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Year: 1875

IT IS sai0 that most of the residents of Austin would stay at home altogeth- CT if it were not for the t1attering way the local paper has of mentioning their return after brief absence. The fol lowing is The Reveille's latest: Aleck McCatferty arrived by this mornings stage from Battle Mountain. He was attired in a plug hat and an oroide watch-chain, and in general appearance resembled a thief more than canary bird He also had on clean collar, and his best friends did not recognize him at first sight. He will tie up in Austin for the future.
Year: 1875

with Payne as II Is too apt 10 be with most preco-
cous youths, he had no goal In liie notwithstand-
ing his letter In inc Mirror He had great dra-
maIlc ta lent and love for the stage, but no real
dramatic ambition. His success full debut as an
actor ruined him Tor his art After playing two
engagements IN New York and one in Boston he
quarfelled with the most powerful manaee er IN the
country about a matter Of no Importance ana In
q case where he was probably in the wrong. Ills
subsequent appearances both in this country and
in England, were htlul ana irregular. lie sue
ceeded wel enough in obtaining engagements.
but generally ialled to turn them to his own
advantage. Playing with the most eminent
actors and actresses OF the early part OF the CEN
tury, and with ample opportunities for studying
The best models OF his tlme-supported by MISS
O'Neil In "Romeo and juliet" and. on terms OF


intimacy with Kembe, Kean and Cooke and with
both the elder Waack and the elder Booth, he
was himself never really an actor. He possessed
dramatic instinct in remarkable degree. and
sometimes showed dramatic art of a high order |;
but his art was the fruit OF intuition not OF study
Payne might nave been great actor had be not
begun as 'young Roscius;' but his early sue
cesses closed the career which they should have
been the means OF opening II Is only as q drama
list that he viii be remember red, and this almost
solely because OF the greatness OF his play OF
"Brutus." We need not enter into review OF
thar great work at this late day as we'll might we
undertake a criticism OF Henry VIII" or "Mac-
BETH" 1t will stand while our literature and our
stage remain o monument to his genius and an
ornament 70 tragedy. Heretofore comparatively
little was known OF the man, much as his great
work was esteemed, and we have 70 thank Mr..
Harrison for bringing together valuable mass OF
material, ana thus affording the opportunity for
posterity TO judge OF the career OF one 80 well
worth Judging as John Howard Payne.
Year: 1875

The long tragedy of Macmillan
and Carletta of Mexico, the most
picturesque and pathetic story in
its way of our times, has not yet
reached its close. 1t was rumor-
ed a year ago that the unhappy
Carlotta was at the point of death,
and for a long time indeed, her
life hovered in the balance. The
health of the ex-Empress is now
perfect; but her mental condition
is inexpressibly strange and sad.
She is in the world, but not of it.
She believes herself to be continu-
ally surrounded by beings of the
other sphere, with whom alone she
conv IS. She never utters a
word to any of her servants or at
tendants, and the presence of any
human being throws her into fe-
yer Of ennui and vexation. Her
sister-in-law, the Queen of the
Belgians, comes once a month to
visit her in company with a ply
sician. The ex-Empress receives
them with cold courtesy. The
physician asks after her health.
l am very well, she replies, and
turning away, walks out of the
room. She manages her whole
establishment, which is worthy Of
her exalted rank, at the palace of
Lacken, by letter. There is a mo-
sale table in one Of the grand sa-
looms on which every day she lays
down her commands in writing.
These notes are taken by the ser
wants at a regular hour and duly
attended to. She draws up every
day the bill of fare for her table,
composing it with good CASTRO
nomic judgment, and dimes with a
good appetite. If by accident any
dish which she orders is not served
she makes a note Of the fact the
next day, but never with any
word of complaint. She is very
careful with her toilette, and
dresses with all her old taste and
dis tinction, dressing her own hair
and dressing it in the fashionable
/" bandeaux" which were fashion
able when she last saw her hus-
band and was with him in the
dark hours that preceded the
bloody eclipse and midnight of
Queretaro. Her waiting maid is
never admitted to her toilette;
but after preparing her bath and
her dresses leaves the room to
come back only in the morning.
When the weather is fine she
walks in the park-always at IL
o'clock, always along the same



path, and with a very rapid step.
OF course she is carefully watched
by invisible sentinels, but she has
never manifested any disposition
to suicide. She plays e1quisitely |
on the piano and passes houTs in
that way. She paints and draws
extremely well and still keeps up
the arts. The marked feature of
her case is the absolute horror
which she shows 10 all company
but that of her visions and her
memories. To this widowed,
childless wife, this sxiled and dis
crowned Empress, what society of
the living could bring happiness,
or peace, or hope to her?
Year: 1875

A famous auctioneer. after exhaust
a certain gentleman park, which had
to fall under his hammer, said he was
bound, as an honest man, not to con.
ceal the drawbacks to the property,
which were the litter made by the
rose leaves and the perpetual din kept
up by the nightipgales.
Year: 1875

Ii is stated by the officer wLom We
charged in the HERALD Of yesterday with
striking tramp with black jack, that he
was sent for. He was not sent for by any
body in the Office, and even if he had been
sent for, and admitting too that the man
had resisted by kicking him, it WAS no jus
tifcation for his using black jack upon a
mans skull while he had already been felled
TO the ground. and was being held by an Of
ticer powerful enough to handle two like
him. 1t is due 70 the second officer 20 say
that he was no party 10 the assault.
Year: 1875

As your readers are all aware this city
contains the county prison. There is one
thing, however, that perhaps they are not
aware of, in that connection, and that is,
that Of late years it has become entirely too
ymall for its legitimate purposes. The pre-
seut structure was built in 1857, by man
nv the name of Dobbins, and was then con-
sidered quite ample in It's appointments and
size and strong enough to resist the attempt.
of the most desperate and cunning jail
breaker. 1t is two stories in height and
contains two rowe of cells in each or thirty
six in all. These are built Of stone, except
the floors, which consist of two inch planks.
There are two doors to each cell, an outer
and inner door, the former of wood two
inches in thickness, and the latter made of
bars OF iron two inches wide and half an
inch thick. The latter are always KEEP.
closed, while the former are mostly open
during the day to admit free ventilation.
By putting two prisoners in each cell, as
many as ought ever to be confined together.
the prison will comfortably accommodate
seyenty-two, bu: am crediLly informed
there are now no less than one hundred and
eighteen, and as 1t is necessary to put some
OF the criminals in cells by themselves, as
consequence, the other cells are crowded,
snd on several occasions as mapy as ten to
. dozen lave been huddled together in one
cell.


MORE ANON,
Year: 1875




Our Tennessee farmers may be con,
gratulatcd upon the material advance
in the price of wheat from eigh:y-fve
cents and a dollar to a dollar and
half. And while it is an item Of no
iuconsidcable importance to the
producer it is indirectly advantageous
TO every business interest of our cur
rency drained State An unusually
large crop was raised, and a. good
deal of it remains on hand unsOld.
The farmers wisely held for better
prices-those wbo were able toAold-
and an appreciation Of fifty cents
upon every bushel of the thousands
aud millions of bushels raised and
secured makes an improvements IN the
monetary condition of the State that
must be benefciaily felt in every
avenue Of trade. The probabilities
are that wheat will maiDtain steady
balance at present fsares for several
days, if it does not 90 still higher.
Yet. upon the safe principle that ga
bird in the hand is worth two in the
bush - it would be best perhaps 20
profit by the advance already made
than risk the chances of break.
Whenever farmers venture upon the
ticklish ground Of speculation they
depart from their legitimate sphere,
and il disaster overtakes them. 1t /,
their own fault. Tennessee would
do we'll to turn al her wheat into
grceubacks at one dollar and hall
per bushel. .-NaShri'e Banner.
Year: 1875

At present it isSomcwha. hazardous
to speculate as 70 the crop yield OF
the country. owing to the fact that
the damage inflicted By the anprccet-
ented foods Of the last ten days can
not vet be estimated Enough Is
known, however. to render it certain
that, although the fearful loSsesin the
West may, to sonie extent, be bllanc>
ed by a surplus in the South and
East. that the general yield will be
far below the average. When it is
borne in mind that the estimated
losses in the cereal growing States Of
Year: 1875

An able writer in the New
York papers, recommends in the
treatment of yellow fever, that ice
be freely given the patient, Int
that every means should be used to
prevent the access of g current or
draft of air TO him. In other
words, cool the patient inside and
keep the outside warm. Very
good philosophy wet hink. When
You drive a fever from the centre,
don inject it at the circumference
and drive it back.
Year: 1875

A NOTABLE DEATH.-Gen. n. NJ. Mo
Carver died at Tacoma, on Saturday
evening. the 18th inst. Probably there
was no man better known upon this up
per Pacific Coast than the deceased. He
was one of the pioneers Of Iowa, Min
nesota and subsequently of Oregon
A man of enterprise and untiring ener-
~, in the march of empire towards the
west he;xas always in the front rank.
and ever held a prominent position
among those who labored for the adj
vancement of the country. He was, IN
fact one of the worlds great workers,
and though not always successful IN
promoting his own ends. his life was
success in the good he did to others.
He was the protector Of the town OF
Tacoma, worked indefatigably for the
location of the terminus of the North.
ern Pacific Railroad at that point, and
was victimized to the extent of his ac-
cumulations by years of hard labor by
the agents of the Land Ring of that
company who basely betrayed him to
his financial ruin. Too old to renew
the struggle, he became discouraged
and heart broken. and for months past
sought no relief for the great disappoint-
ment of his life but in death. he was
a good old man. and his memory will
be honored by all who knew him.
Year: 1875

TIE Legislature Of Tennessee was to
have commenced balloting for United
States Senator on Tuesday, but up to this
writing we have received no intelligence
Of the result. Latest reports from the
State indicated the probability Of ex-
President Johnson's election, through the
combination Of the Union and Republican
strength in the State In his favor. lie Is
opposed by the Bourbon and ex.rebel
Democracy, who will support an ex-
Confederate, and theySSoppose johnson
because did not go into the rebellion.
Strangely enough his election will be re.
garded as triumph for the Union men
OF the State.
Year: 1875

RESOLVED, that it is the sense Of
this meeting that the city of Knox
vile SHOULD take S250,000 IN stock in
the Blue Ridge Railroad, provided that
a reliable subscription be obtained from
other parties sufficient, with the Knox
vile subscriptions, to complete said
road to Walhalla, in the State of South
Carolina; and that we recommend to
the City Council that they take the
necessary steps to submit this question
70 the voters Of this city.


The above resolution has been adopt
ed by a Joint committee Of the Com
mon Council and citizens Of Knoxville.
Bad times these, friends, 10 be going
into debt at that rate.
Year: 1875

OVEApVN1A k1O1AO"s .a

 A voice from the benighted, or as ex- pressed by a certain aristocratic dignitary,

 six miles from nowhere Although we cannot boast of long line of ancestry. of royal lineage, of costly mansions, of a splendid retinue of chariots and horsemen, of men, servants and maid servants, and withal prominent bump of self esteem, we can say we arc content to, earn our bread by the sweat of our brow, be our own servants, and if need be-, make our own soap by the roadside, and attend to our own affairs in our own way. and mind our own business. Isolated as we are we are not out of reach of the would be civilized community, but hear the oft repeated Mac edonian cry, Come over and help us.' We are not so much like an old horse as to yield readlYto the snap of the whip, but inclined to consult, Lot only our own feel ings, but our own purse, and to follow the dictates of conscience according to oul best ability to help the needy, visit the widow and fatherless, and in our humble sphere do good to all and try to possess oul souls in patience. .. . JoB.
Year: 1875

Kent

 In my last items, I alluded to young poet, well known to the inhabitants of this place. am informed that Elder Snf1es understood the remarks as referring to him. self, and that his sensitive feelings were deeply wounded As it IS not my intention to lnjure the feelings of anyone, much less those of our respected citizen the Elder, l take this occasion to say that he was not the person alluded to, and hereafter let him remember that others besides himself can court the muses ; although judging from the frequent Sunday night visits the Elder is known to make in the southern part of the town, it would not be strange should he too pour out his soul in affecting stan zas......In the afternoon and evening of July 5th, the ladies of this place will hold fair and festival in the Seminary building for the benefit of the Congregational church. There will be dramatic enter tainment in the evening, and an art gallery of revolutionary relics, etc., will be among the other attractions. A good time gene rally is expected. SoL.
Year: 1875

EJ In Massachusetts 8 law recently passed directs that tramps applying to county officers for food or shelter shall be made to pay for their accommodations in manual labor on some of the public works. The effect of this enactment has proved it's wisdom. The average number of such ap- plicants in the city of Lawrence alone has fallen off from three hundred month to forty. The lazzaroni of Naples and the roadside beggar of Savoy seem natives of the soil and climate; but their counterpart on this side of the water, commonly known as the tramp is a creature without excuse for his being. Amid busy men and women he has pleasure in idlcness, and breathing the very atmosphere of industry, lives by the sweat of his neighbours brow.-New York Epensns Post.
Year: 1875

A BRIDE WITHOUT BRlDEGRooM.-The Richmond (Vs.) correspondent of the h. deS-Appeal relates the following: Some time ago beautiful and intelligent young lady informed her intimate friends that she was engaged to be married to MT. A. Last Thursday night was fixed for the wedding, and a number of cards of invitation were sent out. The guests assembled, but no bridegroom appearing, at a late hou0 they withdrew, full of sorrowful sympathy for the lady and fierce indignation against the man who had so overwhelmed her with modification and disappointment. On the next day the lady was a raving maniac, tn which sad condition, It is said, she still re- mains. The gentleman in the case, how ever, asserts that he was not engaged to the young lady, and he had no idea of it, nor, did he know anything about the wedding that was appointed for him. He doubtless tells the truth, and the arrangements for the wedding on the part of the unfortunate lady were but the premonitory symptoms of the insanity aftcrward fully developed.
Year: 1875

GAIT DryRlEs, the General Agent oil
the Baltimore road at this point, gives
notice in another column, that on and
after to-day tie road will only deliver
freight at the depot Of the company in
Mi. city, anil not at the doors of con
signcc. a. heretofore. We understand
,ha, the arrangement between the BalIi'
more Company and the Pennsylvania
Company is that the latter shall bill
freight to Wheeling from all points East
at five cents per hundred more than the
former, and in return Tor this arrange
mcnt the Baltimore road will bill freight
for Allegheny City and Birmingham, via
the ConurlI.yiIIrroad, at corresponding
advance over the Pennsylvania rate.
Year: 1875

THE Richmond Rhig, speaking for the
Southern Democracy, joins most emphati-
cally in the pledge that the South will not
claim place on the next National Demo
cratic ticket. We are equally confident
that the Southern Republicans will Iadopt
the same policy regarding the ticket of their
party. 1t will, nevertheless, turn out that
the Southern wings of both parties will
control the nominations and dictate the
policy to be announced in their platforms.
This is as it should be. The Southern
Democrats, by preserving their loyalty to
the doctrine of State Rights, have retained
the very basis of all Democratic principle,
while the Southern Republicans, by always
keeping in view the meaning and intent OF
the war amendments to the Constitution and
the Reconstruction acts, have succeeded in
preserving nucleus around which the
Republicans of the nation may rally with
an assurance of future consistency as re-
CARDS their party record.
Year: 1875




There Is time and place for all things.
At the reassembling Of the lower House
Of Congress will be the time, and Wash.
ington- the place, for Sankey and Moody to
commence o vigorous campaign against
the sin and iniquity which, through natu.
raj surroundings and circumstances, will
attempt to take root and make the capital
their home. Political demsgogues. as a
general thing, are as impervious TO the
puncturing force Of religious shafts as the
broadsides Of the saurian reptiles are to the
puerile nibblings Of the water-knat. They
seem endowed with stretchy pliable con-
science that can find justification and con.
tentment in the performance Of any deed
that will help work out their ends. They
have, without the remotest doubt, been the
most frequent subjects of conversation and
concern among the angelic councils in the
heavenly department that regulates and
reforms mankind. And why not? Those
who walk in private ways, and upon whose
shoulders the responsibilities of good
government, of national prosperity and
faithful administration OF laws rest, have
neither the scope nor power to subserve
the interests Of God and the country for
personal sggrandizement that lies within
the grasp of the political demagogue.
Heaven, therefore, in accordance with the
eternal fitness of things, has made it a
primal and imperative duty to direct its
reformatory shafts of morality against the
most conspicuous power of darkness, in
whatever form or disguise it may per-
chance be found. In view of this truth,
would it not be an appropriate and strictly
proper time next winter for Sankey and
Moody to come among us. The objects for
the moral shafts would then be with us.
The good and famous men could step at
once into an arena of needed reformation
broad and deep enough for an age of per-
sistent and arduous toll. The material will
be ready for the revivalists in less than two
weeks after the Speakers hammer calls
them to order for the first time. There is
something awfully solemn and important
about this suggestion, something that will
at first thought straighten laughing wrinkles
in the human face divine; something that
will touch responsive chord in every
heart that harbors 9 love for country; some
thing that will meet with the appreciation
of the community, the common country
and the world at large. Yes, have those
Christian gentlemen come. Urge them for
the sake of dying humanity to come. They
must come. We will need them. They
brought ten thousand British souls stepped
in the elements of eternal death into the
benign influence of Christian life. For
this they received the congratulations of
earth and.the blessings of Heaven. Now
if they will only snatch the next Demo
cratic Congress like brand from the burn
iDg-worse, from out the pestilential
shades of corruption, disloyalty and politi-
cal avarice which will shroud them as
gloomy pall-the American people will
bow their heads in gratitude, and from the
heavens will come. "Well done"
Year: 1875

afiliation with the Republican party, and
have enjoyed with it, including its Aboli-
ton members, the gratifying glory of
winning victories over the common enemy.
When 1t is remembered that the abolition
Of slavery isa fixed fact when 1t Is con-
ceded that sectionalism shall be forever
banished as the twin sister of State-rights
treason, and when the selfish encroach-
ments of the Southern Confederate mill
tary ring become more apparent, there is
no reason TO doubt the possibility and
probability that the Southern Wings will
sever their connection with their newly
found allies. Many of them have already
done this, and do not vote at all with
either party. Why, then, should they
not, one and all, without further delay,
clasp hands with their natural associates
in enmity to the Democracy. They GER
talnly cannot stand alone, for they are not
strong enough; they certainly realize moth
ing but indirect insult and outright ne
glect by remaining with the Democrats,
and If they join the Republican ranks they
have everything to gain and nothing to
lose,
Year: 1875

IT SEEMS that some ofthe correspondents
of the New York press, and notably local
morning journal, have been trapped into
the publication of a cock-and-bull story
about the District 365's which bears upon
its face the evidence of having been pre-
pared for the express purpose Of affecting
their market value. OF course we are
charitable enough to accept as an explana-
ton of the case the suggestion that they
were ignorant of the law regarding the
matter, but suspicion exists, no doubt un-
founded, that a promise of an interest in
profits expected from certain pending stock
transactions had something to do with it.
The facts regarding the issue and registra-
ton of the class of bonds referred to will be
found in our news columns this morning.
Year: 1875

ONE OF our evening contemporaries has
rendered itself liable to the charge of at
tempting to ''iniate" Cuban bonds by
publishing a fact-by telegraph, to be
sure-which can only be construed favor
ably to the Insurgents. We hope, how
ever, that the public will deal kindly with
it, and accept its publication Of ordinary
news, or an explanation of that news, if
it should attempt one, as simple proof of
its desire to do its level best in making a
readable newspaper. But we pity the
Insurgents and congratulate the Spaniards,
if it is actuated by any other motive.
Year: 1875

of incompetency or fraud, it will be time
enough to make removals and provide for
their punishment. Until then, simple
justice requires TINT the wholesale SANDERS
ofthe Detective Press shall be accepted IS
the offspring of disreputable malice. The
public generally long ago reached this
conclusion, and now that It Is sustained In
1t by the approval Of the eminent gentle
men who compose the Board of %Commis-
sioners, it Is to be hoped that the ISLANDERS,
of which we complain, will cease. The
following extract from the concluding por-
ton Of the address will be read with in
terest:


"Much of the present clamor Is raised and
promoted by bad men, and Is aimed at this
humane policy with desire to destroy It, even
though its destruction should lead 70 the ex-
termination of the Indians. We cannot, there
fore, close this address without asking earnest
attention TO the fact that for several years the
Indian service, as q whole and in detail, has
been and still is virtually within the super
vision and control Of the religious bodies OF
the country, and upon them and the Christian
community will rest TO o large extent the ulti-
mate success or failure Of the policy OF hu-
manity and justice In our dealings with the
remnants Of this once powerful race"