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Year: 1875

AGROUND. = The schooner David
Wells, bound up loaded with coal, got
aground early yesterday Friday) morn
ing, about one mile below the light
house. The captain and crew came up
to this place for assistance. The tug
Bismarck returned with them to give
what aid she could, but on account of a
heavy sea running, she was unable to
render any assistance, and returned to
this port. She will return as soon as the
sea goes down, with lighter to lighter


the schooner of. The vessel fortunately
run on bed of sand so that no great
danger is apprehended, but had she
struck short distance above or below,
where the bottom is rocky she would
doubtless have met with serious injury.
Year: 1875

THE N. T. Co. LINE.-If we can rely
upon various items that have appeared in
Detroit papers there seems to be some
prospect that the boats of the Northern
Transportation Company's line will
shortly resume their route in the grain
trade. The Tribune of the 31st states
that they expect to startout their fleet of
propellers about about the first of next
month, and that steps are being taken to
fit the propellers out and make them
ready for business. The line now con-
sists of nineteen vessels; and are laid up
at Ogdensburg, Cleveland, Milwaukee
and Chicago. 1t is to be hoped that
these reports are true, for it would give
us daily lire of boats each way. Just
how much reliance to place upon these
reports we cannot say. Rumors similar
to this have been started every month
since June, and we have seen no boats
yet; therefore we are little wary about
believing all that we see in print upon
this subject
Year: 1875

TRIAL OF STRENGTH.-Tuesda eve
ming quite number of gentlemen Of the
village, indulged in trial of strength
and skill, throwing the sledge and pitch
ing the stone. We understand that a
prominent attorney came off champion
on throwing sledge, and we'll known
Main street liquor dealer was victorius
at pitching the stone.
Year: 1875

Judge Drummond's recent decision, lin op,
position to decision covering the same point
by the Supreme Court of this state) that it is
illegal under the constitution of Illinois to
tax the capital stock of incorporated compan-
les, is creating slight sensation in judicial
circles. If L. 5. courts can take up questions
of purely local state concernment, and re-
verse decisions of the state courts, what is
the use of having state courts? The law of
Illinois which undertakes to tax the capital
stock of Interpretations, and then to double on
them by also taxing the tangible property in
which the capital stock of such corporations
Is invested, is monstrous enough, doubtless,
bu, our own legislature and courts ought to
be able to remedy such injustice or blunder.
ing without the Intervention OF the federal
courts, which, according to the commonly
accepted theory OF state srights, have no more
right to interfere in the matter than the courts
of France or China.
Year: 1875

The superintendent of the Illinois & Michi
gan canal gives notice of the opening of the
ditch for navigation on 18th inst, though
We see no movements about the canal at OF
taw to indicate the resumption of any great
commercial activity in that quarter. The
truth is, the prospects for the canal look
somewhat gloomy for the coming season. Its
heaviest business is usually carrying corn to
Chicago and loading back with lumber. But
this year the short corn crop of last season
coupled with very low railroad freights all
winter, has about emptied the warehouses
along the canal and river of corn, so tha,
there is little for the canal left but to haul
stone and lumber. The canal will never be q
big paying institution until the river i'm
proyement is completed, or until the "IIennc
pin canal" is built
Year: 1875

There being no democratic paper IN 'hl
cago. and all the dalles of that city being
particularly hostile to the independently ol
I"rranrer" element as they call it, the recen
legislature of this state has received nothing
hut the most Incorporate abuse from tina
ouar,er, anu AS the Chicago papers are Sc
largely read all over this part of the state
people of all parties in this region are amos
ncrsuaded that the Times and Tribune have
been nearly correct in designating the late
legislature as the worst that ever met in III
nois The injustice of such a sweeping de
nunciation is however easily shown. The
late Legislature may not have done as muck
work as some others, nor did i! spend half As
much time or money as either ofthe two iha
preceded it; but what work it did was wei
done, and for many laws 1t failed to pass 1t Il
really entitled to more credit than preceding
legislatures for a great many pernicious laws
they did pass


The chief trouble with the late legislature
was, that neither OF the two great parties had
square working majority in either house
The republicans having been masters for the
last twenty years, were hardly able to realize
that the sceptre had departed from them, and


resented its withdrawal, by combination be
tween the democrats and Independents, as q
sort of wrong and insult Instead of recog
nizing their position as the minority and
"grinnng and bearing the majority rule as
the democrats had done before them, they
made il their main business to embarrasS the
proceedings and foment and aggravate dlsscn
sons The other side, instead Of meeting
them in firm and dignified spirit, that would
soon have taught them their places, had the
misfortune to be lead by a hot, quick.tem
pcrcd, irascble speaker who, whatever may
be said OF his personal integrity and intimate
knowledge Of parliamentary law and prac
tCc, was by temperament and disposition
certainly wholly unified for the office o.
speaker Thus lead and engineered, the ma
jority naturally fell to the grade of the oppo
sition in carrying on the miserable contest o
low partisanship and individual annimos
ties, which were pushed to an extreme foI
which we must look to the Senegambian con
venticles Of Louisiana or North Carolina tor
parallel.


For either political party, as such, to hope
to make capital out of the shortcomings OF
the late legislature is "stuif and nonsense. -
The republicans in all that tended to cast
ridicule upon the body or bring it into con
tempt, are a good deal deeper in the mud
than the other party are IN the mire. They
were the aggrcssors, the fomenters of discord
the beginners of every row. The other party
IS only to be blamed for showing themselves
so little better than their opponents
Year: 1875

Long John for SO many years the Me
phlstophiles of Chicago politics, but who, for
the last few years had subsded into modest
granger, appeared in a new role before Chi
cago audience on Sunday. They have Sunday
dime lecture society up there, and last Sun.
day John Wentworth was down in the bills
for a lecture on the history of Chicago. The
lecture was long enough to fill small vol
umc, and must have occupied two or three
hours in its delivery, but the audience seem
to have borne it patiently and to have heard
him to the end. AS printed in the papers the
lecture is certainly very pleasant reading
John begins his history of Chicago with the
early Jesuit explorers IN 1900, and at the end
of his three hours talk hadn't got down yet
to WentwOrths term as Mayor. 1t will take
half dozen more lectures to finish up the
theme on his present plan.
Year: 1875

GRANTS IIEALTH-When a staunCh re.
publican paper like the Boston Uera5d pub
fishes, and another like the Chicago Post d;
Mail copies, paragraphs like the following,
there must be something in them:


presume every well Informed correspon-
dent here has grown used to withholding
statements concerning these matters because
they will not be believed, even in The news
paper offices, and malicious motives may be
ascrlbed to them. But the simple truth is,
that the President is looking very bad He
no longer has the sleek, wcll-ted look in the
face which has been his characteristic ever
since the war. His features now have a
swollen look and his face is terribly red in
blotChcs. | met him on the avenue, near the
Treasury Department, the other day and Oh
served that his figure was bent, and that he
seemed to walk with officially. He certainly
has the appearance of man ION the down
hill road of life" as they say in New Eng
land | do not wish to indulge IN any rash
or sensational predictions of his future, but |
am impressed with the belief that the Presi.
dents habits of eating and drinking render
the tenure of his life every day more and
more uncertain.


And here is another from a Washington
correspondent of New Orleans paper:


The President has greatly changed in two
years His face is red, approaching at times
to purple, with apoplectc threatening, and
if looks auger anything, there are chances
that the third term question may be settled
if he changes not his course Of living, by the
sudden clip of Cotho's scissors II see death
in his face if he keeps this thing up three
months longer SAID aphysician whose name
is eminent among the faculty in both hemis
pheres, and renowned even in the L. College
of surgeons, as we left the White House that
evening
Year: 1875

The veterans of all the armles that took
part in the war of the rebellion, either on the
side Of the North or the South, are TO meet il
a grand mass convention at Chicago on the
10th, 18th and 14th of May next, The city
IS making extensive arrangements to enter
tain the batle-scarrcd (spell with two RS
Year: 1875

The following is "a full statement of all the
appropriations made at the late session OF the
Illinois legislature to cover the next two
wears. The footing is less by couple OF
millions than at the last three or four repub.
hcan legislatures, while the expenses of the
session have been half million less than
.,hosn nf the last republican session!
Year: 1875

THE LEGISLATURE.


The figures Given below for 1875 estimated but It


IN believed very little change will be made in them by the
official returns. The Democrats gain largely in the
Senate and slightly in the House:
Year: 1875

THERE seems to be determination on the
part Of some Of the faithful at Washington
to burn up the building of the navy depart
ment with all its contents, especially those
Of documentary nature. Would it no. save
trouble and expense to pass law to destroy
all documents on file in the department that
anybody may take exceptions to? By this
means the building and some other valuable
property might be saved. 4 bonfire OF all
documents that convict officials of corrupt
corduct would avert the destruction of much
valuable property. This suggestion is aprOpos
of the frequent incendiary attempts to burn
the department building, another of which
was made recently.
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are In
all cases Indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used.
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate countersigned by Stanley t.
Pullen, Editor. All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer a favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent our
journal.
Year: 1875

val candidate. TIE TnEs often proved
the lying statements false, but the good FL
der has neglected to retract single lie that
he uttered as TO his own strength in that
contest or the gross, malicious Ebeis writ
ten bv him about our congressman, Wm.
A. Phillips.


Among other questions Of dispute was the
statemen, made by The TINES that Deacon
Houston made a certain bet. The Comner-
ciu denied it, and said lis editor had made
mo bet. Out of this difference has grown a
law suit. Yesterday the witnesses testified
We publish the official report OF what they
swore TO. We leave our eaders 10 decide
whether Houston made bet or not
whether he lied or told the truth. We
know the question is of little importance TO
the community, but it is OF great import
ance to THE TIME, Tor so long as We have
the responsibility Of the management,
The TINES shall speak the truth and the
truth only on all matters. No matter
whether the question at issue be trIiing or
of grave import, The TIMES will speak
the truth, and if by chance it errs, correc-
ton shall at once be made when informed
of the mistake.


THE TINES has lately had occasion to
call attention to The change of base which
the Deacon confesses TO have made, and
most heartily hopes, now that the good
man has joined the God-in-the-C Constitution
party, that he will in the future adhere
strictly to the line OF truth towards friend
and fne
Year: 1875

Senators now generally admit that there
will be an executive session, called to con-
slider the Hiwaiian treaty. 1t is not expec-
ted that the session will last over one week.


Twenty-Five new senators will he sworn in.
The Chicago Tribune says that one OF the po-
litical objects which will not appear in the
call, will be to compel Angus Cameron,
Judge Christiancy, end other so-called In
dependents, to define their position. A Re
publican caucus will be held, and these
gentlemen will have an opportunity to let
the country know what they are made of.
The Democrats will also have an opportu-
nifty to show their hands This feature of
the executive session will be of considerable
Importance to the new Senator'S, as the
committees will be reorganized at the be-
ginning of the executive session, and will


doubtless remain as then constituted until
the end of the next succeeding long session.
Year: 1875

The admirable manner in which Speaker
Blaine has guided the House through the
stormy scenes OF the past two weeks, has
been the subject OF praise on all sides. He
has proved a skillful and trusty pilot. Not
only has he governed the House with firm,
expert and impartial hand, but he has kept
a steady head as the leader OF his party,
and has done good service in shielding it
against extreme and untenable positions. 1t
is largely to his influence that the House is
inde tied for the new rule which is not mere
ly just and defensible in itself, but an actual
and conceded Improvement on the old
order OF business. Mr.. Blaine has been a
great success as a Speaker-undoubted
the best of recent years-and what he will
be on the floor, where he will take his place
in the next Congress, he showed before he
entered the Speakers chair.
Year: 1875

We copy this morning from the Fort
Scott Sem.ine! and Pioneer, an article on the
libel suit, that paper has on its hands.


As long as newspapers continue to tell
the truth about unprincipled scoundrels, SO
long will there be libel suits. The manager
of the Pioneer and Sentinel makes very
plausible explanation of the trouble, and
shows clearly that he has been imposed
upon by a bad man, whose name is Goode.


We hope if the case comes into court, that
the plaintiff will learn a Goode lesson, that
he may study to his advantage.
Year: 1875

ACCORDING to Dublin paper, the Irish
home-rule members of Parliament have
worked themselves into an excitement, and
propose, on the rejection Of formal de-
mand for the repeal OF the act Of union, to
withdraw in body.
Year: 1875

Somebody has been figuring, and arrives
at the following result: 1t is very strange
that it should cost more to support the
dogs in this country than the ministers, but
nevertheless it is fact This is the state
navf
Year: 1875

CRIMINAL NEGLECr.-Coroner Taylor made
a post-morten1 examination and held an in.
quest yesterday upon the body of the child
found in the dock. The jury decided that
death was caused by criminal neglect on the
part of persons unknown to the jury.
Year: 1875

The following extraordinary cure of cancer
which had been pronounced beyond the reach of
medicine by the best medical skill OF New Eng
land certainly merits the most profound attention
OF The medical faculty. many Of whom are now
d. lily prescribing YEGETiSE In New Englnd,
where 1t has already become firmly establl shed,
and Is recognized by all classes Of people to be lhc
only reliable hlOOl-nurifipr.
Year: 1875

1T WILL PAY TO PURCHASE YOUR DRY GOODS Of
LEVY BROTHERS. Every day adds to their num-


ber OF customers and so 1t will continue, as they
lind that they purchase frst-class dry goods at
q saving of from twenty to fifty per cent.
Year: 1875

A Brooklyn girl is engaged TO be mar
ried to an Italian count, and in the
course of four or five years she may be
looked for ON the street with q hand
organ, playing the usual tunes.
Year: 1875

stood the gentleman to refer to a member
of the House


Mr.. BROWNING, sir. I call no
names. This mans name was linked to
his crimes, and to-day and. throughout
the world it is known as Burking. If l
were to desire to express all that was pu~
sillanimous in war, inhuman in peace,
forbidding in morals, and infamous in
politics, should call it Butlerizing (sen-
sation).


The SPEAKER (interrupting Mr..
Brownl-The gentleman did not deal in
good faith with the chair. He did not
answer in good faith the question ad-
dressed to him,


Several resolutions of censure were
offered by various Radical members,
and one for expulsion. One of them,
citing Mr.. Brown to the bar OF the
House, and there to undergo a repri-
mand from the Speaker, was adopted
by strict party vote, and Mr.. Brown,
acting upon the advice of his colleagues
from this State, accepted the situation,
was escorted to the bar, and there un-
derwent the ordered humiliation, 1t
was Mr.. BRowN's first intention to re-
fuse to submit to the order ofthe House,
tender the resignation of his seat to the
Speaker, telegraph his resignation to
the Governor of Kentucky, and walk
out of the house. That he permitted
himself to be persuaded to pursue a
different course is to be regretted.
Not that the censure of such creatures
as compose the majority of the present
House Of Representatives would con-
fer disgrace upon him, but to show
his contempt for them and the rulings
of the partisan who presides over them.
What he said was not half so severe,
and was to the full as truthful, as But
LER, BINGHAM, HALE and others on
the opposition had said on the floor Of
each other and of Democratic members
Had Mr.. Brown acted upon his first
intention the people of this District,
we are satisfied from what we know Of
the Republican sentiment in relation
to the infamous Ciy1 Rights measure,
would have unanimously accorded him
admiration and plaudits they are now
compelled to withhold.
Year: 1875

Our distinguished friend and fellow
citizen, whose name furnishes a caption
for this article, isa candidate for renom-
ination to the Office of Superintendent
of Public Instruction. We have
known HOWARD HENDERSON, man
and boy, almost as long as we have
known any one. We were children
together, afterwards schoolmates, and
we have watched his brilliant career
in the pulpit and in letters with pride
and delight. He is a small man in
form, and feeble: yet in intellectual
ability and forensic force he is one of
the giants of the land. Infrm of
health, many men in his situation
would have laid down and died and
made an end of it. But his indOm-
table spirit of industry proved the
master of disease. He absolutely did
not have time to give up the ghost.
Such men as he are few in the world.
And while the body was always on the
move his mind and fingers were never
idle. He is creative, not initiative.
When he took hold of the Common
School system of Kentucky it was al
most in state of chaos; had been so
incompetently and unsuccessfully man.
aged that in many localities it was
looked upon with disfavor, and in some
totally rejected. His predecessors in
office knew nothing of what was need
ed to bring order out of confusion.
Legislation was needed to found and
perfect a system Ofgeneral instruction.
They were aware of this, and every in
telligent citizen knows the result.
The earlier laws relating to the subject
were worse than no laws at all. How
ARD HENDERSON saw the difficulties
to be encountered-difficulties that
would have discouraged any other man.
But he grappled them with pluck
born of the tireless energy for which he
is conspicuous, and, although his la
bors with the several Legislatures were
slow in producing results, yet the re-
suits did follow. One by one he gained
his points, step by step did he make
his way towards that perfection of our
educational system which is the dream
of his lite-a perfection not yet attained
but which he isapproaching nearer ard
nearer as the years roll by. Rotation
in Office is wise and profitable to the
people when an incompetent man fills
an office; but it is unwise and disas-
trous when we have good, cOmpe-
tent, energetic and faithful man in
harness. Such a man is HOWARD
11ENDEkSON. hllu lIlCu uC ID OIlC VI
those clear-hearted, right-thinking,
patriotic citizens, who has devoted time
and labor 10 the cause Unpopular edu-
cation that could have been more re-
muneratively employed. 1t would be
a grave error to set him aside now, just
rs he is upon the threshold of perfect
ing a system of free education that
will be not only an imperishable mon
ument to his creative genius, but an
honor to the State, and a lasting bene-
fit to all who are to follow after us.
For reasons like these, independent of
personal considerations, independent
Of our warm feeling of friendship for
DIR. HENDERSON, we are for keeping
him in the position he now so wOrthily
fills. We are for him against any
man who may offer for it.
Year: 1875

SENSATION JoURNALIsM.-An ex-
change says: "To what extent So
ciety has been insured by the mon
strons and shameless system of SEN
sation seeking to which the press Of
to- day is SO freely given, it would be
impossible to estimate, and any at
tempt to calculate it would he deemed
Incredible. This morbid thirst fol
the grotesque episodes and startling
deDouments Of life is not only insa-
table, but it knows no restraints or
boundaries, and the privacy Of home
and the sanctity of che domestic cir
Gle are alike invaded with unblushing
irreverence, by the pirates and free
hooters of journalism, who live by
this sort of work" There is much
truth in the above, as all will attest
who are familiar with the journalism
Of the country. 1t wonld seem at
times as if those sheets which are the
caterers to that purient taste which
prompts weak minded and misguided
people to take delight III a cruel joke
or witticism that intiicts pain and
sometimes positive and permanent
injury to q friend or an acquaintance,
were destined to outstrip all compet-
itors in point of popularity, but their
prestige Of success is So short-lived
that they rise like a rocket and fall
like astick. Such, we have observed,
has been the fate Of every publication
not based upon the broad foundation
of u determination on the part of its
publisher to make it vehicle Of ger :
eral public good, and not mass f
personalities, ridiculous or cruel,
harmless or biting, as occasion may
demand. The morbid taste which
prevades certain classes gives en-
couragement to such journalism, but
in very little while it pals even
upon these perverted appetites, and
they turn from it with a feeling akin
to nausea. 1t is the duty Of every
publisher to endeavor by every means
in his power to elevate the tone of
journalism, aud when this is not the
object aimed ut, then his paper be-
comes source OF negative if not ab-
solutely positive evil. Newspaper Re-
porter. ....
Year: 1875

There IS now not single dram shop or saloon in Russellville. They have "shut up and shelled out" and everybody who loves an orderly, quiet, moral town is glad of it. We don't know what brought the "change OCT the spirit of their dream" but we sup pose our article Our officials and the dram shops" went home to them, and they concluded that discretion is the better part of valor. If our officials will now do their duty we will not have anoth- CT grogshop here so long as the law remains as 1t now is. Our town will be all the better for it.