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Year: 1875

inasmucn az The lower classes perform for them o
thousand onices which leave them time TO devote 70
their higher occupations Driven into these calngB
Wncn are looked upon az degrading and losing sere-
spect, the sensitive and educated man resorts 10
drinking IN despair Another great cause Of drinking
is the overstraining OF the mental faculties The
speaker argued that this Is fast age ana man finds
necessary to rise fast in his profession or be counted
failure. The result OF this Is, there is


TOO MUCH STRAIN ON ONE DEPARTMENT.


OF the BRAIN that is the department. whose exercise Is
necessary In order 20 gain bread The brain Is an
organ OF different departments and one faculty
Is rested by exercising another. BUSINESS
demands however, will not permit this and q man is
compelled TO be all one thing another that partcu-
breaks down and resorts TO stimulantA when man
finds his true place lfe when his occupation 10
genial be has Of the greatest Incentives to true
temperance AS instance or this the speaker cited
the that professional actors and singers who have
attained 70 eminence are very careful about their
physical condition.


The way TO cure this appetite, Mr.. Milford thought,
s give the healthiu body and the exercise OF
hts will power This power, he contends, is constantly
twenty one hundred times It does not matter Pick
him again If he absIains for three weeks he accu-
muiates will power enough 10 enable him to abstain
Tor six weeks afterward The class OF peo-
pie that is produced in the tenement houses
ana under the various disadvanageous circumstances
detailed loses all selrespect and falls into the mire Of
arunkenness. They numerically superior 70 the
nlgner classes and being their political equals, send
tnerepresenatves to Congress- and these Represent
Atves make the laws conform to their own ideas Of
lie, winch are dferent from our ideas.


In conclusion he said that the higher classes must
educate the lower classes up TO their standard
dragged down to theirs. There was alternative
Year: 1875

The Rev DR.. Washburn, OF Calvary church, win de-
liver free lecture this evening in the Reformed
church. OF Twent first street and Fifth avenue
before the Association for the Advancement OF Science
and Ark His topic, which his eminent ability
lation to Worship
Year: 1875

IT WoNT WIN.-"There is evis
IDENTIFY greater disposition on the
part of the better class OF negroes to
unite with the white people,


The above we clip from a letter to
the Clarion from subscriber. Neither
the county nor postoffice is published


This is the old plea of the soft.
shells who don't mean to attempt any
thing until they can get. few sappers
and miners from the Hack ranks.
Now, we believe we know when tho
negroes will unite with Us. 1t will be
when the viii es rally to a man, "raise
the battle cry" from one end of the
state to the other and carry the
strong-holds Of Radicalism. The ne
gro don't join his fortunes with
defeated party. We are that now !;
but in November we mean, in the
name of the Caucasian, and the God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
storm the works and prove our dis
position toward the negro afterwards.
We mean to be as free as New York.
And If we don't win q decisive victoe
ry then, we'll try it again and again,
until the white man gets control Of
the State.-Forest Register.
Year: 1875

The Repealed Section 2, Act 1873.


Sec. 2. Be it further enacted,
That the Registrars appointed under
this Act shall meet at the county
seat of their respective counties on a
day at least seventeen days prior to
any general election. Sundays except
ed, and shall continue in session ii,
teen days, for the purpose of revising
the registration lists of their county,
and registering such persons as may
have become qualified session TO
close not more than two days prior
to the election Provided, That this
Act shall not be so construed as to
require general registration until
after the next general election.


Tbs it will be seen that two days
only are allowed tn, Registrars in
each beat to register, and but three
days at the county seat. OF course
it would be impossible for any Board
OF Registrars TO adm mister the oath
and issue the certificates to all the
voters in such districts as number a
and 5 of this county-say 1850 in
each-in the short space OF two days
and, judging from former experience,
the result would be that while all the
white voters were registered, the less
fortunate colored voters would be
kept in the background to the last
and left out in large numbers. This
would result in one of those beauti-
full Louisiana muddles, to which dis
tance, if anything, "lends enchant.
ment,' and to which the sober think
ing people of Mississippi, are GER
talaly opposed.


Another serious defect in the law
has been brought to light by the re-





cent decision OF the Supreme Court,
that it is optional with SEeiiffs to
give bonds as Tax Collectors or not,
Just as the humor strikes them. Near
ly all of the Tax Collectors OF the
State are now under bond. but these |
bonds not being required by law, it |
is probable that many bondsmen
may desire to be relieved from an un-
necessary responsibility.


While no honest and conscientious
man would desire TO take advantage
OF q mere oversight, made by our
usually infallible legislators. and hold
the responsible Office of Tax Coilec-
tor without giving TO the tax PAYERS
a satisfactory guarantee of their safe
ty in his hands. there might yet be
some of such brazen faced impudence
and audacity, as to plant themselves
upon the letter Of the law, and, as a
general rule these would be the men
IN whose -caases bond would be
most necessary.


In order, therefore, to patch up II |
above two very grave breaches in the |
Year: 1875

Yesterday was indeed an eventful
day in the life of a lady on west
jackson street. During trip on the
stree cars 10 State street and back,
she saw the lovliest polonaisc pattern
she ever saw in her life, the hand
soonest fellow she ever cav in her
life, the homeliest woman she ever
saw in her life,got the worst fright
she ever had in her life from the
drunkest man she ever saw in her
life, never was SO insulted 10 her life
as she was By young man who
spoke to her on the car. and finally
got home feeling more tired than she
ever felt in her life.-Chicago Tri.
bune. h
Year: 1875

The steamship Scandinavian, while off
the Banks of Newfoundland on her pass
age to Baltimore, was for thirty-six hours
among icebergs. So numerous were the
frozen monsters that at one time one
hundred were in sight, and two hundred
and fifty were seen during the thirty-six
hours that the steamship cautiously
threaded her way. The Baltimore Sun
thus speaks of the sketches made of them
by Mr.. Jones, the chief officer OF the
steamer:


The icebergs are in all shapes, and in
many instances of great height, one hav-
ing an altitude of three hundred and
fifty feet above the water. Fancy can
find resemblance to many objects among
them. One seems to be great ice
cathedral with its lofty spires, another
an island Of ice. with modest looking
country church at one end others are
formed with gigantic arches, and in
others are deep caverns. Some OF the
icebergs are grounded in water that is
one hundred fathoms deep, showing how
far they extend beneath the surface.
Those that have grounded will probably
remain stationary all summer, while
those afloat will pass out into mid-ocean.
Mariners fear the small icebergs that are
only few feet above and many below
the surface more than those Of huge pro.
portions which can be easily discovered
Year: 1875

Miss Ida Lewis has again distinguished
herself by rescuing man who was In
danger of drowning in the lower Newport
harbor. Miss Lewis first came into
prominence in 1866, when she saved the
life of a soldier who had set out for a sail
on the harbor in a light skiff. 1t was
one of the coldest and most clustering
days ever known in that latitude, yet
a girl but twenty-five years old, impelled
by the noblest spirit of humanity, ven
tured to the assistance of q man who had
brought himself into sorry plight
through sheer foolhardiness.


One day during the autumn of the
next year, while a terrible gale was
raging, two men started to cross the har-
Dor with several sheep. One Of the ami
mails fell overheard while the boat was
rocked by the heavy sea, and its keepers,
in trying to save it, were in imminent
peril of swapping their craft. Ida Lew
is saw them from the window of her
fathers lighthouse on Lime Rock, and in
a few moments was rowing them in
safety toward the shore. After landing
the men, she went back aud rescued the
sheep.


These brave deeds, with others of less
striking character, made Miss Lewis
name famous throughout the world, and
won for her the title of "thc Grace Dar-
ling of America !" but in 1869. the news
papers were filled with the story of what
was perhaps her greatest exploit. On
the 10th Of March, two young soldiers
set sail from Newport for Fort Adams
i'm small boat, under the guidance of a
small boy who pretended to understand
the simple rules of navigation. Mrs.
Lewis happened to be looking out of the
lighthouse window, and saw a squall
strike the boat and overturn it. She
called to her daughter, telling her of the
casualty. Ida, though i'll at the time,
rushed out of the house, launched her
life. boat and sprang in, with neither hat
on her head nor shoes on her feet. BY
the time she reached the scene of the
disaster, the boy had persisted, and the
two soldiers were clinging desperately to
the wreck, almost ready to lose their
hold from exhaustion. They were
dragged into the life-boat and carried to
Lime Rock, and, with careful nursing,
were soon sufficiently restored to proceed
TO Fort Adams.


Miss Lewis repeated acts Of philan.
thropy have been recognized by gifts at
various times, but no national testimo
nial, so far as we are aware, has yet been
offered to her. True generosity, like
true virtue, is its own reward, and we O
the world are not often disposed to med
die with its quiet enjoyment by its pos
SCISSOR. It seems eminently fitting, how
ever, that among the first to receive th'
new decoration to be bestowed by Con
gress for heroic deeds in saving life
should be the heroine of Newport Har
bor.-New York Evening Post.
Year: 1875

Cesar held that to die quickly was to die
happily; so, too, thought one whose case
was cited by Montaigne as an instance
of fortune playing the physician. Jason
Phereus, troubled with an incurable inn
postumation, resolved to end his pain by
diving in battle, and throwing himself in
the thickest Of the fight, was run
through the body, which caused the i'm
postumation to break, and his wound
healing, he found his life enjoyable after
all. This lucky hero, who could brave
death better than he could endure pain,
owed his cure to foe. A quinsy-afflicted
cardinal had to thank monkey for
like good turn.


The physicians had left him to die,
and as ne lay, hopelessly waiting for the
end, the dying cardinal saw his servants
carry off everything that was movable,
without being able even to expostulate
with the thieves. At length his pet ape
came into the room, and, taking the hint
from the provident lackeys, looked
around for something he could appropri-
ate. Nothing was left but the cardinals
hat; this the ape donbed, and, proud OF
his novel headgear, INDUCED in such odd
antics that his all but dead master burst
into hearty fit of laughter; the quinsy
broke, and the cardinal recovered, az
much to his own astonishment as to the
dismay of his plundering servants.
Year: 1875

safe in life and limb. Unloosing the
rope, we found that she was completely
bound hand and foot with wire. Sam
was soon with us, and helped to convey
her to a place of safety, where, as soon
as she recovered from her fright, she told
us of the origin of the fire, and how she
came to be bound and incapable of doing
any thing for herself.


Last night" she said, "Cubini in
formed me, as was leaving the theater
for the hotel, that it was evident l was
to be the faverite in the troupe an I with
the public, and as she would never allow
any one to hold such position over her,
that l must resign and leave the field to
her. / told her such talk was absurd,
and that there was no reason why /
should give up good position to crafty
the whims of another. well, If you
don't leave the company, l will fix you
in a manner you little dream Of said
she; to which l replied, 'You must be
crazy, and / shall not have any thing
more to say to you.' then left her, and
went directly to the hotel and to bed.
About midnight 1 was awakened by a
noise in my room, and in the moonlight
1 could discern figure moving about.
who's thatY l exclaimed, starting up
in bed. Me- said voice, which l
recognized as belonging to Cubini.
What do you want here at this time of
the nightY' l asked. By this time she
was at my bedside, and before l could
utter another word she pressed hand
kerchief saturated with chloroform to
nv mouth and nose, and ! knew moth
ing more until l heard the cry of fire,
and found that / was bound hand and
foot. So thoroughly frightened was !
that I could not make an outcry, and
when Mr.. Mitchell appeared at the win
dow tainted from joy at prospective
delivery from a terrible DEATH"


Sam, at the conclusion of the above
narrative, started back to find Cubini,
but she had gone, and nothing more was
heard of her for months, when we learned
through New Orleans paper that in a
fit of insanity she had taken her life at
st. Louis. Although in our consterna-
ton at the time of the fire we believed
the hotel doomed, yet the building did
not suffer very material damage, and
Miss La Rose would not have suffered
the least harm by remaining in her
room.


Afterwards learned that Cubini had
for months previous to joining my COM
pany been an inmate of an insane asy-
Ium, though for years she had been cele..
brated in the Eastern Slope" as one of
the most daring of ascensionists, and it
was through fall from the wire that she
received injuries which affected her
mind. - ..


do not believe that am betraying a
secret by saying that Miss La Rose is
now Mrs. Sam. Mitchell.
Year: 1875

The following is an editorial paragraph
in the st. Paul Pioneer Press: 1t would
seem that the frenzied editor of the
Hutchinson Enterprise rushed into the
woods to kill himself, for the narrowing
reason that he loved girl and couldn't
pay his livery bill nor his board. 1t
seems to us that these were motives suf-
ficiently strong to incite the fulfillment
of the design, but we imagine the poor
devil suddenly reflected that If he were
to set an example of selfdestruction for
a condition of things which was common
to the great majority Of the editors of
his class, the woods of the entire border
would be adorned by dangling corpses
within a week. Startled by this rellec-
tion, the heroic sufferer appears to have
decided that he would live If it killed
himl He has the gratitude Of all his
contemporaries, but his readers are in
consolable.
Year: 1875

As 9 proof that the idolatry of Japan
is shaken TO its foundations, it is said
that the beautiful temples, which are
thickly scattered over the land, are little
cared for, and are rapidly going to decay.
A missionary remarks that during his
many visits to these places Of worship he
had seen and heard much to make him
believe that the religion Of japan is fast
losing its hold on the hearts Of the peo
pie, and that they are willing, as soon az
the government encourages the step, "a
give up the old for new and better
faith,
Year: 1875

IT behooves us always to bear in mind,
that while actions are always to. be
Judged by the immutable standard oi
right and wrong, the judgments which
we pass upon men must be qualified by
age, country, and other accidental cir.
cumstances; and it will then be found
that he who is most charitable in his
judgment is generally the least unjust
Southey.
Year: 1875

THE Christian World declares that mater
nal love in woman is the most contracted
of the social affections, is shared in by all
the higher animals, and has no title In
itself TO the name of virtue,
Year: 1875

The Weekly Sun has now attained a circulation of over seventy thou sand copies. Its readers are found in every State and Territory, and it's quality is well known to the public. We shall not only endeavor to keep it fully up to the old standard, but to improve and add to its variety and power.

 The Weekly Sun will continue to be thorough newspaper. All the news of the day will be found in 1t, condensed when unimportant, at full length when of moment, and always we trust, treated in clear, interesting and instructive manner.

 It is our aim to make the Weekly Sun the best family newspaper in the world. 1t will be full of enter taining and appropriate reading of every sort, but will print nothing to offend the most scruphlous and deli cate taste. It will always contain the most interesting stories and TO- mances of the day carefully selected and legibly printed.

 The Agricultural Department is prominent feature in the Weekly Sun, and its articles will always be fresh and useful to the farmer. The number of men dependent on politics is increasing, and the Weekly Sun is their paper especial ly. It belongs to no party, and obeys no dictation, contending for principle, and for the election of the best men. It exposes the cor cuption that disgraces the country and threatens the overthrow of re- publican institutions. It has no fear of knaves and seeks no favors from their supporters.

 The markets of every kind and the fashions are regularly reported in its columns

 The Daily Sun.-A large four page newspaper of twenty-eight col umns. Daily circulation over l20- GOO. All the news for two cents. Subscription, postage prepaid 55 cents a month, or S6.50 year. To clubs of ten or over discount oi twenty per cent.

 Address THE SUN,

 New York City.
Year: 1875

Complete in 12 monthly parts, at $l each reproducing the best full page illustrations from the earlier volumes of the Aldine.

 Each monthly part will contain six superb plates with accompanying descriptive matter, and whether for binding or framing, will be entirely beyond competition in price or artis- tic character. Every impression will be most carefully taken on the finest toned paper, and no pains will be spared to make this the richest production of a press which has won in a marvellous short time, a world wide reputation.
Year: 1875

One Of the new institutions Of New
York is the university hack establishment.
It has beer impossible for a long time to
get a ride in a coach in New York without
paying a large price. For a short distance,
s.; a medium ride, $; 10 the park, SO.
The new concern referred to has a great
quantity Of cabs as elegent as private turn
outs. The price is 81 for any part Of the
city. But the system is what eommends
it to public patronage. Acab may be sum-
mOned from any hotel in the city at any
hour Of the day or night. The price is no
more at midnight than it is at MONDAY;
during a violent storm than it is in sun
shine. If driver is known to charge
more than the regular fare, he is instantly
discharged. This is probably the stepping
stone to introducing the cheap cab system
Of London into New York.
Year: 1875

Mrs. Pinchback probably would have
introduced to the gay society of the
Capital one or Two young ladies from
New Orleans, octoroons ike herself,
before whose tropical charms of face
and form all the congregated Caucasian
beauty Of Washington must havepaled
and proved Intellectual. This would
have been perfectly horrible and unen-
durahly scandalous. And this is what
is the matter with Pinchbaek-mauger
the peculiar claims of Casey. Pinch
may be admitted. But If he is we
viii venture the assertion that it viii
be at the expense Of a private agree
ment to remand his wife and her young
lady friends TO a social obscurity,
which, under the Civil Rights bill. viii
be an outrage upon Republican insti-
tutiOns and disgrace to our later civil
liZatiOn.
Year: 1875

COLUMBUS, o., March 12.-DUring to-
days session Of the State Grange, the fol-
lowing resolution was adopted:


Resolved, that we can in no wise sane
tiOn the course Of the National Grange, at
its last meeting at Charleston, so far as re-
lated to the adoption Of the resolution re-
commencing that Congress grant govern
ment aid to the Texas Pacific railroad, as
this action on its part is in violation Of the
5th section Of our national declaration Of
principles, unwise and tending to foster
corruption and mOnOpOles, upon which
we had set our seal Of condemnation.
Year: 1875

PARIS, March lin the Assembly to
day, N. Buffet read a declaration on behalf
Of the new Ministry, to the effect that its
policy would be distinctively Conservative.
This statement is made to reassure The in
dustriOus and orderly population.
Year: 1875

Condition Of the LeVees Along the


Louisiana Coast.


NEW ORLEANS, March 12.-The Times
says: State Engineer Thompson returned
to the city last night from an extended tour
along the upper coast, and reports that at
Hickey and White Castle levees there is
imminent danger Of crevasses, and that at
Waterproof the new fence has begun to
cave in for a distance Of nearly 600 feet.
At Omega and Milliken bend the levees
are in danger of breaking away, and at
Bonne Care crevasse water is running to
the depth of three feet, while a volume
two feet deep is pouring through Morganza
break.


Gen. Thompson says that there need be
no fear of a general flood below the mouth
of Red river, as long as BOnne Care and
MOrganZa crevaSses remain open, but that
above those points some leyees are bound
to give way under the pressure Of high
water. The work of constructing one
million cubic yards Of new levees, as Or
dered by the Levee Company, is nearly
completed, but it falls far short of the
amount Of reconstruction actually neces-
sary.
Year: 1875

THE CENTRAL CLUB.


The Committee on Permanent Organization OF
tho Republican Central Club met yesterday at
tho rooms co1ust Of Lake and Clark strcots. and
elected tho following list Of officers TO DO Sub
mitted ut the uoxt meeting Of tho Club: