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Year: 1875

/ Propositions.


The proposition to reorganize the Third
Avenue Savings Bank, recently suspended,
and TO run il for the benefit of the depositors
may be q good one, but it should be eau
tiously entertained and very thoroughly scru-
tlnized An array of figures is made, in
tended to prove that the bank can be made
sei-supporting upon its present resources
with one hundred thousand dollars in d.
poslts added But to this pleasing pro
grainme are added the condition that Mr..
Oarinan, the receiver, who has got his grasp
on the assets in the interest of the hank and
not by the will of the depositors. shall he
allowed to retain possession, and the
announcement that no further statement
thsn that embraced in the january report
will be given to the public at present As
the January statement was fraudulent, de-
signed to represent the bank as solvent, and
as Mr.. Carman is understood to have sane
toned that statement some exception may be
fairly taken to both these provisos. 1t is
very evident that the depositors can have no
confidence whatever in Mr.. Carman or in any
other officer of the institution by which they
have been victimized, and that, if any such
arrangement as the one proposed be feasible,
it can as well be carried out by some other
competent receiver as by Mr.. Carman.


The danger is that these tempting bats
may be held out by the bank for the purpose
of inducing the depositors to leave the affairs
and the books and papers of the bankrupt
institution in the hands of its late Secretary.
The proposition only strengthens the suspi-
cion that there are matters connected with
the management which the bank people are
anxious to conceal. All manner Of injurious
rumors are ahoat; rumors not only OF mis-
management but Of direct dishonesty
which ought to be set at rest. The
manner of Mr.. Carmans appointment
as receiver is full Of suspicion. After
the Bank Superintendent, with knowl-
| edge of the bankrupt condition Of the
concern, had suffered it to continue its busi-
ness and enlarge the circle Of its Victims
the bank was allowed to steal up to Albany
without the knowledge of its creditors and
to get its own receiver secretly appointed
without their consent. Before the swindled
depositors knew that their money was gone
the bank doors and the banks books and
papers had been closed to them and they
were utterly powerless in the matter. 1t is
clearly the interest of the depositors and Of
the public at large that a new receiver,
not mixed up with the bank, should be put
| in charge Of its affairs. Let the whole trans
actions Of the concern, and the whole action
Of the Bank Department in relation thereto,
be brought to light. As we have said, an ar
rangement such as is proposed if practical
BILE, will not be retarded, but will be promot-
ed by the appointment of q capable receiver
on whom the depositors can agree and in
whom they have confidence, and the first
thing advisable to be done is to secure the
removal Of Mr.. Carman and the appointment
! of O new receiver in his place.
Year: 1875

REAL ESTATE SALES, Some large sales
were made yesterday, as reported elsewhere
Unlike the sales Of the previous day, the
prices had some relation to the real value of
the property; but it must be noted that q
great deal Of this property was on or near
Fifth avenue, in the Central Park neigh
borhood Lots brought all they were worth,
probably; but even here the prices fell far
behind the fancy rates at which the lots have
been held, and even far below the rates at
which a portion of the property has previ-
ously been sold
Year: 1875

Exactly which party is very well satisfied
with the present aspect Of things in France,
and which party finds its good nature sadly
disturbed by the same aspect, is well exhib-
tied by the two speeches Of French poll
ticians of which the cable has given synop-
sis within few days. To-day it tells what
NJ. Rouher said at Ajaccio; day before yes
terday we heard what NJ Theirs said at Ar
cachon- In the words of the ex-President,
there was self-satisfed spirit Of equan-
unity, which suggested that the feath-
cred saviour Of Rome was suspended
at the loftiest possible point for his
party. The republicans were better than
people thought, and their full advent to
power would not produce calamities, but
peace and order and good government.
From the ex-Vice Emperor comes only the
heavy rumbling of ponderous wrath for all
men and things as they are, denunciation
fierce and savage for Theirs and MacMahon,
and wicked world that seems disposed to
take breakfast and dinner in the usual way,
without stopping to secure previously the
services Of very willing young Emperor.
From these different tones it is not violent
inference that in the judgment Of these two
veteran politicians, the Republic is surely
gaining ground in popular esteem and the
projected Empire losing it.
Year: 1875

PUBLIC INIQUITIEs s-Commissioner Fitz
John Porter was on the rack Of investigation
yesterday, and gave an account Of the opera
tions Of his department that taxpayers will,
perhaps, find amusing. There are So many
quaint surprises in this literature Of nvesti-
cation; it is SO comfortable to find that the
Commissioner regards his system as all that
could be desired, and 50 funny to see him
admit in the next sentence that it is very
bad; it is 50 monstrously comical to find that
Mayor Wickham's father is person Of such
consequence as to entitle his pavement to
special attention. in short, all the course Of
investigation has such piquant flavor of
scandal in it that we doubt not the wicked
public dearly loves to read it, and we hope
it will continue
Year: 1875

GUmoRD. This defunct parsonage Is GER


fainly the most exciting dead man they ever


had in Montreal, OF, perhaps in any other
city; and there is yet fair prospect that before
he is comfortably buried arrangements will
be made in virtue Of which he will be accom-
panied in his journey to the other world by
the souls Of as many slaughtered persons as
ever enlivened a funeral in Dahomey, where
n man is hardly deemed respectable if two Of
three hundred cannot be killed at his funeral.
1fthe mob interferes again, as they threaten,
tits evident that the mob will get enough Of it.
Year: 1875

WALL STREET. YESTERDAY Rag money was
worth about 1915. Gold closed at 116 3-8
after sales at 116 S. Stocks were firm and
active foreign exchange was dull and
money on call closed at per cent
Year: 1875

THE CANAL INVESTIGATIONS. Another
chapter Of the history Of the robbery Of the
public treasury under the cover Of canal
Improvement schemes is given to-day,
and continues the exhibition Of the curious
fact that financial talent is always arrayed
against the public service and is never found
in its favor. In the story Of the extension Of
the breakwater at Blackrock Harbor it is
shown that the State not only paid for GER
tain work considerably more than double
what it was contracted for, but, further, that
for this very work, whether at the contract
price or any other, there was no need what
ever. How magnifcently our finances would
be handled if one Of the sort Of men who
manoeuvre these schemes would honestly
take charge Of the public treasury.
Year: 1875

THE RNa SUITS. THE DID, old story"
of how Watson and Garvey and Ingersoll and
Tweed and the rest Of the precious company
pocketed seven millions of public money is
told again to-day in our report Of the suit to
recover a portion of this money from the es-
tate Of half million left to his widow by
Watson. Although old it is an ever startling
record of the facility with which great and
rich city may be robbed when its government
falls into such corrupt and abusive applica-
tion of the one man power as appeared in
Tweed's glory and is continued now in the
domination of John Kelly.
Year: 1875

Notwithstanding the abundance Of coal in
the great Pennsylvania coal regions, and the
facilities for mining it and bringing it to mar
ket, the prices are extortionate whenever the
article is in demand, not on account Of an
actual, but because of fictitious, deficiency
in the supply There is no article Of con-
sumption in the country which ought to be
so cheap and yet is SO dear; and what is worse
is the fact that prices are highest when the
demand is greatest, while thousands Of
miners are idle in order that the supply
may be kept as low as possible. This, as
everybody knows, is the result of combina-
ton, the market being controlled by the great
coal companies, as if fixing the price Of fuel
was their special prerogative Even great
companies like the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad Company and the
Delaware and Hudson Canal Company agreed
to suspend the shipping of coal two weeks
during the present month to allow the other
members Of the combination to fill up the
quota allowed them for the present season.
and it is O matter of great complaint that the
former company failed strictly to keep to
lLS uSICClllSuu. ~ 10 HOpClcSS W SApeCb, nOW-
ever, that the prospective quarrel will not be
patched up The combination is too selfish
and too powerful to allow any slight differ
ences to mar the harmony of their action in
controlling the market Having both the
consumer and the miner at their mercy they
will forgive each other many things before
they allow the combination to be weakened
Indeed, we are already told that the com
panies will not store coal this season, and
that there is to be general suspension of
production about the middle Of December
In other words, the miners are to be thrown
out Of employment that consumers may be
compelled to pay an enhanced price for coal.
This system is simple robbery. 1t is unjust
alike to the consumer and producer and it is
as contrary to the laws Of trade as to the rule
Of morals. Some means must be found to
restrain the selfshness and the wickedness
Of the combination and sooner or later the
necessity Of self protection will demand
legislation to compel the companies to deal
honestly and fairly with the public.
Year: 1875

A young friend of mine has got
himself into difficulty. He went to
the depot several weeks ago to meet a
young cousin who was coming to pay
his family a visit, and seeing her, as
he supposed, alighting from q car, he
and kissed her Before discovering that
it wasn't she. Of course he made all
manner of apologies, but the young
lady blushed, and seemed to take it
SO good -naturedly, that he resolved
that if they were all as sweet as this
one it wouldn't be a bad thing to have
\ cousin coming every day. So, after
ward, every time a train came in he
was on hand looking for his cousin,
although she had come long ago. In
fact he made cousin hunting a busi-
ness, and by this means it is said he
kissed at least one hundred and thir-
ty six ladies in a great many less days
One day as the eastern train steamed
into the depot, our young man hung
around it, and as a dainty young fe-
male stepped upon the platform, he
rushed up, threw his arms around her
and gave her a hearty smack on her
veil-covered lips, accompanying the
action with the -exclamation: Why
cousin Carrie, how do you do?'


First rate" was the response. as
the cousin" raised her veil, and dis
closed the features of his neighbor,
Jimson's. colored chambermaid.


The spectators roared, and our
young friend skunk off thoroughly
mortified. He is done hunting for
cousins, but if he ever should kiss
another one you may rest assured he
will see that she wears no veil.-Sun-
day Herald
Year: 1875

A correspondent of the Indianapo
lis Journal, writing from Washington


under date of January 9, giving a sy-


nopsis of the debate in the Senate on
the Southern murderers, thus alludes


to Senator Morton:


''Indianians will readily believe
when tell them, as l do, that Sena-
tor Morton's last speech, On Friday,
was the most powerful, and command
ed the greatest attention, of any one
delivered. 1t brought the Democrats
to their feet, and, as man said to me,
they all got black eye;" not in a
physical but intellectual sense. His
nostrils expanded, his eyes dilated,
and his face was radiant with patriot
ic indignation, and his powerful ut
terances cheered and encouraged all
lovers of liberty, law. and justice. A
reporter, sitting at my side and seeing
my face said: "You are proud of your
Senator" and replied: Proud who
would not be? he is the noblest Roman
of all. See them squirm. 1t was
sight He turned from man to man,
responded to their questions, bore
them down with logic and facts, de-
Tended the Republican party and de-
manded all the facts, and said this
question could no longer be blinked.
Not having that speech before me, l
shall not attempt to give a synopsis OF
it. But quote few sentences from
his speech OF Thursday last:


Il am glad we have now come to
the point where the ten thousand lies
which have been Systematically sent
up from Louisiana, as an apology and
an excuse for the numerous murders
that have been committed there can
no longer blind the people and pre-
vent them from seeing the exact con-
dition of things Men who will
commit murder will commit perjury
and forgery and arson and every
minor crime for the purpose of cover
ing up their guilt. 1t has now
come to the maxim, to lie like an
agent of the Southern Associa ed
Press Talleyrand said, The
same lie never wins a second victory
What was the attempt in the
election of McEnery? An attempt to
overthrow by fraud majority of not
less than twenty thousand people.
A notorious and acknowledged major
ity. The whole election was
void for fraud. McEnery was not
elected. Inc Senator lhur-
MANI attempts by his remarks to be-
little the crimes that have been com
mitted in Louisiana. Able as he is, he
is not able to do that Oh, he says,
some lives were lost down there
Yes, there were some lives lost
There have been as many murdered in
Louisiana Tor political causes in the
last six years as fall in most modern
wars. Men have been slaughtered by
the dozen, the score, the fifty and the
hundred; and yet this is belittled 1t
is attempted to be laughed and jeered
away by talking about the outrage
business The streets of New Or
leans have run red with blood--the
blood of innocent men shed by men in
rebellion against the State govern
ment and men who are as hostile to
the government ofthe United States as
they are to the Kellogg, and who fight
one just as cheerfully as they fight the
other We will discuss this
subject until the people of this coun-
try shall see upon what brink they
stand-upon what fearful precipice
We are now treading."
Year: 1875

Fathers and mothers, look out for
your boys when the shadows of eve
ming have gathered around you.
Where are they then? Are they at
home, at the pleasant freside, or are
they running around the streets? Are
they gaining a street education? If
so, take care; the chances of ruin are
many, and there is scarcely anything
so destructive to their morals as run
ming abroad at night. Under the COW
er of darkness, they acquire the edu-
cation of crime; they learn to he row.
dyish, if not absolutely vicious; they
catch up loose talk, and hear sinful
thoughts, and they see obscene things.
and become reckless and riotous. If
you would save them from vulgarity,
and from ruin, see to it that night
finds them at home. More than one
young man has told the chaplin of the
State Prison that here was the begin
ming of his downward course that
finally brought him to the felon's cell.
Let parents solemnly ponder this
matter, and do all they can to make
home attractive that the boys will pre-
fer it to roaming the streets There
is no place like home for boys in the
evening.
Year: 1875

The next day the young man enter
ed the Office In his hand he bore a
rifle, and his belt was ornamented
with big six-shooter and tremen-
dous bowie knife. He sailed up to
the reporter. Il look war like, don I
/? l don't feel bit like fightin' you
bet. You jest oughter seen her when
she read that correction. Why, she
jest danced Jig with madness, she sot
down and cried, and then she came
and threw her arms around my neck
and said: Arthur, do You love me-
You bet yer best bonnet on that,
says [. Well. never expect me to
speak to you again, if you don't go and
kill the feller that writ that SANDER.
In course 1 promised. And here [
am to kill you" He laughed heartily
And after a time he quieted down,
and the reporter said: Il suppose. in
order to make it all right between you
and your girl, I've got to become a
corpse. I'll do it. Sit there a min
ute, and I'll fix the business He
sat down at a desk, and scribbled
away for few minutes, and then re-.
turned with a sheet of paper on which
was written:


"OBITUARY.-It grleves US to be
compelled to announce the sudden
death of Mr.. Charles Keller, the
young and talented fashion editor
In a moment of mental alteration, he
had slandered an estimable young
lady of this city, named Miss frankie
Clarke. Yesterday her betrothed
called at this Office and asked for the
author of the slander, and when he
discovered him shot him on the spot
This paper will be unable to give any
more fashion gossip hereafter. We
find it impossible to fill the place left
vacant by Mr.. Keller. Though errat-
ic, he was man of kindly heart, and
could listen more attentively to stale
stories and drink more bad whisky
than any man in Austin RIP


That's your sort, said the infuriat-
ed lover That's the thing to add.
Come along, Mr.. Corpse, and hist in a
little lightning" The lady was salts
fed when the paragraph appeared in
the next issue Of the paper. the lover
was regarded as hero, and the Aus
tin paper ceased to give reports of
fashionable balls
Year: 1875

A Pennsylvania lady engaged q
berth in a palace sleeping coach.
when she was ready to retire she
took from her satchel gum bed,
which she inflated and placed in
the berth she was to occupy. It
happennd that her berth WAS very
close to the stove, and the heat caus
ed the gum bed to expand until the
pressure got SO great that it collap-
sed with tremendous shock, and
the passengers jumped out of their
berths in their night clothes think
ing there was q collision The force
of the collapse threw the lady
against the ceiling of the berth, but
did not hurt her.
Year: 1875

The fashion reporter of an Austin
! City, New, paper describes the belle
of the masquerade bail in the following
astounding language:


The most gorgeous. high toned. rich
est, fastest-classest, incest, or any
other adjective for costume in the


outfit, was that worn by Miss


frankie Clark. She was the hifalu-


finest, gayest, and galusest dressed


gal in the room. She appeared in the


room as a page. and she was page
that any man would leave another to
read. Both in costume and action she
was as perfect as big sunfower"


A couple of days after the appear
ance of the notice into the editorial
room of the paper stalked a young
man. His brow was wrapped in thun-
der, his body in suit of tweed. and
his hand clasped big lump of hick-
ory. He pulled paper out of his
pocket, and pointing his finger to the
para graph, said: II want ter see the
man as writ that ere" Il am the in
dividual, replied the person What
did you go and do that for, that what


want to know?" oh. because l
thought you would like to see your
girl made out one of the most bewitch-
ing females that was ever set on earth
TO keep q man from his hash and
drive sleep from his pillow. Now,
look here, ever sence that was pub
lished | can't git word out on her.
She sets in front of the looking glass
and keeps a gain on herself. and
maxim squint eyes at her dress. and
puekerin up her mouth, and actin as
if she was a blasted sight better n
anybody else want this ere thing
fixed. or there IL be an editors situa-
ton vacant" He looked significantly
at the club. For moment the re-
porter stood in profound thought;
then his face frightened up. and he
looked up and said: III fix it in
next weeks paper. After you have
seen the next issue, call and tell me
the result" The young man left
In the next weeks paper appeared
the following paragrai b:


a CoRRECTIoN-We made a grave
mistake in our issue of last week. In
our description of the masquerade
ball, we accidently substituted the
name OF Miss frankie Clarke for that
IS acquainted with the first named
lady must have discovered the error.
1t is true that she appeared for what
was intended to represent page, but
she looked a good deal more like a
bootblaek in hard luck. She is not
good looking. her actions were absurd.
and every man IN the room KEEP, as
far from her as possible She thinks
of moving out of this community. as
ii is unappreeiatiye. When she goes
she will be escorted out Of town by a
brass band. The people of Austin
will gladly miss her from among
them
Year: 1875

1t does not seem to be very gener-
ally understood that the amaleum of
tin-foil with mercury. which is spread
on glass plates to make looking glass
es, is very readily crystallized by ac-
TIME solar rays A mirror hung where
the sun can shine on it is usually spoil
ed: it takes "a granulated appearance
familiar TO housekeeping though they
may not be acquainted with the cause
of the change. In such state the arti-
Gle is nearley worthless. the continuity
of the surface is destroyed and it will
not reflect outlines with any approach
to precision.
Year: 1875

eral astonishment was Undesirable.
If Clay had not been a man OF unim-
peachable veracity his story might
have been doubted, but his old friends
knew very well that his strange ac :
count of himself was true to the let
ter He was not the man to devlate a
hairs breadth from the truth.


Clay improved rapidly after his re.
turn, and is to be married TO his old
sweetheart in few weeks time.