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Year: 1872

A PERSIAN TALI.-There was once a
prince. who having been much displeased
with one Of his mobiles, determined TO punish
him. The prince commanded that he
should be shut up in high tower. Into
this tower there was only one entrance.
which was walled up Immediately after the
nobleman had been placed there. Thus
all hope Of escape seemed to be cut of.
and the unhappy man was left to perish.
Inside the tower there was long wind
ing staircase. by which the prisoner reach
ed the top. While looking down from
there he observed his wife, who had come.
iudulging . faint hope that she might be
able. by some means or other, to aid her
husband in escaping from his place of con-
6nement. On inquiring if she could be
Of any service to him, he replied: "Oh.
yes; 60 and procure black beetle. lit
tic grease, a skein Of silk, a skein of twine,
and long rope" The poor wife hasten
ed to obtain what her husband asked for.
wondering. no doubt. at the straugeness
Of his request. She soon re,urned, fur
nished with the things. Her husband
then directed her to pu, the grease on the
beetles head. to fasten the silk to its hind
leg. the twine TO the silk. and the rope tC
the tuine. aud then to place the beetle on
the wall Of the tower. On being set n
liberty on the wall. the beetle-smelling
the grease on its head. and not being abls
to discover where il vas. crept up the tow.
er in search Of il. till it arrived at the top
The nobleman caught ID. and taking th,
silk from its hind leg. carefully drew i
up When he came to the end Of th,
silk. he found the twine, and next b
came to the rope. Fastening shis 10
crook. he let himself dsvn, and thus mad
his escape.
Year: 1872

EEA retired governess says: 81 am
one of those whose lot in life has been to
get out into an unfriendly world at an
early age : aud Of nearly twenty families
in which made my home in the course Of
thirty years. there were only three that
could be designated as happy families -
The source of trouble was not so much
the lack of love as the lack ofcare TO mum
Isst IT," The closing words of this SEN
tence give us the fruitful source Of family
alienation. Of heartaches innumerable, Of
sad faces and gloomy home circles.
Year: 1872

In an article on recent fair in that city,
the editor Of a Macon paper says a brother
editor took valuable premium, but an un-
kind policeman made him put it right back
where he took it from. .
Year: 1872

Connecticut is excited because young
lady of Branford has been caught at robbing
the mails Why, bless the unsophisticated
nutmeg heart, this is what women have been
persistently doing ever since Eve robbed
Adam of his share of Paradise. i .-
Year: 1872

Algernon Swinburne is about to break a
lance with his critics, and will shortly dissect
them in publication to be entitled ''Under
the Microscope" He is determined that
Charles Reade shall not enjoy monopoly of
that sort of advertising. OH
Year: 1872

The people who have been burnt out of
house and home by the eruptions of Vesuvius
are told by scientific gentlemen to console
themselves with the reflection that if it had mt
been for the volcanic explosion coming as op-
portunely as it did they might very possibly
have had an earthquake which would perhaps
have broken nearly all their chinaware.
Year: 1872

A young lady had her nice summer dress
set on fire by spark from an engine on
Monday, and was consequently very much
put out. Moral-Don't wear infammable
gauzy fabrics in railway trains. sI
Year: 1872

Those Amherst professors are fearfully ma
licious fellows; they have to keep awake
through their own sermons, and won't let
anybody else sleep in peace. The other day
one OF them cried out, in the middle of a
gently soporific discourse, "Wake up that
young manp' and half the students and fac
ulty woke up the other half, not knowing, of
course, which was the young man meant,
and some of them did not get any more sleep
that morning.
Year: 1872

SuPPAOhASHSaA SupplemenIaf1eSs


GENEVA, June 21.-It is believed that
supplementary articles to the treaty upon
a totally new case from the one submitted
by Earl Granville are now the subject of
negotiations. The chances for satisfactory
issue are believed to be increasing.


u s. G.-SncOnditiOnaI Surrender OF


Grant.


WASHINGTON, June 21.-Itis reported
and believed that the arbitrators have
avoWed an opinion that the indirect
claims are not a subject for the
award of money damages, and it is under
stood that in view of this declaration the
American agent and counsel will not press
further our claims of that character.


SemI.ORicIaI.


From the latest reliable information re-
ceived here, there is no reason to believe, as
stated in recent Geneva telegram, that
supplementary articles to the treaty of
Washington, on a totally new basis from
the one submitted by Earl Granville, are
now the subject of negotiation between the
British and American Governments. On
the contrary, there is truth in the allega-
ton in some quarters at Geneva, that at
the next meeting of the arbitrators an an
nOuncement will be made that the ques-
ton of indirect damages is settled.
There is the best reason for believ-
ing that at their brief session on the 10Th
inst. the Arbitrators decided that such
claims cannot properly come before them,
and they must therefore be excluded. On
this announcement being formally made on
the 26th inst, it is not apprehended that
there will be any further difficulty in pro-
ceeding with the business under the treaty.
1t is thought here that the additional arti-
Gle to the treaty is now rendered unneces-
sary, and will accordingly be altogether
withdrawn from the controversy.
Year: 1872

On the evening of the 9th of March, af-
ter dinner, he felt an oppression of breath
and desired to go to bed, but the difficulty
did not seem to him sufficient to make it
necessary to send for the physician. The
latter found on the following morning that
his right lung was cOngested, and the con-
dition of the patient seemed so serious that
he desired a consultation. Prof. Minati, of
the University was called in. The physi-
clans consulted, and from that moment it
was seen that the case was desperate. On
the evening of the 9th the patient became
Voiceless, and a slight mental exaltation
began to show itself. Accustomed
to smoke constantly, he thought himself
smoking, and made the movements of car
rying a cigar to his mouth and taking it
away again. The exaltatiOn was brief, and
during the whole day Of the 10Th, which
was his last, he retained, together with an
unaltered tranquility, the full possession of
his intellectual faculties and an exact knoWl-
edge of his condition. At a few minutes
before l o'clock he desired to speak to the
physician, who was in the next room. He
extended his hand to him, endeavored to
speak, and fell back bearing his hand on
his breast-he was dead. He died in room
on the second floor looking toward the south
over a little garden where are few strag-
CLING, sickly plants. Extended on the bed of
death, covered with a linen coverlet with
alternate fine stripes of white and lilac, the
waxen features retained the traces of the
calm resignation which had never abandon.
ed him in the days which preceded that of
his death. He did not appear as if dead,
but like profound thinker who had fallen
asleep after excessive intellectual fatigue.
In the morning, before the news had spread
throughout the city, came Clrta, Bertani,
Campanella, Safa and Quachio. saw
crossing the threshold of the little house the
venerable EnricO Meyer, weeping as he
went to give the last kiss to the friend of
his distant yOuth.-LJe Of Mdzzini.
Year: 1872

THE Richmond Enquirer, in a descrip-
ton of the memorial monument to Gen. R.
E. Lee, the model for which has just been
completed by the sculptor, Valentine, Of
that city, says:


The impression made upon the mind is
one of pleasant surprise at beholding, as it
were, the reclining warrior, not dead, but
sieepng-peacefully dreaming, with smile
upon his lips-and so perfect is the Illusion
that one imagines that he can see the figure
move and breathe. 1t is as he was in life.
There is nothing of the repulsive or awful
presence of death about his face, the form,
or the position. The triumph of the artist
is complete.
Year: 1872

Several Buildings DESTROYED Con-


Victs Blown out of the WindOWs-33


Men MutiIated.


COLUMBUS, o., June 21.-A boiler in the
extensive shops of the Ohio Brush and
wire works, located within the walls of the
OHIO Penitentiary, exploded this morning
just after the conviCts started to work, with
terrible noise and dread effect. The flying
ooher tore out of the large three story build
ing IN which it was placed, making it a
mass OF ruins and tore out the side walls
and roof OF the Huffs cooper shop and
George CLIPS stove foundry not far off.
Pleces OF the boiler were thrown tremend-
Gus distance.


At the time of the accident eighty-fiVe
men were in the brush shop and were Just
going to work. The shock was terrific and
yet no person was killed outright. Several
men were blown out of the windows, and
fell with the debris from the fourth story of
the buildings. One man at work in the
lower story of the boiler house was buried
IN the ruins and was held for thirty mi
nutes between two heavy timbers. The
fireman and engineer in charge of the boil
er were both buried under great pile of
bricks aid timber, but were dug out alive
considerably burned and bruised. Some of
the escapes were almost miraculous.


The scene of the explosion is desolate
enough. Great p les of brick, stone, tim
Der and machinery in a confused mass,
while manufactured articles and raw mate
rial are strewn over the ground for long
distance. As soon as possible large force
was put to work, and the men who were
buried under the ruins were all dug out.
and with the other wounded were taken to
the large and comfortable prison hospital.


In all some thirty.three persons were
mangled more or less. 1t is probable all
but half dozen will recover with proper
care.


The engineer in charge of the boiler says
he cannot account for the accident, as a
second before the explosion he had on but
50 pounds Of steam. One end of this same
boiler exploded about year ago and it is
said it has leaked ever since more or less.
The loss will be about $4,000.
Year: 1872

NICKEL.-The fact may not be generally
known that the considerable quantity of
nickel, from which our smaller coins are
made, comes from single mine, which is
the only one in the country that is now be-
ing worked. This mine is situated in Lam
caster county, Penn; it has been worked
for seventeen years and developed to a
depth of 200 feet. The length of the lode
is between two and three thousand feet,
and it produces from 400 to 800 tons per
month, employing iu the working of the
mine force Of 175 men. In the arts nickel
is growing rapidly into favor as a substitute
for silver in plating steel, iron and other
metals. Its commercial demand is rapidly
increasing, and as it iJ tauch cheaper than
silver will undoubtedly be adopted in the
manufacture of many articles, as substi-
tude for that more precious metal.
Year: 1872

EDITOR REPUBLICAN


Many thanks for your kind notice of the
teachers raid upon the Governor. There
is only one item which requires correction,
and hope you will not be offended at me
for presuming to point out your error. We
were not las you remarked) dressed in gay
spring costumes, nor did we feel in very
ssmiiing humor." In the first place the
necessary funds to purchase spring and sum-
mer outfits is still lacking, and will be until
the Governor makes good his word by
signing that bill" When he does, and
when we get seven months pay, l am in
clined to think that the teachers, individ-
ually and collectively, will feel much more
like putting on their brightest smiles and
make much better appearance.


Hoping that you will excuse me for tres
passing upon your valuable time, remain,
yery respectfuIly. TEACHER.


Oar fair correspondent will probably feel
more cheerful when we inform her that the
Governor, State Superintendent OF Public
Schools, the president of the City School
Board, some of the City Administrators and
several prominent citizens had conference
Yesterday on the subject Of providing pay
for the teachers.


The conclusion reached was that the City
School Board can meet at once and deter
mine the amount necessary to cancel the
nresent indebtedness to the school teachers,
and that. after official notification Of the
fact by the City School Board, the City Ad-
ministrators may proceed to secure the ne
cessary amount under the laws already
enacted
Year: 1872

The collection of taxes is proceeding very
slowly The rush which inaugurated the
season has entirely subsidized and even the
Administrator of Finance finds no difficulty
in attending to the applicants who come to
discharge city dues.


There has been within the last few days
a gratifying appreciation in the value of
appropriation certificates. There is no
reason why they should not be atpar value.
Brokers only keep them few weeks and
get the discount at fifteen or twenty per
cent.


The Administrator of Improvements is
still advertising for proposals for machinery
for the canals. 1t seems now more diff
ficult to obtain than was at first thought
possible.


The last few days of pleasant weather
have been seized upon by the street commits
sioner to put all the shellroads in good con-
dition again. Those leading to the Fair
Grounds are in excellent order.


The Marine Hospital, now being fitted up
as an insane asylum, is nearly complete
The cost is somewhat greater than was at
first anticipated, but the Mayor thinks it
admirably adapted to the purposes in view.


The trouble about the school teachers pay
is over, and it is now understood that they
will be paid at once. This certainly has
been too long delayed already.


The establishment of the Houses Of Re-
fuge at the Girod Asylum, on the Metairie
ridge. will have its influence in the matter
of the proposition of the City Railroad
Company to discontinue their line from the
Halfway House to the Bayou St. John.
The general impression at the City Hall is
that the shell road which the company pro
poses to substitute for the railroad line
shall not be constructed, and that the rail-
road must be put into operation as soon as
practicable.
Year: 1872

labor was restraint upon hard work, and
| was an encroachment on natural rights.


We have right to demand that every man
should exercise his calling. Equality Of
taxation demands that taxes should fall on
all alike, and tax upon labor was not
equal The committee had called on sew
eral parties, and he agreed with the recon-
mendation Of "De not pay" Measures had
been proposed to prohibit the city and State
from collecting taxes; this had been dropped.
| The State collector had no law at his
back to- enforce the collection of licenses;
the city had adopted license ordinance
which was unconstitutional It had been de-
cided in Missouri that q tax on ''labor, skill
and knowledge" was unconstitutional. In
order to buoy up the sinking hearts of
the few in attendance, Mr. Bude said it was
seldom a combination of this kind fell
through, provided they stuck together
The speaker said the manufacturers ar
ticles from the North which were not taxed
cheated the workman here out of the re-
suits of his labor, inasmuch as they under
sold the wares he made and the work of his
hands. He did not believe the city serious
ly intended to collect the licenses or to en-
force the collection. "If poor man comes
to the Office with his money, they take it,
but the city did not intend to 60 for it. The
mere fact of resistance would be urged as
sufficient to defeat the license ordinance.
He said, in conclusion, that he would never
forgive himself if he gave his support to a
resistance to the enforcement Of laws, un-
less it was for a just cause and to oppose an
unconstitutional law. He asked for united
action. -


| gentleman of LA Belle France" and
who used the language in his address,
said the resistance to the license tax was
founded on justice and right, and was a
movement in which all of labor or skill
should join to oppose.


The president expressed his astonishment
that there was not larger attendance, in
asmuch as having big hall, he thought the
audience at the first meeting would be a
big one-but it wasn't. The advertising in
the good cause he had paid out of his own
pocket, and he limited a reimbursement
would be acceptable.


He went for the levee tax in the language
of Schiller, and he said it bore alike on
shoemakers, carpenters, cabinet makers,
"locksmith hangers" and all others. Lib
eral explanations of the object Of the asso-
citation were then indulged in. The pre- 81
dent called on the members to come up
and pay So head for the counsellor at
law and to 1iouidate the expenses of the
committee at 81 day each for lost time.


Other business of the kind transacted,
the meeting adjourned.
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are tt
most necessary requisites TO promote connubEt
happiness Indeed, without these the Journte.
through life becomes y weary pilgrimage, TIN
nrosuect hourly durkens to the view the mi!n.
becomes shadowed with despair, and EIled Will
the me ancholy reflection that the happiness q
.noths is blighted with our own
Year: 1872

read it aloud to Willie. When fin
ished he burst into laugh.


That is fine,i said he. Il understand
the game. 1t may be an advantage to
the family to be able to claim such a
connection. If it could not be Mr.. Will
son my son-in-law, it is my neice's hus-
band'


How shall I answer to- I inquired.


1T is not necessary to reply, and twill
be time enough to visit her when she
needs our assistance


But she has asked my forgiveness, and
you know we must forgive as we would
be forgiven


THAT was only plea to write. She
only asks forgiveness for what she said
in my presence; not for the way in which
she treated you for seven years.


That afternoon we started for the Old
World. For five years we led wandering
life. Then we returned to find America
embroiled in civil war.


found Bridget Flanagan sick and out
of employment. As l now had a home
of my own, could in measure repay
her for her kindness to me when was
friendlcss orphan.


My Uncle's family was sadly scattered.
Anabel had married a man nearly old
enough to be her grandfather, and lived
very unhappily. Frank and Fred had
Joined the ranks of the South, but after
their first engagement Fred was sent
home to die.


When 1 review the past and see how
one that passed his early youth in pov-
erty and Obscurity as q kitchen boy has
made his way to his present exalted po-
sition, and another who was surrounded
/ by every indulgence that wealth could
procure sunk to a penniless orphan, and
then ponder the changes in my Unele's
family-all remind me that such are the
ways of life"


/ (COnclusOnl.
Year: 1872

HOUSEKEEPING HINTs.-All kinds of
poultry and meat can be cooked quicker
by adding to the water in which they
are boiled a little vinegar or piece of
lemon. BY the use of an acid there will
be a considerable saving of fuel, as we'll
as shortening OF time. Its action is ben
eticial on old, tough meats, rendering
them quite tender and easy TO be di.
gested. Tainted meats and fowls
will lose their bad taste and odor if
cooked in this way, and il not used too
freely, no taste of it will be acquired.
Year: 1872

The next morning was dull. A heavy
snow had fallen during the night, and
the storm still continued. Anabel was
out of humor with every one about her.
She kept saying, 1T is too bad! ex-
pected Mr.. Wilson TO call this morning,
but no one can be out in this weather.


We were surprised to hear the door
bell ring, and 1 still more when a ser
Year: 1872

DESTRUCTION OF A LOCOMOTIVE, AND INJURY TO AN


ENGINEER.


The boiler of the locomotive attached to a
down freight train, on the West Jersey Railroad,
exploded when near Glassboro' last Friday. The
engineer, Jonathan Fidler, OF Woodbury., was
blown over the telegraph wires, and one OF his
arms were broken and one Of his hands crushed.
II is hoped that he is not otherwise fatally in
jured. The locomotive is a total wreck. No
other property or persons injured.


This is evidently the explosion alluded to in
Saturdays issue of the COMMERCIAL, although
the direction of Glassboro is more to the east
ward than was indicated by the smoke, spoken
of at the time
Year: 1872

An article IN another column from the
Nashville Banner, gives the history Of
a slander that will probably become the
most ted on record A christian lady,
advanced in years and OF most exemplary
character, the neighbbor and friend of
Johnson's invalid wife, was
cruelty made the victim of some wretch
who slandered her to blacken him An in
vestigation exonerated both, butthe pure
woman was wounded to death.
In few days she committed suicide and
the baseness and malignity that invented
the slander aid not scruple to use this
fact to color it withal. 1t speaks we'll
for the people of GreenvilIe that the


inventor dare not face the mitigation he


has aroused in that community.
Year: 1872

Our Washington spondent, says
the Courier Journal, writes us that now
for the first time within a number of
wears Congress is full. Not vacant
seat or unappropriated desk is to be seen
either in Senate Chamber or Represent
ative Hall. We are heartily glad to hear
il. We sre gra,ifed TO know that from
all the States and all the districts of the
States there is at least the show of rep
reseutation. The "beggarly account of
empty boxes" at the capital of late years
has not been pleasant thing to contem-
plate. Obvious incompleteness has
always an uupleasing effect. Even at a
funeral one likes to see all the seats taken.
An unoccupied chair at the festive board,
if it does not precisely excite the appre
hension that the ghost of some Banquo
may rise at any moment to claim its oc
cupancy, has usually in a vague and un
defined sort of way a depressing and
saddening influence on the present guests.
Better almost any occupant than the
gloomily suggestive empty place where
one should be but IS not.
Year: 1872

The bill to give this State another
member of Congress having become the
law, we are autorfzed to say that if the
election is 10 be made by the State at
large, ex President ohnson will be a can
didate. His friends throught Tennessee
will receive the intelligence with gladness
as affording an opportunity to the people
of the whole State to tender to him
a richly deserved tribute of respect and
esteem.


One such man in the House face to
face with Ben Butler and the serviIe
tools of military despot will be an in
expressible joy to all the patriots and
friends of constitutional government
in the land Union and .4mertcan.
Year: 1872

Our COUNTY CoNvENrIoN.-Nex
Monday week. County Court day, the
Democrats of this county will meet in
Convention in this city for the purpose
of appointing delegates to the Democrat
ic State Convention, which will assemble
at Frankfort on the goth of June. We
hope the Democrats from all portions Of
the county will be in attendance, and that
the spirit of harmony will prevail in the
Convention. We are particularly desi
rous of seeing our country friends fully
represented on the occasion.
Year: 1872

The mass of the Democratic newspa
pers, and conventions, are supporting
Greeley, and the fear is not whether
Greeley will receive the nomination at
the National Convention, but that the
minority will bolt the nomination. The
great difficulty in the way of defeating
Grant is to control the "hot heads" and
keep them from breaking up the conven-
ton.
Year: 1872

There is not a Radical paper in the
UnitedsStates which does not exhibit an
overweening anxiety for The Democracy
to nominate straight ticket. The De
nocracy will act regardless of the wishes
Of their opponents.
Year: 1872

As the canvass progresses, it will daily
appear the more clearly that. Greeley
and Grant are the only alternatives, and
as between the two there can not be the
slightest hesitation with Democrats who
have proper regard fer principle.