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Year: 1869




The gold market was again violently agitated, but
The fluctuations, while very frequent, were confined
to limit OF y per cent VIZ: from 133,s to 134x,
the transactions at the latter figure being small and
the quotations standing for q minute only. The
''bull" cques are making most determined effort
TO unload upon the street. and their desperation is
heightened by the natural and legitimate tendency
10 a lower preminm on account OF the approaching
cotton and produce exports. The season being
little behindhand they nave the advantage OF the
defermcnt, while the agitation In the foreign
money market keeps alive the fears OF the
''bears.n The stories concerning Napolcon's
health are turned to the best account, and the out
side public have been driven into utter confusion as
TO the real state OF affairs By piece OF good luck
the "buls'' also have the advantage of the heavy
Imports seven millions during the week. on the
.pearr side 1t ~ the impression that stout ress.
,snce with generous margin, will turn tho "buli'
Year: 1869

SATURDAY, August 2s-6 p. M.


The banking aud speculative community in Wall
street have given no better evidence Of their nan
ciering abilities than their Interpretation OF the
bank statement submitted this afternoon. The
figures came out quite closely upon the general ex-
pectation, and almost as prophesied in the begin
ming OF the week. 1t requires rare powers OF OBJ
servaon and sagacity to anticipate the character OF
such statement especially as the dow and counter
now or money In New York is by hundreds Of MIL
lions. The statement, while on the whole unfavora-
be- Ia not bad one for the time OF year.
In fact the shipments OF currency during the week
were light, and the decrease In legal tenders only
little over quarter Of million OF dollars. II Is
said that the crops OF the West about two weeks
Oehndhand, and hence the delay in the demand for
funds to market them. The cotton receipts this
week were also light The least fatterng item Is the
decrease of two and quarter millions in specie ac
counted for by the customs payments and by the
transfer OF gold on California account. The loans
have been contracted and three-quarter millions
and the deposits have fallen of three and quarter
millions. The following are the last two statements
Year: 1869

From the Davenport uowa) Gazette. June III


Yesterday mos ming the steamer Minnesota reached
this port and crossed over to Rock Island. having
Companies II and OF the Tenth United States In
fantry on board, who are en- route from Minnesota
for Texas. Among the soldiers young man
named Henry Robinson, who married half breed
woman while he was up in the Indian country
II Is said he not the happiest husband that
was especially he was unable to 'rhrow orr his
wife, as many soldier up in Minnesota had done
before him upon receiving orders for transfer south
ward. So, as the Minnesota lay at the levee Robin
ders near the stern OF the boat and pumped him.
Of ending his earthly troubles. His wife saw him
take the leap and screamed for help. Instantly
there was great commotion and excitement
on the steamboat and for long distance up
and down the levee. Deputy Sheriff Payne, Of Rock
Island. was standing on the sidewalk above the land
ing when The alarm was gwen. The Argus says he
Immediately ran down to the ferry boat, divested
himself OF hat, boots vest and coat and dashed into
the river Before he could reach the drowning
wretch however the latter had sunk and risen three
times and disappeared crowd directed Payne by
their cries, and reaching down, he clutched the
drowning man by the hair and dragged him to the
surface. The soldier grasped Payne by the left arm
Holding his arm out straight however, he swan
safely to the ferryb0at where he held on to pas
senger's leg uphOlding his burden until the yawl OF
the boat arrived and relieved him. The solder was
by this time insensble but upon being dragged into
the yawi recovered his consciousness and begged 10
he thrown in again, but his modest request was de-
ciined in the most unaccOmmOdating manner.
Year: 1869

Within the past two years several attempts have
been made to throw the from the tracks Of the
Erie Railway at points twelve to twenty miles west
OF Port Jervis The road here runs through Pike
county, Pennsylvania, wild and rugged country,
along the Delaware river. and is above all places,
Just the spot that would be selected for such
deed. The terrible accident at Carr's Rock
in April, 1s6s resulting in such wholesale
in the minds Of many OF our readers The popular
idea has been, and sill is that this slaughter was
caused by defective rail. From the fact that many
thieves were on the ground who were known not to
have been on the train. the great number OF dead
and wounded who were robbed, the subsequent find
ing OF certain articles in the hands Of suspected par
ties convinced at least man that the accident at
Carrs Rock was not the result Of o defective rail-
but deliberate attempt at murder for the pur-
pose Of piunder. Acting upon this theory,
and having placed at his disposal every
possible facility by the managers OF the road. the
matter has undergone a thorough investigation
under the direction OF one skilled IN the detection OF
crime. Night and day for ten months suspected
parties have been under the closest surveillance.
Twelve men have been engaged In this work. In the
meantime two similar attempts have been made,
but through the vigilance OF those having the matter
attempts. At last, on the I'd OF June sufficient
evidence having accumulated TO hope for
a conviction, the suspected man was arrested
ana confined in the county jail at Milford. Pike
county, Pa. After being confined fifteen days he
confessed his guilt. He Il now awaiting the action
OF the Grand jury which meets at Milford IN sep.
fember.
Year: 1869

\ meeting Of this Board was held yesterday.
President Bosworth IN the chair. IL having been
reported 10 the Board that member OF captain
speighrs Tweniy-ninth precinct command had
been detailed some two months ago to watch a
house OF questionable repute very near the Supern-
tendents residence and make reports, the Captain
was ordered to withdraw the guard from the resi-
dence. The following resolution was adopted:--


Resolved That the Superintendent require the captains
each precinct to the OF all pa.romen
during the preceding sixty days have been specially
detailed TO perform excise duties the period OF such de


tail assignment IN each instance, and whether by
OF such ssssnmcn. detail be has been excused from
duty, lot what period Of time in the Of each
ralro.n "a


No othe- business OF importance was transacted
Year: 1869

TIPHAM's HAIR GLOSS


~ AND CURLING FLUID
contains nothing INJURIOUS the hair akin
beautiful gloss prevents the falling of the hair and keeps
In curl


medicine and fancy goods rehouse No College place,
New YORK.
Year: 1869

A You've MINISTER went into the country
to preach. and observed during the discourse
a poor woman who seemed to he much affect
ed. After the service he resolved TO pay her
a visit. and see what were the impressions on
her mind. "Well said the woman, "I'll tell
you. About six years ago, me and my hus-
band noved to this place and all the property
we had was a donkey Husband, he died,
and me and poor donkey was left alone At
last donkey. he died; ; and to tell you the
truth, your voice put me much in mind Of
that dear old critter, that could ut help TAX
ing on about it,.
Year: 1869

We are gratiied to learn from Dr. Holden,
the active and leading spirit of the Important
enterprise. says the Stockton Gazette that the
prospects Tor the prosecution of the work to-
completion are more promising at the present
time than at any period since the suspension
OF the COPPER mines We spprehend that the
road would not have received the setback
that 1t did. by that circumstances, had the
fact been fully realized that the franchise is
one of the most valuable in the country. in
dependentlv of the copper or freight, which.
at one time was regarded as constituting the
chIet prospective business of the road. That
the TRANSFORMATION of ore will be material
source Of revenue to the road when completed
there can be no doubt; but though therc
should never be another ton Of ore taken out,
the general business of the line will he equal to
that of any other Of equal length in the State.
The undeveloped resources, agricultural,
mining, manu- featuring and miscellaneous, Of
the country through which the road will pass,
are scarcely to be surpassed. But, passing
over all others, the single item Of building
materials, which will be rendered easily and
chesply accessible to commerce by the road,
will furnish sufficient supplies for transporta-
tlon to constitute basis OF calculation of
business for the line. The inexhaustibls
quarries Of marble.and granite of TuolGmne
and Calaveras counties, with adequate rail-
way transportation to tidewater, will speedily
freight ships to all the ports, aud enter into
all the edifceS of all the cities of Christen-
dom, besides giving employment to hundreds
and thousands of our own people, and great
profit to the State.


Bnt. as we said, this is but one Of many
rich but dormant resources that will DO de-
veoped by the road, and from which the road
will receive in return extensive and profitable
business. We trust soon to see the people of
Stockton, and of San Joaquin county, fully
awake to the vital importance, to their in
diyidual and community Interests, of taking
active and efficient steps to aid, by all prac-
ticable means, the speedy completion Of this
and other great enterprises, upon which their
future wealth and prosperity so greatly de-
pend .s
Year: 1869

A Word ABOUT MILK.-The sub
Joined item is given for the bunefit of
such infants as are being brought up
on the bottle:


"Thcre is q microscope fungus al
ways found in milk after being expo
sed for fifteen or twenty hours to tho
air in summer, even before it tastos
the least sour. Some German physi-
clans think this fungus the cause of
disturbance Of digestion in children
fed On milk d.; and they say that these
often cease when precautions are ta-
ken, such as to give milk as fresh rs
possible, and to keep it in q bottle
completely filled and tightly: corked.
1t should also be kept at tempera-
ture as nearly as possible that Of the
milk as it comes from the cow"
Year: 1869

Good temper is an inestimable
blessing, both in the workshop and
out of it. If people thought more of
its value, they would be at more pains,
to secure it. 1t was saying of thu
great Addison, we think, that good
temper is worth five hundred year.
The Christian workman knows how
it is to be got. When not q natural
gift, it must be planted and watered
by God III the soil of regeneratcd
nature.
Year: 1869

Scientific men attribute the late Sc
we're summer and autumn weather,
the storms, floods and earthquakes
that have prevailed in various places,
to the influence of the sun, which they
assert, is in a highly agitated state
1t is also asserted by them that the body
Of magnetic light now shooting from
the sun in every direction will, by the
beginning of next year, have extended
far enough to exercise a material infu-
ence upon the earth, and then it is
said we may expect that phenomena
will be observable such as have not yet
come under the notice of the human
race,
Year: 1869

AGAINST TURNPIKEs.-At the late
election, the question of building turn
pixies was submitted to the people of
Athens County, and decided in the
negative by a large majority. Where
upon the Portsmouth Tribune hits the
"old fOgy" Athenians as follows:


They have a young volcano In
Athens cOunty-a strange hole in the
ground, the size of a stOve-pipe, from
which a strong current Of steam rushe5
at periodical intervals. As the people
of that county oppose the construction
of turnpikes, we suppose it is the devil
working himself up to the surface to
see what kind of country it is.
Year: 1869

An experienced business man tells
how to make money fast and honestly:
According to the character and extent
of your business, set aside a liberal per-
centage for advertising, and do not
hesitate. Keep yourself Increasingly
before the public; and it matters not
what business Of utility you may be
engaged in, for, if intelligendy and
industriOusly pursued, a fortune will
be the result,
Year: 1869

Some vandal boys in Cincinnati
stole the inside part from an organ
grinders machine sometime since, and
being deaf, the poor fellow ground
away as jolly as ever the next morn
ing, in blissful ignorance of what had
happened.
Year: 1869

An aged spinster was wont to con-
sole herself for past disappointments
by the following reflection. If she
had been married and had a baby and
the poor thing had crawlrd into the
oven and burnt itself to death, what
horrible thing that would have been!
Year: 1869

Apropos of Lord Byron's personal
unpopularity, a recent English maga-
zine writer says, with more truth
than most people will believe, that it
was his Lordship's manners, and not
his morals, that put him under the
ban. Thus: In the days of the
noble poet it was considered that man
could not be properly costumed un-
less half strangled in an enormous
stock. The custom originated
through the most finished gentlemen
in Europe, not being proud of his
neck, and 1t became so rigorous as to
ruin any man who refused to follow il.
There is only one known instance of
such hardihood. however, and that is
in the case of Lord Byron. It is
generally supposed that society set its
face against the poet because he was
supposed to be an immoral man, to
i'll treat his wife, and exhibit vicious
tendency IN his writings. It is an
egregious mistake. Society at the
time made pets of men who were far
worse than Byron was even supposed
to be, who got on no better with their
wives, and who set quite as vicious an
example in their lives as Byron was
alleged to set in his writings. Society
cut Byron because he rejected the
stock, and turned down his collar,
and that is the whole fact of the mat
ter. Had he worn a stock, he would
have been one of themselves, and
they would have forgiven him, as they
did other people"
Year: 1869

A theatrical manager ought to be a
very smart man. Tom Taylor, in his
recent essay, "Some Thoughts on the
English Stage" says


He ought to be able to second the
directions Of the author, or to replace
him, not only in guiding the business of
the stage, but in seeing that dialogue is
correctly given, that errors of emphasis,
faults Of pronunciation, violations of
manners and proprieties are checked
and set right; in a word, that the au
thor work is done justice to by the ac
tors. Rehearsals at present are, as rule,
slovenly and careless, insufficient in at
tention to the necessary business of the
play, while always cruelty sswasteful Of
time, harrassing and wearing to good
and attentive actors, though laxly indif-
ferent to the faults and blunders of bad
ones. In word, in this as in other
matters of theatrical government, there
is evidence of want Of respect alike for
the actors craft and the public require
ments. 1t is evident that the manager
has little sense of any but very low
kind of taste to be satisfied, or OF any
public opinion to be faced which is like
ly to be either exacting or outspoken. |
place the want Of such manager as |
have shadowed forth in the very front Of
the conditions of theatrical,improvement.
Many will think my hope that the want
may be supplied very visionary one. !"
Year: 1869

Infants in France are not generally
nursed by their own mothers, but are
farmed out to persons who make it a busi-
ness to collect young children aud bring
them up by hand. This practice, it is
asserted, results in great loss Of life
among the children and the deterioration
of the constitution of those who survive.
Hence, there has been formed in Paris
society for the protection Of infants,
the object of which is to encourage
mothers to nurse their own infants. At
the meeting of this society in Paris, re-
Gently, the President read paper on
" Nurses aud Nursing" proving from
history that the general neglect of moth
ers in this important item of their of
spring had invariably marked an epoch
of general deeadenee in public morality.


The society awards prizes for the most
careful country nurse and for the health
lest infant. Thus, a medal and sixty
dollars were awarded to two nurses who
had respectively reared twenty-seven and
eighteen infants The society has also
caused an important change in the law
of the registration of births. Hereto
fore the father was compelled to pre-
sent the child within two days of Its
birth before the Mayor of the district.
Now the father is allowed to give notice
of the birth of the child. after which no.
tice doctor pays domieihary visit,
and registers the necessary details with
out exposing the life of the newborn
child.
Year: 1869

Fanny Fern makes the following sharp
thrust at fashionable religion:


Our Catholic brethern have set US, at
least, one good example their churches
are not silent as the tomb on week-days.
Their worshippers do not do up all their
religion on Sunday It may be only
for few moments they stop in through
that open church door, on a weekday,
to kneeI and lay down burdens too heavy
else TO be borne. | like the custom.
Should rather say the reminder, and the
opportunity thus afforded them, and |
heartily wish that our Protestant
churches could thus be opened. If
rich christians object to the promiscuous
use Of their velvet cushions and gilded
prayer books, at least let The aisles and
the altar be free to those who need God
on the weekday; for the poor, the
tried, the tempted-for those who
shrink, in their shabby habiliments,
from the Sunday exhibition of fine
toilettes, and superfne christianity.
Were I a minister, and obliged to preach
TO pdnlerS anu dlamOnuS ana S1ClnS, on
Sunday, think | should have to ease
my heart in some such way as this to
make my pastoral life endurable, else
my Office would seem to me the most hal
low of all moekeries. The rich and
the poor meet together, and the Lord is
the maker of them all should be iu-
scribed outside my church door, had |
one. 1 could not preach to those
paniers and their owners. My tongue
would be paralyzed at the sight of those
kneeling distOrations of wOmanhOod,
bearing such a resemblance to organ
grinders monkeys. / am not sure that
l should not grow hysterical over 1t, and
laugh and cry at the same breath, in
stead Of preaching. can never tell
what vent my disgust would take; but |
am sure it must have some escape-valve.
You may say that such worsAippers
Heaven save the mark p need preaching.
to- tell you that women given over to
g the devil and his works" are past
praying for" having eyes, they see not,
having ears, they hear not. They are
ossiied -imperyious they are dead
sea apples, full of ashes.
Year: 1869




1t has been known for some time to
chemists, that wheu heated palladium IS
inserted into an atmosphere of Hydro
gen, from eight to nine hundred times It's
bulk Of the gas is absorbed, or slowed
away in the pores Of the metal. This
phenomenon was formerly called aeeIu-
sion, and was supposed to show merely
strong absOrptiye tendency of the metal
for the gas, The recent discoveries Of
Prof. Graham, of London show, howev-
er, that in all probability the union Is
to be regarded as a true alloy Of one
substance with the other, and that the
hydrogen is what &c has already been
suspected to be, metal in its chemical
relations. The density Of the palladium
when combined with the hydrogen is
reduced very considerable, and the mean
density of the hydrogen, which, as
metal, has now been called hydrogen
ium, is nearly two. Its tenaeity and
electrical eOnductibility are less than
those of palladium but its conducting
power, equal nearly to six, is neverthe-
less considerable, which Is thus an addi-
tional proof of its metallic nature The
hydrogenium is more magnetic than pal
ladium, and belongs, according to Prof.
Graham, to the same group Of metallic
substances as iron, zinc, cobalt, eromium
and manganese. It is Furthermore sug-
gested that oxygen equally with hydro
gen is only the volatized condition Of
metal, and that water is a true alloy Of
the two metals in definite proportion.
1t may therefore yet be possible to see
water reduced to a solid state otherwise
than by becoming frozen.
Year: 1869




The San francisco BuIze6n Of Janu-
airy 18th, says


A murder was perpetrated in this city
last night, which illustrates In a terrible
manner the Chinese practice of putting
female children to death when the par
ents become tired Of providing for them.
or are exasperated by their misconduct.
About four o'clock this morning, police
otheer Kelly was standing on Dupont
street, near Sacramento. when he OBJ
served Cf salman hurryiug along the
streets with sack on his shoulders.
Thinking he had committed some theft,
the otheer stopped him and asked him
what the sack contained The man re-
piled that it was filed with clothes.
Officer Kelly felt Of it, and said s. This
Is not a sack of clothes. Put It down. -
Upon this the fellow dropped the sack
on the sidewalk and started to run, but
the officer drew his pistol and ordered
him to stop or he would shoot The
man then slapped, and Kelly, on open
ing the sack, found the dead body Of a
female child Of apparently about one
year old On questioning the Chinaman
he was told that the parents of the dead
child lived on Sacramento street, and
that, having killed her little while be-
fore, they gave him the body to conceal.
Kelly took him to the house and found
the parents When asked about the
child and the reason for killing her,
they said she cried too much, they
couldn't sleep, and had purposely
smothered her in the bed-elothes. Kelly
thereupon took them into custody also,
and with them four women and four
men, inmates Of the house where the
murder was committed.