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Year: 1873

JUDGE MCFADDEN AT HIS OLD HexE.-


The Washington (Penn.) Telegraph
of the 18th ult., contains the following
notice Of our Delegate:


We were rejoiced to meet this gentle
man who reached here on Saturday
evening last on his way to the national
capital as Delegate to Congress from
Washington Territory. Mr.. McFadden
as is known to many Of our readers, is
a native of this country, having been
born in West Middletown where his
mother and sister still reside. Twenty
years ago he was appointed to a Judge
ship in Oregon by President Pierce and
removed with his family to the Pacific
coast. After remaining in Oregon for
time he was transferred to Washing
ton Territory where he has made his
home ever since. Having been chosen
to represent his Territory in Congress
he cores back after his long absence to
revisit for few days the scenes of his
early life and receive the hearty con
gratulations of old friends upon his de-
served promotion. Time has whitened
his locks somewhat, but has not frozen
"the genial current of his soul " for he
is in excellent health AMI spirits and
shows himself the same clever, high
toned and large hearted gentleman he
was when he took his departure from
our midst.
Year: 1873

BEND NE YoUR PAPER. MANY
tlmes in the year is this request made
by friends. casual acquaintance, and
even strangers living at distances fror,
US, without seeming to give t. ouobt
to the difficulty of collecting the SINAI,
amount of the subscription in 8 distant
place. or ths serious loss 20 us of a great
num5er of such subscriptions, the pay
nent OF Which is never thought of after
wa-us unless personally solicited. We
have hundreds of dollars of such &C.
counts standing out against men of un-
questionable responsibility, from which
we do not expect ever to realize a dollar.
and the men who made the orders would
have deemed it personal insult had we
refused to trust them for the paper.
This is one of the penalties that printers
are compelled to pay to other peoples
thoughtlessness. Who would think of
travelling through the country and get
ting his hotel bills all Oh credit, to be
paid if he ever happened to go that way
again? Many do not hesitate to ask
printer in a distant town to take the
same risk, and never give the matter
thought afterwards.
Year: 1873




Concerning the cutting down Of
salaries by the Iowa Legislature, the
Fairfield Ledger makes the following
very sensible remarks:


"The Legislature cut down the
pay OF Supervisors, while engaged
on COMMITTEES work to 81. so per day.
This is an insult to any competent
man who may serve as Supervisor.
Does the Legislature suppose any
man is going to give his time to tho
public interests for $3.50 per day !?
Does the Legislature suppose any
competent man will look at the
office ? It is : direct premium TO
lncompstency, and no competent
man will consent to servo on the
board. One dollar and fifty cents .
day, and his board aud expenses to
ray out Of that There is no honor
connected with the office to make up
for the insufficient pay"
Year: 1873

ALFRED WALTON. Druggist. No. 2S5 Marks
street. respectfully informs his friend and the public
ID general that he keeps hand all descriptions OF
medicines. and that a competent person is at all
times ready to prescribe for such sick as call At tha
STORE and that charge is made except the regular
price of the medicines. the rice as they would
pay anywhere else; but that ne one Is visited at
their residences
Year: 1873

JUMPED FROM TRATN.--A constable was on
the down tram on Saturday last with a prisoner
in charge, but while running at fnil speed be-
tween FELTON, and Harrington he jumped of. lie
was Topped over against the railroad bank sever
al times bat before the tram could be stopped he
was making good time across tho lids. He had
robbed the depot at Harrington
Year: 1873

Once upon time some resident
upon the line of an eastern road
took umbrage at his treatment 10y
its officers in the matter of a slain
COW or an overcharge on freight
Thereafter he presisted in refusing
to buy ticket at the ticket-oflice
and invariably paid his fair on the
train, proceeding which involved
an extra ten cents on each occa'
sion.


AS he was almost daily passen
ger, this proceeding excited the
curiosity of the conductor, who one
day said:


"Why don't you buy your ticke
at the office! 1t would save yo'
money, and me a deal of trouble


81 dare say" said the passenger
looking up dryly; " but I've got
spite against this company, and Nv
taken an oath that they'll never sc
cent of my money ~
Year: 1873

A certain baggage-smasher on
the Wilmington and Baltimore
Railroad had fearful attack Of
nightmare the other evening. He
dreamed that some man came along
to his car with splendid new trunk
that had never been touched. And
the dreamer got hold of that trunk
and soused it down upon the floor
three or four times, and jumped on
it, and hacked it up with an AK,
and split coal oil on it, and smear
cd il with chalk marks. And then
he dreamed that he pitched it out
of the car, and was about to ex-
plode lleg of gunpowder underit,
when the engine of the down train
struck him and he awolIc. lie
found his wife standing over him
with chair, and rapping him on
the head with earncstness. In his
sleep he had holdof the haby's crib,
and had been waltzing around the
room with it, up against the wall,
and pounding it with the pitcher,
and trying to heave it out Of the
window, while the infant, spilled
upon the floor, yelled like a brigade
of Shoshone Indians. 1t was the
conclusion of the chair in the hands
of the indignant woman that made
him dream about the locomotive
striking him. When his friends
now ask him the meaning Of thoso
bumps upon his forehead he says
nothing, but seizes the nearest
valise and goes through all the ex


ercises that he dreamed about.
Year: 1873

"OLIvE HARPER" writes TO the ST.
Louis Globe from Vienna that she is "last
imblbing the customs ol the country
that Is beer drinking. She says they tell
her that mo person can be well in Ger
many who does not drink beer" AS
proof Of the theory that beer is harmless
she cites the case of u young girl who be.
longs in Vienna, who is delicate as q lily
in appearance and who takes her eight
glasses Of beer regularly every day. Olive,
who has had California experience with
lleas. says the German tleas excel CalilOr.
MIA tleas, in ''pure Cusscdness," thousand
fold. They bother one all the time, but
they Rre fearful in their wickedness in
public where they know you cannot
hurt them" A woman with flea on her
III public is a helpless object and is to be
COmmiserated, for while man can scratch
and dig with impunity-il not with per.
feet prOpriety-G woman must sit and
take It without even squirming, TO say
nothing of scratching.
Year: 1873

TIE reader who heard very low and
distant rumble in the west about eight
o'clock last night, producing an effect not
unlike the beating Of an immense gong,
will find the explanation Of the phenome'
non in our Columbus dispatch. The
Democratic candidate Ior Governor made
speech there last evening
Year: 1873

\ murder Of q most shocking char


acter was committed on Thursday


last, near Ridgeview, Mount Pleas
ant tp, WestmOreland county, eight


miles southeast Of Greensburg. The


tragedy was peculiar in that the mur-
derer Is a lad of fifteen, his victim 4
companion aged nine years, and the
killing was the result of a quarrel
over some sugar The facts are these:
George Schaum, whose parents reside
in the vicinity of MOccasin hollow,


was sent by his mother, Thursday af-
ternoon last, to the store of J. VI.


Keck, at Ridgeyiew, about mile dis
tant, for some groceries and medi-
cine He obtained the articles and
left the store, but never reached home.


Late in the evening his parents went
! to search for him, and learned from q
neighbOr woman that be had been on
the road in company with Timothy


Bacon, a boy of the neighbOrhOod,
five or six years older than Sehaum,
and that they had been quarreling
about some sugar. This was all the
information they could obtain that
night, and of course the parents of
the missing boy became very much
alarmed Friday morning the search
was renewed, but it was not until
noon that the murder was developed.
Two boys named Slater, in passing
along near where the boys were re-
ported to have had their quarrel, dis
covered large pile of leaves heaped
up against log, and on pulling them
away were Mortified to find the dead


body of the missing boy. 1t had
been dragged some distance, and
covered up with leaves A spot was
found where the murderer had at
tempted to dig hole in the ground,
evidently with the intention of cover
ing up the body with earth, but the
more convenient method was adopt
ed A hickory switch or stick, was
found near the scene of the murder,
and with this the boy had betn beat
en- to death-his skull having been
fractured in several places, and the
body badly bruised. The boys spread
the news, and soon the farmers of the
neighborhood gathered about, and
search was at once made for the al
legged murderer, Timothy Bacon. The
constable of the township went to the
house of Mr. Dillon, stepfather of Bs-
con, and found the boy in the barn.
At first he denied his guilt but,
when taken before Justice Fassold,
and told that he had been seen quar-
reling with George on theroad home
from the store, be admitted that he had
struck him with the stick because he
would not give him the pound Of su-
gar he had purchased. He was-then
committed to Greensburg jail to
await a further hearing. The deceas-
ed is represented as a bright and in
telligent boy, but the prisoner is re-
ported to be lacking in mental bal
ance. 1t is said that his grandfather
had been convicted of murder, and
that his father committed suicide
while laboring under religious excite
ment. There may, therefore, be some
hereditary disposition to violence in
the accused, or he may be non COM
pos. The testimony against him is
thus far circumstantial, but there
seems to be littlt doubt that he is the
guilty party.
Year: 1873

Somewhere an ancient city stands.


A beautiful city by the sea,
And moss grown gables seem to frown
From the pointed roofs of the houses brown
That line the streets of this lu1in. oil town.
Or that city by the sea.
Never a sound OF clamOrous strife
Disturbs this city by the sea;
But calm and sweet Is the tranquil day
The white sails ride on the moonlit hay
Or slip their moorings and float away


From this city by the sea.
Sometimes at eve, when the tide goes out,


a troop of children, glad and free,
GambOl and shout-a merry band;
Or over the shining, sca-wet sand,
Go two young lovers hand in hand,


From this city by the sea.
Oten and often set and think


ofthis beautiful city by the sea,
Till see the flush of the crimson sky,
And the youthful lovers, fond and shy,
And the snow-whitc sails as the ships go by


Past this city by the sea.
Is IL a picture-or a dream


Whose haunting memories come to me?
Or did l somewhere, long ago
Pace the shining sands when the tide was low
Hear the murnuring sea-waycs ebb and flow
And watch the white sails cor,e and go


Past this city by the sea?
Year: 1873

The Position OF A HOUSE.
ON streets running nearly north and
south are far preferable to those located
on those goin east and west, in
sanitary estimate. In the first. here at
the north of the equator, the sun shines
brilliantly in the forenoon on the front,
and with nearly equal force in the after
noon on the rear. Thus dampuess is
expelled, and the whole edifce is dry
and the air far purer for its solar expo
sure. If house is on an east and west
street, those fronting north are decidedly
the best for a residence, because the
suns action on the yard, the kitchen,
and usual regions of neglected accumu.
lations, purifes and modifes the humid
atmosphere that is sure to predominant
in yards and the backside of houses
whose rear is north Of the street. Thus
crcumstanced, the back rooms are never
so pleasant, cheerful or economically
warmed in winter or ventilated in sum-
mer as when on the south side. Open
ing on the street the front of such gets
both light and air by reason of the fire.
quent swing of the front door.
Year: 1873

a Judge OF the Superior Court of New


ork city has decided unon an applica.
ton for an in junction that sbeas con


structed over sidewalks arc w;tbout any
authority OF law-that they caunot even


be legalized by the Legisia,ure-as no
one has or can have right to occunv tha


public streets Tor private purposes Even


the long continued practice in this reoar3
does not give it the sanction oflaw. The
party erecting the shed in this case was =
grocer, and had a license to build from the
Corporation but the owner of the build


ing, which had given lease of it for
mine years, conditioned that there should
be no alteration without his consent, ob


lected TO the erection of the shed as a
violation Of the terms of the lease went
on with the shed, and the owner applied
Tor au injunction. In deciding the case,
the Judge said "No case that | can lind
admits power in the Legislature to lie


galize the use Of a public street for pri,
vate purposes. In the case before me
the appropriation of a part Of one Of the
public streets of the city is for an exclu-
sively private purpose The defendant,
and not the public will derive the bene,
fit and advantage from the structure
He says it is needed to protect the goods
in his store from injury By the sun but
it does not appear that he does not intend
TO also use the side walk beneath it as
mart for the exhibition and sale of his
goods. 1t cannot, therefore, be claimed
that such use of the street is not incon-
sisteDt with the public use Of the street,
or that it is for a public purpose The
corporation, holding the streets in trust
for the public, have exceeded their pow
crs in attempting to authorize such ap-
preparation, aud the erection and conlinu-
ance of the structure complained of, is in
my judgment without authority of law.
Year: 1873

Better to wear calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shopkeeper for the most elegant silk,
cut and trimmed in the most bewitching
manner.


Better to live in log cabin, all your
own, than brown stone mansion belong
ing to somebody else.


Better walk for ever than run into debt
for horse and carriage.


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


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


Better to meet your business acquain.
tauces with a free ''don't owe you cent
smile, than to dodge around the corner to
escape dun.


Better to pay the street organ grinder
two cents for music, if you must have it,
than owe for grand piano.


Better to gaze upon the bare walls than
pictures unpaid for


Better to eat thin soup from earthen
waae, if you owe your butcher nothing,
than to dine off lamb and roast beef, and
know that it does not belong to you.
Year: 1873

The guinea pig is extensively used in
Peru as an article of food, not merely by
the higher classes as delicacy, but
mainly by the poor, from its cheapness
and abundance 1t is au entirely her
bvorous animal, and clean feeder, be
ing there chiefly maintained on green
Iuccrne or trefoil, but it would doubtless
thrive equally well on cabbage or lettuce
leaves, aud most sorts of green garden
stuff-in short, on the same food as the
rabbit, to which it has many points OF
similarity. Its only similitnde to the rat
is that after the hair has been scaled off
it presents an appearance not unlike what
a large rat might 90 if similarly treated
minus the tail. For cooking 1t is not
skinned, but the hair being scalded off, II
is split open and cleaned and is generally
fried entire in frying pan, or some times
grilIed over the GOALS. Thus prepared, II
is savory and delicate, the flesh being
white, succulent and nutritious, very
superior to the rabbit, and 1t makes /
most excellent dish The cost OF rearln9
and keeping them is next to nothing, au'
their introduction into this country as a;
article of food would prove an inexpeusiv,
addition to our materials for the break
fast or dinner table
Year: 1873

The Creole woman is prettier than the
French woman. There is a climatic in
fuence in America which refiDes features
and gives delcacy to the complexion-
This is especially the case in Louisiana,
where fnely formed women are often
found to be the descendants of ignoble-
looking ancestors. The light olive tint
of the woman seems to have been painted
over ground color Of blushing lake, and
this pinkish creamiuess of the skin saves
it from dullness aud sallowness. In a
word, there is something of that trans
parency for which painters are always
seeking. She inherits from her mother
over the sea the physical characteristics
of round limbs and delicate extremities,
with figure something slighter-another
effect of climate, also that sense OF art
with which people are born, bet can never
entirely acquire. From the same source
come her coquetry and her grace of speech
and action, bat modified She does not
wear crude colors or awry shapes nor
does she express herself with unseemly
gesture or discordant tones Her dress
is rather sombre than gay, and her car
riage simple and conventonal-for they
all walk alike. Smoothness and graceful
propriety are hers. In word there is
an absence of angels in her general con-
Louisiana Creoies." Gy Albert
Rhodes, an August GALAXY.
Year: 1873

NICELY FURNISHED SECOND FLOOR, FOR
N gentleman and wife gentlemen also small Room
on third floor gas bath and fire good neighborhood
l02 West Twenty eighth street, near Sixth avenue.
Year: 1873

A HANDSOMELY FURNISHED FRONT PARLOR
n first noor gas and bath, in private family, to let
to single gentleman $3 per week All West Fortysev-
enth street, Ninth avenue Neghborhood first class
Year: 1873

DARE CHANCF-T0 RENT UNFURNISHED LARGE
III House on Twenty-third street, sixth avenue
suitable for business cheap rent good lease and
paying well. MIX ELLIOTT


Fourth avenue and Twentiot tn street
Year: 1873

IN the movement now ON foot to raise
the salaries Of members Of Congress To
ten thousand dollars per annum is sue
cessful, il will make the cost Of the
National Legislature something over
four million dollars. II it would only
diminish the stealing and corruption
among the members il might be worth
while 10 give them ten thousand dol
lan. But experience has proven that
when we paid the smallest salaries we
had the most honest Congressman.
Year: 1873

New YORK, January GA special
dispatch to the Herald from Washing
ton says that large circle Of Republi-
cans, there who are anxious to have a
change in the head of the State De-
partment to the end that some New
Yorker may become Secretary Of the
Treasury, have made late dispatches
from Madrid on the Cuban question on
The occasion Of adverse criticism upon
Nh Fish.
Year: 1873

New YORK, January The an
nOuIcemeu, that Foster would be
hanged had a very depressing effect
upon SJoke- and other murderers in the
TOmbs. When Foster received the
news he secluded himself in his cell,
refusing to see any one.
Year: 1873

In these balloon day, am reminded
of an extraordinary ascension, made dur
ing the war in northern Ohio. The aero.
naut had gone up frequently; was ac-
counted courageous and sagacious in
business, and had so many amiable and
sterling qualities as to render him highly
esteemed. He seems to have been bless
ed, or cursed, with very pretty wife,
to whom he was devotedly attached. AS
frequently happens, she did not love him
in return-at least not enough to insure
her loyalty. She permitted her ardent
affections to wander, and those who knew
informed him of their we'll grounded sus-
picions. Too generous to believe, too
chvalrous to doubt, he continued to re-
pose the fullest faith in his consort, un-
til at last the dreadful conviction was
forced upon him. Even then he gave 10
intimation that he had discovered her
guilty secret, though some OF his friends
were confident he had. He advertised
another balloon voyage, and, at the time
named, all was prepared. His wife was in
the inclosure, and just before he stepped
into the car, he went to her and kissed
her tenderly, saying that he hoped Heav-
en- would make her happy; that he loved
her so much that he would not for a mo-
mcnt stand between her and her peace.
His words had such significance that the
blood started to her face and the tears to
her eyes. Ere she could collect herself
he was in the basket, the ropes were cut
and he was shooting through the mir.


Days, weeks, months passed, and the
popular aeronaut was not heard from
nor were there any tidings of the balloon.
1t was universally supposed that he met
with fatal accident; that he had gone
so high that the silken bag had burst,
and destroyed his life. More than year
after fragments OF Il skeleton, with bits OF
clothing, were found on the shores of
Lake Erie, also the remains of gold
watch bearing the initials of the missing
aeronaut. The mystery was then solved.
He had assembled with the deliberate in
tention of leaping from the balloon ut a
certain elevation knowing that by such
means, he would escape the suspicion of
suicide; and he desperately carried out
his desperate determination.


This was an instance OF chivalry which
it would be difficult to excel. Romance
does not surpass it, nor poetry either.
The man who sacrificed himself out of
pure love, though for the illicit passions
Of his wife, never imagined that he was
hero and yet not in history or in fiction
are greater heroes shown. His was one
OF the many instances of nobleness and
devotion which pass away unrecognized,
because no eloquent pen records their
virtues, and no inspired singer sings
them.-N. Y. Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Year: 1873

THE INvINCIBLE SCHoOLMARM.-La-
dies travelling through Canada by rail
are greatly annoyed by having their lug
gage unnecessarily searched, but one of
the officials recently got his deserts. 1t
happened that a Yankee school teacher,
on her way from Kansas to Vermont,
passed through the Dominion, with a
trunk packed to bursting with nothing
contraband. When the officer demanded
her key she begged him not to open it,
assuring him that it had come through
from Kansas, contained simply clothes
and books, and was so full that it would
be very troublesome to repack it. But
he sternly demanded the key, and mali
ciously pulled everything out to the very
bottom ; then-hnding her assertion true
he returned the key and advised her 10
hurry up and get the traps back" as
the train would soon move.


What is that to me?" said the quick
witted woman al have check for that
trunk, and hold the Grand Trunk railway
responsible for its safe delivery. l will
not take the key, and you may do as you
please with the trunk" Report says
that official was very weary and red in
the face and rather profane ere he finish
ed packing that trunk.
Year: 1873

WANT OF ENPLoYMENT.-Since the
panic began 100000 workingmen have
been thrown out of employment in the
Eastern States; and as many more have
had their wages cut down 10 per cent,
while great numbers have been placed
on half time /! 1t is perhaps fair aver
age to say that each of these 400, 900 dis
missed mechanics had three persons de-
pending on him for support, making with
himself 100000 mouths to be fed and as
many backs to be clothed without means.
And this is not the end, but as it were
only the beginning of the money panic.


OF course this wave must stike Califor-
mia. 1t has in fact already been felt here,
but its force cannot for many reasons be
great upon this coast. Indeed, it is en-
tirely safe to say that California and the
Pacific Coast will suffer less from the
panic than any other portion of the nation.
And for this let us be duly thankful.-
Sac. Bee.