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Year: 1873

In connection with the demoralizina influences l have noticed, the corruptions which have attached to the official sevice of the country, cannot be overlooked Wlsh common shame, our people have witnessed the development of this great evlI, through municipal governments and State Legislatures, until it's recent culmi- natlon In the exposure of hidden scandals vltaIiy affecting the purity of congression- ai legislation. Deplorable enough in it. sell, the peril of this exposure lies in the shock 1t has given to public confidence in the civil service of the country. and the popular belief it has excited in the ex- istence of more fragrant abuses and off, elal trust which only await the favorable circumstance to disclose them. And cer- talniy no graver peril than this can threat en our institutions resting, as they do. and as in Republic all institutions of government necessarily must, upon the moral sense of the people for their sup port. The whole fabric is undermined whenever the public service ceases to be respected and the suspicion becomes fix ed that it's official positions are prostitu- ted to private profit its legislation traf- licked, or even so much as the hem of the garment of it's judiciary soiled with venality.

 We have seen this exemplifed in the governments of the Southern States since the termination of the war. Given up as prey to the political adventurer, civil government in most of those States at times and in some of them until now, has existed simply by the force of it's own cor rupflon. And as natural sequence, we see to-day the State of Louisiana, with it's cnlef city, the metropolis of the South West, subjected to armed intervention by the General Government, in violation of constitutional rights so palpable. that no other justification is seriously pretended Tor Y than that it is necessary to save the people of that State from anarchy.

 From Every Saturday.
Year: 1873

desire to call attention to the fact that Ihave on hand full stock of all varieties of LUMBER called for in this market and am prepared to sell the same st the lowest market price for Cash My stock comprises Ei v
Year: 1873

KISSING IN CHURCH.-A Columbia
clergyman. who. while preaching his
sermon on Monday evening. perceived
Il man and woman under the gallery in
the act of kissing each other behind
hymn book, he did not lose his temper
He did not fly into an unseemly rage.
and call upon the sexton to rush up the
aisle and disband the rioters. No, he
remained calm. He beamed mildly on
the offenders over his spectacles, and
when the Young man kissed her the
fifteenth time he merely broke his ser
mon short off in the middle of thirdly"
and offered Il tervcnt PRAYER in behalf
of the young man i'll the pink neck tie
and the maiden in the blue net and gray
shawl, who were profaning the sanctua-
ry by kissing one another in pew 7S."
And the congregation said Amen"
The woman pulled her vail down and
the Young man sat and SwOre softly to
himself. He didn't appreciate the cler-
gyman'S solicitude. He didn't feel as
if he wanted to he prayed for, as he was
quite happy ut the time and his condi-
ton heavenly.
Year: 1873

THE decrease IN the yield of water by
the artesian well in Central Park, Chicago,
has led to an experiment, the result of
which possesses considerable interest. AT
the REQUEST of the Park Commissioners,
the flow of all the other wells in the city
was stopped for period of sixteen hours,
and it was found that thereupon the vol
ume of water discharged by the well IN
Central Park increased. The inference
from this is that all the artesian wells III
the city are supplied from the same SUD-
terranean stream, and that any further
multiplication of these wells VIII not IN
crease the aggregate yield of water, but
will only divide it SO as to impair Tue
value of all.
Year: 1873

The Washington Chronicle has the fol-
lowing important item concerning registered
letters:


The system Of registered letters now in
vogue under the operation of the Postofice
Department is in fair way of being i'm
proved upon. An Office entirely new has
been designated by the Postmaster General,
and has already been filed by a new ap-
pointment. Everything in connection with
the system of registered letters comes under
his charge, and as more attention will be
paid to registered letter affairs the conse-
quence will be more perfect arrangement.
As it is now, missing letter that has been
registered can only be traced to the office in
which it disappeared. Ii il could be SO
fixed that registered letter could be traced
through every step of its transmission, then
the Government would be safe in assuming
all responsibility and liability for its cor
tents, and great desideratum would be
reached.
Year: 1873

Boston, Jan. 30-The city committee
on claims come 10 the conclusion that the
city is legally liable for the destruction of
property by the blowing down Of buildings
during the great fire, the matter coming
strictly within the range of the statute law,
and not subject to the application of the
common law.
Year: 1873

A landlady who rejoiced to find that she
could rent her upper rooms to a couple
without children, writes how long it re-
quires for a middle aged man to become an
accomplished clog danrer..
Year: 1873

Destruction OF Bridge Works at Little


Rock by a Sudden Rise of the River.
Special to the Appeal.


LITTLE Rock, April 10.-Three piers
of six cylinder pillars each, from the
bridge of the Cairo and Fulton railroad
being built across the river by a Baltimore
bridge company at the northern part of
the city, washed away last night by q
tremendous current from a rise of the
river. The loss is about thirty thousand
dollars. Further work upon the bridge
is suspended until after the June rise.
Year: 1873

m The tide OF migration Is steadily set
ting In, and the FIRST thing eastern people do
is TO throw away their New York Hats and buy
q new one Of DESMOND. They say there Is no
comparison between the two.
Year: 1873

Tho Cruise of the New York Club and
tho Entries-The Josephine Not In
jured.


The preparations for the annual cruise Of the
New York yacht squadron are hurrylng toward
completion. The dry docks have during the past few
weeks done much toward fitting out the craft Tor
this enjoyable trip. Invitations have been extended
by the yachtsmen to their friends, and on Monday
next the fortunate ones who are to accompany the
feet as guests will betake themselves, with their
satchels to Glen Cove, the place OF rendezvous.
There they will find fifteen twenty yachts riding
at anchor, whose owners Will be waiting their ar
rival. Then will follow two weeks more OF de-
hghtul Summer idling along the New England
coast.


THE FLEET.


The squadron will not be unusually large, and
Will. as lar s now known, consist OF the following
YaChta
Year: 1873

NEW LONDON, Conn.,, August g. 1873.


The weather did not look very promising at day
break this morning as there was hardly breath
Of wind. The Atlantic Yacht Club neet lay at
anchor In Morris Cove last night and In the morning
joined by the Alert and Nellie @. Vice Commo-
dore Monseli waited until breeze sprang up before
he gave the signal to start, and 1t was past nIne
O'Clock before the fleet weighed anchor for New
London. There was very light southerly breeze,
and the Sound was as smooth as glass, with it's
surface Just broken by gentle ripple that swept
across from the Long Island shore. The little Un-
dine and the Alert were the first to get or and,
close hauled they made short stretches in order to
beat out Of the Cove. The Orion, KSte date jose
phine) and Agnes came next, followed shortly af-
terward by the Mystic, Triton, Stella and Eddie.
The Nmbus did not leave with the squadron,
but will join them tomorrow at Greenport.


As soon as the yachts cleared the Lighthouse
Point they lay their course right along the shore
part of the morning the air was very light but
towards afternoon 1t grew fresher. The Agnes
and Triton passed the Alert and took the lead OF
the feet, leaving the other scho0ners In the
The Orion followed alter the Alert, with
the Stella and Nellie G. close behind. The
throughout the day. and although hunted pretty
closely by the Orion, succeeded In being the first
sloop in New London HarbOr. The Agnes and
Triton had very pretty race together. passing and
repassing one another, and they finally arrived in
harbor so close to one another that there was
really no difference In their time.


The yachts all anchored in the harbor OF the
town. with the exception Of two or three that pre-
ferred remaining Tor the night OF the Edgcomb
House. The yachts passed the latter place as lol
Year: 1873

The schooner yacht Josephine, Lloyd Phoenix,
arrived yesterday from Newport. The report that
she was stranded near that place Is untrue. The
Josephine did not return to Newport, but not on
account OF any damage sustained. The mere fact
OF her return may have given rise to the rumOred
damage, and the amplifcatiOn OF this before IL
reached New York probably even yet accounts Tor
the loss OF a schooner and all on board. So much
for another rumOred yacht disaster.
Year: 1873

AGREEABLE MfsTAKE.-Not long
since the physician of a.Western village
had call to see patient living a few
miles out of town, and as his mule was
nearly as far away as his patient, he
concluded to go on foot, and started
about eight o'clock in the evening.
When about half way he heard some
animal stealthily creeping towards him,
and knowing there were grizzly bears
in the country, he at once surmised
that he was about to be attacked by
one. He made up his mind that dis
cretion was the better part of valor.
and made hurried tracts for the nearest
tree. After ascending the tree about
twenty feet, he found a convenient
limb on which he could hang and listen
to his enemy. He soon heard him ap-
preaching, and could see his great eyes
glistening like balls of fire. The griz-
ely approached near the tree and seat
ed himself, keeping his great fiery eyes
steadily fixed upon his victim, as if
confident that he was yet to furnish
his supper. Thus beleaguered the poor
doctor was compelled to hang and
watch the huge, shaggy monster through
the long, weary night; and he says his
prayers for daylight and relief were
deep and heartfelt. At last daylight
appeared. and as objects began to ap-
pear more distinct, the size of the mon
ster began to diminish and appear less
frightful, and after wiping the mist
from his eyes he found that he was
freed by his own big dog
Year: 1873

The dentist who made the newspa-
pers luminous in the holiday time Win
his big type of snake your sweetheart
a present of new set of teeth, was
not out of reckoning if he lived IN South
Jersey. On the Jersey coast the great
ambition of young and old is to have a
bran new set of teeth. Recently a
young woman presented her jaw to a
dentist at Toms River; the dentist said
he had not the conscience, or want
of it, to pull out such good teeth as she
had, "they simply wanted little fill
ing" But the damsel objected to his
"jaw," and insisted upon clear gums,
and she got them! They say new teeth
look so nice.
Year: 1873

WHY LACE IS COSTLY The finest
specimen of Brussels lace is so compli-
Gated as to require the work of seven
persons on one piece, and each opera
tive is employed at distinct features of
the work. The thread used is of ex-
quisite fineness, and is spun in dark, un-
der-ground rooms, where it is sufficient
ly damp to prevent the thread from sep
arating. 1t is so delicate as scarcely to
be seen, and the room is so arranged that
all the light admitted shall fall upon the
work. 1t is such material that renders
the genuine Brussels ground so costly.
On piece of Valenciennes not two inch
es wide, from two hundred to three hun
dred bobbins are sometimes used and
for larger width, as many as eight hun
dred on the same piece.
Year: 1873

THE PRESS LAW OF RUSSIA. A.-Hereto-
fore, authors OF books and reviews in
Russia, were required to deposit a copy
with court of law, which had the right
to stop the issue, if an accusation could
be based on its contents, showing that it
was violation of distinct clause of the
criminal code. Recently however. the
censorship is placed in the hands OF the
administrative authorities, who are solely
guided by what they may think of the
general purport and tendency of the
book, and can suppress it without regard
to any law. This is the '' free press T" of
Russia Is tins an example of her pro-
gress in liberal ideas?
Year: 1873

The Russ House of San Francisco has long
been favorite with our California people, and OF
late is becoming popular with Eastern tourists.
II is soon to be enlarged, and under its new pro-
prietors, Mr.. Seymour and Mr.. Doris, it will no
doubt grow in favor with those who come to our
Golden City to remain transiently. The wants
of the public are well met, and the courtesy and
hospitality of both employers and employed are
well known to all who ever stopped there
Year: 1873

The following will be read with in
terest by those who are obliged to study
close economy in their diet.


An old beau, formerly well known in
Washington city, was accustomed to
eat but one meal in twenty -four hours;
if, after this, he had to go to party
and eat second dinner, he ate nothing
all the next day. He died at the age
of seventy.


A lady of culture, refinement, and
unusual powers, becomes widow.
Reduced from affluence to poverty,
large family of small children de-
pendent upon her manual labor for
daily food, she made a variety OF ex-
periments to ascertain what articles
could be purchased for the least money,
and would at the same time Ego the
farthest," by keeping her children the
longest from crying for something to
eat. She soon discovered that when
they eat buckwheat cakes and GLASSES,
they were quiet for longer time than
after eating any other kind of food


A distinguished judge of the United
States Court observed that when he
took buckwheat cakes for breakfast he
could sit on the bench the whole day
without being uncomfortably hungry.
If the cakes were omitted, he felt
obliged to take lunch about noon.
Buckwheat cakes are universal favorite
at the winter breakfast table, and sci
entifc investigation and analysis has
shown that they abound in the heat
forming principle; hence nature takes
away our appetite for them in summer.


During the Irish famine, when many
died of hunger, the poor were found
spending their last shilling for tea, to-
bacco, and spirits. 1t has also been
observed in New York, by those con-
nected with charitable institutions, that
when money was paid to the poor,
they often laid out every cent in tea
or coffee, instead of procuring the more
substantial food, such as meal, flour, or
potatoes. On being reproved for their
apparent extravaganza and improvi-
dence, the cry was universally in both
cases identical; their own observation
had shown them that penny's worth
of tea, tobacco, or liquor, would keep
off hunger longer than penny's worth
of anything else. Scientific men ex-
press the idea by saying: "Tea, like
alcohol, retards the metamorphosis of
the tissues; in other words, it gives
fuel to the fame of life, and thus pre-
vents it from consuming the fat and
flesh of the body.


If person gets into the habit of
taking lunch between the breakfast
and dinner, he will soon find himself
getting faint about the regular luncheon
time; but let him be so pressed with
important engagements for several days
in succession as to take nothing between
meals, it will not be long before he can
dispense with his lunch altogether.
These things seem to show that, to
certain extent, eating is mere habit.
Whole tribes of Indian hunters and
trappers have been known to eat but
once in twenty-four hours, and that at
night.
Year: 1873

DEATH-BED SPEEcHEs.-A writer in
Sc,'ihner's Monthly does not sympathise
with the idea of laying up choice
thoughts and impressive words to be
drawn out and delivered inst as Death
Is knocking at the door. He is greatly
in favor of employing them now, instead
of risking them in the condition of lock.
ed. up capital which may prove unavail-
able when the sad hour comes He SAYS
How would it do for us to say to-day
some of the things We intend to say in
our last illnessl Honor bright! are you
not saving up several fine, generous,
pathetic little speeches to be made on
your death-bed; all the scenery set, full
company on the stage, grand final tab
leau? Ten chances to one you'll forget
them then; or have rattling in your
throat that will shake them out of shape
Forth with them now like men, My
dear boy, You have been the light and
comfort of my life My dear girl,
without you L would have been nothing
in this world
Year: 1873

Ayoung lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She
says, invite half dozen boys and girls
to your house when your pa and ma are
away; put half-dollar silver piece in a
dish with molasses an inch deep in it.
and offer it to the boy who gets it with
his mouth. The more the boys who try
to get it, the more fun will there be.
That girl deserves diploma.
Year: 1873

TEETH SET ON EDGE.-All acid foods.
drinks, medicines, and tooth washes and
powders, are very injurious to the teeth.
If tooth is put in cider, vinegar, lem
on-juice or tartaric acid, in few hours
the enamel will be completely destroy
ed, so that it can be removed by the fin
ger-nail as if it were chalk. Most peo-
pie have experienced what is commonly
called teeth set on edge The explana-
tion of it is, the acid of the fruit that has
been eaten has so far softened the enam-
ell of the tooth that the least pressure is
felt by the exceedingly small nerves
which pervade the thin membrane con-
Meeting the enamel and the bony part of
the tooth. Such an effect can not be
produced without injuring the enamel.
True, 1T will become hard again, when
the acid has been removed by the fluids
of the mouth, just as an egg-shell that
has been softened in this way becomes
hard again by being put in the water.
When the effect of sour fruit on the teeth
subsidies, they feel as well as ever, but
they are not as well. And the oftener it
is repeated, the sooner the disastrous
consequences will be manifested.
Year: 1873

there should be no other state of life,
no other occupation, art or science, in
which some method of instruction is
not looked upon as requisite, except
only the science of legislation, the no.
blest and most difficult of any. APP
prenticeships are held necessary to
almost every art commercial or me-
chanical: a long course of reading and
study must form the divine, the
physician, and the practical professor
of the laws: but every man thinks
himself born q legislator" The same
author says again: "How unbecoming
must it appear in member of the leg
islature to vote for o new law, when
he is utterly ignorant of the old!
What kind of Interpretation can he
be enabled to give who is stranger to
the text upon which he cOmments?"


Concluded Tomorrow.
Year: 1873

At l1alf~past yesterday morning, tho last Ger
nun soldier stepped off French territory. and
left Franco FREQ from the hateful presence Of the
German Army Of Occupation for tho frst time
since tho closo OF tue F,anco-Prussian war.
Year: 1873

A few days ago tall, rough-lookine
mountaineer entered the Union Railroad
ticket office at Denver, and, through mis-
take, purchased a ticket for New York via
the Kansas Pacific line, when he wanted to
go over the Union Pacific. He did not dis
cover this fact until after the ticket had been
paid for, and on asking the agent to change
it the latter refused to do so.


A"You won't change this ticket, then,
won't yOu?"


''No, sir" replied the agent; "you have
your ticket, and l have the money for it,
and if you want a ticket over the other
route you Will have to buy it,"


Very quietly the stranger twisted his tick
ct into a small roll; very serenely he drew
from under his right coat-tail a six-shooter,
about the dimensions of mountain how
itzer; coolly and deliberately he stuck the
twisted ticket into the muzzie of that six
shooter, and sticking the ugly-looking thing
through the little square window of the
ticket Office, and almost in the agents face,
and speaking in the tone that left no doubt
of his determination, said:


STRANGER, thar's that ticket; take it
yourself and change it, or by Cd I'll blow
it clean through YOU"


The ticket was changed Immediately,
and without any more words from the
agent, and the mOUntaineer walked away,
saying: 81 jest thought could induce him
to change his mind leetle."
Year: 1873

Indianapolis boasts of leading contrac-
Tor who can neither read nor write, and
who does not know one figure from anoth-
er, yet can accurately estimate the number
of brick for wall, or shingles for roof, OF
given dimensions, and the cost of construc-
ti0D
Year: 1873

A LeaVenworth paper has this charming
episode of love to relate apent the Christ
mas season. The inexhaustable romance
OF emigration, of which in modern days
our country is almost always the objective
point, has its latest recorded illustration in
quiet little story recently
made public through the circum-
Year: 1873

The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
recently made decision upon the legal
ity of marriages contracted between par
ties while in state of slavery. Two
colored men claimed to be legal heirs of
one Philip Garner, and their claim was
resisted on the ground that at their
birth their mother was a slave, and that
there could be no legal marriage be-
tween slaves, as they were incapable of
making a contract. In delivering the
opinion of the court Judge Head said
that the Court of Appeals in Kentucky


ad held in two cases that slaves could
not, under the law of that State, con-
ract legitimate marriages, nor could
their living together as husband and
wife constitute their union marriage de
factO; and no legal rights could be ac-
quired under such connections by the
parties thereto, nor by their offspring.
This doctrine Judge Head declined to
accept, as it is in conflict with the die
tates of humanity, violates the prlnci-
pies OF natural justice, andls subyerslve
Of good morals. 1t is true that the va
rious statutes of Tennessee regulating
marriages were construed to embrace
white people alone; but the common
aw was left in force so far as it applied
to the marriage of slaves. The marri-
age of slaves according to the rules of
common law was valid, and their off
spring legitimate for all legal purposes
during their servitude and since their
emancipation.


This decision Judge Head fortified by
citing an opinion of Judge Nelson, that
marriage between slaves with the as
sent of their owners, whether contract
ed in common law form or celelrrted
under the statutes, always was a valid
marriage, and that the issues of such
marriages were not illegitimate.
Year: 1873

Kardoo, whose life is given by a lady,
missionary in India, had a baby
brother called "Luckie," whom she
loved dearly. His mother loved him
too, but often wept when kissing him,
and was always sad, while his father
turned away from the boy, grave and
stern. When Luckie was about nine
months old, Kardoo found that her
father and mother, with the baby and
his nurse, were going on plaeig, grima
but could not take her with them, and
she feared that they we're going to fulfill
q foolish VOW. 49,.


In about ten days her parents returned
without the baby. Poor Kardoo re-
ceived no answer to her many questions
about Luckie her mother never smiled;
it seemed as if her heart had been
turned into stone. 1t was only when
the nurse came, who had remained be-
hind few days, that Kardoo heard her
darling brother had been offered a sac
rifce-thrown into the Ganges by his
own mother The mother saw him rise
upon the water; then he sank, as a
great crocodile opened his mouth to seize
him, and the water was colored with his
blood. The wretched mother uttered a
wild cry, and threw herself upon the
ground. What a dreadful story for
poor Kardoo to hear and she could
not speak of it to her parents; their
religion taught them it was right.


Thank God that you were born in a
land of gospel light. And will you not
help to send the blessed Word of God
and the living teacher, that the heather
may put away their heathen gods, and
turn to Jesus?