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Year: 1873

Gen. Butler is disgruntled. He wants to
be Massachusetts next Governor, and made
bid for the support of the prohbitionists
on the Fourth of July, but lost his vantage
ground by refusing to sign the pledge
Then the salary business is in the way, and
now, according to the New York Evening
Post g he is not altogether satisfied with
the position taken by the administration of
non-interference, and thinks there ought
to be an outspoken declaration by the
President in his favor, which would turn
the scale and make his success certain.
Again, he does not receive the support from
the Federal ofiice-holders in Massachusetts,
that he expected, and wants the support
of the administration in order to influence
them; but this he is not likely to get, for
various reasons, the main one being that
few members of the cabinet have any faith
in his political integrity"
Year: 1873

We publish in another column a circular
from the trustees of the Art Gallery to be
added to the University of Vermont through
the liberality of T. W. Park, which should
be read by all and in which every lover of
art should take personal interest All,
likewise, who are interested in the advance
ment of this enterprise for the good of the
University and high standing of the State
in such matters should announce themselves
ready to help on the work by contribution
as the trustees suggest and which a large
number of our citizens can easily do. Mr.
Park has inaugurated a wise movement and
it should be carried out in the best manner
possible by the friends of education and art
culture throughout the State, thus showing
to the world we are not behind our sisters
in the refining and elevating influence which
such a movement establishes.
Year: 1873

The aeronaut La Mountain, who lost his
life while making balloon ascension at
Ionia, Mich, recently visited New York
for the purpose of inducing monied men to
raise funds to enable him to attempt an
aerial trip across the Atlantic. He was
unable to excite much interest in his pro-
iect, and left for the West disheartened.
He also negotiated with the publishers of a
daily newspaper in that city, who had re-
Gently secured the services of Prof. Wise
TO make..a transatlantic balloon voyage, but
for some reason the parties did not make a
bargain La Mountain resided for a long
time near the city of Troy, in New York
His wife, who now lives at Troy, often
attempted to dssuade him from his hazar-
dOus profession, but in vain.


Upon one occasion La Mountain was ad-
vertised to make an ascent from Troy, and
Mrs. La Mountain, after Intellectual endeav-
ors to prevent him, resolved to accompany
him herself, and share the danger to which
he would be exposed. She made the trip
with him and the affair was a most sue
cessful one The balloon landed in the Adj
irondacks. Prof La Mountain, like most
adventurers of his class, was bold and fear
less, but lacked the business tact and
shrewdness to make his experiments sue.
cessful in financial point of view. He
was very poor, and himself and family
were often deprived of the necessities OF
life, and suffered many hardships on ac
count of his intatuation for aerial expert
ments.
Year: 1873

DEATH OF A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF
EDUCATION learn with regret of the
death of Prof. F. c. Hathaway. the Prin-
cipal of the Morrisyille Graded School and
a member of the State Board of Educa-
ton, which occurred on Sunday afternoon
last at his home in Hardwick. His health
had been failing for several months, owing
to tumor in the side, which, together
with feeble constitution caused his death
Mr.. Hathaway was one of the best teachers
in our State and gave promise of great use
fulness in this capacity. His loss is deeply
felt by many friends.
Year: 1873

The course and ways of the cholera the
more they are investigated, indicate that
men are more responsible for its visitation
than Providence. The Springfield Un-
ion suggests, that, since the modera-
ton of the scourge in Memphis, the full
details indicate that it was the shocking
hygenic condition of the city which invit-
ed the disease, and which kept it there so
long. Memphis has never had board of
health or a body of corresponding power
until since the appearance of the cholera,
and at present it is without money, and
consequently without efficiency. During
the prevalence of the cholera the disposal
of the bodies was left to irresponsible par
ties, who selected ''potter's field" which
drained into the city aqueduct, and made
the graves so shallow that the rain soon
washed the sand away and the stencil per-
vaded large part of the city. The injury
which the epidemic has inflicted upon
Memphis is not measured by the number
of deaths. For seven weeks the business
of an active commercial town of 10000
inhabitants has been at stand still, anc
the loss is to be estimated at millions
Year: 1873

SAD FATALITY.-A peculiarly distressing
and fatal accident occurred at Weathers
field on Tuesday morning last, little three
year old child of Thomas S. Adams being
burned to death. The house was dlscov-
cred to be on fire and the flames spread so
rapidly that two other children were with
difficulty rescued, while the younger child
was OBLIGED to be left to its awful fate.
Year: 1873

A LAUGHABLE AFFAR.-A laughable
affair happened at the railroad station at
Factory Point resently, the particulars of
which we learn from the Manchester
JournaL: "a man to take charge of DELL
wood Cemetery was expected on the train
and Capt. Clark, who has charge of the in
stitution, had a man in waiting for him.
A stranger from Troy arrived on the same
train and Pat, supposing him to be the man
he was looking for touched his hat rim
and asked if he would go to the cemetery.
Taken back by the suddenness and novelty
'of the question, the man replied that he
was neither dead nor sick and the ceme-
terry was the last place he wanted to go to,
and turning to the station agent he asked
what time the next train would leave re-
marking that this was the first town he
ever visited where they had runner for
the cemetery"
Year: 1873

oualified subordinate in the office would
doubtless have been promoted. But the Presi-
dent went over to the CustOm-house, took mr.
James from there, and made him Postmaster
for what reason we can only conjecture.


As we said before, we do not purpose vast
ing time in useless complaints over this sys-
tematic violation of the rules. We think 1t
would be better to abolish the rules alto
gether than to make them ridiculous by al
ways disregarding them. We think it would
be more dignifed to have some correspondence
between the professions of great Govern
ment like this and its practices. and not to leave
the Administration perpetually lying, 80 to
speak, about reform which it has no inten-
ton of putting into practice. Let us have the
regulations of the Civil Service repealed before
the President is tempted to break them ANY
more That will. at least relieve poor clerks
and deputies of the mistaken impression that
they can secure promotion by attention to
duty, and save them a great deal OF hard
work which is not likely to be rewarded.
Year: 1873

forfeited all claim to consideration in the
party, and should be ousted from the
Office he holds under the Administration
The action of the President in making
this appointment before the election would
seem to indicate that he is not 80 wrapped up
in Gen. Hawley as to resent the outrage put
upon him last Summer. Gen. Hawley, it wiz
be remembered, was the most outspOken and
pronounced of the opponents of the disgrace
full salary grab by which Members of Congress
took $4,000 apiece of unearned money and
doubled the Presidents salary.
Year: 1873

Our Albany dispatches are not comforting
in their character to the followers of the little
faction which is managing the Ring Charter
at the capital 1t is possible that the Repub-
licaa party in this State is not wholly led by
the CustOm-hOuse junta. So far, however,
that close cabal have managed to make noise
enough to induce the belief that they owned
not only the party, but the Legislature.
Year: 1873

Watch the Board of Supervisors in the Y Dung
case. THE TRIBUNE published, yesterday, a
full and minute statement of the charges made
against Mr.. Joseph B. Young, Clerk of the
Board but when that body met, yesterday,
there was not much indication that they would
he investigated with view to find out any
thing.
Year: 1873

II is astonishing how sweet young women
can tell ibs 1t was only on Monday that we pub
lshed the story of the Chicago damsel who said
that she had been abducted and kept close prisoner
in a chamber &c. She is enc of the artful Ones
The fact is she had been to Joliet the sly to see
young gentleman of whom she is fond and who is
fond Of her. She went in company with female
friend and thus for the sake of alark, lacerated
the feengs of her parents. humbugged the police,
excited the public, and, worse than ALL deceived the
newspapers.
Year: 1873

melancholy death occurred in st. Paul about
week ago, the sequel of sad story. There was a
priest named Schmiver, who greatly sympathized
with friend, also priest, who had been deposed
He kept up friendly correspondence with tho dis
graced man. and for this he was in turn deposed by
the Bishop. he Immediately fell into very critical
condition of nervous excitement, which recurred
upon every alusion to his disgrace and this finally
resulted in paralysis and DEATH just arrangements
for his reinstatement had been acceded to by his
Bishop.
Year: 1873

most extraordinary woman was passenger on
horse car in Cleveland March a. 1873. She had with
her a pet poodle, and she had something else with
her, as we shall see presently. The gentlemanly
conductor stated to her in the mildest manner that
dogs were not permitted to ride in that car and that
hers must be put out. The damsel straightway
arose, drew revolver from her pocket. and said,
Unless you drive without molesting my dog
III make you eat this straw" There was a scene.
Ladies left the car. But the woman with the pistol
did MT. And the dog didn't
Year: 1873

was referred, yesterday, upon the memorial OF
certain members of tho Legislature OF Mis-
souri,, to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections. AS Mr.. Bogy is not of the domi-
napt party, it will be a relief for the Senate
to take up his case and expend on it some OF
the earnestness and energy of virtue that the
political relations of other accused Senators
have forbidden to be exercised heretofore IL
will furnish an opportunity, too, for the Ad-
ministration organs to take high ground on
the subject of bribery and corruption Win
reference to which they have been Tor 10"
months past Just trihe tongue-tied. Ihere
is no doubt that the sternest sort OF justice
will be dealt out to Bogy.


Gov. Dix has written letter to DIR. Tyng
giving the reasons which have impelled him
IN refuse to interfere in behalf OF Foster.
The letter is admirable in tone, unanswerable
IN its assertions and inferences. He demOl-
ishes. by a simple recital of the sworn evi-
dence in the case, the fantastic suppOsitiOn of
Fosters innocence to which we have recently
been made accustomed. and finds it impOs-
sible to revise the verdict of the jury
founded upon the facts, or the decision OF the
courts founded upon the law. The letter is so
good that it would be ungracious to cavil at
its tardiness or to refer to the alterations of
hope and despair to which the long delay has
subjected the unhappy prisoner. The case Is
now closed. With the conviction that mercy
to Foster would do great harm, we are for
hidden to inquire whether his execution will
do any good.
Year: 1873

The business of making fancy nominations for the
next Presidency has already commenced. This is
free country, and anybody can nominate anybody
for any office without being sent to the penitentiary
for doing so But still there may be such thing as
using privilege rather too freely. There Is news
paper in Indiana which "hoists the flag OF o. T.
Morton for President and Benjamin F. Butler for
Vice-President in 1885, We don't know how Morton
feels about this but both he and Butler have sense
enough to know that these wildcat nominations are
apt to be particularly fatal to all hopes of cleo
ton.
Year: 1873

The discovery of forged certificates of stock
in Wall Street is rendered the more unpleasant
by the prevailing loOseness with which values
are there exchanged. Clearly there is little to
hinder dishonest broker from flooding the
Street, since hardly one in a hundred of the ex-
changes of stock is made secure by verificatiOn
of the signatures at the transfer office. Till
doubtful stock is verhauled, matter not
likely to be accomplished in day, we should
say that prudent people would keep their
money from investments in the now dOubly
uncertain kind of commodities Wall Street has
generally to offer.
Year: 1873

Crowds of Northern men flock to
Enterprise during the winter, and many
of them employ their time in hunting
alligators. The guests sit upon the
verandah of the hotel hour after hour
polishing alligator teeth with sandpaper
and buckskin. Every day somebody
brings in an alligator which has been
shot III the vicinity. After killing the
alligator, the men hitch him to the
stern of their boat with chain and
tow him to the beach in front of the
hotel. They then hire negro to cut
off his head and skin him. After the
head is cut off it is buried for two
weeks. This is necessary to secure the
monsters teeth. 1t is amusing to see
eminent bankers, ministers, judges, and
others watching a spot in the ground,
near the hotel, where they have buried
an alligator's head. Occasionally some
gentleman gets hold of the wrong head,
and then there is a row. Everybody
seems crazy on the subject of alligator
teeth. They sell from two dollars
apiece up to five dollars. l saw one
tooth five inches long sold to Capt. Tom
Reeves for twenty dollars. Some ne
groes make a fair living by carving
flowers and curious figures on the
teeth
Year: 1873

The steamer Cassini, which lately
reached Philadelphia, after long pass
age from Liverpool, was evidently COM
manded by an officer with genius for
the healing art. The ship ran out OF
coal, and rather than run the risk of
putting into Halifax, her commander
used parts of the cargo for fuel. He
first selected a quantity of asafetida,
and with this odorous drug fumigrated
his passengers until he felt assured that
they were safe from contracting any dis
ease of typhoid character. This novel
practice he follewed up by burning vast
quantities of Peruvian bark, whereby
he evidently believed that he would rem
der his passengers proof against the
malarious poison which they would en-
counter in Philadelphia. Other articles,
most of which are new to the materla
medica, were subsequently packed into
the furnaces, and the steamer was
brought triumphantly into port, his
passengers being in vigorous health and
full of gratitude to their medicinal cap
tain.
Year: 1873

He had black eyes, with long lashes,
red cheeks, and hair almost black and
curly. He wore a crimson plaid jacket,
with full trousers buttoned on had a
habit of whistling and liked to ask
questions was accompanied bya small
black dog. 1t is long while now since
he disappeared. I have avery pleasant
home and much company. My guests
say "Ah | it is pleasant to be here.
Everything has such an orderly, put
away look-nothing about under foot,
no dirt" But my eyes are aching for
the sight of WRITINGS and cut paper on
the floor; Of tumbling down card
houses of wooden sheep and cattle ;
of pop-guns, bows and arrows, whips,
oops, go-carts, blocks and trumpery. l
want to see boats a-rigging and kites
a-making. want to see crumbles on
the carpet, and paste split on the kitchen
table. I want to see the chairs and the
tables turned the wrong way about. l
want to see candy.making and corn
popping, and to find jackknives and fish
hooks among my muslins. Yet these
things used to fret me once. They say
GLOW quiet you are here All one here
may settle his brains and be at peace y
But my ears are aching for the patter-
ing of little feet, for hearty shout, a
shrill whistle, q gay ira la la; for the
crack of little whips /; for the noise OF
drums, flies, and tin trumpets. Yet
these things made me nervous once. A
manly figure stands before me now.
He is taller than /, has thick whiskers,
wears frock coat, bosomed shirt, and
cravat. He has just come from col
lege. He brings Latin and Greek in
his countenance, and busts of the old
philosophers for the sitting-room. He
calls me mother, but L am rather un-
willing to own him. He AYERS that he
is my boy, and says that he can prove
it. He brings his little boat to show
the red stripe on the sail Git was the end
of the piece and name on the stern,
Lucy Lowe, a little girl of our neighbor,
who, because of her long curls and
pretty, round face, was the chosen ia
vorite of my boy. The curls were long
since cut off, and she has grown to a
tall, handsome girl. How his face red
dens as he shows me the name on the
boat Oh, I see it all as plain as if it
was written in a book My little boy
is lost, and my big boy will soon be.
Oh I wish he were little, tired boy,
in long, white night-gown, lying in
his crib, with me sitting by, holding his
hand in mine, pushing the curls back
from his forehead, watching his eyelids
droop, and listening to his deep breath
ing. If I only had my little boy again,
how patient would be How much l
would bear, and how little would l fret
and scold I can never have him back
again but there are still mothers who
have not yet lost their little boys. l
wonder if they know they are living
their very best days that now is the
time to really enjoy their children ]
think if I had been more to my little
boy, I might now be more to my grown.
up one.-Honae Magazine.
Year: 1873

THE Bitter BIrTEN.-A man in the
dress of workman was lately walking
in the streets of Berlin with packet
in his hand, sealed and inscribed with
an address and note that it contained
100 thalers in treasury bills. AS the
bearer appeared to be at loss, he was
accosted by passenger, who asked him
what he was looking for. Tie simple
countryman placed the packet in the
inquirer's hands, and requested that he
would read the address. The reply was
made as with an agreeable surprise:
"Why, this letteris for me! Ihave been
expecting it for a long while!" The
messenger upon this demanded ten tha-
lers for the carriage of the packet, which
was readily paid, with liberal addition
to the porter. The new possessor of
the packet hastened to an obscure cor
ner to examine his prize but, on break
ing the seal, found nothing but a few
sheets of paper, on which was written
"Dona"
Year: 1873

James G. King, the lawyer who killed
ONeill some months ago on the stair
way leading from law office in New
York, and who has been confined in the
Tombs ever since, it is now pretty GER
tain will never be tried. King, since
the day he committed the deed for
which he entered the Tombs prison, has
been sinking under the weight OF sew
eral diseases, and has now come to such
a pass that he cannot rise from his bed.
Indeed the trial, which was to have been
on some time since, has been postponed
from time to time, to allow King to re-
gain his health sufficiently to appear in
court. Instead of this, however, he has
been growing worse, and it is now GER
tain that he can nneverrecover his health.
He never leaves his bed, and lies on it
constantly without moving, being unable
even to sit up. It has been clear for
some time past that he was not vel, but
it is only within the last few days that
the extent of his disease has become
known.
Year: 1873

It was hard drinking time, says a
letter writer, referring to many years
ago in the old country, time of bac-
chanalian toasts and royal bumpers,
when gentlemen" sat down early to,
and rose up late from, the dining-table !;
when at certain periods of the evening
boy was introduced under the table to
unloose the neckcloths of gentlemen
who fell down drunk; and when a re-
monstrance at some one more temperate
than another passing the decanter was
thought to be more stringent If it was
enforced by calling attention to the fact
"that the night was young yet-tne cal
lant's not under the table" All classes
of society drank, and drank frequently
to excess too. A jovial farmer would
go into q tavern when the landlady was
"setting" hen, and would never come
out again until the chickens were run
ming about. His superiors might not
carry things to such an excess, but a
two days drinking-bout was thought
the most common thing in the world,
and the capacity for standing certain
number of bottles the test of thorough
good fellow. These were the days of
fve-bottle men, and in st. Andrews
University was students club called
the Nine -Tumbler Club, the test of fit-
ness for entrance into which was the
ability of the candidate, after drinking
nine tumblers of hot whiskey toddy, to
pronounce articulately the words, "Bib-
ii-cal criticism" A miserly old laird
used to make it his boast, that 80 popu-
lar man was he that he could 60 to
market with sixpence in his pocket, and
come home drunk with the sixpence
still in it.
Year: 1873

THE MARRIAGE SERVICE. English
clergyman lately reported in an evening
contemporary some of the blunders he
had heard in the marriage service by
that class of persons who have to pick
up the words as best they can by hear
ing them repeated BY others. He said
that in his own parish it was quite the
fashion for q man, when giving the
ring, to say to the woman, "With my
body thee I wash up, and with all my
hurdle goods I thee and thou" He
said the women were generally better
up in this part of the service than the
men. One day, however, a bride start-
led him by promising, in what she sup
posed to be the language of the prayer
book, to take her husband "to ave and
to old from this day form fer betterer
horse for richer power, in siggerness
health to love cherries, and to bay" ."
What meaning this extraordinary VOW
conveyed to her own mind the clergy
man said it bafflsd him to conjecture.
Year: 1873

The city weekly newspaper il usually
made up from reading matter used and
paid for by the daily paper hence 1t
costs but little while the country paper,
on account of the limited amount of the
local advertising patronage, cannot at-
ford daily, and must make its weekly
from matter expressly prepared for Its
columns. -.


The city paper is made general In
character, adapted to one part OF the
country as we'll as another, and conse-
ouently has wide field for circulation;
while the country paper must be made
local, and adapted to its particular iatl-
tude. hence its circulation is limited to
its particular locality. But does the
city paper answer the purpose, and sat
isfy the wants of the country reader ?
By no means.


The paper published in the city re-
alizes thousands of dollars from its ad-
vertising patronage, while the local
country paper gets but meager sup,
port from this source. The principal
clerk in one of the agricultural news
paper offices in New York informed us
that the advertising patronage OF their
paper amounted to an annual income OF
over one hundred thousand dollars"


And yet the people of the country ex-
pect the local paper to be furnished alta
lower price than the city monopoly.
And while he pays cash in advance for
his city paper, he puts his home paper
off with a promise to pay when ne sells
his produce after harvest, or when he
gets ready, and can best spare the.
money, at the end of from one to three
years.


The tendency of such procedure on
the part of some delinquent subscribers,
as well as the recent act Of Congress,
taking away from country publishers
and their county subscribers the only
boon they ever allowed them to have,
will require the utmost economy in the
conducting Of the country papers.


The best way for subscribers to en-
courage their papers and keep them up
to their present standard, is to be
prompt in their payments. s.-Erchange.
Year: 1873

The War Department modlnes its recent burial
order 90 as TO allow Of the transportation Of the
remains Of oficers under emerpenS circumstances
without an express order from the Secretary
In each case, but the transportation account
settlement,