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Year: 1870

THE TALMUD.-H your wife is of small stat
ure, bow down to her and hear her word in
reference to domestic as well as worldly
affairs. The husband should ever be anx-
ious that the proper respect should be paid
to his wife, because the house is blessed
only for her sake. Honor your wife, and
you will be blessed with riches. Good and
bad luck, pleasure and grief, joy and sor-
row, are in the hands of the wife. Who
takes unto himself a wife, brings luck to
the house, or a yawning gulf. Who lives
without wife, knows no pleasure, no bliss,
no blessing. Who has to thank so much
to his wife will not only treat her with the
utmost regard and respect, but make her
position in the house fully equal to his
own.
Year: 1870

CITIZENS of Salt Lake are taking steps tor
erect furnaces for the smelling of iron ore


that is found in great abundance in the val
ley. The enterprise is to be commenced by
a company of Salt Lakers who have in their.
employ several practical iron men, who ex-
pressed the belief that the ore there was


exceedingly rich and could be readily


smelted. Fuel could be obtained in sufd-


eient abundance to smelt the ore, and ma


terial for fire-briek that would stand any


degree of heat was in abundance and con-


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Year: 1870

A Pencil Sketch from the Tombs Police


Court.


Among the number OF women brought daily to the
Tombs, either for drunkenness or disordery con-
duct there occur now and then cases that Illus
trative OF the degradation to which the '.ast best
work OF heaven" can fall, either by unlawful indu
gence or misdirected trust in man.


Yesterday woman named Elizabeth Drew was
committed to the Tombs by Alderman Moore for
Drunkenness; she was very violent, as many Of the
women are IN going down to the cells, and was in
custody OF detective Heidelberg and officer Kennedy.
wnen she got INTO the prison, in one Of her mad
dened moods she endeav0red to seize q clasp knife
she had concealed In her clothing aud avowed her
intention to stab Kennedy for "his treatment to
poor glrlsn The movement OF her hand was happily
seen and her intention frustrated.


The other incident OF this carnival OF feminine
dissipation was one that attracted the attention Of
oil IN court. A young woman, who said she was
twenty-five years Of age b4t looked only nineteen,
IN the custody OF aSpollce 0lcer was brought before
ably clad, and her uxuriant moving fair hair fell
in clusters over her shoulders and was parted over
unusually broad, prettily -arched forehead. Her
features were the keen sharply cut Grccan style
OF beauty. and she rested ner head in the palms
OF small adyiike hand the glitter OF her wedding
ring ana "keeper' were seen on her thin, tapering
fingers The tears fell through her fingers on to the
bar while her husband asked that she might be
sent to an insane asylum, and described OutburstS
OF passion on her part that If true were certainly
dicative OF O ''ntnd diseased.0


The policeman was asked II he thought her in.
sane, and he said he did not, To of the oticers
OF the court, who, ueing struck with her appearance
had asked her few questions as she had sat IN the
box awaiting the arrival OF the magistrate, she, In
excellent, well chosen English, replied briefly, but
said enough show that the trials OF her life were
many and grievous. She SAID that she had fetched
her husband out Of q Bowery br0thel 'On Friday
night, and that ne was given to dissipation. The
look Of the husband did not contradict the report OF
The wife. Alderman Moore thinking that she would
have an opportunity to be examined Dy the prison
surgeon, and would certainly have proper care
committed her Until to-day.
Year: 1870

Omcial Notice Of the Treaty with the United


states for the Bay Of Samana.


BY way OF Boston we hate received information
from st. Domingo to the 18th inst.


The Dominican government has hitherto been very
recent on the subject Of the leasing OF the Bay Of
Samana to the United States and the annexation
scheme. Nobody beyond the officials is permitted
TO obtain any information on the subject; but the
following statement appears in the Bulletin, the
0fficai organ OF the government:-"Ihe gov
ernment, accordance with the consent
OF the honorable members Of the Senate,
has contracted with the government OF the
United states Of America through their respective
representatives for the leasing OF the peninsula and
Bay Of Samana for period vi 1lfty years. The de-
tails Will shortly be made known TO the public The
treaty Is to be ratified by the contracting powers
within four months-the republic OF ST. Domingo IN
the meantime remaining under the protection Of The
United States. The Executive and Representatives
OF the nation feel to be the wish OF the people that
this negotiation shall be conspmmated, ana be the
stepping stone for their future progress on a firm
baSS,
Year: 1870

Tax Upon City Railroad Companies tor


ImprOvements Of Streets Through which


Their Roads Run.


WASHINGTON, Jan. %, 1870.


No. 262 The Cttv OF chicago Us. William c. Shell
don-Appeal trOna the Circuit for the Northern
District of Hlinots.--Sheldon requested the North
Chicago City Railway Company, OF which he Is q
stockhOlder to resist the levy ana collection Of q
tax upon their franchise for the improvement OF tho
streets through which the road runs the directors
Of the company declined to take any steps IN that
direction and left the stockholders to pursue such
remedy as they saw proper. Thereupon this bill
was ned TO RESTRAIN the corporation from
paying and the city from collecting the
tax, the ground being taken that BY
sound construction Of che ordinance Of the
CITY, imposing on the company as condition Of the
permission to construct the road through the Streets
the obligation to grade pave and keep in repair cer
tain portions Of the streets contract was estab-
ished between the railway ana municipal CORPORA.
from all special assessments for the Improvement
and repair OF the streets through which their track
exJended ana 1t was averred that this contract was
ratified by the General Assembly OF the State. The
court below sustained this theory and the decree
there no special contract by which the properly
OF the company was exempted, none can be created
MAKE no valid contract. nor could the Legislature
authorize 1t to make one by which the company could
be exempted from the payment OF its proportion Of
taxes and assessments lor street improvements In
proportion to the benefits received. The decision
OF the Supreme Court OF the State to this effect IN
other cases is cited and Y is submitted that the
decisions OF the State COurS respect to the local
questions involved that OF State powers by the right
or eminent domain will be or binding force and will
be followed by this court. Tie appellee contends
that when the company accepted the right Of way
granted upon the terms and conditions Imposed 1t
became complete and binding contract and covered
all the duties and obligations or the company IN re-
spect OF contribution towards the Improvement and
repair OF the streets; and this contract, made BY
special authority OF the Leg stature and ratified after
It was made BY the Legislature, vested and deter
mined the rights Of the company and provided for
the exemption claimed. The proposed assessment
it Is submitted. violates the contract The sub
mltted on the printed points.


No. 210. Francis Board US. EdDlu71d Asliet ct AL
Appeal rom the circuit Court for the District %
virgfntd.-Appes dismissed, with costs, per stipula
ton
Year: 1870

Notwithstanding the pouring rain yesterday o
large number OF ladies attended the closing lecture
Of the seventh series on the subjesy OF physiology


by Mrs. Walter c. Lyman. The interest on this
subject Is increasing among the intelligent
class OF ladies' who attend these lectures.
The subject Ia explained in an attractive
and pleasant manner, that all may understand, as
techncallties avoided. These lectures are to be
Year: 1870

Mr.. J. X. Glenn, of New York
has an invention called "the Port
able, or Walking Railway Car" a
model Of which is on exhibition in
Galveston. The News believes the
"invcntion is likely to prove sue
cess, and to be made applicable to
many valuable purposes, besides
supplying the place of permanent
railroads and wagons" The Scicn-
tific American gives the following
idea of this novel inventions:


The mnin principles upon which
depends the movements ofall wheel
ed vehicles nre the same, whether
like tho locomotive and whoelbnr-
row the wheel is secured to the axle,
or runs freely upon it as in other
vehicles; the rotation of the wheels
takes tho carriage forward. But in
the device illustrated in the accom-
panying cngravings everything is
reversed; tho carriage moves for
ward on its wheels, the latter turn
ing against the carriage instead of
against the ground. Tho contriv.
ancc is very simple and quite unique.
The principal engravings represent
prospective view of a street car
built on this plan; it has n very
strong frame and is really elegant
in form. The sides of the frame arc
parallel rails meeting ut the end in
curve, so that the form of the con-
tinuous rail is a fattoncd oval. The
rail which is Of n double single sec.
ton, is of steel and is firmly boltcd
to rim of wood, thus making n
side framing of unusual stiffness.
To this the sides, roof and floor may
be secure in any manner Desired
Running on this endless rail, arc q
series of tracks placed at equal dis:
tances apart and connected by steel
rods, thus forming an endless chain.
AS those on each side of the car are
separate from those on tho other
side, their action is independent;
this is important in turning curves.
The large wheels have their periph;
cries in bearing with the outside of
the rails, and are held in close con-
tact by means of the small or keep
or wheels. The frames Of those
trucks extend some distance beyond
the outside rim ef the wheels and
form q series of feet which as the
trucks move over the rails or the
rails aud car move over them, come
alternately to the ground and sup
port the weight of the vehicle. The
bottom of the feet may be made OF
any width TO adapt them TO the ma
ture of ground over which the car.
riage may pass; if il is Of q soft and
Welding nature the feet should be
proportionably broad. From the
foregoing description of the opera
/ ton OF the machine may be easily
compfehended. Whether the pow.
er is applied by turning one Of chs
wheels or by. drawing the body, o
the vehicle forward by q span o.
horses. the result will be. the same
As the wheels revolve the carriag'
moves forward, each truck with it
foot coming down from the top por
lion of the rails and seating -itsel
on the ground in front ofsnd unde'
the vehicle, and thus remains up
right supporting the load until tn


body Of the car or wagon has beei


borne over It, when il is taken ul
at the rear over the curve and goe


forward ovcr the top 10 repeat th


movement.
Year: 1870

BOSTON, July 20.


Editor Rutland Herald After many
succeeding days of the hottest summer
weather for this latitude, in which the
nights have been warm and enerVating,


we have at last cloudy and cooler day
and evening, with indications of rain,
which we know the country about us
must greatly need though our parks
are still green and fresh.


In the hottest part of yesterday with
the mercury at ninety, while fresh west
wind was blowing, fire ragged in East
Boston for four or five hours, to which all
the fire departments of the city and some
of the neighboring towns were called, you
can imagine the scenes likely to occur
under such circumstances, scores of build
dings and churches were burned. After
hours of hard and fatiguing labor in
which firemen and officers became unre-
cogn;zable under covering of perspira-
tion, ashes, dust and dirt, and almost
overcome with the heat there occurred
another fire on Washington street in the
attic of new building, lin which the well
known firm of Little. Brown e Co. nnh-
fishers, and an old well known printing
establishment were situated. After great
delay the engines made their appearance,
with horses foaming and men suggesting
disastrous retreat of an army. Two
hours spent here, and the fremen go
home, with the consciousness that they
have earned that days portion of their
yearly salary. There is something very
attractive and absorbing in a iremans
life, but they are exposed to danger, con-
stantly, one man being killed at the last
named fire by falling through the build
ing.


The people at the South Eud," on
Franklin Square, at the expense of the
proprietors of the St. James Hotel, are
being entertained by music from Gill
more's band situated in the square, which
entertainment occurs once week. The
whole scene is rather cheerful and attrac-
tive.


1t was but a faw years ago that only
one first class band could find support
here but now there are several which
find almost constant employment, and the
musicians of this class have become quite
The professional musi.
clans of the class of instrumental players
are very numerous in a large city like
this. There being several theatres each
with it's own orchestra, as well as large
number who are teachers and are mem
bers of concert orchestras The theatres
are now closed for short season, as is
usual in midsummer. b.
Year: 1870

Success never gives us good opinion
of ourselves it only confirms it.


-Avarice is the heir of all our passions
their death gives it life.


The most outrageous abuses are those
which do not profit us.


Diamonds only glisten in the light.
like genius in an enlightened country.


-Remorse is the shadow of time; it
increases at the close of life.


If hypocrisy should die, modesty
ought at least to wear half mourning.


If every one gives away advice, it is
because nobody will buy it.


Conscience is like the wave: to see to
to it's depths there must be calm.


To make dash with ones money is
the FOOLS way of enjoying it.


The whole world has outdone Rome
in giving indulgence to the rich.


He who gives, does a good deed f; he
who lends, makes a poor investment.


We prize more the egg refused Us
than the OK which is given US.


The moralist draws from his own
when be paints the mind of Others.


We can easier find day to pass in
pleasure, than an hour to spend in duty.


The Nile hides it's source; how many
fortunes would like to do the same?


1T is easier for the rich to do good
than for the poor to abstain from evil.


Happy is he whose conscience appears
without fear at the bar of memory.


From confidence to imprudence,
there is only the distance from ear to
mouth.


Mature in books is like bread at
meals, it goes well with all, and we never
tire of it.


So few favors are granted to-day,
that tomorrow there viii be no iDgrates.


The prolix orator, like candle, loses
its brightness as he grows long.


The praise of a aatterer is more to be
dreaded than the threats of an enemy.


There is only one thing which in
heaven is worth what it costs us on earth
virtue.


However small our destiny may be,
the goodness of God holds large place
therein.


Love, with old men, is like sunshine
on snow; it dazzles more than it warns
them.


Many fortunes, like rivers, have q
Year: 1870

One Of the last, as we'll as one of the
most important acts of the recent Con-
gress was the passage of the bill provld-
ing for the payment of the bonds of the
United States and the redemption of the
treasury notes, commonly called green
backs, or rather for funding all of the in
debtedness OF the United States by the
issue of bonds bearing lesser rate of in
terest and having longer time to run.
Ever since the close OF the war for the
suppression of the Rebellion this had been
one of the prominent questions, if not the
most prominent which had occupied the
attention of Congress as well as of the
whole American people.


No sooner had this measure been passed
by Congress and been approved by the
President, and the people were expecting
that the practical working of the act
would be the funding of our whole ma
tional debt in one class of securities at a
comparatively small rate of interest,
which would gradually reduce taxation
and bring about return to specie payment
when the breaking out of war between
France and Prussia appears to disturb
these calculations, and as was feared to
put off the resumption of specie payment
and the funding of the debt indefinitely.


A dispatch has lately been received
from Berlin, which, in its effect upon the
United States, or more particularly upon
its finances, may be characterized as one
of the utmost Importance, says that the
Bank of Berlin has agreed to make a loan
to very large amount and take United
States bonds as collateral security. We
think for this reason and for others,
among which is that this indicates that
our securities are considered among the
best, and also for the want of facilities for
direct communication between Germany
and this country, that there will not be
many bonds returned to US from Germa-
ny for redemption or sale, and it is well
known that the people of Germany are by
far the largest holders of our bonds of any
foreign country. Eranoe 10 ~oiy small
holder of our bonds, in fact does not hold
enough to be taken into consideration.


1t is said by those best informed in our
finances, that government bonds have
been oversold in New York to an extent
that will more than cover all that will
come back from Europe, In the next few
months all the indications, both i'll the
gold and stock market, tend to prove this
to be the true situation of affairs.


The operations of the last ten days,
both in the stock and gold market, have
been founded almost, if not entirely, on
speculative impulses and bogus sensation
al dispatches, which have entirely ignored
the true logic of the situation, aud the
relations of this country in the CONNER
cial and industrial bearings and conse-
quenoes flowing from the war.
Year: 1870

pure source, but grow muddy as they
grow large.


I'm giving aims, let us rather look al
the need of the poor than his claim on our
charity.


DO not trust those who brag much Of
their honor none remains when it is re-
ally needed.


One succeeds better in the world in
concealing his vices than in parading his
yirtuas
Year: 1870

The health of Admiral Farrsgnt has
been improving during his stay at Ports
mouth, until q few days ago, when be
suffered q severe attack Of sickness, and
be is now in dangerous condition.
Year: 1870

Not much difference, one would say, be-
tween "Squibb's Liquor Opii Comp" and
"Squibb's Tinct. Opii Comp" and so a
Brooklyn drug clerk evidently thought
the other day, for he sent the former to a
lady who had been ordered to take the
latter; and as the first is five times the
strongest, and she took the quantity pre-
scribed as dose of the last, why it killed
her-that is all. At Newark, n. j., too,
one day this week, boy went into a
drug store for quinine; the clerk under
stood him to call for morphine, and only
prompt discovery and the quick use of an
tidotes prevented the death of the boy y's
mother, who had taken the morphine,
supposing it to be quinine.


The Brooklyn case has set the papers to
calling again for legislation that shall
compel physicians to write their prescrip-
tions in English instead of Latin, and in
abbreviations at that. Had the doctor
who sent for "Squibbs Tinct. Opii Comp"
written "Suibb's cholera MIXTURE" there
would have been no possibility of mis-
take, and there would be one more woman
living in Brooklyn than there is now.
| The other case seems to have been an
aggravated instance of carelessnees, a
bunder that was as bad as crime, and a
blunder of kind that only too frequent
ly occurs at drug stores. If such mistakes
were oftener treated as crimes and fol-
lowed by the punishment they SO richly
deserve, we should have fewer of them in
the future.


Physicians prescriptions have long been
an object of 1idioule, and to show how un-
certain they are and chow much druggists
trust to guess work in making them up,
it is told that Macready, the great actor,
wrote almost illegibly, and a box-order
which he had given to friend was sent,
for the fun of the thing, to a druggist in
Paris, as physicians prescription. The
assistant, after mixing up some of the in
gradients, was posed by the chirogaphy,
and took the paper to his master, who
readily completed the mixture, and hand
ed it to the customer, with the remark
that it was an admirable thing for cough
price two francs. Of course the story
is mere joke; but it is fact that AN
English ply sician in Paris, on Christ
mas day, wrote prescription for plum
pudding, with directions to the druggist
to send the cataplasm while hot. He no
doubt considered it a very good joke, too.
But this matter of prescription is alto
gether too serious to be the subject of jest.
No man would care to be the victim of
carelessly or falsely prepared prescription
himself, and one of the clearest and best
assurances he could have that he was not
to be made victim, if he had occasion to
patronize the doctor and apothecary,
would be to see his prescription written in
language that he conld understand him.
self.-ipri7aatield Republican.
Year: 1870

at Newport always present the latest
modes, but there is one grand feature,
one can do or not, just as they wish, can
be sober and retired, still holding their
position in society, or can compete with
the 'belle of the season" for the most ex-
uuisite toilette.
Year: 1870

are now a great haven with pleasure
travellers. The fame of Mount Mansfield
and other charming retreats among the
green hills has gone forth broad cast, and
tho votaries and lovers of health and
pleasure are daily vending their way
hither.
Year: 1870

10 the State Register.


We, the undersigaed democrats of Hi


nols, teel the necessity of new and better
constitution than the present one, which viii


meet the wants OF our growing state, and
oeAeVlng the one now Submitted to the
people Or Illinois much superior and every
way better calculated 10 advance the inter
ests OF this prosperous and Yet to be one o.
the most poPuious aud wealthy states in the
CnIod, provided our organic law protects all
the paepie IN the enjoyment of their labor
aud restricts legislatures ard officers from
violating the first principles of republican
go7ernmsnt, We shall, therefore, vote for the
one now submitted, bat under q protest
protesting that artlcle E, evidently inserted
10 hArnoaizs with the hitseath amendment,
Is not the sense OF the citizens of Illinois,
AMI should have been submitted in a sc ps
rate article believing this fifteenth amend
ment was eugrafked on the United States
constitution by force, fraud and dsce ptiou,
aad is not the will of the American people


lac citizens of the state should have had An
opportunity to pass on SO important
Is.tlon. Nevertheless we are no. willing
- give up the many wise and excellent
provisions IL this instrument, and perhaps
for years our state be compelled to drag
soag under q constitution evidently made
Tor other days. We shall, therefore, vote for
this al much superior TO the old one
We think the convention acted wisely in
submitting TO the people the proposition
whether the Illinois Central Railroad should
ever be relieved from paying the per cent
now due By its charter, and for which it
received more than an equivalent in the
millions of fine land granted hy the state in
1871. 1t strikes US, as it does oil equitable
minds everywhere, that there can be no good
reason urged by anybody why mammoth
corporations should obtain our property and
make millions of dollars out of the contract,
aud then turn around and ask the state to
relieve it from the payment of Just and
reasonable consideration. Does any one
suppose this corporation wonld be willing to
surrender these land, or all remaining un.
sold, and the proceeds, and let the state
take them, and it stand, as do other corpor
ationss on its own merits and capital? This
prohibition we hope to see eneraf;ed on the
new constitution, and thus put the question
forever at rest and out of the reach Of future
legislatures and demagogues
Year: 1870

Island No. 10, rendered hisaorical during
the late war by the siege it sustained, is
rapidly passing away. 1t is being cut down
very fast, and the indications are that when
the next high water shall have passed on to
the Gulf, Island No 10 will be no more.