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Year: 1872

cidents Of tho scene which she he'd sup
posed she had Witnessed. The minister
soothingly conversed with her, bat left
her in pity at the apparent arrangement
which possessed her, In the morning
of the following day, however he was
astonished a. visit from friends Of the
poor sufferer, who wished him to break
to her the dreadful tidiug1 Of her sons
death. lie had been drowned on the
afternoon OF tho previous day, whilst
bathing at q watering place not far dis
tant; and on inquiry, many Of the cir
cumstances referred to by the widow in
her conversation on the subject were
found to have actually taken place, at the
time of the recovery of the corpse,
Year: 1872

A story is told ofa man iii Connect
cut who fell from the roof of five. story
building to the sidewalk, but was he
struck on the thick soles of his rubber
shoes, he bounced back within quarter
of an inch of the roof, and so he contin-
ued to bounce, the distance short only a
quarter of an inch at each journey. He
subsisted on hash incloscd in rubber
balls, which he managed to catch on the
bound, and at the end of month was
stopped and restored to his family.
Year: 1872

Straw, if properly managed, can be
made to serve more profitable purpose
mere ittering, or to add bulk to the ma
nure pile. In England, and amongst the
English farmers in Canada, most Of the
bulIocks are fed and fattened on straw,
with roots and meal. No hay is used, that
being kept for the horses. Thus large
number OF stock can be fed. Straw cut,
wetted, and sprinkled with ground feed
or oil-meal, will carry cattle through the
winter. Oat, barley, rye, and wheat straw
are proportionately valuable in the order
in which they are placed. Pea straw is
more valuable than oat straw
Year: 1872

The paper is to the people what sign
board is to the traveller. The papor tells
who is in business and where to trade and
the signboard tells the the name of the
place and direction. Then if you want
people to buy of you, tell them through the
paper where you stay and what you have.
Year: 1872

Mr.. Collins, of Michigan, writes that he
has way of dressing mutton which makes
it sweet and palatable, and entirely desti-
tutc of woolly taste. GAS soon as possible
after the sheep is dead, skin the legs and
kang up. Then make and opening in front,
as high up as possible, and turn in, with a
cup or dipper, as much cold water as the
carcass will hold-usually from one to one
and a half pailfulls. Then 60 on and skin
and dress as usual" We do not see the
philosophy of the plan, but it is simple
and easy, and is worth trying, The meth
cd we try to adopt is, to make the sheep
quito fat before killing. We have never
known it to fail. There are some sheep
which it is almost impossible to fatten
On such we would try the water.cure.
Year: 1872

The Capitol is the superb and con
| elusive argument against the RemOva


OF the seat of Government. It is one
OF the most imposing buildings il
the world. Indeed, there is none fol
great National purposes to be com.
pared with it. Vast sums of money
however, have been squandered upon


It. 1t Is the monument of thousand


shameless jobs. It is a miracle oi


wasted space and inconvenience. In


eongHuity and tasteIessness and alb


surdity abound in it. But as you


drive over the heights, miles away


from the city, that marvellous dome
IS still the mOstimpressive and beauti-
fqI object that you see; and as you
stand at night in front of the Capitol,
when the moon is full, looking at the
the facade of either end, you feel the
truth of the poets lines,


sESAl proudly wears the ParthenoR


As tIe best gem upon her zOue-"


The unblemished whiteness of the
building is striking. Itsparkles in the
moon. Yet in the fullest sunshine it
is never glaring to the distant eye.
The neighbOrhood of Washington is
SO picturesquely rolling that the
dome IS constantly set in the finest
landscape conditions. Its effect is
like that Of the grandest natural OBJ
Ject-a mountain or the sea; and it
gives , character to the entire land
scape which would otherwise be
wanting. The associations of the
city are modern and political but
every great work of plastic art that
touches the Imagination belongs to
the common realm of poetry On
some soft, rich October day, when
the warmth of the sun is ripe, not
crude, sweet as the juices of the
fruits itmellOws, drive to the cemetery
on Georgetown Heights, a beautiful
and sunny city of the dead. Then,
pushing out into the Rockville pike,
you will see the Potomac Valley to
the left and the shining line of the
stream, and further round toward
your right, as you turn, the Capitol
Turning at a certain point sharply to
the left, and winding round along a
narrow road, just upon the verge of
the hill as you begin TO descend, stop
and look.


On such q day, in such light and
air, all things are beautiful. But
here, on this rough road, among
these untitled fields, this land Of
whose romance even Hawthorne
despaired. you suddenly see at the
same moment two of the most me-
mOrable views which your memory
will bring back from Europe or from
all historic and romantic lands. What
magic spell inthralls you-for you
see at once the dome of st. Peters
from the Villa DOria, and the tower
ed castle Of ChilIon upon the Lake of
Geneva! It is the Capitol dome,
with the long white line Of the build
ing itself, and the pile of the George
town College, which from this point
seems to stand upon the edge of the
Potomac, that brOadens, apparently
landlocked, into a placid aud gleam
ing lake. 1t Is q view which adds to
the charm OF the American land
scaPe the fascination of romantic and
historic suggestion. 1t is one of the
pictures which memory never loses,
which gives US, in certain sense, all
the beauty with none of the sadness
Of the scenes which it reoalls.-Edi-
tore, Easy Chair, IN RaTper's Mag
dzine for January.
Year: 1872

KINDNESS THAT WAS APPRECI.
ATED.-A correspondent of a New
York paper relates q touch ing instance
OF insects as follows: 81 found a
cockroach struggling in a bowl OF
water. / took half peanut she'll for
a boaC. put him into it and gave
him two wooden toothpicks for oars,
and left him. The next morning ]
visited him, and he had put a piece oi
white cotton thread on one of the
tOothpicks and set the tOothpiclI up on
end as q signal of distress. He had
a hair on the other toothpick, and
there that cOckrosch sat a fishing
The cOcsrOach, exhausted haCl fallen
asleep. The sight melted me TO tears
| never had to chew leather 10 get 9
soul. was born with one. l took
that cockroach out, gave him q spoon
ful OF Cruel, and left. That animal
never forgot that act of kindness, and
now my house is chuck full Of cock
reaches"
Year: 1872

4 young man who had become snit-
ten with a Southwestern beauty, who
was the daughter Of q blooming wid-
ow, after a protracted courtship,
plucked up sufficient courage to pro
pose, when the damsel Tephed-l
should be glad TO accommodate you
were / not already engaged; but ma
wishes to marry, and / think she If
Just now without an engagement. The
young man left for his childhOod'i
] home,
Year: 1872

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. II, 1872.


The directors OF the San Francisco and Colorado
River Railroad Company publish q card formally
withdrawing from submittal to a vote OF the
people the proposition TO give said company sub
sldy OF So 100000. They ay:-"we are reluctantly
compelled to admit that, after diligent and careful
canvass OF the city, we ascertain that there exists
very general and fixed prejudice against any
further railroad subsidies. Therefore, under the
decided conviction that the people at this time are
opposed to granting aid to railroads, we abandon
for the present all efforts to obtain O subsidy,
The Independent press including the Bulletin and
eau have steadily maintained that public senti-
ment was nearly unanimous against the Colorado
Railroad subsidy, In the conviction that it was
Central Pacific scheme in disguise.
Year: 1872

LONDON, Oct. Is, 1872.
BY Her Majesty's command, the London Gazette
this evening published the appointment Of Sir
Rounded Palmer TO the Office Of Lord Chancellor Of
England and Custodian Of the Great Seal during
the will and pleasure of the Crown.
Year: 1872

The Weather In This City Yesterday.


The following record will show the changes in the
Temperature for the past twenty-four hours COM
parison with the corresponding day of last year. as
indicated by the thermometer at Hudnut's Phar-
Year: 1872

A NEW PICTuRE-NoT so DEAD
AND DEsoLATE AS IT HAS BEEN
PANIED We descend the stcop
hills to the wild, sandy plain that
stretches to tho Dead Sea, and are
soon cantering across the burning
sand. Suddenly our guard motions
us to stop. They profess to see
robbers lurking behind some bush
cs near the shore, though wo can
sec nothing, and believe it only u
ruso on their part to get from us
some backshish. Whilo they 60
forward to rcconnoitre, wo move
on slowly. Learning that the coast
is clear wo gallop on, and at last
dismount by tho shores of lake
whose waters look as clear and rip
pie as beautifully as do the waters
of any other lake we have yet seen,
all testimony TO the contrary not
withstanding.


Guide books speak in cxtravagant
terms of death everywhere abound
ing in the waters and along the
saorc. "Not q flower, not green
willow or shrub anywhere to be
seen; its waters rarely ruf1lcd by
the breeze. All is silence and gloom
and DEATH" The Dead Sea, as seen
by us, bore quito different aspect.
For miles along shore wc rode
through a thicket of shrubbcry and
willows, as green as VIC have found
anywhere, and among the pretticst
flowers We carry with US arc some
We pluckcd on the shores Of the
Dead Sea. That the waters arc
heavy and bitter is true, for we
tested them in bathing, but that
they are rarely ruffied wo cannot
believe, as at the time of our visit
there was but little breeze, yet their
waves splashcd on tho pebbly beach,
and in tho distance their white
crests looked like SO many white
swans.-BoSton 1rdueller.
Year: 1872

We congratulate tho country that
the stupid diplomatic juggling OF
President Grant and his man Ban
croft Davis, about the claims for in
direct damages, has come.to an end
at last. Our British cousins seem
to have given themselves a great
deal of unnecessary anxiety end
trouble over the prospect of the
Washington treaty and the Geneva
arbitration coming TO naught; but
we, on this side Of the water, have
known all along that in ono way
or another there would be back
down by the Administration from
its absurd position. Tho only ques-
ton with Grant and his advisers
was, how they could do it with the
least disgrace. The claim for indi-
rect damages was only introduced
for the purpose of making political
capital for the Presidential election;
and when they found themselves
in scrapo about it, Grant and his
friends were only anxious TO get
out Of it with as little damage al
possible. Courier journal.
Year: 1872

At recent town meeting a new road was voted leading from the Morris depot of the Shepaug railroad down the. brook to the present Bradleyville road. Why was it not continued the entire way to s'Throopville ?''
Year: 1872

EE

 The burning of a very important if not very large part of the city of Boston, com ing 50 soon after the appalling Western calamities of last year, not only shock the public with the magnitude of the disaster, but give rise to apprehensions even great CT than those that followed the burning of Chicago. The doubt arises whether all our great cities are not so badly planed that, one after another, they must all un- dergo the terrible ordeal by fire.

 The circumstances of burning Boston differ from the circumstances of burning Chicago in no particular that the wit of man can avoid, except by actual rebuild ing. .-... .-t..s-. ...... ...t ......

 While the wind was strong from the south, the heat of the Boston fire was of tine same intense, overpowering kind as made the Chicago fire irresistible. The inability of solid, granite fronted build

 ings to resist this heat was the same in this case as in the other, and the high Mansard roofs proved over again how dangerous and absurd it is to allow story of wood to surmount five or six stories of brick or stone in the narrow and crowded business streets of great city. Nothing, it would seem, but fortunate Hull of the wind saved Boston from the fate of Chicago .- . .'e : --.

 Does not this great fire teach the East that the case of Chicago was not a pecul- iar one-that all American cities are open to thesame liability-that narrow streets, high buildings, and wooden roofs, are ut terly incompatible with safety. ......

 In one respect, happily, the great East I------1 AA-- ey-~-t ur--I-----4 4R..ns ~-- very dissimilar. While the former occasions half the loss, it does not cause tenth part of the suffering that resulted from turning the population of half city home less into the street. Moreover it is not the struggling laborer or the petty retailer that loses his all, but the wealthy whole sale dealer, to whom loss does not mean as we'll ruin as famine. ,..atE ,t............

 In pluck the two great centres of Yan- kee energy seems not to differ. Disaster is powerless to retard the progress of ei ther; and the business of the country is scarcely aware of the blows that have fal- len suecessively on the Hub of the great West. and on its companion at the oppo- site end of the axle in the great East.
Year: 1872

BY T..B. ALDRIoH, in the Atlantic for January.
Iwonder what day OF the week


wonder what month Of the year
VIII II be midnight or morning


And who will bend over my bier 2
What hideous fancy TO come


AsIwait at the foot of the stair,
While & eanor gives the last touch


To her robe, or the rose In her hair.
Do l like your new wdress-Pompadour
And do like yOuf On my life,
You are eighteen and not day more,
And haVn't been slx years my wifel
Those two rosy boys In the crib


Up stairs are not ours, TO be surel
You ara Just as sweet bride in her bio m.
All sunshine, and snowy and purel
AS the carriage rolls down the dark street
The lit e wife laughs and makes cheer
But. IL wonder what day Of the week,
wonder what month OF the yearl
Year: 1872

As usual, on Christmas, we shall not issue the
COMMERCIAL. Tomorrow we shall print q sup
Elementary sheet with our regular issue, giving
one or two good stories complete, and large
amount Of miscellaneous matter.
Year: 1872

Ty- There is n curious Chinese pro-
verb which says q" In a cucumber field
do not stoop to tic your shoe, and under
plum tree do not wait to settle your
cap on your head" which means, il you
do, some one may think yon are steal
ING the cucumbers or the plums, Never
forget that tho apostle says: "Abstain
from all appearance Of evil
Year: 1872

AFRICAN DIAMOND FIELDS EXHAUST
ED.-The latest intelligence from the
diamond fields OF South Africa is not
encouraging 10 those who entertain
tho idea OF seeking fortune in that
region. According to oil accounts
there is but one place at which dig.
gers now cover their expenses, and
that is the Colesberg KroPje, or New
Rush. There claims have reached so
high q value that none but men Of
some capital can afford to purchase
them , ct, notwithstapding their high
price, they do not yield near SO freely
as they did. The day for adventurers
without means to make money in the
diamond diggings is past The pro-
portion of those who have made largo
sums by digging diamonds, even when
the fields were at their best, is small !,
and numberless persons have toiled
under an African sun, undergoing all
kinds Of privations, from nearly the
time of the first discoveries, without
making more than bare subsistence.
The area within which the gems are
found is limited, and is being rapidly
exhausted. The entire area may be
completely worked out within a few
months; the production may continue
year or two. Unless new fields are
found, of which there now appears to
be little prospect, or the reported god
discoveries in South Africa amount to
more than present indications war
rant, there is likely to be general
exodus of the diggers before many
months.
Year: 1872

When Grant was running for Presi-
dent four years ago the poor negroes
of the South were promised that if
they voted for him every one of them
should have a mule and forty acres Of
land. Now Wendell Phillips threatens
tho negroes that in case of Greelcy's
election they will lose the mules they
didn't get.
Year: 1872

Court. aud shall. under such re e:ulatisns as may
be prescribed hy law, be collected by the
Sheriff or other collector, WIN shall make an
nual settlement with the County Court which
settlements shall he made matter Of record
10y the Clerk thereof, in a book to be kept for
that purpose.


s. White and cOlored persons shall no. be
taught in the same school.


o. No person connected with the Free
School System Of the State, or with any edu-
cational Institution Of any name or grade un-
der State control, shall be interested in the Sals
proceeds or profits OF any book or other thing
used, or to lie used therein, nnder such penal
ties as may be prescribed by law: Prorided
That nothing herein shall be construed to ap-
ply toany work written or thing invented by
such person.


10. No Independent free school district or
organization shall hereafter be created, except
with the consent of the school district or
districts, out of which the same is TO be created,
expressed by majority of the voters voting
on the question.


H. No appropriation shall hereafter bo
made to any State Normal School or branch
thereof, except to those already established,
aud in operation, or now chartered.


u. The Legislature shall foster and encour-
age moral, intellectual, scientific and agricul-
tural improvement it shall, whenever it may
be practicable, make suitable provision for the
blind, mute and insane, and for the organiza-
tion of such institutions of learning as the best
interests of general education in the State may
demand
Year: 1872

/. The Legislature shall provide for the or
ganizaton of all corporations hereafter to be
created, by general laws, uniform as to the class
to which they relate but no corporation shall
be created by special law Prorided, That
nothing in this section contained shall prevent
the Legislature from providing by special laws
for the couuection by canal of the waters Of
the Chesapeake with the Ohio river by the
line Of the James river, Greenbrier, New river
and the Great Kanawha


.. The stockholders Of all corporations aud
joint stock companies, except banks and bank
ing institutions created by the laws Of this
State, shall be liable for the Indebtedness Of
such corporations to the amount of their stock
subscribed aud unpaid, and no more.


g. All existing charters or grants Of special
or exclusive privileges under which organiza-
tion shall not have taken place, or which shall
not have been in operation within two years
from the time this Constitution takes effect
shall thereafter have no validity or effect what
ever Provided, That nothing herein shall
prevent the execution Of any bona tide contract
heretofore lawfully made in relation TO any
existing charter or grant in this State.


A. The Legislature shall provide by law,
that in all elections for directors or managers
of incorporated companies, every stocklolder
shall have the right to vote, in person or by
proxy, for the number Of shares Of stock owned
Year: 1872

l. No Convention shall be called, having
the authority 10 alter the Constitution Of the
State, unless it be 10 pursuance d: law pass
ed by the affirmative vote Of majority of the
members elected 70 each House of the Legisla-
ture and providing that polls DO opened
throughout the State, on the same day therein
specified, which shall not be less than three
months after the passage Of such Law, for the
purpose Of taking the sense Of tie voters on
the question Of calling a Convention. And
such Convention shall not be held unless a
majority Of the votes cast at such polls be in
favor Of calling the same nor shall the mem
bers be elected TO such Convention until at
least one month after the result Of the vote
shall be duly ascertaincd, declared and pub
Year: 1872

6. 1t shall further provide for the compensa-
ton, the duties and responsibilities Of such
officers, and may provide for the appointment
of their deputies and assistants by general
laws


I. The President of the County Court, and
every Justice and Constable shall be consery-
ator Of the peace throughout bis county.


8. No new county shall hereafter be formed
in this State, with an area Of less than four
hundred square miles; nor with population
of less than six thousand nor shall any coun-
ty, from which new county or part thereof
shall be taken, be reduced, in area, below four
hundred square miles, nor in population, be-
low six thousand. Nor shall any new county
be formed without the consent Of majority Of
the voters residing within the boundaries of
the proposed new county, and voting on the
question.
Year: 1872

The reason of things lies in narrow
compass if the mind could at any time ba
so happy as to light upon it, Most Of the
writings and discourses in the world ara
but illustration and rhetoric, which signify
nothing TO mind in pursuit of ,he mill
osophical truth of things South.
Year: 1872

The mOrifying letter from Yedo which we
publish this morning will distress every pat
riotic American who cares for the good name
of his country. The story which it tells is in
brief this: A Peruvian bark put in at YOkO-
hama for repairs. She had on board between
two hundred and three hundred Coolies from
Macao, confined in sitting, unventilated
hold and never allowed to see the light. One
of them made his escape by swimming to
British ship, and told such horrible story of
torture and oppression that the British Charge
reported the affair to the Japanese authorities,
and rigorous examination was at once lnstl-
tuted ltappeared from the inquiry that on this
COolie ship all the horrors of the slave trade
were reGnacted. Many of the men had been
kidnapped; many had been lured on board by
false pretenses; all had been treated with
extreme inhumanity. They begged piteously
for their release. When the mail left the
process was still unfinished; but it was certain
that the Coolies would be set at liberty and
the captain of the bark phnished.


In this decision the foreign residents and
officials cOncurred. The United States Charge,
Mr.. Shepard, refused the protection of our
Legation to the Peruvian, on the ground that
he was engaged i'll an enterprise which our
laws and humanity condemned. But about
this time Minister De Long returned from the
United States. Mr.. Shepard's course was dis
approved. To the unspeakable chagrin of our
countrymen and the amazement of Europeans,
the Peruvian SLAYER was at once invited to
the Legation and given Mr.. De Longs official
countenance. What effect this extraordinary
in
spondent to describe.


We are not doing our duty by these people
who have trusted themselves To our generosity
They came to our doors and asked to be in
troduced by us to the civilization of the West
ern World. If we had had spark of honorable
feeling we ought to have respected their con-
fidence. But our Government has been insen-
sblo of tho magnificent opportunity Oferod to
Year: 1872

place all their reliance upon Gen. Grants elo-
auence and volubility. They believe in money
moro thoroughly than anything else, and they
will exhaust the strong box next week. Ihey
will colonize negroes in Pennsylvania ana IN
diana. They will buy Inspectors in Phnadei-
phia They will stuff ballot-boxes and BRIDE
the vena, as these things have never been
done before. 1t will require unceasing untir-
ing work from now until the eighth of October,
if the people wish to come by their own.
Every honest citizen who wants his vote 10
count one must work for it now Work and
watch from now until the October elections,
and thon if we are able to countcract hdg the
frauds, the victory is gained, and we can pass
the final month in the leisurely increase OF
msjorities


The tide is all in our favor. The masses
are aroused for Reunion and Reform. The har-
vest is ripe for the sickle. few days more
of hard work and it viii be gathered in. But
the work must be done.