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Year: 1871

GENTLEMAN who had carefully trained up his
servant in the way he should go, so that when
his wife was present he might not depart from it,
sent him with a box ticket for the theater to the
house of young lady. The servant returned
when the gentleman and wife were at dinner
He had, Of course, been told, in giving answers
to certain kinds of messages, to substitute the
masculine pronoun in speaking of the lady
" Did you see him? ?' inquired the gentleman.
" Yes, sir" replied the servant " be said he
would wait for you" What was he doing?"
asked the wife, carelessly. Putting on his
shawl and bonnet" said the idiot.
Year: 1871

All persons wishing to appear to advantage
in hdress 1T comfortable and elegant should lose no time in
paving tee weknown Hat Emporium Of the woeHoSned
KNOX at No Broadway Of FuOhs where the stock
mi
Year: 1871

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. S.-One day last week
q large private party Of citizens made steamboat e1-
cursion down the bay from Wilmington. Next day
nearly the whole party suffered from serious Illness the
synptoms being of poisoning aud in several famesone
or more members are now very sick. As yet however
the symptoms have not been Of an alarming character
though the patients suffer distressing sensations and
one peculiar feature that after victim seems TO have
been entirely relieved the symptoms return with the
same severity at first One physician Is repor'eo "
have 40 OF these cases under treatment
Year: 1871

A meeting of the friends of ODOnovan
Rosa was held yesterday at the Astor House, and per-
manent organization effected with the purpose OF run
ming oDonovan Rosa for the ofce Of Register Of New
York 1t was decided TO issue an address to the citizens
to form associations every ward and to call meeting
at the Cooper Institute to ndorse their candidate
Year: 1871

We have had it-about two inches deep, all over the bosom Of our fields and forests. l. IeH dur ing Saturday night and did not entirely disappear until Wednesday The farmers and everybody else feel cheered al the prospect of having a snowy winter W bich would ensure an noundant supply Of water for carrying on farming and mining next year.
Year: 1871

Last Monday, as the evening train from
Louisville was coming down the steep
grade above Gallstin, horse was seen
ahead of the train, on the track. The
whistle was at once blown, and every effort
made to stop the train, but without sue
cess, and the horse was thrown about ff-
teen feet from the track, and died almost
instantly. Fortunately, no damage was
done to the train or passengers.


TIE man who was recently run over In
the tunnel through Muldrough's Hill, on
the line of the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, is, as we are informed, native
of Limerick, Ireland He had been only
short time in this country, and was look
ing for work. Becoming tired, he sat
down under the shaft in the tunnel to rest.
Without intending it, he fell asleep, and
the first train that came along took off his
legs Just below the knees. He was taken
on board the train, and lived only about
thirty minutes, though he retained his
senses to the last. He was out of money,
and had been looking for employment.


Last Saturday the No. l train, bound
for Nashville, on the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, ran over a spotted heifer,
and threw her about thirty yards from the
track. No damage was done to the train.


The Trenton Gazette of the 22d says:
''On last Saturday night section hand Of
the Mobile and Ohio road was cut or struck
on the head in several places with a
hatchet, and died from the wounds on
Monday. A couple of men (section hands,
have been arrested, who are ch arged with
having committed the murder. The two
men had been seen quarrelling with the
deceased a short time before he was at
tackled. The deceased was IN Irishman,
Year: 1871

Bunyan's Pilgrims PrOgress-A


Magnificent and Instructive Work


of Art.


The extremely inclement state of the
weather yesterday and last night deferred
our good people from visiting the panor-
anna of the Pilgrim a. Masonic Hall in such
numbers as the merits of the exhibition
would seem to warrant. We had the
pleasure of being one among the number
who Witnessed it, and most cheerfully do
we recommend it to the best eonsidera-
ton of all those who are lovers of the fine
art in its most pleasing and interesting
form, and to all those who have an appre-
citation of the story of the Pilgrim and
feel sympathy for him in the terrible
vicissitudes, temptations and faithful trials
with which his rugged path, from the City
of Destruction to the Celestial City, is
beset. The story is most faithfully and
naturally portrayed, in the design, the con-
ception Of the highest order, and the
paintings touched by the skill of mas
terri hand. The audience were more than
pleased-they were delighted. All the
children who have arrived at the years of
understanding, all Christians, and all men
and women of the world should visit this
fine exhibition-its moral influence is most
healthful, and its artistic merits are among
the very best, ranking by the side Of
Paradise Lost" and other first class
paintings of the kind. 1t will be exhibit
ed the remainder of the week, also on
Friday and Saturday afternoons, for the
benefit of families who cannot go at night
A large lot of very beautiful and useful
gifts are given away at the conclusion of
each performance.
Year: 1871

IT is noteworthy that in the resolutions
and speeches of the German peace cele-
bration in New York on Easter Monday,
the name of the Emperor Wilhelm was
mentioned only once-and that by Gov.
Hoffman in his brief response to the Ad-
dress Of the Executive Committee. 'sNo
one knows how much this war mas cost
Germany" remarked prominent son of
Fatherland as the procession moved by.
Such another sacrifice would undo her.
And for what has the sacrifice been
made2 To increase the glory and power
of potentate who bases his right to rule,
not on the popular will, nor any consti-
tuition, but on the most ultra assertion of
the divine right of kings. We admire
the taste and good sense of our German
brethren in carefully excluding all fealty
toward him from their rcjoicings over


the return of peace to the Fatherland.
Year: 1871

A woman Attempts Suicide by the


Use of Laudanum and is Prevent


cd by q Timely Discovery


About noon yesterday the attention OF
Policeman Hawkins was called to the con
dition of q white woman, who bad, short
time before, gone into the trunk store Of
Mr.. Dunstead, on Market street, and
asked for permission 10 SIT dawn and
rest for awhile. After sitting there for
a few minutes, she fell asleep, and
upon being two or three times awakened,
would almost Immediately relapse into
state of unconsciousness. This circum-
stance and The appearance of the untortu-
nate woman excited the suspicion Of those
present that she was stupefed by whisky
or had taken poison, and they therefore
directed the attention of the policeman to
the fact. For the purpose Of having her
properly cared for aHd provided with
medical attention, she was at onse taken
in a carriage, being unable to walk. to the
WoExhouse. For sometime after
arriving there she remained in an
inseIsible and almost ifeless condition,
and was therefore unable to tell heT
name, place Of residence, or any
thing else. From other sources, however


It was soon ascertainsd that her name was
Mary Odum, that she had, until within the
past few days, lived at the house Of Mr.


George Beckwith, in South Nashville, and
that she had taken an overdose Of lauda-
mum, the empty vial found in her pocket
showing that it had contained two ounces
of that dangerous drug The proper re-
storatives were promptly applied, and the


measures most likely to restore wakeful-
ness and animation at once resOrted
to. When consciousness was some
what regsored, she seemed to
be suffering the most excruciating
pain, and would piteously implors those
present for something which would st once
end her misery and her life. In SIX hours
afterwards the indications were more favor
able, and it was hoped by the attending
physician that her life would be saved.
What induced the unfortunate woman to
make this attempt at self-destruetion, is a
matter to all but herself shrouded in mys-
terry.
Year: 1871

Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather
of yesterday and last night, the l. o. o. F.


anniversary ball was very largely attended,


and a more pleasant or agreeable party we


have not attended for years. The large
hall was Just about comfortably filed, and
in the absence of that jam which might
have been expected had the night been
pleasant, the dancers were favored with
plenty of elbow room, and tripped the
light fantastic to their hearts content.
We have never noticed more sociality, or
more general enjoyment, than that which
prevailed throughout the entire evening,
and in addition to that there was youth
and beauty within the fraternal circle as
sembled, and merry hearts and joyous
faces participated in the festivities of the
occasion. The supper tables were in charge
of Messrs. Wallace & Houston, of the Mer
chants, which were bountifully filed with
all the substantials and delicacies that
could be called for. Altogether the ami
versary night passed off in manner which
will be referred to hereafter with pleasure.
Year: 1871

Citizens who visited the Markethouse
Yesterday morning could hardly fail to OBJ
serve in the leaking condition of the roof
and the consequent slush and slop about
the brick flooring that the dilapidated old
building very much needs thorough over
hauling and repairing. They will there
fore be glad to learn that the city authori-
ties have at last determined to make at
least portion of the repairs needed, and
design setting about the work without
much further delay. The matter was con-
sidered at the meeting of the Board of
Aldermea last Tuesday evening, and the
action then taken in reference to the pro-
posed repairs to the Markethouse will
doubtless meet with the concurrence OF the
Common Council at its regular meeting
this afternoon. By the Board of Alder
men the bill, being upon its third reading,
was referred to the Markethouse Commit
tee, and said committee instructed to con-
fer with Mayor Morris and Col. P. j. Will
hanson, the architect, for the purpose Of
ascertaining in what way the repairs can
be soonest and most substantially made.
The object might have been earlier and as
we'll accomplished by giving the committee
power to act, in order that the work might
be proceeded with at once.
Year: 1871

The storm and food of yesterday caused
considerable damage at the store of L. r.
Freeman, on College street. A large lot
of elegant picture frames, intended by Mr..
Freeman for exhibition at the Exposition,
were almost ruined by the water and fall
ing ceiling, while some valuable pictures
we're badly injured in the same way.
Year: 1871

A FARMER out in Iowa, laboring under
the influence of too much of ''the rosy, "
tied his horse and wagon to freight car
while be went for q drink. On returning
he found no wagon, but, going down the
track discovered here leg and there a
leg, here a wheel and there q wheel, de-
monstrating that somebody had been
there while he was gone.
Year: 1871

THE TENURE Of OFFICE LAW is fruitful
cause of contention now, as it was during
Andy Johnson's administration. 1t not only
deprives the President of choosing his own
counsellors, but puzzles his Cabinet to
determine when vacancy exists. When
General Pleasonton was removed from the In
ternal Revenue Bureau Mr.. Douglas was ap-
pointed to succeed him. Mr.. Douglas now
finds himself in quandary-he does not know
the exact position he occupes-whether he is
in fact Commissioner of Internal Revenue or
is merely an ad interim appointment. If the
former then vacancy occurs in his old posi-
ton of Assistant Commissioner; but this is a
point that neither Mr.. Douglas nor anybody
in the Treasury Department have been able to
determine. In this emergency he has referred
the question to Attorney General Akerman,
and it is hoped that functionary will be able
to establish the intent and meaning of the
Tenure Office law, subject which has
puzzled both Congress and Cabinets from the
day of its passage to the present time.
Year: 1871

THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN IN OHIo.-While
it is reported that from i'll health General
McCook, the democratic candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio, has withdrawn or soon will
retire from the field, and that General Ewing
will take his place, it is apparent that on their
''new departure" the Ohio democracy are any
thing but harmonious or enthusiastic. On the
other hand, the republicans have made all the
needful preparations and appointments for a
thorough stumping campaign, and are to begin
the work tomorrow at twenty different points,
and with a force of forty speakers, more or
less; and they intend to ''keep the ball in
motion" in every city, town and village, and at
every railway station, steamboat landing and
crossroad post Office in the State, till the eve
of the October election day. And so the odds
appear to be decidedly against the democracy
in Ohio.
Year: 1871

ARTILLERY PRACTICE IN THE LOWER Bay
1t would be well, we think, if the officer in
command of the forts in the harbor would


confine his artillery experiments to more


opportune time than when the lower bay


is studded with vessels. The Plymouth
Rock had narrow escape on Monday
from being struck by shell fired from one Of
the forts-at least 80 several of the passengers
think. 1t may be all very true that there is
no danger from the firing from the forts, as the
officer in command contends, but the best of
skill may sometimes miss its aim. Passengers
by steamers in the lower bay will find no COM
fort in the assurance that only expert gunners


fire the shells, and who know just where to
make them fall. We would advise the harbor
officers to keep in mind that passengers have
a right to feel, when they go down the bay,
that they are not liable at any moment to be
blown to atoms for the sake of military
science.
Year: 1871

FAMINE AND PEsTILENCE are doing their
worst in Persia. There can be no doubt that
the details originally published in our special
cable report some time ago were not exagge-
rated. Later reports not only confirm them, but
tell still sadder tale of the awful calamity. As
usual, famine and pestilence go hand in hand
in the work of destruction. 1t makes the heart
sick to read that in one province alone twenty
one thousand persons have died of this dire
combination. Surely something might be done
for these poor people by the Western nations.
While we are in the midst of plenty they are
dying by thousands the slow, agonizng death
of starvation Could not England and the
United States step in and stay the faugs Of
hunger, which, like monstrous rat, are gnaw-
ing at the vitals Of whole nationp
Year: 1871

THE COMMERCIAL INDEPENDENCE OF THE
WEsT.-By telegraphic despatch from Chi
cago, which we print this morning, it will be
seen that the people Of that city are much
exercised by the arrival of cargo of goods
by means of steamship direct from Europe.
New York having far outgrown all her rivals
on the seaboard, from Galveston to Portland,
is not likely to be alarmed at any prospective
rivalry of the lake cities. If the commercial
independence of the West could be attained
Chicago would only share with Milwaukee and
other places the commerce which would thus
be built up. But, in reality, the idea is i'm
practicable so far as any great trade is con-
cerned, and New York will continue to be, as
she has long been, the metropolis of the coun-
try and the centre Of its commerce.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER GOLD CoRNEE.-The speculative
elements of the gold market, so long dormant,
have been aroused into activity by the dis
covery of the existence therein of powerful
clique, who so frightened the coils yesterday
as to force their opponents to pay most
extravagantly for indulging their speculative
bent of mind. In fact, the evil fell so heavily
upon many of the merchants interested in the
free daily supply of the precious metal that
they embodied their grievances in petition
of complaint to Mr.. Boutwell,, who has seen
fit to alter the time of the current weeks sale
of gold, in order that he may afford such
measure of relief as lies in that remedy. The
gold sale is therefore to take place to-day,
and a curious throng will doubtless watch the
result, for host Of spectators and merchants
are now wrapped up in the events of the gold
market.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER MoURNFUL CALAMITY comes un-
der the head of marine disasters. We have
the sad tidings that the ship Prince Of Wales
has foundered at sea and that fifty persons
have found watery grave. The particulars
Of the calamity are not given, but they can be
easily pictured by the imagination. 1t is ever
the same pathetic story, with some slight
variations. Man may do what he may the
elements will assert their supremacy.
Year: 1871

another part Of the HERALD this morning two
interesting letters from our correspondents in
Versailles, descriptive of the trial of the Com
mune leaders. Though on trial for life the
prisoners seem to be perfectly Indifferent, and
it was only occasionally, according to the
report Of the proceedings, that some of them
felt interested enough to trouble themselves
about what was going on around them. Yet
these are the men who brought about one of
the fiercest rebelions of modern times and in
their attempt to make it successful employed
means such as savages would shrink from
using to attain their ends
Year: 1871

THE YoUYG MEMS DEMOCRATIC CLUB of
Boston have issued an address. We are
further informed that within the past few
weeks some sixty young mems democratic
clubs have been formed in the State of Massa-
chusetts. The Young Democracy of the Bay
State are unlike the Young Dem ocracy of the
Empire State-one goes TO make gain the
other, perhaps, to lose again.
Year: 1871

OVER IN JERSEY they elect Governor this
year, but on both sides the asprants for the
honor are so numerous and so available that
republicans and democrats are bothered which
man to choose. If they had ten or a dozen
governors to elect it would be plain sailing
but, being limited to one, New Jersey is
threatened with war of the factions on both
sides which promises a great commotion.
Such arc the political embarrassments of q
small State with more than her fair proportion
of great men.
Year: 1871

A DECISION was rendered yesterday by
Judge Sutherland, Of the Supreme Court, in
the matter Of the unpaid balance of the bill
claimed by the Messrs. Cornell for iron work
for the new Court House. He decides that
the bill is just one and must be paid, and
that mandamus may be issued compelling Its
payment by the city.
Year: 1871

THE CHoLERA.-The ravages of the cholera
are steadily increasing at K6nigsberg The
disease is evidently on its travels again as a
deadly epidemic, and there is no safety to us
against its approach except in the adoption of
all needful precautions to meet it and to fight it
with all the weapons which experience and
medical science have proved to be most effec-
tive. And yet New York continues the dirtiest
city in the United States, while from its
natural advantages it ought to be the cleanest
of all the great cities in the world.
Year: 1871

THE New ORLEANS MUDDLE.-Collector
Casey and Marshal Packard are out in card
to the public giving their side of the New Or
leans Convention muddle. We print their card,
which is at best long enough to explain the
whole business
Year: 1871

WHAT'S IN A NAME ?-The new county of
Lee so named by the State Legislature in
honor of the late rebel General Lee, is one OF
the few counties carried by the republicans in
the late Kentucky election.
Year: 1871

RIoT1Ne IN IRELAND is getting to be an
everyday's luxury New York gave new
impulse to the sport, and the spirit of the
Bloody Twelfth is stalking abroad creating
mutiny in mems minds Yesterday mob in
Limerick amused itself with stoning the police.
The despatch says that there was band of
music present, but it does not explain for
what purpose Was the music necessary in
order that the stone-throwing fraternity might
keep time or "come up to timer" Music Is
said to soothe the savage breast, but in this
instance the saying does not apply.
Year: 1871

superior credit OF the United States will do the
rest.


The result practically to the United States
is SO far the assured saving of one per cent on
at least two hundred millions of dollars for ten
years to come, making an economy of two mil
lions per annum or twenty millions for the ten
years, and 80 much more as shall arise from
compounding of the annual instalments mean
time-in all Of which consideration we are
acting on the hypothesis that the national
banks will instantly fall into line as subscribers
for so much of the FIVE per cents as Is yet at
their option. Our people are generous and
liberal in their financial ideas, and, in view of
the great result accomplished, will readily
yield the commissions and charges accruing to
the Syndicate, provided there is no exceeding
the terms fixed by the law. The success
so far of the loan occasions only one regret
viz, that uniform long bond had not been
originally provided for by the Refunding act,
into which the whole debt might have been
transformed. Should the refunding process
come to halt when, in the future, Mr. Boutwell,
offers the remainder of his five per cents in
connection with the four and half and four
per cents, we trust the next Congress will be
equal to the exigency. The rate of interest
does not represent the value of money for
employment 80 much as the risk the lender
takes in lending it. Both these considerations
enter into the matter. In fact, the value of
money and the risk of 1t are always the
supplements of each other in every interest
rate. The risk being minimized in the case
Of United States loan by the unimpeachable
good faith of the government and the capacity
Of so prosperous country to meet its every OBJ
legation, capital properly solicited could be had
by us at the lowest possible rate it commands
for it's simple use. 1t is in view of these cir
cumstances that we reterate our oft-expressed
belief in the capacity of the government to
convert the whole debt into loan bearing no
higher interest than the facile rate of 3.65 per
cent per annum, if not as low rate as Great
Britain pays upon the enormous consolidated
debt resulting from her centuries of wars.
Year: 1871

WE would take it as special favor, if any one will name to us an officer who has done effective service against the Indians, and has not shown himself an enemy to the citizens, who has been unkindly men, toned in TIE CITIZEN.
Year: 1871

ACCORDING to The Miners theory, the people of Prescott got down on the Cardiff Giant simply because he established Head quarters there and then moved that institu- ton out of the Territory again-marched up the hill and then marched down again.

 It is foul bird that befouls its own nest.
Year: 1871

A Methodist brother recently had
occasion to preach a discourse against
the doctrine of immersion, but could
not find the text until, with great
shrewdness and sense, he hit upon
this: beware of divers and
strange doctrines. -...
Year: 1871

The advent Of General Frank Blair
is hailed with pleasure by the Demo
Gratis, and regret is expressed that he
was not here yesterday to characterize
properly Mortons scheme against the
South