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Year: 1873

A MULE in Memphis is supposed to have
a propensity for practical jokes. Being at
tached to street car he became perfectly
immovable. All the men in the car got out
and were pushing it with all their might,
when Mr.. Mule dashed Oh at full speed, leav-
ing them all sprawling in the mud. They viii
net be so ready nezt time to help distress
ed driver
Year: 1873

An Anti Tax.Paying Campaign.


NEW ORLEANS, March THE McEn-
cry government maintains their position
with the people and will organize resistance
to Kellogg in every manner except by force.


A central committee has been formed
with branches in every parish to resist and
delay the collection of taxes. They de-
clare their purpose to withhold all support
from the usurpation forced upon the people
by the military power of the general gov
ernment. The city is very quiet. The
military have returned to their quarters and
the police to their beats.
Year: 1873

Portsmouth, N. H, proposes novel
method of forming q public library, by in
ducing every son of the city who shall visit
it on the Fourth of July next TO 'march into
town with book under his arm"
Year: 1873

The perversity Of the Postmaster General
in regard to the collection of double post
age on mail matter that has been insutfi-
ciently prepared, is almost without parallel
in the history of executive rulings. Having
been admonished by the House Postal Com
mittee, and not sustained by the Attorney
General, he went to Congress and attempt
ed TO have the obnoxious rule made law.
Defeated there, he still persists not to col
lect the double postage on letters, but upon
otler matter. A EH
Year: 1873

40 EAST THIRTY.SIXTH STREET NEAR LEN
TO ington avenue.-9ne or two pleasantly furnished
Rooms with without Board suitable for gentleman
and vile tor light housekeeping; would give privilege OF
kitchen.
Year: 1873

d, = AOO A GENTLEMAN IN GOOD CREDIT
'DC.UOU. who has been furnishing material and la
the city and Is its creditor, would like to
his active attention to legitimate business outside
the pool OF politics. Address MACADAMS, Herald office
Year: 1873

1t is an interesting fact that
the imports of dry goods at New
York during the month of Aug
ust have been a million and o
half less in value than in 1872,
and four millions and a quarter
less than in 1871. Our total
imports since the beginning of
the year are nineteen millions
less than last year, and eleven
millions less than the year before
last. We are not running in
debt abroad as fast as we we're.





IT COSTS the Government $40
to carry a letter from Boston to
Montecello, Fla.
Year: 1873

The Importance OF the Port


age Lake Ship Canal will be
highly estimated when it is un
derstood to be worthy Of men
tion In connection with those
valuable results of human in
duslry which remove impedi-
ments to the transit of the pro-
ducts of, agriculture and other
commodities between the var
ions ports of the great inland
seas. Steamers or vessels
bound up or down Lake Supe-
rior, calling for cargoes from
Portage Lake, have heretofore
been compelled 10 20 forty or
fifty miles and return out of the
straight course around Kewee-
nav Point.


Most of the copper produced
on the Southern shore of Lake
Superior has always been and
will continue to be sent from
Portage Lake. More than
10000 of the $1,000 tons OF
copper produced last year were
shipped from it. BY the canal
passage, round Keeweenaw
Point will be saved. The pas
sage round this Point has al
ways been regarded with dis
like by sailors, and In foggy or
heavy weather is dangerous,
the harbors being available
only for the smaller class of
boats. The actual distance by
measure from Portage Lake
around the Point is one hun
dred and twelve miles, and the
distance TO be sailed over is
still greater. But from Hough.
ton to Hancock through the
ship canal to the open lake is
only nine miles.


There is no doubt that at
some former period the penin-
sula or "polnt" north of Port.
age Lake was an island, as now
by the labor of man it has
again become. The channel
between the island and the
main land had, for a long dis
tance been filled up with sand
to The height of at least twenty
feet above the lake. In the
course OF the recent excava-
tions, large trees buried for
many centuries, have been
brought to the surface, and,
stranger yet, tools ane imple-
ments curiously fashioned from
copper, and evidently wrought
by a now unknown race, have
also been discovered.


The whole work is now near
ly completed, and there seems
to be no doubt tn at the In
crease of the tonnage brought
to Portage Lake from the West
will be followed by the widen.
ing, deepening and straighten
ing OF the channel eastward to
Lake Superior. Cour-
Tor.
Year: 1873

IMPORTANCE OF KILLING FRESHLY CAP
TURED FIsH.-As this is the season for Della
ware shad, our fishermen may learn useful
lesson, as will benefit the community by observ-
ing the following, taken from Harper's Annual
Record: 1t has been remarked by travellers
in Holland that the river and sea fish in that
country are of remarkable excellence of taste
and apparently possess much frmer flesh than
those of other regions. This, however, results
simply from the fact that the fish are always
killed at the moment they are taken from the
water, while in most other countries, they are
allowed to die slowly; and with the great
tenacity of life possessed by these animals,
many hours, and even several days in some
cases, elapse before actual death enSues. The
attempt to offer for sale birds or beasts that
have died by what might be called natural
death or have been killed by drowning (as fish
are in the air) would very soon be met by the
action of the police authorities. There is also
some choice in the method of killing this in
most cases being by violent blow on the head,
or against the side of a boat. which is far
better than allowing them to die slowly. The
practice in Holland, however, is to sever the
spinal marrow and the arteries of the neck just
back of the head, and the blood is allowed to
escape. The difference in the taste of fish
killed and those allowed to die, is most marked
in those of vigorous habits, and containing
much blood, such as for instance our own blue


fish, land perhaps our shad.) Experience has
shown that fish killed in this way, and bled,
will retain their firmness and freshness very
much longer than than those allowed to die in
| the ordinary manner" K.
Year: 1873

OLD AGE.-An old man is like an old
wagon; with light loading and careful
usage it will last for years; but one heavy
load or sudden strain will break it and
ruin it forever. So, many people reach the
age of fifty, or sixty. or even seventy,
measurably free from most Of the pains
and in6rmities of age. CHEEKY in heart and
sound in health, ripe in wisdom and exper-
ience, with sympathies mellowed oy age.
and with reasonable prospects and oppor-
tuuities for continued usefulness in the
world for considerable time. Let such
persons be thankful, but let them also be
careful. An old constitution is like an
old bone-broken with ease, mended with
difficulty. A young tree bends to the
gale, an old one snaps and falls before
the blast. A single hard lift, an hour of
heating work, an evening exposure to rain
or damp, severe chill, an excess of food,
the unusual indulgence of an appetite or
passion. sudden fit of anger, an improper
dose of medicine, any of these, or other
similar things, may cut off valuable life
in an hour, and leave the fair hopes OF
usefulness and enjoyment but shapeless
wreck.
Year: 1873

won't do; give me another" But he was
not able to stand that; and he looked at
me as if he would have murdered me, and
roared out. q" l did not speak to you. SIR"
L told him that he spoke to every man
who had grain of reason and common
sense, and l appealed to his friends
whether 1 had right to claim that char
acter and, amid great laughter. they
declared that it was evident 1 had too
many grains for him. And there 1--WE sat
till we had finished the argument. Tais
snfices as an illustration of practical
mode of dealing with su h men. Almost
everything, under God, depends upon a
wise and judicious commencement and l
believe that ninety.nine per cent of
your in6delity is like this young mans,
and that one breath of Scripture and COM


mon sense will blow it all away.
Year: 1873

We have been with martial tread
To the couches of the dead,
Where our fallen heroes lie;
To the couches of the dead
Shalt it though tlessly be said?
Do our hsross ever die?
We have placed upon their mound,
Mid the dirge's solemn sound,
Emblems fragrant, fresh ani bright.
We have owned their martyr life,
Their selfsacrifce in strife,
Yielding all to save the right
Fitting service this to do
For the noble and. the true,
Thus to keep their memory fair,
IT'S but interest on debt,
We should gladly ne'er forget,
F or the peace theu bought we share.
But is this the only way,
On the decoration day
Worthy tribute to lay down?
Do the evergreen and flowers
And these consecrated hours
Our whole course of duty crown?
Something more our martyrs claim,
In the country's sacred name,
Than mere pageant to their praise
Fen that holy deeds be done
By every loyal son,
Thus the nations worth to raise.
They for principles did give
All twas worth for them to live,
Still the principles remain
On each new demand for strife,
They entreat that with our life
We their precious cause maintain.
Their voice from death sounds clear,
And who will may surely hear
"Be ye true to truth for aye


For fair freedom, goodness, peace
For the peoples real increase
In all justice, purity.


Lift ye wisdom's banner high
On each passing breeze 10 fly;
Have it catch light from above,
Give to piety place


Where twill suffer no disgrace,
Held in everlasting love-"


Patriots, heed their strong appeal;
Guard ye well our common veal;
Pledge your powers to keep their trust;
SOyou'll please the nations Col;
And you'll best adorn the sol
That now covers patriots dust.
Year: 1873

The saddest case on record is that of the
want of Bible at the Inauguration Of .
Missouri Governor. The ceremony was
detained until messenger was sent over
to the penitentiary to procure copy,
Year: 1873

NEW LIFE-PREsERvER.-Muc amusement is
caused in New York by small cards gratuitously
circulated about the streets with small cork at
tached by string, and having the following
printed upon it in large letters: - The most
horrible death is TO be talked to death. To pre-
vent the above terrible fate use the patent life
preserver attached to this card. Directions-Put
the cork in your ear
Year: 1873

california court for admission to citizenship on
the ground of service in the navy, was asked if
he had an honorable discharge. - No. said he,
YOU see we left the ship in big hurry, and |
didn't have a chance to see Captain Semmes, or
else / should have got an honorable discharge.
lie didn't get his pape.S.
Year: 1873

1t is easy in the world to live after the
worlds opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after your own; but the great man is he who,
in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect
sweetness the independence of solitude.
Year: 1873

Now a man in San Francisco has taken oc-
casion to do his numbering while asleep. He
thought he was being robbed, and so got up
and shot his room mate without delay. He
was dismissed on the ground that the shoot
ing was entirely accidental, which will be a
comfort to his future room mates.
Year: 1873

No fashionable house is complete without
its conservatory. 1t is to be noted that in
the range of modern fiction, the great major
ity of the love scenes are located in conserva-
tories.
Year: 1873

1t must be rather embarrassing for dead
man in public morgue to be claimed by
three different widows as their long lost hus-
band. His reputation is likely to suffer. A
Brooklyn corpse is now in this unhappy con-
dition
Year: 1873

denly-all at once, as il were, for You have
set down on brler. Then VIM. Henry,
who has quAtled an unreasonable quantity
ofIemonade gets the collie and his mother
goes into Mysteries because she think1 be
Is poisoned with poke.berries. You lay
him under an umbrella, and proceed to
climb a tree in order 10 fix q swing for the
girls. After skinning your hands, tearing
your trousers and running your coat, you
get to the top, tie the rope and undertake
10 come down on it. You do come down,
with velocity, and your fingers are rub
bed entirely raw. Just then II begins to
rain furiOusly, and the whole party stam-
pedes TO the depot for shelter. When the
shower slackens you go back to the
ground 10 get the rope, and just as you
get up In the tree the owner OF the place
comes along with a gun and a dog, and
threatens 10 blow your brains out and eat
you up il you don't leave Immediately.
Then you come down again with Celerlty,
and get over the fence as il you were in
earnest. Going home in the train oil the
passengers regard you, from your appear
ance, as an escaped convict, or q lunatic
who has broken from his keeper; and
when you reach your home you plunge
into shirt, cover your hands with court
plaster, and register solemn vow never
10 90 on another picnic. And we are
with you; we never will either. r.-Udr
AieleT
Year: 1873

be granted at the meeting this evening


One ounce oI tlis kind Of prevention
will be worth pounds ol cure. II will be
infinitely cheaper 10 money and life, tG
ward OF an epidemic by such means than
70 sit down Supinely and let 1t deCimate
our population and stop business. Every
city east and west Of US IS busily at work
We should no longer neglect nor TITLE
with means Of safety, There IS enough
scientific knowledge 10 the city to indi-
cate the measures d prevention that are
ueedIul wetrust there iS enough intelIi'
Rence in Council to direct their employ
meut and enough energy in the health
department 10 employ them.
Year: 1873

sPRTNdFrELD, July 7.-The Republican
says Vice President Wilson has paced
into that stage Of health which Chase 20
long occupied, paralytic invalid, to
whom lie Is Of most uncertain duration.
The nature Of his disease may not utterly
destroy his usefulness as q man and pub.
lie servant, but will undoubtedly limit bis
ambition and activity. With careful
nursing and cessation of exciting toll, he
may yet enjoy for many years Q kind Of
an honorary post In our public councils.
Year: 1873

The San Francisco Bulletin says: "An in
fatuated youth with banjo opened strain OF
impassioned miDstrelsy, last night under the
windows OF boarding house on Clementina
midst of Sweet Spirit. Hear my Prayer by
person in the third story who had to empty
scuttleful of ashes. A policeman who pass
ed the scene Immediately after the incident
asserts that it was the toughest praying he
ever heard in his life"
Year: 1873

A cynical writer in the New York Mail
says: ''There are two reasons why people at
watering places never mind their own bust
ness. One is tina. they have no business, the
other that they have no mind"
Year: 1873

The election for United States Senator
takes place one week from to-day. We
trust our friends of the APPEAL will ad-
wise us in time as to who will be the
successful candidate. Although we are
on the ground, the APPEAL views the
conflict from distance, and of course
from an entirely independent and nom
partisan standpoint, and therefore is bet
ter enabled to arrive at a correct conclu-
sion. Little Rock Gazette.
Year: 1873

The Pittsburg Commercial, concern
ing the convention to be held at Cleye-
land to form National Irish League
for political aggrandizement, says:


g No one will question the right of
these men to hold such gathering and
carry out such programme, il they
can but the movers in it need not
complain If it should be followed bv
another convention Of those who are
content to be called American citizens,
without regard to their nationality,
and who will pledge themselves to put
an end, if possible, to all this misera-
BILE twaddle about particular NATIONAL
tiles not having their proper share of
offices. The American Government
was not established to perpetuate the
national grudge or antipathies Of those
who come here from the Old World,
nor TO keep up national distinctions
and peculiarities, but to merge men of
all nations into one. The lrishmen
and Germans who come to this country
leave Ireland and Germany behind
them, so far as nationality is concerned
and become American citizens; and
ii is both silly and ridiculous to at
tempt, thereafter, to reclothe them
selves with the nationalities they have
thrown off.-Woshington Chronicle.
Year: 1873

Some farmers complain that they are


always behind with their work on ac-


count of not keing forehanded enough


to carry on their premises independ-


emily; that they have to help. their


neighbors in seed time and harvest be-
fore attending to their own farm inter-
to do their work. Now the man who
gets in this rut is destined to remain
there just so long as he has not resoiu-
ton enough to extricate himself by
change of practice. Rather than i've
ip such condition of servitude and
self-robbery he had better pay four
times the real value of seed. tools aud
help, and mortgage to do it, and then
keep fully up to the time.


Here aud there, all over the country,
let the season be what it may, will be
found every summer inferior fields OF
grain, the result Of had seed or late
sowing, and spindling corn of late
planting. In winter will he found mp
on these farms poor stock, because fed
upon hay which was not cut until it


had lost nearly all of it, nutritious ele-
ments. The loss attending such man


agement as this one year should be


lesson TO the'one who suffers by il, but
it is not, for as before stated, he thinks


that his circumstances viii not allow
OF different course. The husband


man who is always behind time in his
farm operations is, in addition to the
Inconvenience alluded to, subject to


the tricks of sharpers in the CONNER


cial world. AS soon as an article of


produce is marketable ii must, through


the ever pressing demand for money,


be sold, let prices range as they may


and this subjugation of class has an


effect more detrimental upon the pro-


duce market than any other influence


brought to bear upon it. So whole


community is afflicted by the inadver-


lance of a class.
Year: 1873

The leading organ of the Democratic
party in New York city is greatly dis
pleased with the President for the ap-.
pointment OF Governor Jewell as Uni
ted Minister to Russia, because The
Governor is said to be a tanner. THAT
modern Democrats do not like me-
chanics needs no demonstration. Their
Southern allies say they are greasy.
The Democracy are courting the farin-
ers just now. How long viii it be until
they will revile themas ssmali fishes r.
Not longer, we opine, than the period
when they find them not be useful in
the election of Democratic nominees
for Office Washinyton C'hgoaicle.
Year: 1873

. l.
| IL Is maxim well settled that the


courts of the country should be far re-
i moved from the ecccntricities Of the


popnlace, the enthusiasm of the hour
that sometimes settles down upon a


community. tits expected and greatly


to be desired that judges shall dispas-
sionately adjudicate upon all questions
submitted to them, as nearly free from
outside matters, as may be possible. =
The country rightly thus considers the
province of the bench.


While this view is eminently proper,
yet 1t is not true, but that the courts
ought in . proper sense to receive tone
and bent from the popular pulse. In
the great struggle that is going for
ward in the world upon the vital qnes-
tion of human freedom, it is impossi-
BILE for judges like legislators to be
free from more or less of the bias of
opinion. 1t is natural, it is inevitable,
that judges like other men should in
cline to base opinions upon, or at least
have their opinions Influenced by the
peculiar views they entertain upon
questions Of public polity. This al
ways has been the case and always will
be.


A few years ago the Supreme arbiter
of constitutional law in the land, was
SO constituted thatit saw guaranty in
the constitution for the Dred Scott de-
cision. Unquestionably this opinion
was the result of the bias of the minds
Of the Supreme Judges of the United
States, at that time being favorable to
American slavery. The weakness of
human Judgment is irrevocably doom
ed to just such exhibitions; all history
exemplifies it. The popular heart re-
volted, at least the larger moiety there
of, and the Supreme Court underwent
a revolution at the hands of the people.
1t was well; it was a grand advance
step in the cause OF liberty. Such for
ward movements are the salt Of the
earth, and cobweb courts standing in
the way ought and will be pushed
aside.


We therefore say that when any
great public interest demands it,.
courts that have not kept pace with the
current, like all other rubbish, lodged
along the shore, will at the flood tide
float out and be thrown of as useless.
No dignified judicial robe will or
ought to save court from the verdict
of the people in such cases. If any
wealthy corporate interest has undue
weight with any Judge; If his mind
has become intoxicated in any particu-.
lar interest, it is healthy for the public
good, that it should awake to its inter-
est and retire such judge to private
life. E#
Year: 1873




The Inter-Ocean arraigns the Chi
cago Tribune in very severe language,
as follows:


The personals of the iS.tnday Tri-
6une drag virtuous women down to
moral death, and add new degree of
degradation to the sinks in iniquity
from which they come; they bring
the worst features Of prostitution to
the very doors Of the pure-minded,
and thus remove one of the barriers
between vice and virtue. and they
either confer their infamous character
upon the journal In which they APP
pear or borrow decency from It's as
sumed respectability. Which?


When any great journal OF the
country by its peryerseness and am
bition takes q course that compels
the best portion of the people of the
country to discard il, as has been the
case with the Tribune in tho past
twelve months, it naturally drifts into
mercenary and unprincipled con-
Germ.
Year: 1873

Benjamin F. Butler, is thoroughly in
earnest after the Governorship Of Mas.
sachusetts. We do not as rule favor
the application Of fippant names To
public men, but Butler himself is pre-
eminently given to such course and in
the record he has recently made boldly
defying the popular will upon . very
grave public question, we think he
justly merits the cant phrase applied
to him of "three cent Butler" We
shall watch with deep interest the pro.
gress Of the guberuatorial contest in
the old Bay State and we do earnestly
hope that Mr.. Bntler may meet with
one of the most crushing defeats that
any public man ever experienced, for
the reason that he richly merits it and
the credit of Massachusetts demands
Il.
Year: 1873

Henry A. Wise, Of Va, has found
the II that solves the question why the
South did not succeed in the rebellion.
In recent speech of his, he said al
the Mississippi had run cast and west
the South would never have been
whipped" In recent letter he also
denounced both the Republican and
Democratic parties, and offers that If
either the one or the other OF these
parties will not nominate candidate
for Governor he will take up the con-
test against the one who does nomi-
nate and make the race independent.
He says he cares not which party
nominates or which abstains from SO
doing. II, however, both the parties
nominate, he announces in that event
he will not be candidate at all. We
are OF the opinion that the ex-Gov-
.ernor and ex-Rebel General should
rest upon the lanrels he gained in the
John Brown raid and as Confederate
General aforesaid.