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Year: 1873

RoBB1NG H1MsE1F--The Manchester
Mirror tells the following amusing story
Of the barefaced conduct Of hog-stealers
in the town of Chichester, N. H., "In
one instance the thieves woke up man
in his own farm house, told him that
one of their hogs had got out of the wag-
on into the road, and asked his assist
ance to put him back. The farmer got
up. dressed himself, and readily COM
piled, and the next morning, when he
went to feed his hog, on looking into
the pen found him missing. He had
assisted the thieves to steal his own
porker. At another house the farmer
heard a squealing in the road late in
the night, and going to the door, saw a
man struggling with a porker. The
same story was repeated, and assistance
given as at the other house, and the
same scene was enacted at the pen in
the morning
Year: 1873

Petty smuggling FROM Canada is brisk.
A letter from ogdensburgh says that
several Watertown ladies were searched
at the Custom House recently on coming
from Prescott, and had their goods taken
away from them. Thirty three women
were searched, and all but four were
trying to smuggle something over.
Year: 1873

Total Abstinence, and then brought him
to his family, and they took care of him.
And in the morning he spoke kindly to
him and offered up prayers for him, and
departed.


Which of these was neighbor to him
that fell among the grog-shops ?
Year: 1873

Begin early, the winters work. Sleigh
ing is already here, and it is quite like
ly the snow may accumulate SO as to
render ordinary travelling and work in
the woods very difficult before the spring
arrives. Most farmers have some little
jobs for the winter already planned. Let
them be at once begun. The wood pile,
early drawn, will be sure to be at the
door for leisure hours attention. The
timber cut and drawn for the mill-tke
wood carried to market early will be
in the right spot, when bad roads would
prevent all attempts to enter the forests.
This is the time to begin. Thanksgiv-
ing festivities past, the more is done
towards executing winter plans before
Christmas and New Years the better.
If you have any teeming to do. be at it,
as soon as possible. All that is done
before mid-winter will be double gain
for the season. Windsor Journal
Year: 1873

"My brother Charles and 1 were
twins" said Mr.. Beecher, in his last
evenings lecture, ''or at least we would
have been if he hadn't waited couple
of years. We were twins in everything
but birth, and yet we were very unlike.
He had apparently better head than I,
and promised to make shrewder man.
If an accident happened to anybody, it
was sure to be to Charles. It was Charles
that broke his leg, that had white
swelling on his knee, that was blown up
with gunpowder, that fell down stairs
and cut a cash in his cheek, and then,
as if symmetry was needed, fell down
and cut the other one. He grew up and
had a lovely family. His oldest son was
shot in the rebellion. hobbled back and
was shot again, and then went into the
regular army. On the border he was
surrounded by Indians, and killed, and
the judgment day will have to search all
over the plains for his bones. Now, my
boy went through the war, and came
out with only a bruise. My brother
Charles had two daughters. They went
sailing on lake in the very sight of his
house. and were drowned. Why is my
brother thus dealt with, and not me |
haven't the slightest doubt but that it
will all come out very plain by and by,
but | cannot understand it now. 1t is
only left for me to believe blindly, i'm
plicitly in the overruling wisdom and
justice of divine providence.
Year: 1873

The Fourth National Bank Of Cincin-
natl has issued circular 10 It's customers
giving notice that after the 1st Of Decem-
Der next 1t will cease to pay interest on
what are known as deposits on zeal" "
that Is deposits subject to check without
notice, the same as ordinary deposits in
bank. 1t will only pay hereafter on sixty
day deposits, in which case it will issue a
certificate at the rate Of four per cent.
And in regard to the balances Of banks
and bankers it proposes the Following ar
rangement:


On deposits Of. banks and bankers In
tended as reserve, lin no case less sum
tkan FIVE thousand dollars and to be kept
on our books as Especial account" and
separately from the daily current account
Of such bank or banker, we will pay inter.
est at the rate Of four per cent per annum;
provided, that whenever this account is
drawn against, and falls below the amount
agreed on as Especial account" no inter.
est will be paid on the same, or any por-
tion thereof, Tor that month, nor until the
amount Of deficiency is made good.


This Is a good programme whether 1t is
adhered to or not. The banks now, like
everybody else, will Of course make plenty
good resolutions, some OF which will be
kept or not according to circumstances
hereafter.


Tho practice of paying interest on
transient deposits has grown into uni
versal usage within the last two or three
year,. It is, we may say, in vogue at all
the banks Of the country except few in
the rural districts. And the explanation is
that as long as we had smooth sailing
banks could pay four, five and even
SIX per cent for money on call and make
money out Of 1t at eight and nine per cent.
That is, the appearance OF profit was at
least sufficient to induce them to bid for
patronage in this way. The stateo West
Virginia and the city Of Wheeling came
st last to let out their money at auction in
this way to the highest bidder. Monied
concerns all over the country, ss well as
individuals, have grown into the habit oil
demanding interest on their deposits'
And in order to secure such deposits the
banks have bid against each other until
they have occasionally run up the rate to
what was regular interest before the war
In doing so they have increased their
aIes and their expenses for clerk hire and
have also subjected themselves TO o great
deal OF annoyance In Troublesome times.
SOthat all things considered 1t may we'll
10 doubted whether the practice has paid
them. Whether, however, any Of them
will follow the example ot the Fourth
National at Cincinnati remains to be seen
Year: 1873

PTrsBuRaH, Nov. s.-A special to the
Chronicle from Monongahela City, Pa,
states that about six o'clock last evening
q young man named James Clemens.
stabbed his father with butcher knife in
the abdomen and then thrust the knife
into his own side between the ribs. The
affair is said TO be the elimination Of an
old ieud, the immediate cause being o
law suit which was decided against The
son. The young man died instantly; the
fathers wounds are thought to be fatal.
Year: 1873

Buy Rennes Pain Killing Magic Oil of
the druggist or merchant where you usual
ly trade. If they are out of it, get them
to order some at once. All the wholesale
druggists keep it ON their list of staple
goods. 1t is an excellent remedy to cure
any kind of pain or inflammation, and is
used both externally and internally, Try
Year: 1873

From lands end 10 lands end that all may read,
and reading believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but one truly great
and reliable remedy. and that il
Year: 1873

There is no mistake as to the meaning of
the suhjoined editorial, which appeared in
the Washington Chronicle of Saturday LAST


Rumors of determination on the part of
the opposition to inaugurate McEnery on
the ninth, and to keep their Legislature in
working order for the selection of United
States Senator. are repeated day by day.
The Inauguration may be easy enough, but
when it comes to exercising the functions
Of Governor, then look for the tug of war.
Ii the Supreme Court of the State main
tains the right of the Heron board to
count the votes of the State, the verdict OF
that board will be sustained. The intima-
ton that the federal power will be detied
savors too much of violence and con-
viction that the judiciary is against the
opposition. The messenger who brought
the vote declaring the State for Grant and
Wilson arrived here before the opposition
messenger. The first received his mileage.
As but one could be paid, the other had to
bear his own expenses.
Year: 1873




LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
TIE LOUISIANA RESOLUTION ADOPTED
PERSONS AND PAPERS TO BE SENT FOR
SHIP CANAL TO THE GUILE
ESTIMATE OF THE COST
ROMANCE OF A PRESS AGENT
TWEED'S CASE TO BE TRIED
Brig Ashore at Isle. OF Wight
NINE PERSONS DROWNED
FIRE IN MONROE YESTERDAY
A GALE AND snow>A1 THE WEST
STATISTICS OF BOSTON FIRE
A COTTON SHIP ASHORE
Year: 1873

Some of the sketches which appear in the
Graphic are first drawn by hand ON paper
with pen and ink. They are finished up
just as they are to appear in the paper. The
sketch is then copied upon glass plate
through the instrumentality of a camera.
This plate is called a negative, and from it
by the aid of the sun or powerful artificial
light, a copy of the picture is obtained on
transfer paper.


This transfer paper is very thin, and SO
made that it will readily yield ink to q
lithograph stone. After having been prop
erly prepared, the transfer paper is placed
down upon the stone from which the
Graphic is to be printed, and a transfer is
made. The result is, the picture which
was originally drawn with pen appears
upon the surface of the lithopraphic stone,
and is an exact fac-simile of the original.
1t looks as if printed on the stone, and to
all intents and purposes is so printed in
what is known as photographic ink. The
transfer, as all photographers know, is made
in hand-press.


Thus it will be seen that the engraver's
tool has been entirely dispensed with. Hav-
ing once got copy of the picture, the rest
of the process is mechanical. The whole
outside of the Graphic, or that part which
is illustrated is printed from lithograph-
ic stone as large as the newspaper. The
letter-press is Autographed as well as the
pictures, by the aid of the camera and the.
transfer process. The stone is placed in a
fiat bed steam process, and printed from
exactly as if it was so much type, with
this difference The surface of the stone is
perfectly smooth, the ink from the rollers
only adhering to the linked surface of the
stone, which represents the pictures and
the type.


The blank spaces on the stone, which
appear white on the paper, are kept wet
by boys who sponge over the surface this
prevents the ink from sticking, and tho
result is exactly as if the paper had been
printed from the type, and cuts dug out
by the tools of the artist. After litho-
graphic stone has been used for one edition
of the Graphic the pictures on its surface
are rubbed off, and it is ready to have
others transferred for the next days paper
Thirty thousand impressions can be taken
from one stone, and six, eight, ten, or as
many presses as desired can be running at
the same time with duplicate stones. pa
Year: 1873

A farmer named Wright in Kalamazoo
county, Mich, recently proposed marriage
to young lady, was accepted and time
set for the marriage. The man thon backed
out, was sued for q breach of promise, fell
in love with another girl, who promised to
marry him If he could settle the suit 1t
was settled for $500, day set for tho
second wedding, the couple repaired to the
justice, and both stood up to be married,
when the girl concluded she wouldn't. SO
the farmer is still lonely.
Year: 1873

The first locomotive was patented
twenty wears ago. Driving only one
car, If lightly loaded it did very well ;


but when the load it drew was heavi-


er than its own weight, its wheels
would not 6ite-that is, they would
turn round and round without ad-


vancing. Hence cov-catcher was
needed behind to guard against cattle
running into it in the rear. 1t SEEM
ed at first impossible to make a less
weight move agreater on an up grade;
and, for % years afterward, no one
invented an engine able to draw
three times its own weight. At the
present day, however, locomotives
sweep along with trains more pom
derous by Is or % times than they
are themselves. One means OF gain
ing this vast increase Of power for
the locomotive, was by dividing the
load. It was found, that an engine
powerless to stir five times It's weight
Of freight when concentrated in one
car, could readily draw 1t when dis.
tributed in dozen cars loosely shack
led together. It was heavier than
each single car and It had overcome
the inertia of each one, a moment be-
fore il encountered the inertia of an
other. 1t was thus more than match
for each car taken singly and, pull
ling them successfully, It drew after
it train as long as q comet, and the
farther it ran the more strength 1t had
to run further. Here was the story
of little David over again. Ordinari-
ly the stripling's weight, as he told
Goliath, was one hundred and twen-
ty, but whenever he got mad he
weighed ton. Moreover, the en-
gine forced the momentum acquired
By every car it had started, to swell
its own potency IN overcoming the
resistance of all that remained still
motionless.


HThis railroad achievement Una
king q light engine draw a heavy
trainl, if not 50 common would seem
miraculous; and it is analogous to an
expedient for securing q farm which
is equally simple and equally efhca-
cious. It is this: Divide your pay
ments.' Buying, as 4,525 settlers
have bought of the Burlington and
Missouri River Road in Iowa or Ne
braska, within the last three years,
on ten years credit, and at six per
cent. interest, you pay in eleven in
stallments spread over half a life
time,-the first not due till the be-
ginning of the third year. Besides,
every acre you improve adds to your
paying power, as the hesdway of ev-
cry moving car reinforces the tractile
energy of the locomotive"


In purchases made since 1872 moth
ing is due on the principal until the
of the fifty year, and then
only one seventh annually.


'iDiyide and conquer" is the max
i'm of Satan when he sows discord
among brethren. Use it for your
good as Satan will for your harm,
and as Stephenson did to multiply
the magical forces of his immortal
and wOrld-moving locomotive tGet
mad and weigh a ton" Own land
and nobody shall ever own you. Be
your own man
Year: 1873

Postmaster General Creswell estimated the
SAFE OF postal cards for the first half of the year
OF that issue at 100 600 900. The indications now
are that the estimate will fall short. The avidity
with which these cards have been taken foretell
the public feeling in favor Of cheap postage.
Year: 1873

Tho good people Of Connecticut
have determined that there ehrll be
but one capital for the State IN fn.
turc, ard that its name shall be Hart
ford. Now Haven has been laid ont
N tho cold by decisive vote of tho
people Of tho whole State, which is
scarcely large enough to sustain two
cabitals, with their usual extensive
lobby surroundings.
Year: 1873

WEsTCHEsTER.-The erection of new build
ing the Gls Department OF the Catholic Proectory,
to replace the one destroyed by re last July about
to be begun to supply the increasing requirements Of
the institution upon sy de yised to greater
facilities Tor the government Of the chi ldren, for their
sanitary condition.
Year: 1873

A claim agent to-day addressed a
letter to the Commissioner of Pensions,
asking him to send. with as little delay
as possible, a supply of official postage
stamps, to be used by him in his COM
municatious with the office. As these
stamps are for the use OF government
officers only. he was informed that bis
request could not be granted. Some
members Of Congress are under the i'm
preston that they will be supplied with
these stamps, but such is not the case.
Until the law abolishing the ranking
privilege ia repealed members OF Con-
gress will have to use the ordinary
stamp the came as the common herd.
1t will be remembered that one argu.
ment in favor ofthe increase of the pay
of Congressman was that they would
hereafter have to pay their own postage
the same as honest men.


The President


Will probably make a brief trip to
Washington some time next week, for
the purpose OF disposing Of business re-
quiring his personal presence here. 1t
is more than a month since his last
visit.
Year: 1873

A man out in Montana, short time
ago. squatted on another persons land
ard built q small frame shanty. When
requested to move he positively refused
to do so; 80. one night, squad Of men
came around after the squatter and bis
wife were asleep, and lifting the. whole
concern, ebauty and all,..with deliberate
care carried it to the river and set it on
small raft Then they pushed the
raft out into the stream and let ber 60.
When the squatter got up TO 60 out in
the morning, he was surprised to find
himself about sixty miles down stream,
and making good time in nine knot
current. This is all we shall say about
that man. 1t would he extremely i'm
proper to report his remarks in full in
this paper.
Year: 1873

A few days since, while Joseph Sell
by was gathering raspberries, he came
to what he supposed to be a log, and
being somewhat tired, he sat down up
on it to take a; rest, when. much to his
surprise, he commenced moving down
the hill. He was go much frightened,
that he did not know for come time
what was the propelling power, but
when he recovered himself he found that
it WAS monster snake carrying him on
his back. He supposed it to be fifty
or sixty feet long and as thick as his
body. He fell of during the journey,
the snake continuing down into the hol-
low. This snake has been seen by va
rious parties for several years past,
mostly in the raspberry season, but no =
body has enjoyed such an intimate ac-
quaintance with the monster as Mr..
Selby. We would advise everybody to
be on the lookout for this reptllian
monster during the raspberry time
BdruesviNs Enterprise.
Year: 1873




There is probably no business go gem
orally participated in as insurance in
which so little is practically known.
Many think If they insure specified
property for S., 900, and the property is
partially or wholly destroyed, that they
recover the full insurance, regardless
Of the fact that the property destroyed
may not be of half the value. This is
a common error, though Of course con-
fined to the less informed in such mat
tiers. Others carrying a stock varying
in value from S25, 900 to $4,000 and
an insurance for the smaller SUM, sup
pose that in case OF damage by fire,
involving q loss of the greater amount,
they can recover the entire face OF their
policies, when, in truth, the insurance
companies are liable only pro rata for
the loss sustained, II the insurance
policies in solvent companies are drawn
in plain terms for $4,000 they will
cover any loss on stock valued at S3O,-
600 to which they apply up to their full
specification. But ifthey contain what
is known as "the average clause which
reads at is understood and agreed
that claims under this policy shall only
be for such proportion otthe entire loss
as the amount of this insurance bears
to the whole value of the property in
sured," then in case of loss on any part
of $4,000 stock, with $4,000 insu-
rance. the companies will pay five.
sixths OF the loss and the insured will
bear the other sixth himself. These are
pieces OF information well worth hold
ing in remembrance. especially by the
less informed on the subject.
Year: 1873

IT is related OF q model old lady oi
Middlebury, Wis, that a few days ago
she calmly crossed over bridge mark.
ed dangerous" not having perceived
the sign indicating that fact On reach
ing the further side some kind soul
gave her that piece Of information,
whereupon she Immediately turned in
great alarm and recrossed the dreadful
structure.
Year: 1873

An automatic press feeder has at last
been invented, which by the power Of
suction raises the paper sheet by sheet
and passes it unerringly to the grippers.
It will feed anything from 8 railroad
card to the finest tissue paper.
Year: 1873

The most wonderful circumstance
about the Bazaine trial is that the in
dictment will occupy three days in
reading. It forms q series Of volumes
four feet high. Hitherto its vastness
was represented by miles. The mode
of measuring the charges appears to be
all the progress made in the trial
Paris Letter.
Year: 1873

A startling episode Of prison life oc-
CURED yesterday at Sing Sing. in
which the notorious yves" Allen was
the prominent figure. He refussd to &C,
company body Of his fellow convicts
to Auburn prison. enforcing bis arsu-
ments against the transfer with q threat
OF blowing up the entire establishment
by means o! some nitro.glycerine which
he had concealed in his cell. The jail
ers are inclined TO keep at q respectful
distance from this demonstrative gen.
tleman, who sppears to be master Of
the situation Tor the present A pretty
on the discipline Of the
State prison, when convicts are per.
mi,ted to furnish their cells with nitro.
glycerine.
Year: 1873

weighing 1913 pounds, and being nearly six
feet in height, and celebrated for his energy
and perseverance in carrying out any plan
once undertaken. He had been seaman
in the navy, and later an actor, in aemall
way, at minor theatres. 1t has been Said
that he wasted his lite in fool-hardy en-
terprise; one that could have resulted in
no good, even if it had been successful.
Be that as it may be, we still regret he
did not live TO reach our city. The
powers of human endurance have their
limits, and constant exposure to the ever
changing caprice of weather, with its
sun and cloud. cold and rain with its chill
and fever influence, proved too much for
him. His boat was discovered near Plaque
mine, ll0 miles from New Orleans, but no
occupant was visible from the shore. The
little Jennie" that had responded SO
lightly to the touch of the masters oars,
was now drifting in the stream, without
hand to guide. Cloud was found PROSTATE
in his boat, exhausted and very i'll. He
was taken on shore and tenderly cared for
by stranger hands. 1t was evident that he
could not live; his thoughts wandered to
other scenes and other people, and in
twenty:four hours after being taken from
the skiff he breathed no more. He has been
laid to rest near the banks of our great
river. Who can tell the agonies he
must have suffered while drifting
down on it's broad surface, in the lone cold
nights, with no hand to succor or save, bat
tling for life, and striving to row away
from the grim spectre, death9 There is
something pathetic in the appearance of
the little red memorandum book. The last
entries show an unsteady hand. The fever
was upon him. He often spoke of the sing
ing Of birds, and the last words written
were of the ringing of beautiful bells in
the village. Perhaps there are yet loved
friends living who can tell to what scenes
of his boyhood days his mind was wander
ing. He appears then to have given up all
hope. The pencil drops from his nerveless
hand. His oars are shipped forever, and
under the starry sky, and on the bosom of
the calm and quiet river he lies down to
meet bis fate. Poor Cloud who shall say
he was not d hero!
Year: 1873

No matter how obscure the position
in the life of an individual, if he can
read he may at will put himself in the
best society the world has ever seen. He
may converse with all the best writers
in prose ahd poetry. he may reside in
the desert far away from the habitation
of man; in solitude, where no human
eye looks upon him with affection and
interest, where no human tongue cheers
TO read he can never be alone. He may
choose the company and the subject for
ed and happy, intelligent, wise and good
Year: 1873

A Chicago grand jury threw up the
sponge the other day and told the court
that it was no use finding more indict-
ments against criminals, as they were
almost always cleared by the petit jury,
while those who were convicted were
pardoned by the Governor. The court
thereupon rebuked the grand jury, and
said they were presumptuous, but it was
also true.
Year: 1873

A bill is to he introduced into the n
Y. Legislature, providing that when a
murderer is acquitted under the plea Of
insanity, he shall be imprisoned in an
ASYLUM not less than twenty nor more
thirty years.
Year: 1873

At Chicago recently a LADY at church
was seen to bow her head as if in pioas
thought. She suddenly raised 1t and
leaned back against the seat, when an
explosion occurred that shook the build
ing. She had pressed too heavily on an
air cushion hustle.