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Year: 1867

FOOLHARDINBss.- accident occurred re-
Gently in the London Geological Gardens,
which would have proved serious except for
the energetic interference of one of the keep
ers. A man about fifty years of age went
under the iron guard in front of the bear-pit,
adjoining the dens of the lions and tigers, and
began teasing brown bear. The result was
that Bruin caught the right arm of the man in
its jaws, after having first taken piece out of
the shoulder of his coat, and was beginning to
operate with his teeth, when a cry was raised,
and keeper ran to the spot, and by vigorously
hitting the animals jaws with a stick, caused
il to release it's victim.
Year: 1867

WASHINGTON, Oct. Is - Postmaster. General
Randall has just returned from the North.
While in Boston he made preliminary arrange
ments for procuring site for a Post Office in a
convenient business locality, its purchase de-
pending on good title to the ground selected


None of the plans for Post Office in the city
of New York have been entirely approved.
The general features, however, have been
agreed upon, and these will be taken from
several of the best plans that have been sub
mitte1.
Year: 1867

The Vote in PennsylvaAIa-The Demo-


Gratis Garry Eleven Congregational Dis


tricts.


While the absence of any excitement else
where than in Philadelphia was the cause of "a
very small vote being polled, nevertheless the
reaction was sufficiently marked to cause
loss to the radicals of five Congressional dis.
tricts now represented by the Republicans, and
to reduce the majorities in three or four dis
tricts to merely nominal numbers. 1t will be
observed that two Of the districts gained by the
Democrats are exceedingly close-one giving
only fifteen majority, and the other only one.
The following is the vote =
Year: 1867

The most significant feature about these dis
tricts is the revolution in the Tenth. This dis
member of Congress who brought in articles of
Impeachment against the President. As will be
seen, the Republican loss is 204l, giving the
Democrats majority OF l24 in the district.
Year: 1867

There is an upstart Of lieutenant in


command Of Company F, Of the Thirteenth
infantry, by the name Of LANrRY, now pos
sessing little brief authority at Fort
Sedgwick, who is cutting certain pranks
by way Of whipping men, acts which are
strictly forbidden, and acts for which the
said Lantry should be dismissed the SER
vice.


The first victim which LASTRY ordered to
be flogged was man who, under compul-
sion, sold whisky to soldiers. The second
victim was a soldier, who was ordered to be
stripped and then had laid upon his bare
back some twenty-five lashes, for some
trifling offence. Such man is disgrace
to the army, and the only wonder is that his
supe rior officers donot at oncecourt-martial
him and oust him from the service. Flog-
ging has been abolished In both the army
and navy of the United States, and this
lieutenant should be given TO understand
that he does these things in violation OF
law, and is therefore unfit to command in
the service Of the country.
Year: 1867

A Radical sprcad-eag|e orator Of New York
state wanted the wings Of bird to fly to every
town and county, to every village and hamlet
IN the broad land but he wilted, when
naughty boy in the crowd sang out t:-'sDry
up, you - old fool; you'd get shot for a
goose before you flew mile. ="
Year: 1867

The Prince of Wales is going in bad
company, if the following story, told by
q London letter writer. is true:


A matter which greatly disturbs the
good and loyal subjects of England IS
the intimacy between the Duke Of ST.
Albans aud the Prince Of Wales. The
Duke of St Adams is g young man
about the age Of the Prince; and he has
succeeded, in the course of his short but
eventful life, in getting up one Of the
most notorious regulations in Europe.
His character is so bad that, with very
high rank and great wealth, he is not
tolerated in the respectable aristocraiie
society Of London. He began his career
by getting into all sorts Of scrapes at
oxford, in which city be used to appear
with greater regularity at the police
court than at the College Chapel, and
Year: 1867

from which university he Was finally er-
PEELED in disgrace. Since then he has
been the hero Of irnumerable adventures
on the continent, scandalous and other
wise, is well know in every gambling
house, and brothel and police court in
Paris, aud is as accomplished william,
for young man, as you can Ind IN
many day.


At Oxford, one day, while he was yet
in his teens, three different young women
appeared in court against him with
charges Of seduction. Since then he
has matured in every species Of dissipa'
tien, and is as well known TO the London
police as any long fingered Jack from
Billingsgate. And this is the most init.
mate friend, companion and 'coniidant of
the heir TO the British throne They are
constantly seen together, often go arm
in arm together alone o'nights land
where they 90 to is hardly mystery.
ST. Albans stays by the week at MARI
boro' House, and the Prince Of Wales,
as regularly reciprocates by visiting the
Duke at his house; and they are, in
every way, hand and glove" Not
only this, the Duke Of St. Albans is the
intimate friend of the Princess, as we'll
as the Prince of Wales, and is often seen
riding with her alone in the parks. 1t
is naturally matter of uneasiness to
the English that 80 graceless a reprobate
should be so familiar with their future
Queen, who is quite too giddy now to
suit their staid tastes, and who is vastly
imprudent in her association with this
noble Duke. Thus we see the Prince OF
Wales and his fair wife going on in the
same path that George the Fourth, of
disgraceful memory, trod, and we may
look forward to a not very promising
reign when another tory and dissolute
king ascends the British throne.
Year: 1867

At masquerade in philadelphia recently,
a very comical and embarrassing incident
took place. A husband and wife having dis
cussed the matter, mutually agreed not to go.
On the morning of the day, husband inform
ed the wife that pressing business called him
to New York. When he left the house, how
ever, it was to prepare for the masquerade.
Wife also, concluded to attend the ball
On arriving, she detected her husband in
conversation. by his forgetting to disguise
his voice. Wife followed him then closely.
She finally heard him arrange with the falr
one to leave the house together. The time to
depart coming, the wife, by sudden flank
movement, supplanted the fair one, and her
self took the arm of her husband. In the
carriage she kept him at respectful distance,


while he proceeded to express his affection
for his ''adorable Laura OF several months


standing" The carriage finally stopped
| where directed. Husband and wife alight


and when in the room assigned, mutually


unmask. The blankness OF that husband


must be imagined. Of course, wife conclud


ed that she had no further need for such 9
l husband.
Year: 1867

WITH FoUR METALLIC QUALIFICATIONS, a man may be pretty sure of earthly suc- cess. These are GOLD in his pocket S11. YER in his tongue, BRASS in his face, and IRON in his heart

 But for a tonic appetizer, and as a gentle stimulant, there is reliable virtue in PLAN PATTON BITTERS. No article has ever been so popular or done so much good. Let all who have not already tried this great stomachic, at once test it's quality. We understand that the Druggists and Grocers of this section are selling vast quantities, and that scarcely a family is without 1t.
Year: 1867

THE MEANS should be raised for such an object as educating the orphans of our gallant soldiers and sailors within one month. Let all who are able respond, and it might be done in week. Let all who have no disposition for charity, but simply want pictures and want to purchase whe re they can be had for the least money, buy of the Washington Library Company oi Philadelphia, and more than enough might be realized in very short time. Read ad vertisement
Year: 1867

HELMBOLDS EXTRACT BUCHU and IMPROVED ROSE Wash cures secret and delicate disorders in all their stages, at little expense little change in diet, no inconvenience and no exposure. It IS pleasant III taste and odor immediate in its action, and free from all injurious properties.
Year: 1867

Now is the season for those huge black swarms of flies that so torment man and beast BUTCHERS

 LIGHTNING FLY-KILLER. will make a clean sweep of them--every sheet will kill quart. Beware of bogus limitations which some may say are 'just as good. There is nothing comparable with it.

 Sold Everywhere. Price Six Ceats: lb-4w
Year: 1867

whom the chains of bondage have Just


been lifted. If they be fit TO govern
great States, what means the assertion
that slavery was cursey Sir, these
men arc unfit TO rule, and yet you
would consign thrcc-fourths of your
fairest territory to their control.


i have discussed this proposition
with a view to present some OF the
arguments in opposition to your finely
drawn theory. But, for myself, / have
to say that ! believe, and shall vote
upon that belief, that this race is not
the equal of our own. that the govern
ment created by Washington, Jeffer-
son and Madison was placed in the
hands of white men, and that it should
continue in the hands, and under the
control, Of the white race. These are
my ideas, and for them / am willing
TO be judged. But, to come back to
the subject: Are you willing to reeog-
nlze this equality in the railroad car
If you are, then the next step is, Of
to recognize their equality
with you at the ballot-box. For both
these ideas we have a decided no.
Year: 1867

THE PRESERVATION OF FRUIT TREES.
The Farmers Club of the American
Institute, of New York, recently held
a meeting, at which a discussion took
place on the best method of destroying
curculio on fruit trees. One of the
members stated that if a hole was
bored in the body Of the tree and filed
with sulphur 1t would so infect the
tree that no insect or worm would
live upon it. Upon some doubt being
expressed as to its efficacy, he said
that Re bad tried the ,Femadg, ard
remarked that If this be a sure pre-
ventative, it was worth millions to the
country, and we need never lack n
supply Of fruit in the future.
Year: 1867

Here is the pithiest sermon ever
preached "Our ingress in life is naked
and bare our progress through life
is trouble and care; our egrcss out Of
il we do not know where; but, doing
well here, we shall do well there; l
could not tell more by preaching a
year"
Year: 1867

A short time ago, at school in
Newark, during lesson on the animal
kingdom, the teacher put the follow
ing question;


"Can any boy name to me nm ami
NAL of the order cdcntma-that is, a
front tooth toothless animal ?"


A boy whose face beamed with
pleasure at the prospect of a good
mark, replied, 81 can"


"Well, what is the animal p


any Grandmother
Year: 1867

An amusing story is told OF a cum
ming exhibitor at a recent agricultural
fair in Connecticut, who divided n
bushel of peaches, and entered ono
halt in his own name, and the o.aer
in the name of an influential man in
a noigaooring town. The big man
got the prize, and the other contrlbu-
tion, although of the same tree, was
not mentioned.
Year: 1867

Is as orderly and well-governed as any 9TH
er city of the same size in the nation
Then, what a commentary on mans capac


itY for self-government! The bill itself
implies, and its advocates boldly declare,
that the people of the Capital City of this
great State are incapable of choosing their
own municipal officers. And this bill is to
be put through this body under whip and
spur, just as soon as this negro suffrage
amendment shall be disposed of here
Whilst Senators are this night in this
Chamber urging the enfranchisement of
the negro. and telling us that the only pan
acea for all the political ills that the State
lis heir too, is to let the blacks vote, these
same gentlemen are meditating the disfran-
chisement of the white citizens of Colum-
bus, Toledo and Dayton, so far as
the election of their own municipal
officers is concerned. If these things are
not so, call on any Senator on this floor
ito contradict me. How any Senator or
Representative can take a solemn oath to
support the Constitution, and discharge the
duties of his Office according to law and the
best of his abilities, and then advocate such
measures, and reconcile such action with
his conscience as an honest man, is more
than can comprehend. r. fb.Jum %
But, Mr.. President, 1 still have confidence
in the intelligence and honesty of the peo-
h ple.T believe they will yet rise in their
might and hurl corruption from power,
and place men in Office who will discharge
their duties faithfully and honestly to
themselves, their country and their God.
Year: 1867

struck it against tree with force that
shivered the stock and bent the iron near
ly double then throwing it down, putting
his hands over his breast, and uttering the
most terrible howlings and shriekings Of
rage and pain, he hastily disappeared in
the dense jungle, leaving me to thank
heaven that | had so mraculously escaped
unharmed.


Mocha had been stunned, and his breast
badly lacerated but he was neither killed
nor mortally wounded; and dressing his
wounds as well as / could l got the poor
fellow upon his feet, and assisted him back
to the vessel, where our surgeons attend
ed to his case and soon restored him to
health. i did not forget he had
saved my life, and assure you / made
him proud and happy of the heroism he
had displayed in my behalf.


Whether the gorilla died of his wounds
or not, never know, and never felt the
least curiosity to go and see. Certain it
is, he took his skin away, and was only
too glad to see the last of him. He was
the first of his kind ever saw alive, and
with heavens permission, he will be the
last l shall ever look upon in his native
jungle.-Sunday Times.
Year: 1867

"All houses wherein men have lived and died


Are haunted housesp f9


And all houses wherein men live are
haunted houses,-haunted with memories
of the past; be they shadowy or sonny,
that haunt US still.


The mind itself is s'ore-house pleth-
oric with recollections of numberless little
deeds and acts which go TO make up the
busy past, and whose shadowy spectres we
could not Danish if we would, and We
would not if we could. These ghosts of
deeds help make US what we are. There
is no present save the incomprehensible
now, which links the mighty abyss of
the past to those manly resolves and noble
purposes, and that Heavenly Faith which
are all of the future we can embody in
ourselves.


But ghosts Of deeds yet in full armour
haunt US daily. A pleasant word, and
face beaming with love, or the laughing
eye Of merry school boy or girl, will
leave phantom Of smiles and happiness
around the heart all day long while, alas
discordant tones and passionate frowns-
with what fendish eyes their ghosts glare
upon us, making the apparition en.fold
more hideous than the real I! and these
fearful hunters work upon the fancy till
we long again for the jarring tones, to see
whether they indeed be 50 bad as their
frightful ghosts represent them to be. Ye
to whose keeping is entrusted the earthly
happiness Of mortals, whose looks and
tones radiate through your habitations
which are the abodes Of spectres, look to il
well that the ghosts of your deeds wear
smiles the whole live long day.


A bill posted on the walls of a coun-
try village, announces that lecture will
be delivered in the open air; and adds
that a collection will be taken up at the
door to defray expensesL
Year: 1867

TRIAL or FIRE ENGINEs.-T semi
annual inspection Of the Fire Department
will take place at o'clock to-day. The
squirting powers of the engines will bo
tested at the corner Of Byrd and Ninth
CIR
Year: 1867

Next Wednesday, June 5th, the Union
County Convention will assemble here,
and ere another number of the COURIER is
issued, tie question as to who will be our
county officers for the next two years will be
settled; therefore we deem it appropriate to
indulge in a few suggestions in relation to
this important matter.


In selecting candidates for the various
Offices, the delegates who represent the peo-
pie in Convention should sink all personal
preferences, and look solely to the merits and
qualifications of the men who seek to control
the machinery of our county government
No man should receive a nomination unless
possessed of the qualifications to properly
discharge the duties of the Office to which be
aspires, and is known to be fair and honora
BILE in all his transactions and business
affairs The man who is honest and upright
in his private dealings will be the same in
his official transactions. Competency and
honesty are essential requisites in all public
officers. In addition to these qualifications,
another important and essential consideration
presents ITSELF The Union party of the
county cannot afford to support any
man for office who is not known and recog
nized as hearty and determined supporter
of its principles, and unalterably in favor Of
preserving the unity of the organization
Delegates should bear in mind the fact that
every wavering or doubtful Unionist is a
probable recruit for the Copperheads, and
should refrain from supporting such charac
ters in the Convention. Unreliable men are
not wanted as standard bearers in the Union
ranks of loyal Shasta. Let it be understood
that none but the true blue can carry her
unsullied Union flag in the approaching
campaign.


Every candidate who submits his name to
the Convention will be in honor bound to
support its nominees, no matter who are
successful. Somebody is destined to defeat,
but no unsuccessful candidate should so far
forget his manhood as to violate his pledges,
bolt the organization and run independent
Any man or set of men who would do SO
would merit eternal infamy and meet with
certain defeat. Therefore, let every candi-
date make up his mind in advance to submit
to the decision of the Convention and sup
port its nominees at all hazards.


10 conclusion, we would earnestly recon
mend that all matters and proceedings cal
culated to breed discord, or produce wrang-
ling in the Convention, be eschewed and
discouraged, as harmony is very important
essential to perfect and complete success
With harmonious Convention and Judi
ciously selected ticket, the Union party will
sweep the county, and completely discourage
and crush out the reviving hopes of the
Copperheads
Year: 1867

New CLAINs.-Several miners from South
Fork recently set to work and sunk a shaft
in the large fiat gulch between Piety Hill
and Conger's house. At depth of twenty
feet they struck layer of blue gravel, three
feet in thickness, which prospects exceedingly
rich. Old miners about Piety Hill assert
that the new discovery prospects as we'll as
the ground thereabouts did from which for
tunes were realized in early days Quite IN
excitement has sprung up in the neighbor-
hood in consequences of this discovery.
Year: 1867

SPEcINEs.-Wyatt L Spaulding started in
to open claim on Rock Creek, last week,
and the first day one of them picked up a.
nugget weighing forty dollars We under
stand the claim is paying handsomely, and
pieces weighing several dollars are found in
the sluices daily.
Year: 1867

PANTHER KILLED.-Last week, while Mr..
Smith, of South Cow Creek, was walking out
near bis house, his dogs chased a panther out
of a thicket close by. The animal ran a
short distance and took refuge in large pine
tree. Smith sent his boy for gun and shot
the rarmiat, which, when stretched out.
measured over nine feet from tip to tin.
Year: 1867

HOWE AcAIN.-Deputy Sheriff Vail, who
went below to deliver All Kahn to the State
Prison authorities, returned by Wednesdays
stage. We are satisfied Mr. Vail reflected
no discredit on our county as its representa-
tive below, and would like to see some one
of the successful candidates give him posi-
ton in a capacity where his merits and supe
rior qualifications could be made manifest
Year: 1867

SEND THEN IN.-The County Central
Committee request the election Supervisors
in each precinct to forward the list of voters
at the primary election to the Chairman of
the Committee, at the earliest opportunity.
Don't neglect this, gentlemen.
Year: 1867

REoIsrERED.-Up TO the present time 1884
names have been enrolled On the Great Reg.
lister of the county. 1t is thought by those
who claim to be posted that the total regis
tered vote Of the county will not exceed
1900.
Year: 1867

would put a tax of two and half cents pound
on cotton, when not one mt Is put on the corn
and grain raised in Ohio, Indiana, and otner
Western States. l will vote for no party that
will perpetrate such an Indignity. Therefore
when we are reconstructed / hope that our rep
resentative will go TO Washington and declare
allegiance TO that party which will do us Justice,
and that, in my judgment, is the policy Tor South
Carolina to pursue in this emergency.


General Sickles, in response TO compnmen'
tary toast, said that although he was not pre-
pared to promise what he would do ne could
at least tell them some of the things that he
could not do. For instance, he did not mean to
deprive himself of the cooperation and counsel
of his old friend, Governor Orr, nor did he wish
State unless his duty required 1t. He alluded
in encouraging terms to the subject Of negro
suffrage, which, although it might be bitter
pill for the Southern people now, would, he
believed, in the end prove blessing in disguise.
The Generals speech was received with much
applause.
Year: 1867

We publish herewith an appeal, most influen-
TALLY signed TO they voters of Kansas, urging them


to support the pending Constitutional Amend
ment whereby the Right of Suffrage isextended
to Women under like conditions with men.
The gravity combined with the comparative
novelty of the proposition should secure 1t the
most candid and thoughtful consideration.


We hold fast to the cardinal doctrine of our
fathers Declaration of Independence-tlat
governments derive their just powers from
the consent of the governed" If, therefore,
the women of Kansas, or of any other State,
desire, as a class to he invested with the Right


of Suffrage, we hold it their clear right to be.
We do not hold, and cannot admit, that small


minority of the sex, however earnest and able,
have any such right
Ii is plain that the experiment OF Female
Suffrage is to he tried and, while we regard
it with distrust. we are quite willing to see 1t
pioneered by Kansas. She is a young State,
and has had memorable history wherein her
women have horne an honorable part. She is
preponderantly agricultural with but one city
of any size, and very few of her women are
other than pure and intelligent. They have
already been authorized to vote on the ques-
ton of Liquor License, and in the choice OF
School Officers, and, We are assured, with de-
cidedly good results. IT, then, majority OF
them really desire to vote, we, If we lived III
Kansas, should vote to give them the oppor-
tunity. Upon full and fair trial, we believe
they would conclude that the Right of Suffrage
for Woman was on the whole, rather plague
than profit, and vote to resign it into the
hands of their husbands and fathers. We
think so, because We now so seldom hnd
women blowing, or teaming, or moving with
machincs), though there is no other obstacle to
their 80 doing than their own sense OF fitness


and though some women, under peculiar CIR
cumstances, Iaudably do all these things. We
decidedly object to having ten women i'll every
hundred compel the other ninety to vote, or
allow the ten to carry elections against the
Judgment of the ninety; but, if the great body
of the women of Kansas wish to vote we
counsel the men to accord them the oppor-
tunity. Should the experiment work as we
apprehend, they will soon be glad to give it