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Year: 1871

The elaborate description of the Signal
Bureau at Washington and explanation of the
system of weather reports and storm forecasts
which we publish this morning, will be read
with very general interest. No scientific ser
vice which the Government has undertaken in
many years has been 80 universally approved
or 80 instantly successful as the labor per-
formed in this bureau of the War Department
by Gen. Myer, Prof. Able, and their assist
ants. 1t is of the greatest Importance to
science from many points of view; but 1t IA In
its relation to the business of everyday life,
to the practical problems of the farm and the
seashore, and the out Of-dOOr amusements
of common place gentlemen and ladies' that 1t
has naturally attracted most Of tho attention
of the public.


Foretelling the weather. when 1T was
not the shrewd guessing of seamen and
keen-eyed farmers, used to be pseudo-art,
something like astrology or alchemy, and the
almanac who wrote across whole
column of his calendar Expect - rain -
about - this - time,' ranked no higher in the
estimation of sensible people than tho gypsy
who told ones fortune with pack of cards.
But we have changed all that. BY the best
of all tests-that of actual trial-we have
proved that the path of storm can be fore
told with almost mathematical accuracy. We
can watch its beginning, and by careful
study of the atmospheric phenomena at
various points we can decide what course it
will take, and flash the prediction by tele-
graph to all quarters of the country. This Is
tho work which, with much else that is highly
important to meteorolOgy, the Signal Bureau
is now doing in Washington. The value OF
such services to commerce and to agriculture
can hardly be over estimated, and the appre-
citation in which they are held by the public
is sufficiently evinced by the eagerness with
which the daily reports are read and the con
fdence which they always inspire.
Year: 1871

The French Republicans seem determined
to find out all about the beginning of the
war. The Assembly has appointed Commit
tee of Inquiry whose business 1T is not only
to examine into the course of Palikao, brought
in question by the irate Trochu, but into the
conduct of Benedict, French Minister at the
Prussian Court at the beginning of the trouble
which led to war between France and Prussia.
So we shall find out now the whole truth re-
garding that interview at Ems in which the
fiery Corscan and the Prussian King were
chief actOrs
Year: 1871

former slave who seems 10 have shot person
pursuing him with blood-hounds, inquiries Of US
whether he can be protected from the consequences
of this act if he should make public the thrilling story
connected with it, and the strange scenes be wit
messed in his wild fugitive life i'll Alabama during
the Rebellion. There is no way by which he can
receive legal guaranty for the immunity he seeks;
but we doubt whether even in South Carolina
Grand Jury could now be brought to indlct for such
an act We have forgiven great many men at tho
South for killing great many others to perpetuate
Slavery; and the prosecution could hardly be very
vigorous against one man who. in sef-defense shot
another TO preserve his Liberty.
Year: 1871

The long vexed question of the Presidency
of Yale is settled Prof. Porter is to be DR..
WOOlsey's successor. He has been connected
with the College for thirty years, has been
singled out for some time as the man most
likely to be chosen, and is generally conceded
TO possess admirable, not TO say peculiar,
qualifications for the place. His election, how
ever is not to be reclSoned a triumph for
Young Yale That hopeful and enthusiastic
party must now look to their own lately in
creased powers in the government of the Col
lege for the means of further progress.
Year: 1871

A picturesque description of Wilhelmshaven,
the new German naval depot its mode Of con-
struction, and some interesting facts relative
"a the education and personnel of the German
Navy form the staple of letter published in
onotLer column The suggestive fact is pre-
sented that the Germans have made thorough
ness in education fashionable and thus the
acknowledges" of their naval and military
officers is easily accounted for
Year: 1871

TALLY given; and incidentally it is stated that
the attack was made to rescue a woman and
several other prisoners who had been aiding
the negroes in some unlawful deeds. With
singular maladroitness, the leaders of the two
factions loaded and fired at each other a great
many times without any effect.
Year: 1871

City subscribers to THE TRIBUNE can have
the paper sent by mail 70 their temporary residences in
the country by giving orders direct to this office Terms
81 per month, payable in advance.
Year: 1871

The Cattle Show and Fair of the Union Agricultural Society passed off pleasantly. also the Horse Trot. The attendance at the latter was enormous. The excursion train from Bridgeport arriving here at 10:2OA.M,, with SIX passenger cars crowded, helped considerable to enlarge the receipts, at the gate.

 The Exhibition on the first and second days was very fair.

 Base Ball is on the wane; but few games have been played lately on account of the coolness of the weather. DOT.
Year: 1871

IN THIS ChANGEABLE SEASON OF THE YEAR beware of Colds, slight cold results in consumption. You all know the conse. quence. Now one ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure, and one bottle of WARMERS Cough Balsam will remedy tue evil by curing the cold; remember this, you that are predisposed to consumption, for the remedy is always to be had at any drug store on inquiry; if they should happen to be out they will get it for you. Price One dollar, in large bottles. - Christian Advocate
Year: 1871

D@ We notice from the Danbury Neus that the trustees of the Boston and Erie railroad have been examining into the con. dition of the work west of Waterbury. They report that three quarters of the gra- ding is completed and it seems probable that the road will soon be finished to it's junction with the Harlem.
Year: 1871

gnyAX PAYERS, ATTENTIONu j

 { There will be meeting of the Electors of the Town of LItch6eld, at the Town Hall on Town Officers to be supported by all in favor of Retrenchment and Reform irrespective of Party on the 2d day of October next All friendly to such measures are respectfully requested to at tend said meeting and make such nomination. By request of COMMIlIEE.
Year: 1871

Oil explosions most frequently occur from the lamp being upset and broken. By using Pratt's Astral Oil you avoid this as well as every other danger incident to unsafe oil, it being in every respect perfectly pure, reliable aud safe article.
Year: 1871

1t seems to us more than probable
that the editor of The Danbury News
was seeking a return thrust from a
brother quillot when he indicted
the following; They cleaned house
at the domicil of the editor OF The
Litchfeld Enquirer, last week. The
editor was called home, and en-
trusted with the artistic operation OF
painting the kitchen chairs. He
finished one of them and sat down
on it to paint the others. They had
to build fire to thaw him off. 1t
ruined the chair, but he had a bay
window set in his pants, and they
are about as good as new"
Year: 1871

To PRESERVE BoUQUETs.-W When
you receive a bouquet, sprinkle it
lightly with cold water, then put in
Il vessel containing some soap-suds,
which nourish the roots and keep
the flowers as good as new. Take
the bouquet out of the suds every
morning and lay it sideways in fresh
water, the stock entering first into
the water; keep it there minute or
two. then take it out and sprinkle
the flowers lightly by the hand with
pure water. Replace the flowers IN
the soap-suds, and they will bloom
as fresh as when gathered.
Year: 1871

Prsmlnsnyt Sal.Iy. % Democrats ,, ..Yysr n Cuts Cuts


The Scranton Republican of yesterday has
Wilkesbarre letter of Monday, which says:-


The town was thrown into a high state of ex-
citement this evening, between and o'clock,
by ar eport which spread like wildfre, that an
attempt at murder and suicide had been made
at house on Northampton street. The report
proved true, and the following particulars were
CLEANED. The man interested is lawyer, and
has considerable notoriety throughout the county
as o Democratic politician, and nominally
has been credited with being a of
more than ordinary capacity. But q
too free indulgence in strong drink, and life of
general dissipation, have incapacitated him for
business, and before this he has been attacked
twice by mania-a-potu, which attacks were to
be dreaded by all likely to come in contact with
him, for, being of strong frame, and goaded to q
fearful frenzy by imaginary wrongs, he hesi-
tated not to threaten and attempt to perform the
most terrible acts. The woman who was at
tackled by him was the wife of respectable
merchant on Northampton street. now divorced
from him, but still living in his house and acting
as his housekeeper. Returning last week with
this attack of mania-a-potu upon him, the law
yer went to the above house. where he has since
been confined. Imagining there was concocted
arrangement to poison him, he determined on
putting her and himself out of the way,
and thus frustrate its accomplishment. He
seized her, and in the struggle, with
o small penknife, succeeded in cutting
her throat in most horrible manner, making a
cash on one side from which the blood spufted
with Kissing sound awful to hear, and inflict-
ing besides cash in her breast, in one arm, and
on one thumb. He then commenced on himself
with the same instrument, first at his throat,
making cut of considerable length, from
which the blood flowed very freely, and then in
the region of his heart, where made five stabs
By this time-it was all done almost in
an instant-outsiders were aroused po-
licemen came, and surgeons were called
The woman was Immediately attended
to-the blood vessel severed was tied etc.-and
there is hope that she will survive, although
close attention. The wounds of the man were
dressed, and both he and the woman left in as
easy circumstances as can be expected. In q
talk with the man we found that he realized
what he had done--he was more saue--but he
still regretted that he had not made q clean job
of it. His poor instrument, he says, was the
cause of his failure.
Year: 1871


A ripple of improvement swept over tBe
waters of the stock market to-day. producing more
activity in Ohio Mississippi Lake Shore. and Rock
leland The cliques have no doubt the folly Of
attempting unload upon stagnant market, ana are
now reversing the speculative engine to WORK steady
through the warm season and TO prepare for the Autumn
campaign. With money market such as we nave
had for months past, IL is matter Of but little
difficulty TO sustain prices and carry them higher
but this requires constant additions to the lines OF stock
now held and right here that point OF difficulty IS
encountered for clidues are composed of morals and
when they enough they take more with great re-
luctance. Clique rule and power in Wallst. mas Deeh
very much shaken by recent events, and now
encounters a much stronger opposition than here
tofore. The recent iasco in Rock Island had very
deInoralizng influence among the supporters OF that
and ohercques and the contemplated issue OF an add
tonal two millions of stock has increased that dsrust
In short the events which have lately transpred in the
stock market have had the effect Of water upon IRE,
and there is marked diminuton of the speculative
feeling among outsiders The existing ciques appear to
be- one party in Ohio and Mississippi and Lake shore;
another composed in part OF the same men, in western
Union ANA stin another which includes the Pennsyya
mia Central influence, i manipulating Union Pachc
securities. Ins Rocks Island We have the debris OF
the recent pool and the support also OF pretty large
short interest which was made in the late breakdown
Woodward has not yet settled, but 1t Is understood
that he offers creditors in full at one two. three
and four years. Messrs. Dater & Tfmpson, who went
under the time Woodward's failure, offer so per
cent cash The stock market opened hrmer to-day for
the leading stocks and prices have advanced from to
per cent The principal business has been confined TO
Lake Shore, Ohio and Mississippi, and Rock Island,
almost TO the exclusion OF other shares Prices
were well maintained at the close, with
no marked reaction from the advance OF The
morning The dulneSs OF the market during the after
noon may be to extent attributed 20 the distraction
caused by the in the upper part OF the city MIS-
ceaueous shares were dun, Consolidation Coal, when
rose TO H. being the only exception AT the Boards we
notice sales of Panama at 80 Michigan Central at 1900
1904. Chicago and Alton. 2olal2Os Fort Wayne par
and South side 73l The following are the highest and
lowest prices paid for active stocks to-day
Year: 1871

COOP ADVICE TO WRITERs.-The
rule regarding talk; "When you
have nothing to say, say it," applies
equally to writing. When you really
have something to write about do not
peck and scratch around the SUBJ
ject like a hen pounce upon it boldly
like an eagle. Almost every article
presented by unpracticed writers to
magazines-no matter how admirable
the subject-Irifts to leeward for one
or two pages before the writer gets
steerageway on his thoughts, and the
readers finds out where he wants TO
sail to. This fault could easily be
avoided by proper revision. Cut out
all that does not bear on the subject
discussed; every useless adjective; ev-
cry ineffective repetition of the same
idea. Then consider whether you
have said what you wanted TO say in
the best language at your command.


If not, write on till you feel satisfied.
Then condense and pune. Do not
seek for striking metaphor, or sprightly
epigram, to decorate your article. If
such occur naturally they may be put
in but with caution. Consider whether
you really add force to your writing,
or merely hatter your vanity at the
time Afterward, when all is done in
the way Of argument, you may here
and there carefully add an apt quota
ton or pungcnt witicism, to attract
attention and make some important
sentence snap, like the cracker Of a
coach whip. Remember, too, all the
time, that facility in composition, as in
all other accomplishments, can only be
obtained by practice and perseverance.


81. Louis Home JourRai.l !
Year: 1871

A New Jersey inventor has fixed
up way Of dressing linen thread to
initiate natural hair so perfectly that
it is almost impossible TO detect it as
artificial. when our ladies have their
heads shod with this material, no mat
ter what Oh, color may be, they viii
all DE ldAcn haired
Year: 1871

a letter from Salt Lake says: "Tho
first step that threatens Mormon peace
/, the general hostility of the young to
polygamy, and the preference Of the
misses for batchelor Gentle to a
hoary-healcd polygamist. Without a
particle Of regard to the feelings Of
many married women, the Mormon
husbands have taken home young
wives, and almost abandoned their
first families. The children of the
first wives have seen ,he misery Of such
a life, and as they have grown up to
an understanding, they have naturally
sieeled their hearts against their moth
ers misery. Polygamy is a decaying
Year: 1871

The editor Of religious paper,
which had one months precarious ex>
istence in Chicago, says that it is a
good city for a religious paper, provided
satan has three pages of it and the
other page is Mixed
Year: 1871




From the Kansas City Record.l arss.s sdi


The scenes at an Indian payment have
been often described, and indeed too
many residents of the country are ta1
miliar from actual experience. But the
Glth and fnery, the hideousness which
they call beauty, the songs. that are
sung the games that are played, the
races that are run, the oddity and
sayagery of the thing may bear repeti-
ton. The majority OF. the Indians know
little, and care much less, about how or
why their annuities are paid. Twice a
year for long time they have received
from seventeen TO twenty dollars at the
hands of long-snffering agent Twice
year they have marched up to their
guardians Office, with the small bundle
Of sticks which represent the family in
crease, and without much argument
received so much per head and twice
per wear has each one become solemnly
and stupidity, or insanely and riotously
drunk, and that was the last of it until
the next time. Payment is not an in
teresting event to an Indian alone.
Hither come all his creditors, and with
sagacity developed in the course of q
long, practice, they forestal the annuity
Of the debtor and all his heirs, from his
grandfather down to his youngest and
fairest. Indians die; they may be said
TO die extensively, and | came near
saying repeatedly. But no little Indian
was ever left long without a guardian,
and no estate goes to waste for want of
an administrator. And these are all
at the payment. The Indians, of
all grades of enlightenment, but each
essentially Indian, arrive from all parts
of the country early in the forenoon.
They stand demurely by the dilapidated
fence, or ride furiously up and down the
village street. Each wear the inevitable
speckled shirt and the usual gaudy rib
bon. The mighty army of guardians
and administrators, with a sprinkling of
agents and traders, sit hard by under a
tree, and whittle and watch and listen.
Ever and amen from the door, is called
the name OF some warrior or squaw, and
Il the individual does not appear there is
certain to be vacancy in the circle of
administrators. They are all accounted
for. In the afternoon the effects of the
payment begin to be apparent. There
is much more happiness generally dis
tributed through the surviving members
of the tribe than there was. A drunken
Indian is the most peculiar of bipeds.
He rolls the sweet liquid over his tongue
with comical gusto, grotesque happi-
ness. which he never shows, save in this
supreme moment The squaw is as in
variably as drunk as her lord, and as she
is generally the most silent, becomes the
most noisy Of the two. She asserts the
rights of the family, and abuses, TO the
extent Of her small store Of English, the
men and the institutions OF the domi-
nant race. These, with the supposed
uuantum Of headaches and remorse are
the prominent features Of an Indian pay
ment.
Year: 1871

We find the annexed in the San Joa-
quin (Cal J Republican Of June Sth:


A mathematical-minded and faan-
cially- graduated friend Of ours has just
returned from a prolonged trip TO the
Big Trees. He had a pleasant time Of
it, and while doing nothing permitted
his giant mind 70 follow the bent Of its
own inclination, which it seems wss in
Year: 1871

A New York telegram, dated June
22d says: "The bottom is dropping
out of the State Of New Jersey. In
Warren county during the past few
days, number of deep holes have
been suddenly made by the earth
sinking down into some fearful, un-
known, subteranean depths, The
first noticed was in the bottom Of the
Morris and Essex canal on the seven
mile level between Broadway aud
New Village. All the water in the
canal went down that hole, then q
dozen more opened in the corn fields
and woods, taking down into the
bowels of the earth great patches OF
corn and even sinking trees out OF
sight. In addition to this there are
scores Of great long and deep assures.
Then, on WEDNESDAY night, another
Zig hole opened in the canal. Rum
bling noises were heard under the
Methodist Church in Broadway, and
nobody will venture INTO the build
ING tor fear of it's going down. The
widest excitement prevails among
the people, who deem that any given
spot OF land in that country is liable
to plunge through halt way to China
at any me ment.--Priccs ofrcal es-
tate have naturally gone down. The
Morris and Essex canal is utterly ru-
iued. Its course must be altogether
changed to AVOID this district it il y
intended to ever Aold water enough
for sunfish to float in."
Year: 1871

In his address in Texas, Horace
Greeley seems to have given a snm-
mary Of his experience, cleaned from
all the years OF his public and edito-
rial life. He says: The best Unrest
merits a farmer can make for his children
is that whieh surrounds their youth With
the rational delights Of a beauteoas, at
trGctirc home. The dwelling may be
small and rude, yet a few flowers
will embellish, as choice fruit trees
will enrich aud gladden. it; while
grass and shade are within the reach
Of the humblest. Hardly any labor
done on farm is go profitable as
that which make the wife and child
rem fond and proud OF their home.


A good practical education, in
Guiding a good trade, is better out
fit for a youth than a grand estate
with the drawback of an empty
mind. Many parents have slaved
and pinched to leave their children
rich, when half the sum thus layished
would have protited them far more
had it been devoted 70 the cultiva-
ton of their minds, the enlargement
of their capacities to think, observe,
and work. The one structure that
no neighborhood can afford to do
without is the school house.


A small library of well selected
books in the house has saved many
youth from wandering into the
baleful ways Of the prodigal son.
Where paternal strictness and sever
ity would have bred nothing but dis
like and fixed resolve to abscond
at the first opportunity, good books
and pleasant surroundings have wean.
ed many a youth from his first wild
impulse to go to sea or cross the con.
tinent. and made him docile, con.
tented, obedient. happy llngerer by
the parental treside. In family.
however rich or poor, no other good
is 30 cheap or so precious as Thoughts
ful, watchtul love.
Year: 1871

The second days trial opened with a
declaration from Colonel Boisdenemetz
that two barristers of the Versailles Bar,
counsel for the prisoners Marchaise and
Boequin, had NOT thought ft to appear,


and that he would consequently lodge a
complaints against them with their baton
nier for contempt Of Court. BY and by
Year: 1871

Chief Justice Mexican, on the morn
ing of the 2Sth ult., at Salt Lake City,
passed sentence upon Thomas Hawkins,
the polygamist, as follows:


Thomas Hawkins, am sorry for you
very sorry. You may not think so
now, but shall try to make you think
So by the mercy which l shall show you
You came from England to this country
with the wife of your youth, and for
many years you were kind husband
and kind father. At length, however,
the evil spirit of polygamy tempted and
possessed you. Then happiness depart
ed from your household. and now, by
the complaint of your faithful wife and
the verdict of law abiding jury, you
stand at this bar as a convicted criminal.


The law gives me large discretionary y
power in passing sentence upon you. l
might both fine and imprison you, or l
might fine or imprison you. l might i'm
prison you for twenty years and fine you
for twenty years and fine you one thou
sand dollars. cannot imprison You for
less than three years. nor fine you less
than three hundred dollars. 1t is right
you should be fined, among other reasons
to help to defray the expenses Of en-
forcing the laws but my experience in
Utah has been such, that We're l to fine
you only, am satisfied the fine would
be paid out of other funds than youra
and thus you would go free, absolutely
free from all punishment, and then those
men who mislead people would make
thousands of others believe that God had
sent the money to pay the fine; tina,
God had prevented the Court from send
ing you to prison, and. by miracle, you
had been rescued from the authorities Of
the United States.


l must look to it that my judgment
give no aid and comfort to such men. ]
must look to it that my judgment be moi
so severe as to seem vindictive and not sc
light as to seem to triAe with justice -
This community ought to learn that God
does not interpose to rescue criminal:
from the consequences of their crimes
bat, on the contrary, He so orders the
affairs of His universe that, sooner OIL
later, crime stands face to face with jus
tice and justice is the master. 1 will
say here and now. that whenever your
good behavior and the public good will
justify me in doing SO. will gladly re-
commend that you be pardoned. The
Judgment of this court is that you be
fined $500 and that you be imprisoned al
hard labor for the term of three years.