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Year: 1871

in Fourteenth street; no blaze OF light told Of the
spirits that might move within; no leading, proud
and dismonded satellites OF the great Old saint
banquet hall Deserted During the afternoon the
tickets had been carted away from the building 10
their destinations.
Year: 1871

To the Editor of the Stafe Journal.


x The officials having the construction of the
new gas-holder In charge have struck another
mine OF economy for the tax payers s me
three years since, the Council conmeBc-d
making preparations for a new holder and
nearly completed the pitt removing ab,ut five
thousand var dsof earth, probably costing about
four Thousand dollars. The new management
oil ECONOMY have changed the location about a
diameter and are digging a new hole aud ill.
ing up the old one, thus thr"wi ing 20 mu, h
money away. This shows decide skil in
engineering


There is no jobbing, no ring, no con n.piracy
to rob the city treasury; but the Immaculate
Council can give one OF their plumber a CO,
tract for a million more of brick without
allowing COZ petition by public proposalsi
For the stone Gaping, costing only a few
hundred dollars, there is a great show of ac-
veft'sements for bids


Our dear City Engineer seems to have got
a new notion into bis nodde He is hauling
the stone for the entire depth of the road way
broken to proper size, such as be should
have used for top dressing, instead of the
red mud He has had the stone b. ok en- TO the
proper size heretofore, except this top layer.
II probably costs four times the labor to break
all fine TO what it would to do one .ie b ih 6ne
and the balaoce coarse. He seems determined
TO have bis own way, and Ut 60 learn any thing
from the experience of Others.


T.x.pAyrp
Year: 1871

Decision.-The legal fraternity, sup
posed to be well versed in all matters of right
and justice, members of which have refused to
pay the tax required of them by city regula.
tions, until the opinion of Justice White could
be obtained, after arguing the question quite
elaborately, and to their entire satisfaction,
called this morning upon his Honor to hear
what he had to say with reference to the mats
ter.


Forgetting his fraterpal sympathies in his
determination to perform bis duty, the
Justice decided that before they could talk law
themselves, they must obey it, by paying the
amounts charged to them. They have only TO
walk up to the captains office. who will doubt
less wait upon them with all the poiteness due
gentlemen of distinction, and furnish them
with permits by which they can get even.
talking law for somebody else.


This need not trouble the disciples of Black.
stone to any great extent, as small retainer
will soon enable them to quit even. Lawyers
have such fondness for coutinuauces upon
various pleas, that we may expect the filing OF
special ones in these cases, with the request
that they be continued at the cost of the plain
tif. and the clerk required to enter the order
in due form of law.
Year: 1871

SAD, BUT TRuE.-No sadder history has
ever been connected with the results OF
mob law, than that of George w. Smiley,
who was confined in the same Jail as the
one from which Hodges was taken, at
Staunton, and afterwards hung. We have
no idea that the perpetrators of that horri-
BILE crime are endorsed by persons of ordi-
nary respect for law and order; but, we
do fear that proper efforts have not been
made to ascertain who the guilty parties
are. Without, for moment presuming
1t was the intention Of the mob to harm
Mr.. Smiley, the result of their conduct has
been death, aye, worse than death to him.


He is raving maniac, made so by the
exciting scenes through which he passed
during the lynching of Hodges. He was
led out to view the body Of the dead as it
swung from the gallows, while he was un-
dergoing Imprisonment, himself charged
with murder. -..


Who of that body of men, however
they may justify themselves in taking the
life of the mau they did, can fail to smart
under the pangs and teachings of guilty
conscience, convicting them of the murder
of an innocent mani


Let this be warning to all who pre-
sumo to execute the law in the future, and
teach them that one of the highest duties
of man is to obey the laws of his govern
ment, made alike for bis protection as well
as the punishment of crime.
Year: 1871

g. HowelIs, in his genial half-story and
half-essay, "Their Wedding Journey"
inIthe September Atlantic, sketches as
follows the everyday scenes on the
cars, which everybody will recognize:


Yes, it is a very amusing world, il
you do not refuse to be amused; and
our friends were very willing to be en-
tertained. They delight in the very
precise, thick-fngered old ladies who
bought sweet apples of the boys
who came aboard with baskets, and
who were so long in finding the right
change that our travellers leaping in
through with the boys from the mov-
ing train, felt that they did so at the
peril of their lives. Then they were
interested in people who went out and
found their friends waiting for them,
or else did not find them and wandered
disconsolately up and down before the
country stations, carpet-bag in hand j
in women who came aboard, and
were awkwardly shaken hands with
or sheepishly kissed by those who
hastily got seats for them, and placed
their bags or their battles in their laps,
and turned for a nod at the door in
young ladies who We're seen to places
by young men (the latter seemed not
to care if the train did go off with
them), and then threw up their VIM
dows and talked with girl friends on
the platform without till the train be-
gan to move, and at last turned with
cleaning eyes and moist red lips, and
painted hard in the excitement of
thinking about it, and could not calm
themselves to the dull level of
the travel around them; in the con-
ductor, cOldiy and ilaccessibly vigilant
as he went his rounds, reaching blindly
for his tickets with one hand, while he
bent his head from time to time and
listened with a faint, sarcastic smile to
the questions of passengers who sup
posed they were going to get some in
formation out of him in the train
boy, who passed through on his many
errands with prize candies, gumdrops,
popcorn, papers and magazines, and
distributed books and the police jour-
nails with a blind impartiality or q
prodigious ignorance or a supernatural
perception of character in those who
received them.
Year: 1871

How shall I thank thee, Lord, For this re-
pose,


This shelter from the mondays toll and
heat,


This tiny spring, more cool than Syrian
This shadow Of the palm-trees, green and


Sweet.
Long have wandered through the desert
With shrinking feet and fevered lips OF


fire,
Taunted and Knocked with pictures OF fair


lands,
That edbefore the clasp of my desire.
How merciless were all the burning days,
How dreary every still and brilliant night;
What unrelenting tempests vexed my ways,
And hid with whirling sands each friend


ly light.
All, Lordi dear Lord! for thy great PHYS
Spare me this little spot of tranquil rest;
This living spring my human thirst TO slake;
This vernal shade to cool my pantlng


breast.
Thou know'st cannot linger by 1t long.
The city of my rest, not far away,
Sends on the west wind summons iouo anu
Only s'aoas few short hours can I delay.
T will not soil this fountain with my lips,
Nor gather from Its brink one blending


flower,
Nor fright one bird that from its sweetness
Spare me, dear Lord! to linger out mine


hOur
Year: 1871

He felt no more harm, he said, from
handling fire than stones.


I could cite q great number of in
stances besides those mentioned, and
give the names of q large number of
gentlemen of high standing who have
witnessed the wonderful doings of this
untutOred African; but do not deem
it necessary, as what I have stated can
be more than authenticated by almost
any prominent man living in this 10
cality. I am thoroughly convinced,
from personal observation, that
FIRE HAS NO EFFECT WHATEVER


UPON HIS FLESH,


And am sustained in that belief by
the united judgment of all gentlemen
who have seen him, including large
number Of physicians.


This man should be seen and exam.
ined by our scientific men, and the
causes and effects of his remarkable
performances duly investigated for it
Is certain that his power to handle fire
does exist in q remarkable degree, and
that, too, without the aid Of any thing
save what nature has bestowed.
Year: 1871

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHARACTER.
In the gradual development OF a
bud into a beautiful and full-grown
flower, there is something that in
vites our deepest admiration. But
there is development surprising this
in beauty and grandness-the devel-
poment of human character. What OBJ
ject more worthy our contemplation
than that of q human soul passing
through each successive stage of its
existence, the rapid cultivation of
our intellect, and the bringing out of
that which God has endowed us
with? We are born with the germ
of character within us; and as our
bodies develop themselves so do our
characters. Some traits of our char
acter necessarily unfold themselves
with our growth; others need to be
stimulated and excited into growth
by some particular influence. The
man of genius has that within him
which is to stamp him as such. The
great general has the foundation of
generalship born W ith him; all that
is needed is some power ofinfuence
to develop it.


We might give many illustrations
of our meaning, all tending to estab-
lish the principle which we wish
to develOp-that human character is
ever growing, developing itself, re-
ceiving nOurishment and stimulant
from without; that particular traits
of character-traits that distinguish
one man from another--are brought
out by some particular influence.
The thoughtless and tickle character.
receiving impressions of sorrow and
misfortune, is subdued and the more
serious and meditative character is
developed, and grows into the image
of its Creator. AT times it NAV be
but trife that reverses the wheels
of the soul, and develops a character
that rises higher and higher above
its fellow, reaching into heaven and.
at last, resting upon the highest pin
nacle of eminencc Il ii IS possible for
man to attain.
Year: 1871

Since was little boy I have never
been afraid to handle fire." He then


stated that often when by hinslf he
would pick up red hot iron because his
tongs Were not handy, and that he
never felt any discomfort from it.
Year: 1871

An editor in Harrisburg lost his pass on
the railroad, and requested the officers OF
the road to secure the arrest of any man
who should present it. The next day he
found the pass in the pocket of his Sunday
tTOwsers, and proceeded to take atrlpupon
it. AS soon as he offered it to the COnduc-
tor, that faithful officer knocked him on


the head with his lantern, called i'll three
brakemen and the baggage-master,
dragged him, despite his frantic struggles,
along the floor into the baggage car, where
a brakeman sat on him while the conduc-
tor battered him up a lot to keep him quiet;
and then they searched him TO ascertain
what other thefts he had been perpetrat-
ing, With the exception of a ticket to the
circus that man had upon his person alb
<olutely nothing but railroad passes.


He had passes over all the main roads
and branch lines, and feeders and sidings,
in the State of Pennsylvania. He had
free tickets over all the railroads in the
Eastern, Southern, Middle and Western
States, and in four of the Territories. He
had pass over railroad from EeddO to
Yokohama, and another from Calcutta to
Bengal. He had letter promising him
one on the new road which is proposed in
Terra del FuegO, and manuscript puff
which he had written for man who had
assured him he should have pass over the
road, which the man said he was about to
run under the Mediterranean from Africa
to Italy, as soon rs it was built. The con-
ducter concluded that he had caught the
greatest pass kleptomaniac that the world
ever saw But when he got back to Har


risburg the affair was explained. And
now if there is any one editor in the State
who is completely sick of "gentlemanly
conductors" that editor resides in the
State capital.
Year: 1871

The Abilene (Kansas) Chronicle has i'll
formation that the fall immigration into
the Solomon Valley is unprecedented.
Many families arrived just before the late
storm, and the suffering among them is
terrible. Having no house, they are COM
pelled to live in their moving wagons" ,"
and the suffering among the women and
children particularly is very severe. To
add to the hardships of the situation, the
people are almost entirely destitute of food;
many of them have scarcely tasted a
mouthful of bread since reaching the val
ley. They are trying to subsist mostly
upon such game as they may be able to Sc
cure. This condition of affairs exists from
Mitchell county northward- up both
branches of the river. A great many ami
mails have perished in the valley in conse-
quence of the storm, and several men were
frozen to death. People were totally un-
prepared for cold weather, not anticipating
that it would set in until some time in De-
cember.


The same paper of the same date, i'll an
other article, says the weather continues
cold, and many cattle are dying for want
of shelter and food The idea of winter
ing stock without hay is all well enough
when the ground is not covered with snow,
but the attempt to carry 30, 900 head, more
or less, through ILe hIlllSI, Ou VIC IdhScS
is a costly experiment this time. We learn
that many cattle are dyingIup in the Solo
mon Valley. Our informant says that he
knows of one herd of 900 head, out of
which $50 have perished within the past
few iavs. There are probably $4,000 head
in the Valley and not hay sufficient to
winter 10, ,OO0 The oldest inhabitants in
form us that the present cold weather is
unprecedented, so early in the season, in
the history Of the State. The cold has
been general all over the country. and
coming so suddenly, the people were un-
prepared for it.
Year: 1871

Senator Sumner declines the craftsmanship of
the Committee on Elections and Privileges


The financial excitement in South Carolina is
subsiding, and there is united effort being
made to sustain the State credit.
Year: 1871

the government works in Paris laborers were
WORKING the ZANE as weekday. In fact | sm
told that in Psris the workmen labor Sunday
ana get drunk Monday, the reason being that
there Is general satisfaction in being idle and
seeing others work. In Geneva, tne scene OF
Calvins life and la5ors, men we're at work as
masons, carpenters and lsbofers generally.
saw there lot of men in the public square with
scythee, and asked what that meant. and Was
told that Sunday WAS TIE general hiring-iay
and that these men we're here to make contracts
for the coming weeks work. Everything is the
came as dnring the week, only more SO. The
grand review which witnessed at Munich was
on the Sabbath. And as have before said q,
there Is no church-going on the continent, even
IN the Catholic csthedrals Most Of the wOr-
Shippers were women, and very few Of them
But there IS one thing they have there that We
want, end that is order. There is no roEdyism.
The police are always within call. and toldiers
always IN sight. There is more rowdyism in
the United States than in the rest of the world,
aud more in New York than in all Europe,


The London cabmen, as a class, are the most
reckless drivers | ever rode after yet did not
hear an ungentlemanly word uttered by one of
them, though | rode in their cabs very often
during my stay there. Their charges are very
cneap-sixty-iTo cents an hour by the day, and
two miles for shilling was frightened when
| asked New York hsckman how much it
would cost to take me from the wharf to the
Astor house, and he told me five dollsrs


II was the happiest day Of my life when came
IN sight OF Long Island, and when, shortly sfter,
reached home. Ii seems as though hsd been
ahsent year. I was very homesick, and many
times would have preferred to have seen our lit
tie common thsn all Europe lam very glad
went abroad, for was treated with kindness
and courtesy wherever | visited, and found one
thing-that it is a patent Of nobility to be an
American and | also came te the conclusion
that America is the future home Of all Europe's
poor and, that they will continue coming SIS
they have opportunity.
Year: 1871

seven hundred millions, and what think you
would be the effect Of increasing it to two thou
sanu millions by the substitution of greeubscks
ior the outstanding fve-twenty bonds? Do you
not o7esee already some Of the evil consequences?
Inc oondholder paying out greenbacks for real
property Of every sort; the employer conpellinr
his workmen to receive deprecated paper for
their wages; the depositors in savings banks
turned of with what would be of little value to
use and of less value to keep. All these and
kindred evils are to be accepted, because. as we
sre told BY men who now solicit the conf Ience
OF the country. we did not receive the par value
IN coin of the bonds in question. Do they forget
or would they have US rather forget, that these
bonds were issued while we we're struggling in 3
desperate war, when the credit of the country
was shaken, when all our difficulties, foreign
and domestic, financial and political, civil and
military, increaSe1 by the policy Of that party
which now seess to involve Us in perils hard
ly less serious than those from which ge have
just escaped7


THE POLICY FOR TIE FUTURE


Do you ask me Of the future? The future is in
your own hands may suggest. or even advise.
but 1t is you alone who can acs Your irst duty
IS to continue to provide for the payment of tue
public debt in coin or its equivalent You can
not meet the demands Of ordinary public vir;-e.
you cannot satisfy yourselves to yourselves. if
you compel the public creditors to accept new
promise for an old one, even though coupled
with the suggestion or agreement on your part
that they msy have third, il d5sirei. and so on
al infAitum.


\ nation cannot trust i,s honor to a teohai.sl
defence This Is the resort Of ia1viiua.s ouly
when they are in extreme peril.


Next provide for a considerable annual pay
ment Of the public debt Delay transfers tie
burden more and more from property to labor
Delay postpones the time when the nation eau be
Independent in its OWE Affairs and powerful IN
the affairs Of the woTll. Delay retaris inu:-
grafton and hinlers the settlement Of the new
States. On the other hand, payment frees cap
tal for other uses, tends to lower the rae Of iu-
terest, shows the superiority Of our country and
institutions, and, il fue. gives to Ame-icl new
claim to be the leader AMI teacher Of man
kind.
Year: 1871

The Directors of the Eastern Division Fair
have issued their premium list, which is
ready for distribution at the Office of the Secre-
tary, Mr.. Calvin McCerkle. The list comprises
many valuable premiums, and superior articles
for which there are no stated premiums, will be
awarded them the same as those specified.


The fair is for the benefit of the people Of
East Tennessee, and one and all should do their
utmost to make it grand success The first
exhibition held sihce the war, last year, was
gotten up under many difficulties, though
BY the untiring exertions of the managers. the
result was most encouraging. If the proper
effort is made, there is nothing to hinder this
far surprising it in interest and the number OF
articles exhibited.


East Tennessee is waking up to The import
ance of fairs, and many of the counties in this
section will have their county fairs, but if all
work as they should, SO far from detracting
from the Eastern Division Fair, they will assure
it beyond persdventure. Our interest are the
same, but in order to succeed we must all work.
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel Diabetes, Drop
sy Incontinence of Urine, Brights disease Abuminu-
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances Ike
the white Of egg, threads like white silk or there
morbid dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is pricking, burning
sensation and pain in the small of the back and along


Ian Resolyent, aided by tbs application of Radwsys
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
me bowels regulated with one or two Of RadWays
cure In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
ana discharge water naturally without pain and the
or sherry color.
Year: 1871

A Man shoots Himself on His Wife,s Grave.


ON Saturday afternoon well dressed man, about
twenty-six years OF age, drove up to the Lutheran
Cemetery, Middle village, and, showing a ticket
admitted to the grounds and directed to grave
which he said was the grave Of his wife. In very
few minutes the attention OF the attendant was
drawn to the locality by the explosion OF pistol
when 1t was ascertained that the man had shot him.
sell, his body falling across the grave 10 which he
had been directed. An inquest was held yesterday
by Coroner Tewksbury, or Hunters Point, when the
following facts were ascertained:-The name OF the
unfortunate man Peter Smith. He resided
at 90 Thorp avenue. Williamsburg, was carpenter
by trace, twenfy.sx years OF age and some weeks
ago lost ms wife and only child by that terrible dis
ease, smallpox. Which has been raging IN that part
OF Brookiyn the past lew MONTHS since which time
he has been very uisconsolate saying that he would
so Il meet his wife. About noon lie hired horse
and buggy, saying that he was going into the coun-
try when ne dehberately drove TO the cemetery and
shot himself Verdict OF jury. death from MS own
Year: 1871

for the cost OF Its government They do not escape
taxation by their removal outside the city limits,
yet they diminish its tax rolls materially. As cit-
zens OF New York they would pay less taxes In the
reduction OF rate, while their accession to tax
rolls viii reduce the rate and the burden OF our
taxation.
Year: 1871




the city. The operations looking to q removal OF the
distractions at He'll Gate also give preference to
the east side IN business point or view. But give
to the west side quick transit and you will soon
see wonderful chanRe-the vacant lots and build
Ing sites being so much more desirable than on the
east side. Yes, Sir, continued Mr.. kavanagh, rising
as II to close the interview, rapid cheap transit
~ what is needed lor up town New York.
Give us that and real estate enterprise on both
sides Of the island will be stimulated TO an activity
without parallel III the past on the east side in the
direction of business, and on the west side Ill the
way OF fashionable and elegant residences.


During this conversation-of which the above is
only the substance-Mr. Kavanagn frequently re-
ferred to maps, Of which he possesses a rare and
valuable coilectionthe most complete, IL Is SAID,
The city.


Returning again TO consideration Of the annex


THE ARGUMENTS IN FAVOR OF ANNEXATION,
as held by the promoters OF the scheme and TO be
urged by them upon the Legislature, thus stated
by an evening contemDorary:-"1he city
and State governments are In accord as
democratic body, and desire this expan-
are the important body OF property owners, espe-
cIally those Immediately joining the present city
lands into city lols from rural districts into metro
potan districts and city wards Here Is the strong.
est, the most controlling body or supporters that
can be named. aud the Inducements are no less
elusive. The passage OF the bill Will vastly enhance
the market value Cf the real estate the district
and give 1t the advantage OF METROPOLITAN market
The limit OF taxation is made to AFFORD reduction
for existing rates so considerable that hereafter the
towns that are paying rs high four and even SIX
per cent Will have their rate reduced To less than
Two. These premiums OF enhanced value and re-
duced taxation must prove irresistible. We see 10
offset to them as Inducements to create effective
opposition.


But The paramount public ground on which the
measure ciaims consideration Is the fact tlat the
mass OF the people III the district substantially
the population and business community OF this city
They have expanded out INTO tins suburban vicinity
and are struggling with unhealthy and imper ect
improvements want OF sewerage ana drainage
want Of proper streets and ,ighWays. They Hafur-
ally belong TO this ciLy apd should oay their quota