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Year: 1873

The Gazette is still hArping on the subject Of
Advertising SherlHs sales and II declares that the
od law required the Sheriff 70 60 to the defend-
ant and request hm to designate one paper and the
Sheriff designated the other paper" There is bnt
one answer TO this and that is that il is sntrelV
false. The defendant had the right 70 designate
both papers, and, therefore, he could have done
just what We said he could. We did not say il
was done, though we believe that after the fact
that this was the law became known, Il was taken
advantage Of BY some debtors to secure the publ
cation OF their sales In papers that would not
reach those such advertisements ought 10 have
reached, and that papers Of small circulation were
purposely chosen, for this reason


The law was always as re have stated IL but
the practice had long been TO Leave the matter en-
tirely with the SheEih, and they do say that Il
was the Gazette itself who raised all the row bV
hunting the old law and getting 1t applied 70 pre-
vent the transfer Of the SheriiI's advertisements
back to the Bepublichn papers after that party
again obtained control in this county.-EVery
RUeniIag. s


Every Sheriff for the last fifteen years, know,
that it had been his custom to got the defendant
TO name one paper in which the sale of his prop.
erty should be advertised. II the defendant saw
proper he oOnld designate the other paper, nor
does the language quoted from the GAZETrK above,
say to the contrary. But the defendant could not
have dOne just What" ESWy EsnfaS "ad be
Year: 1873

1t is great mistake which many men make in
allowing their property to be sold by the Sheriff
No farm will bring as much at Sheiif sale as at a
public sale by the owner, while the costs aud ieei
run the cost of sale up hundred and fifty per
cent. higher than it would If made by the owner.
No man should allow his property to be sold in
this way if he can help it. We believe that there
is loss Of about $1,000 in every FIVE by such sales-
Every mau knows the hazard Of buying at such
salOs and vi" rarely give the fol value of the prop
erty.
Year: 1873

STREKT PAvEMENTs.-After an extensive and
expensive series Of expermenets in various de-
scrlptious Of street pavements in New York, the
Evening Post of that city aIves at the conclusion
that " nothing yet discovered will answer for q
good city pavement but stone. Paving is one Of
the plAnest Of practical matters as well as one Of
the most useful; il is of universal interest, whsh-
er one travels about the city on foot, in a public
conveyance, or in his own carriage; Just as i'm
pOEIant to the express wagon as to the dirt cart
equally valuable to the drayman with his TONS of
burden and the invalid in his well-cubhioned
coach"
Year: 1873

Fatal RESULT Cahill, who had his foot
crushed at Rockin, some time ago. by the cars,
died in the railroad hospital last week from the
effects of the wounds and the amputation. He
leaves a wife and several small children at Rock
lin, in very limited circumstances.
Year: 1873

ALrAIFA.-That this III the end is to be the
chief cul tivated grass of California, seems to
admit of hut little doubt; but whether 1t can be
made to take root and thrive and grow peren
nially the dry and rocky ridges of the foot
hills and uplands of this section of the State, is
the all-important question for the people of this
county. We tried it last season on about as
rocky ridge and as poor soil as can be found.
That which We irrigated little is alive and now
coming out nice and green. IN spots that had
no water at ALL it seemed dead in the Fail, but
now some of even this proves to be alive and is
sending forth green leaves. Judge Fitch also
Experimental with it last season, and feels conf
dent chat if properly seeded it will take hold and
live On our hills without irrigation, yielding
some two crops in the season. or be Of equal
value for pasturago. If the roots can once pen
trae moisture in the dryest time of the first year
it must be ever after safe, and to yield
double or treble the provonder Of the natural
grasses We think these experiments would JUS
lify our farmers and stock men in trying 1t in a
small way the coming season, and II WI be time
to put in the seed i'll about three weeks.
Year: 1873



 first time in the history of the Apache difficulties, all branches of the govern ment seem to be working in harmony, and concert of action is indispensable to speedy and peaceable settlement of them. In behalf of the govern ment, Gen. Howard offered the olive branch of peace to every hostile Indi- an in the Territory, and government is feeding and clothing all who ac- cepted it; and now Gen. Crook is fol- lowing and with the sword compell- ing those who have not accepted terms of peace, to do so. The great obstacle to the subjugation of the Apaches, has been the lack of any definite and fixed policy; but now one appears to have been settled upon, and if carried out with the same vigor and fidelity as at present practiced, we may hope for an early and lasting peace.

 RAILROADS.

 The Texas and Pacific railroad com-
Year: 1873

prospects that it will pass the senate and become law, to donate the pro- ceeds of the sales of public lands to the advancement of education. Once a law, it is estimated that this bill will give Arizona about SIC, ,OOO annn- ally. It is greatly to be hoped that this or some similar measure will soon have the sanction of Congress. Ger tainly in no other way can the gov ernment contribute so substantially to the infant Territories and advance the best interests of the whole country.

 By an act of Congress, the sixteenth and thirtv-sixth sections of land are
Year: 1873

their support, and when this mode of SUD- ply ceases, hunger and suffering must en- sue, unless the government is prepared at once to assist them. They should be re- moved to reservation of such cIrcum- scribed limits that constant watch could be kept over them; the reservation in stead of being held in common, should be divided into reasonable subdivisions as would give to each family home and the paoaSSory land n tho food tba..
Year: 1873

was subdivided into mist before reach
ing the point upon which it was direct
ed. Water quenches fire by physical
contact with the burning body, cover
ing it, and thereby excluding the con-
tact of atmospheric oxygen also it
instantly reduces the temperature of
ignited substances by vaporism. By
the sudden change from q liquid to
vapor it robs the substance of the heat
necessary to keepup combustion, which
is thus extingrished.


The burning of our warehouses, at
the time of the great fire, filed with
chemical products, was in one sense an
interesting exhibition. We cannot say
that it was calculated to awaken much
enthusiasm so far as we were personally
concerned, as the spectacle was little
too costly for that. 1t was paying too
high for the pyrotechny, no matter how
grand the display. The nature of the
substances burned was peculiar, afford
ing intense heat and flames of divers
gorgeous colors. Numerous packages
of the salts of strontium, calcium, mag
nesium, potassium, copper, barium,
ETC., were consumed, which produced a
variety of brilliant illuminations, and
these, with alcoholic preparations,
carbolic acid, nitrate of ammonia, and
hundreds of other highly combustible
bodies, gave to the flames a fierceness
and coloring not observable elsewhere
Boston Journal of Chemistry.
Year: 1873

Ossian T. Dodge, the vocalist and
Secretary OF the Chamber of Commerce
of the city of st. Paul, Mimi, has OBJ
tanned divorce from Mrs. Dodge. In
lawsuit about the custody of the chill
dren he makes this solemn statement
on oath: Ever since she was married
she has carried a six-barreled loaded
revolver IN her possession, with which
she has a great many times threatened
to blow my brains out and to oshoet me. :"
He further deposed that Mrs. Fanny
was in the habit of beating the son.
whose custody shenow desires, over the
head with a bathing brush 20 inches
long, and SO severely as to break the
handle of the brush" When this wea-
pom was not at hand, the affectionate
mother used the tongs. Ossian has
been the victim of grief before. When
he first set out as vocalist he urged q
friend who edited a Boston paper to
give him Gift in the way Of notorie-
ty The editor complied with the re-
quest by sending a despatch over the
country in effect that Dodge, often hav-
ing been tenderly cared for in the fam
lily of our acquaintance, had repaid the
kindness by eloping with the wife of
that acquaintance and after working her
ruin had cruelty deserted her. The
story was told in terms SO pathetic that
it created quite sensation and gave
the vocalist more notoriety than he
bargalned for. II took him many days
to undo the work of his editorial friend
and caused him to lose his temper more
than once.
Year: 1873

A Spanish gentleman. having in duel
killed young Moorish noble of Goan-
ada, Immediately fed from Justice. He
was eagerly pursued, but profting by q
turn i'll the road, he jumped, without
being seen, to the rear wall of garden
in which he entered.


The owner, who was also Moor. hap
pened to be at tkat time walking in the
garden, and the Spaniard falling on his
knees before him, related all that had
happened, and asked permission to con-
ceal himself.


The Moor listened with much pity and
generously promised his protection. He
then concealed him in an arbor, and he
left assuring him that at the hour of
midnight he would provide the means
for his escape.


Some hours afterward they brought
the Moor the dead body of his son, and
by the description they gave of the muir
derer, he knew it was no other than the
Spaniard then concealed in the garden.
He disguised the horror that he felt, and
retired to his room, where he remained
until midnight. At that hour he pro-
ceeded secretly to the garden, he opened
the door of the arbor, and spoke to the
Spanish gentleman in the following
terms:


Christian, the young man you killed
in duel was my only son, my only love,
my only hope. should take revenge
ON thee, but have solemnly promised
my word Of honor to save thee"
Year: 1873

A German, troubled how to dispose
of his money, bequeathed it to man
whom he detested, upon the condition
that he always wore thin, white linen
clothes without any underclothing.


A Mr.. Sergeant, of Leicester, Eng
land, sought to improve the habits Of
his bed-loving nephews by putting the
following clause in his will: GAS my
nephews are fond of indulging them
selves in bed in the morning, and as I
wish them to prove to the satisfaction
of my executors, that they have got out
of bed in the morning, and either en-
ployed themselves in business or taking
exercise in the open air from five to
eight o'clock every morning from the
second of April to the tenth of October
being three hours 'each day-and
from the tenth of October to the fifth
of April, being two hours every morn
ing.


"This is to be done for seven years.
to the satisfaction of my executors, who
may excuse them in case of illness but
the test must be made up when they
are well, and if they will not do this,
they shall not receive any share of my
property" 1t was very hard on the
poor nephews, but as the amount at
stake was quite large they had to do it.
Year: 1873

THE LOCAL PAPER. -z7The local news
paper is taken by the best people in
every locality. It is the only advertis-
ino medium that is bought and paid for
by the persons whose attention the adj
vertiser is desirous of attracting. The
attention of the subscribers to regu-
lar newspaper is invited to an announce
ment in it without any oficious solici-
tation, almost without his knowing it.
Every man is conscious that he thinks
much more of the paper for which he
pays than of any occasional copy of a
gratuitous sheet or circular which is
thrust in at the door.
Year: 1873

Ladies travelling through Canada
by rail are often greatly annoyed by
having their luggage unnecessarily
searched but one Of the officials re-
Gently got his deserts. 1t happened
that Yankee school teacher ON her
way from Kansas to Vermont passed
through the Dominion, with a trunk
packed to bursting with nothing con-
traband. When the officer demanded
her key she begged him not to~open
it, assuring him that it came through
from Kansas, contained simply clothes
and books, and was SO full that it
would be very troublesome to repack
it. But he sternly demanded the
key, and maliciously pulled every
thing out to the very bottom then
finding her assertions true--he re-
turned the key and advised her to
" hurry up and get the traps back,
as the train would soon move. "What
is that to me-" said the quick witted
woman, "I have q check for that
trunk, and hold the Grand Trunk
Railway responsible for its safe deliv-
cry. | will not take the key, and
you may do as you please with the
trunk" Report says that official was
very weary and red in the face, and
rather profane ere he finished pack
ing that trunk.
Year: 1873

Gentlemen Of the jury" said a
Judge in summing up, Gin this case
counsel on both sides are impudent
and Incredible; the witnesses on both
sides are indecent and incredible and
the plaintiff and defendant both stand
such acknowledged rogues, that it is
to me utterly indifferent which way
YOU give a verdict.
Year: 1873

The last dog story: A New Hamp-
shire canine being repeatedly baffled
in the attempt to catch woodchuck
in long drain, as it made its exit at
the other end as the dog followed
through, brought u neighboring dog
and stationed him at the other end Of
the drain. He then drove the wood
chuck through, and he was caught.
Year: 1873

The Boston Transcript gives this
cheerful advice: ain a railroad crash,
if you can he quick enough, put one
hand on the back Of the seat, and
swing clear Of the llenr and a. high ~
you can. Most Of the damage done
to limb, which is not fatal, comes from
the iamming Of seats and what is under
them"
Year: 1873

The world moves. 1t is not so respect
able as it was few years ago to be a
rascal. People are learning the lesson
that clean hands are desirable, both for
personal comfort and pleasant social in
tercourse. They really seem to be learn
ing that purity pays, and that personal
honor and incorruptibleness are good
investment. Rogues and rings are having
a tough time of it, and it is their own
fault if the young and ambitious men who
are now coming upon the stage OF action
do not learn to place so high price up
on themselves that neither wealth nor
power can buy them. The rascalities of
the New York Ring are all exposed, and
the members of that Ring have either run
away, or are staggering betore public
opinion and the law, disgraced and de-
graded men. Bribery in Congress stands
exposed and rebuked, while names that
were pure have received a tarnsh that can
never be polished away. Men who have
held their heads high in the nation, bow
those heads in shame over hands which
are soiled beyond cleansing. We call no
names, but, scattered up and down the
land, great regulations lie in ruins. Men
who had wealth which they stole, and men
who had positions which they bought, and
men who used their public office to push
their private schemes, are thrown high
and dry out of influence, and lie all cx-
posed upon the rocks of disgrace, where
they are sure to rot Or 90 to pieces.


If the young politicians Of the country
will learn the lesson that the facts which
we have recounted are so well calculated
to teach. better times for the country lie
in the future. Personal advantage is q
mean motive to appeal to, where so vital
question as personal purity is concerned,
but, as there is no danger to morals from
any other appeal, it is we'll to meet temp
tatlon on its own ground and fight it with
its own weapons. The lesson of the recent
exposure is really needed by none but
those who fancy that they can compass
their ends best by base means: and if
these shall learn from it that, in the long
run, nothing pays SO well in wealth and
power and safety and comfort as virtue,
they will learn that which will be of in
calculable benefit to them and to the coun-
try. No money was ever won by treachery
to trust that did not harm the winner No
power was ever achieved by bribery or
retained by falsehood that did not scorch
the palm of him who held it. The con
sciousness of ill-desert, the loss of selt-re-
spect, the fear of exposure and the self
commitment to life of deception, which
60 always with possessions unworthily
won, are poison in the blood, and eX-
posure, sooner or later, is as sure to come
as death. DIR. F. G. Holland; Scribner's
tor April.
Year: 1873

How A QUAKERESS STOPPED BORROW
ING. An old Quaker lady, another neigh
Dor, who had endured these invasions for
q long time patiently, hit upon y very
philosophical mode OF eventually putting
n stop to the nuisance. Keeping her own
counsel, the next time her good man went
to town he had separate and express
order to purchase u pound of the best tea
and also new canister to put it in. As
he knew she already had plenty of tea,
and also canister, he was puzzled to de.
termine what the old lady wanted of more
tea and new canister, but his questioning
and reasonings elected nothing more than
Il repetition of the order:


Jim, did | not tell thee to get me a
pound of the best tea and a new canister?
Now 90 along and do as bid thee"


And 90 along he did and when he came
home at night the tea and new canister
were his companions. The old lady took
them from him with an amused express
sion on her usual placid features, and de
posting the tea in the canister set it on the
shelf for special use. 1t had not long to
wait for the borrowing neighbor had fire.
quent use for the aromatic herb. The good
old lady loaned generously, emptying





rowed teas which the neighbor's con
science inclined her to make. Time went
on, and after something less than the
time Of borrowing, the neigh
Dor again appeared for "ust another
drawing of tea" when the olt-visited tea
canister was brought out and found to be
empty, and the good old lady and obliging
neighbor was just one pound of tea poorer
than when sho bought the new canister,
which now only remained to tell the story.
Then she made little characteristic
speech, perhaps the first in her life; she
said "Thou seest that empty canister.
filled it for thee with pound of my best
tea, and have lent it all to thee in drib-
lets, and put into it all that thou hast sent
me in return, and none but thyself hath
taken tlfererom, or added unto it, and
now thou seest it empty; therefore | will
say to thee, thou hast borrowed thyself
out, and l can lend thee no more"
Year: 1873

1t is said that New England farmers can
realize great profit from the manufacture
of maple sugar and syrup than in any other
way. And yet the maple groves and for
ests are rapidly decreasing, and it is pre-
dicted that at the present rate of decrease
a half century will witness their almost ut
ter annihlation.
Year: 1873

The milk that will make two pound of
butter will make two pounds of cheese;
and the butter is worth twice as much per
pound as the cheese Then the buttermilk
is worth twice as much for feeding hogs or
calves as the whey, leaving a small balance
in favor of making butter.
Year: 1873

IRONING SHIRT FRONTS. In first class
laundry starch is made in the usual man
ner; to pail of starch whole sperm can
die is used. When the linen is dry. it is
dipped in the cold starch and ironcd in the
ordinary way then it is dampened with
wet cloth and the polishing iron pressed
over it. This is an ordinary smoothing
iron, ground off so that the edges are all
grounding. To this last manipulation the
linen is indebted for the peculiar laundry
gloss which all admire 50 much, but which
many housekeepers have vainly striven to
leave upon the wristbands and bosomS Of
their husbands shirts.
Year: 1873

The wasp with a yellow hustle is no
insignificant agent in dispensing q crowd,
but a nervous woman making through a
crowd for the cars with valise in one
hand and an umbrella in the other is
about as appalling an object as the human
mind can conceive and hold its balance.
Year: 1873

In the First District Court OF Newark yesterday
an important point OF landlord and tenant law
was decided. Ex-Governor Ward and W. Acker
man sued W. o. Headley son, large manufac-
turers, Tor S25 alleged TO be due as traction OF
quarters rent II appears from the evidence the
property, rented on lease at fixed sum- had
been partly burned down and not rebuilt and
hence the firm had not full OF the building as
agreed upon In the lease. The Judge decided, how
ever, tnat under the circumstances OF the case, IL
the tenants had paid the Insurance premium on the
building they were not excused from paying rent
because the paintin did not rebuild. He thought
the law was hard one, but he had no authority
TO change It. the jury returned verdict Of s25
for the plaintiffs
Year: 1873

At the regular monthly meeting Of the Board of
Chosen Freeholders OF Essex County, New Jersey,
held yesterday afternoon, in Newark, the following
resolution was introduced by FreehOlder Doremus,
and, after q spirited debate, laid over till next
January


Resolved, That the Committee on Legal Questions be
instructed to prepare bill to be presented to the next
Legislature which shall provide for the abolition Of the
Essex County Public Road Board, as it now exists, and
which shall confer all the vested in said Es-
County Public Road Board upon the Board Of Chosen
Freehoders OF Essex County, and report the
meeting VI this Board.


This Board has cost the county immense sums
OF money ny It's operations and Tor years past has
been most unpopular. TO be an officer Of 1t Is al
most certain political ruin to the officer.
Year: 1873

ing table proves how much greater the security
OF life Is in the iormer than In the latter
TABLE, SHOWING THE NUMBER OF PASSENGERS
BROUGHT BY SAILING AND STEAM VESSELS, AND
THE C0MPARATIvE MORTALITY AND BIRTHS ON
THE VOYAGE, FOR THE YEAR 1871.
Year: 1873

An unfortunate snake in Tennessee recent
ly swallowed rabbit and then attempted to
crawl through fence, but was stopped by
the internal rabbit when about half way
through; while in this quandary ano. her
rabbit was. as one of our contemporaries
would say, convenient, and the snake swal-
lowed hir likewise; so with swallowed
rabbit on each side of the hole he was crawl
ing through, he stuck, and was killed during
tile process OF digestian. This snake reminds
one of the Radical party just now, with the
salary grab of Grant on one side of the fence
and the eloquent denunciation of that grand
larceny on the other. the reptile seems
doomed to die with its belly full of thievery.
- pitfsburG Post. l#st#f5
Year: 1873

the Holy Spirit upon them, and
was ready to save even his
murderers in Jerusalem, Peter
would have been, he was on
that night Of the betrayal, full
of saving himself instead of
saving others.


The one who can answer the
two questions, and say, 'Here
am [ Lord +; send me-" is the
one who has the baptism Of
the Holy Ghost, and is led by
the Spirit, and will go wherever
the Spirit shall send, and
speak whatever the Spirit shall
dictate. ey