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Year: 1872

During the Franco Prussian war a great
deal of fun was poked at the New Jersey
editor who read in the dispatches that
" "Bazaine has removed twenty kilometres out
of Metz" He thereupon sat down and wrote
an editorial, in which he said he was delighted
to hear that all the kilometres had been re-
moved, and that the innocent people of Metz
were no longer endangered by the presence of
those engines Of war, standing upon volcano,
as it were And then he went on to describe
some experiments made with kilometres in the
Crimea, in which one of them exploded and
blew trigate out of water.
Year: 1872

STOCKING -MENDING.- pape: tells how a
servant girl mends her stockings: "When a
hole appeared in the toe, Bridget tied string
around the stocking above the aperture, and
cut off the projecting portion. This operation
was repeated as often as necessary, each time
pulling the stocking down a little, until at last
it was nearly all cut away, when Bridget sewed
on new legs, and thus kept her stockings
always in repair"
Year: 1872

A Missourian, while journeying to Louisville
recently, took sleeping car for, convenience.
During the night he got up and went out ON
the platform; the door closed and fastened
with spring lock. The porter was asleep and
the citizen enjoyed fifty-mile ride IN his night
clnthes ON the platform.
Year: 1872

An editor in Illinois having engaged a new
reporter received the following as his first ef-
fort: I'VE are informed that the gentleman
who stood on his head under pile e-driver, for
the purpose of having tight pair of boots
druv on, shortly afterwards found himself in
Chiny, perfectly naked and without cent in
his pOcket
Year: 1872

HOME RULE-Mamma Ito Naughty Boy)-
You should always behave the same, whether
YOU are in company or not. Naughty Boy
We'll, ma why don't you behave The same as
you do to company, and press US to have ano'
ther tart
Year: 1872

The Sunday excursion trains Of the Jack
son railroad still continue to run, leaving
the CalIiope street depot at twenty-five
minutes before eight o'clock. 1t is a de-
lightful trip for those who want to enjoy a
day in the country. and as the Sunday ex-
cursion tickets are sold at low rates, we do
not wonder that lots of people go out once
q week
Year: 1872

We have received the following dispatch
from P. T. Barnum, dated at New York:


please announce in the REPUBLICAN that
my great show will visit all the principal
towns il the entire South this coming
winter"
Year: 1872

Mr.. Beeeher writes in the Ledger


One thing | cannot and will not
stand. There is member of great
publishing house in New York who says
and circuates that borrowed that dis
tinguished traveller and very clever fell
low DE Chaillu's umbrella, and did not
return it on demand 1t was alleged to
be the umbrella that he had taken with
him around the world with which he
had kept the Kopts of Egypt from tan
ming; had preserved salamanders from
sunstroke; had sheltered ducks and frogs
in Africa from getting wet; and with
which in Norway and Sweden he had
played fast and loose with the winds.


Now this whole charge deny. That
| brought off my own umbrella safely
from that establishment has always been
matter of grateful wonder to me. But
that l bagged the well-worn and world
renowned umbrella of the African trav-
eler, do aver is not in accord with the
truth of history.


Not that / feel above taking a good
umbrella--indeed, score would not re-
pay the number lent and not returned.
| do not object to borrowing, in the alb
stract. When boy / frequently bor-
rowed doughnuts and gingerbread, and
bits of pie and sugar, with now and then
morsel of jelly; but it was all in the
family-I never transcribed the bounds
of relationship"
Year: 1872

The following choice and classical bit
of eloquence in the Illinois Legislature
is said to have been one of the main
causes of the defeat of the Chicago
burned records bill. The honorable
members name is not given, but his
speech should not be lost to the world:


Mr.. SPEAKER: am opposed to this
bill, and am coming down on it like a
June bug on a potato vine. have
come to pronounce its eulogy as Mark
Antony did over Cleopatra. | am a
laboring man myself, and know what
laborers want, and | know they don't
want any such thing as this. I've
been in 0bancery and ! know how 1t is
myself After hanging in chancery till
the lawyers got my bottom dollar, got
nv Case before twelve honest farmers,
and knocked the socks of py antag-
onist just like falling off a log. Now
here's King coming in here with this
bill to help out the legal fraternity


and put every man in Cook county
into chancery. / amt nothing against
my friend King, but want to tell him
right here that my name is Jack, and a
King cannot, never did, and never will
take a Jack. Look at this section here,


proyidiag for masters in chancery-
masters in chaneery-yes, well have


them in Chicago thicker than aeas on a
dog. TO eat out q substance and get fat
on our misfortunes. call on the hard
6sfed yeomanry on the other side Of this
House to nip this thing in the bud; We
don't want 'it, and we won't have it.


We have got along 50 far Yithont it, and
we can borrow all the money We want,
and sell all the property we've got with
Year: 1872

The Board Of Directors in commencing this
scheme to the public. promise that it shall be
carried out in good faith The high character
and standing Of the managers selected will
be a sufficient Fuarantee that perfect fairness
will control the distribution.


1t is hoped and expected that this scheme
will prove a financial success, as every dollar
will be appropriated in buildings and improv-
ing the grounds. 10 such degree as TO render
them a source of pride to every citizen of
Memphis, Shelby county, and the adjacent
Year: 1872

The weather Of the past twenty-four hours
has greatly favored the existing condition Of
things in the stables, very few of which do not
now contain subjects Of the horse malady. The
most careful1y-secluded animals have nearly all
succumbed to the epidemic, and the visitation is
general. Chicago must do without horses this
week. Inquiry as to the condition of the ami
mails earliest attacked develops the very ell
couraging fact that they have passed the crisis,
and are doing well. The disease is said to run
its course in about ten days. From present
showing, the number Of conyalescents will ill.,
crease rapidly by the close of the present week,
aud careful use will presently bring our friend
Equus back to his pristine usefulness.
Year: 1872

ls that funds are wanted for campaign pur-
poses, and that the profits derived from secret
information, and secret issue OF greenbacks, are
used in part to carry the election. If the public
money, disbursed in the form of salaries to six
ty thousand oface-holders, may be extorted from
them to re-elect General Grant; if money nav be
taken out of the Treasury, without appropriation
by Congress, to pay for campaign documents; if
United States Marshal may help himself to any
needed amount Of the public funds to pav for
the services Of electioneering agents in doubt
full State, the next step will naturally be to use
the surplus in the Treasury, in some other way,
for the same unlawful purpose. When the idea
is once conceived, and the necessity great, laws
will be smashed down, or swept out Of the way
like the walls Of q city in some great fire. And
when the use Of public money by the party in
power to control elections becomes rule Of
action, the liberties Of the people are gone.


This is the second secret experiment made
within thirty days, upon the money market, by
the Government. The first was an unlocked
for sale Of 100000 Of gold, the proceeds of
which we're deposited in few favored banks
'for market use, as Mr. Henry Clews tells Us.
s'For market use" means that these favored
banks had the use Of 81, 100000 Of Government
money for an indefinite period A1r. Clews adds
that this money will probably be left in the
banks as long as needed. How long bank
needs s5,o00,000 is g. conuundrum. Another
question which Was agitating Wall street. until
this new issue of greenbacks come out was,
Who made the profit out the secret intelligence
OF the gold sale Some Of General Grants
friends, undoubtedly. since the order to make
the sale was given by him. But the amazement
over that affair has given way to the consterna-
ton produced by the later one. The managers
evidently understand the value Of new surprise
to stop people talking about an old one. The
whole affair bears strange resemblance to
General Grants order to Boutwell, to stop the
gold sales Immediately preceding Black Friday
the same which put 425,000 into the pocket Of
Abel r. Corbin.
Year: 1872

We again call upon the Liberal voters in the
they will have it in their power, tomorrow, to
elect Judge L. B. Otis to Congress. ALI that is
required to elect him is that the Liberal vote be
polled in its full strength. The canvass OF the
district shows TINT all that is needed is q full
Liberal vote in tho Third and Fourth Wards. If
these districts do their duty, Judge Otis can be
elected. Surely, no candidate WIS ever present
ed to the people Of this city more nobly qualified
to represent the best intelligence OF great COM
mercia1 metropolis.
Year: 1872




It is probable that Chicago will experience less
loss Of time and less damage to business from
the horse disease than any large city where the
distemper prevails. II such shall prove to be
good Judgment which prompted an immediate
withdrawal Of the horses from the streets.
There has been no emergency Of late where the
old saw Of 81 stitch in time saves nine," can be
applied with such good results. Add to the e1-
cel1ent foresight OF our citizens the clear and
beautiful weather OF yesterday,-weather that
can rarely be found outside Of Chicago at this
seaeon Of the ycar,-and the hope of speedy
disappearance of the malady among animals
may be safely predicted.
Year: 1872

The Chicago Times WIS guilty: 4 few weeks
ago, Of publishing coarse, defamatory, and
indecent libel upon 3 lady of this city at the
time when she was enduring all the anguish
which could result from the sudden, violent: and
unexplained death Of her husband The Times
claimed that the truth Of it's assertions had
been discovered and confirmed by the personal
investigation of one Of its reporters. In it's is
sue of yesterday, it lays the burden OF the
libel upon detective officer. rwho, as it now
saws. first told the story which it printed, which
story, it now says, was false. The efrontery
with which the Times conyicts itself OF false
hood and defamation is scarcely less g}aring
than that which first prompted it to print so
7illauous and outrageous elander. The first
article also intimated that facts and proofs we're
reserved, which would substantiate all that it
Year: 1872

corpus. We demand for the individual tbs 1arg-
est liberty consistent with pubic order; ZOE
the State, self-government, and Tor the Nation
return to the methods Of peace and the constltu-
tionA limitations Of power.


Fifth. The Civil Service of the Government
has become mere instrument Of partisan tyr
amy and personal ambition, and an object OF
selfish greed. It is scandal and reproach upon
free institutions, and breeds q Generalization
dangerous to the perpetuity Of republican gov
eminent. We therefore regard 3 thorough re-
form Of the Civil Service as one Of the most
pressing necessities Of the hour; that honesty.
capacity, and fidelity constitute the only valid
claim to public employment; that the Offices Of
the Government cease to be q matter Of arbi-
trary favoritism and patronage, and that public
station become egain post Of honor. To this
end, it is imperatiyely required that no Presi-
dent sha1l be candidate for reelection.


Sixth. We demand system Of Federal taxa
ton which shall not unnecessarily interfere With
the industry OF the people, and which shall pro-
vide the means necessary to pay the expenses
Of the Government economically administered,
the pensions, the interest on the public debt,
and moderate reduction annually Of the prin-
cipal thereof ! and, recognizing that there are
in our midst honest but differences
Of opinion with regard to the respective systems
Of Protection and Free Trade, We remit the dis
cussion Of the subject of the people in their
Congress- Districts, and to the decision Of Con-
gress thereon, wholly free of Executive iaterfer-
ence or dictation.


l. Seventh. The public credit must be aacredly
maintained, and ne denouuce repudiation in
every form and guise.


Eighth. A speedy return to specie payment
is demanded alike by the highest consideration
OF commercial morality and honest govern
ment.


Ninth. We remember with gratitude the
heroism and sacrifices of the soldiers and sailors
OF the Republic, and no act of ours shall ever
detract from their just1y-earned fame or the
full reward Of their patriotism.
Tenth. We are opposed to all further grants
Of lands to railroads or other corporations. The
public domain shall be held sacred to actual
settlers.


Eleventh. We hold that it is the duty OF the
Government, in it's intercourse with foreign na-
tions, to cultivate the friendship Of peace, by
treating with all fair and equal terms, regard
ing it alike dishonorable either to demand what
| is not right, or to submit to what is wrong.
| Twelfth. For the promotion and SUCCESS Of
these vital principles, and the support Of tha


candidates nominated for this Convention, We
invite and cordially welcome the cooperation Of


eli patriotic citizens, without regard to previous
affiliations.
Year: 1872

On our third page will be found d full List Of
all the State, Congressional, and Legislative
candidates to be voted for in Illinois tomorrow.
the State and Congressional tickets in MI the
other States, and tables of the votes Of every
State for President in 1868, together with the
votes in the latest elections held since that
year. These tables have been prepared with
great care, and will be found by those interested
in election returns valuable for reference and
preservation.
Year: 1872

A correspondent OF the New York Herald, de-
tailed to work up the politics Of Illinois, ex-
presses the opinion that the Electoral vote Of the
State will be given to Grant, that hoerner Will
be elected Governor, and that the Legislature
will be carried BY the Liberals.
Year: 1872

THE ADDRESS.


The Administration now in power has render
ed itself guilty Of wanton disregard OF the laws
Of the land, and usurped powers not granted by
the Constitution. It has acted as If the laws
had binding force only for those who arc gov
erned, and not for those who govern. It has
thus struck blow at the fundamental princi-
pies Of constitutional government, and the
liberty of the citizen. The President OF the
United States has openly used the powers and op-
portunities OF his Office for the promotion Of
personal ends. He has kept notoriously corrupt
and unworthy men in places Of power and re-
sponsibility to the detriment Of the public
interest. He has used the public service Of the
Government as machinery Of partisan and per-
sonal influence, and interfered with tyrannical
arrogance in the political affairs Of States and
municipalities. He has rewarded, with lnAuen-
tial and lucrative Offices, men who had acquired
his favor by valuable presents ; thus stimulating
Generalization Of our political life by his con-
spicuous example. He has shown himself
deplo1ably unequal to the taska imposed
upon him by the necessities OF the
country, and cu1pably careless Of the responsi-
bi1ities of his high Office. The partisans Of the
Administration, assuming to be the Republican
party, and controlling it's organization, have at
tempted to justify such wrongs and palliate such
abuses, to the end Of maintaining partisan as-
tendency. They have stood in the way OF necea-
sary Investigations and indispensable reforms,
pretending that no serious fault could be found
with the present administration Of public af-
fairs; thus seeking to blind the eyes Of the peo-
pie. They have kept alive the passions and re-
sentiments Of the late civil war, to use them for
their own advantage.


They have resorted to arbitrary measures in
direct conflict with the organic law, instead Of
appealing to the better instincts aud latent
patriotism of the Southern people by restoring
to them those rights, the enjoyment Of which is
indispensable for q successful administration Of
their local affairs, and would tend to revive apa-
triotic and National feeling. They have degraded
themselves and the name Of their party, once
Justly entitled to the confidence Of the nation,
by base sycophancy to the dispenser
Of Executive power and patronage unworthy
OF Republican freemen; they have sought to
stihe the voice OF Just criticism, to stiae. the
moral sense Of the people, and to Bubjugate pub
lie opinion by tyrannical party discipline. They
are striving to maintain themselves in authority,
for selfish ends, by an interruptions use Of the
power which rightfully belongs to the people
and should be employed only in the service Of
the country. Believing that an organization
thus led and controlled can no longer be Of ser
vice to the best interests Of the Republic, We
have resolved to make an independent appeal to
the sober judgment, conscience, and patriotism
Of the American people.
Year: 1872

woman could ever be near or dear to him.
cursed her and drove her from the door.
She went gladly. The street life suited
her now; for the change in the girl did
not begin in dress or face or voice i.
worked out from within. Year by year
her training had corrupted soul and brain


1t mattered little when the symptoms of
decay showed themselves to the world
For years she had tested the street life.
Last week it ended. In the bright sun
light bloated, filthy woman crept out of
the prison van into the stone archway of
the city prison, and the iron gates with
their heavy clang shut on her, not to open
for two years. "Lucy--, sentenced
for grand larceny" Whether, when
they open, her ruined body will be
there to drag itself out into the sunlight
again, matters very little 1t may live
until old age. But Lucy, honest, unset
fish, pure in thought, died long ago. If
1t had been only to sleep with her moth
er on yonder hill side, we might have
made the grass green above her, knowing
that the child would come again. But
she, still living, went down into a grave
from which there is no place of resurrec-
tion, though We seek it carefully and with
tears.-Perhaps it is story without
moral at least it has none, if mothers
do not 6nd it for themselves.-Tr Tribune.
Year: 1872

81 had to go to work in quartz mill at
$40 week. A nice place, truly, for the
proprietor of hundred silver miles -
But [ could not keep it. They did not
want me. | didn't know why. I was
the most careful workman they ever had.
They said so. took more pains with
my work. l was shoyeling sand. The
technical term was failing The silver
rock is ground over or twice, aud they
clean it over again. Whenever | had
lot sand to shovel 1 was so particular /
would sit down for an honr and half
and think about the best way to shovel
that sand. An if 1 could not cipher it
out in my mind just so, would not go
shovel it round needless. 1 would leave
it until next day.


"Many time [ would be carrying a
bucket full of sand from one pile to an
other, thirty or forty feet off, right in the
middle, suddenly new idea would strike
me, and would carry that sand back,
and sit down and think about it and like
enough get so wrought up and absorbed
in it, that | would to sleep. Why 1 al
ways knew there must be some tip top,
first-rate way to move that sand.


DAT last discovered it. went to the
boss and told him that had got just the
thing, the very best and quickest way to
get sand from the one pile to the other.
Aud he says, 4 am awful glad to hear it,
You never saw man so uplifted as he
was. 1t appeared to take load off his
breast-a load of sand ] suppose. Aud
| said What you want now is a cast-iron
pipe about l3 or Ii feet in diameter, and,
say AZ feet long And you want to prop
one end of that pipe up about 35 or 40
feet off the ground. And then you want
a revolving belt-just work it with the
waste steam from the engine-a revolv-
ing belt with q revolving to it, I am to
sit in the chair, and have a Cbinaman
down there to ell up the bucket with
sand, and pass it up as l come around,
illustrates with gestures) and am just
to soar up there and tilt it into that pipe,
rud there you are. 1t is as easy as roll
ing off log"


"1ou never saw a man so overcome
with almiration-so overwhelmed. Be-
fore he knew what he was about he dis
charged me-"
Year: 1872

An editor out in Cicero, Indiana, on
taking charge of the Ne,O Era, greets
his readers with this vigorous salutatory:
at is the fashion for an editor to write
long introduction on taking charge of a
paper but as we are we'll acquainted with
ueary every man in the county, it is only
necessary to say that We intend to do as
We please, and announce that our motto
is two almighty dollars year in ad-
vance,
Year: 1872

The Vanderbilt enterprise has given an impetus
to enterprise In Westchester county, and several
large property owners stimulated to offer their
property this coming fall on the market. Among
the estate to be sold at auction In villa plots are
"Larchmontn better known as the Collins estate,
Huguenot Park, and several tracts at Throggs Neck,
Fordham Rye, White Plains and Mount Vernon are
likely to be well represented


There is great deal of activity in real estate at
Nyack, on the Hudson, which town has recently
been brought into more accessibility to the METRO
polls by several new lines of railroad and improved
ferry accommodation. The initiative sale Of .
series will be given by A. ]. Bleecker Son q Co.,
on Saturday. The estate Is known as Court Bril-
liant and is situated within a few minutes walk OF
the railroad depot and steamboat landing. On this
occasion about one hundred lots will be offered. The
tendency of population to seek residences In
nOrthery direction Is becoming every day more
apparent. New Jersey will now have to enter into
direct competition. This sole interest demon
line of the Hudson feel that the market is opening
for them with more activity and promise than In
former years. The fall season will witness al &C
tive movement In property up the river.


A considerable transformation Is now going on
between Eighth street and Canal and Broadway
and East Broadway. The whole region has almost
entirely been filed with wholesale stores, and the
streets between South Fifth avenue and Broadway
north of Canal are being rapidly transformed into
a business district The new avenue Is itself set
ting the adjacent streets good example by the
erection of fine substantial brick, stone ana iron
buildings along Its whole length. This region will
eventually become the new site for the wholesale
trade. .


Grand Park, Westchester county, on which the
late Andrew wilson, Jr., expended so much time
and capital, will soon be brought into the market.
This tract on which the deceased gentleman ex-
pended s3Oo,OOO comprises about six hundred acres
of villa property. 1t was placed In the hands OF
first paid amounted to s24OOoO, next the claims Of
certain Western creditors amounting to 100000,
and after that the proceeds are to be divided pro
rata among the general creditors.


The system OF long payments for suburban lots,
and especially the monthly instalments, finds favor
with the labOring classes, and several new enter
prises in Long Island and New Jersey Will soon be
announced The recent number OF successful sales
indicate a revving demand for suburban homes
and restores confidence among persons OF moderate
means In real estate as an investment. Prices for
lots, say within twenty miles of the City Hail. have
ranged from 500 to $780, except in the cities. The
average has been about $3.50 per lot payable about
thirty per cent cash and seventy per cent on bond
and mortgage three years.