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Year: 1869

FEARFUL DEATH BY LIGHTNING-A terrible ca
lamity occurred in the town of Caldwell, N. j.
on Sunday evening last, the particulars of which
are given by the New York Times as follows:


IA young man named Stephen Pierce was
walking home from the Methodist Episcopal
Church in company with young lady, when
they were overtaken by violent storm which was
proceeded and accompanied by thunder and light
ming. The entire village was suddenly illumina-
ted with an intense light, and Pierce and his
companion fell to the ground. The lady was
stunned, but she soon recovered and screamed
for help. When help arrived nothing was found
of the young man who had accompanied her but
mangled remains. His boots were stripped from
his feet his limbs were severed and lacerated,
and the features were not recognizable by those
who had known him in life. The unfortunate
young man is said to be the third of his family
who have lost their lives by the same cause"
Year: 1869

A Coon WFE-In the eighty fouth year OF
his age, DR.. Calvin Chaplin wrote OF his wife as
follows


'My domestic employments have been perhaps
as near perfection as the human condition
permits. She made my home the pleasantest spot
to me on EARTH Aud uow that she is gone, my
worldly loss is perfect"


How many poor fellows,would be saved from
suicide, from the penitentiary and the gallows,
every year, had they been blessed with such
wife, "She made my home the pleasantest spot
to me on earth" What grand tribute to that
woman's love, and piety, and common sense
Rather different was the testimony of an old man
a few years ago, just before he was hung in the
Tombs yard in New York.


az did not intend to kill my wife, but she was
a very aggravating woman


Let each wife inquire, (Which am 2'
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,


and feeling the hand of time weighing heayi-
ly upon them, with all its attendant ills, will
find in the use of this Bitters, or the Tonic, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins
restore in measure the energy and ardor of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness to their
Year: 1869

A BABE THAT WAS GIVEN TO A YOUNG JEg-
sEINAN ON Long lsLAND-A young man from
New Jersey, named Mulford, while riding in the
Southside train from PatchOgue, l.. l., gave up
part Of his seat TO a young woman in deep
soon became very coniidenfiai. and a ~ cnnvers,7
ton sprang up between them, during which the
delighted milford was informed that she had
buried her husband only Che week before; that
her uncle would join her in Springfield. She
seemed anxious not to miss the latter station,
and leaned over Mulford several times to look
out Of the window. When Springfield was
reached at last, she pointed out an old gentle
man who she said was the expected uncle, and
asked the young man to hold her babe while she
helped him on the train. Mulford took the
young one and she departed on her pious mis-
sion. The train started, but she did not return
Mulford felt for his watch and wallet, and missed
them. He then uncovered the infant, and
found huge India rubber doll.
Year: 1869

IyDIAN SUNNER.-The New York Farmers,
Club speculates upon the cause OF Indian sum
mer i'm this wise:


"The warm, smoky spell known as Indian
summer. which is perhaps more peculiar TO the
Northeaster States Of America than to any other
portion OF the globe always occurs after the first
killing frost, not the first white frost, but one
which II severe enough to bring down nearly ali
the forest leaves and kill the herbaceous plants.
The bulk OF vegetation thus destroyed Is almost
lncalculable. In its decay this Il undergoing
amount Of smoke and heat given on, or what
effect tins must produce upon the atmosphere.
or tell whether this is not the true cause of In
dian summer? In support Of this theory. the
fact Is patent that when forests were much more
extensive the Indian summer was longer.
warmer. and more smoky than al present.
Year: 1869

CAPTAIN HIeeINs, hecommander Of the Gu
ban Privateer Cuba, states that the reason OF the
vessel being run into Wilmington was that he
was suffering greatly from the effects Of an ac-
cident received by the parting of hawser at
sea- The owners of the vessel profess to know
that the vessel will be bonded.
Year: 1869

The UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD received from
the Treasury Department on Saturday, Si37 ,OS
in bonds for that portion OF the road between the
1O2Oth mile post and Ogden, at the 1034th mile
post. The Union Pacific road now owns up TO
the latter point; but the remainder Of the dis
tame, between Ogden and Promontory Point
is still in dispute. 1t has not yet been settled
whether the Union Pacific company shall have
that part of the road, or whether it shall bc
given tC the Central Pacific.
Year: 1869

of the whole country; and we will cause
the whole country to be stronger, and
safer, and freer than it ever was or could
be before.


/ have written enough, and you are
welcome to weave these views into those
of my first letter and print them together.
l have examined your pamphlets and
thank you for them,


Very truly and respectfully yours,


HENRY A. WISE.
Year: 1869

Speaking of nuisan ces, is there any need of
newsboys crying their papers so early and so
loud Sabbath mornings This / think is
great nuisance; and could any thing be done to
Keep roosfers from Growing SO early every
morning. One morning this summer, lust at
fcur O'Clock, little bantam jumped on the
wall, where he resides, and crOwed one hour
as fast as be could Invent out and pelted him
down, but by the time i was in my room again
he was up on the wall and at IL as fast as ever


A LOVER OF QUIET.
Year: 1869

A GENTLE HINT.-Old Deacon
Hopkins was a worthy soul and very
generally respected for his outward
show of piety and religious zeal; and l
have no doubt that he felt at heart most
of that which he professcd. In a Ger,
tain direction he was troubled with q
morbid desire to steal. His chief enl.
plnyment Was the making of soap from
ashes which he gathered in the neigh.
borhood; and making his soap ne was
obliged to keep two or three big kettles
of lye boiling, to which end an abun.
Ounce of fuel was necessary.


Now it so happened that the deacon's
nearest uei.hbor Was Capt. Jack Paysen
whose calling kept him upon the salt
water the greater part of the time
Capt. Jack was great hand at keeping
his family supplied with well-seasoned
wood, rs he owned an EXTENSIVE WOOD
lot, he often had vast pile oft cut and
hauled to his house, and there worked
up and stacked. 1t furthermore chanceo
that the rear coor of the good dea
cons soaphouse opened directly upor
the rear of Captain Jacks huge wooc
pile. The temptation was strong. Surely
there could be no harm in takings few
Year: 1869

GOLDEN ADvIcE.-Not many years
ago, young man presented himself to
Mr.. Corwin for a elerkship. Thrice
was he refused, and still he made q
fourth attempt His perseverance and
spirit of determination awakened q
friendly interest in his welfare, and the
secretary advised him in the strongest
possible manner to abandon his purpose
and go to the west if he could do no
better outside the departments.


"My young friend" said he, Ego to
West, buy 16o acres of govern
ment land-or, if you have not the
money to purchase, squat on it; get you
an axe or mattock, put up a log cabin
for your habitation, and raise little
corn and potatoes; keep your conscience
clear, and live like freeman, your own
master, with no one to give you orders,
and without dependence on anybody
Do that and you will be honored, re-
spected, influential and rich. But ac-
cept clerkship here, and you sink at
once all independence; your energies
become relaxed, and you are unified in
few years for any other or more iude-
pendent position. I may give you place
to-day and kick you out tomorrow, and
there's another man over there at the
White House who can kick me out, and
so we go. But if you own On acre Of
land, it is your castle. You are SOW
ereign, and you will feel it in every
throbbing of your pulse, and every day
of life will assure me Of your thanks for
having thus advised you"


If the thousands who ardently strive
for places under government would
ponder we'll these words, and exercise q
sound discretion in their application
many young and gallant spirit would
be saved from inanimation, and a JOY
rather than a grief to its possessor.
Year: 1869

A few days since: man we'll known
in New York society-not young, and
who could not dauce-was sitting at a
party, near young lady, and watching
the mazes of the German He turned
to her. knowing her we'll, and said, q
wish you would let me put my arm
around your waist Of course she
looked at him in amazement. oh !!


said he, you know can't dance, but
I don't see the difference. All these
young men have their arms about the
girls waists, and why should not
have the same privilege, though l si'
s,ill?' That mans head is level. I think
Year: 1869

A Quick MARRIAGE AND A SHORT
HoNEYMooN.-Thc St. Louis Democrat
states that few days ago widower
from Memphis took rooms in fashion
able clearinghouse in that city. He


was a man of pleasing appearance and
winning ways. He told the landlady
that he had many troubles trying to
keep house and raise his two children
without a partner. The lady gave him
all her sympathy, and recommended a
wife. The widower thought the lady's
daughter manifested all the qualities he
could desire, and he was allowed an in
terview. In half an hour the young
lady consented to become mother to
the two sweet babes. A priest was sent
for, the marriage ceremony was perform
ed, and the very happy couple crossed
the river to come to this city on the
cars, but unfortunately too late for them
to take the early train, and they were
under the disagreeable necessity of re-
manning over night in East St. Louis


They took q room at the Sherman House,
aud remained all night. Next morn
cog, after breakfast, the husband came
suddenly into the presence OF his bride,
holding in his dand. a telegraphic dis
patch, which he handed to her, requir-


ing his immediate presence in Hannibal
Missouri, where business of importance
awaited him. Of course there was no
alternative but that of leaving his new
maide bride. So he handed her the
snug little sum of FIVE hundred dollars
in shining gold, and, telling her to g
to her mother and remain with her till
bis returr-whiob would be us,y shor
Year: 1869

When Bishop Asbury "ruu" the
Methodist Church, there was one circuit
in Virginia where the ladies were SO
facinatiug that all the young preachers
sent there were soon taken captive
The Bishop thought to stop this by send
ing thither two decrepit old men, but, tc
his great surprise both were married the
same year. He exclaimed in disgust;
II am afraid the women and the devil
will get all my breaches !"
Year: 1869

tnOuSnG Dut, aiaS IL Pio\eu !" w
counterfeit. The lady thinks "there is
some mistake" about it. and, says the
St. Louis paper, has now been waiting
several days for the return of her hus-
band, without word from him, and
while her friends are of the 'pinion
that he would never return, and that
she has been imposed upon by william.
she lives in hope that he will come back
to her, and make her happy.


MovING ON A RAFT-NovEL PLAN
TO GET Down. SOUTH Near the saw
mill of the Dubuque Lumber Company
was moored last evening a wretchcd raft
about ten or twenty feet in area, con-
structed of parcel of old plank, the
surface of which rose not more than two
inches above the water. On this frail
structure tie occupants had raised q
ridge pole about FIVE feet high and pla-
cling against it small pieces of board, ap-
parently picked up from the drift in the
river, had formed roof with kind of
of dogkennel beneath, Of about six by
ten feet, on the floor of the raft. Into
this hovel, on little straw and heap
of old rags, were crowded. in forlorn
condition, a man, woman and four chill
dren, one at the breast, and the oldest,
perhaps, ten years old. The only house
hold goods were an iron skillet, pot,
and two old barrels-not seat, table
or dish visible. On the bow Of the
raft, on a piece of old boiler iron, raised
few inches above the plank, was a
blazing fire of drift wood, which is for.
tunately abundant, and without price.
Around this that wretchcd group were
huddlcd, presenting scene of squalid
poverty and destitution seldom seen in
this country, and sufficient to move the
com mpassion of the most selfish and pc
nurious. How they endured the pitt
less rainstorm that fel in the night, with
no shelter but that afforded by q roofof
loose boards, the reaLer can conjecture.
Tn spite of all this wretchedncss and
suffering, the woman was well and ro
bust, and the children we're hearty and
cheerful, and as full of spirits as if in
the midst of plenty and comfort. The
man was cripple, and told short and
simple story of misfortune. He was a
teamster at a saw-mill in Minnesota, and
had his leg crushed by log rolling on
IT. Unskillful surgery had left an in
curable sore. His sickness had reduced
him nearly to destitution, when their
calamities were made complete by fire
that consumed their dwelling and all
its contents. Without a cent in the
world, all offers Of assistance from friends,
he had gathered few plank from the
river and constructed a raft, and on it
placed his family for voyage down to
Arkansas, where he intended to squat
on some of the abandoned plantations,
raise a small corn patch and rely on
his gun for the other means of living


DnLuque Times
Year: 1869

The Chicago Times thinks Rev. Robert
Collyer went out of his way to please the
supposed tastes Of Boston in his Thanks
giving sermo n, and calls upon him to take
an early opportunity to purge himself of the
illiberality into which he was betrayed by
the influence of Boston atmosphere"
Year: 1869

How TO MAKE TowN.-Encourage
every one, especially new men, to come
in and settle among you, particularly those
who are worthy and active, whether they
have capital or not. Their labor alone is
worth money. Those who have capital
will buy lots, build houses, or tear out and
remodel the old ones. Go to work and
stimulate every legitimate enterprise by
giving it all the friendly encouragement
you can, or by uniting your industry infu-
ence and capital in the common cause.
Cultivate public spirit, and talk less than
you work. Help your neighbor If he
is in danger of breaking down, prop him
up in some way, either by kind words,
good counsel, or lift from your pocket
book. II he gets fairly down before you
know his situation, set him on his. feet
again-his misfortune is to be pitied, not
blamed-and his talents and labor are
worth money to the community. Besides,
it may some day be your turn to need a
corresponding sympathy. Encourage your
local authorities in making public i'm
provements for the good of the town you
live in, for the good of its prospects, of
your neighbors, and in fact of everything
likely to advance the general good. 1t is
such little things that make town grow.
Their cost is Insignificant when divided up
among all, but when concentrated into a
general effort they do the business tho
roughly.
Year: 1869

A new Constitution has been adopted by
the Constituent Cortes of Spain, and the
Liberal members announced that though
opposed to the monarchical clauses of the
document; they would support the govern
ment, based upon them. But will their
constituents, the men who shed their blood
to Danish the Bourbons and make the late
REVOLUTION success? Spain is not yet
pacified, and the man who mounts the
throne will do so with but a slight hold on
the baton of office.
Year: 1869

The deepest coal pit in England is at
Wigan, and is one thousand eight hundred
feet deep; and they are sinking it yet
deeper, to reach another seam of coal,
which is two thousand four hundred feet
below the surface
Year: 1869

From the Des Moines iowa State Register. May 81


The telegraphic reform is coming along rapidly.
Cheap telegraphing is to be Of the blessings Of
the near future new company Is to be formed in
capital, which intends to cover all routes in the
States now traversed by the lines OF the Western
Union Company. 1t will reduce the cost OF telegraph
than 500 miles, and means to come before Congress
next season for contract for telegraph postal law
new company Is forming In Indiana with the same
good object In view; also a company In Missouri,


The indications are cheering that the telegraph is
to be made q servant OF the people. The transmits
sion Of messages by lightning was a marvellous i'm
provement at the start but It is better now than
then. All improvements, as general rule, grow
better as they grow older. The telegraph is an ex
years ago, but It carries no cheaper What we want
now Is more lines and lower rates. And we are
going to have both. and before long. The world
moves and the telegraph must move with It,
Year: 1869

We have for several years past been OF the opinion
that very much OF the trouble OF getting money Tor
the regular purposes OF trade Is clearly aceabe TO
the immense sums invested In the government Sc
curities and the fact that the interest on gold
bonds larger than DE legally obtained BY loan
ing money on notes of hand. This has been the
opinion also OF some OF the abesr bankers and
hnanciers In the country, from whom, indeed, we
ourselves derive it, and this belief has induced the
various attempts to consolidate the national debt at
a lower rate OF interest. Many OF those who have
camored loudest against these patriotic efforts have
been themselves engufed In bankruptcy by sudden
revusions largely owing to this cause, while Others
who have escaped ruin have sustained numerous
heavy losses from the same cause.


The specie exports from New York since January
to date in the aforementioned years have been as
Year: 1869

wife, OF maid and bachelor, of sister and
brother. OF parent and child, the higher
There Is more or less confusion OF the sexes. The
scene Is one OF social mOnstr0sity. Amid b0Ih ply
scal and moral Nth and decay body and soul rot
savage @ sSa os
manly 6y living like beasts In the dense centres OF
CIVILIZATION That there s not few such IN this
cty s q fact that will proclaim Itself any DAY or
night to those VINO choose TO exercise their observ
ing iaculties. and their numbers have within lew
years been fearfuy recruited. IL Is almost mathe-
NAUTICAL puzzle to understand IN some instances how
IL that so many inmates manage to occupy one linn
ited tenement Sucn places are perpetual invitations
70 CHOLERA ana every other epidemic disease. Their
relation to the city Is that which filthy pestlential
crowdlng BY this class it is difiicut to conceive
remedy without system Of domlciary inspection
and regulation which Is generally TO be repr0bated
But it Is not impossible to improve and multiply the
means means OF household comfort, cleanliness and
attention to what We will call domlciliary
that an art OF such vital importance to human
welfare and to civilization should only now begin to
De CONSIDERED with special care by the phanthropist
lage ana General Dwellings Company" could do
vast deal towards promoting every interest in this
CITY, The city needs within its limits and within its
houses In which they live. The sense Of home is
PERENNIAL fountain OF living waters All the virtues
bloom about it 1t must be at the basis OF all solid
prosperity without It all riches and all splendors
painfully strike the beholder as ranstory and ready
to 60 In the wind either at the soft call OF the breeze
or the hOarse threat of the storm. Those who own
large tracts OF real estate in the suburbs could not
make better investment than to convert the half Of
1t into suitable family residences, not to be rented,
but sold to their occupants on terms which would
ensure payment by every purchaser possessing either
thrift or substance.


Ofcial Transfers Of Real Estate Yesterday.
Year: 1869

Cash gold was IN rather better demand, and this
fact well the heavy daily clearings for the past
few days, indicate large increase OF short interest
Loans, for carrying were made at ga to per cent
up TO Clearing House time and at per cent to nat
in the afternoon. The report OF the Gold Exchange
Bank Is as follows:-
Year: 1869

HARD PUSHED. The Tribune must be
hard pused for material to crafty its no.
|torious propensity to utter SANDER against
reputable citizens when it resorts to the in
sane rawlings of drunken man to obtain
them. Every one who knows MAHoNEY.
knows that he never offered that suit of
clothes to MALLoY, and every one who
knows MALLoY, knows that if he had re-


ceived such an offer from any one he would


have accepted it, notwithstanding he was


in the employ OF the Trtbunes candidate


and hired expressly to work and vote for


him.
Year: 1869

Too YOUNG A DEMocRAT.-We have
heard democrats object to Mr.. SIBREE be-
cause he has not been long enough in our
party to entitle him to their support for
Office. This question of the propriety of
electing him has been decided by the en-
phatic vote of democratic convention, and
individual opinion ought not to be permit.
ted to control the action of democrats
against that decision, rs that cannot be
done without enda ngeripg the success Of the
party in the future.


Democrats ought to 60 to work and re-
cruit for the democratic ranks and not
those of their opponents as, has been too
long the fashion in our State.


Randall, Doolittlc, Carpenter, Fairchild.
Lewis, Solomon, Dixon, and a majority of
the state fiocers and senators and assem-
blymen of the republican persuasion since
the domination of that party in the State
we're taken from the democratic ranks and
paid for their detection with Offices ; these
men will all come back to first principles
when they can no longer be fed with
the crumbs of Office or the hope of them
in the republican patty. Those men got
what they sought, though they sacrificed
their principles to do it, but We have dem
ocrats in this county going for republican
candidates for the best Offices because they
themselves or some of their friends were
not nominated to the same ofices-thcreby
running their own party and doing them>
selves no good, or. in other words cutting
of their own noses to spite some of their
neighbors" IF these democrats choose
to vote against SIBREE, man admitted
by every one to be we'll fitted for the Office
of County Judge, and for WALDO, who is
incompetent to faithful and proper dis
charge of the duties Of that Office, on the
ridiculous plea that the former is not an
old line democrat, they must do 50, and
we cannot help it, though we would if We
could frs, because We would like to
have them always remaining in the future,
consistent democrats. looking to promote
the highest good of the people; and Sec
oud, because we want the people to have .
competent and worthy County Judge.
Year: 1869

OFFICES. were not created for
any particular persons, but as instrumen-
talities by and through which the people
are to manage their own public affairs. and
they fll these Offices with such persons rs =
majority Of them may at each recurring
term thereof, choose. If the people run
wild and make mistakes as they have done
during the past ten or more years and elect
republicans to I'll these Offices, it is their
own misfortune but the sad results Of the
past need not be repeated in the future it
democrats would learn to do their whole
duty and stand by the principles of their
party, and cease to follow the lead of am.
bilious men who seek Office at the hands uf
democrats, and when they fail of success.
run elsewhere, and whose motto is, IF we
cannot rule the party, We will ruin it. F"
Democrats will ever have their differences
in their selection of mon 10 gil Offices, but
if they would bury these differences when
their conventions have made nominations, all
will come out right in the eud. 1t has
been disappointed democracts who were
the chief recruiting officers to swell the
ranks of their political opponents end give
them their present power, and we hope to
see less of these things in the future