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Year: 1875

II is becoming more evident
every day, to the honest, fair minded
and thinking citizens Of Supe-
rlor, that the reputation and pros
perlty of our county depends upon
relieving it Of the barnacles that
are fastened upon 1t. Matters are
getting worse and worse from year
to year. Every violation of law in
the execution of the trusts imposed
upon our public officers is taken as a
precedent and incentive for further
breach, until it has become motor
ious that school and county funds
III the hands Of those intrusted
with their safe-keeping, are claimed
to be, and are, used as the personal
property of the individuals while
every attempt to investigate is
either voted down by those in the
interest Of the parties, or openly re-
fused by the proper authorities
whose duty it is to bind them to &C
count.


4 large portion of the town and
county orders aioat are issued
without regard to law, and the bal
ance, outside of salaries to County
officers, at two to three dollars for
one, to keep the inoumbents popular
with the masses who constitute a
small majority of the voting popula-
ton. Of this majority three fourths
are devoid OF either property inter-
est or intelligence sufficient to make
them indedendent voters, and are
content to be lead like cattle to the
polls, to deposit their votes at the
bid of these parties, for the sake of
the whisky they give them, the
promise of few days work, sack
| of flour, the purchase of their
worthless orders, or any other thing
they choose to offer.


To accomplish their own selfish
ends there are few men with these
leaders that ought to be ashamed
of themselves, were they not fast
tumbling TO the same common
level. And as it seems almost
hopeless to expect relief from the
present order Of things except by
the strong arm of law, until some
turn in fortunes wheel brings a
different population here, it would
be well tor these men, should they
hope to see that day, to consider
the standing they will then have
with this old pitch sticking to
them.
Year: 1875

Before the above ballot was taken the Barsto~ men
were granted Is minutes for private consultation the
eaucus adjourned without action until the rising Of the
General Assembly on Tuesday next The friends OF
Gen Burnside also held a meeting. at which Cen "n
R. Walker was chairman. Tho sentiment was firm to
stand by their candidate. and not to attend any eau
cuses 1t IS TO hoped that the local temperance and
constabulary issue. which has evidently entered
strongly into this queston-of more national thah local
importance III settle itself be settled before another
week closes.
Year: 1875

would be wrecked In the Ice by going on the rocks
out when the Qe turned the succeeded In bringing
the boat safely to the dock without serious injury.


subscription was asen UP among the passengers for
the captains and crews OF the tug boats who had
rescued them from their periious position Many small
steamers and sailing vessels were caught in the ice and
had great difficulty getting out OF H. In the sfter
there less the that the ferry
boats made their trips with little irreguary In the
North River the Interruptions travel much less
serious than In the East River.
Year: 1875

There we're four sbsentees In the Senate and three In
the House Upon the rising Of the Assembly there was
a caucus OF Republican members. as proposed yes'er
day The Hon Edwin Metcalf took the chair. and the
buspess began with closed doors The meeting was de-
voted TO discussion and taking OF several informal
ballots the last one given to the public as follows
Year: 1875

IMPROVEMENT OF BROAD STREET.-The
Board of Aldermen has passed the joint
resolution from the Committee on Streets
appropriatiug $500 from their fund to
gravel and improve the northern half-thal
j., from the gutter to the railroad track-ol
Broad street from Adams 10 Hancock street.
In the Common Council at its last meeting
the resolution was laid on the table. Within
the district contemplated to be improved
(nine squares) there are one hundred and
seventeen occupied dwellings and stores be
sides the improved lots. In view of the facl
that the street has recently been guttered
from Monroe to Hancock street, and graded
and prepared for the gravel, the Committee
on Streets are urging the importance of the
work being done, In order that the roadway
of the street may be made on level with
the gutter. The work is also deemed ur-
gent from the fact that Broad street is one oi
the most important thoroughfares in Rich
mond, and during the sessions of the State
fair is the main avenue for vehicles going
out to the grounds. Besides this. Richmond
College, point of considerable interest, is
situated upon Broad staeet, and the turnpike
road into which the street terminates is'one
Of the most agreeable drivIng-roads near
Richmond.
Year: 1875

SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN SToLEN.-Police'
man Henry Charter arrested negro boy
named Richard Braxtop, ageG about fifteen
years, last night, near the corner Of Ninth
and Main streets. The boy had in his pos
session lot OF carpenters tools, and not be-
ing able to give satisfactory account OF now
tbey came into his possession ne was taken
to the sta.iou.house to await an examination
before Justice White this morning.
Year: 1875

ENTERTAINMENT ON CHURCH HiLL.-Ihls
evening and on Friday evening at sa O'Clock
there will be an entertainment at the Leign-


Street Baptist church Tor the benene OF the


Ladies' Sun day School Aid Society.
Year: 1875

However obscure the causes may be which con- tribute to render nervous debility disease so prevalent, affecting as it does, nearly one-half of our adult population, it is melancholy fact that day by day, and year by year, we witness a most frightful increase of nervous affections from the slightest neuralgia to the more grave and extreme forms of
Year: 1875

It is of the highest importance, then, that in- dividuais should be able to judge for themselves by their own feelings, and to what extent they are attacked by this insidous enemy to ill health, comfort. and even life itself if left to run it's course unchecked, by the early and prompt ap- plcation Of curative remedies.
Year: 1875

THE ORDiNANcEs.-The City Coun.
ell last night, refused by a decisive
vote to bring up for final consideration
the ordinance providing for an increase
of the police force, This is regarded
practically, as the death of the mea-
sure.


The ordinance to regulate the salar
les was also called up, last night by
Mr., Febiger, but was laid over one
week. The issue on the motion to
lay over was the pay of the police. 1t
cannot now be reduced for one year,
but could have been reduce. last night
had the Ordinance been acted upon
Several salaries will doubtless be ma
terially reduced, when the ordinance
is finally considered.
Year: 1875

A GENTLEMAN OF LARGE BUSINESS EXPERIENCE
~ aud extensive acquaintance wishes position sell
goods obbers and first class retail trade in New York and
vicinity salary commission having capital,
would accept the agency for manufacturing house,
huence large Western trade and has special knowledge Of
many branches o fancy dry goods including lace goods &c
Office.
Year: 1875

The universal mode of getting about
is either TO ride on horseback or in a
bullOck-sledge on runners, or to be car
ried in hammock. There is, however
a fourth mode of descending from the
mountains for three or, four miles on a
few roads, and this is by sledges. A
car, to hold either two or three persons
is placed on wooden runners and de-
scends the steep, wall-inclosed reads
principally by its own weight. AT
starting, and where the inclination is
not great, it is dragged down by two of
the wonderfully active Madeira peas
ants, who run by its side at the rate of
eight or nine miles an hour, each guild
ing it by leather thong attached to its
front on either side. Ii requires but
little or no exertion to draw it along,
for the road is everywhere steep, and
always smoothly paved with pebbles or
long stones, to which additional smooth
ness and even polish, beyond that pro-
duced by mere friction, is given by the
constant application of grease to the
runners of the bullock cars. When,
however, the road becomes very steep,
the men stand on the framework of the
car with one foot, while with the other
they guide or check it, and the car then
shoots down by its own weight with a
velocity that is not little exciting, and
after the first dash off, extremely agree
able. The speed is often more than
twenty miles an hour. 1t is wonderful
how the angular corners are turned,
the car lurching up first toward one
wall and then toward the other; with
what ease speed is slackened or arrested
and how seldom any serious accident
happens. Merchants living in their
quintas often make use of these sledges
TO go to their counting-h houses in the
morning, returning in the afternoon,
usually on horseback.-Frdser's MdJd-
zine
Year: 1875

If there is a person on earth entitled
to sincere commiseration, it is an un-
willing bride-a girl who has given her
hand, without her heart, in marriage.
and more especially is she to be pitied
if her heart, uuhapplly, has been pre-
possessed by another. Can any pro-
spect be more dreary than that which
lies before such a bridei What has
she to look forward to, what to expect,
what to hopef Linked. not for day,
but for life, to one with whom she has
no sympathy-who is no more than a
stranger. save that in law and in fact,
but not in soul, he is her husband! Is
it not dreadful to contemplate How
much more SO TO experience! 1t is
natural and it is proper that parents
should desire that their daughters
should marry well, and it is reasonable
that they should prefer for them hus-
bands in comfortable circumstances.
But when it comes to the exercise OF
compulsion in the selection of a b usband
Ito commanding q daughter to relin-
quish an engagement or an attachment
on which her whole soul is fixed, and
to marry q man towards whom she feels
indifference or dislike-that is q very
different matter.
Year: 1875

1t is a bad sign when men cease TO
respect women of their own or, indeed,
of any class, but tie women themselves
are to blame for the intolerably flippant
and impertinent tone pervading young
society. We do not want to go back 10
the formalities of Sir Charles Grandson,
and there is a winning charm in natur-
alness not to be had from the most per-
fected artificiality. Nevertheless, a
slight return to Old World forms of
courtesy, little dash of that stately re-
verence of speech and demeanor which
our forefathers exaggerated into pedan-
try, would be gain in times when, the
young men give, as their greatest praise
of a girl. 'sThere is no nonsense about
her," meaning no bashfulness, no re-
serve, no girlish shrinking modesty
while the girls justify the compliment
by calling the young men ''dear boys;


and sometimes when they have less nom
sense even than usual, and desire a
closer assimilation of style, cold men.


This is the Storm" which is taught
and held up for admiration in the ladie'
novels of the day, and il is impossible
to exaggerate the degree in which these
writings have tended to corrupt and de-
grade the sex who chiefly write and read
them. All these things are patent.
Patent, too, is the inference that when
woman, from no fault of her OWN,
falls info trouble, she suffers for the
mistakes and follies of her class and the
time. Personally. she may be wholly
blameless; but with all these lines of
demarcation blurred, these distinctive
characteristics confused, it is almost in
evitable that there should be mistakes.
Until we come TO more ethereal condl-
ton of existence the burden of self
protection must, we fear, lie on the
women themselves. That burden is not
very heavy, and the penance it includes
not very bitter. 1t is only that modest
women must show what they are by a
series of negatives, and take care not to
expose themselves to misconstruction
by an attractiveness of out-of-door dress,
a doubtful manner of speech, and a
Bohemian bonhompaie of behavior to
strangers which shift the labels, mis-
lead their companions, and end in the
confusion of a mistaken affinity, by


which they themselves are the greatest
sufferers in the end.-Sdturddy Rerieic.
Year: 1875

PITY the children of the poor,


Who've never plucked the daisies.
Who've never watched the skylark soar,


Or heard it singing praises;
Who've never trod the fresh green sward,
Or rambled by the river
They need a holiday, We rich.


And Heaven reward the giver
PITY the little pattering feet


That swarm in fetid alleys.
and grimy hands that might be sweet
Mid coEslips Of the valleys
Pale lips that may grow rosy red


Where fresh free breezes quiver-
Provide holiday, ye rich,


And Heaven reward the giveri
Pity the little bright blue eyes


That never saw the ocean.
Or gazed with innocent surprise


At wild waves in commction-
Send-send them forth one happy day
To hill or sea or river;
lis great to them, but small to you,
and Heaven reward the gIveri
From healthy JOY comes wholesome thought
And sense of natures beauty,
And mid instruction, wisdom-fraught,
OF pity and of duty;
All withered in the noisome slums.


Deliver them, deliver
Twill cost We little, oh, ye rich


And God reward the giver.
Year: 1875

Promptly at O'Clock we drove into
the widows basement; we ascended the
stone stairway and scene Of splendor,
brilliant colors and black eyes burst
upon our view. The Mestiza girls were
sitting in a row on one side of the room
about forty of them; some decked in
gay plumage, yellow, pink and green
being prominent colors, others dressed
in somber hues; they were mostly very
pretty, with 1.-THE, graceful figures, and
ewes as black as coal. The gentlemen
lowered near the doors of the grand
sala, like hawks eying chickens; at the
first note of the music they all made a
pounce for partners. As saw that
pounciDg was the go, made dive for
a pretty yellow and green, ratified off a
sentence from the fifteenth lesson in
Ollepdorf, "Will you do me the favor
to bailar conmigo?" and started off on
a dance had never seen before, but
which was easy to learn; it was the
Habanera, a sort of walking embrace to
slow music; you make step to the
right, rise on your toes, step to the left,
rise, swing round, step to the right,
and so on then, when you wish to bal
Year: 1875

Mrs. Harvey writes: 1t is perhaps a
dangerous topic to touch upon, because
every nation has its own standard on
such points, but it would be difficult to
find anywhere more charming wcmen
than Spanish ladies. The average of
beauty is exceedingly great. but even
when the features are not strictly
pretty, the fine. eyes have such a depth
of tender expression, the slender figure
is SO graceful in every movement, the
low, sweet voice speaks in such tones Of
earnest persuasion, that critical indeed
must be the judgment that is not pleased.
And these charms are not those of mere
appearance, for Spanish women are true
and kind and gentle, and singularly
free from affectation of either mind or
manners. Many are very accomplished,
though perhaps the education usually
given to women is not very profound.
OF course there are admirable excep-
tions, and these ladies naturally take
the lead in society:
Year: 1875

Why should we assume the Peruvian
traditions of the lost mines of the Incas
TO be so untrue or smile because we are
told that the Ashantees know where to
find gold in quantities? Why not, The
California gold was known a century
before it was found, and unless geology
is all wrong, the Yankees have not got
hold of the richest section, which is in
Lower California, yet. The Turks must
own and neglect endless mines-sOme of
them, if tradition is not all self-begotten,
mines of gold-and there is all Southern
Asia to be ransaeked by the curious.


Where, before maritime enterprise be-
gan, did all the silver and copper and
lead i'm those vast countries come from !?
The people of India were two hundred
millions before the fifteenth century,
and used and boarded silver and copper
i'm several forms, and lead; and where
did they get them. There are no silver
mines open now in India. Thev are
working gold diggings in Wynaad on a
system which indicates, if not with GER
tsinty, at least with high degree of
probability, that they have not reached
''reefs" and have only found some an
cient deposits washed down from them.
There are all manner OF minerals in the
Malayan Peninsula, and indeed through-
out the Eastern Archipelago, which, for
want OF civilized methods of working,
return nobody anything worth having.
Would not copper be worth seeking for
in these regions, by men who remember
that if they can only find any metal
worth working, there Is the boundless
reservoir OF China close at hand to draw
their labor from? Discoveries of tin in
the Archipelago have half ruined Corn
wall, and there may be much more than
tin, the existence of which geologists
could predicate with certainty. Even
leaving aside gold, as a tempting and
Elusive metal. which rouses local cu-
pidity too much, where are the places
in Southern Asia, and especially in
India, where copper ought to exist?
Year: 1875

! Manifest A A6inities.-The curiosity of
a little 10-year-old had been greatly
excited by bat that was found one
morning in her bedroom hanging by
its heels to the nail supporting pic
ture. The odd and unbidden visitor


was permitted to occupy through the
day the lodging it had seized without
considering the question of rights and
properties, and was, of course, the sub
jeet of a great deal of searching yet


distant examination by the inquisi-
tive child. Finally she broke out in a
thoughtful tone of voice: Mamma,
does the bat belong to the ass family 7"
"Why, no; what in the world made
you ask that n was the responsive
query. "0h, nothing, only it has such
big ears ..-
Year: 1875

Saddles Fdith-Little Sadie was very
fond of her minister, and paid great
attention to his preaching. One Sab
bath morning his subject was "Elijah's
Faith" and how the rain came in an
swer TO his prayer. There had been
a great drought in that region, and
he exhorted his congregation to pray
for rain. When starting TO the after
noon service she was observed taking
her little umbrella. Her father said.
''What are you taking your umbrella
for ~ She quietly said, because Mr..
T said we must pray for rain The
father smiled at the child's simplicity
Gas the sun was shining brightly. but
allowed her to have her way. During
the service brisk shower surprised
the audience, and no one had an um-
brella except little SadIe-not even the
pastor.-Christidn Mteliigeaeer.
Year: 1875

Sleigh Bells.-How many boys and
girls know how sleigh bells are
made How do you think the little
iron ball gets inside the bell Ii is too
big to be put through the holes in the
bell, and yet it is inside. How did it
get theref Ilg -E s7r .il-r


This little iron ball is called the jing-
let" When you shake the bells it
jingles. When the horse trots, the bells
jingle, jingle. jingle. In making the
bell. this jinElct Is put inside little
ball of mud. just the shape of the in
side of the bell. Then a mould is made
just the shape of the outside of the
bell. This mud ball, with the jinglet
inside, is placed in the mould of the
outside, and the melted metal ispoured
in. which fills up the space between
the mud ball and the mould.


When the mould is taken off,yOu see
a sleigh bell but it will not ring, as it
is full of DIRT. The hot metal dries
the mud that the ball is made of, so
that it can all be shaken out. After
the dirt is all shaken out of the holes
in the bell the little iron jinglet will
still be in the bell and it will ring all
right. 1t took good many years to
think out how to make sleigh bell.
Year: 1875

The telegraph tells us that the bit
ter fight in the National House is over
with at last and the new rule, intend
ed, ostensibly, to prohibit "dilatory
notions" has been adopted.


We have before spoken of the effect
this rule will have in legislation III
depriving the minority of their only
weapon of defence against an aggres-
siye majority. At first sight there APP
pears to be something really plausible
about this rule as well as about the
pretext that it will serve to expediate
the transaction of public business
towards the close of the session,
but its real object, in the pres
ent instance, is but thinly dis
guised. The word "fillibustering'
so often used of late in connection
with the proceedings of the House
will now lapse into disuetude, with
the ability of the minority to interpose
any delay to the progress of injurious
legislation.


In reality, the rules of the House of
Representative are the result as much
of long experience as we'll as of knowl-
edge of parliamentary law in their
compilation They have heretofore
worked well, and the very rule so re-
Gently annulled has been found to be
one of the very best in the entire
code. If it is true that the power
conferred by this rule on a weak mi
nority, is sufficient at times to retard
necessary legislation. when it may
be so designed By unscrupulous par
tlsans, it is equally true that it has
often been exerted as a powerful
weapon for good, and has in times
past checked many acts of bad legisla-
tion. AS it is now, the majority are
complete masters of the situation and
can enforce just such acts as the ne
eessities of the party, and not of the
people, may demand. That the power
conferred by it will be exerted to the
utmost, there is but little doubt in
the minds of clear-headed people.
The great work on hand is to
revive the waning fortunes of the Rad
cal party, and to this end right and
Justice and equity before the law, even
the very constitutional instrument it.
self will be swept aside. Already mo
ton has been introduced and consid
cred to recall the Civil Rights Bill
from the committee to which it was
assigned and we may look forward
during the next four weeks to system
OF legislation which will completely
overshadow all Of the previous hideous
inlquities of the corrupt Repu blicau
party.
Year: 1875

The terrible insurrection on the
part of the white majority in Louisi-
ana having been at length suppressed,
and awhoIe Legislature whipped ont
By tile regime emf of bayoneted blue
coats conlmknded by Lieut.. Gen. p.
81. Sheridan, that redoubtable war
rior is now on his return to Chicago,
where doubtless grand ovation will
await him in the offices Of the Tribune
and Inter- Ocean.


The magnifcently bioodless cam,
pafgn just concluded by this matchless
soldier with the long ears is one OF
the most glorious achievements on
record-indeed 1t is the only thing OF
the kind ever known in this country.
Who planned it is still a matter OF
conjecture and doubt Grant, in his
modest message, seems anxious to
award the glory to Phil, while Phil,
filed with the flush of his achieve
ments at the bagatelle tables in the
Crescent City, is unwilling to assume
all of the glory of the campaign to
himself. He is willing, we presume,
as we have previously suggested. that
the "ladies of the force" shall father
this responsibility.


But, wherever the glory may belong,
and to whomsoever it may appertain.
certain is it that the achievement in
itself is grand one and that the vic
tory obtained will not soon be forgot
ten by the people Of this country and
especially by the ''oanditu" of New
Orleans. There is nothing equal to
it in history unless it is Sherman s
March to the Sea or the gallant Sheri-
dams ride through the Valley of Vir-
ginia or, possibly, his war with the
Piegan Indians.


We predict for the gallant Phil q
new career of glory. There is a fine
opening just now for brave men like
him-men who are mot afraid d"-out in
the West subduing the refractory In
dians. We hope that Phil will &C
there and meet the warriors death
| he no doubt covets. He will find
plenty of "ladies" in the forces of the
| lUsnie lndlans and what greater poetic
| justice could be meted out to the phe
rocious Phil than that he should die un
| der the fair hands of some brave squaw
who will sing such a beautiful wal
song while gently removing the chief
tains CORY scalp and who will recount
his deeds of. bravery to soothe the
lacerated feelings of the dying war
rior. He and Candy eau then fgh
over their battles again when tLe-
meet in the happy hunting grounds
where there is no more pain and sor
row and strife with refractory rebels
and where the Thermometer is neve.
below zero.