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Year: 1869

BALTIMORE, ugust16.-Accounts from almost
every section of this State represent great pre-
valence of drought. In the lower counties the
corn and tobacco crops are suffering dreadfully,
and on the Eastern Shore it is stated that only
half crop of corn can be raised. In the vicinity
of Baltimore the gardens and pasturage are
almost burnt up. With the exception of Occa-
sional slight showers in some localities, no rain
has fallen for weeks. The past three days the
weather has been very sultry.
Year: 1869

TUESDAY, April Z0-t +. ID.


The offerings Of money were much more abundant
to-day and good proportion or the loans ON cau
were made at six per cent, especially where the col
laterals government securities. Borrowers
were in no haste to make their engagements untn
late In the day, which fact developed more active
inquiry about haf-past two O'Clock; but the demand
was fully satisfied at seven per cent. and unem-
ployed balances were again freely Offering at three
O'Clock Discounts were easier and prime double
name acceptances sold at nine per cent. The quot
able rate for commercial paper is nine to twelve per
cent. The banks discountng more freely for
their regular customers and report steady increase
In the receipts of currency from the country.


While the money market Is thus drifting to the
ease and abundance OF the spring and summer
months there is u strong speculative feeling IN the
gold market, based upon the large extent Of our
foreign imports and the governmental policy Of
boarding gold. To-day the premium was subjected
TO the continued disturbance produced by the appre
hension Of complications arising out Of the Cuban
and Alabama claims questions. AS the morning
progressed the speech OF Senator Chandler began
be treated arclca and the market Yielded but the
heavy customs payments Of the day amounting to
nearly half million OF dollars created appre-
henson, especially the real scarcity Of gold very
manifest the banks holding less than eight millions.
and the premium took another upward turn at the
close. The European steamer brought 100000 in
specie. The range OF prices during the day was as
Year: 1869




17th says


The week closing tonight has witnessed more i'm.
provement IN financial affairs than any one for the
last month and hall. The testimony Of nine out OF
ten bankers Is that money easy compared to what
II was week or two ago. All the banks whose
business Is chiefly with the mercantile part of the
community say that their balances have increased
largely. We know Of one OF the leading banks In
this line OF business whose agg egate balances have
increased twenty-five per cent IN the last ten days.
and the increase has been made by q regular and
gradual daily progression, owing TO better collec-
tiOns and better sales OF the wholesale merchants
Another cause OF greater Il tnat prices OF grain
have been heavy and sagging down for so long
that those who have been carrying large amounts
from week to week and month 10 month, Ill hopes
OF rise, nave lately been getting discouraged,
and have sold out. Many Of them have sold at q
loss, but as some or the gram has been shipped and
bills drawn against II, some OF the local capital that
was locked up has been set free In that way. The
banks are now accommodating all OF their regular
customers who are entitled to accommodation and
we hear OF no good commercial paper aiOat IN the
outside market. There has also been an improve
ment In general trade In some respects during the
past week. Dry goods, grocery, hat and cap, and
shoe houses have been selling more goods, and,
though the improvement In collecting has not been
equal to the increase OF sales, the change for the
better Is very noticeable The movements oil cur
rency during the week have been unusually light,
though owing to the shipments OF produce East
WARD, the shipments OF currency that were made TO
New York IN the first half OF the week, TO make ex-
change, were not continued In the last half
Year: 1869




The feature OF the real estate market yesterday
was the sale OF lots Plainneld, n j. under the
management Of A. ]. Bleecker, Son Il Co. Being
the initial sale of that character this season much
interest was attached to it the peculiar condition
OF the market at the present tine while depending
upon its result are many contemplated sales OF pro-
perty almost similarly situated which would or
would not take place according as the in
dications presented by this were favorable
to far realization or not In view OF
an the SURROUNDINGS we are Of opinion
who were most interested. The land sold Is fully
two miles from the depot, and although portion of
level plateau. which includes that site with roads
Offering every advantage for the use OF the veloc-
Pede IN dry weather, and the promise OF q station
s.enSnr ns s ior%sr the qn IN
comoton, after heavy ram, for instance, ana
the fact that the latter accommodation Is still
10 De- anu u not yet the prices obtained cannot but
De regarded us very fairly appreciatlve according
TO The legitimate causes operating here in that drec-
tion Below we give particulars OF the sale; but TAX
ing low average OF what the lots brought, say
seventy-nve dollars, this would be equal to 5000 per
acre, price Of which we have no doubt any farmer
IN the nelghborhood may be induced to dispose OF
ms surplus land. The application OF the bicycle In
the relation suggested above is novel, perhaps but
we Cnfnk practical II that vehicle is to be OF
al ALL it Is under just such circumstances as belong
here gentleman doing business in New York city
living on some Of these New Jersey table lands,
nile or TWO from railroad depot, requires some
means OF travelling from that to his home. All
are not able TO keep carriages. The roads are nat
ana level almost as floor; then why not use the
voioclpedeY In dry weather the natural surface OF
the road hard enough, but provide for the con-
tingency oil ram and mud narrow planking
would be very little expense ana would answer oil
tne purpose. The peculiar facilities afforded for
te use OF the headless seed in the neghborhood OF
Piainheld, WIN the provision above stated may be
exceptional perhaps but II 1t could be utilized in
some such form the bicycle would solve one great
difficulty In the disposal OF suburban property, VIZ,
how the railroad depot Is to be IN front OF every
mans door.


At the Exchange Salesroom considerable quan-
tity OF Brooklyn property disposed OF with some
iew westminster county plots OF all which particu-
lars are given below.
Year: 1869

Loans Of cash gold early In the forenoon were
made at nat and per cent for borrowing, with an
exception at per cent for carrying. AS the morn
ing progressed it developed considerable activity in
rhe loan market, and as high 118 was paid before
eleven O'Clock; but the supply became fuller before
Clearing House time, and loans were again made fiat
up to the hour Of settling. In the afternoon per
cent was paid to carry balances over. The following
is the report Of the Gold Exchange Bank
Year: 1869

R6- The Senator elect from Ten :
nessee, Henry Cooper, is said TO
owe his election mainly to the
fact that, as Circuit Judge, he de-
livered the first decision against
the constitutIonality of tho Radical
dlsfranchisIng law of that State.
Year: 1869

IN the tea business, but found that
IL didn't pay there was TOO much
competition. He then went INTO
the manufacture Of fire-erackers for
the Fourth Of July, and did bettor.
One day q mischevious boy came
behind him and dropped match
in keg of powder he was sitting
on. 1t exploded, and Chang went
up like rocket, carrying bis pig
tail behind him. Nothing partieu-
lar happened TO hir going mp, but
coming down his pig-tail caught in
the top of a tree and suspended him
in the air.


HIS friends who had seen him 60
up and were waiting 20 give him n
public reception on his return, see-
ing his prcdicamcnt, undertook TO
pull him down by pulling ON his
legs


But his pig-tail was very strong,
aud held fast, and twenty stout Chi
namen pulling on to Chang stretch
cd him out like telescope, moro
than double his former length, bo-
fore he broke loose.


OF course they were astonished,
and so was ho. lie was in a bad sit
uation.


None Of his clothes fitted him.


HIS house wouldn't hold him, and
mono Of his relations would take him
IN.


Being too large for anything else,
he went into the exhibition line,
and Travelled all over China, with
circus. He did very well for a.
while, until new and bigger Giant
sprung up, who eclipsod Chang-Hi.
That Giant was n tremendous chap.
He was so big that you couldn't see
him all at once, and ho had to DO
exhibited in sections.


Aftcr tais nobody would go and
SEQ Chang-Hi, and he had to leave
China for some country where q rea-
sonable Giant would have chance.


Chang-Hi ls married,


His wife Is five feet two, and looks
i up 10 hlm as every WOluhn ought U
look up to her husband.


He is looked upon as a big man
IN New York.


Under tho Fifteenth Amendment
he may possibly become a citizcn
then the question arises how many
times he ought 10 be allowed to
vote.


If he should run for Alderman, ho
would be quito an ornament to tho
Common Council.


There is no telling to what uses
he may be put, for New York is q
wonderful place, and can take in
everybody who comes along, Giants
included. CoRRY O'bANus.
Year: 1869

The n. Y. Sun gives brief chapter


on the "Heroism of Humble Life, and ap-


pends the following touching illustration !:


Perhaps the finest of these modern in.


stances occurred two weeks ago on board


an English steamer. A little boy, aged


about nine years, was discovered on the


fourth day of the outward voyage from


Liverpool to New York, and carried be-


fore the first mate, whose duty was to deal


with such cases. When questioned as to


the object of bis being slowed away, and


who brought him on board, the boy who


had beautiful sunny face, and eyes that


looked like the very mirrors of truth, re-


piled that his stepfather did it, because


he could not afford to keep him, nor to


pay his passage out to Halifax, where he


had an aunt that was well of, and to whose


house he was going. The mate did not


believe the story, in spite Of the winning
face and truthful accents Of the boy. He
had seen to much Of stowaways To be ca
silly deceived by them, he said and it
was bis firm conviction that the boy had
been brought on board and provided with
food by the sailors. The little fellow was
very roughly handled in consequence
Day by day he was questioned and re-
questioned, but always with the same re-
suit. He did not know sailor on board,
and his father alone had secreted him
and given him the food which he cat.


At last the mate, wcaried By the boys
persistence in the same story, and per-
haps little anxious to incuIpate the sail.
ors, seized him one day By the collar,
and dragging him to the forecastle; told
him that unless he confessed the truth in
ten minutes from that time he would
hang him to the yardarm. He then made
him sit down under it on the deck. All
around him we're the passengers and sail.
ors of the midday watch, and in front of
him stood the inexorable mate, with his
watch in his hand, and the other officers
by his side. 1t was the finest sight, said
our informant, that we ever beheld, to
see the pale proud, sorrowful face of that
noble boy-his head erect, his beautiful
eyes bright through the tears that suf-
fused them. When eight minutes had
fed, the mate told him he had but two
minutes to live, and advised him to speak
the truth and save his life, but he replied
with The utmost simplicity, by asking if
be might pray.


The mate said nothing, but nodded his
head, turned as pale as ghost, and shook
with trembling like reed with the wind.
And there, all eyes turned on him, this
brave and noble little fellow, this poor
waif whom society owned not, and whose
own step father could not care for him
there he knelt with clasped hands and
eyes uplifted to heaven, while he repeat
ed audibly the Lords Prayer, and prayed
the dear Lord Jesus to take him to
heaven.


Our informant adds that there then
occurred scene as of Pentecost. Sobs
broke from hearts, as the mate sprang
forward to the boy and clasped him to
his bosom, and kissed him and blessed
him. aud told him now sincerely he be-
Iievcd his story, and how good he was
that he been brave enough to face death
and be willing to sacrifice his OWN life for
The truth of his own word
Year: 1869

"No SECRET, DocTRR."-I noticed
said Franklin, mechanic among q num-
Der of others, at work on house erect
ing but little way from my Office, who
always appeared to be in merry humor ;
who had q kind and cheerful smile for
every one he met. Let the day be ever
so cold, gloomy, or sunless, happy smile
danced like sunbeam in his cheerful
countenance. Meeting him one morn
ing | asked him to tell me the secret
Doctor" he replied, have got one Of
the best Of wives, and when go to work
she has kind word of encouragement.
and when I go home she meets me with
a smile and kiss and then tea is sure
to be ready, and she has so many things
to please me that / can not find it in my
heart to speak an unkind word to any
body" What influence has women over
The heart of man to soften and make it
tho tonpIiation of good and pu-s emo
tons Speak gently, then: a kind greet
ipp, after the tolls of tho day are over,
costs nothing aud goes far towards max
inf home happy and peaceful. Young
wives, and girls. candidates for wives
should keep this in mind to older wives,
experience may have already taught them
this important lesson. Aud what we say
to wives, we say also to husbands. A low
ing word and kiss goes very far with q
woman,
Year: 1869

Nothing so much vexes a physician as
to be sent for in great haste. and to find,
after his arrival, that nothing, or next to
nothing, is the matter with his patient.
We remember of an "urgent case" of
this kind, recorded of an eminent Eng
lish surgeon.


He had been cent for by gentleman
who had just received slight wound,
and gave his servant orders to go home
with all haste imaginable and fetch GER
tain plaster. Tho patient, turning a little
pale, said:


Heavens! sir, l hope their is no dan
ger ?"


"Indeed thcrc isl" answered the sur.
geon, "for if the fellow doesn't run like
race horse, the wound will be healed
before he can possibly get back J"
Year: 1869

WHEN Jackson was moving on to
strike McClellan's flank on the Chicka-
hominy, he came to stream which had
no bridge and could not be crossed
without one. The General had brought
with him, from the valley, a rough un-
educated man, full Of energy, who had
served him in emergen cies, and in
whom he had the utmost confidence.
He called this man and told him that
the stream must be bridged Immediate
ly; the regular engineers were also adj
vised of the fact. In q short time the
rough carpenter and the polished men
of science were at the stream; the
former had his plan, the latter theirs.
He wanted to 60 at the work at once,
without drawings; but they objected
until they could perfect the plans on
paper. The engineers retired to their
teIts to perfect paper bridges the car
peter took his men and went to work
to make a real one. In very short
time he appeared at the Generals tent
and reported briefly thus: General,
that bridge is done, but them picters
amt come yet"
Year: 1869

NEAR the village of NJ - there
lived farmer who had engaged son
of the Emerald Isle to work for him.
One morning in the spring Pat was
sent to harrow piece of ground. He
had not worked long before all the
teeth-eXcept two or threc-came out of
the harrow. After while the farmer
went out in the field TO see how Pat
proceeded, and asked him how he liked
narrowing. .


"Oh," replied Pat, ''it goes bit
smoother now since the pegs are out"
Year: 1869

SOMEBODY says that Eve is the only
woman VINO never threatened to go and
live with her mother. Yes, and Adam
is the only man who never tantalized his
wife about "tho way mother used to
cook
Year: 1869

It has long been the conviction of many persons that there were no varieties of apples which would succeed as winter keepers at the South. This mistaken mo- :tion has arisen from the fact that until within the past few years Southern tree planters knew no better than to plant varieties of Northern origin; never for a moment taking into consideration the i'm iportant fact that given variety of fruit requires for it's perfect development and maturity a given amount of light and heat; and that as a matter of course, a variety that will mature at the North at the close of warm weather there, will ma ture at the South before the close of warm weather here; and that having matured, 1t will enter into state of rapid decom- position and decay through the chemical changes brought about by excess of heat, No variety of fruit can be valuable as a winter fruit in any climate unless the time required for its maturity embraces all the warm weather of the latitude in which it is grown. Hence, an apple to be a winter apple at the South, must not mature before the close of warm weather here-that is, 1t must require several weeks longer time to reach maturity than Northern winter apples demand. Winter apples for the South must be such as are "native and to the manor born." They can be valuable only to the South since, in a higher latitude, the cold weather would come upon them before they reach cd maturity.

 Iu the matter, then, of winter fruits, it certainly holds to reason, and to the immutable laws of nature, that, by the prop.r selection of varieties, the South may become entirely independent of the North, Indeed, the ost respectable Northern pomologists admit that our best Southern winter apples attain higher excellence in respect to sprightliness ana flavor than it is possible for any Northern winter spples to obtain. There is nc reason, then, why the South may not sup ply the Northern markets with the very finest winter apples, and at ths mos remuneratiye prices. Intelligence in tht selection of varities, and industry in theil cultivation, can accomplish this-and i will be accomplished.

 Possessed of the finest soil and climate in the world for the production of th' most delicious fruits, let us hope that tht South may soon be able to rise from hel prostrate condition. and that she may soon look upon her hills crowned and hel wales shaded with her own native tree' and vines-the glory and the pride of tho generous hands that planted them TX OCT X Bledsoe's Catalogue.
Year: 1869

TIE SEX OF EeGs.-When, on examln- ing an egg, by holding it between the eye and the light of the sun, or Of candle the viyifying speck is seen exactly on the ton such an egg, it is said, will produce male bird; but if on the contrary, the sneck be o,, one side, it will produce then. It is said, also, that the sex Of the embryo bird may be distinguished by the shape of the egg; as if the eggis elongated in shape it will contain male, but if more globu, lar it will contain female So that, Il these indications be true, either sex may be propagated at pleasure, which IS not vet known to be the case in any other class of the animal creation.
Year: 1869

Is today. the most worthy and substantial Chill medicine now before the Southern peo-

 pie. It never fails to give the most perfect satisfaction in every respect Every pianta- ton should buy one dozen bottles at time.
Year: 1869

How TO GUARD AGAINST SMALL Pox-The
Pacific Medical and Surgical journal says of
small pox and exposure thereto,


Physicians exposed to the disease should
adopt some means for their own protection,
and also to avoid carrying the infection in
their clothing. The following rules, which
are applicable to others as well as physicians,
should be observed


l. Avoid exposure when the stomach is
empty, or the strength exhausted.


2. Do not enter the room in perspiration
and remain there till cold.


3. Avoid uncomfortable exposure to cold
on leaving the room.


f. Do not swallow the saliva in the room,
or Immediately after leaving it. 1t is posi-.
Bile that the germs of disease enter the blood
partly through the stomach.


5. After leaving a patient with small pox.
avoid entering another dwelling without free
ventilation in the open air-say for quarter
or half an hour.


6. Do not, under any circumstances, prac-
tice midwifery or visit families where there
are children or others unyaccinated, whilst
in attendance on small pox patients.


No other precautions than these have been
adoped in general by physicians in San
Francisco. Indeed, it may be safely said
that few have adopted all of these me tsnres
Yet we have not heard of one who has con-
tracted the disease. nor Of a single case of the
epidemic occurring in the family of a medi-
cal man.
Year: 1869

A STARTLING PREDICrIoN.-Prof
Leonldas, an astrologer of indianapolis
publishes the following prediction:


Il observe by the planets that dread
ful plague will commence in Russia, orig
mating from silks brought over from Cairo.
Egypt and Turkey. 1t will extend across
the Baltic Sea, and will desolate Germany.
cause immense mortality in England, and
then spread to the United States. This
dreadful epidemic will spot the people
like leopard, and turn their flesh to a
purple black. The pestilence will carry
off such an amount of mortals that there
will not be enough left to bury the dead.
or give Christian burial The streets of
our cities, towns and villages will be
swarmed with the dead and dying. The
groans and yells of horror will fill every
breast with CONSERVATION. On all sides
confusion will abound The death knell
will cease to toll as the malady RACES in
fury. The stencil of the dead will be so
common that the survivors will not heed
it."
Year: 1869

IHE Bee says no man who drinks liquor or
uses tobacco In any form should be permitted
to teach In any school. Abstinence from
these shoald be classed among the first quail.
iGcations in teacher.
Year: 1869

winter At three O'Clock ON Monday morning last
Mr.. Brown was reused up by some disturbance at
the barn. He hurried out with his lantern but found
everything quiet and secure till he went round IN
front Of the building, and there he found large
sliding door. which had been shut and locked.
ased up and thrown over. As he went in he dis
covered that his own horse all right but that OF
Mr.. Turner was missing. He soon found that the
halter OF Mr. Turner's horse was broken and that
the horse. instead Of going out through the
entrance BY which he had always been led,
had gone round back OF the cows had
crowded open small door which was fastened
with q common hook, and la some mysterious
manner had forced his way through the sliding door
and escaped. Mr.. Brown and his sons searched dill.
gently aong the roads for two or three miles around
and discovering traces OF the missing animal they
thought he must have gone h0me and so they con-
Guided TO adjourn TIL morning At early dawn they
renewed their search, and soon discovered his foot
prints, followed them around the corner OF the barn.
Through brush heap to bank wall about SIX feet
high and there the horse lay the lower sde Of t1as
wall-dead-nO MARKS or wounds and no signs OF Q
struggle The supp0siti0n is that the outside door
might have fallen against him and frightened MIN
thoroughly that the dark he rushed over this wall
and broke bis neck. But what started him In the
nrst place. when he had always been an unusually
quiet and sober animal, and how he worked his way
out, no one pretends to tell or know. This is the
third loss, somewhat similar though under different
circumstances, MIR. Turner has met with during the
last few months.
Year: 1869

cock. This Is the same youth whom she dared to
drive down an emDankment on the Clin House road


Q few years ago. which he did a. the small cost OF
~ 100. Her husband Is left behind she not having
seen him. 10 u said, since they left ST. James free
loving pa and dearest ma OF her last romantic ex-
pertinent aud Is now enjoying sesne other innocent
amusement But while this heroine Is thus eccentric
and romantic IN her composition and thus reckless
IN her demeanor, as before remarked. there are In
her character many OF the n0best traits possessed
word and warm heart for all. We're that heart,
those talents aud her consecrated to her God
and her life restrained by the religion OF Jesus she
would have almost unlimited capacity for usefulness