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Year: 1873

To BE HUNG.-Advces from Wash
ington state that Captain Jack and the
five Modocs who were convicted with
him by the late court-martial are to be
hung, the President and Secretary of
War having approved the findings, and
the President has fixed the Sd of October
as the day for their execution. If some
Of the whites who instigated the war and
helped bring it on could be hung at the
same time it would be no more than salts
flying the demands of common justice.
The order for their execution had not
reached Fort klamath up to the 2Gth
instant. The Modocs who are to be hung
don't feel SO bad over this as they do over
the fact that Sacrificed Charley, who
turned traitor, is likely to escape. Scar
faced and Bogus Charley We're lately sent
out after two deserters, whom they cap
turcd. Their success has so incensed the
soldiers that if both the Indians arc found
dead with bullet holes through their car
casses no one viii be astonishcd.


What golden opportunity to DR.. Car
penter to lament over murder most foul"
on a large scale.
Year: 1873

About once every two years people are
thrown into state of excitement border
ing on emotional insanity by reports Of
rich gold and silver mines discovered in
the hills south of the city. Some time in
eighteen forty-nne or Spring of Fifty"
an honest miner lost some gold dust at
North Beach in the sand. Some of the
specimens were found. There was big
excitement and hundreds rushed to the
place. Within a radius of six feet an
ounce was washed up. Claims were
staked out but no more gold was found.
Yesterday hundreds Of people climbed
Bernal Heights to view erich" quartz
ledge found in a well. Men and women
have located "claims" and it is reported
that assays prove the rock TO be worth
$50 dollars per ton. Developments to be
made within few days will show whether
the ledge is of any accout. don't be-
lieyc it is Of great value.


Little business will be transacted here
till after election. Nothing is talked or
thought Of amongst the masses. Even
the Bulls and Bears of California street
divide their time between candidates and
wild cat and the Secretary Of the Board
Of Brokers turns up as President of Dem
ocratic meetings "bulling" Democratic
stock.


E. Neblctt was in the city few days
since. lie is proprietor of tin store in
Napa and statesman from that county.
John Chiffon Burch has been nominated
for Judge of Supreme Court by Dcmoc-
racy. The object in view is to have one
Of the Code Commissioners on the Bench
that he may expound the meaning Of
those wonderful books making sort of
glossary OF appendix of the Judge. I.G.
Messic is on hand, deep in politics, fighting
with the southern wing of the Democracy
against the Emerald wing. J.F. Chellis
walks up and down California street very
slowly and sedatcly-his mind, but not
his hands = grasping mines of untold
wealth in Utah. Charley Gordon sticks
to the printing business and is doing well.
Stratton, Of the Swamped and Overflow
cd Commission takes the world easy but
seems to regret that more of it in this
section is not submerged by tide water.
Thinks the Board should be preserved in
tact; "party by the name of Johnson
thinks the Board should be reduced tc
one member who should be johnson.
Year: 1873

Pooh MANA lady on d street, who
for some time past has been trying to in
duce her husband to give her some money
to buy bonnet, heard a suspicious noise
in the parlor the other afternoon and go
ing in found the fellow giving Sl5 order
to fascinating female book agent. Ey
cry once in a while she shouts in his face,
"can't spare $40 for a plain bonnet; Oh
no. But if those books ever come into
this house" and then she nourishes a
broom handle in frent of his nose and
shuts one eye Neutrality-suspicious.
-4ppeat.
Year: 1873

THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the Assistant Treasurer at New
York that during the month of 6eptem-
Der he may sell one and half million Of
dollars IN gold on each Thursday, and
buy half million dollars in bonds on
the third Wednesday. In all he may
sell six millions in gold and buy half a
million bonds,
Year: 1873

a NEGRO stole the carpet from Ten
nessee church and cut it up into horse
blankets, and the congregation all went
over to Broad River to see him immers-
ed. From some unaec0untablc accident
he was held under the water just one
minute too loug.
Year: 1873

Dlo Lewis amused a Utica audience
lately by some advice to married men.
lie was talking about the eye: Gaze in
to your wite's eye closely and you will see
yourself looking exceedingly small" The
illustration took.
Year: 1873

their feeble and sinking condition
and the vigorous activity of The
Southern mills is accounted for
by the give cents a pound" ad-
vantage which the Southern man
ufacturer has in his tilt with New
England. and yet we have but
few factories in Alabama


One fact like this is worth a
thousand theories which aim to
explain why it is that manufac-
lures will not thrive in the South.
They do prosper whenever good
business men conduct them, and
on their establishment in the fu-
ture depends the hope of South
ern restoration; and not restora.
tion only, but an excellence and
prosperity which she never attain
ed in the past.
Year: 1873

In passing sentence on a
man convicted OF murder while
drunk, Judge Brady truly said:


- do not see any mitigating
circumstances in your case.
There are a class of persons in
this community who think they
have only to become intoXica-
ted to act with impunity every
where. As | look upon it, the
drunkard is the greatest despot
in this country. He seems to
stalk over the country when
ever lie pleases, to the terror
OF everybody whom be meets.
You became intoXicate voluta-
rily, and put yourselfin aposi~ a
ton dangerous to the commu~
nifty. That is no excuse for
crime. Your crime is one that
must be punished severely. !
owe a duty to the community
and myself in the administers
ton of justice. / want the
drunkard to understand he can
have no favor from me. \
man who puts himself in a dan
gerous position must take all
the consequences. You con-
ceived the design Of killing a
human being and thus uuder>
took to exercise Il higher pre-
rogative than can be exercised
by the Government or its mag>
istTateS. ItiS an enormous Of
fense, and must be punished.
Your sentence is that you be
confined in the State Prison
during the term Of your natu>
al life"


Men magnify tTities till they
Year: 1873

The near-sighted hen that
ate sawdust, supposing it to be
cOrnmeal, then went and laid a
nest full of bureau knobs, set
on them three weeks and
batched out a complete set Of
parlor furniture, was a pretty
fair hen.
Year: 1873

The force Of habit is fully
illustrated in the case Of a re
tired milkman, who says he
never sees a can of water with
out having an almost irresisti-
bic desire to put some milk
into it.
Year: 1873

REEs & Co., Nos. oil and slS Main, near Ninth


street. are doing nearly all the business In the
city la their line. This Is owiag to their good work
and low prices Their pictures have an easy grace.
full and natural look that Is seldom seen In the ave-
race work turned out by the best galleries else
Year: 1873

A dispatch TO the New York Times Of the
twenty-ffth instant says:


Many of the members Of the new Con
gress have already drawn pay. The Clerk
of the House has prepared a list of those
whose seats are uncontested and who are
entitled to salary without question. Some
interest is already expressed here concern
ing the organization OF the House. Gentle
men who have given the subject eOnsldera
tion say there seems to be no contest with
regard to the reelection of Mr.. Blaine as
Speaker, Mr.. Mcpherson as Clerk and Mr.
Buxton as doorkeeper. It is not certain
that Mr.. King will be candidate for re-
election as postmaster. The most serious
opposition will he against Ordway for ser
geant-at- arms, arising from local causes in
Washington: but his friends, nevertheless,
assert that lie will be successful in his can
Year: 1873

A country clergyman was greatly exas-
perated lately by COW which had made
havoc in his garden, and which had deied
the efforts Of tine boy who had beer sent to
turn her out "Just wait till get this coat
of divinity off, and III drive you. you old
cuss," said he, and before the words were
out Of his mouth. the coat was thrown
upon the f9or and he wen: fos that cow
effectually.
Year: 1873

This cut shows jetformed solar prominencei in the
neghborhood Of spot, as observed by Prof Young Oct
g. 1871. II estimated ny him 10 be 1000 miles high


This diagram shows the appearance Of the neghbOr-
hood OF spot i said spot was cavity hned with
gases When that IL Oyerlaid with hydrogen then it
often happens that II Is through the spectroscope
In the neigbborhood OF the black spot you will
bright one. seen under the spectToscOpe, this
white with little jet projecting from IL, Ike arches OF
nqud spoued out from the This $1,000 miles
high The performance lasted all the afternoon chang
ing all the time.


Now come to speak OF different subject. | have
been speaking OF the hydrogen atmosphere the
surface OF the sum- That not all there is around the
sun When the sun is covered up by the moon during
an eclipse II II surrounded with great halo OF glory


APPEARANCE AND NATURE THE CORONA.


VIII now show you the drawing OF the eclipse OF
1869 at Sioux City. At first did believe at all In the
representation which made IL but after seeing
the Spanish eclipse did precisely such streahs ~
Year: 1873

THESE are representations OF certain frequent solar
protuberances and show their flamentOns characterJ


Here are diagrams Of other forms. They are very
changeabe their shape; is like apple tree with


flock OF birds around e. Secchi had names for each Of
these different kinds. 1t is OF no particular use TO name
them except that sometimes more easily reer 10
the OF object wish to call attention TO- They are
NOT always attached 10 the solar surface and sometimes
connect with il only little lament sem F1laments
are sometimes observed reaching ont in all direc-
tions. The material certainly contains hydro-
gen as the line OF the spectrum comedies
precisely with the hydrogen lines OF the spectrum.
There are also other lines in the spectrum OF the pro-
uberances. secch makes statement, which do not
wish to ndorse that they appear to be formed
AT an elevation the surface OF the and TO de-
scend upon It, as though the material was driven up
ward into the solar atmosphere and there took shape
and fell back. | have never seen anything 10
warrant that The gas may, however be driven up IN
an invisible condition. and then become gradually yisi'
BILE Although this gas is very hot, we must not con-
slider it as burning It remains unchanged, like the
Burning Bush. 1t has often been question with me
whether we have really TO do always with matter
thrown the in these cases, whether II IL
not something like gas catching from below Ii Is I'M
possible TO answer that yet.


This diagram shows curiosity OF the solar ernptions.
II was from observation taken last July Here Is


little object very much like the smoke Of steam engine
The changes In these objects excessively rapid.


CHANGES IN A PROMINENCE.
Year: 1873

This representation Of the sun with chromosphere
and promineuces II shows the relative magnitudes OF
the latter as compared with the magnitude OF the sum-
and also their number The inner circular line Is the
boundary OF the sun proper distinguished from the
chromosphere.l


These are very beautiful objects, and change their
forms as rapidly clouds. Here II diagram or some
of the different forms that are commonly observed.
Father Secchi gave them different names by which to
identify the various forms Al these are seen quite
common and are generally noticed in the negh0oFhood
OF spot.


SOLAR PRoTUBERANCEs.
Year: 1873

Chamberlafnr. account OF the condition OF the
ComptroIer ONCE, or to the Comptroler'saccount
oi tue coDH.ion OF the Chamberlains accounts II
we soueLt and were satisfied with explanatlons
rom ,vather when we discovered startling errors
anu discrepancies, there would be no sense IN the
c.e alton OF our ofice and we should not faithully
y o'.scharge our duties as We understand them
our duty Is to make q iair but searching scrutiny
into the exact condition OF our finances and
into the management OF the pubic departments,
and this we intend TO do. II we find irregulates
TO exist in the Finance Department, and should
fail 10 point them out, We should be guilty OF un-
faithfuness to the people whose agents we are.
We have no feeling against Mr.. Green or against
any other public officer, but we shall do our duty
impartially regardless OF who may be injured by
our disclosures.


REPoRTER-Do you intend to continue on in the
discharge ofyour functions 2


COMMISSIoNER-Assuredy we do. We shal as
certain the exact condition OF the citys liabilities,
which are, in TACT, so much debt. In this we snail
seek the cooperation OF Mr.. Green. II we receive
no aid from him, but are driven TO the necessity OF
digging way through, as in the investigation
we have just reported we shall persevere IN our
labors. .-and shall not remit them until we
lay behre the people the exact amount OF
their liabilities no matter what objections may be
made by interested parties. We have some NIL
lions odollars to pay soon from the city treasury,
and we are convinced that a candid story OF our
condition will do much TO aid the credit OF the
city and to restore confidence in our securities.


This ended the interview, and, thanking the
Commissioner for his Kindness the reporter with
drew.
Year: 1873

The caps are partly below the line in one of
the signatures, in the other not that il one
of the circumstances upon which form my
opinion. \ man NAV write both above and
below, aud all above the line and there still be
peculianty, also in he up and down strokes.
A hmber Or stiff pen may make difference in
the strokes.
Year: 1873

Reside in Paw Paw, have the position Of dep
uty Register OF Deeds. Witness shown mort
gage. .tm acquainted with MattesOn have
seen him writ3. Think the mortgage i. in his
hand writing. signature resembles mortgage
somewhat. Think they we're By the same hand.
Shown signature to Deposition They have
some resemblance. There is difference. A
difference in the slant and regularity o, tho
letters and in the up and down etroles. Ny
OPINION Is that the signatures to the mortgage
and complaint were not made by re same
hand.
Year: 1873

In comparing the signatures os the com
plant and mortgage, noticed difference in
the upward and downward stroke, and in the
capital letters. Notice no material difference
in the general writing The similarity between
the signature and writing in tie body OF the
mortgage. il the same az ! notice in the sig
natures
Year: 1873

The BARON steel process for convert
ing articles Of cast iron into steel is
now being used for the preparation of
tools. The cast iron tools to be con-
verted into steel are first placed in re-
volving drums, and the rough surface
which the castings present as they leave
the mold is thus worn smooth by attri-
ton. They are then packed in layers
in iron boxes, closely with clay, and
subjected to the action of oxiode OF iron
or some other dccarbonizing agent.
After being annealed in these boxes for
period Of from three to six days, the
tools are brought into the state of NAL
lesble iron, and it only remains to con-
vert them into steel. This conversion
is effected by exposing them in large
retort in the center of an oven to the
action Of certain gaseous compounds of
carbon. BY this means about a ton of
iron tools in the retort may be convert
ed into steel in from eight to ten min
utea
Year: 1873

Oh, Barbara, Barbara, your tender
ness had taught You to lay sweet
snares for every possible opportunity !
Oh, Barbara, Barbara surely God
must have comforted you in your lonely
walkings in those green avenues by the
ruined abbey. He did not empty your
pure heart of its earthly love, but He
dropped into it a balm which changed
its bitterness to celestial nectar. Up in
Heaven, where you are, Barbara, there
is only Joy over the returning sinner


And still the stranger sat on the damp
winter sod with his face between his
hands. He was not wishing her back,
the dear love of his youth. Better
where she was, where no mortal soul
could ever touch that great love, which
was long enough, and strong enough,
to stretch from Heaven to earth. Only
there he sat, shutting ont flom his eyes
the sweet, peaceful scenes around him,
even as they must be shut from his life,
and seeing far beyond the "waste
places" and wilderness" that his own
sins had made, into that joyful country
where "the ransomed of the Lord shall
RETURN" where they shall obtain Joy
and gladness, and sorrow and signing
shall flee away"


That night the stranger walked again
in front of that lowly house in tho quiet
by-way. Christmas savors came through
the kitchen window, bright light gleam-
ed between the curtains, even sounds
of glad young laughter and merry song
reached the lonely watcher without.
And he could thank God for them now.
He could even smile in sympathy with
the Joy he might not share. He had
his own.


In that lowly house, after supper,
when the young ones were quiet round
the fire, cracking nuts and asking rid
dies, Aunt Mary fell into soft sleep ON
the sofa. They saw her smile in her
slumber, and when she woke she told
them in her subdued, pathetic voice,
that she had been dreaming OF poor
Uncle Dick; she saw him with dear
Barbara Heron, "and Barbara looked
40 happy" "And even in my sleep,
dears," she said, 81 wondered within
myself, were we all on earth still, or all
safe together in heaven?"


It must have been about that time
that the stranger left Norham by the
midnight mail-train. He stood up in
the carriage, and stretched out his head
till the last spire of Norham cathedral
was lost in the darkness. But even no
had gotten his Christmas blessing ere
he departed-the prodigal son had
found his royal feast-heavenly peace
and human love.


"He came and he went like ghost!
said old Peter, at the -Four Swans
S,nday Magazine.
Year: 1873

Who expressly desired that these words of God
should be written on her grave for the comfort of
whoever should come here repentant and sorrow
stricken:-


"who is 4 God like unto thee? Thou
wilt cast all their sins into the depths Of the sea.


"For the Lord shall comfort Zion: He will COM
fort all her waste places, and he will mako her
wilderness'like Eden, and her desert like the gar
den Of the Lord: Joy and gladness shall be found
therein: Thanksgiving and the voice Of melody"


And the stranger bowed himself t.
the ground, as if he had heard an an
gels voice. Perhaps he did. Here wa,
the love-type of that heavenly love
that he was wildly clutching in q faitt
that was half despair tho love that
survived sin and suffering and death,
and stretched hand to save and soothe
from the very grave ITSELF
Year: 1873

A load of furniture was carried off by robbers
in New York city on Thursday. They knocked
the driver off the wagon and pitched a boy into
the street. One of them was caught by the
owner, but tile other succeeded in driving away
with tha taam.
Year: 1873

Severe spells of biliOusness indigestion, chis and
fever diarrhea, nervous heAdSchO and physical eX-
haustion are quite usual at this season. These are
visitatiOns which everybody is anxious to avoid.
and as a course OF Hoststters ach Bittsfs win
unQuestiOnaby fOTtify the system against them the
most valuable medical advice which can be offered
at this time to persons subject 70 Aueh complaints or
mene0 taking this powerful vegetable Alternative and
invigOrant without delay. Forty eight hours will
not have elapsed after the first dose before marked
change will have manifested itself in the condition
Of the system. The ultimate result will be habit
Of body so regular, genial condition so vigorous
that however unhealthy the season may chance q
be- the system thus refreshed and reinforced VIII b
in the best possible trim to encounter it.


aug27tosep3.
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON. Feb lit begins to be whispered
that another investigation is in order, and that
probably nothing would prevent it unless 1t be the
near approach Of the end of the session and OF Con
gress The story is told and believed. that thor
ongh investigation into the circumstances connected
with the passage of the Pacific Mail Steamship lens-
lation last Winter would show an expenditure here
and in Albany NEARLY all here OF not less than
S1,GOO,OOO.


No doubt is entertained that the bulk Of this went
directly into the pockets of Congressman and OF
their confederate lobby agents; and Thorough m
vestgation for the purpose of finding out, would
probabv disclose a state of affairs by the side of
which the Credit Mobilier transactions would seem
almost Insignificant.
Year: 1873

A SCENE OF CONFUSION AT IT'S COUNTING.
DEFECTS OF THE sYSTEM-GENERAL DESIRE FOR


DIRECT VOTE FOR PRESIDENT AND VICE


Observation-Disclosures IN THE RE


TTRNs-A FLOOD OF OBJECTIoNS-A TEDIOUS
Year: 1873

New YoRk has precocious youth,
who will yet reach Congress, or some
worse place, if he only perseveres in the
path upon which he has started. This
youthful member Of the rising genera
tion is credited with the conception and
execution of the worst practical joke Of
Apfilifools' day. hn According to the
World, he woke up the inmates Of the
house in which he, and his mother, with
other persons, reside, by personstins
both burglar and defender Of his
house against burglars. He had smeared
the wall with reddish fluid to appear
like blood had forced the scuttle cover
open, and then, when all was in readi-i
ness, fired, like valiant rnan-atarms,
three times at vacancy. His mother was
frightened. The boy with admirable
forethought reloaded his pistol, handed
it to his mother, and only then walked
off to the police station to inform the
captain of what had occurred. The police
searched the house and the neighbor-
hood, but without result. An examina.
ton in daylight showed the whole thing
was scandalous hoax The stuff on
the table and walls was the worst imita-
ton Of blood imaginable. It was sort
OF greasy, transparent paint, and be-
trayed home manufacture at q glance.
The scuttle was forced from the inside,
the impression of q stove-shaker near the
latch being very apparent, and the latch
staple had been hammered over the out
side where it was easy to draw. The


bullet at the head of the bed and the
bullet picked up under the window in the
yard corresponded with each other and
with those in q box of Smith & Wesaon's
cartridges, avowedly the property of the
hopeful youth. Altogether the joke was
cunningly planned, but was defective as
scheme to hoax o policeman with half
a gram of persplcuity.