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Year: 1872

He went further Baez, the other
party to the arrangement, being in dan


ger of being driven from power
which would have spoiled the scheme
Gen. Grant concluded that his friend
Baez must be sustained at any price.
The method was simple. He ordered
the Navy of the United States to bella
Dor with shot and she'll anybody who
might attact Baez, even if it be that
usurpcr's own subjects. The war ships
of the United States were virtually
placed at the disposal ofa foreign poten
tate. But could he order acts of war
without the authority of Congress !
Did lie not know that the Constitution
vests tho war making power in Con>
gress? Perhaps he did not know.
At any rate he did not care. lie
considered it his business. The Senate
by solemn vote rejected the treaty OF
annexation. The President in his mes
sage, told the Senate that this was a
great folly, aud kept the war,ships at
the disposal of Baez, with instructions
to shoota and slaughter as occasion might
require. When. it at last appeared
that there was absolutely no hope fo'
the project, It's opponents being sup
ported by the whole American people
he temporarily abandoned it., undoubt'
edly to take it up again if be should b'
re-elected. And now wo see thu
Constitution violated a precedent Sc


which, if taken as rule of constitution


al construction, will place the peace o


the Republic at tho mercy of one man
whims and ambition; the Presidential
dignity dragged into the dust; tn
Year: 1872




from these frightful charges which,
perhaps, some connection or knowl-
edge other has enabled you to make-I
must tell you that, TO the end Of your
DAYS, for your conduct in making these
charges as a psrt of your defense, you
viii probably be an object Of contempt
to ali thinkirig men. Z have nothing
naore to saw to- you, except TO caution
YOU against imagining that these unfOr-
funate people--the husband loaded with
distress and shame owing to some weak
ness of his. wife, which might have been
shielded from him, and the woman
shrinking from the painful necessity of
attending this aOuFt--can q be Hbeled
with fnpunity. Let me warn you not
to repeat the trightful tyranny which,
from some knowledge you may have
had, you have tried to exercise upon
thern.D This language, in its just and
generous Indignation, reflects with eff
cial force the feeling of the public mind.
1t IS hard to say whether the defendants
conduct was more inhuman, bitter and
monstrous on the hypothesis that his
story was false or that it was true Be
the facts, however, what they may, pity
must mingle with condemnation in the
case of Lady TWiss and of her unhappy
husband; while the worst infamy of a
terrible disclosure will weigh most heay-
lily upon him who has gained the merci-
less triumph.
Year: 1872

"A song for the rake and hoe,


song for the hammer and ak,
song for the booming loom,


carol for shOemakers' WAX
twas thus at the close OF the day


He sat by his door and sang;
His heart with sorrow was wrung,


While the hills OF Chappaqua rang
win Gratz Brown Withdrawn" asks tho Hartford
Year: 1872

01v0 0oev1eo 0e1bg0-0ax1 0cAnrx


From the New York Times.


The President and Cabinet have
adopted tho recommendations OF Mr..
G w. Curtis's Civil Service Com
mission without reservation, and or
dered them TO 60 into effect on the
first Of next month. This is prob
ably about tho very last thing in the
world which Senator Schurx expected
or desired. While the Commission
was sitting, Schurs went about the
members Of it, saying that they
might as we'll put their work in the
fire, for the President was certain to
suppress il. We ask the public to
bear in mind, in common fairness,
that Schurz and his "soreheads''
have never interested themselves in
this Commission in any way except
to discourage It. The administrator
called the Commission into existence
it only received the report on Mon
day afternoon, and on Tuesday
morning it declared its intention Of
adopting it. The measure itself will
be . most unwelcomo one for men
like Schurz and Fenton, for it i'm.
poses fitness as the test Of office, and
takes away the power of appoint
ment for political reasons. What
Schurz and Fenton wanted was to
control patronage not to SEQ il
thus placed hopelessly beyond their
reach. They will now hate and
abuse the President worse than ever,
but the people will have . clearer in
sight into their motives and purposes
than they have hitherto had this
session.
Year: 1872

last rising river, and many of the houses on
furnace street were emptied in fear of the
powerful body of water rushing over the
dam. 1t rose so that it flowed over the road
IN front Of the Bank block, but the greatest
damage was to the grist mill owned by
Cahee Brothers. The water broke away and
washed under their blacksmith shop con-
nected with the mill, and large body OF
water ran through the mill square, Outlying
it out badly and carrying off the underpin-
ming of the shop, filling the first floor of the
mill full of water and carrying out the under
plnning of their house adjoining the mill.
Below the mill it carried out a part of the
foundation under the machine shop OF
Sumner Briggs. 1t washed the gardens and
fiat below the mill, and has covered them
with sand and mud. The damage cannot
fully be determined at present.


The suddenness and destructive force OF
the treshet has not, we think, had parallel
IN Vermont since the terrible flood IN New
Haven, near the residence of Mr.. Nash,
when the New Haven river, rising suddenly
swept away several dwellings and twenty
one persons, Of whom but seven escaped
allve.-RutIand Herald.
Year: 1872

hand in marriage, and was of course, re.
ijected. Enraged at this, he studied how


to be revenged. Profoundly skilled in


the mechanical arts, he allowed himself nc


rest until he invented the most formidable


weapon that could be imagined. This


was a key of large size, the handle Of


which was 50 constructed that it could be


turned around with little difficulty. When


turned, it disclosed a spring, which, on
pressure, launched from the other end a


needle or lancet OF such fneness that /:
entered the flesh and buried itself there


without leaving any external trace.
Tebaldo waited at the door of the church
in which the maiden whom he loved was
| about to receive the nuptial benediction.
The assassin sent the slender steel unper-
ceived into the breast Of the unsuspecting
bridegroom. The wounded man had no
suspicion Of injury, but, seized with a
sharp, sudden pain in the midst of the
ceremony, he tainted and was carried to
his own house amid the lamentations of
the bridal party. Vain was all the skill
Of the physicians, who could not divine
the cause of his strange illness, @nd in i
few days he died


Tebaldo again demanded the hand Of the
young maiden from her parents, and re-
ceived 4 second refusal they, too, perished
miserably in a few days


The alarm that these deaths which
appeared almost miraculous, excited the
utmost vigilance Of the magistrates, and
when on close examination Of the bodies,
the small instrument was found in the
gangrened flesh, terror was universal, every
one feared for hi- own life The maiden
thus cruelty orphaned had passed the first
month OF her mourning I'm convent, when
Iebaldo, hoping to bend her to his will,
entreatej to speak TO her at the gate Her
reply was most decisiye.y in the negative
Tebaldo, beside himself with rage, at
tempted to wound her through the crate
and succeeded The obscurity of the
place prevented his actions from being
observed. On her return to ncr room, the
maiden felt pain ID her breast and un-
covering it She found Il spotted with
single drop Of blood. Tae pain increased.
the surgeons who FASTENED TO her assistance
taught by the past wasted no time in con-
lecture, but, cutting deep into the wounded
part, extracted the needle before auy NOR
tai mischief had commenced. and saved
the life Of the lady Tlc State lu4uisi-
ton used every means to di-eoyc- the hand
watch dealt these in-ii.ou- and irresistible
blows The visit 0t Tebald0 TO the con
vent caused suspicion to fall heavily upon
him. His house was carefully searched.
the famous invention discovered and he
persisted on the git5et
Year: 1872

MATERIAL PROGRESS Or THE WoRLD.-
We are fond Of laughing at the antigua.
rian motions and slow progress of" the old
country but somehow in these latter days
she seems TO 20 pretty well ahead, and, as
one of our eminent countryme1 observed,
London has during the past half century,
gone on increasing with the rapidity OF a
Western township. Whilst We talk about


rapid transit the old metropolis Of
England has railways running over and
under her in every direction, and there is
no large city in the world where ingress
and egress are 20 easy. Then the postal
arrangements are almost perfect. Before
We can get the great convenience, postal
cards, they will be quite an old institution
in London, which after only few months,
followed the lead in Vienna, the original
pateutee IN this national convenience. The
rapid delivery of letters Is greatly accel-
Grated by the fact that nearly every house
IN all the respectable streets throughout
the town Is supplied with box, into
which the Postman drops q letter, and
forthwith huTries on. This plan, only
very slightly adopted here, Is an immense





department Almost every month the
authorities OF the post-ofhce and telegraph
devise some new plan for the public con-
venience. \ recent innovation is an ar
rangement BY which the sender of a
telegraph dispatch, about whose transmits
sion there is no violent hurry, can put the
requisite stamps upon it and drop it in
the nearest post-otfice box, when it will be
transmitted a. soon as the box is opened,
q proceeding which takes place nearly
every hour


The last novel Improvement, OF another
kind reported, is plan TO supply fresh
salt water TO the metropolis from Brighton,
a distance of fifty miles, 50 that when in
the heart Of London, you can jump out of
the bed into one of the waves which was
a few days before rolling in from America
The water Is to be conveyed by q series of
lifts TO the top of the Southdown hills,
whence il will gravitate through enameled
pipes to the west end of London The
supply is estimated at a million gallons a
iay-LlDDiucott's Nagzzlqe.
Year: 1872

Caesars ghost l few through it. Ny
anatomy and physiology were heated to
boiling point. This water seems like ice
1t sent the blood rushing to my hollow
head, I'm convinced l have no brains,l
and my heart came ker.fop up and went
ker-chuck down. | made up my mind thi :
was the worst Of it, and tried to be resign
ed. had been soaped and scrubbed in
the vapor room till l was scarifed. l
stood on the brink and watched my com.
panions splashing through the great
tank. One of them TO expedite her own
release, caught at my ankle away went
my soapy, slippery feet from under me,
and in [ went for a second time How
very near an end was the happy connection
between NJ. ii. b. and the St Louis Re
publican ! At the next stage of this truly
awful experience we received the shower.
[ had now become convinced that should
never see home or friends again. In a
calm despair | walked under a solid col
umn or water that nearly broke my back,
and just here | got mad. That fat attend
ant hasn't vet recovered suih ;iently TO
make a complaint, and when the thin
woman went before Judge Downing that
gentleman said it was a conspiracy that
no woman Of my size, unaided, could DO
such damage. He told the woman to 20
home and say nothing about it, for she'd
evidently been dreadfully drunk and under
taken to walk through a carpet cleaning
machine. And that's the first aud last
Russian bath | take
Year: 1872

LIcHEN on THE RoCK.-Lichen and
MOSES, how Of these? Meek creatures !;
the first mercy Of earth yelling with hush
ed softness its dintless rocks; creatures
full of pity, covering with strange and
tender honor the sacred disgrace Of ruin
laying quiet fingers on the trembling
stones, to teach them rest. No words
that | know of will say what these moss
es are. None are delicate enough. How
is one to tell of the rounded houses of
turred and beaming green-the starred
divisions of rubbed bloom, fine-flmed as if
the spirits could spin porphyry as we do
Year: 1872

The following singular tradition is re-
lated of key in collection of curiosities
preserved in the arsenal at Venice


About the year 1900 one of those dan
gerous men. in whom extraordinary talent
is only the fearful source of crime and
wickedness beyond that of ordinary men,
came to establish himself as a merchant
or trader at Venice. The stranger, whose
name was Tebaldo, became enamored of
the daughter of an ancient house, already
afianced to another He demanded her
Year: 1872

Tar MoDBL WIFE.-Rev Dr.. s. \
Willetts, in recent lecture delivered in


Brooklyn described the model wife Of
ancient times. Among other traits Of her
character to which he referred was her


industry He said


She was the model woman of that
period for this age, and for all ages to
come. Customs and costumes had chang
ed, but all the essential features of woman
ly character are as fitting now as then.
The speaker then read the description Of
her IN the Book OF Proverbs, and remark
ed that Of all that human genius had Ia


bored for centuries to embody IN marble
and canvass, or in the pages Of poetry, for
conception Of that which Is true and
beautiful and graceful in woman, we might
challenge the world to bring a picture Of
woman worthy to be compared with this
The whole picture was lighted up with
the glow of most cheerful activity. She
not only superintended the duties Of the
household, but worked with her own
hands The daughters Of modern society
might here find useful hint The idea
prevailed nowadays, to 2 great extent,
among young ladies that work Is deerad-
Ing that it belongs TO :. common people
The modern idea Of womanly beauty is an
ethereal creature, with fair features and
frail body, supported by whalebone. The
hearty, vigorous blushing face used to be
and emblem of beauty, but 1t is now the
lily, even though the liiy-white be made
accessory to such result. 1t might be
truly said of them, " They toll not neither
do they spin; yet Solomon in all his glory
was not arrayed like one Of these The
idea of domestic industry being vulgar is
one of the conceitS Of modern DAYS. !
Neither rich nor poor were exempt from |
the divine law that industry was healthful
and proper. You, ladies, to be model |
wives, should be industrious.
Year: 1872

STENCIL PLATES AND MATRmoNY The


story of the old lady who bought a dOorplate


with the name of Thomson on it is well


known, but that old lady did not utilize her
acquisition as did a fond and economical
mother in San Francisco lately. The daughter
of the aforementioned lady had indiscreetly
purchased stencil bearing the Joint initials
OF herself and young man to whom she was
about to be married, and with the b,ackest of
lndelible ink had marked her wedding linen
Herewith. But alas the young man proved
unworthy fthe eonfding trust so touehingly
displayed. Nothing daunted, however, the
mother of the betrayed one started out. and
after diligent search succeeded in finding a
young man bearing the initials of her daugh-
ter ) taithless lover. Him she straightWaY
took along, and forthwith married him to her
daughter. Thus were the yearnings of the
fair one soothed and her stencil plate utilized.
= Chicago Times.
Year: 1872

The Cleveland Leader says that a
gentleman in that city who prites
himself on his personal appearance
lately sought to remove a grease
spot from his coat-tail by the free
use of benzine, and then stood close
to the stove that the odor might evap-
crate more quickly. He was quite
correct in his theory, but unforta-
nate in practice, for he was soon
turning cartwheels through the win
dow, and there was not enough coat
toi] left to make q "weskit" for a
doll-baby. He does not ride horse
back now, and sleers on all fours
like a mule.
Year: 1872

l-any of us say to ourselves, eft
[ were in some position better fitted
to my capacities, I could become
greater and more noble /; but it is of
no use for nc to try to Go any good
here, where everything goes against
me-" It is all 1uistf ke !; for if cur
duty still holds us to the place, VIC
shall surely find that the faithful,
cheerful performance Of it noy and
here, will be the best fitting We can
possibly have for that other end
greater work when God shall think
best to put it within our reach.


This humlrnm round Of duties,
the same from day to day, Of house
hold cares, OF teaching, buying and
selling, writing, Or exchanging the
everlasting dollar, seems a very mar
row life to us sometimes, and wo are
too apt to think as before that thore
can be no chance FOR doing anything
great or seryieeable to others while
engaged in them.


But isI it not by being faithful in
the minor daily events Of life thu.
we gain strength and wisdom for the
greater ?-and indeed these things
arc not SO little as they seem. We
must begin at the 1eginnlng ; with
ourselves not only for our children :;
and with them also in the begin
ming, while the soil is fresh and new
to receive the seed. Then will the
seed spring TIP more readily than if
planted after the soil is hardened by
many stoEms--4't1er's Home Muga-
siIec.
Year: 1872

In an article on the requirements


of the Presidency, TIE New TIorl,


.M,tton concludes as follows


The Presidency is not the proper


school in which to teach a man how


to transact business. No man who


has not acquired a knowledge Of af.


fairs before he reaches the age at


which tie Presidency is usually at


talrable is ever likely to acquire il
| afterwarl. A knowledge Of the
tricks Of electioneering lie may ac-
quire, just as any man may acquire
u knowledge Of battalion drill !; but
that familiarity with the principles
and machinery of government, and
with the vast and complex interests
OF Il great commercial society, which
a President needs. can hardly be ac-
quired in less than lifetime. 10
say this is to say that there is some
thing absurd in the plea that if a


President is honest he is all right
Ills personal honesty is comparative
ly a small matter, and it daily be-
comes smaller if his habits, pursuits
and experience do not give him all
all but iutuitiye knowledge Of the
various ways in which frauds may
be perpetrated, and do not enable
him to see at q glance what it is Il
rogue is driving at. We have got
to pass in our history at which the
most honest of Presidents, if he be
honest only, may be every day made
the pliable and unconscious tool of
knaves. Let us add, too, that no
man who is not man Of affairs and
education, can retain very long in
the Presidential chair in our time.
let him be never SO honest, a very
hearty horrcr OF l;navery. The
means by which kn:very is disguised,
the dexterity Of knavcry in obscur-
ing the line at which o transaction
passes from the doubtful into the
thieving phase, are matters which
only practiced eyes can discover, and
40 man can over war stoutly and
PERSISTENT y against what he does
not see clearly, and for what he docs
not hold teuaciously. No President
will ever be real friend CT civil ser
vice reform whose resolution u Muir
ply CT a Forney has wit enough to
" sicAly DER" without doubt or hesi-
tation.
Year: 1872

Strive ever for the truth and S,
reckon as that not thou art mortal
but on1y this thy body for thou ar
not that which this outward form O.
thine shows forth, but each mans
mind, that is the real man-not the
shape which can be traced with the
finger Ctcero.
Year: 1872

tltlon in a country town
re are but two persons in
line of business, sometimes
gery sharp. A mechanic in
. village recently put out a


i will trust no more, "
n bis rival across the street
bis shop door the words,
PIE for ever" We should
Fmer had the better of it /;
pld have less work and the
ne.
Year: 1872

a semi official dispatch from Wash.
ingtou announces that General Sickes
has gone to Madrid to make his ealedic
tory and present his letters of recall
There Is no intimation that he has been
removed, and We may therefore conclude
that his Withdrawal from ambassadorial
functions l. entirely voluntary, and might
have heen postponed at least until the
incoming OF another administration. Yet
it Is some satisfaction TO get rid OF an
incompetent servant. even If he deprives
us of The pleasure of discharging him :
and the departure Of Sickles though too
long delayed, will be heartily approved
by ell thnse who have a proper regard
for the dignity aud efficiency Of our di
plomatic service
Year: 1872

as candidate for re,eleiion, aud srid
that as soon Us he could meet his oPpo
uents shey would make out joint lis,
Of appointments, aud canvass the Dis
trict as early as possible


I, regard to a District convention lie
left that with the praty. If the party
thought convention or primary election
necessary or best, he would of course
submit, lie pledged himself to abide
the viii of the party in ibis regard.
Year: 1872

HERE is brilliant editorial from the
San Francisco Chronicle. All the Pres.
idents papers say pretty much the same
thing Grant is going to Long Branch
again to spend the summer. Now pre-
pare for Liberal Democratic howl OF
indignation. Why don't he face he hot.
sitting atmosphere OF Washington du
ring the deg days as he did the rebel
armies. while the peace patriots go to
Long Branch p
Year: 1872

HEvnY Wilson. the Radical candidate
for Vice President. was, in 1850. one OF
the leading Know Nothiug'' IN all the
land. while Greeley. the Liberal candi
date for President, was fighting that
heresay with the vim and ardor of a large
hearted Americao, who was willing to
make raom for the whole world to be
come AmericaDized. 1t will not be diff
cult TO Judge how any foreign born cit
lieu Of this country will vote between
them.
Year: 1872

Tue Hon. Will. b. Maeben, of Lyon
county. Is being called upon through the
papers to become candidate for Con
gress IN this District lie declares his
willingness TO accept the Democralie
nomination for the position but will not
enter into any political scramble or
canvass for it. 10 these days and times
men have to scramble more or less for
Year: 1872

me. l come embarrassed to stand in
the place of an abler man whom you
expected to have on your ticket, and a
stranger to you, but can only repeat
my request.


Do not turn your back on Grant now,
we must get back into the old camp
ground of 1868 and under Grant, our
leader tonight, we will get there next
November.


This campaign is just opening in
Steubenville. l have been through
your country; there is some work to be
done but with an effort we will roll up
a handsome majority for Grant and
Wilson.


THE CLOSE.


At the conclusion of Capt. Danford's
speech three rousing cheers were given,
another song given by the Glee Club,
and the procession moved up Third
street, returning down Fourth, when
they dispersed.
Year: 1872

Should my views be
overruled and General
Grant nominated | hold
his election infinitely
preferable to that of
ANY CANDIDATE whom the
Democrats may nomin~
ate, for a Democratic
triumph involves a re,
turn to power of the
great mass of those who
for years plotted the
disruption of our Union
and at length forced
the Southern States into
secession and rebellion
contrary to the wishes
and the Judgment Of a
decided majority of
their people, Tribune.
5quauAt7S 1871.