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Year: 1875

About month ago friend of Mrs.
Harmon Jones read in an English pa
per the account of some British vessel
having been driven out of her course
in storm and sighting an unknown
island. Much to the surprise of the
crew the island turned out to be in
habited, and still more astonishing, by
men who spoke the English language.
The rest of the story as given in the
paper referred to is that the castaways
told the ships company that they
were tho Florinda party who had
sailed from New Orleans in 1S49,
bound for California; that they had
been wrecked on the island, and had
dwelt there ever since. 1t being then
more than twenty-five years since
they have seen q human face or sign
OF tho world from which they werc 80
utterly eliminated. The paper gave
the names of several, all of whom are
known to have been of the Florinda's
crow, and in many other ways, &C.
cording to the version of Mrs. Jones'
friend. the identity of the party was
established, as none but themselves
could have established it. 1t was fur
ther stated that the British vessel of.
fered to take tho men ON board, but
they declined, saying they had been
lost for q quarter of century; that
they knew not in what situation they
would find the families they had left,
and that they preferred staying and
ending their days there rather than
venture back to such doubtful and
uncertain future. This paper was
four months old when Mrs. Jones'
friend saw it one month ago, and the
events narrated were described as
having occurred four months previous
to the issue of tho paper. 1t is just
nine months then since the island was
discovered by the British vessel, and
at that time all or nearly all of the
Florinda party appear to hayc boon
alive. 1t need not be said that this
news has aroused the deepest interest.
To the community at large it recalls
tho familiar occurrence of the Florin-
dS's sailing from New Orleans with
its adventurous company. To the
families Of the ill-fatod men it comes
like message from another world,
and Is as though it were an announce.
ment Of resurrection. Within the
past few days the relatives have been
living in q state Of constant excite
mcnt, and many of them, especially
the sons of Harmon Jones, John A /.
Sidney and Captain Kenmure, the
skipper Of the Florida, have devoted
themselves to the task Of following
the clue given by the friend who saw
the English paper. Extensive in
quiries are now on foot, and the Brit
ish Consul has kindly interested him.
self in the affair so far a. to agree to
forward to the war Office in London a
statement OF the circumstances, SO that
the name of the vessel which touched
At the castaways home can be ascer-
tanned, and the bearings of the island
taken from her log.


The episode has created Q profound
Impression in New Orleans, and, GER.
tainly, appearances justify the belief
that the history of the Florinda COM
pany is destined to be enrolled high
among the wild and wonderful ro-
mances of human vicissitudes and hu.
man suflering.-Nep Orleans Picay-
nne.
Year: 1875

The new combination needed mod
ern ideas and living issue; and it
groped in primeval night and sought
tho leading candidate on a religious
dispute. With young men tuli of life
and enterprise, it went back of the
last glacial period and brought ont a
petrifaction. It's nominee for Govern
or is Mr.. Shepherd LETTER. In 1916
and lS49 he was a member of Con-
gress, simply because he was fair
speaker with perfectly negative char
acter. When the State needed efficient
representation, he did nothing. An
amiable man, and, 40 far as we know,
of faultless character, he retired to
private life, and has lived since in an
obscurity which no man has disturb
ed. In his most active days, he was
too indolent to brush flies from his
face. He made no mark upon his city
or neighborhood. He has no quality
Of revivification. What dreams OF
Rip Van Wrinkle lowered over the
convention we cannot divine. With a
preponderating party, the nomination
would have taxed its strength. With
q minority, it will swell the majority
against it.


What was needed was a perfectly
new departure, with young men in the
lead. Instead, the convention lighted
q feeble torch and unswathed mum
my from the pyramid of Cheops. Such
party and such engineers should GO
not to defeat, but to q burial ground
Of dOnkeys.


The above is from tho caustic pen OF
Gen. Fitz Henry Warren, who some
weeks ago and previous to the sitting
of the late anonymous convention,
wrote letter to Ed. Campbell, in
which his constantly overfiowing gall
oozed out its exuberanco on the Repub.
lican party, while at the Same time
building an air castle in theory for
Democracy to follow. Democratic
journals were cnraptured with the let
ter and throughout the State publish
ed it with great eclat


This restless dyspeptic, as treacher-
GUS and unreliable as many cratered
volcano, now vomits forth his wrath
upon the doings of the aforesaid an.
onymous convention. Will our Dem.
ocratic cotcmporarics please parade
this last efIusion of Fitz in their col.
umns. Fitz Henry Warren has lived
long enough In tho world to demon.
strate the fact that his Creator cndow.
ed him with wonderful powers oil
ply sical endurance, for were it not so,
ho would have long since passed to
that other bourne, from the effects oil
his incomparably unequablo temper


In all the wide range of our experience
VIC never saw such q bundle of angular
nervousness and colicky peevishnesf


wrapt in human form, as in this sell


boating descendant OF the Warren o1


bunker Hill. The Great God, If We


may 90 allowed the expression, must


have made him from the beginning te


DO impaled on the spit Of his gallo


mercurial temper, there to toast bcfor,


its constantly enduring fires till dealt


should come to his relief. He has al


ways been upon the invalid list, ant


In Heavens name it is no wonder, ant


yet his naturally iron constitution en-


dures it-he still lives.


| With . vaulting ambition and pro


digous vanity, he has wandered ul


aud down the country rudderless q
Year: 1875

Mark Twain. in letter to the in
vcntor of a mosquito net, talks in this
way about the only thing worth talk
ing about, now that the third term is
gone: srTherc is nothing that q lust
and right-fecling man rejoices in more
than to sec mosquito imposed on and
put down and brow beaten and ag-
gravatcd, and this ingenious contri-
vance will do it. And it is q rare
thing to worry q fly with, too. A fly
will stand off and curse this invention
till language utterly fails him. Ihave
seen them do it hundreds Of times. l
like to dine in the air on the back
porch in summer, and so / would not
be without this portable net for any
thing. When you get 1t hoisted the
flies have to wait for tho second table.
We shall see the Summer day come
when we shall sit under our nets in
church and slumber peacefully, while
the discomfitted flies club together
and take 1t out of the minister. There
are heaps Of ways Of getting precious
enjoyment out of these charming
things, If I had time to point them out
aud dilate on them little."
Year: 1875

The final success of the adherents
of Homeopathy in Michigan, in obtain
ing recognition by the Regents of the
State University, has only been OBJ
tanned after twelve years struggle.
Let the little pill keep rolling on in
Iowa.--State Register.


This vexed and bitter question,
raging between the different schools
of medicine ought never to have been
permitted to enter the Iowa Univcr
sity. We believe it never would have
succeeded had it not been done cla-
dcstincly and by sharp practice. There
ought not to be any medical depart
ment of the State University, for tho
identical same reason that there ought
not to be--as there is not-any thco-
logical department for clergymen.


The medical department was fret
instituted by means of a trick, which
injected into an act touching this in
stitution some dozen covert words.
that were held to give power to tho
Board of Trustees to institute such
department. Not one man in twenty
in the Legislature, at the time dreamed
that such authority was being confer
rod, and the parties engineering the
trick knew full well that if it were
discussed ii would be crushed in a
moment. We have to-day three or
four different State medical societies
holding annual State conventions in
Iowa. Thousands of people in the
State employ practitioners in all these
various schools. True, the majority
of the State are advocates of one
school, but so majority of the relig-
ious people of the State follow ono or
the other of, say two or three leading
religious denominations. Shallwe say,
therefore, that the money of the whole
people, that of the minority as well as
that of the majority, shall be appro-
priated by the State to sustain med
ical or theological school of the MAJOR
ity?


Wehaye from time to time expressed
our views upon this question Of
medical department in the State Uni
versity, and we must confess that we
have never been able to see any just
grounds for its establishment. The
Michigan University has labored for
years under terrible embarrassment,
resulting from the establishment of a
medical department. The HomGpath-
lists have fought year after year for
what they claim to be their rights, and
finally these two schools are mixed up
in that old and noted institution of
learning. There is no moro affinity
between tho members of the two
schools than there is between oil and
water; no more friendly association
than there is between the Catholic and
Methodist churches. Tho Michigan
University will now be more constant
ly and prodigously involved in hot
water than ever before. In Iowa We
have entered upon the strife, and the
plain, simple truth is, that the peoples
money has no business TO bo expended
in bitter war between sccts in med
icine no more than in contest be-
tween sects in religion. If the battle
between medical schools shall awaken
the public to true sense of the situa-
ton, and rid tho institution of the
whole matter, VIC shall deem it wise
act.
Year: 1875

1t was a mystery what the object of
the defense in the Beecher case was in
tho Introduction Of tho Locder and
Price allidavits with an application for
a re-opening of the case just before il
went to the jury. The object is now
plain. 1t was q dastardly attempt to
make an impression for the defense on
the jury to bolster up hopeless CASE


1t probably had the effect desired, and
indeed it may have been the stumbling
block which precluded final agroc-
ment. These afiidayits wero not, Of
course, testimony, but containing as
they did sworn statements to the effect
that two persons had actually seen
Beecher aud Mrs. Tilton in the very
act as it were of adultery, and this
knowledge coming to the ears
the jury who shall say that it
did not prevent an agreement of that
jury. This testimony is now proven
by the open confession of perjury on
the part of Price, and by other abund-
ant testimony, to have been manufac-
tured entirely, and not one word of
truth in it. The guilty men are now
in Jail for perjury bound over for
their appearance to higher court
Tilton, Moulton, and their whole batch
ofattorneys are abandoning the guilty
men, and endeavoring in every posi-
BILE way to show that they had nothing
to do in getting this testimony. The
mischief has been done however, SO
far as the jury is concerned, and the
trick accomplished its intended object.
1t however greatly helps the cause Of
Beecher, and shows tho disposition
and debasement of the defendants
Those papers who greedily devoured
tho full particulars of these afiidavits
of Looder and Price 30 as not to DO
content with rubiiahinp a hriof tols4
graphic report will now sec where
their debased bias led them. To an
unprejudiced mind it was from the
first quite clear that the testimony was
false, and without doubt was purchas-
Year: 1875

vote and passed unanimously. There
were about four-iifths of the pew
holders of the Church present Mt the
meeting, which was very enthusias-
tic one. 1t is generally understood
among the congregation that this
enormous salary il only for this year,
and mainly intended to help deiray
the expense OF the trial.
Year: 1875

Why is there no cheap transporta-
ton plank in the Iowa Democratic
platform for this year? Has pemoc-
racy gone back on the farmefs, whom
it has tried SO hard to please for the
last few years?
Year: 1875

A Southern traveller at the North
has found out something which may
be of benefit TO his section. He says !:
"You will never hear this people
abuse their own section, or hold up Its
bad side to view, % ia too often the
case with US, but every follow is = liv-
ing advertisement for his own town
or for his State. Their ahead alive
mess is truly commendablc. Oh. for
just . little Of II in Alabama and the
South generally"
Year: 1875

A MOTION BY THE DEFENSE FOR FURTHER DELAY.


In the auit of The People agt. William NJ.
Tweed for So 900 OOO the defense anticipated the plain
tfs' motion 10 prefer the suit the calendar to
have the case tried during the present month"; before
to strike the from the calendar. The motion
until after issue ia joined and be served fourteen
days before the first day of the term. In this the
answer was served Oct 15 and next day notice OF
trial was served by the plaintiffs being full fourteen days
before the next term. The defense mad however twenty
days as matter OF right in which TO an
amended answer, and on Oct % served such
amended answer setting out the proceedings in the
Watson case and claiming In consequence deduction
from Twecds liability of the whole value Of Watsons
estate Mr. Field claimed yesterday that this
swer was served the very day the judgment in Watsons
therefore no fraud intent To delay could be alleged
them yet that II necessary answer on their
part snd which they mad right TO put In that II
issues and ONtrrOde the nst notice oil
trial and IL had decided repeatedly that notice OF
trial was subject right OF amendment unless such
arnendment wer, Interposed merely for delay.


Mr. PeckhaIn in reply insisted that II he were held to
strict practice the defendants should be held TO equal
strcness He had been and was still ready TO accept
.ny from the defendant setting real defense.
even mp the day Of trial. provided only the day or
tbst trial was not deferred but If the trial be
thrown this question for month"; while he did
charge that this intended for delay or
an amended answer within the meaning Of the statute,
growing out OF facts existing nj the beginning of the
suit hut IA supplemental answer growing out or subse-
auent only be nerpOSed by leave VI the Court
terms 10 delay the trial. and he herefole moved
to strike out tho answer On Mr. Fields main point he
thought tho case cited by Mr. Field had been overuled
After como further discussion Judge Van Worst gave Mr.
Peckan leave submit any bearing This point
after sending them to Mr.. Field.
Year: 1875

stood by the garden fence the morn
ing before was 10 leave the old house
forever, and looked up and DOWN the
road. The first who came along was the
child of ueiShbor, a ii,tlo girl Of eight
years. ON an errand fer milk, with a white
mug in one hand and her Two pennies
tightly c,utcEed in the other. Coming
along in The same direction was 4 singular
looking man in velveteen and corduroy
the clothes well fitted but much worn.
His long handled net in one hand and his
uu box slung al his side were not ueceS
sAry TO show me that he was bug
hunter" for the cruel wretch gave q
visible sign OF his cal,ins in butterfly
pinned to his hat, with its wings fastened
down by slips OF cardboard. saw that
he was young and good looking, and be
had tas.e tor more OF the animal creation
than insects. Tor he hOuoTed me with a
prolonged stare. showed my dislike at
this scrutiny in some way, tor he turned





his gaze 10 the other side OF tie road and
contemplated i, with great earnestness.


Just lnen heard ! cry. Sally Perry,
the little girl in question. had stumbled
and lallen, breaking the mug and scatter
ing the money in the dirt. The bug
hunter quickened his steps. raised the
little girl and helped her to find her
money. Then he took her by the hand
and led her to the country store, which
stood q shor. distance above. They both
emerged presently. Sally with new
mug, the TWO chatting together. and they
were soon lost in the turn OF the road.


I sighed. This was to be my last day
in The village. was an orphan and
heucelorth was 10 make my own way IN
The world. My father had been one OF
those unfortunate men who seem to be
Industrious without success, and who
manage to be always pushing on without
advancing q step. he was bad man
arer. So long as my mother lived he
coutriyed 10 exist without being more
than a trife behindhand each year. but
those tribes accumulated. until in many
wears, they made n considerable sum. BY
my mothers energy which conquered my
fathers indecision, my brother Victor had
been educated as civil engineer, and
few months alter her death. had been
offered a situation in Brazil. which no
/ had at once accepted. l was thus lei
alone with my father to keep house. a.
we could not afford TO maintain a servant
/ | did all the labor OF our petty house
keeping. The work agreed with me, anc
in spite of all the shifts and contFivances
10 which | was driven, l Kept hVeiy'
healthy aud strong. The result was tha'
| had no society OF my own years. My


father had been born and bred gentle
man. and, being without means shrun'
from contact with those of his order liz
grew more reserved day by day, aAc
| even morose, ard after the death OF my
mothor. lost his grip on lie entirely an'
so died.


I was lett alone. Ny la.her had
maiden siste: who had wealth, and wh'
knew how to keep it and add TO it. Iha
mneh | had learned Incidentally 6u
there was no intercourse between her anu
Year: 1875

KING KALAKAUA Joined the gallant
firemen at Honolulu the other day and
helped to put out the flames that were
licking up the American ship Emerald,
He did not stand around and halloo at the
boys through trumpet, and then claim
all the credit as any other king would
have done, but he went on the brakes
and every time he said "Down with her,
now, it counted.
Year: 1875

MEHrHIs, August 1.-The signal SER
vice reports this evening show that an
overflow is inevitable. The river rose
half an inch here yesterday, and another
heavy rise is reported at st. Louis, and
the steady advance here, with general
rains in the country above, leaves little
hope that the planters in the Mississippi
bottom will escape the dread inundation,
and that their crops, which were never
better, will be lost.
Year: 1875

Secretary Fish, now in New York, has
been informed of the death of ex-Pres-
dent johnson. 1t is customary on the
deccase of an ex-Presdent to issue an
Executive order announcing the event
and directing that the Departments be
draped in mourning, and that during the
funeral all public business be suspended.
and as Il mark Of respect to ex-President
johnson, the flag was half mast from the
staff over the music stand OF the Execu-
tive Mansion and from the various public
hnil1inus in the CITY
Year: 1875

NEW YORK, August 1.-The Assistant
Treasurer at New York has been direct
ed by the Secretary of the Treasury to
sell gold during the manth of August as
follows: One and half million of dol
lars on the first and third Thursdays each,
and one million dollars on the second and
fourth Thursdays each. Total five mil
linns
Year: 1875

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


In the issue OF the HERALD Of the eth inst. there
appeared an Of the proceedings in the trial Of
Lew before the Court of General Sessions some
portions ofwhich do me great injustice In that ac-
count tho following statement occurred:-'when the
case had been placed on the calendar his daughter
Mrs Rachel Rauth, came TO the District Attorney and
stated that her father dead and buried and at the
same time showing the burial certificate The bonds
were therefore cancelled and the case expunged from
the calendar"


VIII you please repair injury to me as far as can
done present by allowing state 10 the public
through your columns that there Is not particle OF
truth in that statement never made such statement
10 the District Attorney nor any else never had
any interview or conversation with him that sub
iect; nor do know OF any else doing so, and the
whole report as il respects myself or anybody belong
ing to me is an entire fabrication.


DEcBMBER 10 1875. Mrs. RACHEL RAuTH.
Year: 1875

The nervous, weakly invalid does not enjoy


life. but merely drags out existence" as the
phrase is. United for the active pursuits Of
life, and incapable Of partaking Of its pleas
ures. 70 which health alone can give zest;
disinclined to social intercourse, and q prey
to melancholy the .valetudinarian is indeed
this that cannot be remedied By that genial
Alternative tonic and nervine, Hostetter's 8
stomach Bitters. which supplies deficient
stamina, braces the nervous system, and
overcomes those bodily Irregularities to which
nervous weakness is most frequently .attribu-
imperfect digestion and uterine troubles are
fertile sources Of debility. Their eradication,
however. becomes a matter Of certainty when
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters are systematic
ally used for that purpose. The Bittefs like
wise annihilate and prevent fever and ague
malarial nature
Year: 1875

A Tenth, which costs only S5. can draw aty
Of the following. and will be received by tha
company at any time in six month, as S. in
the purchase Of a $50 Bond.


This is chance for gain and no chance for
Year: 1875

Warrington Correspondence of Chicago Times


In spite Of the jealousies between the two
bodies, 1T is quite generally conceded that I. .
f. Murphy OF the Senate. Is the best short
hand reporter m the United States. if not in
the whole world. This man has reported
at the rate of three hundred words minute,
and made copy thai could then be accurate
ly rend by any of his brothers This would
seem like the greatest possible feat of report
ial skill, but there is another feat told of
the elder Murphy that has never been equal
ed. The bare repetition of this story in
private circles by the writer has earned him
Il character for romancing entirely uudesery-
ed, for it is borne out by the statement of
officials Of high positions, who witnessed the
feat, and who ever knew officials of high
positions to lie? Any one can see after this
how absurd and unjust it would be to doubt
the story.


Some time ago a certain Indian chief came
on here with pack of red beggars at his
back to smoke pipe. with the great father
as a preliminary to bStchering all the from
tier people near his reservation. As the
story goes the chief il represented as Choc-
taw- The ,Choctaw language is fully as
III us HOINtIIul range Ol Sut-
terals as any of the barbarous frontier dia-
lects. The noble Choctaw chief made sever
al speeches in the council ut Washington
The elder Murphy was present at one of
these councils with a friend This friend
had often discussed with Murphy the beauty
of photography, the art transmitting sounds
into translatable shape upon paper Muir
ply had always insisted that a highly train
ed phonographer should be able to T eport
any language, whether he Understood it or
not, from the mere following of the scalc of
its vocalization. The friend seriously doubt
ed this, ana at the council challenged Muir
ply to report the Choctaw chiei by the
sounds Of the original speech. The Choctaw
language when iiuently expressed, is con-
bination Of sounds represented By chicken
eating corn eff from board. and the moan
ing and growing Of a sick terrier. Murphy
was little dashed at the proposition, but
he expressed no hesitation. lie took out
his notebook and darted after the crazy
vowels and volcanic utterances that came