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Year: 1873

About two weeks ago the Parisians
celebrated the Fete des Morts, and decor.
ated the graves with their immortelles.
A correspondent Of the London Tele'
graph, after describing some of the
scenes, adds!


The most tragically interesting part
of Pere-la- Chaise has no grave stones
whatever, although there is no part in
which the dead are so closely piled to-
gether. That is the. corner in which the
Communists made their last fight, and
we're shot down like dogs. Driven from
point to point, they took refuge in the
cemetery and offered the desperate re
sistance of men who know that every
chance of life is gone. The marks oI
the conflict are terribly vivid: In one
place are piled mass of the grave
stones, behind which the Communists
fought, and which were broken by the
cannon-shot. A large gap in the wall,
filled up by wooden paling, marks
the place up which the Versaillais
entered the cemetery, and other parts
are rent from top to bottom by cannon
shot. Against another portion of the
wall the survivors of the desperate fight
we're driven and moved down by the
mitrailleuse. No quarter was given,
and the bodies of the dead we're flung
into q huge trench and hastily buried.
Even yet the wall is spattered with
marks of the shot, which are horribly
suggestive of the cagnagei but still more
striking we're the symbols of affection
which had been furtlvely taken TO the
suot. Some daring hand had drawn q
black cross on the wall, while here and
there had been placed garlands of i'm
mortells or punches of flowers. Some
of the Wreathes were such as lay on the
graves of men and women who had died
in peace, but most of the symbols were
only small punches Of violets and i'm
mortelles, which seemed to indicate
either that the mopFneFs had been
too poor to buy the ordinary gar
lands, or that they had chosen such
symbols as could be easily hidden
from the eye of the police -Four po-
licemen we're on the spot, watching the
persops who came, but they did not
touch the marks of mourning for the
Communist. l saw two young men take
off their caps in salntation to the dead,
aud then glance round to see whether
the police we're looking; but the guard
ians of the peace were prudently blind
10 all the manifestations, and nothlHg
conid be more peaceful than the whole
of the crowd. A large body of police
and squadron Of dragons had been
sent to the cemetery to prevent any po,,
litical manifestation. bnt nothing called
for any exercise of force. Yet none
the less eloquently did the broken grave
stones, the shattered wall and the marks
of the mitrailleuse recall the terrible
DAYS Of the Commune; and none the
less ominously did the buuches OF
flowers on the graves Of the Commun'
lists reveal the fires that still slumbered
beneath the Partisan society.
Year: 1873

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, July 14.-One
OF the most appalling facts about the late
fire was the rspidity with which it spread.
The smoke from the Bridge Street House
barn, IN which the fire commenced, rolled
up in dark and frightful columns, looking
as though it came from the mouth of hell,
and before the few who had gathered there
had time TO express their wonder, the
fan es burst out and seemed to leap across
Kent street to the east aud seized the
Grand Rapids City Mills on the west,
and in an instant the mill and bali
3 dozen houses were in flames.
There was no power on earth that could
stop its progress. The engines were soon
on the ground, but what water they threw
upon the flames had no more effect than
though it had been thrown from a spoon.
The fire tiend was abroad, and seemed to
laugh at the Herculesn efforts of the fire.
meu. The fire rushed, leaped and drove on
Ike mad, and stopped not until ii ha
swept out Of existence everything in its
way, and stopped when the work Of de-
struction was done. There were no more
buildings in its way. [Here follows list Of
the losses by the fire, amounting in the ag-
gregate to 100000, with an insurance Of
S100,0001
Year: 1873

The longevity in East Haddam, Conn,
IS illustrated by the fact that The average
age of thosa buried in its graveyard dur
ing the last quarter century was ifty-one
Years. while the number of those more than
eighty years old now living in single dis
trict is greater than in the entire city OF
New Haven.
Year: 1873




A passenger by the Australia tells
of married pair appearing on
shipb0ard at the moment the gang
wAv plank was heing pulled in at the
dock in New York. A state-roon
had been procured in some mystic
rious manner, and some huge trunks
followed, but the owners came last,
ana LII6 Cs.PVs.s.
zled to find that the name on the
passenger list and the occupants Of
the state room were not the same.
After the ship, however, lost sight of
land, the captain was taken into the
confidence of the gentleman and
told of an elopement. The groom
was a man about forty years OF age,
a foreigner and count, with coal
black mnstache on his face and a
castle on the Rhine. He had the
hard, handsome face common to
Mississippi gamblers, and dressed
himself in the same gorgeous style.


The bride, without being handsome,
had large, winning blue eyes, that, in
their helpless, contiling sort of ex
preston, won the sympathy OF all
on board Tne Count treated his
bride with elaborate courtesy, al
ways getting out of the way when
the poor thing suffered from sea-
sickness and after expressing his
concern for madam in the choicest
phrase. He expressed himself en-
nuied terribly with the monotony OF
the sea, and tried hard to inveigle
certain gentlemen into 8 game of
chance, only to pass the time, how
ever. He was strongly averse to
gambling. At the end of the voyage
the pair disspp ei, and the two
fueitiyes we're heard of no more un-
til several months after, when the
Australia was on her way back to
New York, when the kind-hearted
CAPTAIN learned that woman, travel
ing alone, was very i'll in the steer
age. Seeking her with the ships
Dhysician, he was astonished to find
in the sick steerage passenger the
Counts bride of few months be-
fore. He vacated his state room to
the poor woman in her faded finery,
and little by little be learned her


story. 1t was the old, old story OF
offended parents and a cruel bus
I band, who, finding a helpless wife,
without money, on his hands, first
ohuaed and then deserted her. She
had parted with the few bits OF jew
elry left her by the brute, and was
now getting back as best she could
ruined and broken hearted, to her
old home. The ship was approach
iuo New York. The weary passen-
gers collected on deck saw the poor
creature, with little remaining of her
former self but the wIstful, con-
fidlng look over her large blue
eyes, that from out the pale, sunken
& face seemed larger than ever.
Those who watched her more closely
saw at times light CLEAN in them.
as if for q second her poor, numbed
4 faculties were unhinged and crazy.
The vessel, aided by the wind and


steam, was dashing on, nearing every


second the entrance to the bay, when


suddenly the startled passengers
heard a wild scream. saw flash oi
white garments. splash, and then
the wild cry of some one overheard
The steamer was stopped, the boats
lowered, and after an hours search
the body of the poor woman was re-
I covered and brought on board.
Year: 1873

From correspondence of The Yuma Sen tinel, dated Cerbat, November 3I:

 The attention of the whole camp is now drawn to the New London mine own ed by Fisher x Co.,, which is being very rapidly developed and is giving fresh evil dence, as depth is gained, that there IS at it's owners in its promise to carry number one smelling ore to a great depth. The shaft is now down seventy feet, carrying all the way a vein from four feet to SIX feet of good smelling ore with more than the average per centage of silver. On the strength of these promising developments, the Elder Furnace is to be reconstructed by Messrs Cory & Potts in such a manner, governed by former experience and fail ureS, as to warrant all to LOOK forWard Io grand success at last.

 Matters at Mineral Park received a qui- etus the other day by the water in the Keystone, increasing to such an extent that work had to be suspended until ma chinery can be obtained to contend With the rapid increase.

 Chloride has a goodly number of fos- sils" shadowing the mineral wealth known to be there. There being no mon- ey, the mines consequently attract no at tention worthy of note.

 At Cerbat, building goes slowly along. A new and costly saloon has just been opened by John Barry.

 There is no change worthy Of note in the Cedar Valley mines.

 Another of our prominent citizens, A. Landsberg, died here on the 25th of this month.

 Rev. c. A. Reeder took his departure from us to-day He will return as soon as he makes tour of the Territory
Year: 1873

"Another pioneer is gone,"

 The Alta California said, And still the needless world wagged on. Nor paused when one so great was dead. At nights he'd sit beside the stove,

 And as he puffed a steady blast, His busy memory would rove

 To some strange stories of the past. And we would gather round to hear The old man tell of bygone days; Of miners camp, and rugged cheer, And early cOmerS' reckless ways. His great forte was in argument;

 Not that he logic understood, But facts he could with ease invent; Likewise his lungs were very good. He argued with the greatest zest; Twas difficult to put him out, For, strange to say, he talked the best Of what he knew the least about. When one a stubborn truth would bring, He'd meet it with: Young friend of

 mine,

 You cannot tell me anything,

 For Dye been here since forty n1ne." He told us once of dreadful ride, By red men tracked through tule grass, And how, when all seemed safe, there

 died

 By random shot his Indian lass. "I raised her up, but she was dead, My own dear wife! 'Tis all our fates! " We pitied him but then he said,

 My other wife was in the states"
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE has unwittingly committed itself to a grand temperance reform by voting to send drunkards and editors home instead of to the lookup. Not even the most confirmed inebriates require sec ond treatment. They generally come out about the third day a little more bald, and with a scared look about the eyes that tells of the christening influence of good Christian home.
Year: 1873

THE Federal Council of Germany have accepted the official invitation to partict- pate in the Centennial Exhibition. Prince Bismarck is to appoint the commissioner to represent that country. The represen- tation of Germany in 1876 will doubtless be unsurpassed by any foreign country.
Year: 1873

TIE editor Of the Y. Y Sun has re-
ceived a second invitation TO be present
at mass meeting in Philadelphia to
. d the Centennial. This time it comes
from the ladies, but like former one, is
respectfully declined on the ground that
the press is gagged in Pennsylvania. He
says:


Tue law there is such that there is
practically no freedom OF the press, and
no msn who is bold enough to publish
the truth respecting public concerus and
pnhlic men there il exempt from danger.
The i's result o. this ls that extraordI.
nary abuses prevail in almost
every sphere o. public affairs in
that State. Elections are q
farce: the administration OF justice
is sus spected; ruffisns are hired to assss
snats public officers who cauDot be
bribed; the property of the citizens is at
the mercv OF irresponsible plunder'ng
rings aud the moral- O. the people aud
the progress of society are vltlated
and checked There is nothing in this
country more painful and alarming or
more rraught with peril to the Republic
than this condition OF Pennsylvania
At snv rate it is essential that they and
all we'll meaning citizens should under
stand that until freedom OF the press is
established in Pennsylvania there is lit
tle hope of any permanent improvement
either IN the legislation. the social con-
dtioL, or the administration Of the
State
Year: 1873

The Society for the Relief Of the Destitute Sick is
stin doing great deal OF good In their work
among the very poor The Central district, which
includes three wards, and extends from Fourteenth
street to Forty-sixth street and from the East
River to Sixth avenue, Is under the charge OF Mr.
George David Brown, well known journalist. He
complains OF lack OF means TO assist all the suer.
ers In that part Of the city, but Is determined to
fight good tight. Can he not get some aid from
the rich.
Year: 1873

From the once Of Judge Pierrepont the HERALD
reporter passed to that Of Mr.. Mcfarland, O well
known lawyer In william street.


The reporter made known his wish to obtain his
views about the Chief Justiceshp Mr. Mcfarland
replied in substance as folows:-


"It seems to me that the best method OF select.
ing our Chief Justice is to provide for succession
by appointing the senior Associate Justice to he
the presiding officer Of the Supreme Court. The
vacant place OF the Associate Justice should be
filed by selection from the profession in general
Precedent, however establishes another system
with which we must be content. There can be no
difference Of opinion among LAWYERS as to the pre-
Year: 1873

.ANNIvERsARY BALL OF TIE GENTLEMEN's
HEBREW BENEVOLENT AssOCtATIoN.-As
will be seen by an advertisement published
in another column, the Gentlemen's Hebrew
Benevolent Association will give its twenty
ninth anniversary ball next Saturday night
at the Exposition Hall. These balls, it is
hardly necessary for US to say, have always
been very brilliant and enjoyable affairs,
attended as they are by the elite Of our
Hebrew society, as well as by their large
circle Of acquaintances, and we feel assured
that this Will in no manner fall behind any
ot It's predecessors.
Year: 1873

4 large concourse assembled on Poydras
street. between Carondolet and Baronne,
yesterday afternoon. to witness the efforts
Of one-iegged tight rope walker, who,
with d balance pole in his hands, crossed
from one side of the street to the other on
rope made fast to the upper story of build
ing on each side of the street. The tight
rope walker was Professor DeHoune- Mas
ter Clarke performed on the trapeze in mid


air, after WHICH collection was taken up
Year: 1873

We can not think, with this statement
before them, that the capitalists of tLis
city will longer allow the Picayune and the
McEnery rabble to say that they are
pledged to tax resistance, and, in the face
of this exposure, we shall expect ere many
days that our bank and insurance presi-
dents will, over their own signatures, pub
licly deny any thought Of tax resistance, at
the same time promptly eondemning every
move of this runous character.
Year: 1873

Il :s announced that Rev. George Il.
Hepworth is to pass the month of July at
the lie of Shoals with an elegant yacht at
his disposal, and the inquiry is ironically
made. what is to become of the souls under
his charge while he is yachtingl These
souls will not be likely TO suffer much by
his absence. and 1t is not probable he will
be much concerned about them. His own
personal welfare is about the only thing
the reverend George cares for. He gathered
flock of souls together in Boston, but
went to New York to get a larger salary
as quick as he could. To do tins decently
was puzzle for some time, but after
wrestling with the question in the most ap-
proved Chadband style, he hit on the
proper way-he changed his religion, This
flank movement gave him new flock, the
novelty increased his congregation, built
him new church and gave him yacht.
Year: 1873

" At a meeting of thu Olympia Cho-
raj Society last evening it was unani-
mously resolved that their first Concert
will take place in Columbia Hall on
Monday the 29th inst. for the benefit of
the society, on which occasion all the
amateur and professional talent of this
city will appear, and the programme will
consist of the choicest music, both vocal
and instrumental Courier.
Year: 1873

The complaint is often heard that
teachers become fussy, arbitrary and
narrow in their views, and good for
nothing else. This statement is true
except the last clause, for If one has
falleninto that condition, heis certainly
unit to teach. Such, doubtless, is
the tendency in this profession but
it can be resisted and that successful
ly. There is, however, but one way
in which to do it, and that is by a
persistent and liberal culture of the
mind 1 have, in my experience, met
with many teachers whose society was
as rich and genial as any I have ever
found; but this has always come d
constant mental activity and disci-
plen- Believe me, teachers, by this
means, and by this only, can you
resist the narrowing influence of your
work. You must learn to WELD free
and intelligent judgment in various
spheres. You may, for instance, even
in the midst ofyour work, by prop
er training of mind and heart, possess
a taste that shall be so far consonant
with the true principles of art as to
catch the inspirations Of nature.
Sympathy with nature is one of the
most potent preventives of the evils
to which 1 have alluded A teacher,
furthermore, should be in constant
communication with the great masters
of thought, especially in our own Ian
guage. To neglect this seems to me
inexcusable. 1t argues a smallness
of mind and perversion of taste that
should find no place in the work of
instructing living souls. Il Conn.
School Journal.
Year: 1873

A romance connected with the
wreck of the Atlantic was the discov-
cry that one of the sailors of the Ill
fated steamer, whose life was sacri-
feed in efforts to save others, was q
young woman of about twenty or
twenty-five years of age. Her sex
was not known until the body was
washed ashore and the rude clothing
removed preparatory to burial. She
had served as a common sailor for
three voyages, and was a favorite
shipmate with all. She is described
as having fewer of the vices incident
to sailors life than is usual, but she
was, nevertheless, as jolly an old tar
as any of them. One of the survivors
of the crew in speaking of her re-
marked, 81 didn't know Bill was a
woman. He was a good fellow,
though, and 1 am sorry he was a wo-
man." The most singular part of the
whole story is that the woman was
an American, and was about the only
one of that nationality belonging to
the crew. Who she was and where
she came from, and her motive for
leading such a strange life of hard
ship, will never be known.
Year: 1873

1t has long been known that salt
operates fatally upon nearly all cold
blooded animals that live upon land
or in fresh water. Sir John Sinclair
many years ago said that in Scotland,
where the oats crop was frequently
destroyed by grubs, it had long been
the practice to mix salt with seed in
the proportion of one to thirty-two,
but sometimes one to sixteen. If we
scatter salt upon land infested with
vermin it destroys them, and their
bodies become the food of plants.
Great care should be taken in apply
ing salt upon growing crops, as too
much is sure to beinjurious. One to
five bushels per acre may be spread
broadcast upon meadows early in
spring, or upon land at the time of
sowing grain.
Year: 1873

A good handwriting is not merely
a great accomplishment, it is posi-
tive help to success in life. One of
the least Of its advantages is that it
secures the perusal and publication
of articles sent to newspaper. We
omit scores of contributions simply
because we have not the time, pa
tieuce, and ingenuity to decipher
them. Their authorship leads US to
believe them good; but we must. read
them to know if they are what we
want, and as life is short, we neglect
to read them, and they are lost.
Year: 1873

The world moves. It is not SO re-
spectacle as it was a few years ago to
be.a rascal People are learning the


lesson that clean hands are desirable,


both for personal comfort and pleas


ant social intercourse. They really


seem to be learning that purity pays,
and thatpersonelhonor and incorrup-
tibleness are good investment.


Rogues and rings are having tough
time Of it, and it is their own fault if
the young and ambitious men who


are now coming upon the stage Of
action do not learn to place so high a
price upon themselves that neither


wealth nor power can buy them. The


pscalities of the New York Ring are


lezpn6sfhsana ths members of that
Ring have either run srzy cor are


staggering before public opinion and


the law, disgraced and degraded men.
Bribery in Congress stands exposed
and rebuked, while names that were
pure have received tarnish that can
never be polished away Men who
have held their heads high in the
nation, bow those heads in shame,
over hands which are soiled beyond
cleansing. We call no names, butt
scattered up and down the land, great
regulations lie IN ruins. Men who
had wealth which they stole, and men
who had positions which they bought
and men who used their public Office
to push their private schemes, are
thrown high aud dry out of infu
ence, and lie exposed upon the
rocks of disgrace, where they are
sure to rot OF go to pieces.


If the young politicians of the coun-
try will learn the lesson that the facts
which we have recounted are so well
calculated to teach, better times for
the country iein the efuture. Personal
advantage is mean motive to ap-
peal to, when SO vital a question as
personal purity is concerned, but, as
there is no. danger to morals from
any other appeal, it is well to meet
temptation on its own ground and
fight it with its own weapons The
lesson of the recent exposures is real
ly needed by none but those who
fancy that they can compass their
ends best.by base means and if these
shall learn from it that, In the long
run, nothing pays SO well, in wealth
and power and safety and comfort, as
virtue, they will learn that which will
be of incalculable benefit to them and
to the country. No money was ever
won by treachery to trust that did
not harm the winner. No power was
ever achieved by bribery or retained
by falsehood, that did not scorch the
palm of him who held it. The con-
sciousness of Ill desert, the loss of
self-respect, the fear of exposure and
the selfcommitlnent to a life of decep-
ton, which gosalways with posses
sions unworthly won, are poison in
the blood and the exposure, sooner
or later, is as sure to come as death.
Il [Scribner's for April.
Year: 1873

An Illinois girl, having $4,000 of
herown, recently refused to marry a
clergyman because she thought her
self not good enough to be clergy
mans wife. He gave up his sacred
calling and proposed again, and then
she refused him because she thought
herself too good to marry man who
would abandon his high profession to
gain woman's- hand.
Year: 1873

The New York Legislature hal
passed law intended to prevent tn,
frequent accidents that occur from
the careless handling of firearms
1t is now misdemeanor in New Yorl
to point gun, pistol or other fre-arn
at any one, whether the weapon il
loaded or not, and the crime is pun
ishable by fine and imprisonment
This is a wholesome enactment
well worthy of imitatation every
where.
Year: 1873

My first is in man, but not in boy,
My second is in sorrow, but not in joy,
My third is in top, but not in ball,
My fourth is in hammer, but not in maui,
My fifth is in dark, but not in light,
My sixth is in morning, but not in night,
Ny seventh is in fast, but not in slow,
My eighth is in robin, but not in crow,
My ninth is in beer, but not in ale,
My tenth is in head, but not in tail,
Ny eleventh is in one, but not in two,
My twelfth is in nail, but not in screw,
My thirteenth is in give, but not in take,
My fourteenth is in river, but not in lake,
My fifteenth is in new, but not in old,
My sixteenth is in silver, but in gold.
Ny whole is needed in the "Aodsl Torn."
Hillsboro, o. ROB ROY.
Year: 1873

A Danbury paper says: ''The body
of well-dressed man was found on
the Harlem road. There was nothing
about his person to indicate who he
was except three brilliant diamond
rings, which seemed to show that he
was either horse doctor or a negro
minstrel"