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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-05-15
Serious Accident.

bSf10us AeClNsns
We regret to learn that, on last Fri
day, young William Martin, residing near
Rileysville, Page county was accidently
shot by another young man: The ball en-
tered his side, near his hip, producing a
very serious wound. 1t seems that be and
the other young man had been firing by
turns, with pistol at crippled owl. to
test their skill-and they supposed they
had fired ell the loads in the pistol. I'M
fortunately one remained, and in removing
the cap with ,pin 1t exploded, with the
result stated. We cannot be too careful
with fire-arms.--Shen. Vdllel.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-05-15

D. NJ. REAM,
with
NJMrSrON. &sDAvIDSOE
10 m nj g sion Merchant
AND DEALERS IN
Flour Grain and Feed
No. 907, LOUISIANA AVE.
WASHINGTON, D. C.
REFERENCEs.-Wm. Laird. Jr., Cashir"
Meehah. Nat. B.k, Georgetown, d. c.:
&. A. James, Pres't Bank of WASH,
ton.
q. W. ID. Ramsey Teller lstsNatl B.. /;
Alexandria, Va.
Personal attention given to the sale of Hay. {; p,
aud county Produce, and prompt retsrns made
same, ~
Wheat. Oats, and Corn bought at market prices
March6-6mo.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-05-15

S0 000 feet Of Plank, wanted by
CVsVOO COVER l. COFFMAN
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-05-15

WANTED to Trade for so, 900 feet of Lum-
w Der. S. A BANNER.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1873-05-15

10 000 Oak OF Pine shingles wanted by
lOsOOU CLOVER & COLEMAN.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
A French Miracle.

A miracle, it is claimed, has been
wrought in Batignolles, a suburb of
Paris. Two sick children in that quarter
have recently had visions of the Immac-
ulate Conception, with the result of "a
perfect cure in each case. In one of the
cases the apparition was visible to the
little sufferer six successive days and
nights. The figure was diminutive one,
''Only about palm in height, but ami
mated, making signs to the child to kneel,
or to take a chaplet when offered to him.
Sometimes it carried the Holy Child; at
others it assumed the appearance of the
Immaculate Virgin, clad in blue and
white, as at Lourdes and elsewhere. The
vision was seen by ''many others, espici-
ally children" and certain Nine Lee
"a grave person, % years old,
saw the Blessed Virgin twice." But the
proof of the genuiness of these
is to be found in a certificate
signed by the doctor who attended one of
the much-privileged children. These
facts" says this witness, ''were certified
by me on the very same day; and affirm
on my soul and conscience that they are
the result of miracle, no scientific rea-
sonings being capable of explaining such
4 state of things"
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03

A wild HIuntress.

The Wheeling Register of the goth
inst. tells the following story on the au-
thority of Julia Messenger, of Wind
ridge, Green county, Pennsylvania, for
whose veracity it vouches:
A man living near Windridge, Green
county, Penn, had born to him five chill
dren, four girls and one boy. His name
is Daniel Lewis. When quite young,
the boy and second daughter, named
Lucinda Lewis, developed quite fond
ness for hunting, and were out nearly all
the time, roaming the woods in search of
game. They seemed to delight in moth
ing so much as the life of hunter, and
would be gone from home for weeks at
a time. After some four or five years,
the boy quit it, and entered on the more
Industrious pursuits of life, but the girl
continued in the chase. Drawing her.
self more and more from human inter
course and restraint, she has become a
wild woman, fleeing from the approach
of her kind with the speed of deer.
During the early years of her solitary
life she used to approach her fathers
house and entice the dogs to follow her,
learning almost any breed of dogs to be-
come good hunters. In the hope of
bringing her back to her home and to
civilization, followed her and shot the
dog she had taken away, using every in
ducement to get her to go back with him,
but all in vain.
For eighteen years, since she was
twelve years of age, she has lived this
wild life, sleeping in the centres of straw
stacks during the night, and hiding in
them during the summer the wild and
cultivated fruits she intends for her win
ter's store of provisions. She is now
thirty years old, and is as wild as the
most untamed denizen of the forest.
Mr.. Messenger says he at one time,
while out hunting, met her in the woods.
Her long black hair, covering her face
and eyes, was matted with burs and
her black, flashing eyes made her a
startling picture. She remained per-
fectly still until he got within twenty
feet of her, when she turned and fed
with a swiftness no man could hope to
rival
A few days since she was seen again,
and then had in her hand three pleas
ants and four rabbits, but although these
her, she eluded every at
tempt to capture her. She has been so
long in the woods that she has become
perfectly wild. Her dress is made of
the skins of wild animals, and blanket
that she has taken somewhere during
some of her nocturnal predatory tours.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03

misery; and corsets do have claim on
consideration. Let women who like sus-
penders wear them, but they are not a
panacea. Let people to whom shoulder
straps bring comfort wear those. What
women need is not new way to hang
their clothes, but the power Of adapting
their clothing to their circumstances !;
they need taste and a sense Of fitness.
The typical woman who does duty In
dress-reform lectures, who is always going
upstairs with lamp and a baby, and
full porringer aud something else, and Is
always tripping over her skirts and in
juring her baby by the jerk, should dress
in difference to those circumstances, but
should not impose her dress on women OF
different habits A mountain dress is
suitable for climbing and is becoming to
young girls, but we should be sorry to
see 'women of sixty" wear it as the
usual house dress. A great many wo-
men can dispense with biases in their
dress waits, without loss Of grace, beauty
or comfort; others would find the loose
blouse a serious discomfort, besides being
made hideous and shapeless by it. Miss
Phelps horror of biased waists and the
she sees in them Is rather
pathetic; indeed there is something sad
in the extravaganza and morbidness of
her book Still we advise women to read
it for the sake of the good there is in it,
and because it may suggest improvement |
in the female dress, which is now faulty, |
but not wicked.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
THE SAD STATE OF HAYTI
AFTER FIFTY YEARS.
Experiment of Negro Governments

From the Washington Chronicle (Grant
| paper.
Bishop Coke, in the account of his re-
cent episcopal visit to Hayti, writes that
for the past six years Mr.. Holly, the
chief agent of the American Episcopal
Mission in that island, has devoted his
energies principally to work, not for the
English speaking people, but for the
evangelization of the poor natives of the
island, 500, 900 of whom are virtually
heather, though the religion of the coun-
try is nominally Romish. The condi-
ton of most of the blacks is very like
that of natives in the heart of Africa.
Their religious condition is that of bar
barism. They worship the spirit of evil,
although they take their children to the
Romish priests for baptism as a charm
against the incantations which they use
one against the other. The cannibalism
OF religious superstition is still very prev
alent in many parts of Hayti. Children
are prepared for the rite by first giving
them root or bark which Supplies them.
Then they are fattened for the sacrifice,
after which the worshipers feed upon
their bodies. This sacrifice their super
stition demands once a year, and both
Episcopal and Wesleyan missionaries
bear testimony to its existence, asserting
that the practice is systematic, and not
occasional. The government has not
sufficient strength to suppress the prac-
tiee, although it has made the attempt. |
Bishop Coke recalls a conversation held |
with the exiled President Gefrard, |
whom he visited in the island of Jamaica |
81 did my best" said the President, ito |
put down this cursed Voudou worship"
The Bishop asked if it were possible that
they thus sacrificed children to their
heather god. ALAS" was the answer,
81 was obliged to shoot eight men for
to strike terror into the those
whom | could not reach. Cannibalism
is strong there, and it was for that rea-
son am here an exile because l made
war upon it." In this land marriage is
IN exceptional institution SO much so
hat one of the missionaries, laboring in
he mountains, reported with beaming
yes as an improvement ON the former
tate of things, that during six years he
lad celebrated six marriages. The three
points which the Bishop thinks ought to
,e presented first and foremost to the
,eople of these islands are the necessity
# Christian marriage, sanctification of
he Lords Day, and the knowledge of
he Scriptures, of which even the nOmi-
lal Christians of the islands seem very
gnorant.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
Gossip for Girls.

A Kansas City mother lately fogged
young man for marrying her daughter.
The lady admirers of Pere Hyacinthe
have presented him with silver chalice.
A Princeton, ILL.,, girl actually died of
grief because her new spring hat fell into
the river and was ruined.
Miss Matte Mcclellan Brown is On her
way to England as the accredited repre-
sentative of the Good Templars of Ohio.
Carthage, n. Y, comes forward with
a woman who, at the age of one hundred
and one, jumps rope and plays at leap
frog. Next.
There is a young lady in Yorkshire
who is six feet five inches high, and five
feet six inches round. Could there be
more beautiful proportions?
An Irishman puts this question:
Would you rather go through giddy
waltz with a pretty girl chan go through
a pretty waltz with a giddy girl?"
Mrs. Mary Wordsworth, M. D., fe-
male physician who emigrated from New
Hampshire to Turkey, was recently mar
ried to a Russian surgeon, named Basin.
The editor of the Salt Lake Tribune
says he heard young girl say to her
recently, My opinion is that
a Norman is but little better than Gen
tile, if anything"
A sensitive San Francisco belle ha-
carries a whalebone switch to
whale beauin' young gentlemen, and
they say it only heightens the previous
of her manner.
A Missouri lover called his girl Mo.
duck, in response to which misunder-
stood compliment the lass lifted hand
full of hair from the top of his head-a
modified scalping operation.
A Philadelphia mantuamaker impru-
IDENTIFY announces that she makes her |
dresses freproof, not realizing that her
customers wish toilettes to attract rather
than to repell their flames.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03

The cholera, says an exchange, In
these DAYS is much less of terror that it
was at the time of Its first visitation to
this country. 1t is far better known; the
treatment of it is much better under
stood; the doctors deal with it under
more favorable circumstances and with
more confidence in what they are doing.
Still it is q formidable disease, and one
whose presence is to be averted if it be
possible to do SO by human agencies. It
is well known that care as to food and
drink, the avoidance of irritating dishes
and liquors, cleanliness of person, cleanli-
ness of houses and streets, cellars, yards,
etc., indoors and out, the extirpation of
rubbish heaps and all neglected offal.
etc., are projections. These are human
agencies to be exerted now.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
SOUTHERN ITEMS.

Stone Mountain is 1850 feet high, and
its weight is estimated to be 1907 ,000,-
900, 900 tons.
The Franklin (Ga.) News says that
fleas are as thick in that place as thieves
in Congress.
There are twenty-eight farmers oranges
in Georgia, and they are increasing at the
rate of two per day.
Rhea, though not 50 large in territory
and population, is richer in coal and iron
than any county in East Tennessee.
A correspondent of the Galveston
News gives very gloomy picture OF the
crops in the Lower Brazos and Colorado
a gentleman of Savannah, eighty-six
years of age, has never been out of the
State of Georgia, and but twice out of
that city.
The Republican reports that the streets
of the town of Huntingdon, Tennessee,
is filled with caterpilars, which are rap
idly destroying the foliage.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
Jute Paper.

The Dundee (Scotland) Advertiser has
lately been printed on paper wholly made
from jute bagging, the staple of the local
manufacture Of that town. The first
specimen sheets were too thin and trans
parent, but both these evils, it is thought,
can be fully overcome. Jute reflections
cost 60 los per ton at Dundee, while es-
parto is somewhat cheaper, but the yield
Of the former is seventy per cent, and
that Of the latter only fifty per cent,
which will compensate for the difference.
In order to encourage experiments with
this material, the proprietor of the Ad-
vertiser offers a premium of ESQ for the
best ream of paper made entirely from
jute, suitable for printing his journal, of
its average size and weight, and of which
the maker will undertake to supply fifty
tons at a price not TO exceed AID per
pound, and premium Of 9100 for the
best ream Of paper made entirely of iute,
of which the maker will undertake to
supply one hundred tons at al per pound,
the specimen reams to be delivered on or
before September /, 1873.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
Remarkable Case Of Superstition

Tie Warsaw Poland) Israelite con-
tains an account Of remarkable piece of
superstition, which appears ludicrous in
the extreme. 1t seems that a cook in
the employ of Jew informed her mas
ter that she had suddenly heard heart
rending and piercing screams proceed
from a piece Of meat which she was
about to convert into steaks. The man
fully believed that the soul Of a Jewish
sinner was in the meat, and that it cried
for honorable burial, according to the
rites of our holy religion. He fastened
to the Rabbi and requested him solemnly
to bury the beef-steak, dressed in a
shroud, in the Jewish cemetery, and to
perform all the ceremonies appertaining
to the interment of members Of the jew
ish church. The Israelite adds that the
fool was severely reprimanded by the
Rabbi for his superstition, the PROFOUND
err of the silly request being shown the
door.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
Fire WOrshIPers.

Bombay, India, Cor. Syracuse Courier
You have all heard of the Parsees
They are the Jews of Bombay. They
are race that was excluded from Persia
: as the Jews have been from many coun.
tries. Here they are located. They are
the traders. They buy and sell the cot.
ton. They are the brokers, the money
lenders and shavers. They never mingle
with others. They have their own schools.
and in their way are highly educated
They take care Of their own poor They
have great wealth, and have elegant
villas on Malober Hill, the most fash
ionable part of the city. They drive
splendid horses and ride in elegant car
riages. If the ladies and children appear
on the street, they are dressed in silk. l
never saw children SO elegantly dressed
anywhere else. Many of the young ladies
are very beautiful, but are never allowed
to receive visits from any but those of
their own race. They are fond of amuse-
ments, and have theatre of their own.
They-are fire worshipers. When the labors
of the day are over they are seen along the
shores of the sea, facing the setting sun,
with their hands clasped, repeating their
prayers. We made a visit to their GEM
etery. The sentinel took us along the
winding road, and Il rupee given to him
acted like a charm. 1t opened all the
gates and passed the police. There were
no Parsees in sight to stand in our way,
and we entered the prohibited enclosures. |
These grounds are surrounded by a wall
twenty feet high, and have been used for |
a great number of years by this strange |
people. There are no monuments in the |
cemetery, but there are three round tow
ers about fifty feet in diameter, and fifty |
to sixty feet high. On the top of these |
towers there is an iron CRATE. The dead |
are brought to the gate and delivered TO /
the priests, and the friends depart The
priests prepare the corpse and lay it on
the CRATE, and it is devoured by the vul-
lures, and the bones drop through the
CRATE into the charnel house below. These
towers or vaults are called the flowers
of Silena." We saw hundreds of vul-
lures sitting on these towers, and the
sentinel told us that they would take all
the flesh from the bones of corpse in an
hour. We asked why three towers The
sentinel, pointing to one said, Parse
with plenty of money put there" to an
other, "Parsee but little money put
there, and the other, "Parsee with no
money put there" The sentinel said,
when corpse is placed on the CRATE, the
strife and noise of the vultures is fright {
'ul, and could be heard for long dis
ance. We saw these flowers of Silena," ,
md do not care ever to be any nearer.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
The Salary Grab.

The number of members Of Congress
who have returned their back-pay is
stated to be forty-four. Whether this
includes those whose names are known
only to the Treasurer is not clear. But
the country has at least saved nearly
5000, 900 through this tardy morality, or
rather has recovered so much of the steal,
and it may be credited to the vigorous
expression of a wholesome public senti-
ment. There is a good deal of virtue in
fine burst of popular indignation. =
Albany Evening Journal (RadicaD.
The press still keeIs up a cannonade
on the salary grabbers, and it is now as
sured beyond doubt that MANY promi
nent politicians who are just blooming
into notice and striking out on the path
to distinction, have been blighted forever
by this unmanly and treacherous act.
Among those who fall to rise no more in
the political arena, are many old favor
ties of the respective parties, but it Is
found impossible to save them from the
common political morgue prepared by
Butler when he set this salary steal"
before them.-Quincy Herald.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03

Constantine de Negri, of "Hornsey
Iron Works" Hornsey Road, Middlesex
County, neutrality-suspicious. in
machinery for the reduction of wood to
fiber or shavings machine consists
of hollow cylinder, opened at one end,
and furnished with holes or slots, for re-
ceiving and fixing in them knives or cut
tiers, leaving clearance or space for pas
sage of the shavings or cuttings removed,
which cylinder is made to reyolve round
an axis in bearings, so that a piece of
wood held against its external surface
would be cut to the desired thickness.
One or curved plates are fixed round
this cylinder, at an angle to its surface
and parallel to its axis of rotation with
out touching it, so that piece of wood
being dropped between the opening
formed by the upper part of curved
plate and the surface of the cylinder
would be held against the cylinder, and,
being cut by the knives or cutters, would,
as it diminished in size, sink or be car
ried further into the angle formed by the
back plate and the surface of the cylinder
until it is entirely reduced to fiber or
shavings.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03

In the ordinary processes for recovering
unmiXed fibre, artificial or vegetable, from
rags of mixed tissues, one of the iutcrwO-
ven materials Is sacrificed Ia order 90 OBJ
tain the other separately for use. To avOi
the necessity OF thus sacrificing one matte
rial In order 70 serve the other as also for
the purpose of ecOnOmiZing the Cousump-
ton of costly chemicals in so doing, Mr.. IT,.
.. Ward some years ago devised "a process
by the use of which both classes OF iugru-
dents, the animal and the vegetable are re-
covered In a saleable form, each product
fetching in the market 40 least double The
rate of price at which the raw material ~
obtainable. In this system, moreover thc
only chemical agent used rs water iu enc
condition OF steam. The effect OF the steam
upon the wool Is 10 reduce 10 DO a vnruish-
Ike coagulum-tOugh aud tenacious while
damp, but easily rendered brittle aud ir-
able by dessication. The dried mass is
beaten and tossed In rotating sleeves,
through which the wooden fabric falls us
a finer powder rich I'm ammonia, and there
fore very valuable as a fertilizer. Tho cote
ton threads, together with amy HAS, hemp
or other vegetable lbres chat may
chance TO be present are retained us uUru
within the sieve, and sell as a paper mate
rial of medium quality, ranking with thr
class Of material known IN the rag trade by
the technical application "cOlOrs '-IccI-
nologist.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-03
a Girls Advice 10 IGcr Scv-Vu
Nonsense about H.

DEAR GIRLS: Don't do anything Chat you
Will look back on from the muturcr ugu UI
thirty and wish you hadn't. Don't do any
thing, no matter how long YOU huVc been
engaged TO "A man, that when you are mar
ried you VIII regret. Your husband viii
respect you all the more, ~ you have al-
ways been true % yourself during his court
ship. Time enough for The kisses aud tIIo
loving clasps will come after marriage, and
will be enjoyed all the more tor true purity
OF thought and deed. Aud 10 the engage
ment should happen 10 get broken. DO viii
save many annoying thoughts, iluOt words,
to know that IL Is impossible for some man
whom you care nothing for then tO boast off
Of familiarities from you. These young
little, caressing, familiar acts, that iu thcm-
selves contain nothing impure, must posses.
impure minds, and imagined license from
the innocent, thOughtless expression 900
pleasure, viii, sooner or later, with One
venture more, you may depend. Your
careless words and actions may iunBme his
passions, and presently some one falls, HuI
can you say but that 10 Is partly yodr fault
No doubt 10 Is very pleasant TO be- supported
in your evening walk or ride by the arm Oi
your dear Augustus, or 10 lean your bead
10 rest upon his convenient shoulder. hold.
ing his hand, and 20 give him parting kIsst
but a. sure as you live 70 be ten years older
you will be sorry that you did TO- Then
consider one thing more. In the strength
OF your virtue, did you ever think that some
weaker sister may see or know Of thc act,
and thinking II you do so DO cannot Doe im-
properI The consequence ls that some One
takes advantage Of her weakness, and -hr b.
lost. Oh, girlsl we must blame our own
selves for some Of this dreadful CVill do
be thoughtful, aud avoid any action aeIf-
respect calls doubtful.-Ashtabula Sentinel