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Year: 1872

| they should pay the expense. After they
have received this high school, collegiate,
professional education, they demand from
those who employ them high pay for their
services. If a mechanic goes to q lawyer to
get deed made, the lawyer makes the deed
in fifteen or twenty minutes and charges two
dollars for it, or equal to the receipts of the
mechanics days work. If he gets writ
made, the lawyer expends half an hour or an
hours time and charges FIVE or ten dollars,
and for this service the mechanic must work
three, four, or five days to pay the charge.
At the same time, be it remembered, this me-
chanic has already paid small portion of the
expense OF educating the lawyer by way of
his proportion of the taxes for academies and
colleges.


If there was scarcity of professional and


literary men, or if there was likely to be, it
might be good policy for the State to increase
the support she gives to academies and high
schools, even to the neglect of the lower
schools, but there is no such scarcity and not
likely to be.


If then, we have full supply Of this class
of men, why is the State constantly beset with
petitions and applications for money for acad-
emies and high schools? Are we not satisfied
that men of ordinary education are as useful
in society as the highly educated? 1t appears
to me from view of the world as we find it,
that those men who constitute very large
majority of the substantial and worthy MEM
bers of society, are men of ordinary educa-
| ton. Take the members of this legislature,
the leading men of this city, or of Portland,
or Boston, or any other city or town in New


England or any other State, and you find
nine out of ten of them have only a common
business education. All branches Of industry
and business Of all kinds is almost wholly
in the hands of this class of men. re-
repeat, let the State bring up the ignorant,
neglected children to the medium standard,
before she gives more to academies and coll
leges. think the support and encourage
ment given to Normal schools, is well direct
ed, because it tends specially to increase and
improve the capacities of the common school
teachers, and fits them to teach and govern,
even small children, better than they other.
wise could. Having thus briefly given my
reasons, l am ready to vote.
Year: 1872

=. From and after the date named in the
first section no other design or seal shall be
used for the city OF Richmond, and no paper
issued with municipal authority which re-
quircs the seal Of the city shall be valid UNI
less the seal described in the first section
shall he affixed to the same.


3. All ordinances and resolutions and por'
tions of the same which do not conform to
or are in conflict with this ordinance shall be
aud are hereby repealed.


4 This ordinance shall he in force from
and after the first day of October, 1872.


Accompanying the report wasa resolution
instructing the committee to have eNccuted
and purchase seal us above described ana q
suitable press for the same.
Year: 1872

Hon. Benjamin Wood stated last evening, at a
meeting Of the National Democratic Association
in New York, that Mr.. Greeley had said to h,m
that he would remain in the field no matter whom
the Republican Convention might nominate but
that he might possibly withdraw should the DEM
ocratic National Convention make an independent I
nomination. The association passed y resou ion
endorsing Greeley and Brown.
Year: 1872

case had not get come regularly before him
for examination and for the further reason
that he was not informed Of the result Of the
coroner's inquest. Mr.. Bennett was visited
at late hour last night by representative
of the Dispatch, and while he was reticent
in conversation concerning the affair, he
evtnced confidence that ne viii be discharged
this morning, when the ease will probably
bc investigated in the Police Court.
Year: 1872

The diplomas of the last Graduating Class
at the College Of the City Of New York ready,
aud may be had application at the Conege.i


Joseph w. Kay, of No. "a Maiden-lane, has
written letter calling the attention Of the Police Com
missioners TO the bravery with which Officer Edward
Webber Of the Second Precinct Police, broke up the
operations OF burglar his store Sunday afternoon


The following is a comparative report OF
CONTAGIOUS diseases for the past two weeks:
Year: 1872

Since the announced suspension of work
on the ST. Paul aud Pacific railroad, vari-
Gus sensational run.rs have been aflnat as
to the failure of the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company. In these rumors we take
no stock whatever. A Company backed by
such an immense grant of land and assisted
by the practically unlimited capital and
credit mustered in its service, cannot fail
unless in some great financial convulsion in
which every interest of the country goes
down. Our readers may as well set it
down for fixed fact first as last, that spite
of all suspensions, delays, difficulties, mis-
apprehensions and rumors, the Northern
Pacific will be completed on time; the st.
Paul and Pacific will not fill to be built as
contemplated; and the Wisconsin CentraI
will touch the Lake in 1873, and reach this
point in 1874 So much capital is already
invested, and these enterprises already so
tar advanced, that there is in these matters
no such word aS fail
Year: 1872

There is prevalent alarm in regard to
hydrophobia. The horrible death of Mr..
Khant, on Thalia street, MoLday night,
has excited widespread and just fears in
regard to it. The streets are full of
vagrant ours, and children going to and
returning from school are liable to be in
jured by these rabid animals. 1t is time
some measures are taken in regard to it,,
and we are glad to perceive the City
Council fully appreciate its Importance.
The police should at once be put to work
to kill the animals running at large.


The Administrator Of Commerce, at the
Council meeting yesterday, reported in
favor of granting permission to the South
western Exposition Association to erect a
steam engine and boiler in their new build
ing, and an ordinance was adopted giving
such permission.


The collection Of 1evee dues for the week
ending on Saturday last amounted to
$6S83 II. f-
Year: 1872

The sixth grand State fair of the Me-
chanics and Agricultural Fair Association


of Louisiana will commence it's seven days
campaign OF 1872 to-day. The weather
promises to be auspicious, the display OF
goods is excellent, the attendance will be
LARGE, and the amusements on the track to-
day will be very attractive. There will be
a running race of mile heats and q trotting
race. Tomorrow will be the grand gala
day. A number of the prominent corpora
tions of the city, determined that the exhi-
bitions of the Mechanics and Agricultural
Fair Association shall invariably prove q
substantial success, have ordered from the
secretary large numbers of tickets OF ad-
mission. Nearly ten thousand tickets have
in this manner been disposed of. Yester-
day one company ordered eight hundred.
Year: 1872

Motto" and some borrowed from another
theatre that was old and veil used. The
last scene, of the piece, however, was
really beautiful. The statue of Shakes
peare was remarkably well doue.


The music was of no particular compost
ton, and not over well played. The visions
in the first act we're we'll done, but the
abominable manner in which the calcium
lights were used almost spoiled the pic
lures. ~ ...o r..a


1t is matter of regret that the club did
not have an opportunity to show their tai
ents as actors to greater advantage. We
shall expect something much better at
their next performance.
Year: 1872

The Parson says that woman is al
ways most restless under the most fa-
vorable conditions, and that there is no
state in which she is really happy except
that of change. / suppose this is the
truth taught in what has been called the
Myth of the Garden" Woman is per-
petual revolution, and is that element in
the world which continually destroys
and recreates. She is the experimenter
and the suggester OF new combinations.
She has no belief in any law of eternal
fitness of things She is never even
content with any arrangement of her
own house. The only reason the mis-
tress could give when she rearranged
her apartment, for hanging picture in
what seemed the most inappropriate
place, was that it had never been there
before. Woman has, no respect for ira
dition, and because q thing is as it is, is
sufficient reason for changing it. When
she gets into law, as she has come into
literature, we shall gain something in
the destruction of all our vast and musty
libraries of precedents, which now fetter
our administration Of individual justice.
1t is Mandeville's opinion that women
are not SO sentimental as men, and are
not so easily touched with the unspoken
poetry of nature; being less poeticai and
having less Imagination, they are more
fitted for, practical affairs, and would
make less failures in busineis. have
noticed the almost selfish passion for
their flowers which old gardners have,
and their reluctance to part with leaf
or blossom from their family. They
love the flowers for themselves. A wo-
man raises flowers for their use. She is
destruction in Conservatory. She
wants the flowers for her lover, for the
sick, for the poor, for the Lord on Easter
day, for the ornamentation of her house.
She delights in the costly pleasure of
sacrificing them. She never sees a
flower but She has an intense but prob
ably sinless desire to pick it. f.ar
Year: 1872




From the London Anthropological Review.l


A State with a hermaphroditic form of
government, If even it could exist for a
generation, is by nature doomed TO ex-
tinction; it may, however, be worth while
to consider what kind of being woman
would become who should take an active
part in the election of a representative.
AS an energetic member of his commit
tee, she would have to fight the battle,
foot by foot, with his opponents of either
sex; she could not always sit at home
and restrict herself to the use OF voting
paper, because she would tacitly admit
her un6tness for political life, with all
its hard work and its turmoil Of speech
making; she would be like foreigner
giving a vote from distance, without a
knowledge Of the qualities necessary for
success in Parliament. 1t would be ne
cessary for her to be thoroughly prepared
for the fray, breeched instead OF petit
coated, with voice hoarse from shout
ing with her hair cropped close to her
head, with her deltoid muscles de-
veloped at the expense of her bust, pre-.
pared with syllogisms instead of smiles,
and more ready to plant blow than
shed tear. She hurries from her hus-
bandless, childless hearth to make a
speech on the hustings; with hard biceps
and harder elbows, she forces her way
through the election mob; her powerful
intellect fully appreciates all the ribald
jests and obscene gestures of
the British rough" she knows
the art of conciliating rude
natures, and can exchange chaff" with
foul mouthed coster-monger: or, if
necessary, she can defend herself, and
blacken the eye of drunken bargee.
She has learned all the catechism of pol
itics, and when she mounts the platform
she can glibly recite her duty to the
world according to the side which ahe
has chosen. Experience has taught her
the value of invectives, and she de-
nounces her opponent with choice se
lection of the strongest epithets; at first
she speaks loud in tone of content
ment and self-satisfaction she ends by
losing her temper, and brawling at the
top of her voice. The crowd, never
very indulgent, has no mind to respect
sex which makes no claim and has for
feited all right to forbearance. The
hardened lines of her face are battered
with apples, brickbats and rotten eggs
the recognized weapons of political war
fare. Perhaps the very place where she
stands is the mark of storming party,
and after enjoying an encounter with
prize fighter lit may be of her own sex),
she is at last brought to the ground by
superior skill and strength. Then prob
ably she retires TO her home; but | for
one had rather not follow her thither, or
into that house Of Parliament of which
she is destined one day to become an
Year: 1872

To be paid Immediately after the Distribution


takes place.


The Board of Directors, in commencing this
Second Scheme TO the public, promise that it
nexed certificates prove the former to have
been. The high character and standing of the
Managers selected will also be an additional
guarantee that perfect Justice and fairness
will control this Distribution.
Year: 1872

For several years the rain
fall has been far too short for
crops or comfort. The atten.
ton of scientific men has been
called to it, but SO far no ex.
PLANTATION has been given. We
think the true solution is to be
found in our railroads. The
electricity no longer cutters the
ground but Is taken up by the
rails and carried far and wide.
Our railroads mostly run East
and West, hence what was
once known as the American
Desert has now plenty of ram,
while the East is suferiug.-
The remedy is in restoring the
equilibrium which can be done
by building North and South
roads in this country. If you
want rain hurry up the Logan
and Macarthur r. r.
Year: 1872

-
the following:


~Van iHeyde of New Straits
vile, will never die while be
lives. He is eternally up to
something new. His flow OF
humor is only equaled by his
flow of generosity. Last week
he concluded to present a
small cask OF his native wine
to a TREND in Columbus. As
he can never do anything like
anybody else, Of course there
must be some oddity got up
here. His fertile brain sug-
gested to label it 'nitro-g -glycer-
ine,' and, and the wine started
tor Columbus. All the express
messengers understand him
and his jokes, but on this occa-
casion Bob Dean was sick and
had a man in his place. This
new man, after leaving Sugar
Grove, overhauled his freight
and found this keg. He read
the label and started for the
rear. On his way he met the
mail agent and they consulted
what to do. Express man said
roll 1t overheard. Mail agent
said that would blow up the
train. In the meantime the
train arrived at Lancaster,
when the messenger quietly
passed out the keg. After the
train had gone Gates looked at
his freight and found the keg
directed to Columbus. just
then he noticed the nitro. gly-
cerine,' and Immediately put
that keg down without any one
telling him to do so and sent
for the police. The police
looked att and said they were
not going to be blowed up
handling .glycerine for ~
a day! The Mayor was sent for
While he was pondering what
to do a freight train came thun
derlng along. As this explo
sive goes Off by conclusion
the danger was extreme, and i,
is said the way that Gates and
the Mayor lit out was a caution
But the keg with the unfortu


nate label didn't go off at the
freight train nor at any thing
else, but stood on the platform
all day, a terror to Lancaster
and the surrounding country


AS the evening train came in
Van Heyde himself got out to
see his numerous friends, and
there sat his keg! He picl cd
it up, and, as he did so, the
fleeing people shouted to him
of the danger, and when he
tossed it into the baggage car,
the multitude with bated
breath waited 10 see the end ol
all things human. When Ian
caster learned that a keg Of
wine had been there ali day,
untouched and untasted, thell
anger was too much for descrip-
tion. Any little package of nj
tro, ,glycerine thatmight chance
to pass through Lancaster now,
would be pretty sure to be ia
ken in and done for"
Year: 1872

more and more, every day. They are
the most docile and good-hearted girls
have ever met. But it is a shame how
their male masters lord it over them, and
real pity to see the way they submit to


it all, without word OF complaint. /
have often been told by them, "We
know you Americans treat your women
better, and let them have their
own way much more than we
have it.; but they are smarter
than we are, and like it better
than we do; we are satisfied if we get a
good husband, who loves and supports
us and our children, and then we are
willing to do as he bids; we know he will
also let us have our pleasures, if we
work hard and ask him in the right
way" This is about the drift Of their
ideas, and it is very well for the German
nation that it is so. But how could it
well be otherwise2 They are taught,
from infancy up, to view things in this
light. 1t is fact, that very little is
done toward the mental cultivation of
the German women, and there is very
little hope that more will ever be done.
The men don't want it, and won't do it,
for they know the result.


The German people, as a nation, bear
about the same relation to their govern
ment that the female sex does to the
male sex, and explain it by the same
line of argument. They feel their ina
ability to launch out into the troubled
sea of politics, alone as a people, and
therefore the need of fatherly and we'll
meaning mind to pilot them along. Until
this feeling of timidity is overcome land
the signs even now, after their stupen-
dous achievements in the late war, are
not encouraging, the hope for republic
in Germany will never be realized.
Year: 1872

A queer tale about the travels Of 9


gold pen is supplied by the Geneseo Re


public. 1t says that a Major Morder


well has for some weeks past suffered


from violent irritation and swelling oI
the neck. This was supposed to indi


cate a severe boil, but two or three days
ago, something appeared to show that
the trouble originated in a cause far
more novel. This was nothing less than
piece of gold pen, which worked its
way through the swollen part which af-
terward began to heal, and the explana-
ton is made as follows: In one Of the
battles in Grants famous campaign in
the West, Major Morderwell was shot
square through the body. The ball en-
tered his stomach, went through the in
testines, and passed out of the back
close to the spinal column. 1t is said
that the Major was one of the very few
so shot during the war who recovered
But this is not the only exceptional fea-
ture of the case. The ball carried along
with it gold pen and part of the pen
case that held it, and which, when he
was hit, were in the wounded man. s vest
pocket; and the ball in passing out left
the pen and case in the Majors body be-
hind it. Since then, those articles have
been wandering about, probably trying
to pass out, too; and, finally, part of the
pen, at least, has succeeded. From this
curious story it would appear that,
whereas it is in the highest degree dan
gerous to be shot through the stomach,
the risk is considerably obviated if you
can only oontrive to adjust gold pen
so that it will 60 Ia with the ball. We
would not, however, advise admiring ex-
perimenters to place too much depend
ence on repetition of the astonishing
good fortune Of Major Morderwell.
Year: 1872

1t is stated by the foreign press that al
the late celebration in st. Petersburg oi
the two hundredth anniversary Of the
birth OF Peter the Great, the uniform, hat
and sword of that monarch were ex.
hibited to the Muscovites who had
thronged from far and near to gaze upon
the sacred relics. 1t was feared that an
attempt would be made by some of the
more superstitious to procure bits Of
uniform for charms, to guard against
which the officers of the Imperial Guard
were stationed in the hall with swords
drawn, attended by detachments of in
fantry, cavalry, artillery and marines, so
that however much the vulgar might
have yearned for a rag of the royal raj
meht, an endeavor to procure it would
have placed them beyond any chance Of
testing their virtues.
Year: 1872

After a japanese lover has proven
false to his vows, the deserted maiden
rises at about two o clock in the morning
and dons q white robe and high sandals
or clogs Her Golf is a metal tripod, in
which are thrust three lighted candles;
around her neck she hangs a mirror.
which falls upon her bosom; in her left
hand she carries small straw figure
the efigy Of her faithless lover; and in
the right hand she grasps a hammer and
nail, with which she nails it TO one Of
the sacred trees that surround the
shrine. Then she prays for the death
Of the traitor, vowing that Il iier petition
be heard she viii herself pull out the
Year: 1872

nails which offend the god by wounding
the mystic tree. Night after night she
comes to the shrine, and each night
sticks in two more nails, believing that
every nail will shorten her lovers life;
for the god to save his tree will surely
strike him dead. tits curious illus.
tration Of the hold superstition yet has
on the Japanese mind.
Year: 1872

Extracts from Letter of an American Stu
dent at Heidelberg.


have given you, in previous letters,
somewhat extensively, my opinions upon
studenten F" life, as well as upon Ger
man life and manners in general. You
seem, however, to have an idea that
am getting Germanized out here. Far
from it. In fact, there are few Ameri-
cans that would be. Some (but very
few do succumb TO certain German
studenten" manners and customs
join the corps" drink beer, fight fancy
and harmless duels, seduce innocent
young girls and swagger about generally,
and then imagine they have been doing
great things, but these are rare and far
between. The Germans themselves are
beginning to see the folly of such life,
and the corp" students are, as gen.
eral thing, not the favorites they were Of
old. But, as Madam DeStael said; ITO
know all is to forgive all, j" and when one
becomes acquainted more closely with
the facts, he can well see an excuse and
a pretty good reason for some of this.


In the Gymnasium these young
fellows are watched and guarded almost
as much as a six year-old child, and it is
but natural that, when they regain or
rather gain their liberty, they should
feel it and wish to enjoy it for the short
time they are at the University. Then,
again, most Of those who join the
corps" aud "schleger" are sons Of
well-to-do parents, and have for their
object either the army or navy. They
claim, and with much show OF reason,
that this preliminary fighting is but
practice for what is to come. But, as
said, these corps students are in the
minority, and to the credit Of the ma
jority be il said that they have outgrown
and condemned this relic Of the middle
ages.


As to the KAtharinas," love them
Year: 1872

There is something plausible after all
in the doctrine Of the Spiritualists that
the real torment Of the future state con-
sists not in a fire and birthstone hell
but in still hanging round in spirit form
the scenes which one has left, and seeing
hsw things 90 on after ones death. II
must be hell for the spirit of a dead mi
ming speculator to see stock 60 up with
out the power Of euehreing somebody
out Of thousand. Isn't it hell for a
miser to see all his savings squandered;
for husband to see his wife, who swore
she loved him so fondly, firt at his fune-
raj with young Smith, whom he kicked
out of the house; FOR smart, business
ike spirit to see his late partner miss
chance after chance Of making pile;
for a mining spirit to see fellows running
a drift the wrong way-well, We shall all
know how il is ourselves some day,