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Year: 1871

water. A deep disgust for knowledge followed
my late enthusiasm as one wave succeeds another
and my only feeling was one of anger and envy
towards the first great cause whose doings I had
thought to duplicate-whose secrets to unrave.


The groveling thing below me, gibbering in
the glare of the gaslight, seemed to mock me,
and with anger and dispair closed the aperture,
turned on the asphyiating gas, and in few
moments he was beyond the reach of resuscita-
tion through human means. What is the meas
ure of my guilt as weighed by legal standard,
and in how far would have been murderer
had not the scene been enacted? ?


So closes one chapter of this remarkable doc
ument, and if the evidence were not so positive
one would doubt the statement contained there
in The house which covered these scenes has
been razed by order of the Government, on petit
ton of the owners of adjacent property, and ev-
cry vestige has been removed. The name of the
murderer has been erased from the heraldic
records, and his name, as far as possible, con-
signed to oblivion.
Year: 1871

ADVANTAGES OF HAVING FATHER.-How &C 60
ing 10 law" pays, is pretty well illustrated in
the following story of lawyer, resident
of Oshkosh, Wis:


One Smith had failed in business, and sold
had given them to his lawyer for collection.
Smith went to the office to receive the proceeds.
The amount collected was about $50.


" I'm sorry you've been so unfortunate, Smith
for | take a great interest in you. | shan't
charge you SO much as should if did not feel
so much interest in you"


He handed Smith $l5 and kept the remaining
$35.


&" You see, Smith, knew you when boy,
and knew your father before you, and take a
great deal of interest in you. Good morning ;
come and see me again"


Smith moved slowly out of the door, and rue
fully contemplating the avails, was heard to
mutter:


al am glad that he did not know my grand
father"


INSECT INsTINCT.-A correspondent of "a New
York paper relates touching instance of insect
instinct follows: | found a cockroach strug-
Cling in a bowel of water. took half peanut
shell for boat. put him into it and gave him
two wooden toothpcks for oars, and left him.
The next morning visited him, and be had put
piece of white cotton thread one of the
toothpcks, and set the toothpick up on end as
signal of distress. He had hair on the other
toothpck, and there that cockroach sat a fish
ing. The cockroach, exhausted, had fallen
asleep. The sight melted me to tears. never
had to chew leather to get soul. was born
with one took that cockroach out, gave him
a spoonful Of cruel and left. That animal never
forgot that act of kindness, and now my house
is chuck full of cockroaches.
Year: 1871




"IF anybody had met Christopher Col
umbus In the middle Of the Atlantic, and
told him that he was in tho net Of discoy'
ering country that would ultimately fall
into the hands Of such an administration
as the present, he would have gone back
home and stayed there ."-LOuisriRe COu
rier-JOurnal.


Very likely. Accustomed from Lis
youth to yield implicit obedience to au
lhority, he would have been utterly at d
loss to comprehend how It should be pos
sible to treat 50 incorrigibly bigoted and
lawlcsS State US Kentucky with the
clemency and magnanimity which have
characterized the action of the admins
tration. He would have been completely
gusted.-Rttdurgh Commercial.
Year: 1871

A NEW VARIETY OF AN OLD SPECIES. A short time since New Haven pauper was buried without any funeral service. Mrs. Hanaford, pastor of the Universalist church, published card in the Courier denouncing the neglect, and remarking that her church and her services were always available in such cases, for the poor as we'll as for the rich. The persons responsible for the omission defended themselves in the Pal ladiuns, and the editor of that paper eem-

 mented with great severity on Mrs. Hama

 ford's card. That lady replied in com

 munication vindicating the truth of her

 statements and the propriety of her con- duct. The editor of the Palladium return

 ed to the attack more savagely than ever.

 making, in the course of his reply, the fol.

 lowing remarkable statement

 We but state 8 simple fact-which we neither approve nor condemn-when we say that at least nine-tenths of the Christian men and women of New Haven would consider the public services of Mrs. Hanaford at funeral in the light of an un- seemly burlesque of what ought to be very sol emn matter, and that the same proportion of Christian men and women would much prefer that their deceased friends should be buried without any religious service than have one performed by

 the reverend gentlewoman. z4 t4s

 Here is certainly a new, distinct, and very beautiful variety of we'll known spe- cies. Why not designate it as the Odium 1heologicuns MAsoULNuM
Year: 1871

Out ConnOiiy IL not Snppery enough 10 slip
out Of Office, and the people win be anxious
to learn what is to be the next step
in the municipal drama We fear
that Mayor Hall has exhausted his
resources, and will at present be powerless to
rid his administration of the Objectionable
heads of departments. We have insisted
upon his removal of certain officials in case of
their refusal to resign; but he can only
remove them through the instrumentality of
the Court of Common Pleas, and as one Of
the Judges is, we believe, at present 10
Europe a full bench could not be secured,
even If the Court were in session.
The new charter does not give the chief
executive, as it ought to give him, the abso-
lutte power of removal, and hence the city is
compelled to endure the rule of any dishonest
or incompetent head Of department. who
may be disposed to defy public sentiment
and cling to ONCE. This Objectionable
feature of the law was forced into it
by the republicans who helped to pass 1t, for
the security of their friends who were to retain
Office under the terms of the bargain. Fear
full that after the charter was passed the Mayor
would displace the republican officials and
Hl their Offices with his own politi-
cal friends, they tied his hands with
the new fashioned tenure of office
cords first manufactured at Washington. The
effect Of this sort of legislative bargaining is
now apparent. The chief magistrate of the
city, eager to rid the government of men
whose displacement is demanded by the public,
and who are unfit for Office, finds his requests
for their resignation scoffed at aud is powerless
to remove them. This, then, is the direction in
which reform Of the municipal law is really
needed. No desire to retain any set of men
in office, no dickering and bargaining on the
part Of democratic and republican legislators
aud their friends should be allowed any lon
ger to cripple the city government and to tie
up the hands of its Chief Magistrate. The
people should, with one voice, demand that
the charter shall BE- so amended as
to give the absolute power over
subordinates to the Mayor, who is
directly responsible to the electors. Instead
of throwing the municipal government again
into confusion, in order that a new set of cor
morants may obtain access to the treasury, as
the partisan journals and hungry politicians so
earnestly desire, the hands of the chief
officer should be strengthened and
more direct responsibility exacted and
secured. This should be the work of the
future. At present the question of interest is
how to rid the city of Objectionable officials
who refuse to resign. If the Mayor is power
less. and rendered so through the corrupt bar
gains made at Albany, probably proceedings
before criminal court may yet be open to the
people, and judges may be found firm enough
to require such heavy bonds from suspected
public officers as to efectually debar them, for
time at least, from discharging trusts which
the citizens are eager to snatch from their
hands.
Year: 1871

The FRENCH TAX LEVY will not 60 down
with the National Assembly. Our cable
despatch, which we publish in another column,
says that the Budget Committee, which was
ordered to consider the bill in detail, has
reported adversely on the subject aud will
not agree to the bill authorizing levy on the
nation to meet the present demands of the
administration, subject to the subsequent
approval Of the Assembly. The Assembly
will not sanction it either.
Year: 1871

NAPoLEoN's PENSIONERS have received
terrific blow. The Assembly yesterday brought
in bill abolishing the late imperial pension
list, and suppressing all further payments
from the treasury under this head, excepting
in cases of extreme poverty or where the
grant has been made for distinguished services.
sorry day for many who are not fortunate
enough to be either poor or distinguished.
The latter will be few.
Year: 1871

THE GRIsT TAX In ITALY is the present SUBJ
ject of anxiety to the Finance Minister of
Victor Emmanuel's Cabinet. Signor Sela has
for considerable period been undecided as
to the course he should pursue in relation to
this matter; but he now concludes that he
will farm it out, and send his 'igrist" to mill
on the same plan that he has ground out the
tobacco tax
Year: 1871

How ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN IA scion
of the once imperial house Of Bonaparte mar
ries an accomplished American lady, grand
daughter OF the great Daniel Webster, and the
event scarcely inspires an editorial line in the
columns of the whole American press!
Year: 1871

The CHOLERA CONTINUES TO RAGE IN
EUROPE, notwithstanding the reports that have
reached us to the contrary. A cable despatch
from London last night states that it has not
abated, and that the cases in Russia alone
number one hundred and fifty day. Another
despatch is singularly corroborative Of this
statement and gives an account of its ravages
on board an American vessel. The ship
Lowell had arrived at Cardiff from Hamburg,
and when the despatch boat boarded her it
was found that four of her crew had died from
cholera since the time of her leaving Ham
burg. IF such havoc could be made in few
days it is reasonable to suppose that had she
been out to sea for two weeks the vessel would
have been cleared of her entire crew. Ham
burg has considerable business with New York,
through the North German steamers, and per-
haps this information will be Of service to the
Health Officer at Quarantine.
Year: 1871

curing a place for him in some mer-
camille house. The Governor eX-
erted himself to procure his coun-
tryman, though under the ban and
an exile from California, a situation
and with success. The friendly act
was remembered by the now South
American Railroad King and mil
lionaire, and less than year ago the
Governor received check by which
he was enabled to purchase a COM
Portable homestead in this city, in
which his last breath was drawn.
Year: 1871

PASTE THAT WILL KEEP YEAR.
Dissolve teaspoonful Of alum in a quart
of warm water. When cold stir il as
much -four as will give it the consistency
of thick cream,> being particular 20 beat
up all the Jumps stir in as much pow
dered resin as will lay on a dime, and
throw in half dozen cloves to give
pleasant odor. Have on the fire a teacup
of boiling water, pour the -four mixture
into it stirring well all the time. In a
very few minutes it will be the consisten-
cy Of mush. Pour it into an earthern or
china vessel; let it cool lay a cover on,
and put in cool place. When needed
for use, take out portion and soften it
with warm water. Paste thus made will
last twelve months. 1t is better than
gum, as it does not gloss the paper, and
can be written on.-JoErnaL of applied
Chsmistry.
Year: 1871

It now seems quite certain that the
troops are to be moved from Fort Colville
and the Post abandoned. The troops
now stationed at that place will for the
present probably be sent to LaPwai.
Year: 1871

VERY SAD.-Wc lately saw a sad case
in the person of man at the Asylum
street railroad depot, who has Just been
paralyzed, and was carried in the arms
of four men from the Springfield train to
a'train for Plainvile, on his way to his
home in New Hartford. This unfortunate
man, Mr.. d. f. Hawley, was a baggage
master in the Springfield depot. In get
ting out heavy trunk from the baggage
car of newly arrived train, he was
threwn down by the conclusion of the
backwardcoming engine, hitting the train;
and in falling with his trunk, the trunk
hit another heavy trunk, and this fell on
his back, paralyzing his body and legs.
On his way here, to his home in New
Hartford, he learned of the sudden death
of his wife, The poor woman dropped on
hearing by telegraph of her husbands s
misfortune, and died Immediately. The
unfortunate and now doubly afflicted man
was taken to his desolate home, where in
a few days after his arrival he witnessed
the death Of bis child. Hartford Paper.
Year: 1871

Would call the attention of the Public 10 the
latest improvement in the adhesion Of Artificial
Teeth, by the of the Patent Etlitis EDGE
With this Patent the Teeth will neither start nor
drop out while eating or speaking, neither will
any particles of food get under the plate, while
the edge being flexible, it will adapt itself to the
mouth so that anyone can eat nj once without
trouble, Even with the hattest shaped mouth the
patient finds no difficulty, and the superior conf
fort with which these plates are worn is acknow-
lodged by all using them. Having purchased the
erelasirs right Of this patent for the town of Bran
don and of Addison County | shall be pleased to
explain and exhibit this improvement. to all who
may wish to examine it, All dental operations
performed in a skilfu and thorough manner, and
warranted. SIMS
Year: 1871

MEMS RIGHTs.-A correspondent of the Gin
cinnati Gazette thus writes in behalf of his sex :
az am, ;" he says, q a bachelor, thirty-one years
of age, in sound health, and in receipt Of 81 500
per year, and therefore good match for any
woman, no matter whom she may be yet l re-
main unmarried from principle and will remain
single until the laws are so altered as to make
me master Of my own home. am the owner Of
real estate acquired by my own labor. do not
allow any woman to control me in my disposal
of that property simply because she happens to
be my wife. She would have done nothing
towards earning that property, therefore has no
moral right in its sale. Any law giving her a
dover third is simply fraud on me, the more
so as the law does not give me a dover third in
her property. And then the ceremony now-a-
days, called marriage, does not give me wife
it merely gives me woman who can leave me
whenever she pleases. cannot keep her against
her wishes. She may go back to her father or
elsewhere. and l cannot compel her to come
back but should l leave her, for any reason,
she can have me arrested and compel me to sup
port her Such thing is one-sided and unfair.
A woman held by such loose tie is not, in my
opinion wife in the holy way decent man
has shrined in his thoughts. The laws have de-
graded her into concubine."
Year: 1871

Stick TO ONE TnING.-Eyery young man, after
he has chosen his vocation, should stick to it.
Don't leave it because hard blows are to be
struck, or disagreeable work performed. Those
who have worked their way up to wealth and
usefulness, do not belong to the shiftless and
unstable class but may be reckoied among such
as took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves
and conquered tIfsr prejudices against labor,
and manfully bOr be heat and burden of the
dav
Year: 1871

WARTS AND CoRNs.-Warts are not only very
troublesome, but disfgure the hands. Our
readers will thank us for calling their attention
to the following perfect cure, even Of the largest,
without leaving a scar. 1t has been tested by
the writer: Take a small piece of raw beef,
steep it all night in vinegar, cut as much from
it will cover the wart and tie it on, or, if
the excrescence is on his forehead, fasten it on
with strips of plaster. 1t may be removed dur
ing the day, and put on every night. In one
fortnight the wart will die and peel off The
same treatment will also cure corns.
Year: 1871

ANCIENT history records beautiful incident
illustrating the power and unselfshness Of flial
love. In the siege of a certain city, two young
men within its walls had rendered great assist
ance to the General through which it finally fell
into his hands. In return, he ordered their
lives to be spared, and gave them permission to
take with them out of the city as much treasure
as they could carry. They accordingly both ap-
peared at the gate, one carrying his mother on
his back, and the other his father; showing by
the act how much more precious they were in
their eyes than any amount of jewels or gold.
Year: 1871

Nothing can restore the halr Where the tolllcIes
are destroyed, or the glands atrophied and de-
cayed but such as remain can be saved by this
application, and stimulated into activity, so that
a new growth Of hair is produced. Instead of
fouling the hair with pasty sediment, it will
keep it clean and vigorous Its occasional use
will prevent the hair from turning gray or falling
off, and consequently prevent badness The
restoration Of vitality gives to the scalp arrests
and prevents the formation Of dandruf, which
is often so uncleanly and offensive. Free from
those deleterous substances which make some
preparations dangerous, and injurious to the hair,
the Yigor can only benefit but not harm it. If
wanted merely for HAIR DRESSING, nothing
else can be found so desirable. Containing
neither oil nor dye, it does not soil white cam
brio, and yet lasts long on the hair, giving it a
rich, glossy lustre, and grateful perfume.
Year: 1871

age-courage to be calm and help
one another. The grave problem
which now faces the great city in
ruins beats all precedents of the kind.
Cool judgment and determined reso-
luton and action art the duties of
the solemn hour. All is being done.
aud everybody is helping by sympa-
thy, not in sentiment alone, but in
deed and in truth. The Hon. John
Dement,, of Dixon, said to us to o-day,
Sir, so greatly am i moved by this
great calamity that 1 can scarcely
trust my voice to speak of it." and
the strong man wept as he said It.


Thanks to the blessed spontaneous
charity of the whole country in the
midst of the desolation. 1t is the
bright angelic side of human nature,
and when it flashes out in such splen-
dor as on the present occasion, we
feel the divinity of humanity, and
that something of immortal good re
sides in it. The mutual reflex of this
experience of sorrow and suffering is
most grandly beautiful and not less
valuable to the race for coming time.
Suffering is the test and interpreta-
ton of true manhood.


In the midst of all the blank won
der with which the people of Chicago
noted as they are for energy and
hopeiulness--were forced to stand
and gaze at the havoc which the ele-
ments were making with their proper
ty: in the mitst, even, of the sorrow
that the calamity was bringing to
every hearth, one might often hear
this apparently frivolous utterance:


We'll Chicago has been bent on beat
ing tho world in rYthing-slre has
done it again now. She has had the
most destructive fire ever known"
This is unquestionably true. The fire
which devastated Chicago Saturday,
Sunday. Monday and Tuesday is un
questionably the greatest fire and the
greatest disaster, so far as property
is concerned. that is known to history.


Chicago has received the most ter
rifle blow ever given city by fire,
and for q time it seemed as if we
must all lie down passively in thc
common ruin, and let the city 90 to
the moles and bats. But this feeling
could not continue long in Chicago
the city of the world for enterprise
and to-day, over the smoking ruins
men are shaking each others, hands
and vowing the city shall be rebuilt.
Many of our leading business men
have already decided on building
Temporary structures will, in many
cases, so up, but solidity and beauty
will soon follow. Beneath all the
chaos, and terror, and suffering is the
beating Of stout hearts which will
never give up, and their courage is
contagious. Chicago will rise again !
Chicago. aided by the sympathy
and already rendered assistance of
her friends in other parts OF the coun-
try, joined to the indomitatle and
elastic energy Of her own people, will
be builded again, determinedly, upon
the still smoldering ashes of her late
glory.
Year: 1871

Our State Republican executive
COMMITTEES have managed the late
campaign with such marked ability
and sagacity as to entitle them to the
hearty thanks of the Republican party
of Ohio.
Year: 1871

which were pretty generally found in
a state of preservation that indicated
the safety of the papers and valuables
which had been lodged within them.
In several instances, however, all was
destroyed-The melting heat had
dissolved the very iron doors which
had rolled away while the flames lick
ed up the last dollar within. The
bank vaults were pretty much all
safe.
Year: 1871

Hours.


WASHINGTON, June 81 P. M
The barometer has risen somewhat
without material change in the weather
on the California coast. Threatening
and cloudy weather is reported from
Nebraska, where rain fell last night
The barometer has fallen somewhat in
the Mississippi valley and still more
so on the lakes. An area Of low pres
sure has slowly advanced southeastward
and is now central near Lakes Ontario
and Huron. The area of cloudy wealth
er with occasional light rains; which
was Monday evening in North Carolina
and Florida, is now confined to the
latter State. Partially cloudy weather
is now reported from Georgia to Vlr-
ginia and clear weather generally pre-
walls in the Middle and Eastern States.
Clear weather prevailed until this after.
noon on the Lakes, but cloudiness is
now increasing with fresh winds from
the southwest and rain storm of small
extent is reported from Southeastern
Missouri.


Proba6iHties.-It is probable that the
area of low pressure in Upper Canada
will move southeastward, accompanied
by fresh and brisk winds from Lake
Huron to New Jersey. The conditions
are favorable for local storms in the
Ohio valley and on the middle Atlantic
Year: 1871

Crops, &c.


OMAHA, June 27.-The Legislative
committee Of the Constitutional Conven-
ton make their report this afternoon.
1t will be silent on the subject OF minor,
ity representation. The committee
think its tendency would be to encour,
age rings and bestow on minorities an
opportunity for influence and action
preiudicial to the wishes and interests
of the majority. They will report
favoring the limitation Of State Senators
to thrty-three, one-third to retire each
year, and the members OF the House to
one hundred and more, to hold office
one year, and that the Legislature con-
vene annually. The committee on
Railroad Corporations will report soon,
requiring all railroads in The State to
keep an office where they will issue and
exchange their bonds and where they can
be examined, and that all roads in the
State should report annually to the
State Auditor their business and stand
ing. The question of prohibiting towns
and corporations giving aid to railroads
will probably be submitted separately to
the people.


Yesterday was the warmest day OF
the season. The thermometer stood at
1Ono an1 there was no wind A fine
rain fell this morning, and it is now
cool and cloudy and the thermometer is
at 650.


Reports from the northern part ofthe
State say that crops of all kinds are
looking finely. Corn and potatoes are
unusually sound. Small grains have
suffered some from the recent warm
weather, but there will be an average
oron