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Year: 1873

EFFECTS OF CuALYBEATE WATER
When Murphy first bought his farm in
Lancaster county, he was not aware that
all the water on the premises was i'm
pregnated with iron. But when he drank
that chalybeste water for five or six
months his system was so thoroughly
charged with iron that when he would
wake up In the morning he would find
that the bedstead had gradually shifted
around during the night until the head
pointed north. And the children's beds
all performed the same maneuver. With.
out taking warning by this occurrence,
the family CONTINUED u drink the water
until, one fatal evening. Mrs. Murphy
had been house.cleaning, and that night
she and Murphy and the children lay
down In the same room. No sooner were
they in q horizontal position than all their
heads swung around suddenly 10 the
northern end ofthe chamber where the
stove stood, and the next instant the
whole five Of them were drawn violently
against the hot stove, and held there by
magnetic attraction. Murphy suffered
worst because he was bald, but Mrs. Muir
ply and the children lost every hair or
their heads, and when the family sold ou
and moved away, every member of It wa
balder than all the other Murphys tina
ever wore q seal p.-IMdE AdeIer.
Year: 1873

Tho Massachusetts ThlmblesRiggeT.


Its not advantageous to the Admins
tra,ion that Gen. BUTLER Is recognized
throughout the country as its candidate
for Governor ol Massachusetts, las his
feeble son.in.law Is for Governor Of Mis-
sssippI) The popular instinct, while ad'
mitting Gen. BUTLER's smartness, does
not approve of him as public and rep
resentative man. 1t distrusts him as q
man in whose creed or composition well
defined principles OF honesty and duty
have no place. BUTLER is sharp, cunning,
bold, brazen, audaciouS. lie delights In
surprising the country by some au'
dacious utteranCe or proposition that
no man with normal moral sense
would think Of entertaining. People ad-
mire these things, but they do not trust
the man. They do not think him safe
man to be in high places, nor one to be
proud ol in a representative capacity. He
is always saying Or doing something to
confuse ideas OF right and wrong In the
minds Of the uninlormed-alwsys demor-
aIiziug thepublic conscience by Orttul and
plausible pleas for some rascallty by
which he gains or hopes to gain money or
power. At one time We find him urging
a scheme to break faith with the creditors
Of the Government by col lflscating their
bonds and giving them instead irrcdeema'
bic non .interest bearing paper, which is
sued in such quantities, for such purpose,
would be worth almost nothing. Now hc
IS the voluntary champion oil the salary ln'
crease, which popular judgement con-
demns as unnecessary and uDjudicious,
and the back pay grab which the uni.
yersal voice oil the people denounces as
robbery. The great masses who live by
honest toll, who do not subsist on the
public treasury, and have no share in such
punder, are not deceived by BuTLElEs
sophstries in regard to these measures,
and knowing him to be untrustworthy,
they cannot look with favor upon his cle'
vation to place that has been filled by
some of the nOblCst and purest men that
ever lived. That Mr. BUTLER has the
favor of the administration, and that
the influence OF its dependents Is
being employ to force his nomination.
Is too well attested to be doubtful. This
fashion of Federal interference in State
elections is a pretty old one but thor
onghly bad one ut all times. 1t is much
more prevalent than it used to be. The
action of the people In their State affairs
ought to be wholly free from Washing
ton pressure at all times; but to see that
pressure exerted to force such n. man as
BUTLER upon such people as the Re-
pnbliCans oil Massachusetts Is an unplcAs'
ant spectacle. 1t isalmost certain to lead
to political disaster In that State. II may
produce bolt outright, and il successful
ought to.
Year: 1873

A startling piece Of news has just come
to hand; no less than minute desCrip'
ton, by moro than one credible witness
Of volcano bursting forth o few miles
north oil US. We were inclined at first TO
doubt the statement, but 1t comes SO
straight, and the story is so well told, that
1t seems there must be something in 1t.
The facts are, that last Thursday Mr.
Burke, q trustworthy man oil this place,
was out prospecting near the head OF the
North BoWlder. Your correspondent
having been over that country, is pre-
pared 10 testify that In ages past volcanic
cruptions must have occurred there
Our prospector saw smoke at distance,
which he at first attributed TO fire in the
woods. But second thought convinced
him that was not possible, as its locality
was far above timber line. SO, with the
usual zeal Of a prospector for something
new, he clambered up and down and
over several ridges OF the main range
until arriving OF the place he
found himself ON the edge OF a
veritable crater. The place had evidently
once been the scene Of great and long
continued volcanic action, for there was
plainly to be traced the rim Of o prchis-
toric crater about one mile in diameter.
Within the ancient bowl and ncac the
edge the young volcano had commenced
operations. It did not emit violently
while he was there, but Contontod itSelI
with an occasional spasm. the rest OF the
time smoking as pleasantly as an old to-
bacconIst. But the best proofs Of his story
are bits OF lava, evidently OF recent origin
and several Jumps Of scOria. These are
now being handed about among the boys
and are regarded with as much curiosity
and interest as is ever manifested in the
last rich "strlke." A large party will starr
lromi here in q few days, determined tc
authenticate or disprove the matter. Sew.
eral men have already been there; auC
all returned with lava trophies.-Centra


CitV (C0l.) Re0iStcr.
Year: 1873

Ry- A little boy in Utica who was III
about Sunday school time last Sunday.
went of in convulsions when be heard
two dogs lighting IN the alley. He went
Off from the back steps and did not re-
turn until dark After his mother got
through concentrating with him, he com.
forted himself with the reflection that hs
did not get whipped so bad as tho yellow
dog did, anyhow.
Year: 1873




lie selected his text from Matthew viii
-, But Jesus said unto him, follow me-
and le, tho dead bury their dead


No man, said Mr. Bceehsr, can inter
pref the instructions of Jesus who in.
cllues TO the literal and material view Of
lie and duty thero is evidence that his
mind moved in hi. her realm Of thought,
and although it touched the earth it new
er materialzed itself His teaching, in
stead Of being literally simple, is full Of
paradoxes and Of figures and Of surprises.
Whit could be more surprising than his
reply to the Syro. .Phmnicias women. that
he came 10 save tho lost sheep Of isreal
be that came TO save the whole human
race. and then refusing to heal the daugh-
ter Of the Syro. Phnnician woman be-
cause she WAS q jew and then when one
went to him and said, l will follow thee,
but suffer me first to go and bury my
father, his reply was, and il strikes us as
inhuman, Let the dead bury the dead ;
follow thou me- Does religion then re-
quire that man shall forget his father
and mother? Does religion turn his
heart into gall so that he shall hate his
father and mother? Not at all Inter
prSted by the light of the character Of
that generation that was then upon the
earth, there was nothing strange about
the reply They looked upon Jesus as
having come to establish material king
dom. and already saw It's prospective
gories, aud there were plenty Iqaay TO
follow him TO bo his treasurer, his See
retary of State, &c, and this young man
doubtless made this an excuse Tor the
non performance of duty, and Jesus,
knowing it to be fraudulent excuse,
made this reply. To go back, in this
case, to bury his father, would have been
to have gone back and buried himself,
SO our own growth in Christian piety and
manliness lies before and not behind we
are to find oursclvcs--our own best man
hood-not by going back, but by going
forward 1t is right to look back upon
our lifo, upon all things that lay behind
US, for the sake of preparing ourselves
the better TO advance, but not for the sake
Of oxcusing ourselves from advancing,
We have right to look back upon sor.
rows and joys, If they make us SO for
ward, but if they are SO many anchors,
that hold as to the present, they are evil.
The past is not to be the engncry OF dis
tross and suffering to men; their life lies
before them, ,,and every consideration OF
duty to God and to themselves shouid
keep mems eyes looking forward, and
their stops moving on, There isa past
which men may use, full Of sweetness,
full OF love; il may be n place in which
we may bury that which we can no longer
use to advantage, but it may become a
'Gehcnna full of buried pains, and such
n past no man has right to cherish No
matter what man has done. the way for
ward, even though it be the way Of the
thief on the cross, is the right way. Pre-
missing ,ha, no maH has mad. such Use
Year: 1873




The PRAYER OF AGAssIz. The Chris
lian Union (H. w. Beecher), speaking
of the speech of Prof. Agassiz, at the
opening of the Anderson School of Nat
ural History: says: After few opening
words, felicitously suited to put all their
minds into fellowship, Agassiz said,
tenderly, and with touching frankness:
Think we have need of help. I do
not feel that I can call on any one here
to ask blessing for us. know would
not have any one to pray for US at this
moment I ask you for a moment to
pray for yourselves" Upon this, the
great scientist-in an age when so many
other great scientists have concluded
that praring is quite an unscientific and
very usless proeeeding-bowed his head
reverently; his pupils and friends did
the same; and there, in silence that
was very solemn and beautiful, each
spirit was free to crave of the Great
Spirit the blessing that was needed.
For our own part, it seems to us that
scene of Agassiz and his pupils with
heads bowed IN silent prayer for all the
blessing of the God of Nature to be given
to that school then opened for the study
of Nature, is spectacle for some great
artist to spread out worthily upon can
vas, and to be kept alive in the memo
ries of mankind. Il heralds the coming
of the new heavens and the new earth
the golden age when Nature and Man
shall be reconciled. and the conquests
of truth shall supersedc the conquests
of brute force.
Year: 1873

dom to his testimony, the Judge began
to nod, and soon his head rested upon
the dry goods box, and he peacefully
slumbered until he was aroused to swear
the next witness. Having sworn the
witness, his head again found its old
resting place, and be was soon az sound
asleep as before. Thus the trial pro
eeeded. the Judge being aroused to
swear each witness and falling asleel
while their testimony was b.ing given.
At length the witnesses had all testified.
and the Judge was aroused and told
that the evidence was all in. BE look
ed solemnly around the room and said:
81 have never before seen a case where
there was so great preponderence on
both sides. The Judgment of this court,
therefore, is, that if the defendant will
pay the costs of this ccnrt he can take
the horse; but if the defendant will not
pay the costs of this court and take the
horse. and the plaintiff is willing to pay
the costs of this court and take the horse
he can have the horse; but if neither
the plaintiff nor defendant are willing


pay the costs of this court and take
the horse then this court will herself
take the horse" The defendant claim
ed the privilege of paving costs. he hav-
ing already sold the horse for Sl45, and
again everything was lovely, and Judge
Smokey made tracks for his favorlte sa
loon.-- Virginia Enterprise, Aug. 26.
Year: 1873

WHAT CONSTITUTES A CITY? The res>
olution of the Board of Directors of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, designa-
ted the terminus of the road on Puget
Sound as "the city of Tacoma" This
is fraud upon the public in keeping
with many other transactions by the
same organization of similar device.
There is no such city upon Puget Sound.
A city is collective body of Inhabitants
corporated and governed by Mayor
and Alderman. The place selected for
the terminus by the Land Ring, was a
dense forest at the time, without one
inhabitant, ard is now being surveyed
and cleared with the view of bringing it
into market as town property. To des-
ignate it as city was an attempt at de
ception-to sell the property under false
pretenses, of the same grads of morality
as Peter Funk and mock auctions which
are suppressed by the police in all we'll
regulated cities. To such base devices
do the Land Ring which controls the N.
P. Railroad resort to sell their worthless
wildcat stock and defraud innocent
purchasers.
Year: 1873

THE DA1LY.-With this number we
commence the second year and third
volume of the DAILY DISPATCH. This
publication was not undertaken with any
view to pecuniary gain, as we well knew
it involved cost greater than any pc
cuniary remuneration we could reason
ably expect from it, and it has not dis
appointed our expectations in this par
ticular. But with that local pride which
we ever feel in the prosperity and sue
cess of the community with which our
fortunes are associated. we have perse-
vered in tie undertaking and mean to
continue it, only wishing that our means
were adequate to making a better and
more presentable paper. In one thing
We have distanced all competition--It
is the only paper in Washington Terri
tory which takes and pays for daily tel
egraphic dispatches, and if the business
men of Seattle appr sciated this advan-
tage at its full value, our paper would
be much better sustained, which would
enable US to make other improvements
for the public benefit. We have, how
ever, nothing to complain of, and shall
our disposal.
Year: 1873

A PARALLEL.-One of the stories con-
nected with the first dawn of the Chris
ton era, fan iliar to every school boy in
Chrisendom, is of the man who sold his
Master for thirty pieces of silver. The
moral and physical conditions of the
man are clearly portrayed by his acts.
That he was glutton, is illustrated by
the fact that his hand was ever first in
the common dish; that he was avaricious
by the fact that he carried the money
bag, and censured the devoted woman
who poured the precious ointment upon
the head of the Savior. for not selling
it and putting the money in the Treas


ury; that he was an obeses unctiou and
oleagenous hyporate, by the fact that
when he hanged himself he fell down
and his bowels gushed out. We not
unfreqnently meet men at the present
Year: 1873

A SOLOMON IN THE GREAT BAsIN.-A
Justice of the Peace who holds his court
in village situated between the summit
of the Rocky Mountains and the pine
clad peaks of the Sierra Nevada range.
not long since had horse thief brought
before him for trial. When the hour
appointed for the hearing came, judge
Snorker, as we shall call him, was bro't
from the nearest saloon and took his
seat on stool, behind large dry goods
box, which serTe5 as a desk. After
swearing the first witness and listening
for few moments with oTl-like wis
Year: 1873

- DR.. Herman Meyer, of Zurich.
asserts that shoemaker ought not only
to produce shoe that does not pinch,
but shoe SO constructed that it will give
to foot distorted by the pinching it
has borne already, fair chance of its
return to its right shape, and full pos
session of its power as q means OF car
rying the body onward. He says that,
in measuring a foot for shoe or boot,
the first thing to be considered is the
place of the great toe.
Year: 1873

A WONDERFUL SToRY.--The Dude (In-
dla) Excelsior prints the story following


Very recently native, having orna-
ments on her person worth 400 OF 500
rupees, accompanied by her daughter,
who also wore ornaments worth about
800 rupees, alighted from the train at
Hurdui, and hired an ekka to convey
them to their village. On arriving at a
lonely spot about six miles from Hurdui
there being no villages within miles,
the ekIa drew up at the side of the road
and the driver suddenly demanded the
whole CT the jewelry to be given up to
him,


On being refused, he tied the woman
and the girl up to the ekka and coolly
divested them of every article. Re then
drew knite, with the intention Of mur-
dering them, but in the excitement of
the moment let the weapon fall into a
ditch about three feet deep. He jumped
down, and was just in the act of clutch
ing at the knife, when black snake
darted from hole and fixed its fangs
n his hand Knowing the snake TO be
an extremely venomous one, he fell
down almost senseless with terror and
died in few momests.


The woman and girl remained there
about two hours, when, seeing some
villagers at distance, they screamed
for assistance, and on being released,
gave information at the nearest thannah.
The police came to the spot and found
the corpse of the ekka driver and the
snake still there. The corpse was taken
to the nearest station for an inquest to
be held; the snake was blocked in its
hole with large stone and the orna-
ments restored to their owners.
Year: 1873

Attorney is not, he owes it to himself
and to his position to inform himself
and to take immediate measures to bring
the offenders to justice. The poor log
gers who have trespassed upon Govern
ment lands have been rightfully made to
suffer the penalty of the law, while the
wholesale plunderer has not only been
permitted to escape, but his licenese to
others to plunder the public domain have
been respected by the Government. In
behalf of the people and in the name of
law to which svery citizen is entitled
we demand that the law shall be en-
forced, and if it is not the public shall
know who are the faithless custodians
of public trusts in this Territory. 1t is
time that Gen. Sprague and his camp
followers were taught that his cotton
permits to plunder, do not carry with
them the authority of law in this Terri
tow
Year: 1873

The London Builder gives the first
definite information as to the progress
and difficulties of the work of recon-
structing the column Vendome at Par.
is. Iappears that the masonry work
IS only just begun. There are more
difficulties in the way of this part of
the undertaking than most uninitiated
outsiders imagine. It is imagined that
the foundation and pedestal base can
he built like an ordinary WALL That
is impossible. From motives of econ
omy it is intended to utilize the stone
work of the old column--at least all
those portions Of it which have not
been excessively attenuated or deform-
ed by the demolition. Two-thirds Of
the materials can be SO used the re-
mainder of the work will have to be
executed as at the first erection of the
column. But even among the two
thirds judged serviceable there are only
two steps absolutely intact. The others
require to be repaired, and will be
replaced or rejointed by means of ce-
ment in the Place Vendome itself. But
this reparation is not the most difficult
operation. The interior of the column
is formed by huge square blocks of
stone, pierced at intervals with large
holes, into which are soldered cramp-
irons that hook the outer bronze plates
by species of horseshoe eyelet at
tached to the inmost surface of the
plates in the foundry. The problem
to he solved now is one fact that re-
quires the incest precision. The com
pleted column will be surmountcd not
10y the little bare.legged Caesar, placed
there in 1864.65, but the old statute,
relegated to Courbevoie, of the EN-
peror in gray redingote and jack boots,
with the arm crossed in the legendary
attitude. The statue is considerably
injured, but not irreparnbly. The new
column is not likely to be completed
before the end of the year.
Year: 1873

At q private party recently held in
Detroit, a boy thoughtlessly drew a
chair away from a corpulent gentleman
who was about to seat himself, there
by letting him down on the floor in a
very unpleasant manner. A merry
laugh greeted the unfortunate victim
when the 'ioke" was discovered, which,
however, was soon changed into muir
mer of regret, for it was soon found
that the gentleman was unable to rise.
He was assisted into an adjoining
room, where physician, who was one
of the guests, ascertained that the force
of the fall had created a rupture, the
effect OF which will be felt through
life
Year: 1873

M one whose good name became assailed dur
ing the course Of the last campaign is further
removed from all suspicion of corrupt influences
than Senator Wilson, and his recent statement
before the Credit Mobilier Committee ia a most
full, candid, and conclusive refutation Of tho
slander attached to him. AS the Baltimore
american remarks, IL there is one quality for
which our Vice President elect is distinguished
more than another, 1t is transparent candor. In
his private conversations, as well as his public
speeches, he speaks az a man who has nothing
10 conceal. He, therefore, gave the Committee
q view Of the transactions by which, for a short
time, the silver wedding gift made his wife.
WAS invested, for her use alone, in the stock Of
ie Credit Mobnier, and how 1t was speedily
dis-invested, the moment there appeared the
remotest sign that even this indirect connection
with it might become Questionable or perhaps
inappropriate. The whole statement OF the case
Is elsewhere given.


In the course Of his statement to the Commit
os, Mr.. Wilson said:


''-I had made II a rule never to buy any,
thing which could be Affected in any way by leg
isatlon; do not mean to say it is wrong for
other gentlemen TO own railway or bank secur-
ties, or anything Of that kind; everybody must
judge for himself in regard to that.


MY position was peculiar one, having learn
ed early in life that poor man cannot 90 what
q rich man can, and that a mAniwho is not a
lawyer cannot do what lawyer may, suppose
With propriety, do ; l came into the Senate from
q mechanics shop; had home which had cost
me about $4,000, and which had paid for; /
was doing some little business, which found
Year: 1873

when went to Cengrans must give up / wound
up nay business and sold out what stock had
on hand was making shoes sold my shop,
paid all my debts, and had less than 81 900 oveI
/ knew that came here under temptation, and
made up my mind, IS said, never to be the
owner Of any property which would be Affected
by iegislAtion- because such ownership
would be wrong, but on account Of my peculiaE
position"
AThese are manly and honorable words. They
are natural to the speaker To those of us who
intimately know his integrity Of character, his
fidelity to principle, and the calm. modest SIM
plcity Of his life they needed not to be said. Nor
were they needed, perhaps, by the country which
has again and again highly honored him, but they
will go on record as formal disproof of the par
tisan cAlumny which even be was not preserved
from.
Year: 1873

his holy rest beyond the resurrection There should
melted


INTO SORROW AND rrrY
BY the recollection OF the love Of the Sen of God
who sunered for rs. Let ue, then, be prepared to
pronounce HIS holy name with awe aud reverence
ne was named the Son OF God risen, because He
that He was to make atonement with the Father
70 unite His divinity with our poor humanity and
be the price OF mans redemption. Every time we
near that holy name uttered ought TO unite our
v0sees with the angels who sing in heaven, "Holy
hoH, LORD God Almighty, who was, who IL, and
who is to comet Ny ffiGnds think OF that coming
Whet then, shall be the future OF so many In this
world who never make use Of that name except TO
DIasphemc y, to dishonor itf Let us bow in rever
cnce when that holy


NAME OF JESUS IA UTTERED;
les NJ remember our duty Of love to God. and at
last we will be able 10 join our voices in that song
OF endless praise in heaven which St. John heard,
"Holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, who Is
ana who Is TO Gomez