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Year: 1869

gether as closely as man buttons his
overcoat when about to face a driving
storm. Let the lungs of horse be well
protected with a heavy blanket and he
Will seldom contract a cold, even if the
hlndermost parts of his body are not
covered. Many of our best teamsters
protect the breasts of their horses by Il
piece of cloth about TWO feet square,
hanging down from the lower end of the
collar. This is an excellent practice in
Geld weather, rs the most important part
of the animal Is constantly sheltered
from the cold wind, especially VIXEN
travelling toward Il strong current. The
forward end OF horse blankets should be
made rs closely around the breast Of Il
horse rs our garments fit our bodies
Most horses take cold as readily Is men,
If not hIanketed while standing, after cx-
erci-ing sufficiently 10 produce perspira-
ton. SO long aS the horse is kept in
molten, there i little danger Of his sut-
tyring from the coid but allow hiu. to
stand ior few minutes, without blank
ct 10 protect lis shoulders and lungs, AMI
he viii yet cold sooner ;han men


purAroUS are more nutriouS baked
taan they are cooked in any other ma,i-
ncr and tIary relish better with those
who have not been accustomed 10 eat
them without seasoning. Wash thcp po-
tatoeS clean. but do not soak them
Bake them As quickly as possible with
out burning in the least. A. soon as
they arc done, press each potato in a
cloth, 80 rs To crack the skin and allow
the steam to escape. II this is omitted.
the best potatoes vii not be mealy.
They should he brought Immediately to
the table, as they will soon become solid
and lose their flavor
Year: 1869

Lay Observation-Disclosures in favor to one
against is the vote Of the Methodist Episcopal
churches in Philadelphia on the question OF
lay delegation. Nineteen churches have been
heard from so far.
Year: 1869

PRESIDENT GRANT and party leave here al
nine o'clock this evening for West Point ar
stated in the STAR o. yesterday. Before the
Presidents return he will visit Boston, to AZ.
tend the Peace Jubilee in that city
Year: 1869

SECRETARY BOUTWELL, will probably leave
here tonight with the Presidential party,
though he will not stop a. West Point, but
accompany the President as far as New York.
and take the train from thence TO Boston. He
will be absent, at his home IN Groton, Mass
about week. The time OF his departure has
not been definitely fixed, as he may be detained
until the early train to. orrow.
Year: 1869

A joke is told of young man who at
tended a social circle few evenings since.
The conversation turned on California and
getting rich. Tom - remarked that if
he was in California he would, instead of
working in the mines. waylay some rich
man who had ii bag full of gold. knock
out his brains, gather up the gold, and
skedaddle. One of the young ladies QUIZ
etly replied that he had better gather up
the brains.
Year: 1869

FEMALE CLERKS.


A Washington correspondent, writing
OF morals in the departments where fe-
male clerks are employed, tells the follow
ing .4 S&At II.


A gust of wind will sometimess make
queer revelations. It will lift veil, and
show you hideously marked face, or a
skirt, and exhibit deformed limb.
Sweeping through the forest it will lift an
autum leaf from the earth, and disclose
under 1T nest of horrible, noxious ver-
min. 1t has been shown that it will un-
cover as curious moral deformities. One
day there came whiting breeze around
the corner of government department.
not far from the interior, sweeping in be-
hind the massive colonades, and carried a
letter lying on the table of female clerk
through the open window. The lady
clerk had read the letter, and had gone
hastily indignant from the room to con-
suit the gentlemanly chief of the bureau
upon its contents. The letter was writ>
ten by sister clerk in an adjoining room,
who had jast made the startling discovery
that the person to whom it was addressed
was rival in an unlawful intimacy with
the chief Of the bureau. The letter. in
its turn, had just maddened the receiver
by a similarly surprising developement.
Meanwhile, newsbov-the gamin Of the
Washington strcets-had caught the hut-
tering letter out of the window, and re-
turned it to the room from which it came.
1t was received there into the general
possession of the lady occupants of the
room. Another of them catching its con-
tents was shocked by doubly exaspera-
ting surprise, but prudently withheld the
letter from further observation. The own
er, returning, accused her of the theft;
and, under mutual recriminations, there
transpired the trinity of secrets. The
breeze had discovered three mistresses in
a single department, to its chief.
Year: 1869

The Chicago Post says: "A couple of
lovers we know of, who insisted upon
viewing the eclipse through the same
glass, were so delighted with the affair,
that they continued to gaze long after the
moon had taken its departure, and at
midnight, when We left the exciting scene,
they were still investigating"
Year: 1869

Cramer, Grant brother-in-law, was
introduced in an Ohio camp meeting with
the announcement that ''the brother-in-
law of President Grant will now lead us
in prayer" We call it carrying the
brother-in-law business to an extreme
when supplications to heaven are spicsd
with that sort of relationship Herald.
Year: 1869

HEAVY RoBBERY.-Some ladies in the
city of Rock Island returned home from
an up-river trip the other day, minus over
two thousand dollars worth Of diamonds
and jewelry they had when they went
aboard the steamer ut the city Of their
residence. They were robbed in the night
while on their way to St. Paul. The rob.
uery was q singular one, too. The ladies
took of their rings, and placed them, with
the rest of their jewelry. in places in their
state rooms, which they deemed secure
from discovery by thieves. Their opera
tions must have been witnessed by outside
eyes, for in the morning every one of the
valuable ornaments were missing. The
diamonds alone, with the party, were
worth $1,000 or more. No fuss was made
about the matter, however, as the victims
were abundantly able to replace the valu-
ables and not regret the expense enough
to say anything about it.-Darenport
Gazette.
Year: 1869

AN EAGLE CAPruRED!-A gray eagle was shot
and captured at the head of the Howe race, on
Monday last, by J. A S. Jones Mr.. Jones had
noticed the bird of liberty soaring around during
the forenoon, and while eating his dinner saw
him light on the top Of large spruce tree stand
ing on the summit Of an adjoining ridge. A
fortunate shot from Henry rifle broke the ca
gle's wing, and search being made he was found
not far from where he came down. A,,bopob
disabled and in pain, the proud bird Of freedor
exhibited so much pugnacity that Mr.. Jone. Ala
not care to tackle him. Jones finally succeeded
in driving his prize down into his cabin wbsre
the king Of birds was caught, ignobly confined
in sack and brought to town for exhibition
The broken wing was cut of, from which his king.
ship bled to death. He measured six feet eight
inches from tip to tip Of expanded wings spread
of talons, seven inches.
Year: 1869

ACCIDENT TO freight TEAM.-The bridge
across East Weaver creek, on the main travelled
road leading to Minersville, broke down last
Sunday afternoon while q six-horse freight
wagon, loaded with -four from Scett's valley,
was passing over. The structure gave way
about forty feet from the west end where it was
about twelve feet from the ground. The hind
wheel Of the wagon went through first, striking
the ground the margin of the creek, the
fore wheels and the horses following in success
ion and extending along the slope of the bank
nearly to the top. The wagon upset as it went
down, dumping out the entire load. There were
two men along with the team at the time of the
accident. The driver received some injuries
and the horses were badly skinned. Some of
the -four wasted by the bursting of the
sacks, and there was more or less breakage of
harness, etc.
Year: 1869

COMBAT WITH PIsToLs.-We are informed
that pistol fight occurred at Yellow Jacket, on
Monday the second instant, between two part
ners in a mining claim, both Frenchmen As
we have it, dispute arose between them con-
cerning the diggings, which rose to such pitch
that they drew their pistols and began firing
upon each other. Both the parties were
wounded, one in the arm, and the other was
shot in the side, the ball striking rib, passing
around his body and lodging the opposite
side. Neither is very seriously hurt.
Year: 1869

This eminent lawyer and statesman
is reported to bc putting his views
into shape on the great International
question now pending between this
nation and Great Britain, in refer.
ence to the destruction Of our vessels
and commerce during the rebellion
by rebel cruisers, fitted out in British
ports. He is reported as differing
considerably in his line of argument
with Senator sumner, but arriving at
the same conclusion finally.


In reference to the settlement of
our claims, he has this bold and point
ed language:


GAS to settling with England, wo
can wait. We can easily find means,
whenever she gets into war, to
swoop her commerce from the ocean
and substitute in its place our own.-
In the meantime, we hold her under
perpetual bonds to keep the peace to
the amount of interest sho has in
commerce and manufactures. We
thus reduce her to a third rate pow
er, because all nations know that she
dare not be provoked into war
Therefore, as long as she stands in
her present attitude with us, she has
no commanding position IN the poll
tics of Europe.
Year: 1869

Dispatches from San Francisco
(Cal.) of Goth ult., say that only ten
miles of track remains to be laid to
span the Continent from Ocean to
Ocean.


Whow! What next will this great
Yankee Nation turn its attention to
Tho Il. 4 NJ. Railway is pushing
with all possible dispatch to Council
Bluffs, and soon our city is to be on
line of this great Pacific Railway
in Iowa, that will have no superior.
We can hardly realize that in fcw
months the rich products of the
Eastern Continent will be borne past
our own doors to the Atlantic sea
board The widest dreamer ten years
ago, could have had no conception
of so rapid Il consummation OF this
mighty work.
Year: 1869

When the friends departed, they
left quite an amount Of greenback.
and good things. But the best Of all
is the kindly relations that seem to
exist between the pastor and his
flock, and the high esteem in which
his services are held. The pastor ia
now serving his second year on the
Kirkville circuit.


1t is thought the society of the M.
E. Church here is in a prosperous
condition, as they have just raised a
splendid frame for a new church, 80
by ga feet square, with two class
rooms and q Sunday school ROOM
The frame stands on a very substan-
tial stone foundation, and is said by
the knowing ones that it is the best
frame Of the kind that has ever been
raised in the county. The work was
laid off and superintended by David
@ Ward, framer, house builder, and
mover,-a quiet but competent work.
man, and one that does not possess
so much gas as to ever have it bubble
over and become noisy. This job is
admired by all who see it. Persons
having work to do would do we'll to
remember Mr.. Ward, for they may
expect to always have a good job
done.


Very trulv.
Year: 1869

Tno COURIER was roughly black
guarded in sundry quarters during
the last session of the legislature, be.
cause it violently opposed the then
erection of an extravagant State
House, at Des Moines.


The reasons for our course werc
obvious, and too tedious to enumer.
ate hero, principal among them, how
ever, being the fact that we had just
then entered into the possession of
building from Des Moines State
House ring, which the State had
been compelled to accept for a debt
due the School Fund, and which was
represented as being good enough
for the purposes of State Capitol
lor years, (in which opinion we coin.
cided), and that, under the prevalent
high state Of taxation, no more mon
ey should be wrung out of an over
taxed people for ornamental, or un.
necessary purposes; and above all
other considerations, because the
scheme had been adroitly sprung
upon tho legislature, without any
preliminary agitation among the peo-
pie, who eventually have to pay for
this fiddling, and therefore ought to
have right to say whether the
shindig shall 60 on, or not.


Tho Davenport Gazette, formerly
hostile to the Capitol grab, has come
out in favor Of a $1,75O,O00 House,
and thinks the coming legislature
ought to commence work at once.


While we have no sympathy with
the effort to move the Capitol to
Marshalltown, or elsewhere, we still
think the present building good
enough for at least five years yet,
and that the people ought to have a
breathing time from taxation
Meantime, since the Gazette mas been
miraculously. converted, and has
opened the ball in favor Of new
house, let us have the question thor
oughly discussed by the press and
people, and, if legislature elected
under the circumstances, shall decide
to burden the people with the inter.
minable outlay of an expensive State
House, then we are content.
Year: 1869

New York Telegram to the Cincinnati


Commercial, April IS.


An important erpose of the pro-
ceedings of q managing editor Of a
leading newspaper in this city has
been made, which created no little
excitement here. Documents have
been brought to light conclusively
proving that tho aforesaid editor has
been guilty of furnishing to a phila-
delphia newspaper, which does not
belong to the Associated Press, cable
news belonging exclusively to the
Association. This is a fragrant vio-
lation Of the rules Of the pross Of the
whole country.


Letters are also in possession of
parties here, and they will bo print
ed on Monday, proving that Simon
Cameron was led to pay this editor
$12, 500 to secure the good influence
of this editor and the paper to which
he was attached.


Also that Galusha A. Grow paid
him 81, 1910 for the same purpose.
Also that the State Attorney Gen
eral (Brewster), Of Pennsylvania
paid him 81 900 for his influence to-
ward making Brewster member of
Congress.


Also that this editor attempted to
obtain $1,000 from Gov. Curtin, in
order to aid him in getting foreign
mission.
This same editor engineered a
magnificent morning breakfast, at
Delmonico's, to Gen. Grant, at which
were present Horace Greeley, one or
two of the Generals staff, and only
one other prominent newspaper man.
The joke of this breakfast was that
Greeley was made to believe that
Grant especially requested him to be
present, while Grant was led to be.
lieve that Greeley was his entertain.
or, and tho other newspaper man
was inveiglcd into paying one.half Of
the whole bill. This breakfast was
part Of a plan by which the manag-
ing editor desired to impress upon
the President the peculiar fitness Of
this editor for a position in the Cab
met, prominent Pennsylvania edi-
tor having been kept in Washing
ton to primo Gen. Grant on the sub
ject for some three weeks prior to
the breakfast.


1t is also stated that documents
will bc produced showing that some
twcnty-six thousand dollars have
been divided betwecn this editor and
leading Albany lobbyist, in consid-
Grafton of the editor avoiding any
opposing editorial allusion to certain
jobs which have from time to time
been put through the State Legisla-
ture.


Tho facts in connection with the
above will be printed here on Mon
day morning, but they will not differ
from tho above statement.
Year: 1869

Don Piatt writes from Washing
ton to the Cincinnati Commercial
that he learns "that the venerable
Welles, late Secretary of the Navy,
had to be taken from the city to keep
him from going regularly to the de-
partment. Force of habit you
know"
Year: 1869

H


CB Mr.. CHAs. g. ScoTr, President of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad Comma
N.Y. isspending few days IN our city, his old
home. He feels fully confident that this road
will be speedily built and that within two
years we shall have the steam horse snorting
at our very doors. He tells us that the con-
tractors have made arrangements with Chi
cago Immigrant aid society 10 furnish five
hundred hands, to be sent forward in squads of
fifty and arrangements were made with the
Packet Company for their transportation from
Cairo to Little Rock. We are pleased to know
that Mr.. ScoTT and family still cling to the
idea Of again making Van Buren their home /;
where their heart is, there also should be their
home. Now is the time for old citizens to be-
gin to put their houses in trim, for the new
order Of things soon to dawn upon us.
Year: 1869

1tT- We wish to acknowledge the reception
of a package of papers from our young friend
wALwoRrH. formerly Clerk on the Ameriean
-now presiding over the office OF the steamer
Ozark, with Captain ADM. STORM in command
in the lower river.
Year: 1869

A bsggar boy stopped at rich mans door
AZ am homeless and friendless, and FAINT and


poor"
Said the bcggar boy as the tear drop rolled
Down his thin cheek, blanched with want and


cold,


80 give me a crust from your board to-day
To help the beggar boy on his way"
NO, crust, nor crumb, d" the rich man Sald'
"Be off and work for your daily bread"
The rich man went to the parish church
His face grew grave as he trod the porch
And the thronging poor the untaught mass,
Drew back to let the rich man pass.
The service began the choral hymn
Arose and swelled through the long aisles dim,
The rich man knelt, and the words he said,
We're, "GyE Us THIS DAY Our DAILY BREAD"
Year: 1869

The Maine Farmer relates how electricity,


steam and brains worked together to pre- ven
i disaster to the bridges at Augusta when
the Waterville bridge was carried away and
a despatch announced the fact. 1t says


Fears were entertained that the frame work
Of the bridge on its passage down the river
would como in contact with the railroad bridge
in this city, the pressure upon which was al
ready SO great from the jams which had ac-
cumulatcd upon its piers, as to cause serious
apprehensions of its stability. A locomotive
was dispatched by Judge Rice, the President


of the road, up the river with crew of men
who were fortunate enough to reach it in sea
son to attach ropes to it and swing it in to the
shore of Vassalboro, where it was secured
About forty feet of the structure being scpar-
ated from the rest, went over the dam about
four o'clock on Tuesday, but was 50 thorough
| ly broken up that no damage was done.
Year: 1869

TIE LATE STORM IN TIE PROVINCES The
storm throughout the British Province was
very great. Nova Scoia-part of ii at least
was made subject to the devastation which
prevailed so generally, but we have no ac-
counts"-of lives lost. New Brunswick suffered
great pecunlary loss. and a sad tragedy oc-
cured in connection with the loss of the bark
Geni and all of the eleven persons on board
The vessel had only been launched three
weeks previously, was owned in st. Andrews
Ind was onher voyage in ballast from that
place to New River to load with deals for Liy-
pool.


The load had been prepared and the ste
vedores were on board, and had disposed
of themselves for the night. The vessel was
mooreQ near the New River Ledge, black
frowning rock just cropping above IN ordin-
ary high water surface. When the blast
drove down upon her she dragged and was
beaten over this and dashed, broadsidc on,
up the ragged and prccipitous cliff. The
wind and the force of the huge wave which
landed her there must have lifted her toward
the land, and when the rocks were barred, as
the waters rushed back, she rolled with one
aWtullurch down again into the sea, break
ing shrouds, stays and masts like straws, and
hurting the men at once into eternity Not
soul could stand near the scene on that night,
and no one living saw the doomed vessel
drift to her tate, but the bottom unchafed and
the top ground away on one side to the tops
Of the floor timbers, rs she worked up and
down the rocks, point clearly to the fact that
with one great effort she was overturned and
the work of destruction accomplished The
bodies of the drowned men were found near
the wreck.
Year: 1869

Our city, as well as others, Is not exempt from the
visitations ofnerants known as Boston ''runners"
In fact they have become common and SO trouble
some that business men have long since voted them
bores and would like to have them abated as nus-
ances. We learn several of our leading business
men think of making an agreement not to order
goods through them any longer, hoping thus to be
| rid of the pest. They swarm around hotels and in
steamboats, and other travelling conveyances, much
to the annoyance of the respectable portion of the
| travelling public. The sooner the community is
rid of them the better, for neither the manners
the morals of a place are improved by their pres
ence. Progressive Age.


This is q most unjust and uncaled for at
tack upon class Of men who, to say the least,
are as worthy of public estimation as those of
any other occupation. The fact that a man
travels in pursuit OF his calling is not necess-
arily to his dscredt-and if he travels he is liza
Bile to make one of the swarms that congregate
at the hotels and in conveyances. But, so
long as he behaves himself, he is entitled to
exemption from abuse like the above. If an
individual of this or any other class has mis-
behaved himself or has in some way raised
the ire Of the indiscreet writer Of the forego-
ing paragraph, let him be held accountable
but this attack is foolish, absurd and false to
the last degree.


These young gentlemen are students of the
mercantile profession, who expect to succeed
in time to the places of their present employ
ers. One object of their travels is to become
acquainted with their customers and the re-
gion that they expect in future to supply.
From their ranks must be filled the places of
the cntcrprising and honorable men who do
the immense wholesale business of the great
commercial centres. To say that they are
immoral, bores, nuisances and pests, is to pre-
dict that such will be the characteristics of the
future merchants of the country-a class that
embraces some of the most enlightened lib
eral and benevolent men in the world, and
we sincerely believe will continue to.


Upon the whole. we have rarely seen in
any paper an article of which the editor has
so much reason to be ashamed.
Year: 1869

The week opens with an uneasy feeling in the
New York money market, which is due first to
the fear that the requirements of the country
banks for the April settlement dav will cause
some disturbance, and second to the apprehen-
sion that the ombination operating for a de-
cline in railway shares may find il necessary
in order to carry their point to lock up legal
tenders. The demand for money yesterd1y
from borrowers on call was moderately active
Commercial paper moves slowly and the best
names are submitted to discount Of nine to
eleven per cent. Government bonds are dull
and lower.
Year: 1869

Forty years ago q blooming
young girl Of sixteen married an
old man of sixty for his money,
expecting that he would soon die
and leave. her q wealthy young
widow. Last week the lady died
at the respectable age of ffty-six,
leaving a husband, aged one hun
dred, and four children to mourn
her loss. ?.
Year: 1869

The seals Of the Cabinet secret win bo
broken today at poon, and who are The
elect will be divu1ged. Let everyone
make guess, and ms1k down the names
ot the seven men whom he thinks will b..
offered portfolios, and see how near he
comes to the mark. We ahall not pub
luh our guess, as We done want people
to know before Grant tells them. It
would not be good manners to do 1t.
Year: 1869

By its charter, the company is permitted to issue its own First Mortgage Bonds to the same amount as the Government Bonds, and no more. These bonds are first mortgage upon the entire road and all it's equipments

 They have thirty years to run, at six per cent, by special contract and both