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Year: 1873

maintenance Of our constitutional liberty.


II will bccomeyour duty to make such
enactments as will cure any defects dis
covered in the workings Of our school
laws, 50 rs to render them more efficient
in securing instruction to every part OF
the State. The success which the sys-
tenn has attained in the past is doubt
less, in great degree, attributable to
the perseverance, and industry with which
our Supcrintendents, travorsing the State,
have in person urged its claims upon the
people; and this means of securing fur
thcr strength to the cause ought not to
be allowed to cease. In order to defray
the expenses necessarily incurred in ac-
complishing a thorough canvass of the
State, as well as to supply clerical force
needed in the Office, | recommend an in
crease of the compensation allowed by
law to the Superintendent.


most respectfully again call your at
tention To the recommendation made in
my last annual message on the subject of
organizing a system Of education for our
colored population. The education of
this race is not duty of charity alone,
but is demanded by the best interests OF
society. They form numerous class OF
our citizens, sharing with us in civil and
political rights, upon whom, too, we are
largely dependent for carrying on the in
dustry, especially the agriculture of the
State; and just in proportion as they
shall be LEFT in ignorance and vice, or
improved in morals and intelligence, by
the discipline ofa suitable system of edu-
cation, they will become to the Com
monwealth, on the one hand, an incu-
bus of pauperism and crime; on the other,
useful part of our population.


Many of these people are struggling
hard in the direction of educating their
children and have shown a wonderful
measure Of success. trust you will not
fail to provide for Il system of schools
for this portion Of our population, and
offer them encouragement and assistance
in this important department. Should
such a system he adopted, and provision
made for the free education Of all the
children of the Commonwealth between
the ages of six and sixteen years, Ken
lucky would be entitled. under the law
of Congress, to her pro rata share in the
public lands, which could be either ap-
propriated as an ample provision for the
education of the colored race in the
State, or divided between them and the
schools for whites, as may be thought
best.


REVISION OF STATUTES AND CODES or


PRACTICE.


The revision of the statutes and codes
of practice has progressed rapidly but is
not completed. The revisors of the stat
utes will have their work in a condition
to lay il before the General Assembly 50
that its merits may be passed upon.


SPECIAL LEGISLATION.


1t is recommended that the laws be 50
amended, if necessary, as to relieve the
Legislature of the necessity of passing
upon many local measures which should
be referred to the courts. Local legisla
ton has been a source of great expense
to the State.
Year: 1873

To THE New York and New Haven
Railroad Company is accredited the fol-
lowing brilliant plan for keeping switch
men awake; 1t is proposed to have the
lever of the switch in sentry box so
arranged that when the switch is open the
door is shut and locked, and can only be
opened by closing the switch, lfa train
comes along while the switch is open, il
is sure to smash the sentry box first and
the switchman can save his life by attend
ing to his business. lie is not likely 10
sleep much when trains are due ON his
track.
Year: 1873

A faithful Custom House officer in
Maine siezed nutmeg that was attempt
ing to get through without paying duty.
This being the smallest affair that we've
heard Of we are waiting patiently Tor
somebody tofurnish a greater to match
Year: 1873

Maysville has Nitro glycerine facto-
ry. Next to well organized saloon
selling Cincinnati whiskey, we know of
no more efiicacious agent a town can
have of being convenient to prompt an
initiation, than a small sized Nitro glyce-
rine factory.
Year: 1873

The Meridian Miss. } Gazette acknowl-
edges the receipt of some vegetable wool
and pair of socks made from the same
article, from citizen of that town. That
rather knocks the socks offany thing in
the wool line that we've seen. We can't
imagine how it grows but suppose it
must be derived in some way from sheep
sorrel
Year: 1873

That report of a forty pound tumor
being successfully removed reminds US of
the story, we have heard, but have never
seen in print, of the operation performed
on a fellow who accidentally had his
brains all shot out. The bystanders had
heard of some wonderful restorations by
transfusions and translations, and they
quickly killed dog standing by and
transferred his brain to the empty cavity
Of the fellows Uranium. He recovered
completely, but they never could break
him from running rabbits.
Year: 1873

The cry of disloyalty by the radical
papers, every time democratic paper
SAYS anything about radical rascality, re-
wives the story of the two urchins at play
in the back yard. Bill whacked Sam
over the head with hammer and Sam
bawled out, when the mother steps out
to know what's the matter, and Bill
breaks out with 81 wish you would make
Sam behave himself, every time | hit
him on the head with the hammer he
hollers,"
Year: 1873

-Charmingly natural and primitive
things do occasionally happen even in
these sophisticated days. At Louisville
last week there appeared in the railway
station a pretty girl, bare-footed, with a
pair of shoes and bag in her hand.
On inquiry it appeared that she had walk
ed eighteen miles from Salt River to be
married to young fellow of her heart !.
She was modest, and being annoyed by
the observation which she had attracted,
marcked off in search Of her intended.
We are little afraid that she has thrown
herself away. Any man who will permit
woman to walk eighteen miles barefoot
on such an errsnd doesn't deserve 50 much
devotion Men are disgustingly selfish,
--thcre is no escaping the conclusion,
Year: 1873

anime into and report upon all the faete.
The Committee was appointed. and q
most thorough search was made into
all the circumstances and facts in the
case, and the Committee were unani'
nous in generating the Secretary from
all blame whatever in the matter, and
their report was received by Com
gress without a dissenting voice.
This was at a time when party
spirit ran high, but still at time when
members OF Congress scorned to en-
deavor to sfix to the name OF public
servant any stigma upjustly and falsely.
After more than twelve years the Aud.
itor reaches the account, and by reject
ing the acceptances of the war debt, 70
which, / think, he acted correctly, he
gives this deficit as something new.
The Second Auditor Of 1861 claims the
honor OF making this discovery, when
in truth I was the one to make all the
facts known. For fidelity, efficiency
and promptitude in the administrator
OF the Interior Department. from 1897
to 1861, 1 am willing to be compared
with any administration of it either be.
fore or since that time. Certain 1t is
that no business was twelve years be-
hind time. Ihavs written this much
to you for your own information,
az I would not have you
ignorant Of the facts, but
/ have so often explained this matter
and know go we'll that all honorable
men are fully satisfied with the pro-
priety of my conduct that l must leave
maligners and the evil disposed to think
and say what they please. You can 90
what you please in saying anything to
the editor, as do not suppose they
meant to do any injustice in publishing
the dispatch. II they had thought a
moment, they would have remembered
my explanation, addressed
to the Cincinnati Enquirer, which they
pronounced a demonstration.


Yours, truly,


J. TnoMPsoN.
Year: 1873

An editor discussing colleges" mem
tions an instance where far seeing
parent proposed to make q great utter
national lawyer of his son, and at Har'
ward and Heidelberg his whole atten-
ton was turned in that direction. He
studied law in the best schools in Eu-
rope and America, graduated with the
highest honors, and is now wealthy
and successful mschinist, and plays the
organ in church every Sunday-the one
valuable remainder OF his German
schooling.
Year: 1873

The question now perplexing the
minds of educators in Tennessee is, what
can be done to prorara teachers for their
work in the school room? We have no
Normal School in which to train teach
ers for the common schools. Our school
system is yet but little more than an ex.
pertinent. Il is true that tho educational
out look is encouraging, but so many iu>
experienced teachers. who Of necessity


must be employed in the sthools, give
rise 10 grave suspicious about the success
tffr.a schools in The Stats. two mako
Year: 1873




The well known Dr. Willard
Parker, of New York, lately de.
hvered an address before the
National Temperance Society.
What this experienced and a.
BILE physician says upon the sub.
ject Of lntemperance Is entitI.
ed to very great weight, for the
reason that to his ordinary med.
ical experience is added that of
many years. care of inebriates.
The doctor has come to the
conclusion that drunken.
ness is a disease that 4
drunkard can not control his
appetite, and that he will
hence drink at all hazards. The
doctor ranks alcohol among the
poisons; as poisonous as arsenic
or belladonna, and as surely
destructive of life as these poi.
sons. He took the very unusual
ground the purer the spirit, the
more deadly the effect, and de.
clared that if he were going to
use it he should prefer the ad.
liberated article. He declared
that nothing is harmless in
which there is alcohol. In lag.
er there is three to four per
cent of alcohol; in ale seven
to eight; in wine tweniy.three;
IN gin fifty-one; in brandy e fly.
three, and In cider two 10 three
per cent.
Year: 1873

Here is something remarkable from
the Danbury News: A woman in
New Haven was recently bereft of her
scalp by the idosyncracies of shaft
and belt. The doctors saw that to
remedy the evil they would have to
recourse to transplanting, and so they
actually succeeded in getting a suffi-
GENTLY number of pieces from other
peoples heads to give this unfortunate
woman a scalp. We hope those New
Haven doctors used more discretion
than did he who attended a man
named Finley, who met with similar
accident in Oliskany, N. Y, some
thirteen years ago. Bits of seal lp from
seventy persons were secured by the
doctor and adroitly stitched to the
head of Mr.. Finley. When it was
done, people came miles to see Finley's
head, and Finley himself, with his
checker.board Uranium, was the hap
piest man in O.iskany. But when the
capillary glands got in working order,
and the hair commenced to grow, the
top of the mans head presented the
most extraordinary spectacle on rec
ord. The doctor who, was about halt
the time in liquor, had consulted ex-
pediency rather than judgement, and
secured that new scalp without any
reference to future developments. We
never saw anything like it. Here was
a tuft of yellow hair, and next to it a
bit Of black, and then flame of red
and little like silk, and more like
tow, with brown hair and gray hair
and sandy hair, and cream colored
hair scattered over his entire skull
And what mad man Finley was, and
no body could blame him. He would
stand up against the barn for an hour
at time and sob and swear. 1t was
very fortunate that the doctor was
dead. He went off two weeks before
with blue ague, which is mild sorl
of disease. Finley kept his hair
cut short, but that made no difference
Then he tried dyes, but they only
made matters worse. Then he got a
wig, and this covered up the deformi
| ty; but some times at church he would
get asleep, and the wig would fall off
and make the children cry. Once al
the country fair he fell asleep, and tht
committee on domestic goods, wheI
they came around, stood in front o
Finley's head for some five minutes il
wrapt delight. They then immediate
ly decided that it was the most in
genious patchwork in the list, anC
never Seen the mistake until they at
tempted to pin the premium card to it
At that Finley awoke, and knocked
down the chairman of the committe,
and chased the others out of the build
ing. We hope the New Haven doctor
have been more particular, as 1t is no
a subject to trifle with.
Year: 1873

rollers. He wrote rapidly, rarely in
terlining or emitting words. There
were no such things as rough drafts.
He finished at single heat whatever
be bad in hand.


When his feelings were enlisted the
pen never paused down to the last
period. His ''orders," or rather ad-
dresses TO the students, and important
correspondence were flushed with the
ink wet on the first lines. He never
dictated, and called the Official Secre-
tary sparingly.


His favorite pen was a large gold
one. of a curious model. 1t was al
most as broad as it was long. 1t was
heart shaped. A firm in Baltimore
owned the pattern. The first pen of
this kind used by him was accidently
injured. The writer. at the request of
General Lee, carried it to Baltimore
while on northern trip and had it
repaired and another made from the
original die.


The inkstand is still on the round
table. The ink is raised by atmos-
pneric pressure applied by a screw.
The instructions on it directed the ink
to be lowered when not in use. He new
er failed to turn the screw and let the
ink down into the stand before leaving
the office. One of bis secretaries no.
ticed his regularity in this particular.


There was lounge in the room, but
he never was known to rest himself
for moment on it. There never was
pair of slippers or robe de chdnl6rc
in his room. Iti needless to say no
cigars or pipes were there; he wasn't
friendly to tobacco. But once he
was known to violate the smallest
prOpriety of his position. During a
dull routine of Faculty Meeting, "in
warm weather, the President dozed
for few moments. He sat, as usual.
erect. but his eyes gently yielded to
the heat and humdrum. His col
leagues. with courtly grace, let the
business pause till the brief nap ended
and then started with the last words
the Chairman had heard. This tri-
umphof Morpheus was not alluded to.
Year: 1873

1t is a sad thing to pass through life
only half alive. Yet there are thou
sands whose habitual condition is one
of languor aud debility. They COM
plain of no specific disease; they suffer
no positive pain; but they have no rel
ish for anything which affords mental
or sensuOus pleasure to their more ro-
bust and energetic felIow-beings.


In nine eases out of ten this state of
lassitude and torpor arises from NOR
bid stomach. Indigestion destroys
the energy of both mind and body.
When the waste of nature is not sup
piled by a due and regular assimilation
of the food, every organ is starved, ev-
cry function interrupted.


Now, what does common sense sug-
gcst under these circumstances of de-
preston? The system needs rousing
and Strengthening; not merely for an
hour or two to sink afterwards into a
more pitiable condition than ever las
it assuredIy would do if an ordinary
alcoholic stimulant was resOrted to-,
but radically and permanently.


How is this desirable object to be
question. founded on the Unvarying
tAp6ikGDCt VI d VI Nud1lCi Vi a. aNOhtuAS- -
easily given. 1nfuse new vsgOr into
the digestive organs by a course of
HostetIer's Stomach Bitters. Do not
waste time in administering temporary
remedies, but wake the system up by
recuperalin. the fountain head of
physical strength and energy, the
great organ upon which all the other
organs depend for their nurture and
support.


BY the time that dozen doses of the
great vegetable tonic and iBvigorant
have been taken, the feeble frame Of
the dispeptic will begin to feel its be-
nign influence. Appetite will be Great
ed, and with appetite the capacity 10
digest what it Graves. Persevere until
the cure is complete-until healthful
blood, fit to be the material of flesh and
muscle, hone and nerve and brain,
flows through the channels of cireula-
ton, instead of the watery pabulum
with which they have heretofore been
imperfectly nourished.
Year: 1873

The ninth of April seems des-


tined to still greater noteriety, than


was conferred upon it by the sur
render of Gen Lee. The telegraph
informs us that Brigham Young on
Wednesday last, resigned publicly
his position as Trustee of the
Church of slater day saints" 1t
may be that the public judgment
as TO this event, is quite hasty and
inaccurate. We are quite inclined
TO think there will be no such thing
As sudden collapse Of this anOma-
lous and pernicious organization
The advanced age and immense
wealth of Brigham Young, may
have prompted a change of posi-
ton on his part, but we rather in
cline to the opinion, that it will
be only real in SO far as he may by
it, avert danger to his enormous es-
tate. That the thrift and energy
which have made the borders of
this Western Dead Sea, as fruitful
as the ancient valleys of Caanan,
and the disgusting customs and So
cial servitude, which have made
their beautiful city more accursed,
than were Sodom and Gomorrah,
will no more cease because Of the
abdication OF Young: than of the
death of Joe Smith. There will
have to be arrayed against the
vile and defiant church of Nor
mon, greater solidity of public
opinion than now prevails, or it
will yet for many a day domineer
in Utah, and shock with its lewd-.
ness and expressions the decencies
of a cultivated age.
Year: 1873

The more light admitted to apartments
the better for those who occupy them
Light is as necessary to sound health. as
it is to vegetable life Exclude it from
plants and the consequences are disastrous
They cannot be perfected without its Wv
flying influence, 1t Is a fearful mistake
to curtain and blind windows so closely
for fear Of injuring the furniture by ex-
posure to the suns rays, that rooms pos
itively gather elements in darknes which
engender disease. Let in the light often,
and fresh air too, or suffer the penalty Of
aches and pains, and long doctor bills,
which might have been avoided.
Year: 1873

The preservation of Gen. Lees
room precisely as that great man
left it, was bit of forethought for
which posterity will be grateful.
1t has left on perpetual exhibition
the most interesting possible view
of the last hours of the most sub
lime life on record in America.
The following interesting pen por-
trait is from the editor of the Lex
ington GAZETTE:


In strOlling around, the first Spring
day, we stopped at the Memorial
Chapel and passed through the rooms
particularly assocsated with the MEM
ory OF Gen. Lee. The guard-a stu
dent OF the UniveTsity-waIked with
us through the apartments.


Over the marble slab, in the centre
of the Library room, are wreaths of
flowers, crosses and crowns of fpl,ao,-
tcIIes in circle of autumn leaves. The
marble is inserted in the floor and over
the vault.


From this room door leads into the
office once used by the Secretary of
the Faculty. This is now bare and
empty. From this apartment a door
opens into a small hall and then into
the Generals Room as it is called.
1t is well known that its furniture
has never been changed. 1t remains
as left by Gen. Lee.


The round table in the centre of the
room is still covered with his papers
all orderly arranged The scraps of
blank paper were kept in systematic
manner. A professor took a piece for
a memorandum, when the General
handed him fragment from another
lot. He hal intended the first sheet
for another purpose. All his writing
was done at this table. lie used an
arm chair with leather seat and no
Year: 1873

4 correspondent of the Scientific
American relates singular incident. In
company with other persons, he was cross
ing Seneca Lake on the 10th of October


when a small wake was seen near the cen
tire Of the lake, caused by the moving of
some insects. Upon investigating the
patter, it was found that three spiders
were gliding over the surface of the wa
ter, and attached to them was a single
thread, the size of knitting needle, ex-
tending in the air to the hight of thirty
feet, at an angle of sixty degrees. and
terminating with an enormous balloon
shaped web This latter was judged to
be eight feet long and five feet wide, with
stays fastened to the main thread some
thing similar to those of balloon, and it
was managed apparently by an innumera-
bic number of the insects stationed at prop
erintevals The party ATTEMPTED to obtain
a closer view, but when within few feet
of the web it began to rise, though the
last spider, which proved to be about the
size of horse fly, was brought back by
the stroke of an oar. The balloon went
onward and upward until lost to sight.
Year: 1873

We are decidedly in favor of
holding the State Conservative
Convention in the City of Lynch
burg. There is no reason why the
southwest should not have some
OF the advantages growing out of
these regular meetings of the par
", and no point in the State is more
easily accessible to all.
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Chronicle say 8
that an expedition has been fitted out
the shore of klamath county, where il
has been asceriained that rich deposits
of gold were Off the shore. The result
of an assay of a basketball ofsand taken
from different places showed it to be
worth SIG. .05S. CD per ton. The steamer
Coquille, with the necessary apparatus
has sailed for the spot. Thus gold is
now to be fished up from the bottom
of the sea.
Year: 1873

st. Paul's Methodist church, one OF the largest
edinces in Newark, was filled to overnowing last
evening by congregation gathered to listen to
Rev. DIR. Charles n Sims discourse on the temper
ance question in response to the Invitation of
three pronipem M citizens, whose names he with


held but who he said, had been appointed
by the Committee OF One Hundred to wait
npon him regarding the matter. In the course OF
his remarks DR.. Sims said that for fifteen years
there had been on the statute book law bearing
on the traf1lc OF liquor on the Sabbath. For seven
years the democrats mad been in power and had
ignored the law. and for some seven more the
republicans, being likewise in power had
been equally recreant to their trust.
The ofnclals OF both parties had taken
solemn oaths to carry out the law but not one OF
them had developed enough Christianity or good
citizenship TO abide by his solemn pledges and
enforce the law. He advised the temperance
people 10 avoid an1liating with either party or
organizing third party, but to use their efforts in
educating the people into the belief that until
they exercise their power the law will still con-
tlnue TO be treated by officials as Q lead letter.
Year: 1873

Death by Drowning During the Picnic OF


the Adelphi Association-A Boat Load


Capsixed-Narrovv Escape OF an Assist


ant Alderman.


The Adelphi Association made an excursion yes
terday on the steamboat Wyoming up the North
River. They we're on the way to Newburg, and not
many miles from it, when they turned back with the
Intention OF landing at Iona Island Here the party,
which was quite numerous, landed and among
others lot OF six persons hired boat with the
intention OF going over to the east bank and tax
ing bath In the boat were Assistant Alderman
Brucks, OF this city: Valentine Pese Matthew
Wise, Henry Tempier, Hugo Thorne and John
Dagener. While proceeding over to the east bank
the men began undressing, preparatory to taking
their bath In doing this and moving to and fro
the boat suddenly capsized and tue whole party
was precpitated INTO the water, which
at this point was quite deep. There was
scramble for the clothes, which were
In the boat, during Which John Dagener
was drowned. He leaves wife and five children.
All the others lost their clothes and Assistant Al
derman Brucks lost also gold watch and his gold
badge OF ofice, as Assistant Alderman. The body
OF Dagcner has not been recovered and the Twen-
tieth Ward Young Mems Association have offered a
reward OF 500 for the finding thereof