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Year: 1873

PHILADELPHIA, March ia
shocking and brutal murder, the re-
suit of intemperance, was commit
ted last night at PA Reeves street.
4 man named Clark who had been
on Il spree for nearly a whole week,
returned home late at night. Pro-
curing an axe, he went to the second
story, front room, where his wife lay
asleep in the same bed with her
mother, and, it is supposed, enraged
ut having been arrested, he struck
the sleeping woman in the head
with the axe, beating out ber brains
and producing almost instant death.
He then went out of the house to
get more liquor and, the alarm be-
ing given, he was secured and taken
into custody before he had commit
ted further bloodshed. The scene OF
the sickening tragedy attracted large
crowds of people to the house. Mrs.
Clark leaves several children.


A fire broke out this afternoon at
IA Second street, in the building oc-
cupied by c.. Stethear, Carpets and
On-Cloths. The fire department
were quickly on the ground, and
succeeded in confining the fire to the
building in which it originated. The
loss will probably be about $4,000.
Year: 1873

CoMPTROLLER's OFFICE, NASHVILLE,
Nov. d, lo73.-To the Tax Collectors and
Chairmen of the County Courts of the
State: In answer TO inquiries from differ
ent parts of the State, l issue this circular:


i. 1t is the duty of each tax collector
"to endorse upon his tax books the date of
the payment of each tax therein" wheth-
er that payment be made to- day or year
hence.


2. 1t is the duty of each tax collector to
make to the Judge or Chairman of the
County Court a monthly statement show
ing the aggregate taxes which have been
paid during the month, and an abstract of
the report shall be furnished to the Comp
troller by the County Court Clerk. would
suggest that each tax collector make his
first statement up to the first day of the
month next after he receives his tax books,
though a full month have not elapsed:
then afterwards up the first day of each
succeeding month. This will give system
TO the reports of the tax collectors of the
State.


8. The sum of ten per cent. upon the
amount collected during the month by any
tax collector will be imposed upon him for
each month he fails or refuses TO pay over
the money collected by him.


4. AS the poll tax is levied exclusively
for school purposes it must be returned so
that it can be credited on the books of this
Office to the school fund, separate and
apart from the general State tax. If the
tax collector makes his payments to State
depository, his receipts should state dis
tinctly what he has paid on poll and what
on State tax.


5. With the 10 per cent. tax on proper
ty for school purposes, the Comptroller has
nothing to do. No report of it should be
made to him. 1t is paid to and distributed
by the County Trustee.


JNo. Q. BURCH, Comptroller
Year: 1873

WHAT SHALL BE DONE We were Informed
recently, by farmer from Sussex, that II was al
most impossible to procure labor to pick out cot
ton and dig ground peas. One farmer adjoining
hiE1, he said, would make at least 900 bushels,
If he could procure the labor to gather them. The
colored people refuse TO labor at any price. He
offered IS cents TO 81 per day, but none were wil-
ling 20 work.


A gentleman from North Carolina last week was
in search of n number of hands, but only sac
ceeded in securing two Now this should not be
tolerated by our people. Those who are idle
ought 10 work or leave for other parts. They
should not receive one cents worth from the char
liable institutions of our city. Every able bodied
man should be made to earn his bread by the sweat
Of his brow. There is an abundance of labor in
the country, but the idle, worthless negroes will
not leave the city in search of it they prefer beg
ging or stealing TO work.-PetersbWr1 Daily NetoS


Please do not urge the lazy negroes to come this
way. Our city and State is already flooded with
them. There no work now for them, and
when there was work they were too indolent to
do it.
Year: 1873

With the changes which Republican legislators
Uill make, will come renewed prosperity and en-
Ierprise.-DeI. Republican.


The Republican party mast have been
singulaIly unfortunate in the choice of the mem
bers sent TO the last Legislature from this county
cerainlyf those that TO be elected TO the next will
be able to effect so much VIII the Republican tell
Us what measures its party leaders in the last Leg.
lslature proposed that would have effected all il
says will be accomplished by the next session


Ifthe " Republicans are destined 10 control the
State lOr the coming four year,p we presume
the Reyubliedn can inform us what the ''changes,
will be that will produce renewed prosperity
and enterprise"


Does the Republican meau to have the people
believe the State will enter upon a system o.
bonded debt similar to that which has despoilet
the southern people, for the benefit of the negroes
Il seems to usthat the people have suffered so mucl
already from the Radical financial system Of tht
Grant Administration that they will hardly b,
willing to entrust the State TO the hands Of Radi
Gals, for In that case there is no knowing what
our loss would be. Perhaps good property here
would BE- sold for less than would pay the taxes
as has been done In the South.
Year: 1873

The San Antonio Herald tells of an 'hon-
est farmer from Nacogdoches, y who had ar
rived in that city from Austin, with the
doleful tale that the people of our city had
given him and other immigrants very dis
couraging account of the country around
San Antonio, and that he had come there to
Judge for himself. He also, informed the
Herald that he had seen the best farming
country he had found in the State on his
way from Austin to the ancient city of the
Mexicans Now all this is calculated to
produce the impression that our people arc
unfriendly to San Antonio, and are trying to
disparage the country around it, which we
arc sure is not the fact. We don't know
what sort of people the ''honest farmer"
fell in with, while sojourning aour city,
but We are certain they were noeshe right
sort, If they endeavorcd to misrepresent
matters to him. We have often said, that
the country between this and San Antonio
was one Of the most beautiful and dcsira-
ble in Texas; but it is an undisputable
fact, that the country Immediately around
San Antonio is poor for agricultural pur-
poses Along tho valley of the river the
lands are rich, but off from the valley, Tor
a very considerable distance around, the
lands are dry and poor, comparatively, and
the best proof Of this is that they lie uncul-
tivated. II any Austinian represented that
the country between this city and San An
tonic, until you get within distance Of
some ten to fifteen miles, was poor and un-
desirable, he was grossly ignorant or viii
fully misreprcsented the matter. We trust
our friends at San Antonio viii not imagine,
for moment, that the bulk of the people of
Austin entertain any hostility towards that
ancient and beautiful city, or would do any
thing to retard its growth and prosperity,
or that Of the country around it. There is
room and business enough for both cities
and they are too far apart for any serious
rivalry to spring up between them.
Year: 1873




DI-NoNIACAL possession IS not III these
days, or, at least, in this country, a very
usual complaint; yet a German pastor IN
the Pusterthal has not only met with a case,
but discovered the right treatment for il.
A girl in that place. described as being or
dinarily Of a most amiable character, fell
suddenly under satanic influence, to the dis
may Of the neIghborhoOd, and more espe-
cially Of the curate, a young gentleman
recently imported from Brixen, full rather
of zeal than knowledge To his cntreaties
that the demon should be exercised. his su-
perior at first pleaded disbelief in the gen
uine nature Of the case. But as matters grew
worse. the pastor consented to deliver girl
and parish from such an unwelc0me guest.
Starring. stick in hand and amulet IN
pocket he found his patient calm and quiet,
and, after some friendly talk, he expressed
his hope Of elfecting speedy cure by means
81 holy relic On his solemnly producing
the amulcf, the devil broke loose IN her in
the most violent fashion; whereupon, his
reverence. in good round terms, explained
70 her that her childish folly was exposed
for had she been but an agent Of Satan he
would have known that the relic was moth
ing but q counter from the pastor card box,
carefully wrapped IN piece of cloth He
completed the cure with sourd Gaming.
which Was very ungailant, but probably ef-
fectual
Year: 1873

PREPARATIONS are already being made
for the great Centennial Celebration at
Philadelphia, in 1876. Plans for the build
ings have been submitted and adopted.
Our readers may form some idea of the
grand scale on which every thing is to be,
when we inform them that the contem-
plated buildings will cover thirty-six and
one half acres of the Fairmount Park 1t is
expected that contributions from the whole
civilized and semi-civilized world will be
brought for exposition there. 1t is intended
to eclipse anything of tile kind ever yet
had, and no labor and expense will be
spared. We hope to live long enough to
join in this grand demonstration over the
birth of freedom in this western world, and
to see all the wonders of the great Centen-
NAL Exhibition.
Year: 1873

THE irrepressible Susan B. Anthony
voted again at the last election in New
York. If we are not mistaken, she was
fined for voting at the last election in that
State, but it is hard to suppress one Of these
semi-masculine monstrosities. They have
more perseverance and endurance than men
with all the unreasonable determination of
excited woman. Susan will be crying
scissors as long as her head is above
water. Drowning outright can alone stop
her mouth and keep her from bawling for
suffrage. This woman suffrage is one of
the offsprings of Radicalism, and the effort
to secure it may cease with its downfall.
True Democracy regards woman too highly
to wish her involved and besmearcd with
the filth Of politics.
Year: 1873

if we should judge by the signs Of the late
overflow, which must, from the signs, have
risen at least forty feet We were lust able
to cross it; found the current very strong
and the river deep enough TO run through
the buggy.


From the Lampasas to Belton -four milesl
we speedily bowled along, and were glad to
find rest with the obliging landlord Of the
St. Charles Hotel, which, although comfort
able, is not as large as the rOtunda OF its
namesake In New Orleans. Bolton looked
quite lively; shows evident signs of conSid-
cradle Improvement in the shape Of sub
stantial buildings. The stores seem to have
well assorted stocks, and as all the mer-
chants were smiling, we judged business 10
be good.


The Democracy assure me that they viii
carry Bell county without any trouble.
The Republicans are largely in the minority,
and our colored brethren are getting rather
sick of politics. The ''forty acres and a
mulen which they have been so repeatedly
promised having failed to come to hand,
they are getting sensible enough to perceive
that 1t don't pay to leave days work to at
tcnd political meetings


leave in the morning for Marlin, across
the country. WANDERER.
Year: 1873

WE regret to sec the North Texan favoring
the formation of new party. Our friend,
the editor, ought to see, as we think, after
the success of the Democracy in the late
elections, that the old Democratic party
only can muster up strength enough for the
overthrow of Radicalism A peoples or
farmers party would fail to accomplish
this No new combination can be as strong
as the cid Democratic party. The Greeley
experiment ought to have satisfied the editor
of the North TeraR and every other Demo
crat that mixed up concern with no fixed
principles or all sorts of principles, cannot
succeed. There is nothing to hinder all the
elements of opposition to Grant and Radi-
calism from uniting with the Democracy and
thus insuring victory. The matter looks so
plain to us that we are astonished to find
sensible Democrats counseling anything
else. The idea of a great party, made up
exclusively of farmers and entertaining all
sorts of pa lciples, is preposterous, and
should not be entertained moment.
Year: 1873

TEXAS is to be cut off from political SYM
pathy with the rest of the Union.-State
formal.


No, only cut off from Radicalism, at
which they will have the sympathy of all
the rest of the Union. The best of the
Northern Radicals will rejoice at the down
fall of such Radicals as We have in Texas
and the South generally. When we were
last at the North even a government Off
cial said to u.s. ''We know what you are
suffering, and the character of the men who
are governing you. They would not be
permitted to hold Office here, and we hope
you will get rid of them very soon. They
are merely calling themselves Republicans
to get an opportunity to plumber defense
less people," Texas is not to be cut off
from sympathy with the rest of the Union.
Only the Radicals are to be cut off and
thrown into outer darkness.
Year: 1873

WE give up considerable space in our
paper to the communication of an old fash
ioned Democrat, who dates back to the
days of Jackson. HIS remembrances and
opinions are well worth reading by the
young especially, who are not acquainted
with the views and doings of their fore
fathers. It will be noted that our friend is
rather hard on banks and railroads, and
truly, though good things properly con
Quoted, they both need watching.
Year: 1873

We see it stated that spiritualist in Yer
mont has been in communication with
Charles Dickens, and that wonderful genius
has kindly furnished him with the remain
der of the Mystery of Edwin brood, which
was cut off by his sudden death. 1t has
been already printed, and is for sale in Chi
cago, where spiritualism and free love are
quite popular. The gullibility of the pub
lie IS unlimited, and no doubt many will
buy and read this shallow imposition and
believe they are enjoying the veritable out
pourings of that gifted spirit, now free from
the shackles of humanity. 1t may have no
more real resemblance to Dickenss style
than it has to Lippard's, or any other fourth
rate story writer. 1t will be all the same,
and pronounced wonderful. There is no
end to humbug
Year: 1873

A BCsTON paper publishes an interesting
item from Chicago, which may or may not
be true. 1t runs in this way An Episco-
pal clergyman, in reading the service on
Sunday morning, was seen to falter and
break down as if from extreme fatigue or
sudden illness. At length he closed the
book and made feeble explanation of his
case. He had not been to market the day
before, because he had no money to buy
anything with. His dinner the day before
had been bread and butter and tea His
breakfast that morning, had been less.
There was nothing awaiting him when he
should 90 home after service. He was lit
orally starving! What was the result of
this exhibition and appeal, we are not told.
The spirit was willing, but the flesh was
weak. This story will do very well for Chi
cago, the great grain and meat market of
the mighty West!
Year: 1873

SNAIJ-pox PANIc.-There is something of
a manic about the smallpox in Richmond,
Va. hut as vaccination has been generally
ntacticed the physicians think there is nu
danger whatever of an epidemic. Major
TorTaine who lately died of the disease, caught
it from one of his children, who had been
exposed to it by an incautious nurse. He was
buried without service and without attendants,
but service of respect will doubtless be held
nj st. Marks Church, in which he was a
communicant
Year: 1873

THE VEsPER BELLS THAT
BROKE AN ExILE's llEART.-ln
the Cathedral of Limerick there
hangs a chime Of bells, which were
cast in Italy by al enthusiast in his
trade, who fixed his home near the
monastery where they were first
hung, tIat he might erjoy their
sweet solemn music. In q political
revolution tie bells were taken
away to some distant Iald, and the
maker himself became a re ugee and
exile. His wandering brought him,
after many years to Ireland. On q
calm aud beautiful evening, as the
vessel which bore h m huated Oh the
placid bosom Of the Shannon, sud-
detly the evening chime pealed
forth from the cathedral towers.
His experienced ear caught the
sweet sounds, and he knew that his
lost treasures were found. His
early home, his friends, his beloved
and native land, all the best asso-
ciatiol,s of his life, were in those
sounds. lie aid himself back in
the boat, crossed his arms upon his
breast, aud listened to the music.
The boat reached the wharf, but
still he lay there silent and notion
less. They spoke to h IN, but he did
not answer. They went to him,
but his spirit had fled. The tide Of
memories that came vibrating
through his heart at that we'll
known chime had snapped its lite
strings.
Year: 1873

FACTS FOR THF HoUsEKEEPER.


When starched clothes stick to
the iron, it il exceedingly annoying,
and the housekeeper is rather apt
to get vexed and discouraged.


Many think il is owing to the man
ner III which the starch is made;
but this is not always the reason.
One cause of,tarcll sticking is owing
to the authorizations in starch itself.
80 it is very essential to try and
procure the best article. Starch
g oss is used to prevent this sticking,
in lien Of adding polish.


Some lauldresSes shave hard soap
and boil it up with the starch. An
excellent way to make clothes stiff
is to starch them when wringing
out Of the rinse water. then dry
them on the line, and when aboutto
be ironed, dampen them aid spread
them between dry clothes AID roll
them up tight for q quarter Of an
hour, When they will iron very
smooth.


Another desidentum is to take
good care oftheiruns. Many house.
keepers who are called neat, will
let them stand Oh the stove for
days, catching all the slops Of cook
ing. When not III use they should
be kept III dry place Once the
face is ruSted they will never look
as well again. But in case Of their
becoming rusty, rub them o. emery
or brown paper. Beeswax is good
to use, rubbing it weIlover the front
face Of the iron on a cloth or paper.


Many are the bits Of soap wasted
in the household. A good pan is
to save every scrap in a jar Or keg,
aud when wanted cover them with
water, and set on the stove to sim
mer. When melted, remove them
and let them get cold. Crumbs
made in cutting up soap, bits Of
toilet soap too small for use, all
such odds and ends can be saved
and used in this manner.
Year: 1873

GRow1NG PoTAToEs UNDER
oTRAw.--Nfter planting piece Of
ground III tie usual wav last spring,
a FREUD told me that by covering
the ground six TO eight inches deep
with straw, it would prevent the
ravages Of the Colorado potato bug,
accurdiugl covered one half the
patch with straw. | soon found,
however, that had TO fight the
bugs on this part of the ground the
same as the other, which | did by
catching the bugs twice a week.


When digging.time came, I found
that those covered with straw
vie ded tu ly one third more than
the others, and were much larger
aud Of more uniform size. The
digging required less than half the
labor, as the potatoes lay almost
entirely above ground. At the
time ot'covcriog with straw, which
was Immediately after planting, |
placed some hills between the rows
which | did not cover with earth,
but they did not amount 10 any
thing. placed a few OF each kind
on exhibition at our annual fair,
with a description Of the mode OF
cultivation. They attracted much
attention.-Cor Western Farmer.
Year: 1873

Here is another evidence that eating meat
in hot weather is dangerous. Aman was
lately employed in Eighty-sixth street in
blasting rocks, and was warned to get out of
the way, as ablast was to be set off. He stop
ped to eat piece Of meat, the explosion oc-
Cured, and piece of stone struck him on the
head and caused his death.
Year: 1873

BY a new method lately devised by German
scientists, it has been computed that th cage
of the earth-that is, the time since a firm
crust formed, is more than two thousand
million years. What makes this all the more
exciting is the fact that Gideon Welles was
then in the bloom of his first pair of breeches,
and if birch trees had been growing at the
time, mankind would not have had to do as
they do now-think upon what he might have
been, and weep.
Year: 1873

The public have often been asked to
believe that sane men do not commit
murders, and ingenious counsel have
repeatedly saved their clients from the
infliction of the extreme penalty of the
law by interposing the plea of insanity
at the outset of the criminal proceed
ings, and by holding steadily to that
plea through all the successive steps OF
exception, appeal, re-argument, re-trial,
and petitions for the exercise of Execu-
tive clemency. These efforts are too
often crowned with success. Several
instances of the kind have occurred du-
ring the past two or three years, and
the men whose deeds of blood should
have consigned them to the gollows,
are pursuing their avocations unmo-
Tested by the law, and apparently as
sane as those with whom they daily
come in contact. The plea OF insanity
having been accepted by a jury as a
condonement for murder, the murderer
walks abroad, though declared to have
been out of his mind, and he afterward
remains az liberty, to repeat his crime
at any moment when he pleases to do so.


The law which suffers this wrong to
exist needs immediate amendment. 1t
is essential to the wcll-being of society
that sufficient safeguards for human
life be- provided by the act of the legis-
lative authority; and the constant null
tiplication of murders, followed by the
interposition of the usual plea of insan-
ity and consequent irresponsibility,
proves that the danger of our present
methods is not to be regarded lightly.
A simple amendment OF the law of homi-
eide would meet and conquer the diff
Guilty. IF, in n capital case, the prison
er interposes the defence of insanity,
the jury, if they acqnit on that ground,
should be required to bring i'll special
verdict announcing the fact; and if the
murderer be absolved from the death
penalty for that reason, the Court
should be empowered to restrain him
thenceforth. With consequences thus
punitory and restraining, the plea OF
temporary alteration would CEASE to be
effective for the final release of the
criminal. Escaping the gallows, he
would be compelled to pass the remain
der of his days in strict confinement
within the walls of a Lunatic Asylum


the community would no longer be in
terror of a repetition of his bloody
work; the majesty of the law would be
vindicated; and the dangerous classes
would pause before incurring the scri'
GUS risk of punishment only one de-
gree less terrible than that of death.
Year: 1873

The Saturday Rcuicw, in an article
upon the professional experts who tes-
tify upon questions of insanity, uses
the following forcible language: I" 1t
is often said that lunacy is spreading.
We do not know how that may be but
at any rate there is one form of insanity
which is evidently getting worse and
worse, and that is the morbid delusions
of the mad doctors themselves. They
seem to be very much in the position of
the poor gentleman who thought that
all the people in the world were mad
except himself. There is nothing
which their morbid and distempered
imaginations will not peryert into evi-
dence of raging lunacy. Their conduct
betrays NIL the familiar indications of
mental Observation-Disclosures, brood
ing over one idea, violent language, ex.
aggerated expressions, repetitions OF
unmeaning phrases. 1t is time perhaps
that the weapons which they use against
the peace and order of society should be
turned against themselves. II grand
commission dc lunatico were held on the
experts, their evidence against each
other would probably De sufficient to
Justify their all being locked up out OF
the way.