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Year: 1873

An Irish lass wrote to her lover, beggiol
him to send him some money, and added q
the Same letter, by way of postscript: 81
am so ashamed of the request that mads
in this, that sen. after the postman to g.
it back, but the servant could not overtat


him" ~ e
Year: 1873

There was less active business in railroad bonds,
though prices did not yield any from yesterday. On
the contrary, firm feeling prevailed, aud some of
the bonds were in good investment demand. A
record of the sales will be found by reference to the
printed Stock Exchange lists above. The following
Year: 1873

To those who wish to REINvEsT JANUARY COUPONS
OR DIVIDENDS, and those who wish to INCREASE
THEIR INCOME from means already invested in other
less profitable securities, we recommend the Seven
Thirty Gold Bonds of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company as we'll secured and unusually productive
The bonds are always convertible at Ten per cent
premium q.lOr into the Compsny's Lands at Market
Prices The Rate of Interest seven and three-enths
per cent gold is equal now to about 81 currency
Welding an income more than onethird greater than
L. s. 5-2Os Gold Checks for the semi-annua interest
on the Registered Bonds are mailed TO the Post
Office address of the owner. All marketable stocks
and bonds are received in exchange for Northern
Paciies on MOST FAVORABLE TERMS.


I.x 10. A.. n
Year: 1873

The State of Louisiana will pay the interest on all
her bonds OH Monday next, 18th inst at the agency
OF the State in this city.


The following were the comparative earnings oil
,ba rantral Pacific Railroad COMPANY:
Year: 1873

THE MEANEsr MAN IN UNIoN.-The
Union Times has found out the heaiest
man in the county, and goes for him in
this wise


We have heard Of the LATEST man, and
the wickedest man in the country, hut We
think Union Gun boast Of the meanest
man. He used tn subacribe for the Times,
to,ut Of his own purse, but about six months
ago friend Of his living out West sent
him three dollars to pay us for the paper
one year. Instead Of having The paper
sent from this office directed to The sub.
scriber, r. paid bis own Subscription with
his friends money, and now, after he has
read the paper be forwards # TO hisffieaa,
by paying dns cent postage fpr each nlm-
berl or fifty cents a Year; thus making two
dollars and half out of his friend and
causing us to lose subscriber. II this is
not meanness whitfield down to the sharp
est point, we would like to know what it
really is. We don't like to tell this trick,
for fear others may attempt it, but it is SO
Internally mean that we cannot help tell
ing it. "''
Year: 1873

ed Of ordinary common sense, will
not indulgetheii evil passions to the
detriment of their purses; but or
rulers really seelu TO be disposed to
work their own evil will upon their
PROSTATE loe, even at the expense Of
the whole people of the whole coun-
try.-Piltsburgh Post.
Year: 1873

Governor Noyes, of Ohio, in his message
to the Legislature of that State, makes the
following suggestions relative to the Agri-
cultural College: - t.


The Agricultural College will, at no dis
tant day, be ready for the admission of
students. Generous provision has been
State, whose child it is, will be required
for some years to come. It is expected
that the State will extend the same liber-
ality to this that she does to her charitable
institutions. The Agricultural and Me-
chanical College should be something more
than a model farm, illustrating the art of
cultivating the soil, and the methods of
improving breeds of stock. If this shall
be the limit of its ambition, few young
men will resort to it, and these, it is feared,
without great profit. Its foundations
its walls should be taught the principles
which underlie all the industrial, and lib
eral and ornamental arts. Its curriculum
should be so extended that young men
may there be educated for all the ordinary
walks of life. IF it shall be dedicated un-
der a generous system, and conducted in
the right way, it will soon attract dona-
tions from liberal and public spirited men
will be an honor to Ohio and blessing
to our people. If we fix a low standard,
and are content with small results, it were
better that the peoples money were ex-
pended in some other and more profitable
way. 1t is not, of course, expected that
the College shall be, when it opens, all
that we hope for it finally; it is not likely
that all its departments will at once be put
in successful operation. But let it be start
I'd with the intention of making it, ulti-
mately, grand State University, whose
instructions shall be thorough and COM
prehensive.
Year: 1873

The General Assemtly of NorN


fn,0laa do enact, That the said
amendments of the constitution of this
State be submitted to the people on
the first Thursday i'll August. one
thousand eight hundred and seventy
three.


Sec q 1t shall be the duty of the
sheriffs in each and every county in
the State to open polls at the
several election precincts in his
county on the said first Thurs
day of August next and the same
shall be kept open for one day. from
the hour of eight o'clock in the morn
ing to the hour of seven in the after
noon, when all persons qualified to
vote according to the constitution, may
vote for or against the ratification, of
each of the said amendments, those
desiring such amendments to vote with
the written or printed ticket, '.for
amendments" those of a contrary
opinion to vote with written or print
ed ticket, against amendments.


Sec. 3. The election provided for in
the preceding section shall be con-
Quoted i'll the same manner and under
the same rnles and regulations in all
respects and particulars, except as
herein otherwise prescribed, as was
held the election for members of the
General Assembly on the first Thurs
day of August, one Thousand eight
hundred and seventy-two.


Sec. 4. To-wit: The county commits
siOners, or upon their failure, the in
spectors of election. shall provide for
each election precinct in their respect
i've counties eight ballot boxes, one for
each of the amendments to be voted
on as prescribed in the preceding sec
ton, i'll which to deposit the ballots,
for or against such amendments re-
spectively. Each of the said boxes
shall have attached thereto in written
or printed labe., designating the
amendment to be voted ON therein;
and at the close of the election the
votes in each box shall be counted out
separately by the judges and the num-
Der of votes for and against each of
said amendments, as designated in the
preamble of this act, shall be certified
by them as is provided for i'll section
SIX.


Sec. 5. That sheriffs shall compare
and certify the results of the elections
on or before the Saturday following
the said first Thursday of August, and
shall make q duplicate return of the
polls in their respective counties,
sworn to before the clerk of the Supe-
rior Court, one copy of which shall be
deposited with the clerk of the board
of commissioners. and the other copy
to be transmitted to the Governor of
the State at Raleigh, within twenty
days after the holding of said election;
if such transmission is by mail, it shall
be by a registered letter


Sec. g. The returns from the pre-
cincts shall be made by the judges of
election by noon on Saturday ensuing
the day of election to the sheriff of the
county, who shall, in the presence of
such persons as choose to attend, pro-
ceed to add the number of votes re-
turned. and any sheriff or other officer
who shall fail Iii his duty according to
the requirements of this act, shall for
felt and pay to the State the sum of
one thousand dollars, to be recovered
in suit to be instituted by the solici-
tor of the district in the Superior
Court of the county.
Year: 1873

The recent attempt TO extradite the
editor of the New York SIN, for an
alleged libel in exposing the frauds of
the Washington Ring. for trial before
the Police Court of the District of
Columbia, without a jury, awakened
almost instantaneously attention all
over the country: This shows that
the interest in trial by jury is national;
and the IN amer in which it has been
manifested indicates that tie determi-
nation to maintain that right is, as tn
attachment to it is, all-pervading.
Year: 1873

t'PIRITS TIIRPENTINE - The
Spirits Turpentine market during the
past week has been in anything but
healthy condition. From the opening
of the week up to the close there was
a dull feeling pervading and sellers
found it hard indeed to effect sales,
even Oh a declining market, and con-
Year: 1873

\ Buffalo girl committed suicide be-
cause her new bonnet did not come
homo in time for a picnic. Another
lass residing at Bellevue, H., shot her
self to death gently because her
parents insisted upon her marrying a
man she did not love.
Year: 1873

THE New North West Of the 18th
inst. SAYS: 'sThe indications are that
the Northern Pro fic Company will this
winter go before Congress for guar
antee of the interest on its bonds.
Secretary Wilkeson is the medium
through which this project is commu-
nicated to the country, and in numer-
GUS interviews since the suspension OF
Jay Cooke & Go. he has frankly and
repeatedly expressed belief in the duty
of the Government to render that aid,
and the purpose Of the Company to
ask it. The duty of the Government
to do this. consists in the necessity OF
the road as national military high
way, running for LOO miles parallel
with and near. the British possessions.
Not only is it requisite as prudential
enterprise in view OF the Canadian line
projected north of the boundary, but
the saving to the Government III the





cost of transportation Of supplies and
troops to the Indian country on the
Yellowstone and Upper Missouri will
be greater than the amount OF gIlaran-
tee annually required. Over all this
rises the completion Of the road will
settle the Indian question on this from
tier and relieve the government OF the
enormousexpense Of maintaining many
Of these strong frontier posts, and
feeding some ten or twenty thousand
will be used. Tt will be shown thatno
enterprise of like magnitude and like
national.importance has ever been nm
dertaken and completed by private
company, and the conversion of por-
ton of the land grant-not available
to the Company till the road is built,
and hence Of no material assistance in
procuring moneys for it's construction
will probably be offered to the Gov
ernmentsin consideration Of the guar
antee.
Year: 1873

It's Members Much Interested in the


Coming Judiciary-The Question of


Election or Appointment.


In the Red Room OF the Union League Club were
assembled last night about forty members, in re-
sponse to call for special meeting. Mr.. Choate
was in the chair.


Mr.. JOSEPH p. vARNUM read portion OF his
pamphlet, written in support or the theory of ap-
pointing the Judiciary by the Executive, instead OF
having judges elected by the people. The dis
cussion, as forth In the work, paid
very left.handed compliments to both the
Bar and the Bench as to their EN-
cheney, integrity and business promptitude under
our present system. The reader was interrupted
by the hearty protests Of o hale old gentleman
present, who thought that the people should know
better than their servant, the Executive, who to
put on the bench. Mr.. varnum here declined to
proceed with his reading, and the NEE ting passed
to the consideration and adoption OF the following
resolution, VIZ. -


Resolved, That the President appoint committee of
three 70 act with other organizations in causing be
the pending sttuona amendment, 10 attend to
the distribution of ballots.


Second-That the Executive Committee be requested
ryng the foregoing resolution effect and Tor pay.
Political Reform upon the subject Of eiectng judiciary


The following preamble and resolution were
next adopted -


among chiet duties OF good citizen, and the in
and especially this
oils require that Intelligent voter should allow hni
to vote therefore.


Resolved That is the imperative duty of every
81 ay as n9d dSe S % e be M s se
portunity TO do SO before the ensuing election


The following resolution was adopted, in order
to empower the committee as above created, TO
act:-


Resolved, That the Committee on Political Reform be
and hereby directed take into considerat
merits Of the Judiciary nominations of the various pol
cal parties and from such nonna which
OF the various parties nominated fit TO be supported
by citizens interested In mainta ming uprigh judiciary
such report be made 10 the club Thursday evening





The meeting then adjourned until next Thursday
evening.
Year: 1873

From England we have notice OF the death OF
Henry Bright, water color painter OF eminence,
though not amongst the fashionable favorites OF
the day. AS artist OF fine feeling for the beauty
of skies, with bold and vigorous hand for ex-
preston, he surpassed many OF the landscapists in
sezing the grand passing effects OF cloud and sun
light Like many men OF native genius he taught
himself and learned from nature; for though he
showed his talents as child. he was apprenticed
to chemist and druggist and followed the duties
or dispenser OF medicines to the Norwich Hospital
until ne found himself capable artist, and was
able soon to take ms stand In the exhibition OF
ner, David Cox, Samuel Prout and other great
men OF the school. He was born at saxmun dham
In 1914, and alter a career oil more than twenty
years In London retired about five years ago, IN.
capacitated by illness, to IPSWICH where he ex
pired.
Year: 1873

ALovE ADVENTURE solored man
living in Macomb street having long sd-
mirsd color cd widow living IN the next
block above, but being, afraid to come
out boldly 40 reveal bis passion. went
to white man Of his acquaintance The
other day and asked him to write the Ia
dy q letter asking her hand in marriage.
The TREND wrote, telling the woman IN
few brief lines that the size Of her feet
was the talk OF the neighborhood, and
asked her il she couldn't pare them down
a little. The name Of the oolored man
was signed, aud he was to call on her
Sunday night for an answer. Yesterday
tho writer Of the letter met the Negro
limping along the street and asked him
what the widow said. The man showed
him u bloodshot eye, a scratched nose,
lame leg, and a spot on the scalp where
handful Of wool had been violently
isrked out, and he answered in solemn
tones: "She didn't say muffin, an
didn't stay dsr morn mint.
Year: 1873

fTA very absent minded individual
being upset from boat In the river. sank
tvics before he could remember that ne
could swim. He fortunately remembered
Il lust before he sank the third and lass
time. A great invention Is memory.
Year: 1873

lay there racked with pain. wholly unin-
fuenced by conditions while, on the con-
trary, Bulwer is said to have been SO sen
sitive as to his surroundings, that he pre-
ferred to dress himself scrupulously as for
an evening party, before sitting down to
write, and his eye needed the refreshment
to be found in his picture-adorned and
richly furnished library. And yet an
other, woman, whose writings are as i'm
passioned as his earlier ones, poor L. Z. L.,
to whom all the elegances of life would
seem to have been almost necessity, wrote
in homely, scantily furnished. hardly
comfortable room, so carried away by what
she was doing that the place was of no ac-
count to her /; and SO overcome was she
that, when she left off, she was depressed
and utterly exhausted.


This absorption of self is characteristic
of many writers. The interest of Scott
has been already alluded to, and that of
Dickens is we'll known. Artenus Ward
has been described by one of his office
companions as sitting at rickety table in
a shaky chair, perfectly oblivious of the
presence of any one so amused at what
he was writing that he would laugh to
himself, and bring his hand down on the
table with slaps of delight.-Mrs. Kirk
land.
Year: 1873

WHAT AN OLD MAN HAS NoTIcED.-I
have noticed that all men are honest when
well watched.


l have noticed that purses will hold
pennies as well as pounds.


| have noticed that merit is always
measured in the world by its success.


| have noticed that in nearly all things
money is the main object in view.


| have noticed that in order to be rea-
sonabe creature it is necessary at times
to be right down mad.


| have noticed that some men are so
honest that necessity compels them tobe
dishonest in the end.


have noticed that silks, satins, broad
cloths and jewelry are often bought with
other peoples money.


| have noticed that whatever is is right,
with few exceptions-the lett eye, the
left leg, and the left side of plu
pudding.


have noticed that the prayer of every
selfish man is Forgive us our debts, -
while he makes everybody who owes him
pay to the utmost farthing.
| have noticed that he who thinks every
man a rogue is very certain to see one
when he shaves himself, and he ought, in
mercy to his neighbor, to surrender the
rascal to justice.


have noticed that all men speak well
of all mems virtues when they are dead
and that tombstones are marked with
epitaphs of the good and virtuous. Is there
any particular cemetery where the bad
men are buried?
Year: 1873

A YOU'VE WOMAN IN DANGER.-French
Sarants have made some curious discover
les in regard to the explosive effects
of sound. They placed the detonating
substance, iodide of nitrogen, in small
bags of goldbeater's skin, which they hung
to the strings of doublebass. The bow
was applied to each cord in succession
and it was found that, while the lowest
notes produced no effect whatever, the
highest ones did, causing an explosion at
the very outset. We shall now proceed to
murder that young woman who lives next
door to US, and hammers The Maiden's
Prayer and The Mabel Waltz out of her
piano from morn till dewy eve We shall
buy half bushel of iodide of nitrogen and
cram it into Ter piano. Aud when that
reckless assailer of the instrument next
sits down to reel out, The Maidens
Prayer she need not be surprised to 6nd
herself bursting out through the roof on
piano stool, and taking a magnificent
birds eye view of the city and suburbs, as
she sails swiftly along toward New Jersey.
If iodlde of nitrogen can be procured, that
girl shall soar, and we shall ebaadou our
preconceived determi nation to catch her
little brother aud inoculate him with the
smallpox, so as to spread through the
family.
Year: 1873

LII Iuo sprung vi lC-t' WI. N0ooeOi was
much concerned in the discussion then
going on in the House of Representatives
at Washington, on the tariff. One morn
ing he rose very early-earlier than was
his custom-to prepare himself to speak
upon it. From long before daylight till
the hour when the House met, he was
busy with his brief


When he was far advanced in speaking,
note was brought to him from the Su-
preme Court, informing him that the great
case of Gibbons VS.. Ogden" would be
called for argument the next morning.
He was surprised at the intelligence, for
he had supposed that after the tariff ques-
tion should have been disposed of, he still
would have ten days to prepare himself
for the formidable conflict, in which the
constitutionality of the laws of New York
granting a steamboat monopoly of its tide
waters, was to be decided.


He brought his speech on the tariff
question to conclusion as speedily as he
could, and hurried home to make such
preparations for the great argument as the
shortest notice would permit. He had
then taken no retreshment since his morn
ings breakfast, but instead of dining he
took a moderate dose of medicine and went
to sleep. At 10 P. NJ, he awoke and call
ed for bowl of tea, and without any thing
else went Immediately to work. To use
his own phrase. the tapes had not been
off the papers for more than year" He
worked all night; and he has told me
more than once he believed he never on
any occasion had so completely the free
use of his faculties. He hardly felt he had
bodily organs, so entirely had his fastings
and medicine done their work. At 9
P. NJ, after eleven hours of continual eff
fort, his brief was completed.


took He Hf E E hs bfes anaf f had add
crackers; he glanced over the papers to
see that they were all in order, and tied
them up +; he read the morning journals to
amuse and change his thoughts, and then
went into court and made his grand argu-
ment, which as Judge Wayne said, about
twenty years afterward, released every
creek and river, every lake and harbor in
our country from interference of monopo-
lies" Whatever he may have thought Of
his powers of the preceding night, the
court and the bar acknowledged their full
force that day. And yet, at the end of
five hours, when be ceased speaking, he
could hardly lie said to have taken what
would have amounted to half the refresh
ment of a common meal for above two and
thirty hours, and, out of the sixty hours
Immediately preceding, he had for thirty
one been in state of very high intellec-
tual excitement and activity.-George
Year: 1873

New PAPER FABaIC-Au improved
warp and pulp fabric has been recently
invented. 1t consists of a new fabric eff
paper pulp and warp threads of cotton.
linen, silk. or any other 6bres incorpo ~ated
with the pulp at the same time that it is
formed into sheet by rolls used for that
purpose, the threads being fed in between
the roll with the pulp, or both warp and
weft threads may be incorporated with the
pulp so as to cross and thus increase the
st5fpGtlha the e"es aihA frias fefseO eftth ,dieaa1
being laid on or supplied to the warp
threads in any approved way, as they are
drawn in between the rolls, or sheet of
the fabric previously formed with threads
running one way only may be laid on another
warp with its threads running at right an
gles thereto, as the said warp and pulp are
being fed to the rolls thus making kind
of double fabric. This improved fabric it
is proposed to use for making wearing ap-
parel, sacks, envelopes, wrapping paper,
and many other purposes for which it may
be found useful.
Year: 1873

ing the circulation and corrupting lthe
blood, it is plain that the more sudden the
invasion of these globules is the more rapid
ly death will supervene, 1t follows that, by
resisting this invasion, by means ofligatures
and very slow tina wing, we might succeed
in preventing the poisoning. The diseased
globules which, pouring in food into the
heart and lungs, would imperil life by the
sudden alteration of the blood, will appar-
emily disturb it merely in an unimportant
way, if they are dropped into the blood by
slow degrees.-Popular Science Monthly
for February.
Year: 1873

The PERILs OF LErrERs-0t all things
on earth to make trouble, commend me to
a letter You write as you would Say it,
but it goes to your friend without the grace
of voice,-the infection, the gesture, the
laugh that would make a joke of it. There
are just the hard. cold woris,-he can on
y see wha. is said, and he is deeply
grieved, or angered,-lost to you, perhaps,
forever. The thing you write in one mood
finds your friend in another-may be in
the very one which of all others is least
hospitable to your message. L have seen
a whole family cast down by some piece of
written pleasantly on the part of an absent
member of it. And if there is this danger
when you know the writer's ways and
phrases SO we'll, how much greater the
peril in the case of mere acqualntances -
Scribner.
Year: 1873

Uncle Sam had roost for his hens,
Where they roasted by thousands and tens.
The notion to rob it was Ben's.
Hired men of my uncle, feel,"
Said Ben in a solemn appeal,
"Low wages do tempt to steal.n
The force of this moral idee
Was so mighty powerful, you see,
Not to do it they couldn't agree
So the hearies they gave Ben boost,
And his fingers they suddenly noosed
Two pullets per man from the roost
Uncle Sam is now watching the spot,
To discover a man who will not
Go home with a foul in his pot.


Elizur Wright.