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Year: 1873

The bill met with neither sueers nor on
position in the Senate, but the business of
that house went on with discouraging slow
ness. At twilight on the last evening of the
session March 3, 1879, there were ll9
bills before it. ~ it seemed impossible for
it TO be reached in regular course before the
hour of adjournment should arrive, the Pro
tessor, who had 50 anxiously watched the
tariy movements of business all dav from
the gallery Of the Senate chamber. went
with a sad heart to his hotel and prepared TO
leave for New York at an early hour the
next morning. While .at breakfast, SER
want informed him that young lady desired
to see him in the parlor.


There he met Miss Annie Ellsworth
then a young school girl-the daughter of
his intimate friend, Hon. Henry L. Els
worth, the first Commissioner of Patents
who said. a she extended her hand to him
d" have come to congratulate YOU.


.. Upon what ?'' inquired the Professor.


" pom the passage of your bill" she
replied.


=. impossible Its fate was sealed at
dusk last evening. You must be mis-
taken


- Not at all, she responded " Father
sent me to tell you that your bill was passed.
| lie remained until the session closed, and
yours was the last bill but one acted upon,
and it was passed just five minutes before
the adjournment and ! am 50 glad to be
the first one to tell you. Mother says. too,
that you must come home with me to break
fast


The invitation was readily accepted, and
the JOY in the household was unbounded.
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Ellsworth had fully be-
lieyed in the project, and the former, in his
confidence in it and in his warm friendship
for Prof. Morse, had spent all the closing
hours Of the session in the Senate chamber,
doingiwhat he could to help the bill along,
and giving it all the influence of his high
personal and official influence.


Grasping the hand of his young friend
the Professor thanked her again and again
for bearing him such pleasant tidings, and
assured her that she should send over the
wires the first message, as her reward The
matter was talked over in the family, and
Mrs. Ellsworth suggested message which
Prof. Morse referred to the daughter, foi
Year: 1873

Abiding to the report that the Boston
tailors propose to publish the names and resi-
dences of delinquent customers, the New York
Commercial says, They hope thus to obtain
pay for their suits more quickly than by bring
ing them into court. Bat the new measure
wen be apt to limit the young mems invest
ments in vestments.
Year: 1873

These unappeasably exact fo,k who rapst
have their pound Of social flesh, and will NOT
be put off with less than their precise dro
are, for the most part, difficult people to keen
in good hnmor. They know nothing of that
easy-going slip-shod, good-nature which
gives and takes, and never keeps any debtor
and creditor account at all; which sends eut
two invitations to their neighbor's one. or
forgets to return his call within the prescribed
limits, and then meets him with a beaming
smile and jocund manner, as if he were
not sinner and breaker of the law. That
kind of thing is abhorrent to thsm-as bad
as cobwebs on the ceiling or maternal slippers
down at heel. What the sticklers for ETH
quette like is everything to be done with tho
incest precision-invitation for invitation,
and the card left on the exact date on which
1t should be left; call returned for call with
In the term prescribed according to the de-
gree OF intimacy; and the whole of the So
cal Lie mapped out as you would map out
the plan OF an estate, with so many acres,
roods and perches assigned to A., and so
many rods of fOrest-growth told of to b.


Sometimes, however, these sticklers for
etiquette are kind people in their way-peo-
Pile who will lend bus not borrow, give but
not ask. They are generous in bestowng,
but not generous enough to accept. They
will load their neighbors with benefits, but
they will uot carry away so much as a
flower in free gift. Their house is open to
you, and you might, If you would, use il in
their absence, and make yourself at home
with cup of afternoon tea aud lounge on
the comfortable sofa but they would die of
fatigue and inanitlon rather than do the same
by you; and it may talk forever, but you
cannot beat it into their heads that there is
no difference between you, and what they
allow from you they may also commit tor
their own parts. Not bit of it. TO the end
they remain generous, hospitable, free-hand-
ed in what they grant; and to the end, also,
precise, stiff sticklers tor etiquette, and tire
somely punctilious in what they accept


Sometimes they are just the contrary to
this, and, while they will accept uneonven-
tional kindnesses frankly enough, will not
allow the smallest infraction OF the rhadam-
anthine rule OF strictsst etiquette to them
selves. They would hold il as an unparGon-
able liberty if their dearest Giend should enter
their house in their abseEce, though he or she
had come twenty miles and more to see
them. A servant who should offer cup Of
tea of her own accord, even TO their sister,
would receive her dismissal before the night
had come; and a lifelong intimacy has been
broken for all time for no greater ofense than
that of picking unbidden bit of mignonette
out of a bed which was choked with its own
luxuriance. And some again are at least
just and logical, and neither give nor take,
bat demand the pound of flesh with the
most scrupulous exactness, and pay it just as
methodically. Mall Gazdtte.
Year: 1873

An elderly widow of Cincinnati has
brought suit for breach of promise against a
tickle sexagenarian sui'or, which, from the
effective use made of the old beau, reminds
local reporter of the battle of AH-in-court.
Year: 1873

neglected or refused TO DO so and II the respond
ents Jailed TO raise that question AZ the time Of the
return OF the alternative writ they cannot do so
now. The People ex rel. McGowen vs. Green.l
1t is clear rom the recitas OF this mandamus that
the mandamus was not issued simply TO bring the
Board togI ( er so that the reator might make
request to tEe Board, as was claimed on the argu-
ment upon TINS return, as the mandamus itself
show that the request had been made ana the
Board had neglected aud refused to comply with IT,
which refusal would have been justified had the
Board not been authorized to make the app0rtion-


THE MANDAMUs ITSELF,


that the Judgment Of tie Court was that as the
Board had neglected, failed refused to make the
appo[ o[tionment. the law requiring them 10 do so,
mandamus must issue to compel them TO DO SO:
The ab0ve reasoning applies equally to the second
branch OF the return II does not appear that tae
revision claimed to have been made was made SUBJ
sequent to the service OF the order to show cause,
anu We must assume that II was made before, ana
that ground II well taken, would have been AN an.
swer TO the application for the mandamus. ana u
must te deemed TO have been overruied The
last branch OF the return Is not good as pleading,
and must therefore be disregarded. The Supreme
Court at General Term held that upon the return TO
a peremptory writ the only question Is, have the
respondents complied with the commands OF the
WRIT have shown that writ could not nave oeen
issued Tor the Purposes stated upon the argument
by the respondents, and therefore there mas not
been compliance with It's requirements. AN
order to show Cause why an attachment shou!o not
issue must De granted. The order " snow cause
is returnable next Monday, 4-.s,,
Year: 1873

Al inquest was held yesterday by Coroner Herr
man on the BODY Of John slater, lad nineteen
years Of age, late watchman employed by the
Harlem Railroad Company who was killed on the
evening OF the 4th inst. by being run over by
train Of cars belonging to the New Haven Railroad
Company. Deceased was sta toned on the tempo
rary trestle work extending from 1leth street to
Harlem, and lay down between the tracks, and
another watchman engaged there told Slater it was
dangerous to lie there as he might fall asleep and be
run over. The train did come along and run over de-
ceased. His companion, who should have been
awake to give the alarm himself asleep, but on
another track. Slater lost his lie and his sleepy
sociate lost his positon he having been discharged
by the railroad company for derehction OF duty.
minent peril by the inexcusabIe drowsiness OF
these unfatthful watchmen, but fortunately no one
except deceased was injured The Jury found that
Slater was killed by being accidentally run over by
a train OF cars belonging to the New Haven Rail-
road Company.
Year: 1873

The jurors VINO were summoned to the United
States District Court to try the case OF Woodhull,
1llnin and Blood will be paid for their attendance
by the United States Marshal on Friday, July H. at
twelve o'clock M.


report was in circulation In the United States
Courts yesterday to the effect that some action
would be taken in the Department of State at
washington toward reviewing the recent action OF
che federal Courts OF this city In relation to the
case OF Carl vogt, Prussan subject, who had been
held for extradtion to Germany on charge Of
having murdered, at Brussels, the Count de Bois
de Bianco Such action on the part OF the State
Department would be altogether unusual. The
question arises, has the State Department
thority to review Judicial proceedings The
case of vogt is the only one OF the kind that
has ever arisen under the ExtradittOn law,
the point being whether Prussia has
right to demand from this country the
surrender OF Prussian subject who is accused Of
committing crime in the kingdom OF Belgium.
The federal Courts have decided that Prussia does
possess such right BY virtue of "the jursdicton''
OF her Courrs It is hardly possible that the State
Department will venture to set aside the delibe-
rately expressed Judgment OF United States magis-
trates and judges


As will be seen by q report elsewhere, Judge
Van Brunt sitting In Chambers OF the Court OF
Common Pleas granted yesterday an order to show
cause why the members OF lhe Board Of Estimate
and Apportionment should not be punished for
contempt In failing to comply with writ OF pc
remptory mandamus granted by the Court. The
motion in question, as will be seen, has reference
to the claims of the clerks Of the old Bureau Of
Elections for pay, but the interesting point Is q
Anal determination Of the question whether this
Board shall continue to snap its fingers with I'm
punity at the mandates OF the cOurt-


q n a
given yesterday in the Of Alfred G. Legrave by
Judge Fancher, Of the Supreme Court that the
long protrscted lftigations in which this gentle
man has been involved not likely to trouble the
Courts much longer This decision is specially i'm
portant rs defining the grounds upon which arrests
may be made abroad under extradition treaties.


Judge Daniels in the Supreme Court. Chambers,
yesterday, issued mandamus against Comptroi-
Ter Green to appear at twelve O'Clock to-day and
show cause why he refuses to pay Alderman Mon
heimer his salary Supervisor for the months OF
May and June. The writ was served yesterday
afternoon.
Year: 1873

AbscnCc WIthcSses-A Dc1InEucnt Baf-


tender.


Coroner Herman yesterday held an inquest in
the case OF MIR. Charles n Ross, the man who was
fatally injured last Thursday evening on the cor
ner of Fourth avenue and Sixtieth street by being
struck by the locomotive attached to an incoming
train OF the New Haven Railroad Company. De-
ceased was attempting to cross tine track in ad-
vance OF the train 1t was in evidence that the
rules and regulations OF the company prevent the
trains from running at rate OF more than twenty
miles an hour. The engineer said that at the time
OF the accident the train was going about ten or
twelve miles an hour. A bartender, who wit
messed the occurrence, refused to give his name
and did not appear as a witness. The fagman,
Also was not present. Coroner Herman said he
would issue an attachment for the delinquent bar
tender and lock him up. The further Investigation
OF the case was therefore adjourned till Wednes-
day morning.
Year: 1873

We hear that the lines OF steamers con-
meeting with the new routes of traffic at the
head Of this Lake, will be largely reinforced
the coming season. Such reports as that
the Spencer line from Chicago, thinks 1t
worth while to treble the number in their
line, running six instead Of two as hereto
fore; that the Union line will add to the
numbers and equipments OF their fine boats !;
that the y. \. Central will put or a special
line at special rates, and several other
items Of similar maritime intelligence lately
eriyen out. show that the transfer Of trade to
the Lake Superior route is surely being ae-
complished. and by no means as slowly, as
rival routes would persuade themselves


1t is not of course for the sake Of Duluth,
or any other town site, that the railway
kings of the east send their ships to the
head of Lake Superior. Their only object
i to connect with the Northern Pacific
Railway and branches. They connect now
at our neishboring city, Just as they VIII
connect with us on the completion OF the
NP.R.R to our docks. The high prices ana
cramped conditions under which alone de-
sirable property is obtainable on the Duluth
water front, will necessarily drive much
trade to this side of the St. Louis, even
were it not tending here as it IS already oy
the unalterable laws that utilize natural Ia
cilities for commerce. Year by year capt
tai will be attracted to the head OF Lake
Superior Capital will come as the steam
ers come, to connect with the great CONT
mental route that strikes water carriage at
this point.
Year: 1873

MINNESOTA WHEAT YIELD FOX 1872.


The entire wheat product of Minnesota
for the last year is computed at twenty-five
millions of bushels. Of this, sixteen mil
lions Of bushels were shipped to Chicago,
Milwaukee, St. Louis, aud the head of Lake
Superior, leaving still IN the hands of Min
nesota farmers, the large amount of nine
million bushels. Two-thirds of this is be-
ing used for home consumption, and the
seed of this years harvest.


Let Us glance ahead very few years,
and on a moderate calculation we find the
expectation Of Minnesota wheat alone must
soon amount to nearly fifty millions; and
in one decade without doubt, to a round
hundred millions. Add to this the certain
development of the vast Red River and
Saskatchewan wheat fields within the next
the dozen will be demanded on the Bay of
Superior. And capitalists can foresee the
same thing. There is money in the prodi-
gious transfer business 10 grow up at the
head of this Lake, and it will attract in
vestments just as surely as the Northern
Pacific Road and its branches extend west
ward, and steady tide of immigration fol-
lows it. We know the road is certain to
be built; we know that immigration is GER
tain to follow it; we know that wheat farm
ing will be pursued by the majority; we





know that this wheat will come to the head
of Lake Superior, and as the Northern Pa
cifc Road has put us on an e4lfq3 footing
it'll Duluth, as regards all commercial IA
ciIities, we know that capital will soon be-
gin to be strongly attracted toward us, and
build up fourishing young commercial
city at this point.
Year: 1873

Since the compromise" both Duluth
and Superior claim the coming flesh pots
p L. Gazette.


Superior City will be a lively place the
coming summer, and we are glad Of it
ashland Press.
Year: 1873

A WEST Bend youth was amusing him
self by whipping a horse, when suddenly
the horse amused himself by crunching the
arm of the West Bend youth, and tearing
out three or four steaks. There's nothing
like FIN
Year: 1873

THERE has always been an outcry, from
a certain branch OF the Gradgrinds. as to
the folly and idleness of tancywork, so
called, and the total depravity of the same
| in any relation to art.


! We confess that we have never been al
/ together able to agree with those earnest
souls who cry havoc and let loose the
dogs of war upon the poor little prey; for
to our thinking fancy-wOrk is byno means
AT all times an unworthy occupation, and.
moreover, those employed upon IL being
usually those whose time hangs heavily
on their hands, we must believe that any
work for them is better than no work at
all.


Certain it is that fancy-work is often a
great delight, amt answers a craving other
wise unappeaSed, for with almost every
one there is desire 10 create the beautiful;
and if nature has not been impartial in
her gifts of genius, Of eye, ami hand for
the execution of outline and color and
fOrm-if it is not given to every one TO
draw and paint, and carve and mOdel-the
llnassuming bit of fancy-wOrk may afford
opportunity of seeing delicate shapes and
tints grow beneath the touch. and give to
the worker degree of satisfaction which,
II 1t be not the highest there is, is still
valuable.


The idea of saying that because a person
cannot do all that is desirable. that person
shall be debarred from doing even what is
possible-that if she cannot paint flowers
in watcr-cOlors, for instance, she shall not
work flowers in iiOsses, is, with all defer
ence to those that differ, simply absurd.
One might as well say that nobody should
sing lullaby that could not sing cava-
tina-that nobody should write ballads
htc fharn tor
fro:l another in glory, We are told; and
if thus stars particular influence is shed
upon fancy-wOrk, we do not know why
the fincywOrk should be ignored because
that stars influence is shed upon some
thing better still.


OF course the day of embrOidering pink
eyed and impossible pOodleS asleep in
impossible meadows is over: and though
some may attribute its abolition. in a
degree, to the hue and cry against fancy
work in general, We prefer to consider it
due to the universal improvement in the
public taste which has taken place with
added culture. education, and intercourse
with the world at large. Nowadays de-
signers of real merit are employed upon
nearly all the designs for Berlin wool
and those who do not see anything lovely
in a baby's blanket lying over him like
lapful of blossoms, or do not think an I'M
slightly chair is bettered by tidy whose
vines and leaves are crOcheted as whitley
and frostily as winter stamps them on the
pane, or do not prefer To have a cumbrOus
and unganly wooden mantcl-shelf cover
ed and fringed by lambrequin whose
foliated outlines mingle in graceful ara
besque-thOsc who choose rather the plain
blanket. the ugly chair, the naked shelf,
before the same objects decorated into
cheer tulness and cOmeliness. have, to say
the least. a very singular taste themselves.
-Harper's Basar.
Year: 1873

A wELL-BREp woman never hears an
impertinent remark. A kind of discreet
deafness saves one from insult, from much
blame, and from not little connivance In
dishOnorable conversation.
Year: 1873

MARINE HOSPITAL NOT SOLD.-AccOrding
to the following letter the United States
Marine Hospital. on Common street. was
not sold:


TREASURY DEPARTMENT


Office Of Supervising Architect. June %. 1873. )
Hon. L. A. Sheldon:


SIR have just returned from the West
and find yours of the twenty-ninth ultimo.
In reply have to say that the highest bid
for the building received under advertise
ment was $4,000, a sum 80 inadequate that
the department could not, for one moment,
consider such proposition.


l can assure you that it would give me-
great pleasure to proceed with the work
on the new hospital, but the only ap-
propriation being the proceeds of the
present building, do not see how any
thing can be done at present. nor do l see
much prospect for the future.
Very respectfully. A. B. MULLET,
Supervising Architect.
Year: 1873

At an early hour yesterday morning another
of those horrible crimes, on account of which
New York is acquiring such an unenviable
notoriety, was committed in tenement house
in Broome street. At present the case is
involved in much mystery; but the detectives
are busily at work, and it is to be hoped that
in this case they will not fail to make the mys-
terry plain. For the full particulars connected
with this bloody affair we refer our readers to
another column. The fourth floor of the
house above referred to is rented by Mr..


Burk. Mr.. Burk and family occupy three of
the apartments; the fourth room on the floor,
front parlor, was occupied by Nicholas
Ryan and his sister. At about half-past two
o'clock Mr.. Burk was aroused by peculiar
noise which he describes as like s'the squeal-
ing OF cat" Opening his door and 1ooking
into the hall, but seeing nothing, he was
about to return to bed, when his children
called to him that there was something wrong
in the hallway. Procuring light and look
ing into the hall, he discovered that the walls
were covered with blood. Calling to his wife
that there was murder in the house, he went
into the front parlor, where he found Mary
Ryan lying in bed with her throat cut: Rush.
ing to the window, he called for
the police, when Officer Wilson, of
the Thirteenth precinct, speedily answered
his summons. On the landing of the
second floor the officer stumbled over the
body of a man who, when light was pro-
cured, was found to be dead, his throat cut
from ear to ear. Proceeding up stairs he
found the walls and stairway from, the second
to the fourth floor covered with blood In the
room occupied by the Ryans there were no
traces visible Of any struggle. On table Law
the gold watch Of Miss Ryan, small gold
pencil and penknife, apparently indicating
that robbery was not the motive to the mur-
der. Later one of the officers found bloody
marks as of naked feet on the stairs leading to. .
the roof. Proceeding to the roof he found the
blood marks repeated, and suddenly lighted
upon the vest of the murdered man. The
pockets were empty, and the condition Of the
vest encouraged the belief that the watch
chain had been suddenly wrenched from the
buttonhole. Mr.. Ryan's watch and chain are
missing. Is this case Of double murder or
is it case of murder and suicide? Yester-
day the bloody foot prints on the roof were
with Ryans feet and they were
found to correspond. This adds another COM
plication to this remarkable case
Year: 1873

this convicted and fugitive oulprit. whose
honor was relied upon by his friend the
Sheriff. has betrayed his other friend. the
Police Commissioner. who was his bondsman
for ten thousand dollars on the indictment for
forgery. which bond was forfeited yesterday.
Such are the intimate, confident and amiable
relations between crime and those who are
chosen to repress and punish it.
Year: 1873

judges and juries in the detection and the
trial and punishment Of offenders.


1t must yet be learned in how great degrees
the fight of Genet was the result Of con-
nivance. There was some knowledge that an
attempt at escape would be made, and the
Sheriff was informed of this, and was warned
in time by the authorities of whose warning
in the case it was his duty to take notice.
What notice did he take? Did he limit in
the least degree the liberty of the culprit
No. We see the criminal going to his home
as usual, entertaining his friends all day on
Sunday, and going to bed in one room while
the officer does the same in another Mr..
Brennan trusts to the culprit's honor What
an irony there is in i'll He is convicted
of getting four thousand dollars on false
pretences and is under indictment for for
gerry, but he has honor enough for the
Sheriff of New York county. Was this
insult to justice, this trusting to the honor
of man proved to have none, merely negli-
gence, or was it connivance at whatever might
be the consequences? Neither do we consider
that the Judge was altogether blameless He
should have insisted upon the incarceration Of
prisoner held subject to sentence. II is
strange commentary upon the whole story,
and suggests the full picture of the state OF
politics in our midst, that this member of the
Legislature. elected since his indictment
Year: 1873

People have been so humbugged with
dirty, poisonous hair preparations, that
they hail with delight the new article
styled NATURES HAIR RESTORATIVE,
Clear as crystal, and it does its work most
effectnallX See advertisement