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Year: 1872

the profit on their capital, through the gener-
osity OF the government, twelve per cent or
over. To represent this vast circulation, apart
from the guaranteed credit of the government,
they hold only little over ten millions in
specie and hundred and two millions of legal
tenders. Ought not these privileged corpora
tions to be happy?


The STATE TAx-State Comptroller, Hon.
Nelson X. Hopkins, has addressed very inn
portant circular to the Boards of Supervisors
of the several counties in the State. Early in
October last the HERALD editorially declared
to vote at the late election on an amendment
to the constitution to provide for the funding
of the deficit of six million dollars, caused by
overdrafts of the Legislatures of 1870 and
1871. The law which authorized the submis-
sion of that question to the people was passed
May Is, 1872. Two days later the Legislature
passed law for the submission of another
amendment at the same election. The con-
stitution expressly declares that but one pro-
posed amendment shall be voted upon at any
general election. The later law in effect re-
peals the earlier. Comptroller Hopkins hold
ing the opinion that the action of the election
officials in allowing the funding proposition
to be voted upon was illegal and the amend
ment, even though it received majority, to
be invalid and unconstitutional has submit
ted the question to the Court of Appeals,
whose members unanimously sustain his view.
1t is, therefore, imperatively necessary that
the several counties should include in their
lcvies for the current year the proportion Of
the State tax imposed to cover the deficiency.


PARsoN BRowNLow says, eff the popularity
of the President shall continue, as, / doubt
not it WILL it is more than probable he will
be reelected for third term. Indeed, rather
than put in power the corrupt old democratic
party would favor the election Of Grant for
life." Parson Brownlow permits his zeal to
outrun his discretion. The year 1876 is too
far off for us to enter now upon its Presidential
probabilities particularly as in the meantime
we are surely to have a reconstruction of our
political parties, with General Grant out Of
the contest for another term.
Year: 1872

We have received from a good friend
in Virginia the following further illus.
tration of the extent tn which the in


sensibility of criminals is carried:


While still a very young man, on
account of his uncommon ability and
legal requirements, Mr.. Richard Cole
man was made judge of one of tn,
eastern circuits of Virginia in the
year l0--. Having hitherto led the
life of student and scholar he had
no extended reputation except among
his brethren, and as connected with
the profession, and had never been in
politics. Shortly after he went upon
the bench most cold-blonded and
cruel murder was 2erpetrated in his
district by q very notOriously v bad
man. The murderer was apprehended,
tried, and corvicted of murder in the
first degree. Judge c. proceeded to
pronounce sentence, the first he had
ever had to, which he had prepared
with great care, and, as he himself
said, the best of which he was capable.
and which he had afterward, in similar
sentences, been obliged to make the
basis of them all. Such was the SOL
emnity Of the occasion and the fervid
eloquence of the judge, that all who
listened TO the sentence passed were
moved to tears-all except the prison
er at the bar, who was observed to be
looking at the ceiling, and to pay no
attention whatever, appearing wholly
indifferent to what was going on. Al.
ter he had been remanded to jail, one
Of the junior members of the bar hav.
ing his curiosity excited, and Judge G,
also Wishing to know what effect his
eloquence had upon the criminal, went
into the cell where the prisoner was
and inquired of him how he felt when
Judge c. was passing sentence on him.
"What ?" said the criminal, "what do
you mean ?" IL mean when the Judge
was telling you that you we're to be
hung aud urging you to prepare for
the awful doom that awaited YOU"
"You mean when he was talking to
me?" "Ycs." "Ohl l never paid no
'tention to Dick Coleman; he amt no
public speaker nohow." Galaay.
Year: 1872




New York is really the city Of de-
ceptions. A man must not only look
sharp as to his company, but he can
hardly trust his own senses. The we'll.
formed man he meets in the street may
be indebted for bis elegant proportions
to the genius of his tailor. and the
belle of beauty may he half padding.
A young man Of quite elegant exterior
passed at one of our fashionable water
ing places for young man of wealth.
He became greatly smitten with the
daughter of wealthy merchant, who
besides what her father would leave
her, had a hand:Ome fortune in her
own right. He referred to a we'll
known gentleman in New Vow, who
thought him rich, and who knew the
amount of his income tax. He was
accepted aud married. 1t was found
that he was a clerk in a dry goods
house on quite su ordinary salary. He
secured money enough te pay a good
sized income TAX. His investment prov
ed more lucrative than a Wall street
speculation, as it secured him q rich
wife.


Several instances have been known
in which parties have made splurge
at the Springs aud elsewhere, and have
got iutroductions to wealthy people,
aud returned to New York, hired
handsomely furnished house in a good
location for month or two; have re-
ceived their stylish friends in style,
married their daughters. and then re-
tired to the back street to which they
really belonged. How many of such
marriages have terminated will be as
certained by examining the records of
courts in Irdiaua.-Boston journal
Year: 1872

A novel trial is reported to have
taken place in London. A lady went
to ball, and when preparing to re
turn to her home in the evening, before
going to her carriage, took off her
colffure and tied it up in a handker-
chief, to keep it fresh for party she
was to attend the following hight, and
that she might the more conveniently
put warmer wraps OH her head, the
evening being cold. When she reach.
od her dwelling the coiffure was not in
the carriage. She dispatched mes
senger for it, but it could not be found.
Some days after she met an acquaint-
ance, whose hair was the same
color as her own rather a peculiar
hue-and was satisfied she wore her
coifiure. She taxed her with it. Of
course it was Indignantly deDied. So
certain was the lady that the hair the
other was wearing was the article she
lost at the ball she sued Der for it.
when the t.iSi came on the defendant
strucs The prosecutor dumb, and con.
/ vinced the court by letting down her
tresses and showing they were her own
Thereby procuring judgement in her
favor. SubseqtLtly she quarreled with
her hair-dresser, when il came out that
the hair she had so dexterously exhib-
tied as having grown on her own head
had grown on some other head, but
had been artfully and artistically ar.
ranged for the pulling down process
by the hair-dresser j


A Viennese chemist has succeeded
in making the fimsy material of bal
let daEcers' dresses fire proof, and the
Prince Of Lichtensein, taking lively
interest in all that concerns the ballet,
has given the new invention trial on
the stage of his own palace. A nu-
merous company was invited to wit
ness the experiment. The rise Of the
curtain discovered two dolls dressed
as ballet girls, to both Of whom light
was applied. While one fared up in
a second and was rapidly reduced ia
ashes, the other, impregnated with the
talismanic composition, escaped with
a small hule in her dress. The expert.
meut was considered satifactory; but
the prince, designing to turn the dis.
covery to q wider use, is having a
wooden theatre erected outside o!
Vienna for the purpose of testing once
more the FIRE proof composition, with
which the boards are to he saturated.


An Irishman one morning went out
very early in search of game on the cs,
tate where the game laws were strictly
enforced. Turning a sharp corner,
whom did he meet but the gentleman
who owned the estate. Paddy, seeing
the game was up, coolly advanced to-
ward the gentleman end said: The
top of the morning tc your honor; and
what brought your honor out so early
this morning?' Tne gentleman replied
by saying, Indeed, Paddy, | just stroll
ed out to see if could find an appetite
for my break fast : and then cycling
Paddy rather suspiciuusly, said And
now, Paddy what brought you out so
early this morningY Paddy replied,
'Indade, your honor, | just strolled out
to see if | could find breakfast for
my appetite


A Prussian she'll, recovered from
the Seine at Paris, was found 20 con.
tain 800 francs in gold
Year: 1872

Mark Twain PROMISES to give every
consumptive who is not cured by camp
life at Lake Tahoe "a funeral which
will be a comfort to them as long as
they live.


A Nebraskan thought he would un.
der take to charm a snake, but soon
resigned in favor of professional un-
dertsker
Year: 1872

Fretting is both useless and un-
necessary; it does no good, and a
great deal OF harm; yet it is almost
a universal sin. More or less we
are all given to it. We fret over
almost everything. In summer be-


cause it is too hot, and in winter
because it is too cold; we fret when
it rains because it is too wet: and
when it doesn't rain because it is
dry, when we are sick, or whcn any
body else is sick. In short, if any
thing or everything doesn't go j"st
to suit our particular whims and
fancies, we have one grand refuge


to fret over it. | am afraid fret
ting is much more common among
women than among men. We may
as well own the truth, my fair sis
ters, if it isn't altogether pleasant.
Perhaps it is because the little wor-
ries and cares and vexations of our
daily life harass our sensitive nerves
more than the more extended en-
terpriscs which generally take the
attention of men. Great wants
develop great resources, but the little
wants and worries are hardly pro
vidcd for, and like the nail which
strikes against the saw, they make
not much of "A mark, but they turn
the edges terribly. think if we
looked upon all the little worries of
one day as great united worry,
scltcontrol to meet it would be de-
veloped. But as they generally
come only one or two little things
at a time, they seem so very little
that we give way, and the breach
once made in the wall soon grows
larger. Now, 1 don't believe in the
cant that woman must always,
under all and any circumstances,
wear smiling face when her hus-
band comes home, or that sho needs
to take her hands out of the dough,
or drop the baby on the floor, to
run and meet him at the door. But
/ do believc-nay, l know, for have
seen itwith my own eyes among
my friends that many woman
has driven a kind husband away
from her, away trom his home aud
its sacred Influences, and caused
Year: 1872

All nations count all other nations
whose vocabulary is more tlorid
and whose professions of friendship
are more profuse than their own
insincere in proportion to the diff
erencc they make in the mode of
saying tile same thing. fan East
ern says, 81 AM your sacrifice" and
a Spaniard puts all he has under
your feet, and a Frenchman swears
he is enchanted at the honor of see
ing you, and an Irishman calls you
his dear friend, and protests by his
soul that he is more glad OF your
company than if he had got for.
tune, they all mean exactly the same
thing as the Englis!man's "My
dear, Smith is coming to dine here
tomorrow. He's an awful bore, I
know, but ! was obliged to ask him,
SO let us havca decent dl 1ner for
the old curinudgeon.'' And when
Smith comes, and is received with
distinction by both host and hostess,
they enact their falsehood to such
perfection that he has not the least
idea he was the occasion Of con-
jugal quarrel just twenty-four hours
ago, and that both had lamented
the hard social necessity they were
under Of asking him to dinner at
all; though the lady, woman like,
had been the more angry and out
ragcous of the two. To make up
for it, she is probably the smoother
and more gracious when the I'M
welcome guest does arrive, that be-
ing the way of women in general.
But Smiths host would laugh Till
his sides ached at the cxaggeration
Of the rest, and swear they were all
humbugs Of the deepest dye, and
how degrading to a man to talk
such trash. For his own part, to
say in a good humored, fluffy voice,
"Well, Smith, my boy, Pm glad to
see you," is no lie at all. 1t is 50
in reality; but it is a convention
understood by the world at large,
and known to mean no more than
what the Spaniard and all others
mean by their respective blarneys.
We have to meet people that we
know, to ask them to our houses,
give them good dinners, and make
them polite speeches-all social in
sincerities from first to last; but
as they are popular expressions of
national politeness, we let them
pass without rebuke, reserving our
fire for all other expressions not
tallying with our own. Yet each
and all are right in their decree;
only when they go beyond conven-
tionality and assume to be inner
spiritual truth are they evil and mis-
leading. Less than this they are
useful, and so we must be content
to regard them; necessary wells for
the truth, but confcssedly wells, not
the truth, save at times and by the
chance of sympathy and love.
Year: 1872

Returned Mocsehead Lake tour
lists tell funny stories. Some people
in that vicinity-they are denomi-
mated land-sharks-have a strange
fashion of stealing fish after they
are caught. A party that bad
caught large number of nice trout
put them into a box perforated with
holes, and set the box into the pond
to remain over night, so that the
fish might he fresh and nice to take
home to their expcctant families on
the morrow. During the night, fish,
box, everything, were stolen. The
land-sharks frequently steal the pro-
duct of a good days fishing and
sell the fish to the very persons
from whom they had been stolen.-
\ gentleman who must have been 4
railroad conductor, or graduate
from that position, had cute way
of detecting these thieves. He kept
Il punch in his pocket, such as is
used by conductors on passenger
trains in punching tickets. With
this he punched the tails of all trout
found dangling on the end of his
line in the sport Of fishing. One
night large lot of fish that he had
captured "came up among the miss
ing" He was to leave the next day
for home. In the vicinity Of the
stage Office a fisherman appeared,
offering for sale Il nice lot Of trout,
caught, as he said, the night before.
The gentleman instituted an eXami-
nation, to find that each and every
fish bore his mark-the punch thro'
the tail-and on the strength of this
proof he claimed the whole lot, and
had the fisherman arrested for lar
ceny.-hcanebec .youynrl,
Year: 1872

AS the sign denotes, it is tru-
ly a Hat Store, both for Ladies
and Gents. Every person who
visits Independence is familiar
with Turner'S Millinery and Fur
nishing Goods Store. Last spring
they added to their stock in the
shape of Gents Hats and Fur
nishine Goods, making it truly
a Hat Store. We say it (and
without boasting), that we have
as large and as fine an assort-
ment as can be found in any
store of our class Of goods west
of Chicago.


To the Ladies (as usually, we
solicit a share of your patronage.
10 the Gents-remember it is
truly, surely, and the only Hat
Store in the city. Our Facility
and Experience for purchasing
stock is second to none; expcn-
ses small consequently our
prices we guarantee.


Remember the place, The
Sign Of the Big Hat.
Year: 1872

Tho following beautiful chemical
experiment may be easily performed
by lady, to the great astoniahment
Of n circle at her tea-party:


Take two or three leaves of red
cabbage, cut them into small bits,
put them into basin, and pour a
pint of boiling water over them;
let it stand an hour, then pour it off
into q decan,er. 1t will bo fine
blue color. Then take four wine
glasses; into one put six drops of
strong vinegar; into another six
drops of solution Of soda; into the
third strong solution of alum, and
let the fourth remain empty. The
glasses may be prepared some time
before, and the few drops of color.
Year: 1872

less liquid that have been placed in
them will not be noticed. Fill IN
the glasses from the decanter, and
the liquid poured into the glass con-
tanning the acid will become very
beautiful red; the glass containing
the soda will become Il fine green;
that poured into the empty one will
remain unchanged. By adding a
little vinegar to the green it will at
once change to a red, and on adding
little solution of soda to the red it
will assume fine green, thus show
ing the action of acids and alkalis
on vegetables blues
Year: 1872

"A Stockbridge boy recently at
tended the Episcopal service for the
first time. When the rector ap-
peared in his white robe, the juven-
lies curiosity was excited, and he
watched the minister with OPEN
mouthed wonder until tho close,
when, as they came out Of church,
he asked his mother, "Does he put
that on to look like the holy ghost?"
Year: 1872

HARRISBURG, March l2.-The jury at
II o'clock to-day brought in verdict
of guilty in the case OF Emanuel Shaft
ner, on trial here for the past week for
murder. There seems to be little doubt
that he not only poisoned his first and
second wives but the husband OF wo-
man with whom it was proven ne was
entirely too intimate. Money appears
to have been the prime cause for the
act, the sum to be secured by the death
of one Of his wives being about s., 900.
The jury failed to agree for eighteen
days.
Year: 1872

PARIS, March l2.-The Nonitsur, in
its issue Of this afternoon, says that
steps are to be soen instituted by Russia
with a view Of effecting reconciliation
with leading Polish exiles. A complete
amnesty is to be extended to exiles, on
condition that they promise to return to
their native country and live quietly
under q rigid form of government, with
Grand Duke Alexis as Viceroy.
Year: 1872

ABERDEEN, March 12.-From present
indications it may safely be predicted
that the cotton yield for the season Of
1928 will be very heavy. The cotton
acreage will immensely exceed that Of
last year, while the winter has been one
Of the character that generally produces
q good cotton season.
Year: 1872

WHAT SOME Men AND WOMEN Do
Some men move through life as a band
OF music moves down the street, fiuging
out pleasure on every side through the
air to every one, far and near, that can
listen. Some men fill the air with their
presence and sweetness as orchards, in
October days, Gil the air with the per.
fume of ripe fruit. Some women, cling
to their own houses like the honeysuckle
over the door, yet like it fill all the reg
ion with the subtle fragrance Of their
goodness. How great a bounty and a
blessing it is to hold the royal gifts of the
soul that they may be music to some, and
fragrance to others, and life to all 1t
would be no unworthy thing to live for,
to make the power which we have wi;hin
us the breath OF other mems joy to Gil
the atmosphere which they must stand in
with brightness which they cannot
create for themselves,
Year: 1872

Anybody can soil the reputation of an
individual, however pure and chaste, by
uttering suspicion that his enemies will
believe and his friends never hear Of A
puff of idle wind can take away a million
Of the seeds Of thistle, and do a work
Of mischief that the husbandman must
labor long to undo, the floating particles
being too fine to be seen aud to light to
be stopped. Such are the seeds Of Sian
der, SO easily sown, SO difficult to be
gathered up, and yet so pernicious in
their fruits. The slanderer knows that
many mind will catch up the plague
and become poisoned by his insinuations,
without ever seeking the antidote. No
reputation can reiute a sneer, nor any
human skill prevent mischief.
Year: 1872

A curious outside issue of the ubiquit-
Gus Woman question came up recently
for adjustment in Philadelphia. A few
women there, who seem to have heads as
clear as their hearts were warm, conceived
the idea, at the close of the war. of
home for such soldiers and sailors as were
unable to support themselves and had no
children on whom to depend. The ladies
raised funds enough to start the under
taking, and then inaugurated monstrous
fair, similar to those held by the Sanitary
Commission, by which large sum was
obtained, enough they claim, to have kept
the asylum open until the grave had clos
ed over the last old soldier. But " hen
the funds reached this proportion they
grew alarmed, apparently, and called in
their husbands and brothers to take
charge of matters, when according to the
usual practice Of the tyrant man, the la
dies were corteously laid on the shelf, or
only allowed an oversight over such insig-
niicant details as the kitchen or laundry.
A week or two ago these usurping mas.
SuhuO hiauaSSto OSSiaISu tuat tuc MuOlc
affair had lapsed into the worst of fall
ures reported the treasury to be almost
empty, and the old soldiers irretrievably
abandoned to lying, laziness, and liquor


They therefore proposed to shut up the
asylum, shunt part of their load of veter-
ans into some other charitable concern,
and allow the rest to betake themselves
to organ-grinding according to the custom
of their kind. Whereupon the ladies
came CALAMITY to the front in body,
limited that the laziness and inefficiency
were to be found in the managers room
rather than among the blind, halt, and
lame in the wards insinuated in pretty
plain terms that if these old soldiers liked
their grog and tobacco nobody had earn
ed better right to it,and finally demand
ed their money back, in order that they
might carry the affair ON successfully.
So the battle stands at present. But the
warriors and women bid fair to win.
Year: 1872

An old Scotch woman 10 the Highlands,
accidentally m Getting minister, had many
perplexing questions to ask him. First
she said She knew that good God had
made the Scotch, but who made the Irish ?
The minister replied that the same good
and wise Being who had made the Scotch
had made the Irish also. Well, replied
the good woman, suppose it maun be
SO but (aiter moments thought) he
will rue that days work as long as he
lives.
Year: 1872

A house and lot situated IN Middlebury Village
On the west side Of the Creek, near the Graded
School House. Said house il in perfect repair
and contains seven rooms. The above property
will be sold at low figure, For particulars cali
at the Register Bookstore 52;tf
Year: 1872

FOXES AS SHEEP HERDERs.--The
Stockton Republican ofa late date vouch-
es for this : People often wonder at the
remarkable instinct displayed by we'll
trained shepherd dogs, but what will they
say when we tell them of band of sheep
that is guarded by foxes alone. The
story seems improbable, but of its truth
we have undoubted proof. On Whisky
Hill, in the vicinity of Jenny Lind, four
miles from Milton, may be seen almost
any day large flock of sheep herded by
foxes. These guardians of the little
lambs are three in number-one a gray
fox and the other two of the species
known as the red fox. In point of intel
ligence these novel shepherds are said to
surpass the best trained shepherd dogs.
They perform their work well, and from
morning till night are ever on the alert.
The gray one seems to control, and in a
great measure direct the action of the
other two. A gentleman informs us that
he yesterday saw the gray fox pursue and
attack hog that had seized lamb and
was making off with it. The contest was
short and sharp, and resulted in the hog
dropping the lamb and beating a hasty
retreat. The fox picked up the apparent
ly uninjured lamb and carried it back to
the flock. Dick Wilson, Superintendent
of the Salt Spring Valley Water Compa-
ny, and Sam Eldrdge, of the Bunker
Hill Hydraulic Mining Company will
vouch for the facts above stated.