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Year: 1873

Mr.. erode CHANGES HIS MIND.
be altogether forgotten. He still lived all
by himself in the house near Russell
Square, now more dusty than ever. He
had his coffee hot in the morning, his chop
at half-past one, his dinner of three cours-
es at six; he slept well, and was not more
ill-tempersd than he had always been, for
the simple reason that any increase of what
cannot be increased is simple impossible
ity. He was growing very rich, people
said, and was giving up attending sales,
though no change in his style of living
gave any support to the popular idea. His
lawyer had drawn up will for him, by
which the greater part of his money was
left to found some philanthropic society
say, for the suppression of filial disobedf-
enee and French ladies' maids-and the
rest to some society for the conversion of
the Jews. If any should think his own
conduct toward Felicia and her husband
gave him the faintest, the most mementary
uneasiness, they are very much mistaken.
Busy men pride themselves with justice
upon having no time for sentiment, and he
believed most fully in the maxim, as though
it were gospel, that as man makes his
bed so must he lie. There are plenty of
people who have millstones instead of
hearts-far too many to make it wonderful
that he should be one of them. And there
are plenty of people, too, whom it is sheer
waste of time and trouble to subject to any
sort of psychological ana!ysis-that one
great duty of modern ale-tellers-simply
because there is nothing about their psy-
chelogy to analyze. l amor ought to be
ashamed to say that / do not know OF
what sort of mineral substance millstones
are made; but 1 am very sure that it is
something very simple, and that there is
nothing about them that the eye does not
see. And if any one should insist that
there is no man in the world, however hard
he may be to outward eyes, who has ten
just look around and see.


One morning-the very morning, in fact,
that followed his daughters midnight Wis.
ion-while sitting after breakfast in hi.
dusty front parlor, he was told by his man
servant that a beggar-like looking maj
was at the door who desired to see him.


GA beggar? l am always having beg
gars after me.' A sort of uncomfortable
feeling came over him that it might be hi
unlucky son-in-law. "Tell him to be of
this instant"


$50 did, sir"


"Then tell him again.


"He said it was most important bust
ness'


GA beggar with most important bust
ness! A likely story. He didn't say wha
it was, I'll be bound.''


"No, SIR"


"Then why the devil didn't you sent
him packing: You haven't let him int
the hall -
Year: 1873

ONE Of the first literary men in the
United States said:-" There is one thing,
which, as you visit different places, wish
you to do everywhere, that is, to sntreat
every mother never to give drop of strong
drink to child. l have had to fight as
for my life and all my days to keep from
dying drunkard, because was fed with
spirits when child. acquired taste
for it. My brother, poor fellow, died a
drunkard. l would not have child of mine
take drop Of it for anything. Warn every
mother, wherever you 60, never to give a
drop to child.'
Year: 1873

A VERDICT EITHER WAY WILL Do
A Judge, holding court on the borders Of
Tennessee, is said actually to have deliver
ed the following charge to jury:


"Gentlemen of the Jury, in this case
counsel on both sides are impudent and
unintelligible; the witnesses on both sides
are indecent and incredible, and the plain
tiff and defendant both stand such ac-
knowledged rogues, that it is to me indiff-
erent which way you give verdict"
Year: 1873

A SAILORS Description OF A RIDE ON
HoRsEBACK.-" hired very fine horse,
mounted him bravely, laid his head east by
south as near as might be according to our
binnacle. But, though the wind was abaft
the beam, and tide and all in his favor, and
brave commander upon his poop, what
did he do but douse his stem, and run out
his spanker-driver, and up with his taft
rail, as if was wearing him in a thunder
ing heavy sea. l resolved to get the upper
hand of this mutiny. l slipped my foot
out of the chains for fear of anv sudden
capsize, and then raped him over the
catsheads, where his anchor ought to hang.
He, however, instead Of doing at all what
expected, up with his bowsprit and down
with his quarter, as if struck by a whale
under his forefoot. This was SO far from
true seamanship, and proved him to be 80
unbuilt for sailing, that | was content to
disembark over his stern, and with slight
collisions
Year: 1873

public lands and when situated that such pubic
lands cannot be so located the Company may make III
location on any other Of the public ianos.
For each three leagues OF good wsgon-road
or OF telegraph line, similar grant OF
land and patents for such grants shall be made In
fee issued Immediately upon the completion OF each
league OF the work All these grants shall be without
prejudice to previously conferred by the Dominican
Government and hereafter they can make no cohces-
sons on any terms. without first Offering the same 70
this Company. The Company, its capital, or DonuS'
cannot be taxed for any Of the lands, properties OF
works of internal Improvement, nor be compeueu 10
make any contribution in respect to it and all the rai-
ways roads, fixtures ETC.. will remain the absolute
property of the Company In the event OF TINS corpor
toIs constructing railways and teeaphs, 1t VIII nave
the right TO create bonds such property aud secure
the same by mortgage thereon.


The grants made in virtue OF this convention pegan
on Ian l. 18T3 and will continue IN full force Tor lVO
years on condition the Company, on January OF
every year dung years OF the lease shall pay
s15OOOo to the Dominican Government. These conces-
sons TO the Company will remain under the JOINT
protection Of the Dominican Republic and the
United States and the Company may So
ueit the protection OF either in case OF
necessity. The; Dominican Government was in favor
Of referring any dispute which might arise to some Euro
pean government but the Company preferred to settle
the matter by arbitration which method was finally
agreed upon ia not yet known All cases requiring ad-


ipstraton or judicial solution which occur in the bay
and on the shores OF its waters in and adjacent 10 te
main land as well as the boundaries Of the peninsula
by the Grand Esters shall be under the exclusive Ju


diction of the Dominican Government.
Year: 1873

ments in the means of transit in agriculture and
the mechanical arts II means to improve the
country and to elevate the people believing that by
doing it will more promote its own interests than
by following the selfish and short-sighted policy of
the old companies The Company has leased the
territory by regular treaty made with the Govern
ment of the Republic. which is authorized to make
it by the laws of the land and encouraged TO do so
by the expressed wish OF the people


Ipurpose to set forth in another paper the natural
resources and the commercial vantages of Samana
and the surrounding country, and how the Company
intends to develop them. SAMUEL G. HOWE


Boston, Jan Is, 1873.
Year: 1873

The Board of Park Commissioners and the
members OF the Board of Supervisors of Weschester
County met in Joint session, yesterday to complete tho
formula of law required preparatory to the construction
OF the tunnel under and suspension bridge over the
Harlem River The joint Boards voted to unite In the
construction OF the tunnel and bridge, thus creating the
necessary authority provided for by tho statute The
necessary plans will be prepared by the Depart
ment of Parks for submission the joint Boards The
,erminus NJ M tunnel on the Westchester side OF the
Harlem River will be In the town of Morrsahia ana
that OF tho bridge in the town OF West Farms
Year: 1873

MT. D. o. Mccarthy, writing in the World of the 9th about the recent survey of the San Diego and Matagordo Bay Railroad Com pany line to the Colorado from San Diego, made by MT. o. P. Galloway and himself, says:

 Some idea of the change in character of the typographical features along the route travelled may be formed when the nature of the transition from some of the desert valleyes and lofty, rugged, volcanic mountains of Lower Cali fornia to the beautiful elevated plateaus bordering the desert and Colorado river is fully understood. Some of the canyons along the summit and leading down into the desert are from five hundred to two thousand five hundred feet deep, and are what are known as "canyons de cajon," or .'box can- yons," the walls of which are nearly vertical. The rock in which they are formed is baSalt, occur ring in huge columns, while the surrounding country is strewn with lava and immense boulders. Standing upon the verge of one of these gorges, the eye taking in the whole grand spectacle, look ing down the perpendicular walls of rock 2,500 feet, and then across the "Great American Desert" with the majestic Colorado in full view, vending its serpentine course along down the bright green valley bearing its name, to the sea of COrtez, we wonder if anything in nature was ever more magnificent. Sinners as we are, do not believe that any of the Saints of old were ever surrounded by grandeurs so wonderful and glorious, and I am sure that none of the good old people ever bowed and wOrshipped in places so awful with the immediate presence of Gods stupendOus works.

 The results of our survey and explorations have exceeded our most sanguine expectations, and the company by whom we were employed are so well satisfied with our work and report, that a thorough instrumental surveyWill not be made until they are ready to locate the road, and then only for the purpose Of establishing gradient lines upon the route des- ipnated.
Year: 1873

fail to redress our grievances, why
our only alternative will be to take
the. matter in our own hands and
boldly meet the issue, and let the
consequences be what they may.


CITIZEN.
Year: 1873

1t nstonishcs great many men to
notice how many more other men per:
Sist in fencing small ficlis-in keen
ing up fences where they are not
needed, and ploughiDg short burrows
where long ones would savt d vast


deal of timo and labor, besides avoid.
ing the trampil'tt, OF the ground in
turning which few lhcn know how to
avoid: The economy of time and
labor i'll farming 10 as important as
the saving Of crops. Two long rows
Of potatoes are far moro easily cult.
waited thai eight short ones contain
ing the same number Of hills. An
acre or ten acres of corn costs far less
money to cultivate it embraced in
only five or fifty rows than if double
or triple tho number. Then there is
not id the case Of corn tho loss from
breaking it down in turning, if tho
farmer las left no grass head lands
to turn on, or has net two or thrcd
rows of potatoes planted on the out
side Of his field.
Year: 1873

Some close observer, Commenting
on tho alacrity with which workmen
left their work at stroke Of twelve,
remarked, 81 have seen man who
had his pick in the air knock of work
and leave it there, rather than waste
time to put it down after twelve
struck"
Year: 1873

At this season the heat OF the sun liberatss from
the soil. the water aud the filth of cities immense
quantities Of unwholesome gases which the strong
est can scarcely inhals with impunity. and which
develop the most distressing diseases in the weak
and feeble. It therefore. Of paramount import
ance to invigorate the body in hot weather. Vital
ize and strengthen the stomach and the nervous
system with ut least two doses per day Of Hostete
Stomach Bitters. and you will be to escape the


fits of Indigestion attacks Of bilious collie sick head
aches. diarrhels and dyesenteries which are so
and forecast exercised now. may prevent your be-
ing prOstTated by remttent Intermittent fever OF
by chronic bowel liver complaint throughout the
fall. When viROr is OOZing out Of every pore under
the rays of almost vertical sun. the genial vege
table tonic supplies to the nervous system an ali
ment which enables it to Withstand the drain.


23toU
Year: 1873

ASSAULT BY DIsoRDRRLY NEORoEs-THE RAIN


-DEARTH or NKws.


Especial Correspondence Of the Gazette.l


DOVER, July p, 1873.


The usual peace aud quietness Of our town was
for time, last night, substituted for that of dis
order and confusion on Looekeman street. A
party OF negroes were eOngregated on one OF the
corners, which is a violation OF one of the town
ordinances and upon their being. informed of that
we'll known fact by one of their party, one OF the
town police came up and wished to know how
long the Aforesaid negroe had been employed as a
preserver Of the peace; and sharp words fOllew-
ing therefrom, the police attempted the arrest of
the offending negro, who offered resistance, and
was assisted BY ether of the party. During the
melee the police was knocked senseless by a Sc
we're rap on his " knowledge box" with a "back
jack" The party who struck him is as yet un-
known, as he was struck ON the back Of the head I;
the man being behind him when he. struck the
blow. The negroes have threatened violence to
the police in case of any mOlestaton Of their mid
night frollcs, which have of late, especially on
Saturday nights, became an intolerable nuisance.
We need more Vigilent and impartial police
force as the lawless conduct is not confined to the
blacks of our town.


The most refreshing rain Of the season visited
this locality to-day, which, it is hoped is not too
late to have beneficial effect upon our peach and
corn crop. p-tr.
There seems to be perfect dearth of local news
in this immediate vicinity, not even q dog fight
has occurred during the day for the last few days
to mar the dull aud monotonous appearance of our
town. B.T.L.
Year: 1873

NATIONAL CAMP MEETING Al REHoBoTH.
"A project iB now being discussed in certain
Meeting, on the grounds of the RehOboth
Beach Camp Meeting Association. The Ma
tiOnal Camp Meeting Committee will meet ia
6eptember, when the subject will be discuss
ed. There Is reason able prospect that this
committee will select lRehObotl as the next
place Of meeting.
Year: 1873

Another counterfeit five hundred dollar
note has been received at the sub.treasury
a, New York. the paper of which is
lighter than the genuine. bu, the face
cannot be distinguished from the genuine
The letters on the back. however. are
,ineed with green where they should be
perfectly white. and blue tint peculiar
to the genuine is not Pcrccpiible in the
counterfeit.
Year: 1873

EIOul tit VI


South Haven, Arkansas, has
a progressive and dangerous
woman-Miss Matte JONES'
This young girl was lately turn
ed out Of a school where
an entertainment was in prog
ress, and was heard to say as
she left that she would burn the
shanty over their heads. In a
few minutes the school-hOuse
was on fire according to prom
ise, and the entertainment came
to ''lame and impotent conclu-
sion." While the extraordinary
spirit of the young woman was
under discussion another pas
sage of her life was laid open.
Her mother had died suddenly
and mystcriously about six
months before, and was gathered
to the great family of JOneses.
Now Matte Jones has a broth
er, a fourteen year old boy, who
overheard his mother and sister
planning his fathers death when
he should return from a short
trip he was making in the wilds
of Arkansas. They arranged
to season his food with the spice
Of futurity, as they both were
tired of seeing him round
Jones was expected home on
a certain day, and on that day
Matte was away aud Mrs. Jones
was delirious with ague, and the
boy was with his mother. Mrs.
Jones asked her son to hand
her a cup of coffee, forgetting
in her delirium that she had
made it especially for her hus-
band. She drank thereof and
died, the boy not knowing
that it contained the dose. Mr..
Jones returned to find his wife
dead, anu the boy told him Of
the conspiracy. After Mattie's
attempt to burn the school-house
the father and boy told what
kind of Il woman Matte is
And Matte Jones is still run
ring loose in .Arkansas.
Year: 1873

Bazaar Township Letter to the New York sun


A few days ago the citizens


of this township were startled


by the rumor that the wife of r


well-known Baptist preacher


had gone to Texas with her hus-


bands hired nan. She had pre-


viOusly borne q good reputa-
tion, had lived with her husband
fifteen years, and was the moth
er of three children, aged res
pectively thirteen, six and four
years.


y Her husband became aware
that all was not right, and a few
months ago paid off and dis
missed the man who was the
cause of his domestic unhap-
piness; and he went, but only
to place near by, where he
procured a new wagon. Then
ne boughta horse from his for
mer employer, and with another
horse, procured somewhere else,
he rugged an outfit for Texas,
as he said. When he was all
ready the lady coolly informed
her husband that she loved
George better than himself or
children, and that she was going
with him.


The husband demonstrated
and told her that when the re-
action came, which surely would
come, she would be most miser-
able. But nothing would in
duce her to be separated from
George; she turned away her
little children who clung about
her neck, and her husband, with
a heavy heart, divided his
household goods with her, Civ
ing her and her paramour half
such things as they could carry
with them. He also told her
that she could take some books
from his library if she chose
She took only her little hymn
book. The husband expressed
the hope that she might read
her Bible and profit thereby.


AT 10 o'clock or thereabouts
in the darkness of the night the
oloping pair started of, piously
requesting the deserted husband
to pray that they might have II
safe and prosperous journey.
Year: 1873

New York journal of Commerce.


Wages must 20 dnwiI or work
will not 20 on. The absurd
eight-hOur system must be abOl-
ished or manufacturers must
fail. The time has now arrived
for the fetters on business men to
be removed. In everything else
but wages there is a falling off,
and the turn has now come for
wages.


Either there must he more
work done per day, or there must
be less pay for days work.
From this alternative we think
there is no escape, and the fail
ures in manufacturing establish
ments, which we are beginning to
record, are the prelude of a gener-
al movement for the reduction of
wages to standard more reasona-
bic than the present one.
Year: 1873

The Virginia (Nevada) En-


terprise says: A few days since


the daughter of a well-to-do


ranchman, residing on the head


waters Of the Walker River, a


handsome and well-educated
young lady, about sixteen or
seventeen years Of age, eloped
with young man Of the Piute
persuasion, who had been work
ing about her fathers place
The girl and her dusky lover
got considerably the start of
her father, and, it would seem
did some tall travelling toward
the wilderness and the warriors
castle Of sagebrush on the Lake
of Walker; but the father did
not let the grass grow under his
feet or under his horses hoof.
He procured the best horse in
the settlement, and rode dis
tance of $50 miles in eighteen
hours. He caught his runaway
daughter somewhere between
Walker Lake and the Sink Of
the Carson, and snatched her
bald-headed. What became of
the gallant "lovyer" we have
not learned. The chances are
that the irate parent made it so
warm for him that he will not
hereafter banker after white
father-in-laW.
Year: 1873

Some weeks ago little child
fell into the ornamental water
at Regents Park, London,
which is known to be nowhere
more than four feet deep, and
three men declined to rescue it
from death, upon the ground
that ''they were not going 10
wet their clothes" Again, last
week a child fell out ofits moth
ers armsinto a river in London,
and two men who were fishin
close by declined even to reach
out their rods for the little thing
to grasp at, upon the ground
that 1.-The top joints might come
OFF, and be lost. In both cases
the little victims were drowned.
and there is no law that can
punish these wretches for their
conduct.
Year: 1873

A polite young Bostonian,
while at church on a recent Sun
day dived down to pick up a
parasol which a fair neighbor
had just dropped. He grabbed
the parasol, and at the same
time saw the embroidered edge
of her pocket handkerchief
sticking from under her dress
He thought that he would pick
that up too, and commenced
tugging at it. There was a
fierce little struggle for a few
moments, and two very red IA
ces appeared in the pew, and
the young man sat pondering all
the rest Of the service how he
could have mistaken a white
underskirt for a cambria hand
kerchief.
Year: 1873




obituary editor. His letter
asking for the situation gives 8
sample of his abilities. He
says:


Our parents were wealthy
but honest, and Of course we
are now poor; but we can live
on a very little, because Mary
Ann and [ have made ourselves
into grange and buy at whole
sale prices.


May be you have a full corpse
to do your funny writing, SO if
you will engage me | will do
any in the obituary line; it will
suit our feelings better, for Mary
Ann and | have been in aflic-
ton lately. Great-grandmoth-
er Peck died last week, aged
! CXIX. She died once before,
when she was ninety-six, but


just after she was laid out she
seemed to remember somehow
that she had forgotten to finish
footing a stocking for her young,
est boy, who was only seventy
four years of age, SO she came
to again; and as winter was
coming on, and so much knit
ting to be done, she concluded
to keep on for twenty years or
so. The doctors think if she
amt disturbed she is gone for
good this time. Me and Mary
Ann sat up with her until the
last, and she was checked off
into the full fruition of all her
faculties. | couldn't help NOR
alizing as [ sat by her bedside
how lean a person can get and
yet consume so much cruel; she
beat any thing all hollow that |
ever saw. Poor old soul, she
was so lean that the mosquitoes
had ceased to be a burden; they
used to light on her and ham,
mer on her skull with their bills
it'll the room sounded like a tel
egraph Office, then they would
scratch their heads with their
hind legs and sail out of the
window worn out. She seemed
to gain little flesh after we
came here from Chicago, and
got new spirits; but somebody
told her that her name was ac-
cidently left out of Edwards
directory and she fell off again.
She hadn't walked any to speak
Of for the last twenty-five years,
and it used to console her to
think how much she had saved
on shoes. When l look at the
old calico cushion with its IA
dedroses that she sat embowered
in since she was 104, | heave a
sigh at the transformers of all
sublunarian comfort. Her eyes
got so weak that she wore sew
en- pair of glasses for a spell,
Lut they warnt strong enough
for her to get the sense out Of
her Scriptures, so we had pair
of opera glasses mounted SO that
she could wear them on her
nose. She sat up the heftiest
part Of the day before she
snufed out, and told me many
things confdentially. She re-
membered distinctly when Gen'l
Washington got the check
cashed that Oakes Ames gave
him for signing the Pacific rail-
road bill-and she was quite
big girl when Cyrus Field and
Hendrick Hudson brung the
Atlantic cable over in the May
Flower. What is home without
a great-grandmother.
Year: 1873

The proprietor of young
ladies' academy in Illinois has
utterly ruined his business by
causing to be inserted in a large
number Of papers a picture Of
the building with two girls stan
ding or tue balcony with last
summer hats on.
Year: 1873

A New Orleans street-car
driver was hauled off his car
and shot for running over a ter
rier dog. They wouldn't have
said any thing about an old man
or two, but the dog was valua-
b1o
Year: 1873

In confirmation of the boast Of
Ploche (Nevada) newspaper that
the climate of that region is par
ticularly salubrious, the editor of
a rival Journal asserts that he no
tices that few or no persons die a
natural death there.