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Year: 1875

~ The ring-leaders of the peoples" party
say they will not nominate any man who asks or
receives nomination from the Republican Con-
vention; but if certain men keep out of the Re-
publican Convention, they will nominate them
This shows that they do not want the best men,
but want to beat the Republicans. If the Re-
publican Convention nominates men whom these
People now call the best the latter will do all in
their power to defeat them. Republicans who
have been acting with that outft, will please
make q note of this
Year: 1875

II There is certain editor who has great
deal to say about greenbacks being "dishonored


and worthless promises to pay" We are Inform
ed that this same chap has his own worthless
promises" out in every direction, and that for
years. the holders would have been glad to dispose
of them at any rate of discount At the same
time, he will get down as low for one of those
worthless greenbacks as any other men can get.
Year: 1875

Come up, Francis Spinner! We suppose the
inventive genius of the glorious Democracy can
find something against you. That you are old,
for instance, and possibly have not the back hair
inseparable from yonth, and perhaps no hair on
your teeth. But ability and honesty are pretty
good things, and they work excellently in the
long run.-BOstOR Globe.
Year: 1875

There is nothing Eastern politicians so little
understand, and little realize, as the way this
new Democratic departure takes with Western
Democrats. Old specie basis Democrats, who
worshiped Benton and bullion. are as ardent in
this campaign as could be the freshest convert
at a campmeeting. The Democracy proper OF
Ohio never was more united on any subject than


on this paper money infation.-ClereldRd Herald.
Year: 1875

"In New York, the aristocratic, the rich and
the wealthy gentlemen, who appear to be dele
gates in the State Convention, always succeed
1t is no Office of profit OF of honor but it was and
is of great Importance to those who have per.
sonal interests to subserve. The late Democrat
ic State Convention in New York was made up
generally of national bankers, bondholders and
gold spectators. 1t in no respect represented
the people. ENQUIRER
Year: 1875

w They are having sort of bond repudia'
tion excitement at Lawrence Its Importance
may be judged of by the fact that it occupies the
entire attention of the Journal, leaving no space
in which to denounce the United States currency
Year: 1875

As THE faithful Indian agent gives poor Lo his
ratiOns of salt beef he mournfuly says: That
beefs difiernt from any beef you'd get if you
were white man living in the East. Beef in
the East don't have any smell at all. Just think
of that.n-Nesr York Herald
Year: 1875

y d. R. Anthony has returned home. The
Eastern doctors cOuld do nothing for him, but
say he may get along all right, but that he must
remain quiet, as any sudden exertion or excite
ment might prove fatal. If that can keep him
quiet, it will be the first thing that has ever ac-
compished it.
Year: 1875

THE N. Y. Liberal Republicans have
shown their good sense and patriotism by
adopting the following resolution


Resolved, That the Liberal RepubIi-
cans in the State of New York Do not
think it necessary or useful to nominate
a State ticket. They do, therefore, re-
commend to the Liberal and Independent
voters of the State to support those can
didates already in nomination whose
character and experience they most APP
prove, and who, in their judgment, will
earnestly and efficiently cooperate with
Gov. Tilden in his work Of administrative
reform.
Year: 1875

Sidney Smith having once proposed,
as an entertaining change in human
affairs, that everything should be de.
cided by minorities, as they we're almost
always in the right, a writer in All the
Year Round considers how this prinei.
pie would have worked applied to the
reputation Of poets;


There would be terrible thinning Of
England's sons Of song. That Para.
disc Lost, which has nothing meritorious
about it save its length, although some
people are pleased to call it a poem
would in itself suffice to drag Milton
from his high estate, even if he we're not
responsible for an inelegantly splendid
mask parcel of sonnets, of which
only two are not absolutely bad, sundry
lesser pieces whose peculiarity is not
excellence, and the vulgar Lyeidas, in
which there is no nature for there is no
truth, no art for there is nothing new.
but something akin to impiety, clothed
in harsh dietion, unpleasing numbers
and uncertain rhymes. John DRYDEN
must pay the penalty as the author of
The Hind and the Panther, the worst
poem Of the age; and Pope, all tune and
no meaning has no claim for merciful
consideration on account OF his unin.
telligible essays, his barbArous rhap-
sody upon Windsor Forest, or the
Year: 1875

Here is what the Granger of Canada
thinks about attending the Grange
meetings. 1t will do to apply to many
in this section:


at is too common with recently Or
ganized oranges that the members be-
come negligent. After the excitement
is over and the novelty of the thing
dies away, they loose their interest in
the matter and quit attending; if not
entirely, their attendance is SO irregu-
lar that they are unable to keep pace
with the workings of the Order, either
at home or abroad /; while the more
jealous brothers and sisteps are in full
enjoyment of all the advantages and
reaping the benefits thereof, they By
staying away and neglecting to put
forth their hand to receive what is al
ready prepared for them, receive very
little or nothing at all, and are ready
to find fault with the grange.
Year: 1875

COMMENTING on the Presidents rec
ommendation that the Constitution
be so amended as to require each of
the States to establish and maintain
free schools, the Cincinnati CONNER
oial of the 9Th says


This is the substance Of an amend
ment to the Constitution suggested in
a recent letter of ex-Speaker Blaine.
1t is question whether the States
ought not to be left to deal with that
matter. 1t will be time enough to in
terfere when they show their unwill-
ingness aud incapacisy to prevent q
divergence of their school funds to
sectarian uses. 1t is not question
that has reached national dignity, and
this forcing it into prominence just
now will be regarded with suspicion
by those who are suspicious of the
Presidents political motives and his
ambition to succeed to himself in the
Presidential Office. If Blaine's letter
was a bid for popular support in his as
pirations for the Presidency. General
Grant, as it is said in game Of cards
sees him and goes him one better"
Year: 1875

/ This is the way the Plttsburg Pos


puts Judge Black iuto the field as ;


Presidential candidate


/ Pennsylvania has not yet presented


a "fayorite sol" for the consideration
OF the nation at large. nor could We il


her behalf thrust a favorite son for.


ward. But while discussiog possible


candidates, it should not be forgotten
that Pennsylvania has son than whom
none bear a prouuer front IN the for
ward rank Of craftsmanship. A man
whose life has been as pnre as his
statesmanshipis is far-reaehing aud com
prehensiye. A man whose good advice
has been unheeded by the Admins
trations of the last sixteen years, but
to whom those Administrations hay-
gone in the hour of peril to ask that
the path of safety be pointed out. A
man under whom official corruption
would not be permitted to exist, much
less to flourish aud spread itself like a
green bay tree, until it oyershadowed
the whole land. A man who has been
trained in the highest school of states
manship, who is acknowledged on all
hands to be the greatest constitutional
expounder of the age, and whose al
ready distinguished services have
crowned him with laurels worthily be-
slowed. A man under whose guidance
the Republic would be safe, and by
whom it would be brought back to the
true and ancient land marks. so that it
might enter upon the second century
of its existence clothed with bright
promise and surrounded by enduring
certainty. We need not say we refer
to Jeremiah S. Black.
Year: 1875

The st. Louis Times, which, from
some unexplained cause, is generally
enabled to forecast striking events in
connection with the whiskey prosecu-
tion, this morhing contained a dark
'insinuation that something is about to
turn up, and that new and startling de-
velopments are to be made when the
special grand jury, which is to be con-
yened. shall have got to work. These
representations, it is fair to assume,
are not without significance, and to a
certain rather select circle here they
have terrible meaning. 1t has been de-
monstrated almost to moral certainty
that there are at least two gigantic
rings yet to be broken up in this city.
These arc the tobacco ring and the
new custom house ring. The existence
of these rings is admitted by partisan
Republicans, and there are certain
parties steadily working to secure
firm foundation for open accusation,
aud on which to base official iuvestiga-
ton. 1t is probable that this fruit is
ripe for plucking, and that it will be
laid before the grand jury for their con-
sideration at an early day Cincinnati
Commercial, Dec. 13.
Year: 1875

The legal relations of teachers to-
ward their pupils being question of
general interest, we give the opinion
delivered by Justice Baskefte, We'd
Desday. in the Fogg school case


The defendant is arraigned for aa
assault and battery upon the person of
Ralph Trabue. The relation between
the defendant and Ralph is that OF
teacher and pupil. The defendant
then stands an loco pdrsntis. What
would be the parent authority for the
good Of the child would likewise be
that of the teacher, and the law has
very properly guarded the rights Of
both parties. The authority of the
parent over the child does not permit
him to exercise that authority in a
cruel wanton manner so the authority
of the teacher over that of the pupil
must not be exercised wantonly and
without cause, but in moderation and
with discretion.


Under the law, tho teacher, ike the
parent, has the same right TO enforce
obedience to the rules of the school, as
the parent has to enforce obedience TO
the rules of his household, but this
right must be exercised with discre-
ton and moderation, beyond this
neither has any right to go. Theright
of a parent to chastise a refractory
and disobedient child is so necessary
to the good government Of a family,
and good order of society, that no NOR
alist or lawgiyer has ever questioned it,
Tkar. - q ,.o& al "a ,o&,o-. - ,.....,ak
ment. but the excess of punishment.
which will constitute an offense. In
subordination In a family would lead
to disastrous results II not checked by
parental authority. Whatever author
ity ia necessary TO enforce obedience
may be exercised BY the parent, so IL
is exercised in moderation and reason.
The teacher, standing N the place os
the parent. has the right to enforce
obedience from refractory and disobe-
dent pupil, and even to use the rod
when necessary. InsuboTdination and
disobedience on the part Of a pupil
could not be tolerated in n school
without producing endless mischief,
hence the law clothes the teacher-he
standing in the place of the parent
with power and authority to enforce
obedience. The scholar, like thechild,
being helpless and in the power of the
teacher, he will not be allowed wan,
tonly to exercise his authority, and
abuse with impunity, by taking ven
geance into his own hands.


The Supreme Court in the case Of
the State vs.. Anderson, Sd Head, say
that government should be patriarchal
rather than despotic. The relation is
that of superior and inferior; hence
il is the duty of the pupil to obey. and
he has no right to disobey the rules of
the school. If be does, the teacher
has the power vested in him to correct
/ for the disobedience in moderate and
reasons bic way, and it is as much his
duty to enforce obedience as it is the
duty of the pupil to yield obedience.


The relation between the defendant
and the party alleged to have been as
saulted being that Of teacher sndpapil,
the chastisement g presumed to have
been proper, and the State must show
that the chastiserlent was excessive.
Now, applying the law TO the facts
in this case the prisoner will be dis
charged.-NashUik american.
Year: 1875

Every muscle in the body is gen.
tly and uniformly brought into ac-
tion by the swing of the legs and the
arms, and consequently of the trunk
in a vertical direction. The undu-
lations made by the head, chest and
abdomen in vertical plane are thus
not only according to Hogarth's line
of beauty. but also in that tending
to perfect health. Every internal
organ is gently stimulated to more
robust action. Never. in q common
walk, does q person breathe twice
the same air, because he is constant
" changing his position. This fact
alone is of incalculable advantage.
Some writer's contend that tue re-
breathing of air once partially used
is one of the most fertile causes of
consumption. The most favorable
time for walking is about midday in
winter. and in the morning and to-
ward evening in the summer.
Year: 1875

Hold the paper from twelve to IF.
teen inches from your face, keeping
your eyes steadily affixed upon the
dot; bring the paper slowly nearer
your eye, when you will find at a
certain distance-about six or seven
inches from the eye-that the left
spot will entirely disappear but, as
you bring the paper nearer to you.
or carry it farther Off it will become
instantly visible again.


1t has been found, experimentally,
that the reason of this blindness is
that the image in the example given
falls directly upon the spot where
the optic nerve enters the eye, aud
this point being s'blind," no Image
is formed there. The optic nerve is
considered by most people to be the
seat of vision. whereas it is only
used in transmitting a knowledge Of
what has been photographed upon
the retina to the brain, where the
mind takes cognizance Of it, and we
are said to see.
Year: 1875




is,perhaps, not generally known
that every one has a blind spot in
his eye-a place where no vision. is
performed. The image of every oh.
ject upon which your eyes are tli-
rected. is. formed upon The retina, a
nervous expansion of the optic. nerve,
which corresponds TO the collodion
used by the photographer in taking
pictures. At point on this retina,
where the optic nerve comes through
the several coatings of the eye, to
spread itself over the inside of the
eye for the reception of the image,
is a perfectly blind spot. And If
you turn your eye in such manner
as to let the image of the object fall
upon this particular spot yon will be
unable to see the object. To con-
vince you of this fact, we will ask
you to close your right eye, and
look steadily at the spot to your
right, as here represented
Year: 1875

A man named Morrison called at several
houses along Second street from Western
Avenue to Fillmore street this morning
asking for something to eat. He represent
ed himself as a wounded soldier, and had
his left leg bandaged, and walked with a
cane, saying he had running sore, from a
minnie ball shot during the war, which he
had been able to get no relief for. He said
he belonged TO the 14th Illinois Infantry
and showed his discharge. At the foot oi
Western Avenue was skif tied up, and he
was seen TO go down TO the river, sit in the
boat short time, and eat something, but
10 notice was taken of him until he wa.
seen short time after out from the shore,
pulling to the opposite side. For some rea.
son he got up to 60 TO the stern, and in
doing 20 the boat keeled over to one side
and he was thrown out. He was seen to
rise to the snrface, but the boat was beyond
his reach. He made some frantic efforts to
swim, and a man on the levee who saw the
accident ran up the bank to get another
skifi, to 20 to his assistance, but says he did
not see him again. The man was drowned
1t is not known where he came from, or
where he lived.


ANU We nave vet W uLOtICI -CaDe
OF drowning, which occurred yesterday af.
ternoon about half-past l o'clock. A party
OF eight youths went down to Oferman's
Island yesterday morning in a skiff, to
spend the day picnicing, ETC., taking theii
dinner with them. At the hour above
stated, some three or four of them proposed
taking a swim, and no sooner said than
they put into execution. One of the young
men in the crowd, named Joe Koe, who Wa
employed in LeClaire's broom factory, on
Main street, between Third and Fourth,
not being able to swim, waded in and allow.
ed himself to be pulled along through the
water-he holding the stern of the skif.
After a while be asked those in the skiff to
row in to shore, as he wanted to wade lit
tie by himself. They did SO, and pulled
away again. While young Roy was wading
along in the water up to his waist he was
seen 10 suddenly sink, and rise again,
and make some efforts to swim. At this
tine his companions were at distance Of
some fifteen or twenty yards from him, and
before they could get to him and
render him any assistance, he sank
to rise no more. 1t appears that
while walking along the shore, he came
to the edge of one of these treacherous
ledges lining the shore Of the Island, and
stepped of into water perhaps ten or fif.
teen feet deep. Not being able to swim,
and being terrible scared by the realization
of his danger, he swallowed too much wa
ter and was drowned very readily. His
companions procured seine and dragged
the river up and down for some distance
in the vicinity all the afternoon, and did
not succeed in finding the body. Young
Roy's friends live in Illinois somewhere
but whrt point is not known.-Duucapm1
Democrat, 12M
Year: 1875

About 9 o'clock this morning the
reorganized Diamond State base bali
club went to Chester in large stage,
for the purpose Of playing game with
the BrandJwinc club Of that town
There Is good material in the new
club, and they expect to make a cre-
ditable showing.


The Quiokstep5 went to Gloucester,
at noon today where they will play
their return game this afternoon with
the Camden Cregars.


Referring to the last Active Qaick-
step game the Philadelphia Eeen.ng
Ciroric!e says


Till the eighth inning the Quick K step
were undoubtedly playing the best
game, and one that will win all the
time. hitting Lovett's swift twisters
freely and heavily, while the other
side were doing nothing at all with
Lafferty, and could they but have
maintained their equilibrium a short
time longer would clearly have de.
monStrsted the TACT that they are the
best club of the two being much hea.
vier battcrs and more careful f1elders.
The play of Geary at first was subcrb,
as w1a also Fisher and Stidham.
Year: 1875

ARRESTED FOR RAPE.-At Kirkwoo,l
in this county, on Tuesday a mulatto
named Pierce enticed young colored
girl from her home and after walking
with her to an unfrequented place
forced her To the ground and commit
ted an outrage upon her person. The
girl says she struggled with Pierce but
without avail. Her assaulter fed i'm
mediately and the girl went to her
home from whence pursuit was made
but the negro succeeded In escaping
for the time. He was afterwards cap
tured in Pcncader HID, and taken
to New Castle and locked up. Pierce
maintains that he did not commit an
assault but that the girl, who Is about
eleven years of age assented to his de-
mands. The girl was very badly
abused and has since been confined 10
her bed from the effects. The girls
mother makes the charge. Pierce il
about % years Of age.
Year: 1875

He who every morning plans the trans


actions of the day and follows out that


plan carries a thread which will guide


him through the most busy life; the Or
derly arrangement of his time is like a


ray of light which darts itself through


all his affairs. But where no plan is laid
where the disposal OF time is surren-
dered merely to the chance of incidents


all things lie huddled in one chaos,


which admits neither distribution nor re-
view.


The first requisite for introducing Or


der in the management of time is to be


impressed with just sense of its value.


Let US consider well how much depends
upon it and how fast il flies away The


bulk of men are in nothing more ca
PRECIOUS, and when they think of it as the
measure of their continuance on earth
they highly prize it, and with the great


est anxiety seek to lengtheu it out, but
when they review it in separate parcels
they appear to hold it in contempt and


squander it with inconsiderate profusion,


al the same time complaining that life
is short"


Among those who are so carelessSof


time we cannot expect to find order much


observed in its distribution; and, by such
fatal neglect, how many materi1e for Sc


we're and lasting regret are they laying up
in store for themselves! The time which
Is suffered to pass away in the midst of
Year: 1875

THE correspondent of the Cincinnati
Commercial writes from London: "The
mystery of Psyche has been discovered
You may remember that Psyche is the
wonderful automaton exhibited by Mask
elyne, the conjurer, which for long
time has been puzZling the brain of
scientific men by its accurate playing of
whist. That Psyche was in some way
connected with and guided by human
brain was, for long time, certain, but
as it was completely isolated on the top
of simple glass cylinder, and no pos
sible connection with anyone behind the
curtain conceivable, it grew to be our
greatest mystery. The great men of the
Royal Society went to examine il, but
were all beaten. But finally young
American-W. II. Coffin-son of DR.. G..
W. Coffin, celebrated American dentist
in London-after five visits hit upon the
secret, Maskelyne himself being unable
to submit his figure TO the test proposed.
The solution is that Psyche is worked
by the condensation and diminution of
the column of air ia the glass cylinder
on the top of which he sits. Beneath the
carpet at the bottom of this cylinder is
perforated plate of zinc, connected
with the operator behind the scenes,
who, at his will, may increase or decrease
the column of air, the figure moving one
way or another in accordance with the
pressure put upon it. The conjurerw was
at first disposed to deny the explanation,
but Coffin told the audience that it could
easily be tested by Maskelyne allowing
him to put a newspaper between the
figure and the cylinder. This the con-
jurer declined, and then followed great
applause when it became recognized
that Psyche as mystery was at last
dead, or at least had fairly reached his
Coffin
Year: 1875




AN ACT to provide against extraordinary cOnfla-
grations, and for the creation of safety funds
BY fire insurance companies.


The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as fol-
lows:


SECTION /. Thereafter [hereafierl ii shall be
lawful for any fire insurance company organized
under the laws of this State to create the funds
herein provided for, to be known and designated
as the quarterly fguArantyl surplus fund and the
special reserve fund.- and 10 avail itself OF the pro-
visions of this act. upon complying with the re-
quirements thereof.


SEC. 3 Any fire engine company desiring TO
create such funds shall. and Is hereby authorized
to do so, upon the adoption of resolution by
its Board Of Directors. At q regular meeting
thereof, and fling with the Secretary Of State q
copy thereof declaring the desire and intention
OF such company to create such funds and TO do
business under the provisions Of this act; and as
soon after the fling Of such copy OF the resolution
convenient the Secretary OF State shall make,
or cause to be made, an examination OF sueh COM
pany. and he shall make certificate OF the result
thereof, which shall particularly set forth the
amount Of surplus funds held by such company
At the date Of such examination. which under the
provisions Of this act are TO. and may be equally
divided between and be set apart TO. constitute
said guaranty eurpins and special reserve funds
which certificate shall be recorded in the insur-