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the crowds in the great square below
clapping hands aud applauding, as if it
had been a display Of fireworks or the
atrical pagent got up for their entertain
ment. They did not cry biS BIS that /
am aware Of, but, nevertheless, repeti-
ton was by many expected on the fol-
lowing night, because it appears that in
1870 these Northern Lights, which
sometimes show themselves so far
South were visible two nights in success
sion. The we'll known astronomer,
Father Secchi, has published in the OBJ
seryatore Romano detailed and scien-
tifc account of the aurora, which he de-
clares infinitely finer than those seen in
October, 1870. 1t was visible at about
Al minutes past 5-that is to say, as soon
as it was sufficiently dusk for it to be
seen, but it had certainly begun much
sooner. Its last traces had not COM
pletely disappeared till quarter to
four on Monday morning. The phe-
nomenon was as far south as Sicily.
kilograms concerning it have been re-
ceiyed from Mordica and Palermo, and
Professor Palmieri reports about it from
Naples"
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A Magnificent sight.

A gentleman who writes from Bombay,
the station at which Professor Lockyer,
of the British Eclipse Expedition, viewed
the recent eclipse, writes to Nature as
follows:
1t does not happen more than once in
lifetime to see such a glorious and
magnificent sight as that from which |
have just returned-that is, the total
eclipse of the sun. / have seen many
eclipses before, but never anything to
equal this. / was engaged to go with
the Morgans to the top of the hill to see
it. Got up at six, and found it a lovely
morning. | rode up to Morgan's about
half mile, carrying with me glasses,
smoked glass and sun hat. Got there
before seven, and found the eclipse al
ready begun. Got out two mirrors and
watched the hole in the sun grow bigger
and bigger 1t began from the top, and
we all went off to the highest point on
the hill, from whence we could see all
Ooly and the mountains around. When
the eclipse got so far, the cold on the
mountains grew much greater, the grass
was so wet no ones boots kept it out,
the feet and hands grew cold, and with
your back to the sun the light over the
country was like the twilight or the
earliest dawn. Gradually the lower
streak got thinner and thinner, until at
last there shown a light like the famous
lime-light, and in moment or two that
went out and the sun was totally con-
cealed; many stars we're visible, the
whole country looked dark, like moon
light--the crows stopped cawing, and
for two minutes and a half the total
eclipse lasted, sight | shall never for
get, and then the lime-ight again ap-
peared at the bottom rim of the sun,
ard gradually more and more of him
appeared, the crows began again at
once, and the cocks began to crow, the
shadow was now inverted, and by de-
grees got smaller, until at nine o'clock
the eclipse was over. cannot but sup
pose that the scientific men must have /
had grand opportunities of observation,
and that to.day's pencil will carry home
many a description. Anything more
beautiful, more sublime, or more perfect
it would be impossible to conceive.
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sa. MEMPHIS TENN: FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH s. 1872.

halves of some seated and standing fe-
male figures. This sculpture is very
bold and effective as decoration, but
wants the ineffable charm and fresh
ness of the frieze of the Partenon, while
in mastery vigor of execution and
dramatic force il falls far short of the
frieze Of the Mausoleum. 1t is careless
and inexaet in execution, and has the
characteristics which we might expect
to find in the Greek sculpture of the
Macedonian period, when work was ex-
ecuted rapidly to crafty the vanity of
kings; and when an Oriental love for
mere mass rather than beauty or design
had began to affect both sculpture and
architecture. Allowing for this first
disappointment, own that gazed with
peculiar interest on these relics of
those famous columns on which st.
Paul must have gazed when he preached
against them, but which local fanaticism,
aided by local vested interests, pre-
served in all their splendor for three
centuries after his coming.
The architecture of the Temple of
Diaaa is Ionic. Mr.. Wood has very
properly selected such fragments as will
show what the base, the capital, and the
order generally were like. Once housed
in the British Museum they will furnish
materials out Of which, not, perhaps
complete restoration of the temple, but
new chapter in the history of Greek
architecture can be constructed, just as
out of the fossil bones of the megathe-
rum an Owen reconstructs lost types in
the animal kingdom. .i' 81
The stones we're very heavy, the mud
of Ephesus tenacious and the weather
variable; but the Caledonian's blue-jack-
cts have done their work with an alacri-
ty and good humor characteristic of
blue-jackets in these expeditions, and by
the end of the week the ship will leave
this port with her precious cargo,
bound for Malta.
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ATough story.

A man with hairy tongue is the
latest discovery in Covington, Ky. A
reporter visited him Monday, and upon
being questioned upon the truth of the
report, "Yes, sir, said be, descending
and holding his face to the light, see
for yourself, sir, and opening his mouth
he protruded long tongue, on which he
saw hair over half an inch long, growing
thickly. The color was a sandy red,
and as the hair sloped backward, it gave
him pain while speaking. Atthe root OF
each hair the flesh was blue. He has
no hair on his face, though (he says he
is fully forty years old. His wool is like
that Of any other darky, black and kinky.
he is perfect in every limb and feature,
except his tongue; and what is also re-
markable, he has gray eyes. On ques-
tioning him our reporter learned the
following facts; He was born in Xenia,
Ohio, of white woman; his father was
black. On the breaking out Of the war
he entered colored regiment as cor
poral. He was wounded at Petersburg,
and at the end Of the war he returned
to Ohio, from whence he came to Cow
ing about year ago. he has none Of
the idioms Of the negro, and except a
thickness of speech caused by the growth
OF hair on bis tongue, his pronunciation
is perfect. BE is employed by Blick &
Phillips as a coal-heaver, and any one
wishing to do so can see him and his
tongue. he has no hesitation in making
faces for those who call on him. Very
few persons in the city Of Coyington
know Of this free show.
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Changing Clothing.
ans Jourpal Of Healtb savs :

AA0AA o OO0AA OA AACoAbA coJ
In the latitudes of New England and
New York, going westward, the month
of March is the most disagreeable of the
whole year, with its changing tempera.
ture, its slosh and mud, its cold, raw,
piercing, damp winds; and although not
as cold as January and February, it is
more prolific of dangerous diseases,
greatly promoted by the hurry of the
people for lighter clothing, but it would
be a great deal better to wear the entire
winter suits through March, and even to
the middle of April; and even then un-
til the first week in May, to make no
change in the outer clothing, nor any in
the inner garments, except to less
heavy weolen next the skin; for it is only
for the three hours embracing l o'clock
in the afternoon that winter clothing is
at all oppressive; while the very warmth
of MONDAY makes the raw dampness of
the morning and late afternoons special
ly felt.
All changes to lighter or cooler gar
ment should be made at dressing in the
morning, and if in any case the change
leaves the body chilly, or soon after it
is made the weather changes to be much
cooler, by all means promptly, without
half an hours delay, resume the full
winter dress. The old, the young, the
invalid, in short all persons of feeble
constitutions, Of small vitality, should
be especially careful to heed these sug-
gestions; inattentien to which gives rise
to the very frequent announcements in
the morning papers, in the early spring,
Died suddenly, yesterday, - Of
often the very friend whom
he had met in the street, or at church,
within a week, apparently as we'll and as
healthy as ever before.
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j. r. SPENCER & CO., NEW YORK
THE DIAMOND GLASSES,

Which are now offered to the public, are pro-
nounced by all the celebrated Opticians Of the
world to be the ..,.
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HYDR0PH0BIA.
Treatment in the Recent Case at
Flint, Michigan.

Treatment I'm the Recent Case al
Flint, Michigan.
Correspondent Detroit Tribune.I
The subject of so much discussion,
Mr.. Burt True, was bitten by rabid dog
last May. The dog had bitten several
animals, and was killed. Young True
was bitten in the center of the inside Of
the right hand. Being in the country at
the time, it was some twelve hours be-
fore he reached surgeon, who cauter-
lied the wound with nitrate of silver.
The wound healed, and remained so un-
til between two and three weeks since,
when it became irritable and broke out
again. Soon the first marked systems
Of hydrophobia showed themselves, con-
vulsions, " barking like dog" frothing
at the mouth, and making strenuous ef-
forts to bite everything that came Sear.
During these convulsions, the patient
would seize the pillows from his bed in
his teeth, and shake and rend them with
all the seeming ferocity of an angry
dog. An intense dread of water
also exhibited itself, the sight of which
threw him in the most terrible convul-
sions, at these times requiring the united
strength of FIVE men to keep him under
subsection; in fact, every symptom of
hydrophobia made itself conspicuous.
The patient was attacked on Friday
evening, January 18th. On Saturday
night his physician DR.. AFFORD, reached
him, and at once was convinced Of the
terrible nature of the disease Having
had case similar some seven or eight
years since, where the patient recovered
under his treatment, and has remained
we'll ever since, after consulting the
physician present, DIR. Mccall, it was
decided to place the patient uDon the
same treatment which had been success
full in this former case, which, for the aid
il may be to others who suffer from this
disease, we here give as follows: The
injection under the skin of large doses
Of morphine, and the administration of
large doses of castor, which is power
full antispasmodic. About one grain of
the sulphate of morphine was injected
under the skin once in four hours, and
half drachm of the powdered castor,
mixed with syrup, given internally.
The effect was to produce sleep in
about half an hour, which lasted about
an hour and halt, when the commissions
returned at intervals of an hour to an
hour and half until nine o'clock Sun
day morning, when the last conyulsion
occurred, after which he suffered Sc
verely from obstinate vomiting until
Monday, at ten o'olock, when that also
ceased, leaving the patient compara-
lively easy, bat very much prostrated.
Since that time he has gradually i'm
proved, and now is, TO all appearances,
quiet well. In addition to the above
treatment, small quantities Of chloro-
form were inhaled at times, and on Sun
day morning the patient was wrapped in
a woolen blanket wrung out Of warm
solution Of muriate of ammonia, eigh- |
teen to twenty grains to the ounce. This
was the treatment which checked this
fearful malady, and which DR.. AFFORD,
for the sake of humanity, is anxions
should be published to the world and
thoroughly tested.
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A ROYAL RACE.
BY JAMES o'cARRoLL.

Among the fine old kings that reign s
Upon a simple wooden throne,
There's one with but small domain,
But mark you, 1t is all his own.
And though upon his rustic towers
No ancient standard wave its wing. =
Thick, leafy banners flushed with flowers
From all the fragrant easements swing.
And here. in royal homespun. bow
His nut-brown court at night and morn
The bronzed Field Marshal Of the Plough,
The, Chancellor Of Wheat and Corn =
The Keeper Of the Golden Stacks.
The Mistress of the Milking-Pail,
The bold Knights OF the Ringing Axe,
% The Heralds Of the Sounding Flail.
! The ladies Of the New-Mown Hay. 4
The Master Of the Spade and Hoe,
The Minstrels of the Glorious Lay,
That all the Sons Of Freedom know. i
And thus while ON the seasons roll.
Hewins from the inspiring sod
The brawny arm and noble soul
That serve his country and his God.
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The aurora nt Rome (nOt GuidO's).

The Aurora at Rome mot GutdO'sl.
The correspondent of the London
Times gives us this account Of the de-
light afforded by the unusual phenome-
non of the Aurora Borealis at Rome:
In the evening, as people were going
home, the northern sky suddenly ap-
psered lit up as by vast conhagration.
1t was toward six o clock, hardly dark,
when this was hrst noticed, and soon it
rapidly increased, and Rome was treated
to magnificent display Of aurora.
People hocked up to the Trinita del
Monti, whence, and from the elevated
points so numerous in the city Of the
Seven bills, the beautiful phenomenon
was observed 10 The utmost advantage.
From six to half-past six, and somewhat
later, it was extremely fine, the whole Of
the northern heavens being Of q rich
crimson color, with broad rays Of paler
light diEerging upward from the horizon,
at times fading away and then reviving
with redoubled luminous splendor, the
stars visible all the while, shining
through the ruddy glow. 1t was very
fine aurora, not often surpassed n
beauty in much more northerly ATTITUDES.
Il lasted, with varying brightness, during
the whole eEening, and at eleven o'clock
the sky was still Of & deep red. The
sight was no novelty even to the younger
Romans, for it had occurred in 1879,
few days before the inundation
Of the Tiber, with which the supersti-
tious lower orders are said to have con-
nected it. Doubtless many auguries
we're drawn from Sunday nights dis
play. From the heights Of the Pincian,
when tho phenomenon was in its most
-tiful phases. il vas curious TO hear
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WALL PAPER.
MASONIC TEMPNE.
OLD RUILDING FOR SALE.

CEALED PROPOSALS. WILL BE RE
- ceived Al IRE Office Of the Secretary. for
sixty days from date February 70. 1872 for
the purchase Of the tw0-story brick building
on the northeast corner Of Madison and
Second streets, SlxS0 feet. The same must be
removed within thirty days from date Of pur-
chase, or when ordered b. the Directory.
Terms cash. or approved sixty days note.
The Directory reserve the right 70 reject any
or al bids.
By order Of the Directory.
H. II. HIGREB. President.
J. WHEELER. Scrrf tary. lfl-eOWtd
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PROPOSALS.
TO CONTRACTORS.

CEALED PROPOSALS WILL Be RE
- ceived at the Office Of the Secretary, by
the undersigned, until IL o'clock M, on
Saturday, 3Oth day of March, 1872,
for the Excavation of the lot $50 by 14S1S feet,
Masonic Temple. Plans and specifications
can be seen at the office Of Jones g. Baldwin,
Architects. The contract will be let out to
the lowest responsible bidders:
The Directory reserve the right to reject any
and all bids.
By order of the Directory.
JN0. ZENT,
G. b. CHURCH,
j. M. PETTIGREW.
lH-eowtd Building Committee:
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INSURANCE.
REMOVAL.
REMOVAL.

TUE OFFICE OF THE WESTERN METH
. odist has been moved from q Jefferson
sir yet to 279M Main street. up stairs, in the
Ton, rs formerly occupied by O., w. L. Crook.
corr. vpondents and others viii take notiee,
III frect their letters aaeordiugly. We
;Ssaa n ow $500 copies. The Methodist is
s.ooJ ~. iium for advertisers.
az A'' X. w. BLEW & 90, Publishers.
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BuREETT's CoLoeYE is the best and
cheapest.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-04

When the news of the Cincinnati nomination
was received at Syracuse, 100 guns were fired in
honor OF Greeley and Brown.
A hundred guns were fired at Albany in honor
ofthe nomination Of Horace Greeley.
The nomination of Greeley and Brown was
very iaVordbly received at Wilmington, N, c
Dy the conservatives; and the democrats uni
versally conceded that Greeley would be less
objectionable to the south than any candidate
brought before the convention, with the excep-
ton, perhaps, Of Judge Davis.
The newspaper bulletins at Richmond Va
were surrounded by crowds all yesterday after
noon. The announcement of the nomination
OF Gfeeley AID Brown gave very general satislac-
ton to the conservatives and liberal republicans
who think it the strongest ticket that could have
been selected. The State Journal (administra-
Iion) thinks Greeley the most vulnerable man
the liberals could have nominated.
The nominations of Greeley aud Brown were
well received at Louisville, Ky.
At Philadelphia crowds assembled at the bull
letins to-day 10 learn the result Ol the nomna-
tons at Cincinnati. There was, however no
excitement, and all parties appear satisfied, the
republicans having faith in the name OF Grant
over all opposition, while the democrats believe
that the nomination will carry away large num-
bers of Grants adherents.
The national committee Of the Irish American
reform league at Cincinnati has issued an adj
dress 10 the lrish-American voters of the United
States, denouIcing the attempt 10 loist upon the
CINCINNATI convention the nomination of
Adams, endorsing that of Greeley and Brown.
and recommending the organization Of Greeley
clubs or leagues IN all parts Of the country, and
the formation OF efficient state committees i'm
every state.
EeThe news Of the nomination of Greeley and
Brown was received at Nebraska city with en-
ihusiastic demonstrations by the liberal republi-
cans.
The nomination of Greeley and Brown gives
satisfaction generally TO the opponents Of Gen.
Grant. -'
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COUNTY NEWS.

The First National bank of Barre has declared
dividend of five per cent.
MIR. NJ. Mckenzie of Globe Village sailed from
New York Tuesday for China.
The Blackstone manufacturing company of
Blackstone will soon put into their large mill
steam engine of 800 horse power.
The house of Samuel Freeman, in Globe Viii
lage, WAS entered one evening last week, while
the family were away, and robbed of SO in
money
During the high winds last week Friday, an
unfinished dwelling house, belonging to Lewis
Longway in Georgiaville, in Southbridge, was
partially blown down
About one hundred of the foreign population
of Milford went to Boston to get naturalized.
Part of them got arrested for intoxication, and
were sent to the island. Their friends in Mil
ford are now engaged in bailing them out, to be
in readiness to vote on the liquor question next
Tuesday.
willow Park" seminary in Westboro, Dr.
Hero, A. NJ, will close the present term with
select soiree in the town hall, Friday evening,
May 10th. Prof. A. NJ. Loomis, of Springfield,
who has been instructor in dancing, will have
charge of the terpschorean part of the enter
tainment. Barnard & Richardson's orchestra
will furnish the music
ten cent toy balloon, sent up from Pittsfeld
one day recently, with note attached promis-
ing one dollar to whoever should return it
to Pttsfeld, was found on an alder bush in
Spencer, ninety miles distant the same day and
the promised greenback has been forwarded to
the finder.
The mail bag from Charlton to Southbridge
recently contained one letter. The cost of trans
portation, provided that it started from Charl-
ton, was about one dollar while the sum real
lied was only three cent. The Southbridge
Journal says that some days the amount of mail
matter is not SO large, and on others u little
larger.
Mount Hebron Temple of Honor of Spen.
Ger had Il public installation of officers
on Thursday evening. Immediately after
the Good Tcmpars celebrated the sixth
anniversary of their organization in the
vestry of the Congregational church. Lodges
in Charlton and Cherry Valley were large
ly represented, and the company, after
listening to short addresses, sat down to COLA
ton, furnished by the ladies of the town.
Seth Holden of Barre, seventy-nine years OF
age, was killed on Tuesday by being thrown
from wagon near the Naquag house. He was
sitting in the wagon while young man was
embarrassing the horse, which took fright and
ran, throwing Mr.. Holden out in such manner
that his head struck against a platform with
such force as to fracture the skull, causing
death the following day. He was one of the
oldest and most respected citizens of the town,
having been there and passed nearly his entire
life among the people of Barre. During his life
he held many official positions, and performed
the duties connected with them in a faithful
m
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'I.ibernl, Adv;ce cor p,.,,...,.,,.,,

SPRlNGFIELD, MASS, May 3-The Republi.
can, tomorrow, will say that the Cincinnati
convention has disappointed both its enemies
and its friends: at has seemed unable 10 lift
itself quite to the level of its opportunity, and
has rested content with doing well, when the
country and the hour demanded that it should
do the best" After abiding to the record of the
candidates, and dwelling on the fact that Horace
Gfeeey has latterly been growing out of his Old
partlsanship preJudiees aud crotchets and into
the respect aud affection OF his countrymeD. the
article closes as follows: "rhe administration
party should not deceive itself on this
point. Mr.. Greeley's popularity is no
myth. He is as strong with the ex-savehold-
ers as with the eX-slaves; with the Irish laborers
as with the native born farmers who have never
voted democratic ticket in their life. He may
Ne oeaieh; out those who fancy the job an easy
one will, one Of these days, see cause to alter
their opinion. II the Philadelphia people con
elude TO undertake this job it behOoves them to
nulld stouter platform than they are now
thinking of, and 10 find stronger man than
Grant to put upon ii when built"