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Year: 1872

New York Correspondents Of Rochester Demo-


Society sought Mr.. Greeley after
he had become independent of it,
Just as Chesterfield offered to pat
ronize Johnson, after the latter had
become famous. He did not turn
away in anger, but he simply chad
no time" Those who knew Greeley
best and who carry the most beau
tiful idea of the man are now only
few in number. They are the asso-
ciates Of his early days in this city.


For ten years Greeley struggled
here for mere bread. Those who
knew him then have the sweetest
memory of him. Instead of the
stoutbuilt old man (prematurely
old) they remember the tail, slender
youth with the pink glow in his
pale check and the merry twinkle
that sometimes lit up his thoughtful
eyes. His countenance then had a
feminine purity which have never
seen eaualed. 1t also had a ben
evidence which no hardship could
eliminate. Since his death have
been recalling those days when the
poor Bohemian little dreamed of
coming fame, when he was one OF
the struggling mass and simply
sought to live. In 1899, after six
years struggling in this city, he
came out bankrupt. Three years
previously he had married, hoping
to get a living out ofthc Neac York
er, but fate was against him. The
history of those three years, in
which the young editor and his
school-mistress bride battled for
life, would DO a thrilling ono. No
wonder he says that ''beans and
potatoes and bread, with no condi-
mcnt bu, salt, were their diet, and
that few visitors cared to stay over
one day."


At this time (lsse) when 1 was a
povcrty-stricken clerk in book
store on Broadway, pale STRIPPING
with pink spot in his check came
in and bought few cents worth
Of stationery. 1t was poor Greeley,
who still kept heart though he had
failed at every attempt to rise above
the printing case. He was then con-
Quoting the Ne,o Yorker and writ
ing editorials for few journals,
and the pittance thus earned was
barely enough to keep him and his
wife alive. The chances were that
he might be obliged to so back to
his trade, at which he could make
eight dollars per week, and this
was rs much as he could make with
his pen.


How strange it seems to recall
the almost forgotten characters that
then haunted Ann street. They
were poor and yet ambitious, and
had q literary turn which comman-
ded respect. They struggled through
their cares, lived lives of hardship,
aud have passed away into oblivion.
One Of them reached fame, and he
never forgot those old companions,
such rs Jonas Winchester, Bill At
tree, Park Benjamin, Alexander
Ming and Sam Medary. For a few
months p. T. Barnum was one Of
this clique, but he found its pros
poets so poor that he turned show
man. Greeley was the favorite Of
all this class, but he was too busy to
hold much intercourse with any one
it was work, work, work for
bread. No wonder in after life he
had no time for friendship.
Year: 1872

and express no opinions but putting both cases as
hear them before your readers leave them and
you to draw your own deductions. The itch of dis
putting has proved the scab OF explorers as well as
churches and 1t Is, beyond q doubt In my mind that
II the military contingent leave Baker he will push
on to the Nyanzas with what force he can collect to
the lake region, where, by some new discovery or
fishing out Livingstone, he may earn another Royal
Geographical medal.


THE TRUE ROUTE FOR A LIGHT sUCCORING ExPE-


DITIoN TO EQUATORIAL AFRICA


is undoubtedly through the Soudan and up the
White Nile. Water communication is complete to
GondOkOro and attended with neither danger nor ex
pense. From Gond0koro to the lakes is about thirty
days easy travel. Expeditions to open up the in
terror for the benefit of commerce are another thing
and must necessarily seek the shortest direct route
to the sea without regard to danger present cost
The distractions In the White Nile apply only to
large craft the grass has been steadily growing for
years, and every trader knows exactly how long ne
will be working through it. has increased now
to an extent which proongs the voyage from Khar-
toum to GondokOr0 in q light draught boat, about
month, making seventy-day trip at the outside
with average luck. We will sec who first finds Lv-
ingstone-the Zanzibar or the White Nile explorer
Apd we will see, let us hope, what Sir Samuel
Baker says to 'Francs Knolly's private secretary"
VINO mas so Knuy snOC MN lntO prnJ, III Is pOSSlDc
without Sir Samuels knowledge or consent.


WHAT HAS SIR SAMUEL ACCOMPLISHED


II Is as well to state that Baker Pacha agreed to
accomplish oil he had to do in two years. and for
that service was to receive $4,000 year, all ex-
penses, and large pension for Lady Baker If he
died. He further received as personal compll-
menr from the Khedlve the rank of Major General
and Pacha of the first class, the latter ratified by
the Sublime Porte. The two years are up this
month, Baker has not accomplished anything,
which annoys the government, and he Is not dead
within the two years, which nullifes the pension.
But he has written very interesting letter to the
Times.


THE ENTERPRISE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD
In breaking way into the heart Of Central Africa
to fish out DR.. Livingstone has caused a nutter
among the English colony in Egypt. The home gov
ernment is freely berated for its apathy and want
of sympathy for an Engshman in distress, and
there Is talk OF a succoring expedition to ascend
Immediately from Cairo to the White Nile to head
of the HERALD's expedition, but 1t will come to
nothing They remember the humiliatlng defeat
the English press and government sustained from
the HERALD In the Abyssnian war news and have
no hope OF defeating such an active, eXtravagant
antagonist. The Khedive himself, man Of great
enterprises and lofty views is filled with wonder at
what an American newspaper will accomplish
without regard to danger cost to satisfy the In
quiring spirit and news-thirst OF Its readers.
Year: 1872




Tho case OF the House OF Refuge mutneers,
twentysix in number, came before the Special
Sessions Court yesterday morning for trial. Mr. W..
F. Howe, counsel for the boys, moved that the pri-
be sent TO the Court OF General Sessions for
trial by Jury, where the evil and pernicious system
of government carried ont az the House OF
Refuge could be properly and legally investigated
Mr.. Howe said that n short time ago there was the
case OF Justus Dun charged with the murder OF a
keeper, which murder was melted by the brutality
of the keeper himself, and now there was
before the Court a charge of revolt which
was nothing moro nor less than the result OF
that instinct which causes the worm to turn. There
had been, he continued, q series OF brutalites in
ncted on the hoys by the keepers. Catholic boys
OF Catholic education and Catholic parents, were
proselyted, II possible, into Professionalism and IL
they fail to submit TO the religious discipline which
is In every way antagonistc TO their principles
they are punished In most shameful and out
raqeOus manner. In 1865 he said that q boy was
beaten by the Assistant superintendent In such a
manner that he was removed to the hospital
where, four days later, he died.


Mr. Uowe's motion was granted.
Year: 1872

TAE advantages and uses Of newspapers
have recently been developed in curious
way, as the following story relating what
happened to gentleman and bis wife in the
Holy Land, humorously tells. While they
were travelling towards Jerusalem they were
beset by bandits, aud robbed not only of
their money and baggage, but even of their
clothes in which they were standing, or
rather kneeling, for mercy. What were
they to do? If they had been going TO the
Garden of Eden it would have been well
enough ;bnt how they were to enter the ancieut
City Of the Lord in state of primitive nu-
dity? In this horrible emergency they beg
ged back from the plunderers a copy of the
London Times Was there ever such luck
before? For they received not only the
usual copy of the great journal, but it so
happened that there was supplement, which
was just the thing for the lady Thus clothed
with advertisements, leading articles foreign
CORES sposdence, the money market, and the
preliminary debates, they entered Jerusalem
panopied against all fierce Mussulmans-for
the reigionists, it will be remembered, re-
spect every square inch Of paper, since hap
PLY the name of God may be written there
on.
Year: 1872

OFFICE THE COUNTY CLERK


OF THE COUNTY OF PLACER,
l. b F. BURT, County Clerk of the County of
Placer, State of California, and ex-oflicio Clerk
of the Probate Court in and for said Placer
county, do hereby certify the foregoing to be u
true. full and correct copy of an order duly made
and entered upon the minutes of said Probate
Court.


Witness my hand the seal of said Probate
Court this 18th day OF August, 1872,


SEAL. Il. L. BURT
au24-4w Clerk.
Year: 1872

ONLY good farming pays. He who sows
without reasonable assurance Of good crops.
annually, might better earn wages Of some
capable ueighboe than work for SO poor a
pay master az he is apt to prove himself.
Year: 1872

A bucolic editor is forced to the conclusion
that the young ladies of his village are no
alarmingly like St. Paul, inasmuch as they
pay rather more attention "to things whicl
are behind" than he did.
Year: 1872

very singular death was that Of Mrs. Patty
Moore, an old lady n, at West Campton, N. H.,
recently. A kitten jumped upon the table where
she was at work, and az she threw it upon the
hoor it scratched her right arm very slightly.
She continued her work as usual the rest OF the
day, but during the night following was awaken
ed by severe pain in her arm, which began to
swell. and continued to grow more and more
painful until death resulted soon after.
Year: 1872




The following singular tradition is related
of key in collection of curiosities preserved
in the arsenal at Venice: 1k
About the year 1900, one of those dangerous
men in whom extraordinary talent is only the
fearful source of crime and wickedness beyond
that OF ordinary men, came to establish him
self as merchant or trader in Venice. The
stranger, whose name was Tebalde, became
enamored of the daughter of an ancient house,
already affianced to another. He demanded
her hand in marriage, and was, of course, re-
jected. Enraged at this he studied how to be
revenged Profoundly skilled in the mechani-
cal arts, he allowed himself no rest until he
had invented the most formidable weapon that
could be imagined. This was key of large
size the handle of which was so constructed
that it could be turned round with little diff
Guilty When turned it disclosed spring,
which, on pressure, launched from the other
end a needle or lancet Of such fneness that it
entered the flesh and buried itself there with
out leaving any external trace.


Tebaldo waited at the door of the church in
which the maiden whom he loved was about
to receive the nuptal benediction. The assas-
sin sent the slender steel, unperceived, inte
the breast of the unsuspectng bridegroom.





but seized with sharp and sudden pain in the
midst of the ceremony, he tainted, and was
carried to his own house amid the lamentations
of the bridal party. Vain was all the skill of
the physician. who could not divine the cause
of this strange illness, and in few days he
died


Tebaldo again demanded the hand of the
young maiden from her parents, and received
second refusal; they, TOO, perlshed mlsera.
bly, in few days.


The alarm that these deaths, which appear
ed almost miraculous, occasioned, excited the
utmost vigilance of the magistrates; and when,
on close examinations of the bodies, the small
instrument was found in the gangrened flesh,
terror was universal; everyone feared tor his
own life. The maiden thus cruelty orphaned,
had passed the first month of her mourning in
Il convent when Tebaldo, hoping to bend her
to his will, entreated to speak to her at the gate.
Her reply was most decisively in the negative.


Tebado, beside himself with rage, attempt
ed to wound her through the gate and succeed
ed; the obscurity of the place prevented his
actions from being observed. On her return
to her room, the maiden felt pain in her
breast, and uncovering it she found it spotted
with single drop of blood The pain increas-
ed; the surgeons who fastened to her assist
ance, taught by the past, wasted no time in
conjecture, but cutting deep into the wounded
part, extracted the needle before any mortal
mischief had commenced, and saved the life
of the lady. The State inqulsition used every
means to discover the hand which dealt these.
insidious and irresistible blows. The visit of
Tebaldo to the convent caused suspicion to fall
heavily upon him. His house was carefully
searched the infamous invention discovered,
and he perished on the gibbet.
Year: 1872

AN IMPORTANT DECISION A man drew a
note promising to pay one hundred dollars.
He used printed form. but did not close up
the blank devoted to dollars; after it passed
a negotiable paper, somebody inserted land
fifty" after the zone hundred and before the
word dollars The note thus altered. got
into the hands of an innocent party, who pre-
sented in to the drawer and the Supreme
Court decided that the maker of the note was
liable for its face, because through negligence
he did not draw line between the written
word "hundred" and the printed word "dol-
lars" Any testimony that the drawer might
offer to establish the fact that he gave a note
for only one hundred dollars must go for moth
ing, as "there was nothing on the face of the
note showing that it had been altered" Evil
dence of an alteration on the face of the note
would have changed the case. Let this decis-
ion be lesson to all drawers of promisory
notes. No one can be too careful in such
matters.
Year: 1872

DECIDEDLY GooD.-Governor Vance of
North Carolina, in a recent speech gave in his
adhesion to Greeley in the following humorous
remarks:


There was an old preacher into whose hymn
book some bad boy had pasted the song:
Year: 1872

A PENNSYLVANIA who married his second
wife indecently soon after the funeral Of the
first was visited with two hours serenade in
token Of disapproval. He expostuated pathet-
really thus: II say, boys, you ought to be
ashamed of yourselves to be making SO much
noise ven dare vas q funeral here so soon
Year: 1872

BUTTERMILK FOR INDIGEsTIoN-Perso
who have not been in the habit of drinking
buttermilk consider it disagreeable, because
slightly acid in consequences of the presence Of
tactic acid. While there is not much n0urish-
ment IN buttermik. the presence of the Tactic
acid assists the digestion of food taken with it.
Year: 1872

WHITES ATHENRUM
w 80 Broadway. opposite Nblo's Garden.





Splendid success
OF this great and fashionable resort pronounced by the
press and public the most
PLEASING ENTERTAINMENT
THE LARGEST AND BEST TROUPE IN THE WORLD.
Everything new,


sparkling


and select,
beautiful.


splendid.
Year: 1872

Much has been written upon the subject
of railroads in different sections of our
State. This we like TO see, even if some
of them are marrow gauges, prospectively.
1t shows spirit of enterprise to say the
least of 1t, and we are for enterprise wheth-
er 1t Is success or not, for some one, per-
haps, may make an improvement upon
the project and cause IL to be o blessing to
humanity at large. So we think, and to-
all others we are willing they should speak
out and act out their views on all subjects
But of all projects, the last on the roll
to success and the most impracticable is
the narrow gauge from cambridge to Mos
sy Creek, or to the,,Tennessee, Virginia and
Georgia Railroad at any point. 1t is an
easy matter to make estimates and calcu-
lations to success on paper, but when you
come to the reality of it, 1t aint there. We
are for the greatest good to the greatest
or largest number. If you were to build
Messy Creek and equip it and make
present of 1t to our county we could not
run 1t with our present burden of taxation
and tghtness of money matters. 1t Is all
the majority of the people of the county
can do to live and pay their taxes, and all
who know anything about railroads know
that 1t requires money-money every mo-
ment, hour, day week and year of its eX-
| istence. If our stock in the East Tennes-
see and Virginia Road is to be made use of
for the benefit of any, in the name of COM
mon sense and humanity let it be appro-
priated for establishing good schools in
every district in the county for the bene-
fit of the uneducated children growing up
| in ignorance and immortality on every
hand, and they will be blessing and sub
stantial aid to the county for all ages to
come. What do you think, 1 saw a reli-
able citizen the other day who said he
would guarantee to take to and from the
railroad all freights to and from cambridge
with his one pair of mules if our good
citizens of cambridge and vicinity would
improve the road, making n round trip
each day of the week, and Furthermore
the passengers will not average one day
the year round to or from that point. If il
is such q good thing, and such good in
vestment, and so much money in it, why
do not some of our cambridge citizens build
it and run it. They are able and compe-
tent. We endorse Colonel Robert Ander-
sons Views and honor the man for the
manly and bold defense he made in favor
of the people of the county in opposition
to the stock we now have in the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad-in
a narrow guage for the benefit of few
The people don't want it and are not going
to have 1t even IL the attempt be made
again to run it through the County Court
without their consent. Yet, we may be
mistaken, and "Pro Bono Publico' may be
the railroad genius of the age.


Yours


JEFFERSON COUNTY.


n 10
Year: 1872

Some friends visited La Fontain one
evening and found him asleep. While
talking with his wife, La Fontain entered
in his nightcap, without shoes or stockings,
Just as he had risen from his bed. His eyes
were half open, but he evidently saw no
object he crossed the dining-room where
the party were sitting, went into little
closet or cabinet that served as n study,
and shut himself up in the dark. Some
time after, he came out, rubbing his hands,
and testifying much satisfaction, but still
asleep; he then went through the
dining-room, quite unconscious of the
presence of any one, and retired to bed.


His wife and friends were very curious
to know what he had been about in the
dark. They all went into his study, and
found there fable newly written, the ink
being still wet, which brought conviction
that he had written and composed 1t dur
ing his dream. The admirers Of this most
original author may wish to know which
fable was composed under these extraor-
binary circumstances. 1t is one that Is re-
plete with the most natural and touching
ianguage-it is that which unites the ut
most grace of expression. language is eapa-
BILE of~in word, it is the celebrated fable
of The Two Pigeons.h
Year: 1872

The dispatches give the following con-
cerning Alexis long talked of buffalo
hunt:


The Duke and Custer charged together,
but what seemed singular to the hunters,
the buffalo did not run they stood at bay,
as if to say "COme ON" but Custer charg-
ed through an open space and scattered
them. He kept his eye close on n big bull
that was waiting "to go for" the Grand
Duke. Alexis, however, rode close up to
the animal and put couple of pistol shots
in him, when he started down the ravine,
the Duke and Custer after him. Another
pop from the pistol and he fell, when
shot from a rifle finished him. Three
cheers for the Russian huntsman. A
cheer arose from the company. When the
Duke had got his game, out came his hunt
ing knife and off went the tail of the dead
buffalo, which he brought into camp as
trophy. Meanwhile the remainder of the
few that were near enough were gone for
by the other members of the party, and
four buffalo were killed in all.
Year: 1872

MONEY SAvING.--In an address deliver
ed last week, Horace Greeley said that he
thought the worst thing about working
men was that too many Of them felt inn
PEELED to spend what they might save be-
cause no special reason was brought home
to them for saving. fall the young work
from the time they are twenty-one until
they are twenty-five years DID, which is
about the age most of them get married at,
they would soon find themselves in COM
Portable circumstances.
Year: 1872

We extract from the opinion of Justice
Strong the substance of the opinion on the
power of Congress to legalize treasury
notes, which is as follows:


The grant TO Congress of the power to
coin money cannot be regarded as contain
ing an implied prohibition against the is
sue of legal tender notes, and If it raises
any implications they are ofcomplete pow
er over currency rather than restraining
the objection that the legal tender act inn
pairs the obligations of contracts. 1t can
not be accepted, for it is not an obligation
of debt or to pay gold or silver as to con-
tracts, but to pay money generally,
not contracts to pay specifically defined
money or kind of money recognized by
law at the time the contract was made.
Nor is 1t his duty to pay money of equal
intrinsic value in the market. TIE expec-
tation of the creditor and anticipation of
the debtor may have been that the
contract would be discharged by the pay
ment of coined metals; but neither the ex-
pectation of one party to contract concern
ing its fruits, nor the anticipation of the
other constitutes its obligation. The obli-
cation of contract to pay money is to
pay that which the law shsll recognize as
money when the payment is to be made. If
there is anything settled by decision it is
this, and it cannot beunderstood TO be con-
trOVerted. faW rTHE-ruH
Year: 1872

A Meigs County Soldier In


Jail for Killing a Rebel Spy


in 1863.--A FOretaste of the


Good Time coming when


Rebel Shall Again Rule.


Jos. HIggenbottom, a citizen
OF Letsrt township, Meigs Co.,
he's been arrested on the charge
OF numbering Enoch Jeffers, a
rebel spy, during the war. He
is now in Jail in Pomeroy
awaiting action on a requisi-
ton from the Governor of
West Virginia. Riggenbot-
tom arrested Jeffers, and turn
ed him over to a squad of SOL
diels under the command of
one Sarg't. Darst to be trans
ported to Point Pleasant, while
hetook passage on a steamer.
On the way to Point Pleasant
Jefers was shot by one of the
soldiers. The Meigs County
Telegraph from which we learn
the above says:


"The rebel element OF Ma
son County, it is said, is strong.
ly set against Mr.. Higgenbot.
tom, and would be far from
giving him a fair hlal were he
once in their power. They
hate all Union soldiers with a
bitter batred, and this man In
particular because of his active
services in their midst during
a considerable portion of the
war. 1t this man is permitted
to be taken to West Virginia
for trial, we can not but be-
lieve our State authorities sad
ly remiss in their duty in the
matterr


The Telegraph adds: "While
the Republican party was in
power in that State, it stood as
a lion in the path of those who
wished to renew in the Courts
a strife they had been by force
OF Union arms to abandon In
the field. But since the Dem
ocratic party has come into
possession of the State Gov
eminent all this is changed
The rebel element, held in
check, is cow rampant, and
grand juries are being set at
work to get up indictments
against parties who are sup
posed to have been in any
way connected with any irreg.
ular military proceedings over
there in war times"