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Year: 1873

ALBANY, June 2O.-A large fire is
now in progress here. The entire block
bounded by Hank, Swan and Orange
streets and Clinton avenue is one mass
Of flame. There is high wind prevail
ing and the probabilities are that the
entire block will be destroyed.
Year: 1873

OF for the first time at the session this noon The
President remarked that he had purposely kept II
silent TO prevent criticism, and did NOT want it
published until the sentence OF death had been
carried into effect In the case OF the other Modocs.
The action OF the President is not popular among
the army officers on duty in Washington,
who wonder that General Jefferson Q. DAVIS
should have made the mistake OF taxing
Captain Jack and his followers prisoners OF
war. II he had executed them on the spot he
would not only have been justified by previous
orders, but he would have been fully sustained by
the War Department and have saved the govern
ment large and useless expense. The Presidents
exception in favor OF Barncho and Sioux, there
fore, exCites much comment. ''If they were not
guilty as principals" said one OF General Sher-
mans stan, they ought to be released; for II they
deserve Imprisonment for life, they certainly de-
serve TO suffer DEATH"
Year: 1873

Coroner Herman held an investigation yesterday
in the case OF Frederick Wtte, aged six, who was
run over by dummy engine Of the Hudson River
Railroad Company on Hudson street September "a
The jury found that no one was TO blame Tor the
accident
Year: 1873

The Washington Star says every Congressman
except one has drawn his pay up to the 81 of
this month, at the new rate which is regarded
d, an indication that the law increasing Con
gressiona salaries will not be repealed next ses-
sion
Year: 1873

THE editor of a Newark paper
heard, the other day, that a new pass
had been found in the Andes. He
Immediately wrote to a man i'll South
America that the pass was his, and
he would be much obliged if the man
would forward it at once. He said
it had been stolen from him while he
was asleep. That Newark man goes
for every kind of a pass he ever hears
of. If he does not try to ride to the
cemetery on a free ticket, when he is
dead. we have misunderstood his
Enthusiastically Dispatch.
Year: 1873

A4%ilttC1S upon GtlS 4Vi3Sat.


My dear Fred,-I saw the carriages
and the bridal favors at the door of
a church the other day, as / was
passing in the horse-car. and straight
way my mind was full of the loveliest
pictures. Indeed, marriage is like
spring. 1t is the most familiar of
facts. Yet how often q spring day
is'the most melancholy of disiIiusions!
But it is not the chill, dull days that
spring suggests. The word is fall Of
sunshine and softness, the singing Of
birds and the sweetness Of blossoms
and the gurgling Of brooks. To
speak Of a spring day IS to think Of
happy hopes and eternal youth, Of
of budding beauty and Of love. And
| say that this vision does not fade
although the spring seems often to
elude us, and to 20 from March to
June almost without justification.
May-day is pretty name. But who
would promise that ON the next May
day he will dance garlanded around
the pole and salute the queen? Con
sulting experience, we know the
chances of the easterly storm. But
while men often despair, vet in the
heart Of man experience never vet
conquered hope. Spring still stands
upon the horizon, iOcund and tiptoe,
a smiling Hebe.


In the same way. who permits the
figure of old BIue-beard to spoil the
vision of matrimOny? Suppose that
he did cut off those poor dear heads;
suppose that at this very instant sis
ter Fatima is standing upon a hun
dred towers in this very city. look
ing eagerly for the fast-hastcning
brothers, and spying only flock Of
sheep as she sees us placidly prom
enading in the street; do we look
with any less tender JOY upon Lucy
emerging from the church yonder in
white veil, and leaning upon the
happy Harry's arm? That lovely
pair, that shy hope and modest con-
fidence-these, and not Blue-bcard's
disagreeable closet, make the vision
Of matrimOny. As when we speak
Of spring We mean roses and honey
suckles and soft air, so when we
speak Of marriage we mean the union
of youth and strength and beauty
and devotion which saw as the
bridal party emerged from the
church. Indeed, there is one word
which seems to me to express it all
we think of the honey-dew which
has fallen upon two lives.


W hat is hOneydew? 1t is nat
ural question, but it is useless to 90
beyond its own suggestion. What
should you suppose honey-dew to be?
Something infinitely pure and sweet.
Well, it is a kind Of saccharine de
posit upon certain leaves. And
when the reverend hands are raised
over the heads of the kneeling young
figures, and the traditional sacred
Denediction is spoken, do you not
ask, What is love but a deposit of
honey-dew upon life? protest. as
the old writer's used to say. that
when ! see the newly married pair ]
Year: 1873

Education is not knowledge. The
most that we get ut school is the
skeleton of learning. The flesh
the living body-most men create for
themselves after they leave school,
if they ever get to know much at all.
The very name education means lit
orally but the leading into, or direc-
tion toward knowledge, and a fair
start is all that the best education
will do for us.


Our rural friends are given to en-
Year: 1873

For the JOURNAL & ITEM.


A Valentine.
We poor SelfcOnscious ones that count
Each sigh we breathe, each tear that falls
Touch nothing but from out the past
Some passion sweet recalls.
rock my babe upon my breast
And kiss his hands, his brow Of snow,
Yet see between his face and mine
The veil of Long Ago
If | should tell you all my grief
You would reply: "The end is near,
For sorrows fashioned into speech
Take wings and disappear"
If reproach not you will think
Il did her love no bitter wrong.
For she weeps not enough to change
The cadence of one song"
Yet, nay! | scarce can reach your heart,
Though, leaning through the twilight drear,
breathe the prayer | used Of Old:
God bless thee always dear!"


NJ. Z. III. EVERETT.
Year: 1873

and got out the rockets and fred about
eight, when the rocket box rolled away from us.
The Captain gave orders to get the boats clear and
save the passengers. and the Captain went to
No. boat and were getting her clear when he
asked me II the plugs were in her; told him they
were not AS the passengers were huddled togeth.
or In the bottom OF the boat, crying,


eN 6sg GOULD NOT GET THE Plugs IN.


The Captain then passed the order around for
every one TO look after himself ], with the Cap-
tain and passenger, got into the main rigging ana
stopped there. The ship had previously keeled over
and heard the Captain ask II any quartermasters
were In the rigging answered yes, here is one.
then went up aloft by the maintopmast rigging,
as the Captain gave me orders to unreave the sig
nal haly ards to heave ashore. When get up aloft
the maintopsail brace was carried away, and had
to come down again. At that time the lines were
ashore, and assisted the Captain In getting to the
forward rigging. The Captain and cut the fore.
brace and passed IL to Mr.. Brown, fourth onicer,
who sent IL on and passed It ashore by one Of the
other lines. BY this time passengers were


GOING ASHORE BY THE ROPES,


and the Captain gave orders for the passengers to
Jump and do the best they could for themselves.
Then l heard Quartermaster Thomas sing out,
"Stay where you are; q boat is coming TO your
assistance" Therefore orders were given for the
passengers and crew TO stay where they were.
when the boat did come, the sea running hish. the
boat could not render ns any assistance. and the
Captain therefore told the passengers to get ashore
BY the line which they did. During this
time two large boats we're being, launched.
which went to the rock, and were taking passeu-
Year: 1873

WE surrender most, of our. space this
morning to the speech Of Hon. L.C. Houk,
made in the Legislature on the Bill to fund
the past due interest of the State. The
speech has been pronounced by all who
heardit the ablest made in the House on
the subject and will well repay perusal,
to all who have not fully studied this inn
portans measure. -sit+
Year: 1873

We copy the following from the New
York Pos: Of the eighth instant:


The news from Washington that the At
torney General Of the United States has IN
structed the local attorney a: New Orleans
to prosecute Mr.. khett, the murderer Tin a
dueD OF Judge Cooley, will be received
with satisfaction by the public. though why
an Attorney General OF the United States
should be bound to meddle in the matter is
a somewhat more cloudy question. particu-
larly when the cOroner's jury having in
hand the investigation of the case have
found that the editor-duelist shall be held
for murder. The telegraph adds, contra
dictorily enough it would seem to Northern
sense of justice, that Mr.. Rhett vii; prcba-
bly, be condemned to one year in prison
which, in contrast with the verdict of the
cOroner's panel, is equivalent to Furnishing
willtul murder with lash of feathers.


We beg to assure our venerable contem-
pOrary that there is no trutk in this little
lot of information. District Attorney Beck
with has received no such instructions
from the Attorney General. The remain.
der OF the paragraph i. more plausible
than the first part is truthful. The news"
in question is fraud from one end to the
other. and the Post is old enough and bi.
enough to have so unders TODD i.
Year: 1873

A MODEL HORSE TRADE.-RecentlT a
gentleman vi healthy proportions purchased
a horse. paying 500 for the animal. The
beast no: proving exactly to his liking he
concluded to sell him to a friend. The
steed was driven to the lake by the gentle
man who intended to buy it. and as he is a
prominent fireman knows something about
Toadsters. The animal suited him and he
said he would take it. asking what sum
would be demanded. Only $50 was the
price. AMI the cash was paid, though not
without spark of suspicion that there was
a trick in the trade as the sum was so small
After the transfer the gentleman met again.
and tho seller invited his friend to partake
of lin. dinner at the lake. While devas.
eating the many good things, the portly
gentleman casually asked the fireman about
the horse, bat no answer was given as only
q single trial had been made.


The seller the day previous had Informed
an intimate friend that he had sold the nag.
when the friend became greatly vexed, and
demanded that ii be secured again. How
to quietly gain possession was delicate
question. and required a resort to some
Euesse. Our portiy gentleman, while dis
eecting broiled chicken, remarked that
Eow the bargain was completed he didn't
mind mentioning that the horse had single
but serious fault-be would kick almost
anything to tatters. just at the time good
service was most required OF him. Fire
man said that such an animal would never
answer toy him, and suddenly grew anxious
to dispose of the brute. The seller pre-.
tended not 20 desire the horse at any price.
Finally. fireman told his friend that if he
would receive the animal back as q gift
he nigh: have it in welcome. Having
counted the bones in the broiled
chicken Oh: acquaintance Of elephantine
proportions slowly remarked that out of
consideration for the fireman's safety he
would b. agreea bic and accept the horse as
q gift. So the gentleman's dear friend has
the pleasure of once more driving the horse
which child can manage. Should our
fireman friend happen to see this short ac.
count o: his horse trade, he will please keep
his temper. FOR rather than see him in a rage
. dime subscription shall be gathered to
make good his $50.


A burglar made a successful visit to the
Residences of Mr.. j. +. Brown, on Magazine,
between Chestnut and General Taylor
streets. early yesterday morning and confis-
Gated a ladies' gold watch, fruit knife. a
pair OF square sleeve buttons marked NJ. r..
and s.. IN currency. The rascal may in
close the sleeve buttons in postal card and
forward them to Modoc Jack for use On the
hAnUiup day.
Year: 1873

The Commissioner of Customs has
just prepared report for the use of the
Secretary of the Taeasury on the
amounts of custom frauds on the Gov
ernment for the fiscal year ending the
Both of last month. These frauds
represent cases settled by the depart
ment, and show to what an alarming ex-
tent the system of swindling is carried
on. An exact copy of the figures in the
report show the frauds in each city for
Year: 1873

The New York Tribune has no love
for the Republican party, but gives it
a dab whenever it can get chance.
Yet it is constrained to say, 1.-The back
pay bill was not party measure at
all, and the democrats did rather
more than their share in sustaining
it," That is the plain truth, and no
democratic paper ventures to face it.
Year: 1873

Schuyler Golfax responded 10 Sc
renade at Eaton Rapids, Michigan
last week, took occasion to remark
that she could look back upon his
long career and see that he had never
performed public act for which he
would be ashamed to stand and ans
Wer at the court of heaven"
Year: 1873

The ladies car" is a vicious fashion,
and fosters the art Of lying. There
goes young man at the heels of lady
whom he never saw or spoke to in his
life, and he is carrying a spick and span
new bandbox. My word for it, it is as
empty as a church contribution box on
Saturday afternoon. He bought that
box for precisely that emergency. The
lady asoends the platform. So does the
bandbox. The brakeman opens the
door, and the young man slips in un-
questioned, and secures comfortable
seat. There is another man. He
appears to be q good man. You
are sure he is, and he stands where
the brakeman can see him, and
he touches his hat to a window of the
car where nobody is sitting, and then,
with little smiling, affectionate haste,
he skips up the steps and says, Please
let me in a moment?" and in he goes.
That unfortunate man Aeyer beheld a
face in that car in all his life. The
more you think of it, the more vicious
the fashion seems. 1t does not benefit
the ribbons, and is positive damage to
the whiskers. Pen men up together, and
if they do not act like cattle, it will be
in spite of the peni Women sprinkled
thrdpgh the cats keep the train upon its
honor if not upon the TRACK, and elevate
the numbering thing from common car
rage to an educator,
Year: 1873

sound.


Il is a curious fact that musical sounds
hy farther and can be heard at greater
distance than those which are more loud
and noisy. IL we 20 on the outside Of a
town during a fair, at the distance Of a
mile, we hear the musical instruments,
but the din Of a multitude, which is so
overpowering in the place, can scarcely
be heard the noise dying on the spot.
To those who are conversant with the
power Of musical instruments, the fol
lowing observation will be understood


The violins made at Cremona about
the year 1000 are superior in tone TO
any Of later date, age seeming to dis.
possess them of their noisy qualities,
and leaving nothing but the pure tone.
If modern violin is played by the side
Of one Of those instruments it will ap'
pear much the louder OF the two, but on
receding hundred PAGES, when com
pared with the Amati, it will scarcely
be heard. The voice OF man is endowed
with purity Of tone in higher degree
than any Of the vocal animals, by which,
in state of nature, he is enabled to COM
municate with his fellow at distance
very remote. Providence has bestowed
upon children power Of voice, in pro-
portion to their size, ten times greater
than the adult. In q state Of nature
this serves them as n defense and pro-
lection, for it is we'll known that chill
dren have, by their cries, alarmed and
kept off the attacks of furious animals.
Year: 1873

to their strength and the stock Of their
provisions. and after awhile they have a
real pleasure; that is, when they come
back dusty, hungry, feverish with what
they have seen, and loaded down with
specimens which in a fsw days they
throw out at the back door. A particn-
lar friend Of ours, New York city gen.
tleman, came back after stay Of ten
days. He had on a shocking pair OF
pantaloous, held up by a big leather
belt, short-waisted coat and flannel
shirt. He had lost the skin of his nose,
aud he was so lame be could scarcely
hobble along, but he was enthusiastic
about the things he had seen. and he saw
80 many that the telling Of them will last
him so long he is not likely to go again
soon. The women always 20 TO bed,
and il is several days before their noses
resume the natural color.
Year: 1873

whether adult or child, is regarded rs
equally important with that of Prince
in Europe


Yet some of our servants-this Board of
Health Commissioners-arc permitting the
seeds of death to be unnecessarily scat
tered among us.


If they do not wish to become as often
sive in the nostrils OF the people Us the
very scavcnger carts themselves, they had
better speedily put stop to this nuisance.
Year: 1873

Robert Burnett has offered prize
of $50 for foot race of mile, to be
competed for at the meeting of the
Agricultural Association. Doubtless
that body will accept this generous
offer, which is most creditable to the
donor and an instance Of public spirit
seldom met with. There are several
very fine runners In this county, and
q large number of entries may be ex-
pected. Foot-racing is more Of a
Scottish and English sport than an
American one, perhaps, although in
eastern Colleges it has many devotees.
The time between now and the races
is rather limited to get men tit and in
good condition, but if the race takes
place on the last day of the meeting,
competitors will have less difficulty in
coming to the post in good training.


q.
Year: 1873

we have on sale and to lease, we feel confident
of success, and that is half the battle won.


Our motto is onward and upward with the
watchwOrd, Know Thyself, the which we
study. So we flatter ourselves that
Year: 1873

CATARRH.-Use Renne's Pain Killing
Magic Oil freely on the forehead and nose,
externally, and also inhale the strong odor
of the Oil from cloth, time after time,
to act on the mueus membrane, cleansing,
healing; and also mix the Magic Oil with
water, and gargle the throat often. Try
this for few days, it don't cost much
Year: 1873

A SEVERE TEsT.-The Commissary
General of the United States, after trial
of all the principal starches in the country,
decided that Duryea's Satin Gloss
Starch was the best that could be procur-
ed, and the government from that time TO
the present are buying this article, This
is fact worthy the attention Of consum-
erS
Year: 1873

What world Of meaning in the word
resigned. I he living TO be resigned to
live and the dying to be resigned to die
is each calculated to call forth the exer
cjses of the highest attributes of faith
aud endurance, but these pae before an
other kind Of re,igna ion. We a'luie to
the resignation Of a Radical official
who, like Caldwell of Kansas is compcl
ed to resign to avoid tide more disagresa
bic necessity Of being kicked out on the
toe Of the Senatorial bout.


Caldwell, poor devil, has resigned, his
place in the United States Senate, and
that body is relieved Of a body of cor
rup,ion, and the whole country will
breathe easier. But how "resi gned' he
must feel when he remembers that bis
disgrace cost him s75 0O0-the amount
he paid for his seat in the Senate and
that he had it only two years, We leave
for Others 10 determine.
Year: 1873

System is the soul Of success. Order
is said TO be Heavens first law, but
there can be no order without system,
and SO surely can there be no long con.
'luued success in farming without sys.
ten and order. The first thing essential
to the establishment Of system on any
farm Is, 10 lay it out in dsd.. Upon
this operation far more depends than he
great majority Of farmers have uuy idea.
Aside trom the looks Of fsrm being
spoiled by badly arranged fields, an al.
most incredible increase Of labor is often
entalled upon the farmer and his hands
by fences wrongly laced. We know Of
no better plan to secure a convenient aud
economical laying out Of a farm than to
make map Of it, putting down every
natural feature in its proper place, aud
then marking of the fields according to
some settled plan Of rotation of crops,
aud laying down the road SO as to occu


py the shortest possible ronre to and
from the fields. Nothing will SO much
conduce to The adoption Of a system Of
working the farm as a we'll prepared
map, hung where the farmer can see it
every day. 1t will be sure to set him
to thinking aud planning how best to
work to save work. And once the far.
mer adopts the system of farming, he
starts on the road OF success It mat.
'ers not that the system is not the best
tha, could be devised, so long as it is Q
system i, is infinitely 20 be preferred to
the hap hazard practice Of mauy farm.
ers. We therefore advise every ruder
who owns farm to make at once or
have made, map ofit, and hang it ny
where he can sec it every day. Aud
having made it, study it, Rural Sun.
Year: 1873

The Utica Herald has discovered that
"it is now unlawful for tobacco chewers
to beg a chew" The United States Iu.
'ernal Revenue Law allows no person or
persons to sell or dispose OF tobacco In
any form, no matter how small or great
the bulk, without paying first license
of S5
Year: 1873

All right training consults the ap'i-
tudes Of the mind, favors the nat ural
bent Of he genius and charms the fucul-
ties into exercise. In the rrainine Of the
young. it is assumed that the Disposition
must be u natural growth. not II manu-
fac'ured product; that every character
you cannot deal with the lily as you can
with the sun q wer
Year: 1873

Mrs. Baldwin, missionary to China,
gives some interesting facts in regard to
the women Of that country. She says
girls have no choice Of their husbands;
the young girl is sold by her parents at
the highest price they can obtain for
her, until after they are married. If he
chooses he can be divorced from her for
talking too much; if he becomes poor
or gets tired of her, he sells her again.
In the coolest weather the large-footed
women are not allowed to wear stock
ings, and cannot dress in any other
celor than black or blue The manner
in which they make their feet small is
by binding the four toes under the foot,
which they keep bound up for about
eleven years, when the foot becomes
dead. have walked through the streets
when the women would brush against
my dress so as to gee my feet, 80 that
they could tell to what class | belonged.
l would say to them, i will show
you my feet, but do not pull my clothes,
as it is rude" When l would expose
my fjet to them they would exclaim


" VIII, have you no real ladies in Amer
ica2J And the only way that l could
make them believe that we had was by
telling them that the women read books
ike men, which utterly astounded them,
as the real Chinese is broughtup in the ut
most ignorance, and they only marry in
the rich families, because they know and
do so little, and need so much waiting
upon that it takes n rich husband to sup.
port them. If you ask Chinese woman
how many children she has, she will give
You only the number Of boys. She has
to be asked the second time how many
girls she has, as they are thought so little
of that in many cases they are killed as
soon as born. A large-feoted woman
told me once that her first child was a
little girl, and she described to me how
she loved the little one. My husband
went out" she said brought in tub
ot water. begged him to spare its life,
but be took the little one and put its
head in the water, and held it there until
it was dead. My second babe was q
daughter, and it was served the same as
the first: the third child was a boy; he
lived until he was about four years old,
then the gods got angry and killed him.
Then my husband died; and it l eat
anything that is nice, and If | wear good
clothes. my relatives become angry and
treat me harshly." Even in our Chris
tian churches in China the women are
not allowed in the same room with the
men, but are partitioaed off in lattice
work room.