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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-02

OPENING OF THE OPsRA--MARTHA.-A full
and fashionable audience grjetod the first appear
ax,o. Of Fredeic,'s Orera Company last night, in
FIotsw's beautiful opera of "M .rtha." The piece
was put npon the stage in much better ss,le than
last year. The chorus aud orchestra arc both stron;
or and more perfectly trained Clara Lang Zie :er
tho soprano Is evlI -a:y il be;trr voice than when
lsss among US, anl the conirAlto Of Madane trede-
Eoi is as powerful aud ful o. sweetness as ever
5he sparkling viva isy " her acting at ouce Iende's
her fvJr;tc wuccercr She appelrs Our re4deis are
fanii with tao u-or OF lnmsr tn. oasso OF Vein
loh and the brit re OF teiuocse hequartette near
tho close OF the first act w.s, We think the Triumph OF
tho evsLing. ahe S! inning ene IN toe second net
was also well po fornel. tue solo by Cla n Zes
lsr be,ns h,ghly sp lIuded. The duet pei"en her
and miner was o.. we'll ,ecei' I'd and the soo he
Last Rose of summcrI apo led direshJ to toe hearts
Of the audience On the who.o. the pc formano was
one f.irly entitled to the pati onige of cul.iya
ted community. Tonight. We aro to have Au1ers
Fra Ddrolo The seuts not yet engaged can be Be-
cured on application at Eo:rnes' Booi House.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-02
Auftion Sales.

Store No. l3, South side Hayns-strest.
BY z. B. CAKES.
VII, bs sold THIS DAY the I'd March, at the Old
Postof1ce at IL o'clock,
eide Baype.street now occupied by Messrs Braho
Co Leather Dealers. Lot measures 2a feet front
and liz feet In depth store 90 ieet deep and in COM
plete order.
oto,uss March
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
- -
LUCK.
By HENRY WARD BEEcHEr

By HENRY WARD BEECHER.
The word luck is too firmly bedded
in our language, and belief in the fact
expressed by it is too strong to Justify
an expectation that it will soon be-
come obsolete. Luck is an event,
good or bad, which befalls a man in
dependently of his own yOlitiOn. If
a man work all day for five dollars,
his wages is not considered luck. But
if he finds five dollars in the road, that
is luck.
If a man aims at an accommodation
train, but hits an express train, which
has been delayed little, he is in luck.
He has secured what he did not plan
for. If the last boat of the season
leaves Albany for New York a day
sOOnerthan the shipper has calculated,
and he loses an opportunity of sending
his freight, he exelaims, "That is just
my luck.n
OF the fact itself there can be no
doubt. Many disappOintments befall
men which seem to have no relation
to their own agency. Many pieces of
good fortune occur which the reeipi-
ent did not plan, or look for.
But the cause of luck, thus defined,
is another thing. If we could look
into mems minds and render clear
those obscure and nebulOus thoughts
that hover there, it would be found,
probably, that very different notions
are entertained about it. Some be-
lieve that there are spirits, or sprites,
whose power interealates these events
upon the calendar Of Nature. Others
seem to believe that in the vast realm
of Nature events are floating about
like NOTES in sunbeams, and that men
accidentally stumble upon them
Some people believe it to be crook
in the grain of things, some men be-
ing born and destined to fulfill some
DEGREES. do what they
will, they can never escape ill-luck."
Were some mems notions analyZed, I
should not wonder if it were found
that they still believe Luck TO be a
personal being, as Puck, or Ariel, who
spent their time in playing tricks up
on men, good or bad, according to their
peculiar fancy.
But dismisslng all these notions,
there are several pieces of general good
or i'll luck, which have much to do
with the special luck that befalls men,
l count II q piece OF prime and ad- T.
luck to be born Of parents who (
had sound physical constitutions, 4
ample brains, well propOrtiOned and
balanced, living in moderately pros /
porous circumstances. Next to this, !
it is to be brought up in simplicity, !
people kind and just, and un- I
der circumstances which require one (
to exert himself actively, so that he .
shall never expect to have anything
which he does not himself earn
Lastly, and as q consequence of these,
It is supreme good luck TO have pa
-ient nature, too proud TO do evil, and
not proud enough to take offence at
he common experiences of life; as
as is consistent with eRter-
prise, and above all, with unwasting
good nature.
This last quality-gOod nature-is
perhaps the most desirable Of all, in
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
Country Girls.

Meta Victoria Fuller, said a long
time ago: 1.-The farmers daughters
are soon to be the life as well as the
pride of the cOuntry-a glorious race
of women which no other land can
show. seek not to flatter them for
before / can do this, they will have to
make an earnest effort of one or two
kinds. There are some who depre-
ciate their condition, and some who
have a false pride in il, because they
demand more consideration than
merit. a want of intelligence upon
all subjects of the day and of a re-
fined education is no more eXcusable
in a country than in a town bred girl,
in these days of many books and
Newspapers.
"Many girls are discouraged because
they cannot be sent away from home
to boarding schools; but men of su-
perior minds and knowledge of the
world, would rather have for wives,
women well and properly educated at
home. And this education can be
had whenever the desire is not want
ing. A taste forreadingdoes wonders;
and an earnest thirst after knowledge
is almost certain to attain a sweet
draught from the 'Pierian SPRING ;
There is farmers daughter in this
very room in which / am writing-a
beautiful, refined and intelligent
woman, in whose girlhOod books
were not SO plenty rs now, and who
obtained her fine education under
difficulties, which would have dis
couraged any but one who had true
love for study"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
WHOLE NO. 2729.

so far as happiness is concerned. Ev-
cry one knows that it is the sugar in
fruit that gives 1t its palatableness,
and that converts its juices into wine.
Good nature is to human dispositions
what sugar is to grapes.
a robust and cheerful nature hard
ly knows the difference between good
and bad luck. Some things, which
extOrt piteOus complaints of bad luck
from his neighbOrs, befall him with
out exciting more than moments at
tentiOn-just as a healthy man does
not feel a chilly gust which sets an
invalid into shivers.
Ill luck in petty affairs is only
another name for want of foresight,
unskillfulness, poor judgment, clum-
1y-handedness, lack of spring and en-
terprise- Few men are willing to say
that their own blunders. negative or
positive, return upon their own heads.
Luck Is to them a fortunate word.
Luck is word that hides a mans in
efficiency from himself, and saves his
pride.
Every one of US have lucky and un-
lucky days. Too much excitement.
late hours, late eating, poor sleep, and
too little of it, bring ON mornings full
OF depressiOn-blue days, in which ev-
erything seems wrong. Everything
our hand touches fails. This is
simple case in which respectable dis
sipatiOn has put the whole instrument
by which man works, his brain and
nervous system, out of adjustment
his mistakes are no more surprising
than would be q mechanics who
worked by false rule, or chemists
who measured by incorrect standards.
By-and-by, rest, diet, and good hab-
its restore the equilibrium, and then
comes sparkling day of good luck.
half the labor produces twice the or
dinary results. We meet the very
person we desire most to see. Every
thing goes on rightly. The world is
propitiOusi
In olden times, when neerOmaneers
would fill the air with spirits, they
had potent spells, eabalistie formula,
and various charms by which to evoke
ana control evil spirits. There is q
much shorter and surer way than all
that 10 nil heaven and earth with de-
mons. Put your liver out of order.
That is spell that never fails. Dys.
pepsia Will raise more devils in one
day than Merlin could III a year,
i good man, in good health, en-
gagged in business for which he is fitted.
and eontented, will always be in luck.
Poor luck goes with slender iudg-
ment, with Incidence, with supersen-
sitive pride, with indigestion, with
torpid livers, with heedlessness, and
As all of US have flecks and tints OF
all of these elements, at times, so We
all of US have our share of bad luck.
The height of i'll luck is to be born
badly, to live badly, and to die badly.
Let every man blame himself for al
has bad luck, and he will find a cure
Tor more than half of it. The rest is
imaginary.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
STORY OF A SNAKE CHARMER.
Fatal Results Of ReeklesSnesS.

DuChaillu, in his last book about
Africa, says:
One day l witnessed fearful scene.
A man, a native of GOree, an island
on the coast of Senegambia, who had
the reputation of being a snAke-char-
mer, and was then at the GabOOn, had
succeeded in capturing one of these
large naja. He was bold man, and
prided himself on never being afraid
of any snake, however venemous the
reptile might be; nay, not only was
he not afraid of any of theD', but he
would fightsany of them, and get hold
of them.
1 had often seen him with snakes
in his hands. Hewas careful, of course
to hold them Just by the neck below
the head, in such n manner that the
head could not turn on itself and bite
him.
That day he brought into a large
open place, perfectly bare Of grass, one
of these wild naja, that he had just
captered, and was amusing himself
by teasing the hOrrid and loathsome
creature when L arrived. 1t was a
huge one!
Most of the people of the village had
fled, and those natives who like my
self were looking on, kept long way
off. Not q MpOngwe man, not n sim
gle inhabitant of the whole region
have explored, would have ever dared
to do what the GOree man did.
Two or three times, rs the snake
crawled on the--ground, we made off
in opposite direction with the utmost
speed, myself, am afraid, leading off
in the general stampede; though L
had provided myself with a gun.
1t was perfectly fearful, horrid and
appalling, to see that man making
plaything of this monster laughing,
as we may say, at death, for it could be
nothing else, thought.
At first when l saw him he had the
snake around his body, but he held it
firmly just below the neck and could
see by the muscles of his arm that he
had to use great strength. As long as
this part of the body is held firmly
the snake loses much of its great pow
er of crushing one to death, as the
hOa-constrictOr or python does with
large animals, and as small snakes do
with smaller game; butwith this naja
the danger would have been the vene-
nous bite.
Then with his other hand he took
the tail of the snake, and gave it q
swing and gradually unfolded the rep-
tile from his black body, which was
warm and shining with excitement,
but always holding the head. On a
sudden he drew the snake on the
ground. Then the creature began to I
crawl away swhen suddenly the Go !
rec man came in front of itwfth u light
stick and instantly the monster erect |
ed itself almost to half its full length, !
gave a tremendous whistle, which we
all heard, looked glaringly and fierce /
ly in the mans face with its sharp, 4
pointed tongue out, and then stood /
still as it could not move. The GOree .
man, with his little stick in his left 4
hand, touched it lightly, as though to 4
test it. 1t was fearful sight-ald if I
he had been near enough, the snake .
would, no doubt, have sprung upon
its antagonist. The man, as heteased
and infuriated the snake with the rod I
he held in his left hand, drew the at
tentiOn of the reptile toward the stick;
then suddenly and in the wink Of an !
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
AM COLLEGE.

THE'first term of the second veal
II commences Tuesday, August II, 1865, and
ciOses Friday, NOvember6. The Second term
COZ rr;i Hesaay, N0Nen6er @ Il and clio
commences Tuesday, March g. 1863 and clO-
Ses Thursday, June 10.
This is the nineteenth year Of this Institu-
ton, tormly known as the Western Reserve
Eclectic Institute.
JOHN NJ. ATWATER, A. NJ, President.
Professor Of Mental and Moral Philosophy. and
Bi6lical LierGtlTe.
ASA NJ. WESTON, A. NJ,
Professor Of oflEdthemdtics GndHodeTn Languages
AMI ATWATER, A. B.,
Professor Of Latin and Greek
a. J. SQUIRE, NJ. D.,
Professor Of Chemistry, Anatomy, Physiology,
Hygiene, and Physical Csttt'sre.
OSMER c. HILL,
Professor ill Commercial and ChiyoOraphic De-
MISS CORTENTIA c. MUNSON,
Principal Of The Ladies Department.
A. PARDEE
Tutor in Natural Sciences
MISS ADELIA L. CLIFFORD,
Teacher Of Instrumental Music.
MISS STATA NEWCOMB,
Teaches Of Portrait aud Landscape PGintin0
and DrdlciItg.
EUGENE H. PLOWE,
Teacher Of Vocal Music.
Several undergraduates are employed to
assist in the Preparatory Department.
The College is easy of access, being about
two miles distant from the Atlantic & Great
Western Railway. Hacks connect with
trains at GarrettsVille and Jeddo Stations.
Students can take the regular College
Course, can graduate in any OF the Six De-
partments, or can enter any Glass for sim
gle term.
The Commercial Department affords a fine
to secure full and thorough
course at an expense TO the student Of one
half the usual rates paid for the same in the
Colleges.
Board, in good families, $3.50 to S4,OO per +!
week. Students can board themselves for |
= per week.
Tuition including all Departments except |
commercially per
Commercial Course.....-...........l6O0 90 /
Course Of Popular Lectures will be given /
before the students and citizens during the /
winter months, by gentlemen invited from
abroad.
New Philosophical and Chemical Apparatus
S being purchased for the College.
For catalogue or information, address the
President Of the Faculty.
J. M. ATWATER, Hiram, Ohio.
JulV IN 1SfS-ff
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eye, almostas quick as lightning, with
his right hand he got hold Of the erea-
ture just under his head.
The same thing that | have just des-
cribed again took place. The snake
folded itself round his body; then he
unfOlded the snake, which was once
more let loose, and, now this hOrrid
serpent got so infuriated that as soon
as ne was thrown upon the ground he
erected himself, and the glare of his
eyes was something terrific. 1t was
indeed an appalling scene; the air
around seemed to be filled with the
whistling sound of the creature.
Alas! a more terrible scene took
place! The man became bOlder and
bolder, more and more careless, and
the snake probably more and more
accustomed to the mode of warfare of
his antagonist, and just as the monster
stood erect the man attempted to seize
its neck as he had done many a time
before, but grasped the body too low,
and before he had time to let it 90,
the head turned on itself and the man
was bittenl l was perfectly speech
less, the scene had frozen my blood,
and the wild shrieks of an those round
rent the air. The serpent was loose
and crawling on the ground, but be-
fore it had time to go far, long pole
came down upon its back and broke
its spine, and in less time than take
to write it down the monster was
killed.
To the French doctor who had charge
of the little colony the man went (hap-
PLY he was lust at hand): all the reme-
dies were prompt and powerful; the
man suffered intensely, his body be-
cameswOllen, his mind wandered, and
his life was despaired Of; but at last
he got better, and though complain
ing of great pain near the heart, he
was soon able to go out again. A short
time after this accident, having an ak
in his hand, going as he said to cut
wood, he suddenly split his own head
IN two. He had become insane!
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
Beauty and RraIns-

A pretty face, the unworn nerves
OF youth the freshness of hope that has
not yet been sOured by disappointment
or chilled by experience, a neat stroke
at erOquet, and merry laugh easily
excited, make a girl a goddess to a how.
who Is what he himself calls in love
and his friends call spoOney. She may
be narrow, selfish, spOilt, unfit to bear
the burdens of life, and unable to meet
her trials patiently shemay beutterly
impractical and silly-OneOf those who
never mature, but only grow old, and
remain great, overgrOwn children to
the end-withOut judgment, fore
thought, common sense, or courage.
but he sees nothing of all this. To
him she is perfeet-the 'jolliest girIin
the world" if he is slangy. or the
dearest" if he Is affectiOnate. and
he neither sees nor heeds her potential
faults 1t is Onlywhen shehass sstepped
down from her pedestal to the level of
the nurses floor that he finds ont she
Is but woman after all, and perbaDs
&n exceptionally weak and peeyish
one.
Then he knows that he would have
done better for himself had he married
that plain, brave-hea1ted girl, who
would have had him to a dead certainty
If he had asked her, but whom he 50
numerically laughed at and disre-
garded when he was making love TO
his fascinating charmer. If he had
but looked at the future and been able
10 wait! But in those days he wanted
beauty that does not last, and cared
nothing for brains that do: and so
having made his selection, must abide
by it, and eat bitter bread from the
feast of his own brewing.
Ball rooms and dinner tables. ara
he two places where certain women
most shine. The ball room NAV be
AIKEN to represent youth, and the din
ler table maturity. The one is the
iPothesis Of meIe beauty, in clouds
II white muslin and heaven of f1irt-
ng; the other is solid endowment
With brains to talk to and beauty 10
ook at, in just the proportion that
makes life perfect. A well ordered
Inner table is a mierOeOsm: and.
'eing so, this is the blue ribbon of the
Every woman is bound
o make the best of herself: but this
making the best of themselves is a
cry different thing from making
ress and personal vanity the first
of life.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20

THE PENALTY OF TOO MUCH BRAIN
WoRK.-Dr. Parker, of New York,
delivered lecture last Sunday even
ing, in that city, in which he showed
the evils proceeding from the trans
gressiOn of the limits of their physical
powers by literary men, &c. He said:
No man can do head work faithfully
for more than four or five or six hours.
If that time Is exceeded, all the phOs-
phorus is carried off, and the man be-
comes irritable, broken down, and has
sOftening of the brain. / have seen
this Overwork in lawyers, doctors,
clergymen and merchants, who have
worked the brain ten hours. They
have dropped under the burden.
You can not violate the law of God
with impunity. Sir Walter Scott did
q large amount of brain work in the
day, but he did not overwork himself.
In his latter days, however, he became
peeuniarily embarrassed, and resOrted
TO his literary pursuits to save him
self; but he worked too hard and
completely broke himself Down.
One of the best scholars | ever knew
broke himself down in his younger
days, bnt he lived on to seventy,
though he could only work some four
hours a day. After these hours he en-
gagged in vigorous exercises to keep
him out of the house as much as pos
sible, and he eontinued one Of the best
professors in the country.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
II EGAL NOTICE.

Jose Chaffee, VS. John H. Clark; Wealthy
CIark, Wells Clark, and John Norris.
Notice is hereby given, that plaintiff has
fled his petition in the Court of Common
Pleas, of Trumbull County, Ohio, stating
that said John II. & Wealthy, on the LIST day
Of December, 1860, executed TO said Norris a
mortgage deed of all that part of Lot l6 Of
land in the township of Messopotamia, in
said County, bounded as follows: Beginning
at southwest corner of said lot; thence east
10 the southwest corner of land owned by
John Norris; thence north on NorFis's W6st
Hle to his northwest corner; thence west
parallel with the south line to the west line
OF the LOT; thence south TO the place of be-
ginning, containing fifty acres Of land; to
secure payment of a promissory note of same
date, made by said John Il to said Norris,
for 500 payable five years from date, with in
terest payable annually; which note and
mortgage have been assigned TO plaintiff, re-
main due and wholly unpaid that said Wells
claims some interest in the land, subject to
said mortgage Plaintiff asks Judgment on
said note and mortgage. Said defendants,
John H., Wealthy, and Wells, must appear,
answer, plead or demur on or before the 10Th
day Of February, ls69, or said petition will be
taken as confessed 10 be true.
By MILTON SUTIIFF,
Dee 2i-St Atty for Plaintiff.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20

The Chicago Post has this paragraph:
1t IS apparent that Brick Pomeroy.
who has, until recently, thrived and
fattened upon the rewards of Newgate
slang applied to every good word and
work, has come to grief. The receipts
Of his Infamous strumpet organ at
La Crosse have, it is said, decreased
to the extent that it no longer supplies
the demands of the vOraei0us NAV of
his New York daily, SO that the hap
less Brick is short of funds, and is
raidfng around the country endeavor-
ing to levy supplies, with the ill sue
cess that his abOminable character
deserves.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20

Brigham Young has, of course. a
great antipathy to Gentiles, which he
expresses at every opportunity. He
does Not appOve of the Gentiles at
tending his tabernacle or his church.
Every saint" in Salt Lake City, who
keeps store, is required, by order of
Brigham Young. to havea sign which
other MormOns may recognize. This
sign Is an arch over an ''all-seeing''
eye. All MOrmOns are commanded
to trade at such stores only. This pro-
hibitory mania does not extend to
Gentle ladies-at least, judging from
Brigham's willingness to gather them
into his fOld.-N. Y. Star.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20

The Chinese and Japanese possess
voices of low power, feeble compass.
whining in tOae, and having a metal
lie twang, In India and Burmah, the
voice IS not powerful, but shriI, soft
and feminine; that of the inhabitants
of the hills is more robust than shat
of the inhabitants of the plains. The
European nations possess strong, pow
erful, sOnOrOus, clear voices. The
Germans possess the most powerful
voices in Europe, but not as power
full as those of the Tartars. Sir Dun
can Gibb, Vice President of the Lon
don AnthrOpOlOgical Society, has
made these observations.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1869-01-20
When The Grass Shall Cover Me.

When the grass shall cover me-
Head to foot where ana lying:
When not any wind that blows,
Summer blooms nor winter SHOWS
Shall awake me to your signing,
Close above me as you pass,
You Will say: How kind she was"
You will say: "How true she was"
When the grass grows over me.
When the grass shall cover me,
Holden close to earth's warm bosom;
While laugh, or weep, or sing
Neyermore, for anything;
You will find in blade and blossom,
Sweet small voices, odorous,
Tender pleaders in my cause,
That shall speak me as was
When the grass grows over me.
When the grass shall cover me!
All, beloved, in my sorrow
Very patient, l can wait
Knowing that, or soon OF late,
There will dawn a clearer morrow:
When your heart will mourn "Alasi
Now know how true she was:
Now know how dear she was
When the grass grows over me! ..t
Overland Monthly for November