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Year: 1872

The CONTEST FOR DEMOCRATIC ELECTION
SUrERvIsoRs began in the United States Cir
cult Court before Judge Woodruff yesterday.
Arguments were heard from both sides, the
one being of Tammany and the other of
Apollo Hall. Each one protests that it is the
Simon Pure democracy. Apollo claims it
because Tammany was beaten last Fall Tam
many claims it because it is for Greeley and
Herman, and Apollo Hall is for Grant or on
the fence. The decision may be given to-day /;
but Judge Woodruff's oracular remarks are
the essence of haziness as to which way il will
incline. There can surely be very small room
for doubt to which side the appointments
should be given. II the test Of party can be
confounded in the clamor Of those unprepared
to state which way they will vote on national
and State politics and only agreed ON pushing
one Of their number for city Office, it would
place in position number OF men with every
temptation to do wrong and no power where
they yielded to compel them to do right.
Year: 1872

encourages and stimulates the popular demon
stration by sympathetic expression, the jour
mails Of Strasbourg having appeared in mourn
ing yesterday on account Of the immigrant
cause and its consequences This French
mode of treatment of the result Of great
disaster in war is, at o first glance, natural,
perhaps reasonable Whether it Is prudent
remains to be seen. Tho Prussians will assure
the world that it is unreasoning and unreason-
able, Of which fact they have already given
pretty fair inkling in the statements which
we append TO our cable news telegram.
Year: 1872

VIII DC Interested now IN selectlng good men
for Office and if the Mayoralty candidate Of
the most powerful organization should be en-
tirely acceptable it will, of course, be the pol
icy Of the sincere reformers TO endorse and
support him.


We have already suggested several persons
for that position whose qualifications are of
high character and whose identification with
the good work Of last November renders them
available candidates. Any one Of them would
make an efficient and honest Mayor. We now
desire to place before the citizens of New York
a name which cannot fail to commend itself
at once to their favor-the name of gentle
man whose high qualifications for the Office
will rot be questioned. 1t is that Of William
Butler Duncan, Of the well known banking
house Of Duncan, Sherman & Co. There is
such eminent fitness in this nomination that
Tammany should make it at once and strive
earnestly to induce Mr.. Duncan to ac-
cept. We know Of no other citizen
who would be as acceptable from
every point of view. Mr.. William
Butler Duncan's name has been identified for
yS"Ao VIVA hC ASiOih AONemeut. he is not q
reformer Of yesterday, but gentleman who
has steadily and persistently striven to pro-
mote the cause Of pure and honest govern.
ment. He is associated with cne of the most
successful banking houses in the world, and
in this business it is we'll known that dill
gence, ability, thorough knowledge of men,
strict integrity and character that can COM
mand public confidence are the essentials Of
success. Mr.. Duncan has travelled exten-
sively abroad, and is familiar with the police
Of foreign capitals as well as with the wants
and interests of New York. His enterprise
and liberal views have been shown in the
management Of his private business. He
would bring TO the discharge of his public
duties the qualities that have given ais house
worldwide reputation aud credit He never
held political Office in bis life, Is free from
Year: 1872

The Masonic fraternity talk o. erecting the
long promised opera house, and hope to have it
ready for occupancy by the middle OF Sep.em-
Der. Why don't the Odd Fellows Join with them
aud get up something worthy of the town and
both OF these organizations ? Either separately
is able to build the opera house. bat both uni
ted, could do it in grander STYLE.
Year: 1872

Cream is allowed TO mold and spoil.


Silver spoons are uLed TO scrape
kettles.


The scrubbing, brush is left in the
water.


Bones are burned that would make
soap.
Nice.handled knives are thrown into
hot water.


Brooms are never hung up, and are
soon spoiled.
Dishcloths are thrown where mice can
destroy them.
Tubs and barrels are left in the sun
to dry and fall apart.
Clothes are left on the line to whip to
pieces in the wind.
Pie crust is left to sour instead of
making few tarts for tea.
VEGETABLES are thrown away that
would warm over for breakfast.
Dried fruits are not taken care of in
season, and become wormy.
Bits of meat are thrown out that
would make hashed meat or hash.
The cork is left out of the mo!asses
jug, and the flies take possession.


Pork spoils from the want Of salt,
and beef because the brine wants scald.
ing.


Coffee, tea, pepper and spices are
left to stand open and loee their
strength.


Potatoes in the cellar grow, and the
sprouts are not removed until they be.
come useless.


The flour is sifted in a wasteful man.
ner, and the Lread-pan is left with the
dough sticking to it.


Vinegar is drawn in tin basin, and
allowed to stand till both basin and
vinegar are spoiled.


Cold puddings are considered good
for nothing, when often they can be
steamed for the neat day. -
Year: 1872

NASHVILLE has been enjoying one of
the pleasantest, sweetest and most re.
fined of recollections-a single combat
between dog and catamount, each
being Thoroughbred and awful on the
bite" The contestants were chained
together, and, after a fifteen minutes
struggle, victory was awarded by the
umpire to the dog. The catamount
was eighteen inches high, and weighed
twenty pounds; the dog was Scotch
bull, with hound cross, and weighed
sixty two pounds. As the betting was
very spirited, it is quite comfort to
know that somebody must have lost a
neat sum of money.
Year: 1872




Fines himself for Drunkenness,


and Pays &c.


Oswego county, n. Y, boasts of JUS
tice of the Peace who fushes out in the
annals of local fame as arraigning himself
for a delinquency. The Justice of the
Peace referred to (uO matter about his
name or where he belongs) possesses the
excellent attributes of integrity, ability,
and worth, but on one occasion he forgot
his magis.erial integrity. He let down ina
weak moment the judicial bars which
should hedge him in, and rOamed into the
field of Bacchus. Ia short, on a recent oc-
casion he imbibed too much strong drink,
and in consequence awoke with realizing
sense of that fact next morning.


Now here was pretty go. a Justice oil
the Peace had been On bender, or part OF
one. A man who was appointed to swing
the fail of justice over the heads Of poor
unfortunate fellows wandering over into the
wrong pasture himself! But there it was.
He felt the reminders oft in the occasional
throbs of headache. But what was to be
done2 The more he viewed it the more
he became disgusted with himself. He
made I'D his mind. He would attend to
his case. lie would vindicate the out
ragged law.


So, at the usual hour, he entered his of
fee. He formally opened court, and then
he called his own name as defendant in a
suit in which ''the people" charged him
with an ofense against the law, went over
the circumstances in detail as far as he
could remember them, read ''the statute ill
such cases made and provided" and then
"asked the prisoner what he had to
say?" In the role of prisoner he plead
guilty to the Ofense, said It was a shame
for a man of his years and position, and
hoped ''the court" would not be too Sc ere
on him, as he was determined to reform.


"The prisoner will stand up" said the
stern old Justice. Then the prisoner arose.
"NoW," said the Justice, 81 am very sorry
you have been brought into this court on
charge which so seriously affects your good
name and standing in society; You have set
a bad example, and if you go on at this rate
you will bring sorrow and disgrace on your
self and family. l sentence you to pay
fine of ten dollars and costs, or to thirty
days Imprisonment in the county jail"


The s'prisoner" said he would prefer to
paw the fine, and when the court closed, he
walked over to the pOormaster Of the town
and maid the ten dollars
Year: 1872

The Shreveport Times says: Freight for
the Texas and Pacific railroad contractors
and for the company itself has comm enced
arriving. We learn that in addition to the
Moore's cargo, Sl25, 900 worth of machinery
and 1900 tons Of iron are en- route. We
understand that the shipment of freight
will be pushed forward as fast as the water
will permit. We also learn that a demand
was made yesterday on the part of the COM
pany for some of the lots lately donated to
them by the city, as they have immediate
use for them. The ball is moving.
Year: 1872

THE Reign of Terror which was produc-
ed in North Carolina by the system Inaug-
srsted by the Radicals, is almost incredi-
bic. A correspondent writing to a New
York paper says: "AlmOst every white man
told me he would vote the Radical ticket.
When he found was only looker-on, be
always changed his answer, saying that if
he should openly say he preferred the Dem
Ocratic ticket, he should be arrested on
some frivolous charge, and locked up until
after the election" The locking up is now
at an end there, we hope.
Year: 1872

| upon him, as a punishment therefor, a fine
| OF $780, and ordered that he should stand
committed until such fine should be paid
He now presents a petition to the court set
ting forth that he has been imprisoned
under such sentence ever since it was i'm
posed, and that he is still in confinement
under it, and that he is wholly unable to
pay the fine, and praying that he may be
discharged by the court from his imprison-
ment.


l am satisfied that the court has no juris-
dietiOn or power to grant the prayer of this
petition, and that relief must be sought by
an application TO the President OF the
United States. By the constitution (article
two, section two, sub. One) the President
is invested with the power "tO grant re-
prieves or pardOns for otfenses against the
United States, except in cases of impeach-
ment." No such power is conferred upon
any other officer, Or upon any court.
contempt of court is an Otfense
against the United States. In the present
case there is judgment, judicially declar-
ing the contempt and Otfense. In ex parte
kearney, e Wheaton, 80, 43j, the Supreme
Court says: "When court commits party
for contempt, their adjudication is a con-
victiOn, and their commitment in conse-
quence is execution"


After conviction and commitment for





discharge or remit the sentence than it has
in the case OF conviction and commitment
for any other crime Or Offense against the
United States. And such has been the
practical construction of the provision of
the constitution in regard to pardcns. In
the case OF one Dixon, a fine was imposed
upon him by the Circuit Court of the United
States for the District of Mississippi for
contempt Of court. He applied to the Presi-
dent for pardon; the Attorney General e
Opinions of Attorney General, 622. quoted
above) decided that the pardOning power
extended to such a case, and that the con
tempt was an Offense within the language
OF the provision of the constitution. l
freely concur in this view, and it necessarily
follows that if the power of relieving from
the sentence imposed on Mullee falls within
the pardODing power Of the President, it is
exclusive in the President and can not be
exercised by this court. For these reasons,
the prayer of the petition is refused. For
complainant, Albeit s. Fuller.


Now, with this showing we submit the
case to the consideration of the Bee 1t
is not very clever in approaching ideas, we
are aware. But even its dull brain must
he permeated with the impression that
in this instance at least it has put its foot
in it.


1t is very hazardous at all times for
people to write about what they do not
understand, and We advise our contempo-
rary in future to abstain from the repre-
hensible practice.
Year: 1872

il is purely vegetable concentration for keep
ing the Bowels in natural motion AMI cleansing
the system of all impurities, and n positive cure
for constipation. They restore the diseased Liver,
Stomach, and Kidneys, TO hcalthful action,
while at the same time they brace and invigorate
the whole system.
Year: 1872

To KEEP Hans IN SUNMER. Some
bag them and whitewash the bags. which
ID troublesome and somewhat expensive ;
some cover them with dry wood ashes and
pack them in barrels: some pack them in
barrels ard cover thoroughly with pine
shavings; but the best plan Of all. aud
certainly the least expensive with all who
have a smoke-house. and every farmer
should have good one. is to keep the
hams hung up in the smcke-hcase. which
should be kept perfectly dark at all times.
Hams SO kept two years old were among
the best we ever tasted. Uniform dark
ness is complete protection sssins, the
attack OF insects.
Year: 1872

fEThc latest sensation in Iowa City
is the suicide os COW. The cause OF the
deed was the killing of her calf. The
Iowa City Press describes her actions -
The cow was frantic at this slaughter Of
her innocent. and after chasing the butch
er's wagon to the slaughter-house door,
and believing goodbye to her infant,
she repaired to the river near billions Is
land. and wading in beyond her depth,
committed suicide BY drowning"
Year: 1872

Ev Boil together equal parts, BY weight,
Of glue and molasses. spread it over CON-
mon brown paper, while hot, with brush
Place sheet of paper in every room o1
your house. 1t will capture every Hy in
the room Within tie day. The paper can
be thrown into the Ere and new one used
when covered With captured flies.
Year: 1872

sects had ceased. Every breath of wind
had expired, and nothing stirred in the
dead c,lm that bound up the land like
mighty spell. The very atmosphere
grew stagnant, and its sulphurous folds
hung over us with heavy oppression.
The sky was like FURNISHED brass, the
ground like heated stone. | had hardly
turned to look at the west when the
wind broke loose with a sudden rush,
and the birds, screaming in their fright,
whirled in confused circles. There was
no time to be lost, and | knew from OK.
perlence that | could not manage the
horse in q storm. We drove rapidly for
shed which stood fortunately but
short distance beyond.


Already the black cloud that | had
seen, an inky point above the horizon,
had reared itself into a gigantic noun
tain and shot its jagged pinnicles over
the zenith, and few swollen drops of
rain splashed in our faces as we gained
the shelter. just at that moment the
strange old man, with the bow heavier
in his back, and his sharp gray eyes
eagerly searching every rut and gully,
came up the road, paying no heed to
viz Ihica'ShibS pSHipSsp. SuuuSh'y hS
stopped as had seen before, picked up
something from the ground, then,
throwing himself back, hourished his
long, knotted stick with q wild, tri-
umphant gesture over his head, and
shouted in a loud, metallic voice.


"Twenty five thousand y


Instantly vivid flash broke from the
edge OF the ragged cloud, and ten thou.
sand sparks Of fire lit up the old man,
who fell upon the road-killed by light
ming.


We ran up to him Immediately, and,
even before the thunder had rolled
away, the mystery was fully explained,
for the electricity had been attracted by
hnumerable pins, which were stuck
straight through his clothes, with their
points outward.-Forence McLandbwyh,
in ApplttonS' Journal.
Year: 1872

The London Times has the following
account of the hurricane in Sicily,
which destroyed the town of Palazzolo ::
There has been no instance Of such
calamity within the memory of a liy
ing man. No earthquake ever caused
so much destruction. There are houses
ruined, houses fallen to the very ground,
the walls cleft from end to end, walls
hanging outward as if to rest on the
adjoining houses. There are roofs
wholly swept away sunken vaults and
balconies torn from their place win
dows and shutters either entirely carried
off or hanging loose from the walls
lam p-posts forced from their sockets,
and up-rooted trees, and this is all one
sees along the northeast side of the
town. Not single house remains on
which the whole roof and windows do
not require thorough repair. The streets
are mass of fragments and rubbish.
The incidents of the disaster are SO
strange as to be almost incredible.
There was a store with % hectoiters of
wheat, of which not trace is anywhere
to be seen. The books Of excise and of
the land registry offices have vanished,
and only their torn leaves have been
found here and there at great distances.
In one house all the copper kitchen
utensils were blown through the roo.
In another the benches and heavy
chests flew through the windows. The
iron bars of one balcony are to be seen
curled up one way, and those OF another
twisted up another way. There is
pillar of palace which has been moved
forward one foot without breaking, and
stands up isolated, all in one piece.
There is wall of another palace which
has fallen back more than three feet
without crack. Here is beam of one
house which has thrust itself into an.
other house. There is half bedstead,
the other half of which lies no one
knows where. All the tiles of one
building are huddled together in one
spot on the roof, crushed and broken
up as small as if they had been pound
ed. The ralters of another building are
all bare. The tiles have flown, no one
can see where. In stable, on the bare
ground, men are laying the bodies, one
by one, as they are being dug out.
Most of them are in their night dresses,
having been crushed as they were quietly
sleeping. Their features and forms are
so distigured that one cannot look at
them without shudderins. Their no
trils, ears and mouths are stopped up
with earth, and the white dust has
everywhere pierced through the skin.
Here is the body of a man holding close
to his heart child, probably his own
child, and the skulls of both are shat
tered. There are two young men in
each others arms, probably brothers,
and the chests and backs of both are
crushed. Near them is another youth
covered with blood, who was clerk in a
Government Office. He has his eye
gla.s still stuck in his right eye, and
was probably reading or writing when
he was struck. There are some made
past recognition. Others that seem un-
hurt, and look as If they were sleeping.
Without exaggeratlon one third of
the town is dismantlcd, and more than
1000 families are literally without a
home. About 1000 more have only one
little corner of what was once their
house to shelter them. The dead mum.
Der 80, and the seriously hurt about
h.lf a score besides.
Year: 1872

correspondent of the maryland
Farmer says: Burdocks can be killed at
any age, no matter how young or old. Cut
them off below where the leaf stalk
leaves the root, and they will never
sprout again. got the information
from an old Tenncs seean, twenty. five or
Thirty years since, and have never known
it to fail, if cut low enough.
Year: 1872

A year or two before our war dis-
tinglished American editor was in Paris,
and was looking one day, with a fellow
American, at the pictures in the Louvre,
and talking of their country. "The
fact is," said the editor, "that what We
need in America is darned good lick
ing" A foreigner who stood by and
heard the remark smiled eagerly, as if
he knew a nation that would like to ad
minister tho castigation. " Yes, sir,
said he, complacently, rubbing his
hands with appetite and joining in the
conversation, "that is just what you do
want" "But the difficulty is" con.
tinucd the editor to his friend, as if he
had heard nothing, "the difficulty is
that there's no nation in the world that
can lick US" So we turned to and
licked ourselves and We shall all be


have great deal better for it hereafter
Year: 1872

ENERGY AND PLUCK-The Pub
Ia fishers of BALLoU's MONTHLY MAG
AzINE were burnt out by the great fire at
Boston. In less than twenty -four hours
after their premises were destroyed they
had purchased new office and were hard
at work on the January number, which
will be issued at the usual time and sent
to subscribers. We like such evidence of
pluck and we like Ballou's Magazine also,
for it is worthy ofthe support of the whole
community.
Year: 1872

Says that walking cyclopedia of health
knowledge, DR.. Hall; When persons
are feversh and thirsty beyond what is
natural, indicated in some cases by a
metallic taste in the mouth, especially
after drinking water, or by a whitish
appearance of the greater part of the
surface of the tongue, one of the best
coolers" internal or external, is to
take lemonI cut off the top, sprinkle
over it some loaf sugar, working it
downward into the lemon with a spoon,
and then suck il slowly, squeezing the
lemon, and adding more sugar as the
acidity increases from being brought
up from lower point. ros,. sa.r iT


Invalids with feyerishness may take
two or three lemons day in this, man
ner, with the most marked benefit man
ifested by sense of coolness, comfort
and invigoration. A lemon or two thus
taken at tea time" as an entire SUBJ
stitute for the ordinary supper of
summer, would give many comfortable
nights sleep, and an awakening after
rest and inyigoration, with an appetite
for breakfast to which they are stran-
gers who will have their cup OF tea OF
supper or relish " and "cake and
their berries or peaches and cream. ~
Year: 1872

Some brute of man. in the New


York Star, is not afraid of philosophiz-
ing in this heartless style: l.


Some people are never so happy as
when they are making themselves ride
ulous. For the embodiment of all that
is foolish, commend us to the recent
Woman's Convention. Its proceedings
were the idosyncracies Of five hundred
Mrs. Caudles combined in one glorious
whole, and serve no other purpose than
to create mirth, with dash of pity,
among sane people. As VIC said before,
we wonder what the social and domestic
relations of these females can be? If
married, we pity the poor man who in
some evil hour became entangled with
these attaches of cotton umbrellas and
expounders Of fallacy. If single, we
may regard them, perhaps, as remark
able examples Of what women come to
when unrestrained by the influence Of
brutes. .rar.