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Year: 1875

Saturday last the 4th) nine hundred
armed men remained in the Catholic cem-
etery of Montreal to prevent the body of


Guiford being buried there in, accordance
with the order Of the council, but con-


trary to the order off, parish priest. A
battery and infantry volunteers are to be
employed IS an escort for the corpse when
another attempt will be made to bury it
sh the Guiford lot in the cemetery.
Year: 1875

Rain fell on fourteen days and hail on
one. The amount of water reaching the
earth was eight inches and sixty.nine
hundredths Of an inch.


The days Of fair weather were equal
to seventeen: The winds came mainly
from the northwest and southeast.


The following are comparisons with
former years.:
Year: 1875

The agreement of the Railway com
bination appears to be tariff of Sc
cents per bushel on wheat and "a
cents on corn from Chicago to New
York, as soon as navigation closes.
The railroads should have a care that
they do not rouse the Changers again,
who will then have far more than
ever, the sympathy and support of the
people.
Year: 1875




Frederick W. Alexander writes the
New York Tribune from Baltimore:


l think you are somewhat mistak-
en- in attributing the defeat of the
Democrats to imitation alone. The
late election in Baltimore is consider
ed by many as Catholic victory,
and Grant has been wonderfully
strengthened. He has shown much
more sense than many other people
in his speech about the religious war.
The Catholics are ordered by their
priests now to vote the Democratic
ticket, and it is producing a remark
able reaction. I foresee that you
will have to abandon the Democrats
because even Grant is better than
Ultramontane ascendancy, and the
Democratic party is led by that infu-
ence. For one, since the Baltimore
election, 1 am Grant man, third
term or not
Year: 1875

Reason should teach us that blotchy, rough or
pimpled skin depends entirely upon an internal
cause and outward application can ever cure the
defect. VEdETINE is the great blood purifier.
Year: 1875

1t is we'll understood among the intimate
associates of Tweed, that his law expenses
were very heavy and annoyed hi m
considerably. An old acquaintance called
on him at the County Jail about the middle
Of November and found him busy with GER.
ain accounts and business matters. He
t!led up two or three cheeks in payment of
bills, and then closing the check book
abruptly, he turned around to his visitor,
ard said very Significantly: Il have drawn
my last check for the lawyers" The writer
thought lightly Of the remark at the time
but believes now that Tweed was secretly
Getting ready for his es ,ape from the jail
and his enormous council fees.
Year: 1875

eunolhing feature Of the Bar Of al! civil


lized peopleyspeak, in the following fash-


ion. Bear in mind that Mr.. Henderson


thus spoke in court room,in the presence


ofaan eminent Judge,of many United States


legal officials, of most intelligent jnry, and


under the responsibility Of his oath OF office


as lawyer, while Prosecuting Avery, an


officer Of the United States government


for beingya eompirator in the whiskey
frauds.


"What right had Babcock to 60 to Doug


lass to induce him to withdraw his agents !


Douglass was placed in his position to see


that the revenue laws of the Government


were properly enforced. What business
then, had Douglass with him ? When an


official goes into Office, he should be free


and independent of all influences except that
of law, and if he recognizes any other mas
ter, then this Government is tumbling down.


What right has the President to interfere
with Commissioner Douglass in the proper
discharge of his duties, or with Treasurer.
None and Douglass showed a lamentable
weakness of character when he listened to
Babcock's dictates He should either have
insisted that bis orders as they existed
be carried out, or should have resigned his
office = = = *|


Why did old Douglass bend the supple
hinges of the knee and permit any interfer-
ence by the President! This was Douglass
own business, and he stood responsible for
it under his official oath. He was bound to
listen to no dictation from the President, |
Babcock, or any other officer, and it was his
duty to see that that order was car
ried out, or to resign. Would that we had
officials who possessed more Of that sterner
stuff of which the Office holders Of olden
times were made. Why do they not leave
their Office when they cannot remain there
honorably. Is it to continue that because a
man holds an Office at the hands of another
he is to be bonded slave. II is little that
our nation has gained " abolition if the
black man is freed only that the white man
le placed in the ionominious chains which
are now an attendant of public office. Henry
Clay made himself immortal in the one
saying, II would rather be right than be
President It is sentiment worth all the
baube Of the day, and Of itself should ent-
lie him who uttered it to immortality But
Douglass yielded. The speaker did not be-
iieye him dishonest: but he was poor, and
was frightened by the thought that his ter
ure of office depended on his obedience, to
the behests of the higher powers"


Never in the history of the country, has
there been such charge made against a
President Of the United States. Is it 10
be wondered at, that Grant was anxious to
stop further inquiy by flank movement
upon Chicago.-or that he aimed in his
message,to soinflnence the latent fanaticism
of multitudes of our citizens, as to prevent ,
public attention from being directed to
he crooked whisky ring.
Year: 1875

It is intimntetl that in tho selection Of a
successor to Attorney-GencrM WtL1iANa tho
President will ba mainly influenced by per-
sonal considerations, his desire being to fol-
low his private predictions rather than to
consult the political interests of ssatcs or
sections, in the appointment Of Cabinet Off
GERS. This is all very well. Tho Chief Ex-
ecutive should have about him confidential
advisers that aro personally as well as politi-
cally acceptable; but it is earnestly to DO
hoped TINT individual fitness not less than
individual agreeablencss may be taken into
account in The assignment Of the Attorney
Geuornl'B portfolio.
Year: 1875

Mothers live for their children, make
self-sacrifices for them, aud manifest
their tenderness and love SO freely that
the name, Mother, is the sweetest in hu
man language. And yet sons, youthful
and aged, know but little of the anxiety,
the nights of sleepless and painful soiici-
tude which their mothers have spent
over their thou ughtless way ywardness.
These loving hearts 90 down to their
graves with those hours of secret agony
untold. As the mother watches by
night, or prays in the privacy of her
closet, she weighs well the words which
she will address to her son in order 10
lead him to manhood of honor aud
usefulness. She will not tell him all the
griefs and deadly fears which beset her
souL She warns him with trembling,
lest she say overln1ch. She tries to
charm hi:n with CHEEKY love while her
heart is bleeding No worthy and sue
cessfui man ever yet knew the breadth
an1 depth OF the great obligation Which
he is under to the mother who guided his
needless steps at the time when his char
acter for virtue and purity was so mar
rowly balanced against a course of vice
ani ignominy. Lst the dutiful son do
his utmost to smooth his mothers path


way, let him obey as implicitly as he ean
her wishes and advice. let him omit
nothing that will contribute to her peace,
rest and happiness, and yet he viii part
from her at tha tomb with his debt to
her not iIalf discharged
Year: 1875

A MASSACHUSETTS lady writes: This
morning early, as sat by my open win
dow looking down upon the busy street,
saw a woman butcher jump from her
wagon and take a piece of eorned beef
round to the side door of the residence
across the way. How neat and tidy she
looked, with dark calico dress, blue
checked apron and white over sleeves
which came to her elbow, with a brown
hat and red scarf tied carelessly about
her neck. Soon she came out, jumped
briskly into the wagon. took up the lines,
at the same time putting her foot upon
the brake, for it was down grade, ana
drove off like any other butcher.
Year: 1875

The postal system of the United States


Is unnecessarily complicated, requiring


more clerks, more officials ofevery class,


besides being needlessIy troublesome


and vexatious TO the people, who often


lind that they have unintentionally vio-


lated some of the regulations, and their


letters are detained, or. if sent, charged


additional postage. Mr. Wick, in the


current number of his Floral Guide.


suggests practical and sensible remedy


for this evil, which we heartily approve.


We quote:


We propose plan that, if adopted,


will simplify the work of the Depart
ment, and cause rejoicing in every Post


Office in the land. We believe, also, it


will make the Postal Department self
sustaining We would be quite willing
to contract to do the work for the reve-
nue.. AbOtish all class distinction IN
mail matter. Charge one or two cents
for the first ounce, and half-a- cent an
ounce for all over one ounce up to a GER
tain weight, regardless of what the pack
age may contain The Postmaster will
then only have to see that the postage
corresponds with the weight No scru-
tiny will be required-no peeping-no
complaints of unfair charges The only
exception to this rule should be papers
prepaid at the Office of publication.
This should not be granted as a favor,
for we do not believe in favoritism, but
IN purely business way. Papers are
the largest and most regular customers
of the Government, and therefore enti-
tied to special rates. With proper ar
rangements as to the size of packages,
We see no reason why the postal work
should not be made very simple for the
Postmasters, very profitable for the
Government, and beneficial to the peo-
pie. We do not claim to be wise above
measure, nor to be wiser than some of
those engaged in the postal service, but
we do claim to know little about bust
ness, and to possess a small share of that
quite uncommon article, common-sense,
and We think the application of little
of that kind of sense would sweep away
a good many of the complications that
now embarrass the postal service, and
make a batch of mysterious rulings,
that appear every month to plague our
Postmasters, altogether unnecessary.
Every business man desires to simplify
his business as much as possible, for
without simplicity there can be no uni
forniity of success. Governments are
apt to attach too much Importance to
red tape, and a government office is too
often Circumlocutioa Office, where the
great aim seems to be how not to do
things-or lrow to do them in tile most
roundabout way"
Year: 1875

| Some one who has taken the trouble


to post himself on the law governing


railroad passenger travel, says that extra
charges for failure to buy tickets are
universally sustained by the courts; but
there must be full opportunity to buy
afforded by the ticket seller. Passen-
gers must show tickets when asked for.
As to stopping OFF, there is only one de-
eiSion; which is. that passenger can
not stop off and resume his journey
without the previous assent of the COM
pany. As to the obligation of the road
to furnish a seat to passenger, decis-
ion says: ~ passenger who exhibits
his ticket need not surrender it until he
has been furnished with a seat.n A
railroad is not liable for things stolen
out OF passengers seat, there being no
previous delivery to the company's SER
wants. For the same reason the CON-
pany is not liable for baggage in the pas
senger's own care. Passengers who
neglect to look after thei rown baggage,
on arrival at their destination, cannot
recover it if it was lost without fault of
the carrier. Baggage left in station
houses fo- the passengers convenience,
after il has reached its destination,
comes under new class of rights and
duties, the baggage-mastera assuming the
position of gratuitous bailee, who only
becomes liable in cases of gross negli-
gence. The obligation of the railroad
as carrier ceases when it has delivered
the baggage TO its owner at the place of
destination, or when he has had reason
able opportunity of receiving and re-
moving it. 1t will interest sporssmen
to know that they may recover for the
value of dogs, when they intrust them
to baggage master for hire because of
their exclusion from the passenger cars.


TEE energy with which the building
of the Columbus & Toledo Railroad is
being carried forward is refreshing these
times. The working force on the road
during the month was over Gne thousand
men and over three hundred teams.
The road will be in operation before
many months, and viii prove an import
ant one to the interests of Toledo. This
is emphatieally the time to build rail-
roads cheaply, and it is earnestly hoped
that measures of a progressive nature
will be adopted by the Directors of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad at their
annual meeting to be held in Leesville
the coming gwinter.-SandtsSky Register.


N.


y YOUTH was rushing around the cor
ner, saying, ''All 1 want in this world is
to lay my hands on him" He presently
came upon boy Weighing about ten
pounds more than himself, and rushing
at him, he exclaimed, Ibid you lick my
brother Benz" Eyes, / did" said the
boy, dropping his bundle and splitting
on his hands "Well," continued the
other lad, backing slowly away, che
needs a liekin' once week to teach him
to be civil
Year: 1875

Chicago, Dec. 3l.-A Washington
special says that prominent conser-
vative, now in Washington, who is
known to have the confidence of the
Democrats of Louisiana, says: The
Democratic leaders are opposed to any
revolutionary movement for any pur-
pose. They all encouraged the bluff
game against the returning board, in
the hope of securing the return of a
majority of the House, but the threats
were made without any intention of
executing them. The Democratic Lead
ers will not encourage revolution for
two reasons: First. Because they be-
lieve that n revolutionary movement
would prejudice them before the Con-
gressional committee. 2nd. Because
the movement might result in the
establishment Of n military govern
ment. They would have been willing
to accept a majority of five for or
against them They believe they can
control by bribery and flattery a suffi-
cient number Of negro votes to give
them a preliminary organization of
the House Under these circumstances
they will not attempt tn install mem
bers by force, but by attempting to
prevent the arrival OF colored RepubIi-
can members from the parishes, and
by other means will endeavor to ar
range it so that sufficient number OF
colored representatives from the coun-
try will be absent when the House is
organized, to secure control of the
organization of the House to the
Democrats They will refuse to make
appropriations for mileage per diem or
expenses to the officers OF the Kellogg
State government. and will thus seek
TO cripple it. They will also attempt
to get control OF two-thirds of the
Senate, and then impeach both Kel-
Iogg and Antoine. Failing to get the
necessary two-thirds in the Senate,
the Democrats on the last day of the
session will prefer articles OF imPeach-
ssssss9t simultaneously against Kellogg
and &ntoine, and suspend them from
Office The Democratic Speaker
would then become Governor until
the Legislature could act on the case.
The session OF the legislature, by the
constitution, is limited to sixty days.
and no extra session could be called
except by the Acting Governor, who
would lie the Democratic Speaker,
and Of course would not call one.
Year: 1875

ViDita, Indian Territory, Jan l.
The people here are greatly excited


over the reported approach OF DO
armed adherents OF John Ross He is
said to be within twelve miles OF this
place proposing to capture it. All the
women and children in the town were
last night placed on the railroad train,
and were ready to pull out If an attack
was made. Nearly all the whites have
left the town. Chouteau, n station
south OF here, is deserted, and the
Cherokees residing on Grand River
are coming in in droves- An advance
guar'l is about starting to meet the
enemy, who are now reported to num-
Ter only about one hundred --
Year: 1875

Meantime, the Acting Governor woOld
have means to make all the appoint
meHts which the constitution and
laws give to the Governor, and he
would be able to disintegrate the Re
publican party by the distribution Of
the numerous valuable Offices.
Year: 1875

He left a load of anthracite
In front of poor woman's door,
When the deep snow, frozen and white,
Wrapped street and square, mountai
and moor.


That was his deed;


He did it we'll;


What was his creed?"
cannot tell.
Blessed sin his basket and his store"
In sitting down and rising up;
When more he got, he gave the more,
Withholding not the crust and cup.


He took the lead


In each good task


What was his creed?"


/ did not ask
His charity was like the snow,
Soft, white and silent in it's fall;
Not like the noisy winds that blow
From shivering trees the leaves; pail


For flowers and weed,


Dropping below.


"What was his creed?"


The poor may know.
lie had great faith in loaves of bread
For hungry people young and old,
And hope inspired, kind words he said
To those he sheltered from the cold;


For we must feed


AS swell as pray.


What was his creed?"


cannot say.
In words he did not put his trust;
His faith in words he never writ:
He loved to share his cup and crust
With all mankind who needed it.


In time of need


A friend was he


What was his creed?"


He told not me-
He put his trust in heaven, and he
Worked well with hand and head;
And what he gave in charity
Sweetened his sleep and daily bread.


Let us take heed,


For life is brief.


what was his creed?"


"What his belief?"
Year: 1875

~ ANoSSN Aohy opOh ouSih. IL WdS sui
eide to attempt to seize one of them; but
as the woman with some purpose in her
mind, sang out to the men to come back
and get the last dipper-full of liquor
which she had mixed, l seized upon the
only alternative. l sprang lightly into
the wagon, lifted the coffin-lid, and again
crawled into the long, narrow prison.


There was no choice The flood of the
moonlight had swept so far toward my
hiding place that only part of my body
was concealed by the barrel, and l knew
that discovery was inevitable, for the
mans horse stood in such a position that
to recover the reins he must have trodden
upon me, and there was no earthly thing
as far as the eye could reach over the
plain, behind which man could hide.
All, but what if man should re-adjust
his freight? Can you think how my
Heart pumped awaw at the thought? You
wonder what my plan could be? 1 had
none other than the hope of having one
man to deal with, if he went on his way
as he calculated. The three rufians were
mounted, and ali were about to start
when the woman ran out with some sort
of blanket, and muttered something
about covering the coffin. The man yell
ed out to her to mind her own business
and let the thing alone.


She retreated with the cloth, but she
had accomplished her purpose. In its
folds she had concealed a bowie knife
under its cover she had raised the lid and
dropped the weapon inside, risking giving
me cut as it fell upon me; but in the
momentary noise and confusion had got
the weapon in my hand and raised the
heavy lid Of the rough box the fraction of
an inch, so that breathing was easy if my
position was cramped.


The three horsemen spread out, re-
marking to each other: "Beat up the
game now speedily before, by any miracle,
he gets into the wooded belt by Bufords 8
Springs"


They continued to halloo at each other
Year: 1875

are true to ourselves and the plaines


teachings of the past and the present. AL
ready it is plainly discernable that they
are aroused to the dangers threatening on
every side, and the very possibility thai
those who lately sought to destroy the
government are to control its politics anG
administrations, is leading the best and
most discreet men of, not the Republican
party alone, but of all parties to inquire
whittier we are tending, and what they
shall do to strengthen our columns and
give us still the control of the government
Each day each act of the opposition, eacf
word declarative of their plans and pur
poses, all but serve to intensity this feel
ing and crystalline in acts this resolve
Let both sides be well understood W,
have done and are doing-all that the op
position have done and Enthusiastically pro
pose to do-all the spirit actuating them
and the danger has passed. The people
are right-will judge correctly and the
result no one who reads well the signs Of
the times can possibly mistake.


But have written more than l intend
ed. l trust shall be prdoned for say
ing SO much. I feel the dangers plainly
surrounding us, and could not say less.
must, however, desist, for the pressing
work of these closing days of the session
imperatively demands my attention. ]
trust our labors here for the present ma,
soon be brought to close, and that may
get back to Iowa-the place l love best
feel the need of rest. / feel that I ow,
it to my family to be with them moro thar
has been possible, in view of my oficia
engagements, for the last twenty years.
feel that official life here is beset with un
told perplexities, with but little to lea,
any one to struggle to keep in it. I fee
the absolute necessity, too, of SO directing
my energies as to savealittle money for m,
family, duty which / may say to you,
have thus far, to a great extent neglected
This, four years experience satisfies me,
cannot do from my present salary. fee
Year: 1875

They tried to scare man in Missouri
by threatening to tar and feather him, but
he replied: "Come ON with your old tar;
I've been there six times, and I've got
receipt for washing it off"
Year: 1875

Taking up the men whom Tammany has re-
iccted il q game in which our city Republicans
have more experience than success. A good
many of them must still have vivid recol-
lections of the figure they cut, solid, respecta-
bic merchants or professional men, eager
for reform, and marching up to the polls
with tickets for "Jimmy' O'Brien, to secure
il. Most of them have lived to be heartily
ashamed of that performance, and thoroughly
disgusted with the shifty leaders whose low
cunning and lack of conscience led them to
think the trick might win.


Recorder Hackett is much abler Tammany
man than Jimmy" O'Brien ever was; but he
also retained his relations to the Ring much
longer. Tammany has renominated the other
Judges, who are universally recognized as good
men; but has refused to renominate him, on
the distinct declaration that he was too much
compromised with the Ring to he safe
Judge. 1t nOminatcs, instead, good man who
had no relations to the Ring. Thereupon the
Republicans instantly take up the rejected
candidate, raise the cry that he Is re-
iected because he has done his duty as
Judge, and boast that, by gaming
the disaffected Democrats, they can elect him.
We do mt believe they can and we do not see
what they gain if they do. The people OF
New. York are not eager for Judges whose
personal or official relations to the Ring
were too close; aud they regard the matter
as so serious that even suspicion OF Ring
relationship is sufficient to make them prefer
somebody else. The Republican nomination
is the work of small politicians who
thought it smart, and, like most tricks
of the kind. it is too smart
to misead Recorder Hackett does not carry
victory with him to the Republican ranks.


The District-AttOrney's Office is the pivot
of this Falls contest. 1t is on this the
Custom-hOuse means to concentrate its
energies, and it is because it thought
Recorder Hackett would help Phelps
that the Recorder was nominated. Mr. Phelps
is able and popular; his Office is of prime
political importance, and the Custom-house
will make desperate fight for it. They hope
for the opposition Democratic nomna-
ton, and probably also for that OF
tho Liberal Republicans, whose city organi-
cation is still pretty effective. To elect Phelps
they will sacrifice anything else. AT present
they are carried away with the idea that
Hackett and Phelps make winning card; but
they would drop Hackett in moment If they
thought another combination more favorable
| to Phelps.