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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19
Genius of InvenffOn-The Pin Ma
chine.

The pin machine is one of the neares
approaches that mechanics have made I,
the dexterity of the human hand.
small machine, about the size of lady
sewing machine, only stronger, stand.
before you. On the back side light bel
descends from the long shaft at the cell
ing that drives all the machines, ranging
in rows on the floor. 0n the left side OF
our machine hangs on peg q small rec
of wire, that has been straightened by
running them through compound sys.
tenn of small rollers.
This wire descends, and the end of il
enters the machine. This is the food
consumed by this snappish, voracious
little dwarf. He pulls il in and bites it
off by inches necessarily, in one hundred
and forty bites to the minute. Just as he
seizes each bite saucy little hammer,
with coDcave face, hits the end of the
wire three taps and "upsets it to head,
while he grips it in counter sunk-hole
between bis teeth. With an outward turn
OF his tongue, he then lays the pin side
ways in little groove across the rim of
small wheel that slowly revolves just
under his nose. By the external pressure
of a stationary hoop, these pins roll into
their places, as they are carried under
two series of small flies, three in each.
These files grow smaller toward the end
of the series. They lie at slight in
clination on the points of the pins, and
by a series of cams, levers and springs,
are made to play "lke lightning" Thus
the pins are pointed and dropped in
little shower into a box. Twenty-eight
pounds of pins is days work for one of
these jerking little automatons. Forty
machines on this floor make i've hundred
and sixty pounds daily. These pins are
then polished. Two very intellige MT
machines reject every crooked pin, even
the slightest irregularity of form being
detected.
Another sutomstnn assoats halfs dozen
lengths in as many different boxes, all at
once and unerringly, when a careless
operation has mixed the contents OF
boxes from various machines. Lastly,
perfect genius of MACHINE hangs the
pins by the hoada in an inclined platform
through as many "slots" as there are
pins in the papers. Under them runs
the strip of paper. A hsnd-like part of
the machine catches one form of each OF
the slot as it falls. aud by one movement
sticks them all through the corrugated
ridges in the paper, FROM which they are
to be picked ~ isper fingers in boudoirs,
and all sorts of human fingers, 10 ell
sorts of human circumstances,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19
CnIoroform ON the ssagoId.

The terrors of death by hanging will
in all probability, be considerably miti
gated in future. Governor Hoffman haI
dismissed the charges against Sheriff
Weayey, Of Oneida county, New York
ssa principal sps Of which was that be
SLOWED the doctors, by the administra-
lion o,s : ahiorofOrm, to deadep ths Hensi-
bilities of the S>''ens WIG was ...osIoU ssos. .
undergo a neck-dislocss;sg operation,
High legal authority has declared s..-
there is no Law against administering
chloroform to the scsaoldeej so that
when physicians think their patients Who
are abort to be hanged seem hustered
and nasyous, sheriffs may permit snes-
thetics to be Esaa, To persons OF tiery,
murderous temperament. cs yell as those
Who are under sentence Of death, this
abrogation Of the pangs Of public execu'
ton must prove very cousoling, aud in
measure will remove the vulgar preju-
dices many men are Afflicted with con-
corning dying on tAe gaIlovs.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19
Ap,sloyaI old Niger.

A lady who overheard the converse
ton relates to us the following Incident !
Our i.s.sormants cook has a son, q
small boy, whom she sent 10 pick berries.
The weather was very warm, but the BOY
buttOned himself rp closely 70 the rem :
nant Of Yankee oVercoat: when be re-
turned, his mother observed It, and ao-
costed him
"What you ware dat thick coat for
sioh bot day as dis 2 -r-.r
"Cause, nanny" replied the loyal
boy, "de Yankees does it.F
hYou're little fool" said the indig-
nant old NANNY; do you 'spose de
Yankees got as much sense as we 'Meri-
cans has 9"-NoRtgomery (Als) Nail
The Erst Sunday in August peKt hsV
been fixed for the election Of President
in VenEaela, for the term commencing
February 20, 1870.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19
To the General Public ::

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putt n eeo
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but solid reduction EVERYTHING NTHE HOUSE This sale will continue
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19

The Orphans Home property was sold
Wednes1ay morning in front of the capi.
tol at Jackson, under decree of United
States Court, and knocked of to Joshua
F. Speed, Of Louisville. A representa-
tive of the Home had bid 50 600.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19

Mr. L. g. Mead, father Of the sculptor,
and for fifty years practicine lawyer,
died at Braitleboro, Vermont. yesterday
week, aged "a years. Mr.. Mead vas tbs
fssbef-in-law Of Mr.. VIM. ID. Howells, as
soois:s editor Of the zslaHfie Monthly,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-07-19
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These celebrated watches We are now sending
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No MONEY Is REQUIRED IN ADVANCE. as we
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A club sf six. with an extra watch to the
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Also, superb lot Of most elegant 0roide
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Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
Horrible Death--A Drunkard's stomach
ON Fire,

About midnight on Sunday last, the
people Of the village of Rainbow, near
New Haven, Conn, were awakened by
the cry of fire, which proved to be caus-
ed by the burning of a two-story frame
house, owned by John Darwin, and oc-
cupied by him as a liquor saloon, which
was completely destroyed. Those neigh
bors first on the spot, found Darwin
lying on the ground SO badlysburned as
TO be nearly insensible.. He was con-
veyed to neighboring house. but died
in great agony before morning. 1t ap-
pears that the unfortunate man, as soon
as he had discovered the fire, ran out of
the house, but subsequently returned to
save his five sleeping children. He was
badly intoxicated at the time, and en-
tered the burning building, the flames
struck him in the face, and Immediately
owing to the amount of liquor he had
drank. set fire to the inside of his throat
and stomach, burning up his tongue, so
that when he was found that organ was
mere crisp. The children were saved
by the neighbors, one of tbem badly
scorched. The eldest boy says q general
carousal had been going Oh in the sa-
loon, and while some one iltoxicated
was drawing liquor he probably set fire
to an old feather bed near the barrel
Everything in tho house was burned,
and the children are thus left orphans
and unprovided for. 20. s1 tra .iar
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
The Last soldier of the Revelation.

A correspondent of the Warsaw DEM
ocrat announces the death CT Daniel
Frederick Beakman, the last survivor of
the Revolution, which took place at
Sandusky Cattaraugus county, n. Y,
on the morning ofApril 9Th, 1859, at the
green old age of 109 years, being born in
New Jersey about 1850. " hen child,
his parents emigrated to the Mohawk
Valley, where they lived during the
revolutionary war. Previous to the
skirmish or battle of Fort Plain, In IT'S,
young Beakman was enrolled in the
militia, and took part in that battle-his
first service. At that time, being Dutch,
and not understanding our language he
could not tell whether he enlisted into
the army or not. He only remembered
that his captains name was Vanarum.
He was in the service several months as
teamster. About 1928, he became a resi-
dent of what is now the town of Arcade,
Wyoming county, n. Y. About lS45 he
removed to the town Of Freedom, Cat
taraugus county, where he has since
resided. His wife, with whom he has
lived over eighty-five years, was two
years his senior, and died six years age,
aged los. In ali applications for pen
sion, made by his friends In his behalf,
there was failure for want of proof, un-
til in February, 1861, when a special act
was passed i}y Cnngres allowing him,
and Gray, OF Ohia $500 per annum. In
religion Mr.. Ise,i nAn was u Lutheran;
in politics Democrat, voting first for
Washington, and at all Presidential
elections since, voting a Democratic
ticket-except last fall, when he was
converted, and voted for General Grant,
His two eldest sons died few mouths
ago, over eighty years of age; several of
his children are now living. His de-
scendants of the fourth and fifth genera
tiOns are numerous, = "
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
Grants Felicity of Language.

He exhibits at times rare felicity OF
language. His words generally come
slowly, but they are always to the point,
and when analyZed his speech often
proves eloquent. His dispatches abound
in terse, significant expressions, likethe
response to Buckner; mo terms other
than an unconditional and Immediate
surrender can lie accepted propose to
move Immediately upon your works. y
81 propose to fight it out on this line, il
it takes all summer" is historical. Let
us have peace" Uttered by the head OF
the army, became the watchword of a
party. His famous letter TO, Andrew
johnson on the removal of Sheridan is
alive with earnestness; and his remarks
to President Lincoln, upon receiving
command of the armies, are model OF
chaste and manly eloquence. Mr..
President, l accept the commission with
gratitude for the high honor conferred.
With the aid of the noble armies that
have fought on so many fields of our
common country, it will be my earnest
endeavornot to disapp0int your expecta-
tions. / feel the full weight of the re-
sponsibilities now devolving on me; and
i know if they are met, it will be due to
those armies, and above all, to the favor
Vi llldG "hlSh iSstuS OOlu
nations and men,
Take, again, the short speech he made
when he received the nomination for the
Presidency; 81 shall have no policy OF
my own to enforce against the will oi
the people;n--a sentiment full of wisdom
and patriotism, and at the same time
the severest possible rebuke of the Presi-
dent, who strOve so hard 10 force his
policy upon an unwilling people. AT
Galena, when his election was announc-
ed, he proclaimed: 1.-The responsihili-
ties of the position 1 feel. but accept them
without fear;n while in his inaugural
are opinions worthy TO become maxims
of public and international law. The
truth is, that few men who call them
selves orators have made better or more
effective speeches than he who has made
SO few, who never speaks till he has
something to say, but upon due occa-
sions always has something TO say that
is pertinent and forcible.-- Atlantic
Monthly. l L-ii,--.-- ajE- =
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29

votes. Several gentlemen who Tent
against it, preferred it 10 the present law
but voted no, because Mr.. Jewett haG
previously announced that, If it were
defeated, an s per cent. bill would be OF
fered. The division was so nearly on
party lines that only six Democrats
voted for the bill, and ten Republicans
against. How the latter Will account TO
their constituents for abandoning their
political associates and disregaruing all
the great economic authorities of the
age, i'll order to follow the leadership OF
such financiers as MessTs. Wailing,
Leete, Callen and Odeil, is Il problem
they may find difficult 10 solve.
The vote upon the bill was immedi-
ately reconsidered, and the per cent.
substitute offered by Mr.. Horo adopted
AND passed-61 to ST.
The House then concurreGi in the SEN
ate amendments TO. Mr.. Leete's bill Civ
ing County Commissioners authority to
construct at discretion public buildings
and bridges, and the measure is now u
law, being one of several OF the same
kind by which this Legislature seems de-
termined to give TO County Commission
ers more than Kingly authority over
the purses and substance of the people.
Sal lUhDA1-l me senate, SaluTuay,
passed the House bill providing for
second view by "a new set of viewers, of
a proposed new free turnpike road; and
that measure is therefore law.
In the House, the bill for establishing
the Agricultural College at London,
Madison county, was made the special
for Wednesday next.
The Senate bill providing for the care
Of the colored insane of the State, at
Longview Asylum, was passed, and is
now a law.
The House wound up with tremen-
ious debate upon a resolution for new
lighting, heating and ventilating the
halls of the Senate and House, in the
course OF which Mr.. Robert Moftett,
Democrat Representative from Knox
who had not spoken. before
Turing the session, enchained the atten-
ion of the entire House by a speech in
which he protested against the proceed
ngs b: the Legislature, and in effect de-
bounced it as the most recklessly, eX
,ravaga.nt body that has sat at Columbus
or a score of years. Y.S.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
EDUCATION AL
Near-sts fh ChfIdreh.
90 fBy Request,l


The author takes for his motto the
words OF Prof. Donders: II say, without
hesitation, that short sighted eye is a
diseased eye" Probably four out of
every five readers uf this page do not
believe Dondeis. Popularity, IA near
sighted eye is u -trong .eye.n Let any
one who wishes make the experiment
of telling the next man he meets with
glasses tha his eyes are diseased. We
assure him of aacooi and iucredulous re-
ception. Every one has friends or rela
tlons who are sighted, but who
work long and hard by iamp-light, and
endure it as well as anybody; and we
are not ready to believe that our friends
still less oufselves-- labor under y
(" chronic organic disease" of the eyes.
Still, the words upon the title-page con-
front US with the disagreeable assertion
of this fact. Before examining DR..
Cohn's book, let US state plainly what a
near-sighted eye is, and how it merits to
be called diseased.
The fortunate possessor of good eve
can read a printed page like this at the
distance of three feet. He can bring
the page gradually nearer, to within
three or four inches of his eye, and still
be enabled to read, through u conscious
eHort-of which the rationale is as fol-
follows: The rays of light. pass through
the lens, calls crystalline, placed in the
central axis OF The eye, and are focused
upon-the retina, rs the picture III |; magic
lantern is focused by the lens upon tile
white sheet. Distant rays are exactly
focused by the normal eye at rest--and
therefore vision Of objects is clear. But
to focus Il RSar object exactly % course
IA
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29

THE present Democratic Legislature
has been SO reckless in passing bills to
rob the people that it has become pro-
verbal to say of 1t that it has been the
most reckless Legislature that ever met
in tue State. Last Saturday, during
the debate on resolution authorizing Il
new system for lighting, heating and
the halls of the Senate and
House, the Democratic Representative
from Knox county, Mr.. Robert Moffett,
protested against the proceedings and
denounced the present Legislature as
the most recklessly extravagant body
that has sat at Columbus for a score of
years 1t must be pretty bad indeed
when it is thus denounced by Demo-
Gratis. l.t. ID.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29

The Imperialist, about which go much
noise is made just now conducted by a
parcel of New York Democrats, who
are sincerely Of the opinion, which we
find so often expressed in the Democrat
ic newspapers, that the Government OF
the United States is'a failure, the Con
stitutiOn no longer of any account, and
the liberties of the people destroyed. =
There is strong probability OF the cor
rectness of this report. The difference
between the Imperiaist aud the Demo
cratic press consists in tlfis !: The former
offers substitute for the popular fdsco,
the latter contents itself With simply
pronouncing7 the experiment of self
government 4 stIelOsion; The one carries
its reasoning forward to a practical con
clusion, the other declines oiieili us out
of predicameut. As the Republicans
have faith in tile Government, aud be-
lieve the Constitution capable o., I'M
provement by rigorous amendment, and
Insist that self-governnneht is destined
to have its viEdication in great ma
tionaliiy embracing. the whole CONT
nent, il is absured to charge them with
tile establishment of a newspaper iu
which to advocate radical change in
the form of governmcnt aud the sur
render Of civil and political power into
the hands Of an aptocrat. The I'M
perialist is the genuine fruit Of Demo-
cratic assertions and argument.-[ Gin.
Com.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
THE Ohio Legislature is still in session.

THE Ohio Legislature is still in session.
A joint resolution has been passed fix
ing the 4th day of May as the time of
adjournment. The people will rejoice
exceedingly when the time arrives, ana
they are done with this retrencltment
Legislature. The session has been one
of the longest ever held in the State, and
has cost the taxpayers, for the pay of its
members alone, more than TWO HUN
DRED THOUSAND DOLLARS more than
its predecessors. The promise of re-
trenchment and reduction of taxation,
made when 1T was elected has been
shamefully disregarded, and in spite Of
the increase Of taxable property, the rate
of taxation for State purposes has been
increased five mills on the 500. After
the close of the war the rate of taxation
had been lowered by the Republican
Legislature from 53 cents on the 500, in
1854, TO 35 cents on the 500, in 1856, and
with this reduced rate the State debt was
being rapidly paid off; but the cry of
"high taxes" was vociferated by such
men as Kennon and Nichols, and great
promises made of a reduction Of taxes
On these promises they We're elected
But instead of curtailing expenses and
reducing taxes they GO to work and hold
three sessions of the Legislature, and
spend more money to defray the ex-
penses OF legislation than ever was spent
before, and run up the rate of taxes
higher than they have been since 1866.
Such is Democratic retrenehment and
reduction of taxationI How do you like
it, taxpayers? si 81 .sa.ti .5ey.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
Washington News and Gossip.
THE TREATIES POSTPONED.


All four OF the foreign treaties before
the Senate this week have gone over TO
next winter, viz: The Darien Ship Ca
nal, the st. Thomas Purchase, the San
Juan Boundary, and the Sandwich Is
lands Reciprocity The friends of the
latter are quite confident it would have
carried the necessary two-thi1'ds if d
vote had been reached. All Indian
treaties, some half dozen in number
have also gone over, the committee
having them in charge not being able
to get IA single one of them considered.
ABBOTT AND SnRAGUE
There has been good deal of talk
here to-day about the matter between
Senators Abbott and Sprague growing
out of the speech made by the latter
yesterday. AT one time there was a
report Oh the street that they had met
and exchanged blows. A little inquiry
showed the rumor to be without foun-
datiOn. Mr.. Sprague prints twelve col
umns of letters to himself in to-day's
Globe, from one hundred and eighty-tw wo
different persons; good many ot them
are not signed, and the signerS of the
Others are not generally known outside
of the towns in which they live.
The Secretary of the Treasury will
receive sealed proposals for the purchase
of gold till noon OF Thursday next, in
sums of not less than five thousand dol
lars, payment to be made in United
States notes or three per cent. certifi-
Gates. Like proposals will be received
every week till further notice. the Sec
intention being to sell from one
lfN11 Ill
regard to the price it may command in
the market.
APPOINTMENTS DURING THE RECESS.
AT the Cabinet meeting to-day the
question of appointing those whose
went over came up. The
general conclusion was reached that
where the failure of the Senate to act
did not spring from positive opposition
the appointments would be made. !
s., CLOSING HOURS OF THE SESSION.
The executive session of last night
was a. continued wrapgle from begin
ming to end. The nomination of Car
isle for Minister to Sweden was the first
Dne taken up, and it was still under
when adjournment came !
MIR. Piles case occupied an hour; all the !
rest of the session being, more or less,
directly given to Carlisle's case. Thee |
hours in the early part of the evening
were used in debate on the merits ef his |
when some one moved to |
ay it on the table. This motion was
rejected by yeas II, nays 80, and his
friends then cried out that this was a |
est vote, and demanded his confirma-
ion, which was at once agreed to with
,ut a division. AIr. Piles nomination |
was next considered. aud finally rejected
1y yeas q, nays "a. H'
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29

OHIO STUDENTS always vote against
Ofie Democracy. So, the Democratic
Legislature, last year, resorted to its
most potent argument, and disfranchised
them, again affirming the same logical
necessity at the present session. These
are the Democratic victories" of peace.
IPitfsburg Gazette.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-29
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persons, as it furnishes the Huf,f-
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9,oai.is!ie6 and supported. N makes
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ID RESSING. TITS the cheapest
preparations etc,' offered to the pss6-
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moro and last longer than three
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1t Is recommended aud used bN
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Ihc tCo,.derTtst results produced
by our Siciiian Hair RefietCer hars
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f.tous names; and, ist order to I'M
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fte,'s, or had some connection scifh
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