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Year: 1869

q q FAIE OF IOYtfb, ntaI btIsIOIl ing
land, were taking q walk, when some
slight disagreement arose between them,
and the young man walked hastily away.
The young woman soon went in search Of
him, and found that he had climbed a tree
and hanged himself by his handkerchief.
Nobody was near the spot and the girl
at once climbed the tree to cut her lover
down, but she had no knife with her, and
the only way by which she could effect
her object was By biting through the
knotted handkerchief This, with some
difficulty, she succeeded in doing, and the
youth fell on the ground insenaible he
was taken to hospital, and il was con-
sidered doubtful whether he would re-
f,nvar
Year: 1869

PREsIDENTGRANT was slightly indisposed,
and received no visitors to-day. His illness
does not seem TO be serious, but is a temporary
prostration from the over work and harass.
ments Of the position since his Inauguration.
Year: 1869

when the engineer cut up as he did
that | couldn't stop at station to
send man back. Before he could
have got far enough away, they'd
have been so close on to us that they
couldn't have 'broke up in time, but
must have run into us.


Il didn't know whether had killed
Mack or nor, and took the "owl' ,
train back, and found him all right
as regards death, but very sick from
the dip l had given him.


The company gave me this watch
when they heard of it,
Year: 1869

My wealth Is not in government bonds,
Nor stock in trade. fertile lands,
Nor gold and silver in a safe,


Secured by locks and iron bands:
My treasures are exempt from tax,
Except what may freely pay.
And every dollar l thus expend


Pays me good interest every day
My wealth Is not in anything


To tempt midnight burglar here;
Though all my treasures on this earth
Are in my home. I've nought to fear
often leave them for the day,


But when descends the shade of night
haste with joy unto my home


To guard them till tho morrows light
Ny treasures-source of all my joys
The wealth that cheers me on throu gh life
IN tell to you, by naming first


Ny gentle, loving, blue-eyed wife
Within my home, with shouts of glee,
A little girl and boy doth play
The former five years old next month,
The latter two years old to-day.
These are my treasures. only three,
And yet I'm richer than a king,
And joyous as the summer birds


That meath my window used to sing;
What though the winds of winter blow,
And all without is cold and drear,
Within is light, and warmth, and love,
I'm happy with my treasures here
Year: 1869

Isn't it very affecting to behold at
a wed ling the sorroBstricien air Of a
parent as he gives the bride away" :"
when you know that for the last ten
years he has been trying to get her oil
his hands.
Year: 1869

PROFITS OF MANUFACTUR1G IN
THE SoUrH.-The Memphis Daily
Sun proves or seems to prove that
a cotton factory in that city will
clear $S2 IS more ON every bale
of cotton woven into cloth than
can be made at the mills of Low
ell, and that three thousand bales
at Memphis will produce u profit
Of $24S,OOO in one year against
the $4,000 of the Lowell mills
built at nearly the same COST
The New England manufactures
pays sixteen dollars to get bale
to his mill, aud loses entirely the
profit of the oil from the cotton
seed, sixty dollars per bale, all of
which, with the advantage of
cheaper labor, enters into the
gains of the home manufacturers.
Certainly the time is not remote
when The whole of the Southern
States will abound not less in cot
ton factories than in cotton. And
herein they will find one of the
most copious and enduring sources
OF boundless prosperity.
Year: 1869

An experienced cotton planter,
who has been looking at the crops
IN houston county Ga, says he
has never seen a more perfect
failure in that county. He will
pick a, half less than he expected,
and in his opinion the whole cot
ton crop of Middle and South
western Georgia will be gathered
by the last of October.
Year: 1869

VERNON, JACKSON PARISH, LA,


Oct. 6, 1860.
Editor Of the Telegraph ph:-Hav-
ing. noticed in the last two issues


of the Southern Cultivator several


very disparaging accounts OF the


Chester White Hog, am induced


to give your readers my impress


sion with regard to this. breed,
formed from a little experience.
I have a pair of these hogs and
find them to be an entirely differ


ent animal from that described


by the writer's for the Cultivator.


Instead of being ugly, raw-boned,


coarse, and rough-haired, I find
them precisely the reverse. They


are very symmetrical in shape,
perfectly beautiful, with small
bones and a sufficient amount of
fine white hair. They are not
NANCY, nor have I ever used on
them soap-suds and scrubbing
brush, nor taken more care of
their cleanliness than with other
hogs. They have slept under the
house and in the dust, as would,
any other pigs. They are always
healthy and in fine growing order,
yet they have not lived around a;
stil-house nor been fed on mush
and molasses. They are however
great feeders-if. in a. pasture,
they are eating the grass and root
ing all the time. After three
months old, believe they would
keep fat and grow finely on grass
alone. Instead of being slow,


dull and lazy, they are, on the
contrary, the most active and in
dustrious hog, considering their
bulk, / ever saw. All my neigh
bors and hundreds from various
parts of the Parish pronounce
them the finest specimens of the
hog kind they ever saw. How
men can deliberately sit. down
and denounce and disparage such
animals, can only be accounted
for by the fact that they have a
spurious breed and not the gem
uine Chester White. Hast weighed
my boar when he was two months
and three weeks old;--his gross
weight then was seventy-one
pounds. He, is now over FIVE
months old, and will weigh one
hundred pounds net. The SOW is
prettier, and equally as heavy
She will have pigs by him in
The stock are de-
scribed as very early and very
prolific breeders. At two years
old my boar will weigh over sew
en- hundred pounds.


My belief is, that for the small
farmer who wants a pig always
in the sty, this is the best hog in
the world, and for the farmer who
depends on the range and mast,
the cross with the Chester and
common hog is the best.


I would, therefore, say to those
who. desire to experiment with
fine stock, do not be disheartened
by what you see in the Cultiva-
tor. Send to Chester county by
get a pair, and try them.
Fine stock is what we want now,
and we will never have them un-
til we make a beginning. If we
listen to every disparaging ac-
count we hear of a particular
breed, we will never begin. We
must experiment and be Our own
Judges. There are spurious breeds
which damage the reputation of
the pure Chesters, and there are
disparaging writer's who have
their own ak to grind.


,-- Very respectfully, sc,


ED. Il. KIDD.
Year: 1869

little GIRL BURIED ALIVE IN OHIO
About four weeks ago a little German girl in
Brooklyn took sick with the lock-jaw, and
rumor says that in few DAYS She was thought
dead and was buried. On the evening of her
burial, the mother. for some reason, was led { }
the grave, and, with her ear pressed close To the
ground, thought she heard a noise and believed
her child to be moving in its coffin. She with
held from asking assistance for fear OF being
ridiculed, and Immediately procured a spade
and began TO dig up the earth. Soon she came
70 the coffin, and, hurredly taking il from the
earth opened it and there found the body of her
child, nine hours after its burial,' warm as il
it were living, and lying on its side. She took
the child to her house where a physician was
Immediately called in and every restorative ap-
piled TO bring the child TO life. 1t was too late.
The soul had taken its flight, and i'm few hours
more the body was cold and icy. 1t was soon
buried again and has not since been disturbed.
This report is common talk among the citizens
OF the West Side, and the story as above related
is well-known to a great mauy reliable persons
residing on Detroit street and in Brooklyn.-
Cleveland Leader, Nor. 80
Year: 1869

BALTIMORE AND POTOMAC RAILROAD-Our
recent speculations in regard to the early re-
SUMPTION OF work upon the Baltimore and Poto-
mac Railroad have received the most thorough
omclal confirmation within the past week and
we have now the happiness to announce the
presence, in this village, of Superintendent Sea-
brook, Chief Engineer Emack, the attorney and
several other prominent officers of the COMPANY
upon business connected with that i,nportant
object. Our enterprising President has, with
his usual energy, completed satisfactory ar
rangement with reference to the requisite funds
AMI there is every indication that the gra ling of
the lower end Of the road will be under contract
now In the course Of a few days. We hazard one
single suggestion TO our citizens of this immedi-
ate vicinity and those residing upon the line of
the road below this village. We had confitlent-
~ A noRed T a. to DC able to announce the determi ma
ton OF the yexed question of the route by this
place. Today. as We are assured that the presence
here Of the officers Of the Company is with that
object and further, that it is certainly to be de-
termined before tO-mOrrOw-nig The merits
OF the two routes have been already full discuss
ed In these columns, and has proved an engrOss-
ing topic 10 our citizens for the past year. Tie adj
Vantages OF that route known as the central
survey, which crosses the Western Branch inst
In the rear Of Mark Bells house, and thence
passes over stephen Belts meadow and through
Gardiner's, y up the Federal Spring Branch are
most manifest, lot only to our village i'm anv
event, but also othe Company, if the right Of
way can possibly be secured without tedious


litigation. We trust, therefore, that the prop-
erty owners upon this route will appreciate the
advantages OF the railroad, not only to us of the
village, but to themselves, and accept a reason
abie compensation for their land that this route
may be adopted and the work Immediately pro-
ceeded with. Only two days will elapse now
before the route Is determined upon, and as it is
matter OF such urgent Importance to our peO-
pie, they should use their individual exertiOns in
the matter. IL, however, the Company shall de-
termined to adopt the eastern route, we shall
prefer that to the suspense we have endured for
past year, and cheerfully acquiesce i'm a decision
which we shall feel is prompted purely bv
motives Of public, and not personal Oharac-
ter.-Prince Georqidn, Dec, 3d.
Year: 1869

BUILDING AsSoCIATIoNs.-The 3Oth monthly
meeting of the National Union Building Associa-
tIon was held last evening at the Board of
Trade reOms, and money advanced on
sixteen shares at an average of tfty-fo per
cent.


At the eSd monthly meeting of the Excelsior
Buildlng Association on Thursday night, thirty
nine shares were advanced upon at an average
of thirty two per cent.
Year: 1869

DECISION IN THE Sign CAsE.-,Justice Plant
yesterday deefied the case OF John O'Donov an
Tor violation of law in excayating the street and
erecting a sign extending across the pavement
TO the gutter line. The Justice Imposed a fine
OF s2 for making the excavation without first
obtaining permission from the Mayor, and said
a. there was no law prohibiting the continuance
OF such sign, he would impose further penalty
shouid John excayate the street for the purpose
Of removing the same
Year: 1869

An ACT to repair the foot pavement on the


south side of A street south, between Sixth


and Seventh streets east.


Be- eNacted by the Board Of Aldermen and Board
of Common Council Of the CITY Of Washington,
That the sum of fifty dollars, or so much thereof
as NAV be necessary, be, and the same is hereby,
appropriated out of the funds of the Sixth Ward,
to repair pavement on the south side of A street
SOUTH between Sixth and Seventh streets east;
the work to be done under the direction of the
Commissioner of the Sixth Ward.


Approved, November 2, 1863.
Year: 1869

THE CASE OF BAR AGAINST THE CORPORA
rIoN.-Justlce Smith yesterday overruled the
plea TO his jurisdiction entered by Messrs. Cook
and Burgess, i'm the case Of Bar against the Cor
poration, opfhe ground that Justice Chase, who
the defence Claimed was the next nearest mag
isfrate to Justice Walter0 being an Alderman,
Was a party to the suit.
Year: 1869

AN ACT to take up and relay the gutter on the


east side of Eighth street west, from q TO


streets north.


Be ii enacted by the Board Of Aldermen and Beard
the Mayor be, and he Is hereby, authorized and
requested to cause the gutter on the east side OF
Eighth street west, between 6 street north and
II street north, to be taken up and relaid; and a
sufficient amount is hereby appropriated out OF
the funds of the Third Ward to pay the cost
thereof; the work to be done under the direction
Of the Commissioner Of the Third Ward.


Approved, November 2, 1869.
Year: 1869

AN ACT to reset the curbstones and repave the


footways and cutters on the south side Of B


street south, between Sixth and Seventh streets


west.


Be 1t enacted By the Board Of Aldermen and Board
Of Common Council Of the CITY Of Washington,
That the Mayor be, and he Is hereby, authorized
and requested to cause the curbstones to be reset
and the footways and cutters repaved on the
south side Of b street south, between Sixth and
Seventh streets west The work to be contracted
for, and executed in the manner and under the
superintendence provided by law; and to Icfray
the expenses of said improvement, special tar
equal to the cost thereof is hereby imposed and
levied on all lots parts of lots bordering on
the line of the improvement; the said tax TO be
assessed and collected in conformity with the
provisions of the act approved October L, 1865.


Approved, November 2, 1869.
Year: 1869

The following is given as preventive
of horses being teased by flies: Take
two or three small handfuls of walnut
leaves, upon which pour two or three
quarts of cold water; let it infuse one
night, and pour the whole next morning
into kettle and let it boil for quarter
of an hour. When cold it will be fit fol
use. No more is required than TO mois'
ten a sponge, and before the horse goes
out of the stable, let those parts which
are most irritable be smeared over with
the liquor, viz: between and upon the
ears, the neck, the fianks, etc. Not
only the gentleman or lady who rides
out for pleasure, will derive pleasure
from the walnut leaves thus prepared
but the coachman, the WAGNER, and al
others who use horses during the hot
months.
Year: 1869

THE Intelligencer having about ex-
hausted itself in attempting to make a
reasonable defense of bad case OF
d" bad Niger" we are content to leave
the discussion with a simple statement
of the positions of the two papers. The
Mtelligencer holds that when negro
deems himself aggrieved in any way, he
has right to take the law into his own
hands and inflict summary punishment
on his fancied aggressor. The REGISTER
holds that the proper place for negro
or white man to obtain redress for
supposed injuries is before the courts OF
the country. When a case can be made
cut, there is no difficulty in finding the
remedy for wrong. The Intelligencer
shows no disposition to abandon its
position, and we are equally determined
TO adhere to ours. Our contemporary,
doubtless, thinks it his duty to uphold
brute force and lawlessness, while we
prefer to stand up for the law and order
side of the case.
Year: 1869

THE New York Tribune has telegram
from Washington, dated August l6,
stating that "it is not improbable that
the next exhibit of the public debt will
show a slight increase" This will never
do, if the loyal cause is to be upheld.
By some doctoring process or other
the estimate must show n decrease.
The people expect it. BoUTwELLs 5
manipulation of the figures for July
and August is virtually pledge that
his administration will reduce the
debt at the rate of twelve or fifteen
millions a month. He hasn't done it
so far, and he can't, but he must appear
to do it. At all hazards, this pleasant
deception must be kept up, and the ex-
hibits must be kept down. Let the
Treasury man advertise at once for a
lightning calculator. The necessities
of the Fall elections demand the most
splendid showing possible from the
Treasury Department. There must be
no let up or let down in the cheating
process so well begun. The interests
of "loyalty" are all dependent upon
the continuance of the swindle. Let
the statements for September and Octo-
Der be duly doctored.
Year: 1869

THE Ohio Radical Committee an
nounce about one hundred mass meet
ings for the campaign. Judging from
the disordered state of the "loyal" liver,
about ninety mine of them ought to be
blue mass meetings.
Year: 1869

without any special complaint except grad.
ual decination of bodily strength and nervous
erergy, will find in the TONIC A FOUNTAIN
OF VITALITY ANDEVIG0R AS RE
FRESHING AND EXT HILERATING As
POOL IN HE DESERT TO THE SAND
-SCOECHED AND PAINTING TRAVELLER
Year: 1869

Only let woman be sure she is precious
to her husband - not useful, not valuable,
not convenient simply, but lovely and be-
loved; let her be the recipient of his polite
and hearty attention; let her feel that she
has the sincere respect of her husband, and
that her care and love are noticed, apprecia-
ted and returned; let her opinion be asked,
her approval sought, and her judgment re-
spected in matters of which she is cognizant ;
in short, let her only be loved, honored and
cherished in the true spirit Of the marriage
vow - and she will be TO her husband, chill
dren, and society well-sprihg of pleasure.
She will bear pain, and toll, and anxiety -
for her husbands love is to her tower and
fortress. Shielded and sheltered therein, ad-
versity will have lost its sting. She ma6
suffer, but sympathy will dull the edge Of
sorrow A house with love in il - and by
love, | mean love expressed in words, and
looks, and deeds, (for have not one spark of
faith in love that never crops out,) is to a
house without love as a person 10 a machine
one is life, the other is mechanism. The un.
loved woman may have bread just as light a
house just as tidy, dress Just as neat, as the
other, but the latter has spring Of beauty
about her a joyousness, an aggressive, pene-
trating and pervading brightness, to which
the former is stranger. The deep happiness
in her heart shines out in her face. She
CLEANS over it. She is full of devices and
plots and sweet surprises for her husband and
family. She is never done with the romance
and poetry of life. She herself is lyric
poem, setting herself to all pure and gracious
melodies. Humble household ways and du-
ties have for her Il golden significance The
prize makes her calling high, and the end
sanctiies the means. 'Loye is heaven and
heaven is love-"
Year: 1869

lFrou the Atlantic Monthly ior Dccemherl


How often do we see women who have
lived for years in liberal comfort and welded
state-the mistresses Of splendid homes,
whose varied range of floors and apartments
made them little worlds in themselves, and
with the assured and dignifed position in So
ciety that nothing but ores own house can
giye-suddelly stripped by widowhood Of all
their ample surroundings, and portioned off
into one room, or at the most two, in some
son or daughters house, there to live as a
supcrnumerary all the rest Of their days
No doubt these grandmothers, sanity and
subdued, often exercise precious influence
on all the members Of the families they live
with. But it is none the less hard for them ;
aud if women could save and invest all the
profits on the supplies and clothing consumed
by their families that now slip through their
fingers into the pockets of the retailers, thou
sands Of lavish housekeepers who are march
ing straight to such life-end as this would
be spared its deprivations and humiliations
In my opinion, woman that has once had
house of her own, in which she has borne
and reared children, regulated servants, and
played her part in society, should never be
thrown out of it into the corner of some
bodys else family except from choice, and
wonder that women are not oftener apprehen-
sive of this than they seem to be.


1t may be said, that as men furnish all the
means for our housewifery, so, if we are able
to save anything, it ought properly to return
to them. This is the doctrine of the old
Roman law in regard to the peculiun, or sa-
wings of the slave from the allowance made
him by his master. In law it belonged to
the latter, because it was his in the first place,
and the slave was his also hence he could at
any time resume it. And, in my opinion
this would be tenable ground in regard to the
savings Of cooperative housekeepers if men
insisted upon our giving such savings to them
we could not help ourselves But this is so
opposed TO the indulgent American spirit to-
ward women, that it is more than probable
they would pass law making such savings
by any housekeeper her own. OF course, the
contrary action would crush out all independ-
ence OF enterprise among us, and thus injure
masculine business interests as well as feminine.
But, this aside, would it not be almost an
amusement to the men to see how women
would go to work 2 Think there would then
be no lack of something to talk about every
day at the table between the husband and his
wife and daughters, or in society between the
gentlemen and ladies who now arc so often at
a loss for some common interest upon which
to interchange ideas and experiences.
Year: 1869

ED. STATESMAN I-As the time is near
to choose a standard bearer, perhaps q sug-
gestion or two 10 reference to the selection
of candidate may not be amiss. The fol>
lowing official returns of the last Delegate
election will show the vote of the Territory
and the strength Of the parties in the sew
oral counties
Year: 1869

OUT OF DEBr.-It will be seen by the
report of Auditor Blewett, published else
where in this weeks paper, that when the
amount OF delinquent taxes now due shall
have been collected and paid into the Treas
ury, there will probably be sufficient funds
to cancel the whole of our county indebted>
ness. This intelligence will be most graft
flying to taxpayers, as with the wiping out
of the debt they can look forward to great
reduction in their taxes. While the sheriff
appears to be manifesting disposition to
gobble up the whole of the delinquent taxes
he will probably not be able to get the entire
amount, yet the outstanding remainder will
be so small that the payment of the debt
this year will be an easy matter, and the
next annual exhibit will, without doubt,
show clear record and handsome balance
in the treasury.
Year: 1869

For THE Accommodation OF PERSONS
leaving the city during the summer months
they can have THE STAR mailed to their
address, 10y ordering the same at the Office, for
l25s cents Per week, for one week or more.
Year: 1869

All who have real estate for sale or to let,
and those desiring to purchase rent such property


VIII find to their interest to advertise in The TRIBUNE.


Its aggregate circulation exceeds that OF any other


paper aud In addition TO this advantage tbs TRIBUNE
VIII be found not only in NewYork and all its cities ana
villages but in every State aud Territory throughout tho
Union. The advertisement should he "a brief as VIII
allow Of the advantages claimed being made clear 10 the
reader We would especially dwell tho fact that the
subscribers for tho three editions Of TnE TRIBUNE Daily


Semi Weekly. and Weekly. comprise individuals every
busnesS professions advertisements In each