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Year: 1875

Sheriff Agnew goes to Joliet Thursday with
another batch Of criminals. Among the crowd
will be Rupert, the gentleman OF "Can-Can p"
notoriety.


In the case OF Rudolphus E. Turner tho prose-
cution will ask Tuesday for the setting ct the
case for trial The defense will 1T the same
time ask for change Of venue, on the ground
that no change has Jet been had.


Notice was made week ago OF an attaehment
being issued against the Courier Company for
$500, at tho instance OF Wm. Sisson. The levy
covered tho presses and material. Bond WAS
given for one Of the presses At once. Yesterday
bond was given for the rest Of the property, the
wife of the business manager becoming one Of
the sureties.


Rural bidders for tho printing patronage Of
the County Board we're active arouud The build
ing yesterday. The Courier representative Was
early on the field, with determination to se-
cure q share OF whatever there was to give
away. The Vest Chicago rnan was highly in-
d1goant At the onslaught made upon him BY the
Times. He explained the attack Of the Times
BY saying that few years ago he picked
one OF it's editors up from the streets o1
Springfield, took him to hia room, ETC.,
but finally had to kick him out. he was afraid
the Times would never forgive him. As far as
the Courier Was concerned. he was willing to
meet any paper Of standing In competition
Year: 1875

THE APPEAL is satisfied with the
work done by the meeting held last
night at the cotton exchange. We feel
that our endeaVors in behalf Of North
Carolina and the dead signers of the
Necklenburg declaration OF independ-
ence have been taken at their
value, and that we have sue
ceeded in arOusing public atten-
lion to q proper appreciation Of the
great event which helped to precipi-
tate the independence Of these States.
We heartily indOrse the action of
the meeting, and hope the committee
appointed lss they no doubt Will will
mske arrangements for a centennial
celebration worthy OF Memphis, and
such As will make our cOus-
ins in the "old mother state" feel
that We are worthy OF our ancestors.
Let Us rejoice Ss if, indeed, "inde-
pendence day has come" and for once
speechify aud glorify as in the old days
We used 10, on high key, and with all
the ardor Of sky .scrsping patriotism.
We must have a hearty celebration of
the Mecklenburg centennial.
Year: 1875

THE trade between this city and Fort
smith is worth looking after, and we
hope, under the liberal freight arrange
ments oi TIE Little Rock railroad, that
our merchants will endesvor TO capture
IL IL can be had almost for the asking.
Year: 1875

Fort Smith Herald.l


Speaking of this road, says the Ozark
Banner: "MT. Hughes, engineer on the
railroad, has moved to town, and, with
his assistants, were attending to the
surveys. We have no definite informa-
ton as to whether the contracts have
been let, or when it will be done, al
though rumOrs are current that building
and grading will commence soon. We
hope the rumors are true. Every one is
anxious for the early completion Of the
road and telegraph line. AS soon as it
is settled that they will go on, it will en-
Iiven business all through the country"
On the same subject, We learn from Mr..
Sheldon that the surveying party under
Major Leavitt had arrived at Van
BuTen, and were now in camp there. It
is supposed that enc survey will be made,
crossing the river at Van Buren, to
Fort Smith on the south side, and
another on the north side to a point op-
posite this place. We may learn some
thing definite about the working Of this
road after while when we do we will
tell Uf it. Selah.
Year: 1875

One of the worst young criminals that


ever went to state prison is Charles e. MADAM


fellow of 20, whom Recorder Hackett of New


York, on Tuesday sentenced to 20 years at hard


labor in Sing Sing, for stealing money fiom his


own mother, who was the only witness against


him. She suffered terrible agony all the time


she was in the courtroom, and her whole frame


trembled as she sat in the witness chair waiting


for jury to be obtained When she was sworn


she lost her self-control, and almost shrieked:


'Oh, my God, take me away from herei Take


me outl shall dier' Meanwhile her heartless


son sat with his hands folded across bis breast,


half fcomlcal, half-contemptuou smile playing


around his mouth. 1t was some minutes before


Mrs. Madan's nerves became equal to the task


of describing her sons infamy. and che then


limited rather than told how his waywardness,


iugratitude and disobedience had gradually de-


veloped into crime. Every corrective means had


been exhausted, but the parents did not cease


their efforts until their son assaulted his father


when he was sent to the penitentiary, and soon


after his release was sent to the state prison for


two years and half for larceny. Even then his


parents allowed him to come back and stay


with them till he assaulted his mother with a


carving knife. and was with difficulty prevent


ed from adding matricide to his other crimes.
Then his father insisted that the boy should
live elsewhere, and actually paid his beard in
neighboriDg street. His mothers peace of
mind, however, was of short duration, for
on the night of the 29th of August, while ly-
ing in bed in the absence of her husband,
she saw her son, who had scaled the gar.
den fence, break in through the window
of her bedroom and take from the pock-
ct of her dress a pocket book containing So.
Mrs. MADAM, being in the utmost fear, made no
resistance, and allowed him to leave the house
without making an alarm. He was subse-
quently arrested at the request of his parents,
and indicted for burglary in the first degree.
The young reprobate asked to be heard in his
own defense, and, with the defiant air of the
most hardened street rough, denied the burg
larry, stating that he was at the time working
at North river pier. He admitted that he
had been once on Blackwelrs island and twice
in state prison, and had been, in fact, all his
life time the curse of his parents. The case
was so plain that the jury without leaving
their seats found young MADAM guilty of bur-
glary in the first degree, and Recorder Hackett
sentenced him in these words: This case is
the most pitiable and distressing that have
witnessed in all my official career. The fact
that you have by your crimes made yonr own
parents your prosecutors is of itself only less
distressing than the terrible aiction visible to
all in this court, that the necessity had imposed
upon them. The sentence is imprisonment in
state prison for twenty years."
Year: 1875

to employ capital would ensue, and these are


grave hindrances to all kinds of business ac-


tivity.


1t cannot take long to educate the people


into proper comprehension of the currency


question when they can once be set to think


ing about it. 1t is very simple and intelligible.


The truth is they never have given it any ade-


quate degree of consideration. There are GER


tain text books as plain as the multiplication


table and as simple as the alphabet which are


and have been for centuries applicable to and


elucidative of this subject. 1t is neither an alb


struse nor an unsolved problem. There havs


been and there may be again instances of such


an excessive issue of paper money as to render


it almost valueless. This is the case In some of


the South American Republics. But gold is


the real currency among them after all. The


trash they call dollars is interchanged among


the natives, precisely as all bartering is done'


but its purchasing power is measured by the


only standard known on the globe, coin.
We might go on, if we were idiotic enough


to do so, and flood the country with irredeem-


able paper. The government might liquidate
its expenses for a while with its own tokens
that are not even promises to pay, still gold


would regulate the price of everything all the
same.


When the simple propositions which make


up the entire sum and substance of this much


debated but very transparent theme are under


stood generally an avalanche of obloquy and
derision will fall on the heads of the noisy
agitators who are deceiving the masses and
Turing them into the advocacy of policy,
which is destructive of their national prosperi-
| ty and an affront to their neral sense.
If Ohio support Allen and Cary the awaken
ing will come all the sooner because the atten
tion of the whole country will be attracted to
the topic. The CONSERVATION among capitalists
consequent upon such a result will he almost
Immediately felt in the sudden withdrawal of
have panic but we shall have paralysis. All
the money that is wanted is afoat now. The
cnly possible way to make room for any mcrs
is by raising prices of everything. That can
hardly be done in any event in such times as
these, and if it were practicable it would be
individually hurtful to men of limited circum-
stances.


Look at il which way you will there is no
pleasant feature about the theory of expansion
| as embodied in the resolutions of the Demo-
! cratic conventions of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
| To suppose it can be brought into practice for
any considerable length of time in this enlight


ened age is to assume that a majority of the
people are extremely Ignorant and gullible.
| YARMOUTH,
Year: 1875

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with a Card certificate countersigned by Stanley T..
Pullen, Editor All railway, steamboat and hotel
managers will confer favor upon us by demanding
credentials of every person claiming to represent
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer in
all cases indispensable, not necessarily for publication
but as guaranty of good faith.


We cannot undertake to return or reserve commu-
nications that are not used
Year: 1875

A star-eyed boy sat beside me, says 8 Cape May writer, and watched the face brighten and the eye grow eager as he spied 8 man with bunch of balloons. Nearer and nearer came the man, eager and more eager grew the little face, but he said never word. His mother bought him balloon, and his smile of joy was dazzling as sunbeam. He did not play and prank as other children do, but he sat still and held the string, and let the balloon float out on the breeze, and looked content. Suddenly strong gale seized the toy and bore it aloft, far above the fag-pole, beyond the house. tops, up into the ether, and the child' s face grew saddened, but he uttered no cry. As the crimson dot passed out of sight his eyes fell, and with @ slight tremble in his voice he questioned "Is it gone forever2" His mother offered to purchase another balloon, but mysteri- ous were the workings of that childish heart. He declined the offer. He would wait for his own to come back none other would satisfy him. Was not that lesson in the childish life deep and bitter as we learn in our matbrity9
Year: 1875

The first elephant fight during the reign of the present gaekwar took place at Baroda, India. A large arena of about 1,5OO yards by 1000 was inclosed by pukka wall of about ten or fifteen feet in height. The entrances were just enough to allow an elephant to pass through, and were blocked by cross bars of considerable thickness. At 8 given signal two elephants were let loose. No sooner did the animals catch sight of each other than they roared and rushed for ward until they came within a foot of one another, when they made dead stop. After one or two attempts on both sides, one of the animals got his trunk we'll over the others tusks. The tusks then met, and the object of the animals was to get good grip and push on. This was done abor:G twenty or thirty times, and the smaller animal pinned the other to the earth. As the animals separated and commenced an other attack, it was apparent that the smaller one was getting the better of it, and he brought his antagonist to bay in few minutes afterward. The signal was then given to remove the elephants. Another couple was then let loose, but the extreme weakness of the animals brought the encounter to very speedy termination.
Year: 1875

Black cashmere suits, says the BoSor, promise to remain the popular attire for autumn and winter. They are no longer trimmed with showy jet and lace, but with substantial braids, fringe, and made trimmings of gros grain. A very neat model has long cuirass basque and long square overskirt. The basque has silk sleeves, Byron collar, knife plait- ing of silk on the edge, cluster of silk plaits down the back seam, and long bows down the front. The overskirt has two rows of knife plating on the edge and up the back; row of bows is down the front, and a |" reticule" pocket of silk is on the left side. The lower skirt is of silk, trimmed with three narrow side plaitings. Correspondents who have asked for hints about early fall suits are advised to use this model. It is very stylish for travelling costumes when made up in seal brown or slate colored cashmere and silk. Those who are making black alpaca suits can also take this for 8 guide. The plaitings should be of alpaca, and buttons may be used instead of bows. The buttons used on new suits are saucer-shaped, an inch in diameter. and have eyes in the middle. There are also very neat plain buttons of twilled silk put smoothly over a wooden mold.
Year: 1875

There is no greater mistake than to say that the tramp is laborer or an ar tisan out of employ and seeking work. He is no such person. There are labor CTS and mechanics out of employ, and too many of them, and they may walk from one city to another seeking work . they may even, and doubtless do, some; i; times ask for food, drink and shelter {; they may be mistaken for tramps, but they are not the true, genuine tramp, any more than they are graduates from the State prison. Nor need the two classes be easily confounded. One is honest and earnest. He is accustomed to employment and misses it even more than the money he earns by it. He has all his life been accustomed to labor and to the respect of his fellow men, and his manner and bearing, though it may be modest and deferential, is that of one who respects himself.
Year: 1875



 A correspondent of the Tribune says made discovery year ago which will benefit every family in the United States, if they will follow it in canning fruit. It is this take any old fruit can, only have it tight, no matter how much the tin is off the inner surface, and place one sheet of paper Commercial note size) around on the inside. It can be done very easi- ly, and will, if done right, stay just ex- actly where it is placed. Then put the fruit in the can in the usual way, and my word for 1t, when Mrs. Jones or Mrs. Smith comes to take tea next winter they will not stick up their noses when tast- ing the fruit taken out of one of these paper-coated cans, and say that the fruit tasted tinny. On the contrary, they will say that it is just as perfect as when put up in new cans. know there are thou sands of farmers like myself that have their garrets and cellars filled with old cans. If paper-coated they will be just as good as new. The paper need not be pasted in, as some may think, for 1t will remain in it's place without paste.

 Remedy for Curraut Worms.

 The best remedy for currant anc gooseberry worms is powdered white hellebore, obtainable at any drug store Put the powder in g common tin cup tying. piece of very fine muslin ovel the mouth. Fasten the apparatus to thu
Year: 1875

NOTHING TO Do. We never yet known
q community SO prosperous that persons
COLD not be found complaining thai
they could find nothing to do. We
have heard in this .own the objection
frequently urged against measures for
encouraging immigration, that we had
more people here now than could find
profitable employment. During the
past month hundreds have been added
to our population, and yet let any one
having occasion to employ labor they
will find it very difficult to do. Our
manufacturing establishments all have
orders much in advance of their facili-
ties, an unemployed laborer can rarely
be found and women to do house-work
are utterly unavailable, at any price.
Cinnamon are the only resource.
Year: 1875

r Messers Swartz and Hardin, who
recently located few niles up the Moot
sack, are perfecting plans for the con~
struction of flour and saw mill on their
property. The mill will be run by
water power, and is intended to supply
the local wants of the people of the
Nooisack and county generally. This
commendable, enterprise we have no
doubt, will be productive of much prof
it to the projectors and the community.
Bay Mail.
Year: 1875

The New York Sun, which shines for
all, relates how three prominent mer.
chants started to visit WallacS's Thea.
ter the other evening after having re,
freshed themselves eopiously at the club
When they reached the theater they
were in hazy uncertainty as to the
price Of tickets and the value of money.
The treasurer, however, relieved them Of
anxiety on those points by refusing to
admit them at all The merchant who
had attempted to purchase the tickets at
first felt aggrieved at the doubt of his
sobriety, but his friends Gained him
with the assurance that the treasurer
was right. Another of the party then
went to the window and said, "Gimme-
threekts" The treasurer firmly refused,
and told the gentleman that he was
worse off than the other. The third
then went boldly to the aperture and
said, Threeticksdamme, but even this
did not soften the obdurate heart within.


Finding that admission was not to be
obtained at the Broadway entrance, the
merchants resolved 10 moderate their
plan and 60 to the family circle. They
accordingly started for the Thirteenth
street door, and after much wandering
walked around the block and arrived at
The Broadway entrance again. They


we're astouished to find the same keeper


in charge Of the box Office, and sup


posed that be had suspected their design
and hurried 10 the window. Their new
application for admittanoe was treated


with contempt, aud the merchants were
advised TO 20 home But they were not
to be advised While two remained to
be sure that the ubiquitous treasurerd did
not move, the. third hurried away, ex-
pccting tofnd another man In charge Of
tho gallery Office In about four min.
utes the two who remained we're amazed
to see their friend hurryipg along the
street, aud without observing them, an
proacb the box Office He asked for
"ThreeIs, aud quick about it, This
ended their effort. They retired sorrow.
fully, aud seeing newsboy drop a cent
in the street, they spent fifteen minutes
in trying 10 knd il for him. They had
Year: 1875

Hypolyte, there was nothing left Of her
but soul; so that the papers next day be.
gan anew their pleasantries in regard to
this impalpable body. The legend Of
N lie Sarah Beruhardt must have crossed
the sea. You doubtless know how the
wits vie with each other in describing
her Ieauness. One says she can walk in
the rain without an umbrella, because
she can pass between The drops. Another
replies that this is an exaggeration; but
he adds that one evening, when some one
tried to run away with her, she escaped
by hiding behind her riding whip
Year: 1875

An occurrence perhaps without q par
allel was witnessed recently at the close
Of the essizes at Chester, England, OF
which the Manchester Guardian gives
the following account,


Mary Lancaster, thirty-three, was
indicted for the manslaughter of her
husband, John Lancaster, at Birken.
head. He had long led the prisoner a
wretched life, and on the 18th ofSeptem
Der he cane home. drunk, and kicked
over the meat which she was preparing
for dinner. He then threshed her, and
in a passion the prisoner threw at him a
sharpened steel and caused his death
The prisoner was hard working woman,
and in spite Of her husbands brutal
treatment Of her had done her best to
make his home comfortable. The jury
found the prisoner guilty. Mr. Justice
Brett, addressing the prisoner, then said /:
| believe that if thought it right to act
according to your own ieeliags | should
say nothing about this unha ppy husband
'of yonrs As far rs can see, you were
a respectable, hard working, well be.
haved wife, and feel boued to say a
greater brute than your husband wes
have seldom heard of. There are cir.
cumstances in the depositions even
worse than those which have been
brought forward They show that, even
on the very last day you we're tog ether
you were doing all you could to make
his home comfortable and to make him
happy. With q brutality which made
me shudder when ! read il, he cast
away that which you had prepared
for him. He has been beating and
illtreating you for months, probably for
years, and it is nothing Bot the telsder
ness aud forgiveness OF the woman and
vile which prevented you from having
him punished for crimes be comlni1ted
against you time after time. 1t ia only
when be has driven you TO desperation
by illtreating you the whole day. and |
dare say was on the point of i'll treating
you again, that you, in q moment OF
passion, took up u formidable weapon
and threw it at him, | believe, without
the intention OF striking him. 1t did
strike him, and you immediately ran fer
assistance, and did all you could to save
him. All the real right in this case was
on your side-all the real wrong on your
husbands; and God forbid that should
punish you. will be no party to it..
| will not even. make this judgment
complete. will not allow it to be said
by anybody that you are convicted
felon- hear, hear] for conviction is
not complete until sentence Is passed,
and | mean TO pass no sentence at all
Loud cheering, which for some time the
officials Of the court vaiuly endeavored
to suppress ! shall merely ask you to
enter into your own recognizance to
come up for Judgment if called upon,
and nobody in the wotld will ever call
upon you-God forbid they ever should.
[Renewed cheering, during which the
prisoner left the dock.
Year: 1875

(Frsm the Salem (Or.) Saatesman.)


A certain Oregan professor was
very fatherly sort of man particular


ly towards his young lady pupils. =


Whenever young lady would ask a


question he would place his hand low


ingly on her head and make consider.


able more fuss than necessary. OF


course the girls got tired of this and
conspired to break him of his fatherly
procivilties. One of them hit upon
plan. She fixed up nice little pin
cushion, had the pins inserted so that
they would stand on their heads, points
upwards, and then adjusted the infer
nal machine on top OF her head, cover
ing it with just enough of her hair to
hide it from view. This done, she
| left her seat during the session, walked
demurely up to the professors desk, =,
stood a noment in his august presence,
and then, in meek and plaintive tone
of voice, she asked him for the infor-
nation as to whether Washington
crossed the Delaware on the ice or on
horseback when he left Trenton. He
raised his hand over her head and
soothingly said, "Why, my dear little
child''-.-~


Well have to end this sentence there,
for the balance of the exclamation was
| a sort of howl, half whoop, which we
can neither write nor print. Just as
| he said "child" he lowered his hand


caressingly but forcibly upon the


crown of the girls head, and the whole
surface of his extended palm felt the
ticking and exhilarating sensation Of
q couple Of dozen of pin points.
Year: 1875

KEEP IT UP.-It is to be regretted that
sufficient interest has not been taken in
the Americus Club by our Democratic
friends to keep it out of debt and thus
hold room where the members of the
party may at any time assemble. A no
tice will be found elsewhere calling a
meeting this evening to determine whe-
ther the room now held by the club shall
be given up and their furniture sold o,
not. Unless the cider members Of the
party attend tonight and lend a helping
hand, we are told that the young men
who have heretofore mainly sustained
the expense attendant upon the club
will have to part with the room, whicl
they will do with regret.
Year: 1875

The stock market opened . shade higher and
closed dull and lower. The volume Of business
was light; Lake Shore, Western Union, North
west and Pacific Mail most active.


The following are the closing rates for stocks
telegrsphed from the New York Stock Exchange
to Sherman & Grant: