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Year: 1872

Decision Of TIE Case Against the Union


Pacific Railroad.


DENVER, COL, Nov. IA, 1872
In the District Court to-day decision was rem
dered in the cases of the Kansas Pacific Railroad
against the Union Pacific Railroad for $l,0O00OO
damages and to restrain the Union Pacific from
discriminating against the Kansas Pacific road.
The pleading of the Union Pacific Company In the
first case that this Court had no jurisdiction with
out their voluntary appearance was ovefruled by
Judge Wells, but their pleading OF improprlety IN
the summons in the second case was sustained
ana the case dismissed.
Year: 1872

In South Carolina lately has been en- acted another version of the told, old story" of mans inconsistency and woman's constancy. Alady now no longer young, after many years of waiting, has been married to her love, who was far from being true. She had supposed him dead killed in battle-and for nine long years had mourned his loss, refusing by the score ad mirers of her beauty and her wit, both of which W, ee more than ordinary, for she came of Huguenot stock renowned for their good looks and good sense, and an ancestress of hers was one of the beauties at the court of Catherine de Medicis and mistress to the King of Navarro. While she thus was mourning her life away her recreant lover was alive and well, and the husband of Northern woman. He had been left for dead on one of the fields of bat tie, but under the skilful treatment of the Federal surgeons and tender care of brown-eyed hospital nurse bad regain ed his lease of life, but lost the heart which was not his to lose. Taking ad- vantage of his death being reported he came to the North, and under feigned name married bis hospital fairy. With her he lived happily till the fall of 1870, when death took her away. Then at his deserted hearthstone the lonely man thought of his Southern love, and his old passion returned. He yielding to the yearning to see her again, and with three children, the fruit of his marriage, went back to {" old Carolina" and sham ed and trembling presented himself be- fore her. She, on her part, forgot and forgave him all, and has taken the VOWS dren.
Year: 1872

Two WOMEN FROZEN TO DEATH.-The severe storm which swept over the State of Minnesota, was attended with numer- ous casualties. Near Beaver Falls, a lady in the absence of her husband. endeav- ored to go to the barn and care for the stock. She was accompanied by her sis ter, aged IF. The two children were left in the house. Three days after the hus- band returned and found the children upon the bed, covered with snow, and nearly dead. Learning from them of the absence of the two women, he went in search. The body of the young lady was found about half mile from the house, and that of the wife over 8 mile out on the prairie. Several other fatal cases of freezing are reported in the vicinity of Windom.
Year: 1872

REsENTENcED. Ingrahan, of New York, resentenced Foster, the ear hook murderer, recalling to him the fact that his appeal had merely been on a point of law that had been overruled, and that whatever the sympathy of the Court for his family, they had but one duty to perform, to fix the date of the execution. He therefore sentenced him to be hanged on the 22d day of March.
Year: 1872

Persons who predisposed to dyspepsia, find their suferngs from this greatly aggravated by damp weather easterly winds and sudden changes mild to chilling atmosphere. In the spring. therefore, the bangs of indigestion seriously augmented by tho att mospheric variations peculiar to the season. and it ie deal of it's cold mists and nsalubrious gales with easy stomachs and untormented by the indescribable tor

 ents which accompany dyspepsia tone and strength en the digestive organs with healthful and effective vegetable nvigorant and at all familiar with the medical record of the age question for one me- ment that Hostetters Stomach Btte is the Tonic best adapted to this purpose.

 The credentials of the Great Restorative unequal ed in number and character ty those of other adver tised medicine in the world. If there prepa- ration to 4Rnk National Remedy, this wonderful specific has fair claim to the title For period of twenty years it has literally been the Champion Tonic and Ateratve this side of the Atlantic. In popular

 ty it has been approached by any of it's woudbe competitors and it's annual sales in advance of those of other medicine of it's class that compar issns would be ridiculous. One of two conclusions is inevitable Either the American people deficient common andincapable of rational discrimination Hosteters Btters is the best preventive remedy indigestion, fever and ague, bilious remttent fever constipation, rheumatism complaints, and all malades of epidemic endemic type. The reader will judge for himself which of the two conclusions most consistent with fact and reason.

 Money is thrown away by all who do not buy the CA BILE SCREW WIRE fastened Shoes. They the easiest most pliabe and servceabe Look out for mi-
Year: 1872

SUPPOSED INNOCENT MAN CONDEMNED TO DEATH.-A Troy paper says some time last summer an old man was pushed into the canal at Buffalo street and was drowned. A man was arrested at the time charged with the crime. He was tried at the last term of the court at Buff falo, and sentenced to be hung. His counsel worked hard and obtained re- prieve and then stay of proceedings. It seems that the guilt of the man is only proven by one Bernard Tacque, canal CT and pretty tough case. Tacque, it will be remembered, is the man who had his throat cut last summer, in drunken brawl at West Troy. He has figured pretty extensively in our police courts and it is upon the evidence of this man that the accused has been found guilty. On Monday, officer Farrel of the West Troy police force. Justice Grattan and Robert Casey were taken to Buffalo to prove that Tacque is not to be believed under oath. and that he is periurer.
Year: 1872

A Sioux City despatch says letter re- ceived from Col. N. s. Porter, an old and respected citizen of Ponca, Dixon county. Nebraska, says: "Ten men, in addition to the two reported, were frozen to death or are reported missing in Dix on county and in the Winnebago Indian Agency. The bodies of some of them have not been recovered, but the missing men have undoubtedly all perished. People living near the head of Logan and South Creeks obtain firewood on the Winnebago Agency. The weather being pleasant, large party were engaged in cutting supply of wood for the rest of the winter, when the storm suddenly came upon them, and of them; seven are dead or missing. A man named Austin, his son, and boy named Collins, were overtaken by the storm near Ponca. All three were frozen to death. Several other deaths have been reported, but no particulars have been obtained. The -suddenness and severity of this storm is unparalleled in this country, and was rendered more severe by reason of the snow being damp when the storm commenced, and afterward freezing. Several men who were in the storm say the snow and ice was positively six inch es in thickness all over tEeir heads, and it was with great difficulty they could keep an opening to breath through. The loss of stock in this part of the State is very heavy, and will probably reach several hundred head. It is feared that the worst is not yet known, and that more deaths have occurred"
Year: 1872

Mir. Nash, of Plymouth, Ind, is the most grateful being we ever heard of. He extends his thanks to his noble fel- low-citizens "for their kindness in pitch ing his household goods out of doors on the occasion of the burning of small barn near his house, on last Friday. } The goods were badly and unnecessarily smashed, and were in no danger what ever in the house, but he is very thank ful to the good people for their generous assistance.
Year: 1872

EXCITEMENT IN FRANcE.-There is much excitement in Paris over the dis covery of the last Bonapartist conspiracy. That there is some truth in the report of its existence is proved by the extra ordinary precautions taken by the gov ernment there as we'll as in the northern departments. In that city and at Yer sailles the police force on duty are doubled and the troops have received orders to remain at their barracks ready for action.
Year: 1872

Had hid his red face 1t ath the dark horizon.
While the low mutterns cannon wiea,hed in th'
smoke
Like raging tornado above them they broke,
And the sweet welcome cheer assembled on high
They hailed his return with tear stained eye
Still feeling weak from the effect of his tramp
He wandered one eve rom the white tented CAM
Down y lone road and men oft did boast
OF the terrors they'd seen there, phantom o
ghost
When the stars of the eve shone silent and dim
And the shades of the night with her mantle
grew grim,
He had scarce gone mile when, 10 ard behold!
Two fierce looking robbers demanded his gold,
One raised his musket with vengence and rage
A'torm stepped between twas the young faith
full page;
The bail struck his side, the blood It flowed red
But the page still undauntod shot the robber IL
dead
Alonzo with the other dealt likewise the same,
His shot it was deadly SO steady his aim.
As DER him swep. the dews of death,


The gallant young page lay,
And murmuring with his dying breath:


"a secret betray.


I'm Elvra here before thee


Once in hope you've carressed,
Little dreamed YOU it would be


Here forever | must rest.


One only kiss ask of yon-


l Ipray you do not weep"
She wispered soft a last adicu,


And sweetly fell asleep.


The dark snow-tipped, crested wave


Still beats against the strand,
And flowers bloom above her tomb


Upon forei "a land


OFT was seen by sunset light


Around that simple mound
An aged man whose hair WAS white,


Whose tears bedewed the ground
Year: 1872

\ MERRY laugh doelh good like a medi-
cine. Let your laughter be Of the good-ua-
turea sort. Or, friend, let me say 10 you in
the most confidential possible way, that you
will soon cease to laugh altogether, for it is
only the good people who can enjoy the kind
of laughter which cures Indigestion and keeps
away the doctor. Yes, laugh heartily at
each other, but with the very best intentions,
and don't forget that they are laughing at
you at tie same time. 1t is all fun, you
know; how can anyone raise the least oljec-
ton
Year: 1872




New YORK, May 25.-Mr. Sumner call
ed the attention of the Senate to report in
the New York Times representing him to
have said in Executive session that
Great Britain should have been promptly
notified when she proposed to break up the
tribunal that the result would be war.
There is not, said Sumner, a senator with
in the sound Of my voice who does not
know that l never uttered such "a
,thing in Executive session Gor In open
session. have no right to state what l
or anybody else Edid say in Executive
session but have right to vindicate my
self against calnmny and to deny speeches
falsely yfattributed to me.


At II o'clock the Senate went into exec
utive session on the supplemental article to
the treaty of Washington.
Year: 1872




The sentiment of the leading members
of the House of both parties is that Sena-
tor Summers emasculated civil rights bill
will not be reached by the House during the
present session. 1t is at the bottom of the
order of business on the Speakers table,
and there are more than hundred bills on
top of it which must be acted upon by the
House or be set aside by tWo-thirds vote.
Even the friends of the civil rights bill ad-
NIT that it has not two-thirds vote in the
House, and the possibility of its coming up
for vote before being reached in its regu-
lar order is very small.


There are but few important bills upon
the Speakers table-a dozen or more rela-
ting to railroads, about the same number to
private claims and pensions, and as many
mere to the Indians. Even should these
be disposed of, dilatory motions on the part
of the Democrats or other opponents of the
measure would defeat action upon it at the
present session. 1t may, therefore, be re-
garded as killed.


The Ku-Klux Bill


Is in the same condition. Many of the Re-
publicans are opposed to it, and should it
come up will vote against it, including
Garfield, Farnsworth, Blair, Finkeln-
burg, Hay and Amber. Most of
the Republicans regard the measure as
political flyer, and will oppose any action
upon it. If, however, it should come to a
direct vote as party measure, they will feel
compelled TO vote for it. The Democrats
will probably oppose the motion to suspend
the rules for the purpose OF bringing the
bill up, and will endeavor to avoid square
vote, Sut if they are assured that fifteen OF
twenty Republicans will vote to lay the bill
aside after it comes up, they will make nc
objection to taking it mp. 1t would seem
that a majority are opposed to the bill
which, in fact, is intended TO aid the cleo
ton of Grant by securing a considerable
share of the Southern vote.
Year: 1872

Tariff and tax bill has been reported to
the Senate. The committee on finance
propose the act shall take effect on July lin
stead of January, 1873. The House free li.t
is stricken out and new free list inserted con-
tanning the principal elements of both the
House and Senate free list. The committee
while fixing the consolidated tax on spirits
at zoe. recommend that section %, of the
existing law be SO amended that the tax
therein provided for stamps shall be 10c.
instead of 25c. The billlas now reported pre-
vides not Ionly for the repeal Of the special
tax Of four dollars per barrel imposed by sec
ton SO Of internal revenue act but also for
the repeal of the tax on sales of wholesale
and retail dealers and the tax on rectifers
sf50c. on each barrel produced in excess
of 300 harrals
Year: 1872

that have been cast upon my motives in regard
to my recent speech in Congress against
the nomination of Mr.. Greeley by the
from me. They need none here,


and if the whole tenor OF my life will not silence
such assertions no words would l have long
since adopted as a maxim that public man can
not be killed except by his own fault. If he is
in reality free from blame he will be yindicated


Calumnies may for the time being be heaped on
him, but he will survive them if his conscience
is pure. IThe shameless falsehoOds therefore that
have been hurled at me in this connection will
soon rot and be forgotten. Again, however, l
ask the Democrats and Conservatives of this
District who have heretOfofe supported me upon
principle whether 1 have justly forfeited their
confidence in the course 1 have taken in re-
gard 10 Presidential nomination at Baltimore.
Year: 1872

MEN THAT WOMEN LovE.-When New
ton usedhis lady's little finger for a to-
bacco- stopper, he dug his grave in the
female garden OF the soul; and women
rarely appreciate either DR.. johnson and
Dean Swift, because Of the absence in
the one of anything like romantic ten
derness, and its perversion in the other.
All they care for is that men shall be
tender and true to them, ideahzing as
lovers; as husbands, constant and indul-
gent; and for this they will condone any
amount of crookedness or meanness
which does not make its way into the
house. If he is complying and caressing
there, he may be what his evil likes to
make him elsewhere. SO long as he is not
unfaithful, and never gets drunk. All
the false glitter Of the corsair school is
due solely to the capacity for loving as
cribed to the heroes thereof. Though q
man 8 name be linked with one virtue
and thousand crimes" the one virtue,
being love, outweighs the thousand
crimes, in the estimation OF women and
Of the moro effeminate kind of poets; and
SO long as the "heart is framed for soft
ness. = it may be I" warped to wrong,
without doing him much injury with
them. The absolute rightness and just
ness of man count for little in compari
son with his tenderness.
Year: 1872

SCHOOL FOR ScoLDINa.-In the early
part of the present century scolding was
regarded among certain class iii En-
gland as an art to be improved by sys-
tsmatic cultivation 1t is said that q
witness, giving evidence before a Poor
Law Committee, many years ago, testi-
fed that in one instance within his
knowledge there was night school kept
by an old woman for the sole purpose Of
instructing children, and especially girls,
how to scold with vigor and effect. One
pupil would assume afictitions character,
called Mother Barlow, and she would be
pittsd against another, who would be
called Mother Cummins, for o con-
test Of verbal abuse, the teacher encour-
aging and prompting first one and then
the other as the exigencies of the case
might require. Such tuition was con.
sidered useful to the girls, not only to
enable them to defend their station .
in the streets, but also as tending tc
qualify them for the position of wives
and mothers. laiR laa H
Year: 1872

There was an interesting debate on Civil Service Reform in the Senate. Thurs day, during which it appeared that the Senators who are supposed to have the most influence with the President were, very naturally, those most opposed to any plan which would cut off their control of public patronage. Senator Carpenter un- dertook to say that the President had been over-urged into the business, and had faith in the practical measures of re- form proposed by the Commission. MT. Trumbull replied in defence of the practi

 bility of some system of Civil Service Re- form and there was quite lively dis cussion over the statement by the Con- mission that one-fourth the customs rev. enue due the government "was annually lost in the collection" Messrs Sherman and Morton thought this estimate mon strously exaggerated, and that 5 per cent would cover the entire amount of losses under the present system. a.

 Mir. Carpenter is no doubt right in holding that competitive examinations could not be relied on to secure high abil- ity for high positions. If the next vacan- cy on the U. s. Supreme bench was to be opened to competitive examination, the prize would very likely to go to some young lawyer just out of the schools rather than to those men of infinitely larger knowledge and wider experience who had not s'crammed for examination, g Itis in regard to subordinate positions that most can be expected of the examine tion system. In those no extraordinary abilities are needed; and the proposed plan would seem to secure most if not all the great ends desired. Such appoint ments would be non-partisan they would be permanent and they would secure men competent to perform their duties.

 Give the appointees, in addition, reasona- ble salaries, and the government might reasonably expect them to be honest. -

 Unfortunately most Senators and Rep resentatives are opposed to competitive examination, or to any other mode of ap- pointment which will deprive them of their present patronage. The President and the bestl men of both Houses hate the ''spoils'' system but the smaller the Senator, or the Representative, the great CT the importance of his political patron ageseems to him. This latter class will surely murder Civil Service Reform, un- less they are made to understand that in such event their constituents will mur-
Year: 1872

a A bill has been introduced into the leg

 islature of New Fork to abolish the rule

 which disqualifss for service on a jury,

 in criminal casss. any person who has

 formed an opinion upon the case. The

 bill provides that any one, otherwise

 qualified, may serve notwithstanding the

 formation or expression of an opinion,

 who will ''declae under oath his ability

 to render an impartial verdict according to the evidence, such impression or opinion to the contrary notwithstanding" And, to guard against abuse, thirty per- emptory challenges are allowed to each side. saaszasszs-s Esss

 This IS good move and deserves imi- tation in other States. The existing rule which excludes any one who entertains an opinion on the case, though the opinion be only derived from the news papers, and though it be only condition al one, is in these days an absurd rule and in it's practicslpperstion works only absurdity and mischief. The rule had it's origin in the days before newspapers, and before all our present means of obtaining full, detailed and speedy information. In those times it was possible, among men of equal capacity and fitness for the jury, to choose between those who had heard of the case and formed an opinion and those who had not. In our day it is not. We can't geta jury of men who answer the requirement, except by selecting the most stupid and ignorant people we can find; whereas formerly it was easy to find intelligent and competent men who had heard nothing of the case. now the only people whose minds are as vacant as the rule requires them to be are those entirely incompetent for g juryman's duty. For in these days the press immediately spreads the story of every important crime before the public in minute detail, and every body reads the papers, except a certain small minority too ignorant and too stu pid to be fit for jurymen or any thing else. It is absurd toexpect to find . man of sufficient intelligence to qualify him, in the smallest degree, for 8 iuryman who will not have read the papers, and who, having read them, will not have formed some kind of first impression about the case. The result of the rule must be to force the composition of the jury from the most ignorant and stupid persons in the community. Such is the result in ev- cry criminal case of importance enough to attract attention. A recent illustration was seen ill the case of Foster the street car murderer. .s.l..,s5, ,..4t~,.. j.
Year: 1872

LONDON, Dec. I, 1872
The Town Council OF Glasgow has voted the Free
dom OF the city to the Right Honorable Benjamin
Disraeli, who is now visit in the Scotch NUM-
cipality.


II is believed that the visit Of Mr. Disraeli which
Is made primarily for the occasion of his instaa-
ton as Lord Rector OF the University OF Glasgow,
will be taken advantage of a fitting opportunity
OF rendering marked civic honor to the ex-Premier
meeting OF leading conservatives OF Glasgow and
the West Scotland is to be held for the purpose OF
considering the advisability OF inviting him to
public banquet.
Year: 1872

The Weather I'm This City Yesterday


The following record will show the changes in
the temperature for the past twentyfo -four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year. as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
Pharmacy, HERALD Building
Year: 1872

The barometer will continue rising very
generally on Thursday east Of the Missis.
sippi, with westerly and northwesterY
winds and continued clear and cold wealth
or. Twill fall over the northeast, extend
ing to tie Ohio Valley and over the upper
lakes. q The brisk and high northwesterly
winds over New England and the Middle
States will probably diminish in force on
Thursday.
Year: 1872

The foregoing figures show what railroads
do for our commerce. That the Mobile
road should bring to this city more cotton.
in q week than the old established Jackson
road will certainly be surprise to almost
everybody who has not noted the figures
lately. New Orleans is the best market in
the South for cotton, and the facilities for
shipment are superior. The railroad be-
tween the two points has diverted the cot
ton trade from Mobile to New Orleans, and
if our merchants will hurry up their sub
scriptions and help build railroad to
Houston without delay, we shall have the
cotton trade of Texas in general, and Gal
weston III particular, within two years.
Year: 1872

James Smith, Of Washington county,
great rumpus among his hogs near the
house. Seizing his gun, he ran to the spot,
and found bear helpiag himself to one of
his hogs The bear started for tall timber,
closely followed by the gentleman and his
dogs, who finally succeeded in killing the
bear. Mrs. Smith protested against the
transaction as an infringement Of the Sab
over the more she was displeased, till final
Iy she declared "she would not remain thus
unevenly yoked to the ungodly," and fur
ther declares that she will pray Judge Up
ton, at the fall term, to grant divorce
She probably was sorry that her husband
was not killed instead of the bear-San
Francisco CqU