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Year: 1860

MODERN WATER APrARArUs.-Dr. Charles NJ. Wind
ship. of Roxbury, calls attention, through the columns
of the Medical and Surgical Journal to the danger aris-
ing from the use of water drawn from the copper boilers
introduced into the houses of this and other cities and
which the servants are apt to take for cooking purposes
unconscious Of the deet6rOus properties Of water which
has been heated in the bath-boer. The family Of a
well known citizen of Boston seriously poisoned by


the cook who was ignorant Of the danger having for
long period been using the water drawn from copper


boiler (which connected by lead pipe with the lead
eryor) in preparing the tea and coffee and boiling the
vegetables To avert the danger arising from such a
practice, which is not uncommon the Doctor advises
that water be introduced into kitchens only through ron
glass, wood or gutta percha tubesso arranging the
hot water apparatus that it can only be drawn into the
chambers where it is required for bathing &C. and once


week or more frequently If necessary let on the va
ter in the washroom by lockfaucet the key of which
can be kept in a secure place. The Doctor also advo-
Gates the Punishment from the kitchen Of copper vessels
and copper covers having recently been called to attend
several cases of colo induced by eating apples
aud cranberres stewedin copper and hemets vesselS
Year: 1860




The sweetest child ia all the town
Companion mine she was at play,
She was not sad, nor was she gay,
But gentle. patient, wise and good,
She promised noble womanheod,
She was my love in boyhood life
She was to be my manhood's wife
A thousand hopes were woven with her,
A thousand dreams with Dora Burr.
Another charm Life had for me-
wildly loved the glorious sea
To Dora Burr babe adieu, 81
And sailed afar Ger waves Of blue.
Her portrait next my heart wore t
Her image In my heart bore,
My Ave Marie was her name,
At morn, and noon, and night, the same.
Five years in toll and shIpwreck past;
Five years. and returned at last
Con6ding Hope spread eager wing,
OF Dora. only whispering.
l found her wooed and won, and wed:
ia rather foundmy darling dead;
ia rather by her grave have wept,
And known her faithfulness was kept.
write these lines across tie way
From where fair Dora dwelIs TO dsv.
love to see her form ouce more
A-aitting in and out Of door.
She does not dream and cannot know
Her lover of the long ago
Her lover through all coming years
Is watching her through slghs and tears.
wonder if down In her heart
A little place is set apart
, For one she promised, years ago,
To love for life through veal and woe.
Tomorrow's sur shall shine on me
Afar out on the stern blue sea,
My prayers to Heaven still as they were,
That blessings only flow to her,
Sometimes think that in the cline
Where Love and Truth become sublime,
My pulse and hers one throb shall stir.
And she'll be mine, sweet Dora Burr,
Year: 1860

That he fully concurre in the feeling of Mr. Gregg, that the
petition should with possible respect
g to add that with reference TO that part of the petition which
for the exemption from duties goods for the mssona
when the MIR edde, with his
Mr. Archibald here in lS4, route from Nova Scotia
New Caledonia in their luggage they had few goods des
missionary purposes that island Mr. Gedde request
be allowed TO take them without duty but Mr. Judd,
Minister OF Finance refused the exemption and he
(r Wyl) paid the duties out OF his pocket From this
might inferred that he also in favor of that feature
petition which applied foreign missions He
understood blaming Mr. Judd for the refusal Mr. Judd
Minister Of Finance providing for all of the
Government of very scanty revenue and though the
small (ony $40 50 he could dispense with it
without the authority othe then Board of Finance which, how
ever without doubt, would have readily granted it.
Year: 1860

the influences are good coming into and favor
panied the speaker attempt made here
exploded and the correction
attempt win to virtue reclaim. He did
believe that direct legislation and fma against
tery would the O5ject-more indirect
have TO be resorted before
Hopkins combsed the idea that being
prison would have salutary effect upon the public


that parties prison, who had been in prison,
marked and avoided. II is well that among tsir


friends they looked nnforrunate-that's


tins Of much vigilance the the police
sORabe jealousy the part the legitimate
companion The friends take opportunity that PRISON
discipline allows those used parties. They


lister their little wants. and when the day of liberation
they ready with change Of clothes conduct
them back again the bosom their ames
the congratulations Of their friends There hardly
member of that House who had
from prison sitting the tables people
ty and dipping into tho dish with them. We got
good way about and than
the book employed before the shame mprson-
will preventive warning interfere with
offices OF affection oracced among the Of the
Hawaiians.
Year: 1860

The Sacramento Union has done the peo-
pie of this State valuable service, by its
full verbatim reports of Legislative proceed
ings for several years past. These have
enabled every intelligent person to see ex.
actly how our Lawmakers deport themselves,
and ought to have had the effect before now
of making conventions and electors choose
more experienced and sensible men. Some
exceptions have been taken, by bitter parti-
Zan sheets and small-minded legislators, to
the extreme faithfulness of these reports, but
whatever there is blameworthy in them
should be charged to their prime authors,
the members of the Legislature. John Con-
ness hit the nail on the head the other day,
when he said that "whateyer is not fit to be
reported is not fit to be spoken" If our
Sofons do not wish to be made ridiculous
through the press, let them cease to make
themselves so.
Year: 1860

There are now two wagon shops in town
Morgan L ellis, and that of Joy, Wey-
mouth l. Cross, where any kind of a vehicle
wanted can be had to order at reasonable
prices. Several homemade wagons are
rolling around the country now, and give
first rate satisfaction. Those in want of
light or heavy wagons should remember this
fact, and help themselves and the entire
community by patrenising home manufac-
lures.
Year: 1860

Of Long John Wentworth it is said, that
ne has frequently attended prayer meeting
or religious school in the early part of the
evening, and after very earnest address to
the children, has gone to a German dance
house, and entered heartily into its sports,
and spent the small remainder of the night
with congenial spirits in a beer saloon
There's model politician for you'll
Year: 1860

Gustave Hansen announces that he will
have a gift entertainment q: the theater in
this place, on the l4th inst, or as soon
thereafter as all the tickets are sold. The
entertainment will be musical one of choice
character, and the gifts to be distributed
consist OF the finest articles of jewelry. The
latter are now on exhibition at his store,
next door to the theater. They proclaim
their own genuineness aud beauty, and are
put up at very reasonable prices.
Year: 1860

Some wretch stole Pat Synon's wardrobe
while he was bathing in a reservoir lately,
and thus compelled him to shiver decently
in the cold water at the risk of his life, until
a passer by could procure him some new
clothes.
Year: 1860

A SHOOTING AFFAIR-At the dance house
became enraged at the hostess for some rea-
son, and struck her on the shoulder with the
fat side OF a big knife, while two Of his COM
panions began firing pistols at random. The
house was filled with men, mostly Ameri
cans, who made a grand rush for the door
when the cold lead began to fly, without
stopping to say good night. In front of the
house there is deep ditch containing water.
Into this the flying dancers tumbled, heels
over head and six deep. They enjoyed an
agreeable baptism of mud, and crawled out
dripping and bruised. The shooting hurt
nobody, but the ditch was severe.
Year: 1860

IMPROVING THE RoADs.-O. P. Stidger has
entered upon his duties as road overseer for
this district, with great energy. The new
road between this place and Sebastopol al
ready does him much credit. 1t winds around
a hillside, and the upper side of it he has
ditched deeply, grading the bitches SO that
they discharge the rain and sipage water
through covered sluices under the road and
down the hill. This arrangement will, after
the new road once gets packed by travel,
prevent it from becoming so muddy as it
formerly was during the winter season. 1t
is Mr.. Stidger's intention to put all the high
ways leading into town in better condition
than they ever have been. Under the new
law he will be able to make more thorough


collection of the road tax than was possible


before, and will thus have more funds at his


disposal for the Improvements contemplated.
Year: 1860

While We gladly publish the fact Of the
organization Of Republican Club in any part
Of Illinois, We caurot undertake to print Tue
constitutions, bylaws and resolutions Of
every club that may: be formed. We hive on
our table ut this moment not less than two
quires Of manuscript containing nothing else;
our friends who havc sent it will geo that
BY printing it, our columns would contain little
besides.
Year: 1860

OF TIE MIRACLES OF ENTERPRISE AND MERCY.


Familiarity, they tell us, is the mother of contempt
Things which and handle every day. lose all dis
tnctive value in eyes, The very air we breathe is
unrecognzed blessing though deprived of it for the
twentieth fraction of hour the world would cease to
live! In like manner we have all of us-no matter of
what race or country so long accustomed to
the name of THOMAS HOLLOWAY at the head of medi-
cal advertisement that we begin to look upon it
of the essential componens Of newspaper and hardly
pause to enquire into the true significance of this uni
versal fame.


Let not readers fancy that this paragraph is a
ptall at the bottom of which they will find "puf
for the Universal Remedies" with the fame of which
Professor Holloway is associated it is no such thing.
We could say much of the Pills and Ointment but at
present design is merely to call attention TO the bio
graphy of a whose achievements will hereafter be
regarded the surprising wonder of tie nineteenth CEN
tury


There are few varieties of the human race unrepresen
ted in the population of this cosmopolitan city, Coolies
from China-Malays from the Eastern Archipelago
Redskins from the West-Blackskins from all parts of
Africa-W haemen from Greenland and the regions of
the Arctic Poe-bronzed halEbreeds from Brazil and
the other states OF South Amerca-Borneans, Tasman-
ians Arabs, Hindoos Armenians, New Zealanders and
kairs-these with the millions from all parts of Eu-
rope, make up the motley immigration which our world
embracing commerce throws daily our shores. Thou
sands of such perhaps have any of the great
names which have been trained regard with refer
ence the of Washington cannot thrill their slug
gsh blood; of Napoleon Bonaparte, his conquests and
his fall, they are utterly ignorant But hand them
newspaper and how rapidly their faces brighten =
They recognise its friendly promise-they rely its
truth they rejoice and are, perhaps aston
ished to know that the great physician whose visit to
their country formed the epoch of physical regen
eraton has likewise been before them on like errand
of mercy to land of their future adoption They no Ion
ger feel that they strangers for Holloway, by his
genius his abors, adventures and worldwide travels
has established connecting link between all tribes and
races of the human family. Possessed with burning
zeal to relieve the afflicted and fearing nothing that
do, he has made the pilgrimage Of the earth and
tabhed in every spot he visited not only depots for the
sale of his medicines but likewise journals in the native
tongues. What romance could be framed from the
labors perils and adventures of such life!


II. s. 3" IOurD1L"
Year: 1860

The ingenuity of Partisan cabinet makers
has found use for common sawdust, which
raises the value of that commodity far
above the worth of solid timber. By a
rev process, combining the hydraulic press
with intense heat, the wooden particles are
made t. form themselves into a solid mass


capable of being moulded into any shape,
and presenting brilliant surface, with a
durability and beauty Of appearance not to
be found in ebony, rosewood or mahogany.
Year: 1860


Do YOU remember all the sunny places
Where, in bright days long past, we played to-
gether
Do you remember allthe old home faces
That gathered round the hearth in winter
weather?
Do you remember all the happy meetings
In summer evenings, round the open door
Kind looks, kind hearts, kind words and tender
greetings,


And clasping hands, whose pulses beat no
more.


Do you remember them?
Do YOU remember all the merry laughter,
The voices round the swing in our old garden
The dog which, when we ran, still followed after
The teasing frolic, sure of speedy pardonf
We were but children then-young, happy crea-
lures,


And hardly knew how much we had to lose;
And how the dream-like memory Of those fea-
lures


Comes back, and bids the darkened spirit muse,


Do you remember them
Do YOU remember when first departed
From the companions who were then around
How verv soon again we grew light hearted,
And talked with smiles of all the links which
bound us?
And after, when our footsteps were returning,
18th unfett WEAKNESS o er illti ana DIAN,
How our young hearts kept boiling up and burn
inr,


To think how soon we'd be at home again?


Do you remember this !!
Do YOU remember how the dreams Of glory
Kept fading from us like fairy treasure?
How we thought less of being famed in story,
And more OF those to whom our fame gave
pleasures
Do YOU remember in fair countries weeping
When soft breeze, flower had brought to
mind
Old happy thoughts, which, till that hour, were
sleeping,


And made us yearn for those we left behind


Do you remember thiss
Do YOU remember when no sound woke gladly,
But desolate echoes through our home were
ringing:
How, for while we talked, then paused full
sadly,


Because our voices bitter thoughts were bring
ing?
All, mel those days. those days my friend, my
brother,
Sit down. and let us talk of all our wo;
For we have nothing left but one another:
Yet where they've gone, old playmates, we
shall 60


Let US remember this
Year: 1860

to Professor Henry his telescope. and
to Professor A. ID. Baehe his micro
scope. The introduction to the will
is of so truthful and submissive
character that deem it proper to
copy it for you. He says:


lin the beginning of this. my last
will and testament. wish to express
my most profound reverence for the
Supreme Ruler of the Universe. and
my unwsvering belief that every thing
which have experienced during my
whole life as well the pains as the
pleasures has been so arranged by
his infinite goodness and wisdom as
to result in good to me, by educating
me to a higher state of knowledge.
and to a more intense love of goodness
and so TO prepare me for an eternity
OF happiness after death. II il is bet
ter for one to exist happy after death
| shall so exist as certain as there is
a God of infinite goodness. wisdom
and power; and if it is better for me
to suffer some pain hereafter for the
sake of further improvement, doubt
not that An infinitely good and wise
Father has arranged it that shall so
suffer.


Heavenly father. with unwavering
confidence in thy love. | commit my
self and the whole human family. thy
children. to thy holy keeping"


| haven give these particulars, not as
| could wish they would be done but
as best | could under the present state
Of my feelings. | have lost a friend
indeed. All that human skill and at
tention could do, was done to save his
life, but it was Of no avail. He had
done his work; the time had come for
him to enter into the joys of his home
in Heaven. Truly has he committed
his spirit to the care of his Heavenly
Father.





would like you to use what have
written as you think best, in inform
ing his friends in Cambridge. Phila-
delphia, DC, Of his decease. Yours,
respectfully.
Year: 1860

Prof. Ag;sS>iZ and his Dream.


"Agassiz had been deeply cogita-
ting on a fossil which had been re-
Gently discovered, having new and re-
markable peculiarities. 1t was ap-
pearently the connecting link between
vertebrae and the lower animals, as
the mudfish from America, exhibited
in the Crystal Palace, is the connect
ing link between fishes and reptiles;
but what was notifying and puzzling
to him was that the very part of the
fossil which should have showed the
most interesting part was covered with
the strong deposit in which it had
been imbedded. While pondering the
subject in bed. he fell asleep, and in a
dream he was delighted to have the
whole hidden part, and all its mech
anism and differences clearly display
ed before his eyes, and besides, to see
intuitively the exact place which it
filled in comparative anatomy. He
awoke in the morning with the SUBJ
iect fresh in his mind; but, alas, no
sooner did he try to recall it, than the
whole of what he had seen vanished
from his memory, and all he could re-
member was that he had seen it in its
most satisfactory extent. The next
night again thinking deeply Of it. he
fell asleep, and the whole scene was
again presented before his mind He
determined to try to remember 1t, and
to make an effort to awake; but he still
slept on, and in the morning had again
forgotten all that he had desired to re-
member. He determined If he should
ever dream of it again. that he would
make the strongest effort to awaken,
and have paper by his bedside or
which to fix the information.


Accordingly on going to bed, h,
placed some paper and pencil beside
him. again thinking of his wonder


ful fossil, when what was his deligh


during his sleep. at finding the whol'
for the third time, clearly pictured be


fore him. Now then to awake anC
transfer it to the paperl But no; h
still slept on, and in the morning wa


distressed beyond all measure to fin,


that the whole had entirely vanished
from his memory. In this disconso
late state he CONNIE need to dress, bu


had not proceeded far when his eye


fell on the paper and pencil by hi


bedside and. going to them, he wa


astonished to find upon the paper a


accurate drawing of the complete fossi


with all its parts 1t was. in fact tn


picture of his vision. and gave hin
again all that be had in his sleep


He tells this himself, and says that h


can not account for the picture bein
there-whether he got up and did


himself. or whether it was done b
!, other means with which our reader
who are acquainted with direct spiri
writing are familiar. Having secure


the drawing. the professor compare
it with the fossil. and his curiosit
was now largely excited. he venture
on endeavoring to uncover that pa


of it which was concealed under ii
stony deposit. Applying a fine Chi
el to the part. he was fortunate enoug
} to remove the covering. and the
; was displayed before his eyes the Q,
5 act counterpart Of his picture.
Year: 1860




The New York correspondent Of the New
Orleans Picayune observes in recent let
ter.


know most intelligent and accom-
plished young lady, who has seldom slept
for the last seven years without being Wis
tied by phantom in the shape of d man,
handsome and more agreeable than any gen
tleman she has ever seen with her waking
eyes; and although at first she was fright
ened at his advances she now finds 10 these
delightful nightly interviews the chief charm
of life. This dream phantom makes love
like an angel. The lady is finely organized
and of a highly nervous temperament, and
the excitement of this ghostly intercourse is
exhausting her physical life. Every day her
cheek grow paler and thinner, and her eyes
brighter and larger. prestirie this strange
experience, which was confided TO me as a
profound and precious secret, with many
minute and most interesting particulars, is by
no means peculiar to my fair friend.


: This is a queer story, and we hope, the
young woman has not, under, the delicious
delusion of dreams (waking ones perhaps),
mistaken the nocturnal visits to her bed
chamber Of some ardent lover for those Of
what must prove, under the circumstances, a
very unsatisfactory ghost. -.1 -qsr. ...,
Year: 1860

DEFENSE OF THE PRIZE RINa.-Grantley F..
Berkeley, in his defense of the Prize Ring


says that in England, upon his personal in
qury, as well as on reading the charges to
juries of the different Judges when on cir
cult, it was found that precisely as the prize
ring had fallen into decay, and the boxing
very startling and twenty percentage or
more of increase in cases Of reference to the
deadly weapon, and that Englishmen, like
foreigners, instead of a manly boxing bout,
had commenced to stab with the knife"
Year: 1860

A SOLDIER FATALLY POISONED FROM EAT
ING SEALED CAN FRuITs.-A United States
soldier, named Hezroo, died a short time
since at Steilacoom, near Pugets Sound
through eating strawberries, which had been
preserved in tin can. 1t was found thai
this poison had formed through the acidity
of the fruit coming in contact with the metal
of which the can was composed; the effect
when eaten, being to ulcerate the stomach
and finally to cause death.
Year: 1860

Tue captain of the brig Persevere informs
the Alta. that there is a mistake as to any Of
his passengers being members Of the "Har-
monial Brotherhood" none Of them having
any intention of visiting Central America for
the purpose Of joining that notable associa-
ton.
Year: 1860

NV YORK CoRREspoNpENcE.-A letter
from New York will be found in our columns,
this morning 1t is from lady well
known in the literary circles, whose pen we
have been fortunate enough to engage for
the entertainment Of our readers. No doubt,
they will look for herletters, with interest.





SILVER MiSEs on THE CoAsr BANGE.-Somo
time since mention was made of the discovery
of a silver mine in Tulare county. A com
pany was organized in Stockton by MIR. j. J.
Short, the discoyerer, for the purpose of pros
pecting it, and we learn from the Nisalia
Delta that the party are now upon the ground
in company with others from Stockton, and
that they are prepared to work their claims.
The lead which is situated not far from Fort
Iejon, in the southwest part Of 1uare county,
has been traced for nine miles. Besides these
silver mines, the party say they have dis
covered "large vein of magnetic iron ore or
what they believe to be oxide of tin" Speak.
ing Of this discovery, the Delta remarks that
there is company now at work on another
silver lead, near Fort TETON, who have large
quantity fore out. and are putting up fur
naces for smelling. They have had their
lead thoroughly tested and now intend
smelling the ore themselves. They have been
engaged in opening their lead for some six
months. The miners of this region held a
convection on she l6th May, and adopted
laws for the government Of the mining in
terests
Year: 1860

Poor MINEs The miners on the Stauis-
laus, complain of the scarcity Of gold dust
Water is abundant, but the claims are said
to have been so often worked, that they have
at last fallen below the standard of Chinese
diggngs Many Of the miners are moving
away-most Of them in the direction Of
Mono.
Year: 1860

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