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Year: 1870

A large party of ladies and gentlemen
were ascending the Catskill Mountains re-
Gently, when one of the trunks belonging TO
young lady in the party fell off the coach
and was broken open, all the contents being
scattered into the road. In gathering them
together, which she calmly did, she was
assisted by a gentleman TO whom she had
only been introduced that day. He was so
struck by her good nature and sweet disposi-
ton, displayed under the trying circum-
stances, that he fell in love with her. At
the end of two weeks he proposed, was &C
cepted, and they are to be married in the
fall
Year: 1870

THE fact that "ciVility costs nothing" is
probably the secret of its unfashiOnable-
ness. A thing that every one can have,
few think worth having.


Men of industry. of integrity, of res
pectable intellectual gifts, are met at
every turn; but your purely civil man is
q rdrG dUlS. We are not speaking of peo-
pie in their social relations, but in their
intercourse with the outside world. Many
men who are everything that is genial and
courteous in the home circle, become cold,
brusque, or irritable the moment they
enter their counting rooms, offices, or
place of business, whatever it may be.
TIE playful, indulgent pdter: fdzRiLids of
half an hour before suddenly chang into
a surly ogre, who snaps up his little pale
faced clerk as if he would make supple
mentary breakfast of him. Under such a
master it is no wonder that the clerk in
turn finds it impossible to be civil to any
stranger whom the chance of business
may throw in his way.


AS general thing, clerks in mercan-
tile houses do not stand in need of ungra.
cious examples Much dealing with com.
plicated accounts seems to sour the dispo-
sition. Fractions beget righteousness Il
you desire fine healthy specimen ofirri
liability, take an ancient bookkeeper al
the time he is making out his balance
sheet, and ask him the slightest question
not connected with his calculations. But
for all people engaged in strictly sedenta
ary occupations one should make generous
allowance.


Men who hold positions which bring
! them into contact with the public, and
| place the public to a certain extent a.
their mercy, have no right to be anything
bat civil. The ticket master at the rail
road station has no right to snub you be
cause you do not happen to know OF
| which track your train is The conductSl
has no right to regard you with look o
disdsin mingled with commiserstion whei
| you ask him the name of the next station
You were not born on the road, and
your interrogation convinces him that yoV
are natural idiot, he ought to respec
your misfortune and not betray it to tn
7 other passengers. The hsckman VIII
| gloomily awaits you at the terminus o
! the journey has no right TO hustle you a
il you were o part of your own baggage
! The hotel-clerk, the natural humility q
whose disposition lies buried under ths
monumental diamond pin, has no right (
treat you as an inferior. Yet who tina
| has travelled has not met all these forms c
incivilityS Fhis, to be sure, is only on
side of the story. The traveller is almos
as likely TO be exaspefating as the en-
ployee of the road, or the clerk Of tn
hotel But then the traveller is not pal
for being civil, and the other gentleme
are.


1t costs so little and is worth so much
A young clerk with eivility already has
stock OF goods OF his own. Regarded .
mere policy, 1t is the next best thing
honesty; and, like honesty, it Is good fc
its own sweet self An unciVil man
necessarily discontented man, a discon
fort to himself We beg leave to add


new sentiment TO the eopy-book of tn
period BE civil and you will be happy


-Egery SatuTdGy,
Year: 1870

PosF OFFICE clerks occasionally get off
a funny thing; at least so says the Bing
hamton Daily Repvblieaa. A clerk in our
postoffice heard a tap at the window of
the ladies' department, when WHO should
nc ma there but q man by the name OF
you please go to the other side, this de-
partment is for ducksp
Year: 1870

The U. s. Senate Postal Committee will pro.
bably report in favor of reducing letter postage
to two cents, and for material reduction on
other matter. Even at aese cheap rates the
Department will be self sustaining if only the
burden of the Franking Privilege can be re.
moved
Year: 1870

The Canadians, with Sir A. T. Gait at their
head, continue to demand some commercial
arrangement with adjoining countries. They
urge it so earnestly that it is plain something
is wrong in the New Dominion. In Nova
Scotia, province that has all along evinced
unwavering hostility to the Canadian Con-
federation, complaint is heard about the fish
cries, to the effect that American fishermen are
given to encroaching on them. This we can
readily believe, for the average American can
not exist 10 peace without encroaching on all
contiguous old fogies but he need not trespass
on Canadian fisheries, for in reality our own
fisheries ia Alaska are superior in every
respect. Indeed, in everything, institutions,
system of government, people, customs,
country and wealth, we are so completely
ahead of Canada and, therefore, independent
Of her, that we do not need any commercial
arrangement with her, unless it is the annexa-
ton arrangement, and in that one we are
willing to give her q great deal more than any
commercial arrangement will give her. We
see that part of tho bottom in the harbor of st.
John, N. B., dropped out, apparently, the other
day, leaving deep sea where before was the low
beach, This may be typical of a warning to
the whole Dominion that the bottom will drop
out of the new confederation, unless they
come into the Union.
Year: 1870

THE BROOKLYN NAVY YARD.-The last
proposition in regard to the Navy Yard is that
General Sherman, Admiral Porter and some
other specially educated officers Of the govern
ment shall choose site for a new navy yard,
with view to the strategic and other points
involved in its safety during war and in its
usefulness for the defence of this city. This
ib . good proposition, and will, it is to be
hoped, result in the choice of position up
The Hudson river
Year: 1870

COMPLIMENTS AT ALBANY.-The little chill
dren at Albany have forgotten the admoni-
ton of Watts, and have suffered their angry
passions to rise in shocking way, apropos to
some little charges of improper propositions
from one member to another. There is
peculiar attraction in strong language for the
public ear. People listen with great zest for
every syllable of personality that passes be-
tween public men, and the more piqnant the
language and the less it regards the decencies
of discussion and debate the better they like
it. In Mr.. Fields denunciation of Mr.. Aims
worth, therefore, they find peculiar flavor,
and in Mr.. Ainsworth's charge against Mr..
Fields something far daintier and finer than the
ordinary diet Of Albany reports. We do not
see, however, that the debate is likely to exalt
our legislators in the respect of the people,
and there is but little public profit in it, since
it is not possible that such exposure of the
way things are done at the State capital will
cause them to be done in any other way.
Year: 1870

THE JACKSON CAsE-It will be the last Of
nll outrages If the desperate murder CON-
,nitted by the Deputy Sheriff Jackson should
4ail of punishment by the criminal slipping
through the wide meshes of the Jaw. The
raj bubble is made in his behalf that man
eannot be indicted twice for the same crime
- If the inquest Of the Grand Jury were
.menable to the Same rule as that which pre-
tents courts putting man twice in peril for
The same offence. But we believe 1t has
never yet been heard that grand jury was q
court
Year: 1870

THE DISAPPEARANCE OF COLLECTOR BAL
IEY.-The special officers Of the Treasury are
al at work overhauling the papers and pro-
perty left behind by Collector Bailey. No clue
to his whereabouts and no cause for his disap-
pearance have yet been discovered. 1t is not
even known yet whether he has taken any
government money with him or not. But
there seems to be but little doubt that he has
in some manner laid himself liable to the law
and Is skulking to avoid the penalties.
Year: 1870

HAYTIEN MIsRULE.-It was thought that
with the death Of Salnave an era of peace
would be inaugurated in Hayti, but the latest
news from that quarter shows that matters are
Just as bad under the new administration of
Saget as they were under that of Salnave.
Year: 1870

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT A bill was intro
duced in the Assembly yesterday to reorgan-
ize the Metropolitan Fire Department. We
hope the Legislature will leave the present
excellent system alone. II the silk stocking
faction are at the bottom of this movement it
Is for the purpose OF enticing some old
veterans to their side by the seductive allure
meuts Of "Big Six"
Year: 1870

We hasten to make reparation to Mr.. Bergh
for wrong we recently did him. We said he
had no humor-that joke was worse than
wasted upon him and only attracted his atten-
tion as demonstration of hostility. In this
we were greatly mistaken, as is shown by his
graceful and good-natured statement before
Judge Bowling Of his case against a rather
scurrilous piece of newspaper fun. He OBJ
jects to illusions to his peculiarties of person,
because, as he justly observes, these are
things he cannot mend. An actor of happy
memory was once Kissed because he was so
ugly in feature, whereupon he assured the
audience that it was easier for them to get
was voted that his spirit and wit were fair
equivalents for beauty, and he was as good as
a handsome man for the rest of his life. So
when Bergh assures this public that if he
could only reshape his person to his own fancy
he would be as handsome as Judge Bowling
himself, it must be admitted that he gives us
an intellectual equivalent for comeliness and
fair proportions, and that his high standard of
taste and felicity of statement are worthy his
fame as q man Of true humanity and indomi-
table moral courage.


MORE CoUNTERFErTING. In addition to the
counterfeiters who make limitations of all sorts
Of promises to pay, the attention of the police
is now invited to the counterfeiters Of Worces-
tershire sauce. The fact that men can be
punished for making condiment here under
the same name as q condment commonly used
in England exhibits queer state Of law.
We have law of copyright for the pro-
lection of such noble piece of literature as
the lying label on bottle Of peppery trash,
but we cannot afford law for the protection
of the authors property in good book.
MISTAKEN AMEs.-General Ames, in COM
mand of the national troops, maneuvred his
forces so we'll that he was returned by recon-
structed Mississippi as one Of her Senators.
But committee of the Senate reports against
his admission, on the ground that he was not a
resident of Mississippi at the time Of election.
We are glad to see that there are some things
In reconstruction that the Senate will not
swallow.
Year: 1870

COOP DISCIPLINE is evidently the
best disposition in the Police Commission to
keep up the morals of the force by exemplary
penalties. Officer Coffee, who will be remem-
bered as having very suspicious relation to
dead mans gold watch, has been dismissed
from the force. Other policemen tempted by
watches will be apt to consider whether their
places are not worth more than such piece
Of plunder. And the officer who arrested the
victim in case of assault and permitted the
escape of the assailant is on trial, and his dis
missal will have good effect against that
common abuse.
Year: 1870




This, is the season for beautiful
leaves. Every day we may see the
living green change to crimson like
the maple, ,fUr=scarlet Like the sumach,
OF soft brown like the oak, or golden
yellow like the horse chestnut. The
Montrose Republican asks: "Do
young readers know what beautiful
ornaments these leaves, by some called
dead, make for their rooms? They
must be nicely dried in books, OF be-
tween boards-the leaves OF pages
changed every two or three days
and heavy weights put on that they
may lie. fiat. Some persons press
them with q moderately warm flat
iron when they first gather them. Get
all the richest celors you can, and add
to them the lovely green ferns and
brakes which any little walk into the
country will give you, and you have
no idea, if you have never tried it,
what a charming finish they give to a
room, wreathed' around pictures, or
over bay window, or a door opening
into another room. You secure a
depth Of color, a warm glow, and a
spirit of grace and beauty which, ev-
en- If your room is simple and .un-
ladoriled, will render it attractive
Try it" It is stated that decaying
leaves in the forests of other countries
do not present SO varied and beauti-
full an appearance as they do in ours !;
and that a number pressed in this
country and sent to Europe a year
ago We're greatly admired and sought
after as valuable and rare icuriosities.
Year: 1870

THE WORLD Grows BETrER-AND
WHY?-Although as yet there are no
indications of that cordial friendship
between the lion and the lamb which
is to be the type, and evidence of uni
versal peace aud good will, it must
be admitted that the enlightened por-
ton of the human race becomes more
humane and merciful with every pass
ing year. We owe this improvement
to the practical application of the di-
vine eprecepts of Christianity to the
affairs of life. Our noble charities,
our sanitary institutions, the abolition
of Imprisonment for debt, the limita-
,tion of the death penalty to the most
atrocious crimes, our laws for the pro-
lection of human life, and the penal
ties exacted from those who leopard
ize it, by neglect or criminal careless
ness, go to! show that the golden rule,
g Do to- Others. as you would they
should do to you," is rapidly gaining
ground as principle of government
tai economy and social action.
Year: 1870

Z A Delaware Widower recently wrote
to a friend In the same State. asking


able to become his ssecond wife, The
friend selected widow and inform
ed hiss correspondent, who came


down quickly and was introduced.
But the lady, who had been informed
Of the object ofthe visit, was much
disappointed in her suitor, and to
extr1cate herself from the dilemma,
told him that her first husband had


always carried. her upstairs when
she was sick, and waited upon her
very attentiYely. The widower was
taken aback at this declaration, and
informed her that he never served
his former wife in that way, and
the parties separated mutually dis
gusted. bEs ,sa 4
Year: 1870

q sBEETss- The culture of the beet is.
said to be worth more, to q country
as fertilizer than the product di-
rectly derived from the treatment of
the root, the waste pulp proving


more valuabIes than the sugar. It is
fed to barned cattle in large quanti-
ties. It is stated that in France,


where the business has grown to
enormous dimensions, the Increase in
catJle on account of beetpulp is won>
iderfuI. In the district of. country
suroundingth the city ofW Walenc ciennes,


where, before the production of beet
sugar, seven hundred oxen are the


total amount, eleven thousand i've


hundred are the total amount raised
last year. But this is not all. This
enormous increase. of stock has SO
much advanced the fertility of the


land that one hundred and ninety
two thousand bushels more wheat
are raised in the same district per an
mum than were ever raised In pre-
Vious years.-N. Y. Com. Bulletin,
Year: 1870

The following is clipped from the


Very few ladies knowhow to appre-
ciate an easy, healthful dress. They
think their dresses are loose, when q
man oreboy put into as tight would
gasp for breath, and feel incapable
OF pHtting forth any effort except to
break the bands. Ladies are 50 ac-
customed to the tight fits of dress
makers, that they 'tfall all to pieces y
when relieved of them, They asso-
ciate the loose dress with the bed or
lounge. JTo- be up, they must be
stayed up, and to recommend a COM
Portable dress to them is not to meet
a conscious want of theirs. It lis q
great pity none the less. II they
could once know what luxury it Is
to breathe deep and full at each res
piration, to feel the refreshment
which the system takes on by having
theblood enIivened and sent bound
ing through the arteries and veins, to
have theaids to digestion which such
strong elastic muscle keep every or
gan in place and themselves erect If
they could for a good while know
this blessed luxury, and then be sent
back into the old stiff strait-jeckets,
| they would fume, and fret and rave
| in very desperation IL they could not
get rid of them. AS 1t is, they pre-
fer to languish and suffer dreadfuliy,
and die young, and leave all Their
| friends, and their husbands and their
little children, and I do not see any
| other way but to- let them be sick
and die till they are satisfied. If on
| ly the sinner was the sufferer it would
be worth while to make a great ade
aboUt it, but the blighting of, future
renders the false habits ofour women
/ in the highest degree criminal.
Year: 1870

In Bethel vt. on Wednesday, boy of five
years, while at play on the bridge which spans
the stream passing through the village, fell
into the water. Fifty feet below the bridge
the water pours over high dam among the
rocks and snags below, tumbling along for
another hundred feet, leaps second dam
higher than the first, and sweeps down under
and beyond the railroad bridge for two hun
dred yards perfect cataract. A young man
of eighteen years, named Edward Burnett,
who stood near saw the child fall, and at once
plunged into the river. He reached the
drowning child, raised the little fellows head
from the water and turned shoreward, when
the current took them over the first dam in
to the foaming vortex. For the space of
minute and halfthe Mortified spectators lost
sight of the heroic young man and child. At
last when hope had nearly fed, young Burn
EFT was seen drawing himself out of the water
by some bushes, fifty rods below the lower
dam, bruised, but net dangerously injured
The body of the child had not been recovered
at last accounts. Young Burnett's heroism
is the theme of universal praise in Bethel, the
opinion being general that not one in a hun
dred could pass down that Jagged torrent bed
and come cut alive.
Year: 1870

SAN Francisco, Nov. 4.-Judge A. P. Critten-
den one of the ablest lawyers of this city, was
shot and killed last evening by Mrs. Laura Fair.
Judge Crittenden had crossed over to Oakland
to meet his wife and daughters, who had been
East for several months and was returning with
them and his two sons to this city in the ferry
boat FL Captain when the tragedy occurred. Mr..
Crittenden was seated outside of the saloon on
the upper deck, with his back against the
wheel-house, his wife nestled closely by his
side. Close TO them was their little son, and
few feet further back was seated Miss Critten-
den, young lady of about eighteen.


To the left with her back to the saloon, and
facing Miss Crittenden, sat woman alone by
herself, dressed In loose suit of black, with
a long cape hung from her shoulders, under
which she carefully concealed her hands. There
was, besides thick veil over her face large
muller which concealed her mouth and chin.
She sat there almost unnoticed and unObseryed
by any one although two or three remarked
that she must be an invalid from the way she
was bundled up, and thought it strange she
should be sitting outside in the cold raw air of a
November evening The boat had scarcely
reached deep water when


THE SHARP CRACK OF PISTOL


was heard, which brought everybody to their
Year: 1870

Breaking of spTnms,sseen Snnsdss Men Killed or


The st. Louis Democrat of the 18th instant
says


A fearful and fatal accident occurred yester-
day morning at the railroad bridge in process of
construction across the river at st. Charles.


The laborers took breakfast at o'clock, and
resumed work on span of the bridge on the 81.
Charles shore. The span is about 100 feet in
length. Treste work had been constructed, and
the iron of the superstructure was being fitted
to its place. derrick engine stood upon this
trestle work, and was used in hosting the iron
columns, beams, etc., to their positions. wire
rope was used for this purpose, and was sup
posed to be of ample strength.


Twenty men were on the span, and heavy
iron column was being drawn up by means of
the wire rope, when the rope broke and the
column fell upon the trestle-work, breaking
down about thirty feet of the wood and iron
work, and precipitating all the men except one
into the river.


One man had presence of mind enough to
spring upon the pier just as the rope broke, and
he remained isolated on the pier and saw the
ruins beneath him.


From what we can learn from persons who
were on the spot, sixteen men were killed or
drowned. Fourteen bodies were taken from
the water, and two are missing. The engineer
who ran the derrick engine saved himself and
another man.


One man had one of his legs and several of
his ribs broken, yet he managed to swim ashore,
but died Immediately after reaching the bank.


The superintendent of tue bridge is said to be
among the killed. He went down with the
engine upon him.


Among those who perished were Captain
Odell; Mr.. Thompson, foreman; James Fannin,
carpenter, of st. Louis; Daniel l.. Carr, of
Cleveland, Ohio. A man living at Eighth and
Ashley streets had a brother lost.


The wife of Mr.. Fannin went to st. Charles
last night on the IL 30 train to bring home the
body of her husband


The accident will delay the completion of the
bridge, and is serious loss to the North Mis-
souri, Railroad Company. The cause of the
breaking of the wire rope is said to have been
carelessness on the part of the men in allowing
| the rope to get twisted into a kink. The iron
column which broke it weighed seven or eight
| tons.


! One man was taken out of the ruins alive, but
his head was fearfully crushed, and he died in q
| few minutes.
Year: 1870

lawyer; and Tom Soper made his Will, and
such reparation as lay IN his power for
the wrong he had done. ~ , faiiF 8


In less than fortnight that viii had to
be read, and people declared that it was
the most incomprehensible will that was
ever penned; for, as to Miss Champion, it
was known that Tom Soper had had what
amounted almost to an aversion for her;
Jerry Simpson, who was then up In Lon
don being turned into an architect, was no
more than speaking acquaintance; and
there was not penny bestowed in charity.
The trustees of the schools, the guardians
who had to keep the pump in repair, the
board of the literary institution, and, in q
word, every one connected with any of the
local charities, declared finally that the
five hundred pounds had evidently been
intended as charitable trust-fund, and
even went so far as to quarrel among them
selves as to its distribution; but the clergy
man, happening to differ from them IN toto,
kept the money for ffs own use and bene-
fit; and SO the literary and scientific insti-
tuition, which it had been in contemplation
to call ''The Soper Lyceum of Science,
came to speedy end for want of funds,


and the building stands desolate and un-
tented-(there is talk Of turning it into a
lunatic asylum, bat the fsBlack Lion" has
petitioned against it )-even unto the pres
ent day-a melancholy, monument Of the
vanity of human wishes,


Every one said it was the most incom-
prehensible will ever penned; and SO one
half of Cogswen asked, "Whst induced him
to do it?" and the other half answered,
Heaven knowsT But the above may be
taken as true statement of the matter,
though how the facts came to be known
whether they were divulged by Mr.. Soper
himself, or whether the ghost of the last
will and testament paid a second visit to,
earth and told the story-must remain
profound secret. ALI that is necessary to
say is, Jerry Simpson and Fanny Cham
pion were married, and lived happily ever
j
Year: 1870

It was the last night of the year, bitterly
cold, showing fast, and nearly dark. In
the cold and darkness o poor little girl,


witk bare head and feet, was passing down
the street. She had slippers on when she
left home-but what was the good of them2
They were very big, big enough for her
mother, who used to wear them. Shel lost
them as she ran across the street in front
of two carriages, which came tearing along
at fearful pace. One Of them she could
not find again, and the other boy snatch
ed up and ran of with he thought it might