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Year: 1872

10 THE FAIR BY STEAM.-As the project of a
railway track from the depots in Ottawa to tho
fair grounds, during the State Fair, is rapidly
dwindling to naught, other projects of convey.
ance are mooted which promise better success.
The people Of Heunepin have small steamer of
very light draught, which they believe can be
made available in bringing passengers from
that point either by river or canal; and we now
learn that an enterprisng citizen Of Ottawa is
preparing to have small steamer ready to con.
'ey passengers from the city to the fair ground
ey water 1t the prevailing rains succeed in
raising tho river about a foot BY September,
which from present appearances is probable,
navigation by small steamers both from Henne.
pin and Ottawa to the fair grounds would be.
come practicable and very pleasant mede Of
travel.
Year: 1872

The Ottawa Republican has good deal to say
about the noise and disorder that prevailed in
the Democratic Convention on Tuesday, but it
neglects to say that more than half the clamor
was made by a dozen Of Republican roughs who
mingled iudiscriminatsly with the delegates and
impudently voted on nearly every question put
by the chair. Instead of astonisment at the
noise and confusion, the Republican, would have
hit the mark better had it expressed its amaze.
ment at the forbearanoe of the democrats in not
bootlng these radical rowdies out of the hall or
pitching them out of the window.
Year: 1872

The contractors for the new Opera House
have in operation In that building machine
which conveys at one time three Aods Of mortar
or brick to the upper portion of the structure,
thereby dispensing with the slow and danger.
Gus process OF hod-carriers climbing long ladders
with their loads.
Year: 1872

For several years we have offered, in
connection with our own, most of the pub
lications in the country at greatly reduced
rates, even lower than the lowest club rates
in many instances. We do this to induce
advance payment, and people to subscribe
who are not now subscribers, and also TO
do good favor to those who patronize us.
We cannot offer club rates for the NEWS
DEALER, nor can we send it more than a
year at the regular rates, for the price is
now so low as to be within the reach of
every one, and so low as to leave no mar
gin for profit. All new subscribers who
pay in advance, and all old ones who will
pay arrearages and year in advance, can
avail themselves of this offer. The first
column Of figures gives the regular sub
Scription price of the publication offered
and the last is the price for it and the
NEwsDEALER. Any publication not appear
ing in the list will be procured at advau-
tageous rates. Read the list
Year: 1872

BANKING AND FINANCIAL.
sr. JOSEPH AND DENVER CITY RAILROAD


CoMPANY's


FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
arc being absorbed by an increasing demand for
them.


Besides being the obligation of wealthy corpora
ton composed of men of experience aud high-toned
commercial integrity, they are secured by first
Year: 1872

For several years We have offered, in
connection with our own, most Of the pub
Iications in the country at great reduced
rates, even lower than the lowest club rates
in many instances. We do this to induce
advance payment, and people to subscribe
who are not now subscribers, aud also to
do u good favor to those who patronize Us.
We cannot offer club rates for the News
DEALER, nor can we send il more than Il
year at the regular rates, for the price is
now so low as to be within the reach OF
every one, and so low as to leave no mar
gin for profit. All new subscribers who
pay in advance and all old ones who will
pay arrcarages and a year in advance, can
avail themselves Of this offer. The first
column o. figures gives the regular sub,
scriprion price of the publication offered,
and the last is the price for it and the
NrwsDEALEa. Any publication not appear


ing ia the list viii be procured at adyan-
tageous rates. Read the list: -
Year: 1872

MATCH GAME At NEW cAsrLE-A CHALLENGE 70


THE STATE.


match game of base ball was PLAYED, yester-
day afternoon at New Castle. between the
lammany, of that place and the Forest City. OF
Phlladelphis. which was won by the Tammany,
by score Of % to u
The Atlantic Base Ball Club will play any club
in the state for championship.
Year: 1872

A resident Of y ork county, Pa, who was
the possessOr of a competency sufficient TO
support himself and family during their
natural lives, became possessed Of the idea
that they were al coming TO want and
would die Ofstarvation. This lallucination
took such firm hold upon his mind that no
persuasions on the part OF his friends were
sufficient to dvcst him of it. Day after
day it grew stronger for years. His great
est anxiety seemed to be for his family,
and he determined, in order to save them,
he would be compelled to starve himself
This he carried into execution, and recent
ly became a victim Of this all absorbing and
fatal illusion of his life, and death occurred
from actual starvation, voluntarily and per-
sistently imposed upon himself. For sever
al days he refused all sustenance, and al
though efforts We're made to force food into
| his mouth his strength commenced to de-
cline, and soon after he died i'll starving
condition. Ills dying words few min
utes before his death were, l;new |
would StarVe.''
Year: 1872

The Democratic press of Penn.
sylvania is in remarkable accord
upon tho subject of the duty of the
Democratic party. The editors of
journals in the Democratic interest,
who keep their fingers on the pub
lie pulse, perceive that the teverish
enthusiasm OF the hour succeeding
the nominations at Cincinnati, is
not the influence that should sway
them at any time but much more
should it not at time which, so
much as the present, demands calm
and careful consideration. And
the fact that the formation of a
third party from the ranks Of onr
adyersarics has had so little effect
TO create division in our own coun-
ellis. is one of the most encourag
ing signs TO be seen.


The immense advantage which,
results TO the Democracy from its
present position, can be estimated
from q very little reflection. In
1864, in the heat AMI PASSION OF
war. the Republican party was
united as one man, backed by the
power which the enormous patron


are of that condition gave TO il, un-
der the coercion of military rule.
Yet the signs which went before
that clectien were such as TO make
the administration trcmbie for its
results. and to tighten anew the
screws Of arbitrary power and IN
1865. when their candidate was
floated in upon the hurrah of mil
itary achievement, and the cnthu-
siasm Of the recent war, the pop
ular majority for General Grant
was exceedingly small. Bat little
over three hundred thousand or
two and one-hali per cent, OF the
whole vote of the country, would
have entirely changed the result
With perfect union, and all the ad-
vantages Of patronage, the uimos:
exertions Of the party conld not
soueeze out but this narrow margin.
Year: 1872

While the Civil Service Rform is
on the carpet, we wonder hv Con-
gress and the people would rceive a
new Constitutional Amedment
something like this:


SECTION j. No person aall be
eligible to any public office, { what
ever nature or degree, eitherlective
or otherwise, in the United safes or
in any subdivision thereof whtever,
who shall, within the periodbf one
year previous to the time for enter
ing upon the duties of such otce, So
licit, or in any manner dirotly or
indirectly endeavor to obtin for
himself the election or appointment
to such Office.


SEC. 2. In order to ascertain and
assure the disqualification specified
in the preceding Section, any Dis
trict Court in any State or Territory
shall take cogniZance of any charge
entered upon affidavit by any legal
voter within its jurisdiction ,gainst
any other person within its juisdis-
ton, as touching the subject matter
of the first Section hereof, and shall
hold due trial thereof, aud lis con
clusi0n shall be entered Of record br
said Court; and if the said conclusion
be that the person accused il disquat
flied according to the provisions O
the first Section hereof, then the sale
Court entry Of record shall operate
in full as such disqualification, work
ing ineligibility for the person named
for the office named for the period OF
one year from the date of the pre-.
ferment Of the accusation as herein
provided.


We suppose such an Amendment
would be everywhere hooted at-and
yet ii would be the most radical and
effective Of all "Civil Service Re.
FORMS" would rob party spirit of its
fearful evils, and would in fact go as
far as the force of legal enactment
can possibly go toward the actual
practice of the beautiful theory that
officials are the servants Of the peo,
pie and not their masters.
Year: 1872

The Idaho Legislature met the other
day, and an exchange says (the state
ment is modest one) that there were
four hundred and sixty can 1idates for
the various subordinate official positions.
Year: 1872

Judge MACARTHUR of the Criminal
Court in Washington city. ha. reversed
the decision recsntly given against the
keeper of restaurant for his refusal to
entertain colored men. He holds that
the proprietor of the restaurant was the
proper judge of whom he should receive
in his house.
Year: 1872




Owners of safes, who have valuable
books and notes deposited in them, can
learn something worth knowing from
this little incident, which we find in a
New England paper:


A rather curious contribution to the
incidents of the late Boston fire has Just
come to light. In one of the stores in
the burnt district the porter with the
keys of the safe was on hand, and per-
ceived that the fire was rapidly approach
ing. In his terror he rushed to and fro
in the counting-room, and at last caught
up the plated ice-pitcher full of water,
locked it ID the safe and departed from
the burning building in the proud con-
sciousness that he had accomplished
something to save his employers prop
erty. When, however, the safe was
taken from the ruins, it was found that
the books were uninjured. The heat
which would otherwise have charred
and destroyed the books only con-
verted the water into steam.
Year: 1872

An exchange says: "The worst
joke that was ever perpetrated on
scientific men took place recently al
Louisiana, Mo. A man was sick
with rheumatism, or something, and
fellow went around to the doctors
and professors and things, and told
them that it was the queerest case
on record. He said the man had
no feeling. You could stick pins in
his body all over, and he paid no
attention to them at all. He was
perfectly numb. So the doctors got
together and called on the sick man
to experiment. All arrived with
pins and needles and bodkins. The
man was asleep and they got around
him, and each one stuck his pin in
the patient. The sick man rolled
over and looked at the crowd, and
thought they had come to dissect
him, so he took chair in one hand
and bed-post in the other, and
drove the crowd thence. They are
around with their heads tied up,
looking for the man who said that
sick man had no feeling"
Year: 1872

The report of tie Ku-KIux Committee
of Congress lately made, reviews at
great length the state Of affairs in the
South from the close of the war to the
present time. considered with reference
to the political status, and the organiza-
tion known as the Ku-Klux Klan. OF
the existence of such an organization
there is no shadow of doubt. and that its
objects are hostility to the Government
against which its members were lately
foemen, and to the enjoyment by the
negro of the rights conferred on him by
the Constitutional Amendments and the
supplementary laws, is equally appa-
rent. The late law is reported as bav-
ing been effective to a very great extent
in checking the ou,rages in North and
South Carolina. The testimony shows
that the Courts and Juries have admin
istered Justice between man and man
very impar,ially in all ordinary cases,
both civil and criminal, but shows as
clearly that it has been almost impossi-
BILE to have redress against those out
RACES by these disguised outlaws and at
night, because of the difficulty of identi-
hcation, the precautions taken by the
order against anything of the kind by
we'll arranged system of perjury on the
witness stand, or by members or sym
pathizers in the jury box, to say 10th
ing of the paralyzing influence inspired
by their hidden and widespread organ
ization. The Committee recommends the
continuance of the present protective
measures until there appears no doubt
of the actual suppression and disarm-
ing of this widespread and dangerous
conspiracy, and points to the results of
the suspension of writ of habedS corpus
as an example of what good results may
be expected from such policy. 1t is
also recommended that the power con-
ferred on the President be continued un-
til the end of the next session of Con-
gress.


Now that we have such report from
a Congressional Committee it is hoped
Congress will take such measures as
their investigations have shown will be
followed by the proper protection of the
lately enfranchised, no doubt ignorant,
hut still well meaning aud powerful
class who have doubtless been too often
made the tools of educated knaves for
the worst political purposes, o. well as
the victims of the most diabolical per-
sonal outrages.
Year: 1872

No person ever really feels any ration
al conviction that this amusement is
wrong intrinsically. We venerate the
name of Washington, and no ono ques-
tions the soundness of his judgment, the
sincerity of his patriotism, or the purity
of his religion, and our respect for his
memory is not lessened in the slightest
degree by the fact recorded in the histo-
ry of his life by Irving, that he some
times took part in the amusement of
dancing.


1t is agreed on all hands that amuse-
ment is necessary, and may be indulged
in properly even by those who are not
entirely contented with mere animal
life, having aspirations for something
'shigher and better and nobler." can
see no reason which should prevent the
worthy pastor from meeting the mem
bers of his congregation in the private
parlor or public assembly, where dane
ing is going on. Such meetings have
taken place frequently in cities and vii
lages of the United States. can see
nothing wrong in their nature, nothing
| calculated to do any harm.


Whence come our fatal injuries? Not
from without, out from within. Our
foes are of our own household. The
heart of man is filed with evil inclina-
tions-s striving constantly to gain per-
manent footing i'll the practice Of our
| lives. Our duty is to resist, to struggle
with and fight against them, and with
divine assistance overcome them. This
is the great battle of our lives, a part OF
which may be fought out in the ball
room as well as elsewhere.


We are often called 10 notice the great
and rapid changes going on in the Gov
ernments of the earth. They are in
deed wonderful and full of instruction,
teaching the most powerful dynasties
they are subject to the "higher -
Not only are the understandings of men
agitated, but their hearts are moved
Let a great confagration occur in
Chicago or any other city, and forthwith
quick streams of love, with healing in
their course, flow on to the wounded
place. Other changes, not less vital,
are silently going on in the minds ofindi-
viduals, while not a sparrow falls un-
noticed and not hair of our heads is
unnumbered.


The insanities of sensational religion
are less common than formerly. BY
close observation we can see an increas-
ing tendency to apply spiritual truth to
practical affairs. Now AID then some
man breaks away from the slavery of
"heaping up riches" whose "higher as
pirations" are not swallowed up in the
broOding thoughts of adding house 10
house and farm to farm. He finds time
to devote to the rearing of his offspring,
and instead of stultifying the tender
minds of young children by confound-
ing all distinctions, kindly takes them
by the hand, aud whether in the ball
room or elsewhere, carefully points out
the boundaries between right and wrong.
Limits are as sacred now as they were
when Terminus was god. A. DO
Year: 1872

The New York Evening Post tells
US that. slOld sailors are never so
much at sea as when they are
ashore" Upon which the Louis
vile Courier remarks that "In this
they are somewhat like henpecked
husbands, who are never so much at
home as when they are abroad"
Year: 1872

The Philadelphia police made raid
Wednesday night upon gambling es-
tablishment at 10 South Ninth street,
and captured thirteen men and all the
paraphernalia on the premises. The
dealer fired at the policemen and made
his escape.


1t is understood that Governor Dix
will advocate sweeping reforms in the
State, in his message, which be is now
writing. Among other things he will
suggest the abolition of quite a mum ber
of State offices, which will tend to large
ly reduce the expenses.
Year: 1872

RAILROAD TRANSFER. learn that
the railroad bridge across Lake Cham
plain at Ticonderoga and the lease of
the railroad to Port Henry, held by the
Vermont Cent raj railroad company, has
been sold to the Hudson and Delaware
Canal company, and the construction of
a railroad along side of that has been
discontinued.
Year: 1872

THRICE BEREAvED.-Ida,t the youngest
daughter of Horace Greeley, was engag-
ed to be married to one of the officers of
the illfated steamer Missouri, which was
burned at about the time of the death of
her mother. First her betrothed hus-
band, then her mother and now her
father, all have gone within a brief
month. The hearts of the whole people
go out to her in the deepest and most
sincere sympathy in her terrible bereave-
ment.
Year: 1872

We ADMIT that a woman looks graceful in
the sido-sldcic, but il Is plain that in sit
ting sideways on horse she is placed at a
great disadvantages. Il is difficult Tor her 10
control vicious animal, and in hard run
or bold leap her seat must be unsteady
The position Is constrained and ftiruing.
and IN case of losing her balance she is in
danger Of being caught and dragged bv the
horse. Her long skirt Is always in the wav.
and it often proves a moose of death The
side-saddls represents one Of the oldest tradi-
tions of equcstrianship, and therefore it will
not be surrendered without 4 stubborn fight
We can scarcely expect woman TO form so
beautiful picture with each foot in a STIR
rup but then if the change ever does take
place We will grow accustomed 70 it as We
have grown familiar with other innovations
The panier and waterfall dctrsct from the
fair proportions Of the female form still, ,
now that they have come into general use,
they no longer seem odd to Us. That 10 which
the majority subscribe is not conspicuous.
The thing may have been novel at first, and
possibly It's introduction created 4 sensation;
Dat when expanded into 4 custom sensation
enos, anG then We marvel how Ii ever could
nave seemed strange, and have excited ridi-
culc aua opposition. Old and dear as are
the traditions cI the de-saddle we can part
with them and in time will learn not TO
STAND and cape when woman sweeps past
Us mounted on horse and riding a. .straddle.
Let the innovation become a Custom and
then II we wonder at all it will be AZ the
thought That the barbarous practice should
have lived through 30 many centuries n
give up the slde-saddle - .. ~


lines of grace, ana to slightly mar beant;-
ful picture, but We can afford to sac-;ec,
much on the score safety and comfort TIE
side-saddle, generally speaking, is an instrn-
ment Of torture TO the horse ; it ia the c,pse
ol many serious accidents, and the fair rider
carries her life in her hand, as it were.
sudden plunge or a stumble, and the woman


wrapped in her long skirt, goes to the earth
as - Is unmanly TO insist thar the fair partners
VI oHf oosoms should always be kept at dis
Year: 1872

Judge Day Of straford, was recently found
dead in a stream near bis house and is supposed
to have drowned himself in sn attack Of mel
aneholy, induced by the death Of his son aud the
dangerous Illness Of bis wife
Year: 1872

The OFFICE OF LIGHTNING RoDs In his
valuable little work on Lightning Rods. and
how to construct them Professor John
Phin thus states what the lightning rod
should do -


The function or oince Of the Lightning rod
is twO-fold. In the first place. it acts as a
means whereby the accumulated electricity
existing in the atmosphere Is silently drawn
of and allowed to pass into tie earth, and
thus prevent an explosion and in the sec
ond, it acts as path by which explosions,
Lightning flashes, or disruptive discharges (as
they are more properly callcd) may find their
way to the earth freely. and thus be carried
OF without any danger Of their acting with
mechanical violence, as they are certain 10
90 when made to pass through What arc
called non-c0nductCrs. Experience teaches
Us that, 80 long as discharge Of electricity
passes of through a wiEe that Is large enough
10 carry it safely, It does not cause any dam
age or give rise To .he exhibition of mechan-
ical violence. \ spark from the prime con-
ductCr Of an electrical machine. If passed
through moderately fine wire does not in
jure it; If passed through thick card. it
will pierce it; and, if passed through
small block Of wood, it will rcnd it aslu-
der.


On the occasion Of every thunder storm
there Is large quantity Of electricity % De
conveyed from the clouds to the earth,
through the air which is in general O. very
poor conductor. This electricity always
tends to pass by the easiest path, OF as eiec-
tricians cay, the line Of least resistance. The
resistance Of any line may be lessened by Va
ri0us circumstances, such as the presence Of
hot vapors, as from chimneys, heated hay
mows IN the barn the existence ola line Of
carbJnaceous matter. such as exists in q col
unn Of smoke ; the presence Of q tree with
its leaves and sap, or ola house with its
chimncys or the fact that the air has been
rendered moist by the passage OF a shower Of
rain. So difficult Is it, however, 10 detect the
circumstances which render any particular
path more easy than others, foI the clsc,rIc.-
" to follow, that We are often unable O. give
a reason for its following particular c0urse.
and the action Of this mighty force seems To
us Ike a mere freak. Such IDEAS are, how
ever, entirely wrong and we may accept
most implicitly the statement that the lash
viii always take the easiest path, and It
must be cur duty To determine beforehand
what this path shall be, and 10 make it 50
easy and 50 perfect that the resistance will
not cause the electricity to produce the
slightest mechanical violence.