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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

instead Of whisky, a strong mixture of
pepper-sauce and water. Some of the by
ISLANDERS claim that there was less water
in that drink than there has been in any
drink sold over that bar in some time. Be
this as it may. water or no water, the
victim swallowed the pepper-sauce.
Shortly afterward, the landlord. in mock
alarm. informed the man that ne had given
him, by mistake, a glass of strychnine.
The poor fellow Immediately fell to the
floor, where he was apparently seized with
convulsions similar to those produced by
the poison he supposed he bad swallowed.
He moreover asserted that he felt the
poison doing its deadly work, and that he
soon would be dead man. The unexpect-
ed success of the joke creating some
alarm, box of pills was procured, and
the victim informed that they would act
as an antidote if taken. A small dose of
them (about handful. we are informed, J
was swallowed Immediately. Additional
=" antidotes" were also administered, and
the patient finally brought around" A
day or two afterward, the imbiber of pep
per-sauce was questioned as regarding his
health. He stated that he was far from
well, but was doing as we'll as could be
expected from man who had swallowed
strychnine, and barely escaped its fatal
effects. We publish the incident, not be-
cause of its comical features. for we are
no admirers or countenancers Of such
radical, practical joking, but because it
offers another curious example of the
effects of the imagination upon persons
physical nature"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

PAUL MoRPnY.-Some time since we
referred to Mr.. Paul Morphy, the great
chess player, as a successful lawyer of
New Orleans We did this upon the
authority of an exchange. Subsequently
New Orleans journal corrected US, and
now a New Orleans correspondent gives
the following account of Mr.. Morphy
after bis triumphal journeys through this
country and Europe:
" But Mr.. Morphy returned to be dis
gusted with chess. He has never played
in public since He is sick as with sur
felt of the very name. At the time met
him, he could think with patience and
pleasure of everything save chess. With
his abdication, Captain Mckenzie, of New
York, remains the best player in the United
States.
"Morphy, upon his return, renounced
at once all his chess-connections, and, un-
der fattering auspices, with sanguine faith
In his success on the part Of all who knew
him, and theorists who did not, he began
the study of law in the New Orleans Law
School. What is the result? He has
turned out no lawyer-not even a commits
sion merchant. He is at present doing
nothing.
Once in while the solitary athlete
can be induced to show that his power is
only in allegiance. | saw him at private
seance, just before l left, beat simultane-
ously in two hours and three quarters,
sixteen of the most accomplished amateurs
in New Orleans His strength has never
been fully tested. and will probably never
be fully developed.
Paul Morphy is poor. Unlike a
Yankee, he finds it impossible to live on
his talent. Opportunities there are in
abundance-rch offers for public exhibit
tions of himselfas delicate as those grasped
at by men who would pretend to more
honor. He steadfastly refuses them. He
was morbidy sensitive to misjudgment,
lest he be taken for one who travels on
his muscle" and, on all his journeys, de-
trayed bis own expenses, and always
played in the presence only of select com
panies, to which no money could gain ac-
cess. There seems to me to be certain
attraction in this fine delicacy, which one
would encounter not elsewhere among US
than in the half-toreign society of New
Orleans, amid which Mr.. Morphy was
reared. 1t is dearer to him than wealth
or renown, or the strange gift by which he
must get his daily bread Or 90 without it.
Some there are do not live by bread
alone"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

A VENERABLE CoAsrER-During one
of the coldest mornings of this week, a
gentleman who generally drives to his
place of business in a one horse cutter,
thought he would change his mode of loco
motion, on account of the severity of the
weather.
The gentleman, who is very giant in
physical proportions, weighing about two
hundred and twenty pounds, started to
walk down Julien avenue, but soon tired
of this, and seeing youth approaching
with a handsome coasting sled, he sighed
and wished he was boy again. This feel
ing eliminated in his seizing the coaster"
and starting down the middle of the street
as he had seen other boys do. Everything
was lovely until our overgrown boy round
ed the turn at the {" Diamond House, :"
when the rapidity at which he was going
began to terrify him. He did not under
stand the art OF " regulating the speed of
his conveyance" He pulled up on the
rope in front of him, only to fnd that this
increased the velocity. Thoroughly
frightened now, he called with the voice
of Stentor to the astonished spectators,
I" Stop her stop her for God sake, stop
her. But his appeal avaied not; in
stead of coming to the imperiled riders
rescue, people fed hurriedly out of the
way, and down came our friend, faster and
faster, to the music of laughing men,
screaming woman and barking dogs, his
own cries for help adding to the uproar.
Suddenly the sled shot into an alley near
Locust street, and dumped our amateur
coaster headforemost in a snow-bank
After ascertaining that be was uninjured,
our friend registered solemn vow to
never again attempt to play boy on the
ice,-Dubuque Telegraph
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

ANNA DICKINSON TAKES RtDE-How
1T WAS DoNE.-Anna Dickinson's trials
and tribulations, and finally her triumphs
in reaching various lecture-stands, to the
qualification of huge audiences, have been
frequently written about. Once she
crossed the Hudson at CatskiIl in a cold
day in January, very nearly freezing and
drowning on the way. Another time she
hir ed special locomotive, as all other
lecturers do occasionally; and again she
was drawn hundred miles in two hours
by six reindeers, standing bolt upright in
a fairy stone-boat, and handling the reins
with the dexterity of the class known as
old sports. Her latest adventure is graphi-
cally related in the Jersey City Journal.
She was engaged to lecture before the peo-
pie of Newark last Wednesday evening
at the opera house. She was passenger
from Jersey City on the 7:lO evening
train. of which o. II. Crane is the "gen-
tlemanly conductor. She intended to
alight at the Market street depot, but for
some unexplained reason she was taken to
South Broad street, some distance beyond.
When Mr.. Cranes train stopped at the
station" says the Journal, "he found the
only way he could get Miss Dickinson
over the swamp which lies between the
tracks and the street on which was horse
car, was to take her on his back and wade
through the mud and quagmire, in some
places knee-deep, to dry land. Miss
d., saw there was no help for it, and cov-
ering her face with her veil to hide her
bushes, put her arms around Mr.. C.'s.
neck, which, doubtless, for him was not
altogether an unpleasant operation, and
left the rest to fate. When about half
way through the swamp of dangers, the
conductor called Justify to the driver of
the horse car which was about to start to
hold on; but the Jehu was dull of hear
ing, and so the louder the conductor yelled
the more energetically the driver whipped
into a run his jaded steeds.'" But we
cannot continue this painful scene. Suffice
it to say that the conductor finally yelled
" bloody MURDER" that some passengers
on the car heard the cry, and that finally
both Miss Dickinson and her jaded steed
was lifted up to dry land and happiness.
Anna" concluded the Journal, never
looked prettler, smiled sweeter, or deliver
ed her thoughts in a more musical tone
than she did last Wednesday highland
it was noticed that all through the lecture
her eyes fairly laughed at the recollection
of the funny manner in which she was
landed in Newark"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

A young woman on Brooklyn Heights
prudently engaged herself to four young
mel, meaning to wait year and marry
the one who at the end of that time could
show the largest bank account. THIS
quadrllateral arrangement was unfortu-
nately discovered, however, and aoy
young gentleman in want of cool, pru-
dent, far-sighted wife, will find that young
female still at Brooklyn Heights and free
from all matrimonial ENHANCEMENT what
ever.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

Ayoung lady writes to an exchange
giving receipt for having fun. She
says, invite half dozen boys and girls to
your house when your pa and ma are away /;
put half-dollar silver piece in dish with
molasses an inch deep in it, and offer it to
the boy who gets it with his mouth. The
more the boys who try to get it, the moro
fun will there be. That girl deserves
diploma.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

WHAT MEN NEED WIVES FoR.-It is
not to sweep the house, and make the bed,
and darn the socks, and cook the meals,
chiefly that a man wants wife. If this
is all he needs, hired help can do it cheap
er than a wife. If this is all, when q
young man calls to see lady, send him
into the pantry to taste the bread and
cake she made send him to inspect the
needle-work and bed-making or put a
broom into her hands and send him to wit
ness its use. Such things are important,
and the wise young man will quietly look
after them.
But what the true man most wants OF q
wife is her companionship, sympathy,
courage, and love- The way of life has
many dreary places in it, and man needs
a companion TO 90 with him. A man is
sometimes overtaken by misfortunes; he
meets with failure and defeat; trials and
temptation beset him and he needs one
to stand by and sympathize. He has some
stern battles to fight with poverty, with
enemies, and with sin; and he needs a
woman that, while he puts his arm around
her and feels that he has something to
fight for, will help him fight; that
will put her lips to his ear and whisper
words of counsel, and her hand to his
heart and impart new inspiration. All
through life-through storm and through
sunshine, conflict and victory, through ad-
verse and through favoriDg winds, man
needs a woman's love, The heart yearns
for it. A sisters or a mothers love will
hardly supply the need.
Yet many seek for nothing further than
success in house-worb. Justly enough,
half of these get nothing more; the other
half, surprised above measure, have got
ten more than they sought. Their wives
surprise them by bringing out nobler idea
in marriage, and disclosing a treasury of
courage, sympathy, and love.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

A lady wished to have her husbands
life insured in a Boston Office the other
day, giving as a reason that she wanted
either 8 husband or some money, she didn't
care much which. She never expected
both at the same time.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

A teamster was rebuked for MS
profanity by young girl returning from
camp meeting. "Why, Miss" said he.
"you don't call that swearing do you?
Why you ought to hear Bill Jones exhort
the impenitent mule
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

A lady, Who was not thoroughly posted
in natural history, asked friend who was
going to Utah to bring her couple of
Mormans for her aquarium. She thinks
they are some kind of an oyster.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19
TERMS FOR ADVERTISING.

for one square of II lines or less of Norpa)i
type, one insertion, 81 90; for each Eubsequ' MT NJ
sertion % cents. Unless the number of Insertions
are marked on the advertisement it will be c"ntr
ueh tiii ordered out Liberal discoun; made to mer
chants and others advertising by the year.
Probate and Commissioners Notices SO eaci
For notices of Liberations, Estrays, the ForIa-
uon and Dissolution of Copartnerships, SC, Sl.O
each for thre insertions If sent by Nail the
mon. = must accompany the letter.
Notices in news columns, 10 cents per line each
Insertion, but no charge made of less tn 50 cent?
Notes of Deaths and Marriages inserted gratis,
but extended Obituary Notices or Poetry will be
charged at the rate of five cents per line.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-03-19

An Arkansas woman lately tarred and
feathered her husband, whereupon he
declared that if she did it again he would
quit the house forever.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
Ten Thousand Sharks.

A correspondent of Land and Water
writes -
In 1859 visited the spot near Hawai-
hae, on Hawaii, one of the Sandwich
Islands, where the lava poured into the
sea, after running nearly sixty miles
down the mountain from the mouth of
the volcanic crater. We went down in
a whale-boat, and as we approached the
spot in the night, the effect of the great
masses Of red hot lava flowing into the
sea, kissing, seething, and bubbling
like million of steam engines blowing
off steam, was startling and most fear
full. But something more fearful still
met our gaze. 1t was sight-well, l
do not exaggerate in saying tens of
thousands-of immense sharks, as thick
as they could swim, close in alongside
the rocks, and seemingly comfortable
and happy, and intent only upon their
own situation. Some of the wretches
were twenty feet long, and there they
went, continually rolling and mixing
with each each other-indeeda horrible
and disgusting mass. Suddenly one of
the ladies put out her hand, and found
the water was very warm, and so we
padded off, without stopping to inves-
tigate the shark question any further.
1t may have been the warmth of the
water that attracted them-perhaps its
sulphurous fumes. They were not there
in search of food; at all events did not
seem to be eating, only playing about,
and enjoying themselves. hope never
to see such a dreadful sight again. 1t
seemed fearful dream. To an old sailor
the sight of single shark is uppleas-
ant so just think of this horrid mass of
sharks On our passage down, we
noticed the sea, full of small dead fish,
floating upon the surface, which we at
trfbuted to some submarine effect of the
volcanic action, which had broken out
only few days previously.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
The Last Hours of Justice Chase.

Chief-Justice Salmon P. Chase, of
the United States Supreme Court, died
in New York city at ten o'clock Wednes-
day morning at No. 4 West Thirty-third
street, the residence Of his daughter,
Mrs. William S. Hoyt. Up to Monday
evening, when he received his friends
and conversed with cheerfulness, he ap-
peared to be in his usual condition of
good health. He had come to New
York from Washington to visit his
daughter, and with the purpose of pro-
ceeding to Boston. On Sunday he
walked to the Central Park from Mrs.
Hoyt's residence and back, and on
Monday he walked for some distance
down town, paying several visits to
friends on the way. There was nothing
in his condition on Monday evening
when he retired for the night to indi-
cate that his end was so near. On
Tuesday morning, at the breakfast hour,
Mr.. Chase was summoned to the meal.
A servant was sent to call him, but no
response being returned to the servants
rap upon the door, the door was opened
and Mr.. Chase was found peacefully
slumbering. He awoke shortly after
wards, and was in the act of dressing
when he was seized with an apoplectic
attack. In spite of every effort to re-
store him, he remained in this condition
of stupor until the hour of ten o'clock
on Wednesday morning, when he ceased
to breathe. Mrs. Sprague, his other
daughter, and her husband, Senator
Sprague, were with him when he died.
1t will be remembered that several
years ago the Chief-Justice was attack
ed with partial paralysis, from which
he never fully recovered. He was,
however, fully competent; to- perform,
as he did, his duties as Chief-Justice of
the Supreme Court, and Of late he has
seemed to be in the enjoyment of COM
plete health. He had in contemplation,
when thus stricken down, visit to
Colorado for the benefit of his health
and for recreation from the cares Of
official life.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
On Marriage...To Young Men.

The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself, as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
orally, she is not rich. But o! what
heart she has when you find her 80
large, and pure, and womanly When
you see it, you wonder if those showy
things outside were really women. If
you gain her love, yot1r two thousand
are million. She'll not ask you for a
carriage, or a first-class house. She'll
wear simple dresses, and turn them
when necessary, with no vulgar magnt-
feat to frown upon her economy. She'll
keep everything neat and nice in your
sky-parlor, and give you such q wei.
come when you come home that you'll
think your parlor higher than ever
She'll entertain true friends on q dollar,
and astonish you with the new thought,
how very little happiness depends on
money! She II make you love home Gf
you don't you're brute), and teach you
how to pity, while you scorn, poor
fashionable society that thinks itself
rich, and vainly tries to think itself
happy.
Now do not, pray you, say any who're,
"I can't afford to marry" Go, find the
true woman, and you can |! Throw away
that cigar, burn up that switch cane, be
sensible yourself, and seek your wife IN
sensible way.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
Love and LEGISLATION.

"Not long since" writesa correspon.
dent of the Detroit Daily Uhtoa, 81
met lady who wns for years the be-
trethed of Senator Carpenter. She
loved him with a woman's wild devo-
ton. She watched every movement Of
his life with an intense anxiety. She
was as keenly sensitive to any .reproach
cast upon him as if she bore his name
and shared his life. And yet he had
broken his vows end married another.
He had held her heart in thrall, until
she felt that it was worthless to any one.
but him, and then flung it away as q
discarded thing. He wrote her after
his marriage and received her forgive
ness and her blessing. He carries with
him still her fondest, sweetest thoughts.
When he speaks to the Senate there is
an eat afar off listening for eve v word !;
and when he receives the plaudits OF
men he thinks perhaps of one whose
smile is worth more than all their prais-
es, who will smile when others frown,
and be true when all else is false. There
is living in Detroit venerable and re-
spected lady who, to those who know
her, is the heroine of a strange story.
She may be seen almost any day on the
streets, hurrying from her tour OF shop
ping back to her pleasant little home,
where over her needle and thread her
fancies have full play, and memory is
supreme. She is woman of rare intel
lect and great cultivation, charming
conversationalist and an exemplary
Christian. She has been twice married
and twice widow and now, as Time
is drawing his silver tracings through
her hair, she moves alone! The loved
ones of the past are gone. Her inter
ests and her affections draw her toward
the world of spirits. She was in her
young days the betrothed of Jefferson
Davis. Why they never married is not
known. She treasures too dearly the
casket of the past to opon it to other
eyes. It may be that to her near and
dear ones she tells the story. I am not
among them, and do not know it. 1t is
certain, however, whatever may have
prevented the consummation of their
carly plans, she and the rebel President
have never lost their regard for each
other. They still exchange letters, and
watch over each others welfare. Two
such lives, running in such different
channels, and yet having the sympathy
of heart and interest, must have much
to attract each other. His has been a
life of splendid achievements and igno.
BILE failures-full of excitement and
thrilling episodes. Hers, having its
own vicissitudes, borne like woman,
has been quiet and unobtrusive, bat
perhaps as wonderful as his. When
pass her on the street, or see her in
church, feel like running. to her and
asking for her story. know it would
be interesting. The sweetheart of JEFF
ferson Davis Who would not like tc
go back of his plottings for power, and
his struggle in behalf of treason, and
learn something of his boyhood, and
now he acted when in love.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
Making the Postal Cards.

The Springfield Union says: The
manufacture of postal cards at the Nor
gan Envelope Company's building is
progressing finely, the impressions be-
ing as perfect as could be wished. The
press turns off 13 sheets of 36 cards each
per minute, and could be run up to 16
sheets per minute if desired, but at the
present time the daily product will ex-
ceed 100000. The press is never stop
ped unless to clean the rollers or adjust
some of the machinery, as the hands
take turns in going to their meals. All
night long is heard the steady whirr OF
the pulleys, and even Sunday affords
no rest, although the company intend
to observe the Sabbath after next week.
The sorters work nights as we'll as the
printers, but the cutting machines that
divide the sheets into cards are not
obliged to run all the time to keep up
with the press. The packing will be
performed on the tables inside the fire.
proof vault. The Morgan Envelope
Company has met the difficulty that at
tended the commencement of new bust
ness with most commendable prompt
ness, and we are glad to congratulate
themon their success.
Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1873-06-05
Great Medicine Men.

The principles which guided the early
physicians were crude and vagie
enough. Galen's theoryis this: "Given
q disease, determine. its character as
hot or cold, moist or dry, by ah effort
of imagination having done so, select
q remedy which has been catalogued as
possessing opposite dualities." When
Felix OPERATED on Louis XIV. for the
stone, he was SO doubtful of bis p%n
skill, as we'll the RESULTS of it, that,
though the operation was successfully
performed, his agitation was 80 exces-
sive that a nervous tremor settled on
him for life, and in bleeding friend
the next day he disabled the patient If
reparably.
of the Omeguas from Venzuela he was
wounded by spear just beneath the
right arm. A Spaniard, who was igno-
rant of surgery, undertook to d'ire him,
and De Utre's coat Of mail was placed
upon ali old Indian, who was mounted
on horse the amateur surgeon then
drove spear into the Indians body
through the hole in the armor, and his
body having been opened, the spear be-
ing still kept in the wound, it was dis.
covered that the heart was unihiured
thus they assumed that De Utre's wound
was not mortal, and, being treated as If
the wound were an ordinary one, he re-
covered.
When Henry ri. of France was NOR
tally wounded by a splinter from q spear
in fitting with Montgomerie, which en-
tered his visor and pierced his eye, the
surgeons, for the purpose of discovering
the probable injury done to the king,
cut off the heads of four criminals, and
thrust splinters into their eyes as near
ly at the same inclination as the fatal
one had entered that of the king. Bar
bers were surgeons for centuries, and
surgery was barbarous. Henry ", at
Agincourt, with 10000 men, had but
one surgeon and fifteen assistants, who
were pressed for the purpose; and even
these had also to do q little fighting,
three of them at Agincourt being arch
ers.
What happened to patients who had
to submit to operations in those early
days can scarcely be conceived by q
generation accustomed to chloroform
and laughing-gas. Fabricous of Acqua,
pendente, perceptor of Harvey, thus
describes what he considers animproved
and easy operation: eff it be q movable
tumor, I cut it away with red-hot
knife, that sears rs it cuts; but if it be
adherent to the chest, cut it without
bleeding or pain with wooden or horn
knife soaked in aqua-fortis, with which
having cut the skin, dig out the rest
with my fingers"