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Year: 1872

The Case OF Bowen VS.. Chase-An AM


davit s,nted-A Special Jury to be


Empanelied.


Yesterday Judges Shipman and Benedict sat in
the United States Circuit Court to hear motion,
on the part OF the defendant In the case OF George
Washington Bowen VS.. Nelson Chase, to swear q
special jury to try the cause. Mr.. OConor and Mr..
Carter appeared as counsel for defendant and
General Chatfeld and Mr. Shafer for the plaintiff.


AN AFFIDAVIT IN THE CASE.


very long affidavit has been filed by Mr.. Gideon
J. Tucker the attorney OF the plaintiff, who goes
Cver many OF the statements wlich have been al
ready made in this cause and with which the pub
hc are familiar, owing to the frequency with which
the matter has been reported in the State and fed
eral Courts. Mr.. Tucker expresses his belief that
the plaintiff, George Washington Bowen, is the son
and the only child OF Eliza Bowen Jumel, and is her
sole heir and next OF kin, and as such
is entitled to inherit the property OF
Madame Jumel, now in the possession OF the de-
iendant MT Chase He goes into several other
particulars, and coming down to the question
whether there shall be struck jury or not says
that the material objection to special or 'sstruck"
jury is that the Identical panel oil twentyfou men,
out OF which twelve Jurymen Will have to be
drawn viii be known and designated consider
able time before the commencement OF the trial,
and that the defendant, through INSCRIPTIONS per-
sons, would not scruple to tamper with the panel
and defeat the object of having a special jury


Mr.. O'Conor, on the part OF the defendant, utterly
repudlated the idea that anything OF the nature
stated in the affidavit OF the plaintiffs attorney
would be done by the defendant in regard to the
Jury. All the defendant wanted was fair open
honest trial before an impartially selected jury.
Counsel further stated the law on the subject, and
said that, as the statements had been made on af-
davit by Mr.. Tucker that he believed corrupt at
tempts would be made by the defendant to innu-
ence the jury 1t was the desire OF the defendant to
have such jury struck would honestly and i'm
partially try the case.


General Chatfeld on the part OF the plaintiff. said
there was little difference between himself and Mr..
OConor as to the proprety or having special jury,
provided 1t would be selected at time as near as
possible to the day set down for the trial.


Mr.. O'Conor agreed to this suggestion.


The Court reserved its decision for few DAYS
upon the point whether they VIII order the jury to
be selected from the Clerks list OF jurors from
new list specially empanelled.
Year: 1872

Attempt to Dcfraud . Mortgage OF q


Chattcl Mortgage.


Henrietta Stephenson, residing In Spring street,
complained OF Mary Harrison for violation Of the
statute OF March g. 1871 for the protection OF mort
gagees OF personal property. The act provides for
the punishment of any mortgagor Of personal
property who shall hereafter with intent to de-
fraud mortgage or purchaser OF such property.
sell or otherwise dispose OF 1t while subject to q
mortgage or any instrument designed to operate
as such, giving q lien thereon. In the present
case the cOmplanant's counsel introduced an In
formal bill OF sale OF certain furniture, with the
erty should not be sold or removed without con-
sent OF seller. His Honor decided that the nstru-
ment was intended to operate as chattel
mortgage, and held defendant in the sum OF $500
to answer.
Year: 1872

the Clerk OF the Board as one OF It's messengers the
salary being fixed at 81, 200 year. He claims for
the Comptroller refusing to pay him, application
made before Judge Ingraham. at Supreme
Court, Chambers, for mandamus against the Comp
trOller requiring him to pay the amount. This ap-
plcation was granted by the Judge. and man
damus duly served upon the Comptroller. Upon
his refusal to comply with the mandamus, further
application was made, on an order TO show cause
CoMPTRoLLER's DIsoBEDIENCE OF PEREMToRY
OF mandamus, he should not be committed
to prison. The case came up yesterday before
Judge Fancher, at the Supreme Court, Chambers.
5 n snn@ on en o, serve M OF e
writ. He then went on to say that this was not
a case OF attachment for contempt under an order
a return, but was an application under the revised
statutes for an immediate commitment OF the
Comptroller for disobeying the mandate OF the
Court AS Tar as concerned the merits OF the case,
he contended that the whole question had already
been passed upon by Judge lngraham when ne
had granted the peremptory writ OF mandamus,
and could not now be reviewed In this proceeding.


THE COMPTROLLER's DEFENCE


On the part OF the Comptroller various counter
showing that he had no funds in his hands except
what had been appropriated for the payment OF
other officials in the employment OF the Board. He
asked that the Court should turn this peremptory
writ into an alternative mandamus, so
as to give It an opportunity to fully statss as
that the total appropriation for the Board OF
Supervisors for the present year was $3S,5oO, OF
which sum $3o, 900 was paid to the Supervisors,
ana Seos H the
naming sum OF $500 being all that was left to pay
the other employees OF the Board.


Mr.. Dukes said that his clerk was willing to take
the $500 II that was all there was eft


Mr.. Strahan said that this would be unjust to the
other employees, ana insisted the sum should be d.
vided pro rata among them.


After some argument the Court took the papers,
resGrving its decision.
Year: 1872

pieces, from which new shoots will start
forth, and thus greatly increase the crop.


The application of grass seed may then
be made with reasonable prospect that
but little of II will be lost. A common
brush harrow may then be used to cover
the seed, and top dressing will then grad
ually work into the soil around the roots,
and give the seed and the old grass a fresh
start aud fresh lease Of life. For this op-
Grafton no time, perhaps, is better than the
early part of September, though if this
time has passed, and it seems desirable to
do it in the spring, the ground would be
softer, and the operation quite as effective,
the old grass serving as a sufficient protec-
ton of the newly sown seed against any
injury from drought, effectually shielding,
also the compost applied from loss and
waste from the same cause. Both the Shares
and the Nishwitz harrows are in many re-
spects great improvement on anything
we have heretofore had for pulverizing the
soil afler the plow has left it. They do not
tear up the old sod, or uncover the manure,
like the ordinary tooth harrow, while they
mellow the surface, and prepare 1t for the
reception of seed more completely than
any other implement. Their invention may
be said to constitute new era in this class
of implements.
Year: 1872

london has new industry, namely
the manufacture of criPples. The police
have discovered a firm of human fiends
that take children of tender age and twist
their limbs so that they may be bandy-leg-
ged or otherwise deformed, according TO
the wish of the parents. The object of this
is to make the unfortunate infants objects
of charity. A regular tariff of prices is de-
manded, thorough and complete MAIN
ing costing four pounds. The. e.members Of
the concern and about a dozen employees
have been imprisoned


The Greenfield Gazette says: A well
known liquor seller in our village had oc-
casion the other day to knock in the head
of "A cask that had been in use on his proml-
ses for some time. Imagine his "feelinks'
upon discovering inside the barrel the body
of negro baby. The cask had originally
contained moasses, since which whisky
and various liquors had in turn been put
into and drawn from it. How many of the
dram-suck ers around town have taken
their tod fresh from this infantile corpus II
is hard to tell, but we have no doubt the
flavor was all the better for it. What do
our Democratic friends think of this me-
thod of adopting the Fifteenth Amend
mentY'
Year: 1872

A LEARNED MAGICIAN.-Prof. Pepper,
a learned English naturalist now in this
country, in one Of his recent lectures gave
quite an entertaining account of the So
called fire eaters. Fire, he said, might be
handled with impunity if various condi-
tons be complied with, and, as he frequent
ly remarked, ait you know how" Some
times the skin is naturally hard, thick, and
callous, so that highly heated substances
may be held for some time without dam
ger or non-conductors might be interpos-
ed-a fact which he illustrated by covering
his hand with charcoal and placing thereon
a lump of red hot iron. Certain chemical
substances, being applied to the skin, will,
when in contact with other substances Of
high temperature, vaporize, forming cush-
ion of vapor which protects the part from
injury. To prove the fact, the speaker,
first dipping his hand into turpentine 10
cleanse the skin, and then into ether, cool
ly plunged it into tank of boiling water
and removed an egg. Then, as a conclud-
ing experiment, he moistened his hand
with strong ammonia and dipped his fin
gers into molten lead, hot enough to in
fame paper, and finally poured the molten
metal on his palm, scattering it about as If
| it were quicksilver.
Year: 1872

GAMBLING IN THE EAsT.--In the East
gambling is a universal practice. All class
es delight in il, from the king on his throne
to the wrctched beggar that prowls about
the gates of the noble TO find seanty sup
port, not in "the crumbs that fall from the
rich mans table," but in the very garbage
that is cast from his gate. So passionately
devoted to this despcable vice are many
Orier tails that when they have bartered of
everything else they possess, rather than
desist they will sell their wives and chill
dren into slavery, and even pawn their
own bodies 10 get money to gamble with.
Licensed gaming-houses are found in all
Eastern cities, and most Oriental monarchs
derive large revenues from this source.
Sometimes dice are used, and occasionally
small cowries (shells), but cards are most
general. The common people, male and
female, frequent the public saloons, which
arc said to be perfect dens of crime, as they
are often the theatres of the most heart
sickening tragedies. The gambling of the
higher classes is done in their own homes


and they never fail to invite, and even impor-
tune, their visitors to partake of the sport,
while they often boast ofthe large sums they
have lost or won among their friends. But,
though husbands and fathers deem:it right
thus to employ their own time, their wives
and daughters are strictly ordered to avoid
all such immoral practices, lest the well
filed purse of pdterfd nilidS should suffer
detriment. During the reign of the old
usurpcr who sat upon the throne at the
time of my first visit to Siam, it was one
Year: 1872

AN OPTICAL CURIosITY.-Here is sim
pie little experiment, through which we
can prove the existence of blind spot in
our eyes. Shut your left eye, and, with
the right, look steadily at the cross below,
holding the paper ten or twelve inches
from the eye.


Y o


Now move the paper slowly toward the
eye, which must be kept fixed ON the cross.
At a certain distance the other ligure-the
letter O--will suddenly disappear; but, If
you bring the paper nearer, it will come in
to view again. You may not succeed in
the experiment on the first trial, but with n
little patience you can hardly fail and the
suddenncss with which the black spot van
ishes and re-appears, is very striking.


Now, examination has shown that, when
it disappears, lis image falls exactly on the
spot where the optic nerve enters the eye,
thus proving the spot to be blind.-.Scicnce
Of HedHh.
Year: 1872

ST. LOUIS, March 3.-A special dispatch
from Topeka, Kansas, to the Democrat saws
that the call which has been issued for a
state Convention to send delegates to the
Liberal Republican Convention at Cincin-
natl. has not met with the success which
its originators expected. Auditor of State
and Senator Haas, of Leavenworth, both
Germans, signed the call, and it was boasted
that the whole German element would fol-
low the movement; but after weeks work
but few have fallen into line; and, accord
ing to present prospects, not a quarter of
the German vote in the State will leave the
Republican party.


The Caldwell Bribery Case.


The Secretary of State has not vet been
furnished with copy of the concurrent
resolutions which directed him to forward a
copy OF the testimony taken by the investi-
CATION committee to the Vice President of
the United States to lay it before the Sem
ate. 1t would seem as though the organized
effort to keep important testimony out of
the way during the investigation, is kept up
to prevent anything official from going to
Washington. Numerous efforts have been
made to get hold of the testimony on pre-
tended wish to copy it, since it went into
the hands Of the printer, but 1t is believed
that the real object was to destroy portions
of 1t.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, March 4-The trial of MAY
or Hall commenced this morning. The
first witness was ex-DepUty Controller
Richard \. Storrs, whom the prosecution
called to certify to the resolution which
Mayor Hall had drawn, creating tho Board
of Audit in 1870. Tie counsel for HSil
entered exception TO the admissibilty cf the
document. Witness had no knowledge of
any other record Of that board. Defend
ants counsel objected to a question by the
prosecution whether any record Of the
county liabilities was kept in the Comp
troller's Office in 1857, but the objection was
Overruled. Witness said there was. A
discussion arose in regard to producing testi
mOny as TO the vouchers for the claims O
Garvey, which were not stolen. Witness
stated that he knew of Garyey vouchers
being in existence before the vouchertbsffs,


On cross-eXamination witness said that
what he knew was derived in a general
way, and not from his own knowledge.


After considerable discussion relative to
the admissability as evidence of claim
warrant which was signed by the Mayor
and Board OF Audit with the accompanying
voucher, and without coming to decision,
the court adjourned.
Year: 1872

Wizards. Did not reccllsct whether
CatherwOod and Babcock were there, nor
did he recollect that Leet was there. He,
however, could not now say whether Sena-
tor Wilson and Blatchford, of New York,
were present. Did not recollect whetheror
not the general order business was dis
cussed. Did not know whether Leet went
to New York after receiving President
Grants letter. Leet did not tell him that
he had met success further than that Grin
nell was very polite to him and promised to
assist him in business. There was nothing
subsequently to show that there had been
large accessions to Leet's wealth, having
met him but two or three times. Did not
know Stocking had visited the Executive
Mansion.


Gen. Porter was under examination more
than five hours. The committee adjourned
to meet tomorrow morning. aFEa
Year: 1872




Call on Col. Glass TO Take the Field.
Editors News: We desire thorough the
columns Of your paper to call upon Col. P.
I. Glass to become a candidate for the
State Senate from this district, comprising
the counties of Haywood and Lauderdale.
We think as do many fair minded voters in
-" other counties of the district, that Lau-
derdale is entitled to the SenatOrship. and
We believe the duties and responsible
ties of the position could not be entrusted
to more able and Trustworthy care than Of
Col. Glass.


We should be pleased TO here favorably
from him on the subject through the col
umns Of the Netus:


Respectfully,


VOTERS OF LAUDERDALE.
The above card speaks for ITSELF The
gentlemen who forward it to the Nelrs are
among the best citizens of the county. They
very properly suggest that Dauderdale is en-
titled to the honor of furnishing the next
Senator from this District, and, as properly,
think that Col. Glass would fiji the position
ably and faithfully. Indeed we know of
no one who bas a more intelligent interest
in the material prosperity OF this section,
and who would reflect the progressive SEN
timent Of our people more fully and effect
lively at the State Capital than the gentle
man referred to. The call pIsases us, par
ticularly because we had already fixed in
our mind upon Col. Glass as being suitable
in every respect for the position, and had
thought of suggesting his name in that con-
nection to the voters of the district. In an
ticipatiOn Of any reply from Col. Glass, We
promise him the hearty support Of the Ne5rS
in case he consents 10 become a candidate.
Year: 1872

The Speaker announced that in &C
cordance with the order Of the House
he had personally invited the japanese
Embassy to visit the House Of Repre-
sentatiyes while in session, and they
Year: 1872

Tho by no means wanting originality, and
an emlnently practical man yet he knew
ms duty and was never happier than when
Iollowing in the footsteps of his predecessors


FOR yourself doubtless Sir, has observed that
WIN the advance OF years and the accumulation
OF tne prohts OF experience, tendency is fire.
quently developed ever in the judicial mind to
80 modlty and bend the law to suit the supposed
hardshps arising out of peculiar circumstances.
tnht lts distorted features can scarcely be recog
nlzed by those who were heretofore familiar
friends. This is grave mistake--a dangerous
error, one into which many good mon have fall
len, they for time forgetting that unfailng GER
talnty In the law is the criterion by which free
government is distinguished from despotism.
Judge Hall sought, and think sought success
FULLY, to avoid this error. He trespassed not
upon the domain Of the law maker Theexercse
OF Legislative power was unknown in his Court.
He goes into retirement with the appreciation of
the wise and good, and doubtless Of that Great
Power to whom all hearts are open and from
whom no secrets are hid"


Judge Bradford in receiving the resolution.
said:


Gerltlen'n Of he Bar IL have listened with
great interest and pleasure to the resolutions
onered, IN reference to Judge Halls Legal career
and character, and the estimatep placedupon them
by the bar of this State. need hardly say that
they meet my entire appreciation.


csuld add nothing to their substance or Btyle
and shall content myself with saying that any
OF us may deem ourselves fortunate should il be
permitted us to achieve such a long course of
useful labor and we'll earned honor, as crowns
the life OF our venerable brother. l shah order
the resolutions offered to be entered on the Re
cords Of this Court
Year: 1872

Many who keep cattle and horses arc not
aware that the reason cattle and horses this
time OF the year are so anxious to get ap-
pies Is, because they need them as medi-
cine The old theory is that apples hurt
them. This is not correct, any more than
that water will kill sick patient in a fever
when he wants it and pleads for IT, In
such case nature calls for it and should
have it. Doctors have learned this fact.
and ordered it. Just so about giving cat
tie apples when they plead for them. / saw
last week three men who had cured two
gar ETY. cows by giving them apples. recon-
mended by an old farmer. Another case of
two hundred dollar horse, turned out to
die or live, as he had been doctored and
given over. This horse got to an apple
tree and eat what he wanted and began to
gain He was fed peck a dav, as long as
he would eat them, and he got well in Il
week. Another was cured of worms with
two meals of sour apples. when all other
medicines tailed. | saw three cows tied up
IN barn mourning for something. I asked
what they wanted. They said apples. As
there was pile in sight gave the three
cows half a bushel, and they we're soon
peaceable and went to eating hay. An
old farmer told me he had lately learned
that his cattle would do much better to
give them what apples they would eat in
the fall, which is but few daily, after they
get one meal of them Why they have
hurt mich cows ia, because they hankered
SO much after them. If they get a chance
they eat too many. Feed them out with
discretion, and you will see the old super
stitious notion of hurting them vanished,
while your cattle would thank you, if they
could speak. Try it, If you have none,
your neighbors have plenty. Buy them.
You can afford 1t as we'll as anything else.
| write this for the sake of the cattle. aud
hope it will be a blessing to them
Year: 1872

HOUSE OF Our Own. Next to being
married to the right. person, there is moth
ing so important in ones life as to live
under on"'s own roof. There is some.
thing more than a poetical charm in thf
expression OF the wife:


"We have our coZy house it is thricf
dear to us because it is our own. W.
have bought it with the saving Of oul
earning Many were the soda fountains
the confectionery saloons, and the ne
cessties of the market we had to pass
many time my noble husband denied
himself the comfort of tobacco, the re-
freshing draught of beer, We're his old
| clothes, and even patched up boots; and
l., o me! made my old bonnot do wore
the plainest clothes. did the plainest cook
ing; saving was the order of the hour
and 10 have "a home OF our own" had
been our united aim.


"Now we have it, there is no landlord
troubling us with raising the rent, anG
exacting :hs and that There is no feal
harbored in our bosom that in sickness OF
old age we will be thrown out of house
and home, and the money we have saveC
to pay rent is sufficient to keep US in com
| fort in the winter days of life"


What Il lesson do the above word,
teach and how well it would be il
hundreds of families would heed them
and instead of living in rented houses
which takes a large share of their capita
TO furnish, and a quarter of their earnings
to pay the rent, dress and eat accordingly
would bravely curtail expenses, and con
centrate there efforts on having "a hom,
of their own" Better a cottage of youl
own than rented palace.
Year: 1872

l and my burden, O Masterl


| come at Thy merciful call,
And cry to the Infinite goodness


That helpeth and healeth us all.
l and my burden! I bore it


In weakness and WEAKNESS long;
1t dimmed all the glory of sunlight,
And it shed all the sweetness of song.
1t hid all the love-light around me,
Dropped thornS on my wearisome way
1t benumbed all the strength of my striving
And banished the beauty of day.
l and nv burden, 0 Master,


No sheaves of the ripening grain;
But only fruitage of folly.


OF idleneSS, weakness, and pain.
| and my bnrdenl 7 bring it


IN shame and in sorrow to Thee;
For I know there is none other refuge
OF help or of healing for me.
1 stretch forth the hands that are falling,
lit up the heart that is sore;
| have brought Thee my burden, o Master
Thy pardon and peace | implore!
Year: 1872

DRYING PUMPKINS. Take the ripe pump
klns, pare, cut into small pieces, stew soft,
mash and strain through a colander, as IL
ior making pies. Spread this pulp on plates
iu layers not quite an inch thick; dry it
down in the stove oven, keep at so low q
temperature as not TO scorch it. In about
q day it will become dry and crisp. The
sheets thus made can be stored away in a
dry place, and they are always ready for
use for pies or sauce. Soak the pieces
over night in little milk, and they will
return to a nice pulp, as delicious as the
fresh pumpkin-we think much more so.
The quick drying after cooking, prevents
any portion from slightly sourng, as is al
ways the case when the uncooked pieces
are dried; the flavor is much better pre-
served, and after cooking is saved This
plan is quite as little trouble as the old
mode, to say nothing of the superiority in
the quality of the material obtained. Try
it and you will not return to the old meth
cd, we are sure, and you will also become
great lover of pumpkin pie, all the wear
round.