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Year: 1873

We quote from the Belgium news papers the following account of dread full tragedy that occurred in little viii lage near Brussels. A farmer and his wife had plotted to murder their niece during her sleep, to rob her of 1890 francs that she was taking to her sick mother. In order to foil the future searches of the police, they, previously to perpetrating the crime, were engaged in digging a large hole in their garden, so as to bury the body in it, when the young girl, who, not being asleep, had heard her terrible sentence, rushed out by the window and ran to the police station, distant one mile only.

 But as soon as she was out, the daughter of the farmer, who was not expected home that night, came back, and not wishing to awaken anybody in the house, went noiselessly into the bed where her cousin had been lying 8 few minutes ago. She soon fell asleep, and thus her mother, not being aware of the Providential substitution, owing to the darkness of the night, broke her own daughters neck with an axe.

 This being done, the two were going to the garden, carrying the corpse, en- veloped in bedspread, when two gen. darmes, accompanied by the fugitive girl, rushed into the house with lanterns in their hands. st e..ad zap .tEs

 At the sight of their niece, whom they thought they had murdered, the two wretches took off the covering and found their unfortunate child killed by their own hands. aG. ii alioals4 gnos

 The man, taking large butchers knife, plunged it into his breast and fell dead on the ground. As, to the woman, who was prevented from com hitting suicide, she became insane, and is now shut up in lunatic asylum, where she is expected soon to die from mental exhaustion. Awmore horrible account has rarely been registered in the annals of crime.
Year: 1873

The plates for the new fifty cent note have been prepared at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, and the work of printing the new note will be commenced next week, though it will be probably num- Der of days before the note will be issued to the public. The new note will be about quarter of an inch shorter than that now in circulation and quar- ter of an inch wider, it's dimensions being three and three-quarter inches long by two inches wide. On the face of the note, left hand side. is vignette head of Samuel Dexter, who was Secre- tary of the Treasury in 1901, and 8 for mer Governor of the State of Massa- chusetts. On the right of the note is a section of geometrical lathe work, with the words Fifty cents," in white let ters, engraved across the face. The story or lettering on the note is the same as on the present issue, with the exception of the words receivable for all United States stamps" at tthe bottom of the old note, which are omitted on the new one. The seal is printed in the centre of the face, and is enclosed in cycloidal work, new feature upon frac- tional currency. The back of the note, which will be printed in New York, will be in green. It is made up of geomet- rical lathe work and scrolls. On the right hand corner the word "cents '" found on the old note is omitted, and the numeral "50 takes it's place. The date of the passage of the act authoriz- ing the issue is omitted from the face of the new note and put upon the back thereof. On the left hand side of the back there is an open space to show the fibre i'll the paper, and it will not be shown on the face as much as in the old note. The new note, of course, will take the place of the one now in circula- tion, as the present issue has been coun- terfeited, although not to any great ex- tent. No other new fractional currency will be issued at present.
Year: 1873

LIVING IN SAN DOMINGO. It is said that the cost of living in San Domingo for family of five persons does not ex- they can live excellently. A comfort able house can be rented at $10 month, and cook can be hired for $5 month The new American settlement of Sa- mana Bay is said to offer even greater advantages. But the disadvantages are not mentioned.
Year: 1873

A woman was thrown from @ wagon into creek near Binghamton, and her husband being too drank to help her, she was drowned. People came to the spot and the body was plainly seen in the water, but no one would pull it cut until @ coroner came,
Year: 1873

And now We are told that a hen is the
mother OF twelve chickens from nine
eggs. The owner of the hen says he
cannot tell alie-she did it with herlittlc
hatch it. This, no doubt, is one of the
privileges of leap year
Year: 1873

covered with organic slime, which could
not have been walked over with bare
feet, but the felt shoes eifectually pre-
vented slipping. We reached the cave
and entered it, first by wooden way
carried over the powders, and then
along a narrow ledge to point eaten
deepest in the shale. When the wind
is from the south, the falling water, I
am told, can be seen TRANQUILITY from
this spot but, when we were there, n
binding hurricane of spray was whirled
against us. On the evening of tho
same -tiay, / went behind the water on
the Canada side, which, confess, struck
me, after the experience of the morning,
as an imposture.
Year: 1873

How TO MAKE TOMATO FIGs.-Pour
boiling water over the tomatoes in order to
remove the skins, then weigh them and place
them in stone jar, with as much sugar as
you have tomatoes. and let them stand two
days; then pour off the the syrup and boil
and skim until no scum rises. Then pour it
over the tomatoes, and let them stand two
days. as before. then boil and skim again.
After third time they are fit to dry, If the
weather is good if not, let them stand in the
syrup until drying weather. Then place on
large earthen plates or dishes. and put them
in the sun to dry, which will take about a
week, after which pack them down in small
wooden boxes, with fuc white sugar between
each layer; Tomatoes prepared in this way
will keep for years.
Year: 1873

"A company has been formed in
Ireland for the purpose of produc-
ing from the peat bogs of that coun.
try a dense fuel for domestic and
manufacturing uses. Box's patent
process is to be adopted, by meaus
of which the raw peat can be mace
rated and pulped at a low cost.
According to Iron the commercial
and economic valve of this fuel,
while not equal to coal, very near,
~ approaches it,
Year: 1873

OF a Memphis belle 1t is said
that Words issue from her lips,
each instinct with a separate life
and expression Of their own, and
might always be likcned to bees
leaving the calyx of q flower, each
charged with its burden of pollen
and honey-sense and sweetness
The reporter who wrote this is to
be excused, for they have had q
cholera scare in Memphis.
Year: 1873

In the New York State Luna
tic Asylum experiments have been
made with conium (hemlock) in
the treatment of insanity. 1t is
found to have soothing effect on
the moter centers, its action on the
motor tract being analogous to that
of opium on the brain. Hence it
tends to quiet and renovate the
whole muscular system.
Year: 1873

The Attorney General OF
louisiana has notified Gov. Kellogg
that an executive pardon in that
State in favor Of a person sentenced
to Imprisonment at hard labor in
the Penitentiary does not work as
a release until the pardon is con-
firmed by the Senate.
Year: 1873

About one O'Clock yesterday morning the re.
mains OF female child were round inside the rail-
inrs OF ST. Paul's churchyard South side) and
taken the Third precinct station house, in Cham
bers street. The body was taken to the Morgu0
and Coroner Herman notified to hold an inquest
Year: 1873

OUR QUICKsILvER.-We omitted to
mention last week, that while Grant l.
Taggart was in this county he, in compa
ny with John Martin, went to Trinity
Center to see the cinnabar region. They
brought back specimens Of the cinnabar
found on the locations already made. -
Out of one pan of surface earth they Oh
tanned four ounces avordupos Of CHINA
bar-out of a pan dug out OF the bedrock
they washed three ounces. Asa result
of this visit we clip the following from
the Chronicle of June 30th "Grant /.
Taggart has shipped to quicksilver
mine in which he is Interested, located
about sixty miles from Shasta, near Trim
ity Center, a furnace and other appalat-
us for working the calm, which appears
to be sufficiently rich ut the sur.ace to
pay the expense Of developing it," The
ore found at Trinity Center is very rich,
and from an item which we pint else
where in reference to the Use in the p ice
of quicksilver at San Francisco, it wou d
seem that little judicious outlay in the
cinnabar mines of this county might
prove fortunate investment.
Year: 1873

POSTAL MATTERS. The new postal
law went into effect on the first Instant.
Several changes have been made, the
most important OF which is the total abo-
ltion of free postage. Heretofore the
JOURNAL has been delivered to sub,crib-
ers residing in the county free. Here


after the postage ON the JoUkNAL will be
five cents quarter, or twenty cents n
year, payable in advance. We have no
fears but the JOURNAL has such hold
on the people Of Trinity that they will
stick to us notwithstanding that extra
twenty cents year. Newspapers also
will now have to pay postage on their
exchanges, heretofore free. The abuse of
the franking privilege by members OF
Congress was universally condemned by
the press of the United States. Whether
that portion OF the new law which de-
prives the newspapers of the privileges Of
free exchanges was dictated by spirit of
mean revenge against the press, which
had done SO much to expose the abuses,
but certainly the majority in the last
Congress were mean enough for anything.
Year: 1873

DiTCH ENTERPRISE. - Our enterpris-
ing fellow citizen, Nj. jos. McGillivray,
has lately purchased another right of wa
ter in Canon Creek, and, we are inform
cd intend to convey water to the mines
Of Red Hill and vicinity. The ditch will
be OF the capacity to carry FIVE thousand
inches of water AID the water will be
taken across Trinity liver in II large iron
pipe to the t. p OF Red Hill, at Il height
to cover all the known mines up and
down the river Tor eight miles. The cost
OF this unde taking will be not less than
sixty or seventy thousand dollars, but
when completed cannot lail to yield II
large pioiit, for the mines to be supplied
by it are known to be extremely itch.
Year: 1873

THE TEsT.-In their selection of test
we think the Committee have acted wise
ly. Some of the votes for G eeley last
fall were cast by men who had been life
long Republicans, ard who did not cease
to be Republicans simply because they
voted for one who, although in very bad
political company, had not renounced
allegiance to Republican principles -
With them it was Il choice Of men, and
while there was some sense in Rrpubli-
cans voting for one of the fathers Of the
Republican party, there could be none
whatever in d Dimucrats d3ing the same.
unless they wished to surrender their
principles and organization as Demo-
Gratis. In fact Greeley was served like
poor Tray in the liable of the old spelling
book, and for the same reason. We
trust to see a full representation of the
best citizens OF each precinc, ut the Con-
vention, that Il ticket may be presented
every way acceptable to the people OF
the county.
Year: 1873

No better evidence of the steady
growth of that portion of the county
lying between the San Gabriel river
and the Santa Ana mountains, can be
afforded than an inspection of tho
filled warehouses of the Lighter Com
pany at Anaheim Landing. The past
season has been one of the worst ever
experienced, and the complaint has
been that the crops Of grain were, or
would be, unusually light. AS soon,
however, as the advance in price was
generally known, an amount of grain
comes forward for shipmen largely in
excess of any past year. If it is true,
as stated, that the soil has not yielded
well, the conclusion is at once forced
upon us that the number of producers
has been materially increased. The
Los Angeles press state that the eX-
ports from Wilmington are i'm excess
OF past years, consequently our land
ing has not diverted shipments from
that point. A larger amount of wool
is also being received at the landing
than in previous years. This, how
ever, can be accounted for by the re-
turn of large fiocks of sheep from Low
er California and the southern cOun-
try, where they were driven in search
of pasturage two years ago. Although
it Is too early to make correct esti-
mate of the vintage for the present
year, still it is known that the yield
is much larger than was anticipated.


If, with all the drawbacks, both
physical and financial, which have
tended to retard our growth during
the past, SO fiattering an exhibit is
made, it will be impossible to conceive
the impetus which will be given to
this section by the successful compile
ton of railroad communication and ir-
rigating facilities, now in their incep-
ton. The only thing, therefore, want
ing to make the country a paradise,
has been water. Now that the Land
Company have taken the matter i'm
hand, and give every assurance that
they will not turn back until the whole
of their lands are placed under irriga-
tion, this want promises to be filled
with the smallest practicable delay


Anaheinl Californian.
Year: 1873

It has not escaped the observation Of
the distant public that the most cogent
term of the late uniication agreement


was division Of the Offices. We can not.


0; course, have the same confidence in


this business basis as we would In one
that should recognize the truth that all


people were created by the same benevo'
lent Heavenly Father. who gave them the
same earth to inhabit, the same fruits t(
cultivate and enjoy, and who is especially
pleased to see them dwell in amity in the
scenes He has vouchsafed them. Perhaps
it will be to expect too much that thl'
primeval sentiment should pervade
people who have stood so long IN the re
latiop of master and servant. But
Year: 1873

due regard to the welfare Of each
Of these peoples would teach that their
conduct toward each other should be
kindly, cordial and just There should be
no fear, jealousy or treachery in their per-
sonal dealings. The basis of an equal
share of Offices can not effect this cordi-
ality. Comparatively few men and no
women hold Office, so that an alliance on
such a basis is mere truce, liable to be
broken at any time. Are there not higher
and wiser considerations for unity? Mil
lions of acres of land belong chiefly to
the white people. Only one arabic acre
in twelve is in cultivation. The sugar
product is but one-fourth in quantity what
it was formerly. Now, this reduction OF
area, and coincident reduction IN the


value of the lands, is attributed to the
scarcity of labor. There is an immense
amount Of domestic service for which
the one race is chiefly dependent


upon another. Experience has shown


the difficulty of superseding or indeed OF


supplementing the services of the colored


people by European immigration. while


the Asiatic pagans are neither fit for citl-
zenship nor for agricultural labor. The
white people of Louisiana possess capital,
intelligence and business experience i'd
dispensable to the industrial welfare OF


the State. They are competent teachers


of Law, morality and enterprise.


How indispensable are these two ele-


ments of society to each other: The


shrinkage Of labor has reduced the value
of land: the alienation and hostility of the
land owner to the laborer has compelled
the latter to conduct his political affairs


without the aid Of him who could best ad-


wise him.


Would not then. an agreement to dis


miss all past causes of alienation and unite
on the basis of common, a vital and an
indivisible interest be the most permanent!
A planter would be better reconciled to
the defeat of friend claiming an office
on his ''half and half basis than he
would to see the laborers quit his cotton
field in June to take the cars for Texas.


If there be joint and reciprocal interest
of these two races in Louisiana it must
follow that they are alike interested in the
honest and economical administration OF
the government The whites own much


the larger part of the taxable values, but


if the taxes compel them to raise rents CT


increase the price of their goods retailed to


the laborer, if the planter can not borrow


money to buy provisions or teams or to
pay his laborers, then these laborers must
| suffer on account of the embarrassment OF
the landlord, retail dealer or employer.
Year: 1873

the floating debt, and with such warrants as may
remain outstanding to or near par.


The saving o. the State viii. during the remain
ing seven months be from $200,ooO to 100000.
Nor is any creditor of the State wronged. No one
will he forced to sell his warrants, nor will the
full payment of claims be postponed longer than
under the present system. Only that portion Of
warrants which would in any event be sold at
their market value. will be sold directly to the
State without the Intervention OF middlemen. 1t
is apparent that as the proportion of warrants re-
tired to receipts is increased in this manner, the
value of those outstanding must advance, and
thus every class of holders will be benefited.
I have adopted this course with great reluctance,
after a careful review of the difficulties which sur
round the financial affairs Of the State, and with
the firm conviction that it is for the common good,
and while do not ask expect an abatement OF
personal political hostility, trust shall not be
disappointed expecting for this measure that
unprejudiced consideration and support from all
Classes Of citizens which are necessary to make It
entirely successful.


CHARLES CLINTON.


Auditor.
Approved:


WILLIAM p. KELLOGG.
ie27 81 IN Governor of Louisiana.
Year: 1873

STATE OF EorIsIASA,)


Auditors Office. ,


New Orleans June p, 1873.
The attention ott.e creditors os the State, more
especially of those who are holders Of outstanding
warrants and OF al. citizens. whether hostile TO
the present administration not, is earnestly in
voked to the following statement Of facts. also
ask an impartial consideration Of the plan hereby
inausurated. ov which a large amount of the float
ing debt of the State may be retired during the
current year, from current receipts, which must
otherwise DE carried forward to succeeding years,
and ultimately funded and paid in fall. with .
la rye amount of interest added.


make this appeal to the public because the
pro posed measure will depend largely for its full
success upon the good will, good sense and for
bear of citizens of all parties II will be
that the object sought is not in any sense party
measure, and the benefits expected will inure sole
ly to the taxpayers in material diminuton OF fu.
tUre obligations.


The funded debt Of the state is s22, O2,8oS. The
receipts into the treasury on account of interest
have been, for the first five months of the current
fiscal year S52l ATS Il, and the amount of war
rants drawn on that fund 1922 ,769 Il. am salts.
fed that the same ratio of receipts to the credit of
the interest fund will be maintained throughout
the year, and in that event the interest on all
legal obligations of the State be promptly paid
as fast as it natures.


The credit OF the State, far its bonded debt is
co ncerned. is therefore, amply provided for, and
no reasonable apprehension need be felt as to our
ability to sustain the policy of prompt payment OF
interest. The large deficit in the payment of the
int crest of last year has also been made good. In
addition would say that if proceedings lately in.
situ ted in the courts shall result there is some
reason to believe they WILL in establishing the e
galty of considerable portion of the bonded
debt the interest levy Of succeeding years will be
very materially reduced.


The receipts into the treasury on account Of the
school fnnd have been for five months, STA l20 49,
and the amount OF warrants drawn against that
fund for the same time, e93 ,3l5 q. The same
ration Of receipts for the remainder of the yeaI
will leave no outstanding indebtedness on account
of that fund.


The receipts for the same time on account Of the
levee fund have been Sla 3,5a5 81, and the war
rants drawn against that fund, $l92 l2l y; from
which 1t will be that no considerable deficit
on account OF this fund need be apprehended.


From this exhibit it is apparent that the floating
debt Of the State not likely to be increased fol
want of sufficient to the credit of the ''in
terest fund" the school fund" the "levee
fund" But the condition of the remaining OF
general fund.- against which the mass of the out
standing warrants, which now constitute the float
ing debt, was drawn, is unfortunately much worse
The following is a statement of the outstanding
warrants drawn against the general fund. viz
Year: 1873

New Orleans for sending it over the wires.
The shot has hit home, or there wouldn't
be such bowling.


Without pretending 70 know what
is meant by the terms "both organs at
New Orleans, and the more abject one at
Washington" we are able to assure the
Tribun. and its deIuded readers that there
is no paper in this city that bitterly as
sails the resolutions adopted or proposed
for adoption by the one hundred white
and colored citizens. The Tribune can
not quote single sentence from any New
Orleans OF Washington paper to sustain
the above charges. The Democratic pa
pers here generally regard the movement
with passive favor, while the REPUBLICAN
has been contending all its life for the
very principles contained in the resolu-
tions. But we do not grow intensely en-
thused at. the accession Of fifty or hun
dred very respectable gentlemen to our
platform. The fact that we already had a
majority of the voters Of this State on our
side threw the business of rejoicing on the
occasion on the other. 1t is for the Demo-
crat, who has been all his life in the
wrong, and sufferer of late years for his
errors. to rejoice and jubilate over the
conversion of himself and friends. 1t is
for the REPUBLICAN merely to experience
glow of quiet satisfaction for his triumph.
The idlers and loafers of New Orleans
are likely to go without any great excite
ment for awhile. They have had rather
surfeit of good things recently, and the
reaction that is threatened is dishearten-
ing. The DeBlanc trial went of without
much eclat: the Hawkins-Picayune case
was more exciting, but terminated unsat-
isfactorily to our unemployed patriots;
the Cohen-Railey trial was first rate. but
only lasted five days. Besides, it was too
far away. There is case sleeping some-
where in the grand jury room which
might be revived now. unless something
better occurs. We were promised some
startling developments about an assault
with intent to murder. but as yet have
seen nothing. Unless something is found
that ''the people" can applaud, there will
be discomfort, and some of them may ac-
tually be driven to work for amusement.
Hurry up an exciting case and avert such
misfortune.
Year: 1873

An illiterate farmer, wishing to enter
some animals at an agricultural! exhibition,
wrote to the secretary as follows: "Also
enter me for the bes; jackass: am sure OF
taking the first premium.
Year: 1873

Is the house turned topsy turvyi
Does it ring from street to roofl
VIII the racket still continue


Spite of all your mild reproofl
Are yUu often in iutter'


Are You sometimes thrilled with jOyi
Then have my grave suspicious
That you have at home-that Boy.
Are the walls and tables hammered
Are your nerves and ink upset
Have two eyes, so bright and roguish
Made you every care forget
Have your garden beds prowler,
Who deligh but to destroy
These are well-known indications
That you have at home-that Boy.
Have you seen him playing circus
With his head upon the mat
And his heels in mid-air twinkliug-
For his audience, the cat4
Do you ever stop TO listen.


When his merry prauks annoy
Listen Ia a voice that whispers


You We're once just like-that Boy
Have You heard of broken windows.
And with nobody to blame
Have you seen trowsered urchin
Quite unconscious of the samel
Do You love teasing mixture


OF perplexity and joy
You may have u dozen daughters.


But know you We got-that Boy.
-Tndependent. GEORGE COOPER