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Year: 1859

REMEDY FOR SNAKE BlrEs.-A correspondent of Texas paper gives the following recipe for the certain cure of snake bites: wye ia oe'

 Any druggist can prepare the following mix ture, which must be used externally. must caution your readers not to drink ik It must be applied to the wound;

 10 grains of the Iodine Potassium. .,,

 30 !" of Iodine. bed yatt

 ounce of water .e hr '

 A portion of this applied immediately to the wound with sponge, roll of cotton or paper kept wet with the mixture, will effect cure without any medicine taken internally.

 The apothecary should be careful to mix these ingredients with great exactness, and to preserve the proportions when a greater or less quantity is ordered

 It should be kept where it can be used in- stanty. have carried it for four years when angling, hunting or camping in the woods and on the prairies use strong vial with ground glass stoI per, packed with little cotton in small tin case, to keep the vial from being broken The case can be used as cupping glass, and the cotton can be saturated with the mixture and applied to the wound made by the reptile or insect.
Year: 1859

FREE ENTEaTAISMENT- readers
must not overlook the closing exercises of the Me.
chanics' Institute night school, to take place al
the large hall on 9th street, tomorrow night
This school has already effected SO much for the
working classes Of our city, and If properly man


aged hereafter, is to prove so invaluable to our
entire community that We desire to see our leadr e
citizens interesting themselves in its behalf Be


Sturdivant and John r. Tompkins, Esqs., tive
handsome prizes are to be presentedito pupils, to
whom they will be awarded. The Armory Band
have volunteered for the occasion and as the
entertainment is to cost nothing we hope that the
Hall will be crowded with both ladies and gentle
Year: 1859

Ddholsoo is the dumb Judge. He has not
been known to speak since his nomination.
Old Gid will soon apply his remedy to him; he
will write letters to him, aud if they don't put
him In talking condition. he may be said 10 have
chronic lock jaw.
Year: 1859

Know ye the land where the hot toast and muffin Are emblems of deeds that are done in their

 spheres; here scandalous stories and hints about muffin Now melt into whispers now rise into sneers? kno"ye the land where the liquids and cake Their crcumvolutions consecutive make; Where Pompey's strong arms are oppressed

 with Pekoe, And the air wares faint with the scent of the

 sole;

 Where malice produces its bitterest fruit And the voice of detraction can never be mute: Where the tints of the story, the shades of the

 lie,

 In number though varied, in falsehood may vie, And the venom of scandal is deepest in dye; Where virgins of fifty strange ringlets entwine, in the fond msconception of looking divine? 'Tls the land of the tea pot, the realm of the

 tray, Gan we smile when we know what their vota-

 res say? Oh. false as the curls of their ancentest belle. Are the hearts which they bear, and the tales

 which they tell.
Year: 1859

METAL TIPs TO BooTs AND SHoEs-The saving in shoe leather which the small metallic tip on the toe of boot or shoe effects is very great, and the invention is of practical util- ity. Children are remarkably fond of kicking out the toes of their shoes, thus rendering them useless and making it necessary that another pair should be procured, although no other part of the former pair is injured. By the use of these tips, which may be made of silver, iron or any other malleable metal, the boot or shoe may be worn until it is really "done up" and they are secured that so long as any portion of the sole remains the tip will be held fast. They do not increase the weight of the shoe above one half ounce or an ounce. It is the inven- ton of G. A. Mitchell. of Turner, Maine, and was patented on the 4th of January. Econom- ically speaking, there is no doubt of its value, as one pair of boots or shoes-men's, ladies' or chldren's--can be made to last nearly twice the tms they would without the tips Scien- life American.
Year: 1859

| | The Newark Advertiser is pithy and pungent in the following article which we copy from it's | columns:

 | That the horns of the new moon inclining | from the perpendicular to the concave denote a wet month, and the contrary dry one. | That the fact of certain birds making their nests in low grounds foretells drought in the coming summer. That the flesh of hogs killed during the thew moon" will swell in the pot, and if killed in the :" old moon" will shruk. That when the husks of Indian corn are thick and strong, the following winter will be hard one.

 That abundance of dead flies is sure sign of an approaching epidemic. That low stage of water in springs and streams late ln autumn indicates mild winter, and their fullness severe one.

 That the extreme whiteneSS of the breast bone of a goose indicates that the winter will be cold, because, as con jecture, the color both of the bone and snow is white.

 That the passage of resolves is no presum- ton that they will be remembered, or adhered to if they are.

 That talking of the people, the dear people, Will make man patriot, any more than say ing Lord, Lord, will make him christian.

 That men will remember promises, not made Tn writng any longer than sick man will re- collect his promises after he gets we'll, or than a hen remembers her chickens when she thinks 1t time to send them adrift.

 That the Atlantic cable is the immediate precursor of the millenium, any more than it is of deluge.

 That frost always appears in six weeks from the first singing of the katydids.

 That hives of honey bees will not prosper if they are bargained away and sold for money l hat when their owner dies, his heir must knock open the hive and inform the inmates of his disease, amt that he has now become their mas ter, on pain of looSlng them by gradual decay or accloent in Case of his neglecting this for mality.

 That if the first N. E. storm in autum clears up warm, all the succeeding ones till the next spring will terminate in similar way, and 50 the winter will be mild.

 That ecllpses are the cause of cold weather and that comets, If not as was once maintained oy superstition, are really prognostic or produc- tVe oi Pestllence and war, do vet "shake from their horrId halr'' either uesJrucuir - fla ~ f. Just as the ignorant most dread one or the other

 That Friday is an unlucky day, on which no work or enterprise should be commenced.

 That an equinoctial storm accompanies the passage of the sun across the line in March and December.

 That the blossoming of pear tree in autumn prognostlcates the death of one of the family of the owner.

 These are all vulgar fallacies; some of them only silly, while others are injurious, because leading to false conclusions and erroneous con- duet.
Year: 1859

The following lines by Alice Gray are very 'weet and beautiful: Her voice was sweet and low; her face

 No words can make appear, For i. locked out of heaven but long enough To leave a shadow here. And l nnly knew that I saw the face,

 And saw the shadow fall, And thu she carried my heart away,

 And keeps it; that is all.
Year: 1859

You all do know, that on the Lupercal

 thrice did offer him kingly crown,

 Which thrice he did refuse.'

 Taking into consideration the facts that Cree ly is willing to set aside Seward for Crittenden and take the Vice Presidency for Sumner or some northern abolitionists, we think that Crittenden's chances are decidedly the best at this present writing.
Year: 1859

WISH to inform my friends and customers that Il am about to change my present business, there fore offer the whole of my stock at cost, without reserve. It must be closed out without delay wish to close up in short time possible and all those indebted to either by note account will please call and settle l am compelled to have money to settle my own affairs.

 D. B. HANDEL.
Year: 1859

II DIR. King, convicted OF the murder of his
wife at CObOurg. C. w, has been sentenced to be
hung on the 9th Of June. lie had been married
to his wife four years, and on his person when
arrested miniature and several love letters from
young lady Were found. These seem to furnish
Il clue to the motive which induced this man to
murder his wife and her unborn babe-she taking
his medicine and accepting his protestations OF
love with undoubting confidence.
Year: 1859

IL Richard Anderson and his wife Irish have
been living OH the town Of New London Ct for
the last year past but il has been ascertaned that
he is possessed of property in the could country
having $50 rent per annunl and that he had on hand
over 800 in cash. lie has been Obliged to quit
the hosPitable poor house, paying the town for
his own and Lis wifc's board during the year.
Year: 1859

~ Late intelligence from China states that a
Boston ship had recently sailed from Fau-C Chou
for Havana, with nine hundred coolies on board
and that one Boston vessel, and two from New
York, were at Canton, waiting for similar freight
Year: 1859

IL In the Echo case, in Charleston, on Wed
nesday the testimony on the part of the State was
closed. The counsel for the defence gave notice
that il they concluded to dispense with testimony
they would he prepared TO proceed with the argl-
meut next day.
Year: 1859

FORT ABERCROMBIE July, lS59.


On the 4th day of July the first regular
mail stage to the Red River arrived at Fort
Abercrombie, with the U. S. Mail and two
coach loads of passengers for the British
settlements in the north eight days after
the pioneer steamboat, "Anson NOrthup,"
had returned from her first trip to Fort Garry,
and unfolded to social use and value the
long hidden scroll of navigable waters, on
which Nature has written the pregnant
prophecy of future States and peoples.


The establishment of stage route to the
Red River, and the opening of navigation on
that stream to Lake Winnipeg, are the first
accomplished links in the chain of active
commercial communication, which it is the
ambition of the people of Minnesota to
stretch across the Northwestern wilderness
to the Pacific Ocean. And when the gen.
tlemen at Fort Abercrombie told me that
the Anniversary of the nations proudest
day had not been celebrated there in the
usual form for want of certain indispensable
blank cartridges, l could not help thinking
that the rumble of BURBANK's & Co.'S four
horse coaches, and the snort of ANsoN
NoRrHUp's little steamboat, were better
echo to the mllion-throated voices of the
day than all the sulphurous rancor of artille-
ry. These two events, which thus salute
each other in the midst of the wilderness,
Year: 1859

To the far.otf Colchian shore, the Argo
Crept Ger the storm-grey sea to touch the


Fleece


Which goldenly cleaned out upon the deep;
And when the sun went down, strained eyes


did gaze


To where the glittering ripple touched the wave,
And marked the goal of long and dreary toll.
As Jason sailed to grasp the Golden Fleece,
So, cycles LATER toiled new Argos filled
With hearts expectant of the fancied joy,
To where the Western sands tossed in the spray
Their more than Atran wealth, and where the


land


Glowed with the throbbing veins of virgin gold
So men for years have sought the Golden shore,
A few to grasp the gold, and more to fight
Alternating want and danger dark,
Aud some to stretch in death their wearied


limbs,


In savage wilds, adding their ghastly bones
To the grim thousands there.


Thus ever men
Have wasted youth and strength in distant


hopes,


The while the earth they spurn behind them far,
Cradles brighter gold and surer yield,
Than sun -scorched sands reveal, through dewy


toll.


In truth, Gods earth doth bitterly reproach
The wandering race /; for every year she calls
For human toll to ease her of her wealth,
And where man toileth not, she pants beneath
Her own wild wealth of bloom and waving


grass. there,
Thank God! that man has learned the lesson
And surely found the gold beneath his feet.
Daily the full, golden sheaves, royalty
Roll to the sheltering barns, mid joyous song,
Like glittering conquerors, victorious borne
Into the bosom of imperial Rome.
For every field of grain hath poured its tide
OF waving affluence to the sun.browned hands,
And loved the stronger hearts of those who


toiled,


And braved the fervid sun for daily bread.
Gods sun and shower have dressed the MUIR


murinp land with
With ripping smiles have met the thankless
God.like hand of grace and kindly look:
Have poured golden tide of wealth and bread
Upon the universal man, and left
HIM no complaint.


And yet the Good Right Hand
Which nursed these fields of bread and watered


them


With tenderest care-bringing the kindly sun
To breathe his warmth and stir the germ OF life,
Till tn inert grains sprang into merry stalks
This Good Right Hand works on, by man


ignored.


Remember you who murmur bitterly,
Because you suffer for yonr own mlsdeed,
In looking every where but unto God;
Remember evermore this Golden Year;
Remember how the earth hath smiled with God,
And let her smiles flow through thy thankless


heart


As the soft flow of summer waves upon
a flowery shore, or as the pleasant sound
OF summer wind among the summer trees.


ALROY.
ROSE TOWNSHIP, Sept. l, 1852
Year: 1859

the camp on Elm River, where we remained
on the day following Sunday The day
was spent in jerking buffalo meat, a process
which consists simply in cutting the meat
into thin slices and drying it in the sun or
over a fire,
Year: 1859

AccIDEsr.-A little boy Of Mr.. Horan's
got badly hur, BY pile OF lumber falling on
bin, producing conclusion Of the head and
chest. We understand he is improving and
will probably recover.


While we are on this subject we would
caution persons against piling lnmber in such
a way as TO make il dangerous for children
to touch Il. Another thing. which is equal.
ly as bad. in laying plank in lot. and al
lowing the ends to stick over the fence. AZ
ter night It certainly is very dangerous
Year: 1859

ear 1t behooves our citizens, now that
the nights and mornings are getting cool, to
pay especial attention in the erection Of their
stove-pipes, that they are well l-jointed and
every join. rirefed. Also that ample space
is allowed between the wood work and pipe.
From now until the rain sets in, is our criti-
col time. Bat little danger would exist did
every one exert an especial care in looking
to bis otrn as well as bis neighbor's
stoye-pipc.
Year: 1859

tBTuesday last was quite q boistrons
day in Grass Valley. Old Boreas seat the
dust flying through the streets, regardless
of the damage he was doing. Considerable
injury was sustained by the peach trees, as a
great number, having late fruit on them
were split and broke to pieces. Warm clo-
thing was in demand, and FIRE places brought
into requisition among those who were for.
tunate enough to have them.
Year: 1859

How Cruiser WAS tanned BY RAnEY.-
Accompanied hy one individual alone, no
bleman Of indisputabe nerve, temper and
physical strength, Mr.. Rarey proceeded to
the encounter As we heard the story told
his injunctions to his comrade were charac
teristic enough. Whatever happens, my
lord" said he, don't speak or interfere-at
least not till you see me down under his feet
and him worrying mep


This compact made, he rcsoutely walked
into the arena, which consisted of loose
box divided 10y half door of some four feet
or more in height. Stepping quietly up to
this barrier, he leaned his arm upon it. so
that it was Just covered by the iron bar that
ran along the top, and looking fxedy at the
savage he intended to tame Cruiser-from
muzzle, headstall and such impedments had
been removed-we believe, by some mechan-
ical arrangements, for none dared 20 near
enough 20 touch him-made his usual dash
at the intrepid stranger, to pounce on him as
cat would on IA mouse. Rarey stood per
fectly motionless, neither altering his atti.
tude nor the expression of his countenance
in the slightest degree Thinking he had his
enemy by the Arnt, the horse seized and wor
ried at the bar as if he would have bitten it
through. Again and again retiring, for an
impetus to the further corner, he rushed at
the mysterious stranger, actually screaming
in the uncomfortable violence of his rage
Rarey sustaining these successive charges
with the same sang .troid that he had shown
at the commencement of the engagement.


At length, after more than an hour of this
wild scene, with its frantic fury on one side,
and calm scientific superiority on the other,
the redoubtable Cruiser, blown, exhausted
dripping with sweat, and completely puzzled
in his equine mind as to the properties of this
figure, which he could no longer believe to
be human, came quietly close to it, and true
to his nature, warped as it was, smelt at it,
and touched it with his nose then Rarey
threw open the half door and walked boldly
up to him. The last sentence speaks vol
umes. 1t was n trait, not of the system. per
haps, so much as of the man. But what
confidence the man must have had in his svs.
ten, to preserve his GOODNESS and equanimi
ity in position, which to every one but him.
self would have been Of mortal dnnger. The
"satt was now on the birds tail, and when
his own peculiar method had been resorted
TO- and Cruiser CONVEX ted into quiet, docile
and not particularly showy hack, had been
ridden before astonshed hundreds, the horse
tanner was universally recognized ms SUCH
and both the papers and the public expressed
themselves satisfied with Mr. Rarey.-Fra-
zcrs Magazine.
Year: 1859




MEssRs. EDlToRs A great deal has
been said in regard to c. V. r. R.. extension Of
NJ. Il NJ. r. r. and host of other matters, but
the greatest feature in connection with the
growth and prosperity OF Davenport appears
to be lost sight of, and if allowed to slumber
much longer, you may bid aiieu to any great
andgrowing prospective. The time has arrived
for action let us forget the past and look for
ward to the future, and no longer talk of want
OF capital. Where are your LIE Claires Daven.
ports. Cooks. Sargents, Grant, Price, Mitchell,
Birchard, and large number OF others who,
if they study to advance their own interests,
will at once take hold OF the grea. local guess
tion--a uater pomef from tie head Of the Upper
Hapids.


1t requires man u no great discernment to
readily perceive that this can be accomplished
at no great expense in proportion to the ad.
vantages to be gained therefrom. AS long as
the city Of Davenport continues to consume
and import, without manufactures TO give a
market to the raw tGat'ral. as long as they



ture nothing for themselves, % long will ite
population decrease, and its prosperity decline
they have the alternative, and it rests with
those who are most to be benefited to stir in
the matter Foreign capital will never take
hold of local improvements, ana it is folly to
look to the Wall street. of New York to engage
in work that the very parties most to be ben
Gifted will not engage in themselves As long
as our monied men, and those interested d in real
estate, w II not lift up their fingers to build up
the loom and the spindle, just so long will the
cotton bales find their way to eastern market.
Why sir, if there is not a mere enterpyising
spirit manifested by the men Of capital cf the
city of Davenport, for the next two years, than
there has been for the past two, you may rest
assured Davenport will be cassed among the
cities that were. With capacity Of water pow
err sufficient to make Lowell of your city, with
abundance of capital in your very midst, to
enable you to obtain it, and yet no one ener-
getic enough to lend hand to the undertak-
ing. You once had Fulton, but his energies
were not properly appreciated. You have now
become virtually dead tn the matter.


lou may sneer at croakers and GROWERS
about the times, but Davenport will ere long
have occasion to croak and growl louder than
ever if she continues to remain in her present
lethargy. Gentlemen, the alternative is with
y2nrselres; rise then from your stupor if you
care not for your own individual interests, do
have little regard for the Advancement and
prosperity Of your city. J.J.H.
Year: 1859

ARREsTED.-A couple of lads we're ar
rested yesterday and taken before Justice
Johns, on a charge of discrderly conduct. As
they promised to behave themselves in future,
the magistrate let them off with a fine Of one
dollar and costs The next time they are ar
rested we shall publish their names-sure.
Year: 1859

SUDDEN CH.NGE.-Friday night the
wind suddenly changed round into the
north, blowing big guns, and very cold
The ground was speedily frozen up. but a warm
sunshine Saturday thawed it out suddenly.
Our pleasant weather does not appear to have
departed from us ss yet
Year: 1859

OUR merchants and business men
should remember that by the uniting of the
two Offices the Democrat and the Nens, we are
put in possession of more job material than any
office in the state. Our specimen book will
show that our printers know how to do the
work
Year: 1859

One could not wish for more pleasant
weat er than We experienced Saturday. The
sun shone ont bright and warm, causing the
mud to speedily dry off the crossings, by
which means the ladies we're enabled to get
round and do their Saturdays shopping Not
outstanding the dreadful state ia which the
roads have been placed by the late prolonged
rains, there was large number Of teams in
from the interior. all bringing to market some
description of produce. If the roads become
settled, We shall look for large trade this
week.
Year: 1859

BELOW the bluffs tenements are be-
coming very scarce indeed. 1t is now almost
impossible to procure house below 9th street,
and those unoccupied are not fit for person
to reside in. We understand that houses on
the bluffs are fast filling up and with good
class of tenants Most of the houses which
have been leased this fall were taken by
strangers just moving to our city. This is a
good evidence that our population is fast in
creaeing, and with permanent class Of in
habitants. We hope in few months that
there will not be vacant house within the
corporation limits.
Year: 1859




At the house of friend where
once passed the night was one of those
stately upright cabinet-de and cases
of drawers which were not rare in pros
porous families during the last century.
1t had held the clothes and the books
and the papers of generation after gen
Grafton. The hands that opened its
drawers had grown withered, shrivel-
Ell, and at last been folded in death.
The chrildren that played with the
lower handles had got tall enough to
open the desk-to reach the upper
shelves behind the folding doors
grown bent after awhile-and then
followed those who had gone before,
and left the old cabinet to be ransack-
ed by new generation.


n boy of ten or twelve was looking
at 1T few years ago, and, being a
quick witted fellow, saw that all the
space was not accounted for by the
smaller drawers in the part beneath
the lid of the desk. Prying about
with busy eyes and fingers, he at
length came upon spring, on press
ing which, hidden drawer flew from
its hiding-place. 1t had never been
opened but by the maker. The ma
hogany shavings and dust were lying
in it as when the artisan closed it
and when l saw it, it was as fresh as
if that day finished.


Is there not one little drawer in
your soul, my sweet reader, which nc
hand but yours has ever opened, and
which none that have known you seem
to lave suspected? What does il
hold?-A sin?-I hope not.


What a strange thing an old dead
sin laid away in a secret drawer of the
soul is. Must it not some time ol
other be moistened with tears, until i
comes to life again and begins to stil
/ In our consciousness, as the dry wheel
animalcule, looking like a grain o
dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with 1
drop of water?


Or is it a passion? There are plenty
of withered men and women walkin,
about the streets who have the secre
drawer in their hearts, which, if i
were opened. would show as fresh a
it was when they were in the flush o
youth and its first trembling emotions
What it held will. perhaps, never b
known. until they are dead and gone
ami some curious eyes lights on al
old yellow letter with the fossil foot
!. prints of the extinct passion trodde
thick all over ito. w. Holmes.