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Year: 1875

THE CHRoNICLE's " SUGGEsTIoN.-
The number of ex-Confederates who
stand elected TO the Forty Fourth Con-
gress now amounts to eighty-six, Georgia
having chosen one more to fill a vacancy
in the Ninth Congressional District
Now that jeff Davis has made such n
speech in which he processes affection for
"the old flag" we do not see why he
should not become n candidate for the
Presidency, or at least be sent to the Sem
ate. The war is over and the bloody
chasm" seems to be pretty well bridged
at last the election Of JEFF as chief exec
utive of our " reunited country" would
be graceful way of. showing that the
animosities are all buried and that there's
nothing mean about the North.
Year: 1875

THE Philadelphia Bulletin of late
date contains . column on tho third-term
question, in which it was declared that
some time after the third7term project
was mentioned, a communication was
sent to President Grant threatening his
assassination. TIE letter demanded of
Grant that he publicly deny his intention
Of running for third term, and it is said
that this threat has kept the Presidents
lips sen led on the question.
Year: 1875

THE Post thinks the trouble in the coal
mines of Pennsylvania strike Of capital
against labor, instead Of labor striking
against capital, basing its conclusions on
the fact that the strike is caused by min
crs asking only seven cents more per ton to
mine the coal than the mine owners arc
willing to pay. But how about this thing
Of forcing other men to strike, when it is
only by their labor that they can procure
bread for their families? ? Does the Post
justify that feature of the strike also?
Year: 1875

ADARING EXPLOIT While a freight
train was passing through the arch Of the
Sing Sing State Prison last Friday. foul
convicts jumped on to the engine, and
compelled the fireman and engineer to gel
off. They then detached the engine from
the train and went headlong away, aban
doning their iron horse near Tarrytown
and effected their escape.
Year: 1875

THE New York Assembly has passed
law which grants liberty to convicts
sentenced to imprisonment for life at the
end of fifteen years penal servitude. The
condition of good behavior is. of course,
made precedent of the operation Of the
Year: 1875

In June there will be six millions of
silver in the United States Treasury, and
in September, ten millions. Then the
Secretary can begin to put in operation
the law authorizing silver coin to be paid
out and fractional currency withdrawn.
Year: 1875

ExVIcE PRESIDENT BRECKENRIDGE
died on Monday last, at the early age Of
"a years. The disease which proved fat
al is supposed to have had its origin in a
wound from shell during the war.
Year: 1875

Below will be found report of
the proceedings ofthe Town Board,
at meeting held last Tuesday after
noon. As we have been publishing
the proceedings Of the Board regu-
larly for some time, and as a great
many Of our citizens think we re-
ceive pay for doing so,-as in justice
we ought-we wish to state that we
do not receive any remuneration
whatever for doing SO, but publish
them as a matter Of news. We
have, we are proud TO say, a very
economically Town Board, who,
though they can afford TO pay out
at every meeting from $500 to 800
for work illegally and unnecessarily
done on our streets, in order TO keep
III their power few voting minions,
cannot afford to contribute this
small amount of support-which it
is fairly entitled to, and which every
other paper in the Northwest re-
ceiyes from It's town ofGcialS-tO-
wards helping the only paper pub
Ilshed IN the county to exc out a
scanty subsistence, all because said
paper does not toady to them and
connlye at some Of their transactions,
and also because they supposed,
probably, that if the printer did not
receive pay for publishing the pro-
ceedings, he would not do so, and
the taxpayers of Douglas County
thus be kept in the dark as to their
doings. Bu5 believing that
straightforward and honest course
in a newspaper is the most profitable
IN the long run, we shall continue
to criticise the actions of the Board
whenever we find it necessary, even
at the expense of losing their good
will aud the public pap it. is in their
Year: 1875

persons WHOM We used to know :;
and we can assure Bro. Plumley
that in making the statement that
no town in the Northwest can show
more generous and iberal-minded
set Of business men than that same
town of Wells possesses he did not
shoot very wide of the mark. They
will do to tie to.
Year: 1875

II view of the graf expense
which is annually incurred by Supe-
rIor in support of her poor, we
would enquire if it would not be far
less expensive to run a poor-house
than to continue the present system
During the pastfive years, according
to the records, the eamounte expended
yearly averages but little less than
$4,000, and we think it is
susceptible of demonstration that
under the poor-house system the
County could save about half that
sum. Believing the subject is
worth enquirlng into and agitating,
we shall have something to say
about the matter next week.
Year: 1875

has declined to run. AIr. Strong
has heretofore been represented to
us as a Republican and as man of
honor and fair ability, but such a
course as he is represented as pur-
suing, Will kill him deader, political
ly, in this district, than an Egyptian
mummy. We shall give full his
tory Of the performance next week.
Polls County Press.
Year: 1875

NArURALIzATIoN-The following
is clipped from the Oshkosh North
acestern, and has reference to the
time during which to take out the
first papers or declaration of inten-
ton:


By the revision of the United
States laws, adopted III 1874, but
not printed or circulated until within
a few days, it appears that the rule
of taking out the first papers or
declaration of intention on the part
Of foreign citizens, has been changed.
Declaration must now be made in
open court. 1t is further stated
that all declarations made and filed
since the passage Of the revision,
before the clerks OF the court are
invalid. This will occasion much
tronble and complaint, but the
officers must obey the law.
Whether the change was clerical
error in omitttng single phrase, or
was intentional on the part Of the
revisors, cannot be determined.
The fact stands just the same.
Year: 1875

PRESIDENT GRANT was in Chi
cago, Tuesday, and stated that he
had made no appointment yet for
Secretary of the Interior, but that
he should do SO Immediately on his
return to Washington.
Year: 1875

Tho following were the receipts and shipments Of
the Leading article. Of produce In this city during the
twenty-four hours ending At O'Clock On Saturday
morning. and for the corresponding date year ago
Year: 1875

When asked whether or not the nomina-
ton of Banks and Lamar are seconded in
Mississippi, the White Line Monitor says:
ave are not wasting our fragrance much
on Presidents and Vice Presidents just at
this juncture. We have got little bust
ness on hand in Mississippi just now. The
candidates of the Democratic party, who.
ever they may be, will be satisfactory" To
the Monitor it will make no sort of differ
ence if Morrissey should get himself nomi-
mated when the national convention meets
at his pool room. The nomination of any
Democratic candidate will be satisfactory.
As for Mississippi, the job now on hand is
for the White Liners to send the eulogist Of
Charles Sumner to Congress; after that Mr.
Lamar will be free to make combination
with General Banks or any other Abol


tionist for the more certain defeat of the
Democracy in the national campaign,
Year: 1875

All anti-Republican papers were furnished
with the same ''speciaI" dispatch from Holly
Springs, Mississippi, regarding the recep-
ton given to General Gordon by the people
at the depot. The reporters for the Louis
Vile Courier Journal and the New Orleans
Picayene used the same language:


The reception committee stepped aboard
and found Senator Gordon in the smoking
car. He was evidently unconscious of his
being the object of SO much attraction,
music and parade. Very soon, however, he
came forth amid the shouts Of the citizens
and the playing of the band. This was
Gordon, the battle-scarred soldier,states-
man Of Georgia, greeting the people who
had SO often in days gone by welcomed
Jefferson Davis and scattered flowers in his
way.


OF course the unfortunate Mr., Davis had
to be brought in, by way CT comparison in
the scattered flowers business; and then we
are told General Gordon made q few
eloquent remarks, and that


When the Senator had concluded, then
came the handshaking, and noticeable here
was the coming forward OF Captain Cliff, OF
the United States army, stationed at this
point, and his being introduced. General
1uTuon expressed HIS pleasure hHG gfatln-
cation at meeting an officer OF the old army,
and said other pleasant courtesies to him.


The centennial lamb " ho sends out such
stuff from the Holly Springs depot, secs
something remarkable in the action of Cap.
tain Cliff in shaking hands with General
Gordon, and straightway sends the news
abroad as an evidence of better feeling be-
tween the North and South, as if the most
common civilities between men could not be
exchanged without political significance. 1t
should be remembered that General Gordon
is Senator Of the United States, and his
position, as such, entities him to the respect
of every officer of the army. Under the
circumstances of public reception, as at
Holly Springs, Captain Cliff would have
been remiss in his duty had he not paid his
respects to Senator Gordon, as he did, on
behalf of the military post. General Cor
don may have felt justified, in helping his
friend Lamar, to go on the stump as he did
at Oxford, and heap abuse on the head of
the President of the United States-it is the
stock in trade of the modern anti-Repub-
lican-but the officers of the army have but
their simple duty to perform, and We are
glad to be able to say they generally do it.
Year: 1875

Following the murder of Deputy Sheriff
r. d. Mitchell and the wounding of Circuit
Clerk w. H. Foote, of Yazoo, Mississippi,
both of whom were guilty of attending a
Republican meeting where Republican
speeches were made, comes the news of a
riot at Clinton, which occurred yesterday.
Six persons were reported as killed
and several whites and negroes wounded
OH both Sides" Nothing is known
here Of the Clinton affair except the news
furnished by the Associated Press, There,
as at Yszoo, large armed force of white
men were promptly on hand, ready to do
deeds of slaughter. 1t can not be told who
is to blame for all this as it occurs. These
frequently occurring disturbances are too
serious to be considered lightly, and are cal
culated to bring disgrace. and permanent in
jury to the State. The White Line Democrats
have boasted that they will rule Mississippi
if they have to kill every Niger in the
State. Are they now at their work, and is
this we have read what may be taken ~ q
sample OF the political campaignf 1t is too
terrible, and cries out for honest men of ali
parties to unite and prevent further blood
shed.
Year: 1875

"a bronze statue on the bank of the
Thames is the result of the people of Eng
lands love for Byron. He gave them
flowers of poetry and songs for all time;
they gave him an image of brass on a
mound Of mud.
Year: 1875

Now when the landscape lies all hushed and Silly
Beneath the cold gray sky and shroudine snow,
Dawns the dim birthday, shadowy and chilly
OF my sweet winter -caild-mv rare white LILY,
Loved all too well, and lost so long ago.
Sometimes I marvel dazed by doubt and distance
Whether she mortal baby talr,
Or some more glorifed and pure existence
Lent for little-a divine assistance


To help me over utteImOst despair.
L bring to other birthdays kiss and token,
And loving wishes crowding fond and fast
To this only bring woe unspokeen,
Bitter rebeious tears heart half broken,
Bruising itself against the cruel past.
Year after year think Of her older,
And muse upon her growth, and fly speak:
Now without STOPPING could clasp and hold her,
And now her golden head would reach my shoul-


der,


And now her sweet white brow would touch my


cheeks.


Would earthly years have had the power to rem


der.


That holy face less innocent and fair
And those clear eyes, 80 luminous and tender,
Would they have kept undimmed their depths OF


splendor,


Amid these heavy clouds OF grief and care?
wonder, when see my locks grown duller
By blighting years, and streaked with sllvery


strands,


II her bright hair has still the sun-warm color
1t wore when my breast | used to lull her,
Smoothing its shining waves with loving hands
While time has aged and saddened me SO greatly,
Has she outgrown each changing childish


mood?


By the still waters does she walk sedately
A tall and radiant spirit fair and stately,
In the full prime OF perfect angelhood!
In that fair dwelling, where I cannot reach her,
Has she who was so fragile and so sweet
An untaught babe tender little creature
Grown wise enough to be my guide and teacher,
And will her presence awe me when we meet
Oh, if her baby face has waxed no older,
Or if to angel stature she has grown
Whether az child or woman behold her,
With what wild rapture will these arms enfold


her


This longing heart reclaim her for its own
Year: 1875

If its value for lumber, its rapid and gigantic
growth, and its sanitary properties are one
half as great as represented, the introduction
of the Australian vegetable wonder would
repay any expense required to introduce and
naturalize it, The experiment Of introduc,
ton ought to be made thoroughly, for even
the doubtful chance of acquiring and domes-
ticating such treasure is worth all the ex-
nense of series of costly preliminary fail
II ras
Year: 1875

One of the things that Congress should not
fail to attend to promptly, is to reduce the
army of 10000 men. That is quite as many
soldiers as this country has any occasion for


Our only practical use for troops is to keep a
guard on the Mexican border and to watch
the Indians. These duties are by no means
so difficult to perform at present as they were
before the war, when q force of 10000 men
was ample Cut down the army IN T. Sun.
Year: 1875

rs-NoTIcE TO CAPTAINS OF VESSELS ENTERING
TILE PORT or NEW YORK AT NIGHT.-The New YORK
HERALD adopted Ceston night signal for
board the HERALD steam yacht showing while burn
ing green red changing from 30 the other
in succession and can be miles distant Cap
vessels seeing this signal will oolge BY
pairing any marine they have for the Ship News
Department Of the HERALD


pPersons desrous Of communicating with vessels arrv
ing New York addressing such vessels
Of HERALD news yacht pier No East River, New York
from all parts Of the world and promptly de-
hvered- Duplicates required
Year: 1875

A second Charity Fair will open day at Masonic
Hail. corner OF Twentythird street and Sixth avenue,
to aid the management Of the Ladies' Directory in
rying their plans for the training or women and IN
the outside relief department


The ladies connected with St Francis Xavter's Ro-
Catholic church IN West sixteenth street between
Fifth and Sixth avenues will open this evening the
College Hall Grand Charity Fair, the purpose of
which is TO aid in the erection OF church. They
have working for time past collecting arti
Giles and money for this fair, and they confidently ex
pect with the assistance OF the faithful TO make it
grand success.
Year: 1875

The money available for the construction OF the East
River Bridge is exhausted. The expended is up
ward Of s6COoOO0 The amended Bridge law Of 1875
authorized the raising OF ssooOoOO more-one third
by New York, and two-thirds by Brooklyn. New York
has not paid anything toward the last quota demanded
nor does the enterprise meet with favor from the
Mayor Comptroller or Common Council OF THIS cily
The Brookyn members OF the Board OF Bridge Trustees
are hopeful however Of the future, and believe, or pro
fess 10 do so, that New York will pay its share.
Year: 1875

The extraordinary longevity of the surviv-
ors Of the war of 1912 is certainly curious
fact well worthy of notice. That was not a
great war; not many troops were engaged,
and no very large force mustered into the
service of the United States, and the war
came to an end almost sixty-one years ago.
Yet the Commissioner of Pensions records
1875 survivors of that war on the rolls of
the Pension Office. Very few, indeed, of
these can be less than eighty years of age,
and the number must be nearly if not quite
ten per cent. of the whole force mustered for
service If the veterans of the late rebellion
prove 50 tenacious of life, nearly two:hundred
thousand of them will survive the year 1926.
We should be very glad to believe that all of
them would live much longer than that, but
we cannot expect it, for it is against the
course of nature. 1t is hard to resist the con-
viction that large share of the fifteen thou
sand veterans of 1912 are impostors.
Year: 1875

TIE WEATHER OF OLD PROBABILITIES VERY BEST


CoNTRIvAxCE-A RESPECTABLE SHOW OF VISIT


ORs ON TIE GRAND sTAND-FIVE OF THE SEVEN


ENTRIES FOR TIE RACE WlTnDRAWN-YALEs


FAILURE TO APPEAR-TnE POPULAR MYsTIfICA-


TIox-MR WELL ROWS OVER THE COURSE ALONE.
IbY TELEGRAPH FROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF TIE


TRIBUNE.


SARATOG,, July 13.-The events OF the first day
eomprised as college contests so often do, failure
and surprise. The single scull race came
to naught. Harvard gained the cup without
any contest, while in the pull for the
Freshman flag the Cornell crew won race, In
which they seemed TO be beaten from the start until
the very of the finish The weather had been
arranged, like everything else, TO perfection. The
sun poured down only genial heat and across the
sky there drifted now and then great wisps of
white, while around the horizon was spread haze
that softened every outline in the prospect The
rain that a low dark line in the west seemed TO
promise was slow in coming, and the fierce storm of
hail and rain that fell later did not reach until all
the oars at rest, and crews and
spectators were safely housed in the town.
The water at the time set for the
races was as smooth az sea OF glass
Mr. Kennedy aud Mr.. Wells, who were TO pull the
single scu race together, without outside cOmpctl-
ton, were padding about comfortably i'll their
shells Mr.. Kennedy was in white shirt and blue
cOlOrs; MI Wells was In crimson cap ana tfunks,
exposing the skin of his breast and back, which
nature has tanned for him to a brilliant maroon.
There is some of the good old regatta muddle fuss,
and bother about the whaTves and grand stand, but
far less than ever before, and the press boat was
down to the start in good season, with good pros
pect that the race would start within threequarters
of all hour of the appointed time, thing rarely
known in College regatta annals


TIIE CROWDS On THE GRAND STAND.


The enormous grand stand i'll the distance, as
viewed from the press boat, presented a moderately
black appearance and as the steamers passed, the
crowd Of students, hurrahing about something
made a highly respectable show. Under the
900 feet Of the stand, which is covered
with awning, the crowd was dense, and
the position just outside of it, over which
the crimson Of Harvard. the garnet Of Union, the
roscpnk of Hamilton. and the blue of Yale. waved,
was about as full This was probably because they
nearest the center of attraction, rather than be
cause the students are so numerous. Down toward
the end the adhcrcnts of the different colleges grow
fewer and fewer, and when we come TO Williams on
the end, the light shines through the bones of the
stand freely, and the men look like small party of
Ants climbing over tTellis. Six thousand persons
Year: 1875

The Mississippi is still rising
with it's bosom covered with drift
wood. Hauling wood out of the
swamps Is = costly affair, and
planters who do not use coal find
it cheaper 70 procure their supply
Of fuel from the river.
Year: 1875

will buy a
FIRST MORTGAGE PREMIUM


BOND
OF the New York Industrial Exposi-
ton Company.
These bonds are issued for the pur-
pose of raising funds for the erection
of u building in the city of n. Y. to
Ge used for
Year: 1875




The old, old story is told again in account
ing for the failure of the Third Avenue
Savings Bank The funds of the bank were
unwisely locked up in securities which were of
very doubtful value before the panic and
have since become little better than waste
paper. The bank has been in difficulties
before and has been subjected to runs"
In 1872, to save itself temporarily, the bank
disposed of most Of it's good securities,
retaining only those that were questionable,
and leaving itself in a crippled condition.
1t has managed to live since then although
not harmonious in its councils, and at last it
goes to Albany, makes an application to the
Attorney General for the appointment of q
receiver and closes its doors This is the
story. OF course it was natural that the con-
Germ should break down at last, and it is con-
soling to know that its dissolution is so COM
pletely in order-that the rottenness Of the
institution can be so clearly traced back to
"before the panic"-that we need be under
no apprehension of any extended i'll conse-
quences as a result of the failure. The only
sufferers will be the poor creatures who have
intrusted their hard-earned savings to the
rotten bank, and all of these united can have
no effect on the great moneyed interests or
create even passing rufiie on the surface
of the street"


But then. certain questions will suggest
themselIes 70 Ihe Suuous mind. Il this
concern know itself to 10 virtually bankrupt
two or three years ago BY what right did it
continue TO induce the public TO believe in
its soundness, and where was the honesty of
accepting deposits frorh poor people who
cannot afford TO lose their few dollars SO well
as the directors of the bank can afford to
lose their thousandsp What security can
there be for the unfortunate depositor if our
savings bank laws permit bankrupt insti-
tuition, loaded with worthless securities to
continue it's business for three years and
extend the circle of its victims Are the
laws, indeed, to blame, or is the evil due to
the neglect or incapacity of those whose
duty it is to enforce them There must
certainly be fault somewhere, and the re-
sponsibility should be fixed where it be-
longs. Better that all the savings banks
should be wiped out of existence than that
depositors should be left at the mercy Of in
stitutions which can use the money Of the
industrious poor for two or three years only
to postpone the day of bankruptcy. One
thing is certain-the management of this
bank has not been such as to claim public
confidence, and it seems outrageous to make
one Of its old managers or officers the receiver.
Year: 1875

rules which apply to such utterances, would
present. On the contrary, we believe the
American people may rejoice over great dan
gers past; over a momentous change happily
and generally accepted and accomplished;
over enemies who are friends and country
men once more and who need only time and
a manly consideration on our part for their
disappointed hopes and the changes forced
upon them to make them rejoice at their
failure We believe that with only moderately
good government we may securely look for
ward to period of great national prosperity
and happiness, and of liberties securer than
ever before-that we are at the beginning of
the greatest era of our national history.


1t is pity that the President does not
believe this also