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Year: 1875

the price and furnishing cars all the
way through with expressions in the
way bill to the same effect, constituted
evidence of such contract. In tho
case a further point was decided in
reference to defective cars, that the
road will be responsible for injury to
stock shipped in defective cars, al
though the shipper knew of the do.
sects and desired to have better cars,
but could not get them.
Year: 1875

A Young Girl Outraged By Two Ruff


Hans, ~ Oquawka.


From Mr.. Oscar Anderson, q we'll
known and respected resident of Hen
derson county, We learn the earticu-
lars of horrible affair which occurred
at OquAwks yesterday afternoon, and
which will very possibly result in the
meteing out of swift and sudden pun
at the hands OF community
which can NO longer endure the pres.
ence Of the rufianly beasts who were
90 directly concerned.


II appears that young man from
Abingdon, accompanied by q young
girl from near the same place, having
opportunity TO visit Oquawka with an
acquaintance who had business in that
city, rode over across the country, and
while waiting for their friend to
transact his business they whiled
away the time by stroll down the
railroad track, walking perhaps half Q
mile or moro, and then, turning, they
started back towards the city. They
had proceeded but 0 few steps when
they were confronted by two villain
0us wretches who presented pistol
ct the head OF the escort, and then, one
Of them standing guard over the young
man, the other, By sheer brute force,
overpcwered the girl and forced her
to his hellish lusts. Then he relieved
his comrade and held the young man
captive while the other committed a
like outrage.


The unfortunate compile returned to
the city and stated the particulars Of
the affair and the Marshal OF Oquawka
Immediately started ont in search of
the desperadoce, one of whom had re-
turned to town, but seeing the Marshal
and apprehending that he had got him.
self into difficulty he Immediately took


fight. The officer mounted q horse
and run the wretch out OF breath be.


fore he had Q chance to take to the
fields, and then jumping from his sad
dlc found no trouble In effecting his
capture. He 10 known as Bill White.
head, and has an unenviable character
at Oquawks, having frequently found
It convenient to absent himself from
town to escape the penalty of his mis-
deeds. The other party to the affair is
suspected to be young man named
Henry Brooks, belonging TO a highly
respected family, but is himself OF
rather loose habits and does not stand
particularly well in the community Ia
which he lives. He had not vt been
found when our informAht left
Oquawka, yesterday afternoon, but
men were on bis track and his capture
was regarded as certain.


Threats OF lynching are already Free
ly indulged In by tho excited residents
of Oquawka, and II the girl Is forum
ate In having any friends in the local
ity in which Aho lives, IL will not be At
all surprising TA baud OF determined


men ride across the fcountry and take
into their own hands tho Justice which
the slow machinery of the law so sell
dol a6ords.-Hawkeye.
Year: 1875

The Republican vote polled at the recent
election is found to have been the largest
ever cast in Michigan at any Spring election,
and the Republican majority is $4,000
against G, 1000 last Fall.
Year: 1875

concerned, by their Indifference or
open hostility.


1t these Same people succeed in
breaking this movement down now, it
will not be revived again In five ears,
IL ever, and in that event we want
them to understand that they have act.
ed in this matter ns they did with the
Chicago Il Southwestern Railroad
project against the daily and constant
admonitions aud entreaties Of the
COURIER
Year: 1875

80 1t seems by our latest news tha.
Secretary Delano will forego any in
tention he may have had Of soon re-
firing from the Interior Department
and remain for an indefinite period
a. he is requested to do by the Presi.
dent.


Now pipe in Democracy and snuff
carrion corruption In the Interior of.
hce, for "Out OF tho abundance Of the
heart the mouth speaketh" Just a. OF
old.


The average Democratic political
censor of to-day reminds ono Of the
bawd who lived in open lewdness for
years and was only restrained by the
vigor of law, afterwards lecturing the
virtuous. Their case is quite synon.
omous to that of the bawd, since they
were only prevented In their effort to
destroy the nation, by those whom
they now slander.
Year: 1875




From all parts of the State letters and pcti.
nons have poured in upon the President in sup
port Of DR.. Prettymsn, and in the fullest en-
dorsement Of his management Of the office. An
almost universally signed petition from Milford.
where the Doctor lives, was forwarded 10 head
quarters on Saturday, are informed by gen.
tlemSn Just from there, and none sustain him
more cordially than his bondsmen.


In the absence of any official misconduct OF
the part Of the Doctor to give the malcontents a
clue, q surrepuhous scheme was planned TO
effect his removal. But the surrepntiousness
brought those to his support who might other
wise have looked supinely on and secured to him,
it is hoped, the Office he 50 ably fills.


We believe the change under the crcum-
stances, would result in no good, unless it be in
the matter of salary to the new incumbeut-cer-
tsinly none to the party or the Department
When, from no cause whatever, except to se-
cure place for person who thinks he ought
TO have one. competent officer is made to give
up to an untried candidate, there il too much
political jobbery for the good OF the public SER
vice.
Year: 1875




The reportorial intelligence of New York
is again upon the rampage in relation to the
great Brooklyn scandal, and he il best fellow
who can accumulate most details III regard to
everything and everybody connected in the trial
relevant and Irrelevant 20 the main issue. The
reporter OF the New York Herald certainly leads
the van, and in those ciaste and glowing
periods, that style 70 well compounded of that
Of tile dime novelist and the fancy dry goods
clerk, We surely recognize an old acquaintance
already unenyiably notorious by bis per-
formances i'll other localities, whose gifts can no
IN IRE be hid than those of Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
1t may be very interesting to be Informed of
the shape of Mr.. Shearmans spectacles and of
Mrs Beecher's bonnet, az well as what deep
meaning Turks III the act Of Mr.. Beecher when
he rubs his nose, and the general opinion Of
mankind as to whether the shape of Mrs. Til
ton ) or of Mrs. Ovington's face is 'tLe most Sc
ductive, but if we are to give ourselves up free
y to the enhancing spell of this interesting in
telligence,we must have full confidence in its
literal correctness, and how can this be while we
are told that the chroncler Of these important
details is no more nor less a person than
Gath, the Goliath Of Washington roorbacks
and ISLANDERS on Delaware
Year: 1875

OK the occasion of the recent hanging
of three colored men in New York city
the rope was carelessly adjusted around
the neck of one of them, and just as the
weight descended the knot slipped and
the victim was left writhing between
heaven and earth. He made desperate
efforts TO relieve himself and cried aloud
for assistance. Finally the knot again
shifted, the moose closed around his wind
pipe and he died by strangulation.
Year: 1875

THE New York Graphic of a recent date
started the theory that Boss Tweed was
not voluntary fugitive, but that he had
been abducted and killed by men whom
he could implicate in the plundering of
the city treasury, and who were interested
in getting him out of the way because of
alleged threats by Tweed to make dam
aging revelations regarding them.
Year: 1875

THE jury in the recent trial of Thomas
w. Piper, the Boston sexton, for the MUIR
der In church belfry tower in May last
of little Mabel Young, failed to agree
standing, it is said, nine for conviction to
three for acquittal.
Year: 1875

THE official report of the Secretary of
the Michigan State Grange states that the
membership of the Order in the State, as
near as could be determined from reports
received, was, on the Both of September,
34,275; number of subordinate Oranges,
Gil
Year: 1875

heart grew light and hopeful SO the
day would have been better If TO larger
resources had been added economy and
self-denial. But this was not the case


He poured more water into his barrel,
and the added pressure made the water
Year: 1875

On some Of the East India Islands, where so
many queer things grow. is found flower that
measures fall yard across. Yet it has ouly its
cup-like center, and FIVE broad. thick. feshy pc
tails. Seen from the distance through the dark
green leaves of the vines among which it grows,
the rich tint of the flower. decked with spots of
a lighter shade, is said to impart warmth and
briIIiancy Of color to the whole surrounding
scene. But the nearer the observer comes the
less does he like it, for its odor is dsagreeable.
Another bad trait of the ra67ssia a7noIdta is
that it is too lazy to support ITSELF but lives upon
the labors Of others In the forest where it is
found, there are many vines. sometimes climbing
up the trunks Of the trees, and sometimes trail
ing along the ground. Fastening itself to a vine
in the latter position. the unprincipled T.6issia
grows without other trouble to itself than to draw.
for its own use. the nutriment which the indus
trious vine roots are all the while collecting from
The earth. The poor vine cannot shake of the
big, selfish flower. and can only work harder than
ever to collect supplies sufficient to nOurish the
odious hanger-on and have enough in addition for
IFS own branches and leaves.
Year: 1875

As as an expression of the sentiment Of
Boston ard Massachusetts, the meeting was
an utter failure. This so apparent to all who
care to satisfy themselves of the truth of the
matter that the demonstration will probably
be destitute of all appreciable influence. If,
however, there is any danger of temporary
misconstruction, the true voice OF our COM
munity will yet have no difficulty in making
itself beard Boston journal


The Boston Transcript says of the Fam
euil Hall meeting: Eulogium is impossible
of the general tone of the meeting as express
ing the calm, deliberate voice of Massachus-
etts,-a state where respect for human rights
and the law of public safety have never yet
been burie under supreme regard for legal
bubbles. The popular heart OF Massachus-
etts is as sensitive and responsive as ever
when summoned to the support of liberty,
law and order. This will be proved at the
proper time and on an appropriate occasion.
Meanwhile the well-intended and iniudcious
attempt to instruct other portions of the
country respecting the real sentiment OF the
Commonwealth will not mislead the North
thanks to the general intelligence of the peo-
ple-and will eventually strengthen the gem
eral government here as well as throughout
the Union.
Year: 1875

We were not aware that the interest in
this department of husbandry was so gener-
al in this country, until seeing recently that
state exhibitions had been and were to be
held this month, in New York, Pennsyl-
vana, Connecticut and Wisconsin. We GER
tainly regard it as matter for congratulation
that the inhabitants of Maine have had
the past week, a similar opportunity
afforded them by some of our enterprising
and public-spirited citizens.


Possibly some sober and substantial people,
especially in our agricultural communities,
may look upon these exhibitions as closely
allied with the spectacular and sensational
class, and therefore to be avoided. They
may be to them only confused medley of
fuss and feathers, growing and cackling,
singing and screaming; not half so quiet and
no more brilliant than the display from the
shop window of milliner; and on the
whole only waste of time and money. 1t
is true that they may be got up by mere
spectators, who shift from fast horses 10
game birds for the direct returns, entirely
respective of honest values; ard the specta-
tors may be mere gazeIs, captivated by gay
plumage or strange sounds, and absolutely
Indifferent to all good results. But on the
other hand, all honest well managed exhbi-
billions are useful; not only giving opportu-
mites for the young ard old TO see and ad-
mire the wonderful variety of form, and
voice, and plumage and color, and thus for
et,,I in f1is intarpStipu IpnartnaOt
of natural history; but because the direct
tendency is to aid in the enlargement of a
great field of industry, and by improving the
quantity and quality of its productions. to
Increase the returns from the capital in
vested. Thus, as in all similar exhibitions
whether industrial or agricultural, the show
becomes school; comparisons are made,
competition is aroused, desire for some
thing better is excited, and a new interest
born of the occasion, is developed in some
whose previous lack of it arose only
from want of familiarity with this
department. We have learned also
that some men engage in enterprises
without regard to profit; accidentally at
tracted by some novelty, they at length be-
come interested in it, and when this feeling
deepens into love for it, the question of dol
lars and cents is entirely ignored. These ex,
hbitions address the eye, and thus the fancy
is reached; and the man of taste, the lover of
the beautiful, led by his aesthetic instincts Of
ten finds himself in spite of his innocence OF
intention aud lack of deliberation, enrolled in
the producing class, and engaged in increas-
ing the aggregate of domestic and even ma
tional values.


We may also notice, that in the pursuit of
this specially as in almost no other bralch Of
agricultural husbandry the opportunity and
the benefit may be largely appropriated by
the town and city. But nevertheless, the
city-man in his narrow limits but with wider
resources, is all the while experimenting for
the benefit of the countryman, who looks on
ready to follow or avoid.


We conceive that poultry breeders and
fanciers should take an honest and legitimate
pride in their business, and righ.fully should
Year: 1875

We do not read anonymous letters and communi-
cations. The name and address of the writer are in
all indispensable, not necessarily for publication
bat as guaranty OF good faith.


We cannot undertake to return reserve CON-
nunications that are not used.
Year: 1875

The Washington National Republican
of the 31st ult, prints an authoritative
explanation of the Presidents third
term letter, from which the following
extracts are taken:


The proper time has arrived; an ac-
knowledged authority has spoken re-
garding the third-term question, and
President Grant has written the most
important document of his public career
declaring he is not candidate for nom-
ination. 1t will be read with rare in
terest and deeper concern by the Amer
lean people than any political document
ever written. The firm and dignified
explanation of his silence regarding
this matter will not surprise those who
understand the character of man who
has habituated himself, and whose expe-
rience has taught him to relyon his own
methods, and whose greater successes
have been won as the result of quiet in
dependence of thought and discreet self
dependence. Otherwise the letter is
uniquely characteristic, and remarkable
for the absence of clap-trap and the Or
dinary rhetorical subterfuges of politi-
clans. Even the argument that the peo-
pie alone are all-powerful in the selec-
tion of their officials and that no consti-
tutional prohibition exists to prevent
them from electing President for a
third term, is concisely put, in such a
way as to show that it has no personal
application but is used as an answer to
the SANDERS of his enemies. To his
mind it appears that no man can control
his own political future, except to de-
erful, can dictate his own personal ad-
vancement, either to his party or to the
country at large. He admits, however,
what every loyal man has often felt,
that emergencies might arise which
would render 1t imperatively necessary
that President should be reelected for
a third term. While contemplating the
condition of affairs which would have
existed if President Lincoln had lived,
and the war had lasted until the end of
his second term, no one will deny the
soundness of his deduction-but he adds
very pointedly that such emergencies are
not now probable.


In this he simply defends the rights of
the people, by showing their power to
thwart the schemes of ambitious men,
and their authority to select their own
rulers, in accordance with constitution
al limits.


There may be those who will malic-
iously construe this defence to mean
something more than a plain interpret
alton of the words used will indicate,
but he can afford, under the circumstan-
ces, to suffer further misrepresentation.
In fact, he expects it, as the natural re-
suit of the disappointment which the
letter will give to one class Of his enc
mics, and the exaltation of another class
who will boast that he had been forced
by them to speak against the inclina-
tions of his own heart.
Year: 1875

A sort of Tilton speaker got along
pretty well in his lecture until he said,
almost triumphantly, "Are the young
ladies of the present day fit for wives?"
A female voice was heard in the audi
ence saying: They are fit for hus-
bands, but the trouble Is YOU men are
not fit tor wives" Thu female voice
was right, and the lecturer did not fol-
low up that branch of his argument.
Year: 1875

APPEoPoS of Surgeons sermon
on smoking, let US recall the expe-
rience of Professor Huxley as given
a few years ago at meeting of the
British Association for the Advance
ment of Science, of which body he
was the President. He tells his
story thuswise: "He said he was
placed in rather awkward position
with regard to the question of smo-
king, for, for forty years of his life,
tobacco had been to him a deadly
poison. He was brought up as a
medical student, and he had every
temptation to acquire the art of smo-
king, but his smoking, after a few
puffs, always resulted in his finding
himself on the floor. He failed to
become q smoker when he was an
officer in the navy, and he had tor a
long time great antipathy to smok-
ers. But some few years ago he was
making tour in Brittany, when he
stayed at an old inn; it was awfully
wet and cold without, and friend
of his took to smoking, and tempted
him to have cigar. His friend
looked so happy, the fire was so
warm within the inn, and it was so
wet and cold without, that he
thought he would try to smoke, and
he found himself a changed man.
He found that he was in a position
of a lamentable pervert, and his
case would illustrate to them the evil
of bad associates, although the per-
son who led him astray was most
, distinguished and late President OF
this association. From that day he
dated his ruin Qaughter), for from
that day, whenever smoking was GO
ging on, they might be pretty sure
that he joined in it. There was a
. certain kind of substantial satisfac-
tion about smoking if kept in mode
ration, and he must say this for to-
.bacco, that it was sweetener and
Il equalizer of the temper. He was
glad to state that in his opinion there
was nothing worse than excessive
smoking; but any one could under.
: take to destroy himself with green
tea or any other article of diet if car.
Hried to excess.
Year: 1875

the colony. Near four hundred persons were
carried off by this loathsolne disease. A fire
broke out in Charles Town in February, 1886,
which destroyed vast amount of property.
A About one hundred and forty thousand dollars
worth of property was consumed, and fifty
families left without shelter. The fire was
preceded by terrible hurricane which swept
with unbridled fury over sea and land. Death
and destruction marked its track. These Wis
itations of Providence were closed by the ap-
pearance of the yellow fever. 1t spread with
fearful rapidity, and multitudes died. These
calamities, together with the raids Of the pi-
rates upon the commerce Of the colony, no
doubt had much to do in allaying the spirit
of civil strife. In the ravages of wind and
wave, fire and disease, the people forgot their
old and unfounded prejudice.


fro RE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK.
Year: 1875

THE GR1Ers OF CH1LDHooD.-These bitter
sorrows of childhood when sorrow is all new
and strange, when hope has not yet got wings
to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the
space from Summer to Summer seems meas.
ureless. "Ah! my child, you will have real
trouble to fret about by and BY" is the conso-
lation we have all had administered to US in
our childhood, and have repeated it to,other
children since we have been grown apsNWe
have all sobbed 80 piteously, standing With
tiny, bare legs above our little socks, when
we lost sight of our mother or nurse in some
strange place; but we can no longer, recall
the poignancy of that moment and weep over
it, as we do over the remembered sufferings OF
FIVE or ten years ago. Every one of those
keen moments has left its trace, and lives IN
us still, but such traces have blent themselves
irrevocably with the finer texture OF our
youth and manhood and so it comes that we.
can look at the troubles of childhood with
smiling disbelief in the reality of their pain.
Surely, if we could recall that early bitterness
and the dim guesses, theA Aangely perspective
less conception of life that gave the bitterness
its intensity, we should not pooh-pooh the
griefs of our children. Childhood has no
forebodings; but then it is soothed by no
memories of outlived sorrows
Year: 1875

MISTAKES MATRIMoN1AL-That the SUBJ
ject is lamentably old we readily admit; but
what matters that, so long as humanity is
ever new? Marrying and giving in marriage
will continue to the end of the world, but, for
all that, great number Of marriages prove
mistake. Unfortunately, when men and
women have matrimonial designs upon each
other, they endeavor to hide their true char
acters, and, however dissimilar their tastes, to
pretend they are alike. The rules of etiquette
are such that course of deception is render
ed surprisingly easy -; indeed, so facile, that
were there no Intention upon the part of those
most concerned to dssemble, almost the same
end would be attained. Is it not natural to
US to display our best attributes to strangers
of either sex? Men are often captivated by
the seeming amiability of women who are, in
reality, shrewish while women admire the
nobility of men who cannot define the word
Year: 1875

double taxation, much Of It driven away and
capital kept out Of the State. tho avetoKe in
tclligence OF tho Legislator and Statu Assessor
will be brought to a knowledge TINT prop
erty haa but oue valnc for taxable purposes,
and tint horsc and His shadow are not sepn-
rate properties. an.l Tint In the value Of the
horse il necessarily included the value Of tho
shadow.


Should tho State Hoard follow tho Atsor-
nish tic bar Of the State with crop Of liti-
CATION which las been unpreccdcnted,-
ending III tho legal defeat Of tho State and
tho vindication Of principle Of law and
Justice as old a. human governments.
Year: 1875

It appcars that the Commission appointed
by Secretary Dn'srow to examine The wallis
Ald foundations Of the Chicago Custom-Houso
embodied in their report certain matters
which hnvo not yet boon mnde public. These
matters were not, strictly speaking, included
within the scope Of tho inquiry directed to be
made by the Commission, but the members in
tie course Of their examination discovered
certain facts concerning tho original award Of
Tie stone contract to MuEE1.En by a1uLLE17's
interposition, and these facta they reported, as
it waa clearly their duty to do. The dovel-
orments in question are reserved for the in
formation Of Congress in case tho matter is
brought before TINT body for its notion.
Whether tho walls arc torn down or not, it is
desirable TINT all possible light should be fur
,nished in connection with tho atIair of the
contrnctletting. 1t is not now clcnr just why
hlug11.ER was selected as tho lucky bidder,
and it would bo interesting to know the rea-
aon discovered by the Examining Commission.