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Year: 1875

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Year: 1875

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The st. Louis Republican considers
it fact worth making a note OF, that
while nearly all the New England cotton
mills have been running on short time
for nearly a year, and several of the
largest of them have been compelled to
suspend work entirely, the mills IN the
south have generally been running up
to their full capacity all through the
dull times, and still IN full operation.
II is true these southern mills are not
declaring the 30 and 40 per cent. divi-
dends they declared prior to 1878, but
they are still making a profit and giving
employment to their fun complement of
operatives. The fabrics made at the
southern mills are in steady demand,
while those of the New England mills
are heaped up in unsOld and unstable
stocks-the reason fer the closing last
week of the Atlantic mills at Lawrence,
Mass, whereby I,250 operatives are
thrown out Of employment, being that
the company have a surplus OF goods on
hand which they caBnot dispose of. In
addition to this fact, it is stated that the
Georgia, South CRrolina and Tennessee
goods are driving the northern goods of
the same grade out of the market. They
could not do this unless they are manu-
factured at less eOst-and this IL the
secret Of the whole difference between
the condi t.s3of the mills IN the two
sections.
Year: 1875

FoR young children New York is at
present one of the deadliest cities at
no time do they thrive there overmuch.
but last weeks mortality among them
was exceptionally great. Under five
years of age they died at the rate of
eighty six per diem, the main trouble
being diarchual disease.
Year: 1875

This is what a bank cashier wrote
to Washington when he wanted reg
istered bonds" 81 may not have ex-
pressed myself properly, not knowing
much about this business of swopplng
bonds, but my intentions are pure and
innocent. wish to have these bonds
in such a condition that when burglars
ONE to my room at midnight, put a
pistol to my head, twist my nose, take
me by the ear, lead me to my hank,
compel me to unlock my safe, 1 can
contemplate the removal of my bonds
with q smile that is child-hke and
bland"
Year: 1875

MOSES TTttIl, Esq.


SIR: 1 regret to learn that you have seen
fit to make Objectionable comparisons between
me and the hero of that popular novel by the
eminent author Romeo Grub, ESQ, entitled
. Tho Bounding hummer Of the Big Gulch,
and I feel constrained to call upon you for an
explanation of your objectionable conduct.


Yours, &c, SAMUEL SHARP.


The recipient of this startling letter,
not having read the popular work,
would experience some curiosity to
know what the hero was like, and seek
ing the first book store maze purchase.
Year: 1875

The New York Journal OF Commerce, ?,
which is the organ of no party, but a
mouthpiece of the commercial classes,
speaking in their interest, and there
fore in the interests of wise and stable
government, dicusses IN an able man
ner the rumor that the Republican
caucus committee of the House, con-
sidering what is to be done to re-es-
tablish the party's lost ascendancy in
the South, will reccommed the decla-
ration of martial law in Louisiana,
Mississippi. Alabama, and Arkansas.
The Journal expresses doubt on this
point, because such q course would be
attended with an increase of risk, and
is practically unnecessary to accom-
plish the implied end. The removal
of five members Of the Louisiana Leg
islature under an escort of Federal
bayonets is pronounced as much an
exercise Of martial law as though pro-
claimed from the house-tops, and the
forcible eiectment of the Sheriff of
Vicksburg, in peaceful occupation of
his Office, is regarded as an act of sim
ilarly assumed Jurisdiction without
even as plausible technical excuse.
Thus martial law prevails, and in the
absence of all protest from the Re-
publican Congress, will doubtless pre-
vail during the present Administra-
ton. It is the "enaction" not the
"adoption of new tyrannical measures"
that is feared, and the manner in which
the Republican party is endorsing the
Presidential use of the military arm
shows that this fear is not without
foundation.
Year: 1875

Mr.. Charles Francis Adams, ir..


writes to The Nation as follows con-


corning the Louisiana problem .'But


what is to be- done to-day One thing


1 can see, and only one, can be done


Let the Conservative Legislature OF


Louisiana give solemn notice to the


whole world that they are now sub
jected by force to usurpation, every
act of which is null and void. and shall
be so treated hereafter. Let them
publicly declare that so surely as the


day of relief comes. every debt con-


tracted by the usurping government
shall be repudiated, every tax title is
sued set aside. Let them in one word
publish to the world the existing ad-
ministration of the State as fraud, by
no act of which will the people of
Louisiana be bound, as soon as they
are restored to the control of their
own affairs. This one solemn notice
given, let the Conservative Legisla-
ture hold up its hands in submission
and disperse; the rest may be safely
left to the people of the whole coun-
try. Two years is a short time, when
at the expiration of it relief is sure.
During that brief time let no Consery-
ative of Louisiana go to the polls or
enter a legislative hall; the worse their
oppression, the better. Let them sim.
ply submit. They need not fear
that day of reckoning will not come;
and then the Government of the
United States and all public opinion
will justify them in treating their pres
ant rulers as criminals and each and
every of their official acts as absolute
y and ab iiaitio null and void"
Year: 1875

It is a remarkable fact that the
President, in his late course toward
Louisiana, has received the unquali-
fed approval of only one important
body of Republicans, the Connecticut
Republican Convention Just held
This body declared "That we have
undiminished confidence in the integ-
rity and patriotism of President Grant:
we heartily indorse his recent special
message to the Senate OH the Louisi-
ana question and the principles con-
tanned therein" OF the various Re
publican: Legislatures in session, not
one has given the President words Of
appreciation; and dispatch announc-
ing that the Kansas Republican eau
Gus have resolved to indorse him, does
not constitute an important exception
Republican leagues and clubs through
out the country either dodge the sub
iect or adopt resolutions praising tie
President in terms so faint that they
amount to condemnation. Hereto
fore when the President, as the head
of the Republican party, took any i'm
portaut step, especially in Southern
affairs it has been the custom of his
political friends in Legislatures and
other associations to support him un-
hesitatingly. At every former crisis
he could always rely on these express
ions of confidence. But at this, the
most critical juncture of his official
life, he is cheered by few approving
voices, and those almost exclusively
belong to the men who hold Office un-
der him. The Louisiana outrage is as
warmly denounced by fair-minded
Republicans as by Democrats, and
this is one of the most encouraging
signs of the future
Year: 1875

Logan's speech on Louisiana is tc
be sent as fre-brand into the Vest
and the Senator is having it amply
illustrated with cuts of skull and
cross-bones, just as druggists label q
bottle of poison.


Many Of US have cause to rejoice
that we are not old Romans. In their
days "the debtor could be taken home
by the creditor and kept sixty days,
fettered in irons not exceeding fifteen
pounds in weight; at the end of which
time, if the debt remained unpaid, he
could be brought before the peo-
pie on three market days, on the last
of which his body could be cut into
pieces according to thenumber of cred
tors; or, if they preferred, he could be
sold into foreign slavery.
Year: 1875

tive, explained he had hoped there
would be not even the slightest evil
dence of politics in this matter, that
he did not believe there was in the
resolutions; they were proper de-
nunciation of an infringement of a
great Constitutional right, but as the
discussion had been entered into fully
by Democrats he did not think it right
thus to cut off the minority.
Year: 1875

You may do a man Thousand fa7ors
and offend him once and ne Will never
forgive you for the one offense; 1t out
weighs all the favors.


A very mysterious theft of diamonds
is reported to have occurred at the
Metropolitan Hotel, New York, on
Sunday last The room occupied by
lady residing at the hotel was entered
during the temporary absence OF the
occupant, and two very valuable rings
were stolen. The lady placed the rings
on the bureau in the room and went
down to dinner. When she returned
the rings had disappeared, and no clue
to the thief could be obtained.


In Sacramento one day the people
were puzzled and amused at seeing
the police compel every Chlnaman 10
stop and show the bottoms of his teet.
The officers would hold up one foot,
after the manner of horseshoer, and
critically exsmine the sole OF the shoe.
The explanation was that shoe store
had been robbed by Chinese burglars,
and the dealers stamp was on all 'ne
stolen goods
Year: 1875

A very curious discovery has just been
made in the Department of the Nieyre.
In marsh, near the old town of En-
trains, at depth of eighteen or twenty
feet, has been found gigantic stone
statue of Apollo seated. Unfortunately
it was broken in extracting it, but it has
been temporarily erected in the court
yard of the Marie. A singular circum-
stance is that it has on the neck a deep
incision made with a saw. Evidently
| an attempt had been made to decapitate
it, but the mass of material forming tho
throat and the waving hair had offered
such resistance that the iconclpclasts
had abandoned their task in despair.
Year: 1875

About a year ago a couple were mar
ried by Hartford clergyman now
preaching in New York, and started at
once for Europe. The bridegroom after.
ward found that $100 bill which he had
intended to give the minister as mar
riage fee was still in his pocket. On his
return to this country, he sought out the
minister and asked him about the fee.
"My friend, l received at your marriage
a very small quantity of tine-cut chew
lug tobacco, folded in very small piece
of paper,u was the minister's reply.
Year: 1875

me pin-not even when, being in a


particularly good humor, asked him
to stay ard share my not very sumptu-
GUS dinner. He just looks as usual, as
if there was nobody in the world but
himself. was SO nettled that thought
of repeating the invitation and point
ing to the young ladies chair but it
was bad thought, and I am glad now
that kept it down. He grew more
and more infrm until, at last, one New
Years he came and went in carriage,
although he would not make use of the
coachee's arm either in getting in or
out. I had sore heart and dim eye
looking arter him.


"The next year, you may be sure, I
was at my post as usual but when he
came near the house, was so fgety
and nervous that could not sit down,
but kept going from the parler window
to the door, and looking at the clock.


fThe clock struck and there was no
knock. Poor old young man! In ten
minutes more there wss the postman's
knock, and took the letter he gave me
into the parlor-slow and desoIate like.
The girl was out; we had hardly any
dodgers things were very blue indeed;
our dinner was almost failure; I was
sore cast down. But business is bus
mess, and opened the letter, which
was no doubt about the apartments, for
I never got any other kind?


"This time it was from country at
torney, telling re of that death and
clause in the will leaving two Thousand
dollars to me, for my troubIe in show
ing the lodgings that wouldn't suit. I
tell you I was took all of heap. The
whole twenty years seemed to be upon
my brain. The young man-the young
lady-the meeting he couldn't stand
the long loving looks across the street
the visits to the parlor where she had
lived, and sat, and never saw him-the
grave face-the sinking limbs-the
whitening hair-the empty lodgings
the money. was alone in the house
felt alone in the world and straight
way [ throws the letter down on the Ia
BILE, and plumps me down in chair,
and burst ont a-crying and a-sobbing."


Here my landlady stopped, and here
ends tale that wants nothing but in
cident, plot, character, coloring, be-
ginning, middle and an end, to be
rather more than of the common run.
The reader may write the history of the
young man in volumes, may complicate
the incidents TO his hearts content, and
marry them all if so desired, but he
cannot now find my landlady in the
lodgings Lat wouldn't suit
Year: 1875

| a World of Financial Philosophy for
Honey Lenders.


The usual rate of interest in the west


is ten per cent, and it is generally be-


lieved that this is the correct measure


of the value of money. If the measure


of the value of commodity is what it


will bring, this is true but if the true


measure of value is " lat the article can


be made to yield, it Ss not true. Ex-


perienced capitalists md business men


give it as their maHare opinion that


there is no kind of Hoperty as profit


able as money loaned ht ten per cent


which is tantamount to saying that the


average yield of industries, enterprises


and speculations is less than ten per


cent. on the amount invested, or in


other words, that money is not really


worth ten per cent. There are several


considerations that - ngbhen this con-


clusion. Money loaned at ten per cent


will double itself in seven and half
years: ten thousand dollars will grow
into twenty thousand in that time, and


twenty thousand will grow into forty
thousand. That the average investments
in business ventures and industries will
not do this is too well known to need q
demonstration. While hundred men
who loan money at ten per cent. COM
pounded, will, with prudent manage
ment, double their fortunes in seven
and half years, one hundred men who
borrow monty at that rate will fall, in
spite of all the prudence and foresight
they may exercise, to double theirs. So
far from it, fifty of them, if not more,
will break. There is nothing more
clearly established by the experience of
business than the fact that a man who
conducts his enterprises on borrowed
capital-whose only resources, or chief
resources, are the products Of bills
drawn on his shipments will, in four
cases out of five, come to bankruptcy,
and a farmer who mortgages his farm
for half its value to secure money at ten
per cent in hope that its net yield will
pay the interest and principal. will, in
four cases out of five. be sold out.
These plain ard we'll known facts ap-
pear to prove that the average annual |
product of money invested in COM
merce, speculation, industry and agri-
culture is not ten per cent, and that,
while it may bring that price, it is
really not worth it. IF all classes Of
borrowers in the west could be brought |
to appreciate this important fact, it |
would be worth millions to this region.
There is q world of financial philosophy |
in it. Nothing is more absurd, and, in
the long run, more disastrous than the
delusion that a man can get rich by
borrowing money TO speculate on it is
the secret of four-fifths of the cases of
bankruptcy that occur in business and
of the sheriff's sales that take place in
the co1ntry.-St. Louis Republican.
Year: 1875

The English fashion has become uni
versal in Washington in conducting
weddings. Groomsmen are done away
with, and ushers take their places. As
these last are essential to the number Of
eight, the supply of suitable and avail
able young men would be exhausted if
eight more were necessary as grooms-
men. Besides the effect around the
chancel is finer, if the girls pretty
dresses are not marred by the inter
mingling of black coats. Gentlemen
ought to rejoice that they do not have
to go through the trying ordeal of kneel-
ing around a chancel in full view of
hundreds Of eager, curious eyes behind
them girls who attend wedding just
for the sake of the scenic effecr. The
floating drapery of the bridesmaids ap-
pears to even greater advantage when
the fair wearers kneel in graceful pos
lures, but the men look ridiculous with
their coat-tails touching the steps, and
the soles of their boots turned upwards.
At glance the observers can easily tell
if those boots are old or new, and the
number worn. Sogroomsmen are things
of the past, and the best man has only
to stand by the groom until he receives
the bride. The ushers, after seating
the guests. walk up the aisles Of which
they have charge, after the bridal party
enter, and take side seats.- Washington
Letter,
Year: 1875

A NUMBER of prominent young men in
New Orleans have organized a society
under the name of the "Young Mems
Monumental Association" having for
its object the erection of monument
to the memory of the men who fell In
defense of the popular movement of
the 14th of September. One thousand
dollars have already been subscribed,
Year: 1875

The suit of Mrs. Edwin Forest for
her dover in the estate of the late
Mr.. Edwin Forest has been closed
by compromise. Mrs. Forest relin-
quished her right Of dover, and for
that REIMBURSEMENT receives assets
that aggregate $95, 600. OF this $95, J.
600 so, 600 are in the shape of a mort
gage on the Mount Saint Vincent
proverty in New York, the additional
$25, 900 in cash, from the Philadelphia
estate of the great tragsdian. 1t only
remains for the Auditor to acquiesce
in the settlement which the Orphans 8
Court approved. This approval was
applied Tor and obtained by the exec
utors, in accordance with the desire
of the Board of Managers of the
Edwin Forest Home" incorporated
by the Legislature of Pennsylvania.


So, after over twenty years Of liti-
cation, Mrs. Edwin Forest has re-
ceived the last of the actors earnings
that she is now ever likely to receive.


It would take but little strain of
the imagination to evoke the picture
Of the bitter husband rattling his pro-
test against his wife's receiving this
money on the lid of his coffin. He
clung to the stage till age and physical
suffering had untitled him for it,
seeking in its excitements refuge from
his bitter thoughts in retirement; and
when not acting, much Of his time
was spent in pouring over hisseeming
interminable lawsuits with the. wife
of his hate. He attained wealth. 1t
brought him no pleasure. He attain
ed to more than merit of the fame he
had acquired ere he had deserved it.
1t brought him no comfort. He


reached fairly the full height Of his
professional ambition, but in it he
found no satisfying delight. And
now that he is dead, and that his


name is inseparably entwined with
the art history of the country he so
| exclusively loved, the woman he


would have given his life to beggar


secures ample independence from his
vast earnings. He is a strange yet
powerful illustration of how utterly
that life is wasted whose chief mo-
tives of action are hate in lieu of love,
envy in lieu of emulation.-BroOklyn
Eagle.
Year: 1875

guards of burglary-with exemplary
severity. In Dorsetshire, England,
which ten years ago was overrun with
them, there is now scarce q specimen
to be found, 50 salutary has been the
repressive effect of the immediate ap.
plication Of treatment of treadmill,
crank, and bread aod water in all
cases where symptoms of vagabond-
age have shown themselves. But the
most discouraging circumstance here
is that if we do get ruf1ian into Jail,
he doesn't stay there. We should like
to know how many have escaped from
Sing Sing in the last FIVE years. Not
improbably some of those who have
distinguished themselves at Barre and
ON the Vandalia line are among the
number. At one of the Continental
ails they stain every convict's nose .
deep orange red with some obstinate
pigment, whose color does not fade
away for weeks, so that the nose be-
comes ,detector in case of escape.
Sing Sing authorities might take the
hint. None need it more.
Year: 1875

A Coop WoRo FOR THE BAswooD.
In the supplement see there is IN
article on the question Of forest t,ss
seeds for fall planting. 1t leaves out
one of the best varieties and I wish to
call attention in this article te this tree
| refer to the Linden or Eastwood,
There is no better tree for ornamental
purposes, grows semetrical, always clean
and free from vermin: grows fast and 10
as timber not wholly worthless. Tho
wood can be used for q great many
purposes that no other wood will do
for. The bark is used for several pur.
poses, and on the whole We may say it
is valuable tree The seeds can bs
gathered now for month to come,
kept until spring in moist sand in cel-
lar, and planted 10 carly spring, or if
one chooses he can plant in fall, I
would prefer spring. A bushel Of
seeds would plant enough for any farm
with other forest trees, and tho cost
would be 20 little. Let the farmers
gather even few quarts of seed aud
try the experimentation. Pioneer
Press.
Year: 1875

Col. KINGS CAsE.-The indict.
ment found against one Of the parties
named need not. we can assure The
Pioneer Press, fail ION account of the
alleged i!!egaiity in the drawing of the
grand jurors" or any other Irregular.
ty. So far as is concerned, Col. King,
we are authorized to say, will waive
any and all irregularities and defects,
either in the drawing Of the grand jury
or the indictment itself, will admi,
every mster;a! fact which the prose Gu
zion eau prove by any credible witness
on the lace or the earth, and demand a
decision in his case by the court and
jury whose duty it shall be to try him.
Col King does not, We can assure the
country, propose to have his case ended
before the courts by raising any such
question as that suggested by The


Pioneer. Press, and it will not be if be
can prevent it.
Year: 1875

One hundred sober men in Ohio.
went the other night to the county Jail
disguised, broke down the door, took
out prisoner accused of murder, and
deliberately hung him. This is the
most solemn and apparently 'ordsrly"
instance OF lynch law that has recently
dishonored our country. There was
no pretence of fear that the man would
escape justice. But the crime with
which lie was charged justly reused
the indignation Of the people, and
they unjustly violated the law and
murdered suspected murderer 1t is
a bad business, and men who thus take
the law into their hands and break it,
know not how soon they may perish by
the sudden wrath of their impatient
neishbors,
Year: 1875

Those gray headed old girls who go
about the country complaining that
their raven locks turned white IN
single night, may now seal up their
mouths. The British Royal Society
has made researches extending over .
period Of more than two hundred years
and failed to discover a single case Of
sudden change in the color of human
hair.
Year: 1875

BALD-HEADED Cons; ;Mpr1vEs.-
A medical journal published in Cleve-
land addresses the following queer
query to the profession


"QUERY-das any physician ever
seen or treated : bald-hcaded consump
tive ?"


We should say that there must be
and that there must have been, bald
headed conrumptives; yet the fact
that doubt is thrown over the existence
Of such persons by medical journal
would seem to show that they are not
so common as to be within the knowl.
edge Of every physician. We ourselves
have not, Of course, seen as many suff-
erers FROM the malady 10 question as
have coma under the observation of
some doctors but We cannot At this
moment think Of any one Of those we
have seen who'v as bald-headed. Con.
sumption is disease that preys upon
old people and We suppose its victims
are subject to the ordinary laws that
regulate the growth of hair. If not
why not New York Sun.