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Year: 1867

CAPITAL WANTED We have been informed
that woollen factory iS to be started in this
town to substitute the one that is to leave us
shortly. The matt er is in the hands of two or
three Of our business men, who give us strong
assurances 1t i, we'll that some one has taken
the matter in hand Every citizen sees the
necessity Of establishing manufactures in our
midst, rs well as the advantages Smyrna possess
cs for becoming manufacturing town, yet our
capitalists evincc no disposition to lend prac-
teal encouragement to any enterprise of this
character 1t has been remarked that they
care nothing about factories, the improvement
or the town. or anything else of public nature
Having competency themselves, they care
for little beyond. If they loan a working man
money they require half the town to secure
them against lost if a man starts in business
they may accept his paper while he " is a
success" but if his business looks squally he
is "sheriffed and driven from the town.
There are exceptions, however. Some feel a
deep interest in the advancement of the town
but we fear they are not working in the pro-
per channel We fear they are too old
fogy" We see other towns on the Peninsula
are trying to start manufacturing enterprises
and unless we arouse from our lethargy we
will be left in the background. Situated a:
We are, at the head Of a navigable stream, and
two liues of railroad to give US market, VT
enjoy peculiar facilities for manufacturing
We have inen, too, who are awake on the sub
ject, and will make their mark" if some o
our capitalists will assist them. Capital i
what is needed. Will some of our improve
ment men furnish it?
Year: 1867

The latest returns from Louisiana indicate
that majority of registered voters voted at
the recent election, and that the Convention is
therefore ordered. In New Orleans the vote
was very light, but more general in the coun-
try parishes
Year: 1867

CARD TO THE PUBLIC. The undersigned,
Trustees of the Riverside Institute, an Institu-
ton chartered by the State of New Jersey, for
the maintenance and education of the orphans
of the Soldiers and Sailors of our country,
which is being established and endowed by the
enterprise aud patriotism of the Washington
Library Company Of Philadelphia, would an
nounce to the public that in their opinion, the
efforts being made by that Company for the
establishment and endowment of the Riverside
Institute cannot fail ofsuccess. Their agencies
have been established, and their advertise
ments published throughout the country at
great expense, and the results are now being
realized. If the distribution were to take
place, and the labors Of the Company cease,
on the 18th inst, as advertised, the Institution,
though established, would not have provided
the means for proper and permanent continu-
ance, nor could it be so extensively useful rs
the public and the Trustees desire


After mature consideration, we have there.
fore recommended that the Washington Libra
ry Company postpone their distribution unit
the 9Th of January next, and continue the sale
Of certificates and engravings until that time
under the firm belief that the result will as
suredly provide a permanent home for the
maintenance and education of very many of the
orphans of those who have died in the service
of their country
Year: 1867

CHARLESTON. Jan. ~, 1897.


Nh Dear Mr.. Editor, you
know it does seem very droll to me
that ] should have the courage to
write to the editor of Il news papcr;
especially when you are obliged to
tell your real name, which is not
any more right than asking a young
lady to tell her age--as if her age
had anything to do with her being
sweet and fasinating. However, /
know you will not tell any one, any
more than | tell any one, any secret
that is told to me, and | want you
TO publish my lctter-therc!


Mcn, in their vanity, which, after
all, is their most prominent feature
profess to believe that ladies think
about nothing but them. DO; and
l have been thinking great deal
about our Southern girls. and what
they ought and ought not to do
or course, | am not old and if you
knew me, Rs you may do one Of
these days. you would say, whether
You meant it ornot, thai Hook quite
young, But / am old enough to
know a great deal; and | think that
the last four years have been enough
TO teach one a treat many things
do you not think so? well, what |
mean il, that girls want a little sound
and sensible advice now and then
from one of their own sex. and | am
going TO give it to them. Ofcourse,
| cannot put it all in one letter, es-
pecially as this note paper is SO
small, and you only allow me TO
write on one side of it-as if you
could not Just as well print on both
sides at once-so, if you do put this
in. / shall send you some more.


Under the old system, girls used
to be kept at school until they were
eighteen or nineteen years old
They did not learn very much, to be
sure. but they were kept out Of the
way of harm. They scolded and
played-and missed their studies
and would take half the highland
wsuld have "friends for life" whom
tlry forgot before they were out OF
sight the sebool-bOuse gate-and
you'd make free of the schOOl-mis-
tress. or Lady President and
would find fault with the fare, aud
tell mother they we're half starved
and may be peep over the wall as
Somebody" was passing by; bat
afler all, they did but little real
harm, and left school with the con
viction that the great pleasure q
Year: 1867

We are sorry to learn from Judge
Sayles that yesterday morning, a.
bout a mile beyond the Brazos river,
a box car jumped off the track, on
the Washington county road, which
broke a culvert and threw off a plat
form car upon which a number OF
gentlemen were standing and sit
ting. The wreck fell into a ravine,
slightly bruising several gentlemen /;
but we are happy to say that none
were seriously hurt, except Col.
Sledge. who. Il was feared, was more
seriously injured than was at first
imagined. This is only rumOr,
hover. There was no fault in the
road, OF in It's management The
accident happened from stiffness in
the rolling stock The road is in as
good condition as usual.-Tslegrapk,
2lr.
Year: 1867

IL ia said that the radicals Of
Northern Texas, by subscription,
raised two thousand dollars to pay
the expenses Of Bob, Taylor on his
trip to Washington City. They
certainly show good Judgment in
their selection of the man his char
acter is perfectly in keeping with
the part ho is to play, 1t is useless
to speak of integrity in connection
with the aforesaid Bob, His best
friends do not claim for him any
scrupulousness on any subject,


In 1861, Bob. was an anti-Seccs.
sionist, and pretended that he sub
mitted TO the decision of the people
on that question. In the fall of the
same year, and before the passage
of the conscript law, Bob. grew to
be II valorous confederate, and rails.
ed regiment Of cavalry, mustered
into the service on the 10th day OF
January, 1862, at Fort Washita-he,
the said Bob. then and there being
colonel. With sabre and pistol, he
marched forth in all military pomp,
to meet the army of that govern
ment he loved so well, and to defend
the wicked people Of Texas. At
North Fork town, in the Creek Ma
ton, this hero commanded Brig
ade, composed of his cavalry regi
ment. and one company Of Indians.
After the passage Of the conscript
law, in 1862, Bob ran for Colonel of
his regiment again, and was defeated
by about two to one. Aftor this
defeat his loyalty revived, and he
returned to Texas, and entered into
specuations by which he became
possessed ofa great many Of the cit
liens of the United States as his own
property.


Such has been the career of the
representative man of this very
small party in this country. If
there was any one in Washington
City who had so little knowledge of
human nature, as to fail to detect
Bob. Taylor's want of veracity, he
might make Il false impression. If
q few more of the same character
were sent, it would be good thing
for us. Those who have them to
deal with, would better understand
these howlers after position, and the
disgust, would be more complete
Mckinney Enquirer, I'd.
Year: 1867

"A woman's glory is her hair" has
been often quoted. If it be, she is de-
tsrmined to dina it in these days of ar
tifciality and fashionable folly. Now
she twists not only her own hair, but as
much as she can purchase, into the most
unseemingly and grotesque shapes,
marring, as if with premeditated bad
taste, every graceful curve and every
line of beauty. A fashionable woman's
head at present is wonder of insight
illness. One would not think so many
of the sex could, without positive
genius for the hideous, so deform them.
selves as they do in single sitting
They rise in the morning, and go from
the bath comely and charming as ma
ture created them. They appear two
hours after, fresh from the hands of their
maid or their own manipulations, elab-
orately wrought ont of all symmetry
and attractivenesss, especially in regard
to their hair.


Ingenuity appears to have been ex-
hausted of late years to make woman's
hair look like anything else; to give her
head q size and form and proportion
little less than repulsive. Curls, crimps,
bands, waterfalls, and we know not
what, vie with each other in destroy
ing the fair semblance Of the human
head. The more homely fashion the
more likely it is to be favorite. The
more unbecoming, the more apt it is to
endure. One cannot 60 into o company
that pretends to be elegant without
having his eyes panied by the uncouth-
ness of the hair-dressing and the dis
tortion of all that good taste would sug-
gest. He is reminded of stage goblius,
or of his childish notions of the mon
sters of the Arabian tales. o, for few
brave, sensible women who would dare
to be natural-dare to defy the dictates
of fashion when fashion arrays itself
against simplicity, fitness and grace:
| Those few could reform the foibles and
insanities of dress. What they did,
Others would be bold to do; and the
reign of reason and beauty would begin
anew.


The present style of wearing the wa
terfall on the top Of the head-it wa
bad enough behind it's simply de.
formity. 1t destroys the proportion oi
the head, and is an excrescence that nc
one can refrain from desiring to remove
even by violence. A woman might az
well have a hump on her back, or walk
on stilts, as it is said she did in the
early days Of Venice, or cover one Of
her soft cheeks with black plaster, oI
wear rings in her nose. But she will
not believe it; for no woman would
consciously mar her beauty, or diminish
the grace she had inherited. Who does
not long for the simple arrangement Of
the hair, as we see it in Grecian statues
plainly put back from the face, or fall
ing over the ears and cheek, with neat
coil behind, or braid, if variety bt
needed,


No woman has right to spoil her ap
pearance for fashions sake. She owes
more to beanty and to nature than te
the mantua maker or to caprice; and
we must believe the time will come
when the really fine woman win con
slider carefully the extent and sacred
ness of her debt, and discharge It con
scientipusly and religiously. eeiRss
Year: 1867

An exchange presents the following
facts in such forcible light that we
transfer them to oar columns without
comment. They speak for themselves.


In 1890, before the adjustment Of
slavery in the Island of Hayti, its pro-
Year: 1867

1907 MAlN SIREET.


We are now opening our full assortment OF
beautiful goods of the latest and most desirable
fabric, for the present and approaching seasons,
aud we respectfully ask the attention OF the pub
lie to our FINE AND FASlII0NL BILE READY
MADE CLOTHING, well as cur PATTERN
GOODS for the Custom Work Department. from
which selections may be made; and we are ena-
bled TO GUARANTEE sATIsFAcTIoS in the suiting OF
The most fastidious tastes and meeting the wishes
Of the most economical.


Our GENTS FURNISHING DEPARTMENT is
well stocked W th all that variety of goods which
becomes seasouable at this period, and We present
all grades of goods, and range OF prices w!thln
the means Of all, since it is our determination
that no one shall leave


1907 MAIN STREET
without the conviction II is the place Tor great
bargains when the character OF the goods ID taken
into consideration.


JOIN 5. DEvllS,


HENRY T. MILLER. oca-lm
Year: 1867

KIND WoRDs FOR A MoTHER.-Despise


not thy mother when she is old. Age
may wastes mothers's beauty, strength,
limbs, senses and estate; but her rela.
ton as mother is as the sun when it
goes forth in its might, for it is always
the meridian and knoWeth no evening.
The person may be gray-haired, but
her motherly relation is ever in the
flourish. 1t may be autumn, yea, win
ter with a woman, but with the mother
it is always spring. Alas, how little do
we appreciate q mothers tenderness
while ivingl How needless we are of
all her anxitiesl But when she is dead
and gone, when the cares and coldness
of the world come Withering to our
hearts, when we experience how hard
it is to find true sympathy-how few
will befriend us in misfortune-then it
Is that we think of the mother we have
lost.
Year: 1867

The columns Of the German papers


are filed with the particulars Of the


greatest disaster that ever desolated


and mining district.


On the LIST of July last the wooden


framework of thousand Eve hundred


feet deep pit of coal mine in the neigh


borhood Of Lugau, in Saxony, gave


way, blocking up with an impenetra.


BILE mass of timber and rock the pit at
q depth of about three hundred ellis
from the top. At the moment of the
disaster one hundred and two men,
nearly all of them the supporters of
large families, were working at the


bottom of the mine. Their provisions
we're only calculated for one day. On
the the 5th Of July, the date Of our
latest news by mail, the place where
the fallen masses had stopped the pit,
was of such solid structure that the
water was standing on it many feet
high. From all sides the most svaila-
bic help was offered, but the convic-
tion that nothing could be done soon
enough to save the unfortunate miners,
weakened, as it seems, any energetic
efforts. They were doomed to die Of
starvation and want of fresh air. On
the 4th Of July all attemps to reach
the bottom Of the mine by any quick
process were abandoned, and a sure
but slow plan was devised, by which,
at least, the corpses of the perished
could be extracted. Iron tubes of
about two feet in diameter were to be
sunk through the obstruction down to
the bottom of the pit. Among the
dead are forty-four married men. one
Of whom had wife and nine living
children. The scene at the entrance
Of the pit are described as lsmentable
without parallel. One hundred and
children filed the air with
heir woful cries, whilst the supsrin-
tendent of the mine, to whose negli-
yence the disaster was ascribed by the
people, could only be saved from be-
.ng mobbed by his sudden imprison-
nent.
Year: 1867

How They Live and what They Do
Neither Marry NOR Give in Marriage
The Flesh CrucfHed for the sake
Of the Bpirit-Beaufy and Order


OF the Observation-Disclosures
~ Possessions and Prospect. - p


ty-A Nice Little Picnic
Year: 1867

HAShlNGfONS July q, o.
From great mass of affdayits taken
for the Judiciary Committee, and which
have not been used in making up the
case against the President, the follow
ing will throw some light on various
subjects of interest to the public. The
names have been suppressed for obvi-
GUS reasons:
Year: 1867

ADJOINING THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL,
Where he will be in attendance daily to administer the
wants of all those who may require his services.


1t impossible here to mention all the diseases with which
he is famar some perhaps will not be out of place. The
formidable the mankind, is Self
Abuse The brain being the seat Of the disease the whole
system consequence. VIII here enumerae
the symptoms that those afflicted be able
opinion regard their complaints and seek advice
time, thereby saving themselves world of suffering: Nerv
debility loss of memory pain in the limbs and back,
papitation of the heart trembling of the limbs headache
and aversion to genial society," especially that of females
There great many more but these sufficient and
should You be suffering from any of them call at
DR.. T0ZE, and he will you in short time, without
interruption in your business state case by let
ter and there will be occasion for calling at the Office


STRUCTURE OF THE URETHRA
Is another formidable enemy health Send for of my
circulars that disease and inform yourselves of its terri
BILE results. The worst cured in few days.


Dr. TOZE has for the last forty years given his entire
attention to the Treatment and Cure of Special
Complaints, and will GUARANTEE a cure in all


His remedies purely vegetable and positive in their
ton. His medicines for all FEMALE COMPLAINTS have
been tried in this City the Fifteen Years.
with the greatest


His FEMALE PILLS unrivalled in the of sup
preston of the monthly sickness Price, So per be
had the office only Sent by Mail Express receipt
of price.


As-All letters strictly confidential. Address, through
mail or express,
Year: 1867

One OF the most extraordinary ard
surprising features of American politics
is the seeming Indifference Of the voters
to the fitness Of the men selected for
public Office. The theory seems to be
that any man will do for any place in
the Government. This appears to be
not only the theory but the practice, and
the practice is applied to every office,
from member Of Council to member of
Congress. The workingman who is very
particular in the choice of doctor for
his family, or lawyer to take care of his
legal affairs, or even in the selection OF
his fellow mechanic to build his house
or do any other mechanical work for
him, is not at all particular as to who
he votes for in the the matter of public
officials. So, too, with the business
man. When he wants a clerk. book
keeper, . salesman, or even porter in
his store, he is very careful to inquire
into the character, the habits and the
qualifications of every applicant; but
when he comes to vote for Council
man or member Of the Legislature. it is
surprising how little attention he gives
to the subject. Yet, as rule, higher
qualifications are required in public sta
tions than in private ones. In the
former. the eye of the principal may he
always on the employee. and the employe.
knowing that his place depends on his
good conduct, is much more likely to
behave himself we'll but i'll the case OF
q public official, like member Of Coun-
Gil, member Of the Legislature. or a
member of Congress, there is 40 watch
ful superior at hand to look after him,
to see that he discharges his duty prop
erly, and the member is therefore likely
to act according to what he believes to
be his own interest, regardless OF the
good of his immediate constituents and
the welfare Of the general body Of the
public. The responsibility Of repre-
sentative is with the masses of the peo-s
pie; and the watching of him. there
fore, being cverybody's business is no.
body's business. Hence. unless the
representative is q conscientious man Of
high character, he can never be depend
ed upon in cases of emergency, From
this, it will be seen that more care
should be given to the selection Of pub
lie officials than is given to the choice
of employees for the transaction Of pri.
yate business.-(Phil.L Ledger.
Year: 1867

my wife 2 Margaret, believe me, it is
no divided heart I offer you," and he
awaited her reply.


She laid her hand in his and said !:
"I 1 will be your wife, John Edmunds;"
and the gentle moonlight fell softly
around them as he told her Of the city
home to which he wished to take his
bride, "to love and cherish him until
death parted them" And the light in
Margaret's eye grew softer, and her
heart went out in thanksgiving to God
for the priceless gift Of love with which
He had blessed her.


They were soon married and left for
New York where they have since re
sided. They often meet Mary Walton
or rather Mrs. James Walden, in the
fashionable assemblies they sometimes
attend; and John Edmunds wonders
how he could have loved her, and then
turns to Margaret, his pearl, and thanks
God for the changes wrought by suit
of army blue.
Year: 1867

The indianapolis Herald is inclined
to dodge the issus made so prominent
by the leaders of its I arty in regard to
an issue Of greenbacks to pay the Ma
tional debt, and is more practical than
the Vallandighams and Thurmans of it's
party. The Herald "places the reve-
nues of the Government at about $780,.
600 900, and the cost Of maintaining the
Government at about 100000; allow
double that sum Cor Government ex-
pcnditures in the future and continue
the revenues about the same az they
wore last = ear, and there would remain
over four hundred millions Of dollars
as a sinking fund, to be applied
annually to the redemption of the pub
lie debt


This is not the general acceptation of
the Democratic plan for paying the pub
lie debt. It is material modification,
and does not differ essentially from the
policy pursued eince the surrender of
the rebel armies, except in the paying
of the gold "bonds in currency" II
no more greenbacks are issued. those
now in circulation will be absorbed IN
the funding process, and legal tenders
will be worth dollar for dollar, and there
will be no objection to paying the gold
interest bearing bonds with them. It
seems to us that the Herald " caves 2" on
this Issue in affirming SO strongly that
sit is not the intention to pay the inter
est paying bonds by food Of Treasury
notes without any means for their re-
demption.'


This is not the opinion Of the Demo-
Gratis in this locality. If they mean
what they say, the proposition is to start
the printing presses at Washington and
food the country with Treasury notes
without any means for their redemption ;
Vallandigham, in q campaign speech,
delivered recently at Millersburg, Ohio,
discussed this question and concluded
as follnws:


| want you to take greenbacks for
what the government owes you, for
| what is sauce for the goose is sauce for
the gander. BY calling in those bonds
and paying them off in greenbacks, you
save q hundred and twenty millions q
year in taxes, and this is just twice as
much as the whole expenses of the Gov
ernment were ten or eleven years ago.
Why should not that be done The
proposition OF the Democratic party is
that this public debt shall be paid of in
greenbacks that your thousand dollar


bonds shall be paid IN legal tender, upon


which the people pay no interest at all,


and thus that we shall escape a large
portion Of taxes. / am not in favor OF
| repudiating one dollar. It must all be
paid; but want it to be paid in what
You compelled me TO take Madison
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