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Year: 1870

In the case of the poor gentleman, resident
Of Brooklyn, who was run over on Broadway
and almost instantly killed by the tender of
fire engine the verdict Of the jury has
exonerated everybody from blame, as is usual
with coronors' juries who consider their duty
q mere matter of form, which they are to get
rid of as fast as possible. Nevertheless, it
appears by the evidence in this case that the
man was killed by the tender, although the
driver and fireman declared that they were
utterly unconscious Of anybody being hurt
by their machine. An accidental spec
tator, however, swears that he saw
the man knocked down and run over
by the wheel, and notified the driver of the cir
cumstance, but no notice was taken of it,
The fact is that there is altogether too much
recklessness in driving vehicles on Broadway.
Life is not safe there during the busy hours Of
the day, notwithstanding the well-timed
efforts of the police squad to get ladies over
without being crushed to death. At night it is
equally dangerous, as the deatl, of this gentle
man proves. Some rule should be adopted by
the authorities to regulate the rate of driving
on our principal thoroughfare While the
reckless mode of driving now in fashion con-
tinues there is really no safety for any one who
attempts 10 cross Broadway.
Year: 1870

our hands when it is as much as we can do to
supply our own army, and when the country,
for several days march from any of the gates
of Paris, is utterly exhausted2 If this report,
however, of the accumulation of provisions by
the Germans is true (and we hope it is), Count
Bismarck, in practical way, has undertaken
to answer his own question; and In view Of
the expected capitulation we trust that in this
benevolent stroke Of military diplomacy he
will achieve glorious success.


But II the war approaches Its termination
what will be the terms and results Of peace
Rumors of intrigues for the restoration Of the
Napoleonic dynasty and empire are still indus
triously circulated the younger Bourbons
are still said to be hopeful; but we are rather
inclined to the opinion thatif King William can
get his material guarantees" from the present
French government, such as it is, subject to a
ratification by constituent assembly from the
French people, he will consent to the estab-
lishment of the republic as the shortest way
to peace with France and peace in Germany.
The opportunity, we think, has certainly come
when England may do something great and
gracious for France and for Germany In
behalf of peace. Having escaped conflict
this time with the Russian Bear the British
Lion ought to remember his powerful ally,
France, In the Crimea, and step forward mag
unanimously as mediator for her relief If for
no other purpose, to make sure Of France
when wanted again.
Year: 1870

till the ground. For this reason the revenue
reformers, in demanding cheap iron, strike
chord to which the Western Territories and
States will respond.


Another strong point In this new platform
is the removal of the tax upon wool and lum-
ber and COAL Why should wool be taxeds
This article enters into the economy of our
daily existence SO absolutely that every penny
put upon 1t is tax upon every laboring man
who wears a woollen coat or who buys his wife
a woollen dress. Is 1t not Of more Importance
that the millions of poor laboring men should
have cheap clothing than that we should have
large herds Of sheep, especially as in the pro-
gress of national growth agriculture will
protect its own sheep growth The tax upon
lumber is virtually an embargo upon our ship
ping and hindrance to the social develop
ment of our new civilization. Lumber Is soant
enough in many parts Of America. .
farmer builds house at the base of the Rocky
Mountains he must bring his lumber from
Chicago. In that item alone transportation
is grievous tax, and when to this we add
protective impost we put upon the farmer :
heavy burden. America wants cheap lumber
for the sea, just as she wants cheap iron for
the land Our shipping is dcads from The
sheer inability Of our capitalists to build shipe
in competition with the builders ON the Clyd,


While conceding these salutary reforr
these revenue reformers halt. Now, true re


nue. reform should go deeper into this


ton of removing taxes. We look In, ~
through the speeches of the eloquent o.
at Dslmonico's to dud any sugCesHon 4ho
Year: 1870

1t is often asked Uhy is it that the Universal
Wringer is SO much more durable, works so much
easier, and wrngs articles drier than any other
wringer? We reply, The Universal Improved has
Rowell's Patent Double CORs on one end Of
the roll, in combination with the Patent Stop,
(which is in no other wrnger) to prevent the Dou-
BILE Cogs from separating so far as To lose their
power f=-


These Patent Double Cogs have very long and
strong alternating teeth and can raise sufficiently
to let through the largest article easily yet cannot
separate so far as to disconnect and lose their
power but always retain complete control over the
rolls which is of the greatest importance to the du
rability of the machine and Of operating.
Year: 1870

THE DEVON AS A DAIRY Cow.-The
Devon may be called medium in the guam
tity of milk, and in its quality supericr.-
The older, or unimproved race, were some
what noted for the quantities of milk they
produced, as well as its good quality. A
gallon of Devon milk yielded more butter
than that of almost any other breed, as it
does now except the Alderney. But the
improvers, in the attainment of finer
form and heavier substance in their animals
perhaps sacrificed somewhat of the quanti-
ty of milk for tie more liberal development
of flesh, well knowing that both flesh and
milk could not thrive equally together in
the same animal; although, when the milk
ceased, the flesh came on with due rapidity,
under generous feed. Yet, with an eye to
breeding her solely for milk, she is we'll
fitted for dairy COW. Docile in temper,
easy in keep, placable in disposition, she is
readily managed. Her udder is soft, tidy
in shape, with thin, silky hair upon it, clean
taper teats, easily drawn, and every way
satisfactory to her keeper.
Year: 1870

"I am surprised,' said our English
friend, "that you have not steam-plows.-
l have had one on my farm for six years.
and we should not know how to get along
without it. 1t is not that it does the work
SO much cheaper than horses but it does
it quicker and better. Il told him that as
soon as we got rid of our stumps, and clear
ed the land of stones, we should be ready
for the plow. Why, bless me!' he ex-
claimed, 81 should think you would want
the steam engines to pull out your stumps
and stones. l could pull up the biggest
stump OF stone you have on the farm and
drag it up to the d-land. And really,
after going over the farm with him and
showing him every impediment that sup
posed stood i'll the way of using steam and
hearing his explanations, l cannot see why
the steam-plow is not precisely what we
want. 1t appears that it is not Oh easily
worked land like the prairies of the West,
that the steam plow is most advantageous,
but rather on rough, clayey, stumpy, and
stony land. On light easily worked land,
horses can do the work about as economi-
cally as the steam-engine; but when yon
want to work hard, clay soil, ten, twelve,
fifteen, or twenty inches deep,-smash it
up and tear it all to pieces-there the steam
engine can be used to great advantage. 1t
does not plom SO well as it will tear it up
and pulverize the soil with a gigantic culti-
vator. There is another advantage that l
had not thought of. You can attach a
"mole- plow," to the gang of plows or cul-
tivators, that runs down three feet deep
and makes mole drain in the clay sub
soil. By providing a proper outlet these
drains are nearly as effective as tile drains.
No one can doubt that if we could thor
oughly pulverize the surface soil, break up
the subsoil, and make drains all at one op-
Grafton, we have millions of acres of land
that can be made to produce immense
crops with little or no manure.
Year: 1870

PLANTING VEGETABLES IN OcTo BER OR
NovEMBER.-Lettuce and spinach can be
raised nearly a month earlier by planting
the seeds late in the autumn, and covering
them an inch. Make your beds rich with
hen or barn-yard manure for lettuce and
spinach; the latter is said to be the best
test of the richness of the land-it must be
well fed to flourish. Cover the beds with
leaves, straw, or hemlock- -boughs, and, if
possible, place boards over them to retain
their coverings.


In April remove the rubbish, and your
plants will soon flourish. The careful
observer will remember how often lettuce
and spinach come forward early in the
spring from having sown themselves the
previous autumn.
Year: 1870

Our ofa literary set, very few know the
author of "Ouida" and sPuck." These
highly-colored works of imagination are by
a woman-a Miss La Ramee-a lady whose
father was French officer. She lives with
her mother at one Of the large hotels in
London. and frequently gives parties there.
She Is neither young, nor is she favored by
nature with the physical advantages which
she lavishes on her heroines


Mn. DICKENS was rather low and rath-
er broad churchman. holding similar views
to those of Canon Kingsley, and believing
most firmly in the final triumph of the All,
mighty power and goodness over all evil.
lie wrote his books as he once told an Anne
rican whom be met on the Ohio river, to
show that there was no one beyond the
reach of infinite mercy-that, to use bis
own express ion-"God never made any
thing too bad to be saved" If he had ever
introduced the devil as out of his charact-
ers in novel he would have him made
penitent and happy in the last chapter
Springfield RepUblican
Year: 1870

Sunshine over the meadow lands,


Kissing the crimson clover
And sunshine haunting the lily cups
That the yellow bees hang over:
And sunshine over the hazy hills


And over the dimplng river
And wished that the sun and summer day


Might shine and last forever.
We walked down by the meadow path.
. The broad highway forsaking,
y or the quiet Of that lovely spot


seemed better for our love-making;
And was silent and she was shy,


As We walked down through the clover,
ut We thought il the sweetest summer day


That ever the sun shone over.
wehesrd. the birds in the waving grass.


As they twittered to each other.
About the nests they had hidden away,


And the COO Of each glad bird. mother;
And We thought. as We walked that summer day
Through the clover blooms together
That at last the world was In perfect tune,


In the glad, bright summer weather
I cannot tell wha. said to her


As We walked knee-deep in clover;
Bnt know that the robins merrily sang


Their sweetest OF sweet songs over.
And down In my heart loves own bird sang
song that was glsdder, sweeter.
And its echo joined with the worlds sweet hymn,
And made the day completer.
And when We came mp the meadow path.
Our hearts sang over and over:
30 sweet, glad day for blossom and bird.


And for every blithe young Ioveri''
And yet know not the words abe said,


Or whether she spoke 1t all;
But of all sweet days. that summer day
count as the best of all.
Year: 1870

During our late war, and we believe
since the inauguration of the prevail
Ing war in Europe it has been clearly
demonstrated that rains are produced
by the explosion OF large quantities of
unpowdler In this fact we have the
germ of great discovery in natural
science. The drought which has done
great damage, this year, on both sides
of the Atlantic, suggests at once the
great propriety, il not actual necessity,
of pressing the consequences noted to Il
practical and conclusive issue.
Year: 1870

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph says :
We never saw crop of cotton being
handled with more rapidity than the
one now coming in. Ninc-tenths ofitis
sold and shipped Immediately on its
arrival at the warehouse. Not as much
as one hundred bags ofsthe new crop
have been allowed to lay in a ware
house long enough to cool Off from
the handling it got in the producers
hands
Year: 1870

The money market has been easy, the supply offering
on demand loan being abundant to meet the inquiry at


and per cent Government and stock collateral Tho
less active dealing in stock, and securities has also
checked inquiry. In the currency movement there IL
nothing important to note. The market for commercial
paper IL without special interest acceptances being IN
moderate demand and moving at the following rates for
Year: 1870

An elopement in high life is reported in
Michigan, the imprudent fair one being
three years old and the unprincipled Lotha-
rio five. The absconding couple were over
taken by their respective nurses at q
neigh boring railway station in time to pre-
vent the young lady's reputation from being
seriously compromised
Year: 1870

The witch burning spirit of Puritanism is


exhibited in the..Presbyterisn attack made
upon Free Masonry in the Convention lately
imagine the motive which acsuated this
pratuisous attack. Free Masonry inculcates
all the Christian virtues, and it is impossi-
BILE for genuine Free Mason to be bad
citizen The fundamental law of Masonry
is the fundamental law of Christianity and
Year: 1870

The following Is the printed scheme
of the infallibility Of the Pope-whch
has been distributed:


I. If any one should say the epis-
copal chair Of the Roman Church is
not the true and real iniallible chair of
blessed Peter, or that it has not been
divincly chosen by God as the most
solid, indcfectible and incorruptible
rock of the whole Christian Church
let him be an anathema.


III. Ii any one should say that there
exists in the wo-ld another infallible
chair OF the truth of the gospel OF
Christ our Lord, distinct and separate
from the chair of blessed Peter, let
him be anathema.


III. If any one should deny that
the divine nto.jisteriun1 OF the chair of
blessed Peter II necessary 10 the true
way Of eternal salvation for all men,
whether unfaithful or faithful, whether
Iaym II or bishope, let him be ana
thema.


~. II any one should say that each
Roman Pontifi, legitimately elected,
is not by Divine right the successor OF
blessed Peter, even in the gift OF the
infalibility of mdyisteriUD,. and should
deny to- any one of them the preroga-
tive Of infalibiity for teaching the
Church the Word OF God pure from
all corruption and error, let him he
anathema.


V. If any one should say that gem
eral councils are established by God in
the Church as "A power of feeding the
Divine flock in the word OF faith su-
perior to the Roman Pontiff, or equal
TO him, or necessary by Divine insti-
tuition in order that the mdjisteriuDi of
the Roman Bishop should be preserved
infallible, let him DC anatema.
Year: 1870

IT IS ANNOUNCED THAT METZ HAS FALLEN
1t that FALL superior every
respect the styles Of other competitors Ksox himself to his
business He has but aim and be strives accomplish hat
give satisfaction TO his psons well does
dersking What King William in Europe the present
among bis rivals the seinowedgd head By
works they known The former Sighting improve his country,
the latter improve the Of h, fellow Both thus Ear
their endesyors have proved successful
Year: 1870

A lot of Texas cattle have re-
Gently been driven into Eastern
Oregon, and the Oregonians fear
that the same effects will follow
them that have been witnessed in
other States, aud the willamette
Farmer suggests the Importance
ofeleeting for the next Legislature
men who will advocate a claw to
protect the interests Of stock rails.
ing in this matter"
Year: 1870

The following statement as to the future manage
ment of AL the Year Round has been issued by Mr..
Charles Dickens, Jr. =


1t was my fathers wish, expressed In writing only
week before his death, that his eldest son, and
latterly his assistant editor should succeed him In
the management of the journal so long connected
with his name. In accordance with this clearly-eX-
pressed desire ana strong in the hope inspired by
encouraging mark of his confidence address my
self to the fulfllment OF the task which he ap-
pointed me to discharge.


It is intended that the management OF All the Year
Round in the future shall be based on precisely the
same principles those on which it has up to this
time been conducted The same authors who have
contributed to its columns in time past viii con-
tribute to them still. The same spirit which has in
the past pervaded its pages WILL so far as conscien-
tous endeavor may render it possible pervade them
still. The same earnest desire to advocate what
is right and true, and to oppose what is false
aud unworthy, which was the guiding principle OF
my fathers career, and which has always charac
terzed his management of AL the Year Round, will,
most earnestly hope, continue to be apparent in its
every word. So much the n, being the same, 1t may
not be presumptuous in me to hope that the same
readers with whom this journal, and that which pre-
ceded it, found favor for 80 many years, may
still care to see the familiar ttle-page on
their tables as of old. With this brief ex-
PLANTATION of the course / propose to adopt,
and omitting all reference whatever to
my own personal feelings in connection with the
great sorrow which has rendered this statement
necessary, leave the future journal to speak for
itself. at is better that every kind of work,
honestly undertaken and discharged, should speak
words with which my father inaugurated the New
Series of Al the Year Round i cannot surely do
better than repeat them in this place.


CHARLES DICKENS, JR.
Year: 1870




Yesterday afternoon, says the Washington
Star of last evening, the synagogue on Eighth
street, between II and ], was filed to overflow
ing by Israelites and Christians to witness the
marriage of Mr.. Solomon Caro- of New York, to
Elizabeth Abrahams, of this city.


The reader, Mr.. jacobson, commenced the
service by delivering the nuptial address or ser
mon in English, in which he spoke OF the duties
of husband and wife to each other and to the
werld. During its delivery the father of the
groom, Rabbi Caro-, who was to have taken part
in the ceremony, had been seated to the left of
the desk. At its close he was beckoned to by
Mr.. jacobson, but instead of continuing the
ceremony, he took position in front of the
young couple and addressed them in Hebrew,
saying that it was against his conviction to con-
tinue the services in the reformed style; that he
was orthodox, and could not allow the cere-
mony to proceed. The bridal party remained in
their place few minutes, and then the bride
telling the groom that they had better return to
her fathers, they walked down the aisle, and,
taking the carriages, Immediately proceeded to
Mr.. Abrahams' residence.


These proceedings caused considerable sur
mise on the part of those present who did not
understand the Hebrew tongue, but it was soon
learned that the Rabbi objected to the cere-
nony because of the absence of the canopy, the
use of which the strictly orthodox Israelites (of
which he is one) hold to be an essential part of
their marriage ceremony. This canopy, which
is made of blue silk and supported upon four
posts held by young men of the congregation, is
supposed to represent the blue arch of heaven.
1t is not used by the Reform Hebrews, and it is
represented on behalf of the congregation here
that they simply granted the youthful couple
(who are neither of them members of this
branch of the church, the use of the synagogue
without any stipulation being made as to the
use of the canopy. That any misunderstanding
or interruption should have occurred is deeply
regretted by them, but they could not foresee
that granting the use of the synagogue simply
would lead to such a result as it did in this
case.


The audience left the synagogue, most of
them disappointed, but number who had invi-
tations to the house of Mr.. Abrahams proceeded
thither. Here the bridal party had arrived, and
after evening prayers the father OF the bride
signed the marriage contract, and the ceremony
was performed with all the forms and symbols
used by the orthodox Israetes. A canopy was
raised in the centre of the room the poles al
the corners being held by the bystanders and
the groom with the groomsmen and brides
maids having taken their positions under it, the
bride was called in, and the Rabbi, after the
preliminary prayer, read the marriage contract
and the ring having been handed to him by the
groom he placed it on the finger of the bride
and the pair partook of nuptial wine. Rabbi
Ilowy read the seven benedictons, and the wine
having been again presented was drank by the
couple. In conclusion the glass was broken by
DR.. nlowy on the hearth.
Year: 1870

in ST. Marys Chapel, Rochester Cethedral-a bea1ti-


full chapel near the entrance to the choir, restored
few years since-for the interment OF the deceased
and a vault was rapidly constructed. Yesterday
number OF men were engaged in filing up the vault
with earth and restoring tile pavement, while the
bell was tOlling for the funeral.
Year: 1870

E When Lingard was imperson-
ating different characters on the stage
of a New York theater, he came out
one night as "our Savior" and in or
der to show the meekness of the
Savior, he allowed the audience to
"revile" him and persecute him by
throwing peanuts at him, which he
stood bravely, until boy hit him on
the side of the head with rotten egg.
Lingard looked at his watch and said:
Gentlemen, this Savior business will
last about a minute, then you will see
me 90 for the id brute who threw
that egg"
Year: 1870

re A nice little boy in Pittsburg
went to the circus the other day, and
amused himself throwing stones at the
elephant while drinking. When he got
through the boy tried to propitiate him
by offering him a piece of gingerbread.
Before accepting the cake the elephant
emptied about si1ty-four gallons of
water, beer measure, over the boy,
and then slung him into the third tier
to dry of. This boy is very indifferent
about circuses now. He says he
doesen't Care for them as much as he
used to.
Year: 1870

@ A Cincinnati woman had eleven
children, but insisted that the census
marshal should call again the last of
the week, when she could make it an
even dozen. There is rivalry on the
part of that town and Chicago on the
subject of population. and the citizens
are all interested in doing their level
best.
Year: 1870

The ink is a beautiful black, flows free.
w. and does not in the least cOrrodc the
pen. 1t Is far superior to the usual acid
inks, which will spoil the best steel pen
in few hours use. In fact, we have no
ink that we like so well as this. 1t is
made thus: To five gallons Of water at
boiling heat, add one half pound log
wood. one half ounce Of bi-chromatc Of
potash, and one ounce OF prussiatc OF
potash. Your ink is then ready for use.
The cost is six cents per gallon.- Oak
land News.