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Year: 1873

To day there is a man going about
the streets Of this. city, ragged, dirty
and penailess, ,subsisting on free lunches
and the charity of gamblers, and qhas
not slept in bed forgmonths, who 1du-
ring the war was one of the most dash,
ing cavalry officers in the Union army,
and was promoted from the rank OF
First Lieutenant to full Brigadier and
brevet Major General for exploits on
the field of battle, and who for long
time had large and important com


mand He has been here for two or
three months under an assumed name,
being ashamed to dim the brilliancy OF
his record in the service OF his eountry
by an exhibition Of his degradation un-
der his former honored name. He is
generally very reticent, having little to d.
with any enc or talking but little, save
when engineering for drink, at which
he is remarkably successful.


Night before last, while lying help
Flessly drunk in the rear part of a Third
street saloon, some men thought to play
a joke on him by stealing his shirt, and
proceeded to strip him. Underneath
his shirt, and suspended by string
around his neck was a small canvas bag,
which the men opened and found it to
contain his commission as brevet Major
General, two congratulatory letters, one
from Grant ahd one from President
Lincoln, a photograph Of little girl
and curl of hair-a chestnut shadow
that doubtless one day crept over the
brow OF some loved one.


When these things were discovered
even the half drunken men who found
them felt respect for the mans for,
mer greatness, and pity for his fallen
condition, and quietly returned the bag
and contents to where they found them,
and replaced the sleeper's clothes upon
him. Yesterday News reporter tried
to interview the man AMI endeavor to
learn something of his life in the past
few years but he declined to communi-
cate anything. He cried like child
when told how his right name and for
mer position were ascertained and, with
tears tiickling down his cheeks, saiG
"For Gods sake, sir, don't publish my
degradation or my name at least, If you
are determined to say something about
it. 1t is enough that i know myself
how low l have become. a'Will you
promise that much !? 1t will do no good
but will do my friends great harm, as
fortunately they think I died inf South
America, where I went at the bclose of
the war" a .aHq


Intemperance and the gambling table,
he said, had wrought his uin.-Kansa
City Ne,os. is"
Year: 1873

Seolding is mostly a habit. There is
not much meaning to it. 1t is often the
result Of nervousness and an irritable
condition both of mind and. body. A
person is tired or annoyed at some triv-
ial cause, and forthwith commences fin.
ding fault with every thing and every
body in reach. Scolding is habit very
easily formed 1t is astonishing how
soon one who indulge in it at all be-
comes addicted to it and confirmed in
it. 1t is an unreasoning and unreason-
able habit. Persons who once geti into
the way of scoldiug always find some
thing to scold about. tits contagious


On being introduced into family, it is
pretty certain in a short time to affect
all the members. People in the coun.
try more readily fall into the habit OF
scolding than people in town. Women
contract the habit more frequently than
men. This may be because they live
more frequently in the house, in a con.
fined and heated atmosphere, very try,
ing to the nervous system and the health
in general, ard it, may be, partly, that
their nature are more susceptible and
their sensitiveness more easily wounded
Year: 1873

E-There are men who have read
enough to make them impertinent; their
knowledge is sufficient to raise doubts


but not to clear them. 1t is pity they
have so much learning,or that they have
not great deal more, 1t is these sort
of people who usually set up for free.
thinkers. One-half of their discourse
runs upon the unreasonableness of big
|otry and priestcraft. They are the ad-
miration of all those who have less sense
than themselves, and the contempt Of all
those who have more. .,7a ~
Year: 1873

Several years since it was the misfor-
tune of promising young man, living
in one of the western towns Of Lamoille
county, to be elected by his 'fellow citi-
zens,' to quite responsible Office. Now
nature had so constituted the youth that
on important occasions it was quite nat
ural for him tc make considerable dis
play of himself, and it seems that this
was one of those important occasions.
Returning to the village, and while pass
ing the shop of an esteemed citizen,
since departed. the young man, still ap-
preciating the important position he had
been called upon to fill, and making rap
id strides in order to receive the early
congratulations of the family. was
brought to a stand still by the gentle.
man at the shop, who hurriedly ran tc
the door, and; hailing the aforesaid
elected" alphabetically said: "W-
get along the best way you can for day
or two, and I will get these posts out Of
the way" 1t is needless to add that
W performed the balance of his
journey home with less spread eagle il
him, and to this day reference to the
matter nightly subdues his ruling pro
pensity.
Year: 1873

If a workman, who is paid to work
ten hours, takes advantage of the alb
sence of the master. or foreman, to
smoke pipe and read newspaper for
one hour out of the ten, he steals one
tenth of his day wages. He does the
very thing that the skopkeeper would
do who gave him fourteen ounces of
butter or sugar instead of a pound,
or nine yards of calico when the bill
charged ten. An assistant in a shop,
who instead of caring for his masters
interests as if they were his own puts
no heart into his work, exercises no
ingenuity, treats customers carelessly
instead ofcourteously, and so dimin-
ishes the chances of their coming
again, gets his salary on false pretenses
does not give the kind of services
which he knows his employer expects
and which he would expect ifhe were
an employer himself He cannot but
know that his services are not worth
one-half what they would be if he did
his best. Instead of earning the ESQ
or e40 year for which he Is engag-
ed, he does not earn more than Els
or e20, and he practically steals the
| rest
Year: 1873

WEIGHING THE EvIDENcF.-A
short time since worthy magistrate
of New Orleans had rather difficult
question to decide, in the solution of
which he struck a path hitherto un-
known in Jurisprudence. It seems
that twelve negroes appeared before
him, one of whom swore positively
that himself and the other eleven had
done certain amount of work on a
steamboat, and were entitled to wages.
It was steady streak, each of the
dozen swearing precisely the same.
On the other side appeared the mate
of the boat and eleven deck hands,
who all twelve swore directly and
point blank to an opposite state of
facts to those testified to by the twelve
plaintiffs. Here the evidence closed,
leaving the judge to make up his mind.
His honor scratched his head, looked
wise, pondered few moments, and
then said: The law makes it the duty
of the Court, when in doubt, to weigh
Year: 1873

SINGULAR observation-disclosures
ly Milan was full of peasants who come
to visit the church of Saint Eustorgio
on the fete day of Saint Peter the
Martyr. The particular object is to
preserve themselves from headaches
for the year to come, and the all-pow-
erful charm consists in knocking the
head more or less hard, against the
marble urn of the Saint. To a strang-
er, this serio-comic spectacle is produc-
tive of an indescribable sensation, the
irresistible desire to laugh opposing
the pity for theignorance so glaringly
evinced.
Year: 1873

strung to swim across the basin to dry
land, and SO had to Chamber up through
the narrow crevice near by. A large
crowd soon gathered, with every ap-
pliance to extricate him from his pre-
carious situation. Watson was COM
pletely exhausted when drawn out by
his friends.
Year: 1873

the evidence. / shall proceed to do
so in this case. "You," turning to one
of the suing darkies,' take your crowd
over to Mr.-(a grocery store in the
vicinity, and have them weighed,
and bring me certificate of their
weight from the clerk. And you,"
he said, turning to the mate, ''do the
same with yourself and witnesses.
This Court must make up a judgment
somehow" The mandate of the Court
was obeyed; the contestants appeared
with their respective certificates, the
mates party outweighing the other
by nine pounds; which was sufficient
to turn the scales ofjustice, for judg-
ment was given for the boat.





ARISING FROM THE AsHEs.-The
fabled Phoenix will soon be rising
again, and this time from doubly burn
ed Boston. The sturdy New England
nature is not yet cut down by the
great disaster of November, 1872, or
even by the recent one and Bos-
ton will yet shine as the model
city of the union. Only six months
have elapsed since the "great fire, y
but such progress has been made in
rebuilding that it is believed within
the year all traces of the ravages of
the flames will be removed. And it
is comfort to the stranger to know
that some of the streets have been
widened and others Strengthened, SC
that the burned district will be less
of a labyrinth than it was.


There is also satisfaction in know
ing that in rebuilding, more attention
has been paid to durability than orna
mentation, so that while the new Bos
ton may seem less gorgeous to the
superficial observer it will really be
more imposing and far less likely tt
be destroyed by fire. The lessons o
these disasters have not been wholly
thrown away on either Chicago o.
Boston, and the marvellous enterprise
and pluck displayed by both, in the
work of reconstruction justify the
songs of selfcongratulation. each i
constantly singing. Chicago formal
ly glorifies herself next month, ant
Boston will be excused for followin.
the example.
Year: 1873

-Four little Chicago boys had hang
ing matinee in stable, the other day.
Each was suspended in turn and was
to yell when he got enough; but one
little fellow, ambitious to excel his
companions,d deferred yelling till it was
no longer practicable and there is now
but three of those little boys.
Year: 1873

There is nice little boy at Sparta,
Wis. He amused his leisure hours by
boring hole through the dam just to
see the water spirit In fifteen hours
after he started the leak, the dam had
given way, carrying off a valuable mill.
What fiogging that boy would have
got in "Ancient Sparta"
Year: 1873

THE ACADEMY QUEsTIoN.-Th action OF
the committee for the proposed Whining
ton Conference Academy, in paying the
large sum of $500 for a site for said
Academy, seems to be meeting with disfavor,
if the structures of correspondent, from
Dover, may be regarded as a fair inter
probation of the feeling in the matter. We
publish the article referred to on its own
merits, at the request of the author. Let the
truth be told; let all sides have hearing. The
author makes strong point let the other
side make its statement One fact has also
come under public comment since this pur.
chase was made, viz: why was it necessary to
purchase site when parties offered to donate
one in each of five or six different towns on the
Peninsula Dover included?
Year: 1873

Nenclai Assembly been mere political meet
ing instead of legislative body the resolutions
about Mr.. Sumner would have been all right,
but as it was it was all wrong. When Mr..
Wids and Mr.. Shelldrake. want to show how
they can sustain and vote with Mr.. Sumner
and then turn their backs upon him, let them
do so in a proper place. No one objects to
these individuals showing their lack of party
principle, but let them parade it at the proper
time. The Delaware Legislature had nothing
to do with Senator Summers Congressional
measures.


Upon the whole, the determined resistance
of the Senate to every measure of reform has
given the Legislature just closed no enviable
stains
Year: 1873

Many people state that if two steamships
should sail in company, the perils of ocean
travel would be practically overcome. ID
would have been hardly possible fer the
Atlantic 10 strike on Meagher Head, if con-
sort had been sailing with her, for it is not
reasonable to suppose that the captain of the
consort would have made the same mistake in
his reckoning that Captain Williams made in
his. Where two steamers sail together the
detect and correct the errors of the officers of
the other, and if one ship becomes disabled
the other will be near to render assistance. If
the City of Boston had sailed with consort,
who knows but that her passengers might all
have easily been saved2
Year: 1873

4 morning newspaper has become very 80
ucitous about the condition Of "our infant
manufactures" It's opinion seems to be that
Is not protective tariff but q repeal Of tile
bankrupt Law. The samo paper declared, On
Thursday, TINT tho National Board Of Trade had
"agreod to ask Congress for repeal Of the
Bankrupt law" (which WIS not true. The fact
Is apparent that the newspaper IN question is
speaking two words for itself where it speaks
one for our infant manufactures. Before We
ropeal the Bankrupt law, would it not DO wise to
max what We shall get In its place7
Year: 1873

It seem that the bogus naturalization buBf-
ness is still going on. We demaud that the
Courts Of Cook County require all applications
for naturalization to be placed on come docket,
as other cases arc aud that this docket bo
called at times Of which public notice shall ho
given and that tue County Board require their
attorney to attend tho call Of that docket, and
examine the papers and proofs, to tho end that
fraudulent natura!izations may ho stopped, and
thereby the rights Of law-abiding citizons pro-
factei
Year: 1873

If tho National Doard of Trade intend to
mesnoriauze Congress to engage in railroad
building, they should direct their efforta to the
moat necessitous railways first. Among these
the Northern Pacific viii attract attention as the
most peculiarly needy ono on the continent. BY
momorializiug Congress- to tako up this particu-
Lar enterprise they would secure tho services Of
an active and well-organized lobby to help them
through with any other schemes they may think
DESERVING
Year: 1873

The news from tie Dominion indicates that
The Macdonald Government is likely to retain
Its power, Notwithstanding tho exposures Of
last summer, Looking upon tho case with the
impartiality OF an outsider, we express tho opin-
ion that the Canadian Government is rather
more rotten than our own.
Year: 1873

TELEGRAPHIc RESPONSIBILITY
The supreme court Of Illinois has decided
that telegraph companies are bound to
transmit messages correctly in the first
instance, and that an additional charge for
repeating, to insure correctness, is fraud
upon the public. A similar decision has
been given in Ohio.
Year: 1873

I CONCERT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE


MEMPHIS SUFFERERs.-"H the cry
for Memphis that Captainl McCann, of
the First Regiment band gives, and pre-
pare yourself to attend at Armory Hall,
on the occasion of the concert which he
gives for the benefit Of that stricken people.
See the very full notice on this subject in
another column.
Year: 1873

"WHITE MAN Is MIGHTY UNcERTAIS.r-Our
friend, Capt. Larzelere, this week publishes a
communication relative to the Farmers Conven.
tion, and an exhortstion to the farmers to stick
to the ticket. We agree with him, that dele
gates who participated in the Convention, and
found no fault with the proceedings, should be in
honor bound to stand By the ticket; but be is
emphaticly mistaken on another point. We be-
lieve we have heretofore made the assertion, and
make it again, that large number of the dele
gates in that Convention, (probably one-third }
have gone back on it, and will not support the
entire ticket. A number of them were in the
meeting of the Republican Central Committee,
Others were in the Liberal Democratic Conven-
tion, still others were in the Convention this
week, and several will be found as candidates
in opposition to the Farmers ticket. We do not
sppreve of or apologize for this breach of faith;
but the fact is nevertheless notorious, that the
situation is just as we have stated.
Year: 1873

Mr. EDTroR-The nomination Of candidates for the diff
ferent County offices by the Farmers Convention,
to have created quite sensation among professional poll


ticians and political trimmers well with dsap
pointed asprants for nomination No matter what profes
sionas trimmers and sore heads may say delegate
in that Convention and presiding officer its deb
erations, say unquafedly that attended Con
venOn land have attended manyl where there less
attempts at trickery than in it And proud say
further that large majority of the delegates
highminde, and think and act for themselves. Disap
pointed aspirants and constitutional grumblers have been


circulating the report that large numbers of hs delegates
have back the action of the Convention It is all


bosh 1t entirely too thin 1t is untrue and is used
an opate to alleviate any unpleasant sensations they
have when they think Of the obligation they took to abide
the decision of the Convention The ticket presented


good one Some Of the candidates Of my choice
but they the choice Of majority of the Convention


fairly expressed and give the entire ticket my support
and feel that in honor bound to do and think
every other delegate bound in the way. In
cuson say to the farmers and all friends the farmers
movement support your ticket straight through and II
elect it, we will have achieved glorious victory. IL
should fail in part have complain
Our organization is new and half completed yet Go
to the polls early the day of elections that your
neighbors go work for the nominees look sharp bo
gus tickets. A. LARZELERE.
Year: 1873

SAVE THE PMcEs-The following is one
plank IN the symmetrical platform of the
Leavenworfh new movement convention, which
was blown up when the convention burst, but
which we would rescue from oblivion:


Resolved, That we. the people of the State of
Kansas, desire an act Of the Legislature to be
LETT TO the people for their sanction or their re-
lection making it obligatory uppon the Legisla-
fure OF tins any & every act that is pafitioned
for twenty-five names the same TO be sebled by
the popular soveryn voice of the people
Year: 1873

~ Yard says that, in starting the White Cloud
Leader, the arrangement was that he should at
tend to outside matters, and Overholt to inside
business. We suppose this meant that Yard was
to wear the good clothes, and Oyerholt to drink
the whiskey!
Year: 1873

~ An impression is beginning to prevail,
that Bob Tracy will be elected County Treasurer
He has been nominated or endorsed by four con-
ventions; and now, it is thought, if he should
como out as an independent candidate, he would
have sure thing of it.
Year: 1873

Y The advertisement Of mail lettings, which
is fat job this year, appears in n number of the
Kansas papers, but we do not see it in the Wal
mt Valley Times. Is this the reward man gets
for acting as bruiser in behalf of Salary Grab
Year: 1873

z Even at this late stage of the game. we
believe that Republican County ticket could
be got mp three days before the election, and
elected by handsome majority, provided it were
done in harmony, without the several factions
trying to put in all their friends and leaving of
all the friends of the other factions. But inst
there is the rub, and it is what has caused all
this trouble.
Year: 1873

q The farmers of Brown County have level
heads on some questions. At their County Con-
veutiou, a few days ago, it was pretty strongly
insisted that the candidate for Representative
should be reliable Republican They do not
propose that the Farmers movement shall be
used to elect Democratic United States sena-
tor.
Year: 1873




II some 1of these nice gentlemen, who have
made every dollar they have got in the
world out Of farmers, and who never lose 8
chance to sneer at the grange movement.
don't begin to whistle different tune
through their nasal appendages before the
end of q year, we shall miss our guess tre-
mendously. At any rate, we can assure
these gentlemen that their sneering will
impede the progress of the organization
about as much as the kissing Of q serpest
would impede locomotive. We believe
that the farmers are thoroughly aroused to
their wants, their grievances, and their
power in the land We'know that they do
not desire to destroy or hurt any legitimate
industry, but simply seek to secure to
themselves the fruits of their own indus stry.
and are perfectly willing to let others do
likewise.


How strange that any man can be so
blind as not to see that the elevation of the
farming community must result in the ele-
vation of the whole country
Year: 1873

We fully expect State Auditor Whitcomb
will, shortly after the publication of his
recent great manifesto, in reference to the
P. of H., offer reward of $4,000 in the
columns of THE GRANGE ADVANCE for any
man in the State of Minnesota who will &C
knowledge himself to belong to Grange
Year: 1873

In the year 1859 Thanksgiving Day was
appointed by the New England Puritans,
''for the comfortable harvest, the health Of
the country generally. and for our preser-
vation from the destructive desire Of that
pestilent company, the Quakers; for the
healing Of the great breach at Hartford,
and for the peace of the churches and the
commonwealth"


In these days when we see and hear and
talk so much about modern degeneracy and
corruption, it is refreshing to note occa-
sionally comparison Of modern with an
c;ent times, favorable to the former. We
hink the men are much more tolerant Of
each others views when in conflict, than
they were in ancient times. We exercise q
larger charity toward each other in the
matter of religious and political dogmas
than did our fathers. It will be remem-
bered that some Of these "pestilent Quak-
ers" suffered martyrdom at the hands of
these same intolerant Puritans. But there
is still much room for improvement in this
respect.


It is perfectly appalling to contemplate
the terrible and wide spread sutferings that
will be endured by the poorer classes in
the large cities during the coming winter
1t is estimated that about $1,000 are out OF
employment in the city of New York alone,
and but little short of that number in the
city of Philadelphia. Nearly all of these
people are Of that class who live from hand
to mouth, and scarcely ever have day 8
provision ahead. How many little child
ren, and even babes, will cry for bread,
and will not get it. It is absolutely GER
tain that in this great land of plenty many
will actually die of starvation before the
return Of another spring. 1t is easy for
those whose granaries are full to pray with
faith for daily bread, but must not the
heavens seem covered with brass, and the
ear of the Great Father deaf, to those who
for weeks have cried in agony, "Give US
this day our daily Bread" and yet no
bread comes. Be doubly thankful, you who
have homes and food, and be not slow to
relieve suffering and want wherever you
find it.
Year: 1873

How DRINKING CAUSES APoPLExT.-
It is the essential nature of all wines and
spirits to send an increased amount Of
blood to the brain. The first effect of
taking a glass Of wine or stronger form
of alcohol, is to send the blood there fas-
ter than common, hence the circulation
that gives the red face. 1t increases the
activity Of the brain, and it works fas-
ter, and so does the tongue. But if the
blood goes to the brain faster than COM
mon, it returns faster, and no special
harm results. But suppose a man keeps
on drinking, the blood is sent to the
brain so fast, and in such large quanti-
ties, that in order to make room for it
the arteries have to enlarge themselves;
they increase in size, and in so doing
they press against themOre yielding and
f1accid veins which carry the blood out
of the brain, and thus diminish then
size, their pores, the result being that
the blood is not only carried to the ar
teries of the brain faster than is natrlra'
or healthful, but it is prevented from
leaving it as fast as usual; hence {
double set of causes of death are inope


ration. A man may drink enough
brandy or other spirits in a few hours
or even minutes, to bring on a fatal at


tack of apoplexy. ...'..