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Year: 1873

The liberty Of the Press, is sacred TO people
who would maintain their freedom. Tyranny is
always in dread Of free press; the press must
always be muzzled before the people are enslaved
by autocraiie rulers; and, therefore, it is that it is
deemed better, in our country, 10 indulge the
Press even 10 hcense. And il is too frequently the
that inexperienced persons think that because
they arc connected With the Press they should be
permitted TO use unsuarded expressions and in
dulge in the most slanderous and provoking inu-
endues and assaults. If called to account they
Immediately raise the cry that the Liberty of The
Press is attacked and about 10 be destroyed. In
TOO many cases the writer's ior The Press have dis
graced themselves and the papers through which
their ISLANDERS appear by ialsehoods of which they
should be ashamed and al least take The first op-
porunity to correct. But 1ase pride or bad
motives frequently prevent those who make
charges from correcting them.


The cases of this character are not 50 numerous
as foremrlyi but there is still room for reform in
The Press in this particular. The recent SANDER
upon lady in Dover, which is said 10 have had
lis origin in an attempt to blaeI,mail or extort
money; was greedily gathered mp and circulated;
but no retraction Of il has been published in our
eotemporaries, although the GAZETTE exposed
and denounced the slander The ne1t day after It
was published. Since then ex Alderman Vincent
has called on Us and told that lie regretted e4-
ceedingly having anything 10 do with the matter,
Of the truth OF which ho knows nothing, and he
believed he had been deceived by one who is
either an imposter or is dcmented by a delusion.
The ISLANDERS hurled at the Democratic Speakers
aud members Of the Legislature are of the same
character There is word ol truth IN them and
they are coined for purpose that purpose Is IN
the interest of the opposite party and not ofthe
people.
Year: 1873

We were lately shown a curiosity In the shape
OF q sewing machine made entirely OF wood. 1t
was whitfield out of ordinary pine with an ordinary
iaok-knife by an ordinary boy-no, not an ordi-
nary boy; it was the handiwork of deaf aud
dumb boy who resides in Massachusetts. A
machine was left at the home Of the boy by an
agent, and the lad, with considerable ingenuity
made a counterpart OF the machine, even to the
ninutest part, and did it wholly with jack-knife.
-HartfOJsd Times
Year: 1873

The news from the Modoc country this
morning shows some rcOl progress to-
wards successful issue OF the campaign
,olnc sixty odd Of the poor miserable saw
.ges, all women and children except
about dozen, came into Gen. Davis
camp Thursday and gave themselves up
Jack and the rest Of his band arc still a
large, their exact whereabouts being un-
known. Their fate is OF course only
question Of time.
Year: 1873

For the northwest and upper lake
region and thence 10 the Missouri and
Ohio valleys rising barometer, fresh
northwesterly and southWesterlY winds
partly cloudy and cleer weather and low
or temperature will prevail and conditions
indicate occasional severe local storms
For the Gull States, Tennessee and South
Atlantic States southeasterly winds, wsru
and partially cloudy weather. For the
Middle States low barometer, rising
winds and partly cloudy and clear wealth
er with possibly y an occasional thunder
storm along the seaboard. For Canada
and New England falling barometer
warm and partially cloudy weather with
southeasterIy and occasional rain.
Year: 1873

Saturday morning the party drove over to
Masseys, from this town, to make observa-
tlons at that end of the line. They assure
those OF our citizens interested in the enter.
prise that the road t0M be built. They say,
without equivocation, that they mean business.
They further say that they can, and will, have
the road in running order to Clayton by peach
time, if they can secure the right of way with
out difficulty. We make these statements as
they come to us from the parties themselves.
We have merely to add that great expecta-
tions" is the motto OF the town for the present.
How much there may be in these expectations
we will not pretend to say. "rime proves all
things, and to time we appeal.


The engineers returned to this town yester-
day, and are now taking soundings along the
Bombay Hook shore, with view to ascertain
ing the "best water.''
Year: 1873

THE TROUBLES BETWEEN THE GOVERN
MENT AND THE r. r. CoMPANlEs-On our
first page we give clear expose of the postal
car dispute that has sprung up between the
Railroad Companies and the Post Office
Department, as explained by the Philadelphia
Ledger, which takes the side of the railroads.
The dispute is likely to subSide for the present,
however. The trouble has been compromised.
The railroad companies have agreed to run the
postal cars until the special committee of the
U. 5. Senate to investigate the subject shall
have reported at the next session. And, in the
meantime, the Postmaster General has re-
quested of the Attorney General his opinion as
20 the powers of the Government in case of the
refusal of the railroad companies to furnish
postal cars; also as to the power of Congress to
enlarge the authority of the Post Office Depart
ment in the matter of providing for the car
riage of the mails, aud the extent to which it
can do so.
Year: 1873

A STORM BREWING. transportation
trouble at the west, as between the farmers
and the railroads, not only continues, but has
come to the point of widespread secret
organization among the agricultural interests
and their trading connections, the lodges being
called Oranges, and graded the same as in
the case of Odd Fellows. What these organi.
cations particularly aim at it is hard to say, but
the Phila. North american thinks that if they
work efficiently they can very seriously influence
the elections and the Legislatures as well as the
action of the State Executives. Vast as have
been the movements to create home markets
at the west by raising up great industries, the
farmers still suffer to an extent that renders
their organization fully justifable 1t costs
three bushels of western grain to lay down one
at the seaboard Hence it does not pay the
farmer now any more than it did several years
ago, when corn was burned for fuel at the west,
in preference to sending it east.
Year: 1873

SMYRNA CREEK "A bill is now before the
Legislature, aud will pass this week, to charter
a company for the improvement of Smyrna
Creek. The object is to raise Company with
a capital stock of not less than $4,000 moi
more than $4,000 to improve the navigation
of the Creek by cutting off several of the
longest bends. Should the full amount oi
stock be raised it is estimated that the Creek
can be shortened at least four miles, thus re,
ducing the distance from the Landing TO the
Bay to eight miles. BY cutting through some
Of the longest reaches it is also thought that
nearly two more feet of water will be added to
the depth of the Creek. 1t to be hoped that
something more than the charter will be
realized towards this needed enterprise.
Year: 1873

II said that the President had about
twenty thousan nd dollars on deposit in
Jay Cookies bank, but that on the
morning of the failure a tin box was
sent from the bank TO the White
House. Poor Andy johnson had
about sixty thousand dollars on deposit
in the First National Bank, but no tin
box was sent to him. This illustrates
the difference between a President IN
esse aud o tailor in posse. They occu-
py very different stations. They &C
cordingly stand in very different rela-
tions with the banks and bankers. Jay
Cooke entertained the President right
royalty at his suburban palace a day
or two previous to his suspension An
dy johnson will hereafter be entertain
ed in some soup-house where he pays
his little nickle for a plate of slops,
wipes his mouth with dirty teoIe-
cloth and his hands on the back of some
shaggy Newfoundland dog. The only
way for Andy to feel comfortable is Ia
dream that little tin box was sent
hin too; for "there is no difference,


saws Pascal. between a cobbler who
dreams all night that he is King and
a King who dreams all night that he
is q cObbler.'- Courier Journal
Year: 1873

further relates that the rough riders


Of the i'm material space raised hsI
Two hundred feet in the sky, and
Emmanuel, taking her By the hand,
told her that he was her guardian
angel" Ifthis blasphemous creature
shall ever again be elevated to any
such altitude the Time, will move for
an i'm mediate repeal of the laws OF
gravitstion, with the emergency
clause iu-Chicaqo Times.
Year: 1873

If Phillip Lewis and Clarence bug
bee are not stupid beyond belief they
must ere this have solved the prob
lem; sud may the solution give them
new and eHlarged ideas of life and its
duties
Year: 1873




I'll were to give motto to go through
life with, one that would stand; for warn
ing and counsel in any strait. in which
you might find yourselves, l would give
it in this one word, Now.


Don't wasteyour time and your strength
and your opportunities. by always mean
ing to do something-do it. Only weak
ness, comes of indecision. Why, some
people have so accustomed thenselves to
this way of dawdling along from one
thing to another, that it really seems inn
possible for them to squarely make up
their minds to anything. They never
quite know what they are going to do
next, and their only pleasure seems to
consist in putting things off as long as
possible, and then dragging slowly
through them. rather than begin any
thing else Don't live a, single hour of
your life without doing exactly what is to
be done in it, and going straight through
it from beginning to end. Work, play,
study, whatever it is, take hold at once,
and finish it up squarely and eleanly, and
then do the next thing. without letting
the moments drop out between.
Year: 1873

= =


Let MS remember that the best way to
confer lasting good is to help others to
help themselves. And mosj of us have
realized the wondrous power there is In
kind and encouraging words.


Let every one test his own strength
and f1eetness in the race of life; and
though it is well to remember, and calcu-
late on, the possibility of failure, and
profit by the experience of others, one is
apt to get disheartened, or use his
strength in meeting Imaginary dangers,
if he is continuity reminded that he
ffmust not be too sanguine forit is quite
likely he will not succeed, when other
people, possessed of far greater:abiity ard
more abundant resources, have been
known to fail


If fpeople do as we'll or better than we
expect them to, it is not very hard work
or oatght not to be-to tell them so.


And oht the magic power and strength
that lies in few kind and appreciative
words, only those can know who have
toiled faithfully and waited long.
Year: 1873

There are thousands of persons who
believe in luck. They are generally un-
fortunate themselves, or, as they call it,
unlueky. They feel themselves sinking
and see their neighbors rising. all through
luck. They were born unlucky, and,
believing this, they make no particular
effort to stem the tide which sets against
them, and so drift into hopeless failure.
They watch the successful man to see
what this my thical Goddess of Fortune
bestows upon him, but fail to note the
amount of labor which he renders to Sc
cure the golden blessings of the Goddess.
Success to their eyes is nothing but luck.
Energy, ambition, resolution, are worth
less, unless the lucky star shines upon
their possessor. If these idle dreamers
would seek for the true cause of success,
they would find it in hard work, patient
application, steady, Incorporating la
Dor. There is no such, thing as luck.
Some men grow rich; everything they
touch seems to turn into gold; but if we
watch these men closely we shall find
that it needs more than touch to secure
gold. We shall find them to be, as q
class, men of good Judgment, sagacious,
untiring n'their labors, deserving success
by the persistency with which they fol-
low it up. Wealth never comes to the
idler. Misdirected energy may fail to
secure it, but if it comes at all it must be
deserved or won by some special effort.
If the young man just facing the world
desires to be successful, he must make up
his mind that he is the master of his own
fortune; that good luck is nothing more
than the results of his own labor, the
natural rewards of honest and patient
toll. Examine the lives of successful
men, and not drone can be found
among them. They won success because
they deserved it, and deserved 1t because
they worked hard to obtain it.
Year: 1873

A PROVOKING little error OF syntax IN
tho article on the second psge about
"rsury and Interest" whereby we are
made 10 soy business were" will hardly
p,cape the critical reader, The proof
was not read by the writer, who did not
sec the article in type till the greater part
oil the inside had been worked of. VIII
Mr.. LISDLEY MURRAY accept our humble
anOlOCY,
Year: 1873

thoroughly understood the meaning of
reeonnofter and enaancipatifS had no
idea Of the significance of single and for :
giUe.


In this respect schools in districts In
habited by foreigners mainly are at
great disadvantage. The remedy is con-
slant drill in the use of language by sub
stituting words for others of like mean
ing in sentence. For example: in the
sentence, The construction of the e7ifcs
was accomplished at the close of the last
dec0de. Let the children substitute
words of similar or like meaning for
those in italics, reading the sentence thus
formed, and correcting one another's
errors.
Year: 1873

What is the Marshall County Teachers
Association? and what is its object


We have frequently been asked these
questions by both teachers and patrons OF
tried to explain, but in Others have mere
| ly replied: come and sec. Its meetings
are guarded by open doors through which
all, interested in our schools, may enter
and hear and be heard Its constitution
and by laws are open to criticism and
amendments. Its proceedings are not
secret, neither is its object clothed with q
garb of mystery.


1t has been charged that few teachers


wish to make themselves prominent in
their profession, and keep others back


We do not deny the charge, but admit its
truthfulness. We only wish that it
could be said that maany teachers desired
that, instead of "a few" That the many
might conspire against the few to give
them back seats.


Our schools are sick both morally and
intellectually. They need nursing In
the early part of their Illness quacks Of
lered their services and were accepted.


The patients are little better A few
teachers have discovered that they are in
part responsible, and desire to consult
each other, and become more proficient
in their calling by mutually considering
the nature of the disease and the treat
ment best adapted to its removal. All
teachers are invited to con suit with them
not only invited but are urged to take
part. The object is to raise the abilities
of teachers. Not only that, but to have
teachers graded according to their quail
fications. If any md themselves on back
seats, let them blame their inactivity. not
the activity of others. But ! have not
TIE time to spend in consultation some
say Il nave farm, yoke. of oxen, or a
pet lamb to see after, and cannot attend
the meetings of the Associations" Then
your school and it, interests are of sec
ondary importance to you. You are un-
willing to spend day for them unless
you receive your dollar and fifty cents
All you desire is to have employment
during the winter. Hence you bunt
schools. We do not desire this. We
want schools to A,tnj us, and we believe
they will as soon as we deserve being
hunted. 1t is more desirable to be hunt
ed by good thing than to be continu-
ally hunting one. G. PEDANT.
Year: 1873




1t is safe to say that nine-tenths of the
blunders committed by children in reci-
tation proceed from their ignorance of the
use of language. This is especially true
of children of foreign parentage, who
hear little OF no English spoken in their
homes. TO such children history is a
riddle and grammar bewildering maze.
What wonder that their hap-hazard ex-
pressions, in an unknown tongue, are of
ten incorrect and ridiculous. Such child
ren, too, are sensitive, and when in doubt
of being right they remain silent, rather
than make a mistake, to invoke the wrath
of the teacher, or the merriment of their
! class mates, and so often unjustly ac-
cused OF being dull Another pecu,iarity
is, that they are more liable to fail in the
more common words than il the use Of
the long derivitives; for in the latter they
are drilled; but an English-speakine
teacher never thinks it necessary to cal
up the words of every day speech for ex
PLANTATION or practice. A lad who
Year: 1873

Every child should understand the ''rea-
son why of common things, if for no
other reason than that it inculcates an in
curing disposition which will lead him
throughout life to extract information
from the most ordinary object and events
in which another would fail to find any
matter of interest.
Year: 1873

The police of this city have a serious
problem before them. On its quick solution
depend the honor of their organization and
the continuance of the Commissioners in
authority, as well as the safety of the public.
They cannot afford longer to neglect the task
of suppressing the bandtti who infest our
streets or the banditti will master them.


The gross and unprecedented Generalization
of the police, consequent upon anticipations
of changes in the Department, has latterly
encouraged the criminals to the commission OF
the most daring crimes. The public streets
are literally infested by highwaymen; and
street-cars are stopped, as years ago coaches
were with the coolness and audacity of Turpin
or Duyal. The two instances of highway
robbery and attempted murder, on the lines
of the Third and Fourth-aves., are start
ling in their bOldness. But when it is
shown, as we do elsewhere, that these
highway r0bberies are common occurrences,
tho imperative need of equally daring action
on the part of the police against the thieves
becomes apparent. And this action must be
offensive. The police must not wait for the
highwaymen to commit these crimes. They
must invade and drive them from their known
lduHtS, anu Ilu tioJ vi O'OiJ "i"'
they have reason to believe is an adept in
crime. Public sentiment is ripe for just such
arbitrary action, for public safety demands ex-
traordinary measures of relief. The remissness
of the police has encouraged the thieves only
unusual energy on their part will convince the
bandittI of the advisabilty Of their retiring to
safer quarters.


Mr. Kelso, YOU cannot afford to retire from
the Superintendency with police force thus
demoralized, and the thieves in possession of the
city. Action now-prompt vigorous, relentless
pursuit of all these ruffians-will reassure
public safety, restore the confidence and dis
ciplne of the police force, and enable you to
retire, as, of course, you must in short time,
with honor. The car-hook disciples must be
put to flight, or we shall soon have Foster
to try at every criminal term.
Year: 1873

The scene in the Senate yesterday over the
appointment of two additional members OF
the Tweed Investigating Committee was only
another proof Of the assertion we have often
made. that the canker of corruption has sunken
so deeply into our State Senate that nothing
will ever be accomplished in it by way of
investigation until an aroused and intOlerant
public opinion shall make it more dangerous
to refuse than to go on. Senator johnson
found that Messrs. Lewis and Graham, his
colleagues on the Committee, would do moth


ing to forward the purposes for which 1t
was created. This was not to be won
dered at. That Committee was appointed
by Senator Woodin, while temporarily in the
chair and Mr. Woodin is one of the five Re-
pubicans in this Senate who were in the group
of 1901 alleged to have been manipulated by
Tweed So when Mr.. johnson, yesterday,
moved to add Messrs. Lowery and Allen to
the Committee of Investigation, the five
suspects" including Mr.. WOodin, were great
ly excited With much show of virtuous in
dgnation, they assumed that somebody in
tended to insult the Committee and impugn
the motives of Mr.. WOodin i'll making the
appointments Fortunately for the cause OF
truth, however, the required addition was
made; and now we may possibly have
thorough exposure of the works OF Tweed In
the Senate. That parsonage is understood to
threaten that somebody will get hurt" if the
investigation goes on. Can it be that Mcssrs.
Lewis, Woodin, Bowen, Winsiow g. Co. are
afraid of that threat


1t is a rather favorable sign that the reso-
luton passed. But, after all, is it not
discouraging thing that the session has been
allowed to last so long without any serious
effort made to free the Senate from the dis
grace of this great criminals membership 1t
is a ptiable quibble to say that as he has
never qualified, therefore the Senate has no
jurisdiction over him. He is protected by the
guilty consciences of the accOmplices and
instruments of his crimes. The act of bribery
requires more than one person to complete 1t,
and thorough trial of Tweed will reveal
the fact that he found facile merchandise
in both houses whenever he wanted
TO trade. We hope that majority of
the Legislature, as well as a majority OF the
community, are men of integrity. But it be-
hooves the Legislature to prove this by push
ing this investigation forward remorselessly
to its results-no matter what the lists OF
casualties may be.
Year: 1873

The latest bulletin from the haunted school-house
in Newburyport is that the ghost is still knocking
vigorously as ever though it is not stated that the
specter has reappeared. Meanwhile the boy on
whose evidence the antisupernatural report of the
committee was made has been sent to prison for
thirty days for larceny. We must say that this New
buryport ghost business is q little the most mixed
and contradictory botheration of the day. One of
the clerical members of the Committee who reported
against the ghosts existence called lately at the
scbool-house with his wife, who is said to possess
"mediumistic powers" The report is that perfect
racket of raps from every part of the house burst
upon the reverend gentleman, who has confessed
to member of his church that he was as good as
frightened. Alasfor his clerical courage On being
asked why he didn't make public statement of
this he pleaded that he had been denouncing Spir-
itualism" from the pulpit and otherwise, for years.
and that he didn't like to appear inconsistent Such
an excuse from q teacher Of truth does MT strike us
as very honorable II may not be religious duty to
help ones fellow creatures out Of muddle such as
the Newburyport community is in, butit would GER
tainly be good-naturod TO do 50.
Year: 1873

well conceived, and they are all in the direc-
ton of greater simplicity in our administra-
tive system as well as greater efficiency and
purity We urge the Legislature now to give
them a prompt consideration, in order that
they may be carefully reviewed and perhaps
amended before the adjournment.
Year: 1873

The engineers who yesterday inspected the
Tombs recommend its demolition. AT no
other conclusion could any one familiar with
its fatal defects of site and construction ar
rive; and we now trust the Common Council
will set to work to remove it.
Year: 1873

The Connecticut pigs are really becoming alarm
ing. One specimen was born in Bethany, last week.
with two sets of legs and four ears. Two Of ths
four forelegs grow out of the back Of the head and
cannot therefore, be very useful for pedestrian psr
poses to the possessor though they might serve well
enough as horns. This richly formed creature has
two sets of teeth, and his mouth is also provided
with double roof. Bat loveliness like this. Of
course, soon faded. The porcine cherub but Just
glanced at the world just understood that be was .
native of Connecticut. and would certainly be msds
a show of if he lived. He preferred death-he died;
and who can blame himf
Year: 1873

Mr.. Ruskin having found fault with everything
else in this world has fallen afou of mercantile
credit which he declares TO have been invented
simply to give opportunity and power TO rogues,
aud enable them to live upon tho wrock Of honest