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Year: 1873

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GREENS NOTION HOUSE,


ie 2G IS King street.
Year: 1873

At the late International Prison Congress
in London the opinion prevailed that
- ee-fourths of the crime that shock and
startle mankind are to be traced to the bane-
full influences of strong drink" As the
cat : of the increase of crime are coming
to l. paramount questions in our social
economy, our Statesmen and legislators will
soon be compelled to grope at the roots of
the matter That they will find there
drunkenness and misery, 1t Is unnecessary
to state. 1t will be sad if this nation wait
till drunkenness, by its crimes, becomes so
monstrous as to threaten the national in
tegrity and the very foundations of society,
as did negro slavery, before adequate meas
ureS be taken to check its progress. But
this course seems to be the one that's destin-
ed. Men may storm against criminals and
the juries that fail to convict them, until
the crack of doom, to find at last that men
cannot rise higher than their circumstances.
And when rum has decided those circum-
stances, making the crime possible and then
the punishment impossible through fellow
ship, society must wait he.plessly or assert
itself. We are glad to know that it Is be
ginning to assert itself. This is not to be
done in the John-BrOwn style Of crusade,
which must always miscarry, but by calm
and dispassionate consideration. Statistics
Will do more to squelch the monster thana
library of inyectiye. If the statistics of
liquor-drinking and the crimes Of drunken
ness should be forced into the public notice
as are the losses by shipwreck and boiler
explosions and railroad disasters and sui
cides, the world would be appalled,. The
waStelulness of the most gigantic of public
robberies, the Credit Mobilier not excepted,
will not compare with the utter loss made
every year by liquor drinking. 1t is true
that government draws an immense revenue
from the liquor traffic Ii is also true that
heavier revenue is expended to suppress
the crime and help the pauperi-m that 1t
entails.


Senator Wilson is on the right track in
introducing into the United States Senate a
bill providing for commission of five per
sons to examine into the whole subject of
the result of prohibitory liquor laws in the
states where they have been enforced. This
bill has already passed to a second reading,
and II Is hoped Will become a law. Statistic
and facts are the first steps to intelligent
action IN any case. If Congress proposes %
deal with the liquor traffic in the Ierrlt1-
ries and the District of Columbia the result
Of the proposed investigation will be inyalu-
able. If in any event. the Washington
grog shops can be closed or restrained, a
work Will have been accomplished approach
ing Hercules labor in cleansing the Augean
stables. The temperance question has been
a very fashionable reform for half reform
ers, and even under their labors it has pro-
gres-ed somewhat But reform that shall
reach it must carry the force Of general
sanction. 1t is more vital than the tariff or
the taxes when considered in its ultimate
bearings upon the well being of the nation.
Troy Tunes
Year: 1873

MODERATE DRINKNG.-The person who
persists in occasionally drinking glass o.
brandy, and says that he i not in any
danger of ever becoming an inebriate, re
minds Us of a deaf man walking on the
railroad track The whistle Is heard, and
friends admonish, but he has confidence in
his agility, aud thinks that he will have
time to leap from the track when he feels
the lar. The cars come rolling, leaping,
bounding from beam to. beam, but he hears
them not on he goes One instant he
feels the voluminOus, laundering jar, and
then there lies upon the track crushed
and shapeless mass. We wish that the ter
minus of the moderate drinker's career was
never lise this. lie risks not only his prop
erty but himself on the road where the To-
eomOtiyes of destruction are constantly
running. lie has learned by observation
that this way proves fatal to many, but he
believes that he is stronger; he is confident
that he has ability to escape from the de-
structiye power Of habit control, to
bind or to break at will the iron bands of
appetite. And 50, on the thread of bare
possibility, he hurls himself into the maxi
mum of probable ruin Vermont Farmer.
Year: 1873

The FUTURE OF THE NEGRo.-A New Or
leans correspondent of the Worcester Spy
writes:


am not one of those who fear the infiu-
ence of the negro element. Too much was
put upon the negro too much was expect
ed of him. But yesterday an ignorant
slaye-to-day freeman, elevated in dizzy
moment by the act Of war to assume the
highest duties of a citizen, and called upon
to solve problems that would confound the
wisest; it Is no wonder that he has fallen
under the practice of inscriptions knaves,
who using his docile ignorance to obtain
power have plundered the South to the verge
Year: 1873

ILL TDPER-A single person of sour.
sullen mper,-what a dreadful thing it Is
to have such one in a house There Is
not myrrh and aloes and chloride of lime
enough in the world to disinfect a single
home of such nuisance as that. no riches.
no elegance of mien, no beauty of face can
ever screen such persons from utter vulgari-
ty. There is one thing which rising
persons hate the reputation of more thana all
others, and that is vulgarity; but trust me.
i'll temper is the vulgarest thing that the
lowest born and illest bred can ever bring
to his home. 1t is one Of the worst forms Of
impiety. Peevishness in home is not cnly
sin against the Holy Ghost. but sin against
the Holy Ghost in the very temple Of lore.
Theodore Parker
Year: 1873

of bankruptcy. am glad | can say there
is abundant evidence of repentance and re
form among the negroes. With education
and better understanding of the situation
they will develop unexpected patriotism.
Year: 1873

4 CHEAP RIDE.-About the best story
told lately is of a wealthy New York Ger
man and Hartford livery stable keeper
who was 10th to let his best rig to a
stranger The German was bound to have
his ride, and agreed to buy his horse and
sleigh, and when he returned the stable
keeper might refund the money This was
done, and the team returned and money re-
funded, when the German started to 90
" Hold on, said the man of horses, - you
have not paid your horse hire - Why,
my dear sir" SAID the New Yorker coolly
Il have been driving my own team this
m1rningi'
Year: 1873

When the politicians say that the people
cannot bear certain disclosures. what they
mean Is that the politicians cannot bear
them. could not hold their place, if they
We're made, and the iobberS would lose
their opportunity There is one thing,
however, that we, the people, cannot bear
in high places, and that j. hypocrisy. II
that Is not extinguished. it will cut ont
everything grand and good there l. in our
system. If every member of the govern
ment to-day were a hypocritical swindler.
dishonest executive. legislator or judge,
il would be better for Us. the people, that
every one of them should come to exposure
and open disgrace than that they should re-
main concealed. We could not bear such
men as Harlan and Pomeroy covered up
we are not damaged by their exposure. 1t
Is mistake to suppose that Christianity.
morality. or politics, are losers 10y the cx
posure of the hypocrisy Of men conspicu-
ous in them. \ church, a society or party,
is always stronger for shuffling off its bad
clements If the rottenness of Pacific rail-
road morality had peryaded Congress, if
the tlint of jobbing runs through it, the
only chance for the health of the nation Is
for the disease TO be thoroughly exposed,
and the whole extent of 1t.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Butler said he stood here to say that
the House had no jurisdiction over what it
was now doing that it had no constitu-
tional or legal right to expel any member
for crime alleged against him five years
ago. The report he had made from the iu-
dietary committee the other day had been
slightingly spoken of. and it had been said,
got the Endorsement of the so-called mem
bers Of the Judiciary committee but he
now represented, on his responsibility as
lawyer, man and legislator, that there
was no precedent in this country or in Eng
land for this procedure. He cited the case
Of Humphrey Marshall of Kentucky, where
the legislature of that State asked for his
Impeachment on the ground of perjury, but
the Senate on three separate occasions de-
cided, by l6 to Z, that it had no jurisdic-
ton. From that hour to this no legislative
body in this country had overruled that de-
cision. He commented on the two cases
cited yesterday by Mr.. Poland for the ex-
pulsion Of John Ward for forgery, and
Christopher Atkinson for perjury. Those
were all the cases Mr.. Poland had been able
to find. One of the penalties for forgery
was that the party was to have his ears and
nose slit, and was it any wonder, he asked
the House, if they objected to have among
Year: 1873

Every one must have noticed the great
difference, as q general thing, between
the conduct Of the young betrolhcd man
and tho you1g Gctrothcd woman, Ho,
the brayor and stronger Of the two, is ut
torly confused aud seeks to make secret
of tho fact. She, on the contrary, tries
to parade is, isprodd Of it, assumes a cer-
tain air of propriotoship over him, and
offers to her friends little delicate conf
dOnCcs as to how uico it is to be engaged,
and how dreadfully jealous hc is il sho
looks atany one else.


The cause Of this is just one thing; the
man is in love; The girl isuot.


/ have studied human nature, | have


looked into tho depths Of hearts, [ have
made man aud woman the study of my
life and ] aver that the girl in love is rar-
er than black rose. She simply has for
her lover exactly tho feeling that the
young mother has for her baby. She has
an anxious desire to see him for life, to
make sure that he is comfortable, that
his buttons are all right, and that his food
is what it ought to be. She understands
that be is in love with her, and rejOiCes in
the knowledge. Tho idea Of losing his
love is madness to her, but Of herself shO
does not understand it.


A woman who is not selfish, aud gree
dy and mean, who does not smile on any
one who can give her fine clothes aud
grand establishment, overdows with the
mother feeling all her life. She expends
it on her dolls in childhood, on her poo
dies or her kitten, or her canary after
ward, aud, when the time comes, on her
lover Many man would lose bis con-
ceit and vanity if he knew just how tho
girl whom he supposed to be in love with
bin really felt. She. also, would bO
surprised to hear that she was not in love
at all. but only delighted to have some
one in love with her, and in o measure
awakened to the knowledge of that love
which she will some day give her chill
dren. 1t is the best sort of love, too.
and when mans wife really loves him.
she makes him happy


But l think it time some one who knows
the truth should tell it. A good woman's
love is something to be happy in-nOt
the aeetiug gallantry that man calls BY
that name, but pure and high affection.
and with so much Of the motherly and
protecting in it, that have often heard .
little eighteen. .yrar.oll woman say Of .
siz.footer Of two hundred pounds weight
and a brigadier general to boot: "Oh.
isn't he darling, cumming little ihiueH
Just as sweet as sugar9" -Amt Nary ~
Me Ledger.
Year: 1873

Jane McVane has for several years,
says the Dyersburg Progress, been known TO
the people OF Dyersburg as a woman of whom
very few good things could be said. OF easy
virtue, and an equal love for whisky and pro-
family, all would make a wide swoop lest she
wander too nigh " in passing her on the street.
She was over SIX feet high, was about thirty
nNe years Olo, ana IN appearance was remark
ably masculine. IL was her custom to get
drunk occasionally, and hence her big drunk
last Friday night was a surprise to nobody.
urday morning when the jailer went in he
found her dying. Death had placed his signet
hour or two she departed for "A world or a life
less pleasant than this. She took large dose
of morphine during the night which was the
cause Of her death. Jane McNane is dead!
Year: 1873

sury department on her representation


that her husband would not support her.


Subsequently to which her husband tried


to trustee or draw her wages at the trea-
sury department. Whether the Kansas
dignitary procured anything else for Mrs.
Conway OF not we are not informed,


though the dispatch states that
Conway gave as his reason for
shooting Pomeroy that he (PomeToy)
had ruined Conway and his family. The
senator will get well, his clothing saw
ing him, more even than Conway's in
different aim. On the whole the affair
is poor thing from beginning to end
and hardly worth sending over the wire.
Year: 1873

suddenly stopped. For the bear raised
himself up, reeled a moment and then
went for them. Kinney had Just thrown
up his gun to fire when, stepping in a
mire hole he fell. Sam Immediately
seized his hand to help him out but
gave only one pull, for the bear, nearer
than he supposed, rose to seize him. Sam
raised his needle-gun, but the grzzly
sturck it out of his hand before he could
fire. The dreadful paw was raised again.
Did Sam see it? What suspense and
horror was the lot of the helpless look
ers-on when they saw that dreadful blow
descending on Sans apparently uncon-
scious head. But Sam did see it, and
jumped sideways from it, but only
enough 10 break the force of the blow.
Struck on the side of the head, he fell
senseless in the mire. The bear, now
weak from loss of blood, reeled mp to
finish his victim, but came within the
reach of Kinney, still stuck in the mud.
who stabbed it desperately in the
shoulder with heavy bowie knife.
The grizzly turned, stood on its hind
feet, but stabbed again---this time in the
heartfelt dead in its tracks.


Thus ends, according to Western
mountaineers, the most exciting bear
hunt that has taken place in the Crock"
or its branches for many years. The
dead grizzly was female, and about
the weight of an average heifer, very
large, with terrible teeth and claws. All
the party are now glad to have had the
encounter, and to have it over, except
Sam Smith, poor fellow, who, however,
is doing well. - ..----..--..-,
Year: 1873

them good tools and show an interest in
their use Of them. Show them how to
work as You do; but require very little
at first, letting them make things for
friends, or do their tasks TO ''help" those
they love, until they learn to feel nm am
bition about doing their work fast and
thoroughly. Expect them TO keep their
engagements, and not allow them TO
back out of an undertaking as soon as
the flush Of novelty wears off. There
fore let them not attempt too much
unless to cure a habit Of Dragging.
Give them long, warm night-clothes,
and bedding enough too much will in
duce perspiration) to keep them warm in
any position; and let them sleep in cool,
ventilated rooms, and give them all the
natural sleep they can take.
Year: 1873

PowER IN A ToN OF CoAL-There i.
power in a ton of coal, when burned.
enough TO raise a hundred pounds
weight twenty miles high-prcviding
it could be saved. BY considering this
fact we gain some idea Of the force stors
ed up in our food. sh'
Year: 1873

A negro was put upon .he stand as
n witness, and tho Judge inquired if
he understood the nature Of the oath
"For certain, boss" said the citizen ;
eff L swear to lie, l must stick to
him ~
Year: 1873

THE jury in the case Of Sturgeon for
shooting the boy Murphy, yesterday
returned a verdict Of murder in the first
degree, and the chances are that he will
be hung, unless, as is very unlikely,
Executive clemency or motion for a
new trial supervene. While we do not
rejoice over the misfortunes Of any, we
cannot help hoping that this viii furnish
a much-needed example for all who
have not yet learned to restrain their
passions, and make those who have i'm
brued their hands in the blood of their
fellow-beings think Of their probable
fate
Year: 1873

There was 10 be lately an investigation OF q
most remarkable "incident" in England. The at
tention of the President Of the Board of Trade
has been called to the death Of James Harris, an
engine cleaner on the Great Western Railway.
who was burned to death in the fire-5ox Of an
empty engine. He had been nt work thiFty.sIx
hours without relief exhausted with fatigue, he
erept into an empty fre-box of the engine he had
been cleaning and fell asleep. Soon after the
stoker came to light the engine FIRE, and not sus


Pectipg that the lad was there, threw shovslfuil
OF blazing coal over him and burned him to death
Year: 1873

A SHARPER BIT.--A short time ago Q
sharper visited the office of q gentleman in
this city and presented letter from we'll
known mining company Of q western city
to the clerk in attendance, who was kind
enough to loan him $25, with which he took
his departure northward, in company with
q gentleman also connected with the office.
A week passed, and nothing being heard
from the stranger, the proprietor wrote to
the western firm and found that his clerk
had been swindled. A few days after the
gentleman stepped on the boat at Washing
ton and was introduced to man who
afterwards proved to be the one that his
clerk had made the loan to. He at once
demanded the amount loaned. The
fellow said he had no money, but gave
to him his gold hunting-case watch
and chain as security until their
arrival in Richmond, when he would
arrange the matter; saying that since he
was here he had difficulty with the
western house, hence their refusal to
recognize their:former letter. When the boat
touched at Alexandria it is supposed that
he slipped off, as nothing was seen ofhim
after that time. As soon as possible the
authorities were telegraphed to, but have
failed thus far to find the man. The
watch and chain were only plated with
gold, but are presumed to be worth the
S25 the light-hngered party got.
Year: 1873

and hands corresponded with those on
Georges, the scars on the legs were
similar also, and the hair, eyebrows and
tinger-nails were marvelously alike.
Who the dead man was, was never as
certained After Georges return, how
ever, inquiries were made, such as it
was never deemed needful to make so
long as the dead man was supposed to
be Mrs. Mowbray's young son.


These inquiries led to the discovery
that the day before the tragedy three
men, supposed to be from London, took
up their quarters at an inn in a neigh
boring village one of them the landlord
thought he recognized as having been in
Mrs. Mowbrays service as a groom.
The footsteps of three persons were also
discovered in the garden, and some time
after rope ladder and horse trough,
which had apparently been used to lay
upon the spikes at the top of the garden
wall, were discovered in the neighboring
copse but the name of the dead man
was never discovered.
Year: 1873

l. Take of white hard soap Tin shay
ings) one-fourth pound alcohol, one
pint water, one-fourth pint perfume
at will Put them in strong bottle,
cork it close, set it in warm water for a
short time, and occasionally agitatc it
briskly until solution is complete. After
reposc, pour off the clean portion from
the dregs into clean bottles for use, and
at once closely cork them. If the solu-
ton be not sufficiently transparent, a
little alcohol should be added to it before
decantation.


2. Take of white soft soap one pound ;
liquor of potassa, two drachms alcohol,
one pint perfume at will. Proceed as
before. The product of both is excel
lent. By simply rubbing few drops on
the skin, and applying the shaving
brush, previously slightly dipped in
water, good lather is produced
Drggists' Circular.
Year: 1873

The lower house of Congress has passed the
Cheap Postage bill reported not long ago from
the Postoilice Committee. The bill reduces
letter postage to two cert for each half ounce
or fraction thereof, declares magazines and
newspaper manuscripts to belong to the third
class of ma;lable matter, fixes the postage on
daily newspapers at fifteen cents per quarter,
and requires prepayment of postage on all
printed matter, or mailable matter. of the sec
ond class, except on weekly newspapers within
the counties where they are printed or pub
lished, which will pass through the mails free,
as heretofore. As it originally came from tho
committee, the bill restricted the newspaper
franking privilege to weekly newspapers
within the respective counties where the same
arc actually and ,rho'typrinted and published"
The words g actually and wholly" which would
seem to have been inserted for the purpose of
discriminating against those weeklies which
are printed partly in the cities by auxiliary"
establishments, and partly at the place of
publication, were very properly stricken out.
Country publishers who print their newspa-
pers "actually and wholly in their own
offices have right to their own opinion of
country insides," or country outsdes,' of
course, but Congress has no right to force
their opinion down other peoples throats. IT
people choose to subscribe and pay for papers
printed on the auxiliary plan, they have per-
feet right to do 80, and publishers have per-
feet right to supply the demand for papers of
this description. 1t is not for Congress to in
qurc of publishers where they have their print
ing done. They may have it done in their gar
rets, or in their cellars or they may pay others
for doing it thousand miles away, if they
please. Congress has nothing to do with the
business Chicago Times.


Our Chicago contemporary takes a
correct and sensible view of this matter.
He might have gone a step further,
however, and added that it was bit of
impertinence, to say the least, on the
part of certain members of Congress to
attempt to defile our national statute
books with such a manifestly unjust
piece of class legislation-a piece of
legislation more in keeping with the
dark ages than with the liberal and en-
lightened sentiment of the present CEN
tury. 1t is Il matter with which Con-
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gress nor any other Legislative body has
no sort of concern, and in meddling with
which they are stepping wholly beyond
the pale of their legal prerogative. If
Congress possesses the legal right to
dictate to the publisher the mode, man
ner and place for the execution of the
mechanical work of his paper, it pos
sesses an equal right to enact that he
shall use straw paper instead of rag
paper that he shall use large type in
stead of small type that he shall use q
bad quality of ink instead of good
quality; that he shall use a hand press
instead of steam press and altogether,
that he shall furnish his patrons with
an inferior paper instead of agood, read
able sheet. For, in reality, the out
rageous discrimination attempted would
have amounted to this, and nothing
Year: 1873

A correspondent in Japan presents re-
newed evidence of the substantial reality
of japanese reform, and some interest
ing incidents illustrating it, among the
most important of which is the debut of
the Empress of Japan in the society of
the capital, an unprecedented fact in the
history of Oriental women.
Year: 1873

Adoniram Podge was lnnk and lean


As a withcred up stalk of corn;
And his face was solemn as ever was seen


Since the days when Adam was born.
He lived on farm on the edge of town,


And he managed to keep on his legs
By boarding up money and sailing it down
When he sold his butter andtcggs.
His face was a. long piece of chalk,


And his eyes were little and gray;
And he hacked when he opened his mouth to talk,
And twitched in an awkward way.
His voice was sharp steel spring trap,
And his head was minus of hair;
But he covered it up with an old fur cap


That his grandfather used to wear.