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Year: 1872

To temper chimneys, put them in pot
of cold water and gradually heat it until
it boils then let it as gradually cool, and
the chimneys will not be broken by the
ordinary fiuctuatiOn of the. flame of the
lamp.
Year: 1872

FINED poR VIOLATION or AN ORDINANCE
Michael Moltz was fined twenty dollars by
Justice Crew yesterday for the violation OF
an ordinance Of the city in erecting Il wooden
building on the corner of Holly and Church
streets without permission from the Council
The penalty prescribed Is fine of not less
than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, and
the ordinance is being strictly enforced.
Year: 1872

U mite on him, the brave and true,
S ustain him all ye boys in blue
q i've him a rousiDg vote this fall
r ally round him one and all.
And let the freedmen hear the call;
n o better stay the people want,
T han honest, modest U. S. Grant.
Year: 1872

FT00dOtLtIte8:


For New England winds veering to southerly with
probably continued cloudy weather Wednesday.
For the Middle States, westerly winds and gnera!ly
clear weather. For the interior of the Southern States
east of the Mississippi generally clear weather and
light to fresh Winds but partly cloudy weather along
the coast. North and west Ohio Valley the con-
ditions are favorable for increasing cloudiness and
threatening weather but the afternoon telegraphic
reports from upper Michigan to Nebraska and west
ward are missing
Year: 1872

The Concert itself viii be the most brilliant orehes
trail display that occurred in the West. One hun
dred performers gathered from all parts of this eOun
try and from Europe under the direction of Professor


Hast will contribute to this grand musical carnival
And to afford ample room for every ticket holder to
enjoy such unusual musical festival, the Concert
Will be given in Central Park, where arrangements
have been made to accommodate all who may come.


Persons holding whole, half quarter tickets will
be admitted to both the Concert and Drawing, and
without such tickets will be admitted to either.
Year: 1872

itor.


"To Mr.. Smith"


"When did you see it last7


"On the night of Mr.. Thompson's death. ="


At this moment the solicitor for the prose
cution entered the court, bringing with him
upon tray, a watch, two money bags, Jewel
case, a pocket book, and bottle Of the same
manufacture as the stopper, and having no
cork in it; some other articles there were in
it not material to my story. The tray was
placed upon the table in sight of the prisoner
and the Witness and from that moment not
doubt remained in the mind of any man of
the guilt of the prisoner.


A few words will bring my tale to close.
The house where the murder had been COM
mitted was between nine and ten miles dis
tant The solicitor, as soon as the cross.ex-
animation had discovered the existence of the
closet, and its situation, had set off on horse
back, with two sheriffs officers, and after
pulling down part Of the wall Of the house,
had detected his place Of concealment


The search was well rewarded; the whole
of the property belonging to Mr.. Thompson
was there, amounting in value to several
thousand pounds, and to leave no doubt, a
bottle was discovered, which the medical men
instantly pronounced to contain the very iden-
tical poison which had caused the death of
the unfortunate Thompson. The result is too
obvious to need explanation.


The case presents the perhaps unparalleled
instance of man accused of murder so de-
Tending himself as to induce the judge and
Jury to concur in verdict of acquittal, but
who, persisting in calling a witness to prove
his innocence, was, upon the testimony Of
that very witness, convicted and executed.
Year: 1872

The ENJOYING OF L1FE.-It is singular to
what an extent people believe happiness de-
pends on not being obliged to work. Girls
are considered well married if their husbands
are wealthy, and boys considered provided for,
if enough can be left them for support, and
enough surplus for them to play "business"
with. Bosh! Honest, hearty, contented Ia
Dor is the only source of happiness, as we'll as
the guarantee of life. The gloom Of misan-
,thropy is not only great destroyer Of happi-
ness we might have, but it tends to destroy
life itself. Idleness and luxury induce pre-
mature decay much faster than many trades
regarded as the most exhaustive and fatal to
longevity. Labor, in general, instead of
shortening the term Of life, actually increases
it. 1t is the lack Of occupation that actually
destroys so many Of the wealthy, who have
nothing to do but play the part of drones,
and, like them, make speedy exit, while the
busy bee fills out its day Of usefulness and
honor.
Year: 1872

A GooD CELLAR.-When the cellar is dug
the foundation of the wall should be dug
about foot deeper than the cellar. This
should be filled up with gravel or broken
stone. Build up the wall on this, using good
lime mortar between the stones or brick.
When within two or three feet Of the surface
of the ground, care should be taken not to let
any one stone or brick 60 through from side
to side, rs it would be liable to condnct the
frost through. It would be better to build
the wall up in two distinct layers, leaving .
small air chamber in the centre, which will
efectually keep out the frost In putting the
windows in, put glass in both sides Of the sash,
there being an air chamber in the centre it
will also check the frost. In making the
drain, make it as low as the bottom Of the
wall, which will be one foot below the bot
tom of the cellar, and We will guarantee that
you will always have dry cellar, let the
weather be as it may; whereas, if the cellar
wall be built on level with the bottom ofthe
cellar, tho water will, in rainy season, soak
through into your cellar. " aar.
Year: 1872

ADoe THAT IS WORTH SoMETH1NG.-A.
B. Newman, assistant light-keeper at Mount
Desert is the owner of fine Newfoundland
dog, Of whom we are told the following anec-
dote: On Sunday, the 18th ult, Mr.. New
mans little boy, nine years old, strayed away
and was missing for about two hours. The
mother went out of doors and called to him,


when the dog, in response, ran up the shore
with the boys wet cap in his mouth, and sig-


nifed by his actions that he desired her to
follow him. The mother, alarmed, called the
father, who was sleeping in the house, and
they followed the dog as quickly as possible.


Down by the shore, on a rock, the little boy
was lying insensible, his clothes wet, as if he
had been dragged from the water. After
long efforts, in which the dog rendered all the
assistance he could in his mute way, the boy
was resuscitated, and afterwards told his sto-


ry. He was on the beach gathering shells
when a large wave came in and carried him of
in the under tow. The dog jumped in after
him, but the wave prevented him from reach
ing the boy for some minutes. He seized him
by the leg of his trowsers and tried to drag
him ashore, but the cloth tore in his teeth ;
and the boy said that he had an indistinct re.
collection of the dog coming down below the
surface for him again; and that was the last
thing he was conscious Of. 1t seems that the
dog had dragged the child up on the rock out
of the reach Of the waves, and had tried to re-
Year: 1872

MANS INs1eN1F1cANcE.-As the trials of
life thicken, and the dreams of other days
fade one by one into the deep vista of disap-
pointed hope, the heart grows weary Of the
Struggle, and we begin to realize our insigni6-
cance. Those who have climbed to the pin.
nacle of fame or revel in luxury and wealth,
90 to the grave at last with the poor mendi-
cant who begs by the wayside, and like him,
are soon forgotten. Generation after genera
ton, says an eloquent writer, have felt as we
feel, and their fellows were as active in life
as ours are now. They passed away as va:
Dor, while nature wore the same aspect of
beauty as when the Creator commanded her
to be. And so it shall be when We are gone.
The heavens will be as bright over their
graves as they are now around our path.
The world will have the same attractions tor
offspring yet unborn that it had once for our.
selves, and that it has now for our children.
Year: 1872

in the county, duly elected and qualified pur-
suant to law, were threatened with death or
great bodily harm, unless they resigned their
| Offices, in obedience to the orders of band of
unknown conspirators, who made their law
less demands in written communications, which
bore various ghastly symbols Of terror, and in
public notices, which the conspirators, unre-
strained by the fear Of the law, and unabashed
by manly shame, nailed upon the door Of this
court house. as if to insult and defy public
Justice in her chosen temple.


Gentlemen of the grand jury, this also was
great crime.


1t was crime which in its very nature
strikes at the existence of government itself.
fbold, bad men can thus work their will,
then the foundations of organized society
must soon be upheaved. The citizen elected
to public office, represents in his official sphere,
the sovereignty and will of the people; and
by the people alone can he be justly deprived
Of the franchise with which he is invested. If
he violates the trust reposed in him, either by
malfeasance or misfeasance, by committing or
omitting an act which the law prohibits or
enjoins, he must be held responsible in the
courts established by the people to remedy all
public and private wrongs. These remedies
were not evoked to correct real or supposed
evil; but officers we're compelled by these
deadly menaces to surrender their commits
sions bearing the broad seal of the State.
This was the law Of the strong hand. This
court cannot be silent, nor unconcerned or in
active knowing these things: for they are
known to all men. No! gentlemen of the
grand jury, better would it be, than for this
court to sanction or tolerate such crimes as
these, that the solid walls of the building in
which we now sit, should crumble around US
and bury judge and jury in their ruins! Jus.
tice would then indeed be silent; but it would
be silence without shame; and the good cit
izen, and the weak and the oppressed might
yet hope to see her temple erected again, and
hear her voice raised, and behold her power
full arm barred in the defense Of right. 1t will
be your instant duty, gentlemen of the grand
jury, to make most rigid inquisition into
these matters, and to bring to swift punish.
ment those audacious violators of the laws of
the land. In performing this duty, to which
you are bound by your solemn oaths, you will
exhaust, if necessary, all the resources that
the law places at your disposal. This court
stands ready to aid you with all its power /;
and I now appeal to you to do your duty with
the spirit of men who can be neither subdued
by fear nor bent by favor.
Year: 1872

TO THE GRAND JURY OF CHESTER, OCTO-


BER 21, 1872.


Gentlemen ofthe Grand Jury:


At the commencement of the present term
which was begun on the 1st Monday of Sep.
tember, and thence adjourned to this day, ]
charged and admonished you generally upon
your powers, your duties and responsibilities
1 then took occasion to refer to the causes that
led the government of the United States to in
tervene with its military and judicial power
for the protection of American citizens in this
State, in the free exercise of their unquestion.
able civil rights. 1 need say nothing further
to vindicate that intervention. 1t was timely,
merciful, and just.


I shall now charge specially upon the mat
ters to which it is your bounden duty to i'm
medately give your most diligent attention.


Gentlemen of the grand jury, you are watch
men, stationed to survey the whole county,
and by your action to check, and bring to
merited punishment, all who dare invade any
right of person or property. You are the eye
of the law. Nay more you are the right arm
of the law. You can bar or unbar the gates
of Justice. Ifyou fail, then all the agencies
that the law provides for the protection of so.
ciety must also fail, and the court itself is
made the paralyzed spectator Of the triumph
of crime.


I shall now point your attention to events
which transpired in this county about eighteen
months ago and which demanded, but never
received, the consideration of this court and
which being in their nature then exclusively
within the Jurisdiction of the State, have moi
been acted on by the Federal courts. In the
month of March, 1871, a number of citizens
of the State were slain by fire of musketry
and pistols on the public highways in this
county. They were slain in an armed collision
between two organized forces, and some were
slaughtered, it is currently alleged and gener.
ally believed, while flying for their lives from
the scene of conflict. The bodies of several
citizens, who were thus slain, lay for some
time unburied, and the blood of some of them
may yet be seen sprinkled on the rails of fen
ces that skirt the roadside. The court il
bound to take judicial notice of these terrible
facts-for they have passed into the history o.
the times; and justice, which has long slum
bered here, should now awake and requite with
condign punishment the guilty doers of those
deeds of blood.


No inquest was ever held upon the deac
bodies of the men who thus died violent deaths
The county, itiis true, was without a coroner
the law, therefore, devolved the duty upon tht
nearest magistrate, but he criminally failed tt
perform it. That no inquest was held in such
a case is not the least startling and significant
fact connected with the event of which speak
At or about the same period, public officers
Year: 1872

the country through. which it passes
will be awakened and developed into
new life and untold prosperity. No
other railroad in the country will pass
through such vast beds OF coal and iron
ore, and the enterprises aud improve.
ments arising from development OF
these now dormant resources will amaze
and astonish the 'oldest inhabitant."
Push on the good work, fellow citizens
of Tuscarawas, Harrison and Belmont
counties, and we shall soon rejoice in a
railroad that will bring to us all that
We have ever wished for in the way OF
prosperity and advancement.
Year: 1872

BRADFORD JUNCTION, March so
Last night as freight train from the
West arrived here on the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati and ST Louis railroad, q
brakeman, Joseph Kelley. in stepping
from one car to another fell under the
train and several heavy cars passed over
him, crushing and mangling his body
in such a manner that recognition was
almost impossible.
Year: 1872

HAGUE, March 3l.-ExtensIVe prep
arations are being made throughout
Holland for the celebration tomorrow
OF the three hundredth anniversary Of
the independence OF the country from
Austrian rule. The celebration in this
CITY will be conducted on grand scale.
Year: 1872

have to stay at home. l don't have but
one pair of kid gloves and one pair of but
toned shoes, for no one has time to sew
the buttons on when they come off, which
they are forever doing. Then Minnie calls
me her little sister before her gentlemen
friends. am sure can't help it, if l am
little | know il well enough without her
telling me all the time. Then have to do
Just as she says, and mind her just as do
my mother and wait on her as fshe was
Queen. Oh, dear! won't be glad when she
is married and THE young lady file house" y"


But the men are just as bad and full of
faults, if not worse than the weaker sex.
At twenty they are impudent puppies


always petting and twlrling the downy
mustache that usually adorns their upper
lip. 1t would be a good investment to buy
them for what they are worth and then
sell them for the price at which they value
themselves. Then some of the older ones
have little piece of board about two feet
square, and they will sit over this for hours
at time, moving little pieces Of ivory, cut
in the shape of heather idols; not saying a
word, except occasionally something that
sounds like "chich but what chickens
have to do with this play is beyond my
comprehension. The truth of it, all is,
that as a general thing tho ladies are uain
and useless and the gentlemen conceited and
dognsatical. But the sun is shining now,
right in my face, so must stop and turn
my tub around. CECILIA.
Year: 1872

The lady who did not think it respec-
table to bring up her children to work. has
recently heard from her two sons-one is
bar keeper on flat boat, and the other is
second clerk to lime-kiln
Year: 1872

Red table napkins are coming much
into use in restaurants, and it is suggest
ed as a reason that it is because people
used to mistake the white ones for pocket
handkerchiefs and carry them away.
Year: 1872

The corners of Fourth and Jefferson
streets have long been famous as the
lounging place of well dressed lOsfers,
whose chief delight and sole ambition
seems to be to stand in that locality,
stare ill-mannerly into the face of every
passing lady, and pass indecent and
insOlent remarks upon her personal
appearance. a gentlemen informs us
ola little scene that transpired the
other day at the northeast corner of
the street named, as Il result of u very
natural mistake, and which he vouches
for as true.


Two ladies out shopping We're passing
the corner named, and one of them, a
little near sighted, seeing an object
rugged out in mans shape, in the hight
of fashion, mistook it for Il dressed up
sign of n clothing house. Walking up
to the figure, she seized the inclpient
but highly waXed mustache, and re-
marked to her companion, "I would
like so much to kiss it If it was alive"
"Oh! ali! 1 assu' you, dear Miss, I am
alive, and you may kiss mo ifyou like"
come from the figure in a semi-femi-
nine and much affected voice.


The sudden shock was too much for
the lady. What she had taken for q
tailor's block was absolutely Il living
object, and she was so dreadfnlly start
led at the sudden discovery that, with
II shrek of "Oh, goodness!'' she gently
sank upon the pavement in fainting
fit, and was carried in a store near by
for chalnphorization. The very natu-
raj cause of the mistake and discom-
future did not wait to see the result,
but hied himself over to the United
States Hotel bar for something to
strengthen his nerves, and has not
been seen ut tho corner OF Fourth and
Jefferson streets since.--Louisriilc Led
Year: 1872

It is mistake to suppose that the
cause of education is always advanced
by the mere multiplication of educa-
tional institutions. Gifts to such insti-
tutions have been characterized, quite
generally, more by the desire of per-
sonal notoriety than by a sincere wish
to aid education. BeneEactors have
chosen to found new institutions and
have them christened after themselves;
conceiving that they could, in no surer
way, build themselves name. AS a
result we have, scattered through the
country, especially through the West
and South, many puny t'colleges'' and
"universities," with a dozen or so stu
dents, and with no higher educational
grade than an ordinary academy.
Meanwhile many an old and long
established college, with an honorable
history and a long list of respected and
learned men for its Alumni, is suffer
ing for lack of funds necessary to its
support. 1t is to be hoped that the
order of things may change before long,
and men of wealth and benevolence
rally to the support of colleges and
universities which have long been, and
should continue to be, centres of wide
and elevated intiucnce.-.IosUwaI.
Year: 1872

An American is surprised, says Il
correspondent of the Christian Register,
| to see the conditions of life as fair as
they are here in Ireland. The squalor
of the low Irish is not so pronounced
in Dublin and its environs as in the
Irish quarters of Boston or New York.
People are not so huddled. AS the
cabins are but one story high, the pigs
cannot be kept in the attic. On Sunday
the poor people are quite rs we'll dressed.
In regard to these things the aspects of
Irish life have greatly improved dur
ing the last half century. So many
have emigrated that there is a better
chance for those that remain. \ Curl
Gus law is in force here by which all
the loving must be married, and all
the dead buried, before twelve o'clock
noon. AS in England, marriages must
be in church or chapel. There are no
marriages ut home. And if one goes
to the great cemeteries in the vicinity
Of Dublin, as the hour Of noon approach
es, he will see funerals coming, some of
them in hot haste lest the noon-bell
should strike, the gates be shut, and
the burial have to. be deferred to the
next day. The professions are not al
lowed to enter the cemetery but the
bodies are bore in, and the friends may
follow on foot. If the deceased be Il
Catholic, the priest says u few words
over the coffin just inside the gate, and
then it is borne on very much as 4 mat
ter of business. The irreverent and un-
ceremonious way in which dead peo-
pie, especially if they die in poverty,
are put into the ground here is anlaz-
ing. One notices, too, that the priests
are laid with their heads in the direc-
ton opposite to the heads of the people,
so that in the resurrection ut the last
day when they rise out of the dust they
will stand face to face with the MEM
bers of their congregation. 1 noticed
one grave in which We're buried seven
Jesuit fathers one upon another, and
could not but imagine what deal of
good temper and gracious Difference to
each other would be needed ut the last
trump to prevent discord and scramb-
ling out in some selfish, uncomfortable
and awl>wardly irritating way. But
these are great mysteries, and the car
nal reason may not pry into them. The
church knows that the seven fathers
will como out of it all right at last, and
that is enough.
Year: 1872

Thore is nothing more likely to result
i'm IL successful career than confident
self-reliancc. 1t is astonishing how
much more q youth will accomplish
who relies upon himself than one who
depends upon others for assistance.
Having first ascertaincd the direction
in and the means by which his objects
is to be reached, let him put his whole
energies to work, and with untiagging
industry press forward. The young
man who, instead of rising at five,
sleeps until seven or eight, and who
spends his evenings on the cOncrs or in
the cOmpanionship of those who are
wanting in laudable ambition, rarely
ever wins position of honor or achieves
Il reputation above that enjoyed by the
common masses.


In II country like ours where the ave-


MUGS to honor and wealth arc open alike
to all, there is no reasonable excuse
that can be afforded for II mans failure
to achieve one or the other, or both.
Ill health or extraordinary misfortune
may keep him down, but these are tho
exceptions that establish the rule. Few
men know of how much they are capa-
bic until they have first thoroughly
tested their abilities. An hour of an
evening spent with some good author,
or in the study of some branch of use
ful science will, in the course of II few
years give to the young man who thus
dcvOtcs this small potion of his time
an amount of information, literary and
scientific, which cannot fail to fit him
for positions to which he could never
properly aspire without the attention
to study.
Year: 1872

1t is bad enough to have the carpet
baggers misrepresenting in Congress all
the honest men, both black and white,
OF the reconstructed States, but when
they enlarge their jurisdiction and pro-
pose to take charge of the whole coun-
try, we think it time to protest.