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Year: 1873

from the Christian Union.


Miss Plumtrea's s Magic Lantern.
/ There certainly was something very


peculiar about Miss Perugia Plum
tree; every one observed it, and it
became more and more striking as
time went on. 1t was not that YOU
could not tell what she might do or
say under painful circumstance


that would have left her very com
mon-place indeed. The very pcculi-
arity was that at those times vou


might be sure of her always doing
and saying the very same thing. Mis-


PiUmtree was one Of those gentle
souls in whom the lookers-on can
discern no need Of discipline, and yet
to whom afiliction mysteriously takes
the form Of a trip-hammer, sure to
fall at regular intervals and with re-
lentless weight. Or, perhaps, to Miss
Plumtree, il came rather like some
grim guardian Of the night, ptroling
at stated intervals with the stern fiat.
lights Out.' and so throwing all her
peaceful arrangements into sudden
eclipse. But no sooner did some new
grief or some fresh reverse swoop all
her former joys under its dreary shad-
ow, than Miss Plumtrec Immediately
produced from under her meek little
heart sort Of psychological magic
lantern, illuminated it with one of
the most beautiful of smiles, and
suddenly a view Of something new
and delightful that nobody else had
ever thought of, was thrown upon the
great darkness. brilliant and magni-
fed manifold.


1t was with one Of those illuminat-
ing smiles, enough to make a rain
bow Of the tear she was wiping at
the moment, that she turned upon
the friends who left her on the thresh-
old Of her echoing house, after the
last sad ceremonies had been rendered
to the last remaining member of her
family,


In sure / don't know what
ever should have DONE" she said. "if
it had not been for the old house
falling to my lot. So kindly ordered!
| don't know how l could have borne
it to go anywhere else!"


And with this quiet transfer of her
affections, Miss Plumtree set herself
briskly about the care of their new
object, until she seemed to make it
shine brighter and brighter every
day. She could not lack for occupa-
ton with all the cares that come
where there is no man about the
Year: 1873

PARSONS, KANSAS, May Slight
dead bodies, including one of child
eighteen months old, have been found
under the house of the Bender family,
thirteen miles west of here, in LaBelle
county, and near which the body of
Senator York's brother was found. The
Bender family left the country about
two weeks ago, but the excitement is so
great, and the determination to bring
the guilty parties to justice so strong
that no effort viii be spared to effect
their arrest.
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE, May s.-This evening,
the number seven passenger train for
Cincinnati over the short-line road was
thrown from the track by a switch
which had been moved by some ma
licious person, and the engineer and
fireman slightly injured. Nobody else
was injured, although the engine, bag
gage ear, two passenger and one sleep
ing coach were thrown off the track.
The train was delayed one hour and a
half The track is now clear. This is
the first accident of any kind for five
nOnthS
Year: 1873

THE Assembly Committee on Corpora


tions is all that the bitterest enemy of
the railroad interest of this State could
desire. AS It's chairman it has Swift of
San Francisco, one Of the Dolly Warden
extremists, who desires to be Governor
in 1875, and who is well known as an ex-
tremist on every question on which he
takes sides. Freeman Of Yolo, and Rhea
of Santa Clara, are the Republican mem
bers Freeman was the author of the
bill REQUESTING fares and freights in the
last Legislature, upon which the fight
tor reduction was made. Wright of So
noma, is the sole Democratic representa-
tive on the committee. The Dollys took
the lions share Of that committee, hav-
ing six out of the nine members GompoS-
ing it, all of whom with the exception Of
McCallum of Mendocino, were elected in
distinct opposition to the railroad inter-
est. The Union cannot complain of the
composition of that committee this year,
and if we are to judge by the names in
the list we should say it was dictated in
the editorial rooms Of that paper.
Year: 1873

WE have given up trying to cipher out
the condition of affairs between our gov
ernment and that OF Spain. One day
the dispatches assure US that war is i'm
minent, and the next mail brings the as
surance that the war cloud has dsap-
peared and the matter will be settled
peacefully. And the next day this is
contradicted again. The latest news is
that the mob in Havana are against Civ
ing up the Vagimias, and threaten to
scutte her if she is to be actually surren
dered. Secretary Robson, however, tells
the House Committee on Appropriations
that there is not likely to be a war with
Spain. In the present state of the labor
market of the East, brush with the
Dons would be godsend to many of the
unemployed.
Year: 1873

EVIDENTLY Speaker Estee is fully pos
sessed with knowledge of the fact that
the Dollys are an ephemeral institution,
which will never attain national import
ancc or recognition. The Committee on
Federal relations is composed of seven
members, six of whom are Republicans
and one Dolly, while the Democrats are
left severely alone. We shonld have
thought that courtesy to a party to the
votes of some of whom he is indebted for
his present position would have induced
him to recognize the presence of twenty
eight Democr rats in the Assembly, in
forming this committee, which is, in
fact, the only committee which deals
with political questions.
Year: 1873

MARROW ESCAPE. = Last Saturday,
says the Alameda Eacindi, while engag-
ed removing one of the houses to make
an alley way from Park street through
to Oak, Mr.. Fisher, carpenter, was on
the roof Of a building-a one-story frame
with sharp hatchet in his hand, which
he accidentally dropped to the ground.
In its descent the edge came in contact
with the head of workman employed
by the house movers, and cut off piece
of the scalp as clear as could have been
done with razor. Like the famous
Damascus swords, which, it is said, are
so fine edged that head can be severed
from the body without pain, the hatchet
was sharp and the impulse SO great, that
the man did not know he was hurt until
a bystander informed him that the blood
was trickling down his neck.
Year: 1873

The SToRM.-The snow storm which
we spoke of last week, seems to have
been almost unprecedented in the history
of the State. Indeed greater depth of
snow tell in the Sacramento Valley than
on the mountain ranges Of this and other
counties. AS low down as Sacramento
City snow fell to the depth of four inches


while a depth of two inches fell in the
suburbs of San Francisco. In Colusa
and Tehama counties the ground was
covered from one to two feet deep, build
ings were broken down and the country
bore general appearance to that present.
ed by ar old-fashioned Winter in the
States. Cattle and sheep suffered severe
ly and it is feared that thousands will be
be lost. So great storm of snow has
not been known in the valley since 1852.
Year: 1873

SOME narrowing incidents for blood
curdling romances Of real life might be
obtained from the experiences of the
Gloucester fishermen. During the fish
ing season just closed twenty-four vessels
from that little port have been lost, and
one hundred and itty-two men have
"sunk TO rise no more" If they had all
gone down at once, and on an ocean
steamer instead of their little smacks, the
world would take more note of their de-
parture.
Year: 1873

A SAN Francisco justice has decided
that a saloon-keeper is not obliged to sell
liquors or cigars to negroes or any one
else-that neither the Fourteenth Amend
ment nor the Civil Rights bill are yio-
lated by those who make distinction as
to whom they will sell cocktails to.
Year: 1873

THE BETTER FOR BooTH.-The Union
is now consoling itself with the sage re-
Election that if Booth is defeated for SEN
ator, it will result in his reelection as
Governor, and probably his advance to
a much higher office If that is the case
the friends Of Booth should join with his
enemies and try to advance" him.
The Union is evidently beginning to see
p" sermons in stones"
Year: 1873

JUDGE MYRIcK, of the San Francisco
Probate Court, has decided that where
parties live together for any considerable
time as man and wife. they are married
in legal view, even though no marriage
ceremony had been performed. 1t is
such marriage as will make the child
ren legitimate, and effect the distribution
Of the property.
Year: 1873

THE DANBURY HoRsE. The NeicS says ::
The Danbury horse has a reputation
above all other animals for the breed.
The chief claim of the Danbury horse to
public favor and notice is the facility
with which he will run away. He will
get up in the night from refreshing
sleep to run away. He will leave meal
of cream cakes and quail ON toast to run
away. He will sacrifice home, happi-
ness, honor, and other peoples property
to run away. And when he gets started
nobody ever thinks of getting in front of
him. Once in while stranger at
tempts it, but there is fund to furnish
ice to pack his body with until his friends
can come on, so there is no harm done.
Neither is Danbury horse a respecter
of occasions. He will run away from
post, or an agricultural debate, or fune-
raj, and, in a tight pinch, would run
away from position in the New York
Custom House.
Year: 1873

1t has long been a matter of surprise
to many that, instead Of applying to for
eign capitalists to lend their aid in deyel-
oping the immense mineral wealth con-
tanned in Nevada, we do not ourselves
enter into consultations, and cooperate
with each other in the formation OF COM
panies at home. Our miners prospect
for and discover their mines, locate them
in close proximity to each other, and
could, by inducing men of means to ope-
rate with them for an interest, form con-
solicitations without being obliged to have
recourse to outside capital. 1t is often
the case that months of inactivity and
hoping are spent waiting for the intro
duction of some company formed in San
Francisco, to purchase mines which even
tually prove remunerative in the extreme
to the possessors. Now, why could not
locators of town sites, water privileges,
mining ground, wood ranches, and all
the mdltitudinous interests of a large
tract of country, enter into a consolida-
ton in which every man becomes an
equal owner, according TO the amount of
property actually put into the business,
issue stock to the community at large at
reasonable figures, and, with the money
accruing from the sale of such, proceed
with their labors until showing could
be made which would induce men of
means to pay price commensurate with
the value of the property conveyed 7
Through the system of cooperation the
Mormon people of Utah have built city
in the desert, and have paved the way to
their own wealth and the advancement
of progressive civilization and if peo-
pie of ignorant men, for the most part,
can succeed in such enterprises, why not
the intelligent mining portion Of our own
community do the same We have in
our minds eye several undeveloped dis
tricts which, by plan similar to the one
proposed, can be made productive of
wealth to the locators and miners, and
aid materially in opening up and devel-
oping sections of country which other
wise must remain Improbable for years
to come. Then again, once assure eapi-
talists of the intrinsic value of mining
properties by development, and it would
not be long ere investors would seek for
mines in which to invest, instead of min
ers applying to them for assistance of cap
ital. We are confident that every busi-
ness man, who looks to his own interests,
will admit the force of our reasoning,
and would invest in an enterprise of this
nature if asked to do 80. Who will take
the lead in this matter2 II we cannot
bring the mountain to us, let us 60 to
the mountain.
Year: 1873

WHICH Is TRUE p First we are in
formed that Charley DeLong will be
superseded in Japan, and then the news
comes to us he will be retained. All
seem to agree that no specific charge can
be made against our minister, but some
body seems anxious to get his place,
Year: 1873

The man who walks the streets with an UNI
brella underhis arm stopped suddenly on corner
to speak with friend and man behind him
nearly broke the point Of the umbrella of by
running his eye against 1t. The man swore and
the umbrella chap wheeled suddenly tearing of
a young lady's back hair. He turned 10 apollo
gize, and jabbed the end Of his umbrella into
very tall pOlicemans stomach. Policeman adj
ministersd jerk, and the umbrella tore of a
portion Of a small boyB ear, and Immediately
after carried the starboard corner of a mans
mouth up into his front hair Stepping back in
dismay at what he had done, he jammed the
umbrella down a bystander's threat and at the
same time he fastened the hook handle (the
probabilities are that the handle was not only
hooked, but he hooked the entire umbrella)i Unto
colored citizens wool. In his efforts to get his
umbrella loose, the unfortunate owner upset a
fruit and candy stand and plunged headforemosi
into plate glass window. In the excitement
and confusion that ensued, the umbrella was pu
into hack and driven to the hospital and lhs
man was taken 10 an umbrella store TO undergo
repairs.
Year: 1873

II is only three weeks since Frank Walworth
killed his father, and already his trial is half
over. Prosecution and defense have both
been anxious to push the case to a cOnclu-
sion without unnecessary delay. There
has been no difficulty whatever in getting
n Jury, and both sides seem to have
discarded the inveterate prejudice OF
counsel against any juryman who reads
the newspapers, or has intellect enough to
form passing opinion upOn the topics OF the
day. If young Walworth escape the gallows,
il will doubtless not be through any legal
subterfuge-certainly not through the dilatory
tactics to which so many murderers have oWed
their npcks To us who are used 10
the spectacle of homicides spending years
in the city prison, and wearing ont the mem
ory of their crimes in repeated trials and In
terminable pOstpOnements, the policy which
Mr.. O'ConOr has adopted in the present case
seems no less than amazing. Whether 1t Will
prove wise in the end is not for us to predict;
but it has certainly done something to intu-
ence the public mind IN the prisoners favor,
and the Jury will be all the more ready to
listen kindly to the young mans defense when
it is made with such apparent confidence.


From legal point of view the trial IS pc
culiarly interesting not only from its extra
ordinary promptness and the defendants dis
regard of the customary expedients of persons
in his unfortunate condition, but also because
it is the first t1ial under our new law OF mur-
der. The difficulty of obtaining, or, to speak
more exactly, of sustaining. conviction oil
murder in the first degree has long been one
of the chief reprOaches OF New YORK
criminal jurisprudence. The complicated
statutes defining the Offense have been full or
niffaIls for judges, and that convict with
money and good lawyer should succeed IN
getting two or three new trials has been
almost a matter of course. The new law is
supposed to be q great improvement IN the
direction Of simplicity and clearness, and the
public and the legal profession will be curious
to observe how it stands this sensational test


Of the merits of the case it evidently be-
comes the press at this juncture to say moth
ing. The prisoner is in the most terrible
position in which a man can be placed.
Whether at the end of these next few days he
shall go back to his cell or step forth into the
world, he has done deed which carries with
it perpetual penalty. OF its commission he
has made no secret; of its nature We all
doubtless have our own opinion; but we shall
listen patiently to all this wretched young
man may have to say in excuse or mitigation
of his otfense.
Year: 1873

removed him also from that position. Earl
Russell, in his speech in the House OF Lords
seemed to have argued from an ultra Protestant
point of view, in an illogical way, that it was
necessary to restrict the ambition of the
Roman Catholic hierarchy by abolishng the
Office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and that,
except in the case of a conviction on which
there might be the punishment of death, the
verdict of eight out Of twelve jurymen should
be- sufficient in criminal prosecutions.


In support Of this plan little can be said,
and little was said. The discussion is chiefly
interesting from the light it threw on the
manner in which Ireland Is governed. Viscount
Monck, member Of the Board of Education,
in reply to Earl Russell; uncOnsciously be-
traycd the error into which he and his associates
had fallen. One of the principal elements
for consideration in the selection of man
ager, he said, was the necessity of obtaining
a person who, from his local connection with
the people and his moral influence, was most
likely to bring the children to school and to
keep them there. No one, he thought, tul-
filed these conditions so completely "a the
clcrgyman; on that ground no was as gen
eral rule, selected as manager of the school
in his district. 1t is precisely this
Difference to the claims Of one or another Of
the churches for the control Of district schools,
which tends to foster the sectarian spirit
throughout tho country. As the same system Of
administration is extended to most Of the
affairs of the country, it is clear that any
effort to promote reform must begin with the
correction Of this error The first step must
be the rigid secularization Of all State insti-
tutiOng.
Year: 1873

When the Brooklyn Charter was discussed
the other evening in the Committee of One
Hundred, it turned out that the Controller
himself who came forward as its official advo-
cate and interpreter, did not know what the
instrument contained. That, perhaps, was not
so very wonderful. The original bfll, sent to
Albany by the Reform Committee, and in
trusted to Messrs. Murphy and Perry, who rep
resent Brooklyn in the Senate, underwent so
many ingenious and mischievous distortions
that its own parents hardly recognized it when
it came back again. For the information of
the Controller, the Committee, the citizens
generally, and, above all, the Governor, we
desire to point out some of its worst features.


|. The original charter of the Reformers
permitted the Board of City Works to pave
any street on the application of a majority of
the owners of every twenty-foot lot fronting
thereon. The Ring representatives struck out
this saving clause defining ownership, and
have thus left the prODerty-owners liable to
such swindles asl the Board attempted in tho
case of Lafayette-ave., heretofore exposed
This fraud may bo successful when next
attempted if not, the Board under the new
Charter Gf approved) may subject the oppos-
ing property-owners TO the nuisance of cobble
stones.


IL. We have before emphasized the fact that
tho parks are given over to the charge of the
Common Council and subsequently the Board
of City Works. The clauses which allow
this are even worse than we thought them
at first. One title defines the authority and
duties of the Park Commissioner. But
further on, in another, the Common
Council is authorized to "cause pub
lie squares and parks to be opened, orna-
mented. and perfected, and generally make
"such improvements az the public wants and
convenience may require" In still other sec
tions. 40 before stated. all actual Dowor of
Year: 1873

of party rule in that distressed State. fet'
the Republican managers have tho assurance
to ask that they receive new lease Oh power
from the men whose gratitude they nave nos
earned. We should be sorry to discover 'na'
the Reform movement is to be failure oucn
a conclusion would prove that the Citizens 0,
Louisiana were ignorant of their danger anu
their duty. But such disaster now woulu
only postpone the harmonization OF all Oh 'nc
interests which constitute the strength oil Lou
isiana, and, we may add, the SOuIn'
Year: 1873

There are few emotions of the human soul for
which we feel more sympathy than the heroic efforts
Of small boys to emulate the splendid deeds of their
patriot foTefathers. To the generous youth who
chopped down his fathers favorite cherry tree and
noby said his elder brother did it, offer admra-
tion and fluctuations. Bootess it were to call the
sacrifice incompete the feeling of lofty heart
was there and as DaubsOn, the unappreciated artist
says, Feelings everything" With sadness we
read of the unmerited fate of the Taunton boy who
lately perused for the first time the story Of Putnam
and the wolf Fired by the tale, this glorious boy
seized his grandmother's ancient and most amiable
cat and thrust her into the cellar. Then. armed with
torch and bunch of deadly fre-crackerS. he
bravely entered the darkness to meet the fearful
animal Hearing bowling, a yowltlg popping
etc, the kind grandmother of that truc-hcared lad
pounced down the cellar stairs and returned with
her hero. Would that we might record a sccno Of
pathetic tenderness and gratitude but no. Suffice
it to say that three distinct and unpleasant switches
were cut that afternoon from the plum-tree in the
venerable lady's garden.
Year: 1873

A friend sends the following extract with the
request that we publish it, from the latter OF
clergyman to the Lord Lieutenant OF Ireland
which presents very simple. aud he (the ply
cician) says effectual, preventive Of cholera, as
well as a remedy of great power:-


The preventive is simple, a teaspoonful of
powdered charcoal taken three or four times a
week, in a cup of coffee, or other liquid, in the
morning


when attacked with cholera, mixture of
an ounce of charcoal, ounce Of laudanum,
and an ounce Of brandy, or other spirits, may
be given as follows-after being we'll shaken
eaapOonful every five minutes In half an hour
have known this effectualy to relieve and stay
the disease. As the patient becomes better, the
mixture may be given at longer intervals.


Il have known patient in the blue stage.
and collapsed, perfectly recovered in few
hours.


The charcoal was tried az preventive ON a
large plantation in the Mauritns, and not sin
gle individual out of eight hundred was attack
ed with cholera"
Year: 1873

The EceTy EUsning, in its issue yesterday,
makes ghastly eudeavor to be facetious at the
expense Of the CoMMERcIAL We do not think
1t ought to be vain Of the SUCCESS achieved in
that direction. That paper was guilty OF making
mizstatements in regard to US and was rebuked
Tor Its fAlsehoods 1t saw tit to meddle with mat
ters that was no part of Its concern and got
slapped IN the face for its impertinence. II
thought that this whole performance was so ex
tremely funny that it calls all its readers in IN
participate III the merriment. We hope they en-
joy the sport and presume they do. We do.


The Eoery Eoe'sing is not we'll pleased with
our Composition, does not Thick we pay enough
regard to the rules Of grammar, and do not
maintain the dignity usual with the CONNER
oIAL. The Ere'y Eoentng may be correct on
these points but it must bo admitted that. in
the absence of the chief editor 70 make use of
plain English language, cho sag words that ex-
press our meaning so eleaIl, nat even the dull
est intellect cannot misunderstood us, though
it may pretend that it does
Year: 1873

1 have on hand large and beautiful assort-
ment of


GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
and as this department is now receiving special
attention, | trust it will not be considcred ne
cessary for gentlemen to leave the city for sup
plies, Ms they c.n find in my stock an assortment
OF rs fine goods rs can be found IN any CITY, anu
as TO nrices am satisfied that the same goods can
be bought here Us cheaply as in any house IN the
United States l would be glad to have those OF
our feIlow-citizcns VINO seem to delight in an
nouncng that their purchases in this line have
1or many years been made North, to examine
and compare goods and prices.