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The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-14

SUPREME CoURT-The following decisions
have been rendered by this Court: ]. c.
Caldwell, respondent, VS.. R. L. Greedy, ap-
pellant; Judgment of Court below, denying
new trial, affirmed. Charles McWilliams,
respondent, VS.. Adolph Hirschmau, appel
liant; order granting new trial reversed.
Kate Healey, respondent, VS.. Imperial Fire
Insurance Company, appellant; order refus-
ing new trial reversed, and cause remanded.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-14

THE WEATHER.-The storm cloud has
blown over US for the present. "Ingin
Summer is not disposed to let go his grip
just yet. Old winter has raised a howl up
about Lake Bigler and the surrounding
mountains, but you know it won't do! The
Valleys of the Carson still bloom, and far
mers are turning up the stubble and fallow
for next summers harvest. From all ap-
pearances the present signs indicate an open
winter.
The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1869-11-14

SERVICES in the Episcopal Church at II a.
m. and 7 p. m. Subject of the evening dis
course: / cannot be Christian. All are
cordially invited to attend.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Beauty on Skates.

A PRETTY girl on skates, if any girl can
be otherwise than pretty, clad in one of
those jaunty, fur-trimmed pdiSes that
Cupid himself must have fashioned, the
little form bending to and fro in undulous
and hythmic motion, the glowing cheeks
and radiant eyes kissed by kindly win
ter into tenfold beauty, is such sight as
the h0liest and hardest of anchoritcs
might be pardoned for falling in love
with.
And if she be, on the contrary, poor
skater, the charm is, if anything, higbten-
ed, at least to her cavalier. There is such
an irresistible fascination in her absolute
dependence on his protecting arm; there
is such charm in her pretty terrors, her
delicious helplessness, her graceful tunl-
bles such a music in her little shrieks of
dread and her selfaccusing laughter; and
then it is so delightful to pick her up
after each cOmical upset, and she is
throughout so good-natured, and so CRATE
ful, and SO proyokingly pretty, that she is,
if anything, more adorable than if she
skated like championess
An ice-pond, too, on bright, still night,
with the moon and stars all in their places
TO smile sn encouraging approval, is no
bad place TO make love in. When the
most adored of her sex asks you, for eX-
ample, as you go gliding like the wind
over the CLASSY surface, If this isn't
heavenly" and says "she could go on so
forever" what is easier or more nat
ural than to press little tighter the tiny
hand that nestles in your own, and sug-
gest that it is heavenly, and that it will be
her fault if yCu don't go on forever
Pou,d TJUe
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Quite Romantic.

The following story, as was told TO us.
happened near Lake city, Ind, where
there lived, at the breaking out of the war,
a wealthy farmer whom we will call Blank
This man kepta large number OF servants;
among them was a good and religious
young girl, possessing unusual personal
attractions. She was courted by an Off
Ger of some rank in the Federal army,
while at home recruiting for his regiment,
When the day of his departure came, he
made know 10 the servant girl how deep
ly she had interested him, and begged to
know if there was any hope. She con-
fessed that his attachment was recipro-
Gated, and they were at once affianced.
"Should Mr. Blank" said Jennie,
come to know of this, | should at once
be discharged. He believes that it was
his daughter for whom your visits were
intended"
Should this be so" returned the fond
lover, "only write and let me know, and
you shall not suffer"
With an affectionate kiss, and promise
that both would be punotual in their let
ter writing, they separated, he to join
his regiment among the boys of the Poto-
mac.
He waited long and anxiously for It'd.
ings Of his loved one, but not one word
was received to ease his troubled mind.
Finally, his own letters were returned.
What could it all meang Was Jennie
false He could not believe il.
After the soldiers departure, Mr. Blank
took ennie into room, fastened the door,
and, with rawhide in Ills hand, com
manded her 10 tell him II she was beir0th-
ed to Colonel -. WheG me poor girl
had told him all, he had her b'indtolded.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Cure for Hydr0phobia.
POSTMASTER THOMAS, Of Cincinnati, has
received the following letter:

Postmaster THOMAS, Of Cincinnati, has
received the following letter:
JARRETTowN PosT OFFICE,
Montgomery County, Penn,
To the Postmaster of Cincinnati:
RESPECTED FRIEND: | see by the
papers that you are having an announce
mcnt of hydrophobia in your city As l
can give sure remedy for this awful dis
case, feel it my duty to DO So. hope
thee will have this receipt male as public
as possible through your papers. 1 had
occasion 70 use it on my son and myself
thirteen years ago, and could name many
others who have used Il with success.
"Dr Noble, of Philadelphia, has known
it to be used upward of forty years, on
man and beast, without fail. This is
known rs the Goldman remedy:
"Receipt for HydrOphobia- ia-Take Of the
root Of elccam pane (green or dry) one and
half ounce; bruise il we'll, add one pint
Of new milk, ard mix and boil until re
duced onc-halE. Take this st one dose, in
the morning, fasting until 1 o'clock in the
afternoon, or, at least, take but light diet
at noon Miss one morning, and repeat
as before, except take two ounces Of the
root. Miss the fourth morning, aud re
peat on the fifth, as before. This is the
last.
After this, TO one need fear the bite of
q rabid dog Very trulr, thy friend,
RICHARD C.. SHOEMAKER"
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
A Remedy for Snake Bites.

4 MELBOURNE (Australia) newspaper
says that Professor Iialtord has discovered
ammonia TO be perfect antido'e for the
bite Of poisonous snakes, and that several
cures have been wrought with it. One of
these is described. i railway labcrcr
was bitten by brown snake. He soon
become drowsy and laid down. His com
rades becoming alarmed sent for medical
assistance, but ny the time il arrived the
man was comatose, and his lower extrem-
tiles paraly zcd. Galyanism and other
usual remedies were applied, but without
effect, the poison having obtained too
strong hold on the system 10 yield to
any Treatment employed. In this extrem-
ity the medical man first called in caused
Professor Halford to be telegTaphed for.
The Professor Immediately repaired to the
place and made an operation as follows:
An incision was made through the skin,
exposing the superficial radial vein, and the
point Of the syringe being introduced into
the vein, the injection (of ammonia) was
completed The beneficial effect was mar
velous and immediate. From an almost
pulselcss state, and lrcm stupor verging
or death, the patient speedily become con-
sci0us. He has been steadily recovering
since, and, at the date Of the letter, was
reported To be nearly well Medical men
are said to be enthusiastic believers il the
upE remedy
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
4 Winter Flneral.

To BURY friend in winter is kind of
trial thai connects strange inward emo
tions of feelings which it is difficult to mas
ter. We have cleared away the snow, and
hewn a passage down through the solid
pavement of the frost, and then in that
inhospitable place we come to bury our
departed; be it child, Or wife, or mother,
or much-loved friend, our heart shudders
in convulsiye chill at the forlorn last
Offices we are come to perform. While
our feeling is protesting, the solemnity,
so-called, goes on, and before we have
gotten our own consent the "tribute of
respect" is ended. The frozen chips of
earth. loosened again by blows, are piled
on the loved ones rest, and we turn to
go. "Will it storm tonight? The wind,
alas is bowling even now in the trees,
and the sleeting has already begun. o
God, it shall not be! We were going to
be fools, we see, but now the spell is
broken. Our departed is not in that grave
and we scorn to say our farewell over it.
Let the SHOWS fall heavy, if they will, and
the winds rage pitiless and wild above
ours it shall be 20 thank thee, Father, Lord
Of the warmer cline, that our dead one
lives with thee" Practically, almost
nothing will more surely compel faith in
Immortality, even if one chances to be
unbelieving, than to bury friend in win
ter. And, as q matter of fact, it is not in
the fresh, unburstrng life of the spring, ol
in any other softer season Of the year
that we think of immortality with half the
tension that We do at winter funerals. We
ask it instinctively, as we do a fire fol
the coli-Dr Bushnell
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Failing Eyes.

PERSONS suffering from DYSPEPSIA, or any
other malady, must take care Of their eyes,
Any disease impairs the strength, and the
nervous system is depressed; and when
laboring under this form of depression the
eye is particularly liable to become weak
The reason Of this is, that of the ten nerves
which go off from the brain, six al dis
tributed wholly, and the other four par
tally, to the eye. Through the great
sympathetic nerve, the disturbed stomach,
or liver, or intestines, communicate with
telegraphic speed with thca brain, and
so with the eye. The first advice to be
given with reference to the comfortable
use of the ewes undoubtedly is to keep the
intestines and liver and stomach in a
healthy condition; in other words, do
everything to confirm the general health.
1t this be impaired, do not read, and, espe-
cially d. not write long, without giving
the eve rest. The great remedy for an
eye whose disease depends upon the nerve,
and not the muscle, is rest rest! rest =
M07atpeIier (Tt) Journal
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04

where the Couler stream crosses the ave-
nue., Carlo caught the. horse by the fore
lock and attempted to stop him. Appre-
ciating something must be done, Mr.. AIDE
stopped the horse, got out and started for
ward to make reconnaissance. AS he
stepped passed the horse, Carlo caught
the skirt of his coat and tried to prevent
his proceeding. He made the dog let 90
his hold, and in moment afterwards dis
cerned the whole trouble. Three or four
yards in front of him was the stream roar.
ing and pouring in a wild frenzy of plen-
ty. In the dark, nothing but the actual
touch could have told that 1t was bank
full, and that the bridge that crossed it
was swept away. 1t was this that Carlo
discovered with the keener vision, and il
was from, perhaps, fatal plunge he was
bound to save his master.
Having said our say of Carlo, do you
wonder that the marshals give him the
freedom of the city in the dog days, ex-
empt him from the muZzie. and forbid his
being shot or destroyed ?-Dubrque, L0'ca)
Times
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
A Juggler's Trick.

REV. NORMAN MACLEOD, in an account
of a visit to Bombay, gives an account of
a Juggling feat, known as the bamboo
trick" He says: ..t4f
"While the tOm-tom was beating, and
the pipe playing, the juggler, singing all
the time in low accents, smoothed place
on the gravel, three or four yards before
US. Having thus prepared bed for the
plant To grow in, he took a basket and
placed it over the prepard place, covering
it with thin blanket The man himself
did not wear a thread of clothing, eX-
cept strip around the lOins. The time
seemed to have come for the detectives
eye! So just as he was becoming more
earnest in his song, and while the tom
tom beat and the pipe shrilled more loud
ly, stepped forward with becoming dig
nifty, and begged him to bring the basket
and its cover to me. The juggler cheer
fully complied. examined the basket
1t was made of open wicker-work. |
then examined the covering It was thin,
almost transparent, and certainly there
was nothing concealed in it. then fixed
my eyes on his strip of clothing with
such intentness that it was not possible it
could have been touched without dis
cOvery, and bade him go on. l felt per-
fectly sure that the trick could not succeed
Sitting down, he stretched his naked arms
| under the basket, singing and smiling as
be did so he then lifted the basket off the
ground, and behold green plant. about a
| foot high Satisfied with our applause he
went on with his incantations. After hav
ing sat little, to give his plant time to
grow, he again lifted the basket, and the
plant was now two feet high He asked
us to wait little longer that we might
taste the fruitl But on being assured by
those who had seen the trick performed
before, that this result would be obtained,
T confessed myself done" without the
slightest notion Of how. examined the
ground, and found it was smooth and up
turned. Apparently delighted with my
surprise, the juggler stood up, laughing
One OF his companions Just then ehucked
a pebble TO him, which he put into his
mouth. Immediately the same companion.
walking back ward, drew forth cord of
silk, twenty yards or go in length. But
this was not al the discharge, for the Jug
glcr, with his hands behind his back,
threw forth from his mouth two decan ter
shoppers, two shells, q spinning top, stone
and several other things, followed by .
long Jet Of fret
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Rates or Travel.

In single second a snail travels one
five thousandth Of foot; fly, i've feet
a pedestrian, at ordinary gait, five and
three.tenths feet; camel six feet; an or
binary breeze, ten feet; running stream,
twelve feet; p trOtting horse, twelve feet;
a whale, twelve and three-tcnths feet a
fast sailing ship, fourteen feet; reindeer
with sledge, twenty five feet; a steam en-
gine, twentynine feet a skater, thirty
six feet; an English race-horse, forty-onc
feet; a tempest, fifty feet aswiftly-thrown
stone, ffty feet; az eagle, ninety five feet;
a carrier pigeon, four hundred and eleven
feet; musket ball, one thousand five
hundred and ninety-fy feet; twenty
five pound cannon ball, two thousand two
hundred and ninety nine feet point of
earth or the equator, two thousa and four
hundred and ffty-one feet; the center of
the earth around the sun, four miles; ray
of sunlight, forty-one thousand feet.-Et-
cLND0e
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
GONE BEFORE.

THERE'S beautiful face in the silent air,
Which follows me ever ana near,
With smiling eyes and amber hair.
With vOiceless lips, yet with breath of prayer
That feel, but Cannot hear.
The dimpled hand. and ringlet of gold,
Lie low in marble sleep:
] stretch my arms for the clasp of old,
But the empty air "a strangely cold,
And my vigil alone keep.
There's a siniess brow with radiant crown
And n cross laid down in the dust:
There's a smile where never shade comes now
Ard tears no more from those dear eyes flow,
81 sweet in their innocent trust.
N. well and summer is coming again,
Singing her same old song:
Bat. on il sounds like sob of pain,
AS il floats in the sunshine and the rain.
Ger hearts OF the worlds great throng.
There's a beau iful region above the skies
And long TO reach its shore,
For know shall find my treasure there,
The laughing eyes and amber hair
uf the loved one gone before.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
The History OF Dog That Has Saved
Four Lives.

GEORGE ADg is the owner of large
white, black spotted dog-spotted Ia
coach dOg-weighing somewhere in the
neighborhood of big Newfoundland or
St. Bernard. He is about IL years old,
and answers to the cOgnomen OF Carlo
Carlo has performed deeds of herois,n that
even you, dear reader, might be proud Of
Who would not deem it an honorable dis
tinctiOn to have it said of him that he had
saved four valuable lives? Carlo has
done this, and more to make him worth
honorable mention. Do you recOllect,
about three years ago, the papers itemized
a dog that rescued small boy from the
horns of an infuriated COW, on Bluff street,
and carried him to place Of safety? The
dog was Carlo.
Nearly two years ago, Mr.. AIDE had a
very spirited colt in his stable, and, by
accident one day the stable door was left
open. A little son of his, scarce two
years of age, seeing the door ajar, crept
into the stable, and had scarcely entered
before the colt had him under his feet
paving him. Carlo, hearing the childs
cry, rushed into the stable, caught and
dragged the boy into the stable-yard for
safety, while the mother, attracted by the
alarm, met him. Carlo, by this act, came
/ near falling into disgrace, for the mothers
first thoughts were that he was eating up
the child, and met him with reproofs &C
! cordingly.
During the spring freshet of &c two
( little girls got into a skiff on the bank Of
Lake Peosts, and somehow, in their play
fell overheard. Carlo was nigh at hand
and, seeing their predicament, he rushed
into the food, first rescued one, and then
the other, and thus cut short mournfu-
tragedy.
Another instance of Carlos sagacity
and we are done: =. :. -t.-t. B.
II was in the spring Of 1864, on dark
rainy Saturday night, when The flood
gates Of the heavens seemed 10 have
been torn awav and the entire world was
deluged with water, that Mr. Ade, in q
one horse wagon, was driving slowly
home, down the Couler bottom Carlo
was wading In the water a little ahead o.
the horse. Just as they neared The poin
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
NUMBER 26.

taken to the great city of Chicago, and
there left, without friends or money.
He reported that she had died of chol-
era. and, to make the deception complete,
built false grave.
When the war was over, and Colonel
returned home ne made his way at
once to the old graveyard, and sought out
that of his lost Jennie After bathing the
little mound with tears he made his way
to the house of Mr.. Blank to learn the
particulars While he was there the
guilty man ordered the tombstones for the
false grave In due time they came, and
were placed at the supposed grave with
some evergrcens and flowers.
COL had been a mourper from
two years before the war closed until
December, 1868, when business called him
to Chicago There, in street car, with a
bundle of soiled clothes which she was
taking home to be washed, he found his
buried Jennie. lie flew across the car,
taking her in his arms and almost scream
ing with joy. He could scarcely believe
his eyes, but it was Jennie, and no mistake.
He had found her at last-Hdnsas City
(N0) .IouTnGt Of Commerce.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
Choate'S account BOX.

4 good story used to be told of ChOatc
by Mr. Minns, who was d student in his
office One day the former came into the
office, and seated himself before the fire,
began scratching his head with unusual
violence. By-and-by he said in his most
dramatic tones
"I wonder what becomes Of all my
money, Mr. Minns?"
Minns stopped his writing and looked
up at him. His face looked comical
enough Finally, he ventured to make a
suggestion.
"Why don't you buy q small book,
Mr. Choate, and enter in il what YOU
receive and what you pay out? and
then YOU viii know where your money
goes"
"Capital idea, Mr. Minns, capital idea
Won't you be good enough TO 60 out and
buy me one?"
Minns bought him the book, and Choate
sat down and made two or three entries
in il.
A few months sfterwaTd Minns had the
curiosity-seeing the book lying upon
Mr.. Choate's desk-to look into IL 10 see
how he got along with his accounts, when
10 there were the same entries he had
made or the day OF his purchase, and all
the rest was blank.
Mr.. Choate might have been rich man
if he had had any method in the keeping
of bis accounts After his association with
his son in law, Major Bell, lately deceased,
his affairs were'much improvei.-HTper's
fagoziH6.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04
1Doetrp.
THE PRINTER AT HOME.

BY PROF. o. HOWE GREENE, ESQ.
A PRINTER and his wife
Were sitting at their r,
Without domestic strife,
In welded Y TC;
=" Dear En-, the printer said,-
TheE paused, ard turned his /,
Snstched mp slice = of bread.
And Cleared away" some "pi(e);"
= Thou srt guiding
: Set up IA spacel for me;
s. love you better far
: Than t. lcapital black teal
Then b'er his 'sbattered form
She bent her sweet "Scotch face"
~ "psGfei" q pr0f-I5ss aCdrm,
The whilst they -'-l two embraced.
The Plymouth weekly Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1860-1869, 1869-03-04

LEMON SpoNGE CAKE.--Take "a eggs,
separate them, a pound o, ssanoiateA sO-
gar, half pound Of -four, the grated peel
of two lemons, and the juice of one beat
the yolSs with the sugar, and the whites
alone then add them, and sin in the
-four by degrees beat well, snd bake
with quick heat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-05-04
TILE GRAN-TRADE.

Chicago is an enterprising, gO-ahead city,
which has had rapid growth, and naturally
INDUCES in high-reaching anticipatiOns. We
forget how soon she is, according to those an
tcipatons, to surpass New-York in business
and population, nor is it essential to remember.
Suffice it that she is city of generous prom
Use and very considerable fulfllment, whose
shadow, we trust, will never be less.
Of late, the fact that good deal of Western
Grain is passing down the Mississippi on its
way, via st. Louis and New Orleans, to the
East and to Europe, has arrested the attention
Of her publcists They do not seem to know
exactly what to make Of it, Chicago, they in
sist, is the emporium of the Western Grain
Trade; and something must be wrong when
Western Grain seeks the seaboard otherwise
than through Chicago. So editorials are writ
ten, and conventions held, and reports pro-
mulged, with intent to stop the transit of Grain
down the Mississippi and turn it to coming
East via ChcagO-as yet, we believe, with lit
tie effect
One of tho schemes under consideration pro-
poses q magnificent Canal-or rather, River
whereby the water of the Lakes shall be made
to flow southwark through the Straits of
Mackinac and the heart of Chicago into the
Illinois, and so into the lower Ohio and Mis-
sissippi, at cost of only S84,0O0,0OO, or such
trife. The objection that Cairo would be
swamped-perhaps we should say reswamped-
and much of the valley of the Lower Missis-
sippi drowned out by this "new cut" does
not seem to make much impression, being
dwarfed by the prospect of seeing De
troit, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo, high and
dry, and Niagara Falls assimilated to
rural mill dam in dry Summer but the prob
lem GLOW is Chicago to be benefited by
"such river7o is grave enough. To our
mind, it is plain that, if the new river should
not float much of the soil Of Illinois, including
the foundations of Chicago itself, into the Gulf
of Mexico, it would impel the Queen of the
Lakes to ship her OWn Grain via New
Orleans, and thus aggravate the calamity she
is seeking to avert. By annexing herself to
the Great Valley, Chicago would be far more
likely to accelerate than impede the momen-
tum whereby Produce now seeks the East by
way of the South. ..
A far more hopeful project is that Of enlarg-
ing and deepening still further our Erie Canal,
and thus diminishing the cost of reaching the
seaboard via Buffalo and Albany. This looks
practical but who is to bell the cat 1t must
cost heavily; and, though Chicago may care
nothing for such fea-bite as S84, 900, New
York has been sobered by experience and does
not take kindly to the suggestion of new out
lays and new debts, especially when it is
intimated that she is expected to dsdain any
pecuniary return. The general drift of Chicago
and even of Northwestern opinion, seems
to require that our State should first,
double the capacity of her great
Canal: secondly, reduce the tolls SO that they