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Year: 1871

Congress Yesfcrday-Eud Of the Dominican


Controversy -IuternaI improvements.


The Dominican joint resolution passed yes
terday through Its last legislative stage, the
Senate having, after three hours debate,
concurred unanimously in the House amend
ment precIuding the idea Of the government
being bound to the acquisition of the republic
OF Dominica. We have no doubt that the
country at large will be gratifed that this much
vexed question has been at last renewed from
the Congressional arena, and that both houses
will now be free to attend to the ordinary and
necessary business of legislation. The sue
cess of the administration thus far in the mat
ter Of the commission is said to be no real indi-
cation Of the sentiment Of either house on the
simple question Of annexation, inasmuch a.
republican Senators and members voted for
the commission, as harmless and not very
costly affair, who would, nevertheless. oppose
to the last extremity the policy of annexation.


The proceedings in the House yesterday
presented no features Of public interest. A
bill for the collection and publication of con-





countries was passed, and another bill for the
more careful transportation Of cattle by rail-
road was discussed and laid over till to-
morrow. The death of Mr.. Covode, Of Penn
sylvania, was announced, and a committee
appointed to attend his funeral. Then the
House went into Committee of the Whole,
and, after long discussion, made large ap-
preparations for continuing the work on the
Louisville and Portland Canal and on the Des
Moines Rapids. The consideration of the Le-
gislative Appropriation bill developed very
smart practice of the small newspapers
throughout the country which are designated
by the Clerk of the House for publishing the
laws of Congress-that is, to procure from the
public printing Office at Washington the few
score or few hundred pamphlet copies of the
laws required to furnish each subscriber with
copy, and thus, at very triling expense,
become entitled to the pay allowed for
advertising. It was Nevada paper that was
found to have adopted this plan, but it is un-
derstood that the same thing has been going
on all over the country. The Committee on
Appropriations made an effort tQ have the law
Repealed which facilitated this trick by allow
ing copies of public documents to be obtained
at cost price, but very strong opposition to
that was developed, led by the chairman Of the
Printing Committee, and the proposed repeal
was defeated, so that Congressional sanction is
given to this swindle. To be sure, if it is de-
sired that the laws shall be published, it is
better to have them in pamphlet form rather
than diluted through the columns of weekly
newspapers but the real question, and which
does not seem to have been touched upon in
the debate, is, What possible use is such sort
capitalization at all? 1t helps to deplete the
Treasury and to keep up feeble party news
papers. Only that and nothing more.
Year: 1871




to pay off loans before they are due. All this
doctrine is in conflict with the stupid and in
terested cry which has prevailed among US 80
long that we can only appreciate our public
credit by keeping up cur taxation to the
utmost. The exact contrary is the truth, the
plain truth, the whole truth, and nothing but
the truth, 80 help us the first rules Of arithme-
tic! It is truth which, az we have said, we
should like to write up in letters Of fire all over
the land truth 80 plain, indeed, that the poll
tician who will not learn 1t might we'll deserve
to be thrown into the FIRE in which it was
written, as not having the brains which entitle
him to longer existence In tho midst Of ra-
| tional mankind.


The practical and urgent inference from all
this is that we should reconsider from the very
foundation our present plan of action with re-
gard to the relation Of taxation and the pay
ment Of the debt. We have furnished the de-
cisive key to the right solution. To overtax,
beyond immediate need, to pay of debt pre-
maturely is in reality to increase the burden Of
debt. We should adopt the simple rule OF
paying off debt out of legitimate surplus
namely, that which accrues in yearly income
out of taxes imposed only to meet current ne
cesaties, but which overtop expenditure by
the necessary expansion Of the country. Such
has been the plan of Great Britain notoriously
the best ordered country financially. whatever
Year: 1871

'sHAzlNe" AT WEST Poru.-Tha Military
Academy at West Point should certainly set
the example of aboaishing forever the brutal
custom Of ''hazng" which still fingers dis
gracefully in our colleges. This custom, more
honored in the breach than tha observance, ia
glaringly unbecoming to any one who is sup
posed to be learning 70 be IAN officer and q
gentleman" 1t is Lynch law, without the
pretext which rough frontier life sometimes
affords for putting that into execution. The
Superintendent Of the West Point Academy
very justifably launched q general order on
Tuesday against what he stigmatizes as s.mob
law" The condemnation of all the members
Of the first class to confinement within
marrow limits at the post end derivation d
Year: 1871

Generation after generation, says a
fine writer, "have felt as we now feel,
and their lives were as active as our
own. They passed like vapor, while ma
ture wore the same aspect of beauty as
when her Creator commanded her to be.
The heavens shall be as bright over our
graves as they are now around our
paths. The world will have the same
attractions for our offspring yet unborn
as she had once for our children. Yet in
little while all will have happened.
The throbbing heart will be stilled, and
all will be AZ rest Our funeral will
wind its way; and prayers will be
said, and then we shall be left alone in
silence and in darkness for the worms.
And, it may be, for short time We
shall be spoken of, but the things Of the
world will creep in, and our names will
soon be forgotten. Days will continue
to move on, and laughter and song will
be heard in the room in which we died;
and the eyes that mourned for US will be
dried, and glisten again with joy, and
even our children viii cease to think Of
us, aud will not remember to lisp our
names" ra
Year: 1871

1t Never Rains but HI FOurh.


The adage that it never rains but it
pours was strikingly illustrated by a
tide of misfortune which overlook lady
of this city and her relatives Of other
localities, widely separated. A short
time ago the lady, who resides in Hart
ford, was violently thrown from car
riage near the tunnel, the horse being
frightened by the screech of the locomo-
tive. She luckily escaped serious injury,
although being considerably bruised.
The following week, on Monday, sister
in a neighboring town was very badly
scalded One arm and one side Of her
person were terribly burned. The next
day a brother-in-law, living in Water
bury, had narrow escape. Through
carelessness, or from some other cause,
a Jar of vitriol on a shelf was upset, and
a part of the contents was discharged
full upon the broad brim of his hat,
which fortunately prevented serious
damage. A man who stood by his side,
not being protected by such hat, was
quite severely injured A few days after
this string of accidents, letter came
from Northern New York, stating that
still another brother-in-law was miracu-
lousy saved from death on the Wednes-
day following the other occurrences. 1t
appears that the latter went into the
woods with an OK team for the purpose
of drawing wood. While there he be-
came wedged in by the falling of large
log, between the loaded sled and the
heavy stick Of timber. If his cattle had
started it must have killed him, as he
found it impossible, although power
full man, to extricate himself. Thanks
to the timely arrival of neighbor, who
happened to be passing through the
woods, he was rescued alive, though
badly bruised. Times.
Year: 1871

A runaway couple in Delaware were
about being married, when the stern
parent put in an appearance. Friends
interfered and argued the case with him
till the ceremony was completed in an
adjoining room.
Year: 1871

herds that are sent out to forage for
themselves in winter. Winter The
names seems misnomer here. There
has not been day since the middle of
November that it has not been a luxury
to be out Of doors. For a day or two
about Christmas indoor life was rather
uncomfortable, because of our limited
provisions for temperature below fifty.
Year: 1871

Two of His Victims in the Hospital.


The bloodiest affair that has ever occur
red in the neighbOrhood of Memphis, was
enacted on board of the Sussie Silver, ly-
ing at our wharf Monday night. At a
late hour number of white men were sit
ting around the stove TO keep themselves
warm. One of the number named John
son got up to go to bed, and told another
white man to take his seat. Before, how
ever, the white man had time to sit down,
hideous looking negro named Owen,
with face like a large eOcoanut, and lips
similar to sides of rusty bacon, planked
himself right in the chair. This sort of
indignity and insult could not be borne by
people with much less spirit than those to
whom it was offered. A quarrel ensued.
The negro pulled out big knife and pro-
ceeded to carve unfortunately.


He cut one man in the breast right oyer
the heart, he nearly severed the thigh OF
another man, and cut and hacked a third
in all directions. HecOmmenced the busi-
ness without ceremony and carried it on
with such vigor that there was no pOssi-
bility of stopping him until the damage
was done; and, had not the knife slipped
out of his hand, it is within the range OF
possibility that he would have killed at
least half dozen men. He is certainly
the most sanguinary being of the human
mould that ever sailed on the Mississippi.
He was arrested and locked up in the
Adam street station house. The names OF
the injured parties are Pat. Ryan, Thomas
Halligan and George Ross. Two of them
are in the city hospital. The murderous
negro is now in jail, having failed to pro-
cure three thousand dollars bond before
the recorder yesterday morning
1ItjS appeal, 18th.
Year: 1871

TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN Russia
Difficulty having been experienced in Rus
sia in obtaining skilled labor for the con-
stTuction and management of the different
railway services, the subject of technical
education is engaging the attention of the
Government. To Obviate the need Of
foreign labor, the Minister of Travel has
written to the different boards of direction
to suggest that all railway companies
should subscribe sum, calculated accord
ing to the scale of their mileage, which
should be devoted to the organization of
schools, by means of which strictly tech
nical education might hereafter supply
the country with the kind of skilled labor
in which it is now so deficient. This APP
peal met with an immediate response. A
capital of I55, 900 roubles has already been
subscribed. These schools viii be presided
over by representatives from the Boards of
Direction Of the different railway compa-
nies, at the same time that they will be os-
tensibly under State management.
Year: 1871

The japanese troupe did not disappont
the expectations of the management or the
audience at the Academy of Music last eve
ming. They had a splendid run at the Mo-
bile Theatre, as may be judged from the
fact that over seventeen hundred persons
attended the matinee Saturday. Their sue
cess in New Orleans will he even mere
Year: 1871

SMoTuERED IN WHEAT BIN.-Alfrcd
A. Rose, lad of II years, son Of the head
miller in an Ogdeusburg Touring mill, met
his death by smotherin2 in a wheat bin
lately. The Ogdcnsburg Journal says: !,


s'phe wheat bins Of the mill are about
twenty feet deep, and it happened that
they were drawing grain from the one in
which young Rose lost his life at the time
of the accident. lie had gone to the mill
lott with some other boys. He jumped into
the bin for the purpose Of getting some
wheat, thinking TO climb out by a ladder
built upon the posts on one side OF
the bin, but was drawn into the cur
rent produced by the grain going
toward the spout from which the wheat
was. delivering. When the other lads saw
him disappear from sight they ran below
and gave the alarm. The spout was closed
at once, and some of the men ran up
to the loft and descended into tie bin, but
their search was unavailiDg. the lad hay-
ing disappeared from sight. Seeing the
difficulty, the spouts OH the opposite side
of the bin were opened, and about four
thousand bushels of wheat run out upon
the warehouse floor before the body was
recovered. The first thing discovered was
tip-end Of finger, when it was ascer-
tained that he was standing upright, with
both hands raised above his head. From
the time be disappeared under the grain
until his body was recovered was fully
twenty minutes, and life was entirely eX.
tinct. His mouth and nostrils were filled
with wheat. He was 4 tine, promising lad,
loved by all who knew him.
Year: 1871

The New COUNCIL CHAMBER.-The new
Council Chamber, IN Washington Hall, Is
fast approaching completion, and will be
ready for occupation on Monday evening,
when the regular meeting of the Council
will be held. The room is quite commodi-
Gus, and the members will be made more
comfortable in every respect in their new
quarters than heretofore. A handsome
new carpet has been purchased by the COM
mittee for the inside, and outside the rail-.
ing considerable part OF the room set
apart for spectators ,b Is neatly covered with
the old Council Chamber have been re.
moved to the new, and the committee have
been careful In all other respects to render
the expense of the change as small rs pvs-
sible. -..
Year: 1871

TEMPERANCE SKRMoS.-Rey. Henry Wall,
DID,, will deliver sermon on the subject
OF temperance on Sunday evening next ut
St. Joints Chulch. This appointment is
in accordance with a purpose of the tenn
perancc men Of Church and Union Hills to
request the pastors OF The various churches
in The eastern part OF. the city to aid them
in the good work.
Year: 1871


If the Democratic party is
"dead" such papers as the
Cleveland Herald regard it as
a mighty lively "corpse,;" for
that paper warns its brethren
that "the campaign in this
State this fall is to be no boys
play" We think the "count
OUT in October will satisfy all
Republicans that the Herald
was about right.
Year: 1871

The citizens Of Saltwater and Hud
son are having a lively quarrel over the
construction of Railroad bridge across
Lake St. Croix, at the latter place
Judge Mcclure granted temporary
injunction to restrain the building OF
the bridge, but the Construction Co.:
went on with the work under cover of
night. Their proceedings so cxasperatcd
the Saltwater people that they raised il
force and went down with seven steam
boats to tear the bridge down.


The injunction case was transferred
to the L. 5. Circuit Court and an ap-
plication made for an attachment against
the Il. r. men for Contempt, which has
finally been withdrawn, and there the
matter new rCstr
Year: 1871

THE Supreme Court Of the State Of
Massachusetts: composed Of six wise
Judges, has decided that Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe cannot fill the Office of
Justice of the Peace in that State, and
that Mary i. Stevens has no right to
the olGce4of Notary Public. The big
gcst louglcad Of male to be found
among the rocks of that highly cultured
State, would answer we'll enough for
either office. A person has no business
to be born female if she wants to be
recognized as citizen. Sex is every
thing-scnse nothing.
Year: 1871

IT now seems morally certain that
Mrs. Fair, the California murderess
will be hung. Great efforts have been
made by her counsel and others to Sc.
cure a new trial, but to no purpose
She is beautiful, fascinating, guilty
woman, but before this last act she wa!
no worse than the man sho shot
Hanging will neither do her nor th,
world any good.
Year: 1871

ANOTHER break in the falls at St.
Anthony last week, occasioncd tenn
porary suspension Of work in some of
the mills. Repairs are rapidly being
made and work will soon be resumed.
There is likely to be much difficulty of
this kind in future, owing to the soft
ness of the sub strata of rocks. But
money and pluck arc just as good as
hard rock and Minneapolis has both.
Year: 1871

Habits of scorn and contempt are based
in and grown out of an inordinate self
righteousness the hoIier-than-thou "
principle. 1t is very far removed from
that humility which dislrusts its own pow
ers, and hence seeks alliance with power
above; and SO; by the operations of self
righteous instinct, it gEavitates toward a
cOalescing with the very evil which, at the
outset, it affected to scorn and treat with
contempt.
Year: 1871

A SCIENTIFIC QURsT1oN SETTLED.-
It is common belief even among practi.
cal jewellers, that as the diamond being
harder than anything else on earth, can
be cut with nothing but diamond dust, so
it cannot be broken by anything composed
of softer material. A few days since a
diamond setter employed by San Fran
'cisco jewelel, while discussing this propo.
sition with fellow workman, took up a
diamond worth 5000, belonging to a
sharp lawyer of this city, which he had
just been resetting, and TO demonstrate
the truth thereof tapped it smartly on
. the face with a hammer. The stern logic
of fact knocked his time. honored theory
higher than kite, and lawsuit is likely
to grow out Of this discussion of a scien
tifc question. It will be highly satisfac-
tory to the scientific world and outsiders
generally TO know that the question is
practically settled.-S. F. Ballctin.
Year: 1871

Men who have lived and travelled west Of the Missis


sppi and who thoroughly informed in relation .
the climate soil and general advantages and disadvan-
tages of Northern Wisconsin agree that in carefully
weighing and considering the natural aids to man 5
pleasure and prosperity the balance heavily in favor
of that country between the central line of the state
and Lake Superior No disputes that there 5
more fertile land IN a given numher OF in Iowa
or Minnesota than may he found in Northern WIscou
sin but the value of the pine lands the vau of tha
water powers, the value of the mlnt raj p0SI, au8
The quantity of valuable stone, than oprasre
for the lack of fertility in the lands conlps tg
wealth enumerated. By consulting plats It ia Laui
Office, and by information derived from laud lockers
and surveyors find that the proportion of agrlcu


tural and marsh land in Northern Wisconsin is just
about right tor the maintenance of prosperity to
age humanity. Iowa and Minnesota have millions of
of the choicest farming lands miserable winter
climate, intolerabe winds the entire year, few and in
terior water powers and scarcity of timber North
ern Wisconsin has fair proportion OF rich able soil
divided and Interspersed with the best pine timber,
frequent and magnificent water-powers, immense
eral deposits and one of the most equitable climates
on earth. Which locality is eventually to secure to
its inhabitants the greatest prosperity and happiness?
To the unprejudiced bserver there be but
Northern Wisconsin, within few years, will
receive money from her mineral deposits alone,
than will Minnesota and Iowa from their combined
amount on their staple production, wheat. To the
Homestead settler the who wishes to open large
farms would say--examine by personal observation
w
fore locating Of the Mississippi in that land Of
tornadoes and grasshoppers.


The foregoing statement by an exchange
is worth consideration. The steady pro-
gress of railways toward Northern Wis
consin offers many good inducements to
native and foreign, and is al
ready exciting inquiry 1t is but just ex
pectation that the lines now. building, Or
soon to be built, will attract their proper
ton of the incoming, ever increasing tide
OF immigration and that few years, i'll
fact very few, will see fine farms, and
populous towns where there is now only a
wilderness. Population follows the railway
lines. The lines 10 be built in Northern
Wisconsin Will surely settle and cultivate
that part of the state.
Year: 1871

Duluth May 3rd 1871.
Editor Times, SUPERIOR


Supposiug you all interested in anything con
cerning the progress of the so-called canal | would
remark for the benefit Of those who have not heard
the latest that up the present writing the qfair is
failure t:i3 northeaster having entirely blocked it up
yesterday morning five feet of water in the most
shallow spot to be found Remarks similar to the
following may be heard quite often Superior street
this P ~: Another ten thousand dollars gone and
nothing TO show for it." e. WARD MILL
Year: 1871

The Philadelphia Day in late editorial
justly says:


The press is to blame for the prur;epcy of public
taste, and there ought to be whiff.ing denial OF
responsibility However public taste may have dete
rorated it is not too l. purify lnd eXat it. The
press reaches thousands every day the week. Dl-
rected the conservation of public morals what limit
could be fixed to its influence for good? Its leverage
is simply immense. 1t reaches down the very
datons of society and up the capstone well 1t
has for its tulcrum the appetites which minister to
mental and moral growth and it rests with the men
who WELD this lever decide whether that growth
shall be natural and healthy.


The above is the unadulterated truth,
and is it not singular that more of our pub
lie journals do not see and acknowledge 1t ?
But it is too much the fashion for the news
paper to boast of its power and influence
and then turn around and deny that che,
broadcast publication of the vile and evil
things of society, has anything to do with
the present deprivation Of public morals.
With the Day we say let there be no
"whif1llng denial of sponsibilify" i'll this
matter.
Year: 1871

MAPS showing in what districts certain
diseases are most prevalent are now appear
ing. Heart disease is thus geographically
set forth in England. Science has also
mapped the currents of the ocean, and the
progress of storms. 1t would seem tha


everything is yet to have its place defined
and that the time will come when men ac-
cording to thei" looks, disposition, health
and peculiarities' will be told by scientific
departments of government, to go to such
place, engage in such pursuit, and work,
talk, eat and sleep, by time table till they die
by expiration of contract instead of breath.
Year: 1871

HEAVY TRAvEL.-The trains from the east
continue to be filed to overtio wing Rail
roai men inform Us that never In The his
tory OF the State has travci been So heavy
or continuous at this season OF the year.


The class ot travel now flowing toward the
State consists of business men and people
coming INTO the State to find permanent
hom .: Il being tull a month too early for
tie ree .ilar Sammer pleasure travel TO set
ilI.--.W PtHL P.gneer
Year: 1871

What is the best mode of pro-
tecting the throat from colds
where a person is very suscep-
tible to them The common
way of protecting the throat Is
to bundle and wrap it up close,
ly, thus overheating and rem
dering it tender and sensitive,
end more liable to colds and
inflammation than before. This
practice is all wrong, and re-
suits in much evil. Especially
is the case with children, and
when, in addition to the mnf-
fling of the throat, the extremi-
ties are insufficiently clad, as is
often the case, the best possi-
ble conditions are presented
for the production of sore
throats, coughs, Group and all
sorts of throat and lung affec-
tions. tits very wrong to ex.
clude cold air from the neck,
and if it is overheated a portion
of the time, when it is exposed
some form of disagreement of
the throat will be apt to occur.
The rule in regard to clothing
the neck should be to keep it
as cool as comfort will allow.
In doing so you will suffer
much less from throat ailments
than if you are always fearful
of having a little cold air como
in contact with the neck, ANY;
one who has been accustomed
to have his throat muf1ed
should be careful to leave off
gradually, and not all at once.
II Herald Of Health.