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Year: 1873




There is one thing tnat should be brought
up before The next meeting Of the Board Of
Mayor and CouaciImen, and thatis the sub
let or building Market.l House and Town
lIall. This building could be secured BY
the corporation II some energetic nun could
be fouad who was willing to embark in tho
enterprise. II good location, ID the pub
lie part Of the town, could be secured for
the building, and the corporatonswould be
willing 70 let d man have The use Of it for a
number Of years for erecting i Save the
portion set apart for Town Hall, aud at
the expiration of the time for which the
builder vas to have the use Of It, then let
it become the property Of the corporation
This woald be good investment for some
men who could spare the means to apply
ID til= way It would necessarily become
one u the best stands FOr business in the
town i would be frequent resort for all
and the income would be a handsome profit
Oh the Investment The builder would be
entitled to al the rents during his lease, or
the number Of years for which lie might be
allowed to control it, as compensation for
erecting the building.


we invite ihe attention of our Council
men q this subject ana Il they will take
the matter uader consideration at once
and nuke an cEort ID that direction, We
have 10 reason to doubt but that the build.
! ing can be secured in short time. All
that IS necessary for the Board of Mayor
aud CounciImea to DO in the premises is "a
give public notice to the effect giving
specifications u the building and invite
proposals, and thereby ascertain the best
terms On which tie building couli Be erect
eli allowing 81 compensation for tie worL
Il the use Of the building lor a certain nun
Der of years. This is the cheapest and bes
way fol the corporation to get building ,
tbis kidd ana some measures ought to b
adopted % secure it. Most Of the town
along the railroad have secured their mar
ket.houses in this way and 81 far as "
have heard We believe iha plan gives gen
eral satisfaction. Lst the p.aa ~ adopted
in Magnolia. ID wili cast nothing q max,
10 effort anl i the ed3r; Is made i me,
prove succ ssiul
Year: 1873

The latest vehicle of Miss Lotta's viva
city is called "Zip,n and in Baltimore it is
not thought to be a work of high art.
because. as The American suggests "A
play in which fashionable lady picks the
banjo to entertain her friends at lawn
party, and who amuses herself by dancing
a breakdown with footman in her owr
parlor, may be fairly considered some
what extraordinary production Of even thu
modern stage ~
Year: 1873

MAN RAP.-The middle of the side
walk on Broad street, on the opposite side
from jail alley, has given away and left a
dangerous opening about five feet deep. To
fill it up at once would cost less than a
physician 8 fee to set broken arm, leg oil
head of some person who has pitched in the
hole.
Year: 1873

Wyman could not be more efficient agent
in filling the Opera-house every night with
hundreds of delighted auditors, were he a
prince of men instead of king of magicians.
His rich gifts to his patrons increase in
value every night while his exhibitions OF
magic and .ventriloquism constitute fund
of endlesS delight.
Year: 1873

The AMERICAN NEWSPAPER RE-
PORTER says man who is able to do all
| that is done in an ordinary news or job
| office, and who does not drink more than


two quarts of whiskey day may be con-


sdered good compositor.
Year: 1873

Lay aside his little trowsers,


That our darling used to wear,


He will never on earth want them,


He has climbed the golden STAIR
If anybody can read that verse without
shedding tears, he may safely be called a
fend in human shape.
Year: 1873

VALUE OF UNDERGROUND DRAIN
AGE.-Topographically, Richmond pos
sesses many advantages, not the least of
which is being compulsorily clean after
every hard rain. We have very efficient
system of underground drainage, while the
top drainage is unexcelled, save by Lynch
burg, which is all "hill and dale" in the
United States. The.streets Of Richmond
ca necessitdte rel, after hard rain are
obliged to be cleansed Of all substances
liable to cause malarial fevers. In a
health point Of view, Richmond is
not the worst place in the
world, though the past summer was dis
tinguished by a mortality unusual here.
The dreadful pestilence now prevailing in
Memphis is said to have been induced by a
want of both top and bottom drainage, and
the consequent filthy condition of the
streets and alleys of that truly unfortunate
and afflicted city.
Year: 1873

The ONLY SPEECH MADE TODAY at
the Fair Grounds on opening the box con-
tanning the wonderful African boan was
by the owner of the snake, who uttered a
few curse-ory remarks on getting his fingers
maehpd
Year: 1873

AN AGED CoLoRED CITIZEN FOUND
DROWNED IN THE CANAL.--About two
o'clock this morning some persons stand
ing near the Eighth-street cambridge
saw dead body floating in the water.
On inspection it proved to be that of Jack
son Burwell, q colored man well-known
about the city for the last half century.
The remains were retained in the position
where found till the coroner could be no.
titled.


Jackson Burwell was eighteen years of
age in 1911, when the Theatre was burned,
and was consequently so years of age.
Since the erection of Shafer's new build
ing, he had been employed bY number of
gentlemen rooming there to attend to them.
He had resided on the premises of DR..
Frederick Marx for forty years past. On
last Saturday week he did not appear. and
all the enquiries as to his whereabouts
(and they were many by his white and
colored friends both) failed to elicit any
tidings till this morning, when his body was
found afloat on the waters. Being feeble
and old it is probable he met his fate by
accident in an attempt to get to the
Eigth-street bridge on some dark night.
Year: 1873

The display Of sheep is not as large as
that made last year, nor are the specimens
exhibited as large, though the stock is
good. None of them struck our eye criti-
cally, if they had we would have been at a
loss to have made special note, owing to
the cards explanatory not having been
placed over them.
Year: 1873

VeylnB tHe fatI1 UH TUuCe NO.--, rfOm--

 -, do swear that I have the ability pecuniarily to fulfill my obligation as such bid der; that the bid is made in good faith and with the intention to enter into ctn- tract and perform the service in case said bid shall be accepted; and that the sigma lures of the guarantors thereto are genuine, and that believe the said guarantOrs to be pecuniarily responsible for and able to pay all damages the United States shall suffer by reason of my failing to perform thy obligations as such bidder.
Year: 1873

THIS, AN AGE OF PROGRESS. The
Steam Cars go laundering along the hill
side, across the prairies, by the towering
mountains, dashing from the Atlantic to
the Pacific Ocean freighted with the lux
uries Of every cline Iron Ships and Iron
Clad Monitors have been brought into be
Ing in the last fifty years; and yet the best
Of all is DR. Price Cream Baking Powder,
and Special FlavorincS; in fact they are
among the greatest improvements of the
age. by which we can sit down to light,
wholesome and delicious biscuits and
creams of most delicate favors.
Year: 1873

THR FATE OF THE RING.-Of the


fifteen prominent officials and contrac-
tors who are supposed to have taken


the principal part in the Wholesale
robberies Of the city and county Of
New York under the Tammany Ring
regime, one is now sentenced to the
penitentiary; two are on trial for
State prison offenses; four are suppos-
ed to be IN exile in yarious countries
of the world; two are dead; one is
impeached and forever disqualified
from holding any Office; one is free
but is under indictment and under
bail; and three are at liberty and are
pnrsueing their customary avoeations
Year: 1873

The Fourth Grand Gin Concert authorized
by special act of the Legislature for the beRe-
iii of the Public Library of Kentucky, will
take place In Public Library Hall at Louisville,
~
Year: 1873

DELICIOUS. an old topper
will declare that the author of the
following has head decidedly level:


Gentlemen, there is one thing about


drinking. I almost wish every man
was q reformed drunkard. No man
who hasn't drank liquor knows what
luxury cold water Is. 1 have got
up in the night in cold weather, after
/ l had been spreeing around, and gone
to the well burning up with thirst,
! feeling ike the gallows and the grave,
and the Internal regions were all too


good for me, and when took up the
| bucket in my hands, and my elbows
+! trembling like had the shaking a9ue,


put the water to my lips it was the
most delicious, satisfying, luxurious
draught that ever went down my
| throat. | stood there and drank, un-
/ til 1 could drink no more. and gone
| back tobed thanking God for the pure,
| innocent, and cooling beverage and


cursing myself from my inmOst soul
for ever touching the accursed whis-


XIV. In my torture of mind and body
1 have made vows and promises, and
/ broken them within a day. But if
YOU want to know the luxury of cold


water, get drunk and keep at it until


you get on fire, and try bucketful at
/ the well in the middle Of the night.
Year: 1873

We doubt if the 'sannals of the
law" so often referred to by legal
orators, can show a moro unique
death sentence than the following,
which was delivered lately by
Missouri Judge: "If guilty." said he
to the prisoner, "you richly deserve
the fate which awaits you;- if inno-
cent, it will be a qualification for
you to feel that you were hanged
without such a crime on your CON
science; in either case, you will be
delivered from a world Of care"
Year: 1873

When we stated some weeks ago thaI


il Was our deliberate opinion that we
had gained but little in Potatoes since
the advent of the mercer and Peach
Blow, we hardly expected 10 find that
almost universal experience coincided
with our own. Yet we find from Maine
to Missouri the same cry comes. Let
all potatoes 60, if they must, but save
us the Peach Blow. The way in which
some o. the new kinds get handled is r
warning to new beginners. The Ameri-
can Rural Home of Rochester, for in
stance, says Of the Peerless: at grows
large and hollow, is good to grow Tor
feeding hogs, providing any one will
take the trouble to cook them for this
purpose" This, we believe, is the
variety OF which it was reported that
FIFTY dollars was refused by two tubers"
and now to have it refused by two hogs,
unless cooked, is running pretty low
The Home says there is nothing up that
way which quite fills the place OF the
Peach Blow" much the same expert
ence which we find here.


The great failure of so many new
things to come up to public expectation
will result in good rather than harm.
Taere has really been very little skill
or intelligent labor directed OF late years
to the production OF new varieties, not
withstanding all the talk about the
product OF years OF experiments" and
the patent rights" which ought to re-
ward so much patient waiting. Near
ly everything we had before US has
been the selection from one or two first
sowipgs, hardly waiting to see whether
the bud OF promise would blossom to
the hope; if not indeed been chance
seedlings found with no labor or thought
but the opening Of ones eyes. We be-
lieve we have no popular fruit or vege-
table but is capable Of great improve
ment; and no doubt tn ose who go into
the search iudustriously will fnd some-
thing which will well reward their pains.
-GermdntoUn Telegraph
Year: 1873

raised like those ofsn angry cat, and
with shining eyeballs, he was watch
ing his fair prey. The situation was
one which fhe stoutest hearted hunter
would not have envied, for the lion,
when it will fight, is fearful enemy.
His motions showed too plainly that he
meant mischief.


A hundred thoughts flashed through
the lady's brain. She thought of sim.
liar adventures she had read Of, but no
gallant young man was near to save
her as there should have been. She
was too far from Camp for her voice to
be heard, if she should shout, which
she did not dare to de, for fear her
voice would pricipitate the attack. Nor
dare she run for the same reason. She
thought ot what she had read Of the
power Of the human eye over animals,
and then she stared hin in the eyes. But
the lion commenced creeping toward
her, his eye glsring The young lady
sank 10 the ground hopeless OF esca-
ping. But deliverer was on hand that
she knew nothing of. A mile or two
down the stream band of Utes were
encamped, and it appears that the lion,
few hours before, had attempted to
make meal out OF one of their ponies,
but was driven off. Two or three OF
the Indians had followed him with a
dog and guns, and just as the young
lady sank swoomipg to the ground, the
dog dashed upon the scene, distracting
his attention and few moments Ia
ter the crack of rifle broke the even.
ing's sileLce, and wounded, the animal
fled.-Denver Ne,os
Year: 1873

A YOUNG LADY SUED FOR BREACH OF
PROMISE. novel case is on trial
before a jury in Montreal, the plaintiff
being a dentist named Mathier, who
brings snit against a young lady named
Lahamme for refusing to comply with
the terms of marriage engagement
into which she had previously entered.
This is said to be not the first time at
which she has violated the tenor OF the
golden rule, and it is reported, that
to prove her malice, aforethough and
the deliberation with which she ruth
lessly snapped the tooth puller's heart :
strings, her old discarded flames will
advance in solemn procession sand give
evidence against her with the view OF
establishing the fact that she jilts with
methodical regularity. 1t is also allied
ged that the lair lady gave her stfisa-
ced, the too confding dentist, notice OF
the change in the thermometer of her
affections only week previous to the
day appointed for the ceremony; and
further, that the doctor, in the fullness
of touching faith in her eternal constan-
cy, had provided house and purchased
the clothes in which he was to be mar
RED
Year: 1873

The London Builder gives the first
definite information as to the progress
and difficulties of the work of recon
structing the Column Vendome, at
Paris. It appears that the masonry
work is only just begun. There are
more difficulties in the way of this part
of the undertaking than most of the un-
initiated outsiders imagine. It is i'm
agined that the foundation and pedestal
base can be built like an ordinary wall.
This is impossible. From motives of
economy it is intended to utilize the
stone-work of the old column, at least
all those portions of it which have not
been excessively attenuated or deformed
by the demolition. Two-thirds of the
materials can be so used the remainder
of the work will have to be executed as
at the first erection of the column.


But even among the two-thirds judged
servieeable there are only two steps alb
soIuteIy intact. The others require to
be repaired, and will be replaced or re-
Joined by means of cement in the Place
Yendome itself. But this reparation is
not the most difficult operation. The
interior of the column is formed by
huge square blocks of stone pierced at
intervals with large holes, into which
are soldered cramp-irons that hook the
outer bronze plates by a species of
horseshoe eye let attached to the in
most surface of the plates in the foun-
dry. The problem to be solved now is
one that requires the incest precision.
TIE completed column will be sur
mounted not by the little barelegged
Caesar placed there in 1864-65, but the
old statue, relegated to CourbevOle, of
the emperor in gray redjngOte and jack
boots, with the arms crossed in the
legendary attitude. The statue is con-
siderably injured, but not irreparably.
The, new column is not likely to be
completed before the end of the year.
Year: 1873

Housekeepers will be surprised to
learn that their custom of sending in to
a neighbor to borrow a little butter or
sugar or other articles of diet is quite
common among the savages Of the Fee
ice. When a lady in Feejee has some
friends to dinner unexpectedly, she
goes over to the woman across the way
and says, 'Yak yak and his family have
Just dropped in to dine, and haven't a
thing in the house. How do you think
your hired girl would work up into a
stew? Can borrow her for few days? ?"
drags her over, chops her up with pars-
ley and carrots, and celery-tops and
cloves, and lets her simmer over the fire.
Or maybe the other woman sends over
and says "Tm entirely out of meat !;
can you lend me your little William
Henry for hash, or your Mary Jane for
a pie ?" And over go William Henry
and Mary Jane, and they are stuck with
fork and basted and put on to cook
gently, and the debt is paid off the next
week by the borrower sending back her
aunt, already boiled and suitable for
cutting down for tea, or one of her
twins corned so as to make a nice lunch.
Sometimes a woman in this manner will
work off a couple of her mothers-in-law,
or a rich uncle, or a plump second cou-
sin, and then she will sit at her window
and sniff them as they are cooking in


he kitchen next door, or watch one of
the company in the dinner room nib
bling at the elbow of her late hired girls
The custom seems to us an excellent one,
particularly, when it is applied to hired
girls. We have had girls whom we
would have loaned to neighbor at any
time under a solemn promise that they
should be butchered and boiled as
quickly as possible.-A0E Adeler.
JOSH BILLINGS having become tired of
study said 90 1t is better not to know
too much than to know SO many
hings that are not true.


A GERMAN philosopher has satisfied
himself that the number of marriages in
| any country is in direct proportion to
the quantity of rain that falls III that
country.
Year: 1873

BATHING IN LAKE TAHOE IN THE
SIERRA NHvADAs.-It is well known that
it is more difficult to swim in Lake
Tahoe than in any of our lower-country
water. This is due toiits great purity
and consequent want of density of the
water. It Is easy to strike ont with the
arms and legs, but difficult to keep the
body afOat. Swimming in Tahoe and
swimming in the river at Sacramento
are, for instance, two different exercises
altogether. In the one case, one softly
paddles through water so mingled with
mud as to have reached the consistency
Of thick pea-soup or Cruel of not very
tremulous thinness while swimming
in Lake Tahoe seems like slow flying
through cold air, with the wings left
off. The water of the lake is so pure
that the body and limbs while immersed
are as white as marble they are, in
fact, ghastly in their whiteness.
Year: 1873

It is a very cOmmOnly-received idea
that the stars are really about of a size
and brightness, differing no more from
each other than so many men would
differ or so many cattle or trees of one
species. This is taught in most of our
school and college textbooks, and with
it the coroIlary that the apparent differ
ences in the brightness of the stars are
almost wholly due to differences of dis
tance. Upon these notions also are
founded many of the specuIations as to
the constitution of the stellar universe,
which seem to form favorite amuse-
ment of those whose deficiency In exact
scientific training leaves them only such
topic for discussion as are cOnfessedly
at present beyond the reach of accurate
investigation. But the fundamental
idea is utterly baseless. The stars are
no more alike in magnitude than rocks.
The minutest gain of impalpable dust
and the hugest mountain mass prOba-
bly, differ no more in size than large and
small stars, and similar facts holds
good as to their brightness. As BesseI
expressed it g the black stars are proba-
bly, Just as numerous as the white ones.
Every new Investigation puts these
truths in clearer light, and the discovery
of the minute companions Of Procyon
and Sirius alluded to in the preceding
paragraph is one of their most striking
confirmations for in those cases we
have a star, evidently large and bright,
associated with another hundreds of
times less brilliant, and yet demonstra-
bly, (from the motions of the pair of
about the same weight as the apparently
larger one.-THe Eldepende1lt.
Year: 1873

There are no diseases so facilitating in their ef
fects upon the constitution the above and none
more difficult to cure by the usual modes of practice
The FEVER AND AGUE POWDERS will effect a
cure in cases of the longest standing as well as
prove preventive in the forming stages of the die
ease. Being purely Vegetable, they act with GER
tanty on the disease, totally eradicatng it from the
system, and prevent return at any future period


Why waste your money and health in trying every
medicine you hear of, when THoMPSoN'S FEVER
AND AGUE POWDERS have never failed to cure
The chill S in any case
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT-The Commissary
General of the United States, after a trial
of all the principal starehes in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time to
the present are buying this article This
is a fact worthy the attention of consum-
ar
Year: 1873

WHY WILL YE DIE. On YE OF LIT
TIE FAITH ?"-The following well written
article is from the Davenport Democrat of
December 10, 1872, and is a powerful re-
minder to the afflicted:


The most insidious, deadly and distress
ing malady attacking the human frame, is
pale consumption, stealing into the maid
EN- bosom, flushing her cheek, blanching
her skin, and feeding ike living worm of
death upon her vitals. A lover may
fondly gaze into her eyes, the brilliant
sparkling is but forerunner of dissolu-
ton. A mother may listen to her mid
night breathing, it is but a mufied drum
beating her death -knell. A father may
fondly try to save her, but too frequently
his efforts are in vain, her bridal bed is the
burial case her bridegroom, death, the
silent consumer of her lungs is at work,
and physicians have no remedy, the phar-
macopeia no drug which keep her from
her destiny. Sad as this view is, there is,
happily, a bright side. Providence has
garnered up In the storehouses of yegeta-
ton, a sovereign balm in the juices OF
plants to arrest the fell destroyer, to heal
the eating ulcer, to renovate the failing
| lung, to bring health, strength and vigoT
to the wasted frame The keen eve Of
science has searched for it, the chemist s
skill has seized upon it, the retort and
alembic have extracted it, and the remedy
is produced which viii stay the progress Of
the stealthy death fend The result Of
this careful study of nature is Aliens
Lung Balsam, this is the eonsumptive'
hope, the declining patients cure. Thou
sands have entered upon trial of it witt
distrust and fear, who now live to record
its snatching them from an early grave, an'
who are ready to testify to its merits. lie


the consumptive take it and be benefited


Why will ye die, oh, ye of little faith 2
Year: 1873

$4,000 IN CASH FOR $I-We call the
attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum. Here is chance
to win fortune in a Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity.
Year: 1873

From lands end to lands end, that all may read,
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to an untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is