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Year: 1873




It is always pleasant time to US, when.


after the long summer vacation, with II,
commencement of September, the schools
all reopen, and the children Of both sexe.
and all ages are seen once more on oui
streets, vending sheir way to their respectiv,
places Of study and education. We mis-
them greatly during the vacation, and !
feeling Of loneliness comes over US, which
lies heavy on our heart. Our love fol
children has always been strong and absorb


ing, and dwelling without them is to us
melancholy abode. Their exuberarce oi


life, their noise and uproar, which to some
IS so appalling, is a constant delight to us.
So, to meet them, as we walk to and from ouI
office, on the streets and in the by-ways,
tripping lightly along with rosy and smiling
faces, untouched as yet by thought or care
or sorrow, full only of the present and its
surroundings, is a positive pleasure which
we scarcely know how to dispense with OF


make up in any other way. We know not
how it may be with Others, but for our
single self, f" the older we grow the greater
is our love for the young, and the more en-
crossing is the interest VIC feel in their vel
fare. To see them happy in their various
plays and pastimes, enjoying to the full the
passinghours, which to the older are bring
ing more or less trouble and vexation,
makes US also, for the time, forgetful of the
past and regardless of the future, and al
most as happy as they. Hence it is that
the reopening of the schools of our city is
always a marked event for us, as then we
meet again the sweet and cheerful faces of
the dear children we have been wont to
glance at, as they fitted by us, loaded down
with satchels and books and states, and all
the membranes of a modern education.
The boys go more noisily along, often devi-
ating from the direct route, and stopping
occasionally, as something attracts their
quick-eyed attention and makes them for
getful that the school hour is near at hand


But the young girls, always, for their age,
more thoughtful than boys, go straight
along on their way, turning neither to the
right nor left, and having only nod and a
smile for passing friend or acquaintance.
Austin is blessed with an abundance of
healthy looking children, TO say nothing
of their beauty, and, at this time,
we believe that there are plenty of
good schools for the education of all of
both sexes. These should be encouraged
literally, as nothing speaks better for any
city than ample means for the proper educa-
tion of its youth. But besides the schools
necessary for the schooling of its own chill
drcn, Austin should have institutions of
learning, which will tempt pupils from other
and distant points. Its beautiful and
healthy situation makes it one of the most
desirable places in the State for large board
ing schools. We have already the Military
Institute for boys, an honor to the city and
State, but we need irst-class institute for
girls, with ample accommodations for any
number of boarders. Hurry up something
of the kind Hurra! for the children, say
we, especially the girls, whom we expect to
love as long as we live, and could scarcely
enjoy heaven without them.
Year: 1873

We beg leave to lay before eur readers n
table, complied from the census Of 1870,
colored population in thirteen southern
States. To elucidate it, we have presented
a rough estimate Of the per centagc OF in-
crease and decrease, which our readers can
easily verify by the table itself We think
that the table explodes a great many errors
and elucidates many important truths, which
we propose hereafter TO consider. At
present we leave them with our table
Year: 1873

HOMESTEAD LAw.--One of the most
important acts of the last Congress was the
change in the land laws, abolishing pre-
emption and altering the conditions of
homestead claims so that in no case shall
the settler obtain patent until he shall
have remained eighteen months on the land.
Heretofore he could obtain the land for a
small payment six months after filing his
homestead claim, aud many of the home
steaders were the hired agents of specula-
tors, to whom they sold out.
Year: 1873

CHEAP STUMP PULLER.-Have chain
made of the best round charcoal iron at
least one inch and fourth in diameter, and
eight feet long, with ring on each end
two inches and half in diameter lone side
of these rings must be formed like link
Attach one ring to band of iron two and
half inches broad, one inch thick and one
foot in diameter, with a small offset for the
ring to lodge in. The band should be bev-
eled on the inside edge, to make it slip on
the pole readily, and prevent cutting it.
Cut nice, straight hickory, white oak or
loc ust lever, one foot in diameter at the butt,
and twenty-five feet long. Take off the
bark aud Jumps smoothly, put on the band,
let it come within two feet of the large end
at which point put in two small pins ofiron,
to prevent its going any further. Within
four inches of the small end, put on Gem
mon OK yoke clevis, with a ring in it to
pull by Hitch on two yoke Of oxen.-
Drive on the right cf the stump until the
band passes the stnmp few inches. Pass
the chain round the stump, on the left side
and draw it tight, with no twist in the chain
A little above the lever, drive in common
wedge, and put the ring on the wedge ;then
gee round in circle, until the stump is
twisted out.


This machine will take out about halfthe
dead stumps, in field OF long standing,
without cutting the brace roots. Common
size green stumps can be taken out also by
cutting the brace roots and digging little.
After every thing is ready, with the team
and two hands eau take up one hundred
stumps per day, and it is no draft at all on
the cattle. except the labor of pulling he
lever from stump to stump.-Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1873

CoURT.-Monday was the day for the
regular term of the District Court but the
absence of the Judge on the Modoc Peace
Commission necessitated an adjournment
from day to day, to the present.
Year: 1873

MAseUERADE.-A grand Masquerade
ball will be given in this place on the eve
ming of May lst, the proceeds to go to the
benefit of the Public School Fund We
understand that costumes and appropriate
outfits will be furnished here at a very low
rate. Advertisement next week.
Year: 1873

FuRNITURE-Frank Miller has now on
hand at his storein Redding large stock
of Furniture, Bedding, Crockery Ware, and
a general variety of articles usually kept
in his line, all of which he offers for sale
at very low rates.
Year: 1873

Among the better class Of borrowers OF money the
supply is abundant, and in ready response at q per
cent though to less favored parties the charge is Z,
gold. The locality in which these latter loans are
making lead to the supposition that an effort being
made to cause show of activity in money for the
purpose of affecting the stock speculation The
banks are standing in strong position, however
and granting ready accommodation, and have To-
dpced their line of loan certificates to point below


Eve millions. The outstanding legal tenders tonight
ara s37sOOOOOO, an increase Of s0i40O0, though the
information came too late for effect stocks. For
nr;me discounts the demand is active ut to IL per
cent.


Government bonds have been strong and higher.
under an active Investment inquiry The general
market closed strong on the basis of llS. to sl for
Isi7s The final street prices as follows:
Year: 1873

DUU' IT TIT


A few days ago imitation, as the word was used IN
Wall ST.. meant simply the issue of the SHOOo'ooo
legal tender reserve" large part of this reserve
having been already dsbursed, and the residue beng
daily encroached upon, the fund Is hardly any longer
regarded as a reserve and now when imitation Is
talked of itmeans the adoption OF one or more OF the
measures presented to Congress for mystcrious'y
contrved paper issue that shall make money
abundant for all possible demands without increas
ing tho volume-s currency that shall be money
Year: 1873




The City Council of Moline on the 9th
inst. adopted the following preamble and
resolutions


WHEREAS, Taxation without represen-
tation is not in accordance with the spirit
Of Republican institutions, and it is unjust
to tax any people and refuse them proper
representation, and


WHEREAS, The cities of Moline and
Rock Island pay more than one half of the
taxes in Rock Island county and contain
more than one-halt the population there
fore


ReSolced, That we request our Senators
and Representatives in the State Legisla-
ture To use their influence II get a general
law passed at the coming session which
will give us an additional member of the
Board OF Supervisors from each ward in
this city, in addition to those we now have:
and provide that they may be elected at
regular city elections; and that a copy Of
the above be forwarded by the city clerk
to each Of our Senators and Representa-
tives for this district


The Moline council suggests that their
Rock Island colleagues take similar action
in the premises. We had hoped that our
Council would have taken similar action last
Monday, but no member referred to it.
We now hope they viii call a special
meeting without unnecessary delay and in
dorse the very prompt and very proper ac-
ton of Moline.
Year: 1873

The Dcmocrat says when Rock Island
succeeds in marrying Moline, the depot
will be in the heart Of the city. Jes so.
There a good deal Of eourting going on
in that direction now, and the wedding, in
the near future, is not among the impossi-
bilities. When it takes place look out for
the Lowell of the West, Of which nayen-
port will be little SUBURB.
Year: 1873

The Moline people feel a little shaky
about the old mill on the Island being used
as a storehouse for several thousand kegs
Of powder If an explosion should occur.
we hope the regulators viii escape-we
have use for those fellows awhile longer.
Year: 1873

noted that the papers were not sub
mitted in the usual way, oy the Sec
retary of War. but were brought to the
President by the Judge Advocate Cen
eral, under of course the instructions
of Mr.. Stanton. This doubtless was
done TO save time and hasten the exc
cutiOn, and evinces the spirit which
animated Judge Holt during the en-
tire proceedings, who can doubt that if
his name and that of Judge Bingham
had been attached to the petition,
signed by five members of the court.
and the prayer had been brought to
the attention of the President, such an
application would have been duly
weighed by the Executive before final
action i'm the premises.


Mr.. johnson says. in conclusion, it
being absolutely eel tain if the petition
was attached to tn original record be-
fore it was submitted to the Pres
ident, it is not to be found in the prin-
ted record authorized by Judge Holt
and certified to by Colonel Burnett,
Special Judge Advocate of the Com
mission.


The question arises which ofthe two
is authentic and genuine. If the rec
ord in possession of Judge Advocate
General is true, then that is false
which he has given to the public. If,
on the other hand, the record publish
ed with his official sanction is true,
then that in his bureau is false, nee
essarily.


Judge Holt is at liberty to accept
either alternative, and to escape as he
may the Inevitable confusion that he
did not only fail to submit the petition
to the President, but suppressed and
withheld it from the official history of
the most important trial in the annals
nf the Nation.
Year: 1873

"WHATwil Congress do about all
ths fnan ncial trouble 2" is the
question ask ed by many. Some
are already advocating the Post
otfioe savings banking system
This makes the government the
banker for the people and would
insure safety ORDINARILY. But it
should not be forgotten, that it
would give the administration the
purse OF the country, and it could
at any time, under the cry of trea-
son, contiscate and use just as much
N the deposits as it liked. Give it
lAe Army, and the Pest office, and
the Telegraph, and make it the
keeper OF our purses, and what can
it not dol
Year: 1873

to take policy for the benefit of my
wives and children. and before
could recover my breath he COM
menced to draw up an appl cation, and
L verify believe would have filled it
out if he could have crowded in the
names. Now / ask you brethren,
what would most likely become of
your Prophet if insurance on his life
were effected to the amount of $1,000
for each wife? / have only thirty,
and that would make the chances thi~-
ty to one that | should enter the
realms OfglOry before the end of the
year. As father in Israel. | have the
Gospel privilege of sealing the daugh-
ters thereof, but | have no wish that
they should seal my fate. / am ready
to ascend to my seat on high, but do
not wish to be sent up in an insurance
balloon. The wives of the faithful are
too much tempted already, and how
could they resist this Ingenious device
of the Gentiles. Touch not, taste not,
handle not, my brethern. Let the
Gentle insure his life in the biggest
sum for his wife, and when she is a
widow, let one of our apostles make
love TO her and bring her on his side
of Jordan. L want no life companies
in Utah of which am not the presid-
ing spirit. Life insurance makes the
wife independent of the husband. She
feels that, if she should by accident
drop some strichnine in his Cruel, she
has something TO fall back upon to
keep her children from want. They
should trust in the Lord, and not in
life insurance. If they have bad
husband and an insurance policy Oh
hIs life; they are always secretly pray
ing for his death, and. if their prayers
are not answered readily, they hurry
up his predestinaIion. Beware of life
insurance. 1t IL Satan in disguise. =
Turn your back on it, shut your ears
against it, flee from it as if from pes
thence, for verify it would bring re-
bellion and death into the land of Nor
mon -
Year: 1873

Be very careful not to pull down
your shirt-sleeves, or up your collar.
or IL fact, to do anything to your COS
tune as you enter the ballroom. IL
implies nervousness or uneasiness with
yourself to do so: and your one great
endeavOr in all societies should be to
appear thoroughly at your ease, and
satisfied, without vanity or coXcombry,
with your dress and appearance. Do
not stand idle, but do not dance over
much. The one inn lies q small num-
Der offriends, the other wastes vaIua-
ble time, and prevents your keeping
that constant lookout all round you
which is essential TO success. Be in
troduced to movable people quietly;
there is no Necessity to advertise to by
ISLANDERS that you did not know them
before. Never talk much to a woman
you have only just made the acquain-
tance of, nor eagerly. She may be al
lowed to suppose you wished to know
her, but not that her acuuain-
tance is any particular acquisition to
yOu. Above all things, my dear boy, |
enireat you not To stand in the door
ways, nor herd with other men upon
the landing. 1t is simply advertising
yourself a failure. Tie yourself TO the
veriest wall flower, gossip with the
dowdiest mother, dance with tine most
disappointed of the maidehhood, rath-
er than sink to this. Sitting in the
corners comprises very large subject,
or rather, array Of subjects. To know
how to sit in the corners well aud pru-
IDENTIFY requircsa vast experience ami a
steady head so, until you have mu, n
extended your acquaintance and your
knowledge of humanity. | would
recommend you To avoid that most
agreeable ofthe pleasures of bail-goimg.
1t Is not for a novice at once to pe:e-
trate tn the inner depths of fashions
mysteries. aud l shall, therefore, put
off my advice on this subject until
come, in a future letter. to The great
subject of flirting, which of course,
COMPRISES the art of sitting i'm corners
Year: 1873

WfLLIAMsPoRT, Pa. Nov. ga
lao to-day an attempt was made 10
hang one Wade, but the rope was too
long. and he touched the ground. The
rope is now being shortened for auoth-
er trial, Wade told the jailOr to hurry
up. rs he had an appointment to dine
in hell with the devil at o'clock, He
said the only thing troubling him is
whether the people he murdered are
in Heaven or hell.


The rope being too long his feet struck
squarely on the ground. In this po-
sition he remained shouting, "Oh
Lord, have mercy" The rope came
off his neck and his body fell over
heavily on the ground. He was car
ricd upon the scaffold, and after long
Year: 1873

The great prophet of the Latter
Day Saints Is opposed to life insurance
Oh poiygamistlcal principles. In one
of his late discourses in the Taberna-
Gle, ne gave vent To his sanity feelings
in the following strain; Brethren, |
am down on life insurance. 1t is the
invention of the same evil Ole who
tempted Eve with the apple in the
Garden of Eden. He promised to give
woman the upper hand of her husband
and life insurance does the same. A
life insurance agent has more brass
than dozen Yankee clock-pedlers.-
One hal the impudence TO ask me to
Year: 1873

CLEVELAND, o., May 1.-The north
western convention of the Episcopal
church met in this city yesterday morn
ing. Bishop Bedel, presiding bishop,
made statement of the condition and
prospects and needs of the various mis-
sionary stations within the bounds of the
convention, and spoke of the many
grand openings for work in this direc-
ton. Resolutions were offered and re-
ferred to the executive committee to in
crease the missionary work of this con-
vention at least fifty per cent. for the
coming year, and requesting the rectOrs,
wardens and vestry of each parish to use
their best efforts to secure and remit to
the treasurer an amount equal to the
conventional assessments of said parish,
also approving the recommendation of
the bishop that the new work of the
convention should be as far as possible
in the direction of assistance to church
building. Rev. DR.. Washburne offered
the following resolutions. which were
adopted:


ResolUed, That this convention
strongly disapproves either by addition
or omission by any of its missionaries of
any portion or portions of the prayer
book as appointed to be used in public
worship; the Interpolation in the SER
vice of the church of any prayer other
than those to be found in the prayer
book; the inviting or permitting of per-
sons who have not received episcopal
ordination to officiate as minister or in
any Office in any of cur churches or ac-
customed places of worship, and the
violation in any other way of the ru-
brics of the canons of the church,


Resolved, That the preaching and
teaching of the distinct principles and
doctrines of the church, the upholding
of all its claims, the enforcement of the
superiority of the orders, and the faith
ful observance of all the promising of
the prayer-book, must form parts of any
policy which can be successful in build
ing up and maintaining the church in
any mission or region. m


The convention then adjourned.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON, May 1.-The reason
for the postponement by the supreme
court to-day of the application of coun-
sci for Warnoth for the allowance of
an appeal from the decision of Judge
Durell in the Louisiana case, was that
the court had nothing but the aPplica-
ton before it, and therefore could
not act. Counsel was granted leave
to file the record and other pa
pers in the case, preliminary to
its consideration. Several eminent
lawyers praetieing before the court are of
the opinion that the supreme court will
not Immediately act upon the subject at
the fall term to which it has adjourned,
but will delay in order to give congress
another opportunity to act upon the
subject of the Louisiana complications
as a political question, thus removing it
from judicial review.
Year: 1873

LITTLE Rock, May 1.-The United
States district attorney, by order of the
Encouragement, to-day officially noti-
fled the builders of the bridge for the
Cairo and Fulton railroad across the
Arkansas that, should they proceed with
the work without an act of Congress, he
would institute legal proceedings to stop
thorn
Year: 1873

1 simply submit that it were wiser to
concur with the Gazette, and suspend
discussion of these matters which may
lead to curious developments, the least
important of which is that the railroad
steal bill didn't pass because it stopped
stealings. In other words, it put an end
to the issuance of Arkansas State bonds,
and thus to a course of stealing that was
so perfectly systematized that 1t had be-
come q necessity,
Year: 1873

SCENE IN A SMOKING CAE.-The follow
ing amusing incident occurred recently in
the smoking car of c. g. and j. G. railroad
train, between Shelby and Cleveland. Says
the Cleveland Times:


A woman with poodle dog entered the
car Just piior to the departure Of the train
from the former point, and after depositing
her dog on the seat, turned over the back
of another one, so that each seat faced the
other. Together. she and her canine COM
panion thus monopolized the entire seats.
Appearances seemed to indicate that the car
was one exclusively for the convenience OF
those addicted to the Use Of the "weed;' but
of this fact she was soon advised by the con-
ductor. who advised her at the same time
that the accommodations in the other coach
cs were superior to those where she was
tLen. However, she insisted on remaining,
urging that her presence would deter the
occupants of the ear from smoking, and she
would consequently experience no discomfort
from tobacco fumes. Long before the train
reached this city, however, n gentleman sit
ting directly in front OF her produced his
case. and, taking therelrom q cigar, began
putting away at it in manner which seem
ed peculiarly calculated to aggravate the
woman back of him. In an instant strategic
ie movement, she wrestcd the obnoxious ci-
gar from his mouth and threw it out OF the
window, cxcaiming, "If there is anything
| do hate. it is tobacco smoke" The passen.
GERS who had witnessed the affair were con-
yulsed with laughter, but the offending smo-
kcr suppressed whatever emotions may have
been struggling for expression in words or
action, and maintained throughout the same
impcrturbabe gravity which had character
lied him from the first. Calmly rising from
his seat, he opened the window nearest him.
fastening it up, and reaching over the seat
back, took up that woman's poodle dog
and threw it out Oft the window as far beyond
as possible at the same time saying, ''if there
is anything do hate, it's poodle dog "
Year: 1873

Here is another one of those delightful
facts of science: Feeling is a much slower
than sight. fla man had arms long enough
to reach the sun, and were to touch that
body withthc tip of his fingers, he would
never find ont whether it were hot or cold,
as he would he dead before the sensation ar
rived at headquarters, which would require
700 years.