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Year: 1875

On Wall Street.-The character OF
Wall street business may be understood
by reading the reports OF what has been
done OH Wall street in the last week.
We learn that in round numbers nine
hundred and forty-fiye thousand shares
were bought ard sold. OF these shares
seven hundred thousand represent what
are called fancy stocks is, stocks
of nominal value, the trade in which
cannot be considered as sound express
ion of business The buying and selling
OF these stocks, as reported in the tables,
as SO is misnomer. They are not really
bought or sold, hut tsputs'' and s'calls''
and other contracts for their delivery
have been the staple OF trade, ard many
of the sales, too, have been nomllal
between agents of some stock -jobber
anxious to give false value to the mar
ket. The two hundred and forty thou
sand shares of honest stocks which have
been sold are gratifying indication Of
the real revival in business. During
the Summer the whole burden of shares
IN wall street were these fancy securities.
We can understand the exact value Of
Wall street as we mark the dinlinution Of
the sales Of the fancy stocks and the in-
crease in the sales of the real stocks.
Year: 1875

Among the great
discoveries of modern
science, few are of


more real value to
mankind than this ef-
fectual remedy for all
diseases of the Throat
and Lungs. A vast
trial of its virtues,
throughout this and
other countries, has
shown that it does
surely and effectually
Year: 1875

An 0swego, N. Y, girl of eighteen
was courted by an old fellow of seventy,
who lavished upon her costly presents,
etc., but when he asked her to marry she
plainly told him that he was "a toeth-
less, dried up old fool, and she would no
more think of marrying him than she
would a pair of tongs." He says she
had consented to become his wife, and a
suit for breach Of promise is in prospect.
Year: 1875

Of equal magnitude at other points.
This corruption, which is q constant
source Of discontcnt and hostility


among the Indians themselves, is in
my judgment the natural result ofthe
present loose and irresponsible sys.


TEN Of furnishing the Indians with
goods and supplies, a system that


tends directly to invite fraud. II do
not believe ANYTHING but
Year: 1875

\ SAD SToRf.-A telegram from New
burg, New York. says: Two weeks ago a
young woman arrived I'm this city in search
OF housework, she said, and applied 10
German, q saloon keeper in Front street, for
a situation. He declined az first, but she be-
sought so earnestly that ne at length con-
sented TO employ her. She gave her name as
Mary Palmer and said she belonged IN FISH
XIII and was unmarried. The girl brought
with her, in bundles and valise, some very
fine Clothing. evidently more suitable for one
above her station in life, and her appearance
was that of one unaccustomed 10 work. She
worked faithfully, however, in her new EN-
ploy until Tuesday. On that night she gave
birth TO child. Yesterday mother and babe
were removed TO the almshouse She refuses


give any account of herself, but from a
etter found in her effects il is supposed that


he Is from West 11th street, New York city.
Efforts are being made TO discover her rela-


ives. She is in deep distress over her sad
ate and weeps almost continually.
Year: 1875

How IT FRELS TO BE EHANGED.-Having
attempted TO hang himself, but having been
prematurely cut down, a young gentleman
of Paris has survived 10 give this account of
his senSations:-s'As kicked away the chair
and fell had the sensation OF receiving a
blow from a hammer on the top OF my head.
] did not feel the rope, and the only defined
sensation succeeding that OF the blow was a
sensation OF weight i'm my head. Ny head
seemed heavier and bigger than the great bell
OF Notre Dame. 1t was night all about me,
and then there came terrible cold I'm the
lever part of my body, and then a sharp pain
where the rope was tearing my neck and
then-uOthing.~
Year: 1875

To PREVENT HYDRANTS FREEZING
Place all street hydrants below the surface
of the sidewalk, and enclose them by either
brick chamber or cast iron cylinder, so
that they can easily be gotten at. At the
bottom of the chamber place vitrified pipe
connec ling with the sewer in the street. by
which al water remaining i'm the bydrant
after it is closed will be Immediately con-
veyed away; and as the water is admitted to
the hydrant by valve, four and a half feet
below the surface, there will be no chance
for the water to freeze at that point
Year: 1875

THE COLORED CADET TROUBLE AT
ANNAPOLIs.-The cOmmandant of the
Naval academy at Annapolis, some days
ago caused the fOurth-claSs midshipmen TO
be confined to their quarters for mOlesting
cOlOTed MidShipman Baker and gave them
notice that their liberty would not be restored
until each member of the class gave written
assurance that he would not interfere with
nor mOleSt his cOlOred claSSmate. Fifteen
members of the class have given this aSsur-
ance, but the remainder of the class. number
ing about 100, still hold Out-WdshiaJiOh
Con-. " Y. Post.
Year: 1875

y NAVAL OFFICER called at the Navy de
paTtment this morning who hal not been in
that building before for twenty-six years.
He il the only officer in fine service known to
have been guilty Of sacrificing the ineStma-
ble privilege Of visiting Washington at least
once a year when within reach.
Year: 1875

Port Deposit, Md, March 19:-The
flood here is fearful, the water being
from five to fifteen feet deep in the
streets. Nothing like it was ever seen
before. Nearly the whole town is
flooded, and there is great destruction
of property. No lives lost so far. The
railroad depot is full of water. The
telegraph operators were obliged to
abandon their Office last night in a
boat.


At Havre-de-Grace, the ice has
gorged about five miles below the
town, and the wharves are flooded
The street next to the river, above the
bridge, is completely blocked with ice,
wood and lumber, washed from the
whurvcs
Year: 1875

With many peopl who are past the me-
ridian of life, it often becomes difficult to
oblaio good nights sleep; indeed, the
habit OF waking at q certain hour Of the
night and lying awake for several hours
becomes fixed, and one which is very diff
ficult to throw off There may be various
causes which will produce this effect. but
there is one very prominent cause, and
that is indigestion; and indigestion is of
ten caused by the habit Of drinking too
much tea or other fluids at supper; the con
sequence 10 that steady and sound sleep
through the night becomes impossible
without the use OF some means which will
overcome this propensity to lay awake.


To do this and so to sleep in five min>
utes is no very difficult thing. and may
be done by applying friction to oil parts
of the body and limbs. To accomplish it
take crash towel and give 1t lively mo.
ton 10 rubbing downward from the head
until the blood will be put in lively circu-
latlOn, rubbing hardest upon the ches. II
tho towel is not at hand, the hand may
be used for the purpose.
Year: 1875

We learn from a gentleman from
Brewton of terrible murder which
recently occurred below Pollard. it
appears that an old man named
Byers, or something similar, drove
some cattle belonging to a neighbor
out of a range which he (D) claimed
as his. The next day the owner Of
the cattle, with his two sons, rode up
20 where Bvers and his four sons
were at work and deliberately fired
upon them. The old man and two
sons were killed outright. One son
was thought to be mortally wounded.
and the other was also wounded. We
regret that tho names Of the perpe
traitors of this terrible deed, and
whether or not they had been arrest
ed, have escaped US. They should
certainly be held to strict accounta-
bility, no matter what may have been
the character of the objects of their
vengeance.-GreenUilte (Aia) Ad-
rOcdte
Year: 1875

FREE SPEEcH.-We claim the right Of
free speech" i'll the Courts whether the
Presidents conduct is under considera-
zion or that of poor man. Grant
covers before this great right in our
country, and for the first time in its
history a President discharges one of his
own officers for referring to his conduct
What does this signify, but that this
man at Washington means thus to init
mate to the 6O, 900 officers under him tha
they must not criticize his conduct?
Year: 1875

A Maryland man whose wife dropped
dead few days aoy, had ;he funeral put
off one day longer to get the balance Of
his corn husked. He said it wouldn't
make any difference to her, as she was
always good.natured
Year: 1875

When Persian speak up and say that
the Shan is an old long nosed rhincceros.
he has just about tame, before his head
flies off to send word to his wife that she
needn't sit up to unlock the hall door for
him that evening. - Detroit Free Prov.
Year: 1875

day, and poor Hetty was glad when
slowly the steamer moved away
from the wharf, and night shut down
on her misery, for misery typified
by sea-sickness what can be greaterf
There was no sea on-why should
she be sickf but nothing explained
It only for hours together, and there
she was in the gall of bitterness and
the bonds Of wretchedness.


Mrs. Blandford was wretched, too,
that was some comfort, and even
Mrs. Blandiord was duly lugubri-
Gus.


1t wss days before either lady
made her appearance, and when
Hetty came on deck to breathe the
air Of the tropic and to feel so sud-
denly that Summer had come to her
she gave way to the new delight and
thanked God from her heart that she
seemed to be newly born.


Mrs. Blandford, too, was ecstatic,
and the dear old duck, as she called
him, her husband seemed very much
ashamed Of the fuss he had made
but few hours previous, and en-
joyed, as we'll he might, the envy of
the manly crowd who looked upon
the advantage Of his position in hav-
ing wife, so fond and comely, and
some of them desiring, perhaps, to
emulate his example, began to flock
about Hetty, and to offer numerous
little attentions, which Hetty, Of
course, received as If her due. But
1t was not to be all fair sailing, even
upon Summer sea. A few little
clouds hoated above In the horizon
and began to advance toward each
other--a peal Of thunder and flash
Of lightning announced coming
battle. The waves whipped into
fury, commenced rebellion, and all
along the lines from one to another
began to give the watchword. Night
shut in, in terror; the sea seemed
boiling to avenge itself as If of an
injury, and the wind gave sign OF
contention from every quarter.
There seemed to be no chance for
the ship for while, as she lay, her
engine working itself as best 1t
might, making no headway, striving
only to hold its own in the war of
waters, and filling the hearts of ali
with terror at the thought that this
work Of human hands contending
with the infinite only death and de.
struction must be the result. Pray
ing women, terror stricken men, and
yet tho ship held on its way till in
the morning, and all was calm again.
1t did not seem possible anything
could outlive that storm, yet floating
calmly unhurt, the ship rode tri-
umphantly into the morning sun
light. Men and women paler, more
thoughtful, approached each other
congratulating themselves that moth.
ing more had come oft. But Hetty
thought once more Of that home on
the hill side, and wondered IL worse
storms, even, might not be in pros
pect, in retribution for the restless
ness that had induced her to leave
that place Of peace. C. ANN.


Ito be continwed.)
Year: 1875

a MUCH more pleasing performance and
one which might perhaps better have been
mentioned in connection with the exploits
of the iugglers is the Z" egg dance" This z
Is not, as one might expect from the name
given It, dance upon these fragile OBJ
iects. 1t is executed in this wise The
dancer, dressed in a corsage and very
short skirt, carries awillow.wheel of mods
crate diameter fastened horizontally upon 4
the top of her head. Around this wheel
threads are fastened, equally distant from
each other, and al the end of each Of these
threads is slip-noose, which is kept open g
by q glass bead. Thus equipped the
young girl comes toward the spectators
with basket full of eggs, which she
passes around for inspection to prove that
they are real, and not limitations. The
music strikes up jerky, monotonous
strain and the dancer. begins to whirl
around with great rapidly. Then seiz-
ing an egg she puts 1t in one of the slip.
nooses, and, with quick motion, throws
II from her in such a way as 10 draw the
knot tight. The swift turning of the
dancer produces a centrifugal force which
stretches the thread out straight like array
shooting from the circumference of the


circle. One after another the eggs are


thrown out in these slip-nooses until they
make horizontal aureole or halo about
the dancers head Then the dance be-
comes still more rapid, so rapid in fact
that it is difficult to distinguish the feat
ures of the girl; the moment is critical;
the least false step, the least irregulariiy
in time and the eggs dash against each
other. But how can the dance be stopped
There is but one way---that is, to remove
the eggs in the way in which they have
been put in place. This operation is by
far the more delicate of the two. 1t IS
necessary that the dancer by a single
motion, exact and unerring, should take
hold of the egg and remove ii from the
moose. single false motion of the hand,
the least interference with .one of the
threads and the general arrangement is
suddenly broken and the whole perform.
ance disastrously ended. At last all the
eggs are successfully removed; the
dancer suddenly stops, and without seem
ing in the least dizzied by this dance of
twenty-five or thirty minutes she advances
to the spectators with firm step and pre-
serts them the eggs, which are immedi-
ately broken in fiat dish to prove that
there is no trick about the performance
ScribuaI foF, NopsInbe1.
Year: 1875

Long at the tine of the whipping from so
severe torturt This man, one morning.
ventured out N the woods without his
comrades, Hfwas walking slowly along,
looking for game, when the brown barrel
of rifle projecting from a bush beside
him checked Us course. A tall, lank fig
ure rose from be bush, and the startled
man recognized Sam Long, the hunter.
Long raised tie rifle, then lowered it.


you're the man who said good word
for me an youmay go, bad as you are.
won't take YOU miserable life. Got"


The man nedled no second invitation to
go. He hurrid to the camp and told the
story. The Captain and the other three
men started oft in pursuit of Long, and
but two menaccompanied Dick Reddett
when he TeturIpd! The third man had
fallen, shot in tie eye, and no search of the
underbrush revealed the hunter


The next day another man was killed in
camp and again the hunter escaped On
the next day the two remaining men fed
the country, baving the fierce Reddett
alone. The leader of the desperadoes
dared not remain where he was. He knew
he was the man whom Long sought above
all Others.


Concaling himself until night, he
mountdl his horse and fled for the nearest
pointer the Arkansas River where it would
be possible to take passage on a steam
boat. Two days later he reached small
landing in the woods on the bank of the
river where the steamer stopped for pas
sengers when there were any to take. He
learned from the occupant of the only
cabin in the neighborhood that the boat
would be down in the afternoon, and so,
having put up the signal to secure a land
ing of the boat, established himself on
the banl and waited. He deemed himself
safe enough from pursuit, and took no
precautions. Throwing himself on the
ground he slept until late in the day.
when he was awakened by the sound of
the boat in the distance. She would
round point in a moment or two, and he
waited expectantly. As suddenly as
though risen from the ground lank fig
ure stood before him, and the muZZle of
a rifle peered in his face. The terrified
desperate had no difficulty in recognizing
the man as the one he had injured
With the rifle still held steadily upon the
face of the startled Rcddett, Long hissed
out:


"I'vc got you You whipped me-
whipped me like dog! / swore I'd kill
you before called myself a man again,
and I'm going to do it, I've cleaned out
your band, and now it's your turn! Oh,
I've got you"


The ruffian in abject fear pleaded for
his life, groveling at the feet Of the hunter.
He clung to his words as drowning man
clings to straws. The boat was very near.
Should she round the point in time lie
would be saved.


Already the smokestacks showed through
the brush, when the hunter pressed the
trigger, the sharp report rang out, and
Reddett fell dead, shot to the brain through
the left eye. Long slipped away in the
woods, and when the boat stopped in re-
sponse to the signal they found a dead
man but no one else. Harrison County
was rid forever of the worst gang Of
ruf11ans in the Southwest.


"An' that, stranger" said the old man
in the Dallas hotel, is true story of the
way Sam Long settled accounts with the
."-NGshUiNe (Tenn.) Daily
american.
Year: 1875

and when the second bell struck she
leaped over the fence and trotted quietly
to church, stopping at her usual hitchine.
place under an elm-tree till the close Of
the service, when the faithful animal re-
turned safely to the house"
Year: 1875

"A grocer on the Ohio River had to
make an assignment because some villain
stole eighteen pounds Of sugar and
whole cheese from his stock. You can
get an idea from this how sensitive capital
sometimes is. M
Year: 1875

A RECENT Washington dispatch says
the receipts from internal revenue for the
three months ending Sept 30 show an in
crease Of $1,780356 over those of the cor
responding quarter last year.
Year: 1875

IT is reported that the Treasury De
pa-tment at Washington has discontinued


the purchase of silver for the present on
account of the high price. 1t is consid-
cred probable that the operation of the
scheme for silver resumption will be de-
ferred until after the meeting OF Congress.
Year: 1875

A DECISION rendered by the New York
Court of Appeals to the effect that the
agreement for the discount of note above
the legal interest in New York was cor
rupt and illegal, and that under the law of
that State the whole debt was forfeited,
has been overruled by the United States
Supreme Court, which holds that, under
the National Banking law, the plaintiff in
the case appealed forfeited only the excess
of the legal rate of interest.
Year: 1875

AN aeronaut named Atchinson attempted
a balloon ascensIonat the recent Elkhorn
(Ky.) Far, but when several hundred feet
high the balloon took fire and was burned,
and he was precipitated to the earth and
SO badly injured that his recovery was
considered doubtful.
Year: 1875

1t is a remarkable fact in connection with
those who come to settle upon this Peninsula
they are almost without exception in favor of
Peninsular consolidation. They seem to UNDER
stand more readily than our own people the in
congruitys in the divorcement of nature, and
to comprehend better the necessity which exists
for one mode of government between the bays.
Hence the more strangers who eau be brought
into the Peninsula the sooner will the consolida-
ton be effected. Emigration is the hsndmaiden
of Peninsular union and will promote that in
terest not only by the personal influence which
each new conner brings with him but by the
leaven which he will spread broadcast in the
land of his adoption.
Year: 1875

On Tuesday next, the Legislatures of Delaware
and Pennsylvania meet-the one at Dover and
the other at Harrisburg In the latter State a
lively struggle is going on over the selection Of
officers for the two Houses in Delaware there
are no changes in the slate as printed in the
COMMERCIAL more than week ago. Mr. Hol-
comb will undoubtedly be chosen speaker of the
House, and it is quite probable that Mr. Shak-
speare will be made President of the Senate
Year: 1875

Mayor Stokley was inaugurated at Philadel-
phia, yesterday, for his second term, which will
cover the Centennial year. The occasion WAS
observed with somewhat of pompous ceremony.
In his address the Mayor said he had no pledg-
es to make for the future, but promised to dis
charge the various functions of his office to the
best of his ability. He also invites cooperation
i'll the correction of abuses, assuring his fellow
citizens that he will apply himself to redress
of their grievances to the full extent of the pow
Ell which is vested in him. 1t would seem in the
face of these promises, if lived up to, that the
occupation of the Reformers is gone.
Year: 1875

The Union Aid Society is perfecting its meas
ures for the relief of the poor. Rooms have
been rented in the rear of Grifith's feed store,
at Sixth and Orange streets, and the distribution
of soup was begun to-day II our citizens gem
orally sustain the society in it's work, there is
multitude of people who now go
hungry who will be fed daily, and much
of this begging from door to door be broken up.
Even though nothing more be accomplished,
this dual relief will be blessing to many per-
sons
Year: 1875

Every man thinks newspaper iair
game. II = society or any body OF men
get up concert or ball, or other form
OF entertainment. the OBJECT of which is
to put money In their pockets. or. If the
proceeds are TO be devoted 10 charitable
purposes to add 70 their own glorihca'
ton, they become very indignant II the
proprietors Of newspaper do not assist
them by series OF gratuitous advertise.
men,s tor several weeks before the event
takes place. These gentlemen should
remember, that literary men. In this
practical age. work for money as well as
for tame, principally for the former.
however, and the business manager OF
newspaper. il he wishes TO keep on the
sale side OF the ledger, conducts his
charge on the same principle as the head
of sny business establishment. People
who are getting up ball would teel
chsry OF asking present OF pair of
gloves from any merchant on that account
vet asking and expecting to receive
eratuitous advertisement Is a similar
demand.
Year: 1875

beart SO he was obliged 10 be qne
though he was far Ire IN satisfied.


The next morning after promising to
remember all OF Relha's messages, and
pssuling her that he should tell her
mother that she mede the very incest
short cake that he ever ate il his life. he
bade them good by. and was gone.


From choice he walked 10 the depot,
and when perhaps a quarter OF mile
from tho house he had just left, he saw q
nice looking man approaching. he in.
slantly said, THAT is Arthur Farrar. |
feel it in my bones. and | will look at
him. so that | may know him again"


He had an excellent opportunity to
carry out his resolve, as the approaching
stranger merely raised his eyes, and
passed by. But in that passing inter
change of looks. Edward DudIy read
this man. and said 10 himself "l do not
like him any better now that / have seen
him, hoped should, for Rctha's sake
at least"


All unaware Of this. Retha continued her
pleasant friendship as cordially as ever,
and when q, length the time arrived for
her return home, it was with feeling
far removed from dispeasure that
he should soon, with her permission, do
himself the honor of calling upon her in
her city home.


She did not say him nay. 80 with this
understanding they parted.


70 Inc cnniinnrl
Year: 1875

The accident TO which Orange Judd
owes the suddenness of his success was
this: To digress for a moment. Mr.. and
Mrs. Judd lived. in their early history. IN
modest house in q retired street in
Flushing, L. /. Mr. Judd went to New
York every day TO work upon the Ameri-
can Agriculturist-a struggling paper
sold at the rate Of 81 year; and in the
evening he and his wife put up seeds in
little paper bags. which were sold in The
New York store. He kept an old horse
for business purposes, that went by the
name of "the hair trunk" and it was a
standing Joke in Flushing that the gentle
men would 90 70 the city in the morning.