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Year: 1873

The $3.50 land is that included within the linn
it's OF railway grants, and only opened to those
who served in the Union Army or Navy during
the late war. The other lands are open to all
citizens who will remain on them for the term OF
Ave years. A soldier must settle on his claim,
until the time of settlement added to his term
of service in the Army makes up the term of five
Year: 1873

Chief Justice Thompson, of penns5 lyania, in
recent case his opinion Of gambling in the fol-
lowing words: "Anything which induces men
to risk their money and property without any
other hope of return than to get for nothing any
given amount from another, is gambling, and
dcmoralizing to the community, no matter by
what it may be called. 1t is the same whether
the promise to pay on the color of a card or the
tleetness of horse, and the same numerals nd-
cate how much is lost or won in either case, and
the losing party has received just as much for
the money parted with in one case as the other,
viz, nothing at all. The lucky winner is of
course the gamer, and he will continue so until
tickle fortune, in due time, makes him feel the
woes he has inflicted on others. All gambling is
immoral, | appreheud that the LOSSES incident
to the practice disclosed within tho past five
years have contributed more to the failures aud
ernbezziements by public officers clerks, agents,
and others acting in fiduciary relations. public
and private, than any other known or perhaps
all other causes and the worst OF it is, that in
the train of its evils there is vast amount Of
misery and suffering by persons entirely guilt
iess Of any participation in the cause of il"
Year: 1873

As Mr.. Stanley improved, and realized
the condition from which he had been
rescued, BY kind care and attention from
the v Gilman family, and particularly from
Edith, the thought came as TO how he could
recompense such kindness.


He saw the pale face Of her, who, when
he was clerk in humble circumstances
had been the object Of loves young dream
and the events Of the months just passed
were drowned in the remembrance Of that
night, when, leaving Edith Wellman at her
cottage gate, he returned homeward, with
the belief that he loved and was beloved


What had his wealth brought in exchange
for those sweet hours of happiness -
nothing but care and. Disappointment
feverish phantom to lead him into quas.
mires Of disappointment and discomfort.


On bed Of convalescence from sickness.
Fred Stanley had ample time for reflective
thought, and with the kind attention he
received, could but bless the hearts and
hands Of those who miuistered to his com
fort


All were not false, lie knew, now, and
although feeling unworthy Of the pure affec-
ton Of such an angel Of light, as she had
proved herself TO be, he determined TO ask
Edith Wellman if she would be his wife ;
and the determination once formed he was
in great anxiety Of mind as to the reply he
would receive iron Edith.


Once he had proposed in the enthusiasm
Of fascinated lover, with no doubt OF
success, and his enchantress laughed at his
folly, and he thanked God now that those
chains Of madness were loosened, as be saw
the beautiful face Of the only one he had
ever truly loved, and heard the sweet voice
Of Edith, his blessed comforter.


With such kind care, our hero's recovery
was quite rapid, and when able to walk +,
Edith accompanied him I; and while seated
in a rustic arbor, under the sweet perfumed
roses, he took her little white hand 10 his,
confessing that she was the only person he
ever did, or ever could really love, asked
her to be his wife.


Edith Nellman was no dissembler she
modestlg acknowledged her love fol FREQ
Stanley, and very happy were the lovers
who. had been separated for year in con
sequence Of ten thousand pounds.


Three months after, they were married,
and Fred Stanley betowed all that his
wealth could purchase, or affection conceive,
on the beautiful bride, who ID return,
brought sunlight and happiness to bis pleas
ant home.
Year: 1873

JoHN NEWTON is gushing Newark youth,
who was 80 unfortunate as to tumble head
and ears in love with hard hearted maiden,
who refused to return his ardent passion.
She Tilted him outright, whereat John, in
utter despair, seeks relief IN cold poison.
Before swallowing the fatal draught, how
ever, the rash lover indited the following
afEectiouate devastating to his stern parents;


NEwARE, n. T., March 1873


Dear Father it is with A sad Hart that |
write these lines to you But the Girl that
! Love Beyond Expression Got Marry on
Sunday night to Horse car Driver on the
Summer A. V. Liue and Doc not Cair TO
Liv Eny Longer SO have got A half once
Of Croton oil TO kill myself with | Cot !
once and they tuck it away from me But
this time they cannot this is the third and
this is the last time for if this Dus not kill
me shall Cut my throght with q Raiser
and have Dun with Life What is Life TO me
Without the Girl that Love Better than
Life Life is a dread and Death is a Charm
Lay me uuder the Sod so that my heart can
rest in heaven or hell SO Good By till we
meet on the Judgment Day hope that
God will forgive me for Killing myself this
is my last word from your Disobtdient son.


JoHN NEwToS.
Die Must aud Die viii this Write
with a Steddy Hand.


The stomach-pump was applied in time,
and John still lives to witness the married
happiness OF the girl he loves "beyord ex.
preston" rt
Year: 1873

Qeen Victoria's daughter
Beatric is said to live very un-
happily at home, and frequent
ly goes to bed crying because
he ma scolds her. Ii Beatric
will come over and stop with
us she can sit up as long as
she wants to.
Year: 1873

J rum INC L uils Il lciu duu I arm


The conviction of William
NJ. Tweed is one OF the hope
full signs Of the times. 1t is an
unmistakable blow at public
corruption. Heretofore a glam>
our has been thrown around
the man who stole a million
he has been looked upon as
something of a hero, while the
! poor wretch who robbed you of
a pittance was denounced as a
vulgar thief. The laws had no
terrors for the one, and no mer-
cy for the other. The man who
violated a public trust, and en-
riched himself and confederates
by so doing, marched under
triumphal arches, and the very
thought that he should be
made to look through prison
bars was deemed preposterous.
Public conscience appeared to
be dead, and public plunderers
grew SO bold and grasping as
to threaten the overthrow Of
republican institutions. There
was I1::shOnesty in National,
State and Municipal admiuis-
trations, theiving in railroad
and banking corporations, and
a general betrayal OF trust in
all the important business
walks of life. Men Of con-
science and oldfashioned in
tegrity looked on in . sort Of
stupor, and wondered where it
all would end. Gaze in what
direction they pleased, and they
saw the shadow of c0rruptiOn.
The present was dark, and they
shrank from any attempt to
read tle future. The apathy,
however, was unexpectedly
broken, and then came a sud-
den revulsion Of feeling.
When Tweed's grasp on the
city and State Of New York
was thought to be tirmest, and
when he was preparing to wrap
his arms around the nation, the
blow was struck which toppled
him TO ruin. How the fight
was waged and won is an old
story, and we shall not repeat
it. 1t is worthy of remark,
however, that the battle and
| its successful issue illustrates
the power of a fearless and
honest press, when the quarrel
in which the press engages is
just.


The fall of Tweed is a sad
one. He was the architect of
his own fortune and the author
Of his own ruin. He rose to
power and influence from the
humble walks of life. At one
time he was regarded as the
princely potentate of New
York. The State Legislature
did his bidding, the judges
were bis creatures, and all the
forces of our municipal govern
ment were under his control.
He could make or unmake men
as he pleased. A nod from
him would send a man to pris-
on, and another nod would
open the gates and set the
Gagged bird free. His vast pow
Year: 1873

Colorado has fifty million acres of


the best grazing land the bright sun


ever shown upon, etc. 1t is more


than enough to feed all the cattle


we ever owned, but not more than we


once expected TO own. We went into


the wholesale cattle business once.


We purchased long horned, brindle


Texas COW, for $3.50, and drove her


to our hash house in the country, and


into corral Then we got up on the


fence, and sat down on the top rail to
calculate how long it would be before


we were rich and respectable. We
calculated how this COW would have
a calf in few months, and then how


that ealfwould have a calf in another
few months, and so on and how our


country school teachers wages would
allow US to invest in long-horned,


brindle Texas COWS every year, and
how those COWS would have calves,
and those calves would have calves,
until the rule of one hundred per
cent compound interest figured Us
out a bloated bond holder. We were
happy then, and in our innocent Joy
we were full of the milk of human
kindness, and would pet our COW that
was the forerunner of such a huge
fortune. So we got down from the
fence and started slowly toward her,
speaking persuasively 'suke boss
sUke boss But that long-horned,
brindle, Texas COW wouldn't 'suke.'
She stuck her tail up straight in the
air, lowered those ugly looking horns,
and believing made q charge on a
calf, and that calf was US. We made
ourselves scarce thereabouts, Just
then, and our long-horned forerunner
Of fortune loved Us, and kept US
cOmpany-elose behind. We reached
the fence, and so did long-horn just
at the same time. We tried to get
over it, and Iong-horn gave US vigor-
Gus aid. She butted US through a
panel of fence, and hooked US under
3 wagon, then we crawled out on the
other side and jumped over ten rail
fence. Long-hoFn affeetionately
wanted to be with us
but we Lit out then, only looking
back to see the rails flying around,
and our loved long-horn lying on her
back. wildly kicking her heels in sor-
row for our absence. We don't own
any COWS now."
Year: 1873

An Iowa newspaper asks the fol-
lowing connumdrums "Do the spir-
its of the departed ever appear upon
earth ? Are they permitted to return
and hold visible eommunions with
former friends? Do they hover about
us?n Now for the reason of these
interrOgations A young man died
at Princeton township, leaving q wild
ow who subsequently engaged herself
to a man in California, with whom
she had been acquainted formerly.
But No. appeared to her, and lifting
his finger, said: Postpone your mar
riage % He came again a few nights
after, and repeated his Postpone
your marriage , She was very
much heightened, but her friends
told her that it was the nightmare.
Still the dead husband kept coming
and kept saying the same thing.
Then he appeared to the mother of
the lady, and this time he varied the
monotony of the warning, for he
said 'Have Sarah's marriage post
pOned." So the poCr widow wrote
to her affianeed and had the nuptials
put of. Now, what came next 2
What, but San Francisco newspa.
per containing a marked account of
the arrest for robbery of the Califor-
mia lover, and of his Incarceration for
want of bail ? Furthermore it spoke
of his wife and children as deserving
Of sympathy, and assistance of the
charitable. So ghOstly number one
did not appear for nothing; and the
widow is, perhaps, in her gratitude,
more in love with her husbands
shade than she ever was with the sub
stance.
Year: 1873

The New York Express vouhes for
this: "'This company shall never
get another cent Of my money said
an angry lady on a railway train.
How then, will you travel p asked
the conductor. 'I'll pay my fare to
you.'
Year: 1873

BREACH OF PRoMIsE-A Practical
JOKE IN ENGLAND.-The London Ne,0S
tells the story OF a young gentleman in
Lincolnshire, who being engaged to mar
ry certain young lady, came to her one
day and said that he had bet his cousin
two bottles OF wine that this young lady
would release him from the engagement
if he asked her to do so. 1t was all bit
Of fun, he said and she would write a
note giving him up? The young lady
seems to have entered quite into the spirit
of the joke ; and in order to procure for
her lover the honor and glory of winning
the two bottles of wine, she gave him a
sheet of paper on which she had written,
" Dear Mr.. B., wish you would discon-
tinue paying your visits to me. Iremain
your well-wisher, A. H." 1t was GER
tainly imprudent Of this girl to deliver
any such formal order of release to her
lover; but it has frequently been remarked
that young folks are as ingenious in de-
vising means for testing the confidence OF
each other as are amiable persons who
take country lad into tavern, profler
him friendship, and get him to give them
twenty pounds to show that he believes
in their honesty. We have no means OF
knowing whether this warrant of release
was not obtained as much as proof OF
affection and confidence as a means oI
carrying out joke. However, the de-
fendant in the suit carried off the docu-
ment, and did not return it. Moreover
meeting the young lady on subsequent
occasion, he got from her brooch and
pair of earrings he had given her, on
the ignoble pretence that he wished to
buy her bracelet to match. After that
nothing was heard of him. Furnished
with a release from the contract of mar
riage, he had simply withdrawn himself,
taking with him what presents he could
conveniently recover. But here, again,
this very good joke was doomed to have
awkward results. The young gentleman
in question found himself at the Lincoln
hsSiAosj anu th6 jury WOulu IlhVe nOtnlnp
to say to the bit of paper that he had OBJ
tanned in such a humorous fashion. On
the contrary they proceeded to assess the
damages done to the young lady's feel
ings just as if she had been the victim OF
insult and injury combined; and we all
know that when a dozen jurymen start
with that notion, they generally make the
defendant pay pretty smartly. The young
man who won the bet, if there was bet
in the case, may have got his two bottles
Of wine, but he had to pay $500 to the
too trusting young person who had fur
nished him with written release. He
will avoid such dangerous jokes in the
future.
Year: 1873

DEATH FROM SMOKINd.---The New
York correspondent of the Buffalo COar-
Ter reports sad case of death resulting
from smoking. He says that for thirty
years the victim has been heavy smoker
of the choicest cigars, but in all his other
habits temperate and regular, and Of ex-
cellent constitution-one who, of all men,
would laugh ut the suggestion that to-
bacco was killing him. On Sunday he
was stricken with the progressive paraly-
sis characteristic of nicotine, and on the
next Sunday night no died. His death
was most pitiful. First, sight was lost,
then speech, then motion of the neck,
then motion Of tho arms, and so on
throughout the body, and he lay for q
fortnight unable to move or make sign,
save pitiful, tongueless, inarticulate
sound, which sometimes rose TO almost
frantic effort, all in vain to make known
what he wished TO say to his family or
friends--for his consciousness and mental
faculties were left unimpaired until within
two hours Of the last, to aggravate to tho
utmost the horrors of his situation-a liv-
ing soul in dead body. The sense of
hearing was left unimpaired, SO that he
was conscious OF all around him, while as
incapable of communicating with them
as if dead, save by slight sign of assent
or dissent to the question. The doctors
were full agreed that tobacco was the sole
cause of this stroke.
Year: 1873

SUPPOSE man and . girl we're mar
ried; and-which is, of course, impossible
that, at the time of the hymsneal con-
tract, the man was thirty-fye years old
and the girl five; which makes the man
seven times as old as ths girl. They live
together until the girl is ton years-this
makes him forty years old and four times
as old as the girl; they live until she is
fifteen, the man being forty y-fye-this
makes him three times as old; they still
live till she 10 thirty years old-this makes
the man sixty, only twice as old; and now
as we haven't time to work it out, per
haps somebody will be good enough to
tell us how long they would have to live
TO make the girl as old as the man.
Year: 1873

THERE is no outward sign of politeness
which has not a deep moral reason. True
education teaches both the sign and the
reason. Behavior is mirror in which
every one showr his own image. There
is politeness of the heart akin to love,
from which springs the earnest politeness
Of outward behavior,
Year: 1873

CARLYLE's SENSE OF HUMoR. -" Far
be it from me to say" says Carlyle, "that
solemnity is an essential of greatness ;
that no great man can have other thdn
a rigid vinegar aspect Of countenance,
never to be thawed or warmed by bill
lows of mirth. There are things in this
world to be laughed at as we'll as to be
admired, and there is no complete mind
that cannot give to such sort its due.
Nevertheless, contempt is dangerous
element to sport in; deadly one if we
habitually live in it. How, indeed, to
take the lowest view of this matter, shall
man accomplish great enterprises, en-
during all toll, resisting temptation,
laying aside every weight, unless he
zealously love what he pursues The
faculty of love, of admiration, is to be
regarded as the sign and the measure Of
high souls; unwisely directed it leads
many evils, but without it there cannot
be any good. Ridicule, on the other
hand is indeed faculty much prizedby
it's possessors, yet intrinsically it is q
small faculty, we may say the smallest
of all faculties that other men are al
the pains tie repay with esteem. 1t is
directly opposed to thought, to knowl'
edge, properly SO called its nourish
mentand essence is denial, which hoverf
only on the surface.
Year: 1873

Henry Ward Beecher lectured on
Thursday evening in Music Hall, Bos-
ton, on the Battle of Business" He
gave it as the result of his observation
that no other occupation made such de-
mands on the nervous energy of men,
was so beset with inducements to dis.
honesty, as mercantile life. The fault
is not that men do not want to be hon
est, but that the majority of them do
not know how to be. They think it is
all right to do as others do; or, more
likely, they initiate without thinking at
ali of the moral quality of the act.


Mr.. Beecher was especially severe on
stock gamble S, saying that they de-
served the halter if any criminals did.
The only consolation in reviewing the
career of these men was the assurance
that few of them kept their ill-gotten
wealth long. He had lived to see six
or eight kings of Wall street dethroned.
Iu the stife of business men regard
only the end, and do not scruple much
about the means. If it seems neccessa-
ry to buy a legislature to insure the
prosperity of their schemes they buy
one, All the great corporations know
the price of the old members of a legis.
lature, and quickly find out what the
new ones can be had for. The men who
are bought the easiest over, the cheap.
est, are the farmers, not because they
are in fact more venal, but because in
their simplicity shey are compromised
and involved before they know it. The
lawyers and merchants, more accus.
toned to the arts of schemers, are more
wary. They have to be tished for more
patiently, and are only secured at Q
large expense.


Speaking of the power of the great
corporations of the country, Mr.
Beecher declared that if the New Yorl
Central, Erie and Pennsylvania Central
companies should conspira to do it
they could elect-ahe president of the
United States.
Year: 1873

The president has caused an order TO be
issuel from tho war department, giving ful ]
pardon to ell dssertsrs who may return to duty
on or before the lst OF January next, and who
may serve faithfully during the remainder Of
their term Of enlistment.


The attomsy-gsusral has decided that
one.half Of tho compensation chargsable for
Year: 1873

I AN always AFRAID lest dogs should
come to learn our Language, II they ever
do, they will cut us entirely. Every
thing seems clever and uncommonplace
in a language Of which you know but
little, and that is why we appear such
clever and interesting fellows TO dogs.
Ifthey knew our language we'll, would
any dog sit out public dinner
Would any dog remain in the nursery,
listening to the foolish talk Of nursel
and ..nkhn...n q Aa.Iha... ILL.,
Year: 1873

SPEAKING truth is like writing fair,
and comes only by practice it is less a
uatter of will than OF habit and l
doubt il any occasion can be trivial which
permits the practice and formation ct
such a habit. -RuSkfH.
Year: 1873

DIsIEFRoTANT. One drachm OF dry
iodine, placed in suitable open vessel
in sick room, is said to be among the
best articles used for this purpose
The usual objection of its disagreeable
odor is of minor consequence when
health and life are at stake. The va
pors Of the iodine will discolor the
ceiling or plastered walls for time,
but the color will gradually disappear.
Idoform, used in the same way, is quite
as good and less offensive TO the sense
of smell besides it does not discOlor
the walls, but il is more expensive than
the other.
Year: 1873

The WORLD, of this morning, says: "The deci.
sion Of the Government to the further action of
the Treasury in tho present crisis is announced
The Assistant Treasurer will continue to buy
bonds in accordance with the notice of Saturday
and pay for them in greenbacks at the average OF
Saturdays prices, or about Ill. Taken in con-
nection with tho action of the associated banks,
this should suitce to restore financial confidence;
the prices of stocks are so low as to complete the
belief that business can be at once resumed on
Wall street on a safe basis.
Year: 1873

The failures on Saturday together with thOso
which were announced previously aggregated
about fifty. The great mass of them were in New
York city. But 1t is quite apparent that the end
had not been reached and that many others will
be announced in q few days, or weeks at least
Year: 1873

A gentleman from the land of the
olive and fig, and also of the earthquake
and volcano, was in the city the other
day, lodging near the rehearsal rooms of
one of our brass bands. He had retired
for the night, and was slumbering peace
fully, when suddenly talented artist
commenced an elaborate solo on the
bass drum, with muscular accompanl-
mcnt on the cymbals. Within mo-
meut there came volley of cargos and
caranbaS from a window, followed i'm
mediately by dishevelled Spaniard,
dressed principally in necktie and a
window sash. He was about to take to
the woods when he was persuasively
collared, and informed that he was mis-
taken-that it was not an earthquake,
and after considerable argument he was
convinced and subdued. York
Farm g. Ffreside.
Year: 1873

NARROW ESCAPE FROM BURIAL ALIVE.
In New York city Coroner Young was
notified at his residence recently by Mr..
Depew, that colored servant of his,
named Carrie Johnson, was found dead
that morning in her bed, at his residence
33 Morton street. and a permit was Civ
en- to him to remove the body to the
Morgue the gentleman was so certain
that the girl was dead, that he did not
deem it necessary to send for physician,
and he took the permit to station
house, and the warden of Bellevue Hos
pital was telegraphed to send the dead
wagon. 1t arrived at the house about
half-past 2 o'clock p. m, when on pro-
ceeding to the room it was discovered
that the girls head was leaning over the
side of the bed, but it was supposed some
one had moved it in the meantime. When
the driver of the wagon, however, took
hold of the body to place 1t IN the cof-
fin, he felt warmth about the stomach
and loins, which he thought could not
be the case if the person were dead
Mr. Depew Immediately sent for ply
sician. but before his arrival the driver
had forced open the teeth and placed
some salt in the mouth.


The physician decided that life was
not extinct, and applied the usual means
to restore animation, but it was not un-
til the next day p. m. that she was full
ly restored, and at o'clock on that day
she took Sixth avenue car and went to
West 9Th street, where she is at pres
ent residing with friend. The girl
was similarly affected some time since.
and then narrowly escaped burial.