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Year: 1870

A SINGULAR CASE INDEED.-Our readers
may remember the recent crime of one Con-
ners, an outside watchman at the State Pris-
on, in Charestown, who seized a small boy
a1d threw him overheard from the Prison
wharf, where he was at play with some other
little boys, though the child plead for his life,
telling the man he could not swim. And
finding the child could not SWIM, yet the bru-
tai man made no effort to save him; did not
so much as throw a bit Of board to the boy.
Corners was arrested and tried, and sentenced
to the State Prison for his crime And during
all the time between his arrest and committal
to prison, remained as Indifferent and impeni-
tent as though he had been entirely innocent.
But Immediately after his Imprisonment con-
science awoke within him. The Nervousness
OF his crime came before him in such strono
and vivid light, that he could find no rest nor
peace, day nor night His appetite failed;
his sleep was broken; his health gave way.
He was then removed to the hospital. But
medicines could not reach bis agolized mind;
he pined to skeleton, and finally died on
Saturday last, of broken heart; but it is
hoped, a true penitent for his unnatural crime.
Boston Traveller.
Year: 1870

at II O'Clock A. NJ, for the purpose of nominating
candidate for Representative to the Forty Second
Congress.


The basis of representation in the convention will
be delegate for each city, town and plantation
and an additional delegate for every hundred votes
cast for the Republican candidate for Congress in
1865. 4 majority fraction will be allowed an add-
Year: 1870

After the usual preliminary service Chaplain Dor
rance selected his text from Malachi, lii and part
OF the eighth verse;


'wILL A MAN ROB GOD ?''


In the context God accuses the Jewish people OF
having left His ordinances and OF neglecting His
worship. He charges them OF robbing Him or titles
and offerings. In this they manifested such a love
for the world, such disregard for His commands,
such feelings OF selnshness, that God charges
them Of being guilty OF fragrant rransgressions and
pronounces curse upon them. AS then SO now
they who withhold what God requires may Justly
expect his curse instead Of his blessing. They are
robbing God Let US briefly consider the nature
guilt and consequences Of robbing G cd. presume
there are none before me tn at will deny they are
sinners both by nature and practice. The evidence
Is too plain to be Denied for 1t Is matter OF con.
seriousness, or experience, OF observation and
no man will deny the evidences OF the senses
But while you admit the fact many are disposed to
view their moral condition more as calamity than
as one OF guilt before God. To be accused OF rob
berry, crime OF such magnitude, such guilt and or
such


DANGER TO THE PEACE


and good order or society, you would feel and per-
haps justly, mat you were grossly slandered, and
demand investigation and prsof Immediately. And
adultery, do rob. They viii rob the government rob
their fellow men, and would eign rob God OF his jus.
tlce turn wee into virtue and rob CRIME OF its punish
them the end sancti1es the means and the good to
be attained divests the means, however wicked, OF
all its guilt DO you ask wherein or in what
particulars your robbery consists We an
sWer, irst, In Withholding from Him your
affections God has right to them. He
is your Creator, your benefactor and preserver.
He formed and endowed the soul with its wonderful
capacities and gifts. Again, robbery consists
in not devoting proper amount OF your time to


THE WORK OF SALVATION.


small Up part OF this y allotted TO man to qualify
time in making dgent preparation TO
enter upon higher and nobler life.
Again we rob God when refuse to cast our ini,l-
ence in favor OF His cause. We all have one com
mon father and are linked together by the ties of
common brotherhood No one is so humble In life
that he does not


WELD AN INFLUENCE


Tor God or Tor Satan, for good or for evil for time
or for eternity. This moral power Is exered and
felt In The family, In society, on board Ship and
everywhere we M go. It y operating silently it may
and through every period OF our life.
Year: 1870

brother sin against me and forgive him TIL seven
times9 Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee,
until seven times: but. until seventy times seven.n


IL was thought In the time or the disciples. by
some, that II u man had been forgiven three times
he had reached


THE EXTENT OF HIS JUSTIFICATION
ana could not be forgiven again. Peter was shown
by The answer OF Jesus that he was wrong,
and that instead OF limiting the forgiveness
OF his Sther to seven times, he should
continue 10 forgive until seventy times seven. The
reverend gentleman then proceeded to show how
very unlorgiving and uncharitabie the world was
While Jesus was always ready to forgive those who
supplicated His pardon. We, like the servants 10
Ihe King were held accountable for our stew ardshp
Some OF us, he feared, were not ready to forgive
as to be forgiven.
Year: 1870

The body OF the unknown man now lying at tho
Morgne is supposed TO be that OF Henry Thompson,
sailor VINO about ten days ago fell from the mast
mead OF the ship Palestine into the river and was
drowned An inquest Will be acid over the remains
by Coroner Schrmcr
Year: 1870

AN II AEHEAIlNG QUESTION
An interesting question has arisen out
of the recent sale to private parties of tho
I Government property at Harper's Ferry.
The purchasers claim that the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad Company have no legal
right to run their road through what was,
until the recent sale, Government reser-
vation. Permission TO run their track
through the Harper's Ferry property was
given the Company by the Secretary of
War thirty years ago. 1t is claimed that
this sale vitiates this permission, and that
two miles Of the railroad track, beng on
the main road to the West, Is By mere
sufIerance on the land of private par
ties.
Year: 1870

There is a good deal Of talk among MEM
hers Of Congress about the income tax,
q some Of them are receiving letters
asking if the tax must be paid this year.
The law is so plain that it would seem as
If no one need to raise this question.
Taxes cannot be laid on this years in
come; but they must be paid this spring
on last years income, and the Revenue
-Bareau are now having the proper blanks
printed. 1t is not yet certain what action
the Ways and Means committee will re-
commend in reference to the continuation
of the tax; but it is not at all likely that
Congress viii re-enact at five per cent
The Democrats generally show disposi-
taon 70 go against the whole thing in any
4rn. but the probabilities are that three
~ cent. win finally be laid, with change
in The exemption.
Year: 1870

Chief Justice Chase, in conversation
with Senator to-day concerning Judge
Hoar, said he was sorry that he was not
confirmed, as in his judgment, and that Of
his associates, he would make a good ap-
pOintment.
Year: 1870

many who have lost their teeth go to never
ending expense in trying to supply the loss, and
in vain, while others are successful in getting
substitutes as useful as it is possible for substi-
tutes to be. without delay or any but the first
outlay. AS may be easily imagined, that now
almost extinct class, the .pugilists, were fire.
quent wearers of false teeth, when their inan-
ces allowed the outlay, and the contrast be-
tween Hercules wearing his borrowed incisors
and the same man when they were out was Of
ten very whim>ical an apparent addition of
absence. 1t is on record that in the middle of
a round one gladiator remembered his fc-
titious teeth, and so, with a word of apology to
his adversary, who grinned his consent, he ran
to his second and deposited in his care the cost
II worries
Year: 1870

QUEER.-We never make greater mistake
than when We sunno>e other people ought to
be as we are: ought to have our habits, our
idlas. our style anu our views. We often hear
people express surprise at the queer ways Of
persons; Just as though every blade of grass
was not queer to the briar and every briar
queer to the rose, and every rose queer to the
other flowers. All leaves are queer to each
other every grain of dust is qeeer; and no
two faces, no two minds, no two characters are
alike. And this is queer too. Persons who
do rot think other people are queer are very
queer people.
Year: 1870

Cork LEGS AND PALPITAToRs. 1t is said
that the inventor of cork legs is dragging out
IA miserable existence in county poor. house,
while The inventors Of false calves, palpitators
and Sundry other articles to adorn the form
divine, revel amid the luxuries of opulence.
L" History repeats itself in the little as well
as the great affairs OF nation, and while many
poor fellow who eft leg on the battle field
has 10y the genius of the inventor of cork legs,
had it replaced in measure, yet an ungrate-
ful people forget the man who has done them
such good service, and permit him to die in
poor house This is Just the difference be.
tween the uses and abuses of genius.
Year: 1870

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature OF the weather for the past twentyour
hours in comparison with the corresponding day or
last year. as indicated ny the Thermometer at
Hudnut's pharmacy HERALD Building, corner or
Year: 1870

We publish this morning the proposed


new Constitution Of Illinois, as adopted BY
the convention at Springfield. During the
next seven weeks this document will DOS.
sess the greatest possible interest to- the
people Of the State, and, as we shall
discuss It's features IN detail hereafter,
We shall not enter upon an. e1amin-
alton of them at this time. Upon the
whole, the new constitution is great
improvement upon tho. old The single
section prohibiting special Legislation is of
inca1culabls value, md ought to secure its
ratification, even though it contained no
other improvement upon the old.
But Here are nany others which
the reader will not fai1 to notice, in perus-
ing the document; and We make no doubt
that the new constitution viii be adopted
by IN overwhelming vote, together with
most of the articles submitted separately,
There is not single section OF paragraph
in the whole instrument of partisan M
ture. There il no reason why q RepubI-
can should be more in favor Of it than a
Democrat, Or Democrat than Repubi-
can. In this respect, the new constitution
appeals to each man as citizen and q tA1-
paycr-as member of = commonwealth
that will live long after existing political
parties ere forgotten. We can see no rca-
son, therefore, why it should not be cor
dially supported by men OF. Ill shades Of
political and religious belief
Year: 1870

The Queen of England did a clever and
characteristic thing at the opening Of the
new building OF the University Of London,
on. Wednesday. Instead of reading the
reply which VILE furnished to her, to the
Year: 1870




Why tits that such a howl is 60
ing up from every Radical paper
in the South, all at once, is easily
discovered. Several weeks ago,
the President contemplated issuing
a proclamation of Universal AM
nesty, and it is feared in Radical
circles that such a proclamation
would be the death knell to their
party. They feel in>ecure, and
their perturbed and overstrained
imaginations cojure up all sorts of
outrages which have only a paper
existence. 1t is not unusual to
chronicle an instance of broken
plighted faith on the part Of this
party. Every one will remember
how loud.mouthed this party were
in the promise, before the election
in this State, Of using their utmost
endeavors, to remove all disabili-
ties, and obtain a general amnesty.
The party made the same promise
in other Southern States. Have
they kept their promises Have
they, in good faith, made the first
step in this direction? No, but on
the contrary they are publishing
these ISLANDERS to the world to pre-
vent a general amnesty, and are
sending emisaries to Washington
for the same purpose,
Year: 1870

where the coolies we're kept, and in q short
time some thirty we're removed to different
localities. During the afternoon the re
naming twelve we're removed in carts.
The removal of the sickest ones was only
determined upon after full consideration
of existing circumstances. 1t was
thought that they could be made comfort
able elsewhere, and the risk of death was
thought to be lessened, as to leave them
was to insure their removal to the ship,
where death was sure to follow In fact,
the captain of the slave ship declared that
he did not care for the loss Of these 10 Ell,
as they would have died before reaching
Callao. The parties who interested them
selves in behalf Of the coolies were hasten
ed somewhat from the fact that the Minis
ter OF Foreign Relations and Second As
sociate Justice of the Supreme Court
were seen in close confab with the agents,
and knowing that their sympathies were
entirely with the master" prompt action
vas considered essential to success. Until
the ship had left it was deemed rrudent
no, 20 betray the whereabouts of the now
freemeu. Every means calculated to pro-
mote the comfort Of all, and the recove ry
Of the sick, was taken which could be.
Year: 1870

From the Journal OF The Telegraph TIthh"'


The press dispatches from Europe to
New York during the last four weeks mum.
bered about one hundred thousand words.
New York has been better posted on the
issue of the war each day than London,
Paris or Berlin. These dispatches have al
most wholly been sent by single daily pa
per, and with marvellous rapidity and
work OF the Telegraph, II mas been a
marvel to US. To hundreds Of thousands
of minds the whole price is and has been a
deep enigma. Here is a man sitting in a
dark room at He rt's Content. The ocean
cable terminates here. A fine wire attach
ed thereto is made to surround two small
cores of soft iron. As the electric wave
produced by few pieces of copper and
zinc at Valentia, passed through the wires,
these cores became magnetic enough to
move the slightest object. A looking
glass, half an inch In diameter, is fixed on
a bar Of iron one tenth Of an inch square
and half an inch long. On this tiny glass
a lamp is made to glare SO that its light is
reflected on tablet on the wall. The
language on the cable is denoted BY the
shifting of this reflected light from side 10
side. Letter by letter is thus expressed in
this fitting idiom in utter silence on the
wall. There is no record made by the ma
chine except as the patient watcher calls
out to comrade the translated flashes as
they come, and which he records. 1t
seems miracle of patience. There is
something of awe creeps over US as We see
the evidence Of a human touch 3, 900 miles
away swaying that line Of light. By such
delicate process as this, and after being
repeated from line to line FIVE times be
fore its ultimate copy is in New York, have
| the late great battles been recorded in our
daily papers with great particularly and
sent throughout the Union. Nothing like
it has ever before been accomplished. The
enterprise of the New York press, of sin
gle press in New York, has eclipsed tha,
of the wealthest and ablest presses in Eu-
rope. 1t is characteristic of the nation to
do its work grandly and we'll.
Year: 1870

1t is astonishing how ve,y small is the
proportion of really good butter, compared
with tie whole amount made. We are fully
aware Of the great nicely and skill required
to produce q really good article OF butter;
but knowing that, 1t is still mystery Why
the proportion of good butter is so small.
1t is we'll settled axiom, that like causes
under like circumstances, produce like "a
suits. The mystery to u Is that knowing
this so WELL our women have not reduced
butter making to q science, so that given
article Of butter might be reproduced q
thousand time. Is there anything about
butter-making that will prevent the app!i
cation Of the above principleI We think
not. because the like circumstances may,
by carefulness, be brought about each
time; and we must conclude that the fail
ure to produce an excellent article OF butter,
after having done it once, IS due to neglect
not necessarily upon the part OF the wife
or daughter; As We we'll know the man
tails to provide proper food for the cows,
OF fails to provide proper place to keep
the milk and cream, as we'll as proper YES
sells to keep 1t In. All Of these necessary
elements In the process OF making good
butter. Cream cannot be kept by the stoUe
in Winter, nor be erposed to the sun IN
Summer, and make really excellent ar
tlcle Of butter. A proper and equal tenn
perature must be preserved, or else the
butter tses in color aud in favor. The
vessels must be kept clean and sweet, and
the utmost care taken in milking and the
straining of the milk to exclude every par
ticle and shadow of filth. Using these
precautions, to be followed first by q
thorough working and washing in clear
cold water another working six hours
after, with little salt added, and q third
working the following morning, and the
butter fully sslted, and placed in cool
place; and We have no doubt that an ex-
celient article Of butter can lie produced,
with a. much regularity as We produce
Brahma chicks from Brahma.


How LONG PARIS CAN HoLD Our -
An interesting letter from NJ Frederick
Gaillardet, patriotic Frenchman and an
intelligent observer, in the Courier des
Etals Unis, depicts the divisions and dan
gers of the French in the darkest colors.
Nor is this gentlemen blind TO the military
prospects by his prejudices or his wishes
He says: Paris will deien1itself heroic
ally. l repeat But it cannot endure Q
long seige without famine, 10 spite of the
abundant stores which have been heaped
up there It must at last surrender,
unless relieved within two months By an
army of at least two hundred thousand
men, organized in the west and south Of
France, or unless Prussia be forced by an
intervention Of the neutral powers to aban.
don the demands DOW put forth by her
journals. and to which ve would not sub
INIT until the ,ste. exhaustier Of .lfi our
resources
Year: 1870




Give me the hand that is kind, warm and ready;
Give me the clasp that is calm, true and steady;
Give me the hand that will never deceive me;
Give me its grasp. that aye may believe thee.
Soft is the palm of the delicate woman;
Hard is the hand of the rough, sturdy yeo-
~ man; sGA 5
Soft palm or hard hand, it matters not-.neVer
Give me the grasp thai is friendly forever
Give me the hand that is true as q brother;
Give me the hand that has harmed not another;
Give me the hand that has never forsworn it;
Give me the grasp that may adore it.
Lovely the palm Of the fair blue-veined maid


en-;


Horny the hand of the workman o'er-Iaden;
Lovely or ugly, it matters not-neverI
Give me the grasp that is friendly forever
Give me the grasp that is honest and hearty,
Free as the breeze and unshackled by party;
Let friendship give me the grasp that becomes
her, 2E
Close as the wine of the vines OF the Summer
I E. Give me the hand that is true as q brother;
7 Give me the nand that has wrsngcd not an


other; .5itl-+ 80 -
Soft palm or hard hand, it matters not-neveri
Give ME the grasp that is friendly forever
Year: 1870

tions; but the skeptic would find ii
hard indeed to convince her Or her
husband tnat her visions were but the
offspring of a mind unhinged by a
passionate grief, and by a secret, half
conscious, irrepressible, ever-present
suspicion of Ronald Levett's truth
She believes that Heaven sent her a
special and supernatural intimation OF
her lovers existence, and of the pur-
pose to betray him; and I do not
know why any one should wish to
reason her out of her belief.-Har-
per's Magazine. 'is5isa '-ii~-d
Year: 1870

A few months ago an ardent swain
in Ohio, having made matters right
with the object of his affections, ap-
piled, as in duty bound, to the Pro-
bate Judge of Lake county for the
necessary document. The marriage
license was duly issued, the, wedding
came off, and the course of true love
was flowing smoothly in defiance, of
the proverb. But, a few days since, a
startling and original missiYe reached
the Probate Judge from the happy
husband. 1t ran to this effect: "DEAR
SIR: got married about two months
ago on the license you gave me. My
wife andI get along first.rate, and are
very we'll suited with each other.-
But my father and mothershave con-
cluded that had better not be mar
ried, and her father and mother think
she had better not, too Now, what
would like'is for you to tell me how
can get free. There is no trouble
between my wife and me /; but the old
folks think that on the whole we had
better stay single. Please inform me
if there is any way we can get shut
of the arrangement. am going out
West, and my wifeis going to stay at
her fathers. II shall be much obliged
if you can give me the advice I want.
Yours respectfully, c f ---- z.'si-.
Year: 1870

Cinnamon are soon to be set
tied in Shelby county, Iowa, for the
purpose of improving and opening up
farms.s This is simplyan experiment;


but if it proves successful, a largo


number are to be brought in.
Year: 1870

fashionable danes and demoiselles of
Paris, who had to be vaccinuated during the
reign Of small pox spared the Disagreement
of their arms at the expense of their legs.
There WAS a great excitement among the
younger surgeons.
Year: 1870

If no tidings are received OF the City Of
Boston, she will be the fourth ocean steamer
that has vanished with ali On board. The
others are the President, City of Glasgow
and the Pacific
Year: 1870

Can be made by any one with the American Knitting Machine, knitting stockings. &c., while expert operators can even make more knitting fancy work, which always command a ready sale. A person can readily knit from twelve to fifteen pairs of stockings per day, the profit on which will not be less than for tY cents per pair.
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib, the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten- ed by single bolts, bringing the crib on the level with the bedstead The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down over the mattress when not in use. The when closed in. Each bedstead can have single
Year: 1870

The following record will show the changes In the
temperature OF the weather for the past twenty
hours IN comparison with the corresponding day OF
last year. indicated by the thermometer at HGd-
nuts pharmacy, HERALD Building Broadway, COR
Year: 1870

Tomorrow being the sixth anniversary OF the
death of the late Archbishop Hughes solemn high
mass OF requiem will be celebrated in st. Patrck's
cathedral at ten O'CLOCK A. M for tue reposc VI his
Year: 1870

1t possesses the very great advantage
of carrying the work in the natural way
from left to right--which enables the
operator to handle the work more readily
and to sit upright; while machines which
carry the work from the operatorrequire
an inclination Of the body forward (detri-
mental to healthy and are hard and tire
some to use. lul tas -ra a4s
Year: 1870

The LOCK STITCH which it
makes is more durable and beautiful than


any other, presenting the same appear
ance on both sides of the fabric and will
not ravel. 1t is also more economical,
recurring oYE-TnIRD LESS cotton than


any OF. er kind of stitch. Being the same
on both sides, it is not necessary to use


the extremely fine sewing cotton required
by those machines which make a stitch
with a ridge onthe under side, which can


only be concealed by using thread too
delicate and fine to bear ordinary wear.