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Year: 1875

General Hawley is unquestionably
correct when he says:


There will be no lasting peace OF
prosperity for the South until there
is the same security for free speech
and free ballot in Louisiana as in
Connecticut, and the mission of the
Republican party will not be done
until this is accomplished"


He could have added that the mis-
sion of the Republican party would
not be accomplished until the last
vestige of treason had disappeared,
or until there is no union to cherish
and defend,-Btoonyfetd Republican.
Year: 1875

A Missouri paper says that book
agent formerly resident OF TINS
State has recently made a public an
nouncpment that sit is customary
to hire county superintendent In
Iowa to work for the adoption OF
text books of particular houses"
The Indianola Herald makes this
comment: Is this statement in
accordance with the fact In the case ?
Has corruption also reached, ana
begun to poison the very fountain
of knowledge? Is the education oi
our children to be made the sport oil
bribery and corruption: We wai'
for further information.
Year: 1875

The civil suits pending in the New
York courts for the recovery OF funds
stolen by the Tweed Democratic
ring involve claims for total OF
over five million dollars. A rich
grab, that; and now the Democrats
are endeavoring to make it appear
that Democratic officials were the
instruments through which the steal
ing was stopped and the boss thief
punished, and hence that their party
is entitled to great credit for virtue.
But the facts do not sustain their
boast.
Year: 1875

When the Iowa legislature next
undertakes Its biennial task of tink-
ering up the school laws 1t should
enact law making 10 apenal offense,
punishable with heavy fine and bal


and chain forfive years without right
of appeal to executive clemency,"
for a county superintendent, or any
other school officer to engage i'm the
sale of any school-books, maps, or
school supplies, as agent or principal;
and the 'law should close with this
clause: "This act being deemed OF
immediate Importance shall take
effect and be in force from and after
its passage" And, by the way, 1t
might be well to make the law apply
to all persons engaged in teaching In
any Of the public schools Of the State.
1t is a grievous and expensive shame
that the textbooks in every school
district should be changed every six
or twelve months to crafty the
whims or line the pockets of some
individual teacher, director, superin-
tendent, bookseller or publisher. II
isn't fair to force man who sends a
half dozen childrep to school to buy
thirty-six new books for their outfit
in November when the school opens
and half as many more in January,
and so on throughout the year, and
year after year.
Year: 1875

A correspondent Of the New York


Mail writes: "The notice which
has appeared in some newspapers
recommending the use of paper be-
tween the blanket and counterpane
as cure for cold beds, induced my
wife to cut out sheet of brown pa
per "a sharp to fit of the neck and
shoulders, which ladies call a habit
shirt 1t was first worn just outside
the dress on one Of the coldest days
we have had this bitter winter, and
with the most complete warmth.
This garment can be made In three
minutes, at cost of less than half
penny. Let any gentleman on q
journey try the experiment of wrap
ping up his legs in newspaper, and
he will find itas warm as a rug.
Year: 1875

1t is said that Ben Butler proposes
to buy a residence in each Congress
sional District of Massachusetts, and
then he can take his choice, and if he
can't be elected in one he possibly
can in another.
Year: 1875

PArrNc roR AN Ec>TATIc KI-s.-A cor
respondent for an English paper writes
a lady of dazzling beauty sat in front of
me, and dare say each passenger felt that
We were too tightly wedged together for such
a warm day. A gentleman who had assist
ed the lady, whose beauty was bewitching,
into the carriage, squeezed himself with
difficulty down at my left side. that being
the Only available space and from certain
little attentions that passed between them |
concl uded they were husband and wife. As
we rushed onward, from the window my
eyes glanced DER the most striking features
of tie landscape, and | could not for the
soul Of me keep from taking an occasional
peep at the vision Of delight before me.
Suddenly the charming creature bent her
head toward the gentleman on my left, who
nothing 10th, bent forward to listen. Il
wish We were through that horrid tunnel
said the lady, in accents that thrilled me


like melody. After the first halt We will
reach it in 4 few minutes don't be fright
ened,' said the gentleman, 'at the tunnel,


my dear. Alter the confab both assumed
their upright position. The whistle sound
ed our speed slaekened and finally we halt
ed. y hoy no sat next 10 the gentleman
on Il " left went out, which circumstances
gave, US more room and more comfort. as We
did not feel so Jammed together, the gentle
ma having moved little further from me-


We started. and in no time entered the
tlnnell, and in the darkness of that tunnel.
whether in the body or out of the body |
ca mot tell, but this know, had blessed
time indeed. A light little hand was laid
on my shonlder; | ielt sweet, warm breath
fan my face; and, heaven and earth, in a
moment of time pair of delicious, moist,
small lips were rubbing at mine, adjusting
themselves TO that ecstatic pressure-that
intensifcation of sweetness-which lips can
feel, but tongue can never express. This
done, the little hand slid down my arm,
thrilling every nerve in my hand, May the
gentleman on my left ever remain in bliss
ful ignorance of the mistake his better half
made in the darkness Of that tunnel He
Year: 1875

Plain Tom. 1t might have been more


than Tom once, when he was babe, and


had father and mother, some one to care


for him. After they died-after he was


turned out on the wide world to fight his


way to hunger for food, to yearn for sym


pathy and kind words, his name was TON.


1t was enough for waif-a ragged, hungry


boy who receives more kicks than pennies,
and who used to sit on the post Office steps
and try to remember when anyone had


spoken kind word to him


The boy sometimes wondered and ponder


over the words sympathy" ''mercy" and
charity lie heard people use them--the
same people who cufied him about and were
content to see him in rags He thought the
words must mean something way oii-some-
thing be could not grasp then, but might ap-
proach when he had grown to mans estate.
If Tom voice had sadness and sorrow in it
As he cried ''shine - or ifi had exultatiOn
in it as he shouted morning papers - no
one in the busy throng seemed to notice or
care. lie realized that be was standing up
Sinsle-handed to battle against great world,
and sometimes when the world struck him
down the boy crept away into an alley to
sorrow and grieye that he had ever been
born.


They found bandle of rags in public
hallway yesterday morning. The old janitor
pushed at the bundle with his broom, and
muttered over its being left there by some
yagrant. The bundle did not move. Tom
was dead. One arm was thrown around his
boot-box that il might not be stolen while
he slumbered-the other rested on his breast,
fingers tightly clenched as if death had come
while the boy was resolving to carry on the
unequal battle against poverty and a cold
world to the bitter end.


There should have been sadness in the
hearts Of those who lifted up the body and
seat 1t away to be buried in Potters field,
bat there was not. They were men, to be
sure, but they could not understand how it
made any difference to the world whether it
had one waif morejor less. They couldn't
feel the heart-aches Tom had felt-his des-
peraiion-his grim despair-his bitter,
crushing, everyday sorrows. They should
have at least uncovered their heads as the
body was lifted up and said to each other,
- He was brave to fight such battle But
they did not. There would have been no
word, no eulogy, hal not another waif pass
ed by chance. lie saw the body, recognized
it, and a, he let hi- box fall to the flags that
ne might brush a tear from his eye, he



"It there be angels know that Tom'n
see en- q"


And no man shall dare to take from or add
to the simple, fearful eulogy. There will be
a shallow grave that will soon sink out Of
sight and memory, and scarce month will
pass away before even the lads name will
be forgotten by the rorld-the world which
prides itself on its charity and mercy, and
which let Tom stand up alone in his battle
for food. rament and place to rest his
Get; let him creep Of to die alone in the
-hadows Of midnight, feeling in his young
lelrt that every mans hand was against
lim because lie was waif, ragged. hun
;ering orphan.-DsroH Frce Press.
Year: 1875

A YOUTHFUL IMAGINATION VIOLENTLY
CHEcKED.-When Mrs. B. went home from
shopping yesterday she entered upon a scene
of thrilling horror being enacted in the back
yard.


In the centre Of the yard dry goods box
was in flames. and the baby was lying in
front of it squalling LASTLY from heat and
fright. Down behind the currant bushes
Year: 1875

kinton. but it was plainly accidental, and
the remorse and sorrow of the boy. him
self badly wounded, are keener than the
feelings of any one else. 1t is said that the
fatal day was the first Sunday for manv
years on which the girl Mary has remained
at home from church.
Year: 1875

yard, and they said, didn't we want to go
and buy something then Charley said he
wanted to go and buy some then the men
asked us to get in, and they would take us
to get some fire-crackers then they lifted
Charley in, and got in" Walter then
told how they drove down this street and up
that, went this way and then that way
he sitting between the two men and Charley
on the lap of one of them, with red lap
shawl over them,-till finally they stopped
at hotel and got Charley drink of water.
They then went on further and at last stop
ped at store, when the men told him to 90
in and buy some fre-crackers with some
money they gave him, and, when he came
out, the buggy, and Charley and the men
had all disappeared. Walter described the
appearance OF the two men. declared that
they were the same men he afterward saw
dead in the Brooklyn morgue, and adhered
to this firmly, despite all the efforts of the
opposing counsel to shake it on the cross
examination.


lie was followed. Wednesday afternoon,
by Mis-. Catherine Lyons, who testified to
seeing Westervelt at the house of Mosher,
alias Henderson, on Munroe street, Phila-
delphia, about the 18th of July, 1874,
fortnight after the abduction, at which time
she resided for little while on one of the
floors in the same hOuse
Year: 1875

SAD SHOOTING AccTDENr.-The details of
the case of accidental shooting of four chill
dren. at Hopkinton. Mass. on Sunday last,
are thus given by the Boston Journal


Mrs RYAN. widow lady. whose husband
died during the war. has six children, one
of them, boy named Morris. being sixteen
years old. Sunday morning he caught a
cat which ne was going to shoot and taking
the cat on one arm and a loaded gun in the
other hand. started to go down the stairs to
shoot it. Just as be began descending the
stairs a sister named Mary. fifteen years old.
who did not want hin to kill the cat caught
him by the shoulder and pulled him back.
The gun dropped from bis hand, falling on
the stairs and sliding down them, the ham
mer caught and snapped on the cap, ex
plOding the gun. The muzzle was pointing
up the stars, where the boy and his sister
were standing with two other sisters. and
the charge which was of large shoot took
deadly effect among them. The elder sister
was struck in the face and instantly killed.
her features being fearfully mangled. An
other younger sister was struck in the tenn


pie and also killed. while other shots took
effect in the leg OF the boy Morris and the
arm Of a third sister Morris was terribly
frightened. and wounded as he was. rushed
into the street. crying 81 have killed my
sister =" His cries attracted public atten-
ton to the spot. and surgical aid Was at
once summoned, but the two girls who had
been struck in the head were far beyond the
reach of help. The wounds OF the other two
were attended to and they are doing well
The affair made great sensation in Hop
Year: 1875

GOLD AND PAPER.
David A. Wells on the True Solution
Of the Financial Problem.
More Hard Experience Necessary to Pre-
pare Us for Resumption.
OUR EXCESS OF CURRENCY.
A Cremation Theory Of Open and


Direct Contraction.
Twenty-SiX Millions Of Gresnbacks Should Be


Burned Annually.
A MONEY FAMINE NOT TO BE DREADED.
Labor the Basis of the Worlds
Commercial Media.
The Law Of Supply and Demand


in Finance.
SPECIE BOARDING NOT DESIRABLE
A Coin Circulation a Military


Necessity.
Year: 1875

How common is the announcement. Thou sands are suddenly swept into eternity by this fatal malady. This disease generally has its origin in impure blood filled with irritating poisonous materials, which, circulating through the heart irritate it's delicate tissues. Though the irritation may at first be only slight, pro- ducing little palpitation or irregular action, ordull, heavy, or sharp darting pains, yet by: and-by the disease becomes firmly seated, and inflammation or hypertrophy, or thicken1ng oi the lining membrane or of the valves, is pro duced. How wise to give early attention to g case of this kind. Unnatural throbbing ol pain in the region of the heart should ad- monish one that all is not right, and if you would preserve it from further disease, you must help it to beat rightly by the use of such remedy as will remove the cause of the trouble. Use Dr. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery before the disease has become toe seated and it will, by it's great blood purifying and wonderful regulating properties, effect a perfect cure. It contains medicinal proper ties which act specially upon the tissues of the heart, bringing about a healthy action. Sold bY all frst-class druggists
Year: 1875

We invite the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Dr. Langley's Root and Herb Bitters which have for more than twenty years been so favorably known and so extensively used as Q spring and summer medi- cine Few preparations equal these hitters ill purifying and cleansing the blood of all inn purities, and thus recovering the health and correcting all diseases of the stomach and bowels. For the various complaints that are cured by this valuable medicine see the adver- tisement headed "Buy me and I'll do you good" in to-day's paper.-Com.
Year: 1875

the majority of the members holding
certificates of election, approved by the
Governor of the State, the same officer
appeared on the floor of the House, he
did not interfere, or propose to inter-
fere, with ally one holding certificate
of election, nor with the organization of
the House by the members elect, as
provided by plain and unequivocal
State law; nor with the House when
organized in the trial and settlement
of the right of any member whose title
might be contested.


Tenth-That this interposition was
only intended, and, in fact, only result
ted in enabling members who had pri-
ma facie rights to seats to organize
without outside interference.


In the face of these admitted facts it
is impossible for any honest man 10
charge the President with any attempt
at usurpation of power had he been
present and directed the commander
of these troops in person. 1t is clear,
however, that he did not, and could
not have given personal directions in
the premises. Nobody pretends that
he participated in any way except by
giving the general order to the COM
mander OF the department 10 sustain
the State authorities, and aid them
when necessary To enforce the State
laws; and the troops have, in fact, done
nothing more.


Whether the Returning Board acted
or not in the discharge of its
duty in the canvass of the returns and
in giving certificates of election was
not question for the President to de-
eide, and he has not attempted to de-
eide it. That is left for the two Hous-
es when organized, under the State
law, to decide for themselves in each
case. There is, therefore,
no foundation in fact for any honest
censure of the President; and he need
not fear but tina. the American people
will sustain him in the premises. The
clamor which the Democracy have
raised over these transactions is dis
honest in its inception, and will be re-
membered only to plague the anthors.
Year: 1875

WE referred on Monday, TO the Sc
lection of Mcdonald, i'm Indiana, as the
Democratic candidate for United States
Senator, as conclusive proof that the
Rebel element was predominant in the
Democratic party; but we have now
confirmation strong as proof of holy
writ in the simultaneous selection CT
Coekerell, as their candidate in Mis-
souri,, and Herman, in New York. Both
of these men were heart and soul with
with the Conffderacy, while it lasted.
Cockrell showed his faith by his works
by serving in the Confederate army;
and Kerran showed his by voting,
while in Congress, to give all the aid
and comfort to the enemy that he
could. Each in his own way did all
he was able to cripple and overthrow
the Government.


Cockrell has no merit but that of his
service against the Union cause. He
has never distinguished himself for tai
civ vi otdtcoinOhoiiP1 w "DAiHs VI
any kind. He fought 'gallantly,' ac-
cording TO Southern Judgment, TO
break down the best government the
world ever saw, and he is sent to the
Senate, to make laws for the Union he
struggled to overthrow, solely because
he led the Southern hosts in an. impi-
Gus and fratricidal Rebellion.


Herman has been chosen because he
is acceptable to such Southern fire-eat-
ers as Cockrell, Gordon and Toombs. He
served in the lower House Of Congress
during the war, aud his vote will be
found there side by side with those
whose sympathies were with the rebel
lious South. When it proposed to is
sue United States bonds to raise mon
ey to carry on the war, he voted to
subject them, when issued, to State
and municipal taxation, in order to
cripple the Government a. much as
possible. 1t WAS not much that he and
such as he could do, but he did his lit
tie worst, and showed on which side
his feelings were enlisted. If he had
ever, in all his public career, given one
patriotic or loyal vote, he never would
have been chosen, as he has been now,
to represent the Rebel Democracy in
the Senate.-Pitts. Commercial.
Year: 1875

The Boston Transcript takes CHEEKY
view of the business outlook. 1t says:


although the present is the dull
season of the year. we hear that in many
branches of business the outlook is far
more favorable for brisk and prosper
Gus spring trade than was thought pos
sible short time since. Merchants
are looking forward to the future with
more confidence and hope. After the
settling days of January have passed
the decks will be cleared for active
trading campaign, and with money as
plenty as it is likely to be during the
first half of this year there are good
reasons for anticipating REM lucrative
if not unusual harvest for energy and
enterprise"


In like spirit, the San Francisco
Commercial-HUrald says:


"Importers and commission mer-
chants all appear to be resting upon
their oars, awaiting patiently the long
promised better time that is to come.
That it will come we have not doubt,
the sure foundation has already been
laid in good cement, and the outlook
is certainly CHEEKY. The year 1874
upon the Pacific slope was one of gen.
eral prosperity; gains steady, few fail
ures, good crops, and fair prices real
lied. Now we have large grain sur
plus to work upon. The planting sea-
son has been eminently propitiOus, a
greater breath of land than usual has
been plowed and seeded with cereals,
and indicatiods point to a bountiful
harvest, (crOakers to the contrary, not
withstanding). The mines of gold, sill
yer, quicksilver, borax, etc., are all
yielding immensely, and scattering
the seeds of wealth with a liberal
hand, and among class of people that
have heretofore been exempt fIom
lucky strikes of this description"


The Philadelphia North American
too, is looking for new era of activi-
ty. Much as people are now disposed
to talk about matters having settled
down upon firm and solid foundation,
it thinks there is reason to believe that
the era of stagnation that is now ap-
preaching its close is likely to be fol-
lowed by one of as great and general
enterprise and activiry as that which
closed so suddenly in September, 1873.


"AmOng the elements tending to
produce such result is the superabunr
dance of capital. Bubbles have burst
everywhere. OverblOwn credit has
collapsed, but the sources of actual
wealth and capital have remained un-
impaired, and now, while the havoc
and devastation wrought by the revul-
sion lies all before us, we see clearly
that actual capital is fully as abundant
as ever; that the nation is really rich
and strong, and that, putting aside ev-
cry dollar Of foreign capital, there is
more domestic capital in the market
than can find profitable investment"
Year: 1875

The following from the "Western
Christian Advocate" has been handed
US for publication:


at is becoming quite common in
some parts Of this country to insulate
the body of sick persons, by putting a
piece of glass under each foot OF the
bedstead. This is done under the no.
tion that it keeps the electricity of the
body from escaping TO the earth. Many
persons really believe that they have
been benefited by this plan, and some
regular doctors have recommended it.
But let us examine tine facts and phil
osophy of it. We will not deny that
many persons have improved while
thus insulated; but We are quite sure
(save their imagination), that they
would have quite as fast, had the insu-
latIon been the stove instead of the
bed. It is well known that the hu-
man body does not generate electricity
the most delicate slectrometer can
not detect the slightest degree, so that
there is nothing to insulate. If bat
terry, or some eXcitant was brought to
bear On the body, so as to furnish free
electricity, and that excitant kept 60
ing, then there would be some reason
for the glass insulators; otherwise insu-
insulation is like depending on stove
for heat with no fire in it, and none
kept in it. To derive any benefit from
insulation, the patient would have to
be torpedo-a kind of self-charging
battery. The tendency to equilibrium,
where there is no excitant, is univer-
sal and we'll established. Even if the
patient was charged by powerful bat
terry till every hair stood up and sparks
flew off the extrenities, in five min
utes after it is removed, every particle
will have escaped inte the air. If it
is said that every substance has latent
electricity in it, without an excitant,
we grant it; but insulation neither in
creases nor diminishes that in the least
degree. We conclude, therefore, that
this is of no use to the patient, ana not
very creditable to his physician"
Year: 1875

DRIED BEEF FRIzzLED IN CREAM-Chip


the beef as thin as paper with a very sharp


knife. Melt in frying pan. butter the size
Of an egg; stir the beef about in it for two
or three minutes, dust in little -four, add


halt teacup full of rich cream, give boil
up, and serve in a covered dish.


OYsTERs.-A gentleman who is a judge
of such matters says, that if oysters, intend
ed for use in the morning, are placed in a
pail of cold fresh water over night and left
dill morning they will be found to be large
fat and plump. Let all our housekeepers
try it. and report the result. or course
reference is made to oysters in the shell.


BAKED APPLE PCDDING.-Set a quart
of milk overnight, take of the cream in
the morning, and heat your milk to boil
ing point. Wet two dessert spoonfuls OF
corn-starch iu little cold milk and stir ia-
to it and continue stirring till it thickens.
Set it of from the fire. Beat together two
eggs and half cupful of white sugar;
then pour your corn starch into this, stir
ring it together carefully, and add a tea
spoonful of salt. Pare and slice thin, six
large. pleasant apples; lay them into your
pudding dish, pour the custard over them,
and bake an hour, or until the pudding is
tender. For sauce, add sugar, nutmeg and
. little extract TO the cream. This is
very economical and delicious pudding.