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Year: 1873

SENATORIAL CAUCUSES


Mr.. CARPENTER NOMINATED FOR PRESIDENT PRO
TEN. OF THE SENATE BY THE REPUBLICANS,
AND Mr.. THURMAN BY THE DEMoCRATs-DIs-
CUssIoN OF THE FINANCIAL AND BANKRUPTCY
QUESTIONS.


lBr TELEGRAPH TO THE TRiBUSEI


WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-The Republican Senators
were IN caucus an hour and half this afternoon,
tne senate adjOurning at about o'clock. The prln'
cipal business was the selection of candidate for
the Presidency pro TEN. of the Senate Ordinarily,
this Is subject that would not come before the
caucns at all at this time The nomination and
election OF Mr.. Carpenter during the extra session
would have entitled him to reelection every time
during the present Congress that the Vice-Pres-
dents chair was found to be vacant on the meeting
OF the Senate. Senator Carpenter himself was not
present in the caucus, but remained in the Senate
Chamber writing letters during the entire session..
IL Is reported that Mr.. Carpenter was renominated
with very little, if any, opposition, and will there
lore be elected tomorrow OF next day, when Wee
President Wilson will be absent The nomination
OF Attorney-General Williams to be Chief-Justice
was not considered in the at all large part
OF the time OF the caucus occupied in the dis
cussion OF some of the leading financial measures
that are likely to come before the Senate this ses-
s'on. very general sentiment was found IN favor
OF some modification Of the Bankruptcy act and it IS
reported that agreement was reached to repeal
that part of the law which puts it into the power OF
creditor to throw a debtor into involuntary bank
ruptcy. The Democrats, who not in the habit OF
making nominations for Senatorial officers, held
special caucus to-day and nominated Mr. Thurman
for the Presidency pro TEN.


@~s'..> GENHRAL PRESS DIsPATCHl


The Democratic Senators held caucus this after
noon and passed the following resolutions:


FIRST That 1t is the OF this that the Dem
ocraic members OF the Senate should vote for cand
date for the President Of the Senate pro tempoe who
represents the political principles OF their party.


Second: That the Hon. Allen G. Thurman OF OHIO be
the nominee OF the Democratic members OF the Senate
for the Office OF President OF the Senate pro mpore


Third: That the action Of this be made known
10 the Senate by the Hon. j. w. Stevenson OF Kentucky
and that he nominate Senator Thurman for the Office IN
question.


This action was taken by the Democratic caucus
without any knowledge of who would be the noni-
nee of the Republican caucus, and without reference
to any individual.
Year: 1873

THE COMMITTEES ON EDUCATION, THE JUDICIARY
AND BANKING AND CURRENCY, IN sEssIoN-THE
SCHEME FOR DISTRIBUTING THE PROCEEDS OF
LAND SALES FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES TO BE
REPORTED TO THE HOUSE - DIFFERENCE OF
OPINION on THE CURRENCY QUESTION AMONG
THE MEMBERS OF THE BANKING AND CURRENCY
CoNNITTTR
Year: 1873

Shortly after Q p. M. yesterday, the steamer
Junata quietly left her moorings and steamed away on
her search for tho lost Polars. She moved slowly up
the East River and gained tho ocean by way OF Heii
Gate and Long Island Sound. No display was maze at
her departure, distinguished oincers were Pl.hc'
and even no curious crowd assembled to SEQ her on cr
officers and crew were In the OF spirits in the pros
meet OF euioying comfortably cool Summer. They DO
not expect to have any weather. as 1t Is not IN
tended to 20 north OF Upernavik unless tho sea
should be unusually free from Ice. The IL
eress will bo better prepared to penetrate tho Ice
fields and will 20 fyrther. TIE only protection tho
Junlaa has against is thin sheeIug OF IRON on h'r
how. IL was intended that the EsQuimaux who came


with the marty rescued from the Poars should be taken
back TO their homo in the Juniaa, but they could not be
found and rather than delay tho Juniata Secretary
Robeegn decided TO send them by the Tgress.
Year: 1873

George Wise, age SO, boatman, residing at
No 27 Presidentst., Brooklyn returned to his home


last evening grossly intoxicated, and without any canse
assaulted his sick wife Mary, uictng injuries That II Is
believed will terminate In her death. O1icer Cl'rN
OF the THIRD Precinct while passing the tenement
heard tho cries OF the woman, and going
into Wi.e's apartment found hin kicking
his wife. who was lying prostrato on the hoor
She was cut and bruised in fearful manner, AMI the
blood was pouring from the wounds on her head and
face Her brutal husband apparently crazed with
rum. and made fierce attack on the officer who was
Obliged to club him. The woman became nsensiole
and was conveyed to tho Long Island College Hospital


where an examination was made and it was found that
she had received internal injuries OF fatal nature.
Her husband was locked up in cell ia the statOnAOuse
Year: 1873

COLUMBUS, June 4.-ln the case Of the ex-
cusion Of the Bible from Common Schools in Cncin-
na the Supreme Court to-day decided that the School
Board had a right TO pass resolution to exclude not
only the Bible aud singing, but religious instruction,
and the Court has no authority interfere their
discretion in the exercise OF this power.
Year: 1873

FROM Philadelphia vas nearing Chester, tho tire Of
ono of the engine driving wheels broke, and the
train came to a stand still, A force was instantly
sen. up 10 make the necessary repairs. The train
was delayed over hour an its arrival here
Year: 1873

We obtain from the Sacramento
Union the subjoined compilation of
the assessable property in the different
counties, as ascertained from the re-
turns made to the State Board of Equal
ization. 1t will be found valuable for
reference i'm the future:
Year: 1873

and many other things Of interest oc.


Cured, which have partially forgotten.


We had picked our time to run out, but


now it was any port and any time. Com.


ing out we chose a night without moon,


but now that luminary was riding high


in the sky, but fortunately occasional


clouds partially obscured its light. Our


course was shaped to make the land at a


point distant about ten miles to the


northward Of Fort Fisher, and from


there run down along the beach, keep


ing it about two hundred yards distant,


with the lead marking three fathOms of


water. Our land-fall was excellent, but


the shore being very low we were right


up to the beach soOh after seeing it, aud
as we changed our course a yolley of


muketry from picket warned us that
we were near our friends, although they
gave us other than q pleasing welcome


Our signal man opened his lights and
got recognition at once. Our name was
sent down the beach ahead of us by the
blaaing torches, with the request that the
Fort prepare TO defend us, aud get the
range lights ready for opening as soon as
we were ready to take advantage Of
them. The night was as calm as posi-
BILE, and the sea as smooth as a mirror,
and l think never saw objects on shore
pass astern as swiftly as they did on
that occasion. We we're flying at rail
road speed, and doing il as nOiselessly
as a person walking on feathers. Run
ming down the beach as we did was the
usual tactics Of blockade-runners, which
was well understood BY the vessels block
aiding, which usually steamed IS near the
beach as was safe, for the purpose Of cut.
ting of or driving ashore the venture
some fellows who dared the blockade.
we were all eyes on the sea
ward side, expecting every minute to
meet foe, but at this time We stood to
our guns with the purpose TO fight, as
would no longer avail rs,
and We we're rather eager that some
sharp fellow should end rs and crawl
up and show his light and get broad
Ede for his pains. Bot none came. Fort
Fisher is abesm, and we haul of 10 get
into the channel which Is very narr0v
and quite shallow. Our run down has
been 90 rapid that We are ahead Of the
parties who are in charge Of the
lights, and signalize energetically,
asking 70 have the channel shown. Ia
the meantime our pilot imagined that be
saw the femains Of two steamers
which kad been wrecked on the spits
on either side Of the channel, and BY
Year: 1873

SAD DENISE. suicide and burial
of Curley-Headed Jack was a tragedy
which possessed many rude dramatic
features. As soon as he had inflicted
the chastity wound in his head his moth
er and female friends gathered around
him and set up a dismal bowling, smear
ING themselves with his blood and try
ing by all the mystic arts known TO
them 10 save his life Outside his tent
stood Bogus Charley, Hooker Jim,
Shack-Nasty Jim and others of the Cot
tonwood tribe, who had been the dying
warriors lifelong companions, affected
to tears. while the women shrieked and
tore their hair and would not be COM
forted. Captain Jack and his adherents,
however, who looked upon the Cotton
woods as traitors, chatted and laughed
as usual. occasionally throwing a glance
of scornfuI indifference at the mourning
group. There was such commotion
as soon as life left the warrior that Col.
Mason insisted upon his burial al once.
The body was wrapped in blanket,
with as much martial modesty as was
that of Sir John Moore, and so laid IN
the grave. The fatal pistol, which his
friends thought would be useful in kill
ing game on his way TO the happy hunt
ing grounds, was placed near bis heart.
An his property, consisting of clothing,
trinkets and a new half dollar, was tum-
bled into the grave with him. Before
the body was covered Hooker Jim was
scudding through the camp in state OF
great agitation. He vas owing the SUI
eide -, and he had in his possession
seventy-five cents in coin and a 3
greenbaclx. lie had doubts about the
latter being legal tender IN the country
to which Curley-Headed Jack had gone,
and peace reigned in his breast only af-
ter he had received coin for his note and
deposited the amount ia the grave.
Some Indian -four being put in for his
spiritual sustenance the grave was
closed.
Year: 1873

be supposed that the Interior Depart
ment would not submit to it. The law
requires house to be erected on each
quarter section of land. The cunning
fellows interested in this experiment
have really but quarter of a house
upon each quarter section, and yet Mr..


Delano decides that this is sufficient, and
that quarter of house is, in the Land
Department law, house. The decision
has tendency to encourage frauds upon
the government, and is such one as
spectators in land will greatly approve.
Year: 1873

A NEW DECISION. The Secretary of
the Interior has made curious decision
upon an architectural question The
Homestead laws require that, in order to
validate a claim of pre-emption of land,
house must have been erected upon
each quarter section. Some astute fel-
lows have undertaken to comply with
,hls provision nominally, not really..
building house at the point where the
boundaries Of four quarter sections come
'ogether, they have made the building
partly upon each quarter section. This
H 50 smart an arrangement that it might
Year: 1873

The committee also find that mo
fraud or peculation has been committed
by the trustees upon the property of
trust. After the very searching exam
ination they made into the private af-
fairs of the managers this finding may
be accepted by the public as a complete
vindication of the personal honesty of
those men whose honor has been assailed
by every weapon of slander and malig-
nifty Vermont Watchman.


The Railroad Committee seems to have
changed its point of view frequently in
making up its report and people will
have to read the evidence that is to be
printed before being able to make up
their minds which of the contra iictory
conclusions to which the committee
come in reference to various points are
true. We think the better way is that
followed by law reporters, not to sand
wiCh the opinions of dissenting
Judges with those of the cOu. t
in an inextriCable mixture. Just a
little confusion would be apt to result in
such a case as it has done in this. Green
Nount In Freeman.


The committee to investigate the af-
fairs Of the Vermont Central Railroad
Company had a difficult and delicate
duty to perform Some of the members
of the committee were known to have
strong prejudicrs against the trustees of
the road, and would naturally be very
DESTROYS to search out everything that
looked like fraud or corruption. A great
amount of testimony was taken. and as
far as we can Judge, the matter was
thoroughly sifted; but from the report
of the committee we should Judge that
nothing very serious had been brought
to light. That while. the management
of the road were not altogether blame
less, in some small matters, yet there
was no such abuse of the trust placed in
their hands as to call for censure on the
part of the Legislature or dis.rust on the
part of the citizens of the State.-Nan-
I chester JOu57ldL
Year: 1873

That he was conscious was evident from
his struggles. With the intensity of an
imperilled life he sought to seize the
basket above him, evidently hoping to
use it as a parachute. He succeeded in
his object, but when about one hundred
feet high, he loosed his hold and folded
his hands and arms before his face. His
feet first struck the ground with dull
heavy thud. Then ensued panic and
uproar in the crowded multitude


Women tainted, strong men wept, and
the carcas came flying over the crowd
like huge bird. Some one cried out to
get from the way as it would fall with
crushing force. Then the cry was taken
up and a general rush made for safety,
in which many were more or less in
iured La Mountain was crushed into a
literal pulp. A medical examination
disclosed the fact that hardly a whole
bone was left. Many were ground and
splintered to powder. His jaw fell
upon his arms, and were pulverized, and
the blood spurted from his mouth and
ears. The corpse was laid out and
placed on the public square, where it
was visited by thousands during the
afternoon, and was sent home to Brook
lyn, Mich, the following day.
Year: 1873

WoMAN AGAIN TO THE FRoST.--A .fe-
male lawyer has just won a case out IN
Illinois and several dashing bellies al
jerome park are reported to have won
large number of cases-of champagne,
and drank them too. The genius of wo-
man must triumph at last, but must it
always take such direction ga
Year: 1873

Coon. - The St. Adams Messenger
tells this: 'tWe have heard an ancient
related, wherein an old gentleman in this
vicinity believing he was entitled to
larger pension from the government, and
not well knowing the means he should
adopt to procure it, wrote to President
Grant detailing the circumstances, and
the President has interested himself in
the matter so far as to have it referred
to the proper department. We under
stand that the application viii doubtless
be granted y
Year: 1873

HOME SCENERY. "A gentleman from
Boston, who has travelled extensively in
Europe, while visiting the locality known
as the ''Flat Rock" near the ''quarter
line" road east of Clarendon Springs,
recently remarked that the scenery
viewed from that point excelled any
thing he had seen in Europe. Our citi-
zens who are flying off to foreign lands
at large and alarming waste of time
and money in search of scenery, would
do well to spend a summer in visiting
the places of interest about Rutland.
There is no better scenery in any land
than can be seen from the top of Kill
lington, the Notch, or from Pine Hill.
The water falls at the Center and at
Sutherland Falls, exceed many of the
noted cascades of the Alps in beauty
and grandeur, and the whole country
abounds in scenes well worth a journey
across the continent to see. No climate is
more healthy or salubrious than that of
the Green Mountains, and our own citi-
zens should at least visit the places of
interest near their own homes before
they rush across the ocean to feast their
eyes on inferior scenery or hold up their
hands in wonder over cataractS much
less beautiful than those at their own
door.
Year: 1873

SOLDIERS MONUMENT. - We would
suggest to the people of Rutland the pro-
priety OF erecting a soldiers monument
in this community, to commemorate the
lives of our brave boys who fell on the
field of duty. In Justice to ourselves as
well as to our dead heroes, this subject
ought to be taken into consideration, and
immediate action taken thereon. 1t is
shame to Rutland, that, with all her
wealth and patriotism, she has never
erected suitable soldiers monument.
Let some of our leading citizens take
this matter in hand and provide for its
erection. Don't read this article and
cast it carelessly aside among the things
to be forgotten but talk it over with
your neighbors, agitate the subject, and
make preparations for the raising of the
monument or tablet with fitting cere-
monies, and proper attendant honors to
those who fought, bled and died for us
in our time of need.
Year: 1873

A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF THE
"A boys growing up in New York will sooner or later
engage in business. The regular public and private
schools afford little or no direct qualification for it.


Schools that advertise to 'prepare for college bus


mathematics and languases and 1t is well known that
anything Of actual business When your son Is IA TO 20
years age send hm for to the West Side Bust
He will not only study exclusively business brancnes
and systematically than he could possibly pick
upn the same knowiedse in business but he will learn
much Of the inside management Of different kinds Of
business, and acquire habits OF order, neatnes accu
racy and aithuness that will asonish you. Please call
Year: 1873

CLEVELAND, March 3l.-The Cleveland Bar
Association this afternoon considered the follow.
ing resolution


Resolved, That the testimony given by Judge
G. L. Sherman, before the committee In the re-
cent investigation in Congress, and letters adnit
ted by him to be genuine, evince such want o
integrity and such moral turpitude as to destroy
all confidence in his judicial administration, anc
require that he should at once resign and relieve
the federal Court from embarrassment consequent
upon his continued occupancy OF the judgeship


Action upon the resolution was postponed, II
order to give Judge Sherman an opportunity t
communicate with the association.
Year: 1873

In the family, the law of pleasing
ought to extend from the highest to
the lowest. You are bound to please
your child en-; and your children are
bound to please. each other. Z Some
men are pleasant in the household
and nowhere else. We have known
such men. They are good fathers
and kind husbands. If you had seen
them at their homes you would have
thought they were angels, almost !;
but if you had seen them on the
street, or in the store, OIL, anywhere
else out of the house, you would
have thought them almost demoniac.


But the opposite is apt to be the case.


When we are among our neighbors,
or among strangers, we hold our
selves with self respect, and endeav-
or to act with propriety but when
we get home we say to ourselves
81 have played part long enough,
and am now going to be natural. .
so we sit down and are ugly land
snappish, blunt and disagreeable.
We lay aside those thousand little
courtesies that make the roughest
floors smooth, that make the b ard est
thing like velvet, and that make life
pleasant. a,g "a s.
Year: 1873

A TERRIBLE ENTANaLEMEr III
married widow who had marri age
able daughter. My father, who often
came to see us, took fancy to my step
daughter and married her. Thus
my father became my sou.in Law, and
my step daughter became my mother,
since she was the wife Of my father.
Some time aiterward my wife had =
son; he vas the brother in-law Of ny
father and also my uncle, Is he was
the brother Of my mother-in-law. The
wife Of my father-my step-daushter
also had = son; Of course this son
was my brother. and at the same time
my grandson, since be was the child Of
my daughter. My wife was my
grandmother, since she was the moth
er of my mother. For myself, was
It once the husband and the grand
soa Of my wife; and as the husband
Of persons grandmother is his grand.
father, was my own grandfather"
Year: 1873

The Boston correspondent Of the
Hartford Cowrant writes: "The la.
test statement with regard to the
future of the atlantic Monthly is to
the effect that its character is to be
radically changed, if not Immediately,
ere long in the future. There are
those who say that it will pass into the
hands Of the Methodist denomination
and become their literary organ. Mr.


Houghton, who has purchased it, is
Methodist; but the impression Of those
Who talk in this way is that he has not
bought it for himself. but for the
Methodist denomination. The demon
ination is spending more money in or
ganized literary effort than ever before.
Some say it is aiming to found univer


sity here that shall eclipse Harvard
College. 1t is believed to have been
contemplating the publication Of .
literary periodical for some time. l.
may be those acting for it found I.
better policy to buy the Atlantic and
convert i. to their objects than to start
out anew. They save the slow work OF
building up, and they extinguish an
organ Of teresy. If this be SO, the
children Of light have stolen a march,
indeed, upon the children Of the world.
Year: 1873

Down at Winona the other day a
little boy BY the name Of Ryan was
playing with pistol. A little girl by
the name Of O'Dsa expressed desire
to hear him snap cap. The boy gal.
lant.y responded to her request, and
now the little girl doesn't care to hear
any more caps snapped, and the sur
gaos had quite Time digging shot
ont Of her scalp.
Year: 1873

A writer on "reminiscences OF old Bos-
ton, in the Commercial Bulletin OF that
city, speaks as follows of sppeFstitiOns;
signs, omens and p0rtentsl "SOar0e
had reached the corner of the street,
some short ten PAGES, when | met a
third, who squinted, and fourth, and be
squinted more violently than the other
three-'such portents met the eye when
Cesar fell Our great-grandiathers
were constantly looking out for signs
and omens, and were Gs much affected
by them in their temporal and spiritual
affairs as were the people in more an
cient times, as illustrated in our quota
ton. They foretold the weather, for a
day or for assessor, by the sparks upon
the chimney back, or by the appearance
of the backbone of the goose, which was
always carefully saved and dried for
this purpose. The approach Of spring
or winter was heralded by the early or
late Aight of geese. The high or late
fight Of swailoEg was thought to be
ominous of many things. hheHm9tiSn
and gout were kept DISTANCE by wear
ing bit Of birthstone in the pocket, or
couple of horse. chestnnts. A horse
shoe nailed over the kitchen lqov would
keep the devil opt of the house, or, oyer
the barn door, the witches from the
cattle Whoever began journey or
any business, or any other undertaking
on Friday, and was successful in it2
No one. We all recollect the poor,
fooIisb man who determined to fly in
the face and eyes Of fate, hg laying the
keel of ship on Friday, calling her
Friday, and sending her to sea on that
day. we need not mention the result.
OF course she was never again heard
from. "To see the first of the new
moon over the left sb0gder was consid-
cred the worst possible luck whiah eeHla
befall a man that month. A partic-
ular bone Of the sheep was carried in
the pocket, and called the lucky bone.
If the family pig was uneasy in his
sty, and particularly if he scratched
himself much against it, it was GER
tain sign of thaw. If cobwebs were
upon the grass in the morning the day
was certain to be 6ne. A green phrist-
mas makes fat chprchyard, and num-
berless other similar proverbs, were
faithfully believed in"