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Year: 1870




FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE FUNDING BILL.-The
Finance Committee of the Senate has agreed to its
funding bill The bill provides for three classes OF
bonds-one class at forty years and cent, one
class at thirty years and four and half per cent and
one at twenty years and five per cent, each class
amounting to four hundred millions and redeemabe
after years. and the principal and interest on the
whole amount to be payable in coin This is not in
accordance with Secretary Boutwes original recon-
mendaton but, after long discussion, he and the
committee have agreed upon this measure which, in
its chief features will be supported by all the members
of the committee, with perhaps exception Another
provision of the bill is that the national bank law shall
be so amended as adopt the basis of circulation to
the new bonds There is no compulsory feature in the
bill as exchange, such there was in the Treas
urers report last winter but banks not willing to go
on with business under these provisions allowed to
withdraw and surrender their circulation This bill is
carefully drawn and guarded, and is looked upon by
the committee as better than anything of the kind
heretofore presented.
Year: 1870

MANY beneficial uses have been
found for carbolic acid. and naturalisis
now find that by washing out with II
the inside of birds which they have
NOT immediate time to skin and stun,
the birds may he kept week or more
i'm a sound and flexible condition.
During the prevalence of the Kline
,,cst. carbolic acid was largely used as
4 disinfectant, and farmers have dis
covered that "iicksm which lniest
sheen and lambs can be killed 10y dip--
ping tho animals in bath of the acid
diluted with water. Great care should
be observed no. to make the solution
too strong, as there j. danger that the
animals might be killed OF along with
the tick.
Year: 1870

One cut shows the Bedstead as it appears with the crib or single bedstead not in use; the other represents the Bedstead with the as- tachment drawn out. It can be entirely separat- ed from the bedstead and rolled about at
Year: 1870

pleasure. By lifting the foot of the crib. the legs drop down through hollow posts, and are fasten, with the bedstead. The same process with the the head. The head and foot boards are folded down oyer the mattress when not in use. The Crib can contain the bed made up for use when

 when closed in Each bedstead can have 6 single
Year: 1870

The slight damage to the Western Union
Telegraph lines by the storm of yesterday was
not sufficient to prevent the transmission of all
the business offering, as was evidenced by the
vast amount of important news furnished THE
EVENING TELEGRAPH. of yesterday, and in the
morning papers supplied by the New York As
sociated Press The Western Union have this
morning fourteen wires in excellent working
condition between this city and New York.
Year: 1870

The market opened to-day little more active,
though the condition still favors borrowers. The
complaint is quite general about the difficulty of
placing capital at paying interest not, only at
the banks but among money dealers generally.


Many lenders find it necessary to advance on
real estate rather than keep their funds idle.
For long time this species of investment has
become very unpopular. for various reasons, but
money is beginning once more to find its way
into these once popular channels, which would
not be the case were the supply and demand
more evenly balanced.


PHILADELPHIA STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
RenOrted by De Haven Il Bro. No 20 S. Third street
Year: 1870

of the case will soon render it plain
whether these parents intrusted their
children to Mrs. Oliver in good faith


If they did, they, will, of course, come
forward to claim them now that their cruel
treatment is made known. II they remain
silent, il must be concluded that all they
desire was their children's disappearance
and that so long as this is secured they
are Indifferent whether their little ones
are found dead under railway arches, or
are handed over to the tender nursery of
a work.house. 1t must be said, in truth,
that the miserable creatures-still young
who are charged with this inhuman
trade are not the only persons who deserve
the reprobation it will evoke. 1t must
also be visited on the parents who to re.
lieve their own selfish instincts, deliber.
ately paid for the disappearance of their
infants, and, we must add, on those who,
by inserting such advertisements, abe
this traffic in infanticide. 1t should be
distinctly observed that no such traffic
could be Systematically conducted without
the aid furnished by the newspapers which
admit Objectionable advertisements into
their columns and if the honor Of pro.
prietors cannot be trusted to refuse aid to
notorious villainy it will become grave
question whether such offence against
society on the part of the Press cannot
be restrained by law.
Year: 1870

FAiLINGs AND COMFORTS OF EIGurY.-
| have got very deaf. What blessing !
There is such lot of silly talk cannot
hear--such scandals, etc.


My eyes are failing. How fortunate.
| do not see tithe of the folly and wick.
edness that is going on around me | am
blind to faults that would provoke me to
censure.


have lost my teeth, and my voice is
not very audible. Well, l find it is no
use babbling to folks who won't listen
so have my breath for better purposes.
| don't show my teeth where can bite.
| venture on no tough meat.


My taste is not so discriminating as of
yore, and the good is that l am the more
easily satisfied, don't keep finding fault,
am contented and thankful. A nice palate
is plague have got rid Of.


My joints are rather stiff. Well, if
they were ever so supple, ! do not want
to 60 and see sights, hear concerts, make
speeches, nor carOuse at fessts.


am not so strong as was; but for
what do need to be stout? am not
going to wrestle or fight with anybody.
My morals are greatly improved.


My brain is not so clear clear as in my
younger days, and all the better, for l
am neither so hot-headed, nor opiniona.
ted. | forget thousand injuries
Year: 1870

A STORY OF A NosE.-The fol.
lowing remarkable anecdOte is go
ing the rounds of the western press:


"There resides in st. Joseph q
certain deacon whose nasal organ
is of unusually large dimensions
and bold curve. A few days ago
said deacon fell and pretty consid-
erably damaged the cutaneous con-
nection of the prominent feature
mentioned. Passing into a drug
store, he applied some plaster to
the wound. On the following
Sunday, while engaged in the
laudabIe occupation of passing
round the hat for stamps, the plas-
Ter fell off. The balance OF the
story is told in the following words
taken from the st. Joseph Gazette
of the 2Sth inst "While an unfor-
tunate sinner was feeling for a do
nation, the deacon made a hasty
dive for a small white object on
the carpet In the aisle, which he.
imagined was. the desired plaster
and speedily placed it on the end
OF his nasal organ. He bad scarce
ly done SO, however, when, to his
astonishment, several young la
dies seated in the pew before him
crowded their handkerchiefs into
their mouths to restrain their
laughter. He only discovered the
reason Of this unexpected action on
their part when he removed the
plaster which he found, upon ex-
animation, to be the label from
a cotton spool, from which stood
prominently forth the magical
words, Warranted to hold out two
hundred yards" The nose is not
quite this length
Year: 1870

Here is a little story that came
floating all the way from Alsace


"Many peasants killed their
horses to prevent the Prussians
from taking them"


Now if the people of Alsace
are so German in their sympa-
thies and so anxious for the
reign of the House of Hohen-
zollern, why do they make a sac
rifice that a peasant would make
only under the pressure of
strong feeling. When nation
meets it's deliverer it does not
welcome him by sacrificing 4ts
property to do him injury.
Year: 1870

LifAis but feeting dream,


Care destroys the best of it;
Swift it glideth like stream
Mind you make the best of i'll
Talk not of your weary woes,


Troubles, or the rest of it;
If we have but brief repose,


Let US make the best of it,
If your friend has got heart,
There is something in him,
Cast away his darker part,
Cling TO what's divine in him.
Friendship is our best relief
Make noheartless jest of it;
It will brighten every grief.
If we make the best of it.
Happiness despises state,


"Tls no sage experiment,
Simply that the wise and great
May have Joy and merriment;
Rank is not its spell refined


Moneys not the best of it,
But calm contented mind,


That viii make the best of it.
Trusting in The power above,


Which sustains all of US
In the common bound of love,
Riddeth great and small Of US;
Whatsoever may befall--


Sorrow, or the rest of it
We shall overcome them all,


If we make the best Of it.
Year: 1870

Two San Francisco BARRIERS en-
gagged to fight a duel, agreed to
part and walk around block, and
when they got in sight of each
other, to blaze away. When they
turned the corner out of sight both
started on a run in different direc-
tions, and one has sent from Alas
ka for his winter clothes, and the
other has written to his wife from
the city of Mexico.
Year: 1870

A woman is reported to have
recently died in England from the
effects of a poison administered to
her by fly, which, after having
been upon some Of the patent fly
paper, alighted upon her nose, upon
a spot where there had been a
slight scratch, leaving an open
wound.
Year: 1870

In Detroit . few days ago, the
keeper of a stall in the market,
findlng the rain falling on the roof
drIpped through on his produce,
climbed upon the top OF the stall
with a view to regulate matters.
de found ak pocket books lying
there in the rain, each contain.
ing more or less money. 1t is
supposed they were thrown there
some time ago by a pickpocket al
the moment of his arrest in the
market.
Year: 1870

A young lady Of Richmond was
so determined on suicide that she
bit off the tube of the stomach.
pump and swallowed it when the
doctor attempted to relieve her Of
the laudanum she had taken.
Year: 1870

A smart girl in Minnesota pop
ped the question to her lover
asked the consent of bis parents,
procured marriage license, or
dered the wedding breakfast, the
carriage to convey them to the de.
pot, and had a private conversa-
ton with the parson, all on the
same day.
Year: 1870

SINGULAR.-That a e. overn-
ment like that of Prussia can
pick up its whole able-bodied
male population, and carry it off
to war in another country, and
yet fail to get a war loan at
home. Capital cares for itself
the people are nothing,
Year: 1870

A Philadelphia woman earns
her honest livelihood by faiuting
in front Of large stores and hotels,
into which she is carried, a purse
is made up for her, and she is sent
home in a hack,
Year: 1870

Silver Mines Discovered in Grnys0n County.


LOUISVILLE, March l. 1870.
Silver mines OF unparalleled richness are said to
have been discovered in Grayson county. The ore
Is found to contain a larger percentage OF silver
than any hitherto discovered. The mines are al
most inexhaustible. They will be developed In the
spring.
Year: 1870

regular meeting Of the 'Ssters OF the Stranger
was held yesterday afternoon at the Bible House
Inc reports the pest month show that the society
Is IN a very hourisnlng condition and that 1t has
ACCOMPLISHED . great deal OF good.
Year: 1870

party OF ABOUT nfty persons left this city for the
West, under the auspices OF tue Excelsior Colony OF
this city, yesterday afternoon. The destination is
Republican county Kansas, In which section the
colony has recently purchased valuable tract OF
Land,
Year: 1870

ATTACHMENT TO NEwsPAPERs.-The
strong attachment of subscribers to we'll.
conducted newspapers, IS given in the fol.
lowing paragraph in the New York .Iosr-
nal Of Commerce, is fully confirmed BY
| veteran publishers


"Stop my paper" nre words of dread to
new beginners in the business, but they
soon lose heir force, after paper has becrf
established for term Of years. So long
as paper pursues just, honorable, and
judicious course, meeting the wants Of it's
customers in all or most respects, the ties
of friendship between the subscribers and
the paper are as hard to break by any out,
side third party as the links which bind
old friends in business or social life. Oc-
casional defects and errors, if such therS
be in newspaper, are overlooked by those
who have become attached to it by its daily
perusal for years. They may, sometimes.
become dissatisfied with it on account of
something which may have slipped into its
columns, and may stop taking it; but the
absence of the familiar sheet at their home
or Office for few days becomes an insups
portable deprivation, and they hasten to
take it again, and possibly apologize for
having stopped it. This we believe to be
common experience in the history OF IN
established newspapers. No friendship Oh
earth is more constant than that connected
by the journal which makes an honest and
earnest effort to merit its continued sup
port
Year: 1870

again. Besides they might not have liked
their daughter-in.law, and wouldn't give
her up for the best estate in Maryland,
and my host knocked the ashes from his
pipe with an emphasis that left no doubt
as to his sincerity.
Year: 1870

From the Boston Journal, Dec. %.


A poor fellow named Thomas COyne sentenced to
the State Prison for life, to whose heart hope has
been for SIX years Stranger, attempted to end his
earthly existence Tuesday morning by making
desperate plunge head foremost, from the fourth
corridor In the south wing to the solid granite pave
menL, nearly 1oriy feet below. Miraculous as 1t
seems, he was IN no way injured, and literally es-
capped without brulse. small wooden stool
happened to stand on the spot where he tell, and his
body, turning In the descent W as precptated upon
it, crushing It TO spllnter3 The stool saved his llfe
for IL nc had alien upon the stone floor every bone
IN Ills body muse nave been shattered. lie was
taken up in on Unconscious condition and carried 70
the hospital, where ne soon revived and In short
Time commenced to walk about only complaining
Of slight laneness in his legs. The prisoners were
marching out IN division at the tlme--about seven
In the morning. Coyno attempted to excuse himself
by saying that he slipped or the edge OF the corri-
dor nut this ls absolute lmpossibty as there are
horizontal iron guards every two ieet on the outer
edge OF the corrdor from the floor 10 ceiling He has
been very down-spritcd for some days ana took this
desperate method TO nd himself OF ais despair. He Is
an freshman by birth and has always borne a good
character In the prison. lie sailor, and the crime
for which he received lite sentence was the murder
OF q man with whom he had some trouble and whom
he followed here IRON New York for this purpose.
lie is thirtyfOur years OF aga and has u It completed
the sixth year cf his term Having not q friend In
the world and with future almost blank 1t Is no
wonder tnat he cared nothing for life.
Year: 1870

Farming is profession, not to
say science. If any one doubts
this statement let him leave his
city home-for no one bred in the
country will doubt it-and ander-
take to cultivate even a garden of
half an acre for the summer. He
will then find that knowledge is
as essential to the right use of the
spade as the pen, and that there is
as great a difference between the
scientific farming OF Flanders,
where literally not weed is TO be
Seen, and that of many of our tar
iners, the wealth of whose soil is
as equally divided between fruits
and weeds as between the trade of
a modern commercial city and the
barter of backwoods settlement.
1t is true that agriculture has been
the last to receive the impetus of
modern science. 1t is true that
many agriculturists are content to
60 on in the ways of their fathers,
D>S"uoS SApSi iuiSntS are COSTLY.
But it is also true that they are un-
able to compete with those who
understand the use of a few new
instruments, methods and fertili-
zers: Agriculture is also becom-
ing in this country q popular re-
creation. Many a gentleman is
content to spend on his country.seat
money which he makes in the
counting room. The practical far
mer is thus able to get the. benefit
of experiments without paying for
them. This change in agriculture,
which has converted it from drudp-
cry to an art, has created a demand
for corresponding literature. @.
Fifty years ago stable agricul-
tural periodical did not exist on
the American Continent" Now
every considerable district has one.
while almost every weekly paper,
secular or religious, has it's aericul-
tural department, and it will not
be long before something Of H.
brary will be part OF the furni
ture of every well ordered farm.


Book Table Ha,perb Nagazirae.
Year: 1870

AT this moment, when prepare
tions for planting are universally
made: : and in paper which will
be in the hands Of all our planters.
we cannot omit q few words to
impress our theory of q Corn Pol
icy for the South. 1t is an old err.
ror of our planters to suppose that
when they make an immense crop
of cotton they have made so much
clear gain !; to forget that when
they are without grain they must
rob cotton Peter to pay corn Paul.
And yet this old foe puts on a new
face this year, and we hear of inn
mense preparations for cotton and
very slim ones for corn. This will
not do. f ,...a. - .- 80 ..','
Corn IS independence !-st Is
We! With heavier grain crops
this present year we could have
held back cotton, if needful--as it
would not have been--and kept
the price to any figure we pleased.
With heavier grain crops n Q 1t
year we can do the same, thus
making a smaller cotton crop
equally valuable in money. 1t
foreign buyers feel that planters
can hold, they will not wait to buy
and the demand will come. Ii.
on the other hand, they know we


must sell to buy food, foreign buy
ers will wait until necessity forces
the cotton upon the M arket.
Vaulting ambition to produce i'm.
mense crops overleaps itself; and
prices are made TO tumble by the
very means the planter uses to
enhance the money value of his
production. Hence do we say
Plant Corn l-Mo6ile Register.
Year: 1870

Our readers have frequently seen illusions
to this company in our Carondelet stree.
articles, but have probably not been iully
posted on its organic alton and objects. In
to-day's REPUBLICAN will be found the char
ter of this truly remarkable company. We
say remarkable, on account of the wonder
full advances made since the organization OF
the company, in the price OF its stock, and
in the extraordinary revolution which will
undoubtedly be effected in the matter OF
propelling street rail cars, with the success
full carrying out of the inventions upon
which it is based.


The charter in itself is nothing greatly
different from that of any other company
formed under cur State laws By national
act but when it is remembered that the
value of the shares, which article fourth
dxed at five dollars, are now held at over q
hundred, and have ruled as high as double
that value, the document gains interest and
may be laid away, as among the wonderful
evidences of the difficulties with which
genius almost always has to contend.


Two years and half ago Captain Charles
". VALLEY conceived the idea that he could,
by the compression of atmospheric air,
utilize it as a motive power for propelliDg a
light and portable engine, by the aid of
which light machinery might be run, and
horse or mule power for street cars dis
pensed with. Communicating this idea to
q number of enterprising gentlemen, after
he had patented it, they associated them
selves together with view to raising the
necessary funds for developing the inven-
ton, and series Of experiments were imme-
diately commenced. They had no idea of q
speculation in the stock, but, Of course,
expected to realize largely in case of Captain
Valleys plan proving a working success.
But, as their experiments were made from
time to time, the public gradually grew in
terested in the subject; the immense
advantages to be derived from the invention
were Canvassed freely, and demand grad
ually grew for shares. although few
or none were offered for sale.
This demand soon assumed such pro-
portions, that several Of the original
subscribers were induced to sell few of
their shares, and thus traffic in them be-
gan, which never was originally intended.
Like all great inventions, there has been
hundreds of delays and disappointments in
perfectiug it-in. reducing theory to practice,
yet though with sorely tried patience, the
stockholders have never lost confidence in
ultimate success, and we learn from good
authority are now soon to realize their most
brilliant anticipations, by proving to their
felIow-citizens they were not too enthusiastic
in claiming the invention, which is their
property, to be valuable almost beyond com.
putation. as well as to leave their names
like those of Fal.on and Mprse on the bright.
est page of this country's history. Then will
the doubling Thomases curse the folly
which took away their confidence and in
duced the sale OF shares, each Of which will
be worth kings ransom.
Year: 1870

"No the moment he touched the
ground he got up and lett the place 10
a terrible hurry. | tell you it was a
sight to he remembered TO see how
that man did run. Father happened
to be coming up The street at the time,
and he said he never saw anything TO
equal it 10 his whole life. | heard
others say that he did the fastest run
ming ever known in that part OF the
country, and that he never stopped or
looked behind until he was two miles
ont OF town. He sent me note few
days aitctward saying that the engage.
ment mus, be broken of, as be could
never look me in the face after what
had happened. lie went out West.
and | believe he is preaching out in
Illinois. But he never married. lie
was very modest, aud ! suppose he was
so badly frightened that he never dared
to trust himself near a woman again.
That, girls, is the reason ] never mar
ricd. felt very bad about it for II
long time, for he was real good man.
aud ! often thought to myself that We
should always have been happy if his
suspcnders hadn't given way
Year: 1870

The People Of our State are called to elect a
Chief Justice and six Associate Judges OF their
new Court of Appeals on the third Tuesday
Q7th) of next month May. Beside the Chief
Justice, no one is to vote for more than four OF
the Associate Judges; so that which ever party
shall be found in the minority will elect at least
two of the Associate Judges This City, more
over is to choose three additional Judges for
its Court of Common Pleas, who will be chosen
by a simple majority vote.


This election is held in pursuance OF the
vote of the People last Fall, whereby the Ju-
dietary section of our new Constitution was
adopted The Judges of our old Court OF Ap-
peals are to be kept in Office for some years as
Commissioners to try such of the many cases
which have accumulated under the old regime
as have been OF may be referred to them In
pursuance of the Judicial article in question.


The Democrats hold their State Nominating
Convention on the 27th and the Republicans
theirs on the 2Sth inst.-both at Rochester.
We fervently trust that each Convention may
nominate a good ticket, and that the seven
best men on the two tickets may be elected.
Year: 1870

We don't suppose Capt. Hall will care very
much about the passage through Congress of
the bill approprating 100000 for new North
Pole expedition, if the expenditure of tho
money is to be assigned to DR.. Hayes. And
yet we think the Senate Committee, before
taking action on the subject, has done well
to solicit the opinion of so competent and ex-
perienced an authority on Polar exploration as
Dr. Hayes. We do not suppose he would care
about undertaking an Arctic expedition HIM
self; but if Congress is determined to make an
appropriation therefor, he could assuredly give
some excellent advice as to the most profitable
way of employing it. We cannot at this time
afford any proftless expenditures, even for Po-
lar expeditions.