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Year: 1873

THE LOYAL YOUNG LADY


OF the distinguished Army Officers
that attended the funeral of General
Candy in this city, Lieutenant General
Phil. Sheridan was probably observed
with the most curiosity. His career is
not so brilliant, but there is, so much Of
personal magnetism about the man that
the eyes of the people follow him where.
ever he goes. In personal appearance
he is below medium stature, short, broad
shouldered, with a head and face full Of
pluck, fire, and determined character.
If there is anything in physiognomy, or
phrenology, every bump on his head
and every line of his face show the sol
dier and the man of nerve. He has
piercing eyes, large aggressive nose,
heavy, bellIgerent jaws, big head with
an enormous amount of brains behind
the ears, and altogether man of tre-
mendous energy and perfect self-conti-
dence. He is full of fire and magnetism,
quick as lightning in his perceptions,
genial in his address, lively in conversa-
ton, and altogether man of rare at
tractiveness and power.


During his stay here he was convers-
ing with few friends touching his mil
itary experiences and campaigns, when
he said: There is a mighty sight Of
romance and great many episodes con-
nected with the war that the historians
never get hold Of For instance, there
has been great deal said about the bat
tie of Winchester, little affair in which
l had hand. Well, it was a pretty
square fight, but do you know the bat.
tie was fought on the strength of infor.
nation which obtained from young
lady in the town of Winchester, and il
the rebels had known she was giving il
to me they would have hung her in q
minute. | was very anxious to get in
formation of the rebel strength and
movements SO as to know just when and
where to strike them, but did not know
how to get it. Finally l heard of 8
Union young lady in Winchester who
could be relied on if | could get word
to her. Her name was Miss Wright
l think she is in the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington now. But tn,
bEOuDlS was W SOhih hubiSatO WIN hSi
One day l heard of an old colored mar
living outside my lines, who had pas
to 90 into Winchester to sell vegetables


/ sent for the old man, and on talking
with him, found him loyal, as all th'
colOred folks were, you know. Finding
that he could keep secret, asked hin
if he would undertake to deliver letteI
to young lady in Winchester. Tht
old fellow said he would. So / wrote
on thin tissue paper, and rolled it up il
tin foil. 1t made ball about as big al
the end of your thumb, and | told tn,
old man to put it in his mouth and de
liver it to Miss Wright in Winchester
He went off and in about two days came
back with an answer, rolled up in the
same piece of tin foil.-I found l had
struck mighty good lead, and followed
it carefully till / got all the informa
tion l wanted. The girl gave me more
I important information than / got from
all sources, and | planned the battle O.
Winchester almost entirely on what
got from her. She is nice girl, anc
true as steel."


General Sheridan's weight at .he close
of the war was III pounds. After thai
he commenced picking up rapidly, ano
his present weight is 165 hounds. IN
diaaapoHs Journal
Year: 1873

Four little Chicago boys had a hang.
ing matinee in q stable, the other day.
Each was suspended in turn and was 70
yell when he got enough /; but one little
fellow, ambitious to excel his compan-
ions, deferred yelling till it was no long
er practicable and there is now but three
of those little boys.
Year: 1873

A worthy old lady offers the following
advice to the girls: "Whenever fellow
pops the question, don't blush and stare
at your feet. just throw your arms
around his neck, look him full in the
face and commence to talk about the
furniture"
Year: 1873

THK IMPURITIES IN TIE BRANoYw1NE.-A
committee from the Board of Health is now en-
gagged investigating the impure condition Of the
Brandy vine water, which is said 10 bc caused by
the refuse matter from the manuiac actorles along
the banks being thrown into the creek II this be
the case, the settlement of the dieulty bids fair
TO present some peTplexing questions IT - said
that the owners along the creek own the bed Of
the same, as far the centre and therefor e. have


right to deposit their refuse matter therein, it
rs necessary for the continuance Of their business
that this be done. Several other claims tor the
owners ara set forth but 1t is to be hoped that the
matter will be settled amicably, aAd4ouT d. iuking
water kept in pure and undeiled state. - T
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist. No. 2S5 Marks
street. respectfully informs his friend and the public
in general. that he keeps hand all descriptions OF
medicines, and that \ competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick call at tha
store and that no charge made except the regular
price Of the medicines the same ice as they would
pay anywhere else: but that ne one is visited at
their residences
Year: 1873

make cxtemporaneOus discussion prudent. A
roar, mingled of Placct and Non placet, an
swcred the -Chancellor's question The
Liberals, who were prepared for defeat,
were encouraged by the volume OF
their own voices. The counting began,
and before it was ended the Liberal
camp received several reenforcements from
arriving trains, and at last numbered so moro
than their opponents. The announcement OF
the Senior Proctor MGjori part ptdcet was re-
ceived with loud cheers, and the beaten SIDE
withdrew, doubtless feeling that the end OF
the world was near at hand.


II is q victory not without a certain conse-
quence, though the interest it has excited in
England cannot but appear exaggerated to
most foreigners. As is often the case with
earnest believers, who fear that they sec the
beginnings of n movement which is to disturb
the ancient landmarks, the High Church party
seized q field of combat most unfavoraDle TO
them, where victory would have gained moth


ing worth while An argument which was con-
stantly used against them, and which must
occur to any one, was that if their protest
against Dean Stanley was well founded, their
action stopped far short of what the case re-
auired. II he was unfit to deliver a sermon
at Oxford, it was still more improper that be
should have freedom to poison the minds of
thousands day after day at the most famous
Abbey Church of England. The attempt to
brand his want of orthodoxy having failed,
the natural result will be exactly contrary to
the intentions of his assailants. His popu-
larity and vogue will be vastly increased
and his views will attain an authority which
they lacked before this ordeal. The incident
is one of a series, extending from Chicago to
Posen, which indicates ihow strong, in spite of
all supposed nationalist tendencies of the age,
is the conviction which still remains in the
public mind that the visible Christian Church
is matter of profound and practical human
pOncpm,
Year: 1873

to-day the same sort of resolutions of amend


ment which We might recommend to choleric
and abusive persons in private life. For our
selves, We have already defined our purpose to
discuss party questions not with the passion of
party organ but with the cooler temper of a
thoroughly independent journal We have no
animosties to cherish against those who have
been our foes, no entangling alliances to en-
barrass free criticism of those with whom we
have acted. Where we detect wrong, it is our
business to attack it, and wherever we find
food for praise our praise shall be prompt and
hearty. If we have understood the disposition
of the public, political controversies hereafter
should be conducted on more Christian princi-
pies than have heretofore prevailed,-with no
less rage and vigor, but with better tenn
Year: 1873

Of Brooklyn, in the case of the unfortunate
woman who, dragged to death by runaway
horses, was drowned in the East River docks.
1t seems that this woman, Hettie Adams, ID
alleged to have been, and probably was, q
woman Of disreputable character and assocla-
t0ns. On the night of her death, in company
with an unknown man, supposed to be citi-
zen of Brooklyn, she was driven in carriage
hired from respectable livery stable, and by
a careful driver, to a point on Flatbush-aVe'
Returning alone, the driver was by the purest
accident. cOnclusively proved, thrown from
his seat, and, in spite Of every effort to stop
it, the frightened team, as we have said,
dragged the poor creature to death. At once
the gossipdom of the City of Churches-no
more active perhaps, than that of any other
community-roused itself. Curiosity was
stirred to have exposed the whole previous
life of this wretched woman. 1t was the
Bridge of Signs without the suicide. And
then, too, it was especially whetted Gor there
is a very perverse neighborly feeling on
such subjects) to know who was the COM
panion of that night-drive, and what his rela-
tions were to the dead. If, in such diSclo-
sure, an innocent wife and children were to be
wounded, it made little difference to the pru-
riently curious All this was to be accom-
plished by means of COrOner's jury, as had
been often DONE To such action (and this Is
where. in our view, he acted so wisely and so
welD the Brooklyn Coroner positively and
resolutely objected. "My duty" said ne in
measured and emphatic words, dis to inquire
"into the cause of death. 1 do not deem 1t
"my duty to investigate the character OF the
deceased and therefore propose to inquire
"into the cause Of the accident. All the facts
connected with the cause of death shall be
drought out; but as to going back and
"tracing the history of this girl from her
childhood up, in order to satisfy the morbid
curiosity and prurient taste of the public,
" that is something l shall not do; for rather
" than do it would resign my Office"


He acted up to his promise; and as the single
point was whether there was any carelessness
on the part of the driver, or any cupabe
failure on the part of others to rescue the We
tim, the investigation was brief and the re-
suit perfectly conclusive. BY this eminent
good sense and manliness hideOus and re-
voting sensation was spoiled and supertiu-
GUS scandal averted For it Coroner Jones
deserves high praise
Year: 1873

A correspondent furnishes this morning, in
a report of paper read by Prof Newcomb
before the Washington Philosophical Society,
the first succinct account yet given, OF the
proceedings of the Government Commission
in reference to the approaching transit OF
Venus. The interest for US which peculiarly
attaches to this matter, aside from the I'M
measurable value of the observations to
the scientific world, is in the fact
that the event is to be made the Oc-
casion of an international tournament. The
field of the cloth of gold lies in this instance
in a narrow strip of sunshine stretching from
the Aleutian islands over part of China and
down through the Indian Ocean toward the
Southern Pole. England, France, Italy,
Russia, Germany, and America will be well
represented at available points along this
imaginary line. and the most valued positions
are those furthest TO the South and North;
especially the former The possibilities OF
unprOpitous weather constitute the one ele-
mcnt of uncertainty These may reduce the
best laid plans to utter failure. BY placing
observers at considerable number of sta
tions, the chances of failure from this cause
are materially reduced. In all else it is a con-
test of pure scientific skill, in which, to borrow
the phraseology of the prize ring, " the best
"man WINS"


AS nearly as possible the investigations have
nothing of what is ordinarily denomipated
practicaln in their bearing. They are the
problems of pure science, to be solved only
for the sake of knowledge. This occasion will
serve, therefore, as some test of the question
raised recently by Prof. Tyndall, following the
lead of De TOcqueyile, whether republican
institutions are conducive to the development
of scientific inquiry. 1t is noteworthy that we
are to observe the transit in our own peculiar
way. We have before adverted to the emf
nence attained in this country in the applica-
ton of photography to the measurement of
celestial distances. 1t now appears that there
is great unanimity among Onr astronomers IN
believing that this is the best method for re-
cording observations at the transit. More
curious STILL is the method to be adopted in
respect to keeping the image stationary. The
telescope is to be Of unusual length. This
monster is not to be moved in direc-
ton contrary to the motion OF the earth;
he ia to lie extended, prone. The image
passed through the telescope is to come from
a camera which has the requisite motion, 80
that it continually follows the sun, capturing
the image very much as marksman with a
rifle brings down game on the wing. Perhaps
the most cheering circumstance in this entire
business, is that there is at last some use to
be found for Alaska. Somewhere in the
Aleutian Islands there is possibly good
place for station. We hope the observers will
be sent there at an early date, so that their
CROPS may be well forward, and that in case of a
fog at the time of the transit they can console
themselves with the abundant strawberries
and bananas which the bounteous soil of
our Northwestern purchase was guaranteed
TO produce. 1t would be a pity for the
scientific gentlemen to be reduced to sphagnum
onl frain-nil
Year: 1873

The burning of the Fifth Avenue 1heater is
another of the repeated warnings which build
ers and proprietors have lately had. In this
case the fire seems to have originated from
one of the furnaces in the cellar-precisely
how cannot be new told 1t was only the other
day that the Fire Marshal, in an official report
gave this very building ga good character"
He said that the furnace-pipes were In good
condition and were guarded with metal sheets.
Yet the building took fire from the furnaces
and burned so rapidly that the few inmates
barely escaped with their lives. What must have
happened if the fire had broken forth an hour
earlier, when the house was filled with play
goers9 We shudder to think 10 be sure,
there were fire-extinguishers and other such
appliances, but these were as nothing IN the
face of the great flames which roared up
through the floors. The building went up In
flame of fire and there was an end. No lives
were lost but it was narrow escape f0r
goodly audience which had just dispersed.


1t is not necessary now to attempt to paint
the horrors of the scene which might have
occurred if the fire had been earlier started.
One bare suggestion is enough to revive memo
ries of the dreadful catastrOphes which belong
to the history of our own times. What we
need now is to discover, if possible, where was
the fatal defect through which crept
the flames that licked up large theater
like so much tissue paper. So far, we only
know that the furnaces furnished the fire, and
their surroundings, in some way, were ready
to be fired. The vigilant Fire Marshal did not
see the train laid; and the theater people,
whom we must suppose to be tolerably watch
full of their own property, never saw 1t IN
time to prepare for the burning. But the
theater is gone the lesson of its destruction Is
tolerably clear. There can be no absolute safety
against fire, but the Fifth Avenue Theater was
burned because due precaution had not been
taken to protect the building from the heat
ing apparatus. That's the whole story. VI
course, we hear something of the difficulty OF
getting the engines to the burning building
and that the extinguishcrs on the premises
were adequate for ordinary occasions. But
none of these things touch the origin of the
fire. That was out of the reach of usual ap-
pliances and it was enough to have filled a
crowded theater with horror and death.
Year: 1873

sequence of this action Of the Emperor, who,
in turn, has chosen the reactionary Minister
as his successor If this conjecture be correct
it is not all improbable that contest between
the Prussian Liberals and the Ministry will
soon arise.
Year: 1873

Fair promises are so cheap we must always
expect to find them in the inaugural OF
Governor, if nowhere else. Gov. Caldwell,
who has just been inaugurated in North Caro-
lima, however, took bolder flight than could
have been expected of him, and actually
promised that he should appoint to office men
who voted against him-provided he could not
find suitable persons among those who voted
for him. To be sure, he made haste to say
that he hoped to be able to obtain his Office
holders from his own party, but that he found
courage to say so much is good sign. Not
long ago such an avowal would have been set
down as a much greater political heresy than
boiling a party caucus.
Year: 1873

Is nothing to be done to relieve the city
from the protracted misery which the impend-
ing thaw threatens7 Surely it is not beyond
the power of a strong and reformed municipal
government to remove the snow from our
streets to the rivers flowing on either side OF
us, or to the sewers beneath our feet.
Before to-day's sun goes down every
crossing at least ought to De
thoroughly .cleared. The city authorities will
get ample warrant for such extra effort as
they may find necessary in the hearty ap-
proval of whole community, whose losses in
time, in lhorsehesh, and otherwise, ihave al
ready been treble what the whole cost to the
city would be of the actual removal of every
cubic foot of snow within the city limits
Year: 1873

In the voIuminous European correspondence
which we publish to-day will be found two
pleasant letters from Berlin. in which some
suggestion is given of the feeling in Germany
on the reception of the news of Mr.. Greeley's
death the sketch of the condition of German
foreign politics will specially interest those
who are looking for new and embarrassing
complications in Europe. In London, too, the
memory of Mr.. Greeley was fitly honored, and
the report of the proceedings of an assemblage
of Americans in that city appears in our Lon
don letter. From Paris we have some stray
items of political news, but the main portion
of our correspondents letter is devoted to the
floating topics of Partisan society, which are
always seasonable, if nothing else.
Year: 1873

Ii seems that the fall of q great warehouse


in Brooklyn the other day was by no means


"a visitation of Cod" as Coroner's juries
sometimes profanely say. The owner OF the


building had already been warned to relieve
the upper floors by removing some OF the
storage and he had been told that the grid


ers were too small the iron supports too light
and the walls too thin. None of these things
moved him. On Tuesday his fabric came down
"by the rum Nobody was killed, 10 be sure,
but that was by no fault of those who are re-
soonsible for the flimsiness of fabric which
had already been denounced by the city au-
thorities as unsafe. Will these fatal tritings
with wreck and disaster never ceaseY


The announcement that Gen. Won Room
bas been made Minister President OF Prussia is
s0ni6cant of the success Of party which is
onnosed 20 the domestic policy of Prince Bis
marek. The former has always been one OF
the most inveterate opponents OF liberal opin-
ions. The latter, comprehending the necessity
of securing the support OF at least
norton of the Liberals in the Chambers
has iudiciously conceded enough to secure
their support. Until recently, Prince Bismarck
succeeded in persuading the Emperor 10
sdopt his policy Of Cancellation; but III the
contest with the Herrenhaus the Emperor
.afused to follow the recommendation oil BIS
,,arclc for reorganization Of that branch OF
tbe Legislature very natural conclusion is
hat the latter offered his resignation IN con-
Year: 1873

Oar readers will have, long be-
fore this paragraph meets .heir
eye. heard all about the fearful
money panic that is devastating the
financial centers of the country.
Under radical rule these "panics "
have become q part and parcel of
the financial system Of the country,
without which, at least once year,
the favorites Of the court of Ulysses
gould not well get along. The on
ly remedy that we can suggest to
our people is to live on corn bread
and bacon for one year, work hard
and at the end of that time we can
sit and look on at the wreck of the
|leviathans Of commerce and trade
ery much as old Noah may be
opposed to have done from the


ndows of the ark upon drowning
panityat the delugc. The City


Chester yesterday evening


ght the news Of the suspension


First National, Desoto and


mans banks at Memphis,


he rumors of worse to come.
Year: 1873

BosToN, March 14.-The full bench of
the Supreme Judicial Court has decided the
act of the Legislature authorizing the city
of Boston 70 issue twenty million of fire
bonds unconstitutional. The concluding
sentence of the rescript is as follows: The
expenditure authorized by this statute be-
ing for private and not for public objects in
a legal sense, it exceeds the constitutional
power of the Legislature, and the city can
not legally issue the bonds for the purposes
named In the act.
Year: 1873

The time of the Senate yesterday was
occupied principally with the bill fixing the
rate of privilege taxes. In the House, the
funding bill was discussed until the hour of
adjournment. Several interesting speeches
were made. Thus far the opponents of
funding do not seem to have shaken the
faith of those who believe the interest of
the people and the honor of the State de-
pendent upon the passage of the bill.
Year: 1873

Why do not people 60 to church
more? One thinks it is this, and nno-
ther thinks it is this, and another thinks
it is that. You can open a church in q
a hovel, and let voice 60 forth that it
has the power Of touching men and you
will find it crowded and thronged.
You do not want the cob that used TO
have the corn. That which men want
is sappy food, refreshing food. Men
are willing 10 be dealt with, to have
their sins flashed in their faces; will.
ing to have their consciences aroused,
but do not want to be handled. They
want preacher that takes hold ofthem
in some way and il he can do more than
that; il he can give to them that which
every man consciouslv needs-some
men have aspiration. and some more
indulge in superficial thought-snd If
We can give him strength to bear his
burden.


Men that are sore in life; men who
are in .orrow; men Who don't know
how to bring up their children. and
who are continually having more and
more added to their flo:k; people who
want 70 know where the next hod of
coal is coming from; people who are
afraid Of the sheriff, men who are prick
ed with 10000 nettles Of human life
they come to church and hear long
disscu.sion on the fall Of Adam. Well
that is not inopportune, but still they're
80 flat themselves that they feel as il
they would like to kno something
that deadens the struggle that is going
on with in them; they want some one
who will take part with them. minis
ter who brings God down to the side o
men, not as an everlasting condemncr
but one who brings God down as pre-
' sent help. in time Of trouble.
Year: 1873

ing shall be guilty OF misdemeanor, and
on conviction be sentenced to n fine not
exceeding 1000 and an imprisonment not
exceeding three years."


And do we not further read, and to this
we call the attention of District Attorney
MANN, and he not attending TO 1t, of his
Honor Judge FISLE1IEB, the next time
lie charges the Grand Juryi If any
District Attorney shall be guilty OF
negligence in the execution of the
duties of his office, he shall be guilty of
misdemeanor in Office, and on conviction
he sentenced to pay fine not exceeding
sl,0OO and undergo an Imprisonment not
exceeding one year, and his said ofhco
shall be declared vacant. Upon complaint
in writing made to the Court in which
any District Attorney prosecutes the pleas
Of the Commonwealth charging him with
negligence In the execution of the duties
of his office, the Court shall cause notice
OF such complaint TO be given, and IL upon
the hearing the Court shall be of opinion
there is probable cause for such complaint,
thoy shall bind over or commit the said
District Attorney to answer in due course
of lawf


And yet there il n Reform Association in
Philadelphia Thus everywhere do we
have Addition, Division, and Silencel 1t
is the Philadelphia rule.