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Year: 1873

Apropos OF office-seeking, a gen
tleman who was in Washington last
week and had talk with Col. John
S. Mosby says that the exGuerilla
Chief is almost worried to death by
persons who are candidates for office,
and want him to recommend them to
the President. His endorsement is
said to be worth as much as any
Senator S; and it is well known that
he is one of the welcome guests at
the White Honse. Col. Mosby was
offered the District-Attorneyship for
the Eastern District of Virklmia, as
well as place in Western State,
but declined both, for fear that his
motives in favoring the reelection
of Grant might be misconstrued.-
He may yet. however, be offered
something that will feel it his duty TO
accept; as to his running for At
torney-General on the Radical ticket,
that is folly. The office does not pay
as much as any country lawyer in
good practice makes With ease,-
Cor. Petersburg Appeal.
Year: 1873

Both houses of the Virginia Leg
islature have passed over the veto
of the Governor the bill to allow
the reassessment of lands in those
counties which neglected TO do SC
last year. AT the April term ii
will be the duty of the County
Court at Abingdon to cause a re
assessment of the land in Wash
ington county. There is no doubt
that many of our lands are now
assessed out Of proportion to other
lands in the Commonwealth. We
do certainly know that here in our
townof Goodson some property is
assessed at twice as high a rate as
Others. This bill will enable us to
correct these errors over the en-
tire county.
Year: 1873

The Richmond ENQUIRER, bold
" announces that if the passage OF


the Free Railroad bill should fail


in the legislature it will be made a


,o;nt in the canvass next fall, when
the next legislature will be elected.
Then we presume the Pennsylva-
mans are to take possession, if posi-
BILE ofour state elections. Its time
for Virginians to consider the mean
ing of this great anxiety to control
the rail road policy Of the state
Why this intense desire TO have the
right of eminent domain transfer
red from all possible control by or
rcversion to the people of this
state. The people of Virginia
have not lost intelligence, and
they will never consent that the
supervision and control of her own
affairs shall ever be placed forever
beyond the reach of the common
wealth and in the hands of foreign
ers. Like David Pennsylvania re-
ioices in the abundance and wealth
of her power, but not content
Herewith she has set her covetous
eyes upon the one little lamb which
is left to poor Virginia and her fiat
has gone forth that the Old Domin
ion shall be placed in the front of
the battle and slain, that she may
be despoiled. viii you bear this
Virginiansl Never by the Gods !
Year: 1873

bAAEs
Beneath the hill you may see the mill


of wasting wood and crumbling stone;
The wheel is dripping and gathering still,


But Jerry, the miller, is dead and gone.
Year after year, early and late,


Alike in s Immer and winter weather,
He pecked the stone and balked the gate,


And mill and miller grew old together.
Little Jerry ~ twas all the same


They loved him well who called him so;
And whether he'd ever another name.


Nobody ever seemed to know.
Twas "Little Jerry, come grind my rye -
And Little Jerry, come grind my wheat
And Little Jerry" was still the cry,


From matron bold and maiden sweet.
Twas Little Jerry" ON every tongue,


And thus the simple truth was told
For Jerry was little when he was young,
And he was little when he was old.
But what in size he chanced to lack,


Jerry made up in being strong;
Pve seen a sack upon his back,


AS thick as the miller and quite as long.
Always busy and always merry,


Always doing his very best,
A notable wag was little Jerry,


Who uttered we'll his standing jest.
When will you grind my corn, say p
Nay" quoth Jerry, "you needn't scold;
Just leave your grist for half day,


And never fear but you'll be tolled."
How Jerry lived is known to fame,


But how he died there's none may know I;
One autumn day the rumor came"


'' The brook and Jerry are very low
And then twas whispered mournfully,


The leech bad come and he was dead,
And all the heighbors fiocked to see;
4" Poor little Jerry" was all they said.
They laid him in his earthly bed


His miller's coat his only shroud-
Dust to DUST" the parson said,


And all the people wept aloud.
For he had summed the deadly sin,


And not grain of over toll
Had ever popped into his bin,


To weigh upon his parting soul.
Beneath the hill there stands the mill


Of wasting wood and crumblihg stone;
The wheel is dripping and Gathering still,
But Jerry, the miller, is dead and gone.
Year: 1873

We have received from the publish
ers of OUR FIREsIDE FRIEND the
chrome Cute" which the give away
70 every subscriber TO their weekly.
we have read much of the beauty of
TINS picture before seeing it, and we
now say with pleasure that its value


auty have not been over-estimat-
we ma it as good as represented.
w" I IkEsIDE FRIEND has successful
y reached its third volume aud is al
,eaoy nighly priced and widely known
throughout the Union.
Year: 1873

"a Love is better than house or land
So, Sir Stephen, I'll ride with thee 20
Quickshe steps where the courser stand,
Light she springs to the saddle
Love is better than kith or kin;


SO close she clung and so closec lasped he
They heard no sob of the bitter wind,
Nor the snow that shuddered along the lea
Love is better than life or breath


The drifts are over the horses knee;
Softly they sink to the soft, cold death,
And the snow-shroud folds them silently
Houses and lands are gone for aye,


Kith and kin like the wind viii fee,
Life and breath have fiuttered away,
But love hath blossomed eternally.


[Rose Terry, in March Atlantic.
Year: 1873

Dyspepsia is the most perplexing of
all human ailments. Its symptoms
are almost infinite in their variety,
and the forlorn and despondent vic
Tins of the disease often fancy them
selves the prey, in turn, of every
known malady. This is due, in part,
to the close sympathy which exists
between the stomach. and the brain,
and in part also to the fact that any
disturbance of the digestive function
necessarily disorders the liver, the
bowels and the nervous system, and
affects, to some extent. the quality of
the blood. A medicine that, like
Hostetter's Bitters, not only tones the
stomach, but at the same time controls
Year: 1873

day she made statement before Justice Mills
about the cairvOyant for whose arrest warrant
was at issued, as fortune tellingin New Jersey
is o crime punishable by fine or Imprisonment or
b0th-a misdemeanor. During the afternoon


THE WOMAN WAS ARRESTED


and brought before the Justice. She Is short
dumpy, not very prepossessing person, OF. about
thirty, native OF New Jersey, and for twenty
years a resident OF Newark. She is widow,
whose husband was CORPORAL In the Second New
Jersey regiment, and who was


SHOT DEAD AT THE BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS


what appeared to trouble her most was The
dread OF having the facts and her true name tine
one she was arrested upon was her mothers
HOfrman) published in the newspapers The
so0thsayer implored the Justice and the police to


MUZZLE THE PRESS


80 far as her case was concerned. They S00thed
her by saying they would do their best. Finally
she turned to the HERALD reporter and begged
him to keep mum but that adamantinehearted
person gave her cold comtort-tOd her that he
should perform his duty and report the facts Bail
was taken for her appearance when called. She
said she had only been two months in the business; ;
tnat she only "turned the cards." She went her
way, promising to sin no more. There are about
q dozen ''clalrvoyants" in Newark; most OF them
decline to receive visits from members Of the male
sex. 1t seems their best hold Is on the female per-
SuaStOn.
Year: 1873


200 Houses Burned-Great Distress


Among the Poorer Glasses.


CHICAGO, Sept. ia fire broks out
about three O'Clock in the lumber district,
near the corner of Seventeenth and Halsted
streets, and has been turning ever since
with the greatest fury, having spread over,
at this hour, q distance of nearly mile.
The wind is blowing gale from the South
west, and carrying the burning brands
long distance in advance of the fire. The
entire fire-department is on the ground and
doing every thing possible to stay the ad-
vance of the flames. There is considerable
excitement among the people.


Second Dispatch.
The fire started in the hay depot of the
Burlington and Quincy railroad, and IS
burning in a northeast direction, having al
r,ady passed diagonally across some four
docks to point about one and a halt miles
distant in a straight line from the Court
IOuse or the centre of the business portion
d the city. The locality where it origin
aed is built up almost entirely with wooden
| buildings, mainly the dwellings of the
smaller class, and the fire must have already
Inflicted a great amount of damage upon
he families living in that quarter, many OF
whom are off the poorer class. There is
continued excitement among all classes of
people, the locality of the fire and the di-
rection of the wind presenting nearly the
same condition as those Of the great fire of
two years since. Many people living in the
line of the fire are packing up their house
hold possessions and removing to places of
greater safety.


Third Dispatch.


A dispatch from city telegraph office
near the scene of the fire says it is now un-
der control and that it is believed it will be
prevented from spreading further.


Fourth Dispatch.


7:30 P. M.-The fire is finally under COM
plete control and Notwithstanding the strong
wind from the southwest no further danger
is apprehended. The people, who when
the excitement was at its height moved
their goods from houses several blocks
away are now moving back. The loss in
the aggregate is light for the space burned
over, not over 200 houses having been des-
troyed. The loss to the poor people rem
dere homeless, however, is severe. The
prairie west of the fire is covered with house
hold goods.


The total loss estimated at from 250,0O0
to 100000 dollars. Only one brick house
was burned. The fire originated from q
passing locomotive.
Year: 1873

The great defect Of Tennessee legislation
consists in the fact that we have too much
of it. Stupid fellows who have tinkered
with the Code have often made it most ab-
surd, and there is DO interest of society or
of individuals which they have not sought
to regulate and supervise. They will not
pera,it an individual to make his own con-
tract to be executed in bis own way with
his own property, when he would borrow
money upon real estate, and the result is
that real estate is valueless as a basis of
credit, and wholly iGconvertible. Chancery
Courts are suffered to intervene and violate
or amend contracts between lenders
and borrowers, and no sane man,
until recent laws were enacted, and
these are by no means perfect, thought of
lending money upon land. Therefore we
have less currency in proportion to wealth
In Tennessee thsn in any white mans
State. Currency is driven out Of TenDes-
see because it cannot be secarely loaned or
certsinly collected when due; and then, too,
the tax gatherer becomes ferocious and
frightens away every dollar that age would
lend to youth and energy. Tennessee, as
shown by Col. Ensley's letter, published in
the appeal, has been most gyieviously
dealt with BY ignorant demRgogues in the
legislature, and we would fAin hope that in
future years q wiser class wilrepresent the
people, and guard their interests and liber-
ties in State and federal legislatures
Memphis appeal.
Year: 1873

PORTLAND, Sept. 17.-At 4 O'Clock this
morning party of men belonging to the
Eastern railroad tore up frog laid this
morning on Commercial street for the pur-
pose ofconnecting the Boston and Maine
and Grand Trunk railroads until evening.
The managers of the Eastern railway run a
locomotive over the spot where the frog was
and attempted to connect their rails with
those on Smiths wharf. The Boston aud
Maine railroad people at half past o'clock
tore up the rails of the Eastern railroad.
The Boston and Maine road will probably
apply to the courts fJr an injunction against
the Eastern road.
Year: 1873

The famous trotting stallion Commodore Wander
bt has gone to the West to spend the remainder
OF his days. Mr.. Turnbull parted with him to
General Singleton, OF Boscobel stock farm. near
Quincy, Ill. This gentleman also owns the stallion
Willie Schepper. Commodore Vanderbilt is very
fast horse, having a record OF 2:25, made on the
Union Course Long island which is as good as 20
on either the Mystic, Prospect Park or Buffalo
tracks. He is most powerfully developed stallion
and remarkably handsome. His colts are all fast,
the stallion william Turnbull showing great speed
in all his races, and, with good driver, trOt
low in the twentes Commodore Vanderbilt will
be great acquisition to the trOtting stud Of the
West.


'when horse comes in all wet with perspira-
tion," said an English groom TO an American host
ler, ssyou let him stand in the stable and dry with
all the dirt on. In England take the horse as
he comes in from drive and sprinkle blood warm
water all over him, from his head to his feet Then
we scrape him down and blanket him, rubbing his
legs and face dry Thus, in an hour he Is clean and
dry, and ready to take good iced; while, with
your way, he will stand and sweter for hours, and
finally dry, sticky and dirty. Our horses never
founder and never take cold. We never use a curry
comb. You scratch your horses too hard Tho
only care necessary is to have the water not very
cold, then bathe them instantly, while you rub
bing their legs"


The California papers state that Budd Doble an
nOunces that he Will trot Elmo against any stallion
in that State and 1t n thought that the challenge
may be accepted by the owner OF Biackbird.
Year: 1873

Lecture by DIR. Wcissc Before the Icdico-


Legal Socicty-The Responsibility Of


Physicians.


lecture was delivered last night before the
Medic0-Legal Society by Dr. Weisse on the respon-
sibility assumed by physicians in prescribing angs
thetics. He explained at length the effects Of the
various drugs used to produce angsthesa and
compared their merits. He devoted especial atten-
tion to nitrous oxide, which he seemed to regard
with some favor. In all cases anGsthetics should
be resorted to only under circumstances OF clear
need. and their action should be carefully watched
in each individual case, no matter how great q
the physician. In cases OF danger from nitrous
oxide there was always warning given OF death.
apparently abandoned all attempts at limitation.
1t was then clearly time to take effective measures
to restore respiration. DR.. Weisse went on to say
that every man who gave nitrous oxide should be
required to have a certificate OF his fitness to
supervise It's Effects and should there be
an accident in consequence OF his careessness he
should be held responsible for it, with ether and
choro0rm the ply sician could not be held respon-
sble for the purity of the drugs, but with nitrous
oxide there was no such excuse as care would al
ways secure supply OF the gas in pure state.
Chloroform was very dangerous in cases OF heart
nitrous oxide. True, chloroform only produced
one death in $500 cases OF administration,
but ether only once in $1,000, and nitrous
oxide only once In 100000. Still, every adj
minstrator should for his own sake look
upon each case as the fatal exception to the over
whelming exception. The physician should be
provided with the gavanic battery and ammonia
and all necessary restorative means In every case.
Whenever, In case OF accident, these means were
their absence was. perhaps, the cause OF death.
Dr. Weisse proceeded Indignantly to protest against
the careless administration OF nitrous oxide by
amateurs, who were utterly unfit TO apply such
agents to the human economy


The reader OF the paper was rewarded with the
thanks OF the society," and 1t was discussed at some
length Dy succeeding speakers.
Year: 1873

porated into many of our State constitutions, and
Is one OF those rules which, In our constitution,
due process OF lawn The course OF the
common law was trial, he insisted, by a
tween the prisoner and the people. The same
rule obtains, whether In civil or criminal
trials Challenges for cause, or, in the language
Of this act principal cause" were at the time OF
the adoption OF the constitution, in full force. Sir
EDWARD Coke notes 1t under The head OF '.PrOpter
ADecfum," that 1t was enough "that he has
formerly been juror in the same cause.n In
CoRe,s Institutes, part l, lib. 2 chap ~, section
~ loI o., among the grounds for challenge for
Princlpal cause, IL is stated that "upon his own
act, as II the Juror hath given verdict before Tor
the same cause, albeit it be reversed by writ OF
30 II he hath given former verdict upon the same
Title or matter, though between other persons. But
that in this or other like cases. he that taketh
the challenge must show the record II he Will
have It take place as principal chal,enge, other
record OF the same Court and then he must show
the day and term" II the new Jury law is not in
violation OF this provision OF the constitution, to-
gether with that other provision OF section two of
article one OF the constitution, providing for jury
trial. then, indeed, he insisted, would it be difficult
would conflict with the constitution. 1t cannot be
possible he urged In conclusion, that the trainers
Of the constitution intended TO allow juror whose
mind IL in the condition above referred to, to sit
when the life or liberty OF the citizen is involved


ARGUMENT OF MR.. PHELPS.


Mr. BENJAMIN X Phelps, the new District Attor-
ney responded Seiidttm to the various points Of
the opposing counsel. AS TO the consttutionality
Of the Jury law he insisted that the rulings OF the
Court upon the several challenges for principal
cause to which exceptions were taken were cor
rect. Each juror pronounced competent by the
Court brought himself upon his oath within the
language and meaning OF the first section of the
act In relation to challenges OF jurors in criminal
cases. That act was, he claimed CONSTITUTIONAL and
sne only provision which 1T can be claimed to in
fringe was he urged that OF article l, section =
'rhe trial by jury, in all cases in which it has been
heretofore used, shall remain inviolate foreverD


ANOTHER CASE.


After the conclusion OF the argument in the
above case Mr. Howe submitted upon the same
points the case OF Charles Johnson the noted bond
roboer, who Is now serving out his second term in
State Prison.
Year: 1873

Coroner Keenan,, in response to an inquiry by "a
representative of the HERALD yesterday, stated
that on Monday he Will name day for holding an
inquest on the body OF Nicholas b. Duryea, pol
icy' dealer, who was literally hacked to death with
bowie knife in Liberty street on the evening Of
the 10th ultimo by his former partner, John E.
simmons. who remains at Bellevue Hospital, under
treatment for the fracture OF his ankle, sustained
during the fatal struggle The injured limb s still
encased In plaster OF Paris, and as simmons VIII
probably be Kept at the hospital for two or three
weeks longer, the inquest will be held at that
place. The recent alarming frequency OF murder
In tnis city has revived in this, as well as Other
cases, intense public interest which Is certAln.
unfavorable ~ the prisoner.
Year: 1873

The Death-Stricken Home-The Sorrowful Wife
Weeping Over the Corpse Of Her Husband
The Blood Stains on the White Horse
Which He Rode-The Good Words


Said Of Charlie Pfeifer by


Those Who Knew Him Best
Year: 1873

The proposed Amendment to the
Constitution, by which it is intended
to abolish the present system Of vot-
ing for President and Vice President
through the medium Of College of
Electors, and to substitute instead
thereof the direct vote Of the citizens,
will give a far fairer representation to
the whole body of the people than
they at present possess, TO say moth
ing Of the advantages Of abolisbing
the employment of Presidential Elcc-
tors, who, under the present order Of
things, merely follow the instructions
laid down in the party conventions,
and vote solely according to order
To prove that the presen. system is
not equitable and just, we have bnt TO
show that the four and half millions
OF population of the State of New
York have no larger representation in
the Electoral College than considera-
bly, under two millions of population
than are contained in nine of the
smaller States, from which it is evi-
dent that every citizen in each of these
minor States has, in the choice OF the
President, two and half times the
voting power that is possessed by a
citizen of the Empire State. The fol-
lowing table exhibits the fact pretty
PLAINLY:
Year: 1873

There are no more admirable
pictures in history than Cincinn atus
going frop, the plow to the dictator
ship, and Marion welcoming the
English emissaries to his dinner of
roasted potatoes. What would
Marion have though could he have
foreseen that within century the
President of the American Republic
would declare himsslf unable to live
on s25, 900 a year and free lodgings?
Yet, remarks the New York Sun, this
is the picture now presented for the
consideration of American tag payers


Theoretically the President is but
the equal of the humble.t citizen of
the United States. The great ma
jority of the people are living onless
than 81 900 a year. Why cannot
the elected head of the nation
manage to get along comfortable on
twenty five times that amountf


The tendency of wages in ordinary
life is downward instead OF upward.


1t is true that many of the sub
ordinate officers Of the Government
are paid at low rates; or, to speak
more correct, their pay would be but
pittance for men competent to
perform their duties. But as yet
there has never been any difficulty in
finding persons ready to take any
place that becomes vacant.


But the Presidents salary is large.
It is more thau triple the compensa-
ton allowed the Governor of the
Golden State of California, more
than five times the salary of the
executive officer of this great Com
monwealth, and twenty five times
the yearly stipend of the Governor
of Rhode Island, com paratively the
richest State in the Union.


The idea that the nation is served
for honor and not for mere money Is
pleasant one. 1t is still lingering
in many minds. Perhaps it should
not be too rudely dispelled.