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Year: 1873

Certain highly imaginative JACOB
men in this city seem to think they
have discovered a mares nest Of the
first magnitude in the proposed ex-
change OF circuits between Judges
MELVIN and HoGE for the remainder OF
the present term of the Circuit Courts in
this county and in Berkeley. The true
and only reason for the exchange is
found in the fact that previous to his
election, Judge HoGE was retained as
counsel in number Of cases in Berke-
lev county that are set for adjudication
at this term. Accordingly he has asked
the Judge of this Circuit to
come to Martlnsburg and pre-
side during the remainder OF the term
he taking Judge MELvlN's place in the
circuit court of this county. The ar
rapgement is a very common and COM
mepdsble one. Suitors in this county
will lose nothing by submitting their
cases to decision by gentleman Of
Judge HooEs well known ability and
high character, and the people Of Berke-
ley county cannot fail to be pleased by
Judge MELvIN's legal learning and
judicial integrity. We learn from the
Berkeley county papers that the court
there has been almost suspended dur
ing the past few days by reason OF
Judge HooR's unwilliugness to sit as
Judge in the trial Of cause
in which he had been consulted as
lawyer; and we are informed that two
or three cases have been called during
the present term of the Circuit Court OF
Ohio county, in the trial OF which, Tor
similar reasons, Judge MELVIN felt dis"
qualified to sit.


To even insinuate or suggest, as the
Mtslliqsnccr did yesterday morning, that
the exchange of circuits has been
brought about with reference to po-
litical question that may arise is an
insult to the integrity of both OF these
gentlemen that is worthy OF the Sc
verest rebuke. If we are correctly In"
formed, the Board OF Public Works
does not propose to proceed against
Gov. JACOBS appointees in tn Circuit
Court at all, but will bring the case dl-
rectly before the Supreme Court OF Ap'
peals by petition for writ Of nandamus,
ii matter in which the Supreme Court
has original jurisdiction. II the JACOB
meu want to proceed against the Board
OF Directors of the Penitentiary or OF
the Insane Asylum by quo ,oarrant0, they
may be heard by Judge MELvIN before
be goes to Berkeley if they have any
more confidence in his pro forn'a decis-
ION than in that which would be render
ed by Judge HoGE.


There is no foundation for any sur
mise as to what decision will be render
ed in any case by either the circuit
court or the Supreme Court, apart
from the purely legal principles lnvoiv'
ed, and any suggestion that Judge
may shut his eyes to the law in order
to serve a political party, is to accuse
the Judge OF crime. The reputation OF
Judge is as delicate and should be
as zealously guarded as that Of a virtu'
ops woman. 1t shonld be above sus-
picion, for when even suspected it is
lost. We cannot therefore too thor
oughly condemn the course OF the Intel
Ggncer in thoughtlessly giving curren-
cy to an insinuation against the intego
rity Of two OF the sblest and most up
right Circuit Judges in the State and
attempting to forecast what even the
Supreme Court of appeals might do.
Year: 1873

A lady travelling in Europe, writes:
"a German professor wife will appear
at her ease in her wedding dress fifteen
or twenty years old, and entertain you
in your own language, while you SIT
perfectly ignorant Of the Language, o'
the country where you are visiting.
Year: 1873

There was much more than mere wit
ticism in the remark of an old bachelor
who had paid his attentions to maiden
lady tor twenty years, visiting her regular


every night. when rallied for not marry
ing: If | Were married should have
nobody to court, and no place to 90 at
night He had deeply felt the contrast
between his own delicate and ethereal en-
loyments, and the hard, discontented.
tretted life of too many married people
and his answer was irony. He saw there
was something in courship which too
often expires after marriage, leaving a
cold, dull, monotonous burden where all


was beauty and buoyancy before. Let
US see what that something is. In
courtShip nothing is taken lor granted.
Both parties are put on their good be
havior. Love keeps itself fresh and active
by constant expression in word and act.
But. strange to say, courtship usually ends
with marriage. Very soon both parties
yield to the sense of possession and the
feeling Of security robs gallantrv of motive
and extracts poetry from the mind. The
beautiful attentions which were so pleas
ing before marriage are too often forgot
ten atterward; the gifts cease, or come
oilY w itu tllc uSklllD, llt music UlcS out
OF the voice. everything is taken tor grant
ed, and the love like the silver ie' of the
fountain leaped to heaven denied It's natu
raj outlet, ceases to flow alto gether Then
comes dull heavy, hard days. with two
unhappinesses tied together and wishing
themselves apart, and not always content
with merely wishing This is unnatural


and wrong. What married life wants to
give it new tone and sweetness is more of
the manner as well rs the spirit OF the
courting tune. Very much of the pleasure
OF courtship comes from the constant at
tentlonS OF the parties to each other. Their
affection voices itself in all possible ways.
Every sentence is edged with Il complI


ment and spoken in tender tones. Every
look IS confession Every act is il new
word in the exhaustess vocabulary of
love. Kiss and caress are parenthetic
clauses and gestures in the dialect of love,
and gifts and sacrifices are the more en-
phatlc expressions OF the spirit no language
can fully articulate and no devotion de
clare. And it is Il fact that affection CON
lesses itself continually in look and word
and act, making the voice musical and
the fingers poetic in their touch and doing,
that makes experience SO beautiful, the
only Eden many woman ever has on
earth. Love must have expression or it
Year: 1873

| An unhappy married man in Detroit has
had an unusual experience for a man tC
live through. He became very Jealous o
| his wife, and mentioned the subject to hel
mildly and weepingly. She told him he
was fool to be Jealous and miserable
when there was no cause, but he gave
himself up to the 'green-eyed monster
for meat, and the monster fed on him
The torture at length became greater than
he could bear, and he determined to dis.
pense with himself. He wrote letter
bidding his wife "good byc"-the couple
had not spoken for a week-telling hen
that she had killed him, and asking her Us
a last fHvor to send his two little children
to his sister, after he was laid away This
afectionate note he put under his unrest
full pillow, and retired to bed as usual
with his wife and little ones. The unsus-
pecting mother and children were soon
asleep, and then he arose like a ghost
from winding sheet, and made haste for
his departure hence.


He had provided himself with Il bed
cord eight feet long in one end of which
he made q good, reliable moose The
other end he fastened carefully to the
knob on the inside of his chamber door.
and placed the moose danglingly over the
door. He was a short man, and rickety
chair on the outside of the door completed
his preparations for the long, dark Jour
ney. AT least he honestly thought so,
but he had neglected one thing-to tie his
legs together. He mounted his scaffold,
took one last look, over the door, at his
sleeping beauties, put his head securely
in the moose, and swung. Then to him
there came a blank which was like death,
but wasn't. The next thing he knew,
however, was that there were several doc
tors about him, rubbing his neck and
back, and pouring strange liquids down
his throat; his house was thronged with
buzzing neighbors, and he heard one OF
them remark that the world was full of
fools. His wife and babes were there too,
and then he knew he was alive. What
he didn't know Just then was, how he
happened to be so, and this was the way
of it.


His wife was startled by strange noise
at the door, found her husband not at her
SIDE, and got up to see what the matter
was. She found her tyrant swinging on
the chamber door wildly kicking, and
banging, and swinging his arms but
speaking no word She cot knife and
was inconsderate enough to cut him down
before the lawful time had elapsed She
then reused the neighbors and ran for the
doctors, and hence the scene of her hus-
bands awaking. And that desperate hus-
band when he heard the story Of his
wife's devotion, showing an evident de-
sire to save his life, had his eyes opened,
and his heart melted There was no
funeral. The neighbors were advised to
60 home; the doctors We're dismissed, the
fare sell note was revoked; the neck, Il
little blue and black, is regaining its
proper color, and that rash husband has
solemnly promised never to be jealous Of
his faithful little wife again.
Year: 1873

The Jeffers0nian of West Chester, Ches-
ter county, Pa, describes some extraordi-
nary milk pans lately made at that place for
the dairy of Enos Bernard. They each
measured twelve feet in length and four
feet in width, and were about six inches in
depth. They were double bottomed, with
q vacuum of about one inch between, which
space vas divided into four compartments
by partitions running lengthwsP and were
so constructed as to allow water to pass up
and down the length of the pan, thus keep
ing the milk cool or warm at the option of
those having it in charge. The four pans
had capacity sufficient for containing the
milk of one hundred cows, which number
Mr.. Bernard keeps. 1t is said by those who
have tried this new kind OF pan that q much
greater amount of cream is obtained from
the same quantity Of milk, besides obviat-
ing considerable trouble and labor. When
the cream is skinned from the surface the
milk is drawn off at the bottom of the pan.
Year: 1873

Because girl dresses showily, it is not
necessary to suppose that she is extrava-
giant. Because she is extravagant, it does
not follow that she is heartess. Extray.
agance may be the result of unwise train
| ing, ignorance Of the value Of money.
social inexperience, unlimited income.
Show and gayety may consist with heroic
traits. have in mind a young girl, ex-
| ceedingly tair, accomplished, graceful
witty, at once admired and beloved, but a
little wilful withal yet always gentle and
gracious. If high hats ruled, hers scared
aloft unrivaled, Paners rose and she
wore ossa on Pelion piled Women
scolded, and the more venerable, even
among her male admirers, suggested that
she would be ridiculed on the street. She
| received their remonstrances with unvary-
ing sweetness, and Immediately put a
French roof on her hat, and added new
puff to the panier. do not mention this
| admiringiv. | wish the little mink had
more sense or better taste But I cannot
deny that presently, when trouble came,
when her whole fortune was swept away,
she went to the front as suave and smiling
as if it were but putting another feather to
her cap. She never adjusted silken fold
more deity or calmly than she set about
self-support, and nothing in her days of
ease and wealth became her like the
dignity the determination, the self respect
and simple grace of her poverty


What girl will do for necessity will
she not do for love? If she will doom
herself to disagreeable or uninteresting
toll rather than be dependent on relatives
will she not accept the cares of house
keeping for the Joys of home making? All,
believe,


"rhe fault, dear Brutus, is not in the 0irls,
Brt in yourself, that you are underlines." !"


You are not noble enough, nor manly
enough, to make the girls satisfied with
you. They want a boarding-school life
because you are too selfish, stupid, sordid,
to be of yourselves interesting


Nine out of ten, ninety-nine out of one
hundred girls would like nothing better
than home and husband. They love
beauty and refinement, but their hearts
are not set on pomp. With q husband
who loved them, who took good care of
them, who made them comfortable who
commanded their admiration as well as
won their love, they would receive and
render an undylng happiness. They are
quite willing to begin at the foot of the
ladder, but they want it to be q ladder.
and not an uninterrupted flat" Gail
Hamilton
Year: 1873

The editor of the Farmers Journal
says As soon rs the cholera is discovered


IN your herd give at the rate of one ounce
oi carbo!ic acid to twenty-five hogs, well
dissolved and mixed with swiil, and repeat
every two or three days. Remove every
affected hog at once from the healthy ones,
and bury all carcasses Immediately
Year: 1873

Professor Collins says, the water of the
sap comes from the ground, being imbibed
by the roots. A considerable quantity OF
starch is stored up in the wood of the tree
in the fall and this In the spring is changed
to sugar and dissolved in the water taken in
by the roots. Why sap will flow at one
time and not at another according to the
wind or weather, Is not well understood
Starch and sugar are very nearly the same
III composition; sugar only contains n little
more water chemically united, not simply
mixed with it,
Year: 1873

For the benefit of all who buy and sell
produce, we re-pubish the following from
the Statutes of Maine. Store keepers and


others, had better cut this paragraph out
and paste it up iii some convenient place
for reference. The law says that bnsllel
Year: 1873

not been for timely assistance from otnef
sources we might have been obliged to publish
frightful death record. We think, and we be-
lieve the community will endorse the opinion,
that the captain of the st. John is open to
severe censure for his negligence or criminal
Indifference under the circumstances He is
certainly not to blame for the fragile character
of the railing, that could not withstand pres
sure upon it that might occur almost at any
time-for this the proprietors of the line may
be held responsible-but he is certainly to
blame for not doing something for the rescue
of the drowning people. The instincts of
humanity would certainly dictate this, and we
trust the commander of the st. John did not
reach Albany yesterday morning with any feel
ings of self-satisfacton for what he had done,
or, rather, for what he had neglected to do.
The fact is these Albany boats during the
summer season, when pleasure travel is SO
great, are run with but little regard to the
comfort of passengers. All that seems to be
thought of is to grab the passage and state
room money; after that passengers must look
out for themselves, the women and children
particularly, 30 far as the chief officers of the
boats are concerned We hope there will be
some investigation into this accident by the
steamboat inspectors, in order to ascertain
whether the st. John was supplied with the
necessary life-preservers and other apparatus
for saving life in cases like that under con-
sideration, or whether the failure to employ
them in this instance was the result of crim-
nal indifference on the part of the officers of
the boat.
Year: 1873

The phrase that history repeats itself is an
explosive expression common to common
people, History is not repeater. The ever
changing, ever ranging shades of social and
political thought that shadow like, run be-
fore advancing forms belle the stereotyped ex-
preston. We are Independent of history,
making history all the days we live. 1t may
seem that we follow examples set by Europe;
but the truth is that we follow no copyists, but
are ever ready to improve on all suggestions
made to us. We were once persuaded
that the magnificent army the English
called into existence on paper when
Napoleon the Little S" colonels clamored
to be led on the English Downs were perfec-
ton. We have seen what the English volun-
teers could do, and we know what they are
incapable of doing. We share in their sue
cessful experience and profit by their faults.


We have near the metropolis a rifle range
equal to any the English volunteer soldiery
claim as their own, and public spirited citi-
zens of means to see that the object of those
who instituted the range shall not be prosti-
tuted to unworthy purposes. The rifle range
at Creedmoor is now national institution, and
is worthy of nationa, support; for if our finely
uniformed militia can ever be effective they
will owe it to the National Rife Association
An armed militia without discipline and skill
in the use of the rife is scarcely less terrible
in an agitated city than mob with brick
bats. The gentlemen who are responsible
for Creedmoor deserve well of the State, and
are entitled to the huzzas of every regiment
in the National Guard and of every person
who believes that our militia should be an
effective body.
Year: 1873

Remedy.


Bugology is branch of science not in very
high repute among practical men, but it's
votaries have rare opportunity of redeeming
its claims to respect in devising a remedy for
the Croton bugs. The learned pro-Darwin
and anti Darwin scientists are now engaged
in an earnest discussion of the ''origin Of
insects;' and we observe that while they are
bitterly divided on the point of their having
been originally winged or wingless, they all
agree that they are of aquatic origin. If We
can trust these philosophers SO far,
and assume that the genus cockroach-
batta, We believe, they call it-emerged
from the water, we may, on common sense
grounds, conclude that they have q
special fondness for their native ele-
ment Entomology aside, however, it is an
indubitable fact that they affect wet and warm
places, where they swarm in largest numbers.
Their known fondness for heat and moisture
suggests the most appropriate means of as
sailing and destroying them. The introduce
ton of water pipes into houses has doubtless
been the means Of multiplying the families of
the Croton bug in our bedrooms, for, as the
hot water pipes however watertight they may
be, warm the walls, and offer snug breeding
places for these insects, the cold water pipes,
condensing the surrounding moisture, soon
become externally covered with "5weat, fur
nlshing the water they need. It might be
found that woollen-covered pipes would be
less Objectionable, but as long as any water
pipes are introduced into all parts of buildings
we may expectthi plague.


The ordinary nostrums for exterminating
them have always failed unless mixed with
red lead, arsenic or some poison likely to en-
danger human lite. But the best remedy
yet suggested is the harmless expedient Of
placing washing bowls in their favorite haunts,
first placing little water and sweet syrup in
the bottom of the bowl and piece of rough
wood reaching from the floor to the edge.
Thousands enter these fatal traps easily
scaling the wood, but the slipperiness Of the
sides of the basin prevents their exit, and the
colony may thus be more than decimated in
single night.


No doubt the better drainage Of the city,
and keeping streets, cellars and all interior
parts of houses dry and dustless (for these
bugs voraciously devour all kinds of vegetable
matter), would help to depopulate the city Of
its invaders. But, as we suggested in the
outset, there yet remains the opportunity for
one Of our distinguished savans to immor-
talze his name by the invention of safe and
sure exterminator of this bug.
Year: 1873

invested. Yet the people are required to pay
rates Of freight and passage for interest Oh
this inflated or bogus capital This is the
great evil complained of, and which the West
ern farmers have moved against


There is no way of reaching this railroad
monopoly and extortion but by legislation.


There is no little difficulty, however, in apply


ing that for the railroad companies control


most of the State Legislatures, and to great
extent Congress as well. But public opinion,
which is now being aroused, may overcome
both the power of the railroads and corrupt
or interested legislators It would be unwise,
probably for the federal government to pur-
chase the railroads, as that might lead to
dangerous concentration of power and corrup-
tion. But if the several States cannot or will
not regulate the tariff of charges for freight
and passage upon the basis Of the actual cost
of railroads and their running expenses,
allowing liberal interest on such actual capi-
tai, the federal government ought to do so.
The railways are the channels of commerce
through and among the several States, and
Congress has the power, under the con-
stitution, to regulate that commerce.
It is the duty Of the federal gov
ernment to protect the public from
extortion predicated upon fictitious capital.
There is more reason to do this in the case Of
the railroads than to pass laws against usury,
for this is the worst kind of usury. Then
Congress should at once charter and encour-
age the construction of through double track
freight railroads from the Atlantic seaboard to
the far West with branches to the principal
seats Of commerce off these lines, and should
impose such restrictions as to charges that
would not be evaded Other Legislative meas
ures may be necessary to prevent consolidation
of railroad interests and to maintain healthy
rivalry. Some remedy is urgent, and our
merchants should either heartily cooperate
with the farmers oranges or take some other
action to promote cheap transportation. In
doing so they will be acting both for the in
'terests of New York and for the general well
fare of the country.
Year: 1873

The accident that occurred on MONDAY Oh
board the steamboat st. John, OF the feope
Line of Albany steamers, which might nave
resulted fatally to large number OF persons


is deserving of more than passing ho'ice


II seems that after the parties were precipi-
tated into the water by the breaking OF the
raiinr at the gangway the boat proceeded ON
her course, without the least attention oeing
paid to those struggling for life in the water
The headway of the boat was not checked
NO life preseryers were thrown over. and had it
Year: 1873


Fashionable and Neat Fitting Boots and shoes
made to order and warranted. A well selected
stock of Machine Sewed BOOts Shoes and Caters
Just received which viii be sold at yerg reasonable
repairing will be done neatly and durably.
Year: 1873

As we anticipated and remarked few days
ago, the Administration refuses TO make any
change in the PostoGice here, at least, foE the
present. So says the Commercial The appOipt-
ment to this Office is made by the President him
self, as 1t belongs to ths higher grade. The
President, therefore, is the more responsible. Had
he acted promptly, and put the present chief
clerk in command, until he could have filed the
position ia accordance with the wishes Of the bus
iness men Of Wilmington. or those Of the party
in whom he saw proper to rely. our people would
have sanctioned the action but in thus protecting
imbecility President Grant is forcibly impressine
upon those who voted for him the fact of his own
imbecility and want of Judgement.


We must do many of the Republicans the jus
tise to say that they are not responsible for the
continuance of this state Of affairs in our Post
office. Those especially who were sureties for
Dougherty openly condemn the past, and disclaim
all confidence in the present management Of the
Office in this city what they think Of the reported
Cetion of the Postmaster General ne are left 70
infer.