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Year: 1872

Messrs. Strahan and Porter, the counsel
selected by the streetCeanng Commissioners to give
opinion as to whether the streetceaning contract
be legally rescinded engaged yesterday, In
aiming that document.


Section the contract provides that the City Inspector shall q.
time consider that the have failed In respect
comply with Of the obligations this contract other Com
shall notify him Of such failure shall forthwith notify the
contractors, In writing Of the defaut and the
sha not xithou. unreasonable delay, comply with
Qurements Of the City Inspector, In respect 10
snch shall notify his Commissioners Of
fact who shall "a hours notice notify the Of
the particulars Of such complaint and Of meeting the Commissioners
10 consider the a The Commissioners after hear
ing sGeh complaint and the cOntIaeion. 4 they appear
may IT, majority Of them decide that they have
unreasonably made default In the execution Of this
lie provisions under their hands respectively declare this
contract terminated and II shall end unless the


uretes such Of them may willing this contract
shall within "a hours after have been served with notice OF the
action Of the Commissioner writing and undertake the per-
Torrance u this Contract mach thereof shall then
performed"


Though the counsel declined TO express an opinion
upon the resembling of this contract is understood
that they will report day to the Street Cleaning Com
msOners that II can be legally rescinded IL case Is
made ont against the contractor and IT, In such event.
bs sureiles do not assume the contract provided Ia
the section above quoted.
Year: 1872

Some persons have taken the trouble to tell
us that the nomination Of Gre ley not very bad
that the carpebaggers OF the south for him. that
and even that it is more than probable that
the Democratic Convention will indOrse him. But
ANYTHING else that Greeley is the unsuitable


to counteraet the fraud and corruption which have eaten
into our system. The bartering which procured
for him the nomination at Cincinnati will make itself
apparent as he is elected. He follow
trey in the footsteps of Grant and distsute the Gov
eminent offices ouy rewards for political services in
the election and the Democrats will know how pro-
cure a large share
Year: 1872

A few days since HenryJ. Holmes re-
turned to this city with his bride, whom
he married in Prairie City, Polk county,
Iowa. Twenty three years ago, Holmes
left the lady in the place mentioned to
make his fortune in California, the two
being at the same time engaged. The
luck usual with most of the forty-niners
was his and after long and unsuccess.
full labor he settled down to legitimate
business, in which he managed to slowly
accumulate property. After time he
returned to Iowa for his bride but her
brother was afflicted with a long and
tedious illness, and the faithful sistef
would not leave him. The illness ter
minated in death q few months since,
and then the lady wrote her betrothed
the two having corresponded regular
ly all this time-that she was free and
he might come again. Holmes was now
possessed of q comfortable competence,
and he was still faithful. He promptly
responded to the summons, married the


lady, and is now settled in the enjoy
ment of domestic happiness. It 10 seA
dom that hope 30 long deferred in this
particular direction is finally realized,
but they are a practical couple, and
probably feel no older now than they
did twenty.three years ago.-Sms FS@s
cisco Bulletin.
Year: 1872

The latest and certainly the most
original reportorial dodge to gain in.
formation where the facts sought for
had been inaccessible, is that adopted
by q New York Tribune reporter who
desired to learn something about the
internal workings of the Bloomingdale
Insane Asylum, the management where
Of has been the subject Of severe criti-
cism of late. The persevering news
Rstherer, Chambers by name, obtained
the certificate of three respectable
physicians of New York city to the
effect that he had become insane, and,
armed with this document, our hero, in
charge of an utter stranger named
Townsend, applies and is admitted to
the asylum as non compos nsentis. Not
withstanding the fact that the officers
of that asylum have declared repeatedly
that it would be impossible for person
of sane mind to gain admission to that
institution as q patient, he remains,
and is treated for lunacy for two weeks,
during which time he is slyly " "takin'
notes, and faith he'll print 'em." At
the end of the period above mentioned,
the Tribune authorities, thinking infor.
nation enough had been gained, ap-
piled for writ of habeas corpus in
order to secure his release. Thereupon
the managers of the asylum, fearing a
thorough Investigation would result if
this proceeding were allowed to take its
own course, posted off to the Tribune
Office, and induced them to sign papers
for the discharge Of Chambers, when
our sham lunatic was set at liberty.
Mr.. Chambers will soon publish to the
world some curious revelations, and his
title thereto will be: "Voluntary
Lunacy; or, Two Weeks in the Bloom.
ingdale Insane Asylum"
Year: 1872

ways be given to the applicant, upon the
broad principle Of humanity and justice
that it is better to committwo errors con-
tending for the right, than one working
in the interest Of error.


intend the instructions to registrars
shall cover the subject matter OF this let
ter, to the end that no frauds shall be
pcrpetrated upon the people in any man
ner l consider this to be my duty As a
servant Of the people, and l shall not fal
ter or turn aside from it, for partisan or
any other reasons.


am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, .. "A. liADLEY
Year: 1872

iSii IN ''N"' 'NpN A"' AN' -


Col. r. C. Newton;


Sir-I am in receipt Of your favor of
the 18th inst, in which you desire to
know what rule will be adopted, and
what instructions given to registrars In
reply to your interrogations permit me to
state that | am this day in receipt Of an
opinion Of the attorney general of the
state fully sustaining the position taken
by me In my letter to Col. Trezevant. 1t
is not a question with me as to the justice
or injustice Of the provisions OF the or
ganic law, upon which my opinions are
based, but question Of duty as an exec
utive officer My individual opinions in
regard to enfranchisement, believe, are
well understood by large number of the
citizens Of this state, at least, to be sqsat
rights, equal pririIeges and Uniform jus
ticc 10 all citizens, without regard to the
side on which their sympathies were en-
listed in the late war, or what their polit-
ical affiliations may be at present. ....,


As the chief executive officer Of the
state, | shall use every effort in my pow
er to have the registration law executed
as it stands upon the statute books Of the
state, in a spirit of fairness and impair
tiality. Those that are clearly disfran-
chised by the constitution of the state
should not be allowed the privilege of
the ballot until it (the organic law is
amended in that respect, There can be
no question as to my duty, or that OF ev-
ery law. abiding citizen in the state, upon
this question. In all cases where there
s a doubt In tee mind Of the registrar as
to whether the applicant is entitled to
registration or not, the doubt should al
Year: 1872

sS The Van Buren Pass is on our table
which we recognise as an Old friend of" lang
Syne, ana are glad once more to shake hands
in the grand mo cement which aninates it,
columns to such good work.


May it continue to flourish and reap a suit
able reward for It's valuable labors.- Camden
Tribune.


The same to yourself and the Tribune, Colo
mel. The outlook i. propitioGs in the North
west for the good work Of Reform.
Year: 1872

LETTER OF col. r. c. NEWTON.


LITTLE Rock, Sept. II, 1872
His Excollency O. A. Hadloy, Governor


of the State of Arkansas


Sir-My name being before the people
Of the State Of Arkansas as candidate
for oeetor for the state at large, take
the liberty of addressing you this note
Of inquiry as TO the registration of the
voters Of the state In your letter to
Col Trezevant, some weeks since, you
held that the recent amnesty act OF con
gresf did not have the effect to render
null the disfranchising clause Of our
state constitution SO far as concerns the
class of persons affected by the third sec
ton of the fourteenth amendment to the
constitution Of the United States. Treat.
ing that matter, then, as settled, so far as
your Excellcncy's opinion in regard to it
may bear upon it, would be obliged to
you if you will inform me what rule will
be adopted in the matter of the registra.
ton and the nature of the instructions to
be given the registrars.


AS am to start in a day or two for the
extreme southwestern part OF the state,
where the people will be anxious to know
what they are to expect upon this sub
jcct; and as, in fact, the people of the
whole state feel an interest in knowing
what to depend Oh, ask your Excellen-
cy to give me your views at such length
as will suit your convenience, and not
trench too far on your other official du-
ties.


am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, RoBT G. NEWTON.
Year: 1872

We are ready to believe from the character of


e gentleman composing the Board that fair
Sgisration will be had 1t is important that all


h. think they are, under the late act Of Congress
ktitled to vote present themselves and offer to
Ayistpr.
Year: 1872

A general newspaper denial does
not wipe out this record. When Mr.
Ames is put on the stand, it will then
be for him to swear to an 'interpreta-
ton of it contrary to that to which
Col. McCombe has already sworn
Year: 1872

PgRsoEAt.-Mr. Smalley, Of the New York
Tribune, passed through here yesterday on


his return from IN extended tour in the Sonth
and Southwest as q campaign correspondent.
He now goes TO Pennsylvania. His report
from the South Is most encouraging for the
Greeley cause. X.
Year: 1872

A fact connected with the history of the
Dissippus butterfly shows its astonishing
instinct. When winter comes, the fall
brood of larvae have only attained about
one-third of their growth. In this condi-
ton they would certainly all perish were it
not for the provision which each worm
is taught to make for its own preserva-
ton. Taking leaf of the willow,
it constructs with it comfortable
and singular house, in which it
passes the winter. When setting about the
work of housebuilding, it first fastens the
stem of the leaf securely to the twig by
silken cords, so that the strong winds of
winter cannot drive it from its moorings.-
1t next "gnaws off the blade of the leaf at
its tip-end, leaving nothing but the mid
rib" Then folding the blade thus pre-
pared into the form of cylinder, it sews
the edges together with silk, and, drawing
the long portion of the leaf which was left
after gnawing over the mouth of its cylindri-
cal chamber, it fastens it there, as door, by
means of silken threads. And here, in
closed in its leaf-home, it rests contented-
ly and safely until the bright, sunny days
of May call it forth to prey upon the fresh
leaves, to complete its caterpillar growth,
and to fulfill its destiny.


This singular fact was first given to the
world by the lamented Walsh, with whose
account of another remarkable fact in it his
tory, will close this paper. "Not the least
wonderful part of the phenomena is, that
it is only the autumnal brood of Larvae
that form pither-like houses to live in dur
ing the inclement season of the. year, the
summer brood having no occasion to shell
ter themselves from the cold. We
thus have an instance Of curious architec-
tural instinct being only developed in
alternate generations which is much the
same thing as if, with a certain race of
men, the great-grandfathers, the fathers
and the, grandchildren ran wild in the
woods, and the grandfathers, the sons,
and the great-grandchidre lived in houses,
and led the life of civilized human beings"
Our Monthly.
Year: 1872

Don't do it. Don't advertise your busi-
ness /; it is paying out money to accommo-
date other people if they want to buy
your goods let them hunt you up.


Don't advertise, for it gets your name
abroad, and you are apt to be flooded with
circulars from business houses, and to be
bored with drummers from the wholesale
establishments, all of which also results in
soliciting your order for new goods, and
money to pay for them, which is very an
noying to one of dyspeptic temperament.


Don't advertise, for it brings people in
from country Country folks, you know,
are of a'inquiring turn of mind, } and they
will ask you many astonishing questions
about prices, try your temper with show
ing them goods, and even vex you with
the request to tie them up /; which puts you
to an additional trouble of buying more.


Don't advertise it gives people abroad
a knowledge of your town, and they come
and settle in it; it will grow, and other
business will be induced to come in and
thus increase your competition.


In short, if you would have a quiet
town, not too large; if you would not be
harassed by multitudinous cares and per-
plexities of business; if you would avoid
being bothered with paying for and losing
time to read great cumbersome newspa-
per, just remain quiet; don't let the peo-
Pile know five miles away where you are,
nor what you are doing, and you will be
severely let alone to enjoy the bliss of un-
disturbed pose.-Gazette, Redwood city,
C1l
Year: 1872

tae tax on raw cotton in 1s65-'66 and 's7
to those who paid it.


House bill to amend the charter of the
town of Culpeper.


House bill to allow further time to B.
Ashton Lewis, treasurer of Brunswick
county, to give bonds and qualify as such.


House bill for the relief of Caroline
Lindsay.


House bill for the relief of Isaac Jones
and others.


House bill to consolidate the indebted
ness OF the city of Alexandria in one uni
form issue of stock.


House bill amending section 8 of an act
amending an act incorporating the town of
Ashland, and the act amendatory thereof.


REFERRED.


House bill to extend the sanitary juris-
diction of the Board of Health of Rich
mond, was taken up and referred to the
Committee on Public Institutions.


ORDER OF THE DAY.


Senate bill to regulate and define the ju-
risdiction of the county and circuit
courts, to prescribe the number of
terms of the circuit courts, and to
fix the pay of the countyjudges,
was taken up, tabled, and made the
order of the day for tomorrow, and for
each day thereafter until disposed of.


House bill appropriating $4,000 for
heating the building of the Eastern Lunatic
Asylum by steam, was laid on the table.
Year: 1872

THE CERTIFICATE OF BURIAL.-It
is due to the cause of justice that all the
mysteries connected with the alleged abor-
ton case, now before the police court,
should be cleared up, and every person
guilty Of an infraction of the laws duly
punished. The city ordinance concerning
cemeteries provides that no person having
charge of any cemetery shall be allowed to
bury any dead person until he has been
furnished with a certificate, setting forth
the circumstances of death, from a licensed
physician or a coroner, and such
person having charge of any bury


ing ground shall, before twelve o'clock of
Monday of each week, make return to the
Board of Health of the bodies of persons
buried since the last return thereof, to-
gether with the certificate of a licensed
physician or the coroner, as mentioned
above. Specific penalties are imposed by
law for neglect or refusal to comply with
the regulations in these matters. We wish
to call the attention of the authorities to
the fact that it appears that the body of
Miss King was inferred in Shockoe Hill
cemetery without the certificate required
by law being filed with the keeper of the
cemetery, and no record of the transaction
made upon his books.


Had the law in relation to certificates of
burial been strictly observed in other res
poets, the instrument itself is not lawful,
masmuch as it is not signed by licensed
physician or coroner, nor does it give the
number of the house in which the death
took place, or the ward in which the house
is located. 1t is true, a sexton may not
know who is and who is not licensed
physician, and is liable to be imposed upon.
Herein the law is defective. Sections
should be furnished with certified list of
licensed physicians. Both the transactions
in this special case, and the defects of the
law, seem to require thorough and immedi-
ate investigation by the proper authorities.
Year: 1872

THE ANABLE CAsE.-ln the Henrico
County Court yesterday the case Of the
County Clerk was continued. The evil
dence was concluded, and the court took
the case under consideration. Judge Minor,
will not render his decision until tomorrow
at eleven o'clock.
Year: 1872

One of the subjects talked and written about good deal at the present time, is-How to live Cheaply. Prices of all the great staples of life are high. Rents are enormous. Fashions are exacting. Wants multiply, while resources dimin- ish. How to make strap and buckle meet, is the problem which presses on hundreds of housekeepers of the middle class. The difficulty in the problem is to reconcile irreconcilables. The mid dle-class family generally wants all the fine things, all the style and display of wealthy neighbors. The problem would simplify itself at once, would the middle class family cease trying to appear what it ic not, and be content to appear and be thought just what it is. It is what is done to keep up appearances that de- stroys the equilibrium between outgo and income, and makes life drudgery and vexation. How to live cheaply is a question easy enough to answer if one will be content with 8 cheap living. Substitute comfort for show. Put con- venience in the place of fashion. Study simplicity. Refuse to be beguiled into style of living above what IS required by your position in society and is iusti- fled by your resources. Set fashion of simplicity, neatness, prudence, and in responsiveness, which others will be glad to follow and thank you for introducing. Teach yourself to do without thousand and one pretty and showy things which wealthy people purchase, and pride your self on being as happy without them as your rich neighbors are with them. Put so much dignity, sincerity, kindness, virtue, and love into your simple and 1n- expensive home that it's members will never miss the costly fripperies and showy adornments of fashion, and be happier in the cozy and comfortable ap- partments than most of their wealthy neighbors are in their splendid establish ments. It does not follow that in order to live cheaply, one must live meanly. The great staples of life are not costly. Taste, refinement, good cheer, wit, and even elegance are inexpensive. There is no trouble about young people marrying with no outfit but health and love and honest purpose, provided they will prac- tise the thrift and prudence to which their grandparents owed all their suc' cess, and make their thought and love supply what they lack in the means o' display. Those who begin life at the top of the ladder generally tumble off,

 while those who begin at tbe foot acquire steadiness, courage, and strength of arm and will as they rise.-Gotde1a Age.
Year: 1872

It is often remarked by strangers visiting our State, that we show larger proportion of good horses than any other State in the Union. This, we tell them, is owing to two principal very best stock; and in the second place, our people use SHERIDAN s CAVALRY CONDITION Pow DERs, which in our judgment are of incalculable dvantage.-[Com.1
Year: 1872

Self-neglect lays the foundation of much bodily suf- ferng. As a rule solictous to repair and their houses stock in trade other perish able property than to repair and themselves They can when wall requires Q prop, Q weak structure grder but appear to be unconscious of indifferent to, the cracks and flaws and evidences of decay in their own fral and sensitive organizations

 The consequence of this want of common prudence is that thousands fall by the wayside in the prime of life every year who might have lived to enjoy hale and hearty old age they had resoted to the proper of recruiting their failing vgor at the proper time.

 Seeing what that famous vtalisng and invigorating elixir Hostetters Stomach Bitters has done for less multtudes of the enervated and broken down. with the long, unbroken record of its cures before him. it seems amazing that any sufferer from premature decay weakness. dyspepsia bousness, chronic constipation, disease of remttent intermittent character should delay for hour to seek the aid which its tonng regulating and invgorang proper ties have never failed to afford.

 It exaggeration to say that Hostetters Stomach Bitters the faithful ally of nature in her strug gs with weakness and disease that medical botany and honest chemistry have yet given to the world.

 Isabella although she lost her is said to be very particular what kind of shoe she So all who have worn the CABLE SCREW WIRE Boots & Shoes; they want no other. Plable. dry and durable
Year: 1872

Whether for use on man or beast, the Mer- chants Gargling Oil will be found an invaluable Liniment, and worthy of use by every resident in the land;. We know of no proprietary medi- which shares the good will of the people to a greater degree than this.-N. y. Independent.
Year: 1872

Never truer sentence written than this-sup- posed to be wrung from the Arch fend in his impo- tence and agony Every victim of nervous debility, or of that depressing languor which is one of the accompanlments of dyspepsia and biiousness, can testify to the misery of mind and body which they

 involve The motive power of the system is partially paralyzed the mind is haunted by anxiety and fear and the sufferer is incapable of applying himself under the benumbing influence of cataiepsy. This terrible mental and physical condit on, need not, however, be endured for forty-eight hours by any human being. PLANTATION BITTERs is absolute specific for all the torments which deranged stom- ach, disordered iver and shattered nerves super

 induce.
Year: 1872

AN old soldier of the Army of the Ten nessee, who, during the war, appropria- ted some sugar and coffee to his own use without authority, forwarded ten dollars to the Conscience Fund in payment of Ehe same
Year: 1872

WIFE MURDER.-Daniel Hozn of Cape Island, N. J.. shot his wife, killing her instantly. He had for some time sus- pected her of improper intimacy with one Culver, who had professed to be Horns friend. Mrs. Horn had been warned by her husband that he would kill both her and Culver. One evening Horn met his wife walking with Culver. He went to his house, got his revolver, and pursued them, stopping several times to drink. He finally returned to his house, where he found his wife alone He reproached her for her misconduct, say ing he would rather see her dead than have her dishonor him, and at last shot her. The ball lodged in the brain and she fell lfeless to the floor. Horn immediately surrendered to the authori- ties and is in jail.
Year: 1872

A FUE1-SAv1Na SOCIETY is one of the unique but benefcient institutions of Philadelphia. It designs to encourage poor people to take measures to put by earnings in the mild portion of the year to secure fuel during the severely cold months at prices less than the ruling rates at that season. The society re- ceives on deposit small sums of money from poor persons, which deposits secure fuel to their full value, and more, as last season the depositors were furnished coal at five and six dollars per ton, which cost the society six and seven. There were thirty-one hundred depositors last year, and this year the number IS nearly four thousand. The work of the society is benefcient in more ways than one, besides providing for the comfort of its depositors, and preventing a large amount of suffering often resulting from improvidence, it is likely to educate the poorer classes into habits of economy and forethougnt in other particulars.