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Year: 1873

The Mankato Revies0 in support Of
the effort to make G. K. Davis the
Democratic candidate says:


There is not a particle of sympathy
between him and the majority Of the
recognized leaders of the radical party
who would vote for almost any Demo.
cratic in control of the State govern.
ment and with it the NOSE important.
to them position Of U. 8. Senator.


Our idea is, by giving Mr.. Davis
tho unanimous support of al PARTIES, to
place him in position independent Of
these men and thereby assist him in
ave.throwing and destroying their in.
fuence tor evil in the future. If he
is forced to make fight against the
Democracy and Liberal Republicans,
who should be his allies, his ability to
do good will te mater ally circum-
scribed, if not entirely overcome,
for Of necessity he is placed in the pow.
er Of men who hate, and will seek the
first favorable opportunity to destroy
him. We believe that this isan 90.
casion when those protesting . sincere
regard for the public good, should rise
above mere party prejudices and 40.
complish reforms in our government
affairs by the only practical means open
to them. We may tight till doom's day
if We reject such opportunities - this
and the longer We fight, the farther We
shall be from realising our professions.
Year: 1873

At q late examination of civil SER
vice candidates a question was put to
them as to the meaning Of hypothesis. I"
One candidate answered that he didn't
remember of ever hearing the word
before, but it sounded to him ''aa
though it meant the twist which the
head of the department puts on his
subordinates when wants them to
come down for election expenses"
Year: 1873

A New York writer on fashion says;
The number Of our prematurely gray
young women in the streets, dressed in
the hight Of fashion, and stylish, attracts
attention. The hair is not powdered or
frosted. but is really gray. One would
hardly credit the fact, but fact il is,
that q chemical process is resorted to, to
bleach the hair white. The reign of the
blonde is over, and the old term tow
head passes from r0om TO room. Golden
locks are at a discount. Raven tresses
are vulgar, aud snowy hair is the style.
The highest priced wigs are gray, and
not black or auburn. Such is the tyr
amy of fashion, that young girls with
black and auburn hair are crazy to have
bleached head. r.
Year: 1873

SHIPPING The wharve are almost
full OF ocean craft, awaiting their car.
goes Of grain. Those which we're at an.
chor In the stream have hauled along
side, and are preparing for trip across
the oceans. The vessels now in port
will carry away a large portion OF the
grain now on storage in our several
warehouses.-N Neacs.
Year: 1873

q Professor White will give an elo.
cutlonary entertainment at tho Brown
Church oh Saturday evening. Mr.
White has received the highest praise
from the newspapers wherever he ha
been, and. when he was here before
proved that he deserved that praise.
Go and hear him.
Year: 1873

HALIFAX, n. s., Dec. 3.-Another
quantity of goods has been recovered from
the Atlantic wreck and brought to this city.
Previous to the late gale, one of the divers
operating on the wreck, saw, under the
gangway, the body of a man, evidently an
officer of the ship, woman and a little
girl. The diver intended sending them up,
but when he went down the next time, al
ter the storm, several tons of iron had faller
on the bodies. Operations on the wreck
will be suspended during the winter.
Year: 1873

The Ohio State Dental Association met
in this city to-day. The day was spent in
reading papers and discussion of what are
the benefits to be derived from a proper
care of deciduous teeth, and how much is
the success of filling teeth due to mere ma
nipulation.
Year: 1873

A Masonic Lodge of Sorrow was held at
the Opera House tonight, in memory OF
the members of the fraternity who died ot
yellow fever.


Weather sultry; heavy rain and thunder
storm this evening.
Year: 1873

OFFICIAL MURDERs.-A few Gays ago an old
man who was intoxicated was arrested in Phila.
delphia and pushed into a cell where he was rel
upon and his throat cut. The officers paid no
attention to his cries. We have referred TO the
case already. The New York Express, also calls
attention to the horrors of Philadelphia city
prisons. II says:


Again our Philadelphia exchanges record the
occurrence Of muTderous assault in a station
house. The custcm of locking up several drunken
men in the same cell is much to be deprecated,
and this probably fatal occurrence should lead to
a reform in this respect, Drunken persons,
when returning TO sobriety, are almost always
quarrelsome, and they should not be afforded ON
opportunity OF quarreling With any but them
selves. An immense amount Of money has been
spent upon the Quaker City station houses, and
If there is not sufficient accommodation to war
rant the introduction Of this reform, there ought
to be, and II certainly might be made at compare
lively little cost by dividing up large cells"
Year: 1873

The great United States is shouting over the
glorious triumph of its arms in the capture Of
Captain Jack, the Modoc Chief The poor wretch
had been deserted by his hest warriors, half
Starved, and completely run down; or perhaps
he would have revelled in his bloody work several
months longer. The credit Of his capture is
scarcely due the army The Warm Spring In
dams seem 10 have effected the work by follow
ng the trail of the wiley savage. In the cap
ture, however we fear an elephant has fallen on
the hands OF Gen. Davis. The chief ought to be
hung or shot for the murder OF Candy and
Thomas and the murder of numerous settlers
ought to be aloned for. No doubt the Com
mander will hesitate 10 have these Indians shot.
But the safety OF the settlers demand that a
warning be given the tribes, and they be made to
know that in taking up the tomahawk against
the whites they will call down on themselves all
the punishments that precede determination.
Year: 1873

Delaware is Just now excitiaS no little atten.
ton IN eonse lOence OF its whipping laws. The
Bohsmians from New York were PRESENT in large
/ numbers to witness the last exhibition, and have
given vivid pictures cf the hOnibls scene We
have seen the lash applied several times both lin
the army and prisons. That IL is a disgusting and
heart rendinR punishment, we defy any right
minded person to deny.


The howls, shrieks and groans of the unfortu-
nate Wretches still ring in after lapse OF
nearly ten years. We can, in fancy, coniure up
the whole bloody operation. The look of unut-
terable shame or concentrated deadly hate as the
bleeding, limping mass of disgraced humanity is
led or carried from the post The fainting specta-
tors the brutal jests, tho false sympathy all these
these are windy impressed on our memory and
cannot ever die out


And yet it is a matter of history that in Europe
there were but two offences punishable by this
lnhuman modo of torture, unless statistics lie.
Vile beating and garToting became OF such fire.
quent occurrence that Great Britain was shamed
at the national disgrace. All modes of punish
Dent were tried and apparently without avail,
until the House of Commons passed a law render
ing those offences punishable with the lash. In
less than three months there n sensible dim
mutton Of these cowardly offences, and in twelve
months at twelve different assizes, only three
cases were tried. But the question still arises.
Did cnme In the aggregate decreased The gar
roter might have turned his hand TO somE other
nefauous calling, and the wife -beater might have
discovered that there was thousand ways by
which woman's spirit could be crushed aud her
heart broken without resorting TO the horse-whp


There is the cold sneering lip, the harsh word,
the neglect of home and children, the habit OF
constant intoxication and a hundred equally
deadly acts, by which home is converted into a
social He'll These are all outside Of legal juris-
dicton, and yet, they deserve even a more severe
punishment than the man who in a moment of
uncomfortable anger strikes his wife. A nice sense
Of honor, the cultivation of christian forbearance
and above all a proper attention to domestic
duties, will do more TO render wife-beating a
hated thing Of the past than all the thongs that
were ever laid on.
Year: 1873

the story Of their mutual heroism dies out or the
result Of their daring ceases to affect mankind.
Shame upon this fraud which ca itself the
'Grand Armyl" 1t is a SANDER on the name Of
soldier It rs humbug and lie, and Its organ
isation ie selhsh and corrupt Welcome the day
when only the heorism Of our common brothers
win be remembered, and when North and South
We can initiate nature by our common graves, and
kneel with chaplets by the mounds of men who
dared TO do their duty
Year: 1873

1t is estimated that sixteen thousand chinese
have landed in San Francisco since January first.
The people Of that city have become alarmed, and
seriously considering the question o: prohlbl-
ting their further importation 1t is said they
are of the lowest class OF the Chinese population
aud cannot be restrained from every species Of
crime.
Year: 1873

The Charter Makers at Albany would do
well to have care. Mr.. Joseph II. ChOate
spOke Yesterday for the precise classes whose
votes overthrew the Ring, and whose votes,
still fighting everything that bore even the
name of Tammany. defeated Lawrence
and gave the Republican party its
great triumph in this Democratic city. 1t
will not do to defy these classes by passing
Charter whose obvious purpose is to make
merely partisan rather than Reform gains.
Doubtless there is the power to do it, but it
is a luxury too expensive to be INDUCED with
impunity.


We have no special admiration for either Of
the Charter schemes proposed. Both fall
fatally short of the cardinal features of few
officers, direct responsibility to the people,
ample authority, simplicity, and freedom from
possibility of complication with State or Ma
tional politics. which we hold to be essential
points in any plan whereby we may escape
our present municipal Slough of Despond
But on the point of the Mayors authority
the Committee Of Seventy are clearly right
Nobody doubts that their opponents would
think so too, if they felt sure of the present
Mayor. Well we too would like to see a
Republican Mayor in New-YOrk. But there
is something a good deal more important; ;
and that is to have an honest Mayor, with power
enough to give us honest city government.
The way to such an end is by concentrating,
not dividing executive responsibility. The
experience of late years has made this so plain
that everybody understands it. temporary
partisan advantage may be gained by an
opposite course; but it will be an advantage
too dearly won.
Year: 1873

There is an army adage, the legacy of Benny
4" Havens, oh !" to the effect that in the army
"tbere IS sobriety-prOmOtion very Slow" The
latter part of the legend needs no evidence !;
promotion is very slow, indeed. Now that the
President has seen fit to go to civil life,
take United States Assessor and put him into
the rank of Major, the doleful ditty of COM
planning officers will be more emphatic than
ever Ia it fair to appoint Major in the Fifth
Cavalry from the ranks of those who have
been mustered out of servicef
Year: 1873

interests Of tho selfish and greedy and neg
lecting their own. A little moral courage on


the part Of the press will effect this: and
when it begins to be generally exerted, we
shall expect q better and brighter political
Year: 1873

President Grant does wisely in appointing
the chief Deputy Surveyor to the place left
vacant by Mr.. Cornell, This is genuine Civil
Service Reform, and we cordially embrace
every opportunity we see for cOmmending its
exercise
Year: 1873

Mr.. Stevenson does not seem to have made
anything of bis charges against Speaker
Blaine in relation to the Dubuque and Sioux
City Railroad. Even the name of the road
was incorrectly given and Mr.. Blaine's state
ment concerning his connection with the Iowa
Falls and Sioux City Railroad are conclusive
and satisfactory. The Company into which he
bought was never an applicant for Congress
aid; it was a legitimate concern, and the in
vestment was perfectly fair transaction. In
the tilt with Mr.. Stevenson, yesterday, the
Speaker came off with a good record and fly
ing cOlors.
Year: 1873

Deeds of violence have recently been so fire.
quent in South America that their chief claim
to interest is their novelty. Within the last
fortnight we have had to announce the death
of the President of Bolivia at the hand of
his nephew, and a conspiracy to assassinate
the President of Peru. To-day we have
the report that the insurrection in Cauca
was simply q plan of the President
of that State TO secure the election of one of
his fayorites as his successor. When we re-
fleet that Gen. Mosquera, who was the author
of this scheme, at one time rendered efficient
service in promoting the freedom of his
State, we have little encouragement " hope
Year: 1873

Rather remarkable yarn is told in Portland. Me.
Fourteen years ago an old lady in that city fall dead
from heart disease while winding up the clock The
time was ten minutes before ten in the morning
The curious point S that the clock has stopped ever
since at 10 o'clock the anniversary OF her death
This has regularly occurrcd every year for fourteon
years. 1t Is tino to have tho clock takon to pieces
aud cleaned
Year: 1873

A noble young man in Indianapolis recently deter
mined to abandon the use of tobacco. He was told
that iced drinks would diminish his hankering for
the weed. So on the first day ne drank three gal
Ions of iced water, and still feeling desire to
smoke, he added two quarts of cold buttermilk He
went to bed with the cheerful conviction that he
had conquered his craving, and he had. The next
day he did not desire to smoke at ALL for the simple
reason that he was dead. The iced water, the iced
buttermilk, the abandonment of his cigar and two
doctors who called in consultation, proved to
be too much for Che noble young man.
Year: 1873




No MORE CATARRH.-Let any person
licted with catarrh in the head take a
oall quantity Of alum, pulverize it, and
sc as snuff, and guarantee thai the
isease in its worst form will succumb
md disappear in less than three months.
I. have demonstrated in my OWL case
that this remedy is as effectual az it is
simple. For fifteen years l had labored
under the distressing effects of that dire
and to-day am perfectly free
from it. Three months have now elaps-
ed since my catarrh disappeared, and l
have therefore no hesitancy in recon-
me ding it to all who have catarrh.
Year: 1873

The Constitutional Convention of
Pennsylvania has arranged to apply Il .
limited vote to the election of Judges,
The provision reads: Whenever two
Judges are to be chose for the m
term of service. each voter shall vote for
one Judge only. and when h ee are to
be chosen he shall vote for no more
than two. and candidates highest in
votes shall be declared elected" The
provision was adopted by the convention
almost unanimously.
Year: 1873

MADE HIM PAY.-When General jack.
son was President . heartless clerk in the
Treasury Department ran up an indebted
ness to poor landlady to the amount Of
$50, and then turned her off as he did Other
creditors. She finally went to the President
with her complaint, and asked him if he
could not compel the clerk to pay the billY


"He offers his note," she said; "but his
note is good for nothing"


"Get his note and bring to me-" said the
President.


The clork gave her the note, with the
jeering request that 'she would let him
know when she got the money on itw


Taking it to the President, be wrote can.
drew Jackson" on the back oft, and told her
she would get the money at the bank.


When it became due the clerk refused "a
to pay the note, but when he learned who
was the indorser, he made haste to "raise the
wind" The next morning he found note
on his desk, saying that his services were nc
longer required by the Governmsnt-and il
served him right.
Year: 1873

A LITTEE COMPOSITION ON WhEELBAR-
Rows-The Danbury Ne,ssman says :lfyou
have occasion to use whcelbarrow leave it,
when you are through with>it, in front of
the house with the handles toward the door.
A wheel barrow is the most complicated
thing to fall over on the face of the earth.
A man would fall over one when he would
never think of falling over anything else.
He never knows when he has got through
falling over it, either; for it will taHgle his
legs and his arms, turn over with him and
rear up in front of him, and just as he
pauses in his profanity to congratulate him.
self, it takes new turn and scoops more skin
off of him, and he commences to cvolute
anew and bump himself in fresh places. A
man never ceases to fall over wheelbarrow
until it turns completely on its back, or
brings up against something it cannot upset


1t is the most inoffensive looking object there
is, but it is more dangerous than locomo-
tive, and no man is secure with ono unless
he has tight hold of its handles and is sit
ting down. on something. A wheelbarrow
has its uses, without doubt, but in its leisure
moments it IS the greatest blighting curse on
true dignity.
Year: 1873

An Atlanta wife, whose patience had been
sorely tried by the continued drunkenness
of her husband, an employee of ole of the
railroad shops, went out on her muscle last
Saturday. Before she returned she had
pounded the proprietor of whiskey shop
for selling her husband liquor, slightly pun,
nell d the foreman of the railroad shop for
paving her husband his earnings While in q
state Of into xication, returning home in tri
umph with Ter hand in the collar of her IN
toxicated lord. This is certainly more Wig
orous warfare than any of our temperance
societies have introduced, and We are moi
sure if not vastly more effectual in certain
cases.
Year: 1873

than a small goose quill, was permitted to
flow out of this tube; ; a light is placed be.


meath this jet and Immediately ignites.
Another pipe about an inch in diameter leads
from steam boiler stationed some fifteen
feet away. This pipe leads a small jet Of
steam upon the burning oil, and the moment
the steam strikes the oil the oxygen in the
water it set free and iginites with tremend-
Gus roar, generating in few moments q most
intense white heat. From this small source
the entire chamber of the furnace, which is
some two feet by five feet, is filled with a
flame so brilliant and dazzling that one can.
not gaze on it for more than moment at q
time. This flame possesses all the heat of an
oxy-hydrogen fame, and beneath ito fierce
power the hardest metals melt in fcw
moments" The inventor claims that the
cost of this fuel for furnace will not exceed


81 for twenty-four hours.
Year: 1873

A GREAT DIsCovERY-A New Fuel
A committee of citizens of San Francisco
recently made and investigation Of the pro-
pertes Of new article of fuel, discovered
and patented by California inventor. The
experiments were made in brass foundry
of fthe above city. The atlanta Californian
says:


They were shown into that portion Of the
establishment occupied by the furnaces, and
in one corner found brick furnace some
eight feet long and six feet high. On the
top of this was an iron tank holding about
ten gallons, which was filled with crude
petroleum. From this tank pipe about an
inch and half in diameter led into the side
of the furDuce. A sulall jet OF oil, not larger
Year: 1873

How PIsToL INDEFINITELY POSTPONED
A WEDDINa.-There is absolutely no safe
way to carry pistol except to carry it With.
out charge. A young man lost wife re-.
Gently by trusting to the directions of q
friend who t'ld him how he could carry a
pistol without danger. His Mary Jane re-
sided some distance from the CITY, and he
had great horror of dogs, 20 he put his re-
volver in the hip pocket Of his Sunday
clothes one evening when he started to gee
her. The prospective mother-in-law met him
at the door and told him to take the rocking
chair, and as he did so, the report of fire
arms caused the old lady to scream and fall
to the floor, while FIRE in the, rear claimed
Charles Henry's attention and consumed .
portion Of his best dosskin "smalls." The
old lady swooned, the girl ran in, forgetting
her disordered dress and hair, and followed
her mothers example The old man and
his double listed boys ran in, and seeing
mother and daughter lyiong on the floor,
went for that young man, and he went
through the window, carrying sash and glass
as he went. A big dog, aroused by the
noise, made for the fugitive, who, in his
turn, made for the city about mile half
or two miles distant, emptying his revolver
at the deg as be went. The dog was dead
for that young man in more than one sense,
for he dare not approach the house now lest
the old man may revenge the loss of the dog
on him. Had he shot only the old woman
he would have been forgiven, but the old
man says he will never forgive the murder
of his dog. If any one asks that man how
he likes Amanda Jane, he says that her
nerves are too delicate for country girl,
and betrays an anxiety to drop the subject,
but he con6ded to friend that in sitting
down the hammer of his revolver caught the
arm Of the rocker, and it was in that way
discharged, whereupon that house and his
clothes became too hot for him.


Ecanscile (lnd.) Journal.
Year: 1873

The man who was so lazy that he hired
an artist to draw his breath has found con-
genial employment in a store that does no
advertising. lie now. complains Of wsut Of
something to do.
Year: 1873

Work To BE Provided for the LIN bOrcrs.


A special meeting OF the Brooklyn Board OF
Aldermen was held last night for the purpose OF
taking some action in regard to the employment OF
some OF the laborng classes.


Alderman Wyie was called to the chair and
briefly stated the object for which they had con-
vened.


Alderman O'RILEY chairman OF the committee
appointed to confer with the Board or City Works
made verbal report saying that they could raise
sufficient funds without being compelled to issue
certificates OF Indebtedness. They could raise the
money by transferring it from one account to
another.


Alderman ROPES concurred in this report.


Alter some discussion Alderman ORlLEY offered
the foowing:-


Resolved That the Comptroller be and he Is hereby d.
rected TO transfer from moneys returned bv the Board
Commissioners of City Works fees for opening and
making sewer connecons to credit OF street repairing
heretofore received aud to be
making connections to the credit "appropra.
ton for repairs and maintenance Of sewersn


The resolution was adopted.


Alderman ROPES said -'Tmove that IL Is the sense
OF this Board that the Board OF City Works notify
proceed ar once with their work, in order to give
these men labor, and any failure TO do so, to be
reported to this Board. We liye,n said the Alder
man, 'in extraordinary times, and we have met to-
night for the purpose OF providing means OF SUBJ
slstence for these aboring men. do not know
towards assisting these poor men. They can re-
celye their bonds for their pay and even II they
have 10 sell them for ninety cents on dollar they
would then make more money than II this had
never occurred.
Year: 1873

To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


As you have taken considerable interest in
the transactions OF the Street Cleaning Bureau
we, as employees OF said bureau, would like to In
quire why we are not paid our wages for last
MONTH The misery and desttutlon IL has brought
upon many cannot be estimated. nyou can make
the ABOVE inquiry you Will confer great favor
uxQp tpe Ea1gLQYkS OF YlkE QERANIxENXa