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Year: 1871

There were eleven prisoners at the station
house last night, and five dodgers. Eighteen
dodgers were accommodated there Saturday
night.


The members of the police force will soon be
numbered from 1 10 a. New caps are to be
supplied, and on each one will be the number
in plain figures, surrounded by wreath.


Some rubbish in an clubhouse on Shrewsbury
street took fire last evening, and threatened
much mischief, but by prompt action it was
soon eXtinguished A man came up Front
street crying fire in desperate sort of way, but
no general alarm was given.


Perhaps last night was not the coolest one of
the winter, thus far-there seems to be differ
ence of opinion as to that; but certain it is that
great many ears and noses were colder than
they have been before this season. One ther-
mometer on Main street had the good sense to
indicate five below zero, but most of the others
fingered at or few degrees above the cipher.


Michael McGrath, who lives at the corner of
King and Woodland streets, has been com
planned of two or three times this winter for not
housing and caring for poor old horse that he
allowed to stay out in the cold both day and
night; and he promised to treat the beast more
humanely, but last night it was again left out
in the cold, and the unfeelng owner was sum-
moned TO appear before Judge Williams this
morning, to answer to the charge of cruelty to
animals.
Year: 1871

him. There is class of people in Worcester,
not "25 cent crowd" that knows what true
music is. Let them be present and welcome Mr..
Thomas on his farewell visit of the season, and
let them blame no one for declining a part, if
no more appreciation is shown than was shown
Mrs. Smith and the Mendelsso I'm quintctte club
Year: 1871

THE CONFEDERATE GENERAL IMBoDEN ex-
presses the opinion that the true history of the
battle Of Gettysburg will not be written until
some prominent actors in the Confederate
drama, now living, shall pass away. Does
this point to JEFF Davis?
Year: 1871

+ The symptoms of Liver
Complaint are uneaslness
and pain in the side. Some
times the pain is in the


shoulder, and is mistaken


for rheumatism. The stom-
ach is effected with loss OF
appetite and sickness, bowels
in general costire, some
shines alternating with lax
d with pain, and dull, heavy
sensation, considerable loss


of memory, accompanied


with painful sensation Of hav-


ing left undone something


which ought to have been


done. Often complaining or
weakness, debility and low
Sometimes MANY or
Year: 1871

Reflect that q sound mind and body arc the
most necessary requisites To promote cJnnub:aI
hnuuiucss, Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes n weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly durkens to the view, the mind
becomes shudowcd with despair, and filled with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness Of
anoths,' is blighted with our own.
Year: 1871

The people have not the smallest idea
of the deceptive and hollow character of
the professions Of economy made by the
Radical party in power at Washington.
They are constantly paradiDg before the
country the great reduction ofthe public
debt ,undyetthey kcepin force the iuiqu.
itous revenue tax law, u law that every re-
spectacle journal, whether Republican
or otherwise, has shown over and over
again to be not only unpopular and op
pressive, but also unconstitutional and
wrong. They seem to delight in making
the industry oil the country pay as dearly
as possible for the wretched government
they give 10 return,- aud will continue
to do SO uutil the people shall rise in
their majesty and hurl the spendthrift
idlers from power entirely.


To show where some OF this money
the hard earned treasure Of the people
goes to, and the purposes to which it
is applied, the Ohio .Stdtesnian has been
making an examination of the why aud
wherefore Of the "niiseellaneous fund"
aud gives as the result Of its research
the following as part only OF the ex
penses of Congress during the Forty,
trst Congress, taken from "Aliscella-
neous Document No 8, Third Session,
Forty first Congress-" which contains
the expenditures for the use of the
Senate, as shown by the Secretary OF
that body. These items viii attract :he
attention of the tax payers of the coun
try, as they have been paid for out Of
money extracted, through taxation, from
Year: 1871

A lady residing in Western city returned
home one evening and heard some noise in the
room usually occupied by herself and her hus-
band. The door being closed. she was reduced
to the keyhole, to which place she applied her
eye. She saw the figure OF q woman stand
ing by her side was the husband Of the jealous
wife, actually engaged IN adjusting a shawl up
on the shoulders Of the intruding female.
Taking shotgun, she forced open the door.
and shot the woman IN the back. The husband
screamed, tho wife tainted. On her return to
consciousness mutual explanations followed.
The body of the woman who was shot was
brought in and 1t was seen to be a dummy.
The husband ID dry goods merchant, and had
brought the image home to repair the damage
it had sustained by exposure
Year: 1871

MR. EDITOR AS the shearing season is at
hand. and the present state Of the wool market
and the prospects for the season. is the gen.
eral subject of interest to wool growers; per-
haps brier reference to the wool market for
the past twelve years may be somewhat inter-
esting to those Of your readers engaged in this
branch Of Agriculture.


BY reference to my books, | find that my
sales Of wool has been as follows:
Year: 1871

A GOOD JOLLY TIME.-At Wenona few days
ago, man and his wife procured some whiskey,
and with it got slightly intoxicated, in which
condition it was very easy to fall to quarreling,
which they did. The man seized shot gun to
shoot his better half, and in the melee which
ensued. the gun went off accidentally, filling
the mans leg with shot, and shattering the
the bone so badly that amputation had to be
resorted to. Did that whskey pay?
Year: 1871

The rapid decay OF the commerce between
New York and the Pacific coast, by way Of the
Isthmus of Panama, is shown in the fact that
the trade by that route has fallen from s14, 49,
99S to s2,23s,S S72 during the past year. This
change is produced by the completion and sue
cessful operation of the Pacific Railway.
Year: 1871

BRIDGE DowN.-The new Rail Road bridge
across the Mississippi at Wlnona, broke down
under construction train that was passing
over it. The bridge when first erected was
thought sufficient and safe. and has been COM
pleted but few months. 1t Is fortunate that
it was not well loaded passenger train that
went down with the bridge.
Year: 1871

hints and suggestions in the above: We do
not entirely agree with him regarding the Pro-
toction punch he gets in under the fifth RIB
His argument is, however, fair, taken from
the Protection stand point, which we consider
to be somewhat chimerical and untenable. A
tariff for the purpose Of defraying the expen-
ses Of government economically administered
is ell that is needed
Year: 1871

INFoBMAIIoN-7We have read a communlca-
ton making certain statements as to the finan-
cial condition Of this School District and assert
ing that some four or five thousand dollars is
deposited somewhere on which the District is
paying or will have to pay interest. We believe
this is part OF the money set apart for con-
struction purposes. We presume the object
OF the communication was to enquire as to
whether the District will have to pay interest
on this amount, or whether IL is 30 disposed as
TO bear that change in the fiual settlement with
the contractor.
Year: 1871

The Lawrence Cheese Factory is in full op


Grafton and turns out upwards OF two hun
dred and fifty pounds Of cheese per day. with
a constant increase of milk 30 that the product
will sooa reach from three to four hundred
pounds per day. The product Of this factory
rates as Straight York state Factory" Cheese.
Year: 1871

How Is THIS PA Kansas Politician writing
letter Of coincidence to the widow Of a Country
Member, lately deceased, who had been his
friend said; II am panied to hear that Jones
has gone to heaven. We were bosom friends,
but now we shall never meet again"
Year: 1871

Though it is q very common
thing for hostess to tell a friend
to make herself perfectly at home
in her house, yet it is a very unwise
thing for aguest literally to do so.
Quite young ladies are very apt
sometimes to pass the bounds of
politeness and propriety in this
matter. sael dggor n ,yao-asau


There is nothing a Young lady
should guard against more care
fully than encouraging the frequent
visits of "beaux" at the house where
she is q guest. Such course
might give serious offence to the
one whose hospitality she is enjoy
ing, or put her to great inconveni-
ance. The young men may not be
such as she chooses to have intro
duced into her own family; yet po-
liteness often restrains her from
giving the advice she would wish.
A young ladyof tact, will quickly
observe such things, and nothing
should prevent her from deporting
herself accordingly. OF course. no
well-bred young lady will make her.
self so much at home as to ask her
friends to stay to dinner or tea at
the house she is visiting. Such in
vitations should come only from
the lady of the house. ad a "a


It is not well to make yourself so
much at home as to wander about
the grounds breaking of the incest
flowers and picking the incest fruit,
unless it is very abundant. People
in the country are often obliged to
buy the fruit for their table because
OF this thoughtfulness in their
guests. A friend had some very
choice pears on young trees, which
he was very anxious to have ripen.
His own children were forbidden to
touch them, but some city visitors
children, who well knew the pro-
hibition, pulled and ate them when
but half ripe. slr3


Above all things, adopt yourself
to the customs of the family, and
never req:lire them to wait break
fast or supper for you. Fall into
their ways as naturally as you can,
and if they do not suit your tastes,
you have remedy always open to
you-lna!e your visit shorter
From the Country Genasmea.
Year: 1871

eighteen feet in depth The pipe is
weighted down with rocks, and is pros
tected by screen so as to prevent trash
from getting into tile pipe. The mains
are connected directly with the pump,
and extend nearly two miles through
the most popuous portions of the city.
The main passes directly under the res.
ervoir, which is supplied by perpen>
dicular pipe of the main, and works on
the principal of the stand pipe For
the purpose OF extinguishing fires, the
water may be shut off from the res
ervoir, and forced directly into the
mains, in manner similar to the Holly
plan. BY this arrangement the water
may be pumped into the reservoir alone,
into the mains alone, or both at once.
The mains are supplied directly from
the pump, and in case Of FIRE the water
may be forced to any desirable height,
even as much as two hundred feet. The
reservoir serves simply to give pressure
when the pump is not working and al
SO reserve in case Of accident.


The city has located two hydrants on
the diagonal corners Of each block, as
far as the main extends.


The Company is still laying pipe,
and next year they intend to put down
several miles of pipe.


The franchise has been amended
So as to require the company to furnish
water for fountain on Marion square,
aud two fountains on Wilson Avenue :;
and also water for all hydrants that may
hereafter be located throughout the city,
without extra compensation.- on.--Farmer.
Year: 1871

A population accustomed to labor
is the most important necessity for the
substantial development of our great
country" said leading statesman not
long since in the course Of an address
on the subject of immigration. There
has been an unhealthful growth of late
years among the people OF our Atlantic
States-at least il is more marked here
than elsewhere in the Union--a growth
of sentiment adverse to physical labor,
particularly that labor whi b renders
the earth tributary to mans nourish-
ment. Agriculture appears to have
fallen into disrcpute among educated
Americans, and preference is shown for
the varied enterprises of commerce, or
for the quieter walks of professional
life There is an undue aggregation Of
Young America in the larger cities.
Trivial and subordinate clerkships, or
"places" in stores and counting>rooms
being eagerly seized by young men
whose education and physical vigor, if
applied to agriculture, horticulture, or
some industriaI occupation adapted to
their capacity, would in few years
place them III comparative indepen-
dcnce.


A New York merchant advertises for
a. clerk in some inferior department in
HIS warehouse, and at once an eager
throng Of bearded men and beardless
youth invade it's precincts, each prepar>
ed to urge his suitability for the posi-
ton. This, exempliied almost daily,
exhibits the great excess of the clerical
supply over the needs of metropolitan
trade, and the resultant effect, a low
rate of wages to the average clerk, is
easily accounted for, Young men by the
hundred lounge listlessly about streets
month after month, and perhaps year
after year, burden upon industrious
and frugal yet foolishly fond papents,
waiting for some opening" Time and
talents are thus wasted, which in some
trade or honest manual vocation would
yield them a comfortable support, be-
sides relieving those at home.


On the other hand, the intelligent
foreigner who comes to our shores with
a proper sense of the use of labor, scru-
piles not to take up those laborious yoca-
4ions which the American In his foolish
dlsdain rejects. A few square rods of
land in the suburb of the city becomes
his working capital, and soon his wagon,
loaded with tempting vegetables or lus-
cious fruit is seen slowly rolling towards
the market-place. A beginning once
made, he is quite sure to advance toward
fortune. Who are the gardeners and
horticulturists on whose industry and
skill our markets chiefly depend for
their steady supplies? Are they not
foreigners


Now the indifference shown toward
agricultural pursuits by the modern
American is due to false opinion. He
thinks that in becoming farmer ne
loses valuable intellectual, social and
aesthetic priviles, and so is sure to retro
grade in culture and refinement. he
practically forgets the important place
which agriculture holds and must ever
malntaiu in the economy of the nation,
and ne fails to realize that among the
public men of the past and Of the pre-
Year: 1871




The Effect of swindiing Advertisements.


\ publisher can do nothing better
calculated to injure or destroy the
character, value aud influence of his
paper, than by the insertion of adver>
,lsements which tend to deiraud his
subscribers. So many people have
already been swindled by this class Of
advertisements, that Il large number Of
readers have almost ceased to pay any
attention TO any class OF advertising,
being 30 disgusted with their costly cx-
perience as 10 have learned to class all
alike, aud to believe that advertising
is no more nor less than an at
tempt to defraud.


To foster this state of things is not
only doing injustice to the large class
Of upright advertisers, but ii the feel
ing should grow to any large extent, as
i. must certainly do il publishers do
not remedy the evil, it must seriously
iujure all departments of advertising,
and throw away million dollars worth
of honest business. A single swindling
advertisement is enough to greatly in>
lure the reputation OF a paper among
business advertisers, and the ultimate
result with the public will BE- so large a
withdrawal oil confidence that it would
not pay respectable dealers to continue
to advertise.


Is publisher wise who, in order to
gain few dollars from a dishonest man,
helps to destroy his own chief means of
support Already certain class have
discovered that their notice can have no
influence unless inserted in newspapers
of high character. They have found
hat journals having the strongest in
fluence arc not necessarily those which
are the largest, or which count the
highest circulation, but those which
may be relied upon for their integrity
and fair dealing with the public. They
consequently examine a newspaper to
see the character of its advertisements,
believing that if their own is placed
beside that of swindler, the public
will think that both are intended to
defraud. IT,


1t is fact worth considering, that
publisher who sells his reputation loses
both ways--his readers have no faith in
him, and his advertisers can obtain no
accurate return for their money. That
unrefocting publishers should suf-
fer from their cariessness in this respect
is not of great Importance, but it is well
for the trade to bear in mind that the
logical aud inevitable results of the print
ing of a pcrnicious advertisement will
be almost an irreparable injury to the
whole system of newspaper printing.
Tea cnltnre nromises To hncnmn an
Year: 1871

Joseph Lppert and John Barrens of No. 143
West Thirtyfrstst went to Weehawken yesterday and
drank at various places Last evening while walking
along Nies-ave they saw John Brswley, resident Of
that place, short distance ahead Of them and Of
the wantonly and without provocation shot him In
the right thigh, causing severe wound They then fed
Oh board the ferryboat Brawley notwithstanding his
wound followed them on board the boat On reaching
this side he gave them into the custody OF Officer
OBrien, and they locked up In the West Thirty.
seventh-st. Police Station. Braweys wound was
dressed by Police Surgeon Armstrong who thinks 1t not
dangerous.
Year: 1871

CAMP GRANT INDIAN THIEvEs.-In this community, the evidence is so patent that the Indians fed and clothed at Grant, at public expense, have committed about all the thefts and murders in this section that we only repeatedly refer to it that our readers abroad may eventually become convinced Yesterday morning, Charles Franklin and James Speedy-who were deputized by the United States Marshal to arrest -van-Zin - returned from Camp Gra<t, and Mir. Speedy brorght in a large mule which was sold at public auction on the main street of Tucson on the 18th day of last August, to Leopoldo Carrilo of this city. Very soon after this mule and a mate were purchased by Mir. Carrillo, they were both stolen within two miles of Tucson by Indians, and now MT. Speedy gets one of these stolen animals from the government butcher at Grant, and the butcher got him from a reservation Indian in trade These are plain, undoubted facts, and are only con- tirmatOry of our many reports regarding the hostility of those Indians while pro fessing peace and getting the highest at tention and best treatment at the public expense.

 Is it possible the nation will longer be deceived by the false reports of the h. dian allies, even though made in the name of humanity and christianity?
Year: 1871

AN ABLE ADvoCATE.-We see it stated in an Eastern journal that W. H. Clagett, the new Republican dele gate to Congress from Montana, will canvass Ohio in favor of the election of General Moves to the gubernatoriaI chair. He was formerly resident of the State of Nevada, and was dis tinguished for singular eloquence and ability on the stump, as well as at the bar. He will give our buckeye friends specimen of the manner in which electioneering is done up ill the coun- try west of the Rocky mountains. If the Democracy of Ohio are not con- verted by his arguments, they will be interested and delighted by his elo- quence.- Sacramento Union.
Year: 1871

I respectfully inform all my old friends in the
country who have FLOUR and PRODUCE for
sale, that l am again in the Trade and hope they
will call on me before selling elsewhere.


Remember the place, second door from the
Spectator Office, Main Street, Staunton, Va.


c. A. RICHARDSON,
ian31 Flour Merchant.
Year: 1871

Hand. That man will give thanks most hum
bly, who secs clcarcst the absolute order under
all the life about him who understands that
while poverty and disease. even the seemingly
accidental burning of city, result from vio.
latiOns of some of Gods physical or splrlti"i
laws, from want of knowledge, prudence OF
common sense, the great compcnsations com"
direct from Him. One likes to fancy. III inc
Spring. that the Weakening sap creeping through
each frozen sod brings it for the moment ln'o
actual contact again with that spirit OF Go"


which moved that first day upon tho lace OF
tho earth to call out upon it fruit anu
color and perfume. Ont OF His great
wisdom and tenderness it comes that III
the same way the incomprchcnsible power be-
yond us touches us most nearly and humanity
after inscrntnllc suffering. If there be any
ono among us WHO in tho year just past has
learned charity for his fellow through hI' own
ain. or standing suddenly on his dcsolatcd
Threshold has seen the whole world stretch
ont TO him brothcrly hands in most hclIiri
Christ like spirit, or has had cause to find that
strange patience which comes only from the


Grave beneath which lies Il dear dead face,
tbet man will be most apt OF us all to cry on
this THANKSGIVING morning, Iiavo we not
"bccn with Him 2 Did not our hearts burn
"within Us as lie talked to us on tho way =
Year: 1871

II seems that our friends i'll japan, foreign
and native, are chsgiined at the abandonment
of the Coreap expedition by the United States.
II is warmly urged that this action is hurtful
,o foreign interests in the Orient, and that the
naval demonstration should not have been
made if it was not to be carried out We
agree with these critics that it should not have
been begun; but it is evident that We have
gained quite as much by getting out of the
Corean affair." even with loss of prestige, as
We should have gained by pushing further
into the difficulty. The trouble was all in be-
ginning wrong
Year: 1871

After all, liberal people will think better Of
Belgium and the Belgian monarchy on ac-
count of the ease with which the people have
Just achieved their victory. We cannot tell
how much of revolution might have arisen
ou of the late popular disturbances at Brus-
s.1s.; hut the fact that the royal cabinet was
broken up by the tumult shows that the min
listers have IA more wholesome respect for the
people than formerly. and that the people
know how to Use their power.
Year: 1871

correspondent of THE tribune lately mad" rer.
tain unfavOrabc statements concerning the ReminR-
ton guns. which careful to give only on his
authority and his allegations. In view of the fact
that these guns have been largely purchased. both
by the State and National authorities it is pecu.
liarly gratifying to find from tho correspondence
published in another part of today's paper that tho
Chiefs Of Ordnance of the Navy and Army. and the
Inspector General Of the State of New-Yvrk, off,
ciay deny every statement made by this correspon-
dent concerning matters coming within their con.
troll. 1t is thus shown to be untrue, that tho Rem
ington guns issued for trial by Government have
been returned rs unserviceable that those issued to
the navy last year were all returned. or that the gun
broke down in the tests to which subjected be-
fore the State Board In short the attack only seos
to result in making clear the merits of an arm.
of which both our own and foreign governments arc
making such liberal use.