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Year: 1869

1t is ten years since the American HomcO-
phhc Institute met IN Boston BEFORE and both Boston
and homeopathy In America have grown during that
interval. The Institute now numbers among is attend
ant members many OF tho most faithful aud eminent
medical practitioners I'm the country The rise OF
branch OF the medical profession from small aud do.
splsed beginning TO position Of gnity and prosperity
has been steady and rapid The doctors OF tho new
school hayo now reached stage when they can enjoy
themselves IN each others society," and profit by mutual
predictions OF carly downfall they have so
during the Tuesdays session, tho rea-
tons OF woman TO homeopathy, did not enter
fully might have been expected into that branch OF
the subject which Will suggest itself to people In
these days from the title-the admission OF women
equal terms TO the practice and profession OF medicine.
own experience should DO the first rise above the
dictates OF DlgOtTy, which would exclude women
from tho lists merely because they have always
been excluded. But the question OF tho admission Of
10 the medical schools and societies OF other
has many considerations aside from those which
IN other relations Of life. There considerations Of
decaey and modesy which cannot bo overlooked while
the relations OF men and women remain tho Creator
has left Them lnto these points, which have been dis
cussed IN previous meetings OF the Institute, Dr. Ludam
did not enter but they quite likely 10 como IN
the last few tho transactions OF the Institute have
taken wider range than formerly, and It's active MEM
bers have assumed more positive and aggressive atti
tude The result rs In tho Increased interest In their
proceedings and In the gradual expansion OF hOmeo.
pathY as branch OF the healing art The attention OF


TO be given for the rest Of the week TO discussions on
several interesting topics In tho Of medical science
aud 10 the social festivities which the city and It's citizens
have provided tgI them iBost0n Advertiser.
Year: 1869




A curious case Of animated trance or chronic
somnambulism has come 10 public notice in Chicago.
man observed last Monday evening, walking IN "A
peculiar struggling manner, along WashngtOns Think
ing that the intoxicated, "a policeman ap-
preached him, intending 10 send him home. When ques
toned by the patTOlman nc returned answer and al
glare in them that alarmed the officer and led him
leve that the man was insane The policeman finally
concluded to take the person into custody lie
OgnZed as Joseph lretOn young abOu % years OF
age He questioned by the station keeper and Others
but gave reply, and IL seemed be evident that he
IN state OF partial coma. Shortly after 10 was
learned that he had been I'm the opera house during the
early portion OF tho evening from which place no
elected, u being supposed he was drunk The next
morning he found TO be In the condition upon
the previous night and tho city physician summoned
The doctor seemed 10 be unable TO determine
exactly what malady. any, the was labor
ing under and after careful and very interesting
natlon OF his patient pronounced the be OF
the straDgest that he has witnessed Ircton seemed
10 be perfectly pabe In the doctors hand and presented
remarkably curious spectacle. When he placed in
standing position in the center Of the oor his head
would drop forward slightly, and he would be to all In
tents sleeping soundy He placed In several other
attitudes, the result being precisely the same. He
would allow the lids Of his eyes 10 be opened and closed
by the fingers Of another party without giving any signs
OF feeling and the lids would remain In the position in
which they placed. All endeayOrs 20 make him
talk or cat aDythn wcre perfectly futile, sleeping APP
pearng 10 be the only thing that he capable Of doing
II was learned from OF his friends that lac has DO.
fore been subject TO similar fits Of uncOnscOusness one
OF which they state extended during period Of nine
days fCllcagO Times
Year: 1869

Guo respectfully notify their friends and the pub
the Cash Business. We are receiving n new and
Fresh Stock of Goods from the Phadelphia market.
and we know that by selling exclusively for Cash
we can offer greater inducements than we ever did
before, and all we ask is an examination of onr
stock. WI
Year: 1869

Amenities of q Foreign summer ResOrt-A Duel


Between Two Women.


The last number of the Paris MOaiteT con-
tains the following romantic story


Two ladies of the world, who pass the winter
season at the watering places on the shores of
the Mediterranean, were scaling at 6 o'clock on
the morning of May Is the gorges of the Alps,
undulating towards the a few miles distant
from Nintimiglia. Upon reaching the summit of
the hill on which are to be seen the ruins of a
Roman castle, they stopped twopeasant women,
and induced them by means of money to serve
them as witnesses in a very important operation
which they said they were about to execute.
The two ladies next measured the ground
One of them placed herself with her back
against the ruins of the Castle of Appias
and the other placed herself before her at a
distance of twenty steps. Each of the
women then drew pistol from under their
cloaks. At the sight of these weapons. the
peasant women uttered piercing cries and ad-
yanced with uplifted arms to prevent the ANA
IONS from firing at one another. But two shots
were discharged at the same moment. The poor
peasant women fell down, while the ladies burst
into loud laughter at seeing their witnesses on
the ground piteously begging them not to XIII
them. The ladies then reloaded the pistols and
took position in front of each other, at distance
of fifteen steps They were about to fire again,
when a third witness made his appearance. He
emerged from behind the wall OF the ancient
castle. Startled by the reports OF the pistols he
had fastened to the spot from the nelghborlng
parsonage. He urged the two rivals to make
up their quarrel, and succeeded in reconclhng
them. love affair was at the bottom OF the
strange duel"
Year: 1869

sixteenth Ward German School Association


Lecture by DIR. Gcrcke.


The regular meeting OF this association was held
last evening at No. 371 West Twenty third street.
Though the attendance was not very numerous the
spirit evinced was 80 much more determined. Very
little actual business OF Importance was transacted,
but what was done related to the subject matter OF
introducing the German language as branch Of In.
structon into the public schools, and the expert.
ence OF certain districts OF Pennsylvania was referred
to, where those scholars who had instruction In both
languages have for years successvey been ahead OF
the others, whose reading was confined to the


After these proceedings, which partook somewhat
OF the nature OF an Introductory prelude DR..
Gercke advanced and delivered lecture on the
"Relation OF the Parents with the Schools" He
began with the declaration that the 'homer Of the
child and the school must be of one spirit, one In
feeling. AS Is at present this unity oi feeling be.
tween the school and the parents cannot DO attained.
The parents select the school themselves to which
TO send their children. They do 60, and are in.
nuenced In their selection by personal consdera.
ing parents 10 change their children from one school
to the other. TINS changing is often the cause OF
great hindrance and irregularity in the
OF Its course, but 1t disarranges the whole class.
rnougn, only I,,s one pupil is taken out the whole
range OF tuition disturbed and the other children
suffer. while the one winch s taken out OF the course
OF Its regular instruction suffers most and is hin.
dered In It's progress The lecturer came to the
cluson that parents should not interfere with the
schools. When the children begin to know that they


find ready ear at home for their complaints against
the schools ls entirely gone. And when the children
know that their parents Will support them against
the teacher the whole discipline Of tho school is un-
are not the principals OF schools nor teachers in
them they shoud advise their children to submit to
the authority OF the school while there, and that
when in school the teacher represents the authority
OF the parent.
Year: 1869

vessels on this station all the time and never leave
this city without one war steamer In port.


All Is quiet In this place aud in the entire South.
The siege Of Aux Cayes still continues under the
personal superintendent OF President Saluaye.
Year: 1869

We beg leave to call the attention of the
public to this long celebrated and unrivalled


FAMILY MEDICINE


The Pain Killer Is purely vegetable COM
pound. and while 1t Is q most efficient remedy
for palm, 1t Is II perfectly safe medicine even
In the most unskillful hands.
vn FOR SUMNER COMPLAINT
Or any other form Of bowel disease In chill
dren or adults, 1t Is an almost certain cure,
and has without doubt been more successftl
In curing the various kinds of


CHOLERA
Than any other known remedy. or even the
most skillful physician. In India Africa and
China, where this dreadful disease Is ever
more or less prevalent, the PAIN Miller Is
considered by the natives a. wen as Europe
an residents In those climates,


-ss A SURE REMEDY.


In the west nothing will be more aceepta-
BILE than Fever and Ague remedy. Pain
Killer will cure it. Sold by all Druggists.
Year: 1869

ANXIETY and exhaustion 10 which Officers and crew
must be subjected Ca:efa and thorough COM
pool with the oelef.ent provisions OF the English
Passenger acts OF 1855 and 1858 would have gone
lar to prevent much OF the suffering to when boin
provisions are made for the examination ana survey
by an emigration oicer, Of the provisions and water;
Tor proper facilities for co0kng for the number ana
qualification OF passenger cooks, whom the act re-
qulres TO be 'seafarlng" men, and for the manning
OF the snip with an efficient crew. to the satisfaction
OF the emigration oficer. Your com mlttee are una
pie 10 see how, unless these requirements OF the
BRITISH law had been evaded or openly violated, the
calamltes OF TINS voyage could have occurred.


The principal security against the recurrence OF
sucn evils Is TO be iound perhaps in the rapid dis
grants 10 this port and the institution OF steam
sells In their stead The story OF the misfOrtunes Of
the James Foster Jr, will. it is hoped, increase the
OF shpowners 70 exercise great care and caution in
the choice OF the officers into whose hands the care
may be entrusted. It is at best a difiicult aud q
delicate ofice, requiring, perhaps larger share OF
patience good temper forbearance aud kind feeling
than Is commonly found Among men educated Ia
the rough school OF sailors life. And yet 1t II
hard to imagine any situation in which men are
more completely helpless, more completely at the
mercy OF those who may be set over them, or have
jusser claims on the sympathies ana charities Of
their fellows, than passengers In emigrant ships.
The establishment Of an efficient police on the seas
by whose means injustice and cruelty may be DE-
tected and prevented. Is measure towards which
philanthropy has as yet made little progress. Much
must still depend on the humanity OF ship-owners
and the careful choice they make OF their agents.
Your committee beg leave to suggest as subject for
the consideration OF your honorable Board, whether
the enactment OF some such provisions AZ to
emigrant ships as are TO be found In the
British passenger acts above referred to- would not
tend TO the projection Of passengers across the At
lantlc and the increase OF their security and COM
forts The subject is well worthy the attention Of
the Congress OF the United States When 1t II re-
membered how much Of the present population OF
the United States Is made up OF immigrants their
immediate descendants, and how much OF its
wealth. enterprise and prosperity has sprung from
their labor nothing surely should De left undOne By
the country which they have chosen for their home
which could tend to make their voyage to these
shores as convenient and as easy as possible, and
Impress them in advance with the prOvident care for
their welfare displayed by the country in which
their future lives are TO be spent and to whose ad
~ancemer' their future labOrs are TO be devoted.


RICHARD O'G0RMAN.


p. MCELROY.


FREDERICK KAPP.


NEW YORK, May IL, 1862
Year: 1869




trial ls likely to take place next month.


.'ass, sssS i 81 SsS a Psi sl sys.,Ss
Of the ship and the the 1rst mate have died on shore
since the arrival Of the ship In port, victims to q
malignant fever which broke out on board, and
which had Its origin probably In their own inca
acted as doctor on the voyage seems to have been
incompetent and derelict In duty. The sick In hos
pta were shamefully neglected by him. The serving
out from time to time OF ration OF castor oil to eacn
medical services; and the only surgical operation
alluded to In the evidence as having been performed
by him was the ampntaton OF the finger OF John
Gilmartin, passenger, shoemaker's pncers being
the instrument used and the patient dying In two
days after the operation. IL was an actual reign OF
terror board Of that Inflated ship. or passengers
that were young, strong and vigorous when they
first came on board, four died on the passage. Of
those who survived some were scarce able to sazger
ashore so faint were they from hunger and ex-
hausbion. The foregoing statement win serve 10 give
your honorable Board q general idea Oh tie conui-
ton OF the passengers OF the ship James Foster Jr
IN this most unfortunate voyage. FOR iurtner ue
tails your committee refer TO the copy OF testimony
annexed The Ill treatment OF her crew your COM


ittee have not specially inquired into, az not being
included in the subject VI the investigation, which,
10y the statute Of this state, above referred to 'ae
Commissioners OF Emigration are empowered to
make. a..
this matter have erected no more than 70 attract
TO this subject the attention OF .ne pupne Pess Vv.n
here and IN Europe, much good has been done, not
to sneak OF the advantage which the testimony taken
by them and perpetuated may be 10 passengers
seeking redress by civil proceedings. In seeking
willing to make all due allowance for the unusual
duration OF the voyage at the most inclement season
of the year. and the decentralization and confusion
which are but too apt to follow the continued labor.
Year: 1869

Some time ago (says the London Daily
News) we heard of an Englishman who
made bet that he would walk all the way
to India, and who asked some Consul on
the shores of the Black Sea for instructions
rs to the best road to take A few DAYS
afterwards the Consul was beset by another
Engllshman bent on the Same errand and
eager for similar information. This was
the man who took the first travellers wager,
and who was now on the track OF
his adversary to see that he strictly fulfilled
the terms Of his engagement. Now, we
have the story of an ''original English
man" who has just traversed the Grand
Duehy of HesEe-Darmstad on his road to
Egypt to witness the Inauguration of the
Suez Canal. He had made bet that he
would go from England to Egypt in his
yacht without touching earth. He accord
ingly sailed across the Channel and ND the
Rhine to Mayence. Here he meant to turn
up the Main till he cached the Main and
Danube Canal; but the water of the river
was not deep enough for his adventurous
craft. Nothing daunted, however, our
cOmpatriOt is said to have caused three
wagons to be lashed together, and his Yacht
to be placed on the top Of them, taking
care the while never to leave the deck SO as
to avoid touching land


In this manner the Main and Rhine
Railway transported yacht and traveller to
the town of Bamberg, much to the stupe-
faction of the peasants. At Bamberg the
yacht was launched into the canal, which
will bear it to the Danube; thence it will
proceed to the Black Sea- to the Sea of
Marmora, to the Archipelago, to the Medi-
teranean, to Suez, and, let US hope,
through the canal to the Red Sea. The
story is more likely to be true than that of
the two Englishmen walking, one in the
footsteps of the other, all the way to India;
but true or not, our Continental friends
think it ought to be true. The whim and
the wager are supposed to be very charac-
teristic of Englishmen. AS Frenchmen
bring all disputes to the test of duel,
Englishmen, it is perfectly well known, re-
duce all disputes to the test of wager.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the New York 1rib-
une with the insuegent Cuban army, writes
as follows:


We are leading the most delightful and
agreeable lives to be imagined Our stores
are not perhaps SO protuse as we could
sometimes desire, and our rations may nos
be always such as would tempt an epicu-
rean appetite; but for trivial deprivations
of these kinds we care little. It does not
even occur to us to look upon them as
hardships. We have excellent health and
high hopes. Mere existence is a perpetual
enjoyment i'll this lovely country, the eli
mate of which, even in the middle of sum
mer, is ineypressibly mild and fresh. Ali
our apprehensiOns of danger from the
/ burning heats were without foundation.
cannot say how it may be III other parts Of
the island, but here, in the mountain
regions, we find the atmosphere so
clear and invigorating as to make US forget
we are in the tropics. The occupants of
the surrounding plantations are all heartily
and openly with u.s. and it may be men
toned as q circumstance of peculiar inter
est for the future, if not for the present,
that have not met a single native Cuban
IN this district who is not an ardent and
even a vehement advocate of annexation to
The United States. And this desire ap-
pears to proceed not solely from the hope
of securing such aid as may enable them to
free themselves more rapidly from Spanish
thraldom, but also, and principally, from a
conviction that by this means alone the
prompt development of their immense la
tent resources, their rapid material advance
ment, and their ultimate prosperity can be
assured.


MORE MONEY Than THEY Could COUNT.
The Russian peasants have an exceed
ingly comfortable and convenient habit of
saving money. A correspondent of the
Evening Post says that a shabbily-dressed
and illiterate peasant came into the Treas
ury at PoltaVa and expressed desire to
change some old paper money for the new
issue. When asked how much he had he
said he did not know; that he and his wife
were unable to ascertain the amount al
though hey had counted two whole days.
An officer was sent to the peasants house
and several bundles of notes taken from a
hole in the floor were found to contain Sc,
0U0 roubles and there were D. 600 or G, 900
more in coin. Suspicious were of course
entertained that he had come by his money
dishonesty; but the whole family had borne
good character, and on inquiry there was
no reason for OBTAINING him, and his mon
ey was changed for him into new notes.
This large sum represented the savings OF
three generations, and similar cases are
said to be very common ssmong the lower
classes in Russia.
Year: 1869

DEATH OF \ FAMOUS RACE III oRSE.-Th
famous race-horse Herzog died at the Buck
eye Trotting Park, near Cincinnati, on
Tuesday He was q great favorite at the
west, and had one of the best pedigFees in
the world He was only three years old,
and had run single mile in l 43I-the
best time on record in this country He
was 81 kindly dispositioned horse, and
evinced d strong attachment for his attend
ants. lie ran a week before his death, and
made excellent though not remarkable
time. After the race was over and while
hewas being 'scraped," he showed signs
of distress. The remedies which were APP
piled seemed to relieve him at first but his
disease gradually developed into typhoid
pneumonia, and slowly sapped the noble
animals life. He fought death at every
step, refusing TO lie down until within two
hours of the final moment AS soon rs his
death was announced dispatch was sent
to one of his owners, who replied, "Burv
HerzOg in a good place Following these
instructions, a grave was dug in the track
enclosure at the Buckeye Park on a line
with the threo-quarter mile pole. A tight
ly-sealed champagne bottle, containing q
brief resume OF his exploits an account Of
his last race, and some other papers, was
put into the grave with him. He was a
dark bay in color fifteen hands high, un-
marked save by a few white hairs on his
| forehead; his only defect consisted in the
shortness Of his ears, the tips of which
were lost by being frozen.
Year: 1869

She is fair and very pretty,


With a sparkling, bright blue eye;
And her checks with smiles are dlmpled
When she knows I'm standing By.
Yet she says she does not love me
Never will be wife of mine;
But those smiles and dimples tell me
With despair l need not pine.
So. l let her meet my pleadings


With her bright and saucy smile,
And l bow before the archness


Lighting up her face the while.
Listening with feign'd emotion,


And a put-on look of wo;
For l love to hear her accent


See her lips when saying "No."
Love to see the graceful action


OF her foot upon the ground;
As its tiny sole she patters,


There is music in the sound.
And the words come to my hearing
Sweet as murmur of the dove;
For / know their hidden meaning,
Read them in the light OF love.
Thus, though still she ''No" is saying,
1, at home have named the day;
And her mother smiles while weeping
Swiftly wing the hours away;
And my Mary is the fondest,


Dearest of my children three,
Why not wait a little lengerf


Why this hurry?' questions she.
But my ear is deaf to pleading,


Vainly all excuses flow;
For my Mary listens blushing,


And no more she whispers ''No."
So my life grows fair and joyous,


Winning even new delight,
From the thought that l have won her
Won my love, my life, my light!
Year: 1869

A man in Philadelphia, while
intoxicated, laid himself down to
sleep outside the cemetery and SO
got himself mixed up with num-
Der of corpses which medical stu
dents had dug. He came to his
senses in the dissecting room just
as a votary of science was about to
rip him open. "Gazing wildly a.
round for moment a terrible re-
alization of his position came upon
him like a flash, and he uttered
heart-rending screams. So appall-
ing were they that one Of the stu
dents went into a fit, and a German
was so alarmed that he fell down
a flight Of stairs and fractured one
of his arms" The supposed
corpse is now insane, believing he
is dead.
Year: 1869

About midnight on Sunday last,
the people of the village of Rain
bow, near New Haven, Conn.,,
were awakened by the cry of fire,
which proved to be caused by the
burning of a two story frame
house, owned by John Darwin, and
occupied by him as a liquor saloon,
which was completely destroyed.
Those neighbors first on the spot
found Darwin lying on the ground
so badly burned as to be insensi-
BILE. He was conveyed to a neigh
boring house, but died in great ag-
ony before morning. 1t appears
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 intoXi-
Gated at the time, and entering
the burning building, the flames
struck him in the face, and imme-
diateIy, owing to the amount of
liquor he had drank, set fire to
the inside of his throat and stom-
ach, burning up his tongue, so that
when he was found that organ
was a mere crisp. The children
were saved by the neighbors; one
of them was badly scorched.-
The eldest boy says a general ca
rousal had been going ON in the
saloon, and while some one intox-
icated was drawing liquor, he prob
ably set fire to an old feather bed
near the barrel. Every thing in
the house was burned, and the
children are thus left orphans and
unprovided for.