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Year: 1873

In the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia Judge Ludlow rendered the following important decision in the case of the City vs. Williamson, for de- sertion. This case presents number and in view of the facts proved some woman who alleges that she married de- fenaant, lived with him as hsr husband for sixteen years and was mother by him of seven children, all of whom are now dead except two, and one of the court. The defendant does not deny marriage with this woman, and that the priest in private room at Antrim, in Ireland, at or near the place of the then residence of the parties. The cohabi- tation and birth of children during the period of sixteen years is admitted; but has been Protestant, and interposes as fiat bar to this motion an English statute, passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of George H., which de- clares Chapter 13, section D, That

 

 after the 1st day of May 1746, between Papist and any person who hath been, or hath professed him or herself to be a Protestant at any. time within twelve months before such celebration of mar riage, or between two Protestants, if celebrated by Popish priest, shall be and is hereby declared absolutely null and void to all intents and purposes, without any process, judgment or sen tence of law whatsoever. AS conse- quence it has been argued that the chil dren of these parties are bastards, and their mother nothing more than con- cubine.

 Story, in his Conflict of Laws (p. 85, 97, 91 and 92), in substance maintained that whenever the laws of @ foreign country are in violation of the laws of God, sound principles of morals or settled principles of public policy, they will not be recognized. We shall not be told that husband and father may come into this jurisdiction, make it bis | domicile, and then, when followed by his wife and children, shall deliberately turn them all out upon the cold charity of the world, proclaiming that every right has been destroyed by virtue of an anticipated statute.

 The evidence here seems to be, at best, in doubtful condition upon one point, but the weight of it seems to es- tabksh the fact that this defendant con- sidered himself good enough Catholic to contract this marriage; to live unmo- tested by any legal authority; to become l the father of seven children by this wife; nor did the defendant discover how thorough Protestant he was until it became convenient to abandon his wife, establish Q denial here and con- tract another marriage with woman in this country.

 It gives me great judicial satisfaction ts be enabled, upon the facts before me, to render @ decision in favor of this wife, to make this faithless husband and father, who did not hesitate to brand his own offspring in an open court of justice as 8 bastard, to understand that justice is administered here and that his conduct does net fail, i'll the most unequivocal manner, to meet with the sternest and most uncompromising judicial condemnation. The Court or ders the defendant to give security fol | the maintenance of his wife
Year: 1873

OUR EYEs.-A young lady who let her lids drop on being spoken to tender ly by young gentleman is anxious to recover them, and offers handsome reward for their restoration. A nauti- cal gentleman of her acquaintance as- sures her that they could not have been properly lashed on or they wosld not have been lost.
Year: 1873

The Eleventh Juror Arraigned in the
Court of Oyer and Tcrminer-An
Officer Attending on the Jury also
Observation-Disclosures Against the
ssISighth' Juror.


After recess in the Tweed trial episode occurred
which, to borrow an idea from Byrons Dream" was
not all an episode 1t at all certainly of a
character that calculated to produce decided I'M
preston upon the Tweed Jurors Some, indeed went so
far to say that intended sort of interme-
diate melodrama this jurys special benefit but of
course this i mere outside talk.


Robert Porter, the eleventh Juror the Stokes case
brought and arraigned for having separated him.
self from the rest OF the jury when forbidden TO do
lie pleaded not guilty, through Mr.. Abe H. Hummel, his
counsel who stated that in the absence OF Mr. Howe
his associate counsel he unprepared to in any
him. fixed it at s300


John W. Hunt officer in charge of the jury, was
then arranged for neglect of duty officer lie had
counsel and no TO employ counsel He did
understand that he had done anything against his duty
and pleaded not guilty The Court assigned Messr
4 Hunmel his counsel and fixed his bail at $1,000


TIE EIGHTH JUROR AGAIN


Against James D. Center, the eighth juror indct
ment submitted. Mr.. Hummel plead lot guilty TO
the indictment, and $4,000 was fixed as his bail.
Year: 1873

Before Judge Curtis


Frederick Koppelman rented several lots of ground in
the vicinity of St Nicholas He had here
sides his dwelling himself and family hohouses and
o vegetable garden, from the products of which he
earned his living He charges that the blasting
work the under the superintc ndence of
p. Cumming, was most carelessiy done that the frag
ments rocks broke the roof OF his dwelling, de-
moshcd his hothones and destroyed his garden that
his family Obliged to leave the house times and
that he had TO abandon the cultivation
twelve lots Of the ground he rented He claimed
$1,000 damages The defence that the work
ing performed with all the possible, that
damages much less than stated. The Jury
q verdict OF S2S7 ~ damages
Year: 1873

Joseph Arch is by this time on his
way towards Canada and the United
States. In both, his special mission
will derive aid and influence from his
religious character He goes out as
president of the National agricultural
laborer's union and the fact that he is
an accredited preacher of the gospel to
the poor In connection with the most
useful body of Methodists on the face of
the earth, has gone out before him.
That body possesses recognized minis
ters and churches in most parts of
British America; and IL the great repub-
lie no sect of Christians is more nume-
rous or more widely influential than are
those bearing the Methodist name. On
both sides of the territorial line, we feel
sure, he will meet with hearty and
brotherly reception not only from
those who bear the same name, and had
the same common origin, but also from
all denominations in that grand region.
All Americans, and nearly all Cana
dams, will admire and sympathize with
the self-denying man who has left home
and country, family and friends, for
the sake of that down-trod million of
his fellow patriots, who, with their
wives and families, have been too long
at the mercy of landlords and employers
considering them as serfs, and under
the nominal care of religious teachers
who, living in luxury, have, for the
most part, reproached them with in
gratitude for not being contented to
slave and starve. He goes out to judge
by the sight of his own eyes whether
the happy union of liberty with plenty
and social happiness, of which he has
heard by the hearing of the ear, really
exists on the other shore of the Atlantic
ocean and he pledges himself before
han1 that if he find the picture to be
true he will spend five years upon the
spot, in either bringing the landlords and
the farmers of England to a juster sense
of their relative duties, or transplanting
his fellow-laborers to soil which in
vites the outlay of their honest and in
dustrious toll for the sole benefit of
themselves and their families.-Bee-
hire, London.
Year: 1873

Fancy the feelings Of Pennsylva
MIA mother who observed that her child
-four months) was breathing with great
difficulty in its cradle asleep. Inspec-
ton was the work of a moment, when
it was discovered that something like
a cord" was round the childs body I'M
der it's little night-gown Something
like a cord, indeed 1t wss a snake
thirty inches long coiled tight around
the frame of the cherub. In fact, the
wicked old serpent was so comfortable
that it was with good deal of difficulty
that he was persuaded to uncoil; and
when he did so, instead of stopping like
a fair-minded snake, to have his photo
graph taken, he bolted hastily into a
hole.
Year: 1873

We were shown sample Of new crop Carolina rice to-
day by Messrs Dan Tamages Sons, of this city, six
casks of which consigned TO them ard will arrive
per steamship Champion This Is the first of the ne ew
crop and the quality is AL
Year: 1873

ACCIDENT on The HARLEM EXTENSION
About halfpast nine, Monday evening, a.
the Harlem Extension mail train, due here
at ten O'Clock, was coming towards Rut-
land, at the usual rate of speed, and had
passed about a mile north of North Dorset,
the connecting rods Of the driving wheels,
on both sides of the locomotive "Hiland
Hail. which was drawing the train,
snapped asunder The rod on one side
dropped to the road bed, while on the other,
the side on which the engineer was sitting,
the rod came up through the bottom of the
cab, ripping out the engineer seat. Quick
er, almost than thought, the engineer dis
covered the breakage, signalled for brakes
and leaped from disposition just in time to
save himself from being transfxed and
pierced through by the broken rod 1t was
truly for himself a narrow escape from
instant death. The locomotive was TEN
porarily fixed up" and the train brought
into Rutland only some hour and quarter
late.-Rutiand Herald
Year: 1873

along the margin of the river, until it grew
weak and sick, and fell and died


There was choking in Logan's throat as
he lifted the cold little body and carried it
onward down the stream, and noted tht
places where the infant must have climbed and
scrambled in its little battle for life. 1t was
a strange two hours to him as he bore the
pure, beautiful, frozen corpse toward the
settlement.


At eleven o'clock be reached the clearing.
He saw the scattered groups of men gathered
about Johns house and barn. Some of the
men seemed to be searching about the barn
TO find the body of the boy they believed to
be murdered. Logan felt his frame tremble
and his temples throb, realizing as he did
the weight of life and death wrapped in the
burden shat he bore. He spoke no word and
made no gesture, but, holding the dead child
in his arms, marched directly past the barn
to the door-yard and up in front of the
house. There he stopped, and stood and
looked with agitated face at the farmhouse
door.


The shock of Logan's sudden coming was
50 great that no one said, 1.-The BODY is
found" but all the men stopped talking,
and some, pale and agitated, gathered in a
close huddle around Logan and looked at the
little, white, frosted face, and in hushed
tones asked where Logan had found the
body.


A blanket was brought and spread upon a
dry place in the yard, aud Logan laid his
little burden upon it.


John came out and approached the spot
where his little Willie was lying. There
was deeper hush as the crowd made way
for the father and the rough men, some Of
whom were now crying, looked hard at
John ''to see how he would take it," John
stood and gazed unmoycd and lion-like not
a muscle of his strong face quiyered as he
saw his boy. llecalled in a ton eof authority
for his family to come, and said to his wife
in clear, calm voice as she came trembling,
weeping, fainting, Mother. look upon your
SON


lie turned and surveyed the crowd with
the same dauntless eye he had shown in
making his llOmeric speech at the school
house. To some Of the company that eye
was now a dagger.


Jonn was cool, calm, and polite. He ut
tered ne reproach, and was kind in his words
TO all. \ half hour passed. The crowd
went away in groups. discussing the amnz-
ING wonder. how ever il could be that such
little feller as Willie could have got SO far
away from the house"


The next day religious services were held,
and in the afternoon little Willie was laid to
rest upon a sunny knoll John wept at the
grave. \ poisoned arrow was drawn from
the strong mans heart, and a great grief
was there in its stead
Year: 1873

The Humphreys and "Diek" Busted bar
gain, by which two inferior United States
Judges undertook to swap their places with
the consent of the president) luckily broke
down. The Senate declined to be partner
il the transaction. A Washington letter
says Busted is a disgrace to his profess
sion in Alabama, and Humphreys is unfit
for the place he holds in this District: but
they thought by an exchange their terms of
Office might be prolonged. The Senate in
sists that before it considers Busteed's
nomination for place here he shall resign
his place in Alabama, and that Humphreys
shall resign his iudgeship here before his
nomination for that in Alabama is consider
ed but both of these gentlemen are afraid
to risk an abandonment Of what they now
possess"
Year: 1873

apples and the gold and russet of his pears
are blended on every hand with the purple
and scarlet and gold of his plums and the
purple and amber of his grapes, and the air
Is full of the perfume offruits and offowers,
or whether it be in the time of leafess trees
and blank SHOWS, when by his tircside we
discuss the various stores ofhis fruit cellars,
and hear of the ways of each particular va
riety, | always come here as to school of
horticulture. Some twenty-five years ago,
when heimpulse which the lamented Down
ing gave to horticulture and correct rural
taste was moving fresh over the land, Mr.
Maeomber commenced on a new place, to
build and to plant him a home The fact
that he has succeeded here with so full a
list OF fruits is conclusive evidence that fruit
Will succeed almost anywhere on these Is
lands. His soil near the highway was for
the most part wet, and in many places the
slate rock comes within few inches of the
surface. But on this soil he decided to
build, and to plant his grounds and or
ehards. Little by little he has drained and
deepened the soil about his house, till now
1t is all fitted for trees, and is planted to
every kind of fruit. His situation Is on the
northwestern shore Of the principal island,
looking off upon the broad and level track
where join the valleys of Lake Champlain
and the st. Lawrence, and is fully exposed
to the severe winds from that quarter. So
he has planted wind-breaks of arBor rifae.
the largest of which must be thirty feet high
and twenty broad at the base These pre-
sent a dense barrier to the wind, and secure
in a good degree still and mild atmosphere
in his grounds. Here my friend has for
many years been testing great variety of
every sort Of fruit, and his experience must
beof great value to the fruit growers of our
valley
Year: 1873

Owing to the mismanagemeut of the
Washington estate by the Mount Vernon
Ladies association, the privilege of visiting
the home and tomb Of :. The father of our
Country Is held as monopoly by the OWL
ers Of small steamboat at Washington,
who have secured lease of the Mount Yer
non landing. These men charge an exorbi-
tant steamboat fare and entrance fee, and
the indignant State Journal of Richmond ap-
peal> to the Legislature for relief
Year: 1873

There are various kinds of poverty.
People perishing with famine are poor.
People that cannot procure fuel in the
winter, nor sufficient clothing for
warmth and comfort, are poor,- People
that are compelled by their circumstan-
ces to live in squalid apartments, in i'll
ventilated alleys, are poor. People thar
are infirm in health, and need a warmer
climate and have no means to go away
with, are poor. These are poor in their
own view, and in the view of all man
kind. People may be said to be abso-
lutely poor, too, whose intellectual ma
lures have begun their development,
and yet who cannot procure books, or
access to libraries, or entrance into
schools and colleges. But, after all, it
is 'style" that makes many people poor;
the show in which other people live.
The house that was well enough furnish
ed before, becomes mean when the next
neighbor furnishes her rooms with more
expense and elegance. Bricks or wood
were good enough, till another's brown
stone front went up. And the sidewalk
and the horse-cars would answer very
well, till neighbor's horses pranced
along the street, with glittering harness
and glancing wheels, and black coach
man with silver buttons drove up to the
door. And the same is true in circum-
stances of much humber degree. Con-
tent is known to live in the cottage, but
takes its leave after it has once visited
the mansion" "Style" is the world
in many peoples thoughts. Is not this
arrant folly, good people? Is our own
house the less comfortable because that
of our neighbor is larger? Are our own
blessings the less appreciable because
his apparently outnumber them? Out
upon such folly! The strong minded
and the wise never find themselves poor,
however small their means and however
cultivated their tastes may be. The
world of Gods creation is so much
larger, SO much fuller, so much more to
them, than any work which man can
create, that they never have want be-
yond their means. Cannot you be as
wise as they?
Year: 1873

Nothing robs one Of that sort OF
personal vanity which youth is so apt to
feel so soon as keeping house. If one
never did that, it might be that the
vain glorious idea that it is a great thing
to be the identical I which one happens
to be, would never be properly modi.
fed but short experience of house
keeping proves conclusively that one is
only of Importance according to ones
relation to each other folk.


There is q potato man who plainly
thinks that if you do not take potatoes
of him your mission on earth remains
unfulflled, There is an ice company
which feels that your destiny is to buy
ice. There is q gas company, to which
you are number twenty-four, such a
street, and can only prove your identity
by depositing certain sum of money
in the company's hands.


You are "the person that is being
painted" to the painter and his notion
becomes literally true, if you enter your
domicile in hurry, forgetful of his pots
and brushes. You are so much meat q
week to the butcher, and SO many
dollars a month to the cook.


In yourself you are nothing---sad or
glad, tired, tormented, or in state of
beautitude, it matters not to any of
these people. You are the big machine
that winds the house up, winds food and
furniture into it, and winds money out
to pay for it all.


Oh for the golden dreams of early
youth, when dinner was as natural a
blessing as sunrise, and one never
thought where the tin pans and tea
kettle came from when, in white
dress and blue sash, one could repose
upon q sofa, needless of the rattle of ice
cart wheels or the howl of the milkman,
unconscious of the awful days ahead,
when every new arrival of the sort would
be succeeded by howl for "missus, "
and when one would be responsible for
the sweetness of the butter, and the
plentifulness of the green peas at that
early season when they shell out small
TpH0er
Year: 1873

The dread of death is universal and
instructive; and yet how many rush into
its arms Suicide is a most impressive
fact in this connection. The disap-
pointed lover, the discouraged adventu-
rer, the suspected clerk, the child
wounded in its self-love or fearful pun
ishment, faces the great enemy and in
vites his blow. Every now and then
the community is shocked by suicides
so unprovoked and so frequent as al
most to persuade us that the natural
fear of death is passing away. The in
consistency is easily explained. Lord
Bacon says there is no passion that will
not overmaster the terror of death. For
passion is thoughtless; occupied wholly
with an immediate suffering, it makes
no estimate of any other kind of pain /;
absorbed in an instantaneous sorrow, it
takes no other sorrow into account. The
mind entertains but one passion at a
time, whether it be Joy or fear. But
men are not always or generally under
the influence of passion. Ordinary life
is calm, calculating, considerate, and it
is to ordinary life that death is so terri
BILE. 1t is the thought of death is terri
BILE, not death. Death is gentle, peace
full, painless; instead of bringing suffer
ing, it brings an end of suffering. 1t is
misery's cure. Where death is, agony
is not. The processes of death are all
friendly. The near aspect of death is
gracious. There is picture some
where of fearful face, livid and ghast-
ly, which the beholder gazes on with
horror, and would turn away from, but
for hideous fascination that not only
rivets his attention, but draws him clo-
ser to it. On approaching the picture
the hideousness disappears, and when
directly confronted it is not any more
seen; the face is the face of an angel.
1t is a picture of death, and the object
of the artist was to impress the idea
that the terror of death is in apprehen-
sion. Theodore Parker, whose obser-
vation OF death was very large, has said
he never saw person of any belief,
condition or experience, unwilling to
die when the time came and my own
more limited observation confirms the
truth of the remark. Death is an ordi-
nance of nature, and like every ordi-
nance of nature is directed by benef-
cent laws to benefcent ends. What
must be, is made welcome. Necessity
is beautiful.
Year: 1873

Secretary Delano takes new and in
structive view of the question of the
prospective extirpation of the bison.
With heartless disregard of the rights
of the noble sportsmen, who feel that
they have lived in vain il they have not
proved their valor by chasing buffalo
cows on the slopes of the Rocky Noun
tains, he suggests that the sooner the
game is disposed of the better for civili-
zation. His argument is that the In
dians will continue more or less intract-
able while the hunting grounds remain;
but, as they become convinced that they
can no longer rely upon the supply of
game for their support, they will turn
to the more equable source of subsist-
ence furnished at the agencies, and en-
deavor to live so that the supply will be
regularly dispensed. Stripped of its
verbiage, this means simply that the
only way to civilize the red man is to
starve him into submission. However
philanthropists may regard this sugges-
tion, it is underlaid by something more
than q modicum of truth. With few
exceptional cases, such as the Cherokees
and Creeks, the Indians have shown no
disposition to abandon their vagrant
habits; but, following the wild herds
from which they have derived their sub
sistence for centuries, they have wan
dered westward year by year before the
white mans advance. preferring to pick
up scanty, chance subsistence, rather
than to stoop to manual labor. Thus
bison and savage are travelling rapidly
the road to extinction; and the child is
born to whom both will be almost as
much an object of curiosity in our
country as the elephant is now.
Year: 1873

A writer in Chambers Journal, refer
ring to the peculiar and offensive odor
given forth from the body of rattle
snake when the reptile is enraged, re-
calls a remarkable instance of escape,
which may be credited to q knowledge
of this fact, coupled, however, with
presence of mind, which fully attones
for the rashness of the act which called
it into exercise. DIR. Hamilton Roe,
having opened box directed to the su-
perintendent of the Geological Gardens,
London, put his hand under the layer
of dry moss which appeared, to see what
was there. He touched something alive,
and the smell told him it was q rattle
snake. Had he withdrawn his hand
rapidly, he would have been bitten to a
certainty, since the odor is only appa-
rent when the animal is enraged.
Knowing this, he had the presence of
mind to stroke the reptile, which allow
ed him to take his hand gently away


So powerful and permanent is this oder
that, when a shake is irritated, and
made to bite the rake or hoe with which
it is intended to kill him, the implement
often retains the odor for months.