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Year: 1868

TERRIBLE FATALITY.-There is weird, strange fatality, says the Denver, Colorado Gazstte, about the family of the boy that was carried off by the Indians the other day. The grandmother's name is Johnson; the grandfather is dead the father was once To- cal editor of the Rocky Mountain Herald of Denver, in 1861, and was shot by party of soldiers who were melted to attack the office by incendiary articles appearing in the Rocky Mountain NeVs. Poor Amala was shot in the breast by bullet, and after lingering, with the seeds of consumption in his system con sequent on the wound, died in Central City in 1865. The poor mother committed suicide on account of wrongs, the cause of which will be forever hidden from the public ken and now the poor little child is carried off to grace the triumph of savage band, or, per chance furnish food for the vengeance of some war dance of savage brutality.
Year: 1868

T AM rich enough, says Pope to Swift, 'and can afford to give away hundred pounds year. l would not crawl upon the earth without doing good. l will enjoy the pleas ure of what l give by giving it alive, and seeing another enjoy it. When l die, should be ashamed to leave enough for mon ument, if wanting friend is above ground" !" That speech of Pope is enough to immortal ize him, independent of bis philosophical verses.
Year: 1868

A correspondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel
gives an account of remarkable cases OF recovery
from gunshot and other Wounds:


Several years ago, In Milwaukee, drunken
man disturbed German military funeral pro-
cession one Sunday afternoon. A policeman
who was In the procession handed his rifle to
comrade, and stepped up the man and sought to
paciiy him. The policeman had hardly resumed
his place in the ranks when the rut1an again
became violent: further remonstrance availed
nothing, and the man was arrested and placed
in the custody OF a constable, to be taken to the
station house in hack. After crossing Spring
street bridge the prisoner broke away from the
constable, knocking the latter down, and was
escaping, when the news was taken to the sta
tion that a man had killed policeman and was
flying


man had seized an axe, and, brandishtng 1t,
threatened death to any one that attempted to
take him. After one or two attempts to effect
his capture he got away and was running when
he was shot. 1t was found the bullet had struck
low down the back, and had passed through the
man, and on further examination, 1t was found
just imbedded under the skin, almost directly
opposite the point of entrance; the bullet was
so near the surface that slight incision with
lancet was made and the ball fell on the floor.
A few days afterwards the man was discharged
from the Hospital as well apparently as ever.
Several years afterwards the man stated to the
writer that he felt no Inconvenience from the
wound.


n "a very few days after the occurrence Ger.
man attempted suicide by shooting himself in
the forehead, just above the nose, with horse
pistol. The ball appeared to have glanced and
passed completely round the skull, as was seen
by the mark under the skin, and came out within
one and three.quarters of an inch OF the hole
where it went in. The German, though badly
disfgured by the two wounds made by the
bullet, and the marks of powder on his face,
completely recovered, and was living ten years
alter the occurrence.


''Still another remarkable recovery from a
wound is worthy OF note. A German laborer
was waylaid on the track of the Mississippi Rail-
road, and most brutally beaten. Besides other
severe injuries, the mans skull was crushed in
on the top OF his head. so badly was the skull
broken that several pieces were taken out by
the physician that attended him. The persons
who committed the deed were arrested on a
charge of assault with intent to kill, and held to
await the recovery, or, what was considered by
far the most probable the death of the assaulted
man. Within month after the occurrence the
complainant came into the Police Court aud
gave his evidence, evidently retaining all his
senses, and with all his faculties about him.
But what was the most singular was the fact
that the large hole in the mans head permitted
the action of the brain to be clearly seen as il
rose and fell with the pulsations, and by the
applying of the ear to the hole sound was
distinctly heard like the putting of steam
engine. The man got well, and he too was alivt
for years afterwards"
Year: 1868

The following incident of travel is narrated
by correspondent of the Daily Saratogian,
New York 1t took place on the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga Railroad, on one of the North
ern trains, between Saratoga and Whitehall: :
When the train halted at Saratoga, among
the passengers from the West, came man
of about 80 years of age, elbowing his way
through the crowd and bearing in bis arms
a child. He was poor man, his clothes
were poor he looked poor. Around his
hat was tied piece of soiled, worn Grape
1t was evidently all the mourning his scanty
means would permit, for the mother of the
child was dead.


This man was rough in exterior, yet his
f.ce was an honest one. He handled the
baby awkwardly, yet there was tenderness
in his sad look that showed the purity of a
fathers love- That little fellow lay asleep
on his coarsely-clad knee a stray sunbeam
glanced across its tired face. They were
both tired. the father and the child, for they
had come from the far West; and as he
placed his bard, toll worn hand to shield 1t
from the golden rays, there was in his look a
mixture of sadness and care, as if his pent-
up feelings had been so crowded back into
the inner cells of his heart that even tears
could have been no relief to the hidden an
guish that was making his life a misery.


The poor child cried it might be the little
thing was tired it might be it missed its
mother; perhaps it was hungry; perhaps 1t
was sick and SO it cried. The tears rolled
down its baby cheeks; the father wiped
away the dewdrops as they fell, and then
tried to feed it. He was SO awkward with
the bottle-his had been life of toll and
hardship-and he knew not how to give bis
darling its nourishment. As he made effort
after effort to stife the cries and check the
tears of his motherless babe, how he must
Year: 1868

Challenges the world to produce anything in the
shape of Medicines that will remove aud eradicate
a Cough or soreness in the Chest prompt, no
matter what form the disease might assume Hen
ley's Royal Balsam' is the best Medicine in the
world for Bronchial Pulmonary affections. For
Group or Hopping Cough, there is nothing on
earth that can equal it. All mothercrs and Nurses
ought to have bottle close by them, it will give
child relief in two minutes. 1t is entirely veg
etable, and will prove blessing to the human
family.
Year: 1868

The CHIN FEvER.-This affection is usual
ly prevalent among boys from fifteen 10
eighteen years old. You don't know what
the chin fever is, perhaps. The first symp-
toms are frequent inclination to pass the
hand over the chin, sometimes over the upper
lip The sufferer has an expression as though
impatiently expecting something which is de-
layed in coming. He will frequently gaze
carefully into the looking glass, as though it
were the mirror of fortune. As the trouble
increases the afflicted boy may be seen steal
ing away to some retired place and striving
to get little ease by applying strong soap
suds to his face ; so anxious Is he sometimes
to get rid of his trouble that he has been
seen to threaten to cut his throat with his
fathers razor As usual, the quack medi-
cine dealers take advantage of persons in
such trouble, and advertise compounds war
ranted to cure The worst cases III from three
to six weeks but their applications only ag
gravate the SYMPTOMS, and cause more fire.
quent turnings to the glass and more violent
manipulations of the face.


1t is relief to know that this trouble is
not fatal, and disappears gradually as the
beard grows, though we have known cases
where some of the symptoms, especially pass
ing the hand affectionately over the face, have
remained through life. The best treatment
for the patient, perhaps. is to let him alone,
as advice in such cases usually aggravates
the complaint. If any, however, should
really wish to know what to do with the beard
when it first appears, we answer, let it alone
until it becomes unsightly, then trim it. Too
early and frequent shaving will make it
troublesome in after years if not abused bv
continuous cutting it will be likely to remain
soft and silky.
Year: 1868

How TO SEE THE WND.-Take,a polished me.
tallic surface of two feet or more, with straight
edge-a large hand-saw win answer the purpose
Take windy day, whether hot or cold, clear or
cloudy, only let it not rain or the air be murky
in other words, let the air be dry and clear, but
this is not essential Hold your metallic surface at
right angles to the direction Of the wind g., if
the wind is north, hold your surface east and west


but instead holding the surface vertical, incneit
about fortyfve degrees to the horizon, 50 that the
wind, striking glances and flows over the edge
(keeping it straight as the water overa dam. Now
sight carefully over the straight edge at some min
ute and sharply-defned object, and you win PEE
the air flow over as water flows over dam. Make
your observations carefully, and you will hardly
ever fail to see the air, no matter how cold; the
result is even better when the sun is obscured
Year: 1868

BEAR IIUNT-For several months past
bears have been committing serious depreda-
tions on small stock about Round Mountain,
in this county. In order to rid the neigh
borhood of these pests, a general hunt was
agreed upon by the residents in that vicinity
few days ago, and Mr.. John O'Neil has
sent an account of the affair. A party,
armed with rifles and revolvers, and accom-
panied by pack of dogs, started out for the
hunt, and soon reused up a grizzly, which
took to its heels, and the men and dogs fol-
lowed in close pursuit. The chase was kept
up for several miles, when the bear took
refuge in cave or large fissure in the noun
tain side. A number of dogs entered the
cave and attacked the bear, but it killed two
of them and frightened the rest away. Shots
were then fired into the cave, but owing to
the darkness inside no accurate aim could be
taken. One of the party then volunteered to
80 into the cave and thus get shot at Bruin
at close quarters. 80, armed with heavy
revolver, he crept into the cave, but before
he had advanced twenty-five feet he encoun-
tered an enemy different from that which he
was seeking, and beat hasty retreat. On
emerging from the cave he was found to be
literally covered with bees, which stung him
terribly before they could be brushed off with
handkerchiefs and hats. Pitch pine sticks
were then ignited and thrown into the cave,
and sight of the bear was thus obtained
After receiving volley of Shots the animal
rolled over and soon gave up the ghost. A
rope was then tasted around one of it's legs
and it was pulled out of the cave and skinned.
The animal weighed 1850 pounds and was
very fat. The party afterwards took out 900
pounds of honey from a nook in the cave,
which was evidently kind of general retreat
for wild honey bees. They also found that
several hundred pounds of honey had been
eaten and destroyed by the bear.
Year: 1868

UNION Men, ATTENTION We desire to
impress upon the minds of the Union men of
this county the necessity of attending to the
matter of seeing that their names are proper
ly enrolled upon the Great Register and upon
the poll lists of their respective precincts.
All voters must have their names so entered
by the Sd day of October or lose their vote,
unless they can show, under oath, good cause
for net being enrolled by that date. 1t is
important that the Union party should poll
Its full strength this year, and to that end
we urge every Union man in the county to
resolve himself into committee of one to see
that his own name and that of his neighbors
are properly enrolled. Let this matter re-
ceive immediate attention.
Year: 1868

friends, you owe it to yourselves, you owe
1t to the noble dead who sleep in their graves.
to observe these things. You go here, and |
honor you for it, and scatter flowers over
those graves. God bless you for it They
are the graves of good. true, and honest, and
noble, and brave, and generous men. Ap-
plause. But as you return from that solemn
duty turn your back to the right and left
upon those who dishonor the memory of the
dead. You owe it to the living, you owe it
to your own children and to their children.
Write down in their memories this day
and all days, and for all the time to come,
tile feeling and spirit ofabhorrence ciM tchich
yon regard and estimate these men. O'Heav-
en- for some blistering words, that may
write infamy upon the forehead OF these men


Applause that they may travel through
earth, despised of all men, and rejected of
Heaven-scorned by the devil himself. They
may seek their final congenial resting.place
under the mudsills of that ancient institution


Laughter and applause. -


Such frank disclosures Of the real signif-
canoe of the nomination of Seymour and
Blair alarm the Northern managers. They
know that they have no hope but in deceiving
the country and they have consequently
begged their allies at the South to be more
prudent. The Charleston Mercury says:


Private advices from our most strenuous
friends at the North, request that we should
protest against the imprudent expressions
that have escaped some Southern speakers,
since the adjournment of the National Dem
ocratic Convention. 1t is represented to us
that great injury is accruing to the cause
from such imprudence We therefore shall
make no apologies for asking the attention
ofn bI IN ho aot
desirous of pushing on the good work of sue
cess, and no one would voluntarily impede its
course who was aware of the fact While no
man in the South should be, and no true
man is, ashamed of our great lost cause
and while we speak of the past, we should
speak like true men, it is questionable wheth-
er at this time anything is to be gained by
too much reference to things that jar on peo-
pes nerves. What we want just now is to
win"


But after the exulting'. chorus that has
been already raised over the platform of
reputation and revolution and the nomina-
tion of Seymour and Blair, the silence of
Hampton and Toombs will be no more de-
ceptive than the speech of Seymour. The
Democratic purpose is fully revealed by the
Democratic leaders and it is not difficult
to imagine what would be the "peace"
which the success of such leaders would Sc
cure tor all steadfast Union men in the
Southern States. With the rebellion claim
ed as a defense of the Consttution-with the
debt incurred in suppressing it dishonored
with the new State governments dispersed
by the armv-with the whole colored popu-
lation regulated by black codes-with the
most acriminous rebels exercising power in
in the spirit here revealed, spirit which is
very natural to men who regard their coun-
try as their btterest enemy-should we not
have a situation that would cheer the g Con-
servative" soul wallpapers Weekly.
Year: 1868

REcIsrER.-The Supplemental Great Reg
lister, for the year 1868, is now printed, and
will be sent to the various precincts of the
county, by the County Clerk, in pursuance of
the provisions of the l2th section of the Reg
istry Law
Year: 1868

The AIion Society gave grand Summer
nights festival last evening at o'clock, at Lion Park
One-bupdred and tenth-st and Eighth-ave. which
attended by a large cOncOurse OF ladies and gentlemen
A crand concert, with Bergman conductor formed
mart OF the exercises after which dancing was INDUCED
In, and kept up until a late hour this morning.


is always the with everything OF festival ma
tpre gotten up by this Society, the admirable man
uer In which this affair was conducted left nothing
to be desired by the large number OF guests who
n,ticnaed In the pleasures that the AriOns provided
Tor tbein The decoration the Park on the occasion
was I'm itself sufficient To warrant taking IMP ther 10
ennY Tho scene, which eyincod the most aItstc taste
Year: 1868




"Do you see this lock of hair,n said
the old man to me


"Yes; but what of it? 1t is, sup
pose, the curl from the head of dear
child, long since gone to heaven"


alt is not; it is curl Of my own hair,
and is now nearly seventy years since
it was cut from this head"


"But why do you prize lock of your
own hair so much !'


sit has a story belonging to II, and a
strange one. keep it thus with care
because it speaks to me more of God
and his especial care than anything 1
possess.


81 was little child of foar years old,
with long curly locks, which in sun,
rain, or wind hung down my cheeks un-
covered. One day my father went into
the woods to cut up log, and | went
with him. L was standing a little way
behind, or rather at his side, watching
with interest the heavy strokes of the
heavy axe, as it went up and came down
upon the wood, sending off splinters
with every stroke in all directions.


"Some of the splinters tell at my feet,
and eagerly stopped to pick them up.
In doing so, / stumbled forward, and in
a moment my curly head lay upon q
log. L had fallen just at the moment
when the axe was coming down with
all its force"


at was too late to stop the blow
Down came the axe. / screamed, and
my father fell to the ground in terror.
He could not stay the stroke; and in the
blindness which the sudden horror
caused, lie thought he had killed his
boy.


1--WE soon reeOvered-I from my fright
and he from his terror. He caught me
in his arms and looked at me from head
to foo. to find out the deadly wound he
WAS sure he had inflicted"


"Not drop of blood or scar was to be
seem"


"He knelt upon the grass and gave
thanks, having done so, he took up his
axe aud found a few hairs upon its edge.
He turned the log he had been splitting,
and there was a single curl of his boys
hair, sharply cut through and laid upon
the wood"


allow great the escape !"


ut was as if an angel had turned
aside the edge at the moment when it
was descending on my head. With re-
newed thanks upon his lips, he took up
the curl and went home with me in his
arms


"fhat lock he kept all his days, as q
memorial of great good fortune. The
lock he lett me on his death-bed."
Year: 1868

The man who agrees with everything
you say and laugh at every remark you
make, is like friendly dog-he expects
bone at some future time.


The man who will flatter you to your
face will ask you to lend him dollar
in short time.


If a person tells you that you are the
most sensible man he ever saw, mark
it he will ask you to do him favor-say
s.. That is the kind of cents he means
you have.


When a man tells you your horses
are the best in the country, he meaus
to borry one of them and the saddle
thrown in.


Some men learn how to borrow any
thing, but they are awful dull in learn :
ing how to bring it back. However a
person is not expected to know much
at oncc-it takes a strong mind to un-
derstand geology and theology at the
same time.


A borrower thinks it is about as easy
for you to come after anything as it was
for him to 90 after it. This is "free and
easy" philosophy-especally free.


A man that would borrow your cigar
wouldn't object to taking your breath
to smoke it with.
Year: 1868

Girlhood is beautiful season and its
love-its warm, uncalculating, devoted
loy,e-so eXaggeratingf IN its simplicity
so Keen from its freshness-is the very
poetry of attachment i; after years have
nothing like it. TO know that the love
that once seemed eternal can have an
end, destroy ) its immortality and thus
brought to a level with the beginnings
and endings, the chances and changes
of life, commonplace employments and
3leasures-and alas from the sublime
to the ridiculous, there is but step !;
our divinity turns out an Idol we AZ
grown too wise too worldly for our for
mer faith, and we Ia lgh at what we
wept before; and such laughter is more
bitter thousand times more bitter
than tparS
Year: 1868

7 HAVE two beautiful and well improved


l plantations in Lee county, Ga, within
three miles OF the city Of Albany, bounded by
one OF the best railroads IN the state, and nEe
Lot and commOdious Dwelling In the city,
which Will gladly sell or exshange for other
apis A. WRIGHT
Year: 1868

LAFAYETTE SQUARE FENoE.-We are un-
able to discover why this city should
repair the railing of Lafayette Square. We
mean that portion destroyed by the walls of
Odd Fellows building falling on it. The
Odd Fellows association is the responsible
party, and we have often been surprised that
they who are SO loud in boasts of Friend
ship, Love, and Truth allow an injustice to
progress under their immediate sight. And
another thing that is very awkward in this
case is that an active Odd Fellow introduces
"a bill in our City Council making taxpayers
settle for the misfortunes of a powerful Sc.
cret society. Be just, and then generous
afterward.
Year: 1868

NicoLsoN PAvEMEEF-Whether or not
there is any particular or general merit in
this invention, the patentees have succeeded
in securing a renewal to their patent right.
The first one would have expired next
month, when several corporations and many
individuals were to lay this kind of pave
ment without being compelled to pay a
monstrous bonus for the privilege. The
monopoly still remains in the same hands,
and we sincerely hope to see the blocks on
both sides of St. Charles and jackson streets
in less than six months. st. Charles street
from Tivoli circle to the upper limits of this
corporation would be 'tenfold more valuable
were the two sides laid with the Nicolson,
and jackson street might then be threaded
on rainy day without fear ofpassing down
to China. Give more attention, now that
the subject of patent right has been settled
for several years.
Year: 1868

Here comes tall, soldierly man in
civilian clothes. He is soldierly in his
carriage. only he has no moustache, and
his little black eyes are quick and rest
less. He is awake to most things, and
his only delusion is that being a police
man in plain clothes, he looks like a
prosperous shop-keeper, a confidential
clerk, nobleman of easy manners, or
country yokel in town for "spree," ac
cording to the characters which the Pc
culiarities of his several cases require
him to assume. But the disguises are a
failure. The more he disguises. himself
the more he looks like a policeman in
plain clothes, and as long as he contin-
ues in the force his official identity will
assert itself.
Year: 1868

Here is one of those miserable ghosts
that start up from time to time in the
London. streets, to sicken the rich m an
of his wealth and to disgust the happy
man with his happiness. If the wretch
ed, object, before us could put his
thoughts into intelligible. English, what
story Of misery, want, filth, sickness,
and icrime5 he could unfold He is of
course a thief; who, in his situation
would not be ~ He is a liar /; but his