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Year: 1872


HOW SHORTlIS LIFE
Life is short, too short for strife;


Put world of loving in it,
When there's good that can be done


Do not wait but just begin it;
Do not dream of coming days,
All the future 0verrating:
Wherefore trust in idle dreams?


Life is short, too short for waiting.
Learn we kindness unto all


From the plying ones above US:
Let us love our fellow-men


As the blessed angels love us.
Work in love and work in faith;


Trust me tits noble calling,
1t is almost eyentide;


Soon the shadows will be falling.
Year: 1872

From the Chicago Times.


One of the most remarkable
episodes that has ever occurred
in the life of Frank Muhlbesch,
happened on yesterday.


A few days ago Mr.. Muhl-
besch was taken suddenly i'll at
his residence. His disease was
Of very acute nature, and in
spite of all the efforts of his
physicians, he died after a brief
illness, and his sorrowing friends
made ready for the funeral. An
undertaken was summoned and
the body properly laid out, and
on yesterday the funeral servi-
ces took place from his late res
idence. After the customary
services had been performed
and the sorrowing relatives had
taken their look Of the deceased.
the coffin lid was screwed down,
and the funeral cortege moved
slowly toward the quiet confines
Of Graceland cemetery, where
the body was finally lowered
sadly into the grave which had
been prepared for it. The last





prayer had been offered and the
last solemn service repeated,
when just as the sexton seized
his spade and was about to
drop the first shovelful Of earth
upon the coffin, a sound, some
thing like a stifled groan, fol-
lowed by screeching noise, as
if the dead man was trying to
release himself from the con-
fines Of his narrow house, was
heard proceeding from the still
open grave. For an instant ev-
cry heart stood still, and the
blood of every listener seemed
to curdle in his veins. The
women screamed and hastened
toward the carriages, while the
men were not slow in following
them. In an instant the sexton
was the only man left at the
grave, and he too trembled at
what he had never heard before.
Finally he recovered presence
Of mind enough to descend into
the grave and break open the
rough box in which the coffin
was enclosed. Then the noise
was repeated, and he knew that
the occupant Of that grave, who
in a few moments more would
have been consigned to a hor-
rihle death, and whom his
friends had already mourned as
dead, was still alive and anxious
to be set free. A screw-driycr
was soon procured from the un-
dcrtaker present, and the coffin
lid removed, when its occupant,
instead of being cold and dead
as he appeared when last seen,
was found to be once more a.
live. His friends, who had by
this time recovered courage e.
nough to return to the grave,
were of course almost ovejoy-
ed at this strange and unexpect-
ed turn of affairs, and hastened
to rescue the late deceased from
his unpleasant quarters and re-
move him to one Of the carria-
ges in waiting, where he was
rolled up in a plentiful supply
Of blankets and lap-robes, and
the friends who had lately fol-
lowed him sorrowingly to the
grave now fastened joyously
toward their homes. The res
cued man was so overcome, on
being rescued from his perilous
position, that he was for a long
time unable to speak, and what
his feelings were while under
going burial, or whether he was
conscious at all or not until the
last moment when he managed
to signify that he was still alive
is not known.


We have great respect for the
Year: 1872

We have great respect for the
Lafayette Journal-it tells a snake
story SO well. Says the Journal:
"On last Friday, citizen of Dan
vile, Illinois, was buried; After
the funeral cortege had started, a
snake of the blue racer species was
seen following behind, Itcontinued
thus to follow until the cemetery
was reached, when the serpent
jumped in the grave and coiled
himself around the box containing
the coffin. 1t there remained un-
til the sexton despatched it and
laid it out upon the ground. A
band music headed the professions
and the question is whether ii
was that, or some other cause
which led to the singular conduct
on the part of the snake"
Year: 1872

The New First Ward Alderman Draws His


uIaiden 0r6Innnce-A Plan by Which the fio-


lators of City Ordinances nIay Get Ont Of the


Police Stntfoac.


The Council Finance Committee we're to have
held meeting, yesterday afternoon, to consider
the resolution OF Alderman Dixon, and the re-
port Of Corporation Counsel Tuley, in references
to the release Of persons arrested for violation
Of city ordinances. There was no quorum pres-
ent, aud the committee adjourned until Monday.
Alderman Richardson has prepared an ordinance
which he thinks will meet the approval Of the
committee, and will submit it to- them when
they assemble together. Tho ordinance is as
folloTs:


sEcz1ox1 l. That any person persons arrested for
The violation Of any city ordinance aha have the right
to 1elease himself herself from such arrest By Civ
Ing special bail In double the amount Of the highest
fine which be imposed for the claimed violation,
conditioned upon his or her personal appearance at
the next regular session Of the Police Court to b held
in the precinct where the arrest WIS made.


seq. Any Police Captain or Sergeant who may
bo in charge OF the police station where such person
or pczsocs may bo confined when such bail is offered,
Is hereby authorized to take and approve such bail
bond.


.SEc.3 No person shall be taken az special bail for
nny trson ersons arrested for the violation Of
ctr ordinance Who shall not be householder in the
City ct Chicago, unless he she shall deposit with
the Caytain Of Sergeant taking such bail sum Of
money .uual to the penal amount OF such bond, and
agree IL such bond that said money may be held by
tie City Of Chicago to answer, pay and dischsrgc
judgment which naay be rendered On auch bond
Year: 1872

tho mower 10 take command OF the military and
the country arrcsting any they see ft to. When
they have secured q gang OF prisoners, If
thew live In the mountain regions of the
western part OF the State instead OF taking them before
the United satos Court which sits at Salisbury they
drag them off TO Raleigh, 100 miles further away from
home when 1t is more difficult for them TO get ban or


witnesses in defense This Ia done In order to make the
fees and mileage greater than they otherwise would BE-


II is also currently reported in every town in this state
that men who are arrested by United States officers VIII
not be mossted II they only vote the Grant ticket and
whether this be true or not the simple country people
believe IT, How much effect this kind OF intimidation VIII
have cannot he known until after election The ehte
mountain section Of this State Is aroused as IL mas never
been aroused in any previous political campaign and II
the Liberal vote there not much greater than IN any
preyious election since the war 1t VIII be due to TINS
cause alone.


Secret Service agent j. N Beach OF New-York arrived
in Greensboro night before last and yesterday IN
consultation with Secret Service agent Hester OF TINS
State The latter s one OF the most INSCRIPTIONS OF tho
TOOLS OF the Administration and is notorious for the part
he took in kidnapping DR.. Bratton, In Canada His
Canadian assistants have been convicted and are now
suffering punishment for their crime, while Hester Is
kept in this state manage the election In the interest
OF Grant.


A fine Greeley and Brown nagpole was raised In
this city, Yesterday, the spot where the famous
Meckenburc Declaration OF Independence read.
Several descendants OF Dr. Brevard the author OF that
declaration are members OF the Greeley and Brown CuD
formed here last week.
Year: 1872

The announcement to-day by the EG-
press that Charles O'Conor had accepted
the Louisville nomination was an error.
In reply to Major Moreau's speech urging
him to accept, MIR. O'Conor presented a
long address in which he says:


SIN promo ting the object of your Con-
vention, there was no commitment to be-
come its nominee; and until the body ad-
iourned l could not have imagined such a
result as the total omission to name or to
even suggest any other candidate. 1t is
assumed that this action casts upon Mr..
Adams and myself some responsibility for
leaving without power to express itself the
aBtagonism which we had done our part to
evoke and in which we earnestly participa-
ted. 1t is therefore asserted that without
nv intervention all Democrats who dissent
from the Baltimore Convention and many
patriots who revolt at its origin
or dread its consequences will be
left without power to record their
protest against it. If such were the fac s,
it would present a case in which citizen
could have no moral liberty; the path Of
duty would be plain and direct, leaving him
no choice. His country's defence would
REQUIRE that he would assent to conscrip-
ton, take the place assigned him in the
national army whether in the ranks or at
the head, and there strive for the right to
the utmost. For reasons quite different
from those likely to be imputed, l cannot
SO regard the present eXigency. A part of
the vile code advocated by the hirelings
of misrule is that direct and immediate
success is the first and paramount aim in
every human effort. On the contrary my
m, rtality inculcates honorable and many
struggles for the right, however slight the
prospect of immediate advantage to the
actors or even to the cause. Every man of
ardent mind who is afforded a. access to
Year: 1872

Total. Sfo, 'o',oV"

 Add to this the aggregate market price of twelve or fifteen other mines ofsmaller value, in the neighborhood of the Comstock, and we have the tremendous sum total ot not less than $50, ,000, ,000-the value of mines em- braced within the area, on the surface, of a quarter of milc'in width by two and half miles in length. Is there any other like space on earth containing such riches2 We spoke of the "mighty developments" recently made in the Grown Point and Belchcr. "Mighty" is the word which best describes in breath, the bodies of ore now within sight in these mines and awaiting extraction. No two such bodies of gold and silver in eith- CT hemisphere, and as they lie more than a thousand feet below the surface, they author ize a reasonable supposition that the Com stock is rich and inexhaustible Assure, and that depth alono is all that is required to de-

 velop valuable bodies of ore along the entire line Hence, the developments in the Crown Point and Belcher have given new basis of value to all the mines of the Comstock, and an advance in the prices of our stocks has been the inevitable result. Let us see upon what this advance is based-this sudden revival of confidence in the permanent value of the Con- stock mines. The Crown Point is selling at tue Tttc LII TUT thC ih'uc' This seems like fabulous price for six hun drcd feet square of any portion of Gods earth; but the mine is worth every dollar of it, and more, for it will yield perhaps twenty five millions of dollars in gold and silver du- ring the coming three years, and within that time pay back to the stock holders in divi- dcnds the twelve millions of dollars for which the stock is now selling. The managers of the mine think they will be able to show gross yield of million dollars monthly for the next two years. What we have said of the Crown Point applies to a greater or less ex- tent to the Belcher. These are now represen- tativc mines of the Comstock, the mines that have given new value to the entire line. From Northern Virginia to Southern Gold Hill rumors fill the air of important dis coveries and approaching developments Tn the deep levels, and it is a matter of no surprise that capital is finding investment here for millions. As we said before, the market val ue of the Comstock mines is about $50, 100000. This is large sum, but scarcely large enough when VIC consider that the gross yield will not be less than So0,000,000 during the next twelve months, with perhaps an annual in- crease thereafter. At one per cent per month the interest on the S50,000, 900 invested in the Comstock mines would be $6,000,0O0 per annum. The dividends of the Crown Point and Belcher alone would more than pay this interest. Whatever may be the excitement, it will be seen that there is really no insanity in purchasing Comstock mines at their pres

 ent rates, or at figures considerably beyond.
Year: 1872

TERRITORY OF ARIZONA, (ss

 COUNTY OF MARICoPA. The people of the Territory of Arizona to Augustus L. Coleman, greeting.

 You are hereby summoned to appear in the District Court of the Third Judicial District n and for the County of Macopa Territory aforesaid within twenty days tex elusive of the day of service) served in this county out of this county but in this District thirty days in all other forty days to to the complaint of Mary C. Coleman, wherein she prays for decree of divorce from the bonds of matrimony from this Honorable Court When you fail to appear and herein required plaintiff will take judgment for the relief demanded. To the Sheriff of said county make legal service and due return hereof

 In witness whereof have hereunto set my hand this 25th day of March, A. D. 1872

 c. c. McDERMOTT. ap6 Clerk of Court.
Year: 1872

AT Atlanta, Ca, a fond and foolish
young fellow, while engaged to a
young woman, gave her line gold
watch, and afterward took 1t to q
matchmaker to have 1t regulated. The
woman's parents refusing their assent
to the match, the foolish fellow blew
out what little brains he had. The
young woman, rs In duty bound,
mourned over her lost love, and wish
Ing something to remember him by
remembered the watch. But the jew
eler knew her not, and she was COM
PEELED to call the law to her aid. She
now has the watch, and each time she
looks on Its precious face, she thinks Of
her defunct lover and Of "what might
have BEEN"
Year: 1872

The English clown, Chadwick, met
with savere accident lately. He was
standing on the ring fence, holding a
banner for the performance Of Mdme.
Mss, when that lady sprang too much
on one side, and fell with her whole
weight on the clown, knocking him
Into the arena. He rose immediately,
but his knee had been put out Of joint.
and he hoped out Of the ring in great
pain, with his leg dangling helpless.
The applause was great, and roars OF
laughter greeted what was esteemed u
vastly comic exit, the public little
guessing what had happened.
Year: 1872

The editor of the Hartford Times we
think must have paid California visit
and put up at a hotel in San Francisco
unknown to the general run Of citizens.
As no does not locate the position OF
the hotel, we presume It must be In
the classic purlieus Of the Barbary
Coast. Here Is his account:


"rhere Is a hotel In San Francisco
under the sole management Of the fair
sex. From the proprletress to the hall
girl, from the bar tender to the boot
black, all connected with the establish
ment are women. The portresSes are
muscular Germans, who handle the
most mammoth 'Saratogas' deity and
elsily, while the clerk Is handsome
brunette, who parts her short, black
rlngiets on one side, and makes bright
repartees to the jokes Of the drummers
and statesmen who largely frequent the
house: Tho bar tender can make a
cocktail quicker and better than any
other in the State, and drinks herself
every time she Is asked to, which on an
average Is about fifty times a day."
Year: 1872




While Nilsson returns to Europe. with an
immense bank account, Patti exists in a per-
petual shower of diamonds and francs.
Lucca is already rich, and the divinities Of
the hour are everywhere so prosperous, it is
not without pang ofmelancholy sympathy
that one reads Of Mario forced to return to
thestage to which he so recently bade fare
well, and Taglioni compelled to give dane
ing lessons in London. The great tenor
lost bis substantial fortunes by the failure
OF his bankers in Florence. Taglioni's
all was swept away in the war;
and a similar misfortune brings
both these noted artists aga'n be-
fore the public of new generation. 1t is
a quarter of century since Madame Tag
honi retired from the stage. Fifty years
ago her star arose in South Germany, and
the whole continent was soon bidding for
her presence. She married at the height
of her fame; and, before she had lost one
of the many wonderful attractions which
made her famous, she retired with her
husband to private life, leaving name
which is the synonym for al that is grace
full and beautiful in her art. 1t is hard
fate which now brings her out Of her re-
tirement to earn subsistence in her old age
by teaching a generation that knows her
only by tradition, no less than that which
compels Mario to bri. G the remnants of
his wonderful voice to the capering criti-
cism of world that has already enrolled
his name among the great ones of the past.
Year: 1872

New YORK, May 1S.-The Methodist
General Conference assembled this morning,
Bishop AmeS pres ding.


The Committee on Episcopacy reported
that the progress made by colored clergy
men was very encouraging, and that there
is nothing in their race or color which
ought to be a bar to their election to the
Episcopate. The Committee also recon-
mended the institution Of eight additional
bishops.


A motion to adopt the report was car
ripd
Year: 1872

Recorder Halle expressesit as his opinion
that the city has been remarkably quiet
during the past week considering the large
number of strangers visiting it. The cases
before his court have been confined almost
exclusively to disturbances among local,
colored residents. The principal exception
was pyrotechieal display of Pugilism In a
well known hotel, and the offender was
promptlyfned,
Year: 1872

Scarcely any candidates were observed
about the city yesterday. Inquiry as to the
cause of all this thusness developed the in
teresting fact that nearly all of them had
gone out 10 Tank to dine with their pro-
vincial cousins. 1t is an interesting fact
that one man does not really know how
much he likes another until he has either
fought him or taken dinner with him.
Either circumstance shows up very rapidly
what good points there may be in human
nature.
Year: 1872

PHILADELPHIA, May 1S.-The Court of
Common Pleas has decided local option
law constitutional. The case came up on a
mandamus to compel the issuing of a license
which was refused by the city authorities
because the house was within Germantown
where the people had decided against
license being granted.
Year: 1872

A long discussion occurred on the mes
sage from the Senate asking the return of
the resoluCon for final adjournment on the
29th of May. Without action on the
message, the House took up the regular
order Of business from the Committee on
Year: 1872

ALREADY the papers are anxionsly
engaged in discussing the prospects OF
the approaching peach crop, 1t is
generally acknowledged that it will not


be as bountiful as that Of last season,
owing to the effect upon the trees OF the
intense cold of last winter. In Della
ware the cold not only killed the buds,
but also the ends OF the lower limbs OF
the trees, and few weeks ago all sup
posed that the entire crop was ire
trievably ruined. The balmy breath OF
spring has, hownver, started into life
the untouched tops OF the peach trees,
and revealed the fact that there would
be at least part Of crop, and in some
places the growers are confident of hav-
ing a full crop. In some parts OF the
State but one-third Of a crop is expected,
but in the peach territory included in
Delaware, providing nothing hereafter
occurs to mar the prospects, more than
half, and perhaps nearly two-thirds OF
a crop will be realized. In Maryland
the crop prospects are better than IN


Delaware, and in the southern part OF
the State the usual crop will be realized.
Year: 1872

PITTSBURGH, May IA terrible
accident occurred some time last night
in the railroad tunnel under this city.
A man, supposed from papers found
on his person to be named Crawford,
from Washington county, was found on
the track at three o'clock this morn.
ing fearfully mutilated, his head lying
on one side Of the track and his legs
on the other, while his body was found
some distance away between the rails
and bearing evidence OF having been
rolled along. His face WAS disfgured
beyond recognition.
Year: 1872

The second wife Of Professor S. F.
B. Morse was a deaf and dumb lady, a
graduate OF the New York Institution
for Deaf and Dumb. Her maiden
name was Swan, and her home at
Poughkeepsie, New York. She sur.
wives her d stinguished husband, and is
the mother Of several children. all OF
whom possess the hearing faculty.
Year: 1872

A Washington dispatch says that the
House Committee on Appropriations
have agreed to report Sargent's bill max
ing an appropriation of $4,000 for a
life size statue OF the late Col. f. ID. Ba>
ker, who was killed while leading for
lorn hope at the battle of Ball's Bluff
Should the House agree to the PROPOSE
ton, Horatio Stone will probably be
commissioned to execute it, as it has
been decided by the Committee that it
shall be smodellcd after miniature
statue by this artist. now in the posses
sion of Col. Stevens 1t is to be hoped
that the appropriation will be granted
without delay. The statue is to be
placed in the Capitol at Washington.
Baker was one of the most self sucrific-
ing heroes of the war for the preserva-
ton of the Union, and deserves to have
his image cut in imperishable marble.
An obelisk should also be erected over
his grave in Lone Mountain.
Year: 1872

We last week expressed our uHwill-
ingness to allow the military record of
Grant to be forgotten, in weighing his
claims to the Presidency, and promised
10 prove that he had succeeded in find.
ing the wisest and safest system Of pro-
gressive craftsmanship President ohm.
son, and a number Of his predecessors,
based the success of their administers
tons upon purely legislative basis
They held then that the Executive du>
ties were too insignificant to achieve
genown and therefore staked their
success upon h legislative policy. Presi-
dent Grant in his inaugural address de-
fined the proper Constitutional sphere
of the Executive power; and he did it
so concisely and completely that noth-
ing can be added or omitted to advan-
tage. The primary duty of the Presi-
dent is the faithful execution of the
laws Thus the Executive power is
within its sphere coordinate with Con-
.gress, and can never be made too strong,
because it represents the arm of the
Governmeut-the will Of the nation
legally expressed The ,ower to re-
commend is secondary and incidental.
The Executive enjoys this right in
common with all other citizens. He
participates ir the legislation of the
country only through the veto power,
(which President should exercise upon
great questions, only in rare instances,
and for ample cause. We propose here
with to give the first two paragraphs of
the inaugural address, which contains
more substance to the same number of
words than any similar document with
which we are acquainted:


g Citizens Of Me Tnited States -
Your suffrages having elevated me to
the office of President of the United
States, have in conformity with the
Constitution of our country, taken the
oath of Office pre- seribed therein. |
have taken this cath without mental
reservation, with the determination to
do to the best of my ability all that it
requires of me. The Office has come
to me unsought. | commence its du-
ties untrammeled, bring to it con-
scientious desire and determination to
fill it to the best of nay ability to the
satisfaction of the people.


"On all leading questions agitating
the public mind | will always express
my views to Congress, and urge them
according to my judgment; and when
Think it advisable will exercise the
constitutional privilege of interposing a
veto to defeat measures which I oppose.
Year: 1872

A handsome. well-dressed, young
lady Of Chicago, one who belongs to
a wealthy and respectable family,
lately married notorious hotel thief,
who was in Jail awaiting trial on u
charge which will undoubtedly end in
his being sent to the penitentiary.