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Year: 1869

TIMED ES SlRABLE PROPERTY at the


corner ofThird and Alder streets, front
ing on Third street, and Immediately op-
posite tho Court House. is offered for sale
The building on the corner will at all times
command good rents for the purpose Of
offices. and the adjoining building is always
in demand as a genteel private residence.
This property will always bring q large re-
turn upon money invested, and with the
growth of the town must rapidly increase
m value. For further Particular, apply 10
= F. VETTER, Merchant Tailor,


seas.tf Main strest.
Year: 1869

SuDDEx RlsE.-The creeks, during the
latter part of this week took a sudden
rise in consequence of recent rain
storms and the melting of snow on the
mountain sides. The weather of the
present month is said to correspond with
that of the fall Of '6l. If the rains and
melting SHOWS continue to correspond,
sometime next month our townsmen
may be treated to another unceremon-
ious dash of Mill Greek water down
Main Street. Better be getting your
boots ready, Oilers.
Year: 1869

with something in IL. and have Major
Bruce pint copies till his type is worn
down To the second nick. but in tn.
name Of all that il allied To common
sense. do not circulate that report any
where outside of the Democrat.
Year: 1869

SHOOTING AFFRAY BETWEEN NEGR0Es.-James
Saunders. colored man, who has been In the New
York Hospital since the 18th Of November last was
yesterday brought before Judge Hogan by Sergeant
Kennedy Of the Sixth precinct, for the purpose OF
making complaint against John Hail, colored
seaman On the day named the two men had
diiculty OF domestic nature corner Of Baxter and
Park streets, when Hall drew a loaded revolver and
discharged the contents OF one barrel at saunders,
the ball taking effect In hts side or abdomen, tnrct-
ing what was then thought to be q mortal wound.
Hail was arrested the same day and mas since been
confined In the Tombs, while ms victim sought medi-
cal aid In the hospital. Hall, who admitted the
shooting. but GAINED It was done In self-defence,
was commit Ted for trial.
Year: 1869

Cash gold was In greater demand and loans against
Clearing House wero made at nat for borrowing in
the majority OF instances In transactions over to
Monday, which were quite numerous from " to ..
per cent was paid for carrying The report or the
Gold Exchange Bank was as follows:-
Year: 1869

The HERALD FoR lS69.-We will
use our utmost endeavors to mako the
Herald for 1869 q welcome visitor to
every 6reside in tho county. While VIC
will continue to battle for the noble
principles We have eudeavorcd to defend
in tho past-truc Democracy-tho paper
Will'not be wholly given over to politics,
but filled with the choicest reading and
news matter, such as will be ft to intro.
duce into every family. In word we in.
tend making the Herald Family paper.
Send in your names. Every family in
the county should subscribe for at least
one number. One dollar and half q
year. In clubs Of ten the Herald may
be had for sl.25 to the subscribor-or
$3.50 for the club. The cash must al.
ways accompany tho names. Will not
some Of our friends do good thing by
us?
Year: 1869

SwrNE.-You may buy long legged, long
shouted pigs at from one to three dollars
apiece at four to six weeks old, and make
them weigh at ono year old 300 lbs


Yon can buy Chester White pigs at two
months old for fifteen dollars apiece, and
with less food, make them weigh at one
year old 600 lbs, and will have no more
trouble with them on tho score Of fence
breaking. A farmer must be very rich


who can afford to keep the long legged


long shouted, fence jumping breed, when
the superior Chester Whites can be had
at the present prices; but remember tha,
every white pig is not a Chester White
Year: 1869

Cure For FoUNDERED HoRsEs.-Take
lump of alum the size Of walnut, pow.
der it and dissolve it in warm water.
Tho horse must be drenchcd with this
liquor, it will throw him into profuse
perspiration, and ho will soon be as we'll
as ever. This should bo os soon as you
ascertain his condition.
Year: 1869

I an fully convinced BY long experience, that
II is best both for myself and my customers, to
sell for cash or produce exclusively and while I
attn under many obligations to my friends for mast
favors, aud ask liberal share Of their patron.
agc, 1 hope NONE viii ask for CREDIT, as
am determined to stick to tho CASH SYSTEM.
Year: 1869

THE Russian papers record distressing
accident which recently took place near
Dorpat. Wolves had appeared In unusual
numbers. A hunter determined to kill
some of them, hoping To frighten away
the band. A horse died during the day.
He purchased the body and placed IL In
the edge OF the woods, to draw the wolves.
The night was dark Armed with several
rifles, he took his stand under q covert at
nightfall. He had not been long at his
post when he saw something black NOV
ing actively on the horses carcass. Sure
II was wolf, he aimed and fred. In
stantly he beard a despairing shrek, evi-
IDENTITY from a human being, which CAV e
him the greatest uneasiness. He went up
aud found poor woman mOrtally woun0-
ed and In del this agony She tod him
she was the mother Of three children dy-
ing of hunger she had observed the car
cass during the day, but was ashamed to
be seen taking portion Of IL, 80 she wait.
ed till nightfall TO cut piece of it for her
starving children. She had kitchen knife
and lying by her was stew pan she had
brought to receive the meat.


Her story was investigated, and found
TO be true In every particular. The inves.
tigstiOn led, moreover, TO the discovery of
the existence Of great distress among the
peasants of the neighborhood. The
neighbOriug authorities at once took meas
ures for the support of the three orphans.
One Of them was given to the hunter, the
involuntary cause of their mothers death.
He undertook TO bring 1t up, and launch
1t well in life. The village undertook the
care OF smother The authorities ordered
the head Of the village TO take charge OF
the third, "because he should have ascer-
tanned the distress of the victim and her
family, and have prevented her, by his
charity, from being driven to the cruel
extremity which caused her death"
Year: 1869

We have had several opportunities to
fully test the chloride of zinc, In solution,
/ such cases, and, 80 far as we are aware,
we were the first to use this agent. Ii
may be said thas II the persons who has
been bitten by dogs and had been sub.
] ,cted TO its use did not have hydro
phobis, the dogs were not "mad" Under
circumstances II might be difficult to prove
tlis proposition, but we dc not propose to
enter into an argument upon the subject
but TO make plain statement of facts


In one case, whore three men were bitten
by the same dog, at the same time, we
subjected two to the use of the zinc. They
are both living at the present time. al.
though this occurred several wears since,
while the third man who was not treated
IN this way, died, of hydrophobia on the
fourteenth day. In another case a gen.
gentleman, as we'll as cow and horse,
were bitten at the same time by a rabid
dog. We treated the man with the zinc !;
he still livesl while the COW and horse
both died within fifteen days. We might
give many other cases illustrative of the
Efficacy of this treatment, but we consider
this sufficient. The method we employ is
as follows; Make a saturated solution of
chloride OF zinc, and as soon assspossible af.
tor the injury inject this into any or all the
wounds made by the teeth of the animal ;
let It be done with a small syringe and
with sufficient force to bring the solution
in contact with every portion of the
punctured or abraded tissue. This should
be repeated the second day, after which
apply the water dressing until all the
parts which have been subjected to the
zinc slough out. Then the wound should


be allowed to heal under the ordinary
dressing, which will be effected, if there has
not been much laceration of the parts, in
from ten to fifteen days As an internal
remedy we use the carbonate of ammonia


ten grains to the half pint of water, thi,
quantity to be taken daily for twenty DAYS


The longest time which had elapsed from
the time the person was bitten until the
above means were used was four hours


yet We are of the opinion that this would
antidote the poison even ten or fifteen
hours after the injury, for the reason tina,
the zinc In any form when brought IN
contact with an abraded tissue will ac


upon parts quite remote from the part In


jured, and will, If taken up by the ab


sorbents, antidote the poison which may


have permeated the whole system many
hours previous. Eclectic Medical Journd,
Year: 1869

made At PompeiL In house In course OF
excavation an oven was found, closed with
an iron door, on opening which batch of
eighty-one loaves, put In nearly eighteen
hundred years ago, and now somewhat
overdone, was discovered and even the
large iron shovel with which they had
been neatly laid In rows The loaves were
but slightly overbaked by the lava heat,
having been protected by . quantity Of
ashes covering the door. There Is no
bakers marks on the loaves; they are cir.
cular about nine inches In diameter,
rather fiat and indented evidently with
the bakers elbow in the center, and are
slightly raised at the sides, and divided by
eight lines radiating from the center into
eight segmonta They are now Of Q. deep
brown color, and hard, but very light In
the same shop were found SOL bronze and
80 silver coins. A mill, with q great
quantity Of corn In excellent preservation,
has also been discovered.
Year: 1869

Wendell Phillips has been of the
opinion that the status of the negro in this
country will not be properly established
until we have black Vice-President and
plentiful sprinkling Of Ethiopians in
Congress. The eloquent and polished
Sumner has been, and probably is, of the
same mind.


Those gentlemen had an excellent op-
portunity to work for the practical APP
plication of their theories by taking hold
of the case of Menard, the negro claim
ing a seat in the House from Louisiana.
They did not take hold of the case of
Menard. He was stranger and without
money in Washington. Sumner and the
men engaged in the interests of God and
humanity in Congress did not call on
him. They did not lend him money, with
out which he could not prosecute his claim
to seat.


1t may be said he was not entitled to a
scat How could this be ascertained when
he was not granted a hearing? He was
starved out. He was driven away by neg
lect and contemptuous treatment. The
Jacobins in Congress are determined that
they will not have "nigger among
them. They care nothing about right OF
law when a seat is contested. Not many
days ago, this charge was made by the
senior Jacobin newspaper concern in this
city-Chicdgo Times 7h.
Year: 1869

EDMUND ABOUT says, in his " Old Time
Recollections," that, in 1s49, he was SO
poor that he was about to accept a clerk
ship in Lyons silk house and bid fare
well to literature. A timely loan of two
hundred francs, however, enabled him to
finish novel, for which publisher paid
him five hundred francs, and this success
encouraged him so much that he thought
he would try literary life little longer.
In the following year, he says, he earned
one thousand francs with his pen, and
thought that was doing exceedingly well.
His income is now never less than fifty
thousand francs year, and he has great
many more orders from publishers than
he is able to FILL
Year: 1869

THE Coroner of Louisville the other
day found a family living eight miles from
the city in a miserable hovel, and suffering
from want and misery. The mother of
the family lay dead on a pallet, the fsther
was down with heart disease, one daughter
was nearly dead with consumption, and
five ragged, filthy little children were
wasted by hunger to living skeletons.
The mother had hitherto supported the
family. but died from pneumonia, brought
on by over-exertion and exposure. Ample
relief was supplied at once.
Year: 1869

A FINE WoMAN.-It is very
pleasant to observe how different
ly modern writer's and the inspir-
ed author of the book of Proverbs
describes o fine woman; the form-
er confine their praise chief.
ly to personal charms and orna-
accomplishments; the lat
ter celebrates only the virtues of a
valuable mistress of q family, of a
useful member of society; the one
is perfectly acquainted with all tie
fashionable languages of Europe; {;
the other opens her mouth with
wisdom, and is perfectly acquaint.
ed with all the uses of the needle,
the distaff and loom I; the business
of the one is pleasure; the plea
sure of the other is business the
one is admired abroad, the other
at home; her children rise mp and


call her blessed, and her husband


praise her. There 10 no man In


the world equal to this, nor is there


a note OF music half so delightful


as the respectful language with


which the grateful son or daughter


perpetuates the memory of a sen.


sitle and affectionate mother.
Year: 1869

We know of nothing that is
more disbearteniny to the publish
er Of a country. newspaper, than
to be told as he often is /" I take
the Herald Tor some other huge
weekly and it costs me but two
dollars year, and contains deal
more reading matter than yours"
Does that man consider that its
receipts for one week are double
the yearly receipts of a country
paperg Does he consider, also,
that if that paper were published
a thousand years it would not ben.
eft him as much as his home pa
per does in one2 That is the thing.
See which will build up Your own
section; see which will be the
greater benefit to your own dis.
trict. 1t is the county paper that
directs the attention of people to
your farms, and publishes to the
world its advantages, invites capi,
tai and advances interest in it's
own and adjoining counties. Be.
sides, it is true that the huge week,
ly made mp of the ponderous ar.
ticles of the daily, contains more
valuable matter than. the county
paper. 1t is not always filed up
with lengthy editorials on some
subject foreign to your interests
and your taste, with long winded,
gusty novels, (the very bane OF the
reading public and extended &C.
counts of this and that: while your
county paper if conducted proper
ly, will give you everything of ion.
portance in the most concise man.
ner, and you have your time left
to spend in something more prof,
table than wading through whole
case of type.


Let no one fail to take his county


paper first, and if he should wan
a daily, let that be second con
sideration.
Year: 1869

We sometimes catch ourselves
wondering how many of the young
ladies whom we meet with are to
perform the part of housekcepers,
when the young men who now eye
them admiringly have pursuaded
them to become their wives. We
listen to those young ladies of
whom we speak, and hear them
not only acknowledging, but boast,
ing of their ignorance OF all house
hold duties, as if nothing would so
lower them in the esteem of their
friends as the confession Of an abil-
ity to bake bread and pies, or cook
a piece of meat or disposition to
engage in any useful employment.
Speaking from our own youthful
recollections, we are free to say
that taper fingers and liIy,white
hands are very pretty to look at
with a young man's eyes, and
sometimes we have known the art
less innocence of practical know
ledge displayed by a yonng miss
to appear rather interesting than
otherwise. But we have lived long
enough to learn that life is full of
rugged experiences, and that the
most loving, romantic, and delicate
people must live on cooked or 9TH
erwise prepared food, and in homes
kept clean and tidy by industl ious
hands. And for all practical pur-
poses of married life, it is general.
ly found that for the husband to
sit and gaze at wife's taper fin
gers and lilly.hands OF for a wife
to sit and be looked at and admir-.
cd, does not make the pot boil OF


put the smallest piece of food ir


the pot.
Year: 1869

ADVANTAGES OF BEING A Wo.
MANA woman says what she
chooses without being knocked
down for it. She can take q
snooze after dinner when her hus-
band goes to work. She can 90
into the street without being asked
to "stand treat" at every saloon.
She can stay at lone in time of
war, and get married again if her
husband is killed. She can wear
corsels if too tn ok, and other fix
ins if too thin. She can get di-
vorced from her husband if she
sees one she likes better. She can
get her husband in debt all over,
until ! e warns the public not to
trust her on his account. But
these advantages are balanced by
the great fact that she cannot sing
bass, go sparkling, or climb a tree
with any degree OF propriety.
Year: 1869

A MAN being awakened by the
captain of passenger boat, with
the announcement that he must
not occupy his berth with his boots
on, very considerably replied,
"Oh, it won't hurt 'em they're an
old pair"
Year: 1869

Another celestial phenomena Is ap-


preaching, which is even of more rare
occurrence than an eclipse of the sun.
That is a transit of Venus across the


SUMS disc. 1t is periodical, but the


periods are unequal, in one case being
over seventy years, and in the other


only eight or ten; we do not remem-


Der the exact length of it. The first


of them this century will occur in a


few years. Ii, of course, is visible
wherever the sun IS. And it is an
eclipse, too, for the planet does exact
ly what the, moon does, but being
very far away from us it intercepts
less of the sun light, just as the hand
held three feet of viii hardly hide
the wall of a house, while close to the
eyes it will shut out half the visible
world. Astronomers regard the tran
sit As nearly a. important an event as
a total eclipse. The one now ap-
preaching is. expected to settle def
nitely several questions, among them
that of the distance of the sun from
the earth. So this generation of
Americans IS unusually favored by
the heavens, for it has seen a total
eclipse of the sun and will soon see a
transit OF Venus, two of them indeed,
as the second occurs only a few years
after the first. The next two genera
tiOns will "die without the sight +" of
a transit or total eclipse.
Year: 1869

Editors appeal: Being property
| holder, an old resident, native to


the manner born, and participant


in the "late npleasantness," l am
unwilling that newspapers, or people
! having "aXes to grind, i" or otherwise,
shall hazard the future by making or
endeavoring to make issues or new


parties, whether they be called by old


or new names; for those occupying


my position "want none of these


things" / am not old, but am old
enough to have learned that there are


nearly always two sides to every ques-


ton, and it appears to me that the


I" third side" in this matter is the


middle and better ground for Tennes-
seeans who love their State, or have
an interest in her prosperity. | freely


confess | am no politician, nor am / a


"writist;" but it has occurred to me


that, instead of everlastingly opening
the doors to universal suffrage" or
everlastingly closing them, just at this
time We should adopt, as it were, a


neutral course, or partly one and


partly the other. For instance, as one
of the fundamental principles of the
Government of the United States is
or has been ''nO taxation without rep
resentation," if a negro or white


man has either a sufficient capital of
brains or property to entitle him to
voice as to the imposition of taxes or
the policy of the State, then let him
vote. Or, again, as the question of
revenue seems to be one of absorbing


interest in our State just at this time,


we might test a mans interest in the
Government by requiring him to pay
poll tax of five or ten dollars, and
to show his receipt for the same, when


he would have a right to say how he
wanted the question settled. Lastly,


/ would suggest that as negro trading,
negro selling, negro whipping, negro
emancipation, negro education and
equality all commenced in the North,
let the North open these doors first;
in the meantime, by remaining quiet
we can test their honesty. Nature
has peculiarly blessed our State, and
it certainly, from one end to the other,
seems adapted for the homes Of white
men, while there are other States
South of Us Il mean no wrong to
them) whose climate and soil agree
with the negro, and not so well with
white men. Now should we act hast
lily and open the doors, it may turn
out that those States will pursue a DIFF
ferent policy; and while we are in
favor of Immigration, we certainly
don't desire to be made the Mecca of
Africa.


We cannot afford to have two par
ties. There is one strong one already
in existence, and they hold the bal
ance Of power. SCRIBBLER.
Year: 1869




Says the New York IfOFid: How to
enjoy the pleasure of inebriety, and
yet to escape the shame of discovery,
is problem which wOmen-especially
those Of the respectable, not to say
fashionable, Class-have long endeav-
Ored to solve. The disreputable wo-
of gin and boldly avoWs her drunken
ness; but the reputable woman repu-
dates the coaFseness of undisguised
liquor, and breads the disclosure of her
intemperate propensities. Various
aids to drunkenness have from time
to time been adopted, and have en-
joyed temporary popularity. Not
to give more than a passing mention
to those familiar beverages of abnOr-
mally thirsty chambernaids-e de
Cologne and bay rum-there are the
numerous preparations of sarsaPaFilla
which ten or fifteen years ago were the
peculiar delight of Incorporate but
strictly moral women. Bitters sue
ceeded to the place made vacant by
the abandonment of sarsaparilla,
which had gained an unsavOry repu-
tatiOn by the careless frequency with
which it was exposed to the profane
gaze of masculine intruders into the
boudoir. In its turn, however, bitters
became too notOriOusly a pander to
unlawful feminine thirst to be longer
a safe resourse, and it became neces-
sary to secure some new and unsus-
pectel stimulant. At one time there
was prospect that hasheesh would
come into general use, but the intro
duction into the market of q so-called
" hasheesh candy" which produced
none of the desired symptoms of in
toxieation, brought the Oriental drug
into complete disgrace. In the alb
sence Of anything better, opium, the
use of which Is only less difficult Of
cOncealing than that of alcohol, would
doubtless have gained new devotees
had it not been discovered that chic
rofOrm was precisely the safest and
most convenient agent with which
female respeetability could intaNieate
itsnlf
Year: 1869

A rollicking son of the Green Isle,
named Sam, laid seige to the heart OF
fair daughter of Stephensville, and
won the consent of her parents y as
well as the heart Of Ye ladye faire.
Sam and Rosa were made one, and
the 6 parents +" granted a spot of land
for Sam to build his bride bower.
Sam built and had it nicely covered
in when he learned that the Dater
jQssisias wouldn't give him claim to
his lot. He demonstrated, but found
pater .ineXorable, said he would be
contented if he gave the claim to
Rosa; offered to pay for il, but Pa was
deaf. The house was built and sam
was sold, but not defeated. He made
his plan known, and bevy of neigh
bOrs came with block and tackle and
carried the house he had prepared for
his charming Rosa off to another lot
amid the cheers of the people and
curses of the outwitted father.
Year: 1869

AT Radical barbecue in Alabama,
the other day, colored women was
crowned as the Goddess of Liberty. 1t is
but Justice 10 decent negresses to say
that this particular object of Radical
worship was woman Of the town,