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Year: 1873

SAID young husband, whose business
speculations were unsuccessful: my
wife's silver tea set, the bridal gift Of a
rich uncle, doomed me to financial ruin.
1t involved hundred unexpected ex-
penses, which, in trying to meet, made
me the bankrupt that | am" His is the
experience of many others, less wise, who
do not know what is the goblin of the
house working its destruction. A saga
cious father of great wealth, exceedingly
mortified his daughter by ordering to be
printed on her wedding cards, "No pres
ents except those adapted to an income
of 900 dollars" Said he, you must not
expect to begin life in the style am able
by many years Of labor to indulge; and l
know of nothing that will tempt you more
than the well-intended but pernicious
gifts of rich friends" Such advice is
timely. If other parents would adopt
the same plan, young men would be
spared years OF incessant toll and anxiety
Year: 1873

A CURIOUS case Of spontaneous com
bustion is reported from New Hamp-
shire. A physician had prescribed lin
seed oil and camphor for severe pain in
the chest, and the patient complained OF
the heat soon after its application on cot
ton batting. In about an hour he pro-
tested he could bear it no longe", and te-
fore it could be removed it took fire, act
ually blazing up and burning the poor
fellows neck severely.
Year: 1873

The world stretches out before you,


A field for your muscle and brain;
And though clouds may often float o'er yor
And often tempests and rain,
Be fearless of storms which o'ertake you,
Push forward through all like man,
Good fortune will never forsake you,


lfyou do as near right as you can.
Remember, the will to do rightly,


If used, will the evil confound;
Live daily by conscience, that nightly


Your sleep may be peaceful and sound.
In the strict path of duty ne'er wayer,
Let honesty shape every plan,
And life will of Paradise SAVIOR,


If you do as near right as you can.
Though foes darkest scandal may speed,
And strive with the shrewdest of fact
To injure your name, never heed,


But justly and honestly act;
And ask of the Ruler of Heaven


TO save your fair name as man,
And all that you ask will be given,


lfyou do as near right as you can.
Year: 1873

SAN Francisco, Aug. 8, 1873.


DEAR JOURNAL We are approach
ing heated term in politics, in fact the
atmosphere is already rather tropical and
things are wonderfully mixed. The Tax
Payers can't get Mayor yet, and unless
they put up tirst-class candidate McDon-
aid will make the trip. They now talk
of James Otis, James Irvine and A. S.
Halladie, the wire rope and cable maker,
but it is not known if either can be NOM
mated. There has been singular dis
position shown on all sides to keep the
doings of conventions secret. 1t don't
have good look, and the unwashed,
unterrifed of all parties object to it as
anti American. The Republicans will
not make municipal nominations till the
Tax Payers shall have shown their hand
on Legislative ticket. When all the
nominations are made, the real sport
of the campaign will begin and things
will be lively. There will be q heavy
fight on Supervisors, as a new Ring will
have to be constructed and Billy Carr
wants to do most of the hammering and
welding. A whole lot of most impecu-
nious lawyers desire to be made Justices
of the Peace, and they are quite busy
telling people how talented they are, how
learned in the law, how splenddly adapted
by nature and education to adorn the
Bench. In what way the world has wor-
ried along without some of these fellows
for Judges, is matter of surprise. l
had talk with an old gentleman yes
terday, who wants to be Coroner. He
first secured in some unaccountable way
large, white furry hat and ponderous
stick, then he started out to "button-
hole" people and display his natural and
acquired qualifications for that important
Office. Like many other men hunting
for sutfrages, he spoke depreciatively Of
the present incumbent and Of all who
had preceded him, and then placed his
own qualities in shining contrast. He is
no doctor or surgeon, but an old political
hack and wanted some "little thing"
published in his favor. lie would re-
form the office and system entirely, sim
plify it, make it popular institrtion.
He said "See here, if man got shot
through the head | would record it so.
Who cares whether the bullet went thro'
the seer bum or cellar bell urn =
whether it smashed out one bone or
tother, as long as he died from shot? If
a man kills himself drinking too much,
what's the use of cutting him up to find
out what effect the Ticker had on him in
wardly. 1t never was interesting or graf
flying to me to read about 'granulated'
livers and stummicks, with the lining
burned and blistered out" He failed to
convince the Democracy he ought to be
Coroner.
Year: 1873

LAURA KEENE.-Old playgoers wii
read with regret the announcement that
Laura Keene is dying of consumption
Young playgoers have seen her, but ii
has been when she was in the sere and
yellow leaf; while the older ones will look
back iondly to the days when young.
beautiful and admired, she stood at the
head of the light-comedy actresses in the
United States.
Year: 1873

The millners have struck upon a new
style of advertising. One Of them last
night dressed up young and pretty ap-
prentice girl in the fnery of her art and
placed her in the show window, where
she sat for over an hour motionless as a
statue. Hundreds stopped to gaze at her,
and soon the street was SO blocked they
had to lower the curtain and shut out
the beautiful vision. We will have a new
mania now. Other shops and other trades
will follow suit till the Supervisors inter
fere to abate the nuisance. One shoe
store keeper thinks he will get a girl to
sit in his window to display ce-fitting
CATERS and Bal brigan hose. Dealers in
patent plumpers, palpitators, corsets, ETC.,
propose to adopt similar course.
Year: 1873

We are daily expecting the arrival of
the Philadelphia Mayor and Municipa
gang who have been offered the freedom
Of the city, with possible earthquakes
thrown in. OF course they will have a
pleasant time during their sojourn.
Year: 1873

FARMERS TRADING ASSOCIATIONS.


Nothing is easier than for ten or more
farmers to consult together at any meeting
for the purpose and see what goods they
want for six months supplies, units their
orders, and authorize some one of their
number to purchase what is needed, at
wholesale prices. Thousands of farmers
and mechanics are trading in this way, and
save some 25 per cent in tho average cost of
all they consume. They are fast learning
to dispense with tie services of all persons
whose labor they do not require. Middle
men between producers and consumers have
increased beyond all profit to either con-
sumner or producer. Sound business ideas
dictate the most direct exchange possible of
labor or its fruits, between man and man,
with as few hands, as little handling and
transportation as is attsinable. There are
more who live on the toll of others, rather
than their own productive Industry, than
the best interests of the community de-
mand. Corn at fifteen certs bushel In
the West is teaching corn-growers the wis
dom of dispensing with the labors of all
merchants, lawyers, courts and every man
who does not give the farmer as much hon.
est Lard work fer fifteen cents as viii raise
bushel of corn. Such poorly paid work
is as comfortable for the merchant, judge
on the bench, lawyer, doctor, priest and
banker, as for tie tiller of the ground who
raises bread for all. Wise farming viii
compel every one to pay tillage and husbsn-
dry the highest fees of any profession for
five or ten hours labor. Do this and farm
irg will be not less honorable than profta-
he. Agriculture is coming to the front of
all professions.
Year: 1873

John Bsran had leg badly crushed at
Washington last week, but as he would not
consent to amputation, the surgeons Of the
University Hospital sawed of the shattered
ends of the bones, dried small hole and
inserted an ivory peg in each, and then
bound the pegs together with siver wire.
The leg was then conf0ed in splint, and
the patient viii doubtless have useful
though shortened member of it. This
curious surgical experiment has never been
attempted before.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, Oct. IAN Important order
was made by Judge Gary of the Superior
Court in this city yesterday, in refusing to
permit the reference of suits for divorce to
the Master in Chancery, and announcing
that hereafter sll such suits must be tried
in open court.
Year: 1873

SooIABIE-The members aud friends of the
Central Presbyterian Church had very interest
ing and pleasant sociable in the parlor Of the
the church last evening. This is the
fourth of a series of sociables held during the
winter, aud each succeeding one, gives them ad-
ditional popularity. The ladies were some time
ago presented with full set Of dishes, and these
with the aid of cooking apparatus in the. cellar
basement enables them to prepare pleasant
collation. at very short notice.
Year: 1873

CIVIL SERVICE REFORM Wash
lngton correspondent of the New York
Tribune, in speaking of the civil service
reform. very innocentiy remarks: " The
President has less faith in the system,
than is generally believed; for it i
knownsthat he does not hesitate to dis
regard it whenever he sees fit to do so. :"
And We will add that he generally sees
fit to disregard it.
Year: 1873

CITY ELECTION. - The city election is
said to be the most warmly contested Of
any ever held in this town. We do not
know exactly what 1t is all about, but
found on the two tickets enough good
names to make up very respectable
lcket without becoming party to Ell
Year: 1873

Thus we see that the Democratic pre- ponderance through city representation would be diminished rather than 1nereas- ed by reform accompanied by minority representation. When we take into &C., count the further fact that the Republi- can party in both Senate and House is now deprived of it's natural leaders by the practical misrepresentation of it's city vote and we have an additional gain not calculable in numbers. The social obiec- ton is obviated almost to an equal extent with the political. Intelligent tax paying minorities can elect their representatives as well es political minorities, and sys- tenn that allows ignorance to repre- sent itself only deprives it of nearly all it's present political strength.

 Our reply to Mir. Anketell, and to other city friends of reform, therefore, is simply this: Make your reform movement broad enough to right the wrongs of the mis- represented country and city minorities as we'll as of the nor-represented city major isies and it will soon become irresistible
Year: 1873

The governorship issue is waxing warm. The Courant is out for Henry P. Haven and against any New Haven man. It re- fers feelingly to last summers senatorial controversy. Unquestionably the Ferry bolt was most dagrant breach of party discipline; but can the Republican party of the State afford to attempt that, indi- rectly, which the national administration is afraid to do directly. If New Haven deserves punishment, the men to suffer are Messrs. Sperry and Northrop who hold fat offices under government and who were also the chief leaders of the anti Hawley crusade, and not Mir. Harrison who had nothing to do with it. When Gen. Grant can by word decapitate the right men, and thinks he cannot afford to do it. we are sure the Republican party of Connecticut cannot afford to punish the wrong man.
Year: 1873



 A friend wrote me few days ago, ~ ou have now wintered and summered in Vineland, what do you think of it for 6 residence? The winters are mild, but is it not very hot in summer?"

 I Ireplied to him in substance what now write to the Enquirer. There are a few weeks of hot weather here, during 8 part of July and August, but rarely a day, in which We do not have a fine breeze from the ocean or bay. distant twenty and thirty miles, respectively; while the nights are almost invaribly cool.

 I was in Litchfeld Go. in the month of July last, when the range of the thermom- eter was as high, even in Goshen, as it was here. Mir. A. said to me that he did not suffer from the heat any more in Vine land, than he did formerly in Wolcottville. On the other hand, with rare exceptions, the winters are mild and temperate, and outdoor work, such as ploughing, prun- ing, and clearing up generally, can be done every month.

 We did not escape, however, the severe storm which swept over the whole coun- try on the 26th ut. and for a week the ground has been covered with snow to the depth of six inches. So rare is such an experience that we hardly knew what to do with it. The trains from Philadelphia were detained several hours, and from New York twenty-four, simply for the want of snow ploughs, or other arrange ment for clearing the track. Those who desired the luxury of sleigh-ride fitted up dry-goods, or other boxes for the pur- pose or substituted short plank runners in place of the wheels, on the axles of their buggies. having an outside block for the hub, against which to screw up the nut. But this is all past, and we have now genuine New England s'slush.

 Is Vinelan1 particularly healthy re- zion? It is so regarded by those who have resided here for any considerable length of time, and by the physicians oi the place. Several of them have publish ed valuable monographs on the subject showing the effects of the climate on in- valids and endeavoring to account for
Year: 1873

Even those ecopper-coloredc cut-throats,
the Apache Indians, have a touch of
delicacy and romance in them. From a
lecture delivered San francisco by
Col. John G. Carmony, we take the fol-
lowing account of their courting GUS
toms Every young girl is at liberty to
refuse a sutton fOr her hand. Tie
father, mother and brother are prohibi-
ted from interfering in her choice. Her
person is at her own disposal. After q
brief courtship the lover makes form
al proposal by offering so many horses.
Horses are a standard of value among
the Indians. AS the squaw does all the
work, horses are accepted as an equiva-
lent for her labor. When young war
rior becomes enamored, he fastens his
horse near the wigwam of the squaw
whose hand he seeks, where he is left
four days. If she fails to feed and
water the horse during that time, the
master is rejected; but if she accepts
his offer she grooms and kindly cares
for the horse, and then ties him to the
wigwam of her lover, as much as to say,
81 am willing to be your slave and do
your work. At the marriage the sages
and sachems meet together, and the
bride is not unfrequently loaded with
forty to fifty pounds of silver and cop
per trinklets.
Year: 1873

! A Mrs. King had surprise at Shaw
neetown the other day. It was an acci-
dent that Mrs. King happened to be at
Shawneetown. She did not intend to
go there, but the steamboat Jennie
Howell, on which she was travelling,
struck a snag and sunk in the Ohio
river. Several of the passengers were
drowned, and among them some chill
dren. Mrs. King had child on board
whom she moUrned as lost, and was
taken to Shawneetown without her
babe. The Jennie Howell sunk deep
in the water, and the next morning men
went to the vessel to recover the bodies
of the lost. Soon after daylight mat
tress was discovered floating in the
cabin, which was filed with water near
ly to the ceiling. Upon examination a
child, little boy, was discovered on the
mattress sleeping as peacefully as if
nothing unusual had happened. His
bed was not very dry, for it had sunk
good deal from soaking but still sus-
tanned its living freight. In due time
the child was sent to Shawneetown,
where the other passengers had been
landed the evening before. Its coming
made an excitemenS among the wrecked
travellers, for more than one mother had
lost children by the disaster. It was
touching scene when Mrs. King recog-
nized the child as her boy whom she
had mourned as lost for nearly twenty
four hours. The preservation of Moses
in the bulrushes was not so miraculous
as the safety of Mrs. Kings boy. He had
been tossing about the waste of waters
in the cabin all night, and was brought
to his mother alive in the hour of her
deepest woe.
Year: 1873

The Pencl marks you see around this
paragraph (thus) mean that your sub
seriptior is out or unpaid, and that
you are requested to pay up at once.
We would take great pleasure IN extend.
ing credit to our friends and patrons.
but cash alone viii pay expenses, and
we are forced to adhere to a strict cash
rule We hope You will comprehend
and appreciate the necessity of such q
course, and renew your subscription
without delay. We solicit your favor.


ES We enter no new names on ouJ
cooks without the money in 'advl' ce-
Year: 1873

Social ECLECTCIsM--Eet amuse-
ments be as innocent as they may, and
let society be as free as it may from am
bition and envy, still, if the life be a
life of society and life of amusement,
instead of q life of serious associations
diversified by amusement and society,
it viii hardly either attain happiness or
inspire respect. And the more it is at
tempted to make society a pure con-
eentration of charms and delights, the
more fat will be the failure. Let US
resolve that our society shall consist OF
none but the gay, the brilliant and the
beautiful that As, we viii exclude from
it all attentions to the aged, all forbear-
ance to the ungraceful and unattractive,
and We shall find that when Our sOefal
duties and our social enioyments have
thus sedulously been set apart, We have
let down q sieve into the well, instead
of a bucket. Nor is II IN our nature 20
be durably very well satisfied with an
end which does not come to us in the
disguise either Of means or Of q duty.
Henry Taylor.
Year: 1873

pertained to the home Of his childhood,
still possessed life; the strings could
resound, although somewhat hoarsely,
the melodies of a whole human life
and thereby the old man kept in mind
SO much, both pleasant and sad, IN the
long row of intervening years, since
when as a child he had 'gazed on the
comet, until now it was again here. He
remembered what his mother had said
about the shaving in the light he re-
membered the beautiful bubbles,
each denoting for him a year, he had
said. How bright, how full of colors,
only the bright and Joyous he saw there
in; child play with youthful delight /;
the whole wide world seemed to open
for him In the sunshine, and out into it
he was to gol Future bubbles As an
old man he heard in the tones of the
piano melodies of the past Retrospec-
tion bubbles ! in all the color tints of
memory. He heard his grandmother's
knitting song:
Year: 1873

PUTTING IIooP ON A FLOUR BAR
IEL-According to the Danbury Nesos
putting hoop on family -four barrel
is an operation that will hardly bear an
encore. The woman generally attempts
it before the man comes TO dinner. She
sets the hoop upon the slaves, takes a
deliberate aim with the rolling pin, and
then shutting both eyes brings the pin
down with all the force OF one arm, while
the other instinotively shields her face.
Then she makes dive for the camphor
and unbleached muslin, and when the
man comes home she is setting back of
the stove, thinking of St. Stephen and
the other martyrs, while burnt dinner
and the camphor are struggling heroic
ally for the mastery. He says if she had
kept her temper she wouldn't have got
hurt And he visits the barrel himself,
and puts the hoop on carefully, and ad-
! iusts it SD nicely TO the top of every
stave that only few knocks apparently
are needed to bring it down all right and
he laughs to himself to think what fuss
This wife kicked up over simple matter
that only needed little patience to ad-
Just itself, and then he got the hammer
and fetches the hoop sharp rap on one
side, and the other side flies up aud
catches him on the bridge of the nose,
tilling his soul with wrath and his eyes
with tears and the next instant the bar
rel is flying across the room, accompa-
MED by the hammer and another can.
didate for camphor and rag is enrolled
in the great army that is INCREASINGLY
marching toward the grave. E
Year: 1873

Why SHE REFUsEp.--You say you
went 10 a party last night, and you saw
Mrs. Smith, an old friend, whom you had
not seen sincn she and your sister were at
school TO gether. You had very pleas
ant talk until supper. When some one
came along with few glasses of wine
ON waiter and offered her glass. you
saw her shudder as she said, NO" and
you wondered why Mrs. Smith, who
didn't use to be particular about such
things, not only refused but shuddered
when She said MOP You cannot tell
why? can tell you why. You went
On with your talk, aud little renewed
Irritation, did you! won't say you didn't


She was gay, and seemed glad to forget
herself, did she. Very well l am glad


you gave heI that honor that evening. l
can tell you where she went aiter the
late, for her husband had not come home.
She sat and read an hour, aud her hus-
band did not come. She wrote for an
hour, and he did come. She sat at
the piano for an hour, but he did not
come q AT length, between three and
tour o'clock, there was a noise at the
door,ar two policemen held him in heiI
arms. She knew them b tn well, by the
time. 1t happens SO often that she knows
every policeman on the beat They bade
her goodnight. She had locked heI
child's room that he might not abuse
him. She took The abuse. as he flung
himself" upon the bed. She took off hls
neckcloth and coat, and sat there unit


he should fall into his stupid sleep. Sh'
was the, woman who had refuseda glas


of wine with a shudder. You did not know


the story. You thought she was ga,
and bright, l knew her story, because


am her minister. They have sort of
skeleton in the closet which we are re
mitied TO see and you. aIe not. AM
when you see that skeleton, do you won
der. that we sometimts say pretty sharI
things about moderate drinking and th


temptations offered at parts? o.
s' go Rey. f. e. Hale
Year: 1873




The other afternoon a cow and dog
belonging to r. n. Graves were passing
along b. street together, a big, quarrel
some hoodlum cur rushed out from the
sidewalk and pounced upon the canine,
companion of the COW. The hoodlum
seemed to be getting the best OF the
fight, when the cow-probably decond-
ant in the direct line of the 'cow with
lhe crumpled horn that toosed The dog
tha: worried ,he cat"- seeing how things
were going with her companion, charged
upon the strange dog, and at the first
pass elevated him some ten feet in the
air. She was or hand again, about the
time he struck the ground, and charging
upon him with arched neck and erect
tail, pitched him from the middle of the
street into pile ofpacking cases stand
ing on the edge of the sidewalk. This
done she inrned afItotIouately 10 her ca
nine friend, and the pair moved on To-
gether, while the discounted hoodlum
raised his head aboye the edge OF the dry
goods box in which he had landed and
looked about TO see if the Tightening had
sruck any other dog.


Virgiaia City (Nep) Enterprise.
Year: 1873

A Philadelphia editor, having received
from his NJ. q. a copy of the latest Pat
cut Office Report, thus expresses his graft
uude: We have already sixteen humid
red of these interesting volumes in our


little library, but they have been read
and reread so many times that We know
every page OF them by heart. This new
volume came oppotanely and greatfully
on Christmas morning, and that night
we gathered our little family around the
fire aud read 1t through to them. The af-
f+cting tale entitled Improvement in
Monkey Wrenches," seemed to touch
every heart, and when we came to the
climax of the little story about "Revers-
ible Pieboards," there was not dry eye
between the front door and stable. Du-
ring the reading OF the pious narra-
tive entitled SCUM Washers for Carriage
Axles," the whole family gave an express
sion to boisterous emotion, and the hired
girl was so much excited that she lost
her presence of mind and went round to
her mothers inadvertently with six
pounds OF sugar and a butter-kettle full
OF flour, but came home at midnight in
toxicated. We can never sufficiently
thank Judge Kelly for the innocent en-
| joyment thus furnished us.