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Year: 1875

press uron the representatives of the press
that the remarks Of General Hancock were
not the result Of any deliberation Of the
Court. However this may be, it is well
known that Lieutenant General Sheridan ex-
pressed similar views before the convening
of the Court, and held that it would be much
better for Colonel Babcock and all concerned
nation before the civil courts.
Year: 1875

ANOTHER INJUNCTION AGAINST JERSEY CITY


Just at the time when the people Of Jersey City
achieved a victory over a private corporation which
would throw open them Washington street. Of the
main outlets for tratnc injunction has been Issued
by Chancellor Runyon restraining the Mayor and Alder
men from proceeding with the work This injunction
was issued on the application OF the Morris Canal Com
pany and the Lchigh Valley Railroad Company and the
application sets forth that the city attempting to
private property for public use without compensation
The Morris Canal Company claims title 70 the lands un-
der water by Of grant made to that company by


tho legislature on the 3lst of December 1874 The Board
of Freeholders are restrained Jointly with the Mayor
and Board OF Aldermen The injunction was served on
Mavor Traphagcn yesterday. The legal representatives
OF The city will appear before the Chancellor the 9th
of Spntpnber
Year: 1875

The excitement throughout the country and Also to
Some extent in Europe yesterday, consequent on the
announcement OF the failure of the Bank of Cali
fornia, very great. 1t quickly subsidized,
however, when time taken for reflection,
and 1t was that its effect would largo extent,
be local and confined within the limits of the cities of
Tho Pacific slope. II, however was the occasion
Of considerable discussion and was the prevailing
topic of the day all financial and mercantile circles
Late in the evening melancholy shadow was thrown
npon this great financial collapse by the start
ling story, that reached this city by tele-
graph, that Mr. Raston, the President
Of the Bank of California, had committed
suicide This appalling intelligence Immediately
put aside all monetary considerations, and the
story OF the career of tho great fnancier
that had come to tragic end on every tongue
This speedily gave way specuatons the effect
this suicide would have on the settlement of the
banks affairs and it was seen at once that a new
and entirely unexpected complication had arisen that
would demand immediate consideration.


Below will be found particulars of the suicide and
sketch OF Mr. Ralston's career.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Ralston the President of the Bank of Cali
Iorna and he received tho liberal salary of $50 per
rear for his services He early connected with the
passenger traffic between New York and San Francisco
md subsequently was member Of the banking house
h Donahoc, Raston & Co. He was one of the Com
mittee of Public Safety which prevented the Southern
srs from carrying California of tho Union and he
md his partner headed the Sanitary Commission sub
scrption with $4,000 each. He made money by his
pluck in the Washoe excitement and was among the
first to start the Bank of California d. O. Mills bccon.
Ing President and Mr. Ralston the ruling spirit As
cashier he received salary Of $40 900 year. and on
lhe retirement of Mr. Mills he became the President As
operator he noted for the bodnoss and brancy
of his achievements. He advanced money largely to
complete tho Central Pacific Railroad, and more than
he made bold dash clearing his thousands the
result of his spirit and foresight


Under his energetic sagacious and spirited manage
mcnt the Bank of California throve and within about
twenty four months the accumulated earnings of the
bank amounted to about City per cent OF the capital
II then decided issue stock to those entitled for
This and to open books of subscription for
stock to the capital TO $5,OOO,O ,OoO gold, then
equivalent to $4,000, 900 currency.


Everything worked well; a cash capital OF S. 900, 900
gold was paid up, and the bank continued to do bust
ness on an equality with most of the banking nsttu
ions of the country. But the crash came The bank
was concerned in great variety OF industrial enter
pres in California and tho adjacent States, the results
Of which well known.


In ways tho policy Of the bank was one
pf encouragement to the young industries Of the State
With an astonishing command of the details Of business
Mr. W. G. Ralston, the manager took an interest
In every scheme that promised to aid the commercial
prosperity OF the Pacific coast and yield fair return
pn investment The system Of spreading out" does
not seem to have affected the credit of the bank On
Mo contrary up to quite recent period the
Bank Of California was considered in that region
us stable the Bank Of Enga. a. Among the re-
;ent investments Of Raston the Palace Hotel
building San Francisco enormous structure said to
be the largest hotel in the world This caravansary to
cost about 81 900 when finished to DO ready for
guests on the 1s Of october next Mr.. William Sharon
Year: 1875

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The Wilmington Journal heartily en-
dorses the nomination ofHon. VIM. A.
Graham as a member OF the State Com
vention from Orange County. Says the
Jnnrlal


We beg leave respectfully but at the
same time hnst earnestly TO insist that
Governor Graham shall be member Of
the Convention and we frunkIy confess
ihat we DO 20 from whit may In a certain
sense bc considered selfish motives.


Ruled as these are by negro majority
the white people OF nev Hanover can not
expect that there will be any one sent
from this county, to the Convention who
can or will truly reflect their wishes. This
Ii simply out Of the question. for even II
that party possessed a man who combined
the requisite intelligence and the requisite
Integrity for the position, he could not be
elected In this situation we are forced to
look beyond the limits Of our country for
some one TO be our representative. And
" We were to search the State over we
could find no one who could do more for
,,s, who would take greater pleasure In
doing for us ail he could or whom We
could more implicitly trust than William
"A. Gralsnnr


Nor Is this true Of New Hanover county
slone. tits true OF ail the other counties
In the State cursed with negro rule, for
they too are utterly poweFlesr 20 help
themselves. II does seem lard indeed
that the very counties that best understand
the evil workings o(the county goyern-
meuts imposed by negro rule upcn Us
under the present Constitution should be
without voice In q Convention called "a
change the Constitution. But so tits,
mud therefore the grrat need that there
should De men Ia that Convention. who
without forgetting their own Immediate
constituents will zealously guard the
rights % others less unfortunate.


That Governor Graham Is such man
Il Is needless to say. His age. POSITION
exI3rlcnce. talents and Integrity, will
make him the foremost msn Ia any Con.
vent OF even Of her foremost men thai
North Carollnacan ever assemble. Added
10 this the views be eatertains Ia regard
10 the changes proper TO be made Ia ths
Constitution. point 70 him pre-eminently
as The man 81 whom the negro ridden
counties OF Eastern Carolina must look fol
relief.


We repeat, therefore. that We respect.
fully, but most earnestly urge that Gov.
Graham shall be member Of the Com
yenlival.
Year: 1875

THE second match game of base
ball between the Mineral Point BOYS
and the White Stockings of Dodge
vile took place on tue fair grounds
in this city on Friday. Quite a
large number Of people were pres
ent to witness the game, which was
characterized by good order, being
free from those howls from outsiders,
that rendered the former game an
hideous affair. The captain of our
boys, one of the best players, was
unable to take part on account of
injuries incurred during a previous
game with the Darlington club, that
caused the disarranger ent OF ithe
whole nine, III consequence Of which
the home club was defeated, the
game standing % to y. There Is
In this city the material for first
class amateur nine. but if they com
pete with the best neighboring clubs,
1t would he wcll for them 10 spend
more time 10 practice than they
have done heretofore.
Year: 1875

CARTWRIGHT q JAMES have Just
relitted their jewelry store and re-
ceived large stock of gold jewelry
and plated ware of the finest quality,
also watches and clocks of every
variety, and from the best factories
in the world. All are respectfully
invited to call and examine their
stock.
Year: 1875

YESTERDAY was glad day for
the members Of the Juvenile Temple
of Mineral Point. 1t was the day
of a picnic, which is always enjoyed
10y young people, especially if it is a
good one, and this was certainly
worthy Of that title. The process
sion formed at the City Hall, and
marched to the music of the band
to the grove of Mr.. Ross, where the
afternoon was spent in the best
kind of entertainments. The pro-
cession was as nice an aSsemblage of
youngsters as we have seen in the
city, and Prof. Moftett took advant-
age of this fact by taking beauti-
full photograph of the procession.
Year: 1875

"OF sack-cloth was my wedding
garment made;" and last night a
certain store was hung with Grape
that must have denoted either an
execution or living sacrifice. We
hope it was not the former.
Year: 1875

FOND DU LAC is in a sensation
over a three-year-old boy stolen by
an old woman /; and Green Bay is
in worse excitement over twelve
year-old girl raped by an aged and
prominent man. They are rival
cities up there, sure.
Year: 1875

ISN'T it fearful how the poor
prairie chickens suffer now. About
seven days in each week, we behold
young men going out of Mineral
Point to the slaughter The farmers
think that the chickens are not di-
minishing in number, 'only getting
a little shyer. That's ALL"
Year: 1875

THERE are few things harder to
refrain from than the stopping and
giving some responsible object a
good swearing at"when one destroys
good boot and smashes a great toe
on q broken sidewalk. 1t is some
thing that touches the feelings and
the pocket at once, and this is q
climax that the piety of most men
doesn't withstand. Now, to pre-
vent such inconveniences, would it
not be well for our SIDEWALKS to be
repaired ? The fair is approaching,
when an immense amount of travel
will be done upon them, yet in
many places they are in a miserable
condition. Pedestrians, in any part
of the city, are liable to strain an
kles, break limbs, and every other
mishap that can arise from bad
walk. A careful repairing of them be-
fore the fair would add to the credit
of the city.
Year: 1875

WE have Just received the Allan
tic for September, and as usual it
is filed with choice articles from
the pens Of the best writers, that
will take the spare time of many
days to read, as they deserve to be
read. 1t is magazine that ought
to be in the private room Of every
person of culture, and the only
wonder is that it is not read more
10y the educated classes OF the west.
Year: 1875

ONLY next Thursday, and the
Mineral Point Fair will be upon us.
A lively time maybe expected then,
but the pleasure and benefit of the
occasion Will depend entirely upon
the people themselves. Those who
go to such place expecting to see
something new and wonderful, al
ways go home disappointed. While
those who take some object to ex-
hibit, and 60 to examine carefully
the productions of their neighbors,
for the purpose of learning the i'm
provements in the different branches
ofindustry, always go home content,
for such is the object of the associ-
alton and those who spend the time
in proper manner, are satisfied
with the result. No expense has
been spared by the committee, in
attempting to make this the best
fair ever held in the place. There
is little doubt that these who have
patronized it heretofore, will come
again and take an active part, while
those who have not, ought to come
once and be satisfied that Mineral
Point can give the best exhibition
in the State, unless it be the State
Fair.
Year: 1875

SOME correspondent of the Chi
cago Times ought to have been in
Plattevile last week, to have "got
up" another sensation. The VT
ness says that at the closing of the
Esther Oratorio entertainment on
Friday evening last, while the red
light was being thrown on the clos
ing tableau, the curtains took fire,
and in an instant were all in flames.
For moment the excitement in the
Hall was intense, and notwithstand-
ing the Hall was packed full and
the aisles filled with chairs, a deter
mined rush was made for the door.
But by the prompt step taken by
Prof. Parkhurst on the stage, assist
ed by few more cool headed in the
audience, the fire was put out and
stampede prevented.
Year: 1875

We deem 1t our duty to call your atten-
tlon to the fact that every large quantities
OF fruits are coming TO this market and
selling at very low and unremunerAtive
figures.


We have conversed with several of the
principal fruit receivers, and a general
feeling Of classification is prevalent among
them; they feel a. though they could not
give satisfaction to their customers and
each one congratulates himself when he
gets the fewest number Of packages. The
reason "a plain there il no money here
among the people to indulge in eating it.
In view Of these facts, we advise all fruit
growers to find some ether market for
their goods, if il be possible, and AZ you
have no other outlet for your fruits, care
fully select your fruit and ship only the
best; as the common OF inferior kind will
not pay for freight and boxes. II there
be reaction in your favor We will not fail
70 notify you.-Soa u The Soil.
Year: 1875

A Wisconsin editor illustrates the pre-
vailing extravaganza of people nowa-
days by calling attention to the costly
baDy-carriages in use. When he was a
baby they hauled him around by the
hair OF his head.
Year: 1875

against that of heart disease or consumption
but after taking the 1rst-named risk, they pro-
ceed to shirk it. Whyf Simply because juries are
ant to decide against them when the question
at issue is whether the insured before suicide
was or was not insane. Small blame to the
jurymen. He would be q poor stick OF a law
yer who could not awaken doubt whether
the act of suicide is not itself evidence OF
mind diseased-a doubt older than our village
debating clubs, than the writings OF our early
dramatsts, than the essays of the Christian
Fathers, perhaps even than the Greek phi-
lOsOphies.


Tine anxiety of companies to avoid this risk
prOvOkes the question, is it of frequent occur
rencef II not they are foolish in guarding so
sedulOusly against it. If it is, if there be as
much chance to the average man of becoming
insane and killing himself, as there is, say, OF
death from small pox or sunstroke then that
is just one of the dangers for which his pol
icy ought to provide. 1t is because he does
not wish to leave his family in the plight of
the de Gorgeous that he insures at all. Nor
will the acceptance Of this risk he unjust to
other pOlicy-hOlders. 1t is not consequent
upon free act of the insured, like making
Illuminating powder, handling tro-glycerine,
going to Cuba in the sickly season, or even
becoming habitual drunkard-proceeding
against which policy may well contain pro-
visOs. Some Of the companies cover the
contingency of insane suicide by agreeing
in such case to refund with interest
the premiums already paid. That is certainly
better than nothing, especially if, in case OF
long insurance, the sum thus calculated should
happen to be more than the policy calls for.
Perhaps fairer way would be to agree to pay
the policy in full, provided the insured is at
the time of death confined and under treat
ment for insanity in public institution. This
would result in prompt care for cases of mel
ancholy threatening suicide, and the number
of deaths of this sort in asylums must be ex-
ceedngly small. But where the policy boldly
and markedly absolves the company from liability
in case of suicide, "sane or insane" the value
of the insurance afforded is clearly diminished.
Before paying for such policy it might be
well for the applicant to revolve in mind the
old law maxim, cdreat empt0r.
Year: 1875

Our readers will perceive that we offer to
them an unusually diversified list of schools


academies, and opportunities for private in
struction, from which, while they yet linger in
their Summer hotel or cottage, they can choose
the machinery which shall be brought to bear
on the brains of the children during the Win
ter. Whatever plans or aspirations they have
for their boys and girls here is every chance
for their qualification here is the clergy
mans widow in pleasant village who
offers a quiet home and religious train
ing, along with the necessary mental
food; here is the military school. where legs
and backs are drilled and the hygienic school,
where hobbies of diet are put on trial, and the
fashionable country school, where Misses and
Masters from town are invited to the advan-
tages of pure air and natures beauties, vet
are not permitted to lack the necessities of
liveried servants when they drive abroad, and
four courses when they dine; here is the fash


ionable city school, to which young ladies from
the West can come, according to the
popular vernacular, to be polished, and
have their solid requirements colored
and vanished by knowledge of
drawing room accomplishments and etiquette: {:
Year: 1875

A recent decision of the Court of Appeals
seems to have met lOng-cherished wish on
the part of life insurance managers. Perhaps
in this, however, as in most cases where they
successfully contest death claim, they have
won pyrrhic victory. AS q rule, every dol
lar saved by such lawsuits is lost in dimin


ished popularity. al will never insure with
"yOur Company, because it disputed Mrs. So


" "and-Sos claim" is an answer which most
soliciting agents have learned to accept as
final. Possibly this consideration may explain
the fact that in instances where o deceased
insurer is Of wide public celebrity, dispute
about the claim rarely reaches the courts. We
cannot say that we ever heard of Mr.. Fabian
de GOrgOza before the suit of Mrs. AntOnia G..
de GOrgoza was brought against the Knicker-
booker Life Insurance Company, and even
that might have escaped us except for the
very evident satisfaction with which the deci-
sion in the case has been hailed by the insur-
ance journals. Mr.. de GOrgoza shot himself
The testimony proved his insanity previous to
and at the time of death. The policy con-
tanned prOviso which made it void in case
the insured "died by his own hand or act,
" sane or insane" The Court decides that the
Company is not liable for the insurance.


We do not quarrel with the merits of the
decision. The unlucky de Gorgozas made
bad bargain in taking such policy and pay
ing full price for it; but the Company had
perfect right to sell the instrument for what
ever the buyers chose to give. If the Com
pany should also make its assurances void in
case of death by any form of violence or acci


dent, doubtless the policies could be so worded
as to evade liability in all such cases; but
most people of sense would not be willing to
pay much for an insurance that covered so
little risk. The companies are strangely SEN
sitive On the point Of suicide. They cross
question each applicant narrowly, to find out
whether there is any personal or family ten
dency to insanity. They provide against the
risk of suicide during insanity, just as they do
Year: 1875

Since In our first table we have included the
amount Of the overdue and unpaid State tax
as part Of tho City Debt and since that
amount is less by $1,043,359 90 than it was
on Aug. /, 1874, it is fair to consider that
difference as 80 much money devoted to the
payment Of Indebtedness. This would bring
the net expenditure for tho year down to
s4s,1e4.291 e4.


The third point regarding which Controller
Green fails to give us simple and direct infor-
nation Is that covered by the question:
Whence comes the money to nay the expendi-
Year: 1875

We are in doubt as to the correctness OF the
second item, being unable to satisfy ourselves
that there is not included in it considerable
sum derived from the sale of bonds issued 10
pay vacated assessments. Our first table shows
an increase of $4,255,110 SO in the net IN
debtedness, and that is the sum by which the
taxes of 1874 should have been increased TO
keen the Indebtedness from increasing.
Year: 1875




The last hopes of ascertaining the fate of
Charley Ross will concentrate about the trial
of William Westervelt for conspiracy to kid
nap and extOrt money. 1t is thought that If
this man is convicted, he will reveal what he
knows, and it is supposed that he does know
something of the whereabouts of the child.
Faint as are these hopes, they will be shared
with the relatives of Charley Ross by every
reader.


The news from Bosnia is growing in impor-
tance every day, the rising of few bodies OF
peasantry less than two months ago having
since assumed the magnitude of a revolution
threatening the dismemberment of Turkey
According to yesterdays kilograms Herzego-
vina has Provisional Government; Servians
have invaded Turkish soil and both Monte
negro and Servia are preparing actively for
war. The report which comes with this news
of the abdication Of Prince Milan of Servia
makes the situation still graver He said
lately that he would yet be sacrificed to his
love for peace, and it is very probable he has
been.


Mr. Phillips President of the Third Avenue
Railroad. appeared yesterday among the re-
monstrants against proposed plans, before the
Rapid Transit Commissioners, and entered
vigorous protest concerning an elevated road
on Third Avenue. Of course the proprietors OF
any of the surface lines Of travel will object
to having 80 formidable competitor In the
same street with them, and in each instance
will see good reason why the new road should
be built on some other avenue than that where
their own cars are running. The Commission
ers will, however, be expected to select
route chiefly with reference to the greatest
benefit to the whole city.


A letter from our correspondent at the scene
of the lately threatened insurrection in Georgia
describes the appearance of Sandersville and
the negro prisoners there held under arrest by
q military guard. Although new rumors keep
the village In continual state of excitement,
our correspondent is not thus far, strongly
impressed by any appearances of danger past
or present to the white residents. In some Of
the towns on the route thither it is already
admitted that their early fears lacked foqnda-
ton. 1t is to be hoped that the trial Of the
prisoners will be conducted in the fair and
impartial spirit with which it is opened by
Judge Herschel V. Johnson's charge to the
Grand Jury.


Advices from Disco, Greenland tell of the
safe arrival there Of the British Polar Expedi-
ton, and its departure thence on its perilous
voyage to the north. 1t is not probable that
we shall hear from the Adventures again for
many months. The programme of the Expe-
ditiop, as set forth in the dispatch. seems to
take It for granted that the Pole is surrounded
by land and con be reached by sledges. Of
course nothing but exploration can determine
that Smiths Sound is closed at its upper end
by land, and that there is not an open sea be-
yond. Different theorists have drawn varying
inferences on these points from the facts OBJ
served in polar voyages, and the whole matter
at present lies open to conjecture.