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Year: 1870

MARRIED MEN.-There is an ex-
preston in the face Of q good married
man who has good wife, that bach
elor's cannot have. 1t is indescrbable.
He is little nearer the angels than the
prettiest young fellow living. You can
see that his broad breast is a pillow for
somebody's head, and that little fingers
pull his whiskers. No one ever mistakes
the good married man. II is only the
orratic one who leaves you in doubt
The good one eau protect all the un.
protected females, and make himself
generally agreeable to the ladies, and
yet never leave doubt on any mind
that there is precious little woman at
home worth all the world to him.
Year: 1870

There was more than one lesson in
the remark Of an old merchant, who,
after watching the mellowing effect Of
years on bis fine paintings, said ~Talk
OF the Great Masters; Time is the
Great Master.D
Year: 1870

with Roop upon his extravagant decision


and implored him to walk the floor anc
think for half an hour, and see if h'
could not figure out some sort of modif


cation of the verdict. Roop yielded al
last, and got up to walk He walked two
hours and half and at last his face lit uI
happily, and he told Buncombe it had
occurred to him that the rancho under
meath the new Morgan rancho still be
longs to Sides, and his title to the ground
itself was just as good as it had ever
been, and therefore he was Of opinion
that Sides had right to dig it out from
under there, and H.U


The General never waited TO hear the
end of it. He was always an impatient
and irascible man that way. At the end
of two weeks he got it through his under
standing that he had been played upon
with joke. m
Year: 1870

The physicians upon whose report the
English convict Rutherford was reprieyed
from the gallows because his neck was
deformed by a bura gave the following
inoomprehensible opinion: He cannot
be hanged BY the. ordinary means, for to
secure against the risk of failure and
prolongation Of suffering, it will be nee
essary to use very considerable and
unusual amount of construction force
before the rope can be adjusted in such
a manner as to sustain the weight Of the
prisoners body" Which perhaps means
that he would have TO be ehoked TO
death before be could be hanged
Year: 1870

We publish this morning some cable de-
spatches which show that the excitement In
certain quarters Of Paris and among the
dangerous classes has not wholly subsidized
Our readers will see by referring to our tele-
graphic columns that in the now notorious
Belleville district Q fresh attempt was made to
raise barricades. Like all the attempts which
have lately been made In the same quarter,
this latest was failure little killing was
done--not much-and the troops remained
masters of the situation. The Belleyille crowd
was bound to do something. 1t has now done
its best, and we suppose men like Henri
Rochefort and Gustave Flourens-the one safe
In Paris prison and the other comfortable In
the companionship of Fenians in London-will
he quite pleased to know that some weak
minded men have died in their cause. The
days of barricades are ended, and the men
who instigate the people to resort to this
played-out form OF resistance are murderers.


We are glad to learn from La Lsbest6, a
journal SO ably presided over by M. de Girar-
din, that the Emperor is SO satisfied with the
results of the psebiscite that he has resolved to
abrogate the decree which consigns to ban
ishment all the members of the Bourbon
and Orleans families. This, we think, is wise.
If France is with him-and this latest vote
shows that France is with him-he has no
reason to be afraid of either of those families.
1t is but little likely that any member Of
either family will take advantage Of the
privilege thus extended to them but the
abrogation of the decree of banishment will
not on that account be the less magnanimous.
The Emperor has no more cause to be afraid
of She Bourbons or the Orleanists than General
Grant has to be afraid Of Andy Johnson.
From the same source we learn that no effort
will be spared to induce the Emperor to remove
all restrictions on the liberty Of the press.
AS Girardin says, the press laws have failed
in all their varied forms. We advise the
Emperor to make this one stone one ornamen-
tai stone in the ''crown of the edi6ce." The
law of libel is our only restriction here. With
us it works well enough. We know no good
reason now why the Emperor should not make
the French press as free as is the press in
America. n he can do it he ought. These
are the forms Of liberty, and the forms Of
liberty are striking.
Year: 1870

The End or tho AlcFariand Trial.


At the close of the remarkable criminal trial
that IS just concluded we may properly con-
gratulate the public upon certain things the
trial has made manifest. 1t is somewhat the
fashion for the press and the people to speak
with very positive disrespect of our local
judiciary, and this habit, perhaps, originated
in observation more or less accurate. But the
Mcfarland trial has shown that in Recorder
Hackett the bench here Is honored by the pre-
sence Of one man who may justly be ranked
with the best Of whom there is any remem-
brance in all the good qualities Of Judge
This was trial especially fitted TO tax the
temper, to try the patience and to test the
legal knowledge Of the presiding functionary,
and In It's tedious length and its fertility in issues
as well as in the. emotions it necessarily ex-
cited, 1t did all this to an extreme degree
But the Recorder was always more than equal
to the occasion. His rulings on the admission
OF testimony are without reproach, so accn-
rately did he balance the scales between either
side, and so strictly did he keep the case to
the limits that were consistent with the theo-





ries Of either side. His charge finjy simpli-
fed from the immense mass of testimony the
clear points upon which the jury were to rest
their verdict, and while It was model of i'm
partiality it gave the law so plainly with re-
gard to the well-proven insanity of the accused
that it left no room for any other result than
the one reached. Another point in the case is
its exemplifcation of the real practical excel
lence of the nuch-abused trial by jury. At
the end of such a case as this il is painfully
plain that the simple common sense of the
people is the best safety of society, and this
simple common sense the jury officially
declares. Science inevitably misleads by an ex-
treme view. We see how lawyers take ex-
treme standpoints, or how a sense of duty
seems to compel them to pervert or distort
truth to this side or that, till in the end one be.
lieves the man the greatest scoundrel
alive and the other holds him up as model
of injured innocence. With such fact before
us how can we trust to the law to help us to
justice2 With the issue Of insanity raised the
doctors come in, and what is the end of what
tHeJ teif uos oiuPty suiS su"b We cauuOt
hang any man for any murder; for on their de-
fnitions of insanity we should bejnstified in as
suming that the very fact thai a. man commits
murder isproof that he is insane; since it ex-
hibits him fagrantIy casting aside all the ordi-
nary restraints upon which the social fabric
stands, the constant recognition.of which re-
straints seems to be their notion of the state of
sanity. Between all this extravaganza of
egal and medical science how would society
20 distracted with doubts and how would
the world become bedlam' of insanity,
but for this decision Of twelve plain men, who,
directed by just Judge, come to,a conclusion
fully in sympathy with popular thought and
popular feeling9
Year: 1870

We understand that our late Minister to
China, j. Ross Browne, has lately been to
Washington to get what money was coming to
him or that he ought to receive, and that he
cannot get settlement. Through some petty
technicality, red tape Indifference or bad feel
ing, the departments put him off and say he
must 60 to Congress Now, whatever mis-
takes Mr.. Browne may have made in his mis-
sion at Pekin or in not comprehending the
policy Of his government, he was honest,
doubtless, in the course he took, and at any
rate he was the Minister and servant of the
American republic. He is entitled to receive
whatever money is due to him. Even with
that he will necessarily be great loser.
Through change in the administration, by the
expiration of Mr.. Johnsons term of office and
the Inauguration of General Grant, Mr..
Browne was recalled shortly after he
arrived in China. The cost of going to Pekin
with his family, Of procuring residence there
and of returning to the United States, without
reckoning the sacrifice Of property and inte-
rests at home, must have exceeded by ten or
fifteen thousand dollars the salary Of the Office.
Notwithstanding the great distance to China
and the cost Of going there and returning, no
outfit or Unfit is allowed under the present law
One years salary, therefore, will not pay by a
long way the Minister'S expenses. To leave
the servants of the republic, and particularly
those occupying high and responsible positions,
in such embarrassing circumstances is mean
in the government and disgraceful to the
country. But to deprive returned Minister
of what is really due to him or to give him
great trouble IN obtaining it is meaner and
worse still Whatever Mr.. Brownies errors Of
judgment may have been, he was the servant
of the republic, and ought to be paid without
rebate or hesitation.
Year: 1870

WHAT WERE THEY THANKFUL FoR!-An
exchange, speaking Of q fifteenth amendment
procession and of few whites fn ii, remarks
ssWhat they had to be thankful for, and
wherefor they were there, is a mystery"
Whereupon Mississippi paper remarks :-"Of
course they were thankful for not being made
as other men who have two sides white
They were probably of that class Of the genus
homo known as white men with black
hearts"
Year: 1870

newspaper organs have commenced to belittle
the ylebiscitun, as an expression of the national
feeling and will. The writer's acknowledge
s'big vote," but assert that its rendition under
the circumstances is without social, political
or religious significance Plain speaking and
drawing the line sharply.
Year: 1870

A FIT ApPoNTMENT-Tha of Assemblyman
Lawrence D. Herman to the secretaryship Of
the Board of Education. Mr.. Herman gradu-
ated with high honor at the Free Academy
now known as the New York College-and
with no better endorsement could young
man 60 forth into the world than from this
democratic institution, which comes from and
belongs to the people. Mr.. Herman has been
warmly identified with the cause of education,


both as teacher and a legislator, and no better
successor to Speaker Hitchman, who takes


charge Of the Fire Department, could well


have been chosen by the Tammany leaders.


It is true that the new secretary--like other


young men-in the beginning of the quarrel Of
the factions was disposed to follow the stan
dard Of the three tailed bashaws into the battle
Year: 1870

THE SCHoEpPE CASE UP AGAIN.-The almost
forgotten Schoeppe murder case in Pennsylva-
mia is up again. It was supposed that after
the late decision in his case there was but one
Schoeppe from the Jail to the gallows. 1t
does not appear what the trouble is now. but
no doubt the lawyers are keeping something
dangling between the culprit and his doom.
Year: 1870

There are two exciting female conventions
now in session in this city, one at Apollo Hall,
under the stately lead of Mrs. Cady Stanton,
who is undoubtedly the noblest woman Of
them all, and the other at Steinway Hall, un-
der the vivacious leadership Of Grace Green
wood, who ranks, second only to Mrs. Stanton
in her especial sphere. If in the present con-
glomerate condition of the woman question
she has any especial sphere. The feminine
agitators have been 80 long in rebellion against
the ancient doctrine Of womans sphere being
the household that it is almost rank heresy
now to insinuate that they have any sphere at
all, especially as on aspiring above the house
hold they do not seem to have secured a very
firm foothold outside Of it. The pres
ent conventions, however, give some
encouraging indications for the final sue
cess of the oppressed sisterhood.. One
is the fact that there is formidable split
among them. No great reform has ever sue
ceeded without division and dissensions among
the reformers. When a cause is weak the
advocates of it stick close together. It Is not
until it becomes strong that they can afford to
divide on the minor questions The fact that
the workingwomen's grievances take up great
part Of the time of the two conventions is an
other indication that speaks well for the posi-
BILE success of the movement. Abstract ideas
never take hold firmly on the people. The
questions Of wages and Of hours Of labor are
always in order, while the ballot and the right


to hold office are apt to be very dull subjects
to the masses. A working girl who sees
chance to have her wages increased or her
hours Of labor reduced by this movement is


very likely to approve of the principle,
even if she is compelled to swallow


suffrage and the ballot along with
the increased pay. These cheering indications
and the enlivening news from England ought
to give our revolutionary damsels confidence
enough to carry on the movement in future
without any aid whatever, even such as it is,
from the men. They ought to request the i'm


mediate withdrawal of Parker Pillsbury,
Theodore Tilton and Henry Ward Beecher from
the association. They are mere bones of con-


tention at the best. All they do is to wrangle
| with the able female orators on the platform
and oppose most Of the measures introduced.


1t is time for the suffrage women to assert


practically their independence Of the men and


to stand alone on their rights.
Year: 1870

NEW YORK, May 2s.-The body Of AL
bertine BaurmRn, found in East river.
While suffering from smallpox, it is sup
posed that while delirious he threw him
self in the river.


A bold attempt was made last night TO
rob the Bank Of West Chester county, at
White Plains. The thieves had forced
two doors, but upon finding a third, be-
came Disguised and left.


The skeleton of woman was found
packed In a box, by some workmen while
cleaning out vault under the City Hall
to-day. Considerable excitement ensned,
but it Was subsequently, ascertained to be
the property of medical student who
had deposited It there fifteen years ago.
Year: 1870

What does happy mcanl \ little
girl lately said it is TO feel as if you
wanted to give all your things to
your little sister, You smile, but !
scarcely see why you should. This
little girl felt that to be happy she
must be unsclfsh. She was right
and YOU know it. Did you ever
feel happy when you had selfish
feelings in your breast guess not.
Year: 1870

AN ANGEL.-This comes from
a n. Y. correspondent. If any
body knows of a similar case il
would be refreshing, in these days
of luxury and selfishness on the
one hand and poverty and distress
on the other, to make it known to
the public:


There is a young lady of vast
wealth residing in the vicinity of
Union Square, who employs her
leisure and pocket money in buy.
ing cloth, muslin, and calico by
the wholesale, and cutting it into
garments. She takes her carriage
and goes into lanes and by-ways,
giving work to needy people; and
when finished and literally paid
for she generally bestows the COM
Portable garments on those poor
men, and their children, who
"fought and bled" in the late war.
None are turned from her door
without the help that maketh the
heart glad. She i said to be
highly accomplished, agreeable,
modest, and seeks happiness in do.
ing good to all. She is devoted
TO her good work and a dear rela'
tive, and has refused the hands
of some of the leading men of the
nation.
Year: 1870

Recently a current of wind OF
heated air passed over and through
a four acre field of cotton, in the
neighborhood of Pomaria, South
Carolina, from the effects of which
in a few hours the whole field
whitened and died, no life being
left in it. The same current, it is
said, prostrated two pieces of corn,
turning over one half to the right
and the other to the left, the sec
ton being divided by a fence,
without doing other injury.
Year: 1870

A European correspondent
writes of the command given for
the demolition of all the fine vii
las on the Rhine which occupy
positions favorable to the play of
artillery. These sumptuous es-
adjustments are almost number.
less: "It is a dreadful thing to
tear up by the roots the adorn-
ments of lovely landscape, and
still more distressing to think that
the commanding points so lately
crowned with the highest embodi-
ments of artistic culture are like
ly to be made the points d'dppul
for bloody cannonades but such
is the fact. The owners of these
villas have been given three days
In which to level their fair struct-
ures to the ground. Should they
fail to perform the work within the
stipulated period, the Prussian
troops will doit for them"
Year: 1870

A census curiosity is reported
by the Athens Journal-a family
composed of husband, wife, and
three pairs of twin children
"The husband was the second
husband of the wife, and the wife
was the second wife of the hus-
band. The wife by her first hus-
band had pair of twins, the first
wife pair Of twins by her first
husband, and now the second wife
has pair Of twins by her second
husband.
Year: 1870

The Chicago Dental Society
some time since turned one mem.
Der out because he persisted in
advertising his business. Being
turned out was the biggest kind
of an advertisement for him, as
he has been overrun with custom
ers ever since, and the rest of
the society want to be turned out
now.
Year: 1870

The Kansas City Times gives
the following story
"Nearly fifteen years ago there
lived on the banks of the Ohio,


but a few miles from the city of
Louisville, man by the name of
Henry G. Danforth, the family
consisting of himself, wife and one
child, daughter only a little over
two years of age. One day the
child escaped the vigilant eye OF
the mother and wandered from
the house. Search was made,
but no trace could be found of
their darling, until reaching the
banks of the river her little bon
net was seen near the margin Of
the water. Then, indeed, the
little one ives mourned as dead,
and only a mothers heart can
fathom the agony OF the bereaved


parent.


Time passed on. Other chill
dren came to take the place of
the lost one at the fireside, and
the first storm of grief at the ter
rible affliction had given way to
quiet submission. Still the blue,
dancing waters of the Ohio always
caused inexpressible sadness 20
their bereaved hearts. Five years
ago the family removed to st.
Louis, where they have resided
ever since.


Last Saturday Mr.. Danforth re-
ceiyed an anonymous letter
from the city, urging him to come
up Immediately if he wished to
find his daughter, whom he sup
posed was drowned thirteen years
before. He arrived in the city
on Monday last, and proceeding
to the place Designated in the let
ter found a woman whom he had
known in other days rapidly near
ing the grave, and a young girl
in attendance upon her. She
pointed to the child Immediately
upon his entrance, saying, "This
is your drowned child" and en-
tered upon an explanation which
convinced him of the truth of her
words"


at seems that he himself was
the innocent cause of the affair
The woman had loved him previ
GUS to his marriage, and when the
words were spoken binding him
to another all the worst passions
of her nature were aroused and
she determined upon revenge, and
how faithfully she executed her
threats the above will testify. She
had kept herself informed of his
whereabouts and when she knew
that shortly death would claim
her as his victim she determined
to make all the reparation in her
power. Who can paint the joy |
of the father on finding the dead |
alive? The woman it seems had !
only been in our city some six
MONTHS coming from Cincinnati, |
to which place she had first fed
with the child. She said she had
always treated her as she would
her own daughter, to which the
child testified, and begged that
the woman might be taken with
them. The result was that the
three took the train on the North |
Missouri Railroad for st. Louis,
and ere this the waiting mother
has received the embraces of her
long lost daughter.
Year: 1870

A lady who sings in the choir
of certain church in New York,
having been laughed at for mar.
rying a very small man, remark
ed that she had always found short
metre hims the easiest to get
along with.
Year: 1870

There was a row in a boarding
house in Rising Sun, Indiana, a
few days ago, when meddIesome
servant informed the boarders that
an elegant soup of which they
had eaten freely was made of kit.
tens.
Year: 1870

The last surviving member of
a consumptive family at Lowell.
Mich, is said to have recently at.
tempted to cure himself by roast
ing the heart and liver of a sister
lately deceased, and inhaling the
fumes.
Year: 1870

When the war ended Kansas
had no railroads at all. Now she
has more than a thousand miles
of railway within her own limits,
and an abundance of railway con-
nections with every part OF the
Year: 1870




A HUsBKED's RDuS1scEScEs-If
we were to suggest one which, above
all other things combined, would
most contribute to the happiness Of
the young housekeeper, it would be
to learn how to cook as husbaud's
mother cooked. 1Iother used 10
make coffee 80 and; mother used to
have such Waffles; and mother knew
lust how thiok or thin to make =
squash pie; and OH if I could only
taste of mothers biscuit. Such are
the comments of the husband and Of
too many meal tables. 1t would be
only little more cruel for the hus-
band to throw his fork across the
table, or to dash the contents Of his
tea cup in his Wife's face. The ex-
penence of contritc husband is
good reading for those whose daily
says:


Il found fault some time AGO with
Maria AIMS custard pie and tried
to tell her how nv mofber ro5o
custard pie. Maria mads tba oio
1t lasted longer than anv nis ws
ever had. Maria set it on the t.hio
every day for dinner, and You see
could not eat it because I forgot n
tell her 10 put in any eggs, or shor-
tening. 1t was economical, but in
fit of generosity ] stole it from the
pantry and gave it to a poor little
boy in the nighborhood. The BOYS
funeral was largely attended by his
former playmates. I did not 20
myself


Then there were the buckwheat
cakes. I told Maria Ann any fool
could beat her making those cakes,
and she said 1 had better try it. So
1 did. I emptied the batter all out
Of the pitcher one evening and set
the cakes myself I got the -four
and the salt and water, and, warned
by the past, put in a liberal quantity
Of eggs and shortening. l shorten
ed with talloW from roast beef be-
cause could not find any lard. The
batter did not look right, and 1 lit
my pipe and pondered, yeast to be
sure. I had forgotten the yeast.
1 went and woke up the baker and
got six cents worth Of yeast. set
the pitcher behind the sitting room
stove and went to bed In the morn
ing I got up early and prepared to
enjoy my triumph; but 1 didn't.
That yeast was strong enough to
raise the dead and the batter was
running all over the carpet. I
scraped it up and put it into anoth-
er dish. Then I got fire in the
kitchen and put on the griddle. The
first lot of cakes stuck to the grid
die. The second dittoed, only more
Maria came down and asked what
, was burning. She advised me to
grease the griddle. 1 did it. One
end Of the griddle got too hot and
l dropped the thing on my tenderest
corn, while trying to turn it around.
Finally the cakes were ready for
breakfast and Maria got the other
things ready. We sat down. Ny
cakes did not have exactly the right
flavor I took one mouthful and it
satisfied me. I lost my appetite at
once. Maria would not let me put
one on her plate. I think those
cakes may be reckoned q dead loss.
The cat would not eat them. The
dog ran OF and stayed away three
days after one was offered him. The
hens wouldn't go within ten feet of
them. l threw them into the back
, yard, and there has not been a pig
on the premises since. / eat what
is put before me now, and do not
allude to my mothers system Of
, cooking"