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Year: 1871

should be chary of keeping ripe fruit in our
sitting rooms, and especially beware of
laying it about sick chamber for any
length of time. That complaint which
some people make about faint sensation
in the presence of fruit is not fanciful !;
they may be really affected by it; for two
continental chemists have shown that
from the moment of plucking, apples, cher
ries, currants, and other fruits are subject
to incessant transformation. At first, they
ing air of its vital element. Then they


evolve carbonic acid, and this in far
greater volume than the purer gas is abb
sorbed, SO that we have poison given us in
the place of pure air, with compound in
terest. Temperature affects the rate of
changes, warmth accelerating - Good
Year: 1871

DRIED PEAs.-.-Soak several hours in
water: pick out all defective ones; putthem
in hot water boil until tender dress with
butter, or boil with piece of picked pork;
drain from the water through culender
before adding the butter Salt to taste.
Year: 1871

1t is wrong to eat without appetite, for
it shows that there is no gastric Juice in
the stomach, and that nature does not need
food, and there not being any food to re-
ceive and act upon it, it would remain
there only to putrefy, the very thought of
which should be sufficient to deter. any
man from eahing without an appetite.
for the remainder of his life. fla tonic is
taken TO whet the appetite, it is mistak-
en- course; for its only result is to cause
enc to eat more, when already an amount
has been eaten beyond what the gastric
juice supplied is able TO prepare The OBJ
ject to be obtained is a larger supply Of
gastric juice, not larger supply OF food
and whatever fails to accomplish that es-
sential objecs, fails to have an efficiency
toward the cure of dyspeptic diseases
and as the fomation of gastric juice is ti-
rectly proporioned to the wear and waste
of the system, which it is TO be the
means OF supplying, and this wear and
waste can only take place as the result OF
exercise, the point is reached again that
the efficient remedy for dyspepsia is work,
outdoor beneficial and successful
in direct proportion as it is agreeable. in
proportion as 1t is agreeable, interesting
and profitable. Halls Journal Of Health.
a rich man asked a poor person if he
had any idea of the advantages arising
from riches. Il believe they give q rog gle
an advantage over an honest man" was
the ansSser. - a
Year: 1871

The Late Local of the advertiser is pa
rsding the street I'm new clothes, and has gone
go far as TO try his hand at mule driving.
More experience in this direction will insure
greater success
Year: 1871

Mr.. Kent, Of Glen Rock, infnrme us that
winter wheat is still IonkiHg well. There is
q large breadth of ground sown la wheat I'm
ihiS county. and many have been fearful
that this dry weather and bear ground would
be improprietous. and that the crop would
fail.
Year: 1871

GER UP.-"My son." said veteran
at the foot Of the stairs, sarise and see
the newly risen luminary of the day.
and hear the sweet birds singing their
matin songs Of praise to their Cree
tor, come while the dew is on th q
grass and the tender lambs ars blest.
ing on the hill side--come, I ~. or
Ill be there with switch and s,vo
you the cuascdest licking yea ever
Year: 1871

We part at the breezy cleaning,
Here at the garden gate;
Part for no future meeting,
Coldly, as IL with hate.
was your slave for summer;
Well, II Is autumn now.
Somehow must forget il all
God knows how
Perfect as seems your conquest,
What have you found il WORTH
Low i am crushed, grant ysu,
Low as the common earth;
Willing to kneel for your pity,
Manhood a ruin. now;
Somehow the shadow of all was
God knows how
Where is the Triumph Tomorrow
Distance between us lies:
Tomorrow again, in darkness
Wraps us In mysteries
Where is your triumph You answer
Just with faint laughter, now;
Somehow you must repent, one day
God knows howl


USKSowS.
Year: 1871

GAMBETTA AND THIERs.-The HERALD
special correspondent at Paris telegraphs that
the party of the Left had caucus, over which
NJ Gambetta presided, the result of the meet
ing being determination on the part Of the
republican leader to forego his measure for
the dissolution of the National Assembly.
This is wise. Able as he is, Gambetta cannot
maintain the popularity necessary to mould
the republic after his ideas; and so far NJ.
Thiers has done very well. A rupture between
these men would put republican institutions in
danger, and could not subserve any useful
purpose. In view of these facts the action of
M. Gambetta in abandoning his former deter
mination is to be commended
Year: 1871

GOVERNOR WARMoTH is not mending mat
ters much in the political hubbub in Louisiana.
He removed his Secretary Of State yesterday
for some alleged malfeasance in Office. and to
get possession of his Office had to resort to
force. Poor Louisiana is, indeed, in shame
less hands,
Year: 1871

THE BOARD OF HEALTH, as one Of the most
vital necessities for the prevention Of cpl
demc, has ordered the immediate inspection
of all tenement houses. The disease breeding
filth that is to be found in some of these houses
will, no doubt, astonish the inspectors.
Year: 1871

For OPEN CoRRUProN-barefaced glory
ing in political infamy-the New Orleans
office-holders take the palm. During move
ment recently to change the officials of the
City Water Board and for other purposes, it
was shown that every member Of the City
Council had been literally feed, one man
claiming that an Independent fortune had been
ofrnrad him
Year: 1871

THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT has issued an
amnesty for all political offences. This meas
ure will tend to conciliate the adversaries Of
the government and increase the popularity of
the Ministry
Year: 1871

A CORRESPONDENT of the Memphis Appeal
says he caught Andy Johnson in a position he
never was caught in before. Andy knew an
interviewer was around and did not take time
to part his back hair.
Year: 1871

WHERE ARE TIE MISSIONARIES ?-Better let
the heathen slide for the present and attend
to the home trade in social decentralization
and general wickedness. Scarcely one crime
or one horror is announced ere It is ''tele-
scoped" into another, and 30 it goes on from
one day to another, without end to the chap
ter
Year: 1871

DR.. CARNooHANs DEFENCE. receipts
for customs at this port have been this year
some ten millions of dollars in excess over
those at the same time last year. This is the
right way Of '1sending away commerce"
Year: 1871

The Condition Of the Markets and the


The reports to the Board of Health which
we print this morning, though not very pleas
ant reading, are highly important documents
on account of their terrible revelations in re-
gard to the sanitary condition of the city.
The communication of DR.. Morris, concerning
the filth about the markets, is especially
worthy of attention He found disease and
dirt everywhere, Washington Market being in
particularly unhealthy state. But from be-
ginning to end these reports tell the same
streets, the tenement houses and of every spot
where negligence could allow filth to accumu-
late. These terrible revelations WILL we
hope, lead to thorough reform. The cholera
is again on it's travels and we must be pre-
pared for it. AS one of the first steps toward
the complete cleaning out process which must
be undertaken, it is due to the public that the
booths on the streets should be removed. If
the sidewalks at Washington, Fulton and
the other markets were not used by trades
men the noisome condition of these places
would not be so shocking. Nearly every street
corner in all parts Of the city is occupied by
petty venders, who allow filth to accumulate
for many yards around their stands. The
work of cleansing the city must be pursued
vigorously and vigorously, but while these
places are allowed to exist there can be no
cleanliness.
Year: 1871

A New YANKEE POLITICAL NOTION The
Boston Adrertiser states that, in response to a
call of committee previously appointed, a
convention composed of two hundred delegates
met at a certain hall in that city lately and
adopted series of resolutions as platform
for the American Union reform party" Ar
rangements were made to call public meet
ing, to which liberal men of all parties will be
invited. No names are given, not even of the
committee by whom the convention was called.
This smacks little of old Know NothinRism
yediciUus. Wonder if Ben Butler has hand
in IL?
Year: 1871

The Action OF DR.. PERRY AND MRS
VAN BUsKIRK in dragging a dying victim
out of their house as soon as they dis
covered that the trunk horror had excited
public sentiment against their vile avocation
so as to make it dangerous for them if death
should occur in their house, is even more in
famous than the crime of DR.. Rosenzweig.
The woman who was so cruelty treated died
yesterday, and the City Hospital physician
tes!ifes that it was mainly the brutal dragging
her about'that killed her and her child.
Year: 1871

Insurance System.


The cordial reception which Mr.. George W.
Miller, the Superintendent of the New York
Insurance Department has met with in Eng
land is gratifying, not only in social aspect
but also in its recognition of the claim of our
American system of life insurance upon the
consideration of the British public.


1t appears, however, that the life companies
OF Great Britain are not quite prepared to
accept the principle which we have adopted.
Of fixed legal standard by the valuation Of
policies, and which is now, as it has been for
some years, our guide for judging of the SOL
vency OF life company. Those companies
hold that the circumstances which severally
govern their affairs call, ia each individual
case, for distinct system whereby to deter
mine this very important question. But, in
an article recently published in the Protector,
we are told that at meeting of the Institute
Of Actuaries, in London, O society which
numbers among its members the most expert
enced in the life insurance business, and from
which are selected the ablest men in the ac-
tuaral department of English life companies,
Mr.. T. B. Sprague, M. A., Vice President Of
the Institute, reGd paper on the Life Assu-
rance Companies Act of 1870, wherein, while
commencing the working of the new law, as
empowering the Court of Chancery to wind
up any company on satisfactory proof Of it's
insolvency, he complained that the act did
not 60 fur enough, as it still left the
question open as to what really should
be the test of insolvency, adding especially
that this had been accomplished in America,
where there is fixed standard of valuation,
and that the appointment Of State Insurance
Commissioners is guarantee that the law
governing insurance companies would be
observed. The Protector says that since life
insurance legislation in the United States is
held to be within the province of the several
State governments, each of the States that
chooses to place life companies under restric-
ton must fix its own standard Of solvency.
In this, for instance, there is difference be-
Massachusetts, of about ten per cent, as the
reserve or valuation of policies is calculated at
a rate Of four and a half per cent interest in
the former and at four per cent in the latter
State, so that company may be perfectly SOL
vent as doing business in New York. while it
would not pass the examination of the Massa
chusetts inspector. The deliberations of the
National Insurance Convention at their next
meeting will doubtless result in arranging a
desirable uniformity Of State action in this re-
spect. We shall then be able to congratulate
ourselves upon having SO far perfected our
American system that we can set an example
of sound insurance legislation even to those
Old World companies which have had an ex-
perience of more than three generations.
Year: 1871

The RICHMOND Dispatch (democratic)
pitches into Aleck Stephens for his war upon
the new departure, and declares it as certain
as any future event can be that the Demo-
cratic National Convention will next year
adopt platform in which one of the
planks will be ''plain. candid concession
that the new amendments are part and
parcel of the constitution" Throw out Ad-
miral Semmes, JEFF Davis, Aleck Stephens,
Bob Toombs, the Mobile Register end
two or three other prominent Southern
men and newspapers, and the opposition to
the new departure does not really seem to
have much strength or bottom in the South
As for the constitutional amendments, the
South might as well begin to talk of fighting
the fight of the rebellion over again as to
attempt to ignore them.
Year: 1871

The SOCIAL HORRORS OF THE DAY.-The
young girl who was left at the First precinct
station house in Brooklyn by DR.. Perry and
Mrs. Van Buskirk died in the City Hospital
yesterday. This adds another murder to the
long and melancholy list of social horrors
which hang over the city like a curse. Why
is it that these social crimes are of such
frequent occurrence? They cannot spring
from mere depravity, for the victims are gen.
orally persons of previously good reputation,
and only the professional murderers are wholly
lost to all the instincts of humanity. Some
deep-seated reason there must be for it; and
this we can find only in the early teachings of
philosophers like Greeley and the communistic
ideas which he and his followers have been
preaching. In other words, social duties are
disregarded, because the marriage relation
has been allowed to fall into contempt among
very large class of the community. This
contempt has not been fostered SO much by
the professed ''free lovers" as by those who
are pretending to seek higher sphere for
women that women may be degraded. II the
horrors of the last few days cannot make the
community understand this we know of moth
ing which can teach the necessary lesson.
Year: 1871

The Currency Questi0a and Western PO-


liticiaus.


Some of the politicians of the West cling to
their currency notions and to the payment of
the debt in currency. General Ewing wanted
to revive this issue, as appeared in the speech
he delivered lately in Ohio, but others are dis
posed to let it drop as no longer available or
practicable. Mr.. Pendleton even seems dis
posed to let it Slide for he no longer makes
that the burden of his speeches, as formerly
There was time when the question of legal
tender currency exclusively and the payment
of the five-twenties in that was prominent
one. Many of the ablest public men of both
parties-and among them Thaddeus Stevens
We're in favor of such policy. The estab-
lishment OF the national banks and national
bank currency, the financial policy of the
Treasury Department and the approximation
to specie basis have upset the greenback
theory. Probably the nation has lost by this.
The financial policy of the government has,
perhaps, created and enriched a moneyed OIL
| garchy at the expense of the people, and has
| given to private corporations the profits Of
national circulation which properly belong to
the people and the government; but it is
fastened upon us, and for some time at least
efforts to make change would prove fruit
less. General Ewing and other Western
politicians who have been trying to raise the
question are spending their strength for
naught, and should turn their attention now
to live and nractjcahla issues
Year: 1871

WALL SrRBEr,
fM TUESDAY. Jan. Ito p. NJ


On 'Ohange to-day wheat was firm. The cotton
market was quiet and traction lower.


MONEY IRREGULAR.


Money was active in the earlier hours OF business,
and on the discovery that the clique who are mani
puiatlng the market had locked up a, IN the
Mechanics Bank there was an anxious inquiry
for call loans, which ran up the rate rom
seven per cent currency TO seven per cent gold,
and later In the day TO seven currency Plus
consideration OF 1-32 l-1o Tor the use OF
money over night. The ofrlcers OF the bank
referred to stated yesterday that they could not
help their completely with the movement, as the ac-
count which had been used by the spectators was
that OF respectable and responsible firm who were
profitable customers Of the bank, and who enjoyed
d perfect right to withhold the checks certified
against the above sum If 1t so pleased them. The
merchants and others who are annoyed by these va
Saries Of the money market should remember that
other banks, which had been made the tools
OF Q similar scheme promptly ordered the,
firms connected with 1t to withdraw their
deposits and close their accounts The ac-
Hvity prevailed up to two O'Clock, after
which money suddenly become very abundant ana
was offered In large amounts five per cent before
the close OF banking hours. No explanation OF this
remarkable relaxation was given other than that
the brokers had been SO uneasy IN the earlier part
of the day as to seek accommodation promptly and
make up their accounts early, thus forcing lenders
who were holding back for a squeeze" at three
O'Clock to press their money late In the day for
whatever they could get Another theory sug-
gested that the clique hau broken up owing to some
internal treachery on the part OF some
OF the pool, who got frightened at the
strength Of the stock market and abandoned the
bear' side OF the street. Whatever the real secret
one fact Is evident-viz. that there Is money enough
In the street for its temporary use and that activity
or stringency is only the result OF artificial nnu-
ences. The sale OF commercial paper was checked
by this arrangement. but the rates were nomnally
the same previously quoted.


Foreign exchange was iriner at the close, and the
leading bankers advanced the rate for sixty-day
sterling to 109tS and for sight to 110b.


GOLD srEADY-l10A a 110k.


The gold market was rather more active. but the
price steady between the extremes OF 11o1a and
1lOA. There Is no outside demand beyond that con-
nected with the current mercantile want In connec
tion with the payment OF customs duties, and The
market is what is known as o brokers' market, in
which transactions consummated Tor profits Of an
eighth to quarter per cent. The course OF to-days
fluctuations Is shown III the tablet
Year: 1871

A one-armed horseman recently travel
ling through Missouri. stopped at a black
smiths shop to have his horse shod. The
smith noticed the empty sleeve, and asked
him if he lost his arm in the war He re-
piled with sigh, that he had. and even
more; going on to relate how he had loft
home to enlist in the southern army, and
at the close of the war. in going back, he
found that his wife, who thought him dead,
had moved away. and he had since been
unable to obtain trace of her. What
is your namew said the blacksmith. When
the answer was u. NJ. Waldrup, he sud-
denly released the hoof over which he had
been bending, and without looking at the
ex-soldier, cried, Follow me into the
house !" and hurriedly led the way.


Amazed as he was at such conduct, Wal


drup Immediately obeyed his bidding, and


before he could pause to think, was in the
presence OF comely matron, about


whose sewing chair three happy children


were playing. . She was the blacksmith's


wife, the mother Of his little ones; yet as


she rose to see whom the smith had


brought in, and caught sight of the stran-
gers face, one wild shrek proclaimed the
instantaneous recognition, and she tainted.
In the belief that Waldrup was dead. she
had married the blacksmith of Cedar City,
in the very year of the soldiers parole,
and now could only confess her dread
mistake, and call alternately on either
husband and her God for pardon After
the first agitation of the singular reunion
had partially subsidized, the two men re-
turned to the smithy and talked the matter
over as coolly and sensibly rs their re-
spective feelings permitted. Devotedly
as he loved the woman, the honest black
smith admitted the others stronger right
to her, and generously consented that she
herself should decide between them. After
a long passion of tears and self-reproach,
she elected to 60 with him whom she had
loved first; but declared, with bitter la
mentation, that she could not leave her
children. The smith, raising his head
from his breast, on which it had dropped
in the first dependency of his great AZ
fiction, eyed her wistfully for moment.
and then said, "you shall take them, my
dear!" When the steamboat st. Luke
stopped at the landing. some hours later,
Waldrup went on board with his still
weeping and thickly veiled wife, and the
blacksmith followed with the children.
The beats bell rang for the starting. and
the dread separation was at hand. The
crew, the passengers, the captain--all
who witnessed it-were affected to tears
by the touching scene. With great drops
rolling down his tawny cheeks. the smith
kissed his children one after another, and
in choking voice bade their mother an
eternal goodbye. The two men gazed
wistfully into each others faces, shook
hands long and earnestly, and then the
blacksmith, by a strong effort OF iron will,
released the hand of Waldrup and walked
quickly to the shore. He never turned
his face again toward the boat, whichsoon
passed out of sight around merciful bend
of the river. but strobe on. with head


bowed down, to the home whittier the
voices of wife and children would well
come him no more 1e
Year: 1871

Meeting Of the Cnckiing Hens.


The New York Woman Suffrage Society held its
regular session yesterday afternoon. Quite large
number OF ladies' were present. as well as q few of
the stronger sex. The Rev. Dr. Clark OF Harlem,
who was to read paper, being absent, the society
took up the question Of property as related to
women. 1t was thought that women should have
enehalf of their husbands property, to do with
as they chose. Women should have a chance
to succeed fail II they want to make an experi.
ment in business. Men snOuld net have right 10
give their property by will to any but the wife, The
question was asked whether property rights could
be secured by women without the ballot.


DR.. MARVIN thought 1t wicked for man to leave
his property to religious institutions to the neglect
OF his children. The ballot won't elecJ these things
unless there is public sentiment back Of it.


MISS SMITH


thought that the principal use Of the ballot would be
to open womens eyes to the fact that their talents
should not be confined 10 the petty details Of house
hold labor such work can be done by subordnates
as well, and 1t IS poor economy for intellectual
men to give their time to domestic details. lady
Thought that women might as well vote as petition
The laws have been changed In the State Of New
York by petition, till women have more rights than
men IN some respects.


The ladies had some


SHARP THINGS


to say ABOUT the difficulty that wives have TO get
money from their husbands and en- allowance was
advocated ny some, while others thought that this
was not the better way. Women are IN the habit OF
picking theii husbands pockets AMI resortng TO
other expedients TO get the money they need.


Mrs. BARLOW, VINO has lately come from the South,
referred TO the large number OF women who are car.
ryng ON the work OF large plantations. She wished
that women would stand by each other, and not be
Jealous OF each others success. She gave an inter.
esting account Of woman's work on Harkcr Island,
nine miles from Beaufort Miss Bell went to this
island seven years ago, where she found $50 people,
not more than dozen OF whom could read. These


POOR WHITES


depended upon fishing for living and were In the
most miserable state. Miss Bell has taught them to
cultivate the ground and brought them TO higher
condition. Dr. Sheldon said he had come to the
meeting hoping TO learn something, but he had
been disappointed. lDe gentleman went on to show
that the laws are now In favor Of women
IN this State. He thought that men as Q
rnlo were willing TO give women hali OF
their wealth, and that women have far greater
power than men, tnasmuch as they have the educa-
ton Of the rising generation. Women can make
Just such men as they have mind to. lie was Will
ing for women TO vote, but he didn't believe Ihe
ballot would he Of any use to them.


An enthusiastic gentleman gave this speaker
''piece Of his mind" after which the meeting ad-
j0urned. -


There was some confusion at various times during
the meeting, the ladies not being able 70 restrain
their curiosity to zee the ceremonee ID honor oI es'
Patrick