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Year: 1868

SUN-STRoKE.-Th St. Albans Messen-
ger says: Several gentlemen, who know
by experience, wish us to say to the
public that sure preventive of sun
stroke is a wet handkerchief in the hat
1t should be wet in cold water every half
hour, and it will not only prevent sun
stroke, but will cool the system amazing
ly. Try it. You'll find it great deal
better than brick in the hat, at all
events
Year: 1868

A LABoRING MAN recently wrote to
the Bangor, Maine, Democrat as fol-
lows:


For four days work in 1859 l could
buy barrel of excellent flour. For an
equally good barrel now have to WORK
eight days. ,o-o ,a


For one days work in 1859 could
buy five pounds of tea. The same DAY
work can now buy but two pounds.


For one days werk then l could buy
thirty pounds of sugar. For days
work now / can get but fifteen pounds
For days work in 1859 l could buy
eight pounds of tobacco. For day''
work now can buy but three pounds


For q days work in 1859 could bu!
fifteen pounds of coffee. For day.
work now l can buy but five pounds.


For one months work in 1889 coul'
clothe myself and family for one year
To do the same now / am obliged Il
work two months and half.


might thus 60 through the Who'll
list of articles that q laboring man ant
his family consume.


Ia it not time for me and my fellow
lahorers to look around us, ascertain
the cause of this robbery of labor, an
apply the remedy


Certainly, look around, apply the rem
edv, and vote the Democratic ticket.
Year: 1868

to hear one of the first orators of the


country should improve the opportunity


offered by the address to be delivered


by Mr.. GIBSON.


1t is gratifying to observe the de-
termination of the Democrats to make
this demonstration, in every respect, a
credit to themselves and their city.
They are putting for'h an energy which
bespeaks an unconquerable spirit. Let
those who boast of the "deHoralized
condition" of tho Ohio county Democ-
racy witness their enthusiasm and hear
their shouts tomorrow night.


The Democrats are rallying all along
the line. Here, as everywhere, is mani
fest purpose to win in this q eat aud
terrible fight for free and honest gov
ernment. The tide has set in, and no
power on earth can stay it. We have
determined to beat the enemies of the
country in this struggle, and with that
determination the battle is half won.


To our friends beyond the river, cor
dial invitation is extended to partiei-
pate in the demonstration tomorrow
night. Ours is q common cause and
great victory this Fall will bring with
it blessings that all will share.


To our Republican neighbors who
may attend this demonstration hearty |
welcome will be extended. Rest assur-
ed of one thing; if you are not convinc-
ed you will not be insulted. The style
of argument which by abusing the
members of party aims at the bad
eminence of the blackguard, the Demo
Gratis are willing to leave to those the
glory in its use. Men of all parties
may come to this meeting with the full
assurance that their right to their ewn
opinions will be questioned neither by
peakers nor audience.
Year: 1868

YOUTHFUL INEXPERIENCE.-ltw would
be amusing, wers it not so mournful, to
listen to the callow theories of yoar G
men. What resolutions are they not
going to effect when they appear in the
arena of public life 1t is so easy to
sit in ones chair, and move the nation


Alas! when they really appear in the
practical field, wheresoever that may
be, what infants they find themselves
Year: 1868

The New York Tribune says butter
factories are rapidly increasing in
number in the State of New York
Water power generally determines
the site, though steam is generally
preferred to water power. A cold
and cOpious spring is well nigh indis-
pensable. A large..reservoir- like Gel
lar is dug in the ground and tightly
walled with planks. Broad platforms
extend into this, floating on two or
three feet of water, constantly renew
ed from the spring. In the reservoir
deer. pals or cans are set and filled
three fourthis full of milk = they
sinking and floating in like depth
Of water. The milk remains here
twenty-fou to thirty.six hours, when
the cream is taken OF and churned
by sseam or -water-power-six to
twenty-four churns being operated at
once, with no draft on human mus
Gle. The butter thus made Is of such
uniform and sperior quality as to
bring from five to ten cents per pound
more than fair farm dairies will com
mand. The Tribune estimates that
the dairy product of the State will be
increased at least one-fourth by the
general introduction Of these iacto
rles.
Year: 1868

ed by the judges Of the election when
the person challenged has no visible
admixture of African blood, and any
person, challenging an elector in bad
faith, or when there is no probable
cause for such challenge on account
Of a visible admixture of African
blood shall, on conviction thereof, be
imprisoned in the county jail, not
more than six months nor less than
one month, and shall also be liable to
a civil action for q penalty, in the
sum of $500, which action may be
brought against him ty the person
80 challenged. in any court where
the process can be served upon him.


Sec. 13. All prosecutions under
the provisions Of this act shall be by
indictment before the court of com
mon pleas in the county where the
offense WAS committed; and all pen
alties recovered under this act shall
shall be paid one-half to the party in
whose name the suit Is brought,
and the other half into the county
treasury when the suit is determined, j.,
for the benefit Of the common school
fund. 4Fe .E


SEC. IA. This act shall be given
specially IN charge to the grand jury
at each term of the court of common
pleas by the presiding Judge thereof,
and shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
Year: 1868

LOVE AND Observation-Disclosures was
received in this city last night Of recent
distressing occurrence in the county Of
New Kent. The unfortunate victim of
the occurrence, our informant states, was
a young man Of the best family and good
attainments, who served his country GAL
lantly as q private soldier on aNhundred
battle-felds during the late war. He was
fne-looking, brave, generous, exceedingly
popular with his associates, and an orna-
ment to the circle in whichhe moved. In the
winter of 1864 he was severely wounded,
and returned to his home on sick furlough.
Before his strength was regained, and
while he was still limping upon crutches,
he met lovely girl whom he had known
and admired from early youth. Frequent
communication with her served to increase
that admiration, and ere his furlough had
expired the soldier had surrendered to
the lady's attractions and proffered her his
hand and heart. Unfortunately, with all
his prepossessing features, his efforts to
win the lady's affection were not success
full. His suit was rejected with 8 degree
of positiveness that precluded all idea of
a renewal. He returned to the army.
His place in the ranks was again filled, and
with the disappointment buried deep in
his heart he fought gallantly, until Lee
surrendered to the victorious Grant.


The army was disbanded; he was no
longer soldier, but he did not return to
the neighborhood in which resided the
lady who had gained his love. In Balti-
more and in city Of the far West, i'm
mersed in business and the gaities of
fashionable life, he sought to drown the re-
membrance of the past.


There was long struggle. Love con-
uuered. About three weeks ago he re-
turned to the home Of his boyhood, but for
a time avoided the society of the woman
whom he loved; at length ne met her (;
again was his love declared, and again
was his suit rejected. Naturally of SEN
sitiye disposition, he seemed to be utterly
Frustrated by the blow now received, and
in the extremity of despair resolved to put
an end to his life.


On Friday night he went to a large party
at Windsor Shades, enjoyed himself very
much, and remained with his host all night.
Before retiring he took about two ounces
of laudanum, procured on the representa-.
tion that it was for his sister. In the
morning he died.


By special request of our informant we
suppress the name of the unfortunate
young man, as well as those of the parties
conyersant with the facts in the case.
Year: 1868

j


One of those fearful and suddea acci
dents that at times happen in all COM
munities and startle them with their
dreadfuiness took place yesterday morn.
ing at half-past eleven o'clock, at the saw
mill of Z. 7. Ross, on Ohio Levee, and
which resulted in the sudden death of a
German named VIM. Butner, by his body
being literally sawed in two. The facts
are briefly as follows:


As Mr.. Butner and another man we're
handling a piece of timber, il slipped
from the other mans grasp and struck
Butner in the breast with such force as
to knock him backwards upon two circu.
lar saws, one above the other, and which
were running at the rate of four hundred
revolutions minute. His body was in.
stantly cut in two, in a slanting direction,
reaching from the left shoulder, from
which it severed the arm, down to the
navel. The right foot was also severed
from the leg. The upper portion of his
body fell into pit in which the sawdust
was generally caught. So sudden was
the accident, that persons in the vicinity
of the saw could hardly realize the fact
that the man who had stood before them
but few seconds before, with life and
vivacity, was corpse, his body separated
and bleeding before them. Death was so
sudden that he was not even heard to
utter grosn.


His remains were gathered together,
and an inquest held over them. Verdict,
occidental death
Year: 1868




BELL PLANTATION, CARROLL PARISH. LA.,l


September o, 1858. !


Knowing that you are at all times
anxious to gain Information in regard to
the cotton crop, / take pleasure in laying
before you the number Of acres planted
in this parish, which can be relied on as
correct. On what is known as "river
places" there is in cultivation about
$4,000 acres; the "hil crop" about 5000
acres-which are outside figures This
gives us $4,000 acres of cotton in the
parish. Now the question Of yield is
more difficult to get at, but it is safe to
say that not more than half bale to the
acre will be made, say 5000 bales, or one
tenth of what was produced prior to the
war; Many large plantations off the river
are now forests of cottonwood, and many
plantations on the river have also grown
up in woods. Thousands and tens OF
thousands of acres Of the best land in the
world has returned to its ancient
grandeur, and the vast forests that now
present themselves ION land once under
cultivatiop) are strong proofs of howrap:
idly the South is being reconstructed
Madison parish will not produce any
more cotton than this parish. Previous
to the war they produced about the same
number of bales, say together 10000
bales; this season about onetenth, or
$4,000 bales.


The worm has been doing considerable
damage. On many places the crop will
not average q quarter of bale others
will make bale. But we can safely say
that the crop in Carroll and Madison
will not average over half a bale to the
acre.


The corn crop, though the fact has
been concealed, will fall short of an
average yield in this and adjoining
psrisbes-searcely enough made to last
until June, which will be seriously felt
But the price of cotton is about double
what any of the planters expected to get
when they planted Consequently the
amount they get for say halt crop will
be equivalent to full crop. This
counter balance, if realized, will make
things comfortable.


This country is getting into condi-
tion TO recuperate. If the national legis-
lation weuld lend any encouragement,
or if the "powers that be" would let
these States regulate to some extent
their own affairs, there would be no diff.
6culty in obtaining capital and labor to
develop their resources. But the gentle
men in charge of the Freedmen's Bureau
convince the poor negro that it is against
his interest to elect men who are in
favor of building and keeping in repair
the evees, as the land will be theirs if
they are permitted to remain down until
the country is so ruined that the whites
will have to abandon it. This is their
doctrine, and one reason why there is no
confidence felt in the prosperity of the
South under the present rule. l am
occupying too much of your valuable
space, and will close with the hope that
the reins of government may get into the
hands of Seymour and Blair, when this
country will blossom like the rose"


w. A. G..
Year: 1868

ANCIENT CoINs.-A gentleman who for several
years had resided in the suburbs Of this city had
ceeded in gathering quite collection ofancent coins
About year ago he moved into town, and placing
his treasure In box deposited them In closet. Not
long since he had occasion to 90 to his coin box and
very much to mis- surprise found 1t empty. Upon APP
pealng to his wife for explanation he learned that
she mot knowing their value) had been cultivating
her taste for music by bestowing them literally upon
organ grinders.-BoStOn Traveller.
Year: 1868

CAUGHT IN THE ACT.-At an auction
sale at T. D. Neal's Saturday morning q
negro boy was caught in the act of pick
ing gentleman's pocket. The little rogue
was handed over to policeman Gilman,
and will have hearing this morning.
Year: 1868

CASES FOR THE HUMANE.-We are in
formed that there are q number Of cases of
destitution reported in the box of the
Young Mems Christian Association, Those
who take an active interest in the relief Of
distress can find a field for operations by
calling at once at the rooms of the Asso-
niafinn
Year: 1868

TRAIN DELAYED.-The southern train
by the Petersburg route was delayed for
several hours yesterday. This was caused
by! the running off of a freight train on the
Weldon road, which so blocked the track
that the passenger train could not pass.
Year: 1868

The patentees are humble mechanics Of
our city, and we hope they will meet with
the full success they justly deserve in the
manufacture and sale Of the machine.
They are willing to sell State or county
rights to parties wishing to buy. ~ 80
Year: 1868

You have not been content then IN
your two previous Reconstruction
acts, in so arranging eight millions OF
Southern white men as to enable four
millions of negroes there to govern
them but here in such constitutions
as that of Alabama, you are cheating
' our own white Radicals, and subject
ing them to irrecoverable negro do.
minion. Sir, the object of all your
three bills, their real intent and mean
ing, is for all time, so to organize this
government that four millions Of ne.
groes in the Southern States shall
hold a balance of power in the whole
United States there, enslaying eight
millions OF white people, to counter
act the politically divided voting pop
ulation of the twenty-four millions OF
the North, and thus to govern the
whole.


l. This, or is II Not. white Mans Cow


eInmentl


Ny objection to this bill rises far
higher than any mere details it is to
the whole principle throughout from
beginning TO end Ny theory, my
principle, and | believe, the principle
of the Democratic party, is one before
which all other issues-tariff's cur
rency, taxes, armies, navies, all mere
questions of the hour-dwindle into
comparative iusignifcance. They are
but passing questions, which live to-
day and die tomorrow. The only
real living issue towers above all these
and that is, Is this, or is it not, a
white mans Government


You have deliberately framed a bill
to overthrow this white mans gov
eminent of our Fathers, and to erect
an African government in its stead
and it is because you have done this
that ] resist and protest against it,
again and again, and from the begin
ming to the end.


The Negro is not the Equal Of the white


Man.


The negro is not the equal of the
white man, much less his master, as
your Bill makes him, and this | can
demonstrate anatomically, physiologi-
cally, and psych0logically too, if neces-
sary. Volumes Of scientific authority
establish the fact; might "Pile Pelion
on Ossa" TO demonstrate tiff this
were a hall of Science, for such dis
cussions, or, if there were time for
such discussions here. All that 1 have
opportunity to do here, is in the fewcst
words possible to set forth scientific
facts The negro man differs more
from the white man than II white man
from a white woman, and the differ
once is essential, organic, throughout,
from the crown of his head to the
very sole of the feet. The negro is a
different creature, with a different
brain and different structural organi-
zation and in every respect inferior to
the white governing man.


The Hair or Wool Of the Negro.


The very hair which crowns his
head is not hair but il is wool. wool,
and wool only. Laughter.) He who
will take the trouble TO examine it
through the microscope, micrometer
and mierotome will see that its struo-
ture is that of wool and not of hair,
The hair Of a white man is cylindrical
the section under the microscope APP
pears perfectly circular, and provided
with medullary canal, while the wool
of the nvgro is hattcned, 50 that its
Year: 1868

DOA H RDIGG-ELE6ANTLYF FURNISHED APART
ID with excellent board and Of the
parlor The situation Of the most desirable In the city
Apply at LAG st. Joseph street


EIRST CLASS BOARDING-ONE OR TWO
Rentee families who desire comfortable home aud cd
living in speassnt part Of the city mi h be suited appi
cation the Of Camp and Robin opposite
Coliseum Square The house has large. well furnished
and is surrounded By exensve grounds. The street
pass the door.
Year: 1868

The Ohio Senate has passed the bill
distranchising soldiers in the Dayton Asy-
lum, by strict party vote.


The Assembly has since contemplated
the outrage, says the Chicago Tribune
The Dayton Asylum is home where
those of the Ohio soldiers of the late war
who were so crippled by the loss of limbs
or otherwise, as to be unable to labor,
and who are without friends able to sup
port them are provided for and maintain
ed There is not one In ten of these
men whose bodies have been torn and
mangled by rebel shot and shell who
votes the so-called Democratic ticket ::
consequently the Democratic Legislature
of Ohio remorselessly strike the bruised
and battered vetrans from the list OF
voters. Any number of kentucians
W ho served duringthe war in the Confed
crate army and who may have lived one
year in Ohio, are authorized to go to the
polls and vote but the Union soldiers
who have lost their legs, their arms, or
were otherwise seriously injured on the
battlefield for their country, are branded
by the Democratic Legislature of Ohio
as unfit for political equality with the ex-
Confederate guerilllas and assassins who
have drifted into the states since the war
Let 1t be remembered that there is NO
! pretext about it no white" IN this case.
Year: 1868

There is some prospect of Andrew
Johnson's S acquittal Of the charges which
rest against him. Well, what then? Is
the country gone to eternal smash on that
account? Not any. The American people
of all parties, no matter what they may
say, will believe the man guilty, and the
mere fact that he may have entrenched
himself behind technicalities so as to bid
defiance to the laws of the land will not
convince them but that johnson has
merely escaped punishment as thousands
of other criminals have OF course ev-
cry man who desires to see peace and qui
ct will regret to have this blatant dema-
gogue escape his well merited punishment
yet if those congressman who are best
posted in matters of law say that there
are no legal grounds for conviction we
must acquiesce in their decision and bear
the infiction of bad man for another
year, when with the blessings of kind Pro
violence we will have one in the position
who is capable, and willing to do as the
laws and the people say.
Year: 1868

MODERN METHODIsTs.-There are
thousands of Methodist men and wo-
men in the far West who have the
same primitive ideas Of Christian
duties and Christian manners as had
their grandfathers and grandmothers
in the East, thirty years ago.


What would our back woods sisters
say to the worldly flowers which they
would see on the bonnets Of their sis
ters in New York?


What would their worthy deacons
say, who sing through their noses
and piouSly put out everybody else,
to enter a Methodist church in New
York and listen to a faultlessly &C
curate quartette They would be
stared at and frowned upon if they
attempted to join the anthem.


Above all, what would our hard
working, iron faced brazen throated
Methodist parson Of the pioneer dis
trictS say, what would he think, to
hear the favorite airs of the "Grand
Duchess" played upon the organ Of
theMethodist church on Fourth avenue
as they were yesterday afternoon
At a wedding, it is true-bnt then
the French opera and Methodist
church


Sturdy Christianity ha s always
thrived and grown strong, when op-
position, tyranny, and persecution
stood before it. The devil is fertile
in resources, however. Luxury has
often done what persecution could
not do.
Year: 1868

COULDN'T GET THE RIGHT FLOP
La the year 1843, during the Miller
ite excitement in the usual quiet town
of Durham, old "Aunt Sally H."
who would weigh nigh on to two
hundred pound,'' ego up" and one
evening in meeting, in the midst of
a warm season of exhortation, she
arose and said:


"Oh, brethren and sisters, bless the
Lord, I'll soon get away from this
wicked world; I'm going to meet the
Lord in a few days. My faith is pow
erful strong. Oh, yes, powerful strong
it is. So strong" continued the old
lady, extending her arms and motion
ing them like goose on the wing,
"that it does seem as if | could fly
right away now and meet the Lord in
4 the air."


The minister, who was as great an
enthusiast on ''golng up as the old
lady, encouraged her by excIaiming:


TRY, sister, try! Perhaps you can
fly, if your faith is only strong
enough"


"WelE, | can" she exclaimed, q
know | can, and | wiU."


She was standing near window,
: which was raised on account of the
oppressive heat-for it was Summer.
With her handkerchief in one hand
J and her fan in the other, she mounted
the seat, and thence to the top of the
pew, and gave leap into the air with
a flying motion of her arms, expect
ing to ascend heavenward. But the
law of gravitation was too much for
both her faith and the gravity of the
audience Down she came with an
enormous and not very angelic grunt,
shaking the whole house with the con-
cussion. ..s7.+


She arose, folded her wings, and
with great meekness sneaked back
into her seat, evidently disappointed.


The next evening some of the young
folks asked her:


"Aunt Sally, why didn't you fly last
night, when you tried so hard p


Il couldn't get the right flop" was
the meek and conclusive reply.