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Year: 1868

A CAUTION TO PRACTICAL JoKERs.-
The following story appeared in the Paris
Moniteur on the 10th:


A lugubrious practical joke was lately
played at hamlet called Yerson, in a
mountainous district near Lyons. In
this hamlet there lived harmless idiot,
of herculean stature, who habitually did
a good days work in the field, but was a
standing butt for village plesantry, and
was commonly called the innocent"
One day some young men told the "in-
nocent" that neighbor was dead, and
that he would have to join with others
in sitting up all night to watch the
corpse. He made no objection, and was
introduced into cottage where IMAM
Stimulating death was stretched on bed.
The outline of his face seen through n
sheet thrown over it, formed ghastly
spectacle, which when once seen is never
to be forgotten. Two candles and some
pots of incense we're placed at the head
of the bed. The party sat around for
some time in solemn silence, the idiot
behaving with as much propriety as any
one else. But one by one the others
slipped away, and the "innocent y was
left alone in the death chamber The
intention was, the corpse should Jump
up, walk about, and frighten him out OF
his poor stock of wits. The conspirators
remained within few yards of the cot
tage to watch the working of the plot
In less than quarter of an hour they
heard piercing screams, and holding theiI
sides already with anticipated laughter
they rushed at the cottage to mock al
their victim. But as they neared the
door they found, to their surprise, that
the howling voice was not of the "inno,
/ cent" but of their comrade, who had
agreed to perDonate the dead man. When
they entered they found the "innocent
beating the "corpse" with a broken fail
and but for timely seccor, the part which
Year: 1868

he had undertaken to play in joke would
have been sadly in earnest. When he
jumped up from his grave clothes, the
innocent" instead of being frightened,
said coolly, dead man, be still" and
proceeded to belabor him with a force
which the joker was utterly incapable of
resisting.
Year: 1868

When drinking cold water in hot
weather, grasp the glass by the hand,
take one swallow at time, remove the
glass from the lips for few seconds, then
take another swallow in this way it will
be found that the thirst will be thorough
ly satiated before half the water has been
taken whereas, if it had been swallowed
continuously, the whole contents would
not have satisfied the thirst.
Year: 1868

Among other charges against the
democratic candidate for President, the
Tribune brings the following?


We charge that, when it became nee
essary to resort to drafting to replenish
the national armies, Gov. Seymour threw
his influence against the resort; and in
appealing to the President to suspend its
enforcement menacingly said:


1T is believed by at least one half the
people of the loyal states that the Con-
scription act, which they are called upon
to obey because it is on the statute book,
is in itself violation of the supreme
constitutional law. / do not
dwell upon what / believe would be the
consequences of violent, harsh policy,
before the constitutionality of the act is
tested. You can see the future as we'll
as l, The temper of the people to-day
you can readily learn"


Does any man on earth believe that
the man who thus demanded of the Pres
ident a suspension of the draft till its
constitutionality could be tested in the
courts, really wished the rebellion put
down by strong arm ? A few days be-
fore he had said to the rioters assembled
in our City Hall Park:


az assure you my fellow-citizens, that
am here to show you test of my friend
ship. l wish to inform you that have
sent my Acknowledgement to Washington
to confer with the authorities there, and
to have this draft suspended or stopped"


Mr.. Lincoln appealed to as though he
were drafting from mere wanton caprice,
and might as well wait year or two as
not, thus oogently responded toSeymour's
most unreasonable demand:


az do not object to abide the decision
of the United States Supreme Court, or
the Judges thereof, on the constitutional
ity of the draft law. In fact, should
be willing to facilitate the obtaining of
it. But cannot consent to lose the time
while it is being obtained. We are con-
tending with an enemy who, as l under
stand, drives every able-bodied man he
can reach into his ranks, very much as
butcher drives bullocks into slaught-
er-pen. No time is wasted, no argument
is used. This produces an army which
will soon turn upon our now victorious
soldiers already in the field, if they shall
not besustained by recruits as they should
be. 1t produces an army with rapidi-
ty not to be matched on our side, If we
first waste time to re-experiment with the
volunteer system, already deemed by
Congress, and palpably, in fact, so far
exhausted as to be inadequate; and then
more time to obtain court decision as
to whether law is constitutional which
requires a part of those not now in the
service to go to the aid Of those who are
already in it; and still more time to de-
termine with absolute certainty that we
get those who are to go in the precisely
legal proportion to those who are not to
go. My purpose is to be in my action
Just and constitutional, and yet practical
in performing the important duty with
which / am charged, of maintaining the
unity and the free principles Of our COM
mon country"


These contrasted utterances are char
acteristic of their respective authors /;
and most certainly, either Abraham Lin
coin or HoraLio Seymour was not loyal
Jealous patriot throughout our great trial.
Year: 1868

The UNION PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-A brief
dispatch recently informed the public that
mile post No. GOO had been reached by the


track layers, and that the cars we're running
to that point This makes six hundred miles
Of rail laid beyond Omaha, on the great high.
way across the continent. The distance has
been accomplished by the energetic managers
OF the road within two years. Three hun.
dred additional miles are now ia progress of
construction, and by the lst of November
next will be finished and 10 working trim.
the material being now on the ground, and
the grading rapidly approaching completion.
len thousand tuns of iron, lately purchased,
will be delivered during the present season,
and we should not be surprised if five hun
dred, instead of three hundred, additional
miles of track would be finished before the
year closes, which would bring the road to,
aud give US direct communication with, the
Great Salt Lake region. This, however,
must depend, to a large extent, upon the sale
of the mortgage bonds, which, should they
meet with as much favor as they did in the
last year, will undoubtedly insure the COM
pletion Of the road to Great Salt Lake dur.
ing the present year. 1t is now believed BY
those having the enterprise in charge, that
the whole line of road can be opened for
traffic by the end of 1869, instead of 1875,
the time fixed by the Government in its grant.
The bonds hitherto have found ready sale at
par, aud in short time it is firmly believed
that they will command a premium, as the
principal and interest are both payable ia
gold.-DOilar Times
Year: 1868

How TO TREAT BALKY HORSES If yoa


have balky horses, it is your own fault and


not the horses, for if they do not pull true,
there is some cause for it, and if you will
remove the cause the effect will cease When
your horse balks he is excited, and does not
know what you want him to do. When be
gets little excited, stop him five or ten
minutes let him become calm go to the
balky horse, pat him, and speak gently 10
him and, as soon as be is over his excite
ment, he will, in nine cases out of ten, pull
at the word. Whipping and slashing and
swearing only make the matter worse. Af.
ter you have gentled him awhile, and his
excitement has cooled down, take him by
the bits; turn him each way few minutes,
as far as you can; pull out the tongue gen,
tie him little uurein him then step be-
fore the balky horse. and let the other start
Grst shon yUu tuk1 them suy where yuu
wish. A balky horse is always high spirited
and starts quick half the pull is out before
the other starts by standing before him the
other starts first. By close application to
this rule, you can make any balky horse
pull. If horse has been badly spoiled, you
should hitch him to The empty wagon, AID
pull it around awhile on Level ground then
put on little load, and increase it gradually,
careSsing as before, and in short time you
can have a good ork-hoIse.-American
Farmer.
Year: 1868

THE MISSISSIPPI ELEoTIoN-A telegram
FROM Jackson, Mississippi, states the demo-
Gratis claim a majority of $4,000 in that
State. 1t is not at all probable that the re>
turns will show show any majority for them,
no matter how much it may be in reality
1t is more likely that the fraud by which
Arkansas was carried, will be repeated in
that State. If the radicals find that there
is majority against them, they will either
reopen the polls on some pretext and poll
fraudulent Voles enough to overcome it, or
stuff the ballot box, or resort to some other
expedient to carry the State. In Arkansas
there was handsome majority against the
Constitution. As soon as this was ascer
tanned, the polls were re,opeued at the pre-
ciucts on the Arkansas river, and negroes were
gathered from different quarters and trans
ported on steamboats, from one polling place
to another and voted until majority was
manufactured for the Constitution. With
Congress it is immaterial whether the Con-
stitution is carried or not. They will admit
the State and force it upon the people as
they have done in the case Of Alabama


S. F. Dispatch
Year: 1868

WoMEN's VENERATIoN..-If women have
one weakness more marked than men, it is
towards veneration. They are born worship.
pers-makers of silver shrines for some di>
vinity or other, which they always think fell
straight down from heaven. The first step
towards falling in love with an ordinary NOR
tai is generally to dress him out with all the
manner of real or fancied superiority and,
having made him up, they worship him.
Now, truly great man, a man really grand
and noble in art and intellect has this adVan-
tage with women, that he Is an idol ready
made to hand, aud SO that every painstaking
and ingenious sex have less labor in getting
him up and can be ready to worship him on
short notice. In particular is this the case
where sacred profession and moral suprem.
acy are added to the intellectual. Just think
of the career of celebrated divines in all
ages Have they not stood like the images
'Nebuchadnezzar the king set up > and all
womankind, cOquets and firts not excepted,
been ready to fall down and worship, even
before the sound of cornet, flute, harp, sac>
but, DC. Is not the faithful Paula, with her
beautiful face PROSTATE 10 reverence, before
poor old, lean, haggard. dying st. Jerome,
in the most splendid painting Of the world,
an emblem and sign of woman's external
power of self sacrifice to what she deems no>
blest in man? Does not old Richard Baxter
tell US, with delightful siugleheartedness,
how she confessed, dear soul, after many
years married life, that she had found him
less sour and bitter than she expected The
fact is women are burdened with fealty, faith,
reverence, more than they know what to do
with; They stand like hedge of sweet peas,
throwing out teudrils everywhere for some>
thing high and strong to climb up BY, and
when they 6nd it, be it ever so rough in the
bark, they catch up on it. And instances
are not wanting of those who have turned
away from the Aattery of admirers to pros.
trate themselves at the feet OF q genuine
hero, who never wooed them, except by he-
Toic deeds and the rhetoric of noble life
Year: 1868

The latest advices from the City of Mexico
state that the insurrections which for some
time have disturbed the peace of several States
of the Republic have all been suppressed.
This disposes of the silly report received sOmo
days ago, that tho revolution had been sue
cessful In the City of Mexico and that Juarez
had fed to tho United States. There is good
reason for hoping that Juarez will be able to
serve out the second term of his Presidency,
and the welfare of the Republic will make
steady progress during his administration.
Year: 1868

Journals like The Times cannot understand tho
feverish anxiety that now pervades the coun'
try. They believe in nothing, and how can
anybody else believe IN anythingi We arc
assured that Impeachment "was never Re.
publican measure }" that it "never commanded
(" the approval and settled assent of the Re-
publican party" that 1t "was the reckless
a" device Of the Radical section Of that party,
intended to put the patrOnge Of the nation
" into its hands, and to give it the absolute
and complete control Of the Republican sem
timent and policy Of the country" that 10
was forced upon the party by the uhser.es,
lob aaddcity of the Radical leaders aoea
"by the obstinate and short-sighted presamp-
tion of the President himself"


We challenge the right of The Times to SPEAK
for the Republican party. Its editor has Oeep
its most dangerous friend, and its most IN.
scrupulous and malignant enemy. All he mas
ever done for the Republican party has been 70
feed with it. This disposes of his pretenslons
upon which we have no time to dwell.
Year: 1868

his unmasking on Monday of this week, though
he had very recently attended meetings of
those colleagues of friendly and confidential
character. We are assured that his Democratic
son had quietly made bets through third parties,
by which he expects to win $4,000 by his fathers
resistance to impeachment ..-....


The Republican party protests against these
shots from behind. True, it lost its beloved
President by such Onej but Wilkes Booth
never pretended to be Republican as its present
assailants have done. If there be more traitors
nesting in its bosom is it too much to ask them
TO come to the light
Year: 1868

The "Erie War; has at last been placed
within It proper limits. Confined as It has
been to a few cases of contempt, for violating
an injunction of the Supreme Court, there was
no reason why so large an amount OF time and
talk should be expended upon it. Judge Bar
nard has now directed that any further testi-
mony which the parties may desire to offer
shall be presented in the form of written afi-
davits, to be received or rejected as to the
judicial mind shall seem proper.


1t appears that Judge Barnard's injunction
was sought to be counteracted by an injunc-
ton issued by Judge Gilbert, compelling the
issue of stock which the injunction of Judge
Barnard forbade. The plaintiffs claim that this
whole proceeding was conspiracy to violate
a solemn process of the Supreme Court, while
the defendants allege that it was procured In
entirely good faith. A conflict, however,
was TO be brought on between two men,
bers of the Court--the process OF the
one to neutralize tho process OF tho other
rather than the matter should be carried
before q tribunal competent TO dispose OF the
first issue. II we may judge from the generous
expense of the case on the part OF the appli-
cants for the mandamus and injunction, the effort
made to procure it was at all events an earnest
one. Mr. Grenville F. Jenckes, for example,
was retained from Saturday till Monday morn
ing, when he presented the application on pa
pers which had been drawn by other attorneys
in the case. and for such brief service he was
maid s2.5OO. This munihCencO on the part Of
Year: 1868

The Erie Railway is quite. handsome, and it 10
gral.fylng to know that legal talent is so highly
valued 1t might possibly be suggested that
there was JfduS Achates in the matter, if ju-
dical honor were not above suspicion. If the
numerous counsel in these " contempt" cases
had been thus literally treated, it would not
be surprising that they were in no remarkable
hurry to close the case. But the end of the
matter is probably not far away.
Year: 1868

Mr.. Editor::-There is at the
village of Decorah, near the north
ern boundary of the State OF Iowa,
cave where the operations of ma
ture are reversed. In this cave it
is cold in summer and warm in
winter. The ice begins to form
the fore part of June and disap-
pears again the latter part of Au-
gust, the coldest period being about
the middle of July. On the
fourth day of July icicles may be
found from six to eight inches in
diameter and from four to eight
feet long, afording fine sport for
the boys who take them into the
market for sale. In this cave no
ice is found nor sun from Septem-
ber to June, but June, July, and
August it is extremely cold, so
that man can only stay in it a
few minutes. This cave has been
known about twenty years, and
the above facts appear every year.
Thousands of people have been
into this cave to see iclcles IN
summer. I wish some one would
give an explanation of this strange
phenomenon through your journal.


Hardin, Iowa. y.
Year: 1868

The New York Sun tells the
following as an illustration of the
manner in which sewing women
are paid in that city:


A poor woman was given at
one of the largest establishments
in the city, a short time ago, the
material for an infants cape, made
of white Marseilles, to be elabo-
rateIy worked with cotton. 1t
took her fourteen days of hard
work to complete it, and then she
was rewarded with the munifcent
sum of four dollars! The work
was done, and the article sold
afterwards for seventy dollars !
The material, including cotton,
was worth seven dollars, and
forrdollars was paid for making
up, leaving to the retailer a profit
of fifty-nine dollars on an invest
1nent of Sill 1t is no wonder
that dry goods are sold in marble
palaces. This is but one sample
of what takes place daily in this
city.
Year: 1868

A gentleman, in whose credl
bility the most implicit confidence
may be placed, relates the tol
lowing singular story, the parties
to which, and the material fact In
volved, are personally known tt
him:


A young lady named Heller
Hunter, living between Dycusbure
and Princeton, Ky, during a pro
tracted religious meeting held du
ring the month of November, under
the influence of religious excite
cment, fell into a trance and re-
mained in state of unconscious
ness for period of five days
When she was aroused from
the state Of lethargy into which
she had fallen, she related the ex'
perience of the five days during
which she professed to have passed
into the other world and witnessed
the glories of Paradise as we'll as
the horrors of the bottomless PIT
But the remarkable feature OF the
story is that she predicted that
three young men, then apparently
in the most robust health, woulc
die before the year was ont. a
week after the prediction was
made one of the young men tooF
sick and died in q few days. a
week or ten days later the secone
died, and on the first day OF the
new wear the third one expired
Evansville Journal.
Year: 1868

A scribbler, who is rambling a.
round in Minnesota, writes to the
Pittsburg Chronicle the following
description ofthe manner In which
the Indians in that section catch
ducks: Get a large sized pump
kin, cut a hole in one side, disem-
bowel it, then stick the hunters
head into it, being careful to have
eye-holes to see out of it; then
take a bag, wade into the AXE, let
nothing appear above the surface
of the water except the pumpkin,
and stand still. Soon the ducks
gather around the pumpkin, and
they peck; slyly take them by
the legs, pull them under and bag
them. The bag full, make your
way to the shore. Some may
laugh and think this smacks
of a hoax. Slightly mistaken,
my friend. 1t only exampliiies
the cunning of the Indians and
the Stiffness Of the duck.
Year: 1868

A Baltimore fireman tells the.
following rather hard story:


He had rushed into burning
building to rescue a child. The
flames had cut off his egress, and
drove him to the fourth story
All means of escape appeared to
be gone, he opened one of the WIN
dows and.called cut:
81 say, Jakey, jus you bring
the old squirt down to the kerb,
put on three inch nozzle, and let
her Gomez Jakey he put on the
nozzle, the boys manned the
brakes, up comes a stream as big.
as a bolony and stiff as post.
I just wrapped the little 'un in
the old coat, put my legs and arms
tight around the stream, and slid
down to the pavement without
hurting me or the childl If you
don't believe it, you can just come
down to the house and see the baby!
Year: 1868

A female child, about two weeks
old, was found by a gentleman OF
Pittsburgh a few nights since at
his kitchen door. 1t was IN a
large basket, warmly enveloped in
blankets, and provided with a bot
tie of milk. A large Newfound-
land dog kept watch over the bas-
ket until the door was opened and
the child removed into the house,
when it started off with a bound.
An attempt was made to follow it,
but it soon evaded pursuit.
Year: 1868

A few days ago car loaded
with barrels of cider was thrown
from the track at West Cornwall,
CT. The weather was so cold that
the cider became frozen, and was
taken away in paper bags by the
people.
Year: 1868

integrity to do the fullest justice to al
other interests committed to theil
charge.


Having thus discharged its duty tt
the laboring class, the Democratic party
expects and will receive the aid of thai
class in swelling its majorities. While
broad cloth and bonds may oppose us
the men whose toll produces the wealth
of the community will not be found
wanting on Monday.


If the objections made by the Radi.
Gals to some of our nominees be care,
fully examined, they will appear to be
based upon the single fact that those
nominees are men who have been &C.
customed to earn bread in the
sweat of the face. 1t is the
natural instinct of a shoddy aris,
tocracy, striving to trample upon the
claims of such as make aliving by actu'
al industry. The people who feel con-
tempt for labor, the men who will not
grasp hand that is hardened by hon
est toll, will strive to defeat the nomi'
nees in question, because in SO doing
they crafty their natural repugnance
to the classes that work and produce
riches, even if they do not own them.
On the other hand, we trust that every
workingman who wishes to see his own
class represented in public affairs, will
yield hearty support to the Democrat
ic csndidates
Year: 1868

The Young Mems Democratic Club
will meet this evening at seven O'CLOCK
at ;hsir Hall, corner OF Market and
Nopros. A full attendance is desired
as important business will be brought
before ia, meeting. As this will be the
last meeting of the Club prior to Tue
election, We call upon nll Democrats
who expect to aid in the good work on
Monday, to be promptly on hand. AS
every one can see, there is not the
slightest question as to the success oi
the Democratic ticket, but she obJect
desired is AL increased majority. Per-
fection Of organization is essential to
this, and hence the Importance OF at
tendance at the Club meetings, and
especially at this, the last meeting ol
the campaign.
Year: 1868

In making up our list during this
winter Of the varieties Of fruits we in
tend to plant the coming spring, let us
be guided little by the opinions OF
writers, but more by knowledge OF
the kinds we personally know to sue.
ceed we'll in our own neighborhood.
have found il good policy always to 60
round, even some miles, prospecting,
as it were, during winter, and, chatting
with the fruit grower whose orchard is
in like soil as my own, find out from
him what kinds his years of experience
lead him to regard as most profitable.
1t is best to plant most of the orchards
with few leading kinds-planting fol
family use one or more trees of sorts
little known, or known as good to eat


but too small or delicate for market


A hundred barrels of any one kind will
often sell much moro readily than the
same number made up of thirty or forty
kinds.-St Louis Journal Of AgricaltWre