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Year: 1875

The letter of the accommodating Super
visor Tuition to Grant, at this late day, white
washing the President and Babcock and try
ing to make out that Grant, at his suggestion,
stopped the order transferring the whisky
ring thieves i'll order the better to catch them
is q very stupid afterthought Ii Mr.. Super
visor Tuition knew all the facts he now tells
Why has he kept them shut up in his cfica
and friendly breast SO long? He has been at
hand at Washington all the time, and yet
only now when some of the thieves are in
pail and Babcock has been ten days indicted,
does Tuition find voice.


The object of the Tuition explanation is to
screen Bapcock and to draw off attention from
his case, and TO save Grant from the sus.
picions Of connivance with the whisky
thieves, which are so strong and so general
This self-sacriticiDg official takes all the blame
an himself 1t was his eloquence, inspired
by official zeal, which induced Grant to re-
woke the order transferring the guilty officials
An exercise of authority which did not
belong TO the President but to Commissioner
Douglass and Secretary Bristow between
them. The Tuition story is too thin -Aeo
YOrL, Sun
Year: 1875

dividend stocks mp too. Don't you see
now that stocks have suddenly risen all
over the world. The stupid Dutchmen Of
Berlin did not see it as soon IN the French
The latter put up their stocks and the
Dutchman played ''bear," and tried to
tight them down-went short Of them at
the low figures and now there's q
bear panic" in Berlin, and lot of fail
ures and suicides. tell you feel bullish,
and am going my pile on the rise. And
palsver N you please, we who are smart
enough and daring enough to handle
stocks right ought to have good raise
We're going TO discount the good time
coming. We know that railroads ara 60
ing to have good freights and dividends,
and we're bound to skim all the cream
that's to rise in this incoming tide of pros-
perity before the old fogies know that its
coming. My name shAn't be put" for
nothing. This next month. Ill get out
the biggest "short line" can-especially
on Gonld's stocks"


Daniel-"Yes. this is the curse OF curses.
You are probably right in saying that keen
Wall street men foresee time Of prosperi-
ty, and are going to discount its profits.
Some of these days you will De trying to
discount the millennium. How long will
this foolish people endure your piracy. II
is like Issachar "a strong ass bowed down
between two heavy burdens" viz: your
cunning and its own stupidity"
Year: 1875

An Anrora correspondent of the
Chicago Post has the following: I was
at Yorkville, and comfortably seated IN
the pleasant sanctnm Of the News when
the proof of the last sad tribute to New
ton 5. Grimwood was handed in. Mrs.
Springer corrected it with tears in her
eyes. He had been foreman in that Of
fee less than two years ago, and I recol-
lect his bright, boyish face as had seen
it on the occasion of a visit at that time.
1t may interest your readers to know
how his mother first learned of her boys
fate. She is in very frail health, and
the loss Of the balloon as well as his as.
cension in it was kept carefully from
her; she had been engaged in writing a
letter to him, asking him to come home
and celebrate her birthday, and telling
him how much she missed his gentle,
helpful ways, and none of the family
had the courage to tell her, and they
even made a pretense of posting the
letter 1t fell on the oldest daughter to
break the sad news TO her. She asked
her TO go with her into a room alone as
she had something to show her in the
paper. The mother went without a
misgiving. 1t seems as il no foreboding
assailed her, and she took the paper with
an untrembling hand, adjusted her
glasses and read the line that was point
ed out TO her in the evening paper.


"sAD FATE OF NEWTON 8. GRIMwooD."


There was darkness for a space
few hours of uncomfortable anguish,
and then as by the vision Of a cross il
was revealed to her that her boy was
saved-not to the pains and penalties Of
this life, but TO the fuller great exis-
tence with the redeemed Of God-and
to the mother as well as to the son the
bitterness of death was past.
Year: 1875

The Salt Lake Tribune says: Near
Lake Town, small settlement at the
south end of Bear Lake, a terrible con.
fiict occurred few days ago between
two Young men of Bailey and BurrelPs
surveying party and a grizzly bear,
which resulted almost fatally to one of
the young men; Frank Lowe, of this
city. 1t appears that on the night pre-
vious to the adventure a bear had been
prowling about the camp, and in the
morning young Lowe, accompanied by
Rowland Stevenson, proceeded in search
of the intruder. They tracked Bruin to
thicket of brush to which they con-
cluded to set fire, and then climb upon
a neighboring ledge of rocks, from
which to shoot at him as he should come
out. They stepped a few feet into the
brush, when they came upon huge she
grizzly with a cub. Young Lowe, be-
ing near her head, was seized by the
leg, and fell upon his back. As he fell
she caught his head between her pom
drous jaws, the teeth of one being deep
ly imbedded near his left ear, while the
teeth of the other horribly lacerated the
right cheek and broke his lower jaw.
Stevenson, who had fallen headlong into
the brush over the monsters back, had
by this time recovered himself and given
Bruin a charge of buchshot In the side,
but without much effect. When Lowe
fell his gun, with both hammers raised,
was lying with the muzzle under his
chin, but he managed to get it turned
upon the bear, and pulling the trigger,
sent a heavy charge of buckshot into
her throat. She loosed her grip and
rolled over, apparently dead. Steven
son assisted Lowe to camp, and last even
ing, accompanied by his father, the un-
fortunate young man reached his home
in this city He is getting on as we'll
as possible under the circumstances.
Year: 1875

A curious phenomenon frequently met
with in the Indian Ocean, the real canse
of which has not yet been ascertain
ed, is the existence off Malabar, and in
certain spots along the Coromandel coast,
of vast mud dbanks, and of tracts of mud
suspended in the sea, wherein many
kinds of fish lind abundance of food,
immunity from much disturbance in the
surrounding element, and place in
which to breed. The cause of the exis-
tance of these large tracts of the sea
wherein mud remains in solution is still
a mystery, but at any rate the tracts are
so smooth, that, even during the height
of the southwest monsoon, vessels can
run for shelter into their midst, and
once there are as safe as when inside a
breakwater
Year: 1875

The London Nature has note on a
new and remarkably destructive engine
of warfare now undergoing artillery ex-
pertinent in England, known as the
"water she'll" The chief merit of the
invention-msde by Mr. Ahle-consists
in filling an ordinary shell with water
instead of with an explosive agent. A
small cylinder, containing from a quar-
ter to half ounce of gun-cotton and
little illuminate mercury, is attached
to the flse and inserted into the water
filled shell, and owing to the almost in
compressible character of water, the ex-
ploSiOn of the seeming trifling charge is
said to produce more violent effects than
have been attained by any other means.


We are told that 16 FOUNDER (cylin-
droconoidal) shell filed with sixteen
ounces of gnnpowder, was broken by the
explosion of this charge into twenty
nine fragments. The donation of a
quarter of an ounce of gun-cotton con-
fined in a shell of precisely the same
construction and weight, the chamber
being filled up with water and tightly
closed, bursts the shell into 121 frag-
ments, which were violently dispersed
A corresponding charge of gun-cotton,
confined in a third smaller shell, the
chamber being filled with air, did not
hurst the shell when detonated; the re-
sultiDg gases found vent through min
ute perforation in the plug or screw
stopper of the she'll. One ounce of gun
cotton confined in smaller shell, filled
up with water, broke it up into 300 frag-
ments, but in addition there were two
pounds one ounce of the shell pulver-
lied by the force of the explosion
brought to bear upon the metal through
the agency of the confined water.


Besides the increased destructiveness
of this extremely simple device, an even
greater recommendation is its saving of
expense, enabling even the most econom-
ical governments to feel that they may
afford the occasional luxury of war if
they can kill five times as many enemies
at less than half price.
Year: 1875

In her last fashion letter Jennie June
''goes for" the innocent wearers of strip
ed stockings with the remorseless impe-
tuosity of a November hlast--goes for
respect Jennie has the advantage of US.
1t Is rarely we get to see them, striped
or plain. 1t is, peradventure. because
we happen to be thai sort of hair pin


As would say the great Tenfeldroch:
Hence the injustice of tyrannic Fashion.
Jennie tells us, "Fhe epidemic for strip
ed stocking, which has been raging more
or less for the past two years, has at last
taken form which will speedily put an
end to them among refined women"
Herein is implied the possibility OF the
existence of a great fact of which, for
two years. we have been permitted to re


main in ignorance. Has there, then,
been no end to them IN all that space of
time? Striped or plain, we knew they
began at the toe-only TO discover now
that for all this time their continuity
may have been infinite. We agree with
June, that there shonld be an end to
them. There is manifest improperly
in permitting them to go longer without
a reasonable limit. But we do not agree
with her that, ''if ladies can afford to
pay ten dollars per pair for silk, and
FIVE dollars per Pair for cotton hose,
there is no law against it, and no reason
why they should not" be- This is an
extravaganza that could only be tolera-
ted where the purse is as long as the
stocking. else the query very properly
comes in, who's to pay for the hose?
"The quicker we get back to the fine
white or ivory tinted stockings the bet
ter" concludes this gossipy autocrat of
the beau monde. But how are we to
know when we are back-some of MS?
The remark is too much attenuated-
too aqueous as it were. We shall de-
Dland 1.-THE ocular demonstration and the
proof before we shall believe what we
can't swear to. Thus your quill-drivers
of the feminine persuasion are always
vague-vague. d bds Ie bGs bleu-down
with the bluestocking! Zebras en- Grant
Year: 1875

An event occurred recently at the
house of August Sink, the we'll known
hotel proprietor at the Grand Trunk
Junction, which created an intense ex-
citement. A little child of Edward
Dwyer, an engineer in the employ of
the Michigan Central Railroad Com
pany, died, apparently, and the funeral
arrangements were made. The body
was laid out in the usual manner A
shroud was made for it and all other
preparations for the funeral, even to the
engaging of carriages were completed.
just before the time for the funeral
services to commence, the attendants
were suddenly startled by a sharp cry,
aud to their momeniary horror and con


sternation, the babe for whose death
they had sorrowed two days, was seen to
move. Instantly all was excitement in
the house. Grief was changed 10 rejoic-
ing for one risen. as il were, from the
dead, and the news of the strange event
went abroad as on wings of lightning.
The neighbors focked to see the child
thus providentially returned from the
grave, and all that day the wondrous
iidings were carried from house to house.
The joy of the father and mother can
not be told. The fullness oftheir hearts
will be measurably understood by the
fathers and mothers who have put away
their little ones in the earth for ever.
Year: 1875

WooD AsHEs.-The Scientific Ameri-
can says: The point to which we now
call attention is, that our farmers and
fruit growers have ignored, or rather
have been ignorant of the importance of
wood ashes as a vegetable stimulant and
a leading constituent Of plants. Even
coal ashes, now thrown away as useless.
have been shown both by experiment
and analysis to posses fair share of al
kaline value. We will relate only one
experiment. Some twenty-five years ago
we treated an old pippin apple tree as
follows: The hollow, to the height OF
eight feet, was lilled and rammed with a
composite Of wood ashes, garden mould,
and little waste lime (carbonate). The
filling was securely fastening in by
boards. The next year the crop of
sound fruit was sixteen bushels from an
old shell of tree that had borne moth
ing of any account for some time, and
for seventeen years after filling the old
pippin tree continued to flourish and
bear we'll.
Year: 1875

At last she completely cured him
For months she had patiently endured
the pangs 40 many thousands of young
wives are compelled to suffer. Almost
every morning at breakf fast the heartless
husband expressed the hope that he
might live to see the day when he should
get such coffee as he used to have at
home. Or such corn bread as his moth
the meat was overbaked in the range
To be sure his mother used to roast the
meat in an old-fashioned Dutch tin oven
and the piece was always done to turn
the last turn of the revolving-spit.
Those days were forever gone. But he
might and ought to get such green ap-
pie pie with new cheese as his mother
used to give him. At length the long
suffering wife arose in her wrath, upset
the table, sending dishes and their con-


tents crashing to the carpet, strided over
to her astounded husband, gave him a
box on the ear which knocked him of
his chair, and remarked: There's a
clip over the head for you, such as your
mother used to give you when you was a
boy, gol dern yer" Thereafter there
was domestic peace and quiet in that
house, with never even an allusion to
the maternal cookery and comforts OF
the by gone days.--[N. Y, World.
Year: 1875

A Kansas Court has decided that a
man and wife may go to a circus on n
ticket that says "admit one" as they
are of Zone nesh," and considered as
unit If this decision is 20 be regarded
as a precedent in such cases by our
Courts, theatrical people may suffer
somewhat in the future. But, we pre-
sumo, the two in one, or one Of two, will
be restricted 10 a single seat, and that
the wife will be required to sit in the
lap Of the husband.
Year: 1875

From the Burlignton Hawkeye1


A young lady of engaging personal
appearance, who came here last week
from Creston, recently announced that
she was going to open barber shop on
North Hill. The very next day each
married woman on North Hill surpris
ed her husband, whose many virtues she
had long known and admired, with a
neat little present, consisting of razor,
lather-brush and strop. And now, as
oft as the North Hill man comes home,
the wife of his bosom puts her arms
around his neck and rubs her downy
cheek against his face. in all apparant
innocence and affection, but if his cheek
is smoother than when he went away
in the morning. she fans him with a
rolling pin until be has to wear his hat
on whichever lump it fits best.
Year: 1875

sing from astern to the brace forward,
and back to the bits amidships, made
an acute angle, inside which the captain
was standing. l saw and noted that as
passed forward, and l noticed also in
the dark, a tall man, who seemed to be
leaning against the line. 81 hope he's
forward of it" said to myself as went
on with what ! was about.


/ had not taken six steps from the
spot when knew that something strange
had occurred. The ship steadied, as if
the wind had ceased. heard no sound
greater than the storm; but, instead,
seemed to hear stiffness. ran amid
ships and grasped for the line. 1t was
gone A rush to the rail, and all was
clear. The strain had torn out the brace.
The mighty pull of the whale astern
had jerked the line straight, like the
cord of gigantic bow, and the captain
who had been standing on the rail, had
been struck by the flying rope and
thrown senseless far into the sea.


All this had been seen by the men in
the boat before any one IN board had
realized the affair. In less than minute
the cry of fSaved p reached ms from
Mr.. Joseph; and, in shorter time than
can be imagined by a landsman, the
boat was hanging at the davits, and the
injured commander was being cared fol-
in the cabin.


Hard rubbing and rum are the potent
remedies on a whaler; and by dint Of
these the captain opened his eyes in a
quarter of an hour. He had been stun
ned, but not seriously injured.


He was amazed at first seeing tn,
mate and myself standing over him will
Year: 1875

SHOULD sorrows gate be open wide
And on us pour a flood;
Should hopes We cherish withered lie
Ere they begin to bud;
Should clouds upon our pathway rise
And all seem dark and drear,
Our motto in that hour should be,
"Look up, and perscvere."
Remember, If the night came not
To make more blight the morn,
We could not hail with untold joy
The coming of the dawn.
And il our life was but one scene
OF pure, unending bliss,
We might grow weak upon our way,
And live our time amiss.
Useless indeed repinipgs are,
They but increase our pain,
The nobler plan is, when we fail,
TO rise and try again.
No matter how the storm may rage,
Let love fabric rear,
And, as we gaze, our cry shall be,
Look up, and perseyere"


-Wonstf,s's Journal.
Year: 1875

tober in any year. it shall be the duty of the Sec
retMy Of State to dispatch a messenger to such
county to procure the duplicate required by such
section: and such messenger shall be entitled to
q compensation of three dollars per day for such
services, and travelling fee often cents per mile
for actual travel In the discharce of such duties.
The Secretary of State shall draw his warrant on
the State Treasury in favor of fsuch messenger for
the compensation herein provided, and shall GER
the county delinquent at the time OF ofcertifying
to the State tax necessary TO be raised in such
county, and said amount shall be a special State
tax against such county, and shall be collected
and returned in the same manner that other State
taxes are collected and paid into the State Treas-
ury.


SEC. Isl. This act shall take effect and be in
force from snd after its passage and publication


Approved March 5, 1873. srCOPY
Year: 1875




AN ACT TO amend Chap. 1S4 of the Revised


Statutes, entitled, ''Of Inquests of the Dead
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-


sented in Senate and Assembly. do enact as


follows


SECTION 1. Chapter one hundred and eighty.
four 0Si of the Revised Statutes, entitled, of
Inquest of Dead is hereby amended by adding
thereto the following section: Sec. IL In each
and every county in this State whose inhabitants
exceed in number 5000 all the duties in the
foregoing sections of this chapter required
to be performed by Justices of the Peace,
shall be performed by the Coroner of such county,
and such Coroner it hereby invested with all the
powers of Justice of the Peace in taking inquests
by virtue of any of the provisions of this chap
ter, and shall have and exercise exclusive juris-
diction and power in taking such inquest in his
county, except in case of inability to attend to
such duties caused by his sickness or absence, in
which the same may be performed by any Justice
of the Peace of such county Sec. Is. Such
Coroner shall be paid quarterly out of the county
treasury of the proper county for the perform,
ance OF all his official duties, and in lien of all
other compensation a salary to be fixed by the
Board of Supervisors of sand county. and such
Coroner shall collect for all official services which
he may perform Except in cases OF inquest) such
fees as he is now by law entitled to receive, and
shall at the end of every three months. under
oath, report and pay the same to the County
Treasurer of said county. Sec. 16. 1t shall be the
duty of the Board of Supervisors of such county
to provide for the use OF such Coroner suitable
it shall be the duty of such Coroner to keep in
his said Office proper books, containing records
OF all lDquests by him held setuhg fortn the ume
and place of holding such inquests and the names
of the jurors serving thereon, together with
brief statement of the proceedings thereof.
Sec. II. Before entering upon the duties of
his Office every Coroner who is by virtue OF
this chapter authorized and required TO take
inquesfs shall deliver to the proper Of
fcer of his county bond subscribed by two or
more sufficient sureties, in such penal sum az the
Board of Supervisors of said county may deter
mine, conditioned for the faithful performance of
all his official duties set forth in this chapter,
and that he faithfully account for and pay to the
County Treasurer of said county all moneys which
may come to his hands belonging TO said county
and which by virtue of this chapter he is required
to accountifor and pay as aforesaid. Sec. Is. All
acte in conflict with any OF the foregoing provls-
ions are hereby repealed


SEC. 2 This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication


Approved March 5, 1870 eCOPI
Year: 1875

Nice Tarts.-Take about equal guam
titles of -four and lard (say one pound of
-four to one of lard); work the lard,
which should be firm and hard, thorough.
ly into the -four; add.a little cold water,
only just enough to mix the dough hard
enough to roll out; mix with knife or
spoon and handle as little as possible;
add little salt and cut in any shape
you like. Filled with nice jelly they add
much to the table.
Year: 1875

transferred to the military, where
it properly belongs, disastrous con-
may soon be practically
felt along our immense tracts of
unprotected frontier. IF there
were no other reason for advocat-
ing change Of policy than that Of
danger to our exposed settlements,
this in itself should be all sufficient:
but those journals who are con-
tinually howllng for retrenchment,
economy, and the like, can
find in the unnecessary, and even
unlawful, expenditures Of money
in the Indian Department more
fitting cause for complaint than
they have offered in the cost Of
supporting our skeleton Of an army,
which is scattered along our from
tier in such depleted squads as to
render it almost useless in protect
ing the lives and property Of set
tiers. It is all very we'll for those
who are removed from Indian dep
relations, and whose knowledge Of
Indian character IS derived from
Iten-cent romanees, to say reduce


the army, Wederive no benefit from


a large C?) standing military force


in this country. But let one Of


thes would-be reformers take a


trip to the frontier, and the first


move is to call for a safe guard, a


protection from the outrages of the


gentle wards.
Year: 1875

eral public. 4 step in the right
direction has been taken by Messrs
Mercue (, Cobell. They have open
ed a coal vein On the Shoukin, a
distance Of about fifteen miles south
east from Benton, through which
they can supply fuel to those who
may desire to practically aid il the
development Of the resources Of
this. vicinity. We shall refer to
the subject more fully in due time
Meanwhile. we refer our readers
to communication which we pub
lish this week regarding the Shou.
kin coal NINE.