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Year: 1873

WE publish in another column q cor
reetion bv DR.. Rogers, because it is due
10 him that be should not be placed by
rs in q false light for moment longer
than We can help. That is the only
motive for making a place for commu-
nication. whose fling at the Episcopal
church as q merely "human" institu-
tion we do not indorse. We regard all
churches alike human in origin, so far
as government, ceremony, or ritual are
concerned, and only divine as they are
fuIlv in conformity with Gods truth.
Year: 1873

The Academy Reform Committee met last night
In the rear OF the Brooklyn Academy OF Music. The
meeting was called to order at halfpast eight
O'Clock at which time there were twenty-one men,
bers present. At nine O'Clock the number was in
creased by two.


Mr.. HARRINGTON offered resolution. setting
forth that inasmuch as charges had been made in
one Of the New York papers of excessive expendi-
lures for opening and grading Streets the Com
mittee on Local improvements and Public Ex-
pendtures be authorized to investigate these mat
ters and report TO the Association.


The resolution was adopted.


Comptroller SCHROEDER read o very careful
synopsis OF the new charter, now in the hands OF
the Governor. 1t showed that there had been an
increase Of expenses by new officers and an In
crease OF salaries to the amount OF $135,6o0, and
that by the adjustment OF the Excise Board and the
reorganization of other departments there was
decrease Of $52,5eo, leaving net Increase Of


Il was moved to adopt the report.


Mr.. HARRINGTON objected to the adoption Of the
charter at the present time, as they did not know
what 1t contained. He understood that the Com
mon Council had been shorn Of much of it's power;
that under this charter they had not even the
power to send for persons and papers,


Mr.. SCHROEDER said that such was not the case,
in reference to this matter. He discovered, how
ever that the very pages containing all referring
to the power Of the Common Council to send ior
persons and papers and swear witnesses were
gone. He stated, however, that he was positive
that this power had not been taken from the Com
mon Council.


Mr.. OswAGE volunteered the information that
changes had been made in the charter in Albany
that It was not the same as had been ratified here
by the committee; yet he thought If they did not
endorse 1t now they would stultify themselves
1t was true they had not done all they wanted to-
but they had done very well, and he hoped they
would adopt 1t.


Mr.. FARRINGToN said he did net think IL would
be very great evil II the Governor did
not sign this charter. 1t certainly con-
tinued the triple-headed commissioners In
office, and there might be worse things happen TO
Brooklyn than the failure OF the Governor to sign
the charter. Resolutions to the effect that IN the
opinion OF the Association the act amending the
charter OF the city OF Brooklyn improved the laws
Of the present city government and the Governor
be requested TO sign the charter, were onered and
adopted.
Year: 1873

The fifteenth annual regatta OF the Jersey City
Yacht Club was sailed yesterday, starting from or
Tommy Taylor's. Idle Hour The prizes were won
by the sloop yachts Emma Hilton, Knight Templar,
Irene and Commodore.
Year: 1873

The Charleston (South CarolinR) Cou.
rier and News, which occasionally
touches upon queer topics in quaint
sort OF way, inquiries why It should be a
reproach to be called secondhand
swain. and goes on as follows;


The title is a patent Of nobility-a
token that the possessor is desperately
in earnest. II is sign OF courage; a
proof TO perseverance,. Nor can II be
said that new things are always the best
That depends, we know, on the quality
Of the article whether it is made to sell
or made to last. Many a secondhand
thing, although somewhat battered and
bruised, is more highly priced than its
tawdry, Aashy neighbor, which will fall
TO pieces as soon as any strain is put upon
it. Repairing broken hearts is seldom
either expensive or difficult. Horrible,
but true.


How often does man marry the wo-
man with whom he first iancies himself
in lover Adam did it. There was only
one woman in existence. Since the
Adamitic age, where is the man who has
married his first lover 1t is not in ma
ture. Boys are slower of development
than girls, and their first essay is gen
orally with charmer older than them
selves They grow out of it; take a
slight attack of love as they take a
whooping- cough and measles. 1t is fool
ish to say that the mature love Of man
is less worthy than the spooniness of the
L 4 A at.
wellnigh every life. Is the first novel,
or the first song, or the first poem, as
likely to live as the ripe production OF
later years2 Not it. There are men
who became famous by single speech
or by a single verse; so there are men,
perhaps, who have had but one
love. There are not many, and It's bet
ter so. The world would soon come to
standstill without the help of second
hand swainsl
Year: 1873

CONTINUATION OF JUDGE dIPIN's CHARGE TO THE


JURY.


You have now the general rules Of law. and
now charge you that IL you are satisfied that the
evidence warrants you in finding these indict-
ments correct, then the corpus delisti of this
crime Is proved. You must be satisfied that there
was an intent to commit felony, and this must
be proved as othor facts. and this rarely is prov
ed by direct testimony, but mostly by the circum-
stances surrounding the case and by infering tile
intent. EAll that now remains is to prove who per-
petrated this crime WASH the prisoners at the
bar or not And this touches the question of
identity, and to this question are applicable the
rules Of actual and circumstantial evidence. -


Here the latter is often stronger tina the
former species of the two kinds of evidence
Both have their merits and demeFits But in all
cases, the juries base their conclusions upon the
presumption that the witnesses have spoken the
truth. It is apparent that actual evidence may
be more easily fabricated than chain OF circum-
stantial evidence. Benton says, two links of
circumstantial evidence, taken apart, may weigh
but feather, but put them together and they
may burden the criminal down like milestone.
We are compelled, in our very lives, to rely al
most entirely upon presumptive evidence.


express no opinion as to these men being
identified as the burglars, but call your atten-
ton to some OF the facts proved here. Mr..
Floyd swears FIVE men entered his house and
describes the dress OF some, the flight from
the house, and the leaving of the jimmy. But
the family identify none. l call attention to
the line Of flight, and the articles found. and
their resemblapca to the articles found in Mr..
Floyd's house al those found at the Poplar St.
House; whether the tools are burglarious is also
for your consideration.


call attention to the witnesses seeing them
near or about these houses at Poplar and Kirk
wood streets, and you must give these witnesses
all the weight your best judgment will warrant
To Justify conviction, the Inference you form
must flow from the facts. II you can exclude
every hypothesis but that of guilt, say your
duty is clear,


But no preponderence OF evidence merely
should sway you. You must be convinced be-
yond doubt II you doubt, the defense say
you must acquit, That is not so. The doubt
must be reasonable doubt not mere doubt
which can be most easily raised with reason per-
vading it,. 1t must be doubt which the sworn
duty as a jury compels them to entertain.


think, gentlemen, you have enough common
sense to take in the whole situation 80 as to
arrive at an intelligent verdict. and with
these remarks leave the case to you.
Year: 1873

Money is getting easy-and easier to get.
The Old Folks Concerts have been a graf
flying success.


100000 copies of the Ledger almanac for
1874 are nearly ready.


An early aud genera resumption OF work
at Frankford is promised.


There were 269 deaths last week. being an
Increase of "a over those Of the preceding week.
The Reform Club has passed resolution in
favor of the adoption OF the new State Constitu-
ton.


Many Of the tayerns Of Germantown have
been closed since the sentence Of the men on
Wednesday last.


The Bulletin thinks a salary Of one hundred
thousand dollars year is not too much for the
PRESIDENT Of the United States.


AT wooden wedding in Germantown some
Joker deposited wooden baby on the door step
aud pulled the bell The stranger was taken in,
and on a blanket was found pinned q sl0U
greenback, which, like the infant, was bogus.
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT RAILROAD DECISION
The Supreme Court of Illinois has just
rendered a decision in a case involving the
constitutionality of what is known as the
railroad law of the State-a law regulat-
ing passenger and freight tariffs on the
various railroads Of the State. The case
was appealed from one of the Circuit
Courts, where a decision was rendered
against the Chicago and Alton Railroad
Company in a suit to recover damages for
Noncompliance with the law. The Su-
preme Court decides that the law is un-
constitutional, inasmuch as it prohibits
any discrimination in fixing the rates Of
freights but the court holds that the
Legislature has undoubted right to con-
troll the railroads in the matter by pro-
viding against any unjust discrimination.
Year: 1873

GONE BACK ON ITSELF. = A few
months ago, when the Sacramento I'M
ion formally took its departure from the
Republican fold and declared in favor OF
Peoples Party, the Republican press
of this State, with one accord said "good
riddance to bad rubbish" and tried and
true members of the Republican organ
ization shouted "Amen !" The Union
now finds that that the new party with
which it proposed to wipe all others out
of existence is destined to remain in an
embryo state, and well knows that any
further effort to bring it into being will
prove a disastrous abortion. Stung to
the quick by this evidence Of its own in
capacity to ruin the dominant party in
this State by means Of third organza-
ton, the Union assumes to be still Re-
publican paper and vilely accuses those
journals which stood firmly by the Re-
publican colors, Of attempting TO read
the Union out of the party. As well at
tempt to expel a man from society after
he had withdrawn of his own free will
and accord.
Year: 1873

TIE Oakland NeVS says of the Senate
rial question "Gorham is supposed to
be out Of the fight. MeRuer is trying to
steal Booths thunder and become the
popular candidate on the anti Goat Island
excitement. General Miller is looking
on very quietly, and would not decline
the position were it rendered him. Alb
solntely nothing is said about FELTON,, the
only nam in California who could get the
place should it be filled by vote Of the
people"
Year: 1873

THE CARQUINEz TUNNEL.-The pro
posed tunnel TO connect Contra Costa
with Solano county, via the Straits OF
Carquinez, is to be of boiler iron resting
on the bottom or suspended in the water
at a sufficient depth below the surface to
enable vessels of the deepest draught to
pass over IT.
Year: 1873

president GRANT will retain all the
members Of the Cabinet after the 4th of
March, including Boutwell,, who will re-
main at the head of the Treasury till the
middle of March, and only then resign if
he is elected to the United States Senate.
Year: 1873

THE San Francisco Chronicle declares
that it has dropped the discussion of I'm
personal Journalism. 1t is to be hoped
that the Chronicle will also drop the per-
sonalities in which it has INDUCED to a
greater extent than any other paper on
the Coast.
Year: 1873

The Spanish Republic is a source of
great uneasiness at Berlin. The Emper-
or now regrets his false step in France,
and is sorry he did not establish Napoleon
or some other monarch, and accept the
payment of a slight indemnity, rather
than let things take their course. He
regards the Sanish Republic as a conse-
quence Of the French Republic, and is
uncertain where this desire for republics
will ston
Year: 1873

The Committee on Public Buildings
reports in favor of a new Presidential
Mansion at Washington, and that the
existing one is unfit for a President to live
in, but may be used for executive offices.
Year: 1873

Don't be afraid of a little fun in
the family. A merry disposition is a
godsend to home. There's the case
of a man on Nelson street, for instance.
Saturday he went into the kitchen
ahead of his wife, and seeing two
huckleberry pies steaming on the ia
Bile he hastily concealed them in the
ice-chest, which stood open in the
back hall. Then he went down town
chucklng to himself and ten minutes
later the ice cart drove up and the ice
man brought in fifty pound cake, and
started for the ice echest, followed
closely by the fond wife expatiating
upon the "muss." He put the cake
upon the edge of the chest, and gave
it push over, and when it came down
on those two steaming pies, buckle
berry geyser followed, and the ice
man with eyes and face full of dis


charge, tumbled completely over the
woman, and disappeared out of the
door. The wife recovered her balance
as speedily as possible, and catching
up broom went after the ice-man,
but he escaped her; then she came
back and looked in the ice chest, and
and down at the oilcloth, and up at
the ceiling, and around on the walls.
The men at the store who were let
into the joke by the Factions Nelson
street man, are anxiously wondering
how it turned out-Danb'uy Ne'cs.
Year: 1873

Or for any favorable account from him
further. They were willing to believe
him dead, or worthless. A runaway,
they thought, had but few chances
left for him.


But he disappointed the jealous-eyed
ones bitterly. He had now come
back an active and influential man. al
ready in the possession of considerable
money, and on the high road to an
almost limitless fortune. He had EN-
barked in business with another gen.
tleman in the metropolis, and they
were successful beyond even their
most sanguine hopes.


And many and many a pleasant
time had the two lovers meeting
again, down the road by the old beech
tree.


They sat beneath its shade upon its
twisted roots, and talked in tender
voices Of the times that were gone by,
OF their separate experiences, hopes
and fears, and the future, now opening
so brightly upon them. What dreamy
hours those were to them !!


A bright and golden morning in
October had come. The sun had a
genial warmth, just tapping up the
heavy dews, and rolling the white and
vapory mists up the hill sides.


The clergyman was there, likewise.
There were happy smiles on all faces,
and merry hearts even among those
who had full reason to sorrow.


William led Ruth into the room,
and both stood before the clergyman
In a few moments he pronounced them
man and wife. Ruth's hope had not
finally failed her.


They received the congratulations
of their friends, and left for the city
again at once.


The change in the feelings of Ruth's
parents was quite as sudden as it was
complete. Their preiudices were all
routed.


They reached town safely. Will
lam Britton. on an early evening
thereafter, introduced his partner to
his bride, hitherto keeping it entirely
secret whence he had brought her,
or who she was.


His partner was the gentleman who
had, only the same summer, offered
himself to Ruth for a husband.


The surprise was great, and per
haps the chagrin was greater I; so he
resolved to make his own joy the
greatest and most unaffected of all.


Ruth was lost to him. He had but
single step left him, and that was,
to marry Mary, the sister Of Ruth.


This step was taken at the earliest
day practicable. No one could be
more surprised and gratifed than the
parents at hearing of the relation borne
by the stranger to William, now the
husband of Ruth; yet stranger things,
as well as more joyful, have often
happened.
Year: 1873

From q cleft in a rock harebell grew,
And gathered of sunshine ana ra n and dew
Its measure O life, in its cup of blue.
In cabin, out in a western wild,


maiden bent over hec work and smiled,
For g. the old, old story" her heart beguiled.
the world is widel but bit of its earth
In the cleft of rock gave Beauty birth
And nourishment, fitting its own sweet worth
The world is wideI but the maiden well knew
No heart in it all was more fond and true
Than the one that her troth was plighted to.
for Auy,tst.
Year: 1873

weight no longer presses upon and crushes
the life out Of our spirits We are in the
long covered passage built to protect the
road against the destructive avalanches
which otherwise would seriously impede
travel. and even render the road insecure
at every season. We run out into the
sunlight, and what a glorious scene is
presented Oh, how wonderful is the view
before us and on our left, as we gaze off
upon the mountain ranges, whose SHOWS
are on level with our railway track, and
then down hundreds of feet upon the roofs
Of Switzer houses and fields. vineyards,
villages and little goat pastures, around
and through which winds the splendid
oarriage-road constructed by command of
the great Emperor Napoleon [.


1t was over these grand mountains. and
through these fearful gorges, and amidst
the ice, the SHOWS; the storms of an awful
winter, that Henry w., of Germany, at
tendeed by his faithful wife. the good
Bertha of Susa and her infant son, wander
ed on his penitential pilgrimage to crave
the pardon of Gregory VII, and to obtain
withdrawal of the ban of excommunica-
tion. There was scarcely a mule path
here then, and we cannot imagine half the
horrors of the journey to the helpless en-
peror and the objects OF his tender soici-
tude! But for Us the scene is enchanting !;


and yet there is a nameless terror still
clingiDg to US, for We are poised, as it were
in air, running along on mere ribbon of
a road, that winds around fearful rocky
projections. and over abysses which would
swallow our train, and leave scarce a ves-
t,ge OF it to be found, were any accident to
befall US! But only for short tune long
er are ouI nerves subjected to the t-rrib,e
strain they have endured for the past hour,
for the scenery is becoming more and more
peaceful in character, as We descend to-
wards the plains of that Italy the dream
of which was suspended during our passage
through the Mont Gems Tunnel
Year: 1873

IT Is BErrER.-Bettcr to wear call
co dress without trimming, if it be paid
for, than to owe the shopkeeper for the
most elegant silk, cut and trimmed III
the most pewitching manner.


Better to live in a log cabin all Your
own, than brown stone mansion be
longing to somebody else.


Better walk forever than run INTO
debt for horse and carriage.


Better to sit by the pine table, for
which YOU paid three dollars ten years
ago. than send home new extension,
black walnut top, and promise to pay
for it next week.


Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs, and faded two-ply carpet, than
tremble at the bills sent home from the
upholstcrers for the most elegant parlor
sett ever made.


Better to meet your business acqualn
tances with free ''don't owe youa cent
smile. than to dodge around the corner
to escape dun.


Better to pay the street Organ-grnder
two cents for music, if YOU must have 1t,
than owe for a grand piano.


Better to gaze upon bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen-
ware, if YOU owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beet and
know that it does not belong TO you.


Better to let your wife have tit OF
mysteries than run III debt for nice new
furniture, or clothes, or jewelry.
Year: 1873

It pays to be honest. 1t pays IN
more ways than one. Ii not only pays
in the satisfaction it brings, but, in the
long run. it pays in dollars and cents,
The mechanic. the merchant, the manu-
tacturer the lawyer-in fact. every man
that seeks advancement through his la
bors will find that honesty is not only
the best policy. but the best stock in
trade that he can have IL may take
LONGER 10 earn fortune by honest Ia
Dor. but once earned. it will last longer
and buv more solid comfort than double
the amount earned by dishonest means.
There is something better than wealth.
Integrity is priceless. Money cannot
brv it. The rich man may envy the
poor man its possessions. yet the rich
NAV have it II they seek it from the be
ginning. Start rgH young man. Let
no ambitious whispers lead YOU aStray.
BE determined to deal on the square
with your fellow man. Every dollar
thus earned will bring blessing TO your
heart. Ifyou can't make money hon
estly YOU had better remain poor al!
vour life. 1t will not pay to exchange
your honesty for few dollars and cents.
Money made by cheating your neigh
bors will burn into YOU conscience and
destroy forever your earthly happiness,
Does ambition lead the citizen to high
political power Let HIM understand
that the only sure toothold in climbing
the rugged steep Of fame is honesty OF
purpose. He may have brilliant ability
may charm the eye and please the ear
bnt if he lacks integrity he lacks the one
GREAT element of lasting power. II he
is false to himself he will be false to
others. and his fall will be rs certain as
his elevation was rapid. The wrecks
of ambitious statesmen are 10 he seen
on every side. They had ability; they
had the confidence of the people; they
were elevated to power and influence,
but they lacked honesty and they fell
moral wrecks made so by their own fol.
". Let their fate be warning to pub
lie men. Let personal integrit! be the
priceless jewel that money can neither
blv nor sill. The fame that is built
upon honesty will stand like the shaft
of granite, the emblem Of beauty and
moral strength.
Year: 1873

New YORK, May 8O-A Washington
special says the counsel for the defendants
in the Credit MObilier suit will in few
week file demurrer to the bill in equity,
taking the ground that the act under
which the bill Is drawn is unconstitution'
al, and that Congress cannot enact Tor the
benefit OF the Government what is de-
MED to Individual suitOrs; that the act is
direct violation Of the existing laws,
under which the defendants have a right
to ask protection, and that until they arc
placed on equality with the plaintiff, there
can be no equitable proceeding. This
will carry the case TO the Supreme Court.
It is admitted hat this objection Of the
defendants may quash further proceed