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Year: 1873

The Providence Star thus refers
to the report of the Committee of the
Vermont Legislature appointed to
investigate charges against the mana
gers of the Vermont Central Railroad:


This report is remarkable for what
it does not disclose. 1t is evident
from the great care taken not to ex-
onerate the managers, and like good
care not to accuse them of fraud that
the committee themselves are in some
fear Of expressing their honest opinion
upon the matter. The fact that most
of the profitable contracts of the Yer
mont Central have been made with
directors of the road will not tend to
allay prevailing suspicious that all has
not been right in the management.
Until parties who act in a jduciary
capacity, railroad directors and others,
learn that they cannot, without an
implication against their good faith
and honesty, derive a benef, from
contracts made with their ceStui que
trust, the public will suspect dishones-
ty and openly charge it. Especially
will they do so when the corporation
which they manage becomes bankrupt
while individual directors grow rich
out of contracts with the road which
they pretend to manage
Year: 1873

"A young lady in Nashville is
changing her views somewhat relative
to the question of matrimony. They
say that when she "came OUT in
society she determined that she would
not marry man unless he was an
Episcopalian. Time passed on, and
she did not get married, and then
modified her views and concluded she
would marry no man who was not a
Christian. That young lady is still
unmarried, and says now that all she
is looking for is a man that don't drink
whisky.
Year: 1873

I will paint you sign, rum-selisa,
And hang it above your door,
A truer and better sign-board


Than ever you had before.
/ will paint with the skill of q master,
And many shall pause to see
This wonderful piece of painting,


So like the reality.
l will paint yourself, run-seller,


As you wait for that fair young boy,
Just in the morn of manhood,


mothers pride and joy.
He has no thought of stopping,


But YOU greet him with a smile,
And you seem 30 blithe and friendly
That he pauses to chat awhile.
l will patnt you again, rum-selleT,
will paint you as you stand
With q foaming glass Of liquor


Holding IN either hand.
he wavers, but you urge him;


Drink! pledge me just this onel7
And he lifts the glass and drains it,
And the he1lish work is done.
And the next 1 will paint drunkard +;
Only a year has flown,
But into this loathsome creature


This fair young boy has growPs
The work was quick and rapid;


1 will paint him as he lies,
In torpid, drunken slumbsr,


Under the Wintry skies.
/ will paint the form of the mother
As she kneels at her darling's side
Her beautiful boy that was dearer
Than all the world beside.
I will paint the shape Of coffin
Labelled with the one word "LOst !"
I will paint all this, rum-selleT,


And paint it free Of cost.
The sin, and the shame, and sorrow,
The crime and want and woe,
That is born there in your rum-shop,
No hand can paint, you know;
But nj paint you sign, rumseIler,
And many shall pause to view
This wonderful swinging sign-boaFd,
So terribly, fearfully true.
Year: 1873

A Danbury young man, who was once
q clerk, lately went on farm to work.
The first night in his new position he
was detailed to remove a calf from the
apartments of its parent to another
shed, and while engaged, as thousands
have been before him, in showing the
contrary beast along, the mother reach
ed under the tails of his coat with her
horns, and suddenly lifted him up
against the roof Of the building with
force that threatened to shatter every
bone in his body. The first thing he
did on returning to earth was to rub
himself, the next thing was to throw up
his place. He said he didn't doubt that
agriculture was noble pursuit, and
that the farmer needed an assistant in
the discharge of his multifarious duties,
but he didn't believe the Creator de-
signed him for making sky-lights in cow"
sheds.
Year: 1873

I know a shady bower,


A sweet secluded nook,
Where many a bTight-eyed flower
Bends down to kiss the brook,
Ny path lies down hollow,


Where ripping waters run;
hope no one will follow,


For there's only room for one.
But If d bonnie maiden


Whose name I dare not tell
Should, with wild flowers laden,
Draw near my bosky dell,
I, in q voice c2ressing,


Would tell, and tell her true,
That with a little pressing


There might be room for two.
I'd crown her with wild roses,
I'd throne her on the green,
And whilst she there repOses,
I'd kHeel before my queen.
Should any one perceive US,


In this we'd both agree
We'd tell them to believe us


There was not room for three.
Year: 1873

THE Bishop of Ermeland has carried
out his threat against the Prussian
Government by lodging his complaint
against il at the Berlin Law Court and
suing the Grown for the temporalities
settled upon his Zee and withheld from
him by order Of the King since list
Oetobsg last,
Year: 1873

Buffalo Bill was at Hartford, Gonna


the other day, and while visiting Colt s


armory, the large number of spectators
who had assembled to see the famous


scout desired him to favor them with
an exhibition of his skill as marksman.


Bill gave the chew of tobacco in his
mouth to q small boy to keep warm, a
small piece of white paper was put upon
barn door fifty rods distant. B. VIII
liam seized fine new rifle, spit on his
hands, and in the manner SO often de-,
scribed by Ned Buntline raised the rifle
until his nose rested on the stock, fred,
and O picket was knocked off from q
fence ten feet to the left Of the barn.
" This rife barrel is crooked, said Bill;
SO saying, he hit it over stone to
straighten it, then shot again, this time
barking the skin of an old pie woman on
his right flank. A third trial and be hit
the barn fair in the center, and the
shout that arose from the assemblage
the joy of the spectators at his
success. Bill is Just as good az actor
as he is a marksman, which is very re-
in these days of corruption
and bribery.-Da,6uyy Neios. H. sa
Year: 1873

THE BOARD OF EMIGRATION. The Commits
sioners of Emigration, at their meeting yes
terday. put the principle Of economy into
practice by cutting down salaries Of en-
ployes and abolishing Offices. The Super
intendent of Wards Island was dispensed
with by not filling the vacancy and leaving
the deputy to do the work, under the super
vision Of the General Superintendent at Castle
Garden. The Commissioners also cut off the
salaries Of the resident clergymen at Ward s
Island, on the principle, we presume, that the
good work they do is sufficient reward for
their services The Commissioners are either
SO godly as to believe that religious labor is
compensated fully in another and better
world. or SO irreverent as to reckon parsons S
work of very little account We see, how
ever, that the treasurer's salary was increased
from three thousand to four thousand dollars.
This is the difference between God and Nam
mon in the ethics Of Castle Garden.
Year: 1873

AMATEUR DETECTIVES. Es.-There are several
amateur detective agencies in New York, and
they occasionally distinguish themselves by
curious vagaries Some of the parties belong
ing to such business are now under bail on
o charge Of attempted kidnapping and assault
in Jersey City. 1t appears that they held q
warrant and requisition for the arrest Of an
alleged offender against the laws Of this State,
and it is charged that they proceeded to cap
ture their prisoner and take him bodily to
New York without waiting for the formal pro.
ceedings. A collision with the police was the
consequence. An efficient regular detective
force is the more desirable because it renders
the amateur detective business the less likely
to flourish. We ought to have a good muni-
cipal force and law against these private con-
Germs, which are generally public nuisances.
Year: 1873

Primarily we have not to deal with
Spain, but with these barbarian cut
throats They neither listen 10 the die
tates of reason nor hear the cry OF
humanity. It is impossible that their inhu-
man work should continue in Q land so con-
tiguous to ours. National safety as well as
national honor alike forbid it. We have the
remedy in our own hands. and it is swift.
overwhelming retrlbution. 1t is better that
we should subdue the whole island. that we
should destroy every seaport town from San
tiago de Cuba to Havana. than that these out
RACES should continue. This is the sentiment
of the American people, and the administra-
tion must yield to the popular will. Long
suffering as we have been this latest outrage
must prove the last. There is no longer any
respect for the weakness of the Spanish
Republic any forgiveness for the fearful
crimes of the infuriate volunteers, in single
American heart The whole nation cries for
reparation or etribution-reparation by the
return of the Virginius and the surrender of
the murderers or retribution at the cannon's
mouth. Anything short Of this is dis
honor which no American has ever yet ac-
cepted Though Mr.. Fish may beg us to
wait for official information we cannot endure
it now for single day beyond what is neces-
sary to get ready for action. The flag has
been stricken down on the high seas. and those
whom it protected have been murdered with
out trial and without excuse Delay is q
mockery as grievous as the crimes which have
reused the great heart Of the nation to teach
the criminals the weight of great peoples
wrath.


General Grant, we know. Is too true sol
dier not to readily apprehend the situation.
He is too much an American not to avengs
Americas honor in crisis SO clear and so
appalling. He cannot fail to see the neces-
sity of adopting the course we advocate. Till
Congress meets he has the honor of his
country in his keeping. He can only fulfil
his trust by dealing vigorously with the Span
iards in Cuba Congress will soon be in ses-
sion to second and approve all his efforts.
Now is the opportunity to put an end to the
bloody and barbarous struggle. and we cannot
but believe the President will make the most
of the opportunity
Year: 1873

The Harlem ExpiOsiOn-A Courageous


Jury Needed.


In the sickening review of the culpable acci-
dents that occur during the year, whatever
doubt may be felt on other points, everybody
agrees that great wrong exists somewhere,
which it is in the power of the law to do some
thing toward righting. The terrible Harlem
explosion is the latest opportunity that has
occurred Of testing what patience and intelli-
gence will do in discovering the cause of the
calamity, and what courage and impartiality
can accomplish in rendering an appropriate
verdict The Coroner's jury in the present
instance is much more intelligent one than is
ordinarily had. The danger is not SO much
that the truth will not be known as that indi-
vidual responsibility will not be definitely
declared and adequate punishment inflicted.
No one can take retrospect of the his
tory Of accidents" of this nature which have
occurred during the past year without being
disguised with the weakness and ambiguity of
laws whose function it should be to reduce
such possibilities to minimum. and with the
ignorance. venality and cowardice of jurymen.
If such accidents are accidents in the true
sense Of that term. if they are absolutely un-
avodable then let the dreary acknowledgment
be made that the steam boiler is the very
Frankenstein of machinery, which the nine
teenth century has brought into existence. and
Of which it does not know how to obtain the
mastery. If we are not masters of steam, then
steam is master Of US, and horribly cruel and
oapricious master. giving us the semblanoe of
power from month to month only to take o
more malignant advantage of some unsuspi-
cious moment to scatter death, mutilation and
agony around. The jury summoned on
Wednesday by Coroner Kessler has duty to
perform the importance Of which can scarcely
be overrated. The age is one in which crime
too often receives the name Of accident, and in
which accidents happen which would better be
known as crimes. The Harlem disaster is
case in point. Either the blame lies with an
individual or individuals, who deserve heavy
punishment, or else the explosion was una
voidable. and on the latter supposition we are
left to the mockery of the knowledge that we
are at the mercy Of monster named Steam,
who serves us thirty days in the month only
to mutilate and destroy us on the thirty-frst.
Year: 1873

The FISHERY QUESTION. final settle
ment Of the fishery question between Canada
and the United States was one Of the advan-
tages secured by the Washington Treaty. But
the matter is not yet arranged, and there are
likely to be some sharp controversies before it
is happily closed Mr. Rothery gentleman
of much ability, is the British Commissioner,
and, having spent some time in Canada gather
ing information as to the views and interests
of that side of the question he is now on his
way to Washington, where he will hear the
American story. The fisheries have always
been source of disagreement and of some
danger between the States and the colony, but
there is FISH enough in the sea and trade
enough on land to furnish profitable busi-
ness for the adventurers on both sides of the
ST. Lawrence, and very little Cancellation
and liberal spirit will make all things agree
able. The Commission will meet at Halifax
shortly, and their labors, if brought to sue
cessful termination, will conclude another
gratifying branch of the Washington Treaty.
Year: 1873

tion Wanted.


The first and last report of the Commits
sioners of Accounts did not show the affairs
of the Finance Department to be in q very
promising condition. Months elapsed before
they could ferret out from old papers and
badly kept blotters, which were made to sup
ply the place of bookkeeping. the correct
amount of the funded debt of the city. Even
then they found the sinking fund securities
apparently ninety-four thousand dollars short,
this amount, as it was afterwards claimed,
being represented by receipts for which no
bonds had been issued. But the receipts,
although quite as important as the bonds
themselves during the absence Of the bonds
were not in the tin box where the sink
ing fund securities were kept They
we're probably poked away somewhere
in clerks desk if the bonds themselves had
in fact, ever been issued. Where so much
confusion and irregularity prevail. however,
it must be difficult to decide whether the
amounts taken from the sinking fund are rep
resented by bonds or receipts, or where either
may be. In one instance bond Of one hun
dred thousand dollars was found bearing date
in June or July last, although tho money was
taken from the sinking fund one year and
three months previously 1t is singular that
the ninety-four thousand dollars worth of
bonds, which were missing from the box, and
which it is claimed were represented by re-
ceipts in some other place, ought to bear date
49, @ha @l,a 4
thousand dollars, which had been absent for
fifteen months, was placed in the sinking
fund box. 1t is singular also, and certainly
it does not appear desirable, that box con-
tanning many millions of securities should be
kept in the Comptrollers Office, apart from the
other city treasure, instead Of being placed in
the bank of deposit, where neither the Comp
troller nor any Of his clerks could have access
to it.


We have been promised another very neces-
sary report from the Commissioners of Ac-
counts-namely. correct statement of our
floating debt, including, of course, all outstand-
ing claims against the city. This report
should have been before the people weeks
since 1t is probably delayed by the confused
state of accounts and books in the Comp
trollers Office, or probably by the obstruc-
tions notoriously placed in the way of the
Commissioners by the Comptroller. Yet it is
necessary that we should have this information
before we can tell how we stand financially.
1t is precisely because no one can find out
exactly what our liabilities are, while our ex-
penditures and taxes are largely increasing,
that our city bonds do not find as ready or
profitable market as they did even under the
corrupt Tammany rule. Let the Commits
sioners Of Accounts hurry up their report or
tell us why it is delayed
Year: 1873

"a DANGEROUS PRECEDENT. They are be-
ginning to talk Of dangerous precedent at
Washington. We catch through window
of the State Department glimpse Of the
white feather. To avoid dangerous prece-
dent why not cover the whole ground in
apologizing for the virginius and in reim-
buTsing Spain for the costs involved in her
capture and the Spanish assassins Of Cuba for
the cost Of the fixed ammunition used in
shooting the ships passengers and crew.
Year: 1873

Coon NEWS ron LEeIsLAToRs.-A dead
head, while riding on railroad in Indiana,
met with an accident and sued the company
for damages. The plea was put in that the
injured party was travelling on a pass, but the
jury gave him eight thousand dollars, notwith-
standing. We have no sympathy with dead
heads, but the result Of the trial will be good
news for Congressman, State legislators and
needy Bohemians.
Year: 1873

A HEAVY Snow STORM descended upon Que
bee on Wednesday last, continuing through
the day and the night Excellent sleighing
is reported and snow drifts two or three feet
deep. Another sign, this, of the approach of
winter for q regular siege over all the land
north Of the cotton States, and another warn
ing to all hands to prepare to meet the newt
able trials and duties of the season.
Year: 1873

INFRINGEMENT OF MARITIME RIGHTS. THAT
quick sense of injury and that prompt asser-
tion of the national dignity in former times
ut every infringement Of our maritime rights
was the best guarantee of the safety of citi-
zens and property entitled to the protection Of
our national flag World, Noe. l3.
Year: 1873

Miss Warren your explanation about
the letters"


"Why shouldn't l."


Don't YOU see? She thought you
didn't send back her letters for sen
timental reason; because thev were
so dear to YOU that you could not pos
sibly part with. them and so, in point
Of fact, that little misunderstanding
Of hers led TO the establishment Of
your love affair"


''Do You think SO ~ be asked mu-
singly. But If Georgy has made
any mistske about the matter,
think that ! am bound 10 set her
right


"My dear Stone, take my advice,
for fear Ct accident; set her right
after the wedding ceremony, not
before.


Whether or not he took my advice,
I'm not aware He was married in
due course to Miss Warren; and j
know that the old lady was often
heard to declare subsequently, that
she married the best husband in the
world.
Year: 1873

Our arguments upon the subject
life insurance have thus far been al
most wholly directed TO men. We
have appealed to their conseienees 10
do justice to those who are depend
e1t upon them We have shown as
clearly as lay within our power their
whole duty to those 10 whom God
has placed them in the relationship
of husband or father. We now wish
to say 9 word to wives. We wish 70
impress upon their minds the fact
that they have some rights that their
husbands are bound to respect
They have a clear right TO demand
that certain portion Of their hus-
bands yearly income should be in
vested for their future maintenance.
BY reason Of that justice to which
the humblest is entitled, they have
the right to know that some provi-
sion is made for the maintenance,
al least Of their children, in case Of
the death of their father. The COM
monest dictates Of humanity exact
this of every man who assumes the
parental relation and the memory
of him who fails to do his duty in
this respect should be execrated. In
what fitting terms Of contempt and
reproof can We speak Of those men
who squander, on rum and prohiga-
cy, what would suffice TO insure their
lives, for the benefit of their families,
and, saving nothing, die and leave
their households beggars Chr -
tidH Union.
Year: 1873

THAT NEW CELLAR FLO0R.-We


have been troubled for some time past


with dampness in the cellar, and last


week We got couple Of men 10 come
and dig it out for foot or two and
filed il in with a cement and mortar
floor. We heard screams for help all
that night. but concluded that Chubb.
Just back Of Us, must either be fond
ling his wife with the rolling pin, as
be does sometimes when his muscles
need exercise. or padding one Of his
bows with a bed-slat. So we paid no
attention 20 it. The next morning
both Of our servant girls were miss
ing After hunting around for awhile
We looked into the cellar and there
was the cook, standing BY the furnace,
knee-deep in cement, holding on 70
the coal shovel, which was also bur
led halfway up 10 the top of the han
die. The nurse had sat down in her
fatigue, and only her head was visa
bic, while IL several places on the SUI
face of the floor there were ar holes
where the milk jug, the butter pot, the
cold veal and the lima beams had
sunk. To make the situation more
dreadful. the cement had hardened
during the night, and it became q
question whether it would be better
to blast out the cook with gunpowder
and resurrect the nurse with nitro
glyeerine and run the risk of killing
them. or to let them die where they
were and save funeral expenses, ex-
eept for the cooks upper half and the
nurse-girls head But when the &C.
ment man came he said it would be
better 20 cut them out with & cold
chisel, and be did it at cost Of two
hundred dollars, and that Terv night
both girls left without warning. The
cold veal is there vet. Centuries
hence some antiquarian will grub
around and blow il out and present II
TO museum as fossil specimen Of
some unknown animal, while be will
probaly go around leeturing on the
and the butter pot as uten-
sis used in by-gone ages by a race Of
savages called the Adelers."


We would like to be alive then and
have pass to that lecture. We
would ike also to get our hands on
the receipts TO pay for excavating the
two children Of Erin.
Year: 1873

The Stock Journal, after giving q
number of experiments in feeding
corn TO pigs. remarks that these state
ments show that there is within a
fraction oftwenty-four pounds of pork
in q bushel Of corn and the effort Of
every farmer should be to get out as
much as he can Of it. And to do this
be must have the right kind Of hogs,
they must be placed in the condition,
and fed in the right manner, with a
view TO profit
Year: 1873

Yesterday Roundsman Sutton, OF the Fourth pre-
cinct found man lying in the loft of a COW stable
on Franklin avenue, suffering from painful and
probably fatal injuries. The man, whose name is
Roger McGinness says he was assaulted by party
OF unknown men the night before and was kicked
In the groin until he could not move. He re-
moved 10 the City Hospital where his condition
was pronounced to be critical.
Year: 1873

The Brooklyn journcymen house painters are
stanch advocates OF the Eight-Hour law. SO
strongly do they favor its enforcement that they
are anxious to submit to reduction of wages in
order to attain their end. Last evening unions Nos.
and met at 3S9 Fulton street, Joseph O'Keefle
in the chair. After lengthy discussion upon the
subject OF STRIKES" it was resolved to hold mass
meeting tomorrow evening, at the corner of Full
ton and Carlton avenues, to take the sentiment OF
the trade on the propriey OF striking at once for
eight hours work and SO per day. They now re.
ceive So so per day OF ten hours labor.
Year: 1873

An Illinois exchange comes to us
with this remarkable motto: "God
and Morality-rruth and Liberty"
The God and morality part Of the pa
per appears to have been printed in
Chicago the truth and liberty part
don't appear to be printed anywhere.