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Year: 1873

ties of citizens of-the United States" 4"
And4the above specific prohibition plain
ly recognizes voting as "the right of citi-
zens of the United States,


The legal argument put Judge Hunt to
rout, and he was driven to make a. mess
of the law His performance with the
jury was even more extraordinary. Miss
Anthony's counsel presented three prop
ositions-two of law and one a question
OF fact-for the jury. He argued the
propositions ef-law, and-theFefore- the
Judge said he had better leave the ques-
ton OF tact until the Court had given its
views on the questions of law. Upon
this arrangement the District Attorney
addressed the Court upon the legal ques-
tions --a.ss---ss----ssSss---s


s When he had concluded, Judge Hunt
proceeded to decide the legal questions,
and then he said that the decision of
these left no question of fact for the jury.
He told the jury that the decision of the
Court had disposed of all there was in
the case, and he directed them to find
verdict of guilty, and instructed theelerk
to enter verdict of guilty. He refused
to allow the argument to be made to the
jury that if the defendant believed, she
had the right to vote she was not guilty
He told the jury that if she believed in
good faith she was exercising ,herflegal
right, it was no difference, The clerk
entered the verdict and then-read-it to
the silent rand non-responsive jury as
their verdict. Miss Anthony may well
hold that if the law had to be torn to
shreds, the right of all placed in jeopardy
by bad rulings and the right of trial by
jury taken away by, the high hand, in or
der to deny her legal right to vote, it is
her triumph - 49,
Year: 1873

We are frequently asked by our friends
what course Hon. Charles Foster has pur-
sued in reference to the back salary grab,
whether or not he has received his por-
ton of the steal as it is almost univers-
ally termed. Inreply; we can only say
that Mr.. Foster voted steadily against
the bill, and further than this we have
no information, except that his name
does not appear among those who have
returned the money into treasury. There
is very general desire evinoed by Mr..
Fosters constituents in this county to
know his exact status in the matter, and
we are free to say that we share that de-
sire Mr.. Fosters constituents have a
right to know whether, he has received
or intends to receive the back pay voted
him, and in all friendship-political and
'otherwise-we call upon him to furnish
them the desired information. We
have refrained from asking the informa-
tion heretofore, because we expected to
receive it through another channel No
man who receives this back pay can claim
the support or confidence of the voters
of this district, and the Republican press
of the district cannot afford to keep 81
lence while this thing is kept hid. Again
in behalf of the many readers OF the JEFF.
who gave their votes to Mr.. Foster last
Fall, we ask him to give an account OF
his Stewardship
Year: 1873

THE RATE on INTEREST FOR MONEY is always an
important subject to both borrower and lender An
able and suggestive essay this topic by Prof. T..
j. Elliott of the Treasury Department read at the
Portland Scientific Meeting is reported fully In
TRIBUNE LECTURE EXTRA No. TO- Price 10 cents.


Address THE TRIBUNE New-Y
Year: 1873

Ray~ We are authorized to offer for sale,
a valuable piece Of property, situated in the
business portion Of the town Of 0syka. 1t
is well adapted for residence and business
establishment combined. 1t will be more
fully described in our next. For further
particulars apply at this Office.
Year: 1873

Reflect that sound mind and body are tho
most necessary requisites to promote connublal
happiness. Indeed, without these the journey
prospect hourly durkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness of
Year: 1873

the rudder chains through that weary
day,I took upon myself solemn
vow, that. If ! succeeded in escaping,
would devote my rescued life 70 the
pursuit and punishment of the villain
who had brought about the destruc-
tion of my love and murdered her
father. Three years after the war
was ended, / met him In crowded
assembly of the rank and beauty OF
his native land, and put upon him
such an insult, before them all, that he
was forced to meet mo in deadly
strife.


He did not recognize me until we
were face to face upon the open field.
Then his heart failed him. He fell
before my uppracticed weapon ere q
Score of tbrusts had been exchanged.
Malicious and brutal 10 the last, he
went TO his account with ali his sins
upon his guilty head.


To the helpless Laura's fate | have
never obtained a satisfactory clue,
Though have been untiriDg in the
search. From the few of the frigate's
crew whom l encountered in my
quest. learned that she was kept q
close prisoner in the captains cabin
until the ship reached Jamaica. There
she ssas released, doubtless at the
price of keeping silence as to her
wrongs, and there she seems to have
disappeared from the living world.
God grant that her unmerited suffer
ings have won her place in His
Kingdom, and when / die may at
last meet her for whose sweet sake
my heart has ever been sealed to
love.
Year: 1873

We clip from an old paper the
following account Of trial for
breach of promise of marriage, in
which the judge laid down q new
doctrine, which we should not be
sorry to see adopted: "a case was
recently tried in Rutland, Vermont.
in which Miss Munson received
81 ,425 Of o Mr.. Hastings for breach
OF marriage contract. The CURIOSITY
Of the thing is this: The Vermont
judge charged the jury that no ex-
piicit promises was necessary TO bind
the parties to marriage contract, but
that long attentions of In
tirnacy with o female was as good
evidence Of intended matrimony as
a special contarct. The principle of
the case undoubtedly Is, that if
Hastings did not promise, he ought
TO have done so-tbe law holds him
responsible for the non-performance
OF his duty. A most excellent de-
cision; a most righteous Judge, CON-
pared with whom Daniel would ap-
pear but common squirrel We have
no idea OF young fellows dangling
about after girls for year or two,
and then going off, leaving their
sweethearts half courted; we hate
this everlasting -nibble and never a
bite, this beating the bush and new
er starting the game; it is one of the
crying sins of the age. There is not
one girl in twenty can tell whether
she is courted or not. No wonder
that when Betty Shippers cousin
asked if Billy Doubtful courted her,
she replied: I don't know exactly ;
he's O sorter and q not sorter cour-
tin We have no doubt that this
Hastings is one of these 'sorter not
courtin' fellows, and most heartily
do We rejoice that the Judge has
brought him TO book with a 81 .425
verdict. The judge says that long
continued attention or intimacy Is
just as good as regular promise.
Now, We do not know what would
pass for intimacy according to the
laws of Vermont. but supposiDg at
tentions to consist of visiting a.girl
twice q week, and estimating the
time wasted by Miss Munson at each
visit to be worth dollar (which was
too cheap. Mr. Hastings has been
making q fool of himself fourteen
years and some odd weeks. This de-
cision marks new era in the law of
love, and we have no doubt will tend
TO the promotion of matrimony and
morality"
Year: 1873

THE telegraph has informed your read
ers how we busted, and how of the frag-
ments were gathered up several baskets
full. But tits not in the line of tele-
graphy to picture the scenes and incl
dents of the street. It is worthy of
comment that while individuals have in
dulged in questionable language, and the
ink lips of the press have run black with
the drippings of admonition, our banking
institutions were never more popular and
attractive than during the past week.
The doors were Literally thronged by an
enthusiastic popuace, many of whom had
waited from an early hour. The appear
ance of even bank messenger was the
signal for an evation. A solemn old
duck in a white choker, who is always
admitted at the back door of banks and
saloons and sits well down to the front in
church. would be genteel with such q.
touching unanimity of sentiment as could (
not be otherwise than gratifying. 1t was
decided draw Had it occurred earlier
in the season il might have occasioned a
serious falling off in the watering place
receipts. We saw one man at the tail end
of a line of some sixty besiegers very anx-
iOus to change places with another man
nearer the door for the trihing considera-
ton OF a hundred dollar note But the
tempted of Mammon only wrung his
hands and wept He said he had been
there for eight hours and had SLIGO in
that bank, on interest, and he proposed to
remain there and draw it out now-on
principle


A venerable Irish lady residing at the
little village of Uniontown, three miles
away, after a cheerful course of practical
christianity of five hours duration,
brought up in front of the little hole in
front of the iron network to discover that
she had forgotten her check-book. 1t
was of no use. A spirited exchange of
theological ideas took lace chiefly with
reference to the parentage of a very sacred
and much respected individual, when the
| teller told her TO tell her tale to marines,
as good as intimating that she never had
any money This was too much. She
bolted off for Uniontown TO find that the
sovereign of her soul had been there and
taken the book to the city. She didn't
swear She just blessed herself and
spanked the children all around and bolted
| back TO the bank AT the sight of her
husband, check-book in hand, very near
the tail of ticketholders, and very nearly
drunk she fell on his neck and sobbed.
Then they relieved each other, off and on,
alternating around the corner to see
man, until the closing hour found happy
couple on the doorstep. Money was no
| longer an object, and Pat tried to give his


check book to a man in blue uniform, but


as the balance only footed up $2,35 that
virtuous official Indignantly decllned.-
| Wash. Cor Ddn6ury NetOs.
Year: 1873

THE reader of "Put Yourself in His
Place" will remember the charming pic
ture which the novelist draws of child
found floating in his cradle the day after
the bursting of the Hillsboro' reservoir.
Washed from some unknown home
among the hundreds destroyed by the pitt
less food, this young navigator had some
how escaped the fate of his kinsfolk; and
in happy Inconsistencies of danger, was
discovered drifting along, kicking up his
heels and Growing at the unfamiliar
brightness of the sky, and the pretty col
ors of the birds and butterflies that hover
ed around.


A sunken Ohio river steamboat afford
ed, the other day, still more remarkable
and affecting case of infant preservation.
The steamer ran on snag in the night,
and sank in deep water, drowning several
passengers, among them a number ofchil-
dren.


One of the parents was a Mrs. King,
who was, with the rest of the passengers
saved sent on to ShawneetOwn, ILL.,,
mourning her son as lost. The next
morning the men who went to recover
the bodies of the drowned discovered a
mattress floating in the cabin, which was
filled with water to the ceiling. Peace
fully sleeping on this dangerous bed lay
little boy, who had been upborne all
night by the water soaked yet still buoy
ant mattress. The spasm of hope arous-
ed in the hearts of the bereaved mothers
when news came of the miraculous es-
cape of somebody's child, the joy of one
anG the agony of the rest when the saved
was identified, no novelist could conceive
or portray. The effect on the mothers
future cannot be small viii it have any
influence on the boys life? Time alone
can tell. Certain it is that, if he turns
out to be king indeed, leader of his
fellow men for good, his followers will
have pretty tale to tell Of provldential
interposition to prove the divinity of his
calling. Scientific american.
Year: 1873

YOUNG MANGLEBURY will not probably
visit Miss Skittles again. He called upon
her few evenings ago, and as she was
not at home, he sat down on the porch to
wait for her In a few minutes old Skittles'
big dog came up, and, after eyeing Man
glebury, and growing at him in man.
ner which made chills run up and down
his back, the dog walked up and began to
sniff Manglebury's legs. While the ami
NAL was performing this operation the
young man maintained a condition of alb
solute Tepose. 1t is doubtful if he will
again be as perfectly still as he was then
until his immortal soul is in the land of
everlasting rest. When the ceremony was
concluded the dog lay down by Mangle-
bury's chair AS soon as Manglebury felt
certain the brute was asleep, he thought
he would go home without seeing Miss
Skittles; but when he attempted to rise
from his chair the dog leaped up and
growled so menacingly that Manglebury
Immediately sat down again. Then he
thought perhaps it would be better not to
go home at once. 1t occurred to him,
however, that it would be as we'll to call
some one to remove the dog in case cir
cumstances should render it desirable for
him to depart; but at the very first yell,
Skittles' dog jumped to his feet, gave a
fiendish bark, and began to take a few
more critical smells at Manglebury's legs.
And whenever Manglebury shuffled his
feet, or moved his arms, or uttered the
slightest sound, that infamous dog was in
stantly up and at him. Once, when he
had to sneeZe, he thought, from the bois-
ferrous Indignation manifested by the dog,
that his hour at last had come. Mangle-
bury had often before wanted to see Miss
Skittles alone, but now he felt as if he
would welcome any member of the Skit-
ties family, even the cook, with feeling
approaching enthusiasm. Finally he
heard voices in the parlor. 1t was Miss
Skittles and young man who had come
home with her and entered the side door


And they sat there at the window, not
thirty feet from Manglebury, sparkling
and cooling, and every now and :hen max
ing some disagreeable remark about Man
glebury, until at last the visitor left and
Miss Skittles locked the door and closed
the shutters and went to bed. And the
dog never moved until morning, when old
Skittles came down to look at the ther-
mOmeter and found that faithful guardian
still watching over the miserable Mangle-
bury, who still sat in the chair in which
he began to wait for Miss Skittles. Old
Skittles offered to shoot the dog, in order
to soOthe Manglebury, but that person
was beyond reach of such remedies. He
was too mad. He cut the Skittles family
dead; and he is endeavoring to select a
social circle whose members do not keep
dogs. He hates dog worse than doc
tor hates healthy climate.-Mar AdeIeT.
Year: 1873

A TELLER of one of our banks discov.
cred the other day very ingenious mode
resortetSto by counterfeiters to make a
profit by little manipulation Of genuine


bills. The plan is in this wise; Take,
say, ten SO bills, lay one on the other a
quarter of an inch below the top, some
thing after the fashion of pasting in the
process of making paper-bags When
they are all thus neatly laid off, knife is
run through them, and, of course, from
the first bill quarter of an inch will be
cut off, halfinch from the second, three.
quarters from the third, and an inch from
the fourth, and so on to the tenth bill,
from the bottom of which there is taken
a very small portion, nothing more than
the border This bill is left as it is, but
to all the others the parts taken off are
neatly pasted on, and the result is thai
there will be eleven bills all perfect ex


cept a small reduction in the size of each.
OF course the operator makes five dollars
in every ten. The amount taken from
Year: 1873

THE Memphis appeal thus describes the
com ing of the frost at Memphis: "While
it was yet twilight, and ere the dappled
east had yet opened the gates of day to
the rising sun, hastily y-attired men and
women, with semi-nude children in their
arms, were out in the streets, breathing
the precious air of the purifying frost.
Here, STOPPING down, one gathered a
handful of glittering hoar-frost, which,
pure and beautiful, lay upon the earth,
and, gazing on it with somewhat of the
gladdening spirit whith which the Isra-
elite gathered the mama in the desert of
Arabia, exclaimed: %, God! we thank
Thee for this blessingp Others came and
touched with reverential fingers the pure,


cold messenger OF health, as If to satisfy
themselves, like the half-believing
Thomas of old, that the savior of the city


had not risen but descended from heaven,
TO save the people from the destroying
angel of the pestilence. Groups of men
and women moved from place to place, to


prove by cumulative evidence that indeed
il was frost, and not some optical illusion;
that the wished-for guest had not merely
confined its visitations TO one locality, but
enjoyed the freedom of the city. Here a
pale face, once handsome woman, with


a tender babe at her breast, knelt down on


the cold ground to thank God that the
frost had come! Poor stricken heart!


she and her orphan boy were all that
the pestilence had spared out of once
happy family, Strong men, bare-headed
and bare-armed, walked eXcitedly hither
and thither, rejoicing in the fact that a
physician had come, to whose nostrums


the whole faculty must yield precedence
as the only true panacea for the terrible
yellow fever. Windows and doors were
thrown open, wooden and COTTON garments


were exposed to the disiniecting agency
of the cold and rare6ed air, and every


where in the city, as well as in the vicin.-
| ity of the infected region, the enthusiasm


was marked, if not fervent and joyous.
Year: 1873

each is so small and the bills being gen.
orally all of one kind, il is very difficult
matter TO detect them. The bill detected
by the teller refered to was bunglingly
done-the top being part of an Ohio
bill, while the bottom was a part of
Baltimore bill. The names Of the places
are prominent, and consequently bills on
is very neat arrangement TO cheat people
who are not in the habit of giving to
bank bills a very close examination
Chicago Inter-0cedn.
Year: 1873

OF the bridge at ST. Louis, recent dis
patch SAYS: "The two center sections or
the arch between the western abutment
and the first of the bridge, each consisting
of an upper and lower rib, were complet-
ed recently by the insertion of the key
or center tubes, and that portion OF the
arch is now finished, demonstrating the
feasibility of the original plan, and its
success is regarded as one Of the greatest
has ever seen. The two remaining ribs of
this arc, which are only partially CON
structed, will be finished at once and with
ease, and the three grand arches OF the
bridge are expected to be finished by the
middle of December"
Year: 1873

FREsn.-Our readers are favored this
morning with an extract from the Lon
don Times OF this morning, giving Its
views of tho American Monetary Crisis.
This Is as fresh news as the most lastid-
Gus reader could wish.
Year: 1873

J. Higgins stated at late meeting Of
the Alton Horticultural Society, that
he had long been in the practice of
turning sheep into his apple orchards
and as long as they have green
pasture they will not touch the bark Of
the trees, but they are carefully watch
ed. He has one old sheep only that
knows how good apple bark is. When
there is snow on the ground, the sheep
will OF course eat the bark. But the
only time when the presence OF the
sheep is needed, is in summer when the
wormy fruit is propping. We know q
farmer in Western New York who
turns his sheep in his large orchard
during the day, and into another field
at night; they never touch the trees,
and he finds the codling moth growing
scarcer each successive year.
Year: 1873

From the New York Herald OF the
10Th inst, the following is extracted:


SUNDAY DlsGRACEs IN THE CITY.-A
report was published in the Herald yes
terday Of the proceedings OF the late
Sunday Spiritualistic conference. Spir-
itualisn has proved itself not only q
failure, but humbug and q nuisance.
Under the latter name it comes within
the jurisdiction of the police. 1t is a
disgrace to the name Of civilization to
permit such execrable scenes to be
enacted in this city on a Sunday. The
last meeting of these fanatics (f the
name fanatics be not trenching too much
on the bounds OF respectability) proves
what contemplate set Of human beingt
these Spiritualists are. Nothing can
be too vile or degraded for them, and
none but the vilest OF either sex can he
connected with them"
Year: 1873




Travelling in his buggy alone, not
long ago, in going to one OF his appoint-
ments, one o; our good brethren in the
Presbytery of Memphis overlook a
tramp with csrpe,-bag in his hand.
The roads were muddy, and he was
Just at tie time about entering q miry
bottom. With the politeness for which
he is noted he asked the pedestrian ian
entire strangely il he would not take a
seat in the buggy until at least they
had crossed the mud and mire. The
invitation was readily accepted, and the
conversation for a time was tree and
easy, about things ordinary aud gene
raj. Presently. however, the good
brother, with view to make
the conversation profitable, asked
the stranger il he was ready to
die. Not knowing the character OF the
person who had invited him to seat
with him, and misspprehending his
meaning and suspecting foul play, he
he waited not to reply, but sprsng from
the buggy Immediately and ran Tor
life through slush and water. The
clerical brother, wishing TO assure the
stranger that he meut no harm, called
to him at the top Of his voice 10 stopl
But this only hastened his speed, and
like a scared hare he ran until beyond
hearing and sight. In his hasty fight
be lett his carpet sack, which our
brother now has in his possession, be-
ing the richer tor his isithfulness by
the addition OF coarse shirt, 8 pair OF
threadbare trousers, snd little back
err
Year: 1873

ANTWERP, August pa very severe
thunder storm occurred here to-day.
The largest warehouse in the city was
struck BY lightning and set on fire. AT
a late hour this afternoon the building
was still burning, The loss will be very
heavy.
Year: 1873

Senator Windows Committee on


transportation will meet in New York
on the 10Th Of September next. After
a brief session they will examine the
various routes o. water connection pro,
Year: 1873

DID You EVER ?-Did you ever have man
call you liar for the sake of giving phase of
truth to lie he had told himself Did you
ever have your nervous system strung up from
political excitement so tight that you thought it
would snap? Did you ever have your mind
firmly set in trying to solve the problem as to
what is the best course to pursue to afford relief
for thousands of poor people thrown out Of
employment by a financial panic? Did you
ever attempt to write all day on subjects of the
gravest Importance just across the street from
where young lady was practicing on piano?
While thus engaged did you ever have fourteen
calls from book agent, two from sewing ma
chine agents, one from o life insurance agent,
besides twenty callers on business an busine ss,
and receive a dozen letters that demanded i'm
mediate replys, say nothing about four or five
subscription papers handed to you by beautiful
young ladies', for some charitable purpose? Did
you ever, we say, attempt to write under such
circumstances, and have two or three compos j.
tors standing around waiting for copy and USE
ing forbidden language because they have to
wait and will be late with the paper on account
Of your laziness? If you never have expert
enced any of these sweets you can form no
conce ption of how delightful is the position of
an editor. II you know any young man whose
ambition runs that way show him this as stim-
ulant.