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Year: 1868

The staple production Of the Island of Jer-
sey may now be said to be early pototoes
The land is manured to an extraordinary de-
gree with sea weed, stable manure, and
Peruvian guano, to force the potatoes for
ward. They are sent TO the London market
early, and thereby fetch 50 great price that
an acre of early potatoes is valued at e160,
about $500 gol1.
Year: 1868

The Territorial Enterprise of April 18th
gives the following account of a very remark
able mental phenomenon, exhibited in the
case of miner, who was injured by blow
upon the head:


Day before yesterday afternoon an accl-
dent occurred in the Hale Norcross mine,
by which Thomas Loomis, a miner, was
very seriously injured. lie was removing
some old timbers, and thoughtlessly knocked
out post while standing under the cap
which it supported. The moment the post
was removed down came the cap and
large mass of loose rock from the roof to the
breast, crushing him to the ground fearfuly
larcerating his scalp and badly bruising his
head. The cut in the scalp is some six
inches in length, but the most serious injury
is to the skull, which is probably fractured
lie was taken up in state of insensibility,
and so remained when we last heard from
him, about o'clock yesterday morning
He lies with his eyes tightly closed and
appears to have lost his hearing, as he
answers no questions asked him and never
opens his eyes to look at any one. What is
most singular about the case is the fact that
he talks almost necessarily, but at the same
time connectedly and sensibly, telling long
stories The moment persons of his ac-
quaintance come into his room he begins
talking about them-not to them. Without
seeing or hearing the person who enters the
room, by some sort of mesmeric sympathy he
knows who it is, and at once begins talking
about him. Ola young man who came into
the room, he said ~ am something of a ply
sician there is Mr.. -, | once prescribed
for him." and then went on and gave the
particulars. Another gentleman coming in to
the room, he said Mr.. -" men.
tiohing the name. is very good sort of
man, but he is down on me, believe He
once asked me to lend him $50, and thinks
didn't want to let hiG have it, when at the
same time | went off and got the money for
him, but couldn't find him to give it to him.
OF another man he said ''So-and so is a
jolly fellow" and then went on to tell about
their having drank half dozen hot whskies
together upon certain occasion, and then
he gave long account of the pranks of him
self and friend while under the influence of
their hot drinks. He seems to hear nothing.
and no questions or talk can turn him from
the thread of his stories At times he
speaks of his own condition, saying that he
Is weighed down by an immense load His
skull at the top OF his head appears to be
pressing down upon the brain, as when those
IN attendance press the sides of his head
between their hands it seems to afford him
great relief. B t the most singular feature
of his case is what we have related above,
hIs clairvoyance.
Year: 1868

G ONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


- you. You have tried every remedy but the
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to superceds
all similar preparations. it is not surprising you
should be reluctant to try something else after tho
many experiments you have made of trashy COM
pounds foisted the public rs certain cure but
Year: 1868

Another wonderful ingredient, of Spanish origin
imparting beauty to the complexion and brilliancy
to the mind, is yet unknown to the commerce of
the world, and we Withhold its name for the pres
ent.


With this receipt before the community, and
evidences of effects meeting them on all sdes the
success of DR.. DRAKE stands founded upon the
rock of truth. Almost every family has some
of suffering which the PLANTATION BITTERs
will alleviate and cure.
Year: 1868

and with one accord give it their unqualified appro-
batlon We now address ourselves to all who are
unacquainted with this the greatest Panacea of the
age, for the healing of all diseases of the Threat
and Lungs, assuring you that
Year: 1868

The OCEAN RIvEE.-Springs of not
water are common, but there is only
one hot river. and that runs through
the ocean. If 1t did not run regularly,
or its waters were to get cold, the green
island of Erin would change its nature
more than its name, and be a Green
land in title and barren one in fact,
ANY change, in truth, in the course or
character Of this warm water stream
would have so terrible a thermal inhu-
ence as to utterly defy prediction or
remedy of results. Il is, therefore,
with no little apprehension that think
ing men regard the announcement of
the fact that the current of the Gulf
Stream has nearly doubled its velocity.
The occurrence Of this phenomenon so
soon after the earthquake in the Gulf
Islands cannot but give rise to a sur
mise of some connections between the
manifestations. The immediate result
of increased force in the current has
been to augment the dangers of naVi-
CATION near the Florida Keys, even
steam vessels finding it difficult to
weather points easily passed privious
to the increased velocity of the stream.
This consequence Is of itself important,
but less alarming than the apprehen-
sion of further changes which may
have bearing on the interests of all
civilized humanity.
Year: 1868


The Round Table discusses the sub
iect of equality on our railways, and
let's drop the following, just to show
how exclusive we are in everything
else: We might keep up some dis
tinctions of caste at our homes I; our
wives might insist that Bridget should
receive her cousin in the kitchen, and
not entertain him in the drawing
room we were permitted to have a
dress-circle and even private boxes in
our theatres; and in the ehurchs there
were free seats"-sOmetimes very mas
ty, as other free things are-on which
the poor might sit to have the gospel
preached to them. But when business
or pleasure led as to the railway cars,
we babe farewell to these aristocratic
distinctions and demeaned ourselves
as behooYed Democrats who practised
what they preached.
Year: 1868

EVIL AND WANT.-The connection be-
tween the kingdom of God and our
daily bread is closer than is generally


believed. l am far from asserting that
z truly good man may not sometimes
get into great troubles without any
fault of his own, for God often puts his
people into the crucible, that like gold


they may come out of it all the purer.
But this l make bold to say, that where
a man has come SO low as to have
nothing to eat or drink, as a rule there
is something wrong in him. He is
either a lazy man or a drunkard, or
dishonest, or unmanageable, or some
thing else of that sort. There must be
some hidden evil within him which
causes him to succumb under the evil
of the day. Our Lord is not such q
shepherd as sends the sheep that fol-


low Him into a barren wilderness
where there is no food. 1t is a trife to
Him to open His hand and to literally
feed men and beasts. How much more
will He fill with food and joy the mouth
and the hearts of those whom He
knows as His servants, and friends, ,and
brethren, who labor not as men-pleas-
ers, but to please Him, their all in all
Year: 1868

The POSER OF THE HEART.-Let any
one, waiie sitting down, place the left
leg over the knee of the right one, and
permit It 20 hang freely, abandoning
all muscular control over 1t. Speedily
it may be observed to sway forward and
backward through a limited space at
regular intervals. Counting the num-
ber of these motions for any given time
they may be found to agree exactly
with the beatings of the pulse. Every
one knows that, at fires, when the wa
ter from the engine IS forced through
bent hose, and if the bend be sharp
one, considerable force Is necessary to
overcome the tendency. just so 1t Is
in the case of the human body. The
arteries are but a system of hose,
through which the blood is forced BY
the heart. When the leg IS bent, all
the arteries within 1t is bent too, and
every lime the heart contracts the
blood rushing through the arteries
tends to strengthen them and it IS the
effort which produces the motion of the
leg alluded to. Without such ocular
demonstration, it is difficult to conceive
the power exerted by that exquisite
mechanism, the normal pulsations of
which are never perceived by him
whose very life they are.
Year: 1868

The Springfield Advertiser is respou-
sible for the following story For many
months a young gentleman, well known
to the citizens of Springfield. paid his
attentions to a young lady who occu-
pied position in a neighboring town
several degrees more elevated socially
than his own. The youth being of good
personal appearance, and withal an ex-
cellent conversationalist, succeeded in
engaging the affections of the lady to
an extent that nothing could satisfy
except matrimony. The postoffce had
for some time done its duty, as post
offices always do in such matters, and
many were the long, and doubtless ten
der messages that passed between the
TWO, protected by the efficient care of
their dear Uncle from the prying eyes
of those who would have given some
thing nice" to have known what was
going on.


The lady knew that her "papa and
mamma" would never consent to the
union of two loving hearts, with her
parents mine of wealth lying between
them, and so she readily consented to
the youpg mans propositions to have
the thing done up ''on the sly" and
all unknown to the folks, while she
was on visit to some of her relatives
at Columbus. Her charmer called and
the thing was done. After brief hon
eymoon in the capitol city Of Ohio, she
returned to her home, but her husband
did not return with her.


From the time ofthe daughters arri-
val home the old people fancied they
could hear strange noises in the house.
Steps were often heard upon the stairs
in the lone still hours of night. Vari-
Gus articles of furniture moved myste-
Iiously about in the rooms above, and


the old gentleman finally came to the
conclusion that the house was haunt


ed, or that something was wrong. One


night, after all had retired, the ''pa-
rents" not only distinctly heard step:


upon the stairs, but voices and noises


on the landing place above. Armed


with hogse-pistol that had done goOC
service in pioneer times, the father lef
his bed and quietly approached tht
foot of the stairs, where he found, rest
ing upon the'lower step, a pair Of boots
At once he set up cry Of "theives
robbers and murder" that in a twink
ling brought every member of the


household to the scene-except h.


daughter.


All hands then proceeded eautiousl!


to the young lady's room, and not be
ing able to arouse her they broke open


the door Just in time to see a bottles
man dive through thew indow. The old
gentleman rushed to the opening. dis


charged his pistol, and the man drop
ed to the ground. "Great Heavens
you have killed my husband p exclaim
ed the daughter. falling back and faint


ing upon the bed. "Your husband,


cried all in a breath, and then a rush
, of the domestics was made for the YARD


below.


The young man was found upon the
the ground beneath the window
carried in to the house, and the ole


people, frantic with grief and fear
promised TO receive him to their hearts
if ne would only live. The doctor sooI
arrived, and having dressed a sigh
flesh wound upon his arm, pronounced
him in no danger. He has now recoT
cred and IS one of the happiest meI
within fifty miles Of Springfield.
Year: 1868

A Coon NIGHT KIss.-AlEays send
your little child to bed happy. What
ever cares may trouble your mind, give
the dear child a warm good night kiss
as it goes to its pillow. The memory
of this in the stormy years which may
be in store for the little one, will be
like Bethlehem's star tosthe bewilder-
ed shepherds, and yelling up in the
heart will rise the thought: my faith
er; my mother-loVed me ~ Lips
parched with fever viii become dewy
again at this thrill of useful memories.
Kiss your little child before it goes to
sleep.
Year: 1868

A CURE FOR EAR-ACHE--There IS
scarcely any ache to which children
are subject, so hard to bear and so diff
cult to cure as ear-ache. But here is a
remedy that never was known to fail.
Take bit of cotton batting, put upon
IT a pinch of black pepper gather 1t up
and tie, and dip into sweet oil, insert
in the ear. Pot flannel bsndage over
the head to keep it warm. It will give
immediate relief. -
Year: 1868

Henry Clay Dean closed fowery
sentence the other night in a New
Hampshire town, by asking any Re
publican in the audience to get up and
say how he felt. A venerable fqrmer
announced himself as member of that
party, and TO Deans question replied
thus: 81 don't exactly know, but it
pears as if I felt like sound egg in a
bushel of rotten ones" Dean did not
proceed with his catechism or his
speech.
Year: 1868

A quaint writer says: 81 have seen
women so delicate that they were
afraid to ride for fear of the horse run
ming away afraid to sail, for fear the
boat might upset; afraid to walk for
fear the dew might fall; but / never
saw one afraid to be married which IS
far more riskful than ell the Others
put together"
Year: 1868

A Louisville paper says the girls of
the Blue Grass region consider is u
breach of hospitality to refuse al offer
of marriage. It instances a case of a
young lady who was engaged to Fifty
officers, from Second Lieutenant ID
Brigadier, while Gilmore was in those
parts, and who finally married farmer.
Year: 1868

John Bright, in a recent speech on
Education SAID; believe the people
of the United States have offered 10
the world more valuable information
during the last forty years than all
Europe put together.
Year: 1868

On the second day of the present ses-
sion of Congress, Mr.. Ferry, one of the
Senators from Connecticut, asked and
obtained, by unanimous consent, leave
to bring in the following bill:


BE it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representative of the United States
of America in Congress assembled,
That all such parts of any act or acts of
Congress as forbid any citizen of the
United States to vote at any election,
by reason of any of the disabilities
mentioned in the third section of the
fourteenth article of amendment of the
Constitution of the United States, be,
and the same are hereby repealed.
Year: 1868




We clip the following paragraph from
the Nashville Banner:


We have it from good radical author
ity Cf such authority can ever be really
good,) that bill looking to the seces-
sion of East Tennessee has been pre-
pared, and will be presented in the
House at an carly day.


There may be such a movement in
contemplation, but we admonish our
friends in the direction of Middle and
West Tennessee that its success is pro-
blematical. While separation would
be good thing for some people, there
are insuperable objections to its con-
summation. Middle and West Tennes-
see might get along without the Eastern
Division, but we on this side the Cum
berland range can't afford to do without
those rich and fruitful regions. They
have proved valuable appendagcs since
the reorganization of the State govern
mcnt and we don't propose to dispense
with the geese that lay the golden eggs
yet awhile. Besides, the last game of
separation VIC invested in didn't nett us
more than hundred and twenty-five
cents to the dollar, and it will be late in
the afternoon before we favor or en-
bark in another enterprise of the kind.
When the proposition assumes a tangi-
bic shape, VIC shall spread such an array
ofarguments against it before the ten
thousand readers of the Posi- as will in
sure its postponement for one genera
tion at least, if not for all time to come.
Year: 1868

Some of the reasons why DR.. ROback's Blood
Pills should be kept in every family are,


Because! they can be employed in all cases
where a family physic" is required and are
perfectly safe in their administration at all
times.


Because! they act promptly in removing all
distractions from the bowels, alOrding imme'
date relief in collie or other pains.


Because they are Liver Pill, acting direct.
ly on the spleen and liver, removing the bile
and assisting digestion.


Because in taking them they do not inter
fere with the regular avOcation OF the patient,
or leave the bowels constipated.


Because they are made both with and with
out sugar coating, thus adapting them 10 the
use of every body.


Because they being purely vegetable are
perfectly harmless and can DO taken by emil
dren OF adults at all stages or periods of life.


Because! they are especially adapted to the
use of persons of sedentary habits, and to the
use of females about to become mothers.


Because! they are what their name indicates,
a Blood Pill, searching out diseases Of the blood,
leaving the system in the full vigOr OF health.


Because they are perfectly gentle in their
operation, causing no gripping and arc saler,
surer and every way better purgative pill than
has ever before been offered to the public.


Because when followed in their use by RO.
backs Stomach Bitters, they cure the very
worst cases of dyspepsia.


Because! they can be purchased at any drug
store at the extremely low price of twenty-five
cents per box.


Sold by all druggists everywhere.


nOvl6.lm
Year: 1868

WuITEwAsH FOR OUTSIDE WORK.
Take of good quick-lime half bushel,
slack in the usual manner and add one
pound common salt, half pound of
sulphate of zinc (whito yitriOl), and
one gallon of sweet milk. The salt and
the White vitriol should be dissolved
before they are added, when the whole
should be thoroughly mixed with sutfi-
cient water to give the proper consist
ency. The sooner the mixture is then
applied the better.


CHAPPED HANDS, ETC.-ln this season
of cold winds many are suffering from
ebspped hands, lips, and faces. The
following course will scarcely fail to
cnre, aud is almost certain to prevent
these Inconvenience. Wash the chap
ped surface with fine soap, and while n
the soap is on the hands place in the
nalm a tablespoonful of lndiaR meal
Before removing the soap, scrub the
hands thoroughly with the meal and
the soapsuds, then rinse the hands thor
Year: 1868

Reader we will suppose you martyr to dys'
pepsia If you are not, so much the better for
you. II you are, perhaps you may profit by
this paragraph. You have just finished your
dinner, VIC will say, and feel as if you had swal.
lowed lead, instead of wholesome food. You have
a sensation of tightness round the upper part of
the diaphragm, Us if some snake of the constric.
tor tribe held you in is embrace, and had kHotted
its coils oUcr tie pit Of your stomach. You feel
supremely miserable; and such is the penalty
which your complaint exacts after eCery meal.
What do Won desirei Ease. of course. AN eX-
emptiOn from the incubus that rObs you of all
enjoyment during the day, and disturbs your
rest at night. Take, them this piece OF infor.
nation: You suffer needlcSSly HOSTETTERS
STOMACH BIrTERS will as certainly cure
all your agonizing symptoms as the day on
which YOU read this article will be succeeded by
another. Perhaps you are incredulous but if
YOU have read the testimony of the eminent
citizens, in every walk of life, who have tested
the preparation and submitted the results of
their experience to the public through the press,
YOU ought at least to have sufficient faith to
make a trial of it in your own case. 1t is pure
vegetable tonic and alterativc,-He only medicine
IN The ,corld entirely adapted TO your complaint.
If YOU are in the habit of taking any alcoholic
excitant as palliative, abandon it, and try this
WHOLESOME MED!CATED STIMULANT. If il does
YOU no good, say so; but you will not do that for
it has never yet failed, in a single instance, to
cure dyspepsia, biliOusncss, and their varieus
cOmtGnts.
Year: 1868

oughly with soft tepid water until all
trace of the soap is removed, using o
little meal each time until the last,
which Will aid greatly in removing
the soap and dirt from the cracks
in the caticle. Finally, wipe the hands
very thoroughly and rinse them in
enough water to moisten their surface,
in which has been poured quarter OF
a teaspoonful of pure glycerin, dry
them without wiping, using mild
heat, and rubbing them until the water
has all evaporated. By this process,
the dirt will have been all removed,
and in its stead will remain coating
of glycerin. The effect of this applica-
tion will be apparent by morning, If 1t
be made upon retiring to rest; and
whoever tries it once will do it q second
time. The glycerine must be pure,
however, or it will irritate instead of
healing.


To REVIVE THE COLOR OF BLACK
CLoTu.-Take of blue gals, bruised,
four ounces; logwood, coppeEas, iron
filings, free from grease, and sumach
leaves, each one ounce. Put all but the
iron filings and copPeras into one quart
of good vinegar, and set the vessel con-
tanning them in warm water bath for
twenty -four hours, then add the iron
filings and copperas and shake occasion
ally for week. 1t should be kept in
well. ll.corked bottle. 1t may be applied
to faded spots with soft sponge. 1t is
also good to restore the black color of
leather when it turns red, the leather
being previously we'll cleaned with soap
aud water.


To PREPARE CASKS FOR CIDER
Cider should never be pat into new
casks without previously scalding them
with water containing salt, or with
water in which pomace has been boiled.
Beer casks should never be used for
cider, or cider casks for beer. Wine
and brandy casks will k ep cider well,
if the tartar adhering to their sides is
first carefully scraped off and the casks
be well scalded. Burning little sui
pbur in u cask will effectually remove
must.
Year: 1868

The "play folk" of Chicago are a
very proper set of people. Three or
four of the prominent actresses are
church members, two managers are
constant attendants at church, and sew
eral of the leading ladies are attached to
the most exemplary and respectable
families in the city.
Year: 1868

Tear lady, when / look at one


So lovely and so loved as you,
From whose young life has not yet gone
The roses blush, the mornings dew,
sigh to think ofAll the years


Whose fading memories rise between
This and the time, when long ago,


I lost nv heart to Sweet Sixteen.
Year: 1868

And though the charm may wear away


As roses fade and dews exhale
Though giossiest locks may turn TO gray
And f4irest cheeks grow wan and pale
Yet who can doubt those dearly loved,


Ia lands Of mortal eye unseen
Beyond the stars. shall all regain


The ANGEL hues of Sweet Sixteen
Year: 1868

REGISTRATION IN THE CITY.-The COM
mittee of the Council, with Mr.. Macfar


land as chairman, waited upon General
Schofeld yesterday to confer with him
upon the matter of registration in the city,
with the view, if possible, of correcting
the frauds that were perpetrated upon the
registration last fall. The General re-
ceived the committee most respectfully,
and heard their views on the subject. He
assured them of his earnest desire to cor
rect any errors or frauds that had crept
into the registry, and would accept the
assistance of q committee of citizens,
should he determine to investigate there
gistry in the other wards as it had been done
in Monroe Ward. He would consider the
subject, however, and might possibly decide
upon new registration; which would be
the easiest and most expeditions proceed
ing, if that were admissible. ~


The committee retired from the inter-
view entirely satisfed-perfectly assured
that General Schofeld would do whatever
was in his power to secure fair and faith
ful registration of the persons entitled to
vote in the city. =. "e