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Year: 1860




On Wednesday night of last week, a man
named Langster, living on Sans Greek, Tenn.
accompanied his wife on a visit to neigh
bors, leaving at home their son, boy eleven
years of age, to take care of the house. At
late hour in the night, the mother and father
returned and approaching their home, Mr.
Lansgter suggested to his wife, that, for sport,
and to test the courage of the boy, he would
stealthily approach the house. and knock for
admittance He did so, and the boy inquired
who was there, but received no answer
The knocking and inquiry were repeated,
but still no answer to the boys question:
The lad then got down his fathers double
barrel shot gun, and coming outside the
house, again asked who it was that knocked
Receiving no answer, he raised the gun and
fired, lodging large number of buck shot in
the body of his father, and producing wounds
which, it is supposed, will result in DEATH
Year: 1860

LEARN THE VALUE or MoNEY.-A silver
dollar represents days work Of the laborer.
If it is given to a 10y lie has no idea what it
cost, and what it IS worth lie would be as
likely to give dollar as dime for top, Of
any other toy. But if boy has learned 70
earn his liine and dollars by the sweat of his
face, he knows the difference. Hand WORK is
to him a measure Of value that can never be
rubbed out Of his mind Let him learn to ex-
pericnce that c hundred dollars represent
hundred weary days labor, and it seems a
great sum of money. 4 thousand dollars is
fortune, aud ten thousand is almost inconceiF-
able, for it is far more than he ever expects to
possess. When he has earned dollar, he
thinks twice before he spends it, He wants
to invest it so as to get the full value of a
days work for it. 1t is great wreug to SO.
ciety and to a boy, to bring him up to man S
estate without this knowledge \ fortune at
twenty-one without it, is almost inevitably
thrown away. With it and lit |. capital to
stat on, he will make his own fortune better
than any one can make it for him
Year: 1860

CLEALISEss. the dirtiueSs Of The
water in which you have washed when it is
cold without soap hot with soap cold with
soap. You will find the first has hardly re-
moved any dirt at all, the second little more
and the third great deal more But hold
your hand over a cup of hot water for q min
ute or two, and then, by merely rubbing with
the finger you Will bring off fakes of dirty
skin After vapOr-bath you may peel your
whole self clean in this way What | mean
is, that by simply washing or sponging with
water you do not really clean your skin Take
a rough towel, dip one corner in very hot wa
ter-if a little spirit be added to it. it will be
more effectual-and then rub as if yoer were
rubbing the towel into yonr skin with ycur
fingers The black fakes which will come of
will convince you that your were not clean be-
tore, however much soap aud water You may
have used These fakes are what require re
moving And you can really keep yourself
cleaner with tumbler fall of hot water and
rough towel and rubbing, than with & whole
apparatus Of bath and soap and sponge, E-ith-
out rubbing. 1t is qujte nonsense to say that
anybody need be dirty. Patients have been
kept as clean by these means on long vev-
aye, when a basiuf1 Of water could not be
afforded, aud when they could not lie moved
ont Of their berths, as if all the appurtenancea
OF home had been at hand Washing, how
ever, with large quantity of water has quite
other effects than those of mere claulincss-
The skin absorbs the water and becomes soft
er and more perspivabe. 10 wash with soap
and soft water is, therefore, desirable from
other points Of view than that Of cleanliness.
-NighliHgaes Aotsg on Nursing.
Year: 1860

The ONLY MEDICINE" The are times when
the pulse lies low in the bosom, and beats
slowly in the veins when the spirit sleeps the
sleep, apparently, that knows no waking, in its
house of clay, and the window-shutters are
closed, and the door is hung with the invisible
Grape of melancholy when we wish the gold
en- sunshine pithy darkness and ever willing


to fancy clouds where no clouds. be-" This


is state of sickness when physic may be


thrown to the dogs, for we viii have none of
it, What shall raiserthe sleeping Lazarus ?


What shall make the heart beat music again,
and the pulse dance to itthrough all the myr-
lad thronged halls in our house of life What
shall make the sun kiss the eastern hills again
for Us with all bis old awakening gladness,
and the night overflow with moonlight, mu-
sic, love, and flowers 2" Love itself is the
great stimulant-the most intoxicating OF all
and performs all these miracles but it is a
miracle itself, and is not at the drug store,
whatever they say. The counterfeit is in the
market, bat the winged GCd is not a money
changer, we assure YOU. Men have tried many
things-but still they ask for stimulants. The
Stimulants we use, but require the use of more


Men try to drown the Coating dead Of their
own souls in the wine cup, but the corpses will
rise. We see their faces in the bubbles. The
intoxication Of drink set the world whrliug
again, aud the pulses playing their widest mu-
sic, and the thoughts gaIloPag-but the fast
clock runs down sooner, apdr the unnatural
stimulation only leaves the house it fills with
widest reyelry, more silent, more sad deserted,
more dead There is only one stimulant that
never fails, and yet never Enthusiastically
Duty puts a blue sky over every man-up in
his heart it may be-into which the skylaIk
Happiness always goes singing
Year: 1860

Adam would not have scerned good satinet,
even though the cut of the garments had been
a few months old. For however rural fig
leaf SUIT might appear, it is not exactly adapted
for general use, especially with the thermome-
ter at zero. And don't think that lady of
your weight in the Community would appear to
advantage in that primitive style of dress"


colored with Indignation at the idea, and laid
down the last of the stockings, preparatory to
seeking her nightly rest 80 sa- o
E She never calls me "Perseverance" except
when she is astonished or indignant and Il
knew by the tone of her voice that It would be
useless to pursue the subject at prsaisent So
winding up my argument and the little wood
en- clock that graces our mantle, addressed
myself to slumber while that murmured aspi-
ration foated on the midnight air from my
W; fe's half opened lips


"Oh dear wish I were rich % ----,
Year: 1860

p@ 1t is noticeable fact, that wherever
there was a Know Nothing Lodge of any
numerical strength, there is certain to be a
Republican wide awake club organized in its
stead, composed of the same elements, having
the same objects in view, and the same
politicians are directing its movements. A
change of names has not changed its purposes,
nor change of dark lanterns for torches will
answer to blind the observed as to their real
objects. Under the old garb, the united for
ces of the Democracy would overpower the
partisans who now hope to deceive into theil
ranks some of those opposed to Know Moth
ingism, by the use of new title and the re-
sort to parade and show. They may be par


tially successful for time, and, when theil
scheme is fully understood, they will fall into
disrepute as suddenly as did the oath-bound
Year: 1860

The PERSONAL LIBERTY LAw.-The Bos
ton Courier has published series of ARTICLES
designing to show that State Legislation esaf
fords undeniable proof that the Republican
party either cannot CT will not limit itself to
constitutional course of action, in reference to
slavery" and in review of the whole subject,
propounds questions as follows -


We put it to them (the Republicans) to say
whether the slaveholding States can possibly
have constitutional right more solemnly
guaranteed to them by the Constitution, than
this of the extraditi6I of their fugitive slaves;
whether they can have a right about which
they ought to be more jealous; and whether,
if the Republican party should obtain posses
sion of every part of the government, and
should proceed to attack slavery in the States,
they could do greater constitutional wrong
than they have already done in this and in
several other Northern States, in obedience te
the demands and behests of the fanatical and
disorganizing portion of their adherents p
| Which is but an attack on slavery, when you
attack the constitutional guarantees by which
the right of the masters is secured and upheldl
Year: 1860

But any division of the electors that will be
satisfactory to the several parties concerned
will answer the great purpose in view--the
defeat of Lincoln by the concentrate upon a
common electoral ticket against him of the
anti-black,republieaR popular majority Of the
Empire State. 81 ~
Year: 1860

Our opinion that this late coalition at Syra-
euse will open the way to concentration OF
all the Union elements in this State on a com
mon electoral ticket against Lincoln, is in o
derstand that there is to be joint conference
at Saratoga Springs, on Tuesday next, of the
committee of the Douglas party, the Bell par
ty, and the Breckinridge party. respectively
charged with this business of joint electoral
ticket; that the object of this meeting is to re-
arrange the Syracuse ticket, SO as to include
the Breckenridge party, and that, upon the
basis of ten electors, there is no doubt of thil
party joining the coalition. IF thus adopted
this Joint stock electoral ticket will stand
Year: 1860

one OF THE ITEMs-The wrangle
over the japanese bill in New York is
not yet over. The demand for the
items Of the hotel bill brings forth the
fact that the cost Of entertaining tn.
japanese included the cost Of also en-
tertaining one hundred and fifty Com
mon Councilmen and their friends by
furnishing them their dinners every
day during the stay Of the Japanese
The Common Council of New York is
a model public body. Three dozen
kid gloves piece for one days wear
and dinners every day for two weeks,
with wines and cigars included, show
that they are sensible of the impor-
tance Of their positions and the value
Of the service they render the public.
People seldom value what they do not
pay for, and the Councils seem
determined that the value Of their SER
vices shall not be deprecated in public
estimation by any absence Of cost.
Year: 1860

MISS f L. NASH, wishes to inform the
Ivl Ladies Of THE community and vicinity
that she is now prepared to furnish them
with the latest style Of Millinery and Dress
Making Rooms at Mr.. Moorcrotts South
East part Of town
Year: 1860

well 10 furnish the community with any and svery
thing In line. They have In connection with their Tan
Yard an extensive Saddle and Harness Manuiaelory


where u Keen hand and make 10 nrheI All Kind.
Year: 1860

Notwithstanding all these facts, Won need
not wonder that | spent few days here
very pleasantly. We are on the old .'Wcs-
tern Turnpike" which had fifty carriages
passing whore there Is now one before the
Canal and Railroad twenty miles north Of
h re ma lie that th2 great artery Of travel
On the ridge of land between the water,
that flow into the Mohawk and those that
flow into the North-East Branches Of the
Su>Guehanna, some streams run one way
and some the other The air is ,aluhrious.
The forests comprise beech, cedar and
latter the most beautiful Of
Shade-trecs, and sometimes in thi, region
lining the roads for miles The soil is said
to be so full of lime that even the running
water is hard. and lime is not needed ON
the land. There are no peaches, but ap-
pies and other fruits grow well


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Year: 1860

BY careful examination Of the geogra-
ply Of the world, It has been ascertained
that the great artesian well recently sunk
at Columbus, Ohio, would, were it To
pass through to the Opposite side Of tho
globe, come out exactly fifteen miles from
the great Chinese wall, on the China side,
and about two hundred and fifty miles
from Pekin. This is q discovery Of i'm
portance, and must vastly encourage the
citizens engaged in the enterprise to con-
tinuc their work. II they don't get wa
ter they can run telegraph wire through
the opening when the work is completed.
Year: 1860

SOME WOMEN are often excessively fond
Of teasing those whom they love. It is
generally the very impassioned In temper.
ament, or the very cold, who do so The
latter, whose love is comparatively Ian
guild, may do it almost constantly; the
former, just in the intervals where the
pulse Of love rather intermits; and in this
case it seems only to be part or form of
the general craving for excitement of some
kind or other.
Year: 1860

SAN FRAcIsco, June Q.
This morning at half past o'clock fire
broke out from frame building on Dupont
Alley between Pacific and Broadway streets,
and eleven buildings were consumed before
the flames were extinguished The loss is
not rrrnot
Year: 1860

The COAST RoAD.-The Trinity Journal is
Informed that the contractors are getting on
finely with the lower end of the Humboldt
and Weaverylle road, and that the work, so
far, is being well done Also, that the route
over which the road is to be built from North
Fork to Big Flat, has been chained and
marked, and that work will be commenced
soon
Year: 1860

The kock Island people held apubiic
meeting on Friday night to consider the pro.
priety Of building . road across big Island.
II vas reported that the cost Of this road
would be about 81. 500.


The people of Rock Island are getting .
little frightened at the loss Of their trade
they see Iilinois farmers patronizing Davenport
10 their prejudice, and to prevent this they are
going TO build new road sure-or talk about
it. We hope they will succeed. 1t will help
us more than it will them
Year: 1860

AT THE assembling Of the Mantilla
Club the other eveLing one of the members re-
marked that they all looked as If they were at
tending funeral. Prophetic assertion, which
will be verified hy the few who will whistle
the Dead March to the political funeral Of Lin
eoln and iiamlin next November.
Year: 1860

DER DEMOCRAT calls our attention to
the fact that during the thunder storm in Rock
Island on Friday, q black cat. which was 10 the
act Of carrying off . rat in ito mouth was
struck by lightning.


Let this be . warning to the rest Of the
Black Republicans.
Year: 1860

LARGE amounts Of money have been
engaged with which to purchase grain this
season. 1t is thought that during the next Fall
not less than one million bushels will be
bought 10 this city. A large quantity will be
stored. Davenport 10 now known % the most
favorable grain market in Iowa. No other
place can compare with it.
Year: 1860

COUNTRY HoUsE-nELP.-A great deal
Of incouveniencs is experienced by country
reople who desire house servants. We have
seen several persons enqu:ring for such help
lately. and cry it 10 with the utmost difficulty
that they can find . girl who 10 willing to
leave town to hire in the country at any rea-
sonable price The reason 10 too obvious to re-.
quire any recital
Year: 1860

The wheat crop in Cedar county in
the vicinity Of Durant. will. average. We are
crs'iibly informed. from twenty to thirty-fvs
bushels yer acre. This is the probable yield
Of this county
Year: 1860

SINGULAR PREsENTIMENT.-An in
fant was sleeping in its cradle, near
blazing Ere. The fond mother was en-
gagged in an adjoining apartment A
sudden presontiment of danger drew her
from her work to look at her babe. A
live ember had lodged among the in
flmmabIe covering about the child, and
was just starting into blaze, when the
mothers trembling hand smothered the
incipient fame, and caught the limo.
cent to her bosom.
Year: 1860

Hwrs TO HousEEEErrRs Dread and cake should be-
Kept in iin box or stone jar


Oranberros will keep al winter 10 arkin Of waior ~
the cellar.


Flour and meal OF all kinds should bo kept In cool
dry place.


Oranges and lemons keep best when wrapped close 10
son paper, and laid in q drawer Of linen.


Keep coffee by ITSELF as its odor Affects other articles
Keep tea In close chest or canister.


Soft soap should be kept n dry place n tho cellar, and
should not be used till three months old.


To select numngs prick them with pln. M they are
good the OH will instantly spread around the puncture


The best rice 7 large and has clear, fresh look. Old
rice 7omatime7 has little black Insects inside the kernels
When Cask Of moaH8os is bought draw OF few
quarts else tho fermentation produced BY moving Il will
burst the cnsk.


To thaw frozen potatoes, put them IN hot water. To
thaw frozen apples put them On cold water Neither will
keep long after being frozen.


Butter that Is made in September and October % bea
for winter Lard should De hard and white; thai
which is taken from hug not year old O. best


Bar soap should be cut into pieces Of convenient size
several weeks before usng as Il spends last when Il d
new


Az general rule Il il most economical 20 buy the bes
articles The price s, of course, always little higher
but good articles spend bost It sacrifice Of money
buy poor flour, moot sugar. butter cheese lard &c. {,
say nothingof the Injurious effect upon tho health


Potatoes should be put into the cearns they nr
dug. Lying exposed IN the sun turns them green, and
makes them watCry. Some good hOusokeepers have sod
laid barrels Of potatoes not IN immediate usc TC
prevent them from 7prouting On the spring. turn them
upon the collar bottom.


Refined sugars usually contain most of the saccharnt
substance, therefore there s probably economy
using loaf crushed and gapuated sugars than should
at first suppose Housekeepor's Friend.
Year: 1860

The Rev. n. Lewis, late Of La Grange,
and the reputed author of the Harp
of a Thousand Strings, Sperits Of just
Men Made Perfect, is at present run.
ming on the Memphis and Charleston
Railroad as conductor In filling this
position, the reverend gentleman is bat
actingin accordance with the advice Of
his physician, who recommended "run-
ming on D railroad constantly as oonduo-
tor" as a cure for bronchitis.
Year: 1860

The London Times says in its article
on the Presidents Message:


Before long another Mexican war will
sever new provinces from the unhappy
Spanish Republic, and give them to the
Anglo Saxon race. In one sense this
is a gain to humanity Beautiful and
fertile regions, now desert, will pass
under the bands Of the cultivator, mines
will be worked, harbors will be filed
with shipping, and a new life will ami
mate that vast region. 1t is not likely
however, that the Americans will seek
to annex the whole Republic The
Mexicans are not the stuff to make ciG-
zens of, and another generation of dis.
cord and decay must elapse before their
time comes to be improved off the face
of the earth.


The conquest of Mexico might be a
gain to humanity, hut it is questionable
whether it would be a gain to the peo.
pie of the United States to undertake
such a humanitarian enterprise.
Year: 1860

STORY OF pLIoHrED HOPE AND BROKEN


HEARTS, AND A REsToRArIoN OF BOTH.


Long story, but must make it short
No room for love while politics rule. Got
the particulars from individual who had il
by heart.


Young man Of the name Of William
Young lady Of the name Of Belinda. Lived
insane neighbOrhood near neighboring town.
Young man good looking, but not rich
plenty Of poor kin, but no money. Young
lady's beauty not likely to be the death Of
her; but grandada went under year ago and
left her pile Of .ten.cent pieces large as a
pound of wool. Young lady desperately in
love with young man, and yeung man des-
perately in love with young lady. Young
ma wouldn't let concealment. like none
Of your dem'd worms" feed on his cheek.
but told his love emejitly. Young lady &c,
Year: 1860

Needles are made of steel wire. The wire
is first cut out by shears, from coils, into the
length of the needles TO be made = After q


batch of such bits Of wire has been cut of,
they are placed in hot furnace, then taken
out and rolled backward and forward until
they are straight They are now to be ground
The needle pointer takes up two dozen or so
Of the wires and rolls them between his
thumb and fingers with their ends on the
grindstone, first on one end and then on the
other Next is machine which Aattens and
cutters the heads of ten thousand needles in
an hour. Next comes the punching of the
eyes, done by n boy so fast that the eye can
hardly keep pace with him. The splitting
follows, which is running fine wire through
dozen, perhaps, of these twin handles A
woman with little anvil before her files be-
tween the heads and separates them They
are now complete needles, but they are rough
and rusty and easily bent The hardening
comes next They are l.eated in patches in q
furnace, and when red-hot are thrown into
pan of cold water Next they must be tenn
pered, and this is done by rolling them back
ward and forward on hot metal plate. The
polishing still remains to be done On very
coarse cloth needles are spread TO the number
OF forty or fifty thousand Emery dust is
strewn over them, oil is sprinkled and soft
soap daubed over the cloth; the cloth is rolled
up hard, and with several others of the same
kind, thrown into sort Of wash-pot to roll to
and fro for twelve hours or more. They come
out dirty enough; but after rinsing in clean
hot water and a tossing in saw-dust, they be-
come bright and are ready to be sorted and
put up for sale
Year: 1860

The reason why we have so many crosses,
trials, wrongs and pains, is here made evident
We have not one too many for the successful
culture of our faith. The great thing, and
that which it is most of all difficult to produce
in us, is participation of Christs forgiving
gentleness and patience. This if we can
learn it, is the most difficult and the most dis
tinctively Christian Of all attainments There
fore, we need continual discipline of occa
sions poverty, sickness, bereavements OPP
pressions prosecutions, losses, treacheries,
Misrepresentation we can hardly have too
many for our own good, if only we receive
them as our Saviour did his cross. 1t is by
Just these refining fires of trial and suffering,
that we are to be most advanced in that to
which we aspire.


We have not too many occasions given us for
the exercise of patience; which is yet more
evident when we consider the Christian power
of patience How many are there who by
reason of poverty, obscurity, infrmty of mind
or body, can never hope to do so much by ac-
ton, and who often sigh at the contemplation
of their want of power to effect anything.
But it is given TO them, as to ALL who suffer
let them only suffer well and they will give a
testimony for God, which all who know them
will deeply feel and profoundly respect. 1t is
not necessary for all men TO be great in action.
The greatest and sublimest power is often sim
pie patience and for just that reason we
need sometimes to see its greatness alone, that
we may embrace the solitary, single idea of
such greatness, and bring it into our hearts
unconiused with all other kinds of power
Year: 1860

The editor of the Scientific American has
recently visited bonnet mauufactory, and
says;


Bonnet frames are fashioned with rapid-
ty and an economy in the expenditure of labor
which astonishes one who beholds il for the
first time A square piece of foundation lace
properly starched or made stiff with a suitable
gum, is placed upon copper block Of the
shape of bonnet, and is, by the foot of the
workman upon treadle pressed into cop
per mould of corresponding form, which Is
heated and kept at the proper temperature by
an ingenious device. Being held in this hot
mould for an instant, when the block is with
drawn the lace is taken off, permanently
pressed in the shape for hat A boy then
trims away the impressed edges, and the girls
sew on the wire supports. II is in this wire
arrangement that Mr. Wilds has made his inn
proyement He uses very small iron wire,
and has it wound very thickwith cotton for the
edge of the bonnet which gives him a remark
ably smooth and perfectly finished edge Of
binding Then his wires which run inward to
support this edge are very delicate and COW
cred with silk so that the Star Of Fame, as he
has named it, not only preserves its shape
perfectly but is remarkably light and elegant
OF course ii is necessary TO have a copper
mould not only for every change Of fashoa,
but for every variety of form required and
we observed block Of plaster Of Paris in the
process of being fashioned to suit some one
Of the thousand caprices Of the fair multi
] tude