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Year: 1873

ScoREsBY and other Arctic voyagers and
whale-hnnters have observed that whales
have some means of communicating with
one another at great distances. 1t Is prob
able that the animals below in a tone too
grave for the human ear, but quite within
the range Of the cetacean ear.
Year: 1873

A RECENT post-office decision is that If a
postmaster knows that letter addressed
to his office IS intended for person living
within the delivery of another Office, it Is
his duty to forward such letter Gf it has
been properly prepaidD without waiting for
request to do so, and without additional
charge of postage.
Year: 1873

A SOMEWHAT strange coincidence recent
ly occurred in a st. Louis court. The
prisoner at the bar, the lawyer who was
addressing the court in defence, the report
er who was taking notes Of the trial, and
one of the spectators, were all classmates
in the same institution of learning about
seven years ago.
Year: 1873

Things a married man cannot help
thinking:


That all the girls used to be in love with
him. st
That all the widows are now. II
That If he were widower he could mar
ry again whenever he chose.


That he wouldn't introduce any fellow
he knows to his sister or his daughter.
That his wife is little jealous.


That she used to be pretty girl.
That his mother could make good bread;
that his wife cannot.


That he wouldn't trust most women.
That If he should ever speculate he would
make his fortune.


That he would enjoy country life.
That his girls will never be so silly as to
marry.


That his mother-in-law may be fine old
That smoking never hurt man yet.
That with little management the SER
wants would always do well, and never
give warning.


That his shirt-buttons are grossly neg
lected.


That me is going to make his fortune
some day.


That he despises old bachelors.
Year: 1873




Compelled to Eat Breiled steaks Cut
OF his own Body. and Burned 10
Death I'm Slow Fire. ...s.-,,,-,,-s


MEMPHIS, April 16.-The Augusta, Ark,
Bulletin of this week contains the following
letter from Thomas Warren, Union county,
Arkansas, to j. NJ. Courtney, Of Kearney
county, Missouri, and dated but few days
ago: i


| will tell you of horrible murder that
took place not far from where l live. IL
happened about amonth ago. There were
four negroes concerned in it. A married
lady went to aneighbor's house to stay sew
eral days. She was not we'll when she left


home and her husband told her that he


would take care ofthe children until she
came back; but when she got to where she
was going, there was no one at home but
hired men and she starte d back She had
not gene far before negro man stopped
her horse, took her off the horse, hitched it


out side of the road and told her to take
the path before him, and drove and pushed
and pulled her eight miles into bottom
and tied her to tree and rsvished her.
He kept her there three days and nights
tied to the tree. The second day while
there, she had child in the woods by her
self. She was gone from
home three days before her husband


went after her. He went over to the
house where she had started to go and when
he found she was not there, started home
and found the horse tied where The negro
had left it three days before. He took the
horse home and collected some men to-
gether and commenced bunting for her and
next day they saw two little negroes who
told them that they had seen negro the
day before driving white woman before
him down the path. They scattered off to
hunt for them, and got 50 close that the ne
gro went by where the woman was tied,
and killed her with stick and then left
her. But they went on after him, but got
off bis track. The negro stopped at a
house and asked anegro man and boy if
there was anybody hunting for the missing
lady. They told him yes, and as he got up
to start they caught him and started back
with him and met one of the men in pur-
suit. They made him tell where the wo-
man was. He said he killed her. They
then made him take them to where she
was. he said they were ia sight of her the
day before, when the woman tainted; and
he said she had tainted three or four times
while tied, and she begged him
to turn her loose, and he would
not. They took the negro
to her husband and asked him what they
mnst do with him. He told them to burn
him. The men who had him were all ne
groes. They built two log heaps and put
i'm in the middle. They were twenty
four hours burning him. They cut his toes
off and made him swallow them, and then
cut strips of his skin off his body and made
him broil them on the Goals aud eat them,
and they would roll him in the Goals and
take him out, and talk to him and put him
back, and at last they built a large fire, put
him on top of it, and let him burn to ashes.
There was not a white man that had any
thing to do with it--all negroes. The
other three negroes that were killed were
shot dead on the spot. They knew where
the woman was and would not tell.
Year: 1873

The meeting last night of the committee
from the City Council and the Executive
Committee of the Trustees OF the Univer-
sity was of q very pleasant and encour-
aging character. 1t manifested deep in
terest in the speedy location Of the Univer-
sity as of great importance both to the city
anc the University. The committee from
the Council gave assurances to the Execu-
tive Committee Of the Trustees that the
city would give the grounds necessary for
the University. Bishop McTyeire, there
fore, will continue to examine the places
offered with the accompanying inducements,
aud probably make his selection SO as to
announce it to the College of Bishops,
which meets here early in May.
Year: 1873




It's only in the rural districts that there
still linger any Of those playful customs by
the Observance of which our forefathers
earned for England the honorable title of
Gmerrie;" but it is to be feared that even
in the country these relics Of bygone age
are fast disappearing under the discourag.
ing influence of modern manners. The
graceful and humorous old ceremony known
as "showing or halteriDg colt" which still
prevails at MustoD, in Yorkshire, will not,
we fear, survive the judicial censure passed
upon it at a recent trial at the York
Assizes. The custom in question, which
is very simple, was thus described by
witness in the case of Railey vs.. Wei
bourne: "On a new tithe-payer being
introduced to the old tithe-payers they
expect him to pay for some drink, and if
Re declines, halter is fastened to his neck"
Some time back the plaintiff in the action
above referred to was in public house at
Muston, when the defendant, who is
. farmer and parish constable,
came in with "young man
with a halter round bis neck
The young man was, of course, new
tithe-payer, who had been expected to pay
for some drink. but had declined to do so.
1t does not appear that he objected IN any
way to the observance of the old uitOT,
and indeed he seems to have behaved ad-
mirably throughout. The plaintiff thought
the man would be hurt, and then the de-
fendsnt to let go, and told the defendant
struck the plaintiff. The landlord inter-
fered atlast, and put the plaintiff in the Gel
lar. Upon this the plaintiff
sued the defendant, and after q care
full hearing, and the consumption of an
amount of the public time not dispropor-
tionate to the great Importance Of the case,
q Juror was withdrawn, and the matter
thus satisfactorily settled. Mr.. Justice Dem
man, however, cautioned the landlord not
to allow such a custom in future, or be
might get himself into a serious scrape."
This caution will we fear operate as DEATH
blow to the venerable usage of ''hsltering
a colt, and with it viii disappear another
Of those links which bind US to the past.
Year: 1873

AN Indianapolis woman has notified sew
eral soda-water venders not to sell her hus-
band any more of that seductive compound
of sugar, water, ard wind. His organism
is so sensitive (she says this) the promise
of drink of whisky intoxicates him, and
two glasses Of common soda causes him to
step higher than horse with the string
halt, and his spirit to soar amid the stars.
Year: 1873

sioner of Customs has just presented re
port for the use of the Secretary Of the
Treasury on the amounts Of the customs
frauds on the Government for the fiscal
year ending the Both of last month. These
frauds represent cases settled by the de
partment, and show to what an alarming
extent the system of swindling is carried
on. An exact copy Of the figures in the
report show the frauds in each city for the
,.oor ae fnlIouc.
Year: 1873

RAPID NUTBITTON.--It is the opinion Of
medical authorities that the fundamental
distinction between the strong man and
the weak the energetic ruler Of men and
things, and the feeble imbecile,--is sim
ply this that the process Of nutrition is
carried on with greater case and rapidity
in the one than in the other. What was
it that enabled the great Napoleon to IN
dergo those prodigious priyaaons, without
which his genius would have availed him
so little? An uncommon faculty of rapid
nutrition Now the two great fellow part
ners in this work of nutrition are these:
-FooD, which furnishes the capital: aud
STIMULUS, which invests it, that is, in
fuences each part of the body to take up.
from the blood, so much of the food-nu
triment as it stands in need Of! Out-doo
exercise is the best stimulus but muI-
titudes cannot get that Such persons will
fined the use Of DR. Gottlieb Fisch's Bit
ers unspeakably beneficial


This subject continued next week under
Verdict: 'Stmrsd.
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General Of the United States, after a trial
Of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article. This
is a fact worthy the attention Of consum-
Year: 1873

MosT of the New England papers have
been conceding that General Butler will
secure the Republican nomination for
Governor of Massachusetts without seri-
ous opposition. The Boston Globe now
says Governor Washburn will be before
the convention for denomination, and
that he will have a strong following all
over the State. The convention has not
yet been called, but it is supposed the
committee will put it off till some time in
September, or at nearest the latter part
Of August. Time will favor Washburn' s
chances.
Year: 1873

The downtown banks virtually resumed pay
ment OF greenbacks yesterday-a novelty which
has not been seen for something over two weeks.
The step was mainly taken In consequence Of the
nattering exhibit OF legal tenders made at the
Clearing House yesterday morning. Mr.. Camp
the manager Of the Clearing Housa, said that since
the issue OF the loan certificates there has not been
seen SO many greenbacks as were seen in the
morning when the clearances were made. One Of
the Wall street bank presidents who was seen by
HERALD reporter on the subject, said that ne
thought greenbacks had now become sufficiently
numerous to allow OF such q course being taken
without danger. In case, however, the pressure
became too great the banks would no douut fall
the past two weeks as measure OF safety. There
seemed TO be no reason, he said, why the payment
OF legal tenders should not go on instead OF the
system OF payment OF certified checks which had
prevailed OF late Trade was prosperous; the pro-
duce men were paying Tor and receiving larger
quantities OF grain than had been received at any
time before. The shipments OF grain from the West
had been fully 1000, 900 bushels more during the
past week than during any week In the
history OF the country. All this had been paid for
In legal tender TO the farmers OF the West, while
the shipment OF grain 10 Europe during one week
had been over two million bushels. With such
commercial prosperity 10 was hard to understand
Trade, he thought, was falling into It's old and nat


ural channels, and this assured the prosperity OF
the nation and dealt the death blow to any further
panic. There appeared to be none OF the suffering
In mercantile circles which had been so much
talked about and as far as his bank was concerned
there was no particular avidity TO secure green
backs, not by any means such as there was during
Year: 1873

A young Frenchman, recently arrived
i'll New Orleans, and but,ljust now fa-
miliarized with our language, writes to
Roundabout for advice.


He is young, poor, and anxious to
work. He is evidently well educated,
and, while he has found levee labor too
severe, is still both willing and anxious
to try anything which may be offered
him. Such is the case submitted.


There are too many hundreds Of
young men in precisely the same cOndi-
tiOn. Living in a city which ought
never to be at a stand; whose incalcu-
liable advantages of location should as
sure it q constant and unbOunded prog
ress, they are yet confronted with the
dread problem of existence, under cir
cumstances which afford the very scant-
lest means for its solution.


Some weeks ago we called attention
to the fact that more than three hun
dred young men had answered an ad-
veTtisement offering $40 month for a
person Ito run a store, keep plantation
books, and make himself generally use
full" Gould any better commentary be
offered?


And yet the country papers-and
specially those of the Attakapas par
ishes-are continually calling for young
men, offering them remunerative labor
and an assured future competence in
return for honest industry. There is no
lack of opportunity, but the young men
Of this day are not yet awake to the
false distinction which is made against
the sturdy independence of agriculture
in favor of the various grades of polite
servitlde. Clerks, runners, statesmen,
thinks themselves above men who fol-
low the plOw or toll in the forests, and
in a sense they are right; but the rea-
son is not because the former pursuits
are more exalted than the latter, or in
vOlve any more manhood and intelli-
gence. 1t is because young men leave
those occupations to a monopoly by the
uncultured classes. The distinction is
all on the surface, and means nothing
at ALL


Wedonot quarrel with this. Men have
q right to use their discretion, and to
choose whatever walk in life they may
most incline to; but it is evident that
there is not clerical employment for all,
and that, under the present state of af-
fairs, somebody must choose between la
bOriOus industry or a polite form of
pauperism.


Our correspondent is evidently one of
these. The fact of his being a stranger
here, his consequent friendliness and
his want of those various little thread
bare supports which still keep many of
our young men from absolute want,
have forced the problem upon him
somewhat sooner. We know of no open
ing here, and, without any circumlocu-
ton, advise the country.


In the Attakapas, for instance, there
is room for him and thousands like him.
He will find no lack Of warmth in his
reception, no Withholding of friendly
counsel. Throughout the extent of Ba-
you Teche, and beyond it is as far as he
may journey, no inhospitable door will
remain closed to his sOmmOns, no refu-
sal will be shown his mute or spoken
appeal. He has but to go there, and a
little courage, like patience, and the
question of existence loses all it's terri
bic uncertainties.


We. give him this advice, and through
him the same to every one whose des,
tiny is similar.
Year: 1873

FLIRTING.-It is remarkable, but
nevertheless true, that, as a rule, firts,
both male and female, do not marry
quickly. The chances are that girl
who being engaged at eighteen, and
goes on becoming engaged and olsen
gagged, as is the custom for firts to do,
ultimately settles down into confirmed
old maid. Ii she does wed, asa gene
raj rule, she develops into a virulent
wasp, makes her husband miserable,
and brings her children up badly. It is
not very difficult to find reasons why
flirts do not marry. Sensible men ad-
mire in a woman something more than
pretty face and engaging manners.
They love intellect, common sense, and
heart qualifications, which the tlirt
does not possess. The true woman al
lows her affections full play, and is not
ashamed of them. She win not lead
man to believe she cares for him when
she does no such thing; she will not
fiirt with him just for the sake of fiirt-
ing. She has true conception of what
is right, and possesses Q great deal more
common sense. She has derived her
education from something else than
three-volume novels and the society of
the empty~pated. She can be thorough
ly merry, but she can be merry without
being idiotic. She may attract less at
tention in drawing room than flirt
does, because she is less noisy and OBJ
strusive; but for all that, she will be
married sooner, and make her husband
better and truer wife. A true woman
does not care for the spooney young
man. She dislkes his foppishness, the
vivid compliments he pays her, and his
efeminacy. He quickly finds this out
and leaves her in peace. Thus, if he
ultimately gets married, it is to the
flirt, and the happy pair lead the jolliest
cat and dog life imaginable.
Year: 1873

BOILED INDIAN PUDDINa.-The old
fashioned way was to stir meal into
new milk until it was thick enough to
put into cloth bag without soaking
through much. Salt it, of course, and
put in handful of dried raspbeTTies !;
tie the bag, leaving room for the meal
to swell one-half, Put 1t over to boil at
eight O'Clock IN the morning, and boil
until noon, adding boiling water as
needed. 1t should be eaten, if possible,
with maple molasses.


The best way, however, to make a
boiled pudding is to steam it. Take
equal parts of rich buttermiIk and
sweet skim-milk, two eggs, a large tea
spoon of soda, and stir In meal to make
a rather thin batter. Have enough,
when done, to make twO-quart pan
two-thirds full. Put this in the pan in
steamer, cover tight, and steam an
hour and half, and it will be nicer and
lighter than boiled pudding.
Year: 1873

HORsERADIsH.-There are many per-
sons who are unfamiliar with the use of
this relish in tho spring; it is an excel
lent stimulant, and very healthy con-
diment to use with fresh or salt meat.
A quantity can be ground at a time and
put in vinegar in bottle or jug with a
little salt added. It will keep a long
time
Year: 1873

say, Swear not at all, neither by heaven
nor by earth, but let your cOmmunica-
ton be yea, yea, and nay, nay, for what
sOever is more than these cometh of
evil There my daughter" said the
doctor, "We have made quite q SER
mon Of it, so let us have no more of
slang nhraseS.n
Year: 1873

Here is a new version of the popular
nursery song. "Mary and her Little
Lamb.n:


Mary had a little corn,


That grew upon her toe,
And every where Mary went


That corn was sure to go.
Year: 1873

YOU'VE MAN, READ!-Young gentle
men! Aye, we see we have your atten-
tion, and we thank you for your cour-
tesy.


Now, tell us what You expect to
achieve in the warfare of life by hang
ing about and around, and STAYING in
bar-r0Oms and groceries where wliskeys
are meted out by the dram to damn
your souls and degrade your bodies
Have you family name to rally about
and protect, and honor? Are you ex-
peCting to do nothing either in a hum
BILE or prominent and public way for the
bettering of yourselves and mankind
Have you made up your mind to adopt
the platform Of the oyster, and suck for
eXistence-Only to be gobbled up by the
man who stands on higher platform
No matter about your poverty, you1
fathers wealth could not make a man
of you If it had remained unchanged
by the war. You have two hands and
a brain, and the best country in the
world wherein to achieve success. The
young man that haunts groceries and
tippling shops for the pleasant rills that
flow there would as we'll hang out his
sign and be done with it: ''I don't
mean to be any body or to achieve any
thing"


Your duty is plain. Help your family
your friends, your father, you mother
your. brothers and your sisters, youl
cousins, your neighb0rs, or even sfran-
gers when you can find no other outlets
for your active humanity.


Help to build up this country, young
gentlemen; we need not call for persons
from abroad if you will work. We LONG
to see the day when the character Of
the young of the South for business
will be known the length and breadth
of this land. With the best part Of the
Union for our inheritance, Why should
we crave the prosperity Of any othel
section ? We can make our country {
garden If we will. We are ready tt
| ~-or,
Year: 1873

A Boston woman of ninety got mer-
cenaw youth Of a quarter that age to
marry her the other day on promise of
an income of $4,000 a year while she
lived, and hfe-interest in her estate
after her death.
Year: 1873

A Montreal man of the ripe age of
eighty-eight married a lady Of the Sc
rene age of fifty three last week. As it
is the third matrimonial experiment of
both parties, they should be old enough
in the business to know what they are
Year: 1873

Perhaps ten or twenty millions in
fresh greenbacks will converts sufficient
proportion of the nine hundred millions
owing to the banks from bad debts into
good ones to demonstrate the prudence
of the bank managers, but we doubt it.
Lastly, few words as to that great idol,
the balance of trade. We are now ex-
porting more than we are importing; 1)
because we are selling very cheap; "
because the English have experienced a
tremendous Use in prices and we
are not able to pay for their wares; (S)
the English, being already somewhat
in trouble from short crops, labor
unions, scarcity Of coal, etc., and fore
seeing great deal more, are drawing in
and refusing to buy our securities as they
have been doing for the last five or six
years. Now our farmers are already in
trouble because we have been selling
their stuff so cheap. The English are
getting more and more in trouble every
day, and we, in the great cities, expect
to be as prosperous" and eXtravagant
as ever. All we need, the doctors tell
Us, is little more green paperl Not so.
We must come down to bread and
water and pay our debts. We have
no choice in the matter. We
must continue to send out of the
country more valuable things than we
bring into the country until John Bull
gets on his legs again. John Bull is
sick, and the farmers are sick, and the
trade of peddling railroad bonds is an
initiated. Will Mr.. Richardson's
green backs repair broken china, or en-
able John Bull to give our farmers mere
for their wheat? That is the question.
The reverse we have met with is simply
the beginning of the inevitable trans
itiOn from prosperous to pinching times,
and brandy will do us no good.
Year: 1873

REMOTE CAUSES OF THE PANIC.


From the New York TribuDe.l


Before we apply desperate remedies
we should understand the nature of the
disease. We have maintained and still
insist that an initiation of the legal-ten-
der circulation is no cure for the malady
which affiicts US. This will appear il
we go back and examine into the remote
causes-nOt so very remote, after all
which have produced the present state
of things. We are bound to suffer for
our follies. Imitation may postpone for
a short time the day of reckoning, but
that day will surely come. The trouble
with US is our immense mass of in
debtedness, both foreign and domest-
ic. 1t must never be forgotten that
by far the larger part of that in
debtedness is the direct effect of
the imitation Of our currency. The pay
ment of debts has always been found
troublesome, yet it is the only honest
way Of getting rid of them. Privation
and suffering must be endured or the
money cannot be saved with which to
make the necessary disbursements. And
now let US calmly consider how we
came to be so much in debt, and take q
look at the ledger. In the first place
we will glance at our Indebtedness.
From the year ended June 30th, 1858,
to the year ended June Both, 1873, our
imports steadily and rapidly Increased
in yalue as follows.
Year: 1873

were issued by the Clearinghouse to-day
to the extent of about three million dol
lars. Greenbacks are still worth a pre-
MUM and sales were made to-day all
the way from one TO three and a half
per cent. for certified checks.


The dead lock in
Year: 1873

The objurgatory element in human nature
is apt to be aroused in the most sanity when
upset by smooth coal-hole cover-especially
if orange peel or banana skin helps on the
catastrophe.