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Year: 1873

A correspondent of the New York
Sunday NeDs, in his sketches of Lud-
low Street Jail, tells the following Incl
dent: Three hundred and forty-three
thousand seven hundred and fifty-three
dollars bail was asked for Marquis de
Lafayette Sharkey, the once celebrated
tobacco merchant of New York city,
who was arrested by his partner for al.
leging that the assets and stock OF the
concern had ended in smoke; but it
was not given, and Sharkey remained q
whole year in Ludlow street jail, when
the court of last resort decided he had
been most wrongfully imprisoned. In
the meantime his business had been
entirely ruined and broken up, his wife
sent to an asylum as lunatic, and he
financially bankrupt, for all OF which
he could obtain no redress except that
given by a slow process of law; but
being an energetic man, he preferred
to start in the world anew, rather than
put up with the chances of the laws
slow delay, and without capital, other
than his energy, he set to work, and I
am credibly informed that he has
"struck lie" literally in the Pennsylva-
MIA region, and is in fair way to again
become a half millionaire.
Year: 1873

The value of flannel next the skin
cannot be overrated, says Dio Lewis.
1t is invaluable to persons of both sex
es, and all ages, in all countries, in all
climates, at every season of the year,
for the sick and the well-in brief, I
cannot conceive of any circumstances in
which flannel next the skin isnot COM
fort and O source of health. 1t should
not be changed from thick to thin be-
fore the settled hot weather of the sum-
mer, which in the Northern States is
not much before the middle of June,
and often not before the first of July.
And the fannels for the summer must
not be >three-quarters cotton, but they
must be all WOODEN, if You would have
the best protection.


In the British army and navy they
make the wearing of flannel point of
discipline. During the hot season the
ships doctor makes a daily examina-
tion of the men at unexpected hours to
make sure that they have not left of
their fannels.
Year: 1873

"June IA, 1866, James Sheppard,
alias Johnson, was tried and convicted
in New York, of passing counterfeit
money and Immediately sentenced to be
imprisoned for ten years at hard labor
in the State Prison" Such is the en-
try of that date in the blotter of Lud-
low street Jail. "I'll never go there
they shall kill me first I'll kill myself
before I'll go there |" and various other
ordinations of a similar nature, with
curses loud and deep were uttered by
Sheppard upon his return from court
that day, he, no doubt, being governed
in his utterance by his experience OF
the glorious uncertainties of the law,
for this was the Sheppard who was for
five years confined in the City Prison
upon q charge of arson and wife MUIR
der; who was three times tried for
murder; twice convicted; three times
sentenced to be executed, and once SEN
fenced to the State Prison for life, but
who, during the whole time, never
once left his prison to execute either
one of the sentences. Once they got
him as far as the outer gate, when he
kicked up his heels, 80 that the sheriff
concluded to send for his counsel, be-
fore forcibly taking him to State Prison.
A stay Of proceedings were obtained,
and the legal lore saved him from the
gallows in the first place, and then from
perpetual imprisonment. He insured
a shanty of his, murdered his wife, then
made funeral pile of his shanty and
burned his wife's corpse to crisp !;
then sued the insurance company fer
his loss. This was the evidence the Fire
Marshal brought out on the several
trials, but through all the bubbles of
the law he escaped the punishment he
80 justly deserved.


After his release from the City Prison
he would often apply for permission to
visit there, his only apparent object
being to see in what condition the fell
low who occupied his cell kept it. But,
at last, he was arrested for passing
counterfeit United States currency, and
came up for trial before court where
writs of error and appeals are but little
known, and where, but for his former
career, he would probably have receiv-
ed a much lighter sentence, so that his
great crime may be considered in a
measure punished by the penalty in
ficted upon him for the lesser one.
Year: 1873

4 SINGULAR seizure was recently made
by the police in one Of the principal butcher
shops in Paris, namely, vast number of
petitions i'll favor of the monarchy, which
the master and his men distributed to their
puCtomarc
Year: 1873

JOINT RESOLUTION TO RATIFY THE


AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION


CT THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,


RELATIVE TO THE HOLDING OF


ELECTIONS.


Whereas Article XIV. Of the
constitution of the State of South
Carolina provides that an amend
ment or amendments may be
made to the same; and that such
amendment or amendments shall
be agreed to by two-thirds Of the
members elected to each House,
such amendment or amendments
10 be entered on the journals, re-
spec:iVely, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon and that the same
shall be submitted to the qualified
electors Of the State at the next
genera. election thereafter for
satives; and if a majority
Of the electors qualified to vote
for members of the General AS
semoly, voting thereon, shall vote
in favor of such amendment or
amendments, and two-thirds of
each branch Of the next General
Assembly shall, after such an
election and before another, ratify
the same amendment or amend
Year: 1873

How A PARENT PLAYS INDIAN
AND GETS THE WoRsT OF IT.-A
New Yorker is very much annoy
cd because his two boys have read
so many Indian stories that they
have gone wild with anxiety to
play Indian, to 60 out on the prai-
ric hunting for the real noble red
men. The man was taking q nap
after dinner in his easy chair,
when he was awakened by an
alarming noise and & strange
sensation in his head. lie jump
cd up suddenly and found that
one Of his boys, dressed in q red
table cloth. and his face decorated
with blue paint, was trying to
scalp his father with Z carving
knife, while the other boy, attircd
in blanket shawl and a rooster
feather, fiourishcd q hatchet and
emitted war whoops from behind
= chair and q card table. The
man decided TO put q stop to this
kind of thing. So next day, while
the boys were playing with bows
and arrows in the garden, he
dressed himself in an Indian cos
tune, and jumped over the fence
with wild,unearthly yell, for the
purpose Of frightening those chill
drcn. The oldest boy, howeve:
stood his ground. and drawing an
arrow to the head, IN which was
inserted tenpenny nail, he bu-
ricd it in the chieftain's leg before
he took flight. That night the
father walked up stairs on a crutch
and fogged the family all around
before he sent them to bed. He is
thinking now Of some other way
to effect a cure Of the sanguinary
disposition of his offspring.-Cin-
cinnat Gazette.
Year: 1873

AN ACT CEDlNG THE JURISDICTION


OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CARROLL


Ma TO TIE UNITED STATES OF


AMERICA, OVER CERTAIN LANDS


IN THE COUNTY OF DARLINGTON.


KNOWN AS THE "NATIoNAL GENE


Terry"


Be it enacted by the Senate and
House Of Representatives of the
State Of South Carolina, now met
and sitting in General Assembly,
and by the authority Of the same: {:


SECTION l. That the jurisdiction
Of the State of South Carolina is
hereby ceIcd to the United States
Of America over certain lands sit
uated in the county Of Darlington,
and near the town OF Florence,
known as the "Natioual Gene
terry" Provided, That the jurisdic-
ton hereby ccded shall not vest
until the United States Of Ameri-
ca SHALL have acquired the title
to the said land by grant or deed
from the owner or owners thereof:
and the evidences Of the same
shall have been recorded in the
Office where, by law, the title to
such lands is accorded; and the
United States Of America are to
retain snch Jurisdiction so long as
such lands shall bo used for the
purposes in this act mentioned,
and no longer: and such jurisdic-
tion is granted upon the express
condition that the State Of South
Carolina shall retain 3 concurrent
jurisdiction with the United States
in and over the said lands, so far
as that civil process, in all cases
Year: 1873

A young man Of eighteen or
twenty, a student in university,
took walk one day with q pro-
fessor; who was commonly called
the students friend such was his
kindness TO the young men whom
it was his Office to instruct. While
they were walking together, and
the professor was seeking to lead
the conversation to grave subj
they saw q pair Of old shoes
laying in the path, which they
supposed belonged to poor man
who was at work close by, and
who had nearly finished his days
work.


Theyoung student turned to the
professor saying, 'Let US play
the man a trick we will hide his
shoes and conceal ourselves behind
those bushes, and watch TO sec his
perplexity when he cannot find
them"


"My dear FRIEND" answered the
professor, "we must never amuse
ourselves at the expense Of the
poor. But you are rich and you
may give yourself q much great
er pleasure. Put q dollar into
each shoe and then we shall hide
ourselves"


The student did so, and then
placed himself with the professor
behind the bushes close by through
which they could easily watch
the laborcr, and see whatever
wonder or joy he might express.


The poor man soon finished his
work and went across the field to
the path where he had left his
coat and shoes. While he put on
his coat he slipped one foot into
one of his shoes, but feeling some.
thing hard be stopped down and
found q dollar. Astonishment
and wonder were seen upon his
countcnance; he looked upon the
dollar, turned around and looked
again and again; then he looked
around on all sides but could see
no one. Now he put the money
in his pocket and proceeded to put
on the other shoe, but how great
was his astonishment when he
found the other dollar! His feel
ings over came him, he fell upon
his knees, looked up to heaven
and uttered aloud a fervent thanks
giving, in which he spoke Of his
wife, sick, helpless, and his chill
drcn without bread, whom this
timely bounty, from some unknown
hand, would save from pcrishing.
The young man stood there deep
ly affected and tears filed eyes.
Now" said the professor "are
you not much better pleased than
you had played your intended
trick ?"


80 dearest, sir" answered the
youth, "you have taught me a les
son that l will never forget. l
feel now the words which | never
before understood: at is better to
give than receive.
Year: 1873

It is said that in Scotland one man
in every thousand goes to college ;
Germany the proportion is one for ev-
cry two thousand six hundred; in
England it is one for every FIVE thou.
sand eight hundred.
Year: 1873

At about two O'Clock yesterday morning James
Clark, of AS West Thirty street, and Jere-
miah McGinn, a neighbOr, became engaged In an
altercation while near their residence, and Clark
drew knile, stabbing his opponent severely In
the lace and leg. lie afterwards seemed to have
regretted hts rash act, as he took the wounded
man to the station house, where his injuries were
there McGlnn stated that he had been stabbed by
an unknown person. He was subsequently taken
to his residence, where he told the facts in the
case, and Clark was arrested. He was taken before
Justice Cox at the Jefferson Market Police Court,
where nc was committed to await the result OF
McGnns injuries, which promise to be more
serious than at first supposed.
Year: 1873

Two homicide cases, set down for trial yesterday
IN the Court OF Oyer and Termlner. had to be ad-
tourned owing to the absence OF the Deputy Cor
oners making the post-mortem examination. At
tachments were issued against them and the Court
adjourned till Friday.


The halfmnon dollar prize recently drawn by
Philadelphlan in the Royal Havana Lottery Is still
subject OF litigation in the courts as will be seen
by the report below OF proceedings yesterday in
Supreme Court, Chambers


The tptermnable Navarro water metre case was
set down for argument yesterday, in the Supreme
Court Chambers. before Judge Fancher but owing
to the absence OF one of the counsel the same was
postponed till the Goth inst
Year: 1873

grand profession, 10 wnom might be committed
the defence OF human lie and the protection OF
human property, was not to be measured by the
same standard that governed the payment @ daily
or hourly labor. Brains; zeal and devotion should
be rewarded IN proportion to the great interests
conhded to their care.


Jury found for plaintiff In $3.50.
Year: 1873

Nor Up TO THE REQUIREMENT, The attention
OF the Board OF Health is called to the fact that
one of the city ordinances, referring to the man
ner OF constructing slaughter houses is violated
IN a numUer Of cases. There is one South of
Third street bridge and one at It'll and Locust
that especially needs their attention.
Year: 1873

The President of Typographical Union No.
@, of New York city, states ihu contributions
TO the Greeley Monument fund arc coming in
rapidly from the printers throughout the
country, and that there is every prospect of
success
Year: 1873

Commissioner Carter WAS authorised to
have shade trees set out in the tho court
house square, and present the bill to the
Board at its next session.


The County Attorney was directed to
cause the st. Cloud and LeSsuk road to be
opened.


A deduction Of 5000 wss made from lot
5 block Is, and $3.50 from lot Is block SO,
belonging TO Nicolas Laar.


The Board then adjourned sine die.
Year: 1873

Frank Hall is in deep grief. Yester-
terdsy morning he threw . hstchet ON tho
floor and it struck just ~ fsvorite dog
jumped from table, SO that the tail Of tho
dog came under tho edge Of tho natchet.
Result three inches Of tail for which there
10 no dog, and dog short just three inches
Of tail.
Year: 1873

There is terrible famine In tho but
tor market Tho supply is new reduced to
. fsw score OF veteran rolls, retired long
ago and put on tho pension list lor long
service. The indications are that tho COWS
have formed lesgne, and struck for more
bran and less butter, aud refuse to lot
down. Good butter cannot be had for any
amount Of lucre, neither can affection
hornsvoggle it from its abiding place.
Children cry for it in vain, and parents
sadly push aside their buckwheat cakes
untouched and untasted. The situation is
getting no better fast, and when tho end
viii come no man knows.
Year: 1873

BROKE Hrs ARS.-Thos H. Bullock clerk nj
Williams drug store slipped aud fell upon the
pavement in Market street, between Sixth and
SEVENTH yesterday morning, and broke his right
arm above the elbow. lie was removed to Ills
residence, lis West Eleventh street, where the
fracture was reduced.
Year: 1873

UtlIIbLHGI1
Fashionable and Neat Fitting Boots and Shoes
made to order and warranted A well selected
stock of Machine Sewed Boots Shoes and CATERS
inst received, which Will be sold ~ very reasonable
prices.
Year: 1873

The Mexican Government is determined to enforce a law enacted more than forty years ago, which delegates power to the head of the Government to issue a passport to and cause any unnaturalized foreigner to leave the territory of the Republic whose presence may be perncious to public order, even though the said foreigner may have in- troduced and established himself in accord ance with the rules prescribed by the laws of the State. It Is said that this law is to be enforced in the case of several Americans re- siding at the city of Mexico.
Year: 1873

A struck swain of Chimney Rock,
on the Eureka and Palisade stage road,
has 50 annoyed a young lady of the for
mer place with epistles of sickly senti-
mentality, that she threatens in the Eu-
reka Sentinel to publish them if he does
not cease the annoyance.
Year: 1873

come forward to the front and aid US in
making things better. This VIC cannot do.


if half the good citizens Of Texas viii
neither register nor vote, and sit down lazily,


with-arms folded, but with mouths open and
ever grumbling about matters they will give
no help to make better. We know not what
to make of these men, and hardly what to
say to them. We have exhausted argument
upon them and it seems to do no good.


ssThere are none so blind as those who will
not see." What we have to offer now, as a
last device to get these men to do their
plainest duty, is personal expostulation. In
every county in the State let committees be
appointed to ascertain who have not reg
istered, and call upon them personally and
talk to them and urge the importance of
registration at this particular time. Let
nothing remain unsaid in the way of in
ducement, which would be calculated to
arouse them to prompt action. Then, after
all, if they refuse to take part in the govern
ment of the country, as all good citizens
should, let them be accursed and avoided as
drones and useless members of society, un-
worthy the association or countenance of
good men and patriots. If we use strong
language, it is because we feel deeply on
this subject and cannot mince our words
when the welfare of the State and society
is at stake. Something must be done, and
done quickly, or an ignominious defeat, in
stead of a glorious triumph, may await us.
Year: 1873

George w. Honey v. B. Graham Appeal
from Travis This IS not q suit between She
State and either Of the parties % ihis re.
cord, nor could the State intervene to The
prejudice Of either party. unless It 81 shown
clearly that its rights would be otherwise
prciudiccd. We think no such showing
has been made.


What the Governor may have said in Its
message of the right Of the appellant 10 the
office of State Treasurer cannot affect that
right II the action Of a legislative com
mittee considering an q pafic examination
of the fiscal accounts Of the State TREASURED
is to be taken as conclusive OF the right 81
the Treasurer TO exercise the functions 81
his Office, the Legislature should have aczcd
for itself in the premises The report oI
such committee forms no part Of this ra.
cord, and cannot be considered by us unless
the Legislature had impeached or addrssel
the appellant out Of office.


The commencement Of a suit on the OH.
cial bond Of the Treasurer undetermined br
any court, will not be taken, or considered
as settling the question that the appellant
is or is not defaulter. Neither fraud nor
crime is made out in this way


The motion for rehearing is oqorfuled.
and it is now ordered by the majority of the
court, that the writ of restitution do issue.
directed to George B. Zimpelman, Sheriff 81
Travis county, ordering him, forthwith. Is
reinstate the appellant, George ~ Honey.
in the Office of State Treasurer. pro-
vided that the appellee shall bo allowed.
If he desire it, until Tuesday, the twenty.
eighth instant, to turn over the buildinqs.
books, papers, furniture and all the assets
OF the Treasury to the appellant


Upon the appellant, Honey, executing 10
the appellee his receipt, in duplicate, fortho
same, and, on motion of the Attorney Gen.
eral, it is ordered and adjodged that the
State Of Texas do pay all costs Of this caso
incurred in this and the District Court.


Per Curi7nl.
Year: 1873

1t will be borne in mind that we have
never raised any personal objection to the
candidates nominated by the Burnet Con-
vention. We considered them all good
men and sound Democrats. Our principal
objection was that the frontier counties
were left without representation, and that
they were complaining of this, as we
thought they had the right to do. Now,
for. the sake of perfect harmony and the
full satisfaction of the frontier, we propose
that the new convention renominate the old
ticket with this exception: that in the
place of Judge Walker, who declined the
position, the frontier counties shall be al
lowed representative of their own selec-
tion. The county of Travis and the city
of Austin desire, above all things, the sue
cess of the party ticket at this particular
time, and VIC trust their liberality will be
duly appreciated and remembered. We
think, on the proposed basis, that entire
harmony may be restored.
Year: 1873

THE Journal is trying to make it appear
that we are prosecuting the Germans. We
fought Know Nothingism to the bitter end
and we have ever defended the foreigners
from their enemies in this country, who now
make up the bulk of the Radical party.
Does the Journal deny that there are now
three old Know Nothings on the Radical
ticket9 Its stuff about juries is sheer dem
agogism, not worthy reply. How could
a man sit as juror in an American case,
who could not understand word of Eng
lish, when judge, witnesses and lawyers
could talk nothing else9 The Journal edi-
tor is an ass, andImust take its readers to be
fools.
Year: 1873

ABOUT etime the canvass was beginning
in this State, the negro, Ruby, Chairman of
the Radical State Executive Committee,
gave notice that he was authorized to ar
range joint discussions between Governor
Davis and Judge Coke. Coming through
such an unusual source instead of from
Governor Davis himself, this proposition
was of course very properly ignored Since
then, Judge Coke, meeting his opponent in
Northern Texas, has challenged him to dis
cussion, but the Governor declines. He can
hear of no proposition to that effect except
through Ruby And the same of that great
orator of the journal, the warlike Confed-
crate Colonel, Bob Taylor, when challenged
by Col. Hubbard to joint discussions, he too
throws off on Ruby This shows the offer
of joint discussions was all sham from the
first, as we felt certain it was
Year: 1873

THE Journal of yesterday evening is silent
as the grave on the charges which We have
preferred against the Radical party Are
they to be considered as admitted9 Does
James P. Newcomb, the Secretary of State,
admit that he wrote such letters as we indi-
Gated and charged upon him in express
terms2 If so, how then can he or his party
set up for honest politicians2 Win they
hide their faces in shame2 Again we call
upon the Secretary and editor to deny or
admit it expressly. No dodging. Come to
the point Did you write such letters9
Year: 1873

A CONGRESSIONAL excursion party, NUM-
bering seventy-five, have written to A. n
Hobby, Esq, of Galveston, that they pro-
pose to go through to that city and ask If it
is desired to give them public reception.
SIr. Hobby very properly replies that he
fears the yellow fever, scattered along the
Central Railroad, viii prevent their coming,
but, if they desire to run the risk, the city
will make due provision for them It twould
seem that nothing short Of earthquakes and
volcanoes can stop these excursions, where
nothing is to be paid for eating, drinking
or the ride. We think It about time they
should be stopped. We can see no good
growing out Of them-they are an expense
to somebody for nothing.
Year: 1873

THE decision on the motion for rehearing
in the Honey case, which is published to-
day, possesses certainly very strange in
consistency. It starts out by asserting most
positively that the State is not a party to
the cause, and winds up by adjudging costs
against it. Most assuredly the State will
never pay them when the whole court
agrees to the fact that the State is not one
Of the disputants. It is to be hoped that
such inconsistencies do not often creep into
the Supreme court decisions.
Year: 1873

WE publish from the Chicago Tribune an
article on political blackmailing, showing
what has been going on in that way at St.
Louis, Baltimore and New York The same
thing has been going on here with the
Texas Radicals. A very worthy employee
in the Governors Office was, short time
ago, turned off because he refused to pay
heavy assessment on his salary for political
purposes The Radicals do this every
where, for money in elections is one of
their main reliances.
Year: 1873

TEE State Journal calls our article on the
duty of registration an act of terrorism.
We have no doubt the journal would be
glad if the Democrats would stay away from
the polls and let the carpet -baggers, the
.scalawags and negroes control the State.
There is more terrorism" in this than in
ANYTHING else which could happen.
Year: 1873

the Ee'ss is still inclined to hold on to its
old opinions, but it is evidently shaken
somewhat by the force Of the communica-
ton referred to, and expresses the determi-
nation not to moot the matter further. We
are glad Of this, as we think the Demo
cratic party should be unit on this ques-
tion