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Year: 1873

Joseph Martin, German, was brought up
before Judge Davis In the oyer and Termner yesterday
under indictment for murder In the first degree In hay
ing killed Bernard Mil Martin was attacked by gang
OF rowdies known the Young Eagles" while enter


ing lager beer saloon He left the saloon soon after
and a fight ensuing. one OF the assailants Mil was
stabbed by tho prisoner and died from Of the
brain caused by his falling while scufng with Martin
plea VI IN the third dnpraa was offered
Year: 1873

The Eighty-Ninth Annual Convention of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese re-assem-
bled this morning. The report of the COM
mittee on Incorporation and admission of
churches was read. The application of the
church Of st. Mary the Virgin, was refer
red back 10 the applicant.
Year: 1873




A telegram from the Secretary of the
Treasury states that his official duties pre-
vent him from visiting New York and con-
sulting with the Clearing House committee.


During the examination, this morning, of
the large safe of the Union Trust Co., the
box belonging to the missing secretary was
opened and found to contain $25 90 in
United States bonds which had been sup
posed to be lost. A AH


Hawes g. Macy have resolved TO open
their doors and solicit special deposits on
trust. Their former obligations viii be paid
as far as they can realize in securities.


Night DIspatches-A Review.


The feeling in Wall street was much
quieter to day. No additional failures have
been reported, and notWithsf anding the dis
appointment felt at the action of the Secre-
tary of the treasury, it is hoped the cocf-
dence which received so severe shock On
Monday will soon be restored. There was
less apparent excitement on the STREET to-
day than on any o,her day since Thursday
last. As usual crowd of brokers and their
clerks collected in front of the Stock Ex-
change but the number was smaller than
on previous days, and the general tone of
conversation was calm and rational. The
action OF Secretary Richardson in stopping
the purchase of bonds and in refusing to
anticipate the five per ceLt bonds OF 1874,
due Jan. l, was eagerly discussed and SO lar
as could be ascertained met with but mod
crate approval. While some express great
anxiety for the future, there are many con-
Year: 1873

There was very little of Importance in the none
tary situation though arather better demand sprung
up fora time in the afternoon with call loans doing as
high as coin interest which was paid however, only
for small amounts. The more general rule OF the
day was seven currency on mixed collateral, with
exceptions at six, the leading bond houses being
supplied at six The demand for choice business
paper is active at to 10 per cent The legatenders
outstanding to night are SS570SlOOO. The internal
revenue receipts to-day amounted to Sl,lOO'OOO.


Notwithstanding the slight down turn in United
States bonds at London, the home market was
strong the decline in gold coming late TO affect
prices. The market closed on the basis of l20s to
19Dl for 1865 Fisk s. Hatch report as follows at
Year: 1873

The New Orleans Herald relates how
q pet monkey, in that city, seeing that
q little child was on the point of being
run over by street car, rushed into
the streets and wrenehed the child
from the jaws of death. That beats
any monkey-wrench we ever heard of
before louisville Courier-Journal.
Year: 1873

The editor of religious paper, which
had one months precarious existence
in Chicago, says that it is a good city
for religious paper, provided Satan
has three pages Of it, and the other
mage is mixed
Year: 1873

INeN orleans Plctyun sept. 230.I


In the annals Of thepolice there some
times occur vague mysteries, which
are never fathomed, and which in them
selves, leaving no clue, sink into the
graves Of the years, and are forever
forgotten.


The Metairie Ridge assassination, in
which a labOring man is shot down in
cold blood, and the terrible case of Mrs.
Yaeger, found by her husband welter-
ing in her own gore, are but latest ex
amples, and now comes, If possible,


A DEEPER MYSTERY,


from the swamps near Hammond Sta
ton, on the Jackson Railroad, about
fifty miles from our city. While Mr..
Thomas Wallace, well-known resi-
dent Of that vicinity, was in the woods
and loWlandson ON the morning of the 18th
inst, looking, in company with colored
man, for some strayed cattle, they acci-
dentally Stun bled on what was evidently


A SKELETON


of some man who had. without doubt,
perished there in the woods. Both were
horror stricken, but upon closer exa1ni-
nation it was discovered that the skin
and flesh had been almost entirely sew
cred from the bones which lay bleach
ing In the sun, but there still remained
a portion of flesh around the right thigh,
from. whence it was undoubtedly aseer-
tanned to be that of


A WHITE MAN.


This, beyond mere strip Of clothing
and pair OF gray tweed pantaloOns
which were apparently new, was all
that remained to point to the identity of
+Ea NaanornE ftr t,I-r a1If
bone had been carried, evidently by
body, but disclosed no act of violence,
and beyond the factthat the pockets had
been cut from the pants, would not lead
to the belief that


MURDER HAD BEEN COMMITTED.
When found, buzzards were feastina
on the body, and flew to the trees neal
hg to apparently wait the departure Oi
tie visitors to return to their disgusting
meal. Noticing this, and not knowing
what else could be done in the case, the
two men buried the body where it lay
and returned to their homes.


| Who the deceased was, of course
could not be known. No one in the
neighb0rhood ever remembers hearing
Of any such person in the neighborhood
| ana whence ne came, OF course, COulC
not be ascertained.


As to the idea even of
WAS 1T MURDER?


could not be proven, for from the rem
nant of the pants left it could not ap
pear that the deceased was q man o
any apparent wealth, though from th
fact Of his pockets being cut and n,
other articles OF clothing discoveret
anywhere in the vicinity, there nigh
be suspicious Of foul play and robbery
It might be that the deceased had lair
down sick, in the woods, and as the spo
was a lonely one, died there but it j
the opinion of many that foul play wa
committed, though the matter mus
rest in doubt forever, there not bein
the slightest clue by which to trace tn
perpetrators of any crime.
Year: 1873

ScASpAL.-A story Is told Of a wo-
man who freely used her tongue to the
scandal Of others, and made confession
TO the priest OF what she had done.
lie gave her ripe thistle-top. and told
her to go out In various directions and
scatter the seeds one by one. Wonder
ing at the penance. she obeyed and
told her confessor. To her amaZement
he bade he go back aud gather the
scattered seed !; and wheh she objected
that it would be impossible, he re-
piled that It would be still more diifi-
cult to gather up and destroy all the
evil reports which she had circulated
about others.
Year: 1873

discharge of duty. The great danger lies in
the fact that these crackers and other powder
toys go mostly into the hands of children too
young or too wild with excitement to use them
with discretion-if, indeed, it be discreet to
use them at all-thereby rendering danger
Gus amusement doubly dangerous.


1t is nuisance, justly so regarded, and
should be so treated in law. Once abate il
effectually and the custom would soon die out,
1t would soon cease to be amusing. Formerly
Christmas was celebrated by these little peace
disturbers, but now they have no place il
Christmas festivities and consequently would
afford no pleasure on that occasion. Few
things are more annoying to sensitive nerves
more irritating to sick people, or more danger
GUS to life and property than these little fire
crackers, when used vigorously by a well
organized crowd of boys, and unless they art
abolished by law, as well as public sentiment
they will work more injury to the country thar
Chinese cheap labor.
Year: 1873

MORE ABOUT THE WEST VERDICT.-The
Sussex journal says "The counsel for West,
in one of his grand plunges of buncombe,
berated the press of this State for creating pub
lie sentiment against West, when the worst
thing that could bo said, was said by West
himself when he swore to the horrifying details
of that unparalleled crime, and the DelGUdred',
now the defender of the verdict of the jury,
was ridiculing the idea of self defense and the
attempt to play insane There was no paper
in this State against West and he had one,
(the Milford Ne,Us) opened and avowed advO-
cate, while there were three representatives OF
three papers in this State on the witness stand
to aid the theory of insanity. But the coun-
suls buncombe was only buncombe and did no
body any harm. A man may be paid to de-
fend cut throat and murderer, and no body
blames him for doing his duty by his client,
but the DeldWdredn had as well attempt to
dam up Niagara as to turn the tide of public
sentiment on this subject. That West was
clearly proven guilt of most heinous crime
that the defense utterly and entirely failed,
every one, unbiased must admit, and if the
DelaDarean supposes that its interests in
counteracting public sentiment are not dis
cernablc, it is greatly mistaken.
Year: 1873

HELP TO HORSES. The following comes
well recommended as a preventive of horses
being teased by flies: Take two or three small
handfulls of walnut leaves, upon which pour
three quarts of cold water; let it infuse one
night and pour the whole next morning into a
kettle, and let it boil for a quarter of an hour.
When cold it will be fit for use. The way to
use it is to moisten sponge, and before a
horse goes out of the stable let those parts
which are most irritable be smeared over with
the liquor, viz: between and upon the ears and
neck Aanks, etc. Not only the gentleman OF
lady who rides out for pleasure will derive
pleasure from the walnut leaves thus prepared
but the coachman, the wagnor, and all Others
who use horses during the hot weather.
Year: 1873

A CATHOLIC VIEW Bishop Becker, Catho-
lie Bishop of this State, in a sermon at a
corner stone laying of an orphan asylum in
Wilmington, last Sunday, said that every sue.
cation was not attended with that moral and
religious training which prevails in Catholic
schools. He contended for religious as well
as a secular education by our schools, and
thought that our Congressmea, though wei
educated, for the most part, were generally
irreligious, and consequently only tho more
dangerous and dishonest by reason Of theil
educational requirements The drift of the
discourse was doubtless towards serperate de
nominational public schools, which is lead
ing theme among the Catholic clergy, bu
which finds little or no favor outside of tina
denomination.
Year: 1873

THE WEST VERDICT-It is perfectly salts
factory to Republicans, from partisan stand
point, that the Delacarean should champion
the West verdict as Democratic measure,
but it does not seem to be so satisfactory to
the Democrats The Sussex Journal says
"We are as devoted to the Democratic party
and its future as any one but we trust that
democracy is not to be measured by such a
standard as defanse of the verdict of the jury
in the West case. if so Sussex is not Demo.
cratic by several thousand"
Year: 1873

SUICI0E.-Our community was startled and
horriGed on Tuesday morning by the iutelli-
gsnce that Anthony Habel, for many years a
resident of the place, had committed suicide by
shooting himself. No evidences ofdepresson Or
undue mental excitement had been noticed
previously but we learn that the night before
be was excited aud spent a sleepIess night,
walking about the house and yard with car
bine On his arm, and evidently disturbed in
mind About six o'clock in the morning he
was in an upstairs room with his wife aud
told her to 90 out. She did so but had hard
ly got into the adjoining room before she
heard the report Of the gun and the sound Of a
falling body Sherushed back but be was
dead before she reached him, death being IL
stautaueous.--LUerty (EaD NerS, IN
Year: 1873

ARepublicau newspaper Keeps the following
amendment to the Constitution standing at the
bead of It's columns and declares its intention
to retain it there until the Republican party
aul the people disown the act of their repre-
tentatives in Congress article 1S: Every
scoundrcl shall have the right as Congressman
aud Senator tc vote himself an increase Of SAL
ary whenever be feels like stealing"
Year: 1873

enough to take me there. Home Is a!
tho ether end, I've enough for bread
this morning, but not enough for coffee.
I'll thank you for some water


boy" replied the widow, g have a
boy off to sea somewhere near your age
and some day on his way 10 me he may
have to 90 on short rations Now yonl'
be my Jim this morning and have your
breakfast. "


l wish you could have seen the big
blue and white cup into which she pour
ed the yellow cream, and stirred the
sweet brown sugar, and filed with the
foaming coffee wish you could have
seen Harry drink it, end then, when she
wouldn't take a :" Bit from his store
lust put his arm around her neck and
say


"Well, mother, il you won take any
thing else, you must let me kiss you FOL
jim.


1t rumpled the cap border little, bu
it did the old lsly good, and the hands
from the road coming in moment sl'r'
found her more clipper and cherry thap
usual


The fields are there yet, glittering with
alkali; the brown adobe huts, the un.
painted shanty, and the bare rugged
cliffs in distance. Old Mother Mallory
still makes her bread and her coffee for
railroad folks, and waits forJ to come
in some day, Harry, westward bound
again with business before him and funds
in his pocket is meaning to stop again
at that station to take love token to
the good old heart, that gave him in bis
need what seemed like hector, though il
was only a cup Of coffee.
Year: 1873

Fields and fields sparkled like snow ia
the sun, Away ia the distance rose the
mountains bare and brown, their tops
lost in the clouds. Close by the railroad
track stood the rough station buildings,
and two or three adobe huts where re
freshmcnts were offered to travellers. The
express train thundered past an hour be-
fore, and now the third class came lcis-
urely up and stopped. Out stepped the
passengers intent on breakfast One
family--father, mother and children
had brought their provisions with them,
and made their tea and ceflee as they
wanted it oa the stove in tho car But
most of the company were men, and did
not know much about helping themselves.
One slender lad, Harry Minturn. sat in
his seat at the other end Of the car until
all around him had gone out. then taking
out his purse, he carefully counted its
scanty contents 1t had taken weeks Of
saving to get a ticket for the east, and
his margin was small when that was
gone.


Bread and butter this morning." he
said, whistling, as he joined the throng
outside, A few steps of he saw a very
modest shanty, which seemed to have no.
body near it.


That's the place for my money. "
thought Harry. Entering delightful
odor Of coffee greeted him. How good
it was Just the smell seemed to warm
him, and his hand in his pocket felt the
f" bits longingly. Alas! he knew just
how far they would 60, and how many
meals they would buy, and Harry had
learned that it is safe never to spend your
last penny and honorable to scrmp and
save, and even appear mean, so that you
do not go in debt The jolly young fel-
lows who told stories and sang songs in
the cars would have lent him money,
careless whether it was ever paid, but
Harry would as soon have begged AS
borrow


An old woman was sitting by the
stove She gave the lad chair, and
asked what he would have.


1.-TWO slices Of bread and butter,
ma am, if you please. y


Nothing elseS'


"That's all, said Harry. The great
round of corned beef and cold mutton
were not for him.


Looks hungry, poor boy y said the
woman to herself Somewhere near
the age Of my jim. ..


She cut two generous slices from her
large firm loaf, and put plenty OF butter
on them. Over her glasses now and then
she watched the appetite with which he
ate.


Rather dry now' Isn't it?'


"Oh, no - said Harry. Il never
tasted anything better "


"Won't you take cup of coffee with
p Do"


Madam" said Harry, I've thrco
thousand miles 10 60, and just money
Year: 1873

How DmNKiNG CAUSES APopLExY 1T
il the essential nature Of wines and spir
its TO send an increased amount OF blood
to tho brain. The first effect OF taking a
glass Of wine or stronger form OF alco.
bol, 10 to send the blood there faster than
common, hence the circulation that gives
the red face. 1t increases the activity
Of the brain, and it works faster, and 80
does the tongue. But the blood goes to
the brain faster than common, il returns
faster, and no special harm results. But
suppose q mas keeps on drinking, the
blood is sent to the brain so fast, In such
large quantities that in order to make
room for il the arteries have TO enlarge
themselves; they increase in size, and in
doing so they press against the more
Welding and naccid veins which carry
the blood out Of tho brain and thus di-
minish their size. their pores, the result
being that the blood is not only carried
to the arteries Of the brain faster than
is natural or hcalthful. but it is prevent
ed from leaving it as fast Nc usual hence
a double set Of causes Of death are in op
Grafton A man may drink enough bran
DIV or other spirits in few hours, or
even minutes, to bring on a fatal attack
of apoplexy.
Year: 1873

BOYS AND THEIR MOTHERS Some one
has written beautifully to the boys in the
following manner. Here 10 . whole ser
mon in a few sentences:


or all the love affairs 10 the wsrld,
none can surpsss the true love Of the big
boy for his mother. 1t tisalsvs pure aud
noble, honorable in the highest degree to
both. | do not mean merely dstiful az
foction mean love which makes q
boy gallant and courteous to his mother,
saving to everybody plainly that he 10
fairly 10 love with her. Next to the love
Of her husband, nothing 30 crowns . wo-
mans life honor as this second love, this
devotion of son to her. Aud l never
vet knew n boy "turn out" bad, who
began by falling in love With his mother.
ANY man may fall in love with q fresh
faced girl, and the man who 10 gallant
with the girl, may cruelty neglect to worn
and weary wife. But the boy who is q
lover to his msthsr in her middle age. 10
q true knight who will love his wife in
the scar leafed autumn AZ he did in the
daisied springtims.
Year: 1873

TIE FIRE THAT OLp Nick BriLr-Ws
find In an exchange the following cap..al
imitation of the style Of "Ths Honse
that Jack Built, and wish It mighs be-
come household favorite:


Intemperance-This is the Ere that Cid
Nick built.


Moderate Drinking-This Is the fuel
that feeds the fire that Old Nick built.


Rum Selling--This Is the axe that cuts
the wood that feeds tire Ore that Old
Nick built.


Lone Of Money--This Is the stone that
grinds the AK that cuts the wood that
feeds the fire that Old Nick built


Public Opiaion--This is the sledgs
with its face Of steel that batters the
stone that grinds the ak that cuts the
wood that feeds the FIRE that Old Nick
built


A Temperance Meetng--This Is one
Of the blows we quietly deal to fashion
the sledge with hts face of steel, that bat.
ters the stone that grnds The AK that cuts
the wood that feeds the fire that Old
Nick built


Eternal Trulh--This is the spirit, 80
gentle and still, that nerves the smith 10
work with . will to give force 10 blows
we quietly deal to fashion the slsdge with
its face OF steel that batters the stone
that grinds the AK that cuts the wood
that feeds the nrs that Old Nick built.
Year: 1873

FIRST DELAWARE RE6iMENT-A meeting of
the members of the Old First will be held at the
Custom House this evening, to complete the ar
raugements lor the reunion of the Regiment to
be held on the Goth inst. A full attendance of
the soldiers of the Old First is desired
Year: 1873

THE FAIR Observation-Disclosures the Grand
Military Fair opens at the Masonic Temple, am
pie arrangements for the entire success of this
affair have been made, and il will no doubt be one
of the finest entertainments of the season To-
morrow evening President Grant, and other dis
tingutshed guests will be present
Year: 1873

lights, was improvised, and certainly
could not have been better done had all
facilities been at hand. The acting, too,
was Of high order and showed much
talent. The gentleman taking the lead
ing part gave earlier in the summer a
reading for the benefit Of the little
church. His selections were from vari.
Gus authors and his reading of Hamlet
was specially fine. One could easily
understand his having drawn from Fan
ny kemble the enthusiastic remark that
he was the best reader of Hamlet she
had ever heard.
Year: 1873

another heart beside her own, hasten
ed without delay to the house of the
benevolent man to express her graft
tu"e and her sorrow, and in deep
humility and bitterness told him the
temptations to which her extreme
poverty had reduced her of breaking
the eighth commandment. "Sir," she
said, though my heart was wrung with
anguish at the sight of my poor shiv-
ering little ones, conld not keep it ::
my conscience would not let me :"
'.Say no more, my good madam" said
the good man. II saw it ALL saw
you conquer the devil in two fair
fights"
Year: 1873

The PLACER COUNTY DIREcToRY, gotten
up by G. De Young, of San Francisco. is,
besides neat and finished piece of work. a
most convenient business chart, and some.
thing that every business man in the coun-
ty should have. We find them plenty in
this town, but none the less appreciated be-
cause of nearly all having them.
Year: 1873

Notwithstanding the increase in the price OF
subscription last Fall, when THE ALDlNE
assumed its present noble proportions and
reirr,eptative character, the edition was more
than doubled during the past year proving
that the american public appreciate and will
support a inccre effort in the cause of Art
The publishers anxious to justify the ready
con6dcBce thus demonstrated, have exerted
themselves TO the utmost 20 develop and inn
prove the work and the plans fol the coming
year, as rnioded by the monthly issues, will
astonish and delight even the most sanguine
friends Of THE ALpINE.


Tho publishers are authorized to announce
designs from many Of the most eminent artists
of America.


The popular feature of a copiously illus
trated Christmas number Of THE ALDINE
will be continued.
Year: 1873

Two RIVAL dealers, olch having a
large lot Of grapes the other morning,
began running each other. One put out
a sign at eight cents per pound" and
the other made it seven. The first came
down to six, the second 10 five, the first
TO four, the second to. three. The first
then sent man around who took all the
grapes at three cents per pound, delivered
them to number one, who put out his old
sign of Eight cents" and made four or
five dollars out of his neighbor.
Year: 1873

SLIGHTLY MIxED.-Tbere is a man in
Doylest6n, ten years Of age, who ate
eighty breakfasts few days ago, and
chopped two cords Of wood before walk
ing a mile; or else he was two years old
and chopped ten breakfasts and ate cord
of wood before walking eighty miles; or
] e was eighty years old and chopped ten
mile, before walking into a cord of wood
at lrtaklast; or he was eighty years old
and walked ten miles and chopped two
cords OF wood before breakfast. 1t was
somehow that way we know-for we saw
it.in some of the papers; and as it is of
vital importance as piece Of intelligence
we determined to give it. 1t will, per-
hap', be as valuable in any Of the shapes
in which we remember it as in the others.