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Year: 1873

merce between the States and to establish reason
able rates of railway charges for freights; for a
transcontinental railway. "A bill was reported
and read to repeal the Bankruptcy law. -;
A preamble and resolution was reported
from the Committee on Appropriations, and
adopted, to the effect that the present fnan-
cial embarrassment makes it the duty OF Con-
gress to reduce expenditures to the lowest point
consistent with the necessities of the Government
and that as the Secretary of the Treasury had rec
commended. in an official letter to the Committee
of Ways and Means, an increase in certain duties
and internal taxation therefore it is resolved that
the President be requested to cause revision OF
the estimates of the appropriations required for
the service of the Government for the fiscal year
ending June 30, 1875, to be made by the
several executive department, and cause report
to be made to the House, if possible, as early as
the 5th of January next, setting forth In detail
what public expenditures for the current fiscal
year, end what estimates for the next fiscal year,
can be reduced, and the amount of such reduction
without serious deriment to the public service.
A Joint resolution was adopted, to adjourn from
December 10 to January g.. Adjourned.
Year: 1873

We are very tired Of hearing, from
the Chicago Jlribnaae and come other
papers which seem influenced with a
desire to court the favor of the least in
felligent farmers. the absurd state ment
that high freight charges on railroads
are due to watering stock, and if some
thing will only squeeze the water
out of the stock" the farmers may
look for transportation ut more reason
able rates. What on earth has the
price Of stock to do with the rate
charged for freightso Stocks are
"watered' for all sorts OF reasons,
some good and some bad, but al, Of
them have reference to the market
value of the stock and the ability to
borrow more or less money on it.
Charges for freight, on the other hand,
are governed by the amount of bust.
ness done, the amount and character
of competition, and, when affected at
all by the financial condition Of the
road, are in ninety cases out of a hun
dred affected by the amount of bonds
1t has outstanding, and not at all by
the amount Of stock issued


watering stock has any tendency
to produce higher freight charges, then
certainly those roads whose stock has
been subjected to that operation should
charge higher rates than others whose
stock has not been watered. Wander
bilt is the great stock waterer no
other stocks in the country have been
so largely diluted as those of his roads


Next to his roads, the Erie and Allan
tic and Great Western have done the
largest business in that line. Now it
happens that the lowest average rate
per ton per mile on any road In the
country whose full statistics are pub
lished for series of years, is on the
Atlantic and Great Western, aud the
Michigan Southern, one OF the Van
derbilt combination, where the rate
was | cent and sa-l00, and cent and
4O-lO0 per ton per mile respectively !;
the next was on the Pennsylvania
Central, where the rate was l.64. Thus
among the Eastern lines, the Erie, be.
ing watered, carries at lower rate
than the Pennsylvania, which was not
watered and the Central, which has
plenty of water in it, is scarcely be-
hind, and far ahead of most large
roads. Compare 1t, for example, with
the Boston and Albany, whose stock
Is not watered at oil, we believe, but
whose average rate is 2.Os. So the
Michigan Southern, a Vanderbilt road
maintains lower rate than the Pitts.
burgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago.
Coming westward, we believe the
Chicago and Northwestern has the
reputation Of having as largely wat
cred its stock as any other leading
road, but it's average rate per ton pei
Year: 1873

The world is full of chronic fault


finders. Nothing can please them.


They take delight in growing and
grumbling over everything they
meet. If anything is good they
complain because it is not better.
Humanity has no bright side to
these grumblers. 1t looks black,
blank, dreary, hopeless to them,
from whatever point of view they
examine it. They overlook the
virtues of an individual, and hold
up a single fault to Judge his char
acter from. They denounce a par
ty as corrupt because few rascals
disgrace themselves by unworthy
acts. The church is false because
few hypocrits find shelter within
it. The world is on the high road
to destruction and everything indi-
Gates the depravity of man. We
do not envy the happiness of these
GROWERS. Their unhappy frame Of
mind is about the only pleasure
they enjoy. 1t may sound para
doxical, but the social misery they
create is to them a source of enioy-
ment. A single hopeful heart is
worth regiment of fault-finders,
Humanity has its bright side
beautiful and attractive to those
who seek it. This world Is alive
with public and private virtues,
and we should be ready at all times
to foster and encourage this ele-
ment of social comfort and public
happiness.
Year: 1873

We are indebted to Mr.. Kerr. the assist.
ant superintendent Of the Cotton Exchange,
for the following report of the committee
on information and statistics, compiled up
to the twelfth instant:
Year: 1873

Agnes Donnelly, the young lady who
was with Mrs. Fore when her husband
assaulted and attempted to kill her with
a hatchet on the street in st. Louis few
days ago, yesterday made information in
the criminal court charging JOS. III. Fore
with assault with intent to kill his wife.
The preliminary examination viii take
place this week.
Year: 1873

which is exhibited, conspicuously open,
in the services of this body of the
church. This fact suggests to me to
state that there is very general mis-
apprehension among the christian de-
nominations as to the use of the bible
by Swedenborgians. Very many have
eonfounded them, as 1 did once, with
the spiritualists. l find them to be to-
tally different, in this radical respect,
that they revere, exalt and base all
their religion upon the Word of God,
which the spiritualists treat with great
despite. These followers of Sweden
borg do certainly hold the bible in
great esteem, and give it greater, full
er and broader meaning and use than
any other denomination of christians,
as am earnestly assured that
those will find who carefully read the
New Church literature. There are present
at this convention quite number of
Year: 1873

1t was the first place in the west where
over fifty years ago the teachings OF
Swedenborg found q lodgment- In this
city and the suburbs the disciples Of
Swedenborg have three churches, with
a membership of three hundred persons,
and a sympathizing circle of several
thousands. The building in which this
convention sits is plain, but neat and
substantial edifiee, showing evidences OF
wealth among the congregation. The
arrangements of the altar and chancel
are such as to give prominence, not to
any ornamentation or adOrnments Of the
building, nor to any of the objects
which are given prominence in church
edifces of other denominations, but
simply to
Year: 1873

PEKIN, ILL, June 10. The June
meeting Of the Central Illinois blood
horse association will commence
tomorrow, having been postponed one
day on account of the rain here last
evening. There is now at the track the
largest field Of horses that was ever
brought together at any meeting Of the
kind in this State, among which are
some very noted horses from the south
and west. Fast time will be made dur
ing the week, if the weather should
be favorable.
Year: 1873

adopted for the collection Of what may
be found due.


We have previously called attention to
the small capital il trade some OF Our tax
resisters are assessed upon. We are
anxious to know if the authorities mean
to enforce, in -jnstice to those who aie
fully assessed, the full intent of the law.
Year: 1873

g get parrot was so disgusted with the
sumuBt of moving day at Harrisburg that
.ae, signalized his passage through the
streets on the top of the furniture wagon
py tho most shocking profanity.
Year: 1873

tropoitan Brigade that it is very well
regulated militia organization, and, there
fore, a constitutional and highly necessary
adjunct OF the State government.


No peaceatle man in the State has any
reason to fear the militia, whether under
the command of General Longstreet,
General Badger or Colonel Flanagan.
Their missions are all in the interest Of
peace. They are the duly commissioned
peace-mahers. They have orders to that
effect, and they will have peace wherever
they appeaaa even if they have to fight
for 10
Year: 1873

With view to the fall trade, we respectfully
announce that these Mills are now completed,
and that we will take pleasure in showing sam
Piles of all our goods (now manufacturing to
dealers or others inferred. We manufacture


PEARL HOMINY, GRITS AND SAMP,
Year: 1873

Strong Hopes Of Communication Of His eentencs
to Imprisonment for Life by Governor Dix
The Petition at Albany-stokss in His
New Quarters-The Grand Jury


Think the Tombs is Clean, but


Damp and Unhealthy.
Year: 1873

The war-cloud does not look 80 black. The
Government has put the navy and the land for
Cos in condition to make our position strong
one-so mat If wo threaten, it will not be ali
empty menace-but it appears possible that
there will be no war. General Sickels has not
been ill-tteated it appears that there were 10
butcheries at Santiago, after the order from Mad
rid, tho whole number Of killed beit 4 the iifty-
three first reported and it now looks as though
We should have more diplomacy than blood But
we must have reparation for the wrongs done
us, and security against their repetition.
Year: 1873

The Commissioner Of Agriculture
in an article on agricultural machin-
erv, makes the following very Just re
marks on the use Of the roller He
saws:


OF all the implements for use upon
the farm, there is no one which tells
of greater benefits than the roller. 1t
pulverizes the clods, smooths the sur
face for the scythe or the reaper, and
compacts the earth about the seed
and roots of plants, but above all, and
Of more importance than all it de-
stroys vermin- That the earth should
be made fine is the object of plough
ing and narrowing. A roller greatly
conduces TO this. That small stones
and rough places should be driven
out of the way of the scythe OF mower,
is desideratum which every farmer
viii appreciate, and when his seed is
first sown or when the frosty winter
or tbawing of the spring have loosen
ed its growth upon the surface, it
may be imagined how II would De
benefited by giving it bed in the
earth again


But its most useful purpose is less
satisfactorily explained, for its only
proof is found in the experience of its
use. All know that mos. Of the ver-
min which aflicts the farmers crop
has its resting and often its breeding
place in the earth; there, and upon
the young and tender plant, where it
deposits its eggs. The eut-worm de-
stroys corn at the surface; the Hes
sian fy deposits lis eggs upon the
young wbeat-blade, which often falls
to the ground. The earth, in fine, is
fully charged with the eggs and the
embryo of vermin of all sorts, in all
periods of their existence, and it may
readily be imagined what an amount
of destruction would follow the pas
sage of a heavy roller over the sur
face
Year: 1873

We have charity for fast girls. We


have often found them generous and


warm-hearted, and are fully ready to
believe that their disregard of conven-
tionalities is often the boldness Of in
nocenee. For example, in some FAM
lies the chamber of the sister is the
resort of the brother in the first place,


then of the cousin, who is almost a


brother, and then of the brothers in
innate friend, who is treated as one of
the family. When this style Of living
is transferred from the shadow of the
family to the apartments of crowd
ed hotel or boarding house, it gives
occasion for much speaking and free
thinking-for style of judgment
that often does the girl great injustice


We have said that our Americans
have their faults. The want of con-
ventiOnal limits or propriety between
the sexes is one of them. The young


French girl is kept secluded, and new
er suffered to see a gentleman, un-
watched. In America, from early
childhood, boys and girls grow up to-
gether, and on the whole it is best
they should In order that this liber-
ty should produce good effects, the
parents and guardians should inces-
sanity teach certain limits of proprie-
ty. There are certain other places,
times and modes of intercourse that
are improper, and it ought to be
part Of the early training of every
girl to teach her this. Every approach
on the part of young girl to any
personal familiarity with young man
such as she might most innocently
take with another girl, exposes her to
misconstruction which it is the duty
Of her mother to prevent by timely
warning. A favorite author has said
that such personal advances on the
part of women were ''immoralities of
manner even where the intention
was innocent Do, girls, take care
respect yourselves-respect your sex,
and do not give the enemy cause to
speak reproachfully. Listen, all Of
you. to what man says. 1t is out
of some old-fashioned Fathers Le-
gacy,r or some such antiquated book


He SAYS: "A fine woman has power
over US Of which she very little
dreams, but little too near acquaint-
ance often disolves the Illusion, and
converts the angel into very ordi-
nary girl Let a mother tell you,
girls, that mothers, when they send
their boys into the great world, with
its temptations, hope much for them
from the influence of good women.
Did you ever think of this when you
tell young men that you dote on
smoking-when you urge wine upon
them at parties (? Some mother, some
sister, may wish that you would lead
her son or brother 10 nobler, purer
conceptions of life Ought not some
higher metive to govern your inter-
course with the young men of your
acquaintance than merely the desire
to fasten their admiration upon your
self-to please them at any and every
hazard? +? Be sure that young man
who is pleased through his lower ma
ture, because you encourage bis indo-
lent and indulgent habits. and take
part with bis least elevated impulses,
win think of you after while only as
part Of something unworthy, which
bis better self viii seek to outgrow.-I
Mrs. Fl. B. .9otre.
Year: 1873

A most shocking accident occurred
in the rolling mill off. Painter 4 Son,
located in the Thirty-fourth ward,
West Pittsburg, yesterday afternoon
about three o'clock A boy named
James Welsh was employed as help
er on the heavy rolls used for press
ing the iron into fat bars. His turn
was up at three o'clock, and he was
preparing to go home 1t was his
duty. however, before be left to un-
couple his roll, and being in hurry,
he attempted to do so before the
engine was stopped His pants were
caught in the machinery, and in an
instant be was drawn through the
rolls feet foremost and flung out on
the opposite side q lifeless mass Of
flesh and bones, crushed almost Sat
The space through which his body
passed was only FIVE inches. and it
can be easily imagined how fearfully
crushed and mangled it must have
been. The skull was broken like an
egg shell, and the brains scattered
about the floor. Word was immedi-
atelv sent to Coroner West, who pro-
eeeded to the mili and held an in
quest on the reiaains, at which YER
diet of accidental death was rendered.
Deceased was eleven years of age, a
good boy, and the only son Of his
parents His father worked in the
same mill and it might almost be said
the lad was killed before his eyes,
The blow was terrible one to him
and the manifestations of his distress
were Of the most affecting character.-
Pitts6urg Dispatch 24th.
Year: 1873

only to be used as medicine. and always according
10 directons


They are the sheetanchor fthe feeble and debili-
tatrd They act upon diseased liver, and stimulate
to such a degree that a healthy action is at oace
brought about. As a remedy to which Women are
especially subject it is superseding every other
stimuant As Spring and summer Tonic
they have ne equal. They are mild and gentle
Pirgatye as we'll as Tonic. They purify the blood
They are a splendid Appetizer. They make the weak
strong They purify and invigorate. They cure
Dyspepsia. Constipation and Headache. They actas
. specific IN all species Of disorders which under
mine the bodily strength and break down the animal
spirits


Depot, 90 Park Place, New York.
Year: 1873

90 swampy land is sometimes heavy
growth Of willow, aud the task of remov
ing the bushes is one of no small magni
tude. Some have theory of cutting
at certain periods of the moon changes,
others while the sap is dormant, and still


others the girding or strappiug process
OF the latter method, which is attended
with 10 small amount of labor, a writer
n the Rural Southern says: Don't cut
down the willows If you 10, you will
see trouble Tor the next ten or twenty
years with sprouts to cut down five or
six times year. Let them stand until
spring, and when they are in full bloom.
cut the bark about four feet from the
ground, strip the bark down to the root,
and let it alone. They will die, root and
branch in the course of the year, and
never put forth sprout. | have follow
ed this plan for twenty years, and know


it to be successful = Ohio Fdrmer.
Year: 1873

Last summer the daughter of Mr.. Cor
nelius Winnie, OF Boiceville, upon her re
turn from The Mountain House, and wait.
ing at the station of West Hurley for the
cars, left her carpet bag for few mo-
ments upon the platform, and upon her
return it was missing. Search was i'm,
mediately made, but of no avail Tie
valise or carpet bag contained ladies wear
ing apparel with very costly Dress
-Four or five months have iutervened since
the occurrence, and the loss was but sci
dom thought Of. Last week Mr. Winnie
aud daughter attended dance at West
Hurley, aud while dancing in the same
set, Miss Winnie Informed her father that
a lady then dancing was wearing the dress
which was in the valise stolen from her.
He called at her residence the next mora
ing with his daughter, who Identified the
the dress, which with the contents was
restored. The mother offered Mr. Whine
$50 to quite the matter. as she aud her
family are of wealth and respectability.
Kingston Press.
Year: 1873

Do you wish to do something towards
making your home happy! Do you de-
sire that your brothers and sisters should
be glad to have you with them, and that
you should always be a welcome companion
to your parents or yourchiIdren 7 Do you
want to have your society coveted every
where. and to feel, the while, that you
are doing good as well as giving pleasurey
Wonld you like to help people to think
we'll and to have them save their best
thoughts for you ? Would it please you
to get all the good you can out of the peo
pie you know


IF so. learn to listen.


But 6rst learn what listening is-for it
is not merely the exercise of the sense OF
hearing. The stupidest of us all can keep
ears open and mouth shut To listen
properly means to make other people talk
rroperly. That is a social definition, il
it is not Websterian one. The good
listener is cause of talking in others,
aud by proper exercise of this valuable
and too scarce gift, makes the ditident say
what they think. aud the verbose think
what they say For the greatest takers
are careful when they Gud they have d
good listener They know that they may
not often be so fortunate, and they talk
their hest The adept IN listening may
sometimes hear more pressing than he
likes. hut if he be skillful this will not
often happen When 1t is impossible to
get anything interesting or useful out OF
a man, he need be listened TO no longer
Every one of sense will agree to that
Bnt it is astonishing how many goods
things some very unpromising persons
will say if they be properly aud consclen
tiously listened to.


To he sure it is very hard for some per
sons to listen. They have gift for talk
ing. and they like to exercise 1T But
these are the very persons who should DO
a great deal Of listening They know
what a luxury it is to talk. and they should
give their friends and families chance
to learn the art Besides, like farmers.
they will often 6nd much advantage iu u
rotation of crops. a season of listening
is often a most excellent preparative for
a season Of talk.


1t is often supp osed that if a man has
anything good to say, he will say it, but
this is not necessarily the case. Very of
ten he never says it, because no one will
give him chance. He don't want to
waste his speech on fools and the smart
folks want him to conteut himself with
hearing what they have to say. This
happens-not in connection with very
good things. perhaps. bus with things
that might lead to very good things
every day aud every hour, in thousands
of families all over the land-to say moth
ing of society.


There are those who so seldom have a
chance to speak to interested ears, that
they gradually withdraw themselves into
themselves, where. not generally finding
much, they intellectually pine away.


To be sure, we should not fail to be
come good takers, if we can but dc
what We may. we can only make one talk
er of ourselves, whereas, by proper listen
ing, we may make dozen takers Of 9th
er people Scri6er's Monthy
Year: 1873

At wood choppiug in Jefferson, Fay
cite county. few days ago, it was proposed
10 take vote on Local Option The
vote among the males resulted in tie.
while the female vote was cast solid
against license, many of the fair sex vot
Ing in direct opposition to their liege
lords
Year: 1873

Mr.. James Greenwood has publish
ed frightful account of the silen
system which is In operation at th'
Holloway Model Prison, in London


1t is an offense for a prisoner TO
speak one word, and he is never ad
dressed except in whispers, so that be
may be in prison two years without
hearing the natural sound Of the hu-
man voice. The effect Of this is so
terrible on the mind that prisoners
will speak out In desperation, at the
risk of any punishment, rather than
endure the terrible silence.


The prisoners ncser see one ahoth-
er, but remain in perpetual solitude.
One poor wretch, driven to despera-
ton by nine months solitude and
silence, recklessly broke out in Mr..
Greenwood's presence:


"For Gods sake. Governor, put me
in another cell. Put me somewhere
else. have counted the bricks in
the cell l am in, till my eyes ache


The request of the tortured wretch
was refused.


There is a ine hole in the cell
and as the wardens wear shoes of
India-rubber soles, the prisoners can
never be sure of being alone.


Those condemn ned to the treadmill
have to ascend 1900 steps every al
ternats twenty minutes for six hours.
And this in q place SO hot and close
that prisoners often lose in persplra-
ton three stone in as many months


Every day the prisoners were TAX
en- to a chapel so arranged that they
can see no one save the chaplain, and
him only through an iron grating.
And thus is the order Of devotion
observed. Wsrdens are CONSTANTLY
on the watch, lest for a single instant
they, through the whole of the ser.
vice depart from the rigid tule of
eyes right" They must look stead
fastly at the preacher; must raise and
lower their prayer-boOk with the
elbows squared, and ell at once, like
soldiers at drill. They may not
scrape their feet without having after
wards to explain the movement
They scarcely wink an eye or Sigh
without danger of rebuko or punish
went. God help them, poor wretches.