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Year: 1873

congressional Srealng.
From the Sulphur Springs Texasl Gazette


The action Of Congress just
previous to the close Of the
session in voting the members
an increase of pay for service
already performed has met
with that universal condemna-
ton which such a course richly
deserved. Although we have
waited to hear some excuse or
explanation from those voting
for the measure, we have seen
none, or only such as the YER
lest pettifogger would be ash
AIMED to use. 1t is true that
the franking privilege and
mileage are abolished and an
increased salary was necessary
to meet the deficiency arising
from the loss of these privi-
leges. But the last Congress
had drawn their mileage and
used the franking privilege,
and though they had contract
ed to serve at a certain price,
they fraudulently and without
pretending to give an equiva-
lent, appropriated to them
selves a million and a half of
dollars not their own.


This crime is not chargable
to either of the political parties.
REPUBLICANS and DEMOCRATS
Joined in the raid upon the
peoples purse, and found one
subject upon which they could
! ont ~, oOnoo,+


1t shames our nation that
our leaders should show them
selves so lost to all sense OF
honor and common honesty.
and it especially shames the
Democracy Of Texas, that theil
representatives should prove
false to all their avowed prin
ciples Of honesty and reform
The late member from this Dis,
trict has passed below the po


litical horizon and we are will


ling to let him rest in peace


but we have faith to believe
that had our present Congress
man, Hon. w. p. Mclean, beer


in the seat when this stealing
measure was passed, Texas


would have had one name re
. corded among the Noes o.
Year: 1873

A Republican member of
Congress, as conspicuous for
integrity as he is for independ-
ence, says that in the last
House there were between
thirty and forty members who
could be counted up at all times
to resist stealing, and that they
were about equally divided
between the two political par
ties. This is encouraging. If
ten righteous, men could have
saved Sodom and Gomorrah,
thirty ought to be sufficient to
insure the safety ofthe Ameri-
can Government.-[N. Y. Sun.
Year: 1873

That rather OutSpOken Re-
publican paper, the Louisiana
State Register, has a few words
of counsel for the Republican
party, which should not fall
upon needless ears. 1t thinks
that reform-ifnot compromise
is greatly needed. Read
and ponder:


The Republican party must
reform itself in order to con
tinue in the management of
the political affairs of this
State. The hungry, .ravenous
crowd that throng the corridors
and ante-rOomS of the Govern
er's office are not composed Of
men who can safely be trusted
with the offices of the State.
Besides there are too many
men filing Offices under the
present rule, whose only recon-
mendation for the places they
fill, is that they are dead
beats" They are neither
honest or capable. They are
as destitute of the manners ola
gentleman as a naked Fejee
Islander is of the Christian
graces. They are without the
confidence of the Republican
party, and beneath the con-
tempt of the opposition. This
must be changed if the party
is to be maintained in office
and power-otherwise it ought
not to succeed. This thing of
sending men who cannot get
an office in their own parish,
with a commission into a
neighbOring one, at the solici-
tation of some obscure dema-
agOgue, must be stopped, if the
party expects TO retain the con-
tidence and support of the
people.
Year: 1873

The Mckenzie Times says:
"Gen. Grants's salary is within
a fraction of S137 per day;
Congressman get a little over
so per day; the common hard
working man gets from 81 to
81 per day Very true, says
the Courier Journal, if the
common, hard-working man
isn't satisfied with his pay, why
doesn't he quit working and
run for President or go to Con
gress7 He might find some
difficulty in getting into Con
gress; but the history of Gen,
Grant shows that any block
head can get to be President
Year: 1873

THE CONFERENCE ACADEMY. The work on the
new Conference Academy at Dover,i is progressing
favOrably. The building is built mp to tie fourth
story, and work on the roof will be commenced in
a few davs,
Year: 1873

fell, and in a few weeks was seized with
the ''jim-j jams" and in less than ten hours
after being confined in the hospital, was
corpse.


We cite these cases to show how ludi
crous as well as serious, are the vagaries
under which persons labor when suffer
ing from this malady. The delusions
with which they arc affected are as di
versified as nature itself; and if sane
mind can form some idea of the scope of
the imagination in health, then what must
it be when all the senses-the eye, the
ear, the brain-are rendered a thousand
times more acute and intensified by the
malady which racks the whole man 1t
is simply horrible-a state which no man
neep envy who does not want to be tor
mented before his time.
Year: 1873

| have noticed that all men speak well
of all mems virtues when they are dead,
and that tombstones are marked with the
epitaphs of the good and virtuous. Is
there any particular cemetery where the
bad men are buried


| have noticed that the prayers of every
selfish man is Forgive US our debts"
while he makes everyb body that owes him
pay the utmost farthing.


have noticed that he who thinks every
man a rogue, is very certain to see one
when he shaves himself, and he ought in
mercy to his neishbor surrender the
rascal to justice.


| have noticed that money is the FOOLS
wisdom, the knave's reputation, the rich
mans trouble, the mans ambition, the
idol of all


have noticed that whatever is, is right,
with few exceptions-thc left eye, the left
leg, the left side of a plum pudding.


| have noticed that merit is always
measured in the world by success.


| have noticed that in order to be a
reasonable creature it is necessary at times
to be downright mad


L nave noticed that we are always WISH
ing instead Of working for fortunes we
are disappointed and call dame fortune
blind ; but it is the best evidence that the
old lady has the most capital eyesighi,
and is no granny with spectacles


| have noticed that the purses win hOhf
pennies as well as pounds.


| have noticed that some men are so
honest that necessity compels them to be
dishonest in the end.


| have noticed that silks, broacloths
and jewels are often bought with other
peoples money.


| have noticed that all men are honest
when wei watched.


have noticed that in nearly all things
money is the main object in view.
Year: 1873

It's Mt often that anything sentimental
occurs at Sheriff's sale The Sheriff of
Tioga County On. Y :. was recently called
upon to distratn the effects of widow to
satisfy judgments. After he had per-
formed his duty, he said to the spectators
that he proposed to contribute the amount
of his fees to the unfortunate woman
The good example proved contagious /;
one donation alter another was handed
in the purchasers returned the articles
which they had bought; the noupur-
chasers gave cash and provisions so that
the widow was soon better off than ever.
Year: 1873

he DOES not wish to gee its like again. A
great quantity of rain fell. flooding almost
every street to excess. It is the general
remark that Louisiana never knew so late
a spring.


At quarterpas seven Camp street in
front of this office ives flooded from wall to
wall, the water being about six inches deep
at the outer edges.
Year: 1873

To MAKE CoURr. PLASTER Soak
isinglass in litilc warm water for
twenty, four hohrs; then cvsporste
nearly oil the water by u gentle heat,
dissolve the residue in u little proof
spirits of wine, and strain the whole
through piece Of open linen. The
strained mass should be still jelly
when cool. Now, extend a piece IF
silk on a wooden frame, and fix II tight
with tacks and pack.thread. Melt the
jelly, and apply It TO the silk thinly
and evenly with q hair brush. A sec-
ond coating must be applied when tho
first has dried. When both arc dry,
cover the whole surface with two or
throe coutings Of Balsam Of Peru, ap.
piled IN the same way. Plaster thus
made is very plisbie, and never preaks
Year: 1873

WHISKY AGAIN.-"Tommy' Wilson,
a stage driver, was found, one day last
week, near the top Of the mountain il
Granville, insensible from the cold and
nearly frozen to death. The cold was
intense, and a short time would have
been sufficient to place him beyond re-
covery but thorough measures were
taken for his resuscitation and after an
hour or two he was al right again. 1t
should be mentioned that a bottle partly
filed with whisky was also found in the
sleigh, supposed to have been taken
along in lieu of a heated soapstone.
Year: 1873

Woodruff and Claf1in were advertised


to speak in the Music Hall last evening


relating their experience while in jail


However, the directors of the Music


Hall will not permit the use of the hall


for such purpose.


The several snow storms we have had


for the past week or SO, have made quite


good sleighing in this vicinity, and being
the first we have had this year is enioy-
ed by thousands.


The papers report that as the books of
Mr.. Charles Lane, (who was murdered
at his own door a few months since)
We're destroyed in the great fire, that the
coroners jury will not continue their sit
tlngs. The general impression is that
friends of Mr.. Lane are trying to hush
up the affair.


Notwithstanding the snow, work is
progressing rapidly in the burnt district
A number of new building permits have
been granted the past week.


The United States Mercantile and Ship
ping Ad0ertiser have established an office
at l03 State street, in connection with
their New York and Philadelphia offices.
Although their paper was recently en-
larged, 1t is proposed to again enlarge it
about the first of January. 1t is daily
becoming more popular with our largest
mercantile houses.


The arrest of Charles Bowles at Ingle-
side has been one of the principal topics
OF conversation here, in connection with
the failure of the banking house of
Bowles Brothers & Co. A great deal of
satisfaction has been eyinced by the re-
lease of Mr.. Robert Bowles from New
gate prison. He is looked upon here as
a thoroughly honest man, and is admir-
ed for the stand he has taken in remain
ing at his post in London after the fail
ure of the house. Mr.. Nathan Apple
ton, it is understood, will give up all his
fortune to the creditors, he being a gen
eral and not a special partner, as many
had supposed In the meantime, until
charges of fraud are proved, it seems
rather contemplate for papers to speak
so harshly Of the failure. One paper in
New York says that it is never we'll to
trust a banking house that will run er-
rands, black boots, purchase things for
you, etc, without any pay. If Bowles
Brothers & Co. were gentlemanly
enough to do all this for their customers, 1
whose business is it ? The great trouble
was, undoubtedly, that persons like the
writer in the New y York paper referred
to, used to ask all this of them, receive
every attention at their hands, then turn
round, and without carrying their bust
ness to them, run them down and try to
spoil their credit behind their backs
During a visit to Europe, of considerably
over a year, | did all my banking
through their house and was uniformly
well treated by all connected with the
house
Year: 1873

incorporate for aught we know, and he
may be purchaseable; but it is evident
that @ he sets his value pretty high, for


W armoth could not purchase him; and
II seems safe to conclude that he is a
better man than the white knave who
attempted to buy him. 1t certainly does
not become those who lauded him last
summer to decry him now, particularly
In view OF their professed acquiesence in
the fourteenth and fifteenth amend
ments. We do not believe that he has
changed much for the worse in that
time.
Year: 1873

New HAMPsHIRE.-The prohibitionists
Of New Hampshire lately held s State
convention and nominated full ticket.
Nominations are also made by this party
for local officers and for the Legislature.
Whether it expects TO promote the cause
Of temperance through its organization
is uncertain, but as it holds the balance
Of power it generally manages to hamper
and embarrass general legislation quite
seriously.
Year: 1873

The management of the Boston The
atre continue to delight % thousands of
people nightly with The Cataract of
the Gangcs, which is miserably put up
on the stage, is nothing but trash from
beginning to end, but does pay remark
ably well


At the Globe, Miss LeClercq has been
delighting audiences with her fine act
ing She took a benefit on Saturday
night, and GA Nende5' appeared in
.'Pygmalion and Galatea


divorce" was played for the last
time at the Museum last week. Warren
drew an immense house at his benefit
Friday night, and Miss Clarke an equally
fine house at her benefit on Monday,
when THE Angel Of Midnight" was
performed,


The Howard had burlesque on Sat
urday, which is said to have been very
good LIvY.
Year: 1873

AN HONORABLE ScRUPLE.-In the Sen
ate on Thursday, on the motion to lay
on the table the French spoliation bill,
Senator Edmunds Of Vermont, when his
name was called, said


Il ask TO be excused from voting, as
l have reason to believe that | have a
certain interest, rather an indefinite one
to be TIRE, but one that leads me to think
that I ought not to vote on this aues-
ton.
Year: 1873

NEEDLES ALARM ABOUT THE HORSES.


TRIBUNE reporter visited several of the
largest stables in the city, yesterday 10 learn further
particulars OF the cerebrospnal-menngitis which,
Henry Bergh believes, II attacking the horses He was
informed that there were isolated throughout the
city. but than there has been at any time SINCE
the disease ragged a epidemic in May and June 1871
In the stables OF the Third Railroad which contain
nearly 1000 horses has been known for several
months Only seven horses sick in the hospital ana
they have well defined ailments bearing no resemblance
10 the disease iu question In the Fourth and SxVe'
Railroad stables there are no OF the meningitis,
and there has not any for long tme The reporter
found single case IN the hospital Of the seeondave'
Railroad stable. The horse was attacked about hVe
weeks ago and Is now nearly well This Is the sec
ond horse attacked within six months, com
nlete cure having been effected in the former instance


The surgeon in charge told the reporter that during the
epidemic of 1871 the Company had as many as 1875 horses
sick at one me but lost only five or six during the en-
tire season. He said that the disease was easily eured
though the animal afterward becomes strong In
the hack as before the attack He had heard that
the meningitis was more prevalent now than at any
time in The last year, aud no reason for tracing the
Of the isolated TO tho recent disease. The
horses had never been stronger or In better condition
than since their recovery from that disease until the
recent storms, which nave causeu 80 much aduiiioh


work as weary the beasts.
stables the reporter that
had heard of eases of meningitis at intervals since
June 1871 OF any considerable number at one
time 1t the opinion OF some that the slippery con-


don OF the streets may have caused some so to
wrench their become disabled and to present
the superficial appearance OF victims OF the meningitis


but none credited the theory Of Mr. Begh that 1t at
all general likely to become So The reporter visited
the College Of Veterinary Surgeons In Lexington-ave


near Thirty and informed that there were no
cases in the hospital attached to the college, and the o


GERS had information that the disease was more prev
alen than at this time last year. Only three four sur
geons were known have under treatment, ana


the animals when properly cared for recovered In near


ly every instance. The surgeons convinced that
the dsease not o result Of tho recent epidemic.
Year: 1873

REDUCED sUrIIY OF WATER IN THE UPPER


WARDS.


The people of the upper part of the city
have been troubled for several days past with scarcity
of water This has been because the wafer has not
the proper level in the reservoirs although the
pressure has been sufficient TO supply all the wants Of
downtown residents. The Croton Aqueduct about two
weeks ago became seriously damaged by a crack near
the Croton Lake.


While workmen repairing the leak, IL was deemed
necessary that the side pines should carry of the WATER
and In consequence OF this the supply Of the distributing
reservoir reduced. An extraordinary waste OF
water has also lowered the level in the reservoir Those
who have suffered heretofore from the freezing OF water
pipes where precautions have been taken have this
year left the faucets and permitted the water 10
aud hence it has been almost impossible to restore
the water in the reservoir to the ordinary level Head
way, however. was:made yesterday.


Reporters OF THE TRIBUNE sent, yesterday 10
make inquiries Of residents OF the district where the
water was low. Manyiresidences on Murray Hill ana
the high lands the vicinity visited For three or
four weeks past the water has run freely during gea
portion Of the day, larger supply being afforded at
night when the water was not IN demand i0a . nhu h
no. run higher than the second story: ,,.,. ,,,,
From Third SiXthaves and between Thirty fourth
and Forty -fourthsts., this particularly noticeable
Faucets had been left open in some houses while IN otn
of the Commissioner that water should NOT orNs pe
wasted. In the latter case the water hau GENE @
Ming aay and night. Complaints were made 10
agents and propertyowners by the lease-holders oi
many residences regarding the lack OF water:
The residents of teneenthouses in the neghborhod OF
Third and Sixthaves felt the decrease OF the water
supply most keenly. During portion OF the day the
families in the upper stories were unable TO obtain wafer
10 satisfy the most urgent needs Every one gave uI
erent Version the of the trouble but no one
was able 10 suggest a remedy. gentleman in PARK
ave said that he had been unable for the past week TO
obtain sufficient water for bath the third floor OF his
house, where his bathroom was.


real-estate owner said that he had instructed ten
keep the water running so that 1t would not
freeze In the ppes This had been done every WINTER
and there was this year than during any
cold season. People had TO do this because the pipes
complaints made to him frequently during the past
three or weeks of he had no power TO
remedy the evil.
Year: 1873

The condition of ex-Mayor Kalbfeisch of
Brooklyn considerably improved yesterday, but he
is still very low, and his physicians have only slight
hope Of ultimate recovery though he may continue
in his present precarious state for days. His iron
sttution is not easily by disease and his rea
tives who constantly at his bedside do not give
him up
Year: 1873

A scheme is now on foot for the establish
ment OF another weekly steamship line between New.
York and Glasgow The are 10 be OF the sizo
employed In the North Atlantic service They sre
building ON the Clyde, and will he out In the Spring


The pioneer vessel Of the line has been launche and
two othors sse approaching completion An ofeer VI
Year: 1873

Controller Green has sent communication
to Mayor Havemeyer in which he again urges the press
ing need OF legislative action in regard TO municipal
finances He claims that item Of the taxes OF 1s73
amounting k6643S7 r. consists of the citys portion
Of deficiencies created by misuse by the State author


ties OF about 100000 belonging to the State sinking
funds.


The Controller says:


An passed in 1872 10 submit 10 the people. as
required by the Constitution, the question whether the
whole OF this deficit should paid by the issue of State
bonds The State Controller decides however. that At
be raised by tax because such submission Is un-
constitutional for that existed last year but do
not exist this year.


The raising OF the means to make up this deficiency
the State funds of which this city mas TO do It's share s
in no proper expenditure OF 1873, and should
not DO chargeabe that year. propose, therefore,
first, that this citys portion Of the tax required TO sup
ply this State deficiency be raised by bonds OF the city
payable on not exceeding two years in equal annual
nstaments and that the city be reimbursed out OF the
proceeds of State bonds to be issued for the purpose
and that tho necessary legislation be immediately
initiated 20 accomplish these ends.


The law might be general to cover all the counties OF
the State that desire avail Of its provisions Secondly
the necessary legislation be had to authorize the trans
fer Of all xpended balances OF last year Thirdly
That the raising in 1873 Of ST. for the Fourthave
Improvement be postponed until 1874, or as needed
FOthiy: That the appropriation for carrying on the
government for 1873 be reexamned and renxed without
delay. and the Departments compelled to reduce ex-
penses aCcOrdingly.
Year: 1873

Few sadder sentences fall from the
lips than this my life has been
failure" And the saddest part is, that
the failure can rarely if ever be retriev-
ed, because the conviction, to most
people, comes too late-comes in the
feebleness of old age, when the brain
is weak, and habit strong; comes
after strength for true work and self
discipline is gone. Says Rev. w. I'll.
Murry -


"Society is full of failures that need
never have been made full of men
who have never succeeded full Of wo
men who in the first half Of their days
did nothing but eat and sleep and
simper, and in the last half have done
nothing but perpetuate their follies
and weakness. The world is full, |
say, of such people full of men, in
every trade and profession, who do not
amount to anything; and | do not
speak irreverently, and | trust not
without due charity, without making
due allowance for the inevitable in
life, when / say that God and thought
full men are weary OF their presence.
Every boy ought to improve on his
father every girl grow into a nobler,
gentler, more self.denying womanhood
than the mother. No reproduction Of
former types will give the world the
perfect type. know not what the
Millennium is, as measured by distance
of time; but | do know, and so do
you, that it is a great way off as
measured by human growth and ex-
pansion. We have no such men and
women yet, no age has ever had any,
as shall stand on the earth in that age
of peace that will not come until men
are worthy of it."


Young men young women !
Don't let your lives be failures. Make
the best Of what God has given you.
Let your gratitude to Him for life and
its noble endowments, be expected in
a full devotion OF will, and thought,
and strength, to whatever work He
brings in His wise providence to your
hands. And remember, that it is only
good and useful work that He pro.
vides. Shun evil work-work that
harms your neighbor in any way, as
you would shun the deadliest thing
No true success ever comes from evil
work. 1t maybring harvest of gold
en- apples, and purple grapes but the
apples will be like those Of Sodom, full
Of bitter ashes, and the grapes sour. -
[ [Arthr's Magazine for April.
Year: 1873

FALLING OVER A WHEEL-BARRow.
If you have occasion to use a wheel
barrow, leave it, when you are through
with it, in front of the house, with the
handles toward the door. A wheel
barrow is the most complicated thing
to fall over on the face of the earth.
A man would fall over one when he
would never think of falling over any
thing else he never knows when he
has got through falling over it, either,
for it will tapgle his legs and his arms,
turn over with him, and rear up in
front of him, and just as he pauses in
his profanity to congratulate himself,
it takes new turn, and scoops more
skin off of him, and he commences to
evolute anew, and bump himself, on
fresh places. A man never ceases to
fall over a wheel barrow until it turns
on its back, brings up against some
thing it cannot upset. 1t is the most
inoffensive-looking object there is, but
it is more dangerous than locomo-
tive, and no man is secure with one
unless he has tight hold of its hand
les, and is sitting down on something
A wheel-barrow has its uses, without
doubt, but in its leisure moments it Is
the great blighting curse on true dig
nity.--[Danbmy News.