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Year: 1873

A H0RRIBLE SroRY.-A dreadful accident
recently occurred in Providence, r. | Two
men named smith and Drew were employed
n Johnston as woodchoppers. Last sat
urday was a cold blowy day and the men,
while at work. kept up hot fire under a
large oyerhanging rock. By keeping a
brisk fire they warmed the rock itself and
thus by radiation secured a really warm
place. After work. as it Is supposed, they
went to the fire to warm themselves and have
smoke before going home. While they
were seated there the rock cracked and iell
over on them, and they were found under IT
On Monday. Smith was evidently killed on
the instant, but Drew had struggled to free
himself. He had reached his axe and chop
ped his own foot off, bat his body was still
held fast, and after vain efforts to get away
he had ended his struggles by cutting his
own throat with the axe. The rock was
probably as hot as it was heavy, and the
suffering Of the poor man must have been
beyond description. Smith, the one first
killed, had been in the army at various
times, had both legs and three ribs broken,
and had bullet in his body He was
& Thrown ont Of employment in Boston by the


IRE and seems all his life to have been one Of


rtune : victim. The whole story is as hor-
1iDie as can well be imagined.


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Year: 1873

To RoAsr GEESE AND Boiling
water should be poured all over, and inside
of a goose, or duck, before you prepare
them for cooking, to take out the strong oily
taste. Let the fowl be picked clean, and
wiped dry with cloth inside and out fill
the body and crop with stufhng if you
prefer not to stuff it put an onion inside /;
put it down to the FIRE, and roast it brown.
Ii will take absut two hours and half.
Year: 1873

An interesting case, bearing on the right~
and immunities Of reporters, has just been
decided in Chicago Three reporters of
city papers were in gambling house when
it was entered by the police, and were taken
nto custody with others. In defence they
claimed that they were not there As game
sters or as ordinary spectators, but in the
discharge of their duties They had heard
of the intentions of the police, and wanted
to describe the descent fIom actual observa-
ton On the other hand, one Of the Off
GERS swore that he saw one of the reporters
handling some of the chips used in gam
bling. This statement was cOntradicted by
several witnesses The justice before whom
the case was tried held that reporters were
valuable public servants, To whom certain
privileges and immunities were granted by
common consent. They were allowed to 90
where no one else was admitted. In his
opinion. neither the spirit nor the letter OF
the law had been violated by the accused,
and he therefore ordered their uncondition-
al discharge
Year: 1873

The faculty of Harvard College
have determined to abolish compulsory at
tendance upon recitations, while they main
tain the rigor of examinations unimpaired.
The standing of each student under this ar
rangement viii depend wholly upon him
sell, and this fact being constantly presented
to him in the rule Of his. college, it Is Ger
tain that he viii not be 50 likely to waste
time As under the old method Another
contemplated change is the abolition OF
morning prayers, which is said to be propos-
ed 50 that the wicked Young men who at
tend that venerable institution shall not
make a mockery of religious service.
Year: 1873

N0rICE.-Al persons having business before
~ the Levy Court of New Castle county are
hereby notified that said Court will meet at the
Court House. in the town Of New Castle the first
III ESDAH and during the month Of March next. Is
Court Of Appeal uDOn the Assessment and the
transaction Of other business connected with the af
fairs concerning the county.


By order of the Court. JNO. p. SPRINGER.


teoZ1-6t Clerk.
Year: 1873

NEW YORK Is to have permanent Crystal
Palace. The Aldermen have voted two mil
lions five hundred Thousand dollars in its
aid, and 1t is said that the Mayor will ap-
prove. The New York Express in noticing
the facts rather fav0rs the project II lt can
be put under honest management Il says :


We need In New York, according to our
means ell the attractions Of London and Pa
rls. Here is the centre Of the New Word of
Its trade, commerce and social life. Here
strangers both congregat0 and remain for
long periods, from all parts Of the world
Here centre some of the most interesting
events In our national history, from the time
Hudson passed upthe North river TO the
smashing of the statue Of King George on tho
Bowling Green and the Inauguration Of Geo.
Washington In Wall street-and the men In
New 1ork, especially the men who haYe
grown rich in New York, owe IL 70 their
city TO see that in all things that are useful
and beautiful the city keeps well abreast Of
the times, not by extravaganza, but by doing
that which will be sure to bring its return.


In the building OF . Public Exposition ed
lice for all times we take it for gran'ed that
the city for all its risks, will be well assured
Of honest and intelligent management, and
without this assurance, better nothing done
than doubt and unceI tainty as to these pre-
liminaries.
Year: 1873

In order to prevent the possibility Of such .
case as that OF the TichbOrne claimant ever
again recurring, it is said that early next ses-
sion bill will be introduced into the British
parliament to the effect that IL any presumed
heir to property should leave the country, and
through any eeceAtrielty or other eausS pur
pOsely abstain from making his existence
known, he shall be looked upon, after the
elapse Of certain number Of years, as dead
In the eyes Of tho law, the property b go TO
the next of kin.
Year: 1873

feet, in the most dangerous manner,


very large volumes Of the water that


the infective influence of the choleraic


discharges attaches to whatever bed


ding, clothing and like things have


been imbued with them, and renders
these things, if not disinfeeted, capa-
bic of spreading the disease.


t. Cleansing and purity, skillful dis
infection, temperate habits and whole
some diet with pure water aud fresh
air are the trusted and sure means of
health and security in all places and
for all classes of people when exposed
to the causes of cholera. The watch
word against this destructive enemy
should be, remove the local causes
that favor the propagation Of cholera,
and wherever it appears, let its germs
be quickly stamped out by powerful
disinfectants and instant cleansing.


From being the most feared and de-
struetive pestilenee, cholera now may
be controlled and distinguished more
quickly and completely than any ether
epidemic disease. Believing, there
fore that the people Of the United
States require the suggestions which
are given in this memorandum, this
presents them for the pur-
pose of fastening and making sure
the most extensive, thorough and
speedy control Of the destroyer.
Year: 1873

The Mammoth Cave is good OPEN
ing for some speculator. The Balti-
more Gazette says there is no fear of
running the business into the ground,
as the more this is done the more pros
porous it will be. The Mammoth Gave
is for sale; price five hundred thous-
and dollars. That pretty little sum is
all the heirs ask for their immense
hole in the ground. The great objec-
ton at present to the cave is the rough
ness Of the approach. The arrange
ments for reaching the cave, which is
nine miles from Gave City, a small
town on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, are rather worse now than
they have been for number of years,
principally on account of the miserable
condition of the roads between the
station and the cave. 1t Is a little sim
gular that better means of approach
have not been provided If a branch
railroad were built, with trains to run
in connection with the Louisville and
Nashville trains, thousands of persons
who are compelled to pass the cave for
want of time and for fear of the ter
rible coaches-which are nothing more
than army ambulances on one line, and
old fashioned stage coaches on anoth-
er-would be enabled to see the won
derful cave with very little loss of
time and comparative little additional
expense. But lack of enterprise has
generally characterized the manage
ment of the cave.
Year: 1873

EDITORS CHRONICLE: haye been


looking for some time for some one to


say something through the columns OF


your valuable paper in reference to the


County Superintendent to beelected in
July; yet but very little has been said.
The time for election is rapidly ap-
preaching, yet the people do not seem
to be very much interested about it.
Notwithstanding this is an Office of
great Importance to every one, yet all
seem to be resting very easy in regard
te it, and we're it not that report says
there are some who intend running for
this Office who are incapable of filling
it, | would not attempt to write any
thing in reference thereto. Good rea-
SON and common sense will teach every
one (on moments refection) that
man who is not capacitated to fill this
office, will do the county an injustice if
elected. The Court should look we'll
to this point, for the prosperity of the
public schools will depend, to a great
extent upon the Superintendent. IF
he is not the right man in the right
place, the public schools of Montgom-
cry county will do but very little good.
If man seeks this Office merely for
self-aggrandizement, he is not suita-
able one for the Office. A man who
will look to the interest of the people
and of the public schools, is the right
kind. ~,


There are several other things neces-
sary for good Superintendent. He
should be man of experience in the
school room, if possible. If he has no
he will not be SO apt to
know when everything is going on
rightly. The first Superintendent will
have more difficult position to FIJI
than those who follow. He will have
to pave the way. Therefore he should
be man of perseverance, having the
ability and the will. IF the first Su-
oerintendent is negligent and indifer-
INT and fails to arouse the people on
he subject of schools, he will do but
title good. Many are opposed to them
because the old school law did so little
rood. 1 say let us have good Super
and let him stir up the peo-
Die on the subject and show to them
hat public schools can be made sue
,ess and that there can be great deal
If good done by them. If we have
nan who is not suitable for the office,
he schools will be of little or no avail
md consequently the people will op-
,ose them and they will then have
easons to do so. 1t is to be hoped
he Court will elect suitable man to
he Office The State Superintendent
10 doubt, is the right man in the right
,lace. Let the counties have oompe-
ent men forSuperintendents, and pub
ic schools will be success instead of
failure, and they will prove a blessing
instead of curse to the people.


DELTA.


GAINESVILLE, June 20, 1873. |!
Year: 1873

Col. FORNEY complains, in well
written article in the Philadelphia
Press, that public men are, as class,
ungrateful to the newspapers and the
journalists to whom they, in many in
stances, owe their position. Nobody
is more competent to speak on this


subject than Col Forney himself. He


has made more statesman out of small


material than any man in America.


He has taken more active part in the
personnel of American politics in the


last twenty years than almost any other
man. Much of his work haSbeen that
of a politician rather than that of a
journalist, but in either capacity he
has always been able to serve his friends
well, and he has always served them
faithfully. His reward has been very
small. If he had let politics alone
and devoted himself exclusively to
journalism, he might have made a
greater name than Greeley's and
greater fortune than Bennet's. But


he was always very fond of helping
some friend to an office, and always
had taste for political intrigue witha
purpose of this kind. His experience
has, no doubt, been that of hundred
others who have operated in the same
way on smaller scale. Make a Gov
ernor out of an Alderman to-day, and
tomorrow he'll tell you that he owes
his elevation to his own superior mer-
its. Forney made President of the
ITa1fo1 Skotoc ont &c To D,olo.
but before the old public functionary
had taken his seat he repudiated his
patentee and manufacturer in the most
ungrateful manner. Congressman are
made bycountry newspapers-yet when
they go to Washington 1t wouldn't be
safe to tell them so. Garfield, as an
NJ. c., was invented by seventy
nine sheet, the editor of which had
probably never seen a five dollar bill
in his life, and Garfield would certain
ly be indignant now if asked to give
five dollars of his back pay to that man.
Trumbull was first heard of, we be-
lieve, through little paper in Alton
and he was last heard of drawing his
$4,000 grab. Ben. Butler says he was
not made by the newspapers but then
it must ever remain one of the myster-
les of nature where Ben. Butler came
from, and what object was in view in
producing him. If the grievance of
which Col. Forney complains is a sore
one, it is the fault of those who areag-
grieved. There is too much puffery of
small men in the newspaper nowadays
too much disposition to exalt gentle
dullness and amiable imbecility into
intellectual greatness and real ability
Every chuckle- head in Congress gets
more praise from the press of his party
now than could truthfully have been
bestowed upon Daniel Webster in his
palmiest day.-iN. Louis Democrat.
Year: 1873

THE Rev. Mr.. Ancient has a rival
in pastoral devotion in Tennessee
a clergyman who, in the first place,
refuses to receive any pay from his
congregation To support himself he
teaches school and cultivates his own
farm. When his church needs help
he starts upon leeturing tour, and
thus raises the needed money. This
is highly honorable to the clergyman,
but how about the congregation P
May there not be such thing as sell
fshly leaving a pastor to bear more
than his share Of the burden?
Year: 1873

MARRIAGE is altogether too mo-
mentous a matter to be decided upon
precipitately. Better never marry
than to marry a person with whom it
is not morally certain that you can
live happily.
Year: 1873

To OUR FRIENDs.-Having gone TO
great expense to give our readers lar
ger and better paper, We would ur-
gently request all indebted to us, by
note or acccf-at, to come up, without
delay, and make payment. We need
the money, and hope this modest APP
peal will not pass unheeded.


NEBLETT x GRANT.
Year: 1873

A most singular case has come to the know


ledge Of some of our citizens, A man might


have been seen for some time standing about
the Trenton Savings Bank, and sometimes near


Robert Wilson's fruit store. He could not


make himself understood, nor could any one
understand of what nationality he was.
Through notice put in the newspapers, a
man was found who could understand some
part of his story. 1t was ascertained that he
was Finlander, and that he landed in Tren-
ton in January last. He says his name is
Heroth Augustus Tuste. lie shipped from
Finland, with wife and three children, and
was OH his way to Duluth, Minnesota. But
by some mishAp he got out at Trenton. The
cars passed on and left him, and he has never
been able to tell anybody where he was going,
or communicate information that could re-
lieve him. lie was picked up as a vagrant,
and afterwards discharged. During the Sum-
mer he has been sleeping out in the open air.
But the cold weather coming on, his condition
excited the sympathy of Robert Wilson and
others, who at once set to work to find some
one, who could converse with him. This they
succeeded in doing, and yesterday to the great
Joy OF the stranger he was started on his way
to Duluth. What an amount of suffering the
poor man and perhaps his family have endured
for nearly twelve months, on account of part
ting with his company at Trenton depot
State Gazette.
Year: 1873

WHAT TO Do WITH CuBA.-The World,
arguing upon the proper disposition of Cuba,
says. An Island Confederation being absured,
annexation to Mexico impossible, and to the
United States dangerous, there remains only
the independence Of Cuba as the sequence of
her separation from Spain. She could main
tain her standing as a nation by treaty with
the United States in which free commerce
should be given by her in exchange for pro-
lection against foreign aggression. Mutual
free trade between.the two, and zoll-verein
for regulating trade with other countries,
would make Cuba precisely as valuable to us
commercially as if she were annexed and
her internal political security could be estab-
ished by protectorate for any form of gov
ernment which her people might choose to
adopt. With her independence thus guaran-
teed with her trade as free as ours capital
enterprise, and business talent would be at
tlacted to the island, and with her uneqsalled
advantages of situation, products and fertility,
Cuba might become relatively as great in the
commerce of the world as Holland was two
centuries ago.
Year: 1873

One significant and pleasing incident of the
war fever is the ardent patriotism displayed
by the South. The old soldiers who fought
for the Southern Confederacy are as hot for
the war, and as deeply indignant over the in
suit offered to the Stars and Stripes as those
of the North. This display of earnest laten,
patriotism will create a warm and kindly feel
ing for the South, that win go long way to
wards banishing the bitter memories of til,
war.
Year: 1873

" "nominatedn because it cares nothing for
"mornlity or public interests, but only to
"mnke political capital" Another equally
amiable organ in Massachusetts, says THE
TRIBuNE's sympathy with the opposition to
Butler "would be heavy burden, and its hos
"tilty is most welcome" Equally removed,
both these utterances, from good sense as from
good temper.


Understand us, gentlemen Organists! You
are at work with great energy and oil the
ability you have tO-do whati To purify the
politics Of the country1 BY no means. with
Congress full Of corrupt men, you have
never denounced one OF them who is Of your
own party. To purify your partyR Not that
even. Your labor is to keep the party in
power. That bounds all your efforts, limits
all your view. You desire to stave Off
Buffers nomination, not because the country
or even the State would suffer disgrace, but
simply because it would handicap the party.
And if he is nominated not one of you will
dare bolt the nomination. The position OF
THE TRIBUNE is simply this : that the Repub-
lican party is under the control and the lead
of bad men; of Buffers and Carpenters
and CamerOns et III Omne genus that the
masses of the party are honest. but
are held to the support of regular nomi-
nations by the tyranny Of caucus and the
despotism of party. The hope of the country,
as we view it, is in the dethronement Of
Caucus Such a nomination as that of Butler
will go far to open the eyes of the people to
the real situation, and while it brings the
party to its senses will teach such fellows
wholesome lesson. You think it better
to keep your Buffers in the back
ground that the party may not suffer harm;
we want them brought to the front that the
people may have a good look at them, and
the country may be saved. That is the diff
ference and as for the terrible disgrace of it
Massachusetts has had Butler and Oakes
Ames to represent her in Congress; Butler
made Mr.. Boutwell, Senator, and closed the
mouth of that eminent statesman in the present
canvass, and Buffers followers and supporters
"a low-ilung gang with a drunken leader
led Massachusetts, Legislature in n vote of
censure upon the greatest Senator Massachu-
setts ever had. After that, to talk of peoples
fearing nothing for morality, or right, or
"pubic interests because they are willing to
see the nomination Of benjamin F. Butler set
down before the people of the State, to
accept humbly or kick out Indignantly as they
please--Faugh!
Year: 1873

The proceedings yesterday at Columbus may
prove to have laid the foundations of great
success. The Liberal Republicans resolved 10
unite with the Allen County Democrats, ana
other Democrats of like mind in a state
ticket. The New Departure Democrats as
was natural, seem to have had few OF the ola
leaders, but in Gen. Thomas Ewing, whose
breezy speech is given in full IN our dis-
patches, they had one OF the aDlest
men in the party; and there were plenty
of others far more likely to carry
weight with the people in these new
times than the old and distrusted figure
heads. The joint convention nominated q
ticket containing some average and some trst-
class material. The platform sets out win
ronudiation Of the caucus rule, which has de-
moralized government and left both the great
parties in the hands of disreputable managers
On the tariff it falls into the KeVenue
Reform delusion which crippled inc
Ohio Liberals last year, and will cripple them
again. The Democracy once accepted the
Cincinnati tariff doctrine, and honest union
in n national movement is impossible on any
other. We are not over sanguine about
new political movements, but there are many
elements of encouragement in this. If wisely
handled, it may yet prove the beginning of
greater things to come. Let us see whether
the regular Republicans show signs of having
discovered that the people want reform; and
in spite Of party leaders, mean now to keep
worrying TIL they get it.
Year: 1873

Two years ago THE TRIBUNE exposed the
corruption which had extended to the Harbor
Masters of the port and had resulted. in great
oppression upon our commerce. The result
was the breaking up of very corrupt Ring,
and finally a new set of Harbor Masters was
appointed. It is not certain from the evidence
published elsewhere that the new men have
been guilty of the frauds practiced by the
former Masters, but there is room for grave
euspieion that some of them have been at
tempting TO revive the old system. The Cap
tain Of the Port owes it to the merchants first
and to himself also to investigate thoroughly
the charges against them; and by ike con-
tinued precaution prevent the reorganization
of the system which was broken up year ago.


No great confidence was ever reposed in the
Free Labor Bureau sustained by the Commits
sioners of Charities and Correction. The
class Of servants usually found for hire there
was not the most attractive, and few house
KEEPERS in want of help visited the Bureau a
second time. The official announcement now
made that the Clerk of the Bureau deliberately
falsifed the records and made 1t appear that
many thousands of persons seeking work were
aided thereto, when in fact only very insig-
nifcant number obtained employment through
tbis agency, viii convince most people that
tho Commissioners make an error IN not ab0l-
isbino il altogether instead Of trying to reform
and regulate it with new rules. The report
of which we publish az advance coDY e-ss-