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Year: 1873

The Waukegan Ill.,, Gazette, tell,
the old story Of the tramp, humor'
ous-wise, as thus (:


Needing a little extra help last
week we were rather glad than
otherwise to see dirty, seedy-look-
ing individual enter the door of our
sanctum and announce himself as
the inevitable tramp printer. lie
was out of work, out OF money, out
of sorts, and out at the elbows, and
we accordingly gave him case and
he helped us through the week,
leaving us on Friday night with
money in his pocket, and evidence
that he had brick in his hat. He
said he was northward bound, and
would leave on the first tram. lie
failed to do so, however, and on
Monday, being hard pressed no
doubt, he concluded that pair Of
pantaloQns hanging in front of
Bidingcr's would be a fat take,
and he accordingly lifted them
hom the 'hook. Proceeding up
the street to an alley, he was about
to let the new clothes act as u sub
for the old ones, when Mr.. Bidin-
ger, who had followed him, took
possession ofhim with assurance that
he had permanent sit for him.
After taking the pantaloons, he
watched him until the arrival OF
officer Hinckley, who, after a little
Chase succeeded in locking up
his form, in the county Jail. He is
evidently a hard 'case, and 1T is
well that he is now in the embrace
of the minions' of the law, and
behind the imposing stones of the
Jail wall. 1t is just those sticks
ofwhom he is type that cast
discredit upon the trade.
Year: 1873

Don't stand signing, wishing and
waiting, but go TO work with an en-
ergy and perseverance that will set
every blect in the way of your sue
cess flying like leaves before q
whirl-wind. A milk and water way
of doing business leaves a man in
the lurch every time. He may have
ambition enough to wish himself
on the topmost round of the ladder
of success but if he has not the 60
aheaditivcness to pull himself up
there, he will inevitably remain at


~, bottom or ut best, on the very
.6~ rounds. Never say / can't
never admit that there is such q
word it has dragged its tens OF
thousands TO poverty and degrade
ton, and it is high time was strck-
en- from languages; but carry n
whole lexicon of | cans and /
wills with you, and thus armed,
every obsticlc in the way Of your
success will vanish. Never envy
your neighbo.. his success, but try
and become like him and as much
better as you can. off at first
you don't succeed" don't wilt down
with dependency and say can't,
but grid on the armor of | can and
my word for it you will.
Year: 1873

"A young lady in neighboring
town was dressing for party the
other evening. Her little niece was
chewing gum and watching her.
The little one asked tho young lady
ifa certain other young lady, who
was going, had beau. She was
answered in the affirmative. She
then asked the question with refer
ence to q second lady, receiving
similar answer. Miss curiosity
then asked her aunt If she had q
man. The latter replied in the neg
ative, to see what the little one
would say. The child stopped
chewing the gum, removed 1T from
her mouth, aud, afler gazing at It
wistfully for moment, held it out
with a generous impulse, saying,
"Well, l guess you had better take
this gum along them" Young la
dies, if your escorts tail to appear
when you need their services do not
despair, but following the quaint
wisdom of the child, take some gum
along, and you will be happy.
Year: 1873

Some one says that in order to
obtain a good nights sleep 1t is nee
essary to sponge the entire length
of the spine in hot water for ten or


fifteen minutes this will reduce the
circulation, quiet the nervous sys-
TEN and induce sleep better than
any drug. This recipe does not
concern editors and composltors on
daily papers. Whom they have a
chance to sleep, all they have TO do
rs to curl themselves up on q door
knob, pull their hats over their eyes
and they are at once in the land of
nod. 1t was from witnessing o sight
Of this kind that inspired Col. VIM.
Shakespeare to write that line
"Tired natures sweet restorer
balmy sleep"
Year: 1873

Gazette in the year 1871 seems to
have been incomplete without an
engraving to illustrate it. Thus the
next in order in the same column
is reward Of twenty dollars for a
stray horse, with cut representing
horse, the like Of which is rarely
seen in nature. In one particular
there is a striking resemblance
between the animal and Black
Solomon, they arc both going as
fast as their legs can carry them,
and both no doubt are seeking the
same object, to-wit: an entire cx-
emption from compulsory labor.
The horse before me has q head
like q saddle of venison, name
like the fins of fish, a tail that
looks moro like flag than any
thing else, and body that closely
resembles tho wooden horse immor-
.talized by the ride of Don Quixotte
and Sanco Panza. And this is
the creature that Is described by
his master as 'about ten or eleven
years old, black name and tail(O
compactly built, holds his head
rather down, rides well, keeps fat
on little food, and would be called
a pretty horse by almost any D"
If this description be true. the
printer in undertaking to give his
likeness, not only libeled the horse,
but rendered it almost impossible
for the animal ever to be identified
by anybody disposed to take him
up and return him to his owner.
But the printer was Mr.. George c.
Burnett, Printer to the state" and
we cannot suspect him OF taking
such an nntair and ruinous advan-
tagc of his patron. We cannot
therefore doubt but the horse was
correctly portrayed and we can
not help but think that an extrav-
agant, insane partiality for his
horse betrays the advertiser into
the description just quoted. The
idea that such an animal would
ride well is simply rediculous. We
would much prefer a ride on a
worm fence. AS to keeping fat on
little food, we doubt if all the
food in Arkansas would have
helped him, Would be called a
pretty horse by almost any one"
Can it be possible that in the year
1871 there were so few pretty
horses in Arkansas that this stray,
whose likeness has just been dcs-
cribod as it appeared in the Gazette,
should be considered beauty? If
so, the people of Arkansas have
reason to be proud Of the improve.
ments that have been made IN the
breed and appearance of their
horses.


If the advertisements in this
paper are to be taken as true, and
we have no reason to doubt them,
| it would seem that there was a
general irresistible desire on the
part of large portion Of animated
creation in Arkansas to cut loose
from the positions assigned them
and to migrate for parts unknown.
Thus we find advertisements, warn
ing, notifying and stating that mig
gers, horses, jackasses, thieves,
counterfeitcrs and wives had either
left their masters, owners, jailors
or husbands, or that some sheriff,
citizen or justice of the peace had
apprehended or taken up some
body's nigger, horse, jackass or
other cattle. There is no adyer-
tisement to the effect that either
the thieves, counterteiters or wives
ever miscarried III their attempt
to regain their liberty. lam afraid
that the thieves and cpunterfeiters
made good theirescape to Texas, and
that the wives safely returned to
"their people," among whom, we
J hope it was unnecessary for them
Year: 1873

No SWAPPING Horses Now.--This is
our last issue of the Herald before the
election, and we have no room for discussion
OF outside matters with our contemporaries
who support, in good faith, the Independent
ticket and platform. We have been an
active, working and reading party man in
California ever since it has been State
we know the past record Of every man and
paper in the State that is worth knowing
and we are not averse to printing it when
the times and good of the country demand
Il. But just now our shots must be fired
against the monopoIists and enemies of the
purifying reform movement. We are ready
and willing to discuss the past with our CO.
working contemporaries at any time after
this week.
Year: 1873

REMEMBER THIS According to the opin-
ions of some of the best lawyers in the
State, there is but one Justice of the Su-
preme Court to be chosen at the ensuing
election. BY voting, then, for more thar
one candidate, it may invalidate your vote
See to it that the single name, 4. w. Nc
klnstry, is on your ticket for Supreme
Judge, and vote no ticket that contains
more than one name for this position.
Year: 1873

The action of the convention which met
in Sacramento on the 25 of last ..ionth, es-
tablisled State organization or the third
political party in California. The action
of many of the counties i'll making the
fight for the reforms they demanded through
Organizations independent of either of the
old parties has been followed by the State
The very best men, representing the very
best element of the people in the State
have, regardless of party, met, and with
the one great object in view, viz, that of
their country's good, with the best interests
of her citizens at heart, placed before the
people candidate for the high Office of
Supreme Judge, to whom none can object,
and sent forth, as a declaration of their
principles, platform on which every good
man should be proud to stand. There is
not a sentence embodied in the re olutions
but what every Democrat, who is, or has
been such from principle, can heartily en-
dorse, nor is there a clause but what every
good man in the Republican party should
be proud to cliim as his principles; hence
there is nothing left but for every man of
honest principle to join hands with his
neighbor with the proud ejaculation that
"reform is our motto, the Independent is
our party. and with songs of joy AM
gladness, we will 90 hand in hand to vic
tory" This is the move--this is the party
that will separate the sheep from the goats,
and that is what all will hail to see.
Where n man, through private interest or
personal inclination favors corporations, ,favors
high tariff, favors subsidies, favors high
rates of tran portation, favors aggregatio
of capital in any form, or the concentrated
ofpower at the expense of individual liberty
such man will oppose this movement.
But where man is found who fayors the
inherent rights of be people; who favors a
reduction Of tariff with view to secure
revenue alone; who tavors protecting the
industrial interests of the country, from the
expressions of capital; who tavors States
and Congress regulating such corporations
as they create; who favors retrenchment
and reform in the administrations who iavors
opposing the Government extending its
authority into States contrary to the will of
the people; who iavors hosting corlup-
tionists from power wherever they are found;
and who favors a system of jenuinc reform
that shall bring our country back to tic
purity ard freedom sic once eDjoyed-
wherever mar is found in favor of these
latter principles, he will favor the Inde-
pendent movement, for all these rights,
privileges AMI blessings are promised
through it, and through it most likely to be
obtained Then lei eve y man who has
these principles at heart-and we know
they are lceion-no matter what has been
bis previous political affiliations, drop in at
once with 'he new reform NOV ement, and
prove by his actions that he is willing to
fight for what he breaches. and let your
neghbor and the world know by your
action that you are and have been in
earnest
Year: 1873

ELECTION RETURNs.-W III our friends in
each precinct see that some one sends us
the vote of their precinct by the most
speedy conveyances as soon as the ballots
are counted? We shall publish the returns,
and the act will be for the benefit of all
Year: 1873

MIsrAKEN.-We are surprised that the
Grass Valley Union should make such a
gross mistake as TO assert that we had
crawled in with the Sacramento Uni0n
Not much have we got in with any body,
Mr. Gmss Valley Union. The HERALD is
to-day as it was twenty years ago, fighting
for the good of the masses and the suprem-
acy OF the best principles of our govern
ment.. We are and have been right, and
all who would be likewise must come to us
must get into bed with us, as the Sacra-
mento Union has done since the recent
election, as tt Grass Valley Union must
know and as the Grass Valley Union will
do before many more elections take place
AS for Clicking under the kiver," we will
promise peace to all those who wish TO come
in with us as long as they b have them
selves. But so sure as they begin cutting
up we will do our best TO kick them out, or
scratch them out We are letting our toe
nails grow, so as to be prepared in case of
an emergency.
Year: 1873

The Grass Valley Union, short time
ago claimed that there would be no votes
cast in that county for McKinstry, the IN
dependent candidate for Supreme Judge;
but in Tuesdays issue it weakened on that
proposition, and said that from news re-
ceived from all portions of the county it
was now convinced that the Independent
ticket would receive large vote in Nevada
County, and that it was gaining strength
and popularity so fast that it looked as
though McKinstry would beat the railroad
candidate, Dwinelle, in that county. That
is about the substance of The Union's article,
and only shows how the campaign is pro-
crossing in the State. Nevada is probably
the worst county in the State for the In
dependents, and even there it seems they
will be ahead of the regular Republican
party. 1t seems from all sources of infor-
nation that the Republican party proper,
is losing its strength all over the State,
and thai the Independents are gaining, and
this is as it should be. The people of this
State will lose all they have gained in the
late election if they permit the monopoly
party to elect their Supreme Judge, and
hold the Supreme Court ready to declare
any anti monopoly legislation unconstitu-
ton Il, that would otherwise be beneficial to
the people This point we urge both Dem
ocrats and Republicans to bear in mind
when they 90 to tie nolls To vote
Year: 1873

The story is told Of woman who
freely used her tongue to the scandal of
others, and made confession 70 the
priest Of what she had done. He gave
her a ripe thistle-top, and told her to go
out in various directions and scatter the
seeds, one by one. Wondering at the
penanee, she obeyed, and then returned
and told her confessor. To her amaze
ment, he bade her go back and gather
the scattered seeds; and when she OBJ
jected that it would be impossible, he
replied that il would be still more diff
cult to gather up and destroy all evil re-
ports which she had circulated about
others. Any thO1ghtless, careless child
can scatter a handful of thistle seeds be-
fore the wind in moment, but the
strongest and wisest man cannot gather
them again.
Year: 1873

THE BOARD OF HEALTH AND THE


HOWARD ASSOCIATION.


The Howard Association will to-day
call upon the mayor for the purpose of
showing the necessity, and urging the
establishment in the city, of temporary
hospital for those stricken with the dis
ease now prevailing. We trust the
mayor viii coincide with the public
opinion Of Memphis, and at once call the
general council together, so that imme-
diate steps may be taken to establish the
Aospital Aforesaid. 1t needs no argu-
ment to prove the necessity for such
house Of refuge for the sick. Better at
tentiOn to the patients, better ventilation,
aud the exercise Of innumerable in.
fiuences Of a remedial nature, by nurses
and physicians, can be obtained in such a
place as the one proposed. One sick
person in house, particularly in the
badly constructed houses of the poor
the greatest suferers-may infect the
whole family, who must necessarily
breathe the tainted air surrounding the
unfortunate. If patient when attack
ed could be at once removed to hospi-
tai, there would be better hopes for his
recovery, and less danger Of spreading
the disease assuming the hypothesis
that it is contagious. Let no time
be lost in establishing this much-need-
ed building. In this connection we beg
70 state that the public are grievei to
learn that the want of proper working
harmony between the city government
and the board Of health, has compelled
ahe latter to resign. We do not desire
10 take part in this unfortunate contest,
and trust for the sake of the general
welfare, that al adjustment may be at
once had and the board OF health rees-
tsblished on a proper basis. This is no
time for disputes. The gentlemen Of the
BOARD OF health have worked as faith
uliy as their limited powers would per
init, and although their action in the
premises called forth some public
criticism, the defects were due more TO
the bad system under which they work
ed than to any personal derelic-
ton on the part Of the board.
In times like these, personal sacrifices
must be made, and all minor considera-
tions swallowed up in the honest effort
% subserve the general good. Let the
mayor not only accede to the PROPOSE
tiou Of the board Of health, the refusal
to grant which occasioned its resigna-
ton, but let the council meet and pass
such an ordinance as will give the
board plenary police powers while
the mAlady last. 1t is too slow a process
Tor the board to meet and ddUise the
council, who debate the matter before
they take action in the premises. EN-
power the board to carry out at once
what its professional wisdom and expert
ence deems best, and nothing but good
can come of 1t.
Year: 1873

with lightning rapidity among the
crowd; and it was generally believed
that Grant and Richardson had come
to the decision that they eoaid place no
part Of the legal reserues et the service
Of New York city banks, creating IN
tense CONSERVATION among the CROWDS
that thTonged the hotel. There were
some who said that no decision
on the subject had been arrived at. and
that another conference was TO be held
during the evening. 1t was wildly
asserted by soofes that all the banks IN
the country would suspend, and that a
run would take place on the savings
banks Tomorrow, and would spread
commOtion throughout the masses OF
this and other cities Of the Union.
Year: 1873

LOUISVILLE, September 1U.-Ihe ex-
position closed its third week tonight
with unprecedented attendance, fully
twenty-seven thousand people having
visited the hall during the day and
evening. During the week about one
hundred and fifty thousand people were
in attendance. Among them were
prominent people from the southern,
western and middle States. The repre-
from the southern States is re-
markedly large, all the hotels being
filled to oveTfiowlDg. A grand concert
with seven hundred male voices will be
given in the exposition hall one week
from Monday.
Year: 1873

LONDON, September 20.-The follow
ing is portion of the Interview between
the Herald correspondent and DR.. Bis
sell, of the P0laris, at Dundee:


DT. Bisseil-Sinee arriving here we
find from the American papers that
several very silly and absurd rumors of q
mischievous tendency have been sent
abroad. 1t is just possible that the gov
eminent at Washington prefers that we
reserve what we have to say for a graver
but l must emphatically
contradict the statement that Cap
tain Hall died other than a natural
death; he died of spOplexy' he was in
about a fortnight; he appeared 70 be in
perfect health when entering upon the
voyage. 1 noticed nothing unusual in
his health up to the period Of bis illness;
the Tumor that he was poisoned is too
absurd 10 be seriously entertained; the
rumOT may have been founded on the
halluciDatiOn Of the raving patient;
the engineer, says that Hall
was ia continual apprehension of being
shot, but was not aware that any one
member of the crew more than an
other excited his suspicious; another
phase Of his mania was determination
not to eat or drink anything unless it
was first tasted by some other person.
The tasting was mainly done by Han
nah, the Esquimaux woman. When
he rallied and for q while recovered
his wonted intellect, he would say to
Captain BuddiDgtOn: eff l die, you
must still go on to the north pole. Ny
last wish is for you to strive to go 70
the north pole, and do not let my death
be any hindranee to the accomplish
ment OF this great undertaking"


BRITISH EULoGY.


LONDON, September 2l.-At the ses-
sion of the British association at Brad
ford yesterday, Captain Markham, Of
the navy, who was on board the Arctic
when she received the men rescued from
the Polaris, gave q detailed account Of
the voyage of Captain Hall, which he
gathered from members of the expedi-
ton. He said the POlsris occupied only
five days in making the distance from
Cape Shakelton northward 70 latitude
So i6. This was the nearest point to
the north pole ever reached by civilized
man. The ice was soft ali the way, and
a stronger vessel could have attained 3
mHch higher latitude.


The London Observer closes q eulogy
on the late Captain Hall as follows:
1.-The rude wooden monument to the
intrepid American, standing alone in
the polar solitude, is at the same time a
grand memorial, q trophy, and a chal-
lenQeD
Year: 1873

We groan under those burdens In
Memphis. Reform is needed badly
Our crippled commerce cries out for re-
lief ] don't run counter with his de-
sires; L only combat the plans which he
has submitted. His theory I regard as
unsOund, while there is much in what
he says that is valuable. Our city here
is pre-eminently a commercial one. Our
prosperity is drawn from that source.
But no matter how free commerce may
be made, nor how wide soever it may ex-
pand, it will not bring that degree OF
wealth and prosperity we hope for.
Commerce alone never made 3 great
city. Cincinnati would be to-day as she
was twenty years ago if depending on
commerce. Her prosperity and growth
since is due TO manufactures. The com
merce Of Chicago is great-it is wonder
full, but her manufactures are still greater
and more wonderful, and it is TO the
latter and not to the former that she
must look for her future development.
st. Louis, by depending on commerce
alone, remained 3
Year: 1873

The pews in a recently-dedicated
church ia New York rented for one hum
dred and forty thousand dollars. The
amount Of money some people are viii
ling 70 pay for the privilege Of worship
ing the Almighty where their clothes
can be seen te advantage Is sometimes
tDfTmous.
Year: 1873

There is no more real repose for you
than there was for Noahs dove. The
very diaing-room, with its regiment OF
walters, is distraction. You cannot re-
tire to your room without the buzz and
clamor Of the corridors floating to you
through the closed door, the quarrels Of
the bell-boys and chambermaids ac-
centuated by the click Of the electric
bell, or the deeper diapason OF the gong.
You cannot give q gratuiiy TO one Of the
walters without exciting envy and com
petition in the half dozen others, who
dog your footsteps aud grow imperti-
nent about the dates Of your departure
and return. After breakfast you are
obliged to 20 out OF your hotel before
you can get out Of sound Of the inevita-
Bile band, and after dinner and supper
the same remedy has to be applied. II
you are OF a nervous temperament. and
easily kept awake, the frequent hops
render it impossible for you to get your
average amount Of sleep, and if you are
with a party Of ladies, the only thing
possible for you to do is to make your
sacrifice complete and 90 to the ball
room, at the price Of future nervous
prostration aud general debility.
Year: 1873

Says Prof. Huxley: As to domestic
service, the groans Of the housewives of
England ascend to heaven! In five cases
out of six the girl who takes place has
to be trained by her mistress in the first ru-
diments Of decency and order and it is
mercy if she does not turn her nose up at
anything like the mention of an honest and
proper economy. Thousands of young girls
are said to starve, or worse, yearly in Lon
don and at the same time thousands of
mistresses of households are ready to pay
high wages for decent housemaid or cook,
or fair work woman, and can by 20 means
get what they want"