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Year: 1875

few days ago a woman named Mrs Owens of most
unsavory reputation and just out Of Jail for theft
Quoted herself with such singular devoutness in St
Plus Roman Catholic church, East Newark that she
attracted the attention of young girl OF the congrega-
ton The woman was observed TO pay marked attention


TO the affairs the sanctuary. The matter brought
to the attention Of the sisters of ST. Plus who upon
examination. found that a number Of altar cloths and
ornaments had disappeared from the several aars An
officer duly informed, and he arrested the woman
as she about leaving one OF her visits Nothing
was found on her person, however, but subsequently
the stolen articles discovered In second hand
clothing store, where Mrs Owen had sold them. She
awaits the action of the Hudson county Grand Jury
Year: 1875

AT noon yesterday, as Hannah Williams aged twenty
three years residing No 9Os East Forty fifth street.
engaged in hanging clothes upon pulley line
from the fourth floor of her house, she accidentally
fell Of the window to the yard and was instantly
killed


John Roberts, aged fifteen years the boy WHO
fatally burned at the fire in Elm street on Thursday
afternoon, died yesterday at Bellevue Hospital


At eight O'Clock yesterday morning one of the keep
ers on Blackwels Island found the body Of infant
floating the East River 1t sent TO the Morgue.
Year: 1875

There will be fine game on the Union Grounds this
afternoon when the Athletic and Mutual clubs will play
for the seventh time.


The Fyaways and Concords play to-day the Capito-
line
Year: 1875

This up again yesterday in the courts Tho
seizure Of the property OF the theatre, under the
circumstances already detailed, has given rise to a
yexatous litigation and very injurious to the pro-
pretor The first attachment issued against the property
by Judge Joachimsen of the Marine Court
on the technical ground that Mr.. Hertz who obtained
m attachment against the property, signed his firm
name TO the bond, and also on the ground that the
Deputy Sheriff charge had aoused the process by
acting exorbitant charge for allowing the property
70 remain. Another attachment was got in
read both sides before Judge Donohue in Supreme
Court, Chambers The aflidavts for the defendant
aege that when the seizure made under the sec
ond attachment the officer spoke insultingy 10 Mr..
Stuart for 'giyng him away" The debt IS not de-
MED by defendant but the allegation OF residence
which the attachment granted is traversed and
any danger Of his removing the furniture, he says
his furniture all theatrical and If removed elsewhere
would be worthless Judge Donohue adjourned the
matter 10 Monday when each side will submit ahdavits
the non residence question.
Year: 1875

junior member of the firm of Moler Sons, sugar
refners the ability of the firm to survive its
present difficulties. Business is partially continued
and numerous friends are Offering cooperation The
firm earnestly ask for suspension of opinion until
proper investigation is published.
Year: 1875

Ofncer Larkin, OF the Eighth precinct, about two
O'Clock yesterday morning surprised two burglars IN
the store Of julius Klonkee fur dealer No l34 South
Fifth avenue while they were in the act OF packing
quantity of valuable furs. One OF the burglars sue
ceeded in making his escape by jumping of second
story window, but the officer caught the other as he
was endeavoring TO follow his comrade The prisoner
gave his Frank Collette. He is well known TO
the police a professional burglar, and has formerly
been employed in several fur houses in New York as
clerk and salesman He is expert in the fur trade.
Judge Bixby held him in 81 600 bail to answer
Year: 1875

The Lives Insured by the Society are carefully
elected in different parts of North America and
Europe, furnishing, by this broad field of opera
tions, an additional and exceptional safety to the
Policy y.holders. The assurances are made only on
the Mutual Principle The Surplus Premiums are
returned annually to the assured.
Year: 1875

Young Il oUsEKEEpERs. Mar


riages have been numerous this
year, Notwithstanding the inclement


Spring, and noting the fact the n.


Y. Times halls as a healthy sign of
social life that the young folks are
showing a strong desire to have a
roOftree of their own:


TO hire or buy house, furnish it
in good style, and keep it up, takes
great deal of money nowadays.
The cherry table and care-seat
chair order Of furniture is not popu-
lar with young folks, whatever phil
osOphers and preachers may say.
The cheap and aesthetic order of
architecture is neither fashionable
nor practicable to any degree. We
may as well admit these unpleasant
facts, and look at he subject as we
find it. Nevertheless, every man
who wishes well for his country
and his kind will rejoice to see that
so m any happy beginnings toward
housekeeping and home life are
being made. If, here and there,
bridal trip to Europe rounds off the
pleasant little idyl which precede s
the practical duties of lite, it is
well. Sooner or later, the hum
drum, the mutual forbearance, and
the somewhat trying du ties and re-
lations of married life will begin.
We would not grudge the young
folks the lovely and pleasant men,
cries with which they may start on
their every day round of existence.
This is their Spring, and before
they settle down to the question of
rents, groceries, "help," and the
price of welded bliss, they may as
well have fair store of enjoy ment
at the start. We would be glad to
know that all of the numerous bri.
dial pairs just going out of old
houses were going into houses Of
their own ; that each marriage bell
was ringing in the establishment of
new household. We need more |
homes, home enjoyment. aud family |
sec lusion and sacredness. The
hope of our country, after all, is
not SO much in craftsmanship and |
political management as in the con.
servative influences which flow
from happy, virtuous, and inteIli-
gent hClnes. We are glad to be-
lieve that these influences are not
decaying. The young hOusekeep-
ers are the hope Of the Republic. |
Year: 1875

SPONGING OF NEWSPAPER MEN.


No profession or business is more


beset by dead-heads than the
press, and probably the theatres
come next in the list. No day
passes but an editor is solicited to
give this or that enterprise Il favor
able notice-one day "few lines'
are asked for in behalf Of "Our
church ;" the next an amateur dra-
matte society wants "a real notice,
written in your best style !" anoth.
day John Smith calls and says he
is about to open gin mill { he calls
il a sample room,) and would like a
chang up puff; )" then Rev. DIR. Dry
asdust must have. his sermons re-
ported regularly (; Rev. DIR. Mild de-
sires a special mention made Of his
donation party; Miss Flora Flyaway
drops in with a prettily written per-
s0nal notice; Sam Simlpkins wants
his wife advertised because she ''had
lett his bed and board "and last, on
publication day, when you are extra
busy and have not q moment to
spare, in pops the fellow who bOres
you, in spite of your "gentle hints,"
for half an hour or more with de-
scriptiOn of his apparatus for taking
stings out of bees, and which lie
would like to have noticed to the
extent of half u column, "because it
is of general interest to the public"
Then there is a class of dead heads,
which with the most of the country
press is afflicted, composed Of non
paying subscribers. vast army Of
of dead beats of the first water, who
subscribe for every paper which
will put their name on it's list with
out pay. There should be radical
reformation in this matter; the
sooner it is accomplished the better
it will be for the press, and we will
call upon our brethren to use the ut
most endeavors to squelch the dead.
heads.-Ncw York Era.
Year: 1875

There was once Pennsylvania
legislator who laid by thirty thou
sand dollars in one session. When
he was asked how lie managed with
his salary of one thousand dollars,
he said that he saved it by doing
without a hired girl,
Year: 1875

Three weeks after, there was
trial and an execution. Dark Harry


was criminal. Among the specta'
tors at the latter, were young man
and young woman. AS soon as the
body swung in the air, a shrill peal
of laughter arose from one of the
crowd. 1t was from the female
who, the next moment lay fainting
in the arms of her companion. Jane
was conveyed home. She was re-
stored to consciousness, but her
mind, so highly excited before,
seemed now TO have sunk into a
state of infantile imbecility. Thus
she remained for several days, nay
weeks. A gloom seemed to have
overspread her lovers mind, which
threatened consequences similar to
these under which the being whom
he SO tenderly loved had labored.
He avoided society-he would hard
IL exchange word even with his
mother. He was continually roam
ing about the cliff and the shore,
alone.


One day, as he had thrown him.
self upon the very spot, where, as we
related in the beginning, he had ill.,
truded upon the sluusbers of the ma
niac-revolving the cause which now
utterly absorbed his mind and soul,
and lost to external consciousness
he was startled by something falling
upon his face. He looked up, ana
Year: 1875

A gentleman of fifty-two, who has just returned from a pedestrian tour of some two hundred and fifty miles, writes the following: sz

 I was agreeably disappointed in one thing, which was the entire absence of the professiona1 tramp on the roads that I travelled. My friends were very solic- itous about my safety on account of them, and advised me to take con- panion or to go well armed. I did neither, although, from the daily news paper accounts of their depredations, there was good reason for apprehension. "A few days before I started a paragraph stated that New Hampshire was swarm ing with tramps. confess then felt 8 little squeamish. To my great astonish- ment, however, met not a tramp in all my peregrinations. I heard from them, however, both in New Hampshire and Vefmoptsw they had burglariously entered two. houses adjacent to those of my mformants. When caught in the former State, they were severely dealt with. The vagrant act is vigorously carried out there. My impression is that they modestly retired from the "vulgar gaze of the multitude" by. day, and per uAAUeAnDou " AA6uy'h AA0pAAoA NAoOOFOAy I have made, and that is that the account of journey is liable to be almost as long as the journey itself hence I must apologize for these extended notes. T will bring them to a speedy close now, however, by briefly saying that the tour has been. notwithstanding the wet and hot weather, 8 very satisfactory one, and from which I have derived much benefit, both mentally and physically. My sleep was better on the second week, and kept improving as I progressed on my jour ney and I am thoroughly convinced that if I had persisted long enough-say 8 couple of months instead of two weeks T should have pretty we'll got rid of my ailment. I have been more hearty and robust ever since, with much i'm proved health, and the general result has been so satisfactory that when another opportunity offers shall "take to the road again. sso.ss7 .Fs -.-zsts
Year: 1875

This is a Louisville love story:
Christopher Best began to love a
girl when he was only seventeen
years old. This was in 1874


He was a barber, and although


the girl loved him, his calling
seemed to her barrier to their
union. Therefore he decided to
die. Alter listening to her final
refusal to wed, be sent an uncon-
monty large bullet into his brain.
But he did not die. In great ago.
ny he survived, and endured
many painful surgical operations.
Recently, while the doctors were
reaching in with probes through
the opening of his skull, picking
out pieces of bone and opening alb
they found the bullet and
took it out. Thenceiorward he
improved in health, and the girl,
melted by his suffering, is going to
marry him, notwithstanding he
will be a barber again when be
gets well enough.
Year: 1875

A medical journal published in
Cleveland addresses the following
queer query to the profession:


QUERY Has any physician
ever seen or treated bald-head-
ed comsumpiive?'


We should say that there must
be, and that there must have been,
bald headed consumptives; yet the
fact that doubt is thrown over
the existence of such persons by
a medical journal would seem to
show that they are not So COM
mon,as to be within the knoWl.
edge of every physician. We our
selves have not, Of course, seen as
many sufferers from the malady
in question as have come under
the observation of some doctors;
but we can not at this moment
think of any one Of those we have
seen who was bald-headed. Con-
sumption is q disease that preys
upon old people as we'll as young
and middIe.aged people; and we
suppose its victims are subject to
the ordinary laws that regulate
the growth of hair. If not, why
not?
Year: 1875




The ROSebud'S Moral.
A rosebud in the garden lay,
Hiding all its sweetness from the dav:
Its crimson leaves were olded fast,
Though sunbeams softly Ger it cast
Their golden glory, and the breeze
Sang of a thousand sights that please;
But ripping rain at length apart
Drew the green vestures from his heart
And left it smiling in the sun,
To life and love and beauty won.
Trembled the trees, the wind waxed high
Swepta fierce storm across the sky,
The lightning like sword blade cleaned
From the dark cloud torrent streamed
And soon the radiant leaves empearled
Were scattered DER the weeping world.
True love is like a silver shower
That fills with light the summer hour!
But passion like tempest sweeps
All lOveliness 10 darksome deeps.
Bright heart of boyhood, ponder long
The meaning Of this simple songl
Year: 1875

Glasgow Times: The condi-
tion of the religious pasto-ate OF
Glasgow is just now shaky, ana
doesn't reflect that credit upon
the religious element that is SO
greatly to be desired. The BAp-
tist, Christian and Methodist pull
pit are vacant, ard the Presbyte-
rian minister is hanging on the
ragged edge of a starvation salary.
A to whose duty is undiScharged,
whether clergy or laity, we have
no positive knowledge, but the
presumption is that the financial
feature of gospel support is more
infinitely blended with the mys-
terry than is wholly pleasant.-
Ministerial support is Christian
duty, aid that people who mig
gardly swing to the almighty dol
lar when their pastor is poorly
paid and is driven to secular avo-
cation or other fields of labor, will
find the gate to heaven very
straight and The way exceedingly
beset with obstacles. True reli-
gion makes man supple with
charity and slop over with gener.
oSity. The laborer is worthy of
his hire, and the man who de-
frauds d minister Of his fairly-earn-
ed money will find himself knock
ing hiO kneess together and his
teeth chattering on the outside
in the great hereafter.
Year: 1875

Notwithstanding the public well


know the fact, we repeat again


here that while we hold that the


present National Bank notes
make better circulating medium
by far than the issues of the old
State Banss, we do not favor
their continuance, as they are not
entirely satisfactory currency.


The greenback is very much
better-although it is as yet only
partial Observation-Disclosures
as it has all the virtues of bank
note, and saves to the people in
terest TO the amount of about
twenty million dollars annually,
which would otherwise be added
to like amount now unwisely
paid to the banks on bonds pledg.
ed for the security of National
Bank notes used by the people,
and which are about equal in vol.
ume to the greenbacks.


We oppose the issue ofcurrency
by banks for the reason that no
benefit can possibly accrue to the
people therefrom to balance the
cost by way of interest paid by
the people on the bonds pledged
for its security. This bank cir
culation ought to he replaced by
National paper money tokens,
thus saving the interest on these
bonds held as security for the pay
ment of bank.n0;e currency.
Year: 1875

@ The Georgia editors are
all trying to prove that they are
ali trained Journalists" The
Rome Courier truthfully observes
in this connection, "we have new
er seen a newborn editor that
didn't know more Of the business
in six months than a journalist in
thorough training could learn in
ten years. They are a class of
men with few exceptions, who
can be learned nothing from the
experience of others. They know
it all al the beginning and require
no more training than to be u doc
tor or lawyer. Why, they
wouldn't 60 to school if they had
the opportunity
Year: 1875

1t is the popular belief that
lightning will not strike a beech
tree. In arecent thunder show
er at Goshen, Mass, a beech
and maple standing near togeth-
er, with branches interlocking
each other, received the electric
bolt, which shattered the maple
and passed into the earth
through a PROSTATE hemlock
tree lying near, which was
stripped Of its bark nearly the
whole length. No trace Of
the lightning was left upon the
beech.
Year: 1875

The Duchess Of Marlborough
had relative commonly called
Jack Spencer, who was a very
eccentric character. One of his
whimsical freaks was to take a
hackney coach with three friends
in a dark evening, and order
the man to set them down in a
gloomy part of the Strand at
the side of the new church. =
He had previously opened the
door opposite to that where the
coachman waited, and as Spen-
Ger and his friends quilted the
coach on one side, they went
around and entered on the
other.


The coachman was at first
surprised that more had issued
from the carriage than he had
taken in. AS they continued
TO go round and come out, he
became dreadluiIy alarmed, and
at length his terror was so great
that he ran from the coach, and
rushed into the first public
house, telling the people there
he must have taken in Il legion
Of devils: for. he added. with
every sign Of horror, that he
had taken in only four, but had
counted eighteen out, and that
more were coming when he left
the coach.


1t is said that he once con-
trlved to collect a party Of
hunchbackef men to dine with
him, some Of whom Indignantly
quilted the table. Another
whimsical party which he as
semblcd at his house consisted
merely Of a anumber Of persons,
all Of whom suffered; but this
meeting at first threatened scri-
Gus consequences, as each sup
posed he was Knocked by the
other and it was with great diff
ficulty that their host restored
peace by acknowledging the lu-
dicrOuS purpose OF his invita-
tiCn.
Year: 1875

A Tennessee girl told a fellow
she would give him a kiss if he
would catch her. She ran we'll
till she got out of sight of the old
folks, and then gave IN. This
shows what a Tennessee girl will
do when she's hard run.
Year: 1875

jets, others with yak lace; others with embroideries; and the waists were short in back with sashes, and had what are called apron fronts and leng pointed sides. There were also sleeveless jackets, composed entirely of black silk velvet, and laid in alternate stripes; others of fine silk ribbon and lace.

 The different materials were sometimes arranged perpendcularly, and sometimes dlagonally, and horizontally, but however arranged were all lovely enough to tempt the most economical damsel 10 extrava- gance. The display in the millinery department could not have failed to satisfy the most particular. Most of the bonnets were chips, following the prevailing mode; they are made to be worn high on the head while the English walking hats, which are decided feature of this season. arc to be worn low. One of the handsomest hats was black french chip adorned with bias bands of cardinal colored silk entwined with the pearl white brocade silk. Against exquisite knots of these two materials were fastened great punches of cursh roses, wheat and mignonetts; the full trimmings being folds and bows of the silk, the one falling little lower than the other. But the most startling combination that could have emanated from no other than French ingenuity, was black chip hat with the brim broad, high and yet Idrooping, and beneath which is a wreath of great Scarlet poppies, that will encircle the head of the wearer except immediately in front, where is an immense bow of maize colored silk. A second bow of yet greater magnitude is placed in the center of the crown and forms tte only outside garnture. Another black chip, which was very beautiful, was trimmed with black thread lace and white turquois silk at the back fell long ends of white ribbon, and short ends of black velvet edged with thread lace a cluster of white hyacinths and tiny blossoms of the same color was placed at the front together with spray of green leaves with crimson .dgvs, on the inside of the brim was repeated the white and black of the outer trimming, tho roll being of black ve.vet, and the shirring of white silk. yelled by delicate meshes of thread lace. A white chip was trimmed with twilled silk ribbon having very long streamers behind; the edge was bound with dark brown silk velvet; large cluster of wheat and scarlet peoples was held in its place by gilt ornament in front; bow and braiding was placed on the inside, and a wreath of wild grapes and poppi:s ran along the brim. A great knot of white and cardinal red brocade looped up the brim of black lace bonnet on the lett side on the top of the crown lie buds and blossoms of narcis- sus and poppy. Another very quiet but elegant hat was pearl colored chip, with a cable of brown and pearl colored ribbon | twisted around the crown, and pearl colorcd feather and paradise plumes placed on the side with few daisies at the back and under the brim. The flowers eclipse any that have ever before been presented to the pubic, and are so perfectly exquisite as to charm the most indifferent. w. Worchester, April l7th, 1875.
Year: 1875

THE STARVATION OF HANGING.-Havlng attempted to hang himself, but having been prematurely cut down, young gen tleman of Paris has survived to give An ac- count of his sensations ''As kicked away the chair and fell, had the sensation of receiving blow from a hammer on the top of my head. l did not feel the rope, and the only defined sensation sue ceeding that of the blow was a sensation of weight in my head. My head seemed heavier and bigger than the great bell of Notre Dame. It was night all about me, and then there came terrible cold in the lower part of my body, and then a sharp pain where tho rope was tearing my neck, {, and then-nothing."