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Year: 1872

The BURNING OF THE STEAMSHIP AMERICA
CoURT.-By special HERALD correspondence
from Yokohama Japan, we have detailed
report Of the origin and progress of the fire on
board the Pacific Mail steamship America, by
which that vessel was destroyed, q number of
human lives sacrificed and much personal
property and other values lost. The scene
was thrilling in the extreme. The men-of-
wars men of different nations serving in the
neighborhood rendered prompt and gallant
aid to the sufferers but unhappily, their
efforts were Of little avail The HERALD
writer supplies, also, o record Of the testimony
of inquiry as to the cause of the disaster.
This exhibit embraces the narrative of the
captain Of the America, of many of his
officers, of United States naval officers and of
other gentlemen serving under foreign flags.
The finding of the Court appears in our
columns The verdict is not very explicit;
but il is said that the entire proceedings which
have been had in Yokohama will be made the
groundwork for judicial action in q court Of
higher resort. The United States naval officers
who boarded the burning deck and took con-
troll Of the vessel with the view Of saving life,
acted in spirit of heroism worthy of their
profession and country, and Characteristic of
the conduct of men of American war ships
when tested under difficulties either at home
or abroad, as will be seen by the interesting
statement which reached US from Washington
last NIGHT
Year: 1872

PRESIDENT THEIRS DETENTION Of his posi-
ton towards the French radicals of the Gam
beta stripe and the Roman Catholic Church
as the national form Of worship, as it Is re-
ported to US by cable from Paris, presents evil
dence of the great anxiety which. moves the
aged chief of the Republic towards continued
effort for the securing Of the permanency Of
that form of government in France
Year: 1872

FROM ST.. PErERsBURa AND CoNsrANTNopLA
come dispatches which indicate, in a very
courtly and agreeable form, that the Eastern
question may loom up for an imperialist
settlement at an early moment-that ia, for on
attempt at rectifcation without the rude shock
of war.
Year: 1872

OFFICIAL CRUELTY IN FRANcE-Two MORE
COMMUNISTS DooMEp.-Robichon and Eg-
nand, two Communists, have been tried, con-
victed and sentenced to be executed. Is il
not time that this judicial slaughter should
cease? We are well aware that the offences
Of those men were great, that public senti-
ment is down upon them and that the authori-
ties can scarcely do other than they are doing
At the same time it is most desirable that the
government which put down the Commune,
and which has done and is doing so much for
France, should not produce upon the outside
world the impression that it is unnecessarily
cruel That impression is being produced,
and it would be well for the French govern
ment and well for France if these apparent
cruelties should cease. Punishment is USE
less when it ceases to convey a moral lesson.
No further moral lesson con be gathered from
the inaiction of the death penalty on So
called Communists, whose offence or crimo is
almost forQotte~
Year: 1872

Our Radical friends have right to rejoice over


their victory in Delaware and we do not complain


that thsy. d. Iudsed it is rather gratifying than


otherwise 10 note the extreme pleasure which their


victory gives them. We would have experienced


less, perhaps, had We carried the State for our
candidates, and elected our ticket in New Castle
county. To say that We feel deeply affected BY
the result il but faint admission of the regret We
experience over the great error which We think
our people have made. There is, however, some
consolation in the fact that we still hold ths Levy
Courtsthe local legislative bodies of each county;
aud also more than two thirds OF the Legislature.
In the Stats Senate our opponents will have but
the single member, MIR. Leandsr Riddle, elected
from this county, while the Democrats have the
remaining eight Senators; Two OF whom hold over
from each county, and one from each Of Kent and
Sussex counties, elected on Tuesday. complete the
nine members Of which the Senate is composed.


It will thus be seen that our opponents will not
be abls to effect much in the wuy Of altering and
amending tho laws Of the State to suit their own
political idess. II they should present anything
that il worthy Of adoptiop that will tend to the
benefit Of the people, their propositions will no
doubt meet with respectful consideration. But
- far Is making any change in the policy OF the
STATE. unless tho Democrats SEQ proper to coincide
with the suggestions that may be made, the Rad-
ical victory Of Tuesday win DO barren Of political
fruits - o.
Year: 1872

Horace Greeley publishes a card in the Tri.
bune announcing hs resumption Of the editorial
management Of that paper. which as he says, he
"rslinqunhed on embarking in another line Of
business, six months ago and If he can hereafter
say anything that will tend to heartily unite the
whole American people on the broad platform
Of universal amnesty and impartial suffrage he
will gladly do so. For the present, however, he
can best command that consunmation by silence
and forbearance. tttr
Year: 1872

A fellow who has been shaved in
China says that his barber first stropped
the razor on his leg, and then did the
shaving without any lather. The custo-
mer demonstrated, but was told that the
lather was entirely useless, and had a
tendency to make the hair stiff and
tough, and was, therefore, never used
by persons who had any knowledge OF
the face and its appendages.


After the beard had been taken OIL
and it was done in very short time
the barber took a long, sharp, needle
shaped spoon and began to explore his
customers ears. He brought up from
numerous little crevices bits of wax and
dirt that had been accumulating since
his childhood. The barber suddenly
twisted his subjects neck to one side in
a manner that it cracked as if the ver-
tebr;e had been dislocated.


"Hold on! shouted the party,
alarmed for the safety of his neck.


"All right" replied the tonsor, "me
no hurt you." and he continued to jerk,
and twist the neck until it was as linz
Der as an old lady's dish-rag. He then
fell to beating the back, breast, arms
and side with his fist, then he pummeled
the muscles until they fairly glowed
with the beating they received. He
then dashed a bucket of cold water
over his man, dried his skin with towels
and declared that his work was done.
Price, two cents.
Year: 1872

The following paragraph is from an
India paper:


The Chinese have a most ingenious
method of reckoning by the aid of the
fingers, performing all the operations
of addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division, with numbers from one up
to one hundred thousand. Every fin
ger of the left hand represents units,
the ring finger tens, the middle finger
hundreds, the forefinger thousands, the
thumb tens of thousands. When the
three Joints of each finger are touched
from the palm toward the tip the count
one, two, and three of each of the de-
nominations as above named. Four,
five and six are counted on the back of
the finger joints in the same way, seven,
eight and nine are counted on the right
side of the joints from the palm to the
tip. The forefinger of the right hand
is used as a pointer. Thus-1, 2, 3, 4,
would be indicated by first touching the
Joint of the forefinger; next, the hand
on the inside; next, the middle joint of
the middle finger on the inside; next,
the end Joint of the ring finger on the
inside, and finally, the joint of the little
finger next the hand on the outside.
The reader will be able to make further
examples for himself.
Year: 1872

A physician in Western Massachu-


sets recently had a lady patient who,


for several weeks, had been suffering


from nausea, general prostration, and


other symptoms of slow poisoning


Failing to discover the cause of the
symptoms, as a last resort the doctor re-
quested her to move from her chamber,


the walls of which were covered with
paper of very light shade of green, so
light, indeed, that in the evening it
could scarcely be distinguished from
white. After leaving the room the
symptoms Immediately disappeared,
and the patient rapidly recovered. A
sample of the paper was forwarded for
analysis to the State chemist at Hart
ford (Mr. Joseph Hall, of the High
SCHOOL,, and was found to contain a
large quantity of arsenic. Mr.. Hall OBJ
tained the poison in the various forms
OF metallic arsenic, yellow tersulphite,
silver arsenic and arsenious acid or
common white arsenic. He estimates
that every square foot of this innocent


looking paper contained an amount of


poison equivalent to five grains of az
senious acid, or double the fatal dose
for an adult person. This, in the moist


warm weather of last July and August,
was amply sufficient to keep the air of a
room amply impregnated with the poi
son, and any person occupying such
room would be as certainly poisoned as
though the arsenic had been taken into
the stomach.
Year: 1872

There are practices tolerated in relig-
1Ous congregations, which Christians
who are jealous for the honor of their
Masters house should utterly condemn.
Decorum is the handmade of devotion
al feeling, and, for this reason, the,
house of God should never be disturbed
by the slightest approach to irrever-i
ence.


1t is part of my religion" said a
pious old lady when asked why she
went early to church, at is Il part of
my religion not TO interrupt the religion
of others;" and we believe if many a
congregation made it 4 part of their re-
ligion not to twist their necks almost
out of joint to witness the entrance of
every person who passed up the aisle
during service, it would be better both
for their necks and their religion.


A gross abuse of religious decorum
sometimes needs harsh medicine as
remedy. We give that adopted by
Henry Clay Dean, who was one time
captain of Congress. The anecdate is
from the Pacific Methodist:


Being worried one afternoon by this
turning practice in his congregation,
Mr.. Dean stopped in his sermon and
said:


Now, you listen to me, and I'll tell
you who the people are as each one of
them comes in"


He then went on with his discourse
until a gentleman entered, when he
bawled out like an usher, "De aeon A,
who keeps shop over the way" and
then went on with his sermon Pres
emily another man passed up the aisle,
and his name, residence and occ upation
were given; so he continued for some
time. At length some one entered the
door who was unknown to Mr.. Dean,
when he cried out, "a little old man,
with drab coat and an old white hat I;
don't know him; look for yourselves"
That congregation was cured"
Year: 1872

The loss of Il nose may be painful
but it is not fatal catastrophe in the
present state of science. This is the
way to make new nose:


"a small place is opened under the
arm, between the elbow and shoul der.
The arm is then brought up TO the
stump of the nose, which is inserted In
the cavity previously made. The arm
is next tied to the head, and allowed to
remain in that position until the nose
and arm grow together, which ordina.--
lily occurs in less than a month. Anoth-
er amputation then takes place, which
leaves plenty of good flesh sticking to
the nose; and this, when trimmed, is a
nose rs good as DIETER sometimes, in
point of beauty and symmetry than
the individual ever possessed before.
Year: 1872

While General Sherman's command
was waiting on Black River for the fall
of Vicksburg, III order to move on Jack
son and drive Joe Johnston out, n
scouting party one day brought in a few
prisoners, among whom was young
lieutenant, an exquisite with long hair
and an elaborate lisp. He was taken to
the generals quarters and given seat
in front of the tent within which Gen
eral Sherman sat writing. 1t was hot
summer day. Near the tent was a grove
of magnolia-trees, which soon absorbed
the attention of the captive. s'How
beautifully those leaves wave, beauti-
ful--beauti full y exclaimed he. Sherman
gave hitch on his stool and snorted.
Soon came a repetition OF the exclama-
ton. Sherman grew more impatient
But when the third exclamation came
he could hold in no longer, but burst
out:


"Well, II it, can't you let them
wavel"


The exquisite did.
Year: 1872

''Ma," said Fred, 81 should rather be
wild turkey and live my life out Oh
the prairies, than be tame turkey and
be killed every year."


People who are always wishing
for something new should try neu-
ralgia once.


Many of our young men are SO
improvident that they can't keep
anything but late hours.


Why should potatoes grow better
than any other vegetable? Because
they have got eyes and see what
they are doing.


A Western journal offers this in
ducement: All subscribers paying
in advance will be entitled to a first
class obituary notice in case o
DEATH
Year: 1872

SAcREDNEss OF MARRIAGE.-For the
man and woman who purely and tru-
ly love each other, and guided by the
law of justice. marriage is not state
of bondage. Indeed, it is only when
they become by this outward ac-
knowledgement publicly avowed low


ers, that freedom is realized by them
in its full significance. Thereafter
they can be openly devoted to each
others interests, and avowedly init
mate and chosen friends. Together
they can plan life's battle, and enter
upon the path of progress that ends
not with life's eventide. Together
they can seek the charmed avenue of
culture, and, strengthened by each
other, can brave the worlds frown in
the rugged but heaven-lit path of re-
form. Home, with all that is dear
est in the sacred name, is their peace
full and cherished retreat, within
whose sanctuary bloom the virtues
that make it temple of benefcence.
Year: 1872

In the St. Louis Times Hon. John
S. Phelps, who frequently represent
ed the southwestern portion of Mis-
souri, in Congress, gives his views to
the public. He believes we can carry
the next Presidential election by
making bold and manly fight. To
succeed we must select some standard
bearers who are distinguished for
honesty. capacity and attachment to
principles. Here is the letter:


Il have opposed the Passive Poll
cy' from the outset. 1t is an aban-
donment of principle and will be de-
structive TO the organization OF the
Democratic party.


What can be gained by those who
believe in a strict construction of the
Constitution, who have opposed a
Capitalization of power in the Gov
ernment of the United States, who
have resisted the attempted overthrow
of the rights of the States. who have
opposed the trial of citizens by mill
tary commission, who have resisted
the deprivation of the citizen of the
right of trial by jury, by the adoption
of this new heresy, and the support
of men who have fought us relentless
ly on all those questions? There
is no liberal party in this State.


Whatever there was of value in
the liberal movement in Missouri in
1870, was derived from the principles
of the Democratic party. The duty
of the Democracy is to prepare for
the coming contest. General Grant
is not the leader of his party. He
adopts whatever policy the party
leaders dictate, and finding him ready
to be governed, they desire his re-
nomination. Let the Democratic
party then re-assert its standard prin-
ciples, declare their acquiescence in
the Constitutional Amendments, re-
solve IN favor of Revenue tariff and
taxes. Upon such a platform with
gentlemen, as standard bearers, dis
tinguished for honesty, capacity and
attachment to principle, who will
never connive at scenes of fraud,
believe we shall succeed beyond q
doubt in the coming Presidential cleo
tion. The true men of the country
are not welded to any corrupt parti
sanism, and will unite with us to in
troduce economy in public expendi
lures and put an end to tyranny ano
/ malversation.o
Year: 1872

A few years ago man was living
with his young wife in Mankata. Min
nesota. He was intelligent and sue
cessful in business, until the passion
for drink enslayed him, and his busi-
ness and reputation were both wreck
ed by its satanic influence. He was
forced to seek new home for his lit
tie family, aud his wife, bred to luxu-
ry, accompanied him to the frontier in
the hope that the removal from temp
tation would free him from the grip
of the habit which cursed him. Here
they lived for several years, his alb
stincnce from drink being broken only
by an unfreqnent and occasional de-
bauch when he visited some of the
nearest towns. Early in December
he told his wife that business COM
PEELED him to go To-, and that he
would be absent several days. She,
about to be confined, with several
helpless children and scanty supply
of wood, fearing that the insatiate
clamor of appetite was the motive
which drew him away, entreated him
to stay, but in vain. He left. Soon
after, one of those severe storms OF
December-doubly severe on the un-
sheltered prairie-came on. Before
its close she was entirely destitute OF
wood, and the terrible alternative was
presented to her ofpassively freezing
to death with her little ones, or seek
ing assistance from theneareast neigh
bor-three miles distant. She coura-
geously chose the latter, and leaving
her three shivering little ones, with
nothing but mothers yearning love
and prayerful blessing, she started
out to seek relief. The next day she
was found half buried in the snow
dead, q new born infant at her side,
The three children were found dead
in the house. This, while the once
fond husband and protecting father
was'revellng in the delirium or dozine
in the stupor of drink No words
can add to the horror of this tale, but
beside the unspeakable agony of tina,
dying wife and mother, how trivial
our common losses, griefs and sorrows
seem. fa9
Year: 1872

A BILLIoN.-What a very great
sum is billionl 1t is a million of
millionsl A million seems large
enough-but million of millions!-
How long do you suppose it would
take you to count it? A mill that
makes one hundred pins minute, if
kept at work night and day, would
make only ffty-two millions five hun
dred and ninety-six thousand year
and at that rate the mill must work
nineteen thousand years without
stopping a single moment, in order
to turn out a billion of pins! It is
beyond our reach to conceive it, and
yet when billion of years shall have
gone eternity will seem to have just
begun.
Year: 1872

A Rochester girl, in note making
indignant complaint because a man
spit tobacco juice on her silk dress in
the street, says: "Never while men
chew tobacco will I go to the polls to
vote. This country may 90 to ruin
before I will have my clothes spoiled
or even jeopardized." The writerfor-
gets that when women get the ballot
they are expected to spit the best, and
do all other things pertaing to ordinary
manhood.
Year: 1872

A flial ten years old of Millions
burg, Ohio, gathered and sold ches-
nuts enough this year to present his
widowed mother an elegant sewing
machine with the proceeds. He
would make good subject for a Sun
day school book were it not that his
having had to hook the chesnuts would
be rather damaging.
Year: 1872

SHOT AS A MEDIcINE.-Dr. Maydieu.
Of France, has revived the old practice
of giving shot for bilious collie. His meth
cd is, to take No. 5 shot, after carefully
washing them with sweet oil, and give
a dessert spoonful every half hour. He
claims that in FIVE or six hours the vom-
itlng ceases. The editors of the Ptcifc
Medtcat and Surgical Journal relate the
following anecdote, illustrative Of this
treatment: A clergyman was taken very
sick and stopped at the house of "A good
old lady, who was familiar with the treat
ment, who stated that she had no shot.
but bullet which would answer the pur
pose. She gave it to the divine, who.
after being assured of its efficacy, swal-
lowed it, and to his great joy and sur
prise found that in n very short time he
was entirely relieved of the collie. Be
fore leaving, he expressed some doubt
to the old lady about the piece of lead so
heavy finding its way through the bow
els. "Oh, N.Y." she replied, "you need
have no anxiety about that, as it has been
through me ten or twelve times"
Year: 1872

A COLORADO saloon-aeeper said of a
crowd 81 couldn't get their whisky
strong enough for them, so, after trying
every way, | at last made a mixture Of
poison oak and butternut. That fetched
them. called it the sheep de-
light, and it was popular drink. The
first pike tried it on yelled with delight;
the next one took two drinks and turned
a double somersault in the road before
the house. A pedder came along, and
after he had taken several drinks of my
sheep-herder's delight he went off and
stole his own pack and hid it in the
woods -
Year: 1872

DoING A HAcKMAN.-On a rainy Win
ter evening, gentleman travelling in
London cab found on nearing his desti-
nation, that he had no money with him !;
so thinking he would try the honesty of
the hackman, he called out as he ran up
the steps, " Wait minute have drop
ped sovereign in the cab, and will get a
light to search for it," The words were
barely spoken when the hackman gave
the horse a lash, and drove off at furi-
Gus rate. The gentleman, heartily amused
at the result, called after him repeatedly,
but never saw cab or driver again.
Year: 1872

A TOUCHING STORY BY Don PIATT.-
A Sunday-school superintendent out IN
Alaska treated his entire charge to a
sleigh ride. There were just forty-one
Of the cherubs and a x-horse sleigh.
On the way home they were beset by Il
pack Of ferocious wolves. Cool and col
lected in that hour Of fearful trial, the
heroic superintendent saw at a glance
that he must soon be overtakcn. In an
instant his quick mind grasped the only
chance Of escape. Selling the child that
always sung, 81 Want to be an Angel "
two notes too high, he flung it to the ra-
pacious horde. 1t stayed their onward
rush for a moment. Next came the ur-
chin who never brought any pennies to
the heather. And so on swept the pur-
sued and the pursuers, until the last in
fant was exhausted. But the brave man
had economical his material nobly. And
besides, whole Sunday-school slows off
wolves perceptiblv. We have always no
ticed this. In another moment the sleigh
dashed into the village, and the grand,
noble, true-hearted man knew that he was
saved.
Year: 1872

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Year: 1872

made from the Native Roots and Herbs Of
California, free from all Alcoholic Stimulants
They are the Great Blood Purifier and
A Life Giving Principle, a perfect Ron
0yator and lnvigorator of the System, carry
ing off all poisonous matter and restoring the
blood to a healthy condition. No person can
take these Bitters according to direction and
remain long unMell.
Year: 1872

FOR FEMALE COMPLAINTS wbo,b-
er in young or old, married or single, at tbe
dawn of womanhood or at the turn of life,
these Tonic Bitters have no equal.


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They are n Gentle Purgative M
well as a Tonic, possessing also the pecu.
liar merit of acting as powerful agent in re.
lievng Congestion or Inflammation of tho
Liver, and all the Visceral Organs.
Year: 1872

Editor Dispatch will you be kind
enough to inform me why the Post Mas
ter of Seattle will not look in the box
for letters when called upon to do so !?
called to-day for some letters that came
down from Olympia on Thursday morn
ing, but without taking the trouble to
see, he informed me nothing" Now
according to the many complaints hear
from other parties, this must be COM
mon occurrence with the P. NJ, and
this is the third time it has happened to
me, when knew that there were letters
in the Office for me. If he would trust
less to his memory, and more to eye
sight, he might save further cause for
complaint. JAS. BoLAND.
Year: 1872

The MARAUDERs.-Brownan and Ship
ley, the desperadoes who for the last
month evaded the vigilance of the police
and spread terror over the country, are
yet in this neighborhood. One of them
entered Port Blakeley few days since
and carried away his cloochman; on
tuesday one was seen at Freeport, and
on Wednesday morning they were both
seen in this city at an early hour. The
audacity of the scamps is wonderful.