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Year: 1873

NOVEL BEAR HUNT.-G. w. School
er, who lives about ten miles from this
place, having business in Marysville last
Friday, harnessed team and started.
He had gone as far as Honcut when he
discovered, in the road before him, the
wo-year-old cub of black bear(ess)
which had been shot that morning by q
man named Babcock. Schooler at once
gave chase in his buggy, and for short
time the novelty of man "goin' bear
huntin'" in a buggy might have delight
ed the lover of field sports. But as all
things must have an end so must this
chase. Young Bruin submitted without
as good grace as it possible for any of
the bear family to submit; the animal
succumbed, tired and breathless to the
operation of tying which his bearship's
captor did with halter. After comfort
ably tying the creatures mouth so that
it could not exercise its natural propensi-
ty for tearing things-whch things in
this instance stood for Mr.. SIS lower
lin bs-the captor returned home with
the results Of his chase disposed with
difficulty around and under the seat of
the buggy. The bear was so large that
it required all the strength of the valiant
hunter to put it into the carriage.-O,o-
oitte Mercury.
Year: 1873

CHANGE IT BACK.-If anything were
wanting to convince people of the folly of
holding two elections in one year, we
think the vote polled at the Judicial cleo
ton would furnish it. Here was an cleo
tion, held throughout the State, to fill,
for the long term Of ten years a seat on
the bench of the highest tribunal in the
State, and the successful candidate is
elected by about one fifth Of the voters.
Only in the cities and large country pre-
cincts, was it apparent that an election
was being held-and even in many of
these the vote did not exceed two-thirds
Of the voting population.


In this county two important precincts,
Minersville and Trinity Center failed to
open polls, and no polls were held at four
other precincts. In those where polls
were opened, about a two-thirds vote was
cast, bringing the vote of the county up
to 407, against 7S3 at the general election
in September. This is better showing
than some counties can make. San
Francisco and Sacramento had contests
on local officers which brought out larger
relative vote than would otherwise have
been polled. But in such counties as
had no local interests at issue, the vote
has been less than half. This shows
much greater falling off than usual, and
indicates pretty plainly the people are
completely tired of the farce. The ex-
pense Of the election boards, of bringing in
returns, Of printing and posting notices
ETC., will aggregate in cost to the counties
very near as much as at the election be-
fore.


1t is full time that measures were taken
that will remove the trouble and expense
of the biennial farce known as the judicial
election from the shoulders of the peo-
pie. The plan has been thoroughly tested
and proved failure. 1t is admitted as
such on every hand, and the sooner it is
done away with the better satisfied the
people will be.
Year: 1873

l have hunted diligently for murder
or suicide, or " ",Sun14se horror" or some
thing of that sort. but they are not. The
town is quiet. This week Professor Lay
is going up in his balloon New World,
and with him will go nice young lady,
his afiianced bride, and justice. When
Lay reaches the proper altitude he will
marry that girl and come down. Mos:
men when they marry have to come
down" but not in the same way. Lay is
fixing the balloon now and she is fixing
her wedding dress. She intends to make
the pannier so that if they fall it will act
as parachute.


The San Francisco delegation meets
tonight to fix up the regular jobs for the
Winter why don't your delegation
meet? There is nothing like having q
clear understanding before one goes into
the sacred halls of legislation. D.
Year: 1873

AS one telegraph is buried under the
sea, so all Others will ultimately be buried
under the earth. 1t is now definitely set
tied that telegraph wires in Germany are
no longer to be affixed to poles in the
open air, but are to be buried in under
ground tubes.
Year: 1873

IMPORTANT DECISION. In the case of
the Odd Fellows Savings Bank VS.. Bon
ton, the Supreme Court has decided that
Section 2,937 (allowing a mortgage a
day for each twenty miles of distance
between his home and the place where
the mortgage must be recorded, during
which interval his mortgage has the
same effect as if recordedl does not ap-
ply to real estate. This settles that alb
surd and dangerous section, and enables
business men to protect themselves from
fraud.
Year: 1873

CHICAGO sends to Cincinnati for stone
for her Postofiice, but Cincinnati sends
to Maine for the material for hers. Which
is proof that stone is not without honor
save in its own country, and that the
Government is bound to get its material
from distance, whether or no.
Year: 1873

In New York the effect of the late
money panic is beginning to be felt by
the poor. Hundreds of working girls,
shop girls and sewing girls in every de-
partment of industry, are idle. Male
hands suffer in the same proportion.
Most Of the manufacturers are working
with two thirds or half force.
Year: 1873

"CoLD PIzEN. "A day or two since
young lady at Silver City tried to poi
son herself because young man of whom
she was fond had the bad taste to wed
another maiden of the village. When
she shall have lived to SEQ hor rival put
ting out her Mondays washing, with
nine small children and twins at the
breast, she will be glad the cup was
dashed aside.
Year: 1873

New VoLUME.-The Yreka Union
began its twenty-second volume with its
last issue. The Union is paper which
is both in its local and general depart
ment credit to the interior press of Cal
ifornia. We wish it a continuance of the
prosperity it has so long enjoyed.
Year: 1873

THE San Francisco Evening Post comes
to us enlarged to an eight column paper,
About two years ago the Post started as
small penny paper, and to-day it holds
a proud position in the list of San Fran
cisco dailies. We are pleased to see this
additional token of prosperity.
Year: 1873

The DIFFICULTY MoNGER.-It will al
ways be nice and difficult question to
decide who are the most disagreeable to
an answer to this question, will be di-
gected to the more ugly and venomous
passions such MS hatred, envy, jealousy
aud the like. 1t will probably he found,
however, ,sthat those qualities which come
under the head of foibles rather than of
vices, render the people most intolerable
as companions and coadjutors. For ex.
ample, it may be observed that those
persons have more worn, jaded and dis
pirited look than any others, who have
to live with people who make difficulties
on every occasion. great or small. II is
astonishing to see how the practice Of
making difficulties grow into confirmed
habit of mind; add what disheartment it
occasions. The SAVIOR OF life is taken out
OF it when you know that nothing you
propose, or do. or suggest. hope for, or
endeavor, will meet with any response
but an enumeration of the difficulties that
will lie in the path you wish to travel.
The difficulty monger is to be met with
not only in domestic and social life, but
also in business. 1t not unfrequently oc-
cnrs in business relations that the chief
will never by any source receive, without
many objections and much bringing for
ward of possible difficulties. anything
that is brought to him by his subordi-
mates. They at last cease to take pains,
knowing that no amount Of pains will
prevent their work being dealt with in a
spirit OF ingenious effectiveness. Atlast
they say to themselves, "The better the
thing We present. the more opportunity
he will have for developing his unpleas.
ant talent of effectiveness, and his i'm
noinative power Of inventing difficulties. u
4 Arthur Hips
Year: 1873

The game Of "Tan" was once as popu-
lar with our MonRolian population as the
game Of Faro" with the "Melican
Man" but when the police inaugurated
snppressive measures against gambling
in this city, and closed the saloons de-
voted to games of chance frequented by
the outside barbarians." they also
turned their attention to the Chinese
gambling dens. For several months
gambling of any kind, except the quiet
game of draw poker in q secluded room,
has been hazardous business, and the
paraphernalia Of faro and tan have been
laid aside, or stored away by the Prop
erty Clerk ut the Police Office. A few
venturesome votaries OF both games have
occasionally risked game in an out Of
the-way place, but have usually brought
up in the City Prison and lost their i'm
piements. Thirteen Chinese gamblers
were brought in by the police on Thurs
day, ard four more yesterday; and we
may perhaps explain in this connection


THE GAME OF TAN,


More talked about and less understood
than any other of its class. The proper
name Of this favorite Chinese pastime is
Fan Tan" 1t is not unlike the game
of faro in some particulars. The dealer
seats himself at a table, upon which is
placed plate of tin, glass or leal. about
twelve inches square.
Year: 1873

with the money which has been his greatest
want, and that the chances OF Cabrai ana
Luperon, even with Hayti to back thcm' are
at best only doubtful.


Whatever may be tho result however, 1t
must be well understood that the United
States give no aid nor comfort, secret or open,
to either side. There must be no protectorate
over Baez; the United States flag must not
be used to awe his subjects into submission
the United States navy must no longer be en-
ployed to carry dispatches and run of errands
for him. And the merchant adventures at
Samana must remember that they have bought
their colony without a guaranty from us, and
we are not going to put them into possession,
nor to take care of them after they are set
tied. If Baez cannot or will not fulfill the
promises of the treaty, they have no redress
except such as the Dominican courts may
afford them
Year: 1873

II is time there were an end of this hypo-
critical clamor about the Tweed trial. The
papers and persons that keep it up do not de-
ceive the public, nor even themselves. Since
they ,ciH have the matter talked of, we pur-
pose to refresh the general memory on
one or two points of common nOt0riety.


Mr.. Tweed last Autumn made proclamation
of his hostility to Liberal Republicans, and
his support of the CustOm-house organization.
He was kind enough to disapprove OF the
manner in which THE TRIBUNE was con-
Quoted, and he said that he meant to go where
his interests lay Everybody can now see
where his interests did lie.


The understanding, last Autumn, was per-
feet, and was by every well-informed politician
known to be perfect between VIM. M. Tweed,
James O'Brien, and Thomas Murphy. Tweed had
furnished money, the year before, for OBr1ens
canvass O'Brien was then and has been
since the open ally of Murphy in politics, as
Tweed has, all along been in business. The
TRIBUNE last Autumn declared that one part OF
the understanding whereby Murphy, OBrien d
Co. gained Tweeds supportSfor National, state
and City tickets was that he should be suffered
to escape the penalty of his robbery. The results
show it to have been as absolutely correct on
that point as it was on the Credit Mobilier rot
tenness. Tweed has escaped and is to escape /;
and the hypocritical bowling of the people
who made the bargain, or their friends,
cannot deceive any but those who wish to be
deceived.


1t is idle to try making scapegoat of Mr..
Douglas Taylor. He seems to have done his
duty; but, in any case, where were the law
yers of the prosecution when the jury
was accepted and swornf What is
the mystery of their objecting to one
iuryman without cause, after he had
been sworn, and then promptly accepting IN
his stead the man who represented Judge Bar
nard at Saratoga during the impeachment
Did they select him as person likely to do
Justice to Tweed, or because of his intimate
attention to one Of the counsel for the prose-
cutiOnf


Out upon this farce! The Ring whose for
nation The TRIBUNE, last Autumn, pointed
out, is complete; and the escape of Tweed Is
one of its first fruits.
Year: 1873




To-morrow night is dedicated to the one
social event of the Winter in regard to which
there is no question and no discussion. Every
ono approves of the Charity Ball. Every one
may go to it with no fear of derogation. We
all know that nothing ever happens there
which it would be disagreeable to see or to
remember. We are equally sure that every
penny which is received there is applied in
the most scrupulous and careful manner to
the purposes avowed. Each purchaser of a
ticket feels that he has a double bargain. He
gains a pleasant evening and the soothing
consciousness that he has contributed to a
worthy charity. His five dollars are twice
blessed, blessing giver and taker.


1t is not possible to see anywhere else so re-
markable a gathering as that which this event
annually summons to the Academy of Music
It has always been managed with extraordinary
care and circumspection, so that the company
shall be kept free from all Objectionable ele-
ments. At the same time the number of the
guests is so great that it is impossible they
should all belong to what is called the strictly
fashionable class. 1t therefore resembles most
nearly those great official balls in Paris given
under the Empire at the Tuileries and the
Hotel de Vile, where you were always
sure of finding not only the Court and the
Cabinet, but the people prominent in admin
istration and financial circles the military, and
the higher stratum of the bourgeoisie. They
certainly had no flavor Of the Faubourg st.
German, yet you could generally find a con-
tingent from that exclusive suburb in the
crowd. They were said to lack the perfect
bouquet Of Bourbon and of ValOis, bn.t. tney
were nevertheless vH S,, S,. very ssTy luxurious, m
and vel worth seeing. Our Charity Ball is
1na6ectedly democratic and liberal, and yet
there are things about it which make it
more attractive than any private party
could be. The scene is 80 vast; it
blazes with such innumerable jets of gas the
crowd is so enormous and so well-dressed,
thatsthe general effect is indescribably large
and striking. 1t has often been remarked that
the dancers and promenaders, in their un-
conscious play of color and of move
ment, form a more brilliant tableau than
any the art of the stage-manager could COM
pass The blas6 youth Of the clubs has its
little sneer at the Charity y but it goes all
the same, and cannot prevent the ball from
being cheerful and enjoyable. We hope it
will be long before this wholesome and
benefcent institution dies. IL deserves to live
long, because it is the instrument and resource
of q noble charity, and if it had no object at
all it would still justify its existence by its
own intrinsic merits. -
Year: 1873

this communication the Controller charges
that Mr.. Palmer is in the practice OF retaining
in his possession large amounts of money due
from the County to the State. The reason for
this Mr.. Green does not distinctly charge,
except that the Chamberlain indirectly thereby
promotes his own interests as President Of
the Broadway Bank.
Year: 1873

There is some talk about organizing the
new Congress Immediately upon the adjourn
ment of the present one. SO far, the only
ground for such proceeding is alleged to be
a desire to defeat Speaker Blaine's reelection,
and get good places on the Standing Com
mittees of the House.
Year: 1873

Judge Davis declined to set day for the
re-trial of Mr.. Tweed, and motion will have to
be made in regular form whenever the
District Attorney is ready to begin. 1t is not
likely, however, that he will be tried again
for several weeks, as dilatOry motions will
undoubtedly be made with the former per-
sistency.
Year: 1873

The bill of exceptions in the Stokes case
was signed on Saturday, and the appeal for a
writ of error will be made to-day in the Oyer
and Terminer. If granted the case then goes
at once to the General Term for reversal or
confirmation of the verdict.
Year: 1873

The programme of the Secretary of the
Treasury for the month is said to be to pur-
chase four millions of bonds and sell six
millions of gold. The clear purpose would
seem to be to "bear gold" in the interest of
The Syndicate
Year: 1873

spicy scandal agitates the commercial circles Of
Portland, Me. Three of the most respectable
merchants of that city have been detected in snug
Cling nutmegs and ardent spirits The latter were
taken out of bond in Boston, carried about on the
sea awhile then landed on Long Island, and thence
conveyed TO Portland. But what could they pos
sby have wanted of cheap brandy in q city in
which it is penal offense to sell drop of itf
Year: 1873

We have received a letter from the Chairman of
the Greeley Monument Committee, stating that the
publication of the name of Mr. William Cullen
Bryant among the signers of their address arose
from error of the copyist. and was entirely min
tanfional
Year: 1873

1t seems likely that the Modocs will be
ready to talk with the Peace Commissioners
by the time they reach Oregon from Wash
ingtOn. Advances by the chief of the band
have already been made to the besieging
forces, though, as yet, they have resulted in
nothing. 1t is a little humilating that our
Government should be obliged to parley with
this grotesque handful of Indian warriors;
but the situation is trying one and the best
must be made of it. .l
Year: 1873

most melancholy affair has just occurred at
Richmond, Va. Two highly respectable" young
ladies have been sent to Jail for days for the
offense of stealing from a hair-dressers shop "a
quantity of human haiP'-ten dollars worth, in
fact The frightful arrangements for the human
head at present so much in fashion are answerable
for the temptation TO which these two highly re-
spectacle virgins succumbed. 1t is dreadful state
of things when ladies are thus driven to crime to
obtain the means of making themselves hideous
Year: 1873

At Rathdowney. in Ireland, the other day, one
Edward Bowling proclaimed that, being too good
for this world, he would be translated at certain
hour from the public square of that town. Two
thousand people got together to see Mr.. Bowling go
up. He told them that the fiery chariot would soon
arrive to carry him off, but unfortunately the
vehicle did MT come. He waited and waited, and at
last was compelled to announce that the ascension
was indefinitely postponed In all other respects the
miracle was perfect success.
Year: 1873

mysterious disappearance of a whole family Is
reported from Madison, Wis. There lived there a
prosperous farmer named Gladly and he is missing
with his wife and two daughters. NeighbOrs, on
going to the house. found the stock nearly starved
but of the family no trace was to be discovered.
The fact that the farmer kept sum of 81 500 in the
house may have something to do with the matter
and if so, it only affords another instance of the
folly which people commit who, living in isolated
situations, keep considerable quantities of cash by
them.
Year: 1873

We print to-day a sharp and somewhat Bit
Ger letter from Controller Green to Mayor
Havemeyer. The ground traversed is that
which has been so often skirmished over by
the Controller and the City Chamberlain. In
Year: 1873

The conscientious precaution of clergyman of
that town, the Rev. James Boydon is recorded by
The Taunton slass.l Gazette. The reverend gentle
man had been exposed to the contagion of the small
pox Instead of going about, freely mingling with
his unsuspecting fellow w-creatures, the Rev. James
Boydon voluntarily shut himself up in his garrett
and did there isolate himself in strict secluson for
the space of fourteen days. Naturally concluding
that he was then incapable of injecting anybody he
came out and moved among the sons of men as
usual. Was the Rev. James Boydon never vac
cinated
Year: 1873

committees propose to repeat the plan Of
last winter by series of free lectures,
which will be very entertaining.


There are two daily papers published In
Knoxville, which contain the general tele-
grams up to midnight, 80 that the residents
of the city can read each morning at the
breakfast table the latest news from all
over the world. 1t Is useless in these days
of railroads, telegraph and rapid mail tran
sits for people to isolate themselves from
the world in search of health and q genial
climate, as we have known many to do,
when all these comforts and pleasures can
he enjoyed together, besides many business
men desire to place their families in COM
fortables and pleasant situations and return
to their business, bat would not do so un-
less at point where they can be reached
at any moment by telegraph and mails.
This is precisely what we would suggest,
here they can do SO. Our facilities for
reaching here at this time are somewhat
circuitous but this objection will be over
come by the completion Of the Cincinnati
railroad, when the distance will only be
27S miles, which can easily be travelled in
ttoeIvelhours or only one delightful days ride
thrott0h the Cumberland Mountains. The
completion of this road will open our doors
to all the northern and central portion Of
the United States, so that we will be nearer
than any otherpoint, when the advantages
SO much sought after can be realized and
must send thousands ofpeople to findpleas-
ant winter homes here in this genial cli-
mate. Knoxville should be the finest win
ter resort in the Uuited States, and our
mountain retreats furnish some of the
finest summer resorts in the country,
while our numerous health giving springs
of mineral waters have proved i'll thou
sands of cases their curative powers. Par
ties desiring to come here, can by writing
us secure residences or boarding in ad-
vance.
Year: 1873

Jefferson was clear in his great office.
and he lived up to his great principles


Being asked by a neighbor to write
something that should help him into
Congress, Jefferson said, From a very
early moment OF my lite, | determined
never to conference.-the with elections by
the people, and have invsribly adhered
TO this determination" Much as he
loved his old friend and secretary,
William Short, he would not assist him
to sell the little public stock which he
possessed, saying. Il would do anything
my duty would permit but were | To
advise your agent (who is himself a
stock-desler) TO sell out yours At this or
that moment it would be used a. a
signal to guide speculation Invited
to share in a promising speculation, he
declined. on the ground that public
man should preserve his mind tree from
all possible bias OF interest When the
tugitlves from the st. Domingo massacre
arrived in 1898, destitute and miserable,
he wrote TO Monroe Never was so
deep tragedy presented to the feelings
OF man. | deny the power OF the gene
raj government to apply money to such
a purpose, but deny it with a bleeding
heart Ii belongs TO the State govern
meuts. Prsy urge ours TO be liberal.
t.; Fob package came one day
addressed to her sister. a poor wo~,7;


who lived fifteen miles from Monticello.
He WAS care eul to enjoin it upon his
daughter, not merely to forward the
letter, but to send il to the womans
house by special me-seuger.-JAMEs
PARTON in AprR atlantic.