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Year: 1875

The Newbulrg Journal relates the fol lowing A gentleman living ill the sub urls has young colt, which he values highly, not only on account of his pos scaaing pure blood and great degree of speed, but for his intelligence. In com mon with the other stock in the stable, he is fed his hay from a crib on tho side of tho building. It hml been noticed that, while all the other animals left Q small quantity of fine bay and hny-sced in the further end of the crib, which could not be reached, the bars only per hitting them to get their noses in n short distance, this horse always had his eaten clean. On being watched it was discov- cred that the colt would catch up the slack of his ropo halter in his teeth, so that it formed q loop, and thrllsting it between the bars, he was ablo to push it to the back part of the crib, and, by drawing it out again, to drag with it, where he could reach it, the part of the feed referred to. Thus 1t was the crib was always clean The way he handles the rope is said to be skillful and saga clollS in the extreme.
Year: 1875

A Michigan court has decided that & woman with two husbands cannot be guilty of bigamy if she marries her first husband before she is eighteen years of age. The decision has caused consider able consternation among those affection ate husbands in the State Swho thought they were hurrying up their happiness when they married girls.
Year: 1875

HURTING Ir.--A Harvard professor went down to one of tho beaches on the New England coast to bathe ono stormy day, but the men in charge refused to let him go in on account of the dangerous swell. On his way back he expressed his disappointment and indignation to the driver of the omnibus. "Well, I'll tell you how it is, said tho driver "wo don't like to have strangers como down here and get drowned. It hurts the bench y
Year: 1875

It is said that lively debate took
place yesterday in the secret session Of
the Senate over The confirmation Of the
Oioyenor's nominees for the equalization
Of assessments. The Senator from Mar
shall was especially loud and hostile, and,
iIi'said, almost abjnred his relations to
the party in the heat Of his indignation.
Among tIe points he made was one to
the effect that none Of The nominees were
iatmer', and therefore untitled to deal
with real estate assessments. Whether
1t was all lie nominees or one Of them
inparlicnlar that the Senator aimed at
i'aquesliOn we shall not here and now
decide
Year: 1875

IT is all over. Sheridan has accom-
plished the vile work for which be was
sent to New Orleans, and the last
stale of that prostrate people becomes
infinitely worse than their first. How
long, o Lord, how long shall the wrath
Of this great nation sleep while such
deeds are being done!
Year: 1875

It's first stages If eli the officials would
be lind and civil Why should
. u s'e authority 20 cause . man
10 rget his humanity Is to be un-
civ % those who may be his superiors In
Of r to-morowf II ives an old saying
u ''ciyilitY costs nothing" When we
o. seer It's great value sometimes and
hos cry expensive incivility possibly may
bes :, e, 1t really does appear Is though Il
wot d be impossible for an official 10
treat subordinate with incivility and rude
ness and more especially dismissed en-
ployee. who has by that very act become
reinyested with citizenship and elevated
again 70 full sovereignty. It is not TO be
supposed that the feeling Of incivility ID
there, but the brusqueness Of manner or
lack Of manners and the absence of sym
pathetic feeling is very apt to be construed
into egotistic contempt by the wretched
suppliant The first requisite for official
position should be ''true gentility." Atrue
gentleman will never make light of the
misfortunes Of others nor declirs to afford
them hearing and an explanation when 1t
becomes his duty to do so.


We regret to learn that some young OF.
fcials who have lately been promoted 10
higher positions of trust have outgrown
those elegant new suits in which they
were initiated. Such swellings are very
dangerous to official longevity.
Year: 1875

The disagreement and discharge Of the jury
bring the end of the long Beecher trial.
Whether there will be dreary drizzle of sub-
sequent proceedings, whether the era Of pom
derous Statements" win be renewed, whether
there will be prolonged effort to accomplish
by persistent assertions what the searching and
this we must wait to see.


The country may well pray TO be spared such
an infection. For twelve-month 1t has break
tasted and supped on this odious scandal. It
has lain down With 1t at night and risen up
with IT in the morning. Already an amount Of
mischief has thus been wrought which no
mind can calculate. The glare Of this trans
cendant case has brought us face to face with
decent circles. Il has familiarized us with the
free discussion Of what men and women would
once have been ashamed 10 mention. It has
printed q thousand ribald jokes, repeated with
obscene thought from mouth to mouth. It has
filed our current talk with questionable
phrases. It has corrupted the minds of the
young with its corroding taint. It has poisoned
society with its doubts Of virtue. It has sup
piled the profigate with the sneer at religion.
The food gates once open AN this had to come.
When the charge was made, there was no way
but to 20 through with It. There is no use In
mere prudishness, ard we may hope that the
reaction from all this filthy stuff and the moral
lessons which It has also brought out win fur
nish some compensation for its evils. But ct
the very best they are bad enough, and now
that we have reached the end Of the trial, we
may well ask to be saved from any continue
ton of the foul stream. Let Mr.. Beecher 20
about his work, and let the conspirators 60 to
that obscurity from which they have been lifted
into temporary notonety.


That Mr.. Beecher wiz 60 about his work, and
will meet it with unqualifying spirit he has al
ready declared. II his vindication is not as
complete a. his friends could wish, It Is amply
sufficient 70 Justify the course he pursues. It
was not for him TO prove his innocence, 1t was
for his accusers to prove his guilt. When
man is charged with this offense, what can he
do but deny It and stand on his characteri he
has the difficulty of proving Q negatives
thing which is practically impossible. His de-
fense must necessarily rest mainly upon the
failure of the accusers to substantiate their
charge; and there has certainly been an utter
failure In this case. The prosecution has
broken down. Tbs inconsistencies and contra
dictions Of it's story, the absence Of any direct
proof, the evidence of malignant spirit, the
strong probabilities of the case, all point to its
fabrication. Three fourths of the jury pro-
nounced it false, and the preponderat,ng voice
of the country is on the same side. Mr..
Beecher has unquestionably suffered; but,
while many good men doubt, the moral senti-
ment of the land is still Enthusiastically with
him, and will give him its encouragement In
rising above this cloud,
Year: 1875

AND NOW the irrepressible press of Mis-
sissippi have consuming desire to see
Jefferson Davis oficiate as orator at the
coming Centennial of our natiou's birth.
They are laboring under the impression
that such selection would be of greater
value to constitutional liberty than ali the
trinmphs ever won on the CORY fields Of
fratricidal strife. No doubt of 1t. He
always has been, is, and perhaps ever win
be, q bright and shining bonanza to consti-
tutional liberty and free government but
four years Of interneclne war, and an op-
pressive national debt; and ten thousand
green cemeteries make the fact quite en-
phatic and noticeable that he was little
lteo extravagant when selected as the chief
exponent of secession principles to be once
more brought before the general public as
an instructor of political economy and ex-
FOUNDER of the principles of the Govern
ment which he sought to wreck.
Year: 1875

After their unsuccessful attempt to palm
of upon the public the rebel fraud of the
Mecklenburg Centennial as genuine af.
fair of history, it was reasonably supposed
that the defiant, unrepentant traitors of
of North Carolina would ale still and
slumber" for little while. and not seek to
attract public censure upon themselves by
q fresh and much more fragrant insult to
the decently loyal sentiment of the country.
But it seems this was too much to expect.


North Carolina has widely celebrated
institution Of learning known as Chapel
Hill University" where many of the youth
Of that State are to be educated, and on the
18th of June last the trustees met for the
purpose of electing 9 president Among
the trustees assembled on that occasion were
ex-Goy. Graham, who smiably remarked
once on time "the Ku-Klux murders
were species of wild justice, necessary
to proper regulation Of society,"" and
Gov. Vance and William L. Saunders,
Grand Cyclops OF the Ku-Klux Klan; Paul
G. Cameron, Kemp P. Battle and others
Of that same class of men, but not so well
known for their adherence to the lost
cause. Jefferson Davis was the first and
last choice Of the trustees for president and
came within one vote of an election, and 8
good majority would have been given him
but for the fact that he has been recently
elected president of college in Texas,
which can afford to pay him a larger salary.
Hoping to be able to make arrangements
for this the election was postponed. Jeffer.
son Davis is not proper person to instruct
the youth of this country in its history, its
government and obligations, and his sp-
pointment to such . position is menace
to the integrity of American institutions.
Year: 1875

THE Worlds Washington correspondent
says that "there are dark rumors afost
affecting certain prominent Treasury
"oflcials in connection with the late
" whisky frauds, which 1t is expected will
develop themselves very SOON" This is
all humbug. The writer of the above has
either been "wooled" by some one or else
he knew that he was writing what was
false. The Secretary is well aware that
the paragraph in question was instigated
by one OF the ex-revenue officials Of the
West, who is now under indictment for
completely with gigantic frauds on the Treas
ury, who was here few days ago using
every endeayor in his power to get himself
accepted as witness for the Government


Having been unsuccessful in those efforts,
he appointed loeVna teneRs here to SANDER
those of the Treasury officials whom he
fancied were influential in defeating his
object. The paragraph above quoted
is the first effort OF that agent
in the service of his employer. Covert
as it is designed TO be, it is yet quite suffi-
cient to expose his game, and will only
strengthen the determination of the De-
partment to hold him firmly to the position
Of defendant in the case in which he has
been indicted. Private advices from st.
Louis confirm the belief that the whisky
ring of that city is one of the most forrni-
dable, and that those officials connected
with it who are now under Indictment were
by no means the least important and active
members of it. They will no doubt be
prosecuted to the bitter end. and made ex-
smples of as warning to all others who
may be subjected to similar temptations.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Victoria Woodruff lectured at Mu-
sic Hall Wednesday evening last, on the
subject Of the "True and False; Socially"
We do not know what Mrs. Woodruff ad
vocates in other places, but truth compels
US to say that she advanced no perncous
doctrines in her lecture here. The burden
of her discourse was a stirring appeal to
the mothers of the land, who she claimed
are capable of filing the world with
race of gods. In the course of
her lecture she told a great many truths
and mentioned many practices which are
sadly in need of reform. While her SUD-
iect was one we are not in the habit of
hearing discussed from the rostrum. yet her
ideas were expressed in digDiied and chaste
language, and her lecture throughout was
perhaps the most brilliant one ever deliv-
cred from Watertown platform.
Year: 1875

SEVERE STORM. - Between one and
three o'clock this morning severe
storm Of wind and rain prevailed in this
city and vicinity. The rain fell in tor
rents, washing the streets clean and
making numerous gullies In the hilly
squares where the streets were not paved.
In the country many trees were strip
ped Of their smaller limbs. and q large
quantity of corn was blown to the
ground.
Year: 1875

THE hIHTItEIE LNsUUUFbEFUII- REbUNPIIUN TO


TAKE PLACE.


WAsHIHoros. May e.
The strike among the laborers on the Public
Works is thought to be over The men were un-
successful in their demand for an increase OF
wages but are willing to resume work at the old
price of dollar and in some cases one dollar
and quarter d day. .-.-=
COMMISSIONER DOUGLASS TO BE PROVIDED FOR.
The President will appoint Commissioner
to that soon to be vacated by him.
Year: 1875

CoRoNER's INoUEsr.-Cor Groves held an
inquest, this morning. on the body of black
child, about six months old, which died without
receiving medical attendance in house OH Rail
Road Ave, over Eleventh street bridge The
Jury returned verdict of death from natural
Year: 1875

In recent speech at Covington, KY.
the Democratic Governorelect McCreery
made the following remarks:


II am here tonight to say that am in
favor of peace and reconciliation from
one end of Kentucky to the other; that |
am in favor of peace and reconciliation
from one border Of our Republic to the
other. Peace and reconciliation will be
beneficial to the North, the South, the
East and the West. If you want to
build up your prosperity again, if you
want to restore the condition that exist
ed before the war, then you must no lon
ger fan the prejudices and passions en-
gendered during the late civil strife,
You must not seek to tear open the scars
Of old wounds, tc rekindle the embers of
old fires; but you must let bygones be
bygones, and let the dead past take care
of itself. Let us all endeavor together to
build up this country, and restore the
prosperity, the peace and the happi-
ness that existed here before the war"
Year: 1875

THE only lady survivor of the Schiller
disaster arrived in New York few days
ago. Her name is Mrs. Jones, and her
home is in Davenport, Iowa. After
having recovered from the effects of the
terrible ordeal through which she and
her husband had passed, they went to
their native town in Schleswig. Germany
where they spent upwards ofseven weeks
in recuperating their strength. Naturally
enough his wife had strong reluctance
to again crossing the ocean, and it
was only after the mostearnest persua-
sion that she could be induced to under
take the voyage, All the way over she
was in constant dread and did not sleep
an hour during any night.
Year: 1875

Tie great cause Of our inse visibility To
the goodness of the Creator is the very
extensiveness Of His bounty. We prize
but little what we share only in com
mon with the rest, or with the general
ty Of our species. When we hear Of
blessings, we think forthwith Of success
es, Of prosperous fortunes, Of honors,
riches, preferments, !. e., Of those ad
vantages and superiorities over Others
which we happen either to possess, or to
be in pursuit of, to eovet. The com
cape Us. Yet these are the great things.
These constitute what most properly
ought TO be accounted blessings Of Prov
idence what alone, if we might so
speak, are worthy Of its care. Nightly
rest and daily bread, the ordinary uses
Of our limbs and senses and understand
ing are gifts which admit Of no cOmpar-
ison with any other. Yet because al
most every man We meet possesses these
we leave them out Of our enumeration.
They raise 10 sentiments they move no
gratitude. Now, herein is our Judgment
perverted by seliishness. \ blessing
ought in truth To be the most satisfactO-
ry, the bounty at least Of the donor Is
rendered more conspicuous, By is very
diffusion, its eommOnness, its cheapness
by its falling to the lot ard forming the
happiness of the great bulk and body ol
our species as well as ourselves Nay, even
when we do not possess it, it ought 70 b.
the matter Of thankfulness that otHer-
do. But we have a different way OF
thinking. We court distinction That
is not the worst; We see nothing bat


what has distinction to recommend IT,
This necessarily contracts our views Of
the Creators beneficenee within mar
row compass and most uniustly.
Year: 1875

The officers and members Of the Twcinn regimsws
National Guard held their annual reception last ovsn-
ing At the regimenta armory The affair was . moss
ENJOYABLE one and the music furnished by Dodworths
Band feature Of the entortanmeht provuso. me
fully tested the capacity OF the building ana
tho display Of toilets was q noticeable ona
Year: 1875

are mad we have got good keeper by the way and a
good asylum at the end. We are not willing 10 be


laughed at but II we going 70 be followers OF Christ
must count the cost have great respect Tor the
old woman who. during the war, started out TO meet
the enemy with a poker in her hand. When asked
what she expected to do with poker she said would
show which side she on. You can show which side
you Le. the redeemed Of the Lord say SO.
Year: 1875

n COMPULSORY SCHOOL LAW has been in
trOduced in the Pennsylvania Legislature.
III provides that all children between eight
and sixteen years of age shall attend school
at least sixteen weeks in the year, or be re-
gularly instructed at home for the same pc
Rod; that no child under the age of sixteen
years shall be employed during the hours of
schOOl-days in the district unless the child
has been instructed for sixteen weeks during
the year; and that any child so emplOved
shall deliver to employers a certificate given
by the school authorities, certifying 10 the
fact of such attendance. Proper penalties are
imposed for violation of the act
Year: 1875

n CAUCUS OF republican Senators was held
on Saturday. The matters under discussion
were the admission of Colorado as a state
and the transportation question. No action
was taken on either subject. although il was
ELECTED that sixteen out of the twenty-five
Senators present favored the admission of
Colorado. The chief topic of discussion was
the condition of the South. but there being
conflicting views no result was reached. The
caucus instead of giving expression to their
views on the Louisiana question, agreed TO
await the action of the Committee on Privi
lcgeS and Elections on the Pinchback ere
dentlatS.
Year: 1875

THE Caucus COMMITTEE of the House
have under consideration a proposition TO re-
enact the South Carolina act of 1851, which
authorizes the President to suspend the writ
Of habeas corpus in any section of the coun-
try in state of anarchy, or where, in his
judgment, the public safety requires il. Also
TO recommend legislation providing that the
maximum strength Of a company Of infantry
III the United States army shall be eighty
instead of fifty-SiX men, and that "A company
OF cavalry and artillery shall be one hundred
mon.
Year: 1875

IF you want to see how beautiful your wife looks when she's angry, suggest that the young lady who lives across the street, and who always sits at the window with her forefinger pressed to her temple and a pcnsive smile on her face while you're smoking your evening cigar, is the hand somest woman you ever saw. Take care that your head isn't out of the window when you make the remark. This was the situation with Mir. Spellbacker, the other Evening. The window came down so rapidly that he hadn't time to get all his head in. and he doesn't look well half scalned.
Year: 1875

THE Ogdcnsburg Journal gives the following as true copy of a prescription, sent by physician who has an extensive practice in one of the Western States, to patient who came into St. Lawrence county:
Year: 1875

Instead of small state rooms there are


larger apartments accommodating from


twenty to forty individuals. The berths


are arranged in two tiers and are con-


structed otherwise in very much the same


way as are the sleeping apartments of


respectable and well ordered pig pen. The


unmarried men are sent to room by them


selves, and the married couples and the


younger children to another. The room


into which these others all open and to


which all classes have access, is reached bv
two flights of stairs from the main deck.


This place serves as dining hall and cabin.
only there are no red velvet cushions lyinp
about. There is no carpet on the floor.
and no rack full of glasses and decapters
to be rafting overhead. The tables are
quite in keeping with the frugal fare served
three times daily. For break fast we BEGIN
with mug of coffee, hot and sweetened,
but not strong enough to be injurious, and,
by the way, COWS in this neighborhood are
quite partial and can't be induced to give
milk for steera2e passengers. A liberal
supply of bread and butter makes I'D what
is sometimes known abroad as a plain
breakfast. Oat meal porridge with black
in addition to the above, may be
once or twice during the voyage.
A good appetite will be needed for dinner:
you will then be first treated to soup which


looks like good strong dshwater, but it
tastes better than it looks. Soon the stew
ard comes around with a tin pail full of
boiled potatoes, some of them about the
size of hens egg and some of them not
80 large. They are supposed to have been
'insed, but not washed or pared before
cooking, and if little meal were added


he mixture would be very like what New
England farmers use to fatten hogs on.
After this boiled meat is brought around,
lot of the choicest cuts, to be sure, but an
such as it is, is given. Dessert
will be dispensed with, save on Sunday,
when kind Of plum pudding is added.
'or supper, about a pint of tea, served
anne as coffee, and more bread and butter,
The only change we ever knew in the


bove bill of fare is that of pea soup and
'oiled salt fish on Fridays in place of the
he usual dinner.-Boston Globe.
Year: 1875

How CAN SOCIETY HELP ITSELF
Primarily, by civilizng, so far as possible,
the naturally uncivilzed grandmothers, not
forgetting the grandfathers also, by bring
ing them up in habits of honest industry
i'll useful occupations: not in unnatural
masses in prison like asylums, but in work
shops and families. This done vigorously,
the criminal class will be largely cut off by
conversion into something better. We
shall have cause for thankfulness when so
much is done. But the time is probably
coming when society will see the necessity
of taking still more radical measures for
the prevention, not only of possible crime,
but of possible criminals. In more i'm
mediate and active sense than the words
now carry, the generation of the wicked
will be cut off.


Natures processes for ef1ecting this end
are, like most other natural processes, very
slow and very wasteful; still more, they
are very unjust, since the innocent suffer
far more than the guilty. The lusty vaga-
bond leads jolly life, filled to the end with
all the enjoyment he is capable of; and
leaves behind him numerous progeny to
pay the penalty of his misdeeds in heredi-
tary poverty, impoverished constitutions,
depraved tastes, wasting diseases, and other
conditions of early defeat in life's engage
ments, and the morally and physically
healthy are taxed for the support of aims
houses, PRISONS asylums, hospitals, and
other places of refuge for them. For the
victims, as we'll as for humanity at large,
it were better had they never been born.
We do we'll to make the most of them after
they are born-or rather, We should do well
did we do SO; but would it not be infinitely
better all round could their existence be
made impossible from the outseto