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Year: 1873

A MORAL POINTED WITH THISTLE SEEDS.
"A story is told of a woman who freely
used her tongue to the scandal of others,
and made confession to the priest of what
she had done. He gave her ripe thistle
top. and told her to go out in various direc-
tions and scatter the seeds, one by one.
Wondering at the penance, she obeyed,
and then returned and told her confessor.
To her amazement, he bade her 60 back
and gather the scattered seeds and when
she objected that it would be impossible,
he replied that it would be still more diff
cult to gather up and destroy all the evil
reports which she had circulated about
others,
Year: 1873

PHYSICAL GEoGRA autobiography as
taught in our grammer school compre-
hends practically little else than political
geography. 1t is true there is usually
taught shadow or an outline of physics
little of the rivers and mountains, and of
the outlines of superficial bodies of water


and of land but barely enough to consti-
tute glimpse of the subject, properly
considered. At the same time, also. We
have few generalities in the direction of
astronomical or mathematical geography ;
Year: 1873

The late Lord Lytton wrote constantly for at
least half century, and though he obtained great
celebrity IN only one Kind OF literary composition
ne cultivated several not unsuccessfuily. From
the day when, IN extreme youth, he published


weeds and Wild Flowers TO that In which, In


the mellow year OF a full lowered maturity, he


ANONYMOUSLY gave TO the world "The Coming
Race" MS pen not only was never idle, but was
generaliy employed TO purpose In the execution
OF which genius, learning, exquisite refinement or
Thought ana feeling the habit OF idealization and
perfect mastery OF most fascinating styIe were
conspicuous. Nor. though the youth OF tho
author at the time pelham. was comnIe,ea
justires our regarding that work as an examine of
precocity, we're Lord Lyttons abilities or mat
forced and unhealthy sort which early comes Ia
fruit and as early falls into mediocrlty or decay


what he wrote at 90 Is intellectually healthier ana
more manly than what he wrote at 26 Gradually
he grew out OF those morbidities ana Alterations,
those vices In literature and morals which distort
several Of his earlier novels: that The series,
taken as whole--we speak OF the romances
alone-may be nkened to a cnain OF linked gems,
the individuals In which, commencing with a rather
low value constantly increase IN beauty aud in-
Year: 1873

Everybody is interested in canned
corn, but not everybody knows that a
suit has been in progress in the
United States Court, i'll Massachusetts,
by which various very important claims
to the packing business are to be set
tied. Judge CIaiford has decided that
the plaintiffs in the case are the only
parties authorized to put up hermetl-
cally sealed green corn by process in
which the corn is first cut from the cob
by means of curved and gauged knife,
or other suitable means, then packed
in cans and Theoretically sealed, then
exposed to steam or boiling heat for an
hour and half, then the cans pune
tured and Immediately resealed while
hot, then continued IN heat for two
hours and half longer, and then slow
ly cooled in room ut the temperature
of 100 degrees Fahrenheit. This de-
cision is interesting to all packers,
dealers, and consumers. An appeal
has been taken, and after final decision,
suits for infringement and damages
will be set in motion. If the case on
appeal goes in favor of the plaintiffs
they will have the right to put up all
the green corn in this country, and
dictate who shall put it up, and fix
their own prices for this article.
Year: 1873

A CALAMITY AT ROCHESTER,.


PAIL or WALL ON RIVER FRONT-TwENTY OR


MORE PERSONS SUPPOSED TO BE KILLED AND


THEIR BODIES CARRIED OVER THE FALLS.


ROCHESTER,. April s.--About $50 o'clock this even
ing the foundation wall the river side in Front
St. Of the new city building for the Police and Fire
Departments. went out. when about 20 OF 80 persons
were upon IL looking at the river. 1t is estimated
by those who eye-witnesses of the affair that
10 or IS carried into the river and swept over
the high falls No Of the lost are yet reported
Five or six are known to have escaped Great ex-
citenent prevails, and the police are in full force in
the streets, trying to prevent any further catas-
trophe.


Ten p. m.-An interview with Henry Hysner who
was standing the wall which fell confirms the
report that there were 20 or 80 persons on the wall
and tmbers leading thereto. He was considerably
bruised in getting ont. and his son was saved by
Joseph Rmglestein, who was in the street at the
time 1t is known certainly that three persons were
taken out alive. No search can be made for the
bodies tonight. AS the news spreads through the
city the excitement increases. A Mr.. Potter, who
was foreman on the work. says that he saw there
was great danger of the wall being swept
out. and he advised and even begged the
people to get of. He at last appealed
to the watchman of the building to drive the peo-
pie away but he refused except to keep off the boys
Mr. Potter gave up in despair and just reached the
sidewalk when the crash occurred. He turned to
hear the cries of the unfOrtunates but was power
less to save any of them. If the wall has not been
washed ont to the rock. when the waters subside,
there is chance that the bodies of nearly all the
dead will be recovered, as it is thought that they
fell into the basement of the building and the cur
rent sets toward the street. Advices from
Avon show the river to be still rising there, and
there will be higher water here What the result
will be few hours will determine.


Eleuen .. n.-RepOrts begin to come in giving the
of those supposed TO be lost but there is no
certainty that they correct. A who was
standing on the Central Railroad bridge says that
he saw a boy with one arm over plank pass under
the bridge and go over the falls. The number at
this hour known 10 have escaped alive is FIVE Word
has Just been received at Police Headquarters that
aid is needed to the people from the houses
in EXchange-st. near the Erie Railway depot, the
houses there being inundated. SOD of L. A. Pratt,
shoe dealer, aged 16 year, among the lost. boy
whom he FaS with escaPed.


NidHigh.-The only person known as yet to have
been drowned is William Pratt age H. son of l.. A.
Pratt, merchant Of this city. His companion
escaped by catching hold of the coat Of man who
was pulled out by persons who heard the report
made by the falling walls A lad was floating
down the river clingng to aboard, and it is supposed
this was the youth who perished
Year: 1873

From Mexico city we are specially in
formed by HERALD correspondence that the
annual rains have fallen in the Republic with
unusual severity, and that in some localities
the crops have been badly injured or cut off
entirely by inundations or heavy fall of
hail. The city Of Guanajuato was visited
by fearful storm, causing great destruction
Of life and property and suddenly reducing
very many families to q condition Of extreme
distress. President Lerdo's speech to the men,
bers Of the Seventh Congress Of the nation con-
tains an extended constitutional expression
Of the principles on which he has hitherto
conducted, and on which he hopes to main
tain, the administration Of the democracy.
Towards the close Of the State paper he
Without neglecting any Of its regu-
lar responsibilities the government has been
able to appropriate million Of dollars toward
the payment Of the loan, the purchase OF
telegraphic material and toward the recovery
Of the mint''-a novel, yet very pleasing,
condition of affairs for Mexico.
Year: 1873

ACCIDENTAL DEATH is the verdict Of the
jury in reference to the cause of the sudden


cutting off from the living of young Leggett at
the Cornell University the other day. 1t ap-
pears that in process-a hazing process
preliminary to initiation into the Kappa
Alpha Society, Leggett was blindfolded, when
he and Lee and Mason, who were leading
him, all fell from the cliff SO much for those
brutal pastimes, inherited and retained in our
colleges from the days of the semi-barbarous
Anglo-Saxons 1t is to be hoped that the vio-
lent death Of young Leggett will lead to the
initiation in our colleges of new order OF
things in the place of such senseless brutal.
ties as those which cost him his life. {
Year: 1873

THE LONG ISLAND HORROR. We give in
another part of this paper the latest
intelligence from Huntington concerning
the awful Kelsey mystery. The village
and neighborhood are reported to be in
fearful state of excitement apprehensions
being entertained of disturbance of the pub
lie peace. While awaiting the issue OF the
Coroner's inquest we defer any further re-
marks on the chain of circumstantial evidence,
which apparently establishes the fact that the
human remains so strangely given up by the
ga are those of the missing man. Kelsey For
the present, we would urge upon the citizens
of Huntington an orderly submission to the
authorities and the processes of the law. The
scandal which has fallen upon that commit
nifty will only be aggravated by violent mani
festations of public Indignation. 1t is the
duty Of the community to bow to the su-
premacy of the law and to assist in every
possible way the officers and courts of justice
in clearing up this horrible mystery.
Year: 1873

Tho Lato Cyclone In Nova Scotia and


Those Fishertes-A Fearful Record.


The late August cyclone, which it was sup
posed developed on the coasts of New jersey,
Long Island and New England its greatest
force, was, it appears, gentle nor easter in
these regions compared with its terrific strength
and destructive work along the seaboard of
Nova Scotia and the neighboring British
provinces. From our first reports of it we
were led to the conclusion that the damages
to property from this storm were compare
lively light and that few, if any, losses of life
had resulted from it. But from day to day
our succeeding reports of lives lost and prop
cyclone for August doubtless the most dis
astrous on the eastern seaboard of the New
Dominion Of all the disastrous storms in that
quarter of which any record exists.


1t appears, for instance, among numerous
other resulting losses, wrecks and damages,
that twenty American fishing schooners from
Gloucester and ten from Beverly, Mass, were
cast ashore on Magdalen Island; that forty
American fishing vessels were lost on the
north side of Prince Edward Island, and
that only eighteen lives were saved out of oil
the crews; that over said island half the crops
are destroyed; that six square-rigged vessels
were wrecked on the northern coast. and that
the crews of two of them were drowned; that
dead bodies and wrecked materials are floating
ashore daily there; that wharves, bridges and
buildings were blown down or seriously dam
aged throughout the island, and that the Col
lector Of Customs at Magdalen Island reports
fifty British and American vessels ashore
there.


These scattering details will furnish an idea
of the general work of destruction in those
provinces of the Eastern fisheries involved in
the fullest development of this late sweeping
continental nor easter We fear, too, that
the worst is yet to come, in the losses of life,
and in the sufferings and embarrassments
resulting to the industrial interests directly
involved on the land and the water. It is
remarkable as it is fortunate that none of our
transatlantic steamers, incoming or outgoing,
were caught in the merciless grasp of this
wild tempest.
Year: 1873

MISERY LOVES COMPANY, and so now what
with the forgeries discovered of our Central
Railroad bonds in New York, and what with
entertainments Of city funds unearthed, the
two cities should feel now comparatively COM
Portable as next door neighbopA
Year: 1873

CROSSING THE LNE.--We do not refer to the
marks the line between pleasuring in the
country and delving in the town. In other
words, our summer holiday season ends with
the last day OF August, and the business sea-
son for the fall and winter reopens on the 1st
of September; and having crossed the line
heavy will be to-day the return of our alb
sentees from the country to the town.
Year: 1873

New Iork pOlltlclan craVeu larger pay, Wnen
the President suddenly abandoned the scheme,
to the great JOY of Mr.. Burr and his friends.
Moreover, we read that there was fondness
for money and speculation in those days.
that large fortunes were made out of revolu-
tionary bonds and supplies to the patriotic
army and from the imitation of currency and
appreciation of gold, so that it become COM
mon for corporations to employ agents at the
Capitol whose profession was the purchase of
legislative votes. So widely was this profess
sion extended that shrewd business men
affixed values to the votes Of certain legis-
lators. We learn from historians and satirists
that society showed the effect of this morbid,


unhealthy condition; that wanton women


rode in public places with six horses to their
carriages, while successful quacks made


formal calls on the President in carriages


drawn by eight horses; that, in short, the
common test OF gentleman was the number
of horses he drove at one time. We read fur
ther that an American Minister at foreign
court endorsed the issue of large quantities of
fraudulent mining shares in a foreign city;


that these shares were largely purchased by
widows and clergymen who had faith in the
name of Minister from the great Republic;
that Senator in Congress was principal in
this remunerative transaction, and yet all the
time was the bosom friend of the soldier-Pres-
ident In time it became the maxim of the
administration that public service should be
the means of private profit. Carrying out this
maxim, the Congress voted large sums Of
money TO the President, his Cabinet and them
Year: 1873

A Volunteer Dissatisfied with the First


Regiment.


Messrs. Editors will you allow me to
state through your columns few facts con-
corning the First Regiment Virginia Volun-
teers? The regiment Is anything but an orna-
ment to the city of Richmond and State of
Virginia under its present organization.


1t is shame that when parade is ordered
why is it so small2 Because there is no dis.
cipline in It, land to have that, the commander
must be discipliMrian.


When men are absent from 4 parade no
thing is done with them. A court-martial
should be formed after each parade, whose
duties should be to look into the case Of each
absentee, and if it appears that he could be
spared from business and did not parade,
heavy fine should be imposed, and, if unpaid,
collected as the law allows.


At the time of the Virginia State Fair last
fall the regiment was ordered out One
company failed TO appear at all (report said
the captain told then not toy; another marched
with visiting company to the Fair Grounds
instead of forming with the battalion. The
commander of the regiment should have
seen that charges were brought against each
captain, and '' 'broken," If necessary.


IF the regiment is ordered to assemble at a
certain hour the line should be formed to the
minute if only one company is on the ground,
and the others should be reported as late
when they come up, and heavily fined accord
ing to the number of minutes late. Instead
of that the companies are detained waiting
for the line to be formed from thirty minutes
to one or two hours, and nothing done with
late or absent companies. When the line is be-
ing formed it generally takes twenty or thirty
minutes, while it should be done in about
i've or ten, and then it is imperfectly done.
Most OF the companies have both guides in
the line, which is entirely wrong, as the
"right-Suidc of one company is the left of
the one in advance. All sergeants, except
"orderlies" " and sergeants at the left of the


battalion, should be in line of fle-closers.
The same applies to the order into column.
The color-bearer should alrays have
with him seven corporals, constituting the
color-guard." They should be posted two
on his right, one ON his left. and four in the
rear rank, constituting the "left four" OF


the "right centre company" And they
should always report to the "colors in case


of parade. But generally the "color
| bearer has to march aCithout an escort.
There is always too much talking and look


ing around when the battalion is at attention


As soon as halt is given, the men seem tt
think they are at "place, rest"


The list Of causes of complaint could be in


creased to great length but for fear of tax
| ing up too much Of your space.


One OF TIE BoYs.
Year: 1873

BoDY REcoVERED.-Late last evening the
body OF Phillip Hampton, who was drowned
on the day Of the free bridge disaster, was
found under a fish-trap near the Danyille
railroad bridge by Jobn Wade, fisherman.
The coroner viewed it and turned it over 10
the family of The deceased without an inquest.
There was no decomposition, but the body
WIS considerably swollen. This Is the third
body found, and there are three more yet in
the river,
Year: 1873

ARREST OF A NOTED HoRsE-THIEF.
nation was received in this city yesterday of
the arrest in Pierce city, Mo-, of the noted
Virginia horse-thief Lucien Beard. Beard
has been locked up in Jail in that city. He
was arrested by the deputy sheriff of Pierce
city, who was shot by one of Boards
friends in an attempt to rescue him.
Year: 1873

AN UNEXPECTED VIsIroR.-The citizens re-
siding in the lower portion of Rockets were
startled Yesterday afternoon by
the appearance of stranger in that locality
in the shape of ml,skrat of enormous size
weighing eight poundsl. The attention of
tile proprietor of the Bank Saloon being
called to this animal, he at once began to de-
wise some means for his capture, which he
effected after stubborn fight between this
wouid-be inhabitant and a terrier dog.
Year: 1873

until The saubrous bark Of the soap tree brought
from the chlIan valleys to perfect the fragrant So


zodont the most wholesome, reliable. and delight
ful article for the teeth That brush was ever dipped
Year: 1873

Messrs. Editors,-With the view OF foster
ing every musical enterprise In our COM
munity, will you allow me the space IN your
columns to recommend that our cltlzens
qeneraily will show their appreciate OF tho
Year: 1873

tFrom the New York Tribune (lnd.), March 81


These are the credentials which the Presi-
dent presents Us the basis of his demand for
the public confidence sincere repetition
OF the unkept promises of four years ago.
We wish we had something better, but we
must periorce be contentcd with this. 1t is
easy to consider how much worse it might
be. Our hope for the future is contained in
the prospect thut the President, retaining
oil his good intentions, his devotion to the
public welfare, his courage and energy, NAV
not he altogether insensible to the teachings
of"eXperience, and may avoid hereafter some
of the more obvious errors from which
the country has I. hitherto suffered.
This prospect is rendered the more
probable by the circumstances which
will surround the new Administration. The
public conscience is becoming more intolerant
of corruption and indirection. A sharper
tone Of critical observation is becoming ap-
parent in the Administration press. There


is q marked subsidence Of violent partisan
ship all over the country. A considerable
number of leading men and leading papers
have no hesitation in ayowing their prefer
ence Of honesty to orthodoxy. If this salu-
tary change shall continue it will not be to
the advantage Of any party to retain the
wrong kind Of men at the head of its organi-
zation. When the Claytons, the Durells, The
Pomeroys cease to lead the Presidents party,
and give place to 4; better breed of politicians,
there will be nothing to fear from the Presi-
dent himself.
Year: 1873

F0RESHAD0WISGS OF POLICY APPROVED.
New York Herald independently, March 81


In its other foreshadowings of policy the
inaugural of President Grant will meet with
general approval. TIL nation believes that
the President will do all in his power during
his second term to foster the commercial in
terests of the country, to preserve peace, to
encourage the shipping interests, to aid man
ufactures, to elevate labor, to do justice to
the Indians, and to correct the abuses that
have grown up in the civil service Of the
country. The people will sympathizc with
the President, too, in his ndire allusion to
his own untiring services to the country and
to the abuse to which he has been subjected
by the political ghouls. They trusted the
general of their armies during the war
and found no reason to regret their
confidence. They trusted the soldier
President in his first term of office, and,
while he made some mistakes and was ham
pered with the blunders Of the politicians in
Congress and affected by the suspicious that
attached to them, they saw no reason to
withdraw their confidence from him last No
vember. They now trust him again for a
second term, but they expect that he will be
the President Of the nation, and not the mere
Executive of q corrupt Congress. The Repub-
iican party to-day is an offence in the nostrils
of the nation; but President Grant owes his
election to himself, and not to the Republ-
can party. His inaugural address leads us to
hope that he will exercise the independence
he has wor, and that the new policy of his
second Administration will be framed for the
people, and not for the politicians.


BLUNT And STRAIGHTFORWARD


New York Times (Repuulicant March 81


The address, as q whole, bears the unmis-
taxable stamp of the Presidents indyidual-
ty. 1t is a blunt, ghtlorward, and prac-
teal document, with no pretension to literary
graces, and with plenty of those minor faults
on which the literary amateurs and the die.
tionary-men can find a good deal of exercise
for their small wits. It reflects not few Of
the personal feelings of the President in favor
of certain developments of national activity,
which, perhaps. are lacking in sound econom-
ical basis. In man of less perfect self
restraint, and less complete subordination to
what he clearly diScerns to be the common
sense of the people, such opinions might be
dangerous. AS it i, the President is too out
spoken to conceal his belief that the National
Government ought to do sundry things
usually committed to individual enterprise,
while it is perfectly certain that he has too
keen L sense OF the responsibilities of his
position to urge such details of policy be-
yond the limit which both the people and
their representatives, would approve.
Year: 1873

The message is quite characteristic, and is
as clear and lucid a foreshadowing Of the


policy of the Administration for the next
four years as we could hope. 1t is source
OF great satisfaction to the American people
that there can be no doubt as to the authen-
ticity of public document of this impor-
lance. President Grant writes his own mes