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Year: 1871

TnE WILTON ELoPEMENT CAsE.-The
name Of the teacher who eloped with
one of hi, Young lady pupils, was Dr.
Albion Cobb who had been Principal
of TIE Wilton Academy and who taught
the school in the Upper Village in that
town the past winter. The young lad.
belonged in Pennington, to one of the
best families. was well educated, aud
has heretofore borne an irreproachable
character. The blow is a terrible one
to the family, who would rather a
| thousand times have buried their daugh-
ter than To know OF the shame and dis
| grace to which she has thus been
| brought. She was in not very good
| health and was put i'll Cobb's care by
/ her parents, who placed the most i'm
plicit confidence in him as a teacher and
medical adviser. When too i'll to at
tend school it was his custom to visit
her room for the purpose of hearing her
recitations, on which occasions, un-
doubtedly, he succeeded in accomplish
lAg bis purpose.


The affair created great Indignation
in Pennington, and the editor of the
Chronicle declares:


ave sometimes think that the law
ought to be set aside in such instances
and that the outraged parents should be
judges. jury and cxecutioner We
would by no means encourage lawless.
ness in a law abiding community, but
it the Young lady were our daughter
or even sister, the bullet would have te
do its work wherever We came in con
tact with the vile rascal; and we shoule
not consider ourselves responsible fol
thus Kidding the world of such a mon
ster.'
Year: 1871

queen of months. | will just add as
close this meagre description of this
day. that Lafayette in day or two,
continued his tour into Maine, and the
same observer travelled on the road
week later. and numerous evidences
bore testimony to the zeal and taste of
the country through which he must
needs pass. Bridges and narrow
deiiles were surmounted by arches
of evergreen, well studded with fIow-
ers : ami many other devices were used
Ia bring out the name of Lafayette
too numerous for particular description
here.
Year: 1871

A comic story is told Of Dean Stanlev's
parrot, which was a great pet of the
whole family. One dav Poll, managed
to open her cage and get away to the
CONSERVATION of the whole household.
After great search some one found
Polly in the garden on the top Of an
apple tree. The welcome news was
communicated to the dean, who, with
whole of the imates rushed out at once,
accompanied. by DR.. Vaughn, who,
with some friends, was then on visit
to the dean. Polly was found swing
ing herself in the topmOst branch, but
when she discovered the large audience
below, she looked gravely dow at them
and said, ''Let US pray"
Year: 1871

ARE you afflicted with pains in the side
q cough, or splitting of blood, such are some
Of the symptOns of consumption. Lose no
time in securing few bottles of DIR. Bells
invaluable remedy.


Inquire for the Balsam of Alpine Moss.
See advertisement in this paper.
Year: 1871

What strange and often terrible TRACE
dies are recorded in the papers. Here is
an account from place on Long Island OF
two sisters, aged women, who have long
lived together in a dilapidated house.
They seldom went out, and no one knew
how they lived, but it was generally un-
derstood that they had plenty Of funds
One Of the pair was insane, and, doubt
less, motives of delicacy induced the other
to lead this secluded life with her, The
mere thought Of this lonely existence
with no companion but maniac, is shock
ing to think of, and it recalls the horrid
creature in Charlotte Bronte's wonderful
novel. Yet these tive lived thus fol
years, until lately the neighbors noticing
an unusual quiet about the house took
alarm and forced the door. Within they
found the dead body Of one sister in an
advanced state Of decomposition, and the
other-destitute of sense, yet still possess
ing a sisterly dcyotion-was patiently
watching beside the remains. What a
subject for the novelist or poet, and what
lesson it teaches of the indestructibility
of human affection.-New York Evening
Mail.
Year: 1871

And take great pleasure proclamng the BEST SELECTED and
MOST COMPLETE STOCK they have offered


bought New York and 51 BanGTs sst from the the Best
therefore enabled to SELL CHEAP and this intend do


We keep EVERYTHING usually found in First Glass Village
esucha L-.-.
Year: 1871

But there is art, the most consllm


mate art, in appearing absolutely
frank, yet never telling anything
which is not wished to be known,


i'll being pleasantly chatty and con
versational, yet never committing
ones self to statement or an opin-
ion which might be used against
one atterward--ars celds Grtem, in


keeping ones own counsel as we'll
as in other things. 1t is only after
a long acquaintance with a person
of this kind that you find out that


he has been substantially reticent
throughout, though apparently so
frank. Caught by his easy manner,
his genial talk, his ready sympathy,
YOU have conftled to him not only
all YOU have of your own, but all
YOU have of other peoples and it
is only long after when you reflect
quietly, undisturbed by the magne-
tism of his presence, that you come
to the knowledge of how reticent he
has been in the midst of this seem
ing frankness, and how little reciprocl
ty there has beenin your condolences
together. You know such people
for years and you never know re
ally more of them at the end than
YOU did in the beginning. You can
not lay your finger on a fact that
would in any way place them in
your power; and though you did
not notice it at the time, and don't
know how it has been done-now
you feel that they have never trus-
ted You, and have all along careful
" avoided anything like confidence
But YOU are at their mercy by your
own rashness, and if they do not
destroy you it is because they are
reticent for you as well as toward
YOU; perhaps because they are good,
natured, perhaps because they des


pise yott for your very frankness too
much to hurt you but, above all
things, not because they are unable


How you hate them when you think
of the skill with which they took all
that was offered to them, yet never
let you see they gave nothing back
for their own part-rather by the
jugglery Of manner, made you be
lieve they were giving back as much
as they were receiving! Per


haps it was a little ungenerous


but they had the right to argue thai
if you could not keep your own coun


sci YOU would not be likely to keel
theirs, and it was only kind at the
time to let you hookwink yourself
so that you might not be offended
In manner genial, frank, conversa
tional, sympathetic substance alb
solutely secret, cautious, never takel
off their guard, never seduced int
dangerous condolences, as carefu
for their friends as they art
for themselves, and careful ev
en- for strangers even unknown
to them-these people are the saliva
ton. as they are the charm, OF SO
ciety; never making mischief, and
| by their habitual reticence, raisin!
up barriers at which gossip halt


and r1mor dies Saturday Review
Year: 1871

A young lady saw in a wicked pa
per, that if two young ladies would
each take a pole OF agalvanic bat
terry in one hand, and then complete
the circuit by kissing, that the sen
sation upon the lips was exactly that
Of the pressure Of a moustache. She
communicated the fact to a number
Of friends a battery was secured
and the experiment tried, and found
to work to a charm. A large num-
Der of pocket batteries have been
ordered.
Year: 1871

\ bachelor who has lived in NOR
tai fear of talking women, says he
would like to marry the celebrated
beauty who has been asleep for
twenty years. But he wants to be
assured that she never talks in her
sleep.
Year: 1871

It is certainly a curious chemical
fact that the substances required to
form common table salt are both OF
them poisonous-chlorine and So
dunn. Mo- one can use either OF
these articles separately with safety,
and yet combine them, and they
form a substance necessary to
health, and one found upon every
table.
Year: 1871

Salt makes us squirm just in proper
tion as We are sore.


If you are of great value expect
great trials and crosses. 1t always
takes the grindstone to develop the
full worth of the diamond.


Some of us speak words that
touch roughly the character or bus
mess of our neighbors and they think
little of it, when the mere thought OF
a tune on Sunday quicker than Old
Hundred gives us a regular electric
shock of horror.


Mentally, as well as physically,
food can be concentrated. The bread
is always best for health that con
tains bran enough to digest it easily
Question political fame very close
", my friend, ere you commit a
good name to it's keeping.


I am still disposed to think that,
on a pinch, politicians can repent
and be saved. But / confess | find
very few ON the way, as yet, and
fewer still who are satisfied they
have got far enough along to be
able to indulge " a lively hope"
/ sometimes think poverty was
brought into the world for the spe.
cial benefit of the lazy man on the
principle, tou know, that a mud tur
| tie always goes faster if he has a
coal of fire on his back.


Have you been unfortunate :? And
would you really like to test the
sympathy Of the friend who has giv
en- YOU the warnlest, most cheering
words? Ask him to loan you a dol
lar.
Here is man. You can draw
knowledge from him just as you
draw water from a well. AS offer
as a bucketful comes up anothel
comes in. Do you know why? Ill
has only learned the secrets OF men
| tai we'll digging-gonetil till he tapped
a vein running out into the bound
/ less revelations of nature. Ant
now he has set to work and wallet
and curbed the way to it. That i
all.


But here is another. Draw from
him at all largely and you exhaus
4 him. He is a cistern--a reservoir
oniy-stoned and smoothly MOI
tared up before getting down to


single vein of living water. Ever
emergency exhausts him, and ther
is no other way but to shut dow


the cover, adjust the spout, an
court another drizzling book-rain t
recuperate with.-[Cincinnati Times
Year: 1871

Citizens or strangers who wish business
education for themselves or sons are invited to
call


Students can enter in any Or all the depart
ments of the College at any time


When clubs of three or more enter at the
same time from the same place. ten per cent
deduction will be made.


BOARD AND LODGING 25sPer MONTH.
Year: 1871

The People of this City and State, in their
election of yesterday, proclaimed their adhe-
sion to the Divine mandate thundered from
Sinai" THOU SHALT NOT sTEALn This is the
meaning, this the moral of the verdict, which
had very little reference to party politics. Re-
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES outrages-Protection-
Civil Service Reform-the next Presidential
contest-each and all are we'll in their way;
but the People of our State thought little
and those of our City nothing at all of them.
They were moved to unwonted energy and
activity by conclusive evidence of corruption,
rascality, and robbery, perpetrated by a
portion of their rulers. The plum
derers and their accomplices were not
all of one party, but the more oon-
spicuous and powerful among them were
so and the People struck at these as their
readiest and surest means Of rebuking, arrest
ing, and Furnishing, the crimes which were
sapping the foundations of republican free
dom. They could not readily strike all those
"hO A~o oOuooA IuoAk COuuucuCt. 80 Ll6y
dealt decisively with the worst offenders, and
reserved the rest for the next Opportunity.
That 10 the eist Of the matter.


Ifethe result shall seem less than complete
Republican triumph, it is 80 only because the
Rep1blicanS in some instances presented can
didateS who were popularly identified with
the frauds and robberies Of the Tammany
Ring, or with others hardly less nefarious.
Had all our candidates been free from that
contamination, the State would have
been swept from Montauk to Lake
Erie with purifying tornado which would
have left no trace of Democratic ascendency
within it's reach. Had no man suspected of
earning stolen money by doing the bidding of
Tweed been o Republican candidate for any
Year: 1871

The city was never more quiet on an election
night There were the usual number Of bonres but the
crowds Of drunken Democratic voters. wildly cheering
for their successful candidates. were lacking. By
O'Clock the city had resumed s usual quiet and there
was little indicate the fact that 1t had just passed
through the exciting election Rat had taken psoe
In many years.


At the Headquarters Of the Reformed Democracy In
Apollo Hall, at Twentyeighth-st. and Broadway List
evening, Henry Morrison PRESIDED and introduced
numerous speakers large audience, enthusiastic over
the defeat Of Tammany. The returns were also rcsd
amid the greatest applause.


At the Manhattan Club House in Fiftheye., the cort
dors were crowded With members and their friends who
had come discuss the election and ascertain the 10
turns They admitted thahe political prospect for their
party in this State very gloomy They had given up
the state O'Clock in the evening long before any
official returns could be received.


The Committee OF Seventy did not meet last evening Al
their headQuarters Broadway and Twenty secondst.
but held secret session at No. 80 UnOnsquare, tho 10
suit Of which viii soon be made public.
Year: 1871




THE hattie that ended last night was only
the first movement in campaign which must
be long and severe. A system of wrong forti-
fed by years of impunity, supplied with un-
limited money, and defended by hundred
thousand desperate and devoted men, cannot
be oyerthrown in single effort. If we had
carried, yesterday, every election district In
the State our task would still have been only
begun. Corruption has invaded every depart
ment of the Government. Mere vulgar theft
and forgery have fourished more 10 this city
than elsewhere but the taint OF fraud
is on every Office, from the Governors
down to the petty constables. The sense Oh
official honor has been almost lost under
rule of roguery which permits reputable gen
tlemen to profit by fraudulent elections, and
miscounts them into power side by side with
bar-room strikers and rufians OF the Sixth
Ward. When the highest State officers are
controlled by common swindlers like Tweed,
the Legislature bought and sold like herd
of cattle, the courts prostituted to the uses or
gamblers, debauchees and freebootcrs OF the
stock k-market, robbery unchecked IN all the
municipal departments, and the suffrage
practically withheld from honest voters, it is
plain that we must have hard fight before
thorough reform can be established. We
have made a splendid start but we have
done no more. We have reused the public
conscience. We have brought into the field
class of citizens who have never interfered in
politics before. We have opened the eyes of
respectable people to the danger which has
been incurred through their neglect of polti-
cal duties We have forced our conventions
to nominate in the average, better class of
candidates than we arc used to, though to this
there have been some shameful exceptions.
And if we can keep alive the wholesome ex-
citement, there need be no fear of our future.


The attempt to put no nest men into Office
being now over, we must go back with re-
doubled energy to the work of exposing and
furnishing the guilty. Tweed, Garvey, Inger-
soil, Woodward Connolly, Hall, Fields, Genet,
are still unwhipped of justice. Push<he pros
ecutions against them without mercy. Drag
their shameful secrets to the light. Recover
whatever can be reached Of their plunder; but
above all things show that the law Is no re
specter of persons, and that Tammany cannot
save thief from Jail. We may forget the
| shame of William NJ. Tweed's reelection
| to the Senate when we see him ar
raigned at the bar for felony, and
bear our heavy debt with cheerfulness for
the sake of the moral lesson taught by send
ing few official swindlers to Sing Sing.
This for the present is the great popular
issue. Party politics must be forgotten in the
union of all honest men to demand justice.
Before the Legislature, before the courts, in
the newspapers, in the clubs, in all the centers
of public opinion, let us press this duty of the
day. At the next election we shall find our
strength multiplied, and weakened reformers
will have courage enough to discard the mis-
chievous help of such agents as O'Brien. So
then, take heart, honest citizens; the good
cause prospers; victory beckons us forward
the fight goes on
Year: 1871

Have we or not, ever noticed the Flower Mis-
sion in Boston If we have, a second mention
will do no harm. The work of the ladies carrying
on this Mission is to distribute fruit and flowers
among the sick in the poorer homes and in hospitals
Never was q more fragrant Annual Report The
ladies during the year have carried to the i'll and suf
fering ST. nosegays and 67S parcels of fruit There
was particular distribution Of 2.075 pond lilies.
Outside the city, "a towns sent contributions. There


Is branch of the Mission in Chelsea and another in
Cambridge. And why should not alms-givng have


Its poetical side AS in everything else 1t Is true
that the prose of charity is Of the first importance


1t is Of small if we may use Goldsmiths illustra-
tion to send ruffies to those who have no shirts.
The blankets the fannel, the bread, the beef-tea,
the Goals must have precedence; but when we find


ladies bearing flowers to the stricken objects Of their
compassion, we may be sure that the weighter mat
ters of relief will not be neglected. Delicate atten-
tions and graceful ministrations show that those
who promote them have fully comprehended the
wants both Of the body and the soul.
Year: 1871

The resignation by Mr.. Peter B. Sweeny Of
the Office of Commissioner of Public Parks is o
formal acknowledgment Of his private. opinion
that the present is o good time to leave the
Tammany Ring. Defeat and disaster have
overtaken the once prosperous and naughty
organization, and Mr.. Sweeny, with commend
able Circumspection, gets out of the way. The
retiring Commissioner Confesses that he has
stayed in the Office latterly for the sake of
securing the success of the Democratic party
and its candidates. The appearances are that
that party has not of late been helped to
much success by anybody in office, or out
of it.
Year: 1871

several provinces, and refuse TO enter Enc
Vienna Assembly until their demands are con-
piled with. The CEechs insist upon 1t that
there shall be o kingdom Of Bohemia entirely
independent OF German dictation. The Poles
claim almost absolute independence for. Gal
icia. The' seeds Of revolt are beginning TO
germinate in every one of the seventeen dit-
ferent provinces which were welded together
to form the Empire of Austria. The Czechish
demand is by no means 90 simple md reason
able as that Of Hungary. The Magyars were
o strong and homogeneous people, and when
their autonomy was granted by Austria IL
seemed as if both countries were benefited by
the change. The Hungarmns got their free
dom and the Empire gained q strong and
energetic coadjutor in place of discontented
and mutinous vassal. But in the Slavonic
regions which are now wrangling for their
Germans, amounting to two-fifths of the pop
ulatiOn, who have some right to insist that
they shall not be given up to the mercy Of an
alien and hostile nationality.


On the other hand the German party are BY
NO means gentle and conciliatory in their
bearing toward their unsatsfed Shvonic
brethren. The conduct of the boys at the
University is to great extent characteristic
of the entire German population. They feel
they are the better race, more intelligent
moro civilized, better educated, better
fitted to govern than the Czechs and
Poles. They will not see that in the weak
ness of human nature in the Nineteenth Cen
tury, it is not possible to expect that any
people should consent to be ruled better than
they can do it themselves.


1t is not probable that the KeIlersperg min
istry is destined to succeed in solving the
problem which Herbst and Giskra, in one
direction, Potoci and Hohenwart in the
other, have attempted and failed. IL it be
true that the reactionary influences Of the
palace, and especially the wife and mother OF
the Emperor, have succeeded at last in eradi-
eating from the Government those liberal ten
denotes which found their embodiment IN the
Protestant Chancellor the event may prove
scarcely less disastrous than the defeat OF
SadOWa,
Year: 1871

of legislation for all classes, and we've not
ready to pledge themselves to any special leg
islation whatever. The reported compact has
looked like an impossibility from the first, and
its final explosion will surprise nome probably,
but those newspapers which have made 30
much sensational capital Of a trivial affair.
Year: 1871

The much-vaunted agreement between, the
Lords and the English woHkingmen has been
gradually pared down until we have only the
pitiful remainder of the memorandum OF the
Lords, republiShed in our columns from ZAs
London Times. From this it appears that the
representatives of the Conservatives never
agreed to do anything marc than have gem
eral and patriarchal oversight OF the welfare
of the laboring men, As they understood it.


They expressly declared themselves in favor
Year: 1871

The Colorado colonies continue to justify
their early promise of success. A letter from
a correspondent of THE TRIBUNE is herewith
published giving an account of what he saw
and heard during late visit to the Chicago
Colony, which seems not only AOurishing, but
in q condition of assured prosperity.
Year: 1871

Now let us see the Democrats try to count
ont HOratiO N. TwOmbly again They'll find
his majority too serious to trihe with, and an
adverse majority in the Legislature in the
same mood.
Year: 1871

There is nothing which adds so much
to young mans success in lifc-next
to honesty of purpose-as the practice Of
good manners A polite man will show
his breeding wherever he goes-on the
side walk, in the buggy, as well as in
your parlor. If you meet man who re-
fuses to give you half the road, or to
turn out on the sidewalk, you may
class him as man with no sense of
justice In his soul. When we speak of
polite men, we do not wish to be under
stood as referring to one who bows low
and takes off his hat to ladies and men
OF position, and turns away from the
poor man, but we mean the honest face
the man who always carries n smile
ON his countenance, and who never
turns his face away from the poor
we mean the man who has kind
SALVATION when he meets you In the
morning, and pleasant "Good Night


in the evening man whose face is tn,
index of his heart; which is always
bound to succeed. Such one will al


ways find friends. Young men be polite
Year: 1871

There are many persons whose relig'
ion consists in finding fault with min
listers. Nor are they all of the world.
Some church-members think this one of
the privileges Of their profession. And
as Satan desired to sift Simon as wheat
so they sift the character and life of their
minister. Every word he speaks and
every act he performs, in private AMI
in public, at homo and abroad, must be
weighed in their balance, and If he is
found wanting, they must post up the
Church and the world ia reference to
his defects and inhrmities. This part
of religion must be attended to by some
one. "All members have not the same
office" And as they have peculiar
taste, If not talent, for finding fault, and
no relish for anything more spiritual,
they are faithful in pointing out his
real and imaginary defects. And thus
they save him from that woe which
Christ said rested on ministers when al |
men spoke we'll of them. Exchange.