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Year: 1873

It's about an ancient cannibal man
Who came from an island near Japan,
A cannibal man who was tough and old
When Barnum bought him and paid in gold,
And whether the man or Barnum WAS sold,


You viii learn in this solemn story.
His teeth were sharp as the teeth Of a saw,
And he had two rows in his lower jaw
Filed and polished and ready for use
On any customer full of juice,
Or the first fine baby that lay around loose,


For babies were all his glory.
But Barnum kept his man in Z cage,
Though he felt quite sure, at the fellows age,
That his cannibalistic feats were done,
Unless he should eat man for fun;
And once on the sly he fed him one,


Which wasn't wise proceeding.
Tor having tasted a white mans meat,
He was always ready to kill and eat,
And he looked with longing at rosy girls
Who came to the show in shining curls,
With cheeks like peaches and teeth like pearls,


And he wondered how they tasted.
1t happened once, when the flesh was weak,
That he snatched bite from rosy cheek.
When Barnum entered the cage to beat him,
The cannibal thought he had come to treat him,
And so straightway began to eat him,


without even salt or pepper.
And though he was stringy and awful tough,
For good square meal he proved enough,
Alas alack what terrible omen;
1t teaches to women as well as to showTnen,
That whether cannibal, Greek or Roman.


Be ever so old, you can't trust no man.
Year: 1873

The New Orleans Republican says |:
''Governor Kellogg is determined to
put stop to all the various plans
that have been in vogue for plum
dering the State treasury" Then
he viii probably put an end to him
self
Year: 1873

Gen. Whitthorne claims as a
matter of history that he was the
only Congressman from the South
who made a speech against the back
salary grab. But after rejecting
that his people would be taxed to
pay it he concluded to give them
the benefit of it. Therefore he drew
the amount and donated it to the
Southern Methodist University to be
established at Nashville, the money
to remain a perpetual fund and the
interest to be applied to the educa-
tien of such boys as may be recon-
mended by the several county courts
of his Congressional district. Boys
educated on that fund will be apt to
grew up good and great men, and go
straight to preaching or to Congress.
Year: 1873

The strike Of the printers Of this city has
ended. as all those who could see an inch be-
vopG their noses knew it must end, in the total
disruption Of Wheeling Typographical Union
No. 70. The strike was ordered By dictato-
rial and tyrauical majority who over-rode the
protests Of a conservative minority Of nine out
Of twenty-five members, and in defiance Of the
law of the International Typographical
Union which requires that all differences be-
tween emp oysrs and employees shall be settled
by arbitration if possible. The men who
forced the strike knew they were 10 the wrong
and Of course refused to listen to reason. The
result we have given. At the meeting held on
Saturday night the Union was dissolved and
the charter surrendered Another warning to
workingmen never to attempt to fo'ce propri-
etors or employers into measures until after all
honorable means looking TO a compromise and
settlement have failed. The printers who a
little over week ago had good situations aud
we're supporting their ami.ie. in good style
are now wandering from place TO place earning
less wages than they were paid here before tie


strikes, compelled to support their families
here and themselves abroad The usual result
Of folly Is nj Wheeling Register l9h.
Year: 1873

The following is tie reply Of President
Grant to the lstterof lhecommitteco Congress
informing him Of bis reelection:


al sincerely appreciate this renewed oyi-
dence Of satisfaction with my administration.
When was elected four years ago there was
less regard for party lines. in tie last cam
paign political differences and personal hos-
tiIities more clearly defined The lines Of party;
out notwithstanding this shall continue to
endeager to make my administration Of tho
government one which will meet not only tho
approval Of the great party which elected me,
but as well Of all tho people Of tao United
States"
Year: 1873

Pistols are sold all over the city now; $3.50
will bay nice ole with single barrel, all
sufficient for suicide and pretty good foE mur-
der if you are good shot What more can
a boodthirsty people need IN 7. Star
Year: 1873

had never received tithe Of what be-
longed TO them. Now they wanted his
promises in black and white, they
wanted papers All of the Chiefs had
a talk with their agent; and will fold
up their holiday attire, and return to
Fort Berthold as poor as they came.


They said the government was afraid
of the Sioux, and to conciliats them
gave them everything they asked for; /;
but because they were peaceful they
were treated badly and received nothing.
They were about right; much wrong
has been perpetrated upon these bands
by dishonest agents which will ere long
come TO the surface and public knowi-
edge. They say of Maj. Smith, since
the Council, that he is q hard man. the
worst they have ever met. They have
no confidence in him or his statements,
they have been deceived SO much. They
want all promises and agreements in
writing, in contract form. .I
Year: 1873

There is story told Of a nan who ad-
vertiSed that be would give house and
lot to any one applying for the same, who
should give satisfactory evidence OF being
content with his condition in life. To
each applicant declaring himself so, the
answer WAS, If you are content you do
not want my house; ard if you want N
house you are not content" Very true


Content does not want TO own house if
its father hired one. 1t does not want
anything but what it has. 1t asks 10
change, will accept no improvements. 1t
sits quietly at Eome, laundering along in
the old slow methods of its ancestors. or
on the rare occasions when It goes abroad,
cravls TO is not distant destination il
an OK cart, distrustful of the steam car
rushing by:ts door. Contene in short
Year: 1873

The pledge sale of the metropolitan Loan
and Pledge Bank will he continued this
day at eleven O'clock. at No. ) Camp street.
by Messrs. Montgomery. This being the
closing sale the public and the trade in gen
eral should not fail to attend.
Year: 1873

A peculiarly constructed Chinese kite has
been doing the bag gpiPe in the upper air OF
the Fourth District for the past two or
three days. The attrActiveness of this
heatheni-h music has come near unjoining
many neck.
Year: 1873

THB MuDoo WAR Las been abruptly
closed during the past week by the sur
render Of Captain Jack and the remainder
ofthe mutderous band. The great CO.
nundrum of the day is "What shall be
done with the Modocs ?" A Washington
dispatch Of June 3D., is as follows: "There
was full attendance at the Cabinet
meeting to-day, and the question as to
what disposition should be made of the
captured Modocs was under discussion.
1t is understood that there was quite a
difference of opinion among the mem bers,
one or two being in favor of surrendering
such Of the Indians rs had been indicted
by the civil authorities of Oregon to the
government of the State for trial under
tire la~s, while one other member declares
hi1nseif in favor of hanging all who were
engaged in the conspiracy which resulted
sn tie death Of General Candy, thus max
ing an example which all the Indians in
the northwest would remember. 1t was
finally concluded, however, to take no
formal action at this time in reference to
the disposition to be made of the prison
ers, but to await the reception of the off
cial report Of General Davis, which will
furnish the full particulars of his cam
paign. General Davis will make his re-
port to General Schofed, and will proba-
bly, inquire Of him what disposition he

shall make Of his prisoners. General
Schofeld will refer the matter to head
quarters here, and the Government will
then make its decision. The views ex-
pressed by General Sherman seem to be
pretty generally shared in official circles,
and the impression is that all the captured
Modoos who are amenable to the civil
law will be handed over to the State au-
thorities, in which event there can be no
doubt they will get what General Davis
promised them-'justice."


General Sherman to-day expressed his
opinion that the whole tribe should be
turned over to the civil authorities, but
expressed a fear that the civil courts
would work too slow. The question Of
the hour now is, "What shall be done
with the Modocs ?" The War Depart
ment is advised that General Davis made
no terms Of surrender with any of them
from first to last, the only assurance he
gave them being that they should have
Justice done them"
Year: 1873

other property they might desire, the
same as an individual.


We believe these are true principles
and would certainly prefer to support q
candidate whom we knew to be honest
and who would do the fair thing by both
the Railway Company and the people, in
preference to one who could see no good
in railroads and who professed to believe
that public corporations had no rights,
and no requests to make, which could be
granted with public safety. Call us a
RAILROAD hound" "chickadee," or what
ever else may suit your tastes, but these
are our firm convictions and by them we
are willing to stand or fall.
Year: 1873

IT is a well known fact that Dyspepsia
and Indigestion are the causes of nearly
all the diseases that the human body is
heir to then why pay enormous doctors
bills BY using DR.. Henley's celebrated
l X L Bitters they can be thoroughly
eradicated from the system and new life
impaired to the sufferer. Read physi-
clans certificates in advertisement in
another column.
Year: 1873

THANKS to the odd Fellows Library
Association of San Francisco, for copy
of the 18th and 18th Annual Reports of
that Association. The JOURNAL is al
ways on file at their Library rooms.
Year: 1873

Congress is still wasting time and
public money by skirmisEing with
the salary question. They ought to
have repealed the present law
more than week ago. Let us
have the ayes and noes on the uneon.
ditionaI repeal at once, and fix up
new law at leisure, if it can't be
reached in any other way without
SO much stumbling and cowardly pa
Iaver.
Year: 1873

The concluding portioTsaf Sena,or
Wright's late speech upon the salary
bill is thus sum married.:


. He said that what the country
wants is men who are not for sale
men who are sound from center %
circumference, who have .cou-ese
without whistiing to bring It., who
eat what they have earned and wear
what they have paid for. With such
men high or low salaries made H.tlt.
difference. He favored liber..
compensation, bat thought that al
lowed before the increase WAS suih-
cient. and e was best now to Ax the
salaries as they were befOrc. 40 re-
trace their steps at the earliest practi-
cable moment was the easiest way to
rectify an objectionable blunder.


He denounced the manner by which
the salaries were increased as most


vicious and defenseless-tacked on to
an appropriation bill where the Ex-
ecutive could not veto 1t without
stopping the wheels Of the govern
ment. He had no doubt that this
was the cause of the recommendation
of the President In his late message
that he be allowed at the close OF the
session to v4tasone portion OF a bill
without defeating the whole Of 1t.
In conclusion, he called upon the
great Republicans party TO retrace its
steps on the sala-y bilf, and satisfy
the people that the party was true to
its promise. No party In 80 few
years had made such gfand record,
and it could well and consistently ar
ford to retrace its steps. He desired
that the avenues Of trade be opened
by giving cheaper transportation to
the products of the great West, and
the people should have an abundance.
Of currency to meet the demands Of
BUSINESS.
Year: 1873

years. 1t cannot hide its identity be-
hind the Grange. 1t is known by
smell if not by sight. Let the Demo
crat misquote, falsify and insinuate as
much as much as it pleases in refer
ence to our expressions in the above
article. We meant just what we said,
and have seen no occasion to recall
one word of it. Our neighbor is vel
come to make the best use he can of
this and that. , We repeat: "The
Grange may yet command us for any
reasonable service, but its political bar
nacle (the Democratic partly has dead,
headed its last ride on this ship"


The party which foisted upon the
people of this county such fraud up
on humanity and decency as our pres
ent Senator and still sustains and up
holds him, is the same party which
last fall placed the Grange in the ri
diculous position of endorsing snd re-
.S!ecting to the Legislature notorious
mileage grabber, and erecting a man
as Superintendent Of Schools who
we'll who is no credit to the Grange or
10 the intelligence of the people of the
county. This party and, its dema-
gogues have already disgraced the
Grange Order, and are the barnacles
upon its ship that must be scraped Oft
If the Order hopes to prosper IN this,
county. For the good Of the Grange
we still say scrape off such barDacles,
and your ship will make better speed
and find hundreds of good men In this
county ready to ship under your BAN
ner who cannot do 50 while yea carry
such weights as you did last fall.


viii the Democrat have the goods
ness to copy i'm full, and add rs much
of its peculiar Democratic slang, mis-
representation and musk Ms 1t may
think requisite? -
Year: 1873

has degenerated into bitter perso.
nal quarrel. This, it is feared bodies
no good to the College; but it may
result in bringing out whatever may
have been wrong or illegal in the
management of the institution or its
funds. No fair reason has yet been
shown for the dismissal of the
headless ones" AS 1t appears to
us, the "ins" have chosen personal
discussion in order to avoid the main
issue-the illegal use of funds. A
full investigation and fair showing
by the Legislature, is, we hope, now
assured; and so much, If 1t COMES,
will be gratifying to the public, who
will regret mainly the disgrace
brought upon an institution which
should be made power of great USE
fulness in the State. ~
Year: 1873

The Republicans Of the Senate, in
electing Senator Carpenter Of Wis
consin, as President pro tenn, to serve
during the temporary absence Of the
Vice President, have laid themselves
open to the same charge as that made
against the Democratic members OF
the House in voting for Wood for
Speaker. Except Butler and Wood
there was perhaps no man in either
house more eensurrble than Carpen-
ter for his course upon the salary
question. His election was n small
matter, except for the seeming en-
dorsement Of his views upon that
question, which had nothing to do
with the enoice, unless the Republi-
cans placed him in the chair in order
to prevent his voting against the re-
peal. This Is the only reason we can
find for their choice. If this was the
object, 1t was commendable.
Year: 1873

Judge Williams, whom Pres't
Grant recently nominated for Chief
justice was one of the Democratic
Presidential Electors for Iowa in
1852, and cast his vote i'm the electo-
raj College for Frank Pierce, who
rewarded him in the year following
by an appointment as Chief justice
for the Territory of Oregon.
Year: 1873

The resolutions adopted by


the Illinois State Grange at


its meeting last week de-


clsred the educational in
fiuence Of the Grange the most valu-
able feature of the organization aS
intoxicating the rights and duties OF
citizenship; sympathize with Farm
er's Clubs; deplore the destruction oil
American forests; favor the general
distribution of the money supply and
the removal Of the monopoly Of ma
tional banks; condemn the salary
grab; ask the Legislature not to
meddle with temperance laws; re-
gard the opprobrium put on the
farmers for the panic as a compli-
ment as gigantic as the frauds thus
exposed; indorse the right to call on
Congress to regulate interstate com
meree; declare the tax on foreign
vessels, o tax on western industry
that the government ought to open
all natural water channels; favor the
of railroads by private capi-
tai, but as dernier resort, the gov
ernment should construct a through
freight railway; assert the right of
the people to regulate all chartered
corporations; and declare in favor of
Civil service.
Year: 1873

sIece publishing my card q the
readers q the CHIyr relative % the
Indictment presented against Me by
the Grand Jury of this parish, l have
been informed by. the District Attor-.
ney that the structures upon his al


legged connection with the matter con-
tanned in that card were wholly un-
warranted and unjust, and could only
have proceeded from personal i'll will
or a misappr relepsion Of the facts of
the case. I disclaim any motive Of. a
personal nature, and admit that there
is presumption that was deceived
as to the influence exerted by the
District Attorney upon the Grand
Jury in the case under consideration.


That official informs me positively
and asks that | take steps to ascer-
tain the truth Of his assertions-that
he was not present in the jury room
i


when witnesses were examined that,
therefore, he put no interrogatories to
said witnesses; that he expressed an
opinion to the Grand Jury chat no
case could be made against me; that
he said to Auditor Clinton and Gov
ernor Kellogg that there was "noth-
| ing in the Indictment" In justice to
the Attorney as well as to myself I
shall speedily investigate the matter
as thoroughly as possible, and if !
find his representations correct, moth
ing can give me greater pleasure than
to acknowledge the misconstruction
placed upon his actions in my card of
two weeks since, and make as full an
| an,entle honorable as can be desired.
L. Z. BENTLEY,


Tax Collector of Ascension Parish.
Year: 1873

The .AsesaeeF5 alaences of TIC edi-
tor during tho entire week has de-
layed the issue of the present number
of the UHrEp several days, for which
unavoidable circumstance we beg the
indulgence Of our readers. So numer-
GUS and onerols are the duties which
press upon US Of late, that we find 1t
impossible to present the paper to it's
home patrons regularly upon the
proper day Of publication, nor shall
we, be able to do this unless the me-
chanical labor necessary to the issu-
ance efsthe CHIEF be greatly reduced.
In order to, accomplish this desired
object we have been thinking serious
ly Of adopting the "patent outside "
system, and very probably in few
weeks shall finally conclude to do 80,
Though opposing this system here
tofore M placing o premium on for
eign industry, and .disconraging home
labor, yet IN justice to ourselves and
our patrons we shall perhaps be forced
to act in scontravention Of our pre-
yious views. And as we shall employ
the same number Of printers with a
patent outside that we have without
it, local labor will not suffer in the
slightest degree from the change.
Year: 1873

Occasionally we find a good thing
in the Indianapolis People" and
here is one of them: "


s'John Fishback' 9 wonderful young
man, with the serio isness Of /
Quaker preacher, solemnly assures
us that Governor Hendricks ssis
not q politician, and therefore it is
not his province to shape the, in
cipiencies Of popular impulse" We
guess the young man is about
right We don't believe the Gov
ernor ever shaped anything-but
after party had been once licked
into shape particularly If that
shape was in accordance with s9the
ihcipiencies of popular impulse
our Governor would soon try to
shape himself in accordance with
the popular impulse" OF the s.in
cipiencies," and have no hesitancy
in turning his back upon the past, .
or friends of the past a
Year: 1873

The New York World thinks the meeting Of
merchants at the Cooper Institute, in that city,
contributed next to nothing towards solving the
great question of the day All the modes proposed
for cheapsning transportation require heavy out
lays Of capital and the meeting neither offered to
furnish capital nor pointed ont any new wAys OF
procuring it Besidsp, all the suggested improve
ments require time for their completion even if
the needed capital were forthcoming, whereas the
people demand some prompt measures of relief
A double track freight railroad connecting New
York with Chicago would, no doubt, be splen-
did addition to the present facilities for transpOr-
tAtiOn; but the men are yet TO be found who are
willing TO embark the necessary money in a COM
petition with the present roads.
Year: 1873

Professor Wise, who wAS TO have gone up in the
Graphic balloon, was in Philadelphia yesterday
Re says there was mismanAgement in the whole
enterprise, and that there is apparently no posi-
bllity Of the Graphic Company ever attempting to
send the balloon OF. There Is a rumor that the
balloon is to make the transatlantic voyage, but,
even if it does go. Pro-. Wise will not 90 in it,
Year: 1873

Last summer, In the dog days, Soth-
ern played a joke on his Scoth terrier,
JACK, to cure him OF making acquaint-
ances with other dogs when out for
walk. When he saw another dog, Jack
would rush up and rub his nose against
that OF a stranger and indicate in his
d9ogglsh ways that ne would like to be
ms Trend. when the season for muz-
zlng came, Sotnern put muzzle upon
Year: 1873

ngA cherubic little fellow told his
kindly school teacher recently that he
doesn't want to be an angel so much
as he did. He prefers to grow up, go
to Congress and receive back pay.
Year: 1873

CROss-BREEDING OF HENs.-ln deciding
whether we are to keep pure or cross. breeds
we are to keep in view our particular aims.
If the purpose is to obtain eggs it is generally
better to use the pure breeds, because the most
eggs are produced by those species which do
not set, and this trait is very apt to disappear
we'd. A sitting and non sitting beed produce
a cross that sits in almost every case; two nom
sitting breeds produce a cross of which by far
the greater part are sitters. If it is intended
to raise fowls for the table, there is much
good reason for keeping the races pure. The
first generation from proper cross produces
hardly chickens, of radd growth and good
constitution. Beyond one generation, however,
1t is not advisable to continue the crOss.-The
Poultry World.
Year: 1873

A number of Market Square gentlemen
and several ladies went on picnic excur-
sion at Lyons View, carefully sending
their eatables to Fountain Head How
they enjoyed themselves without the usual
essentials can be imagined.
Year: 1873

Dr. T;'S. Bell, of Louisville, has made
a careful strdv Of the cholera since it
visited that city, and finds that rot a
single case mas occurred where parties
have not slept at night where the cause
was in action. Why the sunbeams
should have the effect Of neutralizine
the causes OF the disease he is unable
to explain, but he is sure of the fact
This is law Of the poison from which
there is no departure. Hundreds were
exposed in thct city during the day
time, but no case occurred from the eX


posure He says 81 never saw a case
of the cholera acquired without sleep at
night where the cause existed and, /
add, that in multitude Of inquiries on
the subject, I have never heard of a
case of the kind GThe fact that ehol-
era cannot be acquired except by sleep


ing at night where the cause exists,
continues an element of safety TO the
people infinitely beyond all othermeans
known to me. I have seen on many
occasions, when basement stories of
dwellings were much more common
lithan they are now, cholera in the base
meut stories, while all other stories
were free from disease of any kind !
knew number of-deaths from cholera
in the lower stories Of houses" This
is fact of great Importance which it
would be well for our people to bear in
mind. et.iilv 6r @1sai
Year: 1873

EEWhat are you doing for Christ !?
Tue world is full of opportunities for
doing good, Every circle in which we
live and novels a field in which, if one
has the heart for work, he may labor
for God. and vast fields lie all around
us uncutivated, waiting for some one
to occupy them, And none can make
the excuse for being idle that is recor.
ded in the parable, Because no man
hath hired u.s." God hath hired us,
purchased us all, and we are bound to
work in his vineyard. Are you living
thus for the good Of your fellow me2,
and the building up of the kingdom of
your Lord and Saviour? o