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Year: 1872

The man who marries the prettiest girl OF
the place is said to be lucky fellow" and
so of him who draws the highest prize in lot.
terry, or by some fortunate turn in affairs,
clears the gulf between want and wealth in
an hour. And yet the histories Of all time
tell us that with a terrible uniformity and
certainty the men who become suddenly pos
sessed Of unearned millions die in misery.


Within five years a well-to.do farmer drew
quarter Of million dollars in prize lot
terry The whole country envied him his luck
but he has since died from style Of living
induced by his good fortune, and his only son
has turned out drunkard


The man whose first bet on the race-course,
whose first deal at the card-table, whose first
risk at faro, whose maiden lottery ticket
brings money largely in his pocket, is ruin.
ed man at the very instant the world pro.
pounces him lucky" Any man, especially
any young man, who starts in life with the
conviction that money can be better made
than by earning il, is lost man lost already
to society, lost to his family, lost to himself


An alarming large number Of the sons Of
the rich men OF New York are at this mo-
ment helpless drunkards.


Young men are they, many of them of edu.
cation, Of many good qualities, of generous
natures, honorable and high.minded but this
demon of drink has taken such possession
of them that fathers breaking heart, q
mothers tears and sisters agony avail not tc
draw them from their deep damnation. Ee'
CANT leisure was their ruin.


The best way to rave child from ruin il
to bring him up to help father" Make
children feel that they must do something tc
support the family, to help along then, too
feelings arise which are their salvation
those of affection and pride for we naturally
love those whom we daily struggle together
with for desired object, and nothing 80 i'm
proves a child as to make him feel that he il
Of consequence, that he can do something, ana
that what he does is appreciated.
Year: 1872

ECONOMICAL STEAM EEGINEs.-An en-
CINE builder in London is now constructing
steam engines that are guaranteed to con
sumo less than two pounds Of coal per horse
power, each hour; aud it is claimed that In
some cases these engines have consumed
only one pound per horse power, each hour.
This Is nearly one fifth Of the theoretical
amount Of power that Is produced by the
consumption of coal. One tenth has been
considered very good work heretofore.
Year: 1872

4 CURIOUS revelation has been made in
New Jersey, at Mount Bethel, near Plain
field. In pulling down an old house that
was built in the revolutionary times, walled
in the cavity between the two fireplaces a
human skeleton in perfect preservation was
discovered. An old flint-lock musket stood
NJ it, side. and two rusty knives lay at its
fpat. The musket is of the old British pat
tern. It is supposed that the remains are
fhose of a Tory soldier whe met his death
af5tbe hands of the colonists during the
revolution.
Year: 1872

AN ICEBERG ALARN.-A New Yorker
has invented an apparatus to be attached
to ships, so arranged as to sound an alarm
on approaching the vicinity Of an iceberg.
The device is arranged on the bottom Of
the vessel, and is of such a nature that when
the keel strikes any very cold stratum Of
water the alarm is sounded. It is well
known that icebergs refrigerate the water
around them for a considerable distance.
This instrument will exhibit the exact temp
erature of the water below the vessel at all
times.
Year: 1872

The Committee Of Arrangements for the
reception Of the Grand Duke, have det r
mined to secure rooms for him at the
Peabody Hotel, while the banquet and ball
will be given at the OvertOn Hotel
Year: 1872

Pinchback, Blackburn and Conway


Lieutenant Governor Pinchback, being
loudly called upon for speech, spoke as
follows:


Gentlemen-The signs of the times would
seem to indicate that the Republican party
is to be reunited As / have been men
toned in a prominent position before this
convention. l gave my adhesion to it. 1t
embraced my ideas. 1t was in keeping
with the speeches / have made during the
past few davsJ and / think the course of
this convention must be approved by every
true member of the Republican party, and
harmony can not be obtained otherwise.
Because / have been brought forward by
the convention as Lieutenant Governor, and
because it would have seemed that wished
to precipitate my election, and because l
do not wish to fOist myself upon the people,
/ have acted as have done.


T l have accepted the resolutions offered
by the committee. These resolutions leave
it to any gentleman to choose for himself.
While have stood by the State admins
tration, and will continue to do so as long
as it is Republican, l do not approve its
action in regard to national politics. l
have been accused of being on the fence.
guess have been somewhat in that posi-
ton, because 1 had not made up my mind
on national politics.


1T has been said that the delegates of
the convention viii indorse Greeley and
Brown. do not believe they will. do
not know whether Republicans can afford
to go outside of their own party lines. In
a speech / made at the time the negro con-
Year: 1872

ought TO have forbidden their "volun-
teeringn for the prosecution, and Judge
Ingraham's respect for the proprietles
of criminal practice ought to lead him
to make permanent their exclusion as adyis-
ory counsel which he pronounced yesterday.


Long and tedious, if not indeed common
place, this trial promises to be. Only two
Jurors were obtained yesterday, and, in spite
of the new law which was inteGded to facili-
tate the selection of juries, the whole OF next
week viii probably be absorbed in the dull
business of choosing dozen men without
minds to make up A week more, at least
will be required to introduce the evidence,
and it is safe to say that we shall be well into
midsummer before the conclusion OF the
Year: 1872

character to need any exhortations in regard
to their duty. Most of them know too much
of politics and of the rising political cur
rents. TO entertain for moment the latest
absurdity of two electoral tickets, as means
of "aniting the opposition to Gen. Grant
The composition of the Conference to which
we have briefly referred, the express terms OIL
the call under which they are assembled seem
to us to preclude the possibility OF any Du'
Good results from their deliberations.
Year: 1872

Once more the Pope utters his unavaiilng
protest against the aggressive action OF the
Italian Government. The suppression of tho
converts he declares violation Of moral and
international law; and he directs that an ap-
peal be made to the Great Powers in his be-
half. Unfortunately for the Holy See, it is
generally agreed that the once important
Roman question has shrunk to the narrow
limits of the Kingdom of Italy. and will there
alone be adjusted.
Year: 1872

The Senate has already decided against
Judge McCunn in two of tie most important
points taken by his counsel, Col. Davis, One
was the demurrer to the acceptance of evil
dence of corruption in former terms; the
other, the ingenious argument that, in hastily
renting the charges and testimony to the
Senate without examining either, the Governor
had failed to make a recommendation for
removal in the full sense of the constitutional
requirements. The proof of this haste and
alleged negligence does not appear to have
been as good as the argument itself, else COL
Davis might have reasonably hoped for
different decision. Another pending question
preliminary to the actual trial relates to the
acceptance of the evidence already taken, and
this point the Senate will probably quickly
decide this morning
Year: 1872

1t must be confessed, we suppose, that the
International Jubilee in Boston has not been
successful in point of attendance, whatever
may be said Of its artistic achievements. The
third day has passed without perceptible in
crease in the audience; and the action of
the management in reducing the prices shows
that there has been too high value set on
the show.
Year: 1872

In this ago of Oflce-seeEise it is not often that
man is comDelle.. 70 hold place against his will
TI.s has happened, however, in the case OF Judge
Frederick H. Teese of the c. C. p. of Essex County
NJ J. Last April he sent in his resignation to the
Governor. 1t was accepted, and a man appointed to
fill his place but before the Judge could quafy
the Governor discovered that he had no power to
accept Judges resignation and, consequently no
power to fill vacancy. He came to this conclusion
because the Constitution makes no provision I'D so
many words for a vacancy occasioned by
resignation. The Judge is elected by the
Legislature, aud that body not being
in session. q new appointment could not
be made. SO Judge Teese held on until April. Then
he wrote to the Governor that private affairs OF the
most pressing character would absolutely prevent
him from holding office after the 1st of June prox.
To this the Governor made no reply. Then the
Judge wrote that he was about to leave the State
and therefore could not remain Judge lie has
gone. and no Judge of the Common Pleas of Essex
County has there been since that time The specta-
Gle of man in these times trying to resign and try
ing in vain, is certainly q curious one
Year: 1872

The poor boy who was drowned at Fulton Ferry
one day last week has been censured for walking
the guard from which he fell; the employees of the
boat have been censured for allowing him to do so.
But nothing has been said of the two hundred men
and youths, more or less, who stood quietly on the
bridge and the boat and watched the helpless crea-
ture struggle and go down without one generous
impulse to plunge and save him. 1t is safe to say
that at least fifty men in that crowd must have been
skillful swimmers and their careless uncOncern as
they waited to see the tardy ladder used, offers
curious illustration to the student of civilized
heathenism.
Year: 1872

Probably the most remarkable and wonderful
donkey in the world is the one who by some mystic
rous dspensation has gained access the editorial
columns of The Washington Chronicle in order to argue
that Mr. Greeley, in retiring from the editorshp of
THE TRIBUNE while a Presidential candidate, has
thereby shown himself ashamed of his profession as
a printer Through nearly solid column of pros
and cons does the solemn creature argue the point
Let him have a care Ears such as his are tempting
to the tanners who seek material for leather medals
for the Grant marty
Year: 1872

A very just and proper protest is entered by The
Herald against the needless annoyance caused to Gus
toners by the outside officers of banks in presenting
drafts In this particular case a draft The Herald
was sent to protest because The Herald only offered
notes of national banks in payment. In two or
three cases drafts have been sent to protest when
presented at our own countngroom because the
gentleman on whom they were drawn happened not
to be in at the moment of presentation. Publish
ing the names of the banks whose agents are guilty
of such petty annoyance, and cautioning the public
to beware of them is likely to prove healthy dis
cipline.
Year: 1872

The England Churchman, in some
remarks on the bill to legalize mar.
riage with q deceased wife's sister,
says:


The changeif once sanctioned by
law would involve revolution III
the whole domestic life of the coun-
trv. As the law now stands, the aunt
is the natural protector of her or
phaned nephews and nieces. She
enters her late sisters husband S
house on the same terms of close re-
lationship as she would the house
of her own brother. But this law
once relaxed, the marriage estate is
reduced from a divine ordinance,
creating new relationships 10y affinity,
to mere earthly conventional ar
rangement, limited and confined to
the two contracting parties and affect
ing in no way their mutual relations.
The existing relationship known as
brother and siter-Inlaw Is at once
abolished. A woman who by any
possibility car become mans wife
can never he to him really a sister.
Their mutual position to each other
is at once changed. The familiar
attentions of brother he may not
show to her. nor may she accept them
at his hand Ia the same hour in
which marriage becomes possible
with her sisters husband, she must
forever pass out of the shelter and
sacreduess of sisterhood and at best
be in his house as ary other friend.
Year: 1872

The New York NatiOn-anOther of the
Reform journals-also calls upon Gratz
Brown to withdraw from theIGreeley tick
ct. Reviewing his penitential letter, it
says:


We find it little difficult to make out
the meaning of all this, but we take it to
be that, while the statement of the clerk
was correct as to the main fact, it was er-
roneous as to some of the incidents, and
that what liquor Mr.. Brown took during
the evening he took as defense against
premonitory symptoms of cholera that
when engaged in the discharge of official
duties he takes nothing stronger than wa
ter. We have no wish to press hard on
him in this matter, but it is a very serious
matter, and after what happened on the
4th of March, 1865, calls for plain speech.
We feel obliged to say, therefore, that the
frequency with which attacks of certain
classes of disease are now put forward as
an excuse for intOXication has deprived
that plea of its value. A man who is liza
BILE to get drunk every time he has tooth
ache or stomach ache, or a touch of neu-
ralgia, is therefore not fit for high and
conspicuous public office, and ought not to
be entrusted with it, and it aOould be q
proper and graceful thing for Mr.. Broe0n
to lUithdrdW his infrmities from public
discussion 6y withdrawing his name from
the GreeLPU ticket u
Year: 1872

Experiments in sowing wheat show that


in plots where one bushel to the acre is
sown the proportionate yield is greater
than on fields where two bushels are sown.


1t is estimated there are from $50 600 to
200 grains in bushel of wheat-say
66O,0OO. There are 6,27S, $40 square inches
in an acre. Using one bushel per acre
there would be about one seed to each nine
and one-third square inches. Suppose
each plant to tiller nine or ten fold land it
most certainly will, under halfway favor
able conditions), it gives one stalk or head
to the square inch, which is many more
than can mature under the most favorable
circumstances. 1t is, therefore, plain that
one bushel of good seed per acre is super
abundance. In sowing two we waste one,
even though it does not decrease the yield.
Year: 1872

A threshing machine took fire at Du--
rant, Iowa.. A young gentleman named
William Spronie, who was feeding
jumped upon the top to put out the fire,
but being unable to do so, and the fire
driving him back, he stepped by mistake
on the feed board. AS the machine was
in motion he was dragged in bodily. His
right leg was torn raggedly off above the
knee and passed into the machine, and his
thigh bone was broken in four places.
The machine was stopped by the flesh in
side and the man taken out. He bled to
death in fifteen minutes. The machine
was entirely consumed,
Year: 1872

The Nashville Banner says of the local
features of the great political prize fight:


Quite a number of people express the
opinion that Cheathann, besides the Con-
vention vote, will get large proportion
of the Republican vote of the State and al
so big share of the colored vote, if the
Republicans should not have candidate
of their own-which we surmise would
not be likely to occur under the circum-
stances
Year: 1872

TO the Public:


The Trustees of the Public Library of Kentucky be-
ing satisfied from the large sale of tickets already made
and the daily increasing demand for hem that there
will be occasion for postponing the second drawing
in the Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library of Ken
lucky have instructed me- as their agent and mara
ger of the Gift Concert say to the public and ticket
holders that the drawing will positively take place on
September 26th prox. and will not be postponed An
active demand for tickets from every State and
Territory of the United States and from the Canadas
giving to the Trustees that circumstances
can prevent drawing at the appointed time.


sufficient clerical force is engaged to keep up with
the orders for tickets and in order that this Office may
be relieved of the immense pressure incident to the
business for the week two Immediately preceding
the drawing. agents especially. and those desrous of
procuring tickets requested to send in their orders
Immediately, sales will have to be closed in time to
make the necessary preparations for the drawing 1t
is the wish of the management to fill every order for
ticket as well as to sell all the tickets but those who
apply first must be supplicd and if those who put of
buying until sales are closed have their money return
ed instead of the tickets ordered, in the first Gift
Concert in December last when thousands of dollars
that came too late were sent back that they will have
none to blame but themselves.


THOS E. BRAMLETTE


Agent Public Library Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE. KY. August 19. 1S72-eOdl2tw2t
Year: 1872

As consequence of Gratz Browns visit
to New Haven, we find the following item
of news from that city:


New Haven is circulating petition
asking its Selectmen to call a town meet
ing, at which the question of not licensing
any one to sell intoxicating liquors in the
town may be discussed.
Year: 1872

A northern exchange SAYS: Paper
houses are among the latest novelties in
this country. They are said to be as
warm and durable as houses built in the
ordinary way, and are much cheaper.
The frames, doors and floors are of
wood; the paper with which the frame
is covered on the outside is heavy and
compact, and made more substantial by
being covered with mineral paint or
cement. There is an establishment in
Pittsburg that has process for treating
paper which makes it much harder and
tougher than leather, and so elastic as to
resist almost any blow without perccp-
tible compression from the effects oftho
blow, while 1t can be worked very casi-
ly and cheaply.
Year: 1872

NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-SwOrn statements
have been received in the Florida case at
the Navy Department. They have been
at once once forwarded to the State De-
partment. BY order of the President, a
demand will be at once made in manner
which will admit of no evasion for an eX-
planation or apology, and full satisfaction.
The attitude of this Government will be
unyielding in defense of the assailed honor
of our flag.


Minister Roberts is perfectly aware of
the feeling which prevail, and has undoubt-
edly notified his Government that there is
no evasion from either ample apology or
war. a
Year: 1872

The Quarterly Meeting at the Church street
NJ. L. Church, South, is being protracted.
There were six penitents at the mourner's bench
last night. There will be preaching every
night this week
Year: 1872

Urinary and Womb Diseases Gravel, Diabetes Drop
sy Incontinence of Urine, Brights disease, AIbumnu
ra and in where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick, cloudy mixed with substances like
the white Of egg, threads like white silk or there
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is prieking burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
the lOins In ali these conditions Railways Sarparil
Liam ResOlyent aided by the application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back, and
the bowels regulated with two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will soon make a complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without Dain and the
Urine viii be restored TO its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1872

The Presidents announcement that he means
10 adhere to policy of Civil Service Reform,
and make it's application practical, seems to
have surprised some of his earnest supporters.
Certainly they ought not to have expected him
to adopt any other course The charge Of bis
enemies has been that he was insinoers in his
professed purpose to improve the system Of
Civil appointments, and the action taken with
reference to the PhIAdelphiA Post oface is a
diaproof Of that cAlumny.
Year: 1872

From Gov. Palmer's Great Speech.


Do not you reeollect that last year we
had visit to this country from a scion
of the Imperial house Of Russia, the
Grand Duke Alexis? Do you remember
that the Government fitted out grand
hunting expedition on the plains? Gen.
Sheridan went out to hunt buffalo with
the Grand Duke. Gen. Custar, colonels
and staff officers, with all the pomp and
circumstance of war, went out TO hunt
buffalo on the plains, with the son of the
Emperor Of Russia, and quite recently
the son Of our President is making the
foreign tour, and saw in loyal news
paper the other day that he was return
ing the visit of the Grand Duke. These
things seem by themselves very small,
but how rapidly we are forgetting our
republican simplicity and aping the
habits Of royalty If General jackson,
or Martin Van Buren,, or James X Polk,
or any OF our earlier Presidents had
fitted out grand hunting expedition
for any Prince OF Wales, we should have
regarded it as perfectly disgraceiul, and
that we were pandering to the habits of
royalty We do it now and nobody
complains. The public money spent on
that grand hunt was taken out of the
pockets of the people and vicious prac-
tice was begun, and i. pursued, you
young men will live to see the time when
the royal family of America will receive
visits and return them from their brother
rulers in foreign lands.
Year: 1872

diameter five feet six iches. On this


leaf 1 placed q wheel three feet six inches


in diameter, with eight spokes made of


thin wood, with small foot-board, on


which | stood and hoated high and


dry" The wheel was necessary to dis


tribute the pressure over considerable


portion of the surface, the texture of the


Leaf being exceedingly tender The foot


board did not touch the leaf, but rested on


the spokes of the wheel. have no doubt


that il the wheel had been of the same
diameter as the leaf, it would have served
as a life-boat for small family, as the


next experiment will show. The wheel
and foot-board were removed from the
leaf, and its surface left quite free; we
then gradually spread over the surface
shell gravell, previously weighed out in
half cwt., when the gardeners standing
by would not believe their own eyes, and
began feeling under the leaf, thinking
there must be some other support than
water-but no, the Leaf fioated quite free
another twenty pounds, and another,
and another. was thrown on, and yet the
good ship remained sea-worthy and no
signs of laundering; 426 pounds called,
water began to leak into the holes; the
excitement, or perhaps the heat of the
stove" in which we worked, made us
rather hasty and unsteady in loading car
60 the waste in which was augmented by
the leakage, and an unlucky east tilted
the leaf on one side, the water rushed
over, it erumpled up like a sheet of
paper and sank in deep water, carrying
with tia load of 436 pounds, (besides
watprl