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Year: 1871




From party residing at Ben Bow,
We learned yesterday that the parties
to the wedding that occurred in that
town a few days since, an account Of
which was published yesterday, are in
sad pradicament. The bride was en-
gagged to young man in that vicinity,
and was to have been, and expected to
be married to him in May. The BRIDE
groom was, as stated, betrothcd to an
other lady, and the nuptials were to
have been celebrated in a few weeks.
The banter which led to the unexpected
wedding was made at party at which
were the bride that should have been
of the bridegroom, and the bridegroom
to be of the bride, thinking at the
time that it was a good joke. Con-
stefnation prevails among the four
most interested, who do not at present
see their way out Of a disagreeable en-
barrassment. The married couple
have not as yet treated the marriage as
a reality, and are waiting at their res
pective homes until some way shall be
found to release them from their diff
Guilty. The marriage was regular and
legal, and so far there appears to be no
help for the parties, who are sorely
distressed.
Year: 1871

The Masons of the State Of New
Jersey are at present taking some &C
ton with a view to afflliation with the
colored Masons, and 1t is probable
that the Grand Lodge Of that State
will be the first to receive colored Ma.
sons upon the plane Of common broth.
erhOod.
Year: 1871

Children, you probably think that If
you look very sharply ut an old shoe
when you throw 1t away, you will know
it again if ever 1t comes back to you.-
But that doesen't at all follow. One Of
these days you may button your dress
with ali old pair Of slippers, comb your
hair with boot, or grasp cast of gal
ter in your hand while you eat your
dinner. .-t ~,#


You don't see how this can be? Well,
We'll tell you: ....s. -. "


Old shoes are turned to account by
manufacturer in the following manner:
They are cut into very rmaIl pieces, and
kept for q couple Of days in chloride of
sulphur. The effect OF this 10 to make
the leather hard aud brittle. Next the
material is washed with water and dried.
When thoroughly dry it Is ground to
powder and mixed with some substance
like glue or gum, that causes 1t to ad-
here together. 1t is then ressed into
moulds and shaped into buttons, combs,
knife handles, &c. So you see how 1t
may come to pass that you will comb
your hair with boot and fasten your
dress with slipper.
Year: 1871

A RECORD FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAM.


BER.


It was the custom Of Mr.. Lincoln, dur.
ing the latter years of the Rebellion, to
hear petitions at certain hours of the
day from all who chose to present them
to him-the formality of an introduc-
ton from some member Of Congress be-
ing the condition on which they enter
ed the Executive Chamber.


The writer Of this article pleaded for
the discharge from military service of a
brother who had entered the army at
fifteen years of age. The petition was
granted, and the President kindly asked
if he could do any more for her. She
asked if she might be present at some OF
these public interviews, and write notes
of them for publication. He answered
that she could do so.


OF many hundred petitions she has Sc.
lected few only, and has endeavored
to present a faithful record of what she
actually saw and heard on the occasions
described.
Year: 1871

The Thoroushfnrcs Of the Metropolis with q
New Approximation by the Board Of
Health.


GOthamites who are blessed with the possession OF
marble structures on the avenues, and whose chief
occupation is to pass life agreeably, will no doubt
be concerned at the announcement that the Board OF
Health have at length taken action on the subject Of
the


CLEANING OF THE STREETS.


But to the average New YORKER and business popu.
ation the news is more than interesting The fright
fully filthy condition OF the back Streets in face OF
terrible epidemic, with every prospect Of an un-
usually oppressive summer, has caused an unpar-
aleed degree OF uneasiness the public apprehen.
sion. The large quantity or snow which has fallen
during this


EXTREMELY SEVERE WINTER,
which is just passing away, has lain ON the ground
until it become hardened and covered with garbage
ana dirt OF every description from the OvercrOwded
dwellings, IN the marrow streets.


The Board OF Health have mapped out the city in
Glasses. beginning with those districts In the worst
condiuen, and they have forwarded Q document 10
Mayor Hall, as chairman Of the Street Cleaning
Mr. John L. Brown, the street cleaning contractor,
who has promised to,


ENFORCE THE SUGGESTIONS
OF the Board OF Health. It Is confidently expected
That at least In weeks time the city will be in
more ceanly condition than 1t has for months past
and VIII be thoroughly prepared to meet the ap.
preaching season without any dread on the parE OF
the authorities that the streets Will be In any way
instrumental in Affecting the health OF the people.
Year: 1871

There was fhe usual monthly meeting Of the
Grant Union Republican Committee last evening,
hut no business OF Importance was transacted.
There was also q meeting or the Executive Com
mitteo. A thorough reorganization OF the party
WAS urged, but no definite resolutions were adopted.
Year: 1871

One of the satisfactory features of the
recent election in New Yerk city is the
overwhelming defeat of three political
judges. Jones and Spencer lost their
election for judges of the Superior Court
by about twenty thousand majority. But
the Tammany candidate for the Supreme
Court, Judge Ledwith, has been beaten
by forty-four thousand majority. He has
occupied the bench for several terms, and
is man of undoubted ability; but he
lacked the firmness to disregard political
influence, and has lost his place by the
very means employed by him to secure it.
If all the constituents of political Judges
would be thus watchful, and be ever
ready to apply the corrective to the
abuses which from time to time creep
into the elective system, it would 90 far
to restore it to the traditional purity its
charter attained under the appointing
power. And as We shall be called upon
next year to elect successors to our own
district judges, it will be we'll for US to
bear in mind the example of New York
citv
Year: 1871

The New York Commercial Adrertise,
publishes little paragraph that would
do credit to any of our domestic Ku-Klux
organs:


New Orleans very kindly offers to relieve
Chicago in the hour Of woe by doing her
business. She advises Chicago merchants
to ship their cereals down the Mississippi


The New Orleans Picay,tne answers by
vaunting our charity to Chicago, and by
throwing in the face of those we have
helped the fact that they never helped US,
which is good way to neutralize the no.
bility Of our generosity.


The best answer to the spitefulness of
the Commercial Adre,tiser is this, that the
transportation Of grain from the West to
New Orleans is business transaction,
and that New Orleans proposes now, as
she has done fo- years, to do it cheaper
than the Northern railroads can, and that
sentiment has nothing whatever to do
with such a transaction as this. If
Chicago finds it to her interest to ship
cereals down the Mississippi she ought
to do so at once as the best alienation of
the great affliction which has befallen
her. And when we offer to do this carry
ing trade in her interest, and for the ben
eft of the farmers that support her, New
York has nothing to gain by being spite
full on the subject. The greater the
commerce between the West and South,
the broader and deeper will grow the
love of the people for the whole country.
Year: 1871

The London Times has a special set of
pigeon holes that contain we'll written
obituaries of all the public men in the
world. The convenience of this is that
SO soon as distinguished individual dies
the Times is ready with his mortuary no.
tice. The New Orleans Times carries the
convenience further than its London
namesake, for it evidently has pigeon
hole for the obituaries of political parties,
since it publishsd an elaborate mortuary
notice of the death of the Bourbon
Democracy, even while the telegraph was
reporting the dissolution of the subject of
its melancholy remembrances. So many
parties have died in the United States
this system is advisable in all we'll regu-
lated printing Offices.
Year: 1871

After paying the REPUBLICAN a hand


some compliment for its sense and patriot


ism in indorsing Horatio Seymour as a


good and worthy candidate for the New


York Legislature, the New Orleans Price


Current clouds its very amiable proposition


with remark that was not called for, and


which was not true. 1t says that We are


not always just and reasonable, but that


We are given sometimes to the utterance


of suggestions that, "like a baleful


shadow, darkens our social surface, and


reflect US abroad in the darkest hues."


This saying Of the Price Current is not
wise, for this reason, that the suggestions
which we make are founded upon what
We consider to be the truth, and ere pub
lished. not for the purpose of darkening
the social surface, but for the better pur-
pose of polishing it. Evils exist in every
community, and the duty of the press is
to point them out and ask for their cor.
rection. Intelligent citizens look at So
ciety from different stand points, and de-
fects which appear to one do not appear
to others at the same time or of the same
magnitude. Our focus scans one side of
the commercial, social and political hori-
zon while that of the Price Current oh.
serves another. The evils that manifest
themselves to US, fail of detection by
our neighbor, but that does not
destroy them. And it is just as much
our duty to declaim against the defects
that appear to us as it is his duty to de-
nounce those that are patent to him.
And it is far worse to remain silent than
it is to speak out, for if we fail to an.
nounce the disease it will overthrow us.
while if We declare against it the world
will say these people know their trouble
md will surely proceed to remedy it. |
While the frauds which are now well nm.
1erstood in New York were being inyesti-
gated certain timid parties said that it
would injure the city to declare how ruin
'usly she had been misgoverned. Does
he Price Current indorse this idea? If it
loes it can not understand the view we
axe of public duty.
Year: 1871

'moesacy eene So1sudys9 t1eD-
selves there. is no use in swapping one
set Of men TOT. aaother, since thosS that
propose to come in only desire to plunder
on q more extended scale than those
they seek to deprive of Office. As a
matter of course the connection of the
Bee, and perhaps that Of the Bulletin,
will cease with the Democracy. They
may be considered the allies of reform
hereafter, whatever that may be. The


Times will claim to be the expositor of
the new crusade, which will breed trouble
no doubt, for we doubt if it can COM
mand that genuine confidence which is
necessary in the leader of great reform
movement. A
Year: 1871

We devote large portion of our space
this morning to the speeches of President
l. N. Marks, representing the Fire De-
partment, and Governor Warmoth in
response, upon the absorbing subject of
the fire contract. The fremen will be
glad to observe that the Governor has
promised to support their cause, and aid
them to the extent of his influence in OBJ
tanning renewal Of their contract.
Year: 1871

With a candor that is refreshing, both
the Bee and Bulletin admit that the defeat
of the Democracy in New York was
deserved on account of the corruption of
the leaders of that party. The Bee goes
further, and admits that the people are
SO thoroughly dist,ustful of the De-
Year: 1871

The plan for the consolidation of the
internal revenue collection districts, con-
templated for some time, will not be carried
out the present fiscal year, except in one
or two districts where the work Of the COL
lectors has fallen off under the amended
law so as to absolutely necessitate q reduc.
fiOn of the force
Year: 1871

The St. Louis girls were SO badly fright
'ened by the experience of one of their num-
Der who dislocated her neck while resisting
kiss, that now they hold their lips in the
softest and most comfortable position when
ever they see a man anywhere near.
Year: 1871

A story is told Of lecture before the
agricultural college students at Amherst,
on grape culture, in which the lecturer
presented a bottle of wine made from his
own grapes, and requested the class to sip
it to test its quality. The bottle only lasted
to the third man..
Year: 1871

A worthy woman in Iowa drove the reaper
through the harvest for he r husband, and
then closed her labors by taking rake in
the shape Of one Of the farm hands. with
whom che departed to fresh fields and pas
fures new
Year: 1871

Some time since Commissioner Baker had
his attention called to remarkable order
given by Secretary Harlan, when Secretary
of the Interior, the effect of which was to
place large number of Cherokee Indians
on the pension rolls. Upon investigation he
became satisfied that nearly all these were
improperly granted, and he has suspended
payment on three hundred and two. The
matter is now under Investigation.
Year: 1871

The anniversary party Of the Washington
Hook and Ladder Company No. l will take
place at the truck house, Algiers, to-mor
row evening. We are indebted to the
managers for complimentary ticket.
Year: 1871

sat alone with my conscience,


In a place where time had ceased,
And we talked of my former living


In land where the time increased.
And feel I should have to answer


The question it put to me,
And lace the answer and question


Throughout an eternity.
The ghosts of forgotten actions


Came floating before my sight,
And things that thought were dead thing
We're alive with terrible might.
And the vision of my past life


Was an awful thing to face
Along with my conscience sitting


In that solmenly silent place
And thought of far away warning


Of q sorrow that was to be mine,
In land that then was the future,


But is the present time.
And thought of my former thinking


Of the judgment day to be,
But sitting alone with my conscience


Seemed judgment enough for me.
And wondered if there was q future


To this land beyond the grave;
But no one gave me answer,


And no one came to save.
Then felt that the future was present,
anu Jno pieSenI HOulu u6VeT 90 Dyt
For it was but the thought of my past life
Grown into eternity.
Then awoke from my timely dreaming
And the vision past away,
And knew the far away warning


Was warning of yesterday
And pray that may not forget it,
In this land beyond the grave,
That may not cry in the future


Aud no one come to save.
And so have learned lesson


Which 1 ought to have known before,
And which, though learned it dreaming,
hope to forget no more.
So sit alone with my conscience
In the place where the years increase,
And try to remember the future
In the land where time shall cease
And know at the future Judgment,
How dreadful so e'er it be,
That to sit alone with my conscience
VIII be judgment enough for melon
on Spectator.
Year: 1871

A man of seventy years, living
near Newport, Ind, quarreled with
his wife, and, taking down his shot
Gun. announced that he would COM
nit suicide forthwith. He went in
to the yard, lay down on the ground
Ehere he could be seen from a front
window, fired the gun off in the air,
and remained motionless for an hour
during which time he slyly watched
the door and window for the appear
ance ofhis grief stricken wife. 'But
he was sadly mistaken" says the
old gentleman's home paper. ''They
did not come out to see whether he
had blown the top of his head off or
not. This was more than the old
man could stand; he rose up, went
into the house, and made things hot
for the old woman and children for
while. He'd show them whether
they wouldn't come out when he had
killed himself"
Year: 1871

Of skill against strength. He; the
man of brute force, attempted to en-
trap me, the man of science-and he
was caught in his own trap. Fill
your glass and let us drink to the
great scientific movement which has
made Europe the first quarter of the
world, and Germany the first coun-
try in Europe.


| filed my glass, though I did not
drink; but made some excuse, and
gladly left the house.
Year: 1871

Sleepless people-and they are many in
America-should court the sun. The very
worst soporific is laudanum, and the very
best, sunshine. Therefore, it is very plain
that poor sleepers should pass as many
hours as possible in sunshine, aud as few as
possible in the shade, Many women are
martyrs, and yet they do not know it. They
shut the sunshine out Of their houses and
their hearts, they wear wells, they carry par
asols, they do all possible things to keep off
the subtlest and yet most potent influence
which is intended to give them strength,
beauty and cheerfulness. Is it not time
to change all this. and so get color and
roses in our pale cheeks, strength i'll our
weak backs and courage in our timid souls.
The women of America are pale and dell
cate, they may be blooming and strong ana
the sunlight will be a potent aid in this
trans formation.
Year: 1871

1t IS beyond doubt that cleanliness has
much TO do with the flavor of pork. The
filthy state it which many fattening hogs
are kept has tendency not only to give Il
rank lastc to the meat, but to render II
positively unwholesome. very common
mode OF penning hogs at this season is in
rail pen, without protection from the
weather. The consequence is that such
pens are not fit to keep a living animal in;
wet and filthy, cold and uncomfortable as
they are, hogs will not take on fat, and
great proportion Of the food is wasted
While they are kept in them, while the filth,
a considerable amount of which the hogs
will consume, must be detrimental to their
health, and to the health of those who eat
their flesh. 1t is not only safer but more
economical to give fattening animals good
shelter and dry beds and litter, and keep
them quite clean. The labor w,ll be well
repaid.
Year: 1871

Last week, near Southport, Indiana, far
mer was decapitated by moving machine on
his premises. At the time of the accident the
man was examining some portion of the ma
chine which had got out of gear, when the
horses attached suddenly started, causing the
blades to revolve, one of them striking the man
on the back of the neck, severing the head
from the body as though guillotined. A youth
full son OF the deceased witnessed the terrible
accident, and, dumb with terror, grasped the
head by the hair and ran with it into his moth
er 8 Dresenca
Year: 1871

AN INCIDENT OF THE WAR.-A correspou-
dent Of the Norfolk Narginian, writing from
Coyner Springs relates the following interest
Ing incident of our late war. The writer says:


II remember little incident of the Con-
federacy which occurred here in 1861, and it
may not be improper to relate it here At the
commencement of the war, when every one was
excited, and the spirit of rebellion manifestiug
itself In the spirit Of every Southern man, the
proprietor of the Springs was ready to hoist the
secession flag upon the hotel A crowd of
spectators had gathered to witness the unfurl-
ling of the Southern banner Everything was
quiet save the blood in the veins of those pre-
sent. as the trap door on the top of the build
ing flew up, and the colors of secession were
raised to the top of the flagstaff All were
eager to give rousing cheer, but there was
no breeze and the flag hung motionless by the
pole. Nothing was said for few moments,
when little Arthur, the son of Mr. IA, the
proprietor, recollecting what he had been
taught to do when in distress, raised his hands
and said ''wait minute" and started off by
himself Some of US watched the boy until
we saw him go under an old pair of steps and
kneel down where he thought none could see
him, where We saw him praying. We stopped
and returned. In few minutes he came run
ming up to the crowd, and pointing to the flag
exclaimed, ''look out now" and strange as it
may seem to some, almost at that very moment
breeze sprang up, and the beautiful flag of
the Confederacy foated gracefully in the wind.
and the little fellows faith in the teachings of
his mother that God would answer prayer re-
maiued unshaken.
Year: 1871

The Conservative Party of Virginia needs


waking up. 1t is profoundly asleep. The


camp presents scene of confusion. The arms
and accoutrements are lying loosely about. No
sentlnels are on duty. 1t is just that presenta-
tlon which invites a surprise.


'It Is little over three months when a new
legislature IS to be elected-one upon which
VIII deVolve the election of the entire county
J9uicIary OF the State. Failure on the part of
conservatives In the Fall election will entail
upon US RADICAL JUDGE In every county in
the State. We all know the immense mower
welded by the County Judges. We cannot
imagine graver calamity than for this power
to be welded by the Scalawags and the Garnet
oaggers. This Legislature will also In all prob
aoiiy, apportlon the State for Congressional
representation.


we must prepare to secure this body by the
most thorough organization The party must
be restored to the vitality and energy which it
drew 10 1867 from the grand Convention which
met on the llth of December, in that year, in
this City. We have had no Convention of the
Conservative party now for more than two
years. 1t IS time to recur to first principles
1t is time to draw again from the pure wells of
popular opinion.


Within the last year set of disorganizers.
under the name Of Independent Candidates.
have demorazed our party and unless thew
are checked, they will destroy it altogether
we want Convention to deal with these peo-
ple.. We want Convention to perfect an Or
ganizatlon with the energy and the discipline
oi the Jesults-Whose orders no man will dare
TO disregard unless he is prepared to hoist the
black Tag. New rigor and new vigor have got
to be introduced into the party on this subject.
Rich. Enquirer.
Year: 1871

and has in it no truth. On the morning of his
death he left the house as usual and went to
his office. Soon after DR.. Hitchcock called to
see him, and was told by me that he was at his
Office He went to his Office, and 10 attempt
ing to open the door, found something heavy
against it, and pushing it open, found that the
obstruction was the dead body of Colonel Fair


He had been shot through the head with pis-
tol ball, and the world said he had committed
suicide. Dr. Hitchcock came Immediately to
our house and informed me of his death. Col
onel Phelps left Colonel Fair but a few min
utes before his death in Dr. Murphy's office,
near the corner OF Montgomery and Washing;
myself the same morning of his death that
Colonel Fair had left letter with him, IL
which he stated that his wife and family hac
nothing whatever to do in causing his death


DIR. Murphy was requested afterward to pro


duce the letter, as the papers we're accusing
me of the cause of his DEATH This reques


was made at different times, and have begget
Year: 1871

| make the following statement, with proof
attached in support of the same, with the view
to correct certain false and wicked reports that
have been circulated by designing persons
against me, and which, for the sake of nv
fatheress and, perhaps, soon to be motherless,
child, [ feel it a duty to make. I have