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Year: 1873

We regret TO state that the news from
the country in regard to the growing
cotton crop is anything but satisfactory.
The cold nights we have been having
and the excessive heat Of midday are
telling with fearful effect in some quar-
tiers. The top bolls are falling to the
ground before maturing, and other dis
asters Of equal moment admOnish US
that perhaps we have already set our
negs too high.
Year: 1873

WORCESTER, MASS, September TO-
The Republican State convention was
called for half-past eleven o'clock, and
special train from Boston brought a
number of delegates. About that hour
many of the most prominent cham
pions in the contest were parading the
corridors Of Mechanics hall, who were
unable at the appointed hour to obtain
admission. HOar was on the ground
early, and wore look of serenity and
satisfaction. He was applauded as he
passed up to the hall.
Year: 1873

OK OUR fourth page this morning we
publish an article in regard to the expo
sitiou that will attract very general at
teution. We hope it may prove of as
much value in forwarding the interests
and purposes Of the directors as we de-
sign in its publication. We need not
say that it is to the interest, the pocket
interest Of every man in Memphis, that
our exposition, this year, shall be made
as fa- superior to that OF last year as it
was superior to any similar effort ever
made in Tennessee. Let US all pat our
shoulders to the wheel, and see what we
can DO to make it so.
Year: 1873

A New YORK paper says those men
who place $40 bill on the desk OF a
Government clerk as they So to make
inquiries have their Questions answered
with promptness and dispatch, and go
out feeling that the stories OF red tape
are malicious lies and ISLANDERS.
Year: 1873




CoNcERT.-Miss Laura Agnes Steven
son will give concert this evening at
the Pavilion. This lady, is said by the
press and public to be the best singer
who has ever visited this coast, and we
congratulate the lovers of good music
on having chance to hear her. By a
recent paper in Portland she is said to
have held the audience spell bound, and
Judging by the programme, we think
that her versatility of style must be
calculated to please everybody, as she
includes humorous songs and ballads,
to those who prefer them, to operas
She is classed with the first prima dom
mas of the day. We advise our friends
not to miss an opportunity seldom Of
fered to the residents of small town.
If more were wanting to recommend the
lady, we would add, that the well known
manager, J w. Church "a favorite on
this coast) brings her out, and it is we'll
known that he has always provided first
class artistes. The piano to be used is
the Grand Emerson Piano from Pun
phrey & Young's.
Year: 1873

SOME VEGETABLEs.--Captain Wright,
of the Zephyr, while at Snohomish on
Monday, plucked from garden stalk
of corn and beet, which he left at this
Office. The corn measured over eleven
feet IL height, and the beet weighed a
trife less than ten pounds. Neither of
these are given as specimens of remark
able growth, but Capt. Wright says he
never saw in any garden more uniform
ity of growth. The specimens he Sc
lected are only an average of the whole.
Owing to the invariably cool nights this
is not a corn country, but for roots it
can beat the world in amount per acre.
The culture of the sugar beet and the
manufacture of sugar will at no distant
future, be one of the leading industries
of this section.
Year: 1873

When We first spoke disparagingly of
Schuyler Colfax, almost every paper in
the country was in the habit Of praising
him. The journals of his own political
! ATTY lauded him to the skies.


How is it now


lie has fallen so low that the United
States House of Representatives cam
within five votes Of passing resolution
of impeachment against him. The
vote stood I04 to 109


We do not exult over bis downfall
We feel no disposition to do anything
of the kind But when We saw a dis
tinguished public man coming forward
and volunteering to defend the charac
ter of Richardson, the nan who had
robbed Mcfarland of his wife, we
confess that we felt appreheusiye he
would come to bad end.-N. Y
Ledger.
Year: 1873

1t is easy for dull and uniformed


man to regard modest description of


the mineral wealth of country, with


accompa niment Of Legitimate speculation


as a Fl .meat of the Imagination. Bat


the immobility of such people in no


wise affects facts. We rarely'venture


to indulge ourselves in speculation as to
the future of the region Of which San
Diego is destined to be the trade aud
Industrial center, because we know that
great many regard oui just and mod
crate anticipation as tinged with ro-
nance. The people Of San Diego VIII
readily recall the force and energy with
which we have advocated the building
ofthe San Diego and San BerDardino
railroad with It's corollary Of an extension
to CalIviIe the head of navigation on the
Colorado, and the terminus of the
Southern Utah We were impelled to
so by knowledge of the specially rich
mineral and agricultural resources oe
San Bernardino county aud by the troa,
ure beds that would be traversed in
cffccting a junction with the Southern
Utah San Bernardino county alone is
depository of iron, coal. lead, copper
silver, and gold that would in the next
ten years make San Diego respect
able city, if We are wise enough 10
cultivate the iatimation with that place
to which we are invited by nature but
taking the whole territory between San
Bernardino and Callvile belt of
unexampled richness is struck, which
when fully developed, will make San
Diego, which will be, under the new
greenback regime, the resort for eastern
capital the focus for mining interest
which will dwarf those of San Fran
cisco. San Diego Union.
Year: 1873




This country must reform, or it will
perish.


Look at the developments of cor
ruption in our National Congress, in
connection with the Credit Mobilier
Are they not enough to shock every
patriot in the land.


The rising generation must learn to
look with horror upon such crimes, or
our National life will become extinct.


No nation can fourish-no nation
can perpetuate its own existence even
unless its public councils are kept
pure.


What shall be done?


Attempts to punish individual
offenders in such wrongs commonly
fail.


The only thing is to educate public
sentiment. Let every boy and girl be
brought up to regard with loathing ano
adherence all who depredate upon th'
public treasury.


As it is now, mothers seem wiiflns
and even anxious TO marry thel
daughters to national robbers, it the,
are only sure of sharing in the spoils
We need not ask if this is right WI
ouly say let such practice. and tn
feeling that gives rise to it, cease t
exist. IN. 7. Ledger.
Year: 1873

[From the Carson Appeal of July 15l


ALL at once we are municipality.
God made the county and man made
the town. The County Commission
ers are the men who made Carson
City town yesterday. They did eX-
ceedingly well when they did that
same. We herewith thank and COM
mend them for it. Now we know
where we live. Before this action we
lived in an imaginary tOwn-like liv-
ing on the equinoXial line. Read the
proceedings of the Board, new Com
missioner Gardiner, and all, yester-
day, and see about our new stakes
and metes. That first S. e. quarter is
somewhere about the town end of
Sam. Wrights graveyard. The mile
west and mile and a quarter south and
so on, embrace Chedic and Clarke and
that neighborhood, run up and take
in Miss Clapp's place, go on down and
corral Duffy and that part, and take
in Chinatown. The race course is just
east of the plot, we believe. Now,
thank Providence and wisdom and
persistency, we begin to loom up out
of chaos and old night and to assume
the form and attributes and effulgence
of a tangible civilized, christian shape
ID HlIltteeuln Century oudPc' W o
are grateful and fain would glorify.
Let g celebrate with the emphatic
howitZer.


u. S. MINT.-The Superintendent of
the Carson City Mint received, yes
terday, 1,346 pounds of mixed bullion,
gold and silver, from the Crown
Point mine, Gold Hill, Nevada, sent
in for melting and assay. This is the
first large lot of bullion received from
the Comstock since the Mint shut
down in June for a general clean up
More will follow.
Year: 1873




To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


This que stion, which is being discussed In your
columns, is, in my opinion, what "Catholic" calls
in last Sundays HERALD an "abominable CUSTOM"
but it does not seem to be properly understood yet
In the first place let me say that at even the
early masses charge is made in many churches; /;
at some it varies according to the time for in
stance cents for early Masses and 10, and in
even 20 cents for the last. The charge for seat is
bad, but II tnat were all it would be more excus-
able; most churches. however, charge on entering
the church; now, surely any one ought to be able
to go inside without payment, and II small fee Is
then charged for a seat it Is not so Objectionable
Unfortunately there is considerable difficulty,
for inasmuch as the catholic worship is very ex-
pensve to carry on, funds must be raised in some
way, and there are many, to their shame be 1t
said VINO, II they had Tree seat, would put a
penny in the plate and be satisfied they had done
their duty. MY opinion is that If some OF the
clergy would try the experiment OF giving free
slttings, however, and impress on their nocks the
duty of supporting the expenses of the church,
they would eventually find their receipts as high
as under the present '.abOmnable custom" and
avoid much scandal. ANOTHER CATHOLIC.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD:-


Under the head of religious matters take the
liberty of saying that when person attends
church they expect to hear something spiritual
that will comfort them and relieve any feeling of
anxiety about the soul and the future state; but
Mr. Frothingham breaches as if he were soured
forgiveness being taught, he goes far to call
the names Of persons who have done wrong and
shower on their heads all the hard epithets i'm
aginable-for instance, Mr. Tweed. think Mr.
Tweed has suffered enough in what he has gone
through with and is now enduring, and we
should forget and forgive what IS past. hope
Mr. rockingham may hereafter study and preach
charity to all mankind A. T..
Year: 1873

A STRANGE DoG.-At o'clock every eve
ming for the past two months there has
passed the corner Of Seventh and Franklin
streets Il black dog. keeping the middle of
Franklin street, and going at full speed. His
movements have attracted the attention Of
all the residents of that neighborhood. but
none hive been able to ascertain from what
quarter he comes or where he goes. Can
any of your readers solve the mystery Of this
strange dog? FRAHKLIS STREET.
Year: 1873

IF YOU WANT to get the most fashionable styles
Of dress goods YOU must make your selections out
of the new stock OF fall goods just received at LEVY
BROTHERS. They ask but ONE PRICE, and That
Year: 1873

THE NEW POSTAL CARDS-very ustfrl FOR bust
purposes. Cards or announcements of any
kind printed on them will pass through the mail for
one cent. Printing for these cards neatly and
cheaply done at this Office
Year: 1873

The following originated, we believe,
with the Montpelier (Vt journal: A
certain marble-dealer, residing not q
hundred miles from this village, recent
ly received AN invoice of graves stones
upon some of which were inscribed
touching sentiments of sympathy and
euloey ready-made for the fortunate
person whose tomb they were intended
to designate. Among them was one
with an index finger pointing heaven.
ward, and under it the motto: mo
graves there" One evening this dealer
received an order for grave-stone. the
style and decoration Of which were left
pretty much to his own judgment, the
price only being fixed. As he had to
leat'e the city the next morning, he hur-
riedly selected the stone bearing the
above motto The Indignation of the
surviving relatives of Mr. Graves. for
whose cemetery lot this was intended
when it was received, can be better i'm
agined than described.
Year: 1873

EEApropos OF remark that Rus
slams are absolutely incapable of under
standing or approaching a joke, this
story is related: IAN Englishman was
relating to Russian friend that he had
once seen on country road, a post with
this inscription: This road leads to the
town; all persons who cannot read this
may apply to the blacksmith To the
great anguish of the narrator his friend
remained perfectly compassionate thank
ed him for his story with studied po-
liteness which showed that he had not
understood it in the least But the next
morning the Russian burst into his
friends room in convulsions of laugh.
tel, exclaiming My friend, l do un
stand it now. Fool that / was not to
think of it As if the blacksmith might
not be away from home"
Year: 1873

New YORK, March 19-The Bar As
ISOLATION, at It's meeting last evening, DIS
cussed the question Of change in the
law so as to have juries constituted Of q
less number than II. A resolution was
passed for an amendment 10 the State
Constitution, providing for special jury
OF five TO try questions Of sanity and that
IN civil cases and cases not punishable by
death, q vote nlnc Of jurors constitutes a
verdict.


The report that three boys lost their
lives by falling floors OF the old house Of
refuge building yesterday, proves untrue.
Year: 1873

They get somo bright juries in Chicago Oeca-
slOnaly On Monday last, in one Of the courts
there, burglar named White was on trial. Al
the close of the court, when the case was given
to the Jury II was agreed that sealed verdict
might be delivered At 8 o'clock the Judge re-
turned to court to discharge the jury if they had
agreed, but they had failed to do so. When court
opened the next morning, however, they came in
with verdict of acquital. The States attorney
considered this verdict utterly at variance with
the evidence that he demanded that the jury
should be polled, whcroup0u 1t appeared that
nine Of the twelve believed the prisoner guilty,
but had been so tired out by tho obstnacy of the
other three that they had agreed to acquit him.-
The jury were at once sent back to reconsider the
case, and in one hour returned with u verdict oi
guilty, filing the punishment part of jury's
duty in Illinois at one years Imprisonment in
the penitentiary.
Year: 1873

One Of our exchanges gives the following
conundrum: Why is il that Young fellow and
his girl can sit in the parlor until after mid.
night without making noise enough for the old
folks to hear them through the partition, but
cant sit in public place FIVE minutes without
annoying the whole house viii. their glggle and
talk?
Year: 1873

The proposition of Mr. Candy to widen the
side walks of Fourth street seems very timely
Market street should have at least two or three
feet added to Its side walks This could be done
by putting a common sewer in the centre of the
street turning the water into 1t at every square
a ndleyeling the street, which then would only
need gutter about six inches wide. With such
an Improvement Market street would be attrac
tive and pleasant as a promlnade.
Year: 1873




TIE PENINSULA.


[From the Vienna (Md.) Clipperl


The effort to hold aud run large plantations
on this shore must fail and to supplant colored
labor with Cinnamon and Germans is but to
repeat one Of the most patent errors in the his
tory OF the past. In the first place: there are
people enough in these counties to cultivate
them, but one-half OF the number 40 not earn
their board at anything. Let the land owner
abandon the idea Of servants sell to foreigners
his surplus land on easy terms, take his sons in-
to the iield (and daughters too, II necessary and
get his bread by the sweat OF his own brow,
(which is nothing more than he wants the
Dutchmen to do) and he will find the laws OF
existence and smiles OF providence prospering
all his ways.


Stocking farms" with men is played out,
and the sooner our farmers realize the fact the
better ii will be for all. In this enlightened and
progressive age just God will not permit su-
peIiluous labor to exist to the federation OF in
doence, and all the species of vice that grow
out of an inactive life. The country is full OF
idle muscle, loafers are in every business man
way on this Shore, and work they will not. The
cry is servants servants u from almost eve
ry quarter, some one is trying to hire done his
own legitimate work. Wake up, people, and 60
to work-young men go to work Young ladies
80 towork, and the greatest reformation ever
effected on this Shore will take place at once.
For Gods sake abandon the idea Of stocking
plantations with men-woik we must, or die
Year: 1873

meeting conducted by one of Kentrcky's
ablest Christian preachers. The preaching
was something new and attractive to him,
and lie listened with great attention and in
terest, il being the first sermon of the kind
he had ever heard, and when he returned
home said to his wife lie wanted her to go
to church with him that night, as he wanted
to hear more. She readily consented, and
went with him, and he became more inter-
ested every sermon that he heard, and after
listening for several days he proposed to his
wife that they both give up their religious
positions and become one in Christ, and unite
with the Church of Christ upon th, Word ol
the Lord, which they did, and became very
Jealous disciples. Tie writer is well acquaint-
ed with these parties, was an elder of the
congregation to which they were attached,
and was present on :he occasion referred TO-.


This novel and remarkable case is stranger
than fiction, and every word is true.
Year: 1873

A young New York gentleman stopping
at one of the lower hotels requested the
proprietor to change his room, as the next
apartment to bis was occupied by that tor
ment of bachelors, crying baby. When
he arrived from New York he went off to
take a drive, and on bis feturn to the hotel
he was shown to his new apartment, with
the information that the baggage of the
former occupant had not been removed. but
that it would be taken away during the
evening. 1t was growing dark so our hero
sat down by the window to indulge in
little twilight meditation, and possibly
cigar. Suddenly the door opened, the frou-
trou Of womans dress was heard, o soft
voice exclaimed: "Why, Jack, dear, when
did you come down? am so glad! and
simultaneously with the exclamation he
found himself


"Tenderly clasped in loving embrace.


With pair of long lashes just sweeping his
face"


so am |" vas his very natural and in
voluntary rejonder, whereupon there was
shrek, rush and slamming Of doors,
and my friend was left alone 10 mediate at
his leisure upon the charms Of the twilight
hour. Long Branch Cor. Philadelphia
Ledger.
Year: 1873

School Books The swindling practice
of charging one dollar and fifty cents for a
book, which, if it was not in use in public
schools, would be well sold for seventy-iive
cents, is attracting the attention of the
public. We subjoin an article from the
Columbus Dispatch, which we were glad
to see, as it called to mind This subject
which will be ventilated at an early day.
The extravaganza in school books is simply
and plainly an outrage on the people, prob
ably not on the part Of the publishers who
get up very cheap books at very dear rates.
A book of very ordinary merit, which sold
ioi fifty cents when being introduced a year
ago, is now in an establishment marked at
one dollar. Such cormorants upon the
educational interests of the city and State
are receiving almost universal condemnation
from people of all classes, both rich and
poor alike. A dollar nd a quarter school
book contains no more typographical labor
than an issue Of the Dispatch, and vet
there is more than n dollar and twenty
cents difference in the price. There is no
sense or reason in such state Of the school
book market. 1t 10 visable monopoly.
if not paIpable fraud. That is an almost
universal opinion.
Year: 1873

l. Z,


Here is something remarkable. A wo-
man in New Haven was recently bereft Of
her scalp idiosyncracies Of shaft and belt.
The doctors saw that, to remove the evil,
they would have to resort to transplanting,
and SO they actually succeeded in getting a
sufficient number of pieces from other
peoples heads to give this unfortunate
woman new scalp. We hope these New
Haven doctors used more discretion than
did Ire who attended man named Finlay,
who met with similar accident in Oriskany
New York, some thirteen years ago. Bits
Of scalp from seventeen persons was Sc
cured by this doctor and adroilly stitched to
the head of Mr.. Finlay. When it was
done, people came from miles TO see Finlay's
head, and Finlay himself, with his checker
board Uranium, was the happest man in
Orskany. But when the capillary glands
got in working order, and the hair com
menced to grow, the top of the mans head
presented the most extraordinary spectacle
on record. The doctor, who was about
half the time in liquor, had consulted ex-
pediency rather than judgm ent, and secured
that scalp without ference to future de,
velopae ents. We never saw anything like
it. Here was tuft of yellow hair, and
to it a bit of black, then flame of red
and little silk and more like tow, with
brown hair and gray hair, and sandy hair,
aud cream colored hair scattered all over
Lis entire skull And what mad man
that Finlay was, and nobody could blame
him. He would stand up against the barn
for an hour alta time and sob and swear


1t was fortunate that the doctor was dead
He went off two weeks before with blue
ague, which is mild sort of disease Fin
lay kept his hair cut short, but that didn't
make any difference. Then he tried dyes.
but they only made matters worse. Then
he Got wig, and thus covered up the de-
formity, but sometimes at church it would
fall off, and the committee on dome. tic
goods, when they came around, stood in
front of Firlay's head for some five m nutes
in rapt delight. Then they Immediately
decided that it was the most ingenious
piece of patch work in the list, and never
discovered the mistake until they attempted
to pin the premium card to it. AT that
Fnlay awoke, and knocked down the
chairman of the Commit and chased the
others out of the building. We hope these
New Haven doctors have been more par
ticular, as it is not subject TO triae with.
Year: 1873

A list of decisions has lately been pub
ished by a paper devoted to railroad sub
jects which may be of interest to those who
travel by rail:


The legal definition of passenger is ia
person who undertakes, with the consent #
the carrier, to travel in the conveyances
provided by the latter, otherwise in the
service of the carrier as such"


Railway companies are bound to carry
all who offer themselves, unless they are
offensive in person or conduct, or the cars
are already full.


Waiting at the depot with the intention
of taking the train, is sufficient to constitute
the relation of passenger and carrier.


Good for the day only" printed upon
the ticket, has been decided by the courts
to be of no effect The passenger has paid
his money and is entitled to transportation


1t has also been decided by New York
court that ticket between any two points
is good either way, but the decision is a
doubtful one.


Any injury to the person Of the passenger
through tie negligence of the agents of the
railway, subjects the latter to damage, and
any loss of baggage-it must be only such
as is necessary TO the comfort of the trave,er
can be recovered by civil process, and the
contents of a trunk can be proved by the
oath of the plaintiff.
Year: 1873

Brown, young insurance friend of ours
who lives in Cambridge. had tho fifth
anniversary Of his wedding occur about a
week ago. and his friends determined to
celebrate his zen wedding by a surprise
party. Brown came in and told us how
they succeeded. They commenced by send
ing a servant around with team to take
Brown and biz wife out for ride about