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Year: 1872

His Death Ascribed to o Cold Shower Bath
Brutality Of the Attendant Nurses-The Cases
Of Fiendishness Which Have Occurred
Since the Death Of ornsll and Seymour
Tho Fearful Mismanagement Of the
Lunatic Asylum-The Commission
ers Of Charities and Correction


Desire Rigid Investigation


Into the Demise Of Sam


ue.s-Adjournment Of


the Inquest
Year: 1872

our position. The grave was TOO small for
our driver, or we might have avenged our
selves by getting up small extempore tune
raj on our own account. What cared we
for this colored corpse9 Our Perkins was
elsewhere, we could not weep over his
grave. Indignantly we re-entered the Carl
age, and in deep, sepulchral tones we bade
the driver take us homeward. We were
silent all the way back-ol what avail were
words to us then? Whiskey straight was
our only resource. His number was ii, and
bis Excellency the Governor shall know oil
his detection. And now appeal to you to
publish this sacrilegious outrage
Year: 1872

Jersey lightning is cider brandy three hours
old, still-born and quicker than flash. The
juice is drank raw by all sports, and makes a
premonitory and Kissing noise as it winds
down the throat, like an old she goose setting
on eggs, or hot poker stuck into ice-water
Three horns day of this licker will tan a
mans interior in six-footed crab feet fust, and
not waste wink. 1t don't fat man (cider
don'D like whiskee doz, but Fuckers him up
like fried potatoes. If a man kan survive the
fust three years of Jersey lightning, he is safe
for the next seventy-five years to come, and
keeps looking every year more like three
year old petterpod, hotter and hotter. An old
cider brandy drinker will steam in sudden
rain shower like a pile ov stable manure, and
his breth smell like the bung-hole of rum
cask lately emptied. When Jersey lightning
is fust born it is like bileing turpentine and
cayenne, half and half, and will raise blood
blister on pair of cow-hide brogans in fif-
teen minutes, and externally will cure ruma-
tism or kill the patient, forget which. The
first horn man takes of this likar will make
him think he has swallowed gaslight, and
he will 60 out behind the barn and try to die,
but kant. The eyes of an old cider-brandist
look like deep gashes cut in ripe tomato
his noZe is the complexion of half-boiled
lobster, and the gizzle in his gullet sticks out
like the elbow in tin leader. The more vii
lainous the drink the more inveterate are those
who drink. kant tell yer whether cider
brandy will shorten an old suckers days OF
not, for they generally Outlive all the neiburs
and die Just as soon as the old tavern stand
changes hands and is opened on temperance
principles. One bottle ov sassaparilla or gin.
ger-pOp is as fatal to these old fellows az a
Litie ball is to bed-bug.
Year: 1872

1t cannot be that earth is mans only abid-
ing place. 1t cannot be that life is a bubble
cast upon the ocean of eternity, to float a
moment upon its surface, and then sink into
darkness and nothingness forever. Else,
why is it that the high and glorious aspira-
tions which leap like angels from the temple
of our hearts are forever wandering abroad
unsatisfied? Why is it that the rainbow and
the cloud come over us with beauty that is
not of earth, and then pass off and leave us
to muse on its faded loveliness? Why is it
that the stars which hold festival around the
throne are set above the grasp of our limited
faculties, and forever mock us with their un-
glory? And why is it that
forms of human beauty are presented to the
view and then taken away from us, leaving
5tke thousand streams to flow back in aniAl-
bine current upon our hearts.
Year: 1872

The Pittston (Pa } Gazette gives the follow
ing particulars of most distressing case of
hydrophobia: About eleven weeks ago a
young lady named Cox, daughter of Miles
Cox, of Stoddardsville, went into the yard to
kill some chickens. The dog followed her,
and picking up one of the chickens ran off
with it. She chased him with a stick to re-
cover it, and coming up with him he turned
upon her and bit her in the arm, lacerating 1t
fearfully. Her mother and brother coming
TO the rescue, were also badly bitten by the
infuriated beast. The wounds healed, how
ever, and nothing more was thought of the
matter. The young woman was engaged to
be married to young man living at Colds
boro, named Alfred Kerrick, and the we'd
ding was appointed to come off at that place
about two weeks ago. On the wedding morn
ing as she was about to perform her ablutions
the sight of water sent shiver through her
whole system and frightened her, and at
breakfast the coffee had such an effect upon
her that she spilled 1t over the table. She
then complained of feeling unwell, and her
friends advised her to remain at home; but
she said she did not want to disappoint al,
and, accompanied by q sister, proceeded to
Goldsboro, where the wedding ceremony was
performed. Immediately after this she was
seized with spasms, bearing all the, indica-
tions of hydrophobia. In one of her lucid
intervals she warned the company that she
would bite them if they did not keep away
from her. "But," said she to her husband,
s'Al, youneed not be afraid, won't bite you"
In one of her paroxyms she bit a lady who
was endeavoring to soothe her. 1t was the
wife of DR.. Hoffman, who drives the stage
from Goldsboro to the Sand Gut Soon after
assuring her husband that she would not bite
him, she was seized with commissions, and
laying back in her husbands arms, died.
We have seldom been called upon to record
so sad a case as this For one moment a
happy bride, and then the victim of horrid
death. The other members of the family who
were bitten by the dog have not, as yet, dis
played any symptoms of the disease, but they
live in hourly dread. .
Year: 1872

Howard Glyndon'' "a LADY, dares to write
in the New York EDening 1NaI:


have already alluded to the fact that there
is but one thing which you may be morally
certain that an American lady will do when
she sits down to a table, in any cline, at any
hour and under any circumstances, and that
is, if she be free agent she will order cup
of tea. But before going any further on this
subject, here wish to qualify this sweeping
assertion. She is almost equally as likely to
kiss baby on first sight. Now, the kissing
of a baby means with most women almost the
devouring of it bodily. Strangely enough,
such kisses as men give only to women,
women always reserve for babies. No lover
and no husband in the world can throw one
of them into so fine frenzy as the sight of II
rolly-polly mass of pink and white flesh, done
up in embroidered flannel, tucked nansook
and embroidered and pink ribbons. But the
charm wears away after the child is year
old; and am not able to certify whether its
freshness lasts over that time in the man S
case,
Year: 1872

A CORRESPONDENT of the Chicago Tribune
states that the poison from the bite of a mad
dog can be eliminated from the system by
vapor baths. He quotes from an article
printed in Paris medical journal by DIR.
BuissoD, celebrated French surgeon, who
says: 'iIf the disorder has declared itself,
prescribe single bath, and leave the patient
in until a cure is effected. Hydrophobia may
last three days. Experience has proved to
me that cure is certain on the first day of
the outbreak; on the second day, doubtful;
and on the third day, hopeless, on account of
the difficulty of conveying the patient to the
bath and keeping him in. And as hydropho-
there is time to perform long journey to
obtain a bath"
Year: 1872

DURING the siege of Paris one M. Dupuy
de LONE received from the Government of
National Defense an offer of $20, 900 for a
balloon which he undertook to furnish, but it
was not finished prior to the capitulation of
Paris. About three weeks ago, when all was
complete, he made an ascent with thirteen
men, and the result seems to have proved to
demonstration the perfection of his mode of
guiding. The balloon is said to have obeyed
have progressed readily in the teeth of the
wind. II this goes on, railway and steam
packet stockholders must prepare for fall.
London and Paris viii become three days
journey from New York when the wind
fayors.
Year: 1872

This wide awake little daily paper = the best of its size on the Continent of North America, has shot like rocket into the third year of tsexistanee. Its publishers have the prayer of the MINER for that success that weighs down people with. popularity and twenty dollar gold pieces.
Year: 1872

Beyond the news that two surveying parties are approaching the Colorado River-one in the direction of Fort Yuma, the other in that of Fort Mohave-our California exchau- ges contain nothing but specuiations about the supposed intentions of this and that Railroad Company.
Year: 1872

The Art Of Teaching School, 10y }. r. SYPHER
,I NJ stOddart COB is practical manual intended for
the use of teachers and others in connection with the


higher institutions of learning giving an extensive code
of rules regard to their organlzaton discipline ana
general management The work is remarkable for the
eoncisencss and precision with which the author suggests
what he considers the true methods OF instruction. alb
.tanug from irrelevant and supcruos details and eaV-
ing nothing obscurcO ambiguous for want OF
calculation. The teacher who has attained success by
experience and natural tact In the work Of educaon viii
perhaps find little absolute novelty in the volume but
for beginners the profession its directions must prove
a valuable gnide pointing ont the errors which bcset
them the outset and smoothing the way for the salts
factory accomplishment OF their arduous task.
Year: 1872

While wishing all success to the "AIis-
souri Movement" and heartily cOngratula-
ting every seceder from the ranks of Grant
ism, we cannot lose sight Of the fact that
the move is still in embryo and its future
problematiCal. Therefore We Democrats
demur to those sO-called Liberals among us
who would stock the cards In such man
ner as to secure for Liberalism all the glory
of success if it prove a success, and TO cast
on Democracy all the odium of failure if it
result in failure. Heads, win; tails, you
lose. Such one-sided game is not az all
attractive to the victims. We Go rot think
it Liberal, in any sense of the word. And
yet, if the Democracy should disbaDd, leav-
ing Grant TO ride rough shOd into another
lease Of power, we would no doubt he
roundly abused therefor, by those identical
Liberals, so-called, who are now so strenu-
Gus in urging on us the good policy of sui
eide! O'S.
Year: 1872

CULTIVATION OF SCIENCE.-It is said
by member Of the Royal Commission that
the University of Oxford has devoted about
100000, within the last ten or ifteen
years to the endowment and equipment OF
facilities for teaching physical sessRee.
Year: 1872

The chairman Of the Committee on Printing,
in the House of Representatives, made a
speech some days ago on the official paper,
from which itappears that it will cost the
Government over S4OO, 600 to print it tor the
Forty-Second Congress-. . He declared that II
the Globe continued TO increase 10 SIZE IN the
next thousand years in the same ratio that It
had in the past thirty years, there would not
I've room on the terrestrial sphere to stow it
away
Year: 1872

WRITING FOR NEwspApERs.-Som people
estimate the ability Of a newspaper and the
talant of its editor by the quantity of original
matter which it contains. The Literary Jour
nal truthfully says: 1t is comparatively an easy
task for frothy writer to pour out daily col
umns of words-words upon any and all sub
jects. His ideas may flow in one weak, washy
everlasting food, aud his command of language
may enable him to string them together like
lunches of onions, and yet his paper may be a
meagre aud poor concern. Indeed, the mere
writing part of editing paper is but small
portion of the work. The care, the time em
ployed in selecting, is far more important, and
the tact Of a good editor is better shown by his
selections than anything else; aud that we all
know is half the battle But, as we have said,
an editor ought to be estimated aud his labors
understood and appreciated by the general con-
duct of his paper, its tone, its temper, its uni
form, consistent course, its aims, its manliness,
its dignity and its propriety. To preserve thee
as they should be preserved is enough to occu-
py fully the time and attention of any man.
Ii to this be added the general supervision OF
the newspaper establishment, which M 'st edl-
tors have to encounter the wonder is how they
can find time to write at ALL
Year: 1872

TRIM TIE GRAPE VINEs.-Those who have
put off trimming their vines for this year,
should lose no time in doing it. The sap will
soon start and vines will bleed with the warm
days of March Cut out abundantly of the old
wood, and also all the weakly, poorly ripeDed
new wood, leaving only strong, healthy canes.
Every bud on these will bring from one to three
punches of grapes A little careful observa-
ton will enable one, therefore. to decide how
much wood should be lefr 1t will depend
upon the age and thriftiuess of the vine
Vines less than three years old should not be
cultivated to bear more than two or three
lunches, All vines cut last year should lie
cut back to single bud or two. With these
hints. anybody who can handle knife can
tim viue pretty we'll.
Year: 1872

THERE are four adventurous young
men In Dubuque who are preparing 10
mako voyage from that city to Cuba
In boat % feet long by six feet wide.
They propose to 60 down the Missis-
sippi to the Gulf. and then keep along
the coast to Florida, whence they will
strike across to the shores Of the "evcr
faithful" but very troublesome isle.
They start as soon as navigation opens
and will be gone four years. They
may possibly have fine time, but
would benefit the race more by staying
at home and engaging in some useful
occupation.
Year: 1872

Tx editor Of the Boy in Blue, at
MiddlebourNe. Ohio, Is compiling q
roster OF all the officers who were In
the national service during the rebel
lion, with their latest residence and
address. This IS done that soldiers
may be able to procure the affidavits
Of officers In the prosecution Of their
claims against the government.
Year: 1872

The details of the California earth quake, writes correspondent, seem to have little variation. They are all sick ening and horrifying. I wish had never talked with one of these "eye- witnesses. Ayoung husband had been sitting at his fireside with his wife. He intended to depart in the morning for this city, and the two were making the most of the last time they would be together for several montbs the candle had burned out and they were both seated close to the open fireplace, the wife holding in her arms child of few months. After the shock, the husband was found lying on his face dead, Q beam across his neck which, in falling, had nearly severed his head from the trunk and the mother was so frightfully burned | by the firebrands. that she could not have lived many minutes, and the infant was discovered lifeless nearly rod dis tant. A family of seven persons on the outskirts of Visalia who were sound asleep, were sunk, some two or three | feet below the surface of the earth. All were rescued, however, alive, except a baby which was burned to death by coming in contact with stove. A moth l CT WaS nuTSluS st SlCh Cull1, u S1I1 Ol 1H or 15, who had been taken the day be- fore with chills and fever. After the shock neither could be found, the ruins of the house itself even being swallowed up in the enormous Assure which had been made made in the earth. This fis- sure ran across the ground of a farmer, who, feeling some presentiment of dis aster, in what form he knew not, went out about one o'clock to see his stock. An unruly colt had broken loose from his tether. and the owner was chasing him about the lot when the shock came. The colt disappeared, but the farmer has first-class drain across his forty acre farm. These incidents of the ca tastrophe are but few examples o1 many others. Had the district been densely populated they would have been multiplied by hundreds. As it is there are enough of them. To hear those who witnessed them relate their expe. riences is like reading a romance, but they are facts, and such facts are rarely met with. The rumors of volcanic erup

 ton have proved groundless, all o1 them. The people throughout the dis

 trict so violently convulsed have most O.

 them relatives or intimate acquaintance here, and the desolation that has visited the country is indicated by the grie

 stamped on many faces when any ques

 tion in relation to the subject is asked them or any allusion made to the sub feet.
Year: 1872

A HALIFAX pilot and three assistants, who at great risk succeeded in getting aboard a Quebec schooner which had parted anchor and was going to sea with the drift ice, were arrested by the agent on bringing her in, for illegally enter ing the vessel and breaking open the cabin,
Year: 1872

The promenade dress says fashion journal is usually made with the under skirt just touching the ground, although few foolish women persist in trailing expensive silks through the mud of the streets. But this style is too absurd and too inconvenient for it to regain easily the popularity it once had. Hav- ing once rid themselves of the annoyancs of having to hold up long skirts to keep them clean from the dust of the pave ment, and then after all their trouble have the modification of finding them we'll drabbled when reaching home, la- dies are not willing to endure the same martyrdom again. The inexperienced bellies of the next generation, who are wearied of short dresses, may revive the style, but for the present the short dress deservedly continues in favor.

 A pretty costume for the skirt may be made of black gros grain for the under, skirt, this being trimmed with deep founce put on with groups of plaits- three or four in number-the founce forming its own heading above three ol four rows of bias folds, with this a polonaise of black and white striped silk, the black predomina.ing, trimmed around with bias folds of black silk, and either deep, black fringe, or wide guipure lace. The polonaise is looped very high at the sides with large bows of black ribbon, and has revers of black silk up, on the front of the corsage. A collar also of black silk, which extends down to the middle of the back, and is trim med with fringe, and furnished with loops of silk end and tassels, is pretty addition to the toilette. With such ( dress may be worn hat of black straw, or of black lace, with founces of any be- comingcolor.
Year: 1872

The Cabinet officers each
receives $4,000 a year for at
tending to the peoples business
at Washington. This year they
have run off from their duties
without any leave from the peo-
pie, under the pretense of in
forming the latter how they
should vote. If they steal time
not given them for their own
use, is it not the same as if they
stole money? We maintain it
is. They thereby set an exam
pie to all the officers of the
country to do the same. Thus
every head of an Office considers
himself privileged to neglect it
and to go upon the business Of
electioneering. The steal be-
comes bigger. Then the subor-
dinates improve the opportunity
to steal, not time, but money.
This is the effect of having the
Cabinet in the field.
Year: 1872

~


The smoke Of Tuesdays bat
tie has cleared away SO that we
are now able to report fully the
results. H
We have met an army of vet
Grams, flushed with years of VIC
tory and supplied to repletion
with all the weapons that o
party in power could furnish,
with all the resources of a great
Government at command, and
yet in our first onset victory
crowns our banners.


It has been conceded upon all
hands that the loss to Grant in
October of either of the three
great central States then voting
would be victory for Greeley in
November.


Indiana is ours, and Ohio can
be ours, and it only remains now
to gather promptly the fruits Of
victory.


Ohio has done nobly. Grants
majority of 100000 in 1868 has
been cut down to a beggarly ten
or twelve thousand upon the
first onset. We have carried
eight members Of Congress out
of twenty-one-a clear gain Of
three from the stronghold of the
enemy, and in spite of the most
outrageous districting bill ever
passed by a Legislature to ger
rymander a State.


Greeley and Brown are 10000
stronger in Ohio to-day than
any man upon our OCate tlcKeU,
and hence, if we do our duty,
the State can be carried like a
whirlwind in November.


That our success on Tuesday
is not a delusion, but real and
substantial, is evident by com
parison with any vote polled du
ring the past ten years, ant
hence we have every reason tt
move forward with confidence
and hope to the final conflict ii
November.


Even without Ohio in Novem-
Der, the election of Greeley and
Brown is substantially assured
as will appear from a cOnsidera'
ton of the following table o.
Electoral votes. The whole
number necessary to a choice is
1874:
Year: 1872

The city of Chicago on the
9th of October celebrated the
anniversary of the fire which
devastated such a large portion
of its territory one year ago.
The enterprise and activity it
has since shown in building up
the burned district and re-estab-
fishing trade and manufactures
Frustrated by the catastrophe,
have perhaps no adequate par
allel in the history of the world.
On all parts Of the continent,
and even in Europe, this strange
celebration at Chicago yesterday
will excite a deep and sympa-
thetic interest.
Year: 1872

The bill 10 encourage the planting and
preservation of woods in the public do
main, was taken up and discussed until
the expiration of the morning hour.


The bill to carry out the provisions of
the Treaty az Washington, came up as a
special order, and was on motion of Mr..
ksaEd against the objections of Mr..
Cox postponed for four week..


Mr.. Perty, Of Ohio, addressed the
House In favor OF civil rights reform,
and intimated that he would offer a sub
stitute for Mr.. Willard's bill He de-
clared that the people were robbed by
this gigantic abuse; robbed of every
thing in the way of responsibility OF
anyone for appointments to Office. II
they sought ID in the executive, it was
not there, as it had been Wrenched away.
The resultwas however great the abuse
might be, that the people had nobody
whom they could hold responsible for it.
The utmost that Congress could do in
the way of reform was to mind
its own business, and to allow
the eX-offieers TO exercise their
power Of appointment which the coRsti-
tuition gave them. He had nothing to
do with the commissioners appointed by
the President. That was simply a mat
ter for executive convenience and dis
cretiOn. The bill before the House pro-
posed to prohibit members of Congress
from recommending or soliciting APP
pOintments to office. The bill which he
would offer as substitute would extend
that prohibition to all Federal officers,
to the Judiciary as well as to Congress
Members of Congress, he admitted, were
fitted to make recommendations in theil
districts, if they could disburden them
selves of the selfish and partizan consid.
eratiOns which govern them.
Year: 1872

GOAT ISLAND 4 bill has been intro
duced into Congress proposing to lease
Goat Island, or portion of it, to the Rail-
road Company. This project has worked
'cp the Moneybags of the Metropolis who
fear that if the bill becomes law the
Railroad Company will endeavor to build
up a rival city, and the fear is probably we'll
based Hence the hubbub in San Fran
CISCO Goat Island" is their constant
theme, the nightmare which Expresses them
night and day They have Goat Island"
for breakfast, dinner and supper, and also
for lunch. Old Granny Alta, the auc-
tioneer's handbill, which has circulation
outside of the city of probably five hundred
copies, thunders and groans against "Goat
Island )" the Bulletin, organ of the mer-
chants follows in the same strain, and the
Call joins in the general howl Meantime
the sentiments of the interior generally is
----''let 'cm wiggle-we don't care if the
Railroad does win that fight" The fact is
the interior is hostile towards San Francisco
on account of the grab-all proclivites of the
majority of her business men, and their
parsimonious course in refusing to assist or
foster the development of our natural
resources.