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Year: 1873

During the forenoon OF yesterday convict,
whose name did not transpire, succeeded in elud-
ing the vigilance OF the ocials at Sting Sing Prison
and took summary leave Of that institution. While
1t IL on record that some OF the dssatsnedua-
birds In making their escape have been driven
from the prison In fashionable equipages, the
fugitive above alluded to was suciently modest to
avail himself of barrel iulI OF "swi," in which
he was carted away from the scene OF his captivity.
He has probably taken the same direction AZ the
other two convicts who got away last week.
Year: 1873

The race created quite an excitement among the
collegans, and next year will probably witness
one Of the most exciting record in the at
tempt to bring the cup into the possession Of q
college in the United states.
Year: 1873

Mr.. Philips deserves agreat deal OF credit for the
game and plucky race he ran, taking into cpnsid-
Grafton the limited time for preparation. In the
opinion OF many Mr. Benton would have ran Q far
better than he did If he had not been 80 much
reduced. During the last week he brought himself
down about seventeen pOunds-sufncienr to
weaken any man.
Year: 1873

Starting on the second lap Benton rather IN
creased his speed and appeared evidently deter
mined to force the pace, probably with view OF
making the time good. He increased his lead sew
eral yards, and Bowie, evidently anxious to pre-
vent him getting too far ahead shot by Phillips and
took second place. They passed the three-quarter
pole in the same order.
Year: 1873

saw a city in the moon, with regular
streets and surrounded by wall :, and in
1926. he believes he saw three new streets.
added, and two walls broken down, and
even the color of the vegetation change
with the heat, and further large struct-
ure resembling the Egyptian pyramids,
a temple dedicated to the alteration of
the stars, public park similar to that
of the city of Brussels (thus also reseln-
bling the Central Park of New York;,
and, in its neighborhood. a steam factory.


In the beginning of the last centqry,
several astronomers asserted that there
was hole or tunnel in the moon of 40
miles diameter, as during an eclipse of
the sun they had seen the, solar rays
shining through this hole. They main
tanned this assertion with the utmost
obstinacy; but as this tunnel has never
been seen since, and it's existence is next
to impossible, the matter is now forgot
ten. Such tunnel, indeed, if going
through the lunar center would have to
be over 1000 miles long; and if it passed
through preminences on the moon sur
face, the Mont Gents tunnel would be
nothing at all compared to it. Specula-
tions were already INDUCED in at that
time that it was constructed by the in
habitants of the moon, who were far in
advance of us in the mechanical arts.
If they are so, they have closed the tun-
mel, perhaps in CONSCIENCE of war.
Year: 1873

Since the last annual meeting we have
had to mourn the loss OF e member OF
the executive COMMITTEES. Thomas G..
Scarborough, q devoted Christian and
an earnest worker in every good cause,
was called to his reward on the twenty
fifth day of July, 1872. A fitting tribute
to his memory viii be found in the
printed proceedings of this meeting.
Year: 1873

The citizens meeting to-day is regard.
ed as one of the greatest ever held here,
There was no speaking and no action
whatever taken, the object being solely
to give moral support by their presence
to the peoples Legislature. From noon
until three o'clock there were from five
thousand to ten thousand present. The
streets leading to the square were
crowded with persons going and COM
ing. 1t is estimated that from twenty
to thirty thousand people participated
in the demonstration during the day.


There being no quorum in either
House, both adjourned until noon to-
morrow.


No interest whatever is manifested
regarding the Kellogg Legislature,
which met as usual, but adjourned
early.


The Committee of Two Hundred have
supplied money to maintain the peo-
pies Legislature.
Year: 1873

M. Neisner & Brother, one of our He brew firms, after trying here nearly two years to make the ready made clothing business pay, last week became discouraged and turned over their store to Sheriff Rich mond. It is rumored that two weeks ago the firm had a large stock of clothing which in some mysterious way disappeared before the day of their failure ... The good sleighing is enjoyed and improved by all

 and we shall be surprised if in some of these sleighing parties, attachments arc not formed which shall last long after the snow disappears; and this reminds me that the editorial and legal profession are engaged in heavy strife in the coasting business. Both parties are young. good looking and popular with the ladies, and both own fast running sleds of about tue same average capacity, and after sliding down, either party offers to draw at least two ladies back up the hill. This is a tax upon the muscu- lar system, but the young men seem to thrive, and we trust may both slide irrevo- cably into matrimony, after which on moonlight evenings we may have peace Let lem slide. 0.
Year: 1873

The Great Railway Combinations

 The citizens ot Waterbury and vicinity will! take more than ordinary interest in the great railway combination that has been recently formed, because of it's bearings on the early completion of the Boston & Erie | road.

 l For more than three years responsible and wealthy parties have been silently but effectively maturing the plans, which in their final completion must revolutionize the travel between the east and the west as well as the north. This railroad system includes new trunk line from New York to Montreal, which is already nearly com pleted by the consolidation of the New York 6 Boston, the Putnam & Duchess, the Duchess & Columbia, the Pine Plains & Albany, and the Harlem Extension, that reaches Rutland, Vermont. From Rutland the way is clear over well,known lines to Montreal. Among the leading branch roads is one to Brewster's Station that will connect with the Boston, Hartford & Erie and thence with the Portland, Bangor X Halifax road. Passengers by this line can take European steamers at Halifax and save two days time from New York to Liverpool, reducing the ocean trip to five days. This, however, is only one of the several reasons that will lead to the speedy completion of the Boston & Erie road. This great combination has finally outwitted Commodore Vanderbilt in gaming control of the franchise and right by which they can build an elevated railway from Harlem to tue lower part of New York. Work is to be commenced at once on this gigantic enterprise that it is estimated will cost $2O, ,OOO,O When completed, the Erie road, in connection with other great lines from the West, not controlled by Wander bilt, will have an open way into the very heart of the metropolis. In order that the great advantage may be made available it is necessary that bridge should be built across the Hudson. The engineers have selected as the best place for this bridge a point from Fort Clinton to Anthony's Nose. The bridge will have a clear span of 1,6oS feet, and is to be built in the most thorough manner, at an estimated cost ot &, ,5O0, 900 With the erection of this bridge the open ing of the road from this city to the Hudson will soon follow, and the long dreamed of ana delayed project of direct road to the Pennsylvania coal fields into New England will be realized. Our brief sketch shows how intimately the interests of several of our great railroad lines are affected by these plans, so that the large outlay of money will not be likely to deter them from doing what is absolutely necessary for their present and future success. The prospect is encouraging that by 1875 or whereabouts we can go to New York by the way of Danbury and Brewsters Station and also reach any of tue great cities west or south without single change of cars. How it may affect our material interests we shall hereafter refer to. - Waterbury American.
Year: 1873

AN INFAMOUS WoMAN.-Josephine Mans field seems bound to make a sensation wherever she goes. It does seem as if when his satanic majesty would play a trump card he uses some bad woman to do his bidding. The unfortunate position of Stokes is probably owing more to this be- deviling woman than to all other causes. And now we have the intelligence from Paris that she has been the occasion of q duel between the editor of theatrical journal, who had criticised her. extensively gaudy and ill-bred appearance at an opera, 'and one of her deluded admirers. The contest took place in a suburb of Paris, the weapons being broadswords. They >cut and slashed away at each other until the editor was severely wounded in the left arm, when the surgeon interfered and the duel was ended. What a pity that this brazen-faced courtesan Mansfield couldn't herself be made target for some of hel cast off lovers. This would be one way oi ridding the world of demoralizing hui

 sance. .-....-..
Year: 1873

HUMBrG.-A young man living in Hyde Park is, humility personifed. The other day he asked young lady if he might be allowed the privilege of going home with her, and was indignantly refused Where upon he inquired very humbly if he might be allowed to sit on the fence: and see her go by.
Year: 1873

Another week filled with busy care has gone, and the time draws near when Friend Pease has right to expect some items from this part of the world. Now what can tell him Surely the events of ev-

 eryday life which have filled the week for me will have no interest to the outside world, and items are so scarce. Mrs.
Year: 1873

To Rent. or three good, pleasant rooms in the best location in this village for business. These rooms are particular ly suitable for the millinery or dress making business. Possession can be had at once if desired. Apply at this office.
Year: 1873

In our advertising columns will be found the
advertisement of the proprietor of the Logan
House at Lincoln This is good place to stop
at. See the card and govern yourself accord
mSby.
Year: 1873

QUINN QUARTZ MILL AT GOLD HILL.-About
two years ago Stephen Quinn purchased the old
vlter power quartz mill and ledge at the falls OF
lower Bear river ditch, near Gold Hill, and re-
pared The mill and opened the ledge. 1t tooh
time to get things in working order and the ledge
fairly open, but since the water came this Fall
the mill has been kept to work and has paid up
Tor the mill and mine, and the ledge is now pay
ing from S22 to 1923 per ton regularly. This
MIL and ledge is little out of the beat of quartz
pFospectors, and while Quinn has been driving
along quietly cleaning up good pay, but little has
been said about the matter Last Saturday We
accidentally stumbled on this quiet little good
thing and have taken the liberty of making il
public.
Year: 1873

GOLD HILL CEMETERY Gold Hill was popu-
lous and live mining town a few years ago.
We have seen its streets contain four or five
hundred American miners; as time wore on, the
cream of the mines was exhausted and new dis
coveries made elsewhere, the white miners grad
ually give place to the Chinese until Gold Hill
to chcd almost naked bedrock. few old
standbys remained, and now again the town is
beginning to improve. During the populous
days of Gold Hill a cemetery had been laid out on
beautiful elevated knoll of ground and well fill
ed with the remains of her once happy and pros
porous people. Lately Mr.. Ross, and others OF
the old citizens remaining there, contributed
money and put fine substantial fence arouud
the old cemetery, trained up the trees and shrubs
planted as momentoes to departed friends b,
mourning companions, and the native everpreens,
and now it is large and most handsome ceme-
terry, but its great number of graves and tomb
stones is in strange contrast with the present
limited number of inhabitants of that section O.
the county Many former esteemed and loved
friend of ours sleeps there and we cannot but
extend our thanks to Mr.. Ross and others for the
handsome and substantial improvements made.
Gladly would We have contributed our mite had
we have been called upon. Gold Hill is now ris-
ing, and we hope it may be again its former self
Year: 1873

ARISE AND ExpLAN.-AUout two-thirds of the
people here are very anxious to have the Board
Of Supervisors arise and explain why they let the
Hospital to the highest bidder Why Dr. Todd
was specially invited to bid, which showed that
the Board was entirely satisfied of his fitness and
competency for the place, and then denied him
the place when his bid was one hundred and for
n-seven dollars and fifty cents the lowest =? Ii
they intend to pay this extra money themselves
as great public benefactors ? Some Republicans
ore ungenerous enough to think the Supervisors
the calf and the ring" the old COW, and thai,
Todd forgot to give the old COW the "pubbin -
and therefore lost the calf; othe. think draft
must have been made on the "soft soap mine -
in which the ring" bathes itself We have been
asked to say much more than this, but decline
until the Board answers, which will doubtless
make everything lovely and the goose hang
high" In this matter We now know of nothing
but honor and fairness on the part of DR.. Du-
Bo!s, the successful bidder.
Year: 1873

1t is strange indeed that mems self
condemnation of their coarseness and
vices should be interpreted as delicacy
and chivalry toward women. I'VE are
so WI gar aud vile" they seem to say
THAT we must continue to be vulgar and
vile, to show how tenderly we cherish
how fully we appreciate the dear crea
lures who are better angels" Ii we are
not fitted to be women's companions, il
we go where we should not, so mucl, the
worse for US. IF women are too good for
us. it is our duty to be better. We re
quire reformation, and the best reforma
tion will come to us by admitting women
to what we call, euphemistically enough,
our recreations and our pleasures. That
these are unworthy and rude, il not gross,
for the most part, few of US will deny
BY making women our partial partners,
our associates on occasion, we admit our
inferiority and our fear lest they should
know of US what We know Of ourselves
We have not advanced so far beyond
baronal barbarism and Eastern iudul
we hold our wives and daughters in the
prisons Of ignorance and the seraglos OF
restraint.


1t is not consideration for women that
induces us to keep them in the border
land of acquaintance with our real lives
1t is consideration for ourselves it is su
preme selshness it is engrossing egotsm
We shrink from the thought that the
geDtler and purer beings who love us
and whom we love-when we have naught
else to do-should have perfect uuder
standing, clear revelation of what We
are. 1t is an article of our social creed
that they prefer pleasant illusions to dis
agreeable facts. This is not without its
verify but it evinces the false education
that should be removed. In this age we
live, or ought to live, above everything
else, for truth. Whatever leads thereto
should be followed, though the following
dispel every deception which, from the
first, has been our most grateful food.


The men are precious few that would
be willing their lives should be unrolled
panorama like before their nearest and
dearest feminine friends The thing that
they are vain Of, even to boasting, they
would hide from their wives or mothers
at imminent peril to themselves. The
worship most of US receive is a species OF
sentimen nta fetishism offered under the
deusion that the idol is far more than il
seems that it possesses powers and in
hueuces linking it TO the divine. Trans
parent as we may be to our own sex, we
are Opaque to the opposite. Genuine tt
the one. we are shams to the other anG
We exercise constant care that we shal
continue such. In respect, esteem
and affection, we are actually obtainers o
goods By false pretences, and are amen
able to spiritual law which we Away,
wade. Is it fattering to our manhood
to our sense Of integrity, to know that tC
those we reverence most we are miserable
6ctions and animated ties ?" Women a.
Companions" by Junius Henri Bro,cne
IN February Gatdry.
Year: 1873

A policeman strayed into the tenth
ward of Detroit the other day to make a
few hundred dollars by driving geese to
the pound. Fle had collected dozen or
more, and was quietly proceeding across
the commons, when something came down
on his head, and he keeled over and knew
no more for FIVE minutes. A small boy
informed him that a woman brought
shoe handle down upon his heal, but the
officer says a barn fell on him.
Year: 1873

A lady of Reading, Mrs John Ramage,
fed FIVE hundred sparrows during the
cold weather At first she had but few,
but they appeared to convey intelligence
of the lady generosity to their friends.
and the number increased very fast 1t
is said that when she goes to her door
and calls them, they "stand not on the or
der of their" coming, but come with a
lutter of thaDkfulness and delight.
Year: 1873

Our gifted sculptor, Mr.. Valentine,
had host of visitors last week at his
studio, including Gen. John e.. Breck-
inrid.e and ex-Prcsident Jefferson Da-
Wis. The latter spent considerable time
On Saturday in conversation with the
artist and examining his works of art.
He WAS particularly struck with the
beauty Of statuette of General Lee,
and commended the martial bearing of
the figure. The recumbent figure of
the great Confederate General, for Lex
ington, seemed to impress him greatly,
and he pronounced it splendid work
of art-remarkable for its fidelity of
portraiture and naturalness Of position.
The Confederate ex-President standing
thoughtfully over the figure of Lee was
in itself picture for an artist. He
said it reminded him, in posture, of the
Oiu Vi uSducfS III w GSImlQ1SCcT hDDeV,
but the artist had relieved it of the
stiffness which characterizes some II
these. The fact that one of the hands
Of the dead hero Hes across his breast
while the other rests carelessly on the
hilt of his sword was commended for
the fine effects it produces. The sim
plicity Of the drapery emblematic OF the
grind simplicity of the man, did not es-
cape favorable comment. In fact, the
figure strikes every critic as represent
ing calm repose after an eventful life.


He took the measurement Of Mr.


Davis features with a view of making q
bust Of him at an early day. The dis.
tinguished subject will, however, in the
meantime give him several sittings
Year: 1873

A young Chicago artist has been
guilty of an act for which he deserves
to be violently henpecked all the days
of his life. By dint of straining after
an original idea he has found it, and
presents it in the shape Of a Lucifer on
canvass-a Lucifer not masculine but
feminine! We are informed that her
face has a sort of diabolical beauty, that
horns surmount her chignon, and that a
split slipper projecting from under her
dress of leopard skin suggests the cloven
foot. The painting of such picture
must have been caused by terrific and
remorseless jilting of that young man.


Over five hundred millions of corsets
go to waste annually in the United
States.
Year: 1873

To make little boys trousers last
When you make a suit of clothes for
them, finish the coat first, and by so
doing you will make the trousers last.
Il is the only way the thing can be
done.
Year: 1873

experience offered by them. Circular paper
shades can be obtained for a few cents, and
these not only protect the eyes from excess
of light, but serve as reflector behind the
blaze, increasing the illumination one-half.
Besides the above-named evil, there is that
varying quantity of light thrown into the
eye by its being suddenly and alternately
directed towards the blaze or obliquely away
from it, which the pupil has not time to adapt
itself to the increase of glare, whereas, with
the use ofthe shade, the illumination would
be uniform. The number of persons in the
community baving spots, light or dark, in
the field of vision, arising from injury to the
retina by the ill-usage we are mentioning, is
greater than is commonly imagined. 1t must
be borne in mind that these spots are So
rious step towards amaurosis and gutta-sere-
ma, such as plunged in darkness the later
years of the great Milton, and many others
more eminent for their talents than their
caution.
Year: 1873

ABEAUTIPULI LINcIDENT-Thei intelligent
horse, says the Turf, Field and Farm, very
often sympathizes with animal distress
About year ago, dog was set upon by a
crowd of cruel boys, and pelted with sticks
and stones, The poor dog had given no
offence, but this mattered not. He tried to
escape from his tormentors, and had nearly
succeeded in doing SO, when stone hurled
with great violence struck him on the fore
leg, bruising the flesh and fracturing the
bone. The animal howled piteously, but
none of his prosecutors went to his relief
Having injured him, they turned coldly
away and left him to his fate. The dog
limped into the stable of Mr. Edward Kill
patrick, moaning piteously. In one Of the
stalls Of the stables was well-bred young
horse Of more than ordinary intelligence.
The distress Of the dog seemed to move the
heart of the horse to pity He bent his head
caressed the canine, and inspected the bro
ken leg. Then with his fore feet he pushed
some clean straw into one corner of his stall
and made soft bed on which the dog was
induced to himself lay down.


A close and affectionate intimacy was at
once established between the horse and the
dog. The horse was being largely fed on
bran mash, and, one day, when receiving his
feed, thinking the dog might be hungry, the
equine bowed his head, caught the canine
gently, by the skin Of the neck, and, with
bis teeth, lifted him into the trough or box
The dog fell to with hearty will, which
showed that his hunger was great and that
his gratitude was equal to his appetite
Days and weeks passed, and the dog and
horse continued to be firm friends The bran
mash feed fed them both, and the invalid
grew strong and fat on the wholesome diet
At night, the two animals, thus strangely
brought together, slept in the most loving
manner. The horse would arrange a sof'
bed for the dog, and then lay down and ten
derly eucircls the canine form with one o.
his forelegs. It is seldom that such beau
tiful and authentic incident is brought tt
our notice. The horse showed for the un
fortunate more Of that feeling which we term
humanity thad did the lusty youths who
were presumed to walk in the image of theil
God. Nay. it took the poor victim Of man,
persecution to its heart and home, and nursec
the same back to health and strength.