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Year: 1867

From the Memphis Commercial and Argus.


The beautiful and growing city Of Gre
NADIA, Mississippi suffered terrible loss by
fire on New Years morning. The flames
were first discovered in the rear part of the
Collins House, on the east corner OF the
public square They extended rapidly,
and soon the entire side Of the square was
in flames Not a house escaped, and but
few goods were saved. The best business
portion of the city lies in ashes. This is
supposed 10 be the work of an incendisry.


The lOss is variously estimated at from
S300,0 900 to S500,000 There was little or
no insurance on any of the property.


Grenada suffered severely by fire during
the war, but since has grown up again very
rapidly. Her citizens have worked faith
fully to build up the place and its busI-
ness, only TO see their best efforts fall 10
the ground We sympathize most sincere
" with them in their great loss.


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THE low figures at which crude oil Is
now selling at the wells, has induced some
of the companies in the oil regions of
Pennsylvania to stop work. The Titusyille
Herald says: The Ocean Oil Company,
owners Of the Stephenson Farm, at
Petroleum Center, on which there are
some twenty or thirty producing wells,
have shut down all their wells aud dis
charged all their hands, coming TO the
conclusion that the oil is worth more under
the ground than above it, at present prices.
The Anderson Oil Company, at Petroleum
Center, have decided to shut down unless
they can bring their employees down to
much lower figure on their rates for labor
than is now being paid This company is
one Of the largest in that section, having in
the neighborhood of twenty wells on the
McClintock farm. There are but two pro-
ducing wells on the Story farm at present,
and those are small ones.
Year: 1867

In Is not probable that Absalom was
Obliged to use any hair preparation TO force
his hair to grow TO such an extreme length
as il is said 20 have attained. In our day,
however people quite frequently find itnec-
essary to call scientific skill to Aid them in
this respect. Such will find their every
wish supplied in "Barrett's Vegetable Hair
Restorative
Year: 1867

VERY lSDrsrRicus.-rh That live and enter
prsng newspaper (D the Gazette. has been
amusing itself counting the number Of ems
VIC publish in our reading columns Una
ble to tell the truth. as usual il cunnugly
puts down the figures at much less than
they really are But that is characteristic
Of "thc enterprising journal," and we haze
no fault to find. by the way, neighhor. il
you have so much leisure, there is little
job we can give YOU to DO that will occupy
some Of your time Our boots need black
ing bad. What say you?
Year: 1867

THAr's RloHr.-'Squirs Dittoe has bough
fine lot on Perry street, above Fifteenth
At tho edge Of the old fair grounds In
the spring he contemplatss erecting thereon


. snug dwelling house for himself and


family.
Year: 1867

saTThe following simple rule has been
found, by the Montana Post, to be al
most infallible, and is cheerfully offered
for the benefit of the public:


We consult the records of the courts
If we discover that a lawsuit is or has
been connected with lode, we have
no hesitation in asserting that it is valu-
able property. We never heard of any
conflict about the ownership or discovery
of worthless claim.
Year: 1867

R@-The most astonishing sentence in
the English language, at least for its
great length, is probably the seventh
section of the British Foreign Enlistment
Act, which is composed of a single SEN
tence containing very nearly six hundred
words.
Year: 1867




AN UNBELIEvER.-A Salt Lake cor-
respondent of the Boston Advertiser
don't believe the railroads destined to
cross the Plains are all progressing as
fast as many are induced to believe
About the Central Pacific road, the
writer says:


"The credulons and INSCRIPTIONS pub.
lie at the East imagine that this road
will be completed within four or five
years at the outside. assert that it is
matter susceptible of mathematical
proof that at the present rate of progress
it will take at least ten years to complete
the railroad from the Missouri to the ST.
ezra Nevada; and futber, that there is
no prospect of the road being built any
faster than as it will pay its own expens-
es. At present an unusual amount of
energy is being displayed at each end of
the line, owing entirely to rival be-
tween different branches to see which can
first secure the Colorado traffic on the
east and the Nevada on the west"
Year: 1867

CONGRESS AND GENERAL SHERIDAN


1t may now be certainly said that Congress
will not assemble in July, unless the Presi.
dent may IN the meanwhile either remove
General Sheridan or evnce such purpose 40
unmstakabIy as that the impression shall se.
come general that it is his intention so to do
As in the ia &c of General Grants fiat denial
that he has disapproved Of General Sheridan.s
conduct in the discharge Of the duties of the
Military Governorship Of Louisiana, we do
not believe that the President contemplates
taking any such step, we regard the chance
that Congress will sit in July hardly equ ual to
one in q thousand.


The truth is, no functionary, civil or mill
tary. has discharged or is dischareing his du-
ties more to the salts faction of the American
people than General Sheridan. His dstrac.
tors-wIth the exception Of little squad OF
very radical Louisiana spectators, who find
it impossible to control his administration of
the States affairs to their personal advan-
tage-are all bitter rebels at heart, whether
resident north or south Of the Potomac They
are those who still struggle to remit the af.
fairs of the Southern States into the keeping
Of the personal and political influences that
favor retroaction throughout the South. So
far, they have made no headway whatever:
and it should be clear to all who will see, that
Congress does not design permitting them to
undo any portion OF its reconstruction work.
The removal of General Sheridan under ex.
sting circumstances, could not fail to be but
the signal tor immediate supplemental Con.
gressional action, whereby the policy adopted
by that efficient and distinguished officer in
Louisiana would be placed far beyond the
possibility of any interference from any quar-.
ter whatever.
Year: 1867

THE HARy1sT.-New wheat from the South
has made its appearance on the N. Y Corn
Exchange. The ripening OF the harvest ad.
yances northward At the rate Of twelve miles
. day. and in this vicinity the harvest will
commence early next week.
Year: 1867

ADVANTAGES OF HAVING WOMAN WITH
You'll you are going long journey in
regions where it is g first come first served,
the most desirable piece of baggage you can
take with you is not hat box nor blanket,
but woman. If you have none then marry
one, for you are not thoroughly equipped for
the road till you do. When dinner is ready
you follow in her blessed wake, and are
snugly seated beside her and exactly oppo
site the platter of chicken, before the hirsGte
crowd, womanless before Adam was before
he fell into deep sleep, are let in at all
There you are and there they are. You
twain-o one served and smiled on Look down
the table at the unhappy fellows, some of
them actually bottoming the chairs they oc.
cupy, and the arms and hands reaching in
every direction across the table Ike the ten
tacula of a gigantic polypus. When night
comes, and with border tavern, 1t is not
you that shifts uneasily from side to side on
the bar room floor. If there is any best bed
she gets it, and you share it. You follow her
into the best car she is first in the stage
coach, and you are too. More than that, a
woman keeps you upon yaur honor;" you
are pretty sure to behave all the way.
Year: 1867

Never buy cow of a dairyman, for if he
is good manager he will sell only mis- poor
animals.


To determine which are the best for keep
ing. try their milk separately, and weigh
their butter-for sometimes a COW may give
much milk and little butter, and rice rersa.


Cows should run dry six weeks before
calving-if milked closely toward calving
their calves will be poorer.


A COW newly come in should not drink
cold water in cold weather, but moderately
warm slop. Calves intended for raising
should be taken from the COW within few
days, and they will be less liable to suck
when old Feed them first with new milk
for time, then skim milk, taking care that
all the changes are gradual, by adding only
portion first and gradually little meal.
/ Calves we'll fed and taken care Of with
quart or two of meal daily in Winter, will
double the size at two years they would have
attained by common treatment


Heifers thus treated may come in at two
years old, and will be better than neglected
animals at three, and one year of feeding
saved


Hearty eaters are desirable for cows, and
they may usually be selected while calves
A dainty calf will be dainty COW.


Heifers should become accustomed to be
freely handled before calving, and drawing
the teats.


They will not then be difficult to milk
Begin gradually, and never startle them.


In milking cows, divide the time as near
ly as practicable between morning and eve
ming, especially at the time of early grass.
that the udder may not suffer.


Persons who milk should keep the nails
cut short-animals are sometimes hurt with
long nails. and are unjustly charged with
restlessness.


Od cows should be fatted at fifteen years.
The dairyman. therefore, who has fifteen
cows. should raise heifer calf every year to
supply the vacancy-if the herd is thirty
cows, he should raise two calves and so
forth.


Heifers dried up too early after calving
will always run dry about the same time in
after years-tberefore be careful to milk
closely the first year, until about six weeks
before calving.


Spring cows should come in while they
are yet fed on hay, and before they are turn
ed to grass, which will be more likely to
prevent caked bag and milk fever.-Annual
Register.
Year: 1867




Reindeer riding in Siberia is thus describ-
ed by one of the Telegraphic Expeditionary
Corps, engaged recently in exploring the
northwestern coast Of the Pacific:


"Governor Fulyhelm sent to the Tungusi
hundred versts to the northward to pro-
cure reindeer for Captain Mahood's expedi-
ton. These were ordered to Orelle Lake,
north of the Amoor. and to this point the
party proceeded, when all preparations were
completed. After some little difficulty they
found the Tungusi, who were waiting them
with twenty deer. After a little delay IN
arranging the loads, the expedition started,
each of the men riding deer, while twelve
of the animals were required to carry the
baggage and provisions. The saddle for a
reindeer is placed on the animals withers,
the back not being strong enough to sustain
the weight of man. The saddle is mere
pack, and has no stirrups, SO that 1t requires
constant care to retain ones balance-a
novice in this kind of travelling being sure to
get many tumbles before he learns to manage
his new beast of burden The deer is guided
by halter and a single line. One is re
ouired to exercise considerable dexterity to
mount one of these reindeer without the as
sstance of stirrups. A staff is always used
to assist one in mounting. The pack saddle
is placed on the shoulders of the animal, and
carries load of from seventy five to hun
dred pounds. A Tunguese rides one deer
and leads pack train of from four to doz-
en- animals, the halter of each deer being
fastened to the neck of the one that precedes
him.


Between the Amoor and Okhotsk there is
not nor has there ever been any kind OF road,
but the guides and travellers follow whatever
route they think proper, always keeping
their general course in view. The reindeer
goes through forests, over hills and along
wide stretches of prairie LAID. The rivers
are forded where shallow, and when too
deep for this, RATS are built for men and
baggage, while the deer are forced to swim
over. In Winter the ice affords secure
foothold, and from this reason travelling is
much better in the cold season than in the
Summer. Reindeer food grows on all parts
of the route, so that in any season it is only
necessary to turn them out at night and
they will be found we'll fed in the morning.
Year: 1867

A LARGE manufacturing company in Chi
cago employs a young lady only thirteen
years of age as paymaster. She has paid out
since last May quarter of a million dollars,
keeping the time sheets. pay roll and private
account book with and for each of three or
four hundred men employed.
Year: 1867

In the vast field Of human affections. says $
cotemporary, the old bachelor is the very scare
crow of happiness, who drives away the little
bird, of love that come TO steal away the little
hemlock seeds of loneliness and despair
Where is there a more pitiable object on this
earth than a man who has no amiable woman
interested in his welfare? How dismal does
his desolate room appear. when he comes home
.. night, weary and hungry; barren table.
aud lonely pillow, which looks like the
white urn Of every earthly enjoyment. See
the old bachelor in the dark afternoon Of life
when his heart is sinking 10 its sunderance -
Not solitary star Of memory CLEANS over his
opening grave No weeping wife 10 bend like
a comforting angel over his dying pillow and
wipe the death damp from his brow No fond
daughter 70 draw his chilly hand into the soft
pressure Of hers, and warm his icy blood with
the reviving fires Of availing affection No
manly boy 10 link his breaking name with the
Golden chain Of honorable society, and bind bis
history in the vast volumes Of the world he
is leaving forever. He has eaten ard drank,
and drank ard died, and earth is glad she's
got rid of him, for he had little else TO do than
cram his soul into the circumference Of si1-
pence and no human beirg, save his washer
woman. will breathe sigh at his funeral.
Year: 1867

Mr.. Bascom travelled two years in the
mountainous region of Kentucky. The
country was rough and the people general
ly poor. But the romantic wildness of the
country was congenial to his feelings, and
he enjoyed the rude hospitality of the sim
cere hearted toresters. Al-t-t-4. IL


He used to tell, with much apparent
pleasure, of dinner he enjoyed with par
ticular satisfaction, He was preaching on
one occasion in a cabin, which was at once
church and dwelling. The people were
listening with seriousness and deep atten-
tion to the truths of the gospel, when, in
the very midst of his sermon, his host, who
sat near the do6f, suddenly rose from his
seat, snatched the gun from its wooden
brackets upon which it lay against the
joist, went hastily out fired it off, and re-
turning, put the gun in iE place and quiet
]y seated himself to heaI the remainder OF
the sermon.


The whole affair had hardly consumed as
much time as it requires to read this ac-
count of it, and in a very few moments all
was going on as smoothly as if no interrupt
tion had occurred. After service was end
ed, Bascom inquired of the man the mean
ing of this strange conduct.


Sir" said he, 1--WE are entirely out OF
meat, and was perplexed to know what
we should give you for dinner, and iJ was
preventing me from enjoying the sermon,
| when the Good One sent flock of wild
turkeys this way; happened to see them,
took my gun and killed two at a shot my
mind felt easy, and 1 enjoyed the remain
der of the sermon with perfect satisfaction
A YOUNG son of retired merchant down
the river, whose parents reside in one of
those pripcely mansions on, the Hudson,
opposite the Palisades, took it into his head,
the other day, to make a kite. Rumaging
about the house in search of paper to make
it, his eyes accidentally fell upon number
of seven thirties, which had been carelessly
left in an unlocked desk. 'Twas but the
work of few moments to lay them out on
the kite sticks, and short time thereafter
seven -thirties took sudden rise, going
over the Palisades. Luckily they came
down safely, and have been converted. We
do not remember the time when Govern
ment securities were so high.-Poughkeep-
sic Eagle. D.
Year: 1867




House Joint resolution No. So: ReGuir-
ing a report from the Surgeon General Of
all operations in his department under the
militia organization, was adopted.


House Joint resolution No. 86 Appoint
ing a Joint special committee to iuquire
into the mode in which the several secg-
rites and different funds have been man
aged in the Office of the Comptroller, and
to inquire fully how all matters touching
the financial interest Of the State have
been managed in the several Offices Of the
State, with instructions TO report to the
Governor on or before the arst OF October
next. Amsndedso as to require the com
mitlee to report TO this General Assembly
before the close of its present session, and
adopted,


| House joint resolution No. 90 Re
questing the Adjntant General TO render
10 the General Assembly g report Of the
number OF militia called ont under act of
February 20, 1867, the character Of SER
vice performed, when and where dis
handed, etc. was adopted,
Year: 1867

HOPE FOR THE AFFLICTED.-In another part
of this paper will be found the adver tisement
of the celebrated Institute established by Dr.
&c. You've, in 1850. In this age of deceit
and charlatanism, it is boon 10 the suffering
to point out to them where they are sure of
obtaining the wished for relief and cure
Under the care of the skillful Doctor the
sick and troubled can divest themselves of
their burden of pain: lay aside their cross.
and secure health and happiness. Ifyou are
sick and in trouble, do not hesitate. Read
the advertisement and follow the advice
Do not forget the number or the manner of
directing your letters. Consultation Office,
536 Washington street, San Francisco.


febl6:1y.
Year: 1867

dEN FRUIT.-Governor Haupt presented
US with hens egg, this week. which knocks
the shell off anything we have seen in that
line for some time. 1t measured eight inches
in circumference and weighed three and a
half ounces. We are informed that the am
bilious biddy which produces these enormous
eggs, performs her duty regularly every day.
A couple of such chickens would support
family. We think her constitution must
soon give way under such desperate exertions
however
Year: 1867

WE direct the attention of our readers to
the speech of Eon. William Highly which we
publish this week. He takes the ground
that impartial suffrage is the basis upon
which reconstruction must be founded in or
der to be permanent and effective, and ad-
vances unanswerable arguments to sustain his
proposition. The speech is an able one and
will repay careful perusal. Those intense
ly patriotic editors, especially, who have seen
fit to oppose the denomination of Mr.. Highly
on the ground that he is not radical enough,
had better paste this speech up in some con-
venient place and refer to 1t occasionally
when any doubts of his 'radicalism" come
across their minds.
Year: 1867

We have spared no expense to make these
Mills what this portion of the State has long


emanded, with MACHINERY for CLEANS
ING WHEAT UNSURPASSED, and EVE
RYTHING CONNECTED WITH THE
MILL is IN PERFECT ORDER; we are
prepared to furnish the BEST QUALITIES
OF


Family and Bakers Extra Flour.
Year: 1867

That excellent Republican organ, the In
dianopolis Journal, draws the following
striking contrast between Tennessee and
Louisiana. VIII the Democratic papers
publish itY


In 1865 the State Government of Lou
isiana passed into the hands Of the Demo-
cratic party, and the city of New Orleans
was placed under the control of that noto-
rious Democrat and rebel, John T. Monroe.


After less than two years of Democratic
rule, the treasury of the State is bankrupt
and even the inmates of the deaf and dumb
and insane asylums must be turned adrift
or become a charge upon the United States.
The city Of New Orleans is in no better
condition. Her Democratic officials have
used up all the money they could lay their
hands on, besides issuing several millions Of
city script, a large portion of which is
found to be fraudulent, that is put in cirou-
lation for the private gain of the Mon
roeites, the city receiving nothing therefor


In 1865 the Union Republicans of Ten
nessee reconstructed their State Govern
ment which had been destroyed by the re-
bellion. The State was literally scanned
with the scars Of battle, and every square
mile Of its surface had felt the tramp Of con-
tending armies, and suffered the waste and
ravages of war. There was no State Trea-
sury accumulated wealth had been dissip-
ated in the fearful struggle through which
the State had passed, and production was
limited to the bare necessities of life but
undiscouraged by the difficulties before it,
the Republican State administration pro
ceeded to reconstruct the Government of
Tennessee upon principles in harmony with
the great events in which the new move
ment had its inception.


In advance of the constitutional amend
ment, it abolished slavery in that State, then
it swept from the statute book the barbarous
laws which had been framed in the era Of
Democratic rule, for the oppression Of the
free blacks; late, it conferred the elective
franchise upon colored men, and provided
for the establishment Of free schools for all
the children in the State. The Republican
Legislature Of Tennessee also ratified the
constitutional amendment proposed by Con-
gress to the seeded States as the basis of
restoration, and thereupon the Senators and
Representatives of that State were admitted
to seats in the National Congress.


The financial regeneration of Tennessee
has been no less remarkable than her poll
tical. Not only is the State administration
able to defray its expenses, but it has pro-
vided for promptly paying the interest upon
the State debt and tho credit of Tennessee
viii soon be as fair in the stock market as
that Of the most favored loyal States.


This contrast between Louisiana and
Tennessee shows the difference between Re
publican and Democratic rule in the South
The one leads to prosperity and Union, the
other to public bankruptcy, anarchy and
prolonged exclusion from participation in
the National GoverOment
Year: 1867

The Nashville Gasette gives 45 the whole
controversy in regard to the appointment
of officers of election, as follows:


We are puzzled to conceive how any
political capital can be made out of the af-
fair, as it now stands.


It never was the Imperative duty of the
County Court to appoint judges of election.
It was priuilege. In case they failed to
use their privilege, the Code made provision
for their selection by the Sherifs. And
now, in cases where the gubernatorial bully.
backed by q Conservative Committee, has
scared the County Courts from exercising
their privilege, that privilege devolves by
law on the Commissioners Of Registration.


And yet this same Conservative sheet is
enraged at the County Courts for not ex-
ercising an authority which it admits they
had no right to exercise
Year: 1867

II is very well for visitors from the North to
come here, and, because under the protection OF
bayonets they are permittedIo say what they please
TO 90 home and represent the condition OF THIS
place as peaceful law-abiding and toerant but re-
move the bayonets and the power which they rep
resent, and then let Republican Senator attempt
10 express his radical sentiments rostrum IN this
city. He would be likely to find himself IN the
Union as it was when Brooks committed his bru-
tai and dastardly assault on Senator Sumner, and
wben the venerable Mr.. Hoar came on legal and
pescefal mission and was expelled from South Car
oolins as a meddlesome intruder The fact IS the


ilsarv Sil has not justified the expectation Of its
trainers thew must at it again and do their work
over: this time we do hope in such manner that
the simplest cannot misunderstand nor the snbtlest
fnisrepresent