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Year: 1873

MEANING OF THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.


The Administration organs are not entirely
wrong in attributing the defeat OF their otaoe
ticket in Connectic Mt largely to the local quar-
rel between Hartf ord and New-Haven. Doubt
less that had much to do with affecting the
result; it seems, indeed, at first Dlush' I'd
have been the prime cause of 1t. The large
increase in the De mocratic vote in New-Haven
and the much La rger falling off in the Repub-
Iican were attributable almost entirely to the
disaffection toward Haven as the candidate OF
Hartford. But it will not do to say 1t was
merely the local dis affection that lost the State
TO the Republicans There were Republican
losses and Democratic gains in other parts OF
the State where that quarrel had no influence
whatever and the voters were entirely inde-
pendent of it. Outside of New-Haven and Fair-
field Counties, the change is due and directly
traceabIe to the disappointment OF the voters
at the on-fulfllment by the Administration
of any of the promises so profusely made LOT
it before the election, and to the prevalent
disgust for the party in power ana its prac-
tices. Thousands who voted for Grant IN NO
yember either refused to vote at all or voted
the Democratic ticket on Monday. 1t was not
apathy that induced this state of things, but
an active and intense disgust at the conduct
of the Administration party. The comments
of the Administration papers III the State upon
the result are varied and amusing. Ihe New
Haven papers say the blame belongs to HartfOru
for the bullying course of the Administration
organ there. The Hartford organ says it was
owing to the selfish intrigues of disappointed
New Haven politicians, and smaller organ
in Norwich calls attention to the tact that
while IngersOll had $500 majority in New
Haven, Kellogg, Republican, for Congress,
had 500 majority, and intimates very broadly
that Kellogg threw away the State to secure
hjs own election. This beating the air for
reasons for the disaster is quite amusing. 1T
is not probable they will ever agree about it..


The simple truth, we suspect, is deeper down
than all this. The NewHaven disOrganlzers
who defeated Hawley for the Senate last year
builded better than they knew. That action
famiiarized people with the idea OF boltlng
regular nominations, and swept away great
many cobwebs about the sacredness OF the
caucus and convention. Ii was not so
dreadful thing after all to bolt from eau
Gus nomination. Their representatives, had
done it in the Legislature, and no harm
came from it. Why should not the
people themselves bolt from nomina-
ton which did not please themP Moreover,
since the revelations of the late Congress they
did not so implicitly believe the party; the
tremendous consequences of its defeat did not
impress them as formerly. In short, they had
grown out of mere partisanship, and were be-
ginning to discover the advantages of inde-
pendent action. And this upon the whole Is
one of the best signs of the times. The day
for blind and unquestionng party allegiance
has gone by. The settlement of the old ques-
tions ought to have dissolved the old parties
before this.
Year: 1873

The loss and recovery at exactly the right instant
of valuable old deeds used 10 be one of the chief
reeds upon which novel-writers leaned. They have
told strange tales, bat stranger than this true
one which comes from England. A fine estate had
been in the possession of a certain family since
the days of William the Conqueror until the last
generation when inability to produce the title deeds
deprived them of it. These deeds were lost hund-
red years ago, and nothing was heard of them until
recently, when distant relative discovered that
they were in the hands of man imprisoned for
making persons believe that the Lord Chancellor
had commissioned him to help poor people to re-
cover property The present representative Of the
family visited the prisoner who in fit of repent
ance told him where the deeds were placed. They
were found and their proper is confident that
his estate will soon be restored to him.
Year: 1873

An English woman in Paris is about to publish
book containing the details of doctrine resembling
the metempsychosis of the aneients. According to
this fair author the soul released by death wanders
about through space for any number of years, until
it is ready to be embodied again The duration Of
these wanderings depends upon the conduct of the
wanderers before death. The more wicked soul is,
the longer it has to travel The author herself is in
formed by communication" from o former at
tendant that more than 5000 years b. c. she was an
Abyssinian princess and a very ugly and dsagreea-
BILE one too Another of the believers in this doc
trine has represented himself to be John Huss re-
turned to earth. What one is going ~ be on earth
several thousand years hence is an exhilarating
conundrum TO guess.
Year: 1873

There was one remarkable circumstance in the
execution of Smith for murder) at Louisville lately
With his eyes appropriately closed. he stood upon
the gallows and made long prayer all the time
protesting his innocence; but when having finished
this exculpatory ejaculation no opened his eyes and
saw the rupo-he eonfessedi
Year: 1873

Greenville, Il. l., can't be a Paradise for desti-
tute and sick stranger to wander into. Three weeks
ago such poor unfortunate made his appearance
there, and ordered to leave by an officer as he
was hungry, moneyless, dirty and had one hand
useless from having been frost.bitten.' So he
dragged himself away into swamp. and died. He
worth holding an inquest over. however; and
20 the inquest was held, and after a number of the
most substantial citizens had sat upon him it was
discovered that he had dedEof smallpox Verify,
he had his revenge, if it was not a sweet one.
Year: 1873

There is no game so small that the Custom
house clique will not spread nets for 1t. They
lately smuggled through law to reorganlze
the Board of Education, and had not fairly
succeeded when they betrayed that they
were after the patronage. Failing to dictate
to the Mayor the Commissioners whom they
had selected, they attempted to secure the
President, and through him the Com
mittees. In this they have signally
failed ; but nothing daunted or abashed, they
mean to try to-day to secure the removal OF
the present clerk and the transfer of Tax
Commissioners clerk to the important position
of practical chief of the Board of Education.
We have not the slightest reluctance to see
ing the present clerk removed, for he has
been closely identified with the Tammany Ring
but the appointment of any henchman of Muir


ply in his place will be a mistake which
| Reform Board cannot afford TO make at this
stage of its existence.
Year: 1873

Enough was brought out in the investiga-
tion by the Senate Committee, yesterday, to
show that the railroad companies have
strong case in the postal car controversy. 80
far we have only heard one side, to be sure,
and that but partially. 1t is clear, however,
that the whole system needs revision. There
is an inequality in the rates of compensation
maintained between the Government and the
different roads. and the entire business, 80 far
IA the Post-0ffice Department is concerned, Is
managed in an exceedingly slovenly man
ner. Affairs have been allowed to go on,
without any systematic Overhauling, these
twenty years, during which time the business
of the postal service has enormously increased
in volume. We shall, at least, get something
like order out of this present chaos when the
real state of the case is laid before Congress.
Year: 1873

In healthy condition the skin is kept
supple by an oily secretion. which answers
the same purpose as oiling leather.
During warm weather this secretion, in
common with all the other secretions of
the skin, is more abundant than in cold.
When it is insufficient the skin becomes
dry and harsh and on those parts Of the
body where the skin is thick and subject
to much motion, as on the hands, it readily
cracks or fssures. The amount of this Sc
cretion is 50 much reduced in cold weather
that the frequent washing of the hands
with soap causes them to chap readily,
and this the more certainly if the soap is
not washed of. The alkkah in soap is
usually in excess. and this combines with
the oily secretion, and 50 deprives the skin
Of its natural lubficator To prevent the
hands from chappng, them be careful t(
wash all soap from them thoroughly ii
clean water. This will ordinarily suffice


but, if not, it will be necessary to make
good the removed oil by using KENNEDY
SALT RHEUM OINTMENT, sure cure toi
all skin disease of whatever name or nature


PRICE 80 CENTS. Sold by Dragglsts


3-Idly.
Year: 1873

From lands end to lands end, that all may read
and reading, believe, that for the countless mil
lions who are on the road to untimely grave
with bilious complaints there Is but one truly great
and reliable remedy, and that is
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time TO
the present are buying this article. This
is fact worthy the attention of consum-
Year: 1873

Use Renne's in-KiIling Magic Oil to
cure the bite of dog, Or wound by rusty
nails 1t is excellent for bruises, for ear
ache, for sore eyes, for sciatica, for head
ache and catarrh and poison by ivy, or for
erysipelas Every family should keep
this MAGIC OIL to use.
Year: 1873

SIS, 900 IN CASH FOR $l.-We call the
attention of our readers to the advertise
ment in another column of the Nebraska
State Orphan Asylum. Here is a chance
to win fortune in Public Legal Drawing,
and aid noble charity
Year: 1873

POLICE NoTE5.-Oficers Staples and Jones
arrested a woman for drunkenness and disturb
ance in Poplar street yesterday. The woman
badly bit one of Jones' fingers. Last night she
was imploring release, and said she didn't
think woman ought to be kept from her Mon
days washing just for biting off three or four
fingers. --.-..-


Every cell at the station was filled Saturday
night, and one inebriate was consigned to the
lodging-room.


Officers Garland and Horr arrested boy yes
tcrday for assaulting his mother in-law


A man was arrested by officers York and
Crowell on High street, for indulgng his pas
sion for the manly art at the expense of an
other mans nose.


A boy IL years old, applied at the station
house for lodgings last night saying that he
came from Quebec Saturday, and that he was
anxious to go to sea. He was half dead with
hunger and cold


A small and intoxicated individual had the
idiotic audacity to accost Deputy Bridges who
was dressed in citizens clothes, on Congress
street last night. and ask him if he wanted to
fight Mr.. Bridges tucked him under one arm
as you might small boy, and brought him to
the station. The fellow had been insulting
people on the street, and will be arraigned be-
fore the Municipal Court this morning He
wore Palm Sunday sprig in his hat, and ap-
parently belongs to the church militant.


The marshal and his deputies made descent
on several liquor shops that were open yester-
day.
Year: 1873

STEAMER MovEMENTs.-The Allan mail
steamship Moravian sailed for Liverpool at five
p. m,, ON Saturday, carrying eight cabin and
thirteen steerage passengers The Sarmatian
is the next steamship of this line due here.


Among her cabin passengers was Gen. Neal
Dow. He intends to be absent about a year,
and will labor with his usual ability in behalf
OF the temperance cause. The General is in
much better health than when he made his last
European visit, and the cause has made great
progress within ten years.
Year: 1873

CRACKED Cocoa is made of only the best
quality of Cocoa, and retains all the freshness,
fine aroma, and nutritious properties of the
fruit The most eminent physicians recon-
mend its use. Your grocer will furnish you the
best if you ask for that put up by Walter Bak
er & Co., of Boston.
Year: 1873

GIGANTIC MINsTRELs.-Duprez & Benedict's S
gigantic minstrels play at City Hall this eve
ming. They have just returned from highly
successful Southern tour, and do claim to be the
most powerful company in existence. Their
programme is very attractive one, and run
ming over with good things.
Year: 1873

BOARD OF TRADE MEETING.-Amopg the
matters that will probably come before the
meeting this evening will be prooostion to
invite The Congressional Committee on Trans
porta'ion to visit this city among other places
which the committee propose to visit during the
vacation OF Congress. Also the subject of ex-
pending the recent appropriation for the i'm
provement of our harbor.
Year: 1873

THE GROWING SEAsoN.-There are chronic
GROWERS, the continuity of whose cloakings
no season or condition breaks; but the spring
March and April-is the growlers' season.
Then the elastic vigor that bracing cold wealth
er brings, gives place to listless, jaundced,
bilious state that is unhealthy and gives every
thing sombre hue. Then the taxpayer looks
after the Street Commissioner; and if that off
cial does not keep the cutters clear so that the
melting snow will run away, he is inefficient
and allowing peoples property to be wasted. If
that official makes an effort to put the streets
in decent condition and expends labor in cut
ting away mountains of ice, preventing injury
to life and limb and possible expense to the
city, he has solid growl about taxes We
have been led to this remark by noticing lit
tie item in the Advertiser, signed taxpayer
who complains that the Street Commissioner
has made vigorous attempt to free shaded
part of Middle street from so great an accumu-
lation of ice that it promised to defy dog-days,
besides rendering the street dangerous both to
pedestrians and carriages. We think we can
assure Mr.. Payson, the efficient Street Commits
sloner, that the business men and the live tax
payers of the city will heartily endorse him in
the vigorous policy he has instituted. There
never has been so bad time in the spring as
the present; and a month ago people feared
that the melting snow would flood the streets
but so thoroughly has Mr.. Payson kept the gut.
ters clear that there has been no cause for com.
plsint.
Year: 1873

Bloodgood is the whitest man on the Minstrel
boards, tho he doesn't look SO on the stage
His offer is a generous one, and will be duly ac-
hnowledged by the appreciative public of Port
land. Hi troupe is the best Minstrel troupe
that has ever been in this city. Music Hall
was packed Saturday night by delightful au-
dience, as it undoubtedly will be this and to-
morrow evenings. In addition to the mirth-
provoking burlesques and character songs, La
Belle Celeste, the most daring of female GYM
nasts, will execute her "leap for life on the
trapeze. Her dexterity and grace are wonder
full
Year: 1873

ON such occasions. and in the payment Of such bills
certainly did deem that guilty OF corrupt or
immoral acts. What indiscreet friends may have done
sad during the canvass know not and surely should
not be held responsible therefor.


This statement not sworn 70.
Year: 1873

burned. Enough gas is thus saved to heat
the air in the hot blast ovens and some
times enough to keep up steam i'm the en-
glne boilers. This is brief explanation
OF the manufacture of pig iron as made at
lockwood.


THE VALUE or THIS INDUSTRY.


But one stack is now in operation, which
turns out about twenty tons of metal every
twenty-iour hours. A new and larger
one is now being constructed which Will
be done by the lst of July. When the
two are in operation, about seventy tons
OF iron will be made every day and night.


over TWO hundred men find steady en-
ployment about these works at good wages.
When in full blast, the iron produced will
bring aboutS2, 500 perday. The value of such
an industry to the immediate neighborhood
ana TO East Tennessee can easily be under
stood. Since the work first began the
Hoane Iron Company has expended seven
~ thousand dollars in building roads.
Ihey are now building narrow gauge
railway from the furnace to the river, a dis
tance of five miles. 1t is nearly COMPLETED
ana when in operation will fairly illustrate
Ihe advantages of the narrow gauge roads
for East Tennessee. A small engine built
at pittsburgh is now running trains regu-
larly from the river to its present termi-
nus.


When we consider the immense benefits
such industries bring to our section we
can only wonder that our idle. or comnar-
atively idle capital, is not used in such en-
terprises. Walden's ridge is one vast bed
OF coal from Sale Creek to Cumberland
Gap. We have described the mountains
of it at lockwood. At Oakdale they
have opened vein nine feet thick.
me whole valley along this ridge
is rich with iron ore. The red
fossiliferous and brown hematite ores
which are found near each other, make al
most any kind of iron desired, Lockwood
and Oakdale (of which we will write i'm
detail next week. are but the beginning of
the development of the iron interests of
East Tennessee which competent men
pronounce far surprising that of any other
section of our country.
Year: 1873

On Omaha dispatch says OF the late
storm it continued to rage in most fearful
manner on April 10, 16 and II. So dense
has the. snow been during this time that it
was impossible to go from the cars to the
hotel. Parties of ten persons would lock
arms and go to the hotel from the trains
in this manner, and frequently several OF
the parties would be overcome by the vio-
lence of storm and would have TO be
dragged or carried the rest of the way. An
eyewitness tells me that he was passen-
ger on the up-train, several years ago,
when violent storms ragged on the line of
the road, and that he never witnessed q
storm whose violence has equalled this.


Tales of suffering reach us from the
snow-bound travellers in Grand Island.
Three men started for the hotel, going
from the train, and have never been heard
OF since. They were lost in the drifts, and
have perished,
Year: 1873

Much interest attaches to the proposed
address on railroads. which ia soon to be
delivered before the Indianapolis Board of
Trade by Senator Morton. AS the recog-
nized leader in Congress Of the admins
tration party, the utterances of Mr.. Nor
ton on any of the great issues before the
country are always regarded as worthy of
attention. In view of the present railroad
status his views at this time are looked
upon as especially important. 1t is under
stood that in his forthcoming address he
will discuss the question of the relations Of
railroads to the public and TO the govern
ment in oil its phases. He is known TO be
in accord with the extreme Western feel
ing Wash. Cor. PGlf. Sun.
Year: 1873

The Augusta (Arkansasl Bulletin pub
fishes letter from Union county, Arkan-
sas. giving an account of a horrible out
rage upon and murder of white woman
by a negro in that county. A few weeks
ago married woman went TO q neighbours
house to remain several days, but found no
one at home and started to return, when
the negro stopped her horse and took her
off, and drove, pushed and pulled her eight
miles into the bottom lands, where he tied
her to tree and ravished her, keeping her
there for three days. On the second day,
while still tied to the tree, she gave birth
to q child.


On the third day the husband Of the un-
fortunate woman, not finding her at the
neighbor's, but discovering her horse
where the negro had left it tied, collected
some friends and began a search, which
resulted in finding her dead body tied to
the tree, the negro having murdered her
with blows upon the head, inflicted with a
club. The murderer was soon afterwards
captured by party of negroes, who were
assisting in the search. At the husbands
request, the negroes built two log heaps,
and, setting them on fire, placed the negro
between them. They were twenty-four
hours burning him, and at intervals sub
jecting him to horrible torture, such as
cutting off his toes and strips of his body.
There were three other negroes concerned
in ravishing the woman. They were sub
sequently caught and shot
Year: 1873

TUNNEL UNDER THE CITY or BALTI-
MoRL-The Pennsylvania Central Rail
road announces that the tunnel which il is
building under the city OF Baltimore will
be finished in the next two months. The
cost of this magnificent enterprise will he
in the neighborhood Of three millions OF
dollars. It will accommodate the various
through Northern and Southern trains
running through the city, and will enable
them TO make their trips without break
ng tn cir trains, az is now the case.
Year: 1873

by one, that we heard how, when the boats were all full, and there was only one passenger to descend, one of the crew cried out in despair, 'sOh, my little wife and childi' and the passenger, tall, dark-eyed young man, turned to him and said, s'Take my place; there is no one belonging to me at home, and had stood by the captains side at the last moment, and waved his hat to his friends in the boat in cheery good-by. @

 found out that sailor, and he gave me a scrap of paper, which he said the gen. tleman had torn from his pocket-book and given him as he went over the side 1t was to Helen, and contained these words:

 God bless you! have earned my right to meet you again-in heaven at least.

 7 H. F. DUc1E''

 Two years later Helen left us, to keep that meeting; and when she was dead I saw the first smile on her pale lips which had ever shone there since she sent her lover away to prove that man may die a hero's death, though in life he has been once a coward.
Year: 1873

Long Island has a heroine, and her
name deserves to be connected with Ida
Lewis. The .Sin tells of two men, John
Mason and a friend, whose boat cap
sized last Friday afternoon, near EatOn's
Neck light, opposite the residence of
Mr.. COnklin, farmer. When the cries
for help were heard, we learn from the
account i'm the San that Mr.. COnklin
was away from home, and there were
only three women and little boy in
the house. All rushed to the beach and
saw the struggle of the drowning man,
but for a moment they were so paTalyzed
that neither of them had presence of
mind enough to make a movement to
aid him. Then Miss Lucinda Conklin,
without stopping to consult her mother
or sister, waded out into the bay, deter
mined to make one effort to save Ma
son. At this part Of the bay the beach
is broad and shelves out very gradually,
so that the brave woman was enabled
TO wade within q few feet of Mr.. Mason.
But as she moved forward, clearing the
ice from her path, the water deepened
little by little until at last when she
was only eight or ten feet from the man
she sought to save, only her head was
above the water. BY this time Mason
showed signs of exhaustion. He clung
to the ice for so long q time, that his
hands had become numb and almost
powerless, and Miss COnklin saw by his
efforts to relieve his hands by placing
his elbows on the cake of ice,
that his chances of life were not worth
minutes purchase. With heriOsm
seldom, if ever paralleled, she made
plunge into the deep water, and with
few vigorous strokes reached the drown
ing man. Although exhausted, he was
still sensible, and faithfully Obeyed the
instructions given him by the brave
woman. She had warned him against
seizing hold of her in such a manner as


to impede her motions; so when she


reached him, he placed his hands on


her shoulders, and in a few seconds,


thanks to her good swimming, both
stood neck deep in the ice-cOld water


and began wading shoreward. As Miss
| COnklin reached the shore, she tainted


away and was carried to the house by
| her relatives. Mason, nearly frozen to
| death, following in their wake. Miss
l Conklin was thoroughly exhausted by
her eXertions, as well as by the tremen-
dous excitement under which she had


labOred, and did not recover for two or
three days. Mason's companion stuck
manfully to the keel of the boat, and in
due course of time was hauled ashore.


Miss COnklin is a young lady, of about


the average size; but her country train


ing has impaired for her much more


than the average strength of her sex.


Although not beautiful, she is spoken


of as interesting and piqltdnte in style,


and is very popular in the neighbOrhOOd
I in which she resides