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Year: 1870

'FWhat wonderful race the Ameri-
can people are. Every man with his
newspaper! See the drayman there
sitting on his dray, eagerly reading
his newspaper; and that haekman.
mounted on his perch, with bis whip
on his knee, diving into his newspa-
per; and yonder that laborer, stopping
on the corner to buy his newspaper;
and see that payer, repairing the
levee, with a newspaper just sticking
out of his pocket, where he has Just
placed it for further reading as he has
leisure. There is nothing like il in
EurODe."
Year: 1870

Somebody says that Ike's last trick
was to throw Mrs. .PartingtOn's gaiter
into the alley, and call the old lady
from the third floor to see an alley
gaiter. He might have called her
just before he threw the gaiter from
the window, and asked her to see
'ShOO Fly
Year: 1870

The New York Commercial Advertiser,
one of the Leading journals in the country.
says:


No sooner had the Impeachment trial of
State Auditor Wickliffe for corruption con-
cluded in Louisiana, last week, with YER
dict of guilty, than he was arrested Oh a
criminal process, and thrust into prison in
default of paying heavy bail, and kept
there until it was forthcoming. This vigor
of action is most commendable. If there is
one thing more demoralizing to public
morality and honesty than another, it is the
manner IN which proven rascals are let off
from punishment. There are to-day not less
than dozen bank robbers, in the shape Of
cashiers and clerks, who walk up and down
our thoroughfares with impunity. No steps
have been taken for their arrest, and they
have the assurance of influential friends that
none ever will be taken.


Hitherto, public servants, when broken
on the impeachment wheel have been re-
garded as sufficiently punished. Many dis
honestly disposed have been willing to incur
the risks of such punishment. If by so doing
they could secure fortune. Louisiana, to
whose legislation considerable Odium has
been attached during the past year, is en-.
titled the credit of taking a step forward and
proclaiming, in the arrest Of Wickliffe, that
the official thief shall not only be broken and
disgraced, but held to criminal trial as g
thief Wickliffe embeZzled the public funds
by wholesale, and We trust to see an exam.
pie made of him which will strike terror
among those who misappropriate moneys
entrusted to their keeping.
Year: 1870

GOVERNOR WARMoTH.-The Baton Rouge
Courier says:


Much as Governor Warmoth's enemies
have tried to blacken his reputation, he has.
in every case, met the issue squarely and
refuted their calumnies in the most signal
manner When Mr.. Wickliffe preferred
charges against him as an Offset to those
brought against himself, the Governor
came forward and proved them so utterly
groundless as to produce only revulsion of
public sentiment in his favor and against
his acc0er. SO far from Governor War
moth suffering by the investigation, he has
come out of it with credit; and, we hope.
the evidence taken, both in the Wicklife
investigation and that Of the Governor, will
be published in the same volume that the
public may see how little ground there Was
for accusation against the Governor, while
the proof against the Auditor is so con-
yInCiug,
Year: 1870

The interesting case of Hickman We. Hick-
man has just been decided in Ohio. This
was a libel for divorce brought by the wife.
who alleged three acts of violence and
general unkind treatment on the part of
her husband. There seems to have been
only one serious assault; but Judge Force,
who gave a very elaborate and interesting
opinion, held that this was sufficient to war
rant decree of divorce. "When,' he said.
''the barriers of reverence which surrounds
8 lady's person is once broken through by q
blow; when husband has found il possi-
bic thing to strike his wife, what guaranty
is there that he will not do it AGAIN." Ger
tainly this is case in which woman should
be left at entire liberty to Judge for herself;
own judgment, to risk repetition of vio-
IpOrp
Year: 1870




lla Attends Them.


ciary OF Wyoming sustains the right of wo-
men to serve as grand jurors. All the Ia
dies drawn as grand jurors were present at
eleven o'clock. A motion to uuash the panel
was not sustained. At l1:55 A. NJ. the first
panel of lady grand jurors in the world was
sworn. None asked to be excused. A lady
bailiff was appointed for the grand jurors.
splendid address was delivered by Chief
Justice Howe.


In impanneling and charging the grand
jury, Judge Howe said: Ladies and gen.
tlemen of the Grand Jury-It is novelty to
see, as we do to-day, ladies summoned to
serve as jurors. The extension of political
rights and franchises to woman ia
subject that is agitating the whole
country. l have never taken an active part
in discussions, but have long seen that w0-
man was victim to the vices, crimes, and
immortality of man, with no power to protect
and defend herself from these evils. have
long felt that such powers OF protection
should be conferred upon woman, and it has
fallen to our lot here to act as the pioneer in
this movement, and to test the question.
The eyes of the world are to-day fixed upon
this jury of Albany county. There is not the
slightest imprOpriety in any lady occupying
the position, and wish to assure you that
the fullest protection of the court shall be
accorded to you. 1t would be most shame
full scandal upon our temple of justice and
courts of law, if anything should be permit
ted which the most sensitive lady might not
hear with propriety and witness; and here
let me add, it will be sorry day for any man
who shall so far forget the courtesles due
and paid by every American gentleman to
every American lady as to even by word
or act endeavor to deter you from the exer-
else of those rights with which the laws have
invested you.


Il will conclude with the.remark: This is.
q question for you to decidedor yourself; no
man has any right to interfere. 1t seems to
be proper for women to sit upon grand
juries, which will give them the best possi-
BILE opportunity to aid in suppressing dens
of infamy which curse the country. l shall
be glad of your assistance in the accomplish
ment of this object. l do not make these
remarks from any distrust of gentlemen; on
the contrary, am exceedingly pleased and
gratifed with the indication of intelligence,
love of law and good order and gentlemanly
department which see manifested. l will
now listen to any reason which any jurors
make for being excused
Year: 1870

The missing steamer Smidt which sailed
to cross the Atlantic in westerly direction,
five days before the City of Boston started
on her easterly voyage. has arrived at New
York. There is still hope, therefore, for the
City of Boston.
Year: 1870

That is quite an amount for the parties
named in these indictments to conspire to
defraud the United States out OF, and to
traudulently remove from bonded ware
houses.


The New Orleans Customhouse was then,
it will be remembered, run in the interest Of
the Democratic party.
Year: 1870

NTIINNUVI y WITV VI


While Lewis Coly and Louis Rush were,
this morning working on staging on
Farwcll Hall building, at an elevation OF
some fifty feet from the sidewalk, the
staging consisting of a ladder with boards
laid on It md suspended from the root,
gave way and Coly was precipitated to
the sidewalk killing him instantly. Rush
seized the rope sprang into the window
and saved himself. The testimony before
the Coroner showed that Rush Ind been
careless in fastening the rope and was
CCnsuPCd, ..
Year: 1870

Coop SOUND ADvIcE.-NeFer throw a stone at any one until you have looked he hind to see whether there is window be- hind, or you may have to pay rather dearly for your revenge. Never fix your own price, bntleaye it "entirely to the liberality" of the gentleman, as the chances are you will get great deal more by it. Never sit next Q young lady at dinner, for she only talks, and does not care about eating. Never quar- rel with your wife, as you will only have to make it up, and pay for the reconciliation in the shape of trip to the springs, n silk dress or cashmere shawl. Never pay to see bal loon go up, as you can see it much better by remaining outside.
Year: 1870

TIE CHAIR or PETER.-St. Peters chair is a yellow chair, formed of four uprlghts united by horizontal bars, two being higher than the others to form the back. The four legs were evidently one square, but they are much eaten away by age, and have also had pieces cut from them. These time-worp DOT tious have been strengthened and rendered more ornamental by pieces of dark acacia wood. which form the whole interior part of the chair, and which appear to hardly have suffered at all from the same cause which have so altered the appearance Of the legs. The panels and the front and sides, and the row of arches and the tympanum above them, which form the back, are also composed of the same wood. But the most remarka- ble circumstance about these two different kinds of material is that all the ivory orna ments which cover the front and back of the chair are attached to the acacia portions alone and never to the parts composed oi oak Some of the enumeration IS attrib- uted to the age of Charlemagne, and some, such as the labor of Hercules in the ivory panels, are more ancient The oak wood IS deemed likely to be as old as tradition stated it to be. It is known that Damascus placed it in the baptistry of the Vatican. and consid- cred probable that up to that period it may have been kept in the crypt of St. Peters tomb or in the baslica of Constantinople. It was moved from chapel to chapel of the Vatican before the days of Alexander VII, who enclosed it in bronze.
Year: 1870

"GRAcE GREENWOOD" in recent letter from Washington, says "While on visit to the Land Office, was shown by Mir. Will son, the Commissioner singular relic of a late fight on the Plains. It was q garment taken from an Indian chief, after death. A shirt of buckskin, made without the usual ornamentation of beads and porcupine quins, yet graced with something quite novel in the decorative way--a full, long fringe, formed of the hair of white women and children. It was ghastly ornament; indeed, the entire garment was a very unpleasant thing Co in- speet. The only point in it on which the eye could rest without horror or pity, was a small. round hole, beneath which the raging heart of human wild beast came one day to full stop.
Year: 1870

BY the steamship City OF Antwerp at this port we
have report OF the FIRST pieadings and testimony
which were mad and taken In the celebrated Nor
daunt divorce case. already reported In our cable
kilograms.
Year: 1870

EEELIyG GRATEFUL FOR PAST FAvORS,
i and wishing a continuance of your patronage, !,


would most respectfully Inform their friends, and
the public generally. that they intend to keep
full assortment Of every thiag in the way Of
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib, the legs ed by single bolts, bringing the crib on the level with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The headAnd foot boards are folded down over the mattrpss when not in use. The when closed in. Eadh bedstead can have single
Year: 1870

One cut shows the Bedstead az it appears with the crib or single bedstead not in use; the other represents the Bedstead with the as- tachment drawn out. It can be entirely separat- ed from the bedstead and rolled about at
Year: 1870

Coroner Flynn commenced an investigation
yesterday into Of the death Of VIM Davis, who
was struck over the head with whifletree by Mar
garet Dunn alias Big Mag" the night of the 18th OF
August as he sleeping in her room In No Brdge-st
Thomas Bowling, who resided in the same house, test
fled that on the night of the 18th Of August, about 10
O'clock Margaret Dunn to his and asked him
ing in Ler bed, aud put him out The witness paid no
attention to her request ana M oToker anotner en- fes
she replied that she had already done Mrs Croker
8 Iamp and went MP also On the stairs he met Mrs.
Croker who said For Gods sake don't go up there the
man is killed" Bowling, notwithstanding, proceeded,
aud on the top landing found Margaret Dunn dragging
Davis by the cape OF the coat out OF the room she
fore when She came to his room; Bowling took the stick
away her, at the time telling her that she mad
house, neither had he slept there.


Martin O'sulivan deceased lying on the top land
ing of the house; the witness the alarn after
which Davis taken TO the station-House; saw Mar
garet Dunn under arrest


the hallway of No Bridge-st; she was pulling him
and struck him several times; this was In the
ofcer Collins Of the First Precinct testified that
told that VIM Davis was dying at No. Bridge-st he
went up stairs found Davis lying the top landing
struck deceased with broonstek the mattress on the
landing sainedswith blood the accused appeared
to be somewhat under the influence OF liquor


Mary oConnOr testified that she WIS called out OF pea
by the prisoner and saw her strike the deceased WIN
heavy club; at that time Davis was lying In bed IN
pool OF blood .


Margaret Dunn being called to testify in her own be-
half said that on the night Of the 18th OF August she
found Davis in her bed; she struck him tWlce on the


Dr. Marsh surgeon at the Centre-st Hospital testified
that he made post-morem examination on the body OF
aIso fracture of the base of the skull In doctors
opinion the incised wounds on the head and also the
fracture OF the skull might have been incted with the
broken whetree, with which the prisoner was seen TO
strike deceased The stick was not broken IN such
The Jury gave verdict against the accused, and she
was committed to the TOmbs for trial.
Year: 1870

Yesterday afternoon an outrage which oc-
Cured in the Bowery early Thursday morning first
came to the knowledge of the Police, and was reported
to the Central Office from the Tenth Precinct II Is
stated that Wednesday evening Mary Kelso VINO mas
no home went with an unknown man 10 lodging mousse
in the Bowery where they remained for long tne As
they were about to leave alteration occurred etween
the and the man was seen TO kick her twice violently
after which he left and has since been asceralned I'M
mediately from the city. Yesterday the attention OF
the Police was called tote woman and she was ATTENDED
bv PoiceSurgeOn save, who found her injuries 70 be
OF such character that they would prove fatal unless
treated with great and caution She was lhen sent
TO Bellevue Hospital by his direction.
Year: 1870

Two labOrers, John Hill and Stewart Hardy,
met with terrible death Warren County, n. j., near
Changewater Tuesday last. They were engaged re-
pairing an well. and Hardy went down first to do the
work below, while Hill remained above The long alb
sence Of his companion and the failure to get any
response to calls led Hill go to the bottom of the
well to what the matter He also failed 10 return
and their disappearance investigated by other work
men who were called from adjoining place. de-
scent was made and both men were found dead at the
hoffo oft ne we'll
Year: 1870

CHEYENNE, W. T.. July 9.-The
Laramie Sentinel publishes the fol-
lowing in regard to the Big Horn Ex-
pedition: Judge Jones informed US
that but little was known of the party
since they left Camp Brown, and
struck out into the wilderness; further
that they were beyond the reach or
hearing of friends, among hostile In
dians; and the Judge expressed the
belief that not one of them would
ever get out alive Judge Jones
would not express such an opinion, il
there were not the best grounds for
apprehensions of the worst"
Year: 1870




In all the discussion of the Water
Works question, previous to the
awarding of the contract, no other
location was thought of but above
the sewers of the city. Mr.. Weir's
first proposition was to dig a tunnel
across the sand-bar. and take the
water from the main channel of the
river beyond. His next proposition.
submitted on the heels of the Water
Works election, was still to take
water above the sewers. So absurd
was any other location, that the ques-
tion as to where the well should be
located. did not enter into the can
vass at all Now why was the change
in the location Of the we'll and pumps
made? 1t is easily explained.


The cost of the large cast iron pipe
called in the Weir-Van Ripper con-
tract, the drift" is estimated by iron
men familiar with that kind of casting
to cost about forty five dollars per
running foot. To locate the wells
above the sewers, as originally de-
signed. would necessitate, as nearly as
we can estimate, about eight or nine
hundred feet of this drift pipe. The
location of the well determined upon
by the committee will enable the con
tractor to get full supply Of water,
delieiously adulterated with sewer
age, by a pipe less than one hun
dred feet in length. Hence the
change involved a saving of from
seven to eight hundred feet of drift
pipe. costip g forty .tfUe dollars per foot.
Seven hundred feet of this pipe
would amount to $31, 800, exclusive
of the cost of laying the same, which
would amount to several thousand
more. Yet our astute Water Works
Committee agree to pay Mr.. Weir
fully as much for constructing the
Works below the sewers, as he ex-
pressed willingness to take the job
for when he understood the we'll was
to be up town. Why our city should
he compelled to drink water poisoned
by sewerage. or not derive any benefit
whatever from the Water Works, in
order to add thirty thousand dollars
to Mr. Weir's profits we cannot con-
ceive.


We must confess that Mr.. Wier is a
sbrewd manager. Every change that
could be suggested in any way calcu-
lated to add to his profits, has been
cheerfully conceded by the Commit
tee. He seems to have had the ability
of presenting his desires before the
Committee in so attractive a light
that they always yielded the point
HIS arguments, we know not what
they were, seem always to have been
sufficiently convincing to the Commit
tee to make them consent to let the
charming fellow have his way. His
ways are not ways of pleasantness to
the people, and the Committee, We
respectfully suggest, had better make
haste to mend some of his ways
especially the way proposed. Of fur
nishing water filthy from mipgling
with the contents of the sewers.


What say the Water Works Com
mittee. Do they intend to stand BY
the contract locating the we'll below
the sewers? The people want to hea1
from henl2
Year: 1870

MEMPHIS, July 9.-At the meeting
of the stockholders of the Mississippi
River Railroad Company to-day. the
action of the old Board in contract


ing with the Southern Railroad Asso
citation for the completion of the road,
was fully endorsed. and they and their
friends were elected to the new Board
Year: 1870

In use, the Company have decided to
make this outlay In order to rapidly in
crease their already extensive business
Every family must have Soap, and the
Myrtle Soap Company offer toxes con-
tanning forty pounds of their Soap fer
FIVE DOLLARS PER BOX, every
box of which will go as far in family as
an eighty pound box of ordinary soap.


Thus, every purchaser of bOx. obtains,
not only more value Tor five dollars than
could be got in any other soap, but IN adj
dition, is entitled to participate in the dis
trtbution of the above named premiums
of from FIVE DOLLARS to


Twenty-Five Th0Us and Dollars,
Which in fact will rot cost the fortunate
person one cent. Every family should
purchase a box of this soap t0ithOa< delay.
of course, with such liberal induce ments,
the Company being to distribute the soap
over as great an extent OF country as pos
sfble IL Is not desired that too many OF the
boxes sold on this plan go into any one To-
caiitv. Only one Lox of this lot Will be
sold to one family.


distrfbution VIII take place, so that those
who wish, may be present. But WhetheI
present or not the interest OF each and all
will be guarded alike, and the fortunate
persons notified Immediately.


The deed of the BROWN SEON
HOUSE is deposited with the SAFE De-
POSIT COMPANY Nos. 146 and l4S Broad
way, New York. in trust for some Iortu-
nate pure. aser of one box.
Year: 1870

The authorities of Philadelphia, having
been induced by the Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals to put to
death the worthless ours at the dog pound
by sutfocating them in a large tub with
carbonic acid gas, tried the experiment on
Saturday. After the dogs had been kept
in the tub for about five hours the cover
was removed, and the spectators, instead
of seeing q mass of dead dog flesh, fonnd
lot of very lively animals staring them
out Of countenance, and evidently desrous
of knowing the cause of their strange con-
inement. The gas appeared not to have
had the desired effect. It was evident
that this mode of killing dogs was entirely
too humane, and as a dernie7' resort the
old method was resorted to, and E'man's
sent out of the world.
Year: 1870

Don Piatt writes to the Cincinnati
Commercial


'"The wonderful energy exhibited by the
Southern people IN struggling up from
the utter ruin that followed the late civil
war is one of the marvels of the day
While contending against the blundering,
unjust nets of reconstruction, originating
in hate and continued through greed, that
deprived them of a voice and vote in laws
now involving the business interests of the
entire country, the people have struggled
manfully and with success to certain ex-
tent to restore the national prosperity of
their region. In this no aid whatever has
been given by the General Government
On the contrary, its acts have been aggres-
slve to the last extent, and ii is no exag-
geration to say that the Government at
Washington has wrought more Injury to
the South since the war than it was able
to effect during the conflict of arms.


''lt is the strangest folly that ever af-
fected blind people.
Year: 1870

MEMPHIS, May %.


=, In the General Conference of the Me
thodist Episcopal Church South the CON
slderation Of the organization and
consolidation of the boards of
missions was resumed, and O pro rata
distribution of the funds collected was dis
cussed. Finally the clause providing that
tour per cent of gross collections shall 90
to the parent board, and the remainder be
used within tho bounds of the Annual
conferences where the fund was raised
was adopted. Nashville was selected az
the location for the parent board. A res
ointlon removing the German Apologist
Office to Galveston was adopted.


Ihe report of the Committee on Epis-
copacy with reference to the veto power
OF the Bishops, was taken up and adopted.
The report of the Committee on Books
ana Perlod1cals, with reference to
magazine, was taken up and the
nGme and location discussed
Year: 1870

IHE EXCURSION YEsTERDAY.-Th excur-
sion OF the Medical Society and their
guests, down the river yesterday, on the
steamer Governor Worth, was one of the
most pleasant affairs that las ever been
known here. The boat lef the wharf, foot
OF Market street, at about o'clock,
freighted with good portion of the youth
and beauty OF this city, and with a large
majority Of our own, and the visiting, ply
sicians. The Rose Bod band had been
engaged for the occasi ion, and they were
soon called on, for scarcely had the boat
left the wharf when the dance was begun.


The run dowr the river was very pleas
ant one, and the boat first stopped at Fort
Caswell. Her9 the party landed, and an
hour was spent in rambling through and
around the old fort, in strolling on the
beach, or in quiet social conversation in
some snug corner looking out far over the
ocean.


From CasWell it was but A short distance
to Smithville, and there another and
longer stay was made, our friends from
the interior especially admiring its situa-