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Year: 1867

The surgeons report shows that our armies
have suffered greatly from chills and fever
which is induced by the miasma and change of
climate to which they are exposed. They also
Gnd that Ayers Ague Cure is an ettectuaI
remedy for this distcmper, and are urging the
government to adopt it within the regulations.
The Surgeon General hesitates, because it is
put up in proprietary form. However great
that convenience to the public, he prefers the
physicians of the army should give their own
directions for the doses. Whatever profession
al pride may dictate, he knows as well as we
do, that Dr. Ayers Cure is an almost per
feet antidote for the Ague, and that the sol
diers should have the benefit of it, as we'll as
the people Washington ID. C) Corespon
| dent
Year: 1867

THE LYNCHING CASE.-Governor Salisbury
says, we are reliably informed that if the
Grand .July don t investigate the case of mob
violence near I.eipsc he wW take the matter
an hand himself: that it is an outrage against
law and the well being Of society and must
not be overlooked. This is very fair talk on
the part Of the Governor, but it hardly meets
the case. Why has he not offered reward
for the arrest Of the guilty parties, as he would
probably do in other cases of murder, and not
wait to see whether the Grand Jury would do
its duty or not! lie ought to take " hold OF
the matter himself" without regard to the
Grand Jury.


We are also informed, reliably, that the
Governor expresses the opinion that the act
was political move, perpetrated by the Re
publicans to bring the State into disreputc
and cause the Interference of Congress and the
Freedmen Bureau in their behalf. If the
Governor 50 believe he may take the necessary
steps to bring the parties to justice; and lie
will hardly throw the duties upon the Grand
Jury, either As the Grand Jury does not s
until October we should think he would wan
10 investigate the case before that lIenod an(
thwart the plans Of the Radicals. That tn
demands of justice might be met it were we
for him to 50 believe. But does he so believe


The Freedman Bureau has already give
attention to the matter. Coroner Cats ha
been written to by the Secretary Of the Burea
at Wilmington, to give the facts in the case
and we learn that the Officers of the Burea
have requested the State authorities to invel
tigate it at once From all we can learn ther
would be but little difficulty in fcrrcting OF
the GUILTY. nartieS.
Year: 1867

REMARKABLE WEDDING-A man named
Pyle, and a woman known to the police by the
nick name of Ham-fat" ran away from the
went to Philadelphia and got married. 1t is
expected that they will spend their honey
moon at the Poor house.
Year: 1867

DISEASE PRoDUcED BY SLEEPING To-
GETHER.-Duing the night says a writer on
hygienics, there is considerable exhalation
from our bodies, and at the same time We ab-
sorb large quantity of the vapors of the sur
rounding air. Two healthy young children
scrpiug together will give and receive healthy
exhalations; but an old, weak person near a
child WILL in exchange for health, only return
weakness. 4 sick mother near her daughter
communicates sickly emanations to her if the
mother has a cough of long duration, the
daughter will at some time also cough and
suffer BY it if the mother has pulmonary con-
sumption, it will ultimately communicated to
hr child. 1t is known that the bed of a con-
sumptive is powerful and sure source of con-
t. gion, as well for men as for women, and the
more SO for young persons. Parents and
friends ought to oppose as much as in their
power the sleeping together of old and young
persons, Of the sick Of the healthy.
Year: 1867

LIFE INSCRANCF.-Thc subject of Life In
surance is attracting considerable attention of
late throughout the whole country, and where
the business is conducted with discretion an |
according to the established rules OF insurance,
the company cannot fail; ard no one can make
better provision for his family than by secur
ring policy for as large an amount as possible.
Among tho very best in the country stands the
Penn Mutual of Phila lelphia. Many Of our
business men and other citizens are insured in
this company and can most cordially recon-.
mend it to others. 1t offers inducements equal
to any other company and superior to many
The company is purely mutual; and all the
profits are divided among the insured The
average dividend Of profits for many years past
have been equal to one half tho annual pay
ment, so that where the annual payment ex-
cceds forty dollars yea the party insured may
give his note every year for one half the amount
with the assurance that the dividends will can
Gel his note. Dr. j. f. Clawson, we are in
formed, is the authorized agent in this place
and will take the application of parties desr-
ing to insure and give any other desired intor-
nation concerning the company.
Year: 1867

cosmos" who edits the rural column
Of the Saturday Eyening Post, thus enum.
crates list Of pretty poor practices:


1t is pretty poor practice for farmer
to dig and delve, tug and grub, and clear
up fifty acres Of land at q cost Of $4,000,
and then in the third year surrender it to
the briars and OK eye daisies


Poor practice to half manure, half
plow, half seed, and half cultivate a field
and then harvest from it less than half a
crop.


To keep two inferior scranay, scrub
cows for dairy purposes, that give less
milk than one good one, and consume
more food than three.


To purchase in town five hundred loads
Of livery stable manure, and suffer six
hundred Of home made manure, to run to
waste.


To attempt TO fatten three hogs into
twelve hundred pounds Of pork on just
as much feed as would keep two nicely
growing


TO estimate agricultural fairs as arrant
humbugs, and spend three days every
month saving the country at political
meetings,


TO depend upon borrowing your
ncighbors' rakes, mowers, and all sorts
of implements in haying and harvest
time


To house up thousand bushels of
grain, waiting for rise, till one tenth has
gone to feed rats and mice and the re-
mainder smells like the essence of rat,
and the price is down forty per cent.


TO plant out an orchard Of choice fruit
trees with first thought Of money max
ing, and leave them to do or die.


To keep two fancy $500 carriage
horses and pay So day for a team to
plow.


1t is positively poor practice to call
book arnin", all bosh, to ignore news
and agricultural papers, and attempt to
keep up even yoke with yonr progressive
neighbors by main strength and stupid.
ness.
Year: 1867

has the following


Why does not some state elect Senator
Chandler hangman, or rather why does
not Congress appoint him general execu-
toner Cor all the States, under the powers
which Congress now assumes the right
to exercise? His thirst for blood seems
to be unquenchable, and he expresses his
sanguinary appetites in such way as to
make all decent men blush for a Senate
which has such person among its mem
bcrs He ragged for blood six years ago,
and he got it; he thirstel for deeper
draughts of blood all through the war,
and ever since the close of hostilities he
has continued shreking for blood Not
being able to satisfy his lust for gore in
this country, he now goes to work
bounding on the Mexicans to liercer
saughters and darker nhumanities that
even they have yet dreamed of. His
several speeches on this subject during
the present session, have been atrocious
and infamous, We suppose the people
Of Michigan, who send him to represent
them in the Senate, have heard of the eX
stence Of Christianity.


Again it says;


The sensation produced in Europe by
the execution ofMaximilian is far greater
than occurred on the assassination Of
Lincoln. Not voice is anywhere raised
in justification Of the deed. The execra-
tons which in Lincoln's case were direct
ed against Booth, are in the present case
direct d against the whole Mexican nation.
If Juarez and Escobedo had no apollo.
gists III Congress they would be outlawcd
by the entire civilized world.
Year: 1867

To BEAUTIFY THE EETH--Dissolve
two ounces Of borax in three pounds OF
boiling water, and before it is cold add
one teaspoonful Of the spirits of camphor.
and bottle for use. A teaspoonful OF
this mixture, mixed with an equal quanti
ty of tepid water and applied daily with q
soft brush preserves and beauties the
teeth, eXtirpates all tartar adhesion, ar
rests decay, induces u healthy action OF
the gums and makes the teeth pearly and
white.
Year: 1867

BEAUTIFUL ExTRACTs.-We make the
following extract from the eloquent ora
ton delivered by Col Il. d. Manlove.
editor Of the Vicksburg Times, before tho
press convention, in that city:


Southern nationality is dream Of the
past A gulf, beyond which we could not
pass. yawned between us and the realiza-
tion OF our hopes and though bright flow.
ers bloomed upon its brink and waited us
sweet periumc,we could not cross to gather
them.


"Thc Southern cross no longer CLEANS
out mid the wild Of the battle the sword
of the vanquished is sheathed, and the land
is gloomy with the harmless sepulchres Of
our martyred dead But when the last Of
the present generation sleep with their
fathers, and new forms throng the old
familiar places--when faction shall have
hushed, and Justice hold tho scales--then.
as bright as day and as free from blemish
and stain, will stand forth in bright relief
upon the scroll Of historic fame, the record
OF the South dearer to the hearts Of her
children now in the hour of sorrow than
when, ON the march to victory, she won
the admiration Of the world. Pilgrims
from other lands shall tread with reverend
step above the spot where molders the dust
Of our loved and lost while those who arc
to follow us will cherish as household gods
the names Of those who, carving n way
through the frery path Of war, have writ
ten their names where they can never die.
The principle for which so many laid down
their lives may not be recognized until
their names have grown feeble on the tongue
Of friendship and been dropped, like dead
silence, from the ear Of The world But it
will struggle back from the hollow bos ON
that once bled for it, and ascend the heights
Of government. And when the faithful
historian shall descend into the vaults OF
tho dead past in quest Of traditions Of lib
crty, he will then discover to whom the
world is indebted for their porpetustion "
Year: 1867

No further action has been taken bv
the president and the secretary Of war
remains at the department transaeting
business as usual


Up to ten O'Clock last night, the jury
in the Surratt case had failed to render
verdict.
Year: 1867

NARROW EscAPE.-A little girl aged years, daughter of Charles Bloss of Beth lehem, went out with her brother aged to the barn yard to see the calves; when a COW that had young Calf flew at her in a great rage tossing her against the barn. The screams of the children soon brought their father who was at work near; the COW in the meantime, was trying hard to get at the little child but fortunately she fell so near the sill of the barn that the siding partially protected her. Mir. Bloss without hesita- tion rushed between the child and the cows head when the animal wheeled and kicked; one foot striking MT. B. and the other hitting the boards just above the lit- tie girls head. Her clothes were torn but she providentially escaped serious injury.
Year: 1867



 With the present number our paper com mences its forty-third year.

 The L1TcEFIELD ENQUIRER has so long since become County institution that it has ontgrown the tendency observable in younger papers to indulge in little glori- fcation of themselves, and little depreci- ation of their rivals, at the termination of each year of their existence. The ENoU1R- FIR has always kept on it's course steadily, without ever becoming burden, pecunia- rily, on its political friends, and never fail ing to be fairly supported by them Dur inga part of the time, Democratic papers have been published in the County; the best of which, well edited (barring it's pol itics,) and under the auspices of an enter prising publisher, was started couple of years since And here it may not be irrel- evant to state as @ strong proof of the su- perior intelligence of our party. that they have supported for about thirteen years, two Republican papers in the County; while, during more than half that time, the Democracy have had none. Throughout the State also, the proportion of Republi- can papers to Democratic will be found to be at least two to one, the former receiving probably much more than double the sup port given to the latter.

 Under it's present auspices, we hope the ENQUIRER may continue to merit the conf- dence of its subscribers, and we shall spare neither pains nor expense in the endeavor to make it such paper as the Republicans of the County have right to expect.

 We think, also, we have right to ex- pect something from our subscribers in re- turn. The leaders of the Democracy hay ing long felt the need of good County paper, have made great efforts to secure the success of the Sentinel Prominent Demo- crats in each town have made it their busi- ness to obtain large lists of subscribers for that paper, justly considering it Q matter of considerable importance to their party. Although no such extraordinary effort is necessary III maintaining well esIapllsueu journal as in starting new one; still, we think the liberal support of their party papers is duty that the Republicans of the Mountain County cannot afford to neg lect It is in the power of our subscribers, also, to add much to the interest of our pa per by sending in local news, promptly. We have, it is true, correspondents who furnish us county items with more or less regularity; but in many localities they are remiss, and in many more we have no cor respondents at all; so that local intelli- gence from any quarter of the county, will always be most gladly received, and in most cases, find place in our columns.
Year: 1867

From the latest English intelligence, it viii w;Ii he sustained by a majority lt "f Of the House of Commons. A fraction of the Liberal party, nicknamed the "Adul- lamites," being just large enough to hold the balance of power, defeated Gladstone's s Reform bill last year, and after temporarily returning to their old associates, have ''rat- ted" again, and are now voting in the Tory interest.

 The secret of all this dilly- -dallying in the English Parliament is simply this: That body represents only caste; not one-ffth of its members, probably, really desire any radical reform. They are exceedingly afraid of the people, and may grant uni versal suffrage, or something approaching to it, when they see a revolution really i'm minent They now desire to make just such concessions as will soothe the present agitation and no more. For one, we doubt whether anything short of a revolution will give the English people their liberties The overthrow of the State Church, the overthrow of sham monarchy, really only an oGgarchy, the establishment of a gov ernment based on universal suffrage, and Q little wholesome agrarianism, IS what we long to see in Great Britain. The present government of that country is an imposi- ton resting on no foundation in justice and only endured from force of habit. It is timid and vaccillating because it has no support from the masses of the people; and 1t only stands because they are divided Let the men who sing John Browns hymn in the streets of London, and the men who are fighting the military in Ireland, join hands, and strike for government of the people, for the overthrow of the aristocra- cy, and for confscation of their immense landed estates, and they may win, because they will deserve to do so.
Year: 1867

Tine dwelling house of Mr. Willis Catlin took fire q few days since, upon the roof, by sparks from the chimney, burning through the roof, but was discovered in time to prevent any serious damage.

 At the annual sale of slips in the Con- gregational Church, the sale amounted to the sum of 1,400, being an increase of about s1o0 over last year. Extensive re- pairs upon the interior of the church are in contemplation-the money to be raised
Year: 1867

From the New York Times, Sept 10. =.
4 Our readers viii understand what a nice
paper the Bloomington {Ill) PantagrGph
must be to have in the house when they
read the opening sentences of an article it
publishes in favor of impeachment


{" Solomon said there was nothing new
under the sun. But he wrote that before
America was discovered, Buchanan was
President, or johnson was carried by the
force of thimbleful of gunpowder into the
Presidential chair to take up and carry out
that old williams policy before Greeley
went bail for the blacklist traitor and
blOodiest wretch that ever went unwhipped
of justice, not even excepting that old chap
himself Of the turpentine region, the only
angel with caudal appendage ever read
of. Papers and Congressman
that were the most factitiously opposed to
Impeachment when Congress was together
and it was NEST needed to forward recon
struction, as well as to give the drunken
rowdy some of his desserts, are now the
loudest for it."


The PdatagrapA evidently regards this
sort Of thing as very strong; for it continues
in the same strain at great length. The
Bloomington people also must admire it
strongly, or it would not be furnished them
in such quantity. To controVert these
ideas of It's yigor and value would be alb
surd. We therefore pronounce this style
of writing to be not only very delectable
and very affecting, but also very strong.
Year: 1867




Servant Girl.


From the New Albany Ledger Sept. 10,


A gentleman who returned on yesterday
from visit to Kentucky, gives the follow
ing particulars of terrible tragedy enact
ed near Newcastle, Henry county, on Thurs
day last The victim of the cold-blooded
affair was an innocent little babe Of three
years child Of Mr.. William Graves, a well
known and highly respected citizen of that
county, and the destroyer was a negro ser
want girl who had been living in the fami-
iy several years. On the day mentioned,
while Mrs. Graves was attending to some
domestic duties, the servant girl took the
child from the house 10 a tobacco patch in
the rear of the stable, and about one hun
dred and City yards from the house. Here
it appears, from her own confession, she
made the child lay down on the ground, and
after crossing its hands on Its breast, and
making it bid its pa and ma good bye, the
fend seized a stone and crushed its head
almost TO a Jelly She then seized it
by the ankle and dragged it over the
stubble 10 some thick underground, where it
was concealed from human view. A few
moments after this the mother missed the
NIlliu, anu Adll Ohl W NCdlCA AOh IL 1AAA AA1
girl denied knowing anything about the
child, saying it must be in the house. The
premises were thoroughly searched by the
almost frantic mother, while every thought
Of spot about the place was examined by
Mr.. Graves, and several neighbors who
Joined him in the search. All efforts to in
duce the girl to tel the whereabouts of the
child proved of no avail. At last one gen.
tleman, while searching, discovered her
slipping away, and after a sharp chase she
was caught, and by the most violent threats
was induced to lead them TO the spot where
the murder had been committed. There, in
the bushes, the child was found, and al
though il had been three hours since the
commission Of the deed, itgasped twice after
being taken out. The back of the head
was horribly battered, and the back was
terribly lacerated, where it had been
dragged over the stuble to the place of con-
cealment


The entire neighborhood were highly
excited at the murder, and threats of lynch-
ing were freely uttered However, better
counsels prevailed, and the girl was taken
to New Castle and arraigned in the Circuit
Court now in session, for murder in the
first degree. She was convicted by the
Jury of the crime as charged, but up to yes
terday the Judge had not passed sentence.
1t is the opinion of our informant that she
will be hung.


1t was developed on the trial that this
was the third child she had killed, two
white and one colored. The murder ofthe
colored child occurred a short time ago, and
the deed was done in such a manner, that
no one at the time suspected that a murder
had been committed. The child had been
held with its feet up, until a rush of blood
TO the head caused death to relieve it from
its suffering. The only cause assigned by
the girl for the last murder was because
she felt mad at her mistress, Mrs. Graves.
We were unable to learn the name OF the
murderer.
Year: 1867

AN apt and literal illustration of the old
adage that lazy people take the most pains,
is recorded in an English paper. 1t was
simply the explosion of hot water bottle,
but as it resulted in the death of one per-
son, and the serious injury of several 9th
ers, il was considered of sufficient import
ance to be reported by the engineers Of the
Manchester Boiler Association. The bottle
was of earthenware and had been used


filed with hot water, to warm sick bed


When it was cold, instead of taking the
trouble to unite the wa1ed cord which
bound the cork and reflling it with hot
water, the attendants put it into the oven
to be heated In short time the bottle
exploded, the oven door was torn off and
fragments Of ircn and pottery were thrown
into the room with such violence as 10
wound three persons, one dying the next
day. This incident not only carries 8 di-
rect lesson in regard TO hot water bottles,
but showing a violent explosion from the
slow and gradual accumulation of steam
pressure, gives warning that household
boilers, to be free from danger, should be
fitted with either movable covers or safety
valves, to relieve the imperceptible but ez-
cessiye pressure so likely to accumulate.
Year: 1867

dock as she started on a journey to see some
friends; some hours after, in the privacy
of her stateroom, she found leisure to eK-
anime paper her husband had handed


her at the last minute, and discovered it to
be a copy of a decree of divorce rendered
by an Illinois Judge. Before the steam
boat had been six hours gone, her late hus-
band had married another woman. Num-
bers of these confidential divorces are OBJ
tanned for unworthy purposes by the most
raScally means. sErFFE sE ~
Year: 1867

We shall constantly admonish the Southern
people to be selEreliant. and shall do what We
may be able to induce the establishment OF
manufactures in our midst for our home pro
ducts To this end we will pay special attention
to the COST aud STATISTICS Of manufscturins.
and exert ourselves to encourage the diver5if-
cation of Southern industries and the develop
nent of Southern resources.
Year: 1867

by A CONSOLIDATION OF THE lash
DISPATCH, and by the generous and united
support of the UNION AND DIsPATcH by the
patrons Of both this former papers, the Proprie-
tors are enabled to present Newspaper hithe-
to unsurpassed in this city or State.


IN FULLNESS AND ACCURACY
NEWS, our paper will compare favorabIy itb
the best in the entire country; ard in saying
this we only repeat the expressions Of many
our patrons. who are most capable Of judging in


uch matters.