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Year: 1873

There was once a Bavarian duke by the name of Christoph, who visited pretty regularly little church in some obscure village to join with the devout peasants in prayer, and being very kind and sociable man, took pleasure in speaking to every man of the low class, whosoever chanced to meet him. One day he met an old man by the name of Lorenze, from Merzing, and being much pleased with this mans intelligent con- versation said to him, on parting, that he would take much pleasure in doing him some favor, and whenever his as- slstance could be of any service to him he should find the prince always ready to help him.

 Oh" replied Lorenze, "your high ness could not do me greater favor than you have already done to me you have drought the greatest blessing upon me and my family that ever could be bestowed upon me.

 "How could that happen ?" asked Christoph: 1T do not recollect that I ever had an opportunity to do you a favor."

 Well" said the old man, "I never embraced the opportunity to tell your hlghness under how great an obligation l am to you, because you saved my son from his career to eternal perdition. He was adrunkard--avery dissipated young man---always ready for the perpetration of any crime. One day, lettering about, he saw you, my gracious Duke, enter the church. This stirred his curiosity, he wanted to know what you were going to do there in that place, which he so much despised Rut when he saw and heard your devotion he became so deep ly affected that he prayed for the for g1veness of his sins, and from that very hour he became an altered man. This heavenly blessing I owe to your instru- mentality, and neither my admonition, nor my rebukes, nor my prayers could achieve, that you have accomplished by your pious example,"
Year: 1873

Few persons understand the ''ways that are dark" of students attending medical colleges, toprocure subjects fol dissection in their zeal to make them. selves familiar with the intricacies ot the human body. It is not the purpose of this article to throw any amount o1 light upon their nocturnal operations in the "cities of the dead" but to briefly narrate what befel a party ot students who get more than they bar gained for.

 About two weeks ago half a dozen embryo physicians, attending the col fege in Cleveland, Ohio, known as the University of Wooster, located in the Hoffman block, went one night with a horse and wagon in quest of subject. Where they went is neither here nor there. But they succeeded in the work of premature resurrection, and envefop- wagon and bore it to the college.

 Next morning the demonstrator or chief carver of the institution peepea into the dissecting room to see what kind of subject the boys had raised. A glance told his practised eye that the body was that of person who had died from smallpox, and, as a matter of course, not very desirable thing to have lying around loose. He did net yearn to have the class investigate the post mortem effects of that disease. To make the matter sure he called in an- other physician, who was very decided ly of the same opinion. If any doubts existed in their minds then, they were all dispelled by subsequent develop ments. Just about as quickly as it could be done, the demonstrator went for an undertaken who was not afraid of smallpox, and had the body taken away and reinterred; Then he put the room through the most fearful disinfecting process that science could suggest. For two or three days no human nose could endure the chloride that filled the air

 So far it was good joke, but ten or twelve days later 1t was not so apparent where the laugh came in. One of the students, Robert Cullison, of Holmes county, who boarded at 53 Rockwell street, was taken with. unmistakable symptoms of the dire disease. He was removed to the pest-house, where he now lies in critical condition. An other named Stewart, from Postoria, Ohio, was attacted with the symptoms, and went home. It is not known whether he is a we'll defined case. It has been reported that there were sev- eral other cases among the students. Some twelve or fifteen students and one of the professors from abroad, have gone home to visit their friends, and there is general thinning out of the class.

 Neither of the two victims mentioned belonged to the party that made the unfortunate mistake. They had not been vaccinated, and caught the disease from the infected air at the college, or ill-starred expedition.
Year: 1873

A Kentucky belle, Miss Amelia Pe- gram, widely noted for her beauty, ami ability, and intelligence, on the &3d acci- dentally and fatally shot herself through the heart with pistol belonging to her brother, which had been left by him on bureau in her room.
Year: 1873

THE Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph
Company announce that on and after the
first day Of February next, that company
will transmit messages to all points in
the United States reached by the Western
Union Company at TIVE dollars and fifty
cents for ten words, exclusive Of the sig
nature and address.
Year: 1873

Chicago is the field of a periodical called
the Matrimonial Mems, the object Of which
is to provide bachelors and spinsters with
consorts, as a necessary preliminary to the
growth of the divorce business of the city.
Year: 1873

TNHE subscriber would respectfully announce that
i he Is already organized in another Mill and
ready to fill all orders for Bar Mills Oak as promptly
as before the fire. r-frt


q. C. JORDAN.
nor1SHf
Year: 1873

A clever trick was lately played by


one of the London police detectives.


1t is frequent practice for the men


servants in large establishments to lay
the dinner-table in the afternoon, and
as the windows are usually open at this
period of the year, thieves have in sew
eral instances effected an entrance
thereby and cleared off all the plate.
One afternoon a detective called at a
house in a fashionable neighborhood,
and on the door being opened, he said
he had come to warn the inhabitants
that that good many plate robberies
had taken place. "All right" said
Jeames. "But is it all right?' replied
the detective. "Oh, yes; l left the
dining-room only few minutes ago."
"Well, there would be no harm in
making sure" SO rather scornfully
Jeames went into the dining room, and
then scorn gave place to dismay The
man of plush was ready to faint, for
every spoon and fork had vanished.
The detective then quietly opened
carpet bag which he had with him, and
revealed to Jeames's gaze the missing
articles. The detective had himself
got in at the window and swept off all
the plate. 1t was rather a dangerous
for him, but a very instruct
i've lesson to Jeames.
Year: 1873

BADLY TREATED. A man in San
Francisco recently was so unfortunate
as to be robbed of SIS. With the old
fashioned idea in his mind that the
police and the Courts are ordained for
the purpose of enforcing justice, he
complained of the theft. Whether he
recovered any portion of his money, or
whether the thief was detected or
punished, we do not know but we do
know that the poor fellow who made
the complaint has just been released
after seventy-eight days confinement,
having been locked up as a witness all
that time.
Year: 1873

An Ohio father who sent his daughter
to a university where both sexes are adj
mitted says she was perfectly willing to
stay there. but he can't see that she
learned much except to sigh about the
house like sick kitten.
Year: 1873

The true course for Secretary Richardson, in
reference to the canal boats, would be to make a
test case get it up to Circuit Court, and OBJ
tain decision. there All the District Courts,
so far, have been against him, but as he is not
willing to accept their diota by all means let US
have this petty fight adjudicated before high
er tribunal, and settled, if that will settle it.


And pending such decision by a Circuit
Court, the collection Of licenses or of penalties
upon those boats which have not taken them
out, should be suspended. Let the law be first
defined.
Year: 1873

Neither Chancellor smithers" nor "Chancel-
lor spIuance' sounds "sweet enough to safety
the CARTE, but it finds music in tine name Of
Salisbury Yes twas ever thus. We COM
mend Mr.. Smithers to the Governor because he
is fit to be Chancellor, and that is more than
can be said Of several whom the Gazette pro-
poses, no matter how sweetly their names
sound. The Governor may have the names set
to music and sing them to the Gazeae, day and
night if that will give the latter pleasure, but
we want thorough lawyer, and a man in whose
Judicial character the people have Conscience.
on the Chancery bench
Year: 1873

How long it takes for average mankind to
learn the simplest A. d c. of physical fact. 1t
is astounding to read the constantly reiterated
accounts of frightful deaths resulting from the
practice of pouring coal oil on already kiudled
fires Will people never learn that it is impoA-
sible that explosions Should no. result from
that The wonder he matter is that there
is no special conyenil zee to tempt to the suici-
dal attempt. 1t would be just as easy to zaturate
the kindlings with the iulamable oil before ap-
plying the match as after, and on the one side
of the scale hangs safety, on the other death.
Year: 1873

In another column the details of the
case of Gervasio Valencia are given.
There Is o moral attached to this case
which all California ought to regard.
A healthy little boy nine years of age,
is lying mortally wounded in this city,
at the hands of a companion. If his
wounds do not prove mortal, at all
events his eyesight is destroyed, his
teeth are shot out, and the pellet in
his brain will probably affect his rea-
son. Let us review the cause and
effect, and take the effect first. A
child of tender age is lying in indes-
cribable agony with fifty-seven shot in
his face and eyes alone. He is sur
rounded by his father and relatives,
whose mental agony perhaps exceeds
the physical sufierings Of the little
boy. The boy who discharged the
weapon is nearly demented from grief.
1t is q fact that he knelt before his
father and his mother and begged them
to put an end to his life. The sorrow
and agony entailed by the act of
thoughtless boy are indescribable, and
the misery entailed is unappreciable.


A year ago San Francisco papers
commented on the fact of boys carry
ing pistols and knives. 1t was shown
that this practice was the rule rather
than the exception. The fact admits
Of no denial, and the effects of it are
that race Of hoodlum desperadoes is
springing up in place Of the genera
ton Of cultivated gentlemen who
should mature from the educational
advantages afforded them.


The cause may generally be imme-
diately referred to parents. One Of the
curses of the State of California to-day,
is that parents do not restrain the
vicious proclivities of their children
sufficiently, or keep them under con-
troll. Ifevery father flogged his boy in
the good old fashioned way, every
time he lied, or was disobedient, or
gave indications Of precocious vicious
ness, or habitual heedlessness poor
little Valencia would not now be
stretched sightless on his bed of agony,
and countless sorrow would be spared
to all connected with or interested in
this unhappy case of accidental shoot
in0
Year: 1873

THE WORST OF IT.-Not the least
distressing feature in the present
collapse Of railway securities is the
active part which most of the so-called
religious press has taken in pushing


sales among confiding subscribers.
Throughout the country to-day are
thousands who, guided solely by the
representations Of these professedly
spiritual advisers, have invested the
savings Of years In bonds which are
now worth no more than the paper on
which they are printed. The rural
deacon, who has, by hard labor in the
mill or store, laid by few hundred
for rainy day; the country parson,
whose wife had a small legacy left her;
the well-to-do congregation of some
thriving village, with surplus fund to
these that are to-day victims of conf
mendatiOns indiscriminately bestowed
by venal press New York Courier.
Year: 1873

THE TARANTULA IN KANSAs.-On
Sunday last about 12 o'clock, while
Mr.. Waller, chief of the Quapaw In
dians, living three miles south Of
Baxter, was going about his farm, he
was bitten on the toe Of one foot by q
large tarantula. He Immediately
started for the house, but short dis
tance, and by the time he reached it
the pain from the bite was SO severe
that he was unable to sit up, and
threw himself across the bed. The
insect had crawled up his clothing,
and soon after he lay down 1t gave
him the second bite in the region of
the small Of the back. This, with the
other bite, charged his system with
the poison almost Is quickly as If by
electricity. Medical aid was mediate
ly summoned, but before it reached
him he was too near gone for 1t to do
any good, and in the most intense
agony he fingered until about 10 o.
clock that night, when death relieved
his sufferings.
Year: 1873

PIsCICULTURE.-Our friend +. A.
Spraguc of the Sespe, has been expert
menting recently in the fish culturc,
and thus far with good success. He,
in the first place. built small dam
with q screen, across little creek,
coming from springs, which rise on
his ranch, and this formed very nice
little clear fresh lake. He put in forty
or fifty small trout about the first OF
September, and now they are quite
large.


He thinks when the spawning sea-
son arrives, that his little family of
forty or fifty, will soon be increased to as
many hundred; and that he can make,
by increasing the size of his lake, a
successful and profitable business Of
trout raising. Those which were mere
minnows when put in the lake, are
now a foot long.-[Ventura Signal.
Year: 1873

north Of Europe and America diminlshes
the mischievous influences, but it does


not excuse either the ignorance or injus-


tice of the charge. Very probably this
| defamation will be translated by those


who have land to sell in the Northwest
and transmitted to Germany to deter any


stragglers who might possibly otherwise
come to Louisiana. 1t will certainly coun-
tersct the expected movement from Alsace
| and Lorraine, from which we were taught


some months since to expect SO much.
There has been series of acts in which
the political partisans Of the Bee have CO.
operated, and these acts are charged to


have produced the excessive debt and
taxation complained Of We will no:


enumerate the monopolies-from the
lease of the New canal in 1866 to the


grant Of the gaslight charter in lS7;-in


which these par:isans have participated,


and without the aid of these partisans


these exclusive privileges could not have


been granted nor executed. we will only
refer to the open adoption and combina-
ton made; with Governor Warmoth. the
alleged if not acknowledged chief OF
these measures during four years past. and
to the published and undisputed fact that
the Democratic members of the Legisia-
ture and the Democratic Administrators
of the city were as deeply committed to
the responsibility Of these Objectionable
acts as any others. In like manner we
may refer to tie quarrel over the ballot
box and before the Senate Committee
exhortation to 'agitate' which culmin-
ated at jackson square and in the sack of
the gun stores: the execution Of the writs
of amotion from Office in Grant parish
which caused the emigration Of more than
three hundred colored laborers to another
and we hope better world. Of all these
cooperative causes, none Of which could
have been effected without the aid
of the Bee and its political friends, that
journal says nothing. It charges all
upon its political antagonists. 1t may be
apprehended that our foreign friends pre-
fer to apply for the Intervention of France
upon the grounds recently indicated by
the Picayasne. These charges against the
Republican party will probably tend to
make France demand the annexation of
Louisiana. It may be enforced by send
ing an army Of occupation and enlisting
its own very numerous subjects here. In
such case the Bee man may expect COM
mand of a division at the very least.
There can be no possible use for the deta-
nation Of Louisiana except to make
cause Of French intervention. If that be
not the obiec: Of the Bee we can see no
other.
Year: 1873

anything to do with the warrants, is that
of discourtesy in not having been consulted
in the matter before Auditor Clinton took
the action which he did. Auditor Clinton
this morning told our reporter that he un.
derstood this, and was perfectly willing to
make every reparation in his power. even
to signing card to be written by Dubu.
clet; that all he desired was to have the
matter arranged, and he would prefer 20
have it amicably done, if possible.


If the above insinuation were true, i:
would show that Mr.. Dubuclet puts his
own personal dignity above his duty to
the State. We can not for moment be-
ieve that Mr.. Dubuclet is governed by
any such shallow considerations. One
thing is certair-if be relies on any such
lame defense before the Superior Court,
he will fail in the most signal manner.
Year: 1873

The Picaylne labors through column
and more of very heavy reasoning to
prove that the Treasurer must stop and
| examine the Auditors books when war
| rant is presented, and, if he finds them all
| right. must then examine the law
under which the warrant is issued to as
certain if that be constitutional. He may
then pay the warrant if there is any
money left by that time.


This is neither the law. the custom nor
common sense. And we apprehend that
any government disbursing officer in the
world who should attemp: to obstruct
business in such a senseless manner would
be sent out flying ss soon as the appoint
ing power could get a chance at him. 1t
was to relieve the Treasurer Of any such
delay anG trouble that the Office Of !au-
ditor was created. Although it was done
at frs: by au act Of the General Assembly.
the Auditor has been for years ranked as
a constitutional officer before the conven-
ton Of 1864 finally made hin, one. 1t is
simply the duty OF the Treasurer to pay
all warrants drawn on him by the Au-
ditor. unless he knows they have been
improperly issued. The presumption is
always in favor Of the validity Of war
rant, and the Treasurer incurs risk by
denying it. To justify him he must have
positive evidence such as would vitiate it.
He can not invent doubts for the purpose
of delay, or to give lean and hungry at
torney chance to air his eloquence and
show his ignorance Of law.


If the Treasurer were to pay warrant
issued in absolute error. OR even fraud.
no responsibility would attach to him IN
less it could be proved beyond a doubt
that he had knowledge of it. But if he
were to refuse TO pay one without valid
reason, he would be fined and be liable to
expulsion from Office. To men whose
minds are readily confused, this may ap-
pear little severe on the Treasurer. but
man Of good sense has 10 difficulty.
and, besides, we pay five thousand dollars
year, and the duties are SO simple that
they are next to nothing at all. And yet.
simple as they are. a man who should at
tempt to conduct the office in the manner
indicated by the Picaytae would be in
competent and perfect nuisance beside.
Year: 1873

4 miserable white man." who employs
the second letter in the alphabet to stand
for him in the columns Of the Picaynsae,
looks upon the object and intent of the
unifcation association to be to completely
subvert society. He bases this brillian.
pillar of thought upon speech or two OF
the colored folks at the Exposition Hall
meeting. Mr.. 3. reads Mr.. Lewis speech,
and finds the popular Colonel contending
for the abstract right Of men of his color
to appear in all public places. and enjoy
all the benefits and suffer all the
disabilities Of civilization from hearing
the gospel as dispensed by Father Ryan,
to drinking tangle foot whisky in first
class saloon. And as the negroes and
their political friends have the political
and agricultural power in their own
hands, there IS nothing to prevent then,
from having their own way, even if they
have to close a church or two. theatre
or a rum mill 20 do it.


The time has gone by when men Of Mr..


BIS stripe Of politics may stand up and
say what they will permit others to do.
1t is time for them to begin to reflect on
what they are going to do themselves. It
is time to inquire what they will be per-
mitted to do. Neither their advice nor
their vote is needed. The Republican
party is well supplied with counsellors'
and we have more votes than are generally
counted unless the commissioners Of cleo
ton are watched closely. Mr.. 3. speaks
of the colored people in one breath
as the dominant race and in the
next gravely discusses the proprioty
of admitting them to the ordinary
privileges Of citizenship. This is
sheer impertinence. How would he like
to hear the colored people discussing the
propriety Of permitting him to own prop
erty in this State, to appear in court, or
to enjoy any more privileges than they
enjoyed when they were not the dominant
race? The Republicans have right, de-
termination and force on their side. and
yet their impotent opponents plot together
to establish rules and regulations which
the colored people must observe as con-
dition Of their living in the State. As
unifcation means simply Republicanism
and nothing else, perhaps it is as we'll to
have as few such miserable white men,
as Mr.. 3. in it as possible. He is harm
less as an opponent, but might give Us
trouble as a partisan.
Year: 1873

Professor Wise. the aeronaut. is an angu:
Jar. firmly knit, fine looking gentleman.
with mos. agreeable address. and Of such
specific gravity as to carry him. if dropped
from sufficient altitude. straight to the
bottom of she ocean without the use Of
Year: 1873

A Troy man is writing biography of Me-
thuselah. He has been engaged five years
on the work and has just reached the boy
hood days Of the patriarch. His description
of the athletic sports of the young lad at the
age of 129 is very entertaining.
Year: 1873

Disguise it - yru may, but it IS NOR
ally certain that he war upon the
railroads" is the direct cause Of bring
ing wheat down to sixty cents per bush
d. Moderation il virtue that many
DO not possess, We hope for change
-6lsspood Eose.
Year: 1873

for Gen. GRANT: IL is possible that he may
not have known that JEFvERsoN was the
author of the Declaration Of Independence,
or that he had been for eight years Prcsi-
dent of tho United states.
Year: 1873

Under the influence of Tie increased
Fold supply Of the last twenty ave years aui IF
our Inflated paper currency, producing cnor-
nous speculntions. the wnrcs of labor have
risen higher than ever before. Now the epecu-
lation has collapsed aud we have hard times
before us. The wages Of labor will come down.
though not o az low a point az before the rise.
Hut there will he much suffering In the process.
Year: 1873

THERE was an auction of old furniture


at Portsmouth, N. H, the other day, when
a wealthy and aristocratic lady bid of a
chair at low figure. Subsequently she
noticed that it was slightly damaged, and
she therefore refused to consummate the
purchase. The chair was Immediately
bought by a gentleman from Massachusetts,
who was present for 60 other purpose, but
who had arrived after it was sold. Bis
eaperness led to. f.,quiry, and thus it tran
niTed that the chair was sat IN by both
Washington and Lsfayette, when they Wis
tied Portsmouth on the occasion Of the lat
ter,s last visit to this country. As relic:
are a weakness to the New English mind


the original purchaser is inconsolable. y
Year: 1873

Minister Nelson informs the Department
that the Mexican government expresses its
willingness to do everything in its power to
procure the removal of the Kickspoo In
dians who have wandered over the border,
to such reservations as our government may
indicate. The necessary Instruction have
been sent to the local authorities of the
Mexican States near the boundary line.