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Year: 1867

A Boston paper has the following: We
remember curious practice once said to
exist among the Mormons, by which the
s. faithful were accustomed to rid them
selves of obnoxious persons, perhaps the
Gentiles, who in those days were not so
plentiful. Two or three men were chosen
who sat at the offenders door, whiting
if he went out they followed him, still
whiting, and his persecution was
finally whitfield him out of town. A
plan adopted by the New York
police is similarly curious. In front of the
door of house in Howard street, which
has been reported ''disorderly," two large
policemen have been stationed every night
for several weeks past. Each of them holds
prominently in his hand dark lantern,
and whenever any person attempts to en-
ter the house. each Diogenese raises his
lantern, takes sharp look at the visitor,
and then suffers him to pass in. The OBJ
ject is to break up the place of resort by
preventing people from visiting it, but the
experiment seems to have met with indif-
ferent success, and it is suggested that some
more expeditions and economical way
might be found of breaking up the establish
ment.


In st. Louis the police adopt different
mode. A man is stationed at the door OF
each house of bad repute, and takes down
the name of every man who enters. A list
of several thousand names is on file at the
Chiefs office, and it is proposed to publish
them with the caption, DIRECTORY of Fast
Men of st. Louis for 1867" On this list the
name OF one young man appears over three
hundred times, showing that he visited the
places pretty often in the course of three
months. He will come under the head of
VERY Fast Man."
Year: 1867

A lady residing on Madison street is said


to have been much annoyed by well


known, well dressed man of middle age,


who, on two successive mornings, came


about her place and exposed his person to


her daughter, young and Innocent girl.
The girl told her mother of the indecent


conduct, and as the police are never there
when most wanted, the mother determined
to punish the offender herself if he came
again. Sure enough, yesterday morning
he tried the same practice, and she being
promptly on hand. knocked him down with


the butt end of a cowhide, and then whip


ped him severely. When the fellow got
up he got away at two-torty speed, ana is
not likely to show himself in that vicinity


again. Memphis Aualanclte, 5th. 'i5I
Year: 1867

A SINGULAR CIRCUMsTANcE.-A cor
respondent writes us that a farmer re-
siding few miles from Napoleon, Ken
tucky, having missed one of his cows sent
his son to hunt her. He found the COW
with young calf. They drove her home,
and in six days from that time, while at
work in the harvest field, near by, they
discovered another calf in the pasture, be-
longing to the same COW, it being almost
famished, having lived six days without
food. They took it home and put it with
the cow, and it is doing well. b ~
Year: 1867

THE HISTORY OF THE SECRET SERVICE DURING THE RE
BHLLIoN. By General L. G. Baker, late Provost Mar
shall, and Chief detective Of the War Department
Jones Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, Pa, Cincinnati.
Ohio, and Davenport, Iowa. '


This is decidedly the most interesting and absorb
ing book of the day. revealing it does phases of
National History sedulously concealed from the
knowledge of the public


During his five years drectorsh p of the secret SER
vice bureau, General Baker learned some strange
things and took active part in many dangerous
and at that time important enterprises. All these
secrets now brought to light, of them rath
compromise gentlemen occupying highly re-
sponsible positions but the author fortes his star
ling aceusatory assertions by indisputabe off cial
documents The chapters pardon brol erage will
be read with interest and amusement to all; this is
new phase in national policy and receives thor
ough airing at the hands of General Baker.


There is also given very full and circumstantal
account of the great conspiracy from its inception
until the execution of the guilty conspirators There
is much that new curious, and interesting dyulged
in this connection. The work is complete in one
handsome octave volume of 700 pages, printed in a
superior manner, on stout white paper and llustra
ted with seventeen fine engravings, among them a
steel portrait Of the author and thfulrepresena
tion of the burial place of. Wilkes Booth.
Year: 1867

A Coon HoTEI.-We would advise per-
sons travelling through West Blue Mounds
to stop at the West Blue Mounds Hotel,
kept by c, D. Arnold: No matter about
the time, call at any time, and if it is not
convenient to stay over nig;t, order meal
and take rest. You will be well treated,
and we'll fed, and when you come to pay
your bill it will not bankrupt you. MIR.
Arnold is an excellent. landlord, and all we
regret is that he should be in such a CIR
cumscribed sphere as he necessarily is at
the Mounds.
Year: 1867

~ The Appleton Post says; "In Out
agamie and some of the adjoining counties
the hay is all eaten up, the straw is fed
out, and the coarse grains have been a
long time exhausted Stock have lived on
half rations so long that they are lean and
rayenous. The season is still SO cold and
backward that grass has not grown and
isn't growing, and the pastures are as bare
as the barn yards" il
Year: 1867

rw~The Door county Advocate says
Hon. W. B. Ogden and party of gentle
men from Chicago and Menominee have
visited Door county to look over the route
of the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal They
are satisfied that the work is perfectly feas,
ble, aid that no point on the lake shore
presents so good chance to build tine
and perfectly safe harbor. s.
Year: 1867

sThe Merchants Union Express
Company claim to have reputation for
promptness and reliability second to no
other. But if they have and mean to re-
tain it, they must be more prompt than
they have been in one instance which has
come to our knowledge. A box of books
was shipped by their line at Albany, N.
Y, on the 25th of April last, addressed
to this place, and has not yet arrived, and
no trace of the box can be discovered.
They must have sent it by sNater by the
way of the St. Lawrence river, the Allan
tic, Gulf of Mexico and the Mississippi
Year: 1867

e~We notice that short dresses arc
becoming popular among the ladies. We
suppose those that have neat ankle ana
pretty foot to show, will adopt the new
stvle at once, while the spindle shanked'
damsels will drag yards of calico through
the dust and dirt, till the necessity of being
in fashion ,compels- them "to fall IN line."
Year: 1867

sW A man in Peila, Iowa, was applied
to few days ago by neighbor to haul
a load of sand, and replied that be "could
haul it, but must get back by noon, as he
had child to bury that evening" We
would like to know what that mans heart
is made of
Year: 1867

guilty of murder, and condemned to
die. The case was a strange one,
and happily came under the personal
notice of the Emperor "The boy
was wild fanatic" he said; "but he
must not die" ..


Eventually, by the direct command
OF tile Emperor, the sentence of the
court was reversed, and the young
serf was committed to ten years ser.
vitude in Siberia However, long
before the expiration of that time, he
was set at liberty, aid he went back
and lived the remainder of his life in
his native village. ..r..,I
Year: 1867

HAYING.-Our farmers in the west end
Of the county are now bayiug, some report
the crop will be light, and others think it
will be as heavy as usual. In the foot hills
we know the grass is exceedingly plentiful
this Spring.
Year: 1867

CoRREsP oNDENTs.-ou correspondents are
so numerous this week that they take up
most Of our space. They develop 60 much
OF the inside workings Of the Radicals that
We make room for them.
Year: 1867

MINING. The Green Emigrant claim,
North Of Town still continues fabulously rich
Aessrs. Lowry and McCarty have finished an
arastar and are now working up some Of
their rich rock.


We are pleased TO note this week the ar
rival Of Capt. VIM. Holdridgs who is SUI
perintendent for the New York Company,
who have purchased three lodges west Of
town, and will commence work in few days
TO develope them. We have great faith
in the richness of these ledges, and under
the direction Of the Captain the work upon
them will be prosecuted with vigor.
Year: 1867

B6r The following facts relative to
the comparative amount of railroad in
different countries are interesting: In
the United States there are eighty one
square miles Of territory to each mile OF
railroad, and one mile Of road to each
one thousand Of population. In Great
Britain the proportion Is nine miles area
70 one Of railroad, and one mile Of road
to each 1919 Of population. In France
the ratio is tEenty-four miles to one Of
railroad, and one mile Of road TO 4l72
inhabitants Belgium with one mile Of
railroad to every seven miles Of terri
tory, has more thorough network Of
railroads than any other country, while
Russia, with a territory twelve times the
extent Of the British Isles, has only one
6fh Of he length Of road
Year: 1867

peA- Brick Pomroy, Of the La Crosse
Democrat, says: Base ball is raging
fearfully in the west, sparingneither age
or condition. We eat base ball, talk it,
dream and act it. The other night one
Of the deacons in this city, winding up q
petition to the throne of grace, said:
"oh Lord, as we strike for home run
to glory don't let us by the devil be
caught out on the fy."
Year: 1867

I6r In the neighborhood of Hudson,
Michigan, few days since a young lady
on her way to school took a seat on q
reaper which was in operation in a neigh
boring field, when the horses became
frightened, aud running away with the
machine, threw her on the knives. Her
left hand was completely cut off, and her
limbs and body frightfully mangled.
Year: 1867

Ben Wade was even ready for the in
PRODUCTION to the chair. His eyes were
dry if nobody else's We're. he was q
little scared however IN finding himself
In . seat which be had never been called
Year: 1867

The undersigned take this method to return
their most sincere thanks to their numerous
friends and customers for the very liberal pat
ronage bestowed on them during the past year
in the DRY GOODS AND GROCERY TRADE, and
to assure them that in future as in the past no
pains will be spared to make ours one Of the
most popular and attractive store in the city if
GOOD GOODS, LOW PRICES, AND STRICT
ATTENTION TO BUSINESS will do it. On
of the firm is now in the eastern markets select.
ing our fall and winter stock, which will be
found full and complete in every department, and
will be open for inspection on or about the Goth
inst Pleaee call and examine our goods and
prices before purchasing elsewhere, and save
about ten per cent. Don't forget the place, No.
II La Sale Street, Fourh Door North Of Firsa
National Bank. and ne1t to the Free Tracer Otice


BURKE & HEENAN.


Ottawa Sent IA 1867
Year: 1867

Hot TERM.-The weather for the past week
or ten days has been something extraordinary for
the season in this quarter. The heat has been
quite oppressve-equal to the hot term Of the
middle of July, thermometer daily reaching IS to
30 in the shade. The heat is accompanied with
drought that is damaging to late vegetables !;
we learn from the physicians, that it is also ac-
companied with good deal of sickness, though
not Of a particularly dangerous or malignant
type.
Year: 1867

NEVER MIND Some ladies appear to hesi-
tate about going to SToUT's to see and overhaul
his new goods on account of the rush there, think
ing the men must be 'tired to DEATH and an
noyed by their opportunities. Never you fear
Nothing raises the spirits of good salesman, or
makes him feel better than rush of customers.
Stout has fine goods, and the ladies' shall have
every chance to see them.
Year: 1867

There are three things, they say, woman can.
not do She cannot sharpen lead pencil, can
not do up a bundle, and cannot throw stone.
Suppose all that to be SO, there are good many
other things any lady of ''gumption" can do, and
among them one is, that she can tell at glance
that HALBERT & MEGAFFIN keep tho best as
sortment of ladies shoes in Ottawa. There now.
Year: 1867

The amount of cases of clothing daily received
at No. % La Sale St., looks as if L. BENJAMIN
L. Co. intend to open a wholesale Clothing
House in this city; but on inquiring of one of
the proprietors we were informed that they in
tend to keep tremendous stock for thei r
general customers, and to prove to the people Of
La Sale county that they have not sold out, OF
quit this place, as was maliciously reported
Year: 1867

SUPERVISOR PROCEEDINGs.-We shall prob
ably be able to get the "copy Of the proceedings
of tho late meeting of the Board of Supervisors in
time for our next issue. Under the present ar
rangement for their publication We are obliged to
is generally in use for week or two after the
board adiourns. .
Year: 1867

The New York journal Of Commerce
rhustries to educate an inquirer:


A Baltimore correspondent asks an
explanation of the terms used In quo
ting the rates for loans of gold. We
will try to give IL, although we wish 1t
understood that these technical phrases
are employed chiefly for tile benefit of
the initiated, who readily comprehend
them, and are not designed for miscel-
laneous readers who are less interested
| In the question. In explaining, we will
suppose "A has gold on hand, kept for a
rise or future use, and wants toborrow
currency upon 1t to make 1t available
as capital for present payment, without
losing his title to IL. He can deposit
the gold with bank or other capital
ist, and borrow money on IL to about
its market value, at, say five per cent.
per annum interest. But If he finds
that B has currency to spare and wants
transaction. That is, A lends B his
money for its equivalent in paper
money at the market rate of the day,
on the promise of B to return the gold
for thee paper again upon demand,
neither party to pay any interest. This
even exchange is called "dat." II
makes no difference whether the owner
of the paper OF the gold has a right to
call for a settlement, II each party has
the use of the others money until the
call is made, the rate In street parlance
is flat. Pc. -l.--s-


If there is more gold offering than
paper, the owner of the gold may have
to pay partial interest for the use of the
currency, and this is called rate "for
carrying"-that is, a borrows the cur
| rency OF B, giving the latter the use of
his gold, and agreeing 10 pay him, be-
sides, say two, three, or four per cent
per annum interest when the transac-
tion is closed. Oflcourse the rate for
carrying, even at the highest, must be
less than iull rates for call loan, be-
cause the owner of the gold can always
borrow upon 1t at that anywhere in the
street. ~


1t sometimes happens that gold is
scarce and wanted. Then the borrower
pays for its use, and this is called a
from the "carrying" rate. This is al
ways reckoned by the day. A few
weeks ago we were quoting from 1872 to
3-I6 as the borrowing rate. This means
that B lets A have his currency and
pays him this fraction of one per cent a
day for its use. The fiat is the even
balance between rate to borToD and
rate to carry. II there is borrowing
rate the owner of the gold receives so
much per day for its use, and has the
currency besides. If there is a carry
ing rate, the owner OF the currency re-
ceives so much per annum for the use
of his paper money, and has the use of
the gold besides. II the rate Is fiat,
each has the use of the others money,
and neither pays anything. We think
this is intelliRible to the simplest nm
Outstanding. We quote daily the OPEN
ing, highest, lowest and closing rates,
and these terms explain themselves.
The term Hhighest fiat" means that the
highest price for the use of gold during
! the day was an even exchange with
currency"
Year: 1867

In q communication to the French
Academy of Sciences, NJ. SoreI de
scribes a new cement, being basic
hydrated oxchloride of magnesium
1t is obtained by Stacking magnesia
with a solution of chloride of magne-
SUM in a more or less concentrated
state. The denser the solution the
harder it becomes on drying. This
magnetism cement is the whitest and
hardest of all those known to this day,
and it can be moulded like plaster, in
which case the cast requires the hard
ness of marble. 1t will take any color,
and has been used by the inventor for
mosaics, limitations of ivory, billiard
tables, &c. The new cement possesses
the agglutinative property in the high
est degree, so that solid masses may
be made with it at very low cost by
mixing it up on largo scale with sub
stances Of little value. One part oil
magnesa may be incorporated with
upwards of twenty parts of sand, lime
stone, and other inert substances, SC
rs to form hard blocks; while lime and
other cements will hardly admit of the
interpretations Of two or three times
their weight of eXtrancous matter.


By means of these artificial blocks
buildings may easily be carried on in
places where materials for the purpose
are scarce. All that is required is sim
IpIy to convey a quantity of magnesia
and chloride of magnesium to the spot
if there be none to be had there, and
then to mix them up with sand, peb
bles, or any other matter of the kind
close at hand; blocks can then be made
of any shape, and initiating hewr
stone. This magnetism cement may
be obtained at a very low cost, espe
cially if the magnesia be extracted
from the mother ley of salt works
either by NJ. Balard's process, where
| by magnesia and hydrochloric acid are
obtained at the same time, or else by
decomposing the ley, which always
contains large proportion of chloride
of magnesium, by means of quick
lime, which by double decomposition
yields magnesia and chloride of lime
containing certain quantity of chIo
ride of magnesium, and which, with
the addition of various other cheap
substances, may be used for whitewash
ing.
Year: 1867

from the chimney few minutes, and
then to cease. But in ten or twelve
minutes more another volume would
be elected with great force, sometimes
carrying up large blocks of black stone
to a considerable height.


This continued as long as our vessel
was in sight. We would gladly have
remained TO enjoy this wonderful spec
tacle longer, and to understand the
phenomena better than we could do
by merely raking through the basin
or crater of the volcano. But we
were thankful for the favor we had;
and must refer you to the elaborate
reports Of geologists for the science OF
the matter.
Year: 1867

George Alfred Townsend has been
to Newport, and among other things
which he saw and wrote about is this:


Here is bathing scene that struck
me yesterday: A lady all dressed in
azure, even to her boots, which were
OF the same ethereal hue; likewise her
Parasoi, her gloves, her little fat far
chion of hat; and the only relief to
this rare uniformity was the golden
chlgnon of hair that looked as if it
might be the reservoir of all this azure
dye. She had that pretty walk and
stylish manner of the New York belle,
and coming down the sand trippingly
she looked onl y more real than those
French Autographs we see OF superbly
shaped, dead-ripe ladies, peach tinted,
and with the clean cut feet of seabirds.
This creature disappeared. I waited
with guilty anxiety for her reappear-
ance from the little sentry-box of
bathing house. Merciful Pan! What
is this? A Iow-set, baldheaded, bare
footed apparition, rugged out in blood
red smock and breeches, with green
veins around the armpits and down tho
breast, and green belt, like seaweed,
bsecting her like an insect de6om. The
The nightmare of tho auto-da-fe went
straight down the beach into the sea,
as if to meet the anthropophagi, and
l stole to the bathing box down by the
rear side and looked in. There hung
q little skirt and jacket of azure; little
azure boots with azure strings were
set down coquettishly in the sand; the
little hat, like a leaf, was dangling from
a nail; and ball Of golden hair as big
as a pumpkin swung freely from a
beam. | could account for the dimin-
ished height of my lady now. She
had been decapitated. Directly, all
clasped by her wet masquerading garb,
so that the roundness of youth was
half come back, she re-entered the
box. Of course | had quilted it. In
five minutes an azure sylph, fit for The
tis herself, came daintiIy out upon the
sand, golden ball and all. | thought
Ovid of the Davenport brothers would
have hard time to beat this. meta.
morphosis.
Year: 1867

u.s. Buffalo bakers are now obliged
to stamp every loaf of bread with their
initials. The law against light weight
and poor material is being rigidly en-
forced. Bread which does not come
up to the standard is confiscated for
the benefit of the poor, besides fine
of twenty-five cents per loaf
Year: 1867

to Georgia and North and South Caro-
lima to procure them. Not more than
half the planters will have as many as
they wish. The colored people have
been so much better treated in Tennes-
see than auy of the surrounding States,
that they will hire to Tennesseans at
less wages than to Others, any now that
they are entitled TO vote they will
doubtless flock there in droves from all
parts of. the South.
Year: 1867

The RIVER was falling last night
with nineteen feet water. There were
no arrivals or departures beyond the
regular packets, and as the weather was
cloudy and gloomy, but little business
was done on the leyee.
Year: 1867

READ TIE ADYKRT1sElrExTs.- he man who
does not read the advertisements in his pa
per can never be said to be well informed
The advertisements indicate not only the
business enterprise, bat the enterprise of
the advertiser. When you see a man who
advertises literally, you may be certain of
finding good stock of goods in his store,
that he keeps up with the Market and sells
cheaper than those who do not advertise. If
you want good bargains, always patronize
those who avail themselves Of the d7ants-
ges afforded through the columns Of their
paper.
Year: 1867

Ed. Rural World-Can grass seed be
sown in the fall wish to seed down con-
siderable land to grass, and if it can be
safely done, prefer TO SOW some of the seed
this fall. BY replying through the Raral
World you viii oblige


A You've FARMER.


REPLY.-If land is put in good condition,
We have no doubt it is better time TO SOW
grass seed in the fall than in the spring.
Fall is the season when nature soWs the
most Of her seeds, and they vegetate freely,
as we all know. We have known of some
instances where Timothy and Herds grass
seed have been sown in the fall with the best
Of success, and have never heard of fail
ure. We presume clover seed is as well or
better adapted to fall seeding than the
grasses, as It is encased In a very hard Gov
ering. We have known clover seed to keep
IN the ground ten years. A crop of clover,
when ripe, was turned under deeply in the
fall, and the field was sown TO wheat and
seeded to Timothy. Ten years after deep
blowing was given TO the feld-the clover
seed was brought to the surface, and the
ground was covered with young plants
This only shows how wisely the God of Ma
turs has provided for the preservation ol
seed.-R0rGg World.
Year: 1867

IN Essay onto Saoiae-The extreme length
ov their antiquity has never been fully dis
covered they existed long time before the
food, and have existed long time since.


Hogs are good quiet boarders they alWus
eat what is set before them and don't ask any
foolish questions.


Some are full in the face like town clock,
and sum are as long and as lean as a COW
kitchen with a steel pinted noze onto them.


Tha are q short lived animal. and generally
dye as soon as they git fat


The hog kan be 1urnt a great many cunning
things, such as histing the front gate of the
hinges, tipping over the sWilI barrels and
fndindg hoal in the fens to get into com
field but there amt emmy lenth to their
memory it IL awful hard work for them to
find the same hoal to get out at, espeshully
If you at all ankshus they should


Hogs are very contrary, and seldom drive
well the same way yu are going; they drive
most the other way. This has never bin
fully explained, but speaks volumes Of the
hog.-.J0sb Billings.