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Year: 1875

In the Supreme Court Of the United
States, Monday, the case of'the State
Of Maryland against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company was decided
in favor Of the State. The latter claim
ed a deferred payment of 800. 900 as
due for the period between 1860 and
1870, being one-sixth Of the passenger
fares taken on the Washington and
Baltimore branch of the road. The
company refused payment on the plea
that the tax was unconstitutional. The
Supreme Court held that the passenger
tax was different from tax on inter-
State communication. which a State
could not impose. The State had a
right to impose conditions in the grant
ing Of the charter for the road, and
it fmattered not what became of the
money. which was a bonus to the State.
The State had right to impose the
condition in consideration of the fran
chiss
Year: 1875

A SUIT FOR SIXTY M1LL1oNs-Nsv
Yolk is about to be agitated by a suit
for the recovery of rich estate BY the
heirs Of the Waldron property. The
land in question embraces oil between
Eighty-aecopd and One Hundred and
Ninth streets and North and East riy-
ers. For long time it was partially
covered BY swamp. but was improved
BY the Tweed ring and sold for taxes.
The property is worth $50. 900. .000.-
Several Of the heirs reside in California.
Year: 1875

BEAUTIFUL TWIN BRIDES IN THE
West We had the pleasure to see the
newly made twin brides at the Gibson
Heuse last night, and must confess that
more perfect exempli6cation Of the
French story Of Girode- -Girofa could
hardly exist. They were at supper
with their husbands last night when we
saw them and nice little tea party the
four made. The bride. grooms are
brothers, but not twins. 1t is not often
in lifetime that one is permitted to see
two brothers marry two twin sisters.
The husbands are easily distinguished
the one from the other. The elder one
wears full whiskers while the younger
has simply a moustache The trouble
to be apprehended is in the sameness Of
the wives. and very pretty sameness
it is. To use homely but trite phrase,
they are as like as two peas. To des-
cribe both: They are Of medium size,
perfect brunettes. dress exactly alike,
and seem to be about twenty years old.
Beauty has richly endowed these fair
brides aud placed its dimpled seal ia
the che eks Of each. How in the order
Of human passion it came to pass that
either Of the husbands could fall in love
with his wife without falling in love at
the same time with her sister passes our
understanding. It has been suggested
that each Of the Morgan brothers fell
in love with both the Stewart sisters,
and. to settle the matter. put their
sweethearts in bag, shook 'em up, and
drew cuts for the one that came out first.
We suppose they know. but we don't
see how either Of them knows to which
one of the twins be is married. They
came into supper, and by judicious as
sortment were seated each at the right
hand Of her husband. When they went
out Of tho dining room ore couple was
allowed to get some distance in advance
before the other started. to prevent con-
fusion. on.-Csncinnati Enquirer.
Year: 1875

Mr.. EDITOR will you permit us
as humble citizens and peach shippers
on the Delaware Rail Road. through the
columns Of your valuable paper. to make
known to our brother shippers the man
ner in which the President and Direc-
tors of the P. w. & B. R. R. Co. pro-
pose to settle the claims of those they
taxed five dollars per car in 1869 and
1870, to meet their State Taxes Of those
years on rolling stock. The State hav-
ing abandoned the suit against said
company for tax on rolling stock, the
company then proposed to return to the
peach shippers the FIVE dollars paid on
each car for the two years above named
(1869 and 187O with interest on the
same. They have given notice that
they are now ready to settle the claims
so long withheld and how do they pro-
pose to settle +? In full with interest ?
No. they propose to deduct from the
shippers about two dollars per car to
pay the costs of their law suit with the
State. We should like very much to
know who Of the great number Of peach
shippers authorized the company, or its
President, to use our funds for the pay
ment of law suits with the State Of Del
aware? They say they have their ac-
counts made up and all We have to do
is to step forward and show our tickets
and receive about one-half, or less, than
is due us. And how are We to present
our tickets. or rather eur accounts. Of
the number of cars we are entitled to
draw back upon? They positively re-
fuse at their Office in Philadelphia, We
are told, to let you see the accounts they
have made up-as they call it-and
further. they have given positive in
to all their agents along the
line of the road, to give no information |
whatever to any shipper in regard to the
number Of cars he may have shipped.
How are we to proceed in the matter
We are left to the last resort, and We do
hope that every man interested ia the
matter will show himself as such. We
ire but an humble few of the number.
ind we say now, and here, that re are
yoing to have fair deal or none. Bluff
Ieems to bs the game. All we can do
$ to call sight; we are not able to
'aise them any higher. We have dealt
airly with the company, and if they are
disposed to visit the sins Of the Legisla-
ure on their customers Qhe fruit grow
'rs), they will find themselves with few
riends left in the State in the future.
We are glad to find that we are net alone
q the matter, and feel sure that before
be thing is brought to a close such an
'xhibit will be made as will present
bings in their proper light. That is all
hat we ask for


JOHN p. COCHRAN,


r. W. COCHRAN,


R. T. COCHRAN.
Year: 1875

OF the nomination is, however, as IN
certain rs that Of his competitors. He
comes from 3 Southern Stlte, and has
not the advantage Of years 81 assOeia-
ton IN active politics with tnOse who
control the movements Of the party
IN the North. Besides, the President
may yet step him in his Efforts to re-
form the revenue service, or the work
may he completed, 50 far as it lies liz
MS power to push it, so long before
the convention meets as to give the
pubic time to forget the courage and
perseverance shown in its prosecu-
tion. The conclusion IS that neither
OF the two candidates has clearly the
advantage, and that the Republican
party Is to be congratulated on the
probability Of its making choice be-
tween two men so well qualified to
fill the Presidential chair.
Year: 1875

In North Siam, when they go TO law
they have "a curious custom" Both
parties to the suit are put under Wa
ter, and whoever remains there long
est wins the case. With US the Gus
tom is different. Both parties being
in hot water are kept there, without
reference to the right on either side.
Year: 1875

I'm afoat, I'm afoat on the wild raging


sea,
And there aIn't any use for your looking for


me.
Some day may trouble myself to tell why
1 couldn't stay longer and bid yCu good


bye.
Deal gently with Dunham remember the


line,
It is human TO err, to forgive is divine.
convinced him by arts which I have at


command,
That bird in the bush is worth two IN the


hand.
Be kind, too, to Justiee-:hat blindfoIded


miss
Don't blame the poor girl for a trifie like
this;
She always, I think, does the best that she


can,
And amt up TO the tricks Of a clever old


man.
God bless my dear country, and cherish her


fame,
Though 1 quit her for good, yet I love her
the same
For she taught me that freedom was every


mans right,
And that's what thought when bade her
"GOod night :"


-BrOOkgyn argus.
Year: 1875

The best way &c admit OF pure air 10
tine night where windows are the only
mode Of ventilstiOnl is to open the
sleeping room into a hail where there
is an open window IN order to avoid
the draught. A window with a small
opening at top and bottom ventilates
more than one with one opening only.
Year: 1875

A man can fully appreciate the ter
rors Of winter when he awakes near
morning and finds the bed clothes on
the floor, and himself engaged in a
gigantic struggle to crawl up under
his shirt
Year: 1875

vi t'Aoh ehO <hipstuy ATpuS.l


One evening a week or two since, o
lady residing in one Of the southern wards
was returning to her home. from social
gathering at a private house, near the
hour Of midnight. She was accompanied by
a male relative who lived in the sam Q
house. As they we're about to ascend tho
steps, both glanced upward toward the
windows of the second story. and at one
OF them both show with perfectly distinct,
ness human face pressed against the
pane. The features were not kpown to
either, but presuming it to be friend
Of their neighbor las there was more than
one family in the hocse), nothing strange
was thought of it at the time. Before
retiring, but after both had barred their
feet, the lady and her companion be,
thought themselves Of some article to be
procured from the lower part Of the house,
and as its exact location was known, they
descend without light. On returning
just as the young gentleman placed his
foot upon the landing at the head of the
stairs he felt beneath it a yielding sub
stance, the shape OF which was SO clearly
defined that he exclaimed /: "Oh. aunty .
l stepped on somebody's thumbl' AT the
same instant, the lady putting down her
foot responded: Il have stepped on the
hand" No sounds of retreatiag foot,
steps were heard, and such examination
as the darkness permitted failed 70 discov,
er any human being near them On pro.
curing light, moment later, both soon
satisfied themselves that no creature of
iiesh aud blood was in the immediate
vicinity. Wondering aud trembling at
the contact With these mysteries the wit.
nesses retired to their beds.


ln the morning a simple inquiry, which
attracted no attention, elected the fact
that there had been no living person in
the house the previous night, other than
the usual members Of the family, and a
critical comparison Of the feature Of each
one with the face she had seen, a shane
impression of which was fixed in her mind.
convinced the lady that it was not that of
any one of them. 4


The most startling and mysterious of
the phenomena remains to be told, Asif
to convince them that their imagination
bad not been worked upon by any means
to create the impression we have detailed,
there appeared upon the bottom Of the
geatleman's foot the next morning, plains
ly printed in a color quite like blood.read,
the facsimile of the thumb be had felt
beneath it, and upon the foot Of the lady
was as clearly discernible the likeness of
the inside Of a human hand
Year: 1875

w once knew an industrious bow
whose parents were poor but honest. He
began life without cent. He had a wart
on bis nose and a sore foot; but nothing
daunted, he worked with determination
and will, backed by perseverance and
energy, and nobody fought bis way along,
surmounting every obstacle. Mark the
result. Last week | met him for the
tirst time in ten years, and that little bow
who began life only ten short years ago
without a cent, hasn't got darn cent
yet, 3
Year: 1875

GON. hAhDlN Of MlcSOOn1 y.
THE MILITARY INTERFERENCE IN LOUISIANA THE


MOST ALARMING SHOCK OUR REPUBLICAN IN


sTITUToNs HAVE RECEIVED.


ST. LOUIS. Jan. 12.-James II. Hardin, Governor
elect was Inaugurated at Jefferson City to-day, and
read his inaugural address to the General Assembly
in Joint session. 1t deals wholly with State mat
ters except at the close. He briefly refers to events
which occurred at New Orleans on Jan. T. and says


could trust that the events were tbs result OF mis-
taken Judgment but they have been calmly approved
by the Chief Magistrate they to be considered as un
derstoOd by him as embraced by his constitutional DOW.
ers and therefore, at his WILL may be repeated there or
elsewhere. This no one acquainted with the consti-
tutional history OF the country admit Standing
as do the threshold OF this high Office and believ-
ing that the declaration will meet with the hearty
response from my people, do now, In the OF the
state protest against the employment OF mill
tary force. except in exact accordance with the
Constitution Of the United States as construed and
understood in our national history, and further
clare that the obtron Of such forces IN Tho legislative
Year: 1875

THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE TO PREPARE A


NEW BILL, SUBSTANTIALLY THE SAME AZ GEN.


BUTIER's-A PROVISION AGAINST CARRYING


ARMS ON ELECTION DAY TO BE INCLUDED.


IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl


WAsHINGToN Jan. .12-The House Committee on
the Judiciary has ordered q subcommittee TO pre-
pare a bill providing for new election IN Louisi-
ana. which is to be submitted to the full Committee.
The BILL it is believed will be substantially the same
as that introduced by Gen. Batter last Friday. and
printedin in THE TRIBUNE to-day, with the addition Of
a provision making it Illegal TO carry arms CT any
kind near the polls.
Year: 1875

SHORT HINTS CONCERNING SICKNESS -
Don't whisper in the sick room.


When the doctor comes to see You, re-
member how many pair Of stairs lie has
to climb every day and 90 down to meet
him if You are well enough.


When you are sitting up with patient,
be sure to have something to eat, if YOU
wish TO save Yourself unnecessary exhaus-
ton.


Remember that sick people are net nee
es>;,rily idiotc or lmbecile, and that it is
not always wise to try to persuade them
that their sufferingS are imaginary. They
NAV even ut times know best what they
need


Never deceive Il dying person unless by
the doctors express orders. 1t is not only
wrong to allow anv soul to 90 into eternity
without preparation, but how can You tell
but that he has something he ought to tell
or do before he goes awayo


If YOU have u sick friend to whom you
wish to be of use, do not content yourself
with sending her flowers and Jelly. but lend
her one of your pictures to hang in place
of hers, or Il bronze to replace the one at
which she is SO tired of staring


Don't have needless conversations with
the doctor outside Of the sick-room. Moth
inc will excite and irritate nervous pa
tient sooner. If You do have such convcr-
sations. donttc the patient that the doctor
said " nothing" He won't believe you,
and he will imagine the worst possible.
In lifting the sick, do not take them by
the shoulders and drag them up on the
pillows, but get some one to help yon. Let
one stand on one side of the patient, the
other opposite. then join hands under the
shoulders and hips, and lift steadily and
promptly together. This method is easy
for those who lift and does not disturb the
one who is lifted.


Do not imagine that your duty is over
when YOU have nurSed your patient through
his illness, and he is about the house. or
perhaps going out again. Strength does
not come back in a moment, and the days
when little things worry and little efforts
exhaust, when the cares of business begin
to Dress, but the feeble brain and hand
refuse to think and execute, are the most
trying to the sick one and then comes the
need for your tendercst care, your most
unobtrusive watchfulness.-.oc
Year: 1875

How TO MAKE ECONOMICAL AND
HEALruFUL PAsTRY-The usual way of
making pies, to Use lard or butter, is ex-
pensive, and there Is so much prejudice
against using pork in any form, that many
90 not make pics. rather than use it. l
will not have lard in the house. but have
found 4 substitute as economical and many
times more healthful. 1t is beef suet- 1t
should be prepared exactly As lard Is. then
it will keep equally as well. and be ready
for use. Many think they cannot use
it, because in baking holes are made in
the pastry. This is because the suet is
used cold. 1t should be heated, and
while hot. flour stirred in until thick as
cup cake; then all the flour you intend TO
use, added, and mixed with "a spoon. (not
too thoroughly and the pastry will be
more flaky Wet with blood-warm water
salted and roll while warm. If allowed TO
cool, it stitfens too much to work easily.
Pies made in this way are handsome and
palatable. as though made with butter l
am sure that all who try this plan will feel


repaid
Year: 1875

A BEAUTIFUL OHNAMFNT.-A beautiful


ornament for the sitting room can be made
bv covering Il common glass tumbier with
moss the latter fastened in place by sewing
cotton wound around. Then glue dried
moss upon saucer. into which set the tum-


bier, filling it and the remaining space in
the saucer with loose earth from the woods.


Plant the former with variety of ferns
and the latter with wood viole,s. On the
edge of the grass also plant some of the


namclcss little evergreen vine which bears
red(scarlcD berries. and whose dark. glossy,
ivv-like foliage will trail over the fresh
blue and white of the violcts with beauti-
ful effect. Another good plan is to fill a


rather deep plate with some of the name
less but beautiful silvery and light green


and delicate pink MOSES. which are met


with in profusion in all swamps and


marshes This can be kept fresh and beau


tiful rs long rs it is not neglected to water
it profusely once day. 1t must, of conrse.


be placed in the shade, or the moss will


hlanch and die. In the centre of this a
clump of large azure violets should be


placed, adding some curious lichens and


pretty fungus growth from the banks of
forest trees, and few cones, shells and
pebbles.
Year: 1875

meaning ofthese cheers. This gives time
for the sixth division to come up, and we
shall beat him." 1t turned out as he an
ticipated- Soult naturally enough sup
posed these tremendous shouts to announce
the arrival of large reinforcements, and
did not attack until too late Had he
struck at the right moment he would have
won an easy victory; as it was, he met
with Il bloody repulse. This was strategy.
Not the strategy of books. but the strategy
of genius, conceived and executed in the
same moment. The idea was born of the
occasion. and carried out on the Instant
S. S. 4drOcdte.
Year: 1875

Go STRAIGHT ON.-Go straight on. and
don't mind enemies. If they get in your
way, walk round them, regardless of their
surrounded by enemies. used to remark,
g They are parks which. if you do not
blow will 90 out themselves" Live down
preiudices," was the Iron Dukes motto.
Let this be your feeling while endeavor-
ing to live down the scandal of those
bitter against you: If you stop to dispute.
for moro abuse Let the poor fellow talk,
there will be reaction if you do but
perform your duty; and hundreds who
were once alienated from you will flock to
you and acknowledge their error.
Year: 1875

MENT--A copy Of the report of the
Chinese post office for the year ending
Dcccmher 81 last. or the seventh wear Of
Neiii has been received at the Post Office
Department here. Ii * but seven Years
since the postal system was established in
China. bat the progress made is very
promising. and arrangements have been
made for Il large extension of the system
during the coming year OF course the
exrenditurcS are largely in excess of
receipts. \ comparison of the past year
with the one Immediately preceding it
shows an increase of expenditures of
fortv-two and siN-tenths per cent, and an
increase in the revenues of fiftysix per
cent.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER BALLOON ACCIDENT.-Mr


Youens, an English aeronaut, had mar
row escape recently. He ascended from
Doncaster at night, just before a terrific
storm broke over the district, and was
carried into the storm cloud. lie could
not rise obove it, and just as he opened the
valve to descend the balloon was struck
by lightning, a rent thirteen feet from the
bottom being made. Youens fell from a
considerable height into Sprotborough
Park, and lay insensible for nearly an
hour. He is injured, but not seriously.
This is. SO far rs known, the first instance
in which balloon has been injured by
lightning; and even now the statement
seems dubious. All aeronauts agree that
a balloon seems to have repellent effect
in regard to lightning and thunder-that
Year: 1875

FLooRs.-When floors are washed regu-
larlv. it is best to scour them with sand
and cold water only. laid on with plenty
of elbowgrea>e, as it is called, as soap and
soda have the tendency to darken the
board<. If they are only washed occas-
ionalv. some fuller's earth should be
dried, and made into Il paste with little
boiling water, then mixed with rather less
than half the quantity of silver sand This
mixture should be sprinkled on the boards.
and they should be then well scrubbed in
the direction of the grain of the wood and
afterward washed with cold water. If the
floor be spotted with grease, mix n quarter
of pound of pearl-ash with one pint OF
hot water, and scrub the floor with this
and a little fine sand.
Year: 1875

When Miss Anna Park returned from
the Holy Lind. she bro i@ht with her a
few ears of IN Egyptian variety of pop
corn About half IN ear was planted in
the garden of Ralph Goldsmith. near the
l4th day of May On the ith of August
there WAS picked from this planting. corn
fully ripe-in>de of three months from the
seed. The stalks are of reddish color.
grow to about , - feet in height and seem
to be very prolific; each stalk having two
ears of corn upon it. The size of the ears
does not vary much from that of the ordi-
nary rice pop corn. Over 100 ears of corn
wore picked by Mr. G. from his expert
mental planting of this variety this year
Year: 1875

they never seem able to get near an cleo
tr!cally charged cloud. And indeed warm
i>hed silk or cotton. of which the gas bags


are made, seem to be the last material in


the world to attract the electric fluid
Year: 1875

50 many of our readers are leaving
their homes at this time for journeys on
railways. that we give the following, which
was written by an eminent physician ::
" Called to prescribe for Mrs. Andrews
lnf1amcd eyes; learned that she had Il bit
OF clnder in her eyes; occurred while tray
cling in the cars four days ago; eye very
much inhamed, painful, and attacked with
severe headache This is one of the hun
dreds of cases where but very little knowl-
edge would not have been a dangerous
thing. and would save a world of pain.
Nothing is more distressing to a traveller
than Il piece Of cinder in the eye, and no
disorder is so easily remedied. Calling
the family together | proceeded to show
them that it was not IN eye-wash that Mrs.
Andrews needed to relieve her sufferng>,
but the removal of the foreign substance.
The cinders will be found to be Just under
meath the margin of the upper lid, where
there is 4 small groove or gutter for the
flow of tears to the inner angle of the eve.
Foreign bodies tend to fall into this groove,
and if they are very angular like cindcr,
they adhere in spite of the current oftears
which now flow in greater abundance, and
sooner or later carry off smooth substances.
Now, if you will raise the upper margin
of the lid and turn is over, the cinder or
grain of sand will be exposed, and may
be removed by the point of a pencil, or
with the finger covered by a handkerchief.
then demonstrated this operation on one
of the boys thus: Taking my pencil in my
right thumb and finger, with the thumb
and finger Of my left hand seized the
eyclashcs of the upper lid. and drawing
the lid gently out from the ball.passed the
point of the pencil downward upon the
upper surface of the lid, about the fourth
of an inch from the margin, and 1t the
same time carried the margin upward
over the pencil by the eye lasheS, when
the lid readily rolled over the pencil 50
rs to expose completely the gutter de>
cribed. l then asked one of the ladies
to perform this operation upon her moth
er. which. after two or three failures, she
accomplished, and as | had predicted.
smal angular p Gees of Gin !cr We're found
beneath the margin of the lid, which she
very adroitly removed with the point of
the pencil Mrs. Andrews experienced
Immediate relief. 50 much interest was
felt IN this painful operation, that all in
turn performed it. being much aided by
requiring the persons operated upon to
look downward when the lid is being
averted. and upward when the operator
wished to restore the lid.