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Year: 1873

THE PROFITS ON BEER-Beer is the
poor mans wine Why should he pay
two prices for it Beer is sold to the
saloons at 50 keg. We have been in
formed that the average number of glass
es drawn per keg is over one hundred.
An expert tells us that when he was in
the business keg was good for 105
glasses. At five cents per glass this
would give S.. 25 per keg to the retailer,
yielding him profit of 1926. This is
an indecent extortion. If the retailer
pays 50 per keg and gets $3.15 for it
over his counter, that is ample compen-
sation for handling. But, we are told,
the small concerns could not live with
out more than fifty per cent. profit. Let
them die, then Cincinnati CONNER
ci0L
Year: 1873

A HOT tempered Danbury woman who
finds considerable trouble in persuadlng
her husband to furnish kindlings, and
then is obliged to do it herself, read in a
religious paper, Monday, of how wife
induced wicked husband to become one
of the most affectionate and hopeful Of
men by being invariably calm and loving
with him. The story made deep i'm
preston upon her, and when she started
q fire that noon, she put pair of rubbers
among the wood. Then she tied a hand
kerchief across her nose, and went on
with her work. When the husband
reached the gate, he paused, fetched a
sniff that made hole in the atmosphere,
and then went around to the back Of the
house and fetched another sniff that had
an equally damaging effect on the atmos-
phere. He stared into the next yard and
up at his own house, and felt in his pock-
cts, and was about to go around to the
front again, when his wife thrust her head
out of the window and said, 'Why don't
you come in the house, you old fool?
Come in and get your dinner, and let me
read an article to you from the Christian
Secretary, you old rip! Come in and see
how nice it is to get dinner with nothing
to burn but rubbers, you whited sepul-
chre! Come in here, l tell you, before
lose my temper, and say what / oughtn't
to-" At this invitation he went in, going
upon the stoop and to the door very
slowly, but on opening the door, dissap-
peared inside with marvellous sudden
ness The neighbors say he was cutting
wood all the afternoon, and thinking OF
the religious press.-Dan5atry Nea0s.
Year: 1873

YESTERDAY morning a peddler of dry
goods and notions named Norton Free
man, living in Hamtramck, arrived by
the cars from Clinton County, being a
wretched sight to look upon A week
ago yesterday while driving his wagon
through the county few miles north of
Ovid, Clinton County, he stopped and got
down to drink at creek crossing the
highway. AS he rose up from the creek
he was bitten in the leg by large dog,
which had come softly up behind him,
and Freeman saw two other goOd-sized
dogs near the wagon. He sprang for his
vehicle, when the three dogs made at him
together, and his shouts and their yelps
started the horse off On trot. The ped
dler was bitten seven or eight times be-
fore he found anything with which he
could defend himself, and then he got
hold Of stick about five feet long which
could be easily handled. The dogs re-
treated as he picked up the stick, but
when Freeman sought to gain the road
they all sprang for him. He says that he
struck to kill, and knocked each brute
down in turn, but as fast as he knocked them
down they would spring up and attack
him again. Within five minutes after the
battle opened the peddler's hands were red
with blood, and blood was running down
into his boots, but by fortunate blow he
so disabled one of the smaller dogs that
the brute had to draw out of the fight.
There was rest again of four or five min
utes, and Freeman walked slowly back
into a fence corner, and exchanged his
club for better one. Without a move
ment on his part, the two dogs attacked
him again, one biting at his legs, and
the other leaping for his throat. The
latter animal caught his teeth in
the peddler's shoulder, and tore away
all that side of the mans coat, and
made wound in the flesh that will be
weeks in healing. Freeman was dragged
down, and both of the dogs were on his
back at once, though he managed to shake
them off and regain his feet. A blow
from his club dashed out the larger dogs
eye, and the brute ran round and round in
a circle, howling so fearfully that the
other dog ran away. Watching his chance
Freeman hit the crippled dog blow
which killed it, and then he crawled down
to the creek and tainted away. Some men
came along in a wagon and discovered
him, and he was taken to farmhouse
and cared for. On his left leg there are
nine wounds from the teeth of the dogs.
On the right eleven; on the right arm,
five; on the left arm, three; on the back,
three; on the shoulder, two; on the face,
two; on the right foot, two; on the right
hand, five; on the left, two, and one on the
back Of the head, making in all forty-five
distinct and separate bites. Some are
mere "nips," drawing a little blood and
making the flesh black and blue, while
others looked as if the dog had "chanked"
the flesh. The dogs were seen by the
farmers, and they could not identify the
brutes as being owned anywhere within
five miles of the spot where they attacked
Freeman. He offered no provocation for
the attack, having even no hint of their
presence before being bitten. The deepest
wounds were cauterized, and Freeman
anticipates no greater misfortune than the
loss of a months time.--DetT0St Free
Press. AIQltst 21.
Year: 1873

absence he looked in the drawer, and was
astonished to find that the bills had been
unrolled and scattered over the bottom


but that none of them had been removed


Then he let his angry passions rise, and
loaded his revolver and laid in wait cx-
pecting to capture the thief, who he sup
posed had been hastily driven off while
examining the drawer. He remained at
his post all night and until daylight with
out observing anything, and finally con-
cluded to remove the bills and try SINH
lar experiment some other time. To his
unbounded astonishment, however, he
discovered that some of the bills had been
taken. His hair rose; then he cooled
down and grew madder than ever; then
he cooled down still more, and made an
examination of the drawer. Then he
found knot-hole at the back part. Next
he secured the services of a carpenter, and
soon found the nest of mouse, nicely
lined with bills Of various denominations
under the counter. In this place Of de-
posit he found not only one of the bills
he had marked, but also $31 which had
previously been stolen.-DetroitI Tribune.
Year: 1873

DURING the week or two past the pro-
prietor of restaurant on Griswold street
missed more or less money from his till


daily, and was finally compelled to sus-
pect some of the persons in his employ.
Accordingly, on Thursday evening he
marked a number Of bills and put them
in the drawer, and walking out OF his es-
tablishment by one door entered 1t by
another, so secretly that no one knew
that he was in the place. He was next
about to hide himself so that he could see
the money drawer and not be seen, but to
satisfy himself that the money had
not been disturbed during his temporary
Year: 1873

THE writer has spent portion of the past sun
mer among swarms of mosquitoes One of theI
led night attack with results family shadowed
the poem. The mosquito and writer are both III
known to fame; bat the writer cannot bear to sc
the brave little hero depart to the shades WlthoU
a passing tribute


One mosquito died last night,


One large mosquito died.
He breatled out his mortal breath,
And closed his little eyes in death,
While winds around him sighed.
know not whence he came to me,
1 know not where he's gone;
/ only saw him in the air,
And heard him buzzing in my hair
His soul is marching on.
He led hungry host to prey


Upon my quivering form;
With masses dark they filed the air,
And filled my soul with deep despair,
Before the gathering storm.



dug for him a little grave


Beside butter-Cup,
And put him in his little bed,
And scattered sand around his head
His legs are sticking up. I
buried him at dead of night
Within field of clover,
His broken bill is out of sight
He'll never lead another fight
His little buzz is over.
Mosquito cloud mosquito cloudl
Oil fearful cloud of night,
Thy living folds pour out no flood,
But mOisten many lands with blood,
Until the morning light.
Sweet land of rest for thee sigh,
Where no mosquitoes come;
/ think of thee and fain would die
Where can lay my netting by,
And rest without a hum.


kansas Magazine.
Year: 1873

ONE Of those people who consider
horse cars as spittoons recently entered a
Boston car, and inadvertently bestowed
his attention upon gentleman's boot. No
sooner had the boot felt the indignity than
it seemed endowed with sudden vitality.
1t attacked the expectorator until he madly
volunteered to give it satisfaction if it
would accompany him out of the
car for few minutes. The challen-
ger and the boot departed: the spectators
saw hats flying, and arms and legs spin
ming about with so much velocity that it
was impossible to tell who owned them.
After breathless time the outraged boot
was avenged and departed triumphantly.
Year: 1873

A woman's determination to part her
hair at the side broke up wedding at
Bangor, Me-, last week. The company
had all assembled, the clergyman was
in his place, and tho groom proceeded
up stairs to escort his chosen one to
the altar. The lady was s2lerdidly
dressed, but in arranging her hair had
adopted the g new STYLE" TO this the
young man objected in the most de-
cided terms, saying that it looked too
brazen and fast !" that the hair of a
bride should be parted modestly in the
middle. A sharp war of words follow
ed, which resulted in declaration on
the part of the angry youth that he had
taken firm stand d; that the hair must
be redressed, or he would never look
upon it again. To this the girl replied
that he might leave as soon as he
pleased, and leave he did, much to the
disgust of the people, who came to par
take o. the wedding supper and were
turned out of the house without it.
Year: 1873

The value put by epicures upon par
ticular varieties Of fish, seems to de-
pend in great degree upon their cost
illness. Thus the sturgeon is regarded
in Europe as q fish fit only for king,
merely because the fish is rare. and
brings a very high price. 1t is not i'm
possible that the common herring is
about to rise in further estimation for q
similar reason. During the present sea.
son it has been unprecedented]y scarce
on the coast OF Scotland, and has COM
manded prices that the Pail Mall Ga
zctte calls enormous. Ii the scarcity
should continue, and the price of her
ring steadily rise, = time will come
wher boiled herring will be beyond
the means of any one but a million
aire. We shall be told of the extrava
gance Of some dissipatea young duke
in break fasting daily upon herring, and
shalt read of the reckless prodigal who
carries salt herring in his pocket on the
Derby day, and SYSTEMATICALLY lunches
thereupon in the presence of astonished
aud admiring muliitudes.
Year: 1873

Among the many notable persons at the


Inauguration OF President Grant was John
| L. Clem, of the Twenty-fourth United States
Infantry, who reached there few days since
from bis regiment at Fort Brown, Texas, in
| order 10 place in the National Asylum an In
valid soldier Lieutenant Glen has nation-
al reputation, and is written down in Crank
Moore's Rebellion Record" andin 'Lossings
History of the Civil Conflict in America" as
Little Johnny Clem, the Drummer Boy Of
Chickamauga," at which battle he laid aside
his drum and assumed the musket the entire
day. During the retirement of the Union
army from the field he then performed a
guerre de mort upon Colonel of Texan
regiment who had ridden up with a drawn
sword demanding his surrender, by suddenly
swinging up bis musket from an order arms
and emp ying the saddle of his assailant.
The daring act of one so young sent his name
1ylng through the county. He afterwards
had his little horse killed under him, and was
wounded in the shoulder at the same time.
at Atlanta, whilst delivering dispatch from
M ;Jor General Thomas TO General Logan.
de entered the army in May, 1851, before he
was ten years OF age, as drummer boy. and
served with distinction to the end of the war,
during which time he was present at Shiloh,
and at nearly every other battle in which the
Army of Cumberland was engaged. He
is the youngest officer ever commissioned In
the United States Army, and Lossing's His
tory speaks of him as the youngest person,
OF whom we have any account, that ever
lore arms in battle either in this country or
IN Europe; and his military record is a mat
ter OF history upon files of the War Depart
ment- Considering his years, he Is without
peer eitherin the Old World or the New.
Year: 1873

lis mourDful hour in life when man
comes to the conclusion that fame. love. and
happiness are not worth good cigar IT'S
still more mournful hour when man comes
to the conclusion cigar itself is worthless.
Year: 1873

Frank Blair is Of opinion that Gen
Grant ':has great deal more talent
than he gets credit for. He is en-
dowed with that unknown quality cal
led common sense. He is very quick
in his perceptions, a good judge Of men
as we'll as horses, looks at circumstan-
ces, weighs everything carefully, and.
when his mind is once confirmed in his
deductions, he acts as decisively and
successfully as any man ever knew
in all my long experience among pub
lie men. lie is superior to his party
much better than his party in every
respect"
Year: 1873

Peter Swenson, the candidate for Coroner
on the Independent Republican County
Ticket. desires us to announce to the vot-
ers Of this county, that he is not candi-
date for said Office, and if elected will not
accept.
Year: 1873

An iucendiary attempted to burn
the Normal School building at Winona
was discovered on Sunday night. The
fire had been set on the outside, and
Was jnst getting fairly under way
when discovered and extinguishcd.
Year: 1873

HARD-PAE PRICES-Accordng TO the an
nouncement often 1pade, SMITH the clothier
has put down his prices of clothing and rs people
can't afford to pay as much for goods now as when
trade of all kinds was active. 1t is commendable in
him to lake this into due consideration. His pa
irons will lind his stock selected with taste, and to
the mutual welfare Of purchaser and seller. The
articles displayed In the windows are samples Of
what the stock on hand is. The stock is now su-
perb and made for holiday presents. go those who
wish to give their friend or child nice suit have q
finer assortment to select from than can be found
anywhere In the Slate.
Year: 1873

REMEMBERING THE ORPHAN.-A good many
ladies and gentlemen and number of little
boys and girls have handed in at the Dis
patch office twenty-five and ten-cent notes
for the Christmas dinner for the orphan boys
and girls. The amounts already received
arc not sufficient for the purpose for which
they are intended, and we will be glad to
receive further contributions for such o
worthy object.
Year: 1873

BITTEN BY A Doa.-Henry Lacy, while
engaged on Friday evening in painting a
suky on Brook avenue, was badly bitten by
Il dog that had been chained in the adjoining
lot, but succeeded in breaking away.
Year: 1873

The Peoples Independent Party met
in Convention at Sacramento, and,
having adopted the platform publish
ed in yesterdays edition., nominated
Judge McKinstry for Supreme Judge.
They, probably, took this stand after
mature thought, and having a higher
field point from which to view the bat
tie, than that of an ordinary observer.
But perhaps, in taking in this step,
they have gone further than many,
who earnestly supported them i'm the
general election, will be willing to fol-
low. Judge Mckee, the Democratic
nominee, is universally acknowledged
to be man of the highest ability and
integrity. For term after term he has
been elected in district strictly Re-
publican, because the members of
both parties had an answering faith
in him. Every plank in the platform
which expresses an issue, the HERALD
accepts, and accepts with it's entire de-
vOtion; but it can not but doubt the ex-
pedience of issuing it, and nominating
a judicial candidate upon it. The ext
gencies of the rights of the people did
not demand at this time this move
ment. No breath has ever been breath
ed against Judge Mckee. No one
has charged him with being under the
influence and control of any corpora
ton or clique. No one has doubted his
judicial acumen or integrity. This
being the case, it would seem unwise
to put in the field against him, anoth-
er who may even be his equal in all
these respects. By so doing, it is pos
sible the election of third and worse
man may be brought about. The
fight of the people against monopoly
is not one that will die out. A delay in
organizing will not put out the burn
ing issues which have been kindled
into flame. But hasty departure,
before all are ready to accept its ne
cessity, will produce irreparable in
In,
Year: 1873

The presence of two reprieved Mo-
docs, shackled and placed in front of
the gallows of the condemned Indians,
is a refinement of cruelty worthy
only of ages of persecution. In days
when Catholics and Protestants, under
the name of religion, committed alike


unjust and cruel deeds, such thing
rs this would not have been tolerated.
The agony of a condemned man as he
walks up the stairs to eXpiate his
crime, is too fearful Il thing to hold up
as an instrument of torture to those
whom the law is furnishing in diff
ferent way. There was no necessity
to drag out the reprieved men and
make them gaze, all ironed as they
We're, on the last terrible end of their
accomplices. Any one who has ever
beheld his fellow man suddenly and
violently deprived of his existence,
must feel that the more privately the
fearful sentence is carried into effect
the better it must be. To make sem
satiolf of that sickening process of
binding, tying and hurling Il man in
to eternity can subserve no good end.
Captain Jack and the others suffered
most justly for their brutal murders.
Hanging was, indeed, too good for
them; but there is - difference be-
tween a murder and an execution.
The first is the result of hate and evil
passions, the second is the calm digni-
fled act of the law. Foully horrible as
was the treacherOus butchery of Gen
Candy, DIR. Thomas and Others, yet
the placing of BarnachO and Sioux in
front of the scaffOld whilst their COM
rades passed from life to the throne
of the Great Judge, was an illadvised,
useless and indecent act.
Year: 1873

they are quite satisfied. Whether
the HERALD is fulfilling the promises
of its prospectus, is for the people of
Los Angeles to decide, and on that
judgment the HERALD is content to
flourish or decay.
Year: 1873

A thorough examination of the hull
of the "COsta Rica" in the Dry Dock
confirms the statement already made
that the injuries are not so serious
that they cannot be made good in a
few days. 1t is none less true that the
steamer lay in very dangerous posi-
ton, and that a heavy sea of any
duration would have broken her up.
Besides the large hole in her hull, near
the bow, there are three or four small
cracks, which by swaying and grind
ing, would in few days have become
formidable fractures, and the iron is
worn away so much at places that Il
general smashing in of plates would
have been more than probable had
the effort to tow her off the rocks been
prOtracted. The engines and shaft are
comparatively uninjured, but the fans
of the propeller are all broken off A
new propeller will be cast at the Ris-
don Works, and the substitute plates
required for the bottom have already
been ordered. The expense of repair
ing will not be less than $4,000.
Year: 1873

bell on the wall before him strikes.
That was the conductor. He said


'puu out" and he pulls. The brazen
bell, like goblet wrong side up, spills
out great clangor. The whistle gives
two sharp, quick notes. The driver
swings back the lever. The engines
slender arms begin to feel slowly in her
cylindrical pockets for something they
never find, and never tire of feeling for.
Great unwashed Aeeces are counted
slowly out from the smoke-stack. The
furnace doors open faster and faster.
The faces of the clock-dials shine in the
burst of light like newly-washed school
children. that are polished of with a
crash towel. The lever is swung q little
further down. The search for things
gets lively. Fleeces are getting plentier.
The coal goes into the furnace and out
at the chimney like the great beat of q
great black artery. There is o brisk
breeze that makes your hair stream like
q comet, The locomotive is alive with
reserved power. 1t has a sentiment
tremor as it hugs the track, and hurls
itself along sixty feet for every tick of
the clock-as if you should walk twenty
PAGES while your heart beats once !
First you get the idea, and next the
eIhilaration of power in motion.
Year: 1873

to hit an object lying on the ground.
Montana sheltered himself somewhat
behind a low row of sacks of potatoes
lying on the edge of the sidewalk, and
partly behind small awning g-post. This
last was fatal error, for with a tall
post for a mark it is the easiest thing
in the world to make hne-shot.


81 am making long story of the
shooting, which in reality was very
soon over. They fired three shots
apiece in as many seconds. Toms third
ball passed through Montana's heart.
and he was dead before his head re-
bounded on the brick pavement. Car
berry surrendered himself at once, and
was kept in Jail until his trial came off,
although bail to any amount was
offered"


After pause the judge added, 81
don't see how could have done more
for him than I did; but the man should
not have been punished-he should
have been acquitted; and he would
have been but for one circumstance.
which preiudiced the conrt and jury
against him."


"What was the circumstance so pre-
Judicial ?" questioned the listener.


''The Montana chap was the fourth
man Tom had killed in AUSTIN" an
swered the judge, innocently.
Year: 1873

According to its ancient charter, the
bank of England is obliged not only to
purchase at their fair value any precious
metals rendered to it, but also to take
charge of any gold or silver, in ingots
or plate, that may be brought to it for
safe keeping. From time to time plate
chests have been deposited with this
view in the vaults OF the bank, and
many Of them have been there so long
that they are actually rotting away. On
a recent occasion the servants of the
bank discovered chest, which, on being
moved, literally fell to pieces. On
examining the contents quantity OF
massive plate was discovered of the
period of Charles III. This circumstance
might not in itself be very interesting,
but that there was found with the plate
q parcel, which proved to be bundle
of old love letters, carefully arranged
according to their dates. An inspection
of them revealed a correspondence of a
tender and romantic description, carried
on during the period Of the Restoration.
The name of the writer was found to be
Berners, and after considerable search
among the archives of the institution,
it was found that family of that name
had been connected with the bank about
the time in quegtion. Acting upcn this
clew the doctors prosecuted their In
quiry, and finding that gentleman OF
that name, now living, is the ineal re-
preventative of the owner Of the plate
and the love letters, both have been
handed to him. The plate has been
sent to Messrs. Lambert, the celebrated
silversmiths, of Coventry street, London,
to be cleaned, and the newly-discovered
owner has permitted it to be shown to
any one interested in plate of the
period. The love-letters are not, how
ever, on view.