more than two
hundred and ten thousand.-Ediab =
Rerie,c
Year: 1873

BEAUTY-SLEEp.-Sleep obtained two
hours before midnight, when the negative
forces are in operation, is the rest which
most recuperates the system, giving bright.
ness to the eye and glow to the cheek.
The difference in the appearance Of per-
son who habitually retires at ten o'clock,
and that Of one who sits up until twelve is
quite remarkable The tone of the system,
so evident in the complexion, the clearness
and sparkle of the eye, and the softness
Of the lines of the features, Is, in person
Of health, kept at concert pitch" by ta-
king regular rest two hours before twelve
O'Clock, and thereby obtaining the "beauty
sleep" Of the night There Is heayiness
of the eye, a sallowness Of skin, and an
absence of that glow in the face which rem
ders II fresh in expression and round in
appearance, that readily distinguishes the
person who keeps late hours.
Year: 1873

CHANGING ms CoAT.-Audubon re-
lates that he once saw toad undress him
self. He commenced by pressing his
elbows hard against his side and rubbing
downwards. After few smart rubs his
hide began to burst open along his back.
He kept working until he worked all the
skin into folds on his sides and hips; and
then grasping one hind leg with his hands,
he hauled off one leg of his pants the same
as anybody would; then stripped off the
other hind leg in the same way. He then
took his cast off skin forward between his
fore legs into his mouth and swallowed it;
then BY raising and lowering his head,
swallowing as his head came down, he
stripped of his skin underneath until it
came to his fore legs; then, grasping one
of those with his opposite hand, by sin
gle motion of his head, and while swallow
ing, he drew it from the neck and swallowed
the whole
Year: 1873

ScoLDINd.-Scolding is mostly habit
There is not much meaning to it. 1t is
often the result of nervousness and an
irritable condition of both mind and body.
A person is tired or annoyed at some trivial
cause, and forthwith commences finding
fault with everything and everybody in
reach. Seeding is habit very easily
formed. 1t is astonishing how soon one
who INDUCES in it at all becomes addicted
to It and confirmed in it. 1t is an unrea-
soning and unreasonable habit. Persons
who once get into the way Of scoldine
always find something to scold about. If
there is nothing else they fall scolding at
the mere absence of anything to scold at.
1t is an extremely disagreeable habit. II
is contagious. Once introduced into a
family, it is pretty certain in short time
to affect all the members. People in the
country more readily fall into the habit Of
scolding than people in town. Women
contract the habit more frequently then
men. This may be because they live more
frequently in the house, in confined and
heated atmosphere, very trying to the ner-
vous system and the health in general !;
and it may be, partly, that their natures
are more susceptible and their sensitiyeness
more easily wounded
Year: 1873

DR. Hall says Il ought TO be extensively
known that ordinarily boiled rice, eaten
with boiled milk, Is one Of the best reme-
dies known for any form of loose bowels.
Its efficacy is increased if it is Drowned
like coffee, and then boiled and eaten at
intervals Of four hours, taking no other
food or liquid.
Year: 1873

NEw YORK, October S.-Senators
Morton, of Indiana, Carpenter, of Wis
consin, and Anthony, of Rhode Island,
members of the committee on privileges
and elections, OF the senate of the Uni
ted States, to-day closed their confer
ences, which have been continued from
day to day for the past week in this city,
in reference to the mode of electiDg a
President. The substance of their de-
libeTations thus far involved the follow
ing prOpOsitionsi


First-TO abolish electoral colleges.


Second-That the President and Vice
President be elected by the people voting
directly for candidates.


Third-That each State shall be di-
vided into as many districts as a State
is entitled representatives in congress,
to be composed of contiguous territory,
compact in form and as nearly equal in
position as possible, and the person hav-
ing the highest number of votes for
President in each district shall receive
the vote of that district, which shall
count one presidential vote; that each
State shall be entitled to two presi-
Dental voters at large, which shall be
counted for the person having the high
est number of votes in the whole State.


FOurth-The person having the high
est number OF such presidential votes in
the United States shall be President.


Fifth-Tbese provisions arctic be ap-
p'icable to the election of Vice-Presi-
dent.


Sixth-COngress shall have the power
to provide for the holding and control
ing the election for President and Vice
President, and to establish tribunals for
the decision Of contests as to the vote
in any district or State, and to make
regulations governing the proceedings
of these tribunals.


By the adoption of the district system
of voting by the people directly for can
didates, with two presidential votes in
the State at large. and the plurality rule
for determining the result, the election
is brought as nearly home to the people
as it can be not to make it an election
by the people Sc one community, and it
still recognizes the States as such, while
it enables the people of each district in
the State to express their will, so that
hereafter a State need not cast a
solid vote, as under the pres
ent system. 1t tends TO dispense
with the convention which is now ne
cessary for an electoral ticket for each
State, and it enlarges the liberty of the
individual voter, who can vote for any
citizens he may select for President or
Vice-President. By the plurality sys-
tenn the election will always be final,
and there can be no q ecessity for election
by the House of Representatives, which
is SO much objected to. The plurality
rule has been adopted successfully in all
the States in the Union except
four in the election of State Of
ficers, and it generally prevails in
election of members of congress. In
none of the States where it has been
tried is there any thought of abandon
ing it. Other questions are considered
in conBect;On with tie votes in States
and districts, and providing for the exi-
gency of the death or resignation of the
President after his election and before
his Inauguration. These are suggestions
which have been considered, but of
course no conclusion could be arrived at.
Year: 1873

course give only the substance of what
occurred between us. In reply TO my in
quiry as to the truth of any of the many
rumors afioat in regard to the signifi-
cance of recent changes in political and
military circles, he said In substance,
that


NONE or THE RUMoRs ALLUDED TO