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Year: 1869

TIE RIcHIEGs.-To-night the Richings
open their brief season with Verdi's beau
full opera Of Traviata. The company comes
in full force, and with all the attendants OF


a frst-class opera troupe. It is sure thing
that there will be q full house to greet them


here on their opening night.
Year: 1869

died by the bungling manner in which
they had performed their duty, leaving
him to a lingering death instead of dis.
patching him at once.


A. length, with a dolorous exertion. he
raised himself on his elbow and looked
over and beneath his shoulder, as though
to determine the noarness of his exit by
the quantity of blood that had issued from
his wound. Apparently astonished at
finding none, he next, with slow but seem.
ingly less painful movements, commenced
feeling his back for traces of the bullet
hole. Unsatistied with this, he raised him
self TO a sitting posture, and with much
eXertion took off his coat, and finding NO
porioration, the truth of the trick flashed
upon him at once, when seeing some
stragglers. of the enemy in the distance,
he started up, seized his musket and ran,
as none had ever seen him do before,
toward the American lines. He arrived
long in advance of the Lieutenant and his
party, who never had occasion thereafter
to Censure his bsttled subordinate
Year: 1869

schools by State inspectors. Another law will
be brought in to totally abolish the Concordat,
and another TO make civil marriage compulsory.
Stormy scenes may be looked tor curing the
next session OF the Reichsrath.
Year: 1869

wHAT Is THERE YET TO BE DONE?


In considering this question IL must be re.
paembered that all the rem aiming iron to finish
the road is contracted for, auA the largest por-
hon paid for and now delivered on the line of
the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central
Pacific Railroad, and that the grading is almost
finished.
Year: 1869

a San Francisco correspondent of the
Boston Journal thus describes Chinese
funeral: First comes wagon contain
ing several Cinnamon, one of whom is
beating aloud a gong, and another a
pRir of cymbals to warn off evil spirits,
another is scattering little bits of white
paper along the streets to the cemetery,
by which the dead can find his way back
TO the regions of the living, and two
large pigs roasted to brown, with a
portion of which the mourners, who fol.
low in a long line of carriages and
wagons, and appear to be jolly enough,
are TO regale themselves at the grave,
and the remainder is left there by them
for the departed one, but is generally
taken possession of by "Melican men" :"
as the Chinese term the Americans.
Year: 1869

A dispatch to the New York Herald
says: MANY of the Radical Senators
and members who remain in Washing,
ton express the conviction privately
that unless the Cabinet is reconstructed
the Republican party win so to pieces
and the next House of Representatives
will have Democratic majority"
Year: 1869

THE Boston Journal wants public
drinking fountains in that city. The
enforcement of the prohibitory liquor
law renders the idea impracticable, as it
compeiS folks to do their drinking in
private.
Year: 1869

General BUTLER is mentioned among
those who aspire to the Gubernatorial
Chair of Massachusetts,. The Detroit
Free Press says "the idea is good one,
because there is a fitness in things,
aud if BUTLER is not one of the things
fitted to Massachusetts Radicalism it is
impossible to fud one"
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use of either of these
remedies: They will cure every case of Ma.
RASMUS, without fail


Thousands Of certificates have accum ulated
in the hands Of the proprietor, bat space will
allow of the publication of but a few. Those
ii will be observed, are men of note, and Of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

A new Radical paper is soon to be
issued in Philadelphia, under the title of
the Empire. 1t is to be companion Of
the Imperidlist, and advocate the Radical
idea of changing our Government into u
despetism.
Year: 1869

It is well established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, to
use their own expression, never feel we'll"
They are languid, devoid of all energy, extreme.
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


10 this class of persons the BITTERS or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BTTTERS or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore in measure the energy and ardor of
moro youthful days, build up their shrunken
remaining years
Year: 1869

TBR FRENCH CABLE TO BE LANDED ArCAPE
MAY The Cape May Ocean wayeis Informed
oy lndIsputable authority that the French A.
iantic Cable Company will land their shore
END at point OF the beach nearly fronting the
new Stocking Hotel. al the cape under the
sanction OF the bill paased by the State Legisla-
ture AZ its last session
Year: 1869

IMPORTANT INTERNAL REVENUE CrRcU-
LAR The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
with the approval OF the Secretary OF the
Treasury. will shortly issue a circular to the
various officers OF the Revenue Department In
structing them relative to incomes derived by
subjects OF foreign Governments upon capital
invested In this country. Chief Justice Chase
recently decided upon the circuit, IN Balti-
more, that the Government could not withhold
the per cent. tax from foreign subjects; hence
the circular will be issued instructing officers
not to collect the same. The amount heretofore
collected will be refunded, aud aggregates a
considerable sum, one claim alone being about
S15O,0OQ.
Year: 1869

In his discourse in the Spring Street
Presbyterian Church, on Sunday, Rev. Dr.
Aikman thus delivered a Lesson to
Wives The Bible understands human
nature full as well as we of this late genera
ton do. What is required of the wife is
that she shall love her husband sspremely,
which cannot be done unless she respects
and puts ner entire confidence in him. So
far as other men are concerned, she must
ho,d him supremely above them in her
mind. The preacher then considered the
various minor duties Of the wife toward her
husband. He touched upon the too com
mon practice Of making confdants of some
particular friends, when the husband alone
should be her eonfdant. There is also
tendency in the household after marriage
to neglect to keep up those evidences of af-
fection which first drew husband and wife
together. Greater diligence is necessary to
keep their love warm when they have en-
tered upon the realities of life than when
they lived in the dreams Of eourtship and
early happiness. Ameng the things TO be
preserved from first to last is that modesty,
grace and purity which first won the hus-
band. Then, there are all the personal at
fractions to be continued Nothing is more
coveted By hightoned man than charm
ing wife-one who can converse with him
intelligently, and appear to advantage in
society; one who always looks beautiful in
her happy face, and attractive in person;
one who is not slovenly; who keeps the
home neat and cheerful who is full Of deli
cate attentions, and is absorbed in her hus-
bands and her family interests. All these
charms can be maintained by the wife
through life by little attention every day
TO what she knows viii please her husband.
NJ Ir Commercial Atlcefiser
Year: 1869

Go, Henry, 60 the hour has come


When you and / forever part
Those twining cords are now unloosed
That bound thee closely to my heart.
No, will ne'er consent to be


The wife Of Que whose reckless soul
Is led by passion seething hand,


To patronize the poison bowl
l spurn The cup with all its friends,


And feel determined not to link
Ny destiny with one whose deeds


Would place me soon on ruins brink.
Yes, 60 and Ill be free again


For / had rather spend my life
In loneliness, and die unwept,


Than be loathesome drunkard wife.
Year: 1869

dol will take it, :


There was little touch Of sad
ness in his voice as he pinned the
emblem on his coat and went away
muttering: " Compass, square
and gimlet, I do wish there was a
saw, though"
Year: 1869

Mothers ere warned against cuttisg
their children's hair too often. II it is
OF good thickness at first, scissors should
not be touched to the head; cutting
makes the hair grow thick but coarser.
moderate length, and washing once a
week with q teaspoonful OF liquid am
monia In large bOwifGl Of warm water,
is the best treatment possible. Keep It
done up loosely so that the air can move
through the hair freely. II any stimu-
liant is required, half an ounce OF dry
ammonia, rubbed into q pint OF pure
olive oil is the finest dressing to be made,
surpassipg bay rum, and any mixture OF
spirits and oil. This dressing prevents
hair from turning gray, If anything will
do so, and urges its growth.
Year: 1869

From the drama which is intended to
move the sensibilities we now turn to
the tragedy, which deals with human
nature in It's sterner moods. i undertake
to show that the moral tone OF the dra-
ma in this form is radically unsound. A
play, in order to bs popular, In order to
draw well, must be instinct with pathos
and passion.


Now the leading element OF tragic
power is, with few exceptions the senti-
ment of worldly honor, In this impulse
Year: 1869

Which besets the subject, lies In the
use made of the fact, that we need
recreation and amusement, that the
mind and body bearing the lead and
druid gerry of human life cry out, now
and then. for relief.
Year: 1869

GOVERNOR Cox wades through half o
column to tell why he wasn't appointed
Governor of Washington Territory. He
gives every reason but the right One-his un>
fitness for the Office. The radical party has
done many mean things, and Grant got pref
ty low down when he appointed negroes to
Office, but take the whole catalogue together
and there has been nothing quite as bad as
would have been the appointment of the "Old
pig driver" to the position of Governor OF
Washington Territory. Shade Of Stevens,
look down upon US and avert this last calam-
ity from the Territory you loved So we'll.
Year: 1869

TIE Maine radicals are in peck of trouble
about their forthcoming State Convention.
Presuming upon the cooperation of the
ramrod element they declared their intention
to give Gov. Chamberlain another term of
office, at which the prohibitionists threatened
to secede. The Governors patriotic record
during the rebellion and his praiseworthy
administration of public affairs, have no weight
with these fanatics. He must be sound on
their goose or take himself out of the way.
The newspapers discuss the subject in a
ferocious manner, giving rise to reasonable
prediction that the affair will result in split
through which COL Smart, Gen. Boynter, or
some other honest democrat can walk through
to redeem the State from its load of wretch.
edness. So mote it be-
Year: 1869

PATIENT AND SATISFIED. did not ex
pect to be received promptly nor did We ex
pect not to be received. We did not expect
anything. The fact is We have gone out of the
Expectation trade Ii is an article We prefer
not to deal in. We have learned to labor and
to wait, and while waiting, We make it point
Of conscience to have good time.


We are Just as blessed and exultant as II We
were already in the Union. Ii Congress should
take us in to day, We will be very much pleased,
but if tho matter be put off till January, that
will suit us Just as well. If we are taken in, il
January, we will be delighted, but it it is co u
sidered best that We shall remain in our pre-
sent posture another month, or year, or forty
years, we are perfectly agreeable. 1t Congress
upon reflection, should deem it best to bring
the matter back to the people, and will give
us an open field. that will be splendid. An
other campaign just now would be charming,
provided, of course. Congress thinks, it best. {.


If Congress should regard it necessary to re-
qure the members OF our Legislature to swal.
low the test oath, then we say with all oul
hearts, we are periectly-not wiiling.-Fsters'
burg IRdeE.
Year: 1869

reflect that sound mind and body are the most
necessary requisites TO promote connubial hap
pness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes weary pilgrimage, the
prosp CT hourly dsrkens to the Wow, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness o&
another becomes blghted with your own.
Year: 1869




Ne Lave no desire to waive any portion Of
the honor the Bnrnacles are disposed to
award 10 Tur TRIBUNE for it's share in their
overthrow. Il they will insist on nttribut-
ing to us far more of the credit of that re-
suit than We would lie disposed to claim,
We can ouly say that il VIC shall not stand
high in the esteem Of the people it will not
LIE their fault. For no mere praise is so
fnl' of true homer md fame US tho abuse Of
discounted and defeated wrongdoers.
That is always hearty and sincere, and tells
its story


1t is hardly becoming, however, in any
person occupying the position Of Journal
lit ~ bceal tle fact that a great public
rrform should have been accomplished
through the influence Of the press. He
should console himself with the reflection
that, il one portion vf the press aided eni-
GENTLY in tho reform, another portion had
aided with equal efficiency in the abuses.
Indeed, go far as the recent contest
involved tho press at oil, it was q
fight between ticket satisfactory to the
editor Of one German newspaper and
a ticket in accordance with tho yiegs
Of the remainder Of the press. We
SEQ nc reason why it would have been less
dictator'al for the editor Of one German
newspaper to impose ticket on ths l.pub.
licnn party shnn it has been for the editors
VI tho other daily papers TO support q
Peoples ticket III opposition. Certainly, rs
between government Of many papers aud
Ut one paper, it is moro democratic to 10
governed by the mniu,ity
Year: 1869

We remind our readers again Of tho Free
Trade meeting at Farwell Hall this evening.
There is certainly no man In this country
who can discuss the subject more ably and
more understandingly than Professor Porryl
and the opportunity to hear him should not
be lost. The question is one which cannot
Year: 1869




SOME forty years ago my husband spent
some months in Spain, and what he wit
messed and heard there quite revolution
lied his opinion of donkeys. When
habitually overloaded, beaten and half
starved, they undoubtedly become vicious,
obstinate and stupid just as human beings
do under similar treatment. But with
the peaSantry of Spain the iackass is a
petted favorite, almost an inmate of the
household. The women and children of
the family feed him from their hands, and
talk caressingly to him. He knows them
all, and loves them all. He will follow
his master, and come and go at his bid
ding, like a faithful dog. He delights to
have the baby placed on his back, and to
walk round with him gently on the green
sward. His intellect expands in the sun
shine of affection, and he that is quoted as
the stupidest of animals becomes sagacious.
They told Mr.. Child of peasant in the
neighbOrhood, who had for many years
carried milk into the market of Madrid to
supply set of customers. Every morn
ing he and his donkey, with panniers well
loaded, trudged their accustomed round.
One morning, when he was attacked by
sudden illness, and had no one to send with
his milk, his wife advised him to trust the
faithful animal to go by HIMSELF since he
always knew just where to stop. The
panniers were accordingly filled with can
isters OF milk, and the priest Ofthe village
wrote request to customers to measure
their own milk and send back the empty
vessels. The donkey was instructed, and
set off with his load. The door-tells in
Spain have rope hanging outside the
house to which is appended wooden
handle, or the hOof of some animal. The
donkey stopped before the house of every
customer, and, after waiting what he
rope with his mouth. Whom he had gone
the entire round, he trotted home with the
empty canisters He continued to do this
for several days, and never missed n Gus
tOmer.-LydiG MariG Child.
Year: 1869

SOME months ago, business led me to an
out-of-the-way place, where, near by fall
of water, there lived two boys, one eight
and the other ten. They were bright
eyed, inquisitive little chaps but generally
without either hat or shoes, and often with
pants and jacket sadly rent.


Busted as | was in the repairs of an old
mill, these boys were handy to send on
errands, bring tools, look after my horse
turned out to bait in the road, and do
numberless little things to save the steps
of those who were older.


One day, on reaching the mill, saw the
Oldest boy standing upon a rock, partly
hidden by the foliage of the surrounding
trees, fishing, and as often as he felt 4
nibble he would jerk his line as spitefully
out of the water as though he bore the
little fish some terrible grudge, and wanted
to pay it by twitching their heads off. /
asked him why he did so, and explained
as well as | was able the best modes of
taking such fish as made the little brook
their home.


After hearing me patiently and respect
fully, he said Mister, you fish with
hook that has got beard on it, and when
you hook one he stays. My hook hA'n't
got any beard. It's an old broken one
that Liger Green gave me. | ha'n't got
any money to buy a new one Mother
wants the pennies you gave me. like TO
fish, like to catch 'eln for mother, and
have to twitch 'em when they bite, or they
will wiggle of, and shall lose 'em"


/ liked the talk of that boy. He did not
grumble about his old hook, but did the
best he could with what he had to do with;
and day after day, as | saw him doing it,
and taking to his mother the reward of
his toll which had cost him so much care
and thought and skill, knew that he was
laying with that alder rod in his hands the
foundations of grand character


That is the way Horace Greeley began.
He fished awhile with bcardleSs hook.
His father was very poor, and he had
scarcely any books and what he had he
was obliged to read by the dim light of
pine-knots which his own fOrethought had
gathered; but he is now one of the ablcst
writers, as well as one of the most infiu-
entail men in America.


And so with John Jacob AstOr. He had
no money, or comparatively none, when
he came to this country, but he wanted to
trade, and so he carried his little bundle of
goods around under his arm or in his
hands. He fished with beardless hook.
Afterward he bought furS, and carried
them on his back hundreds of miles to
market, and when he died he had grown
from absolute poverty to be the richest
man in the country.


There is scarcely great man or good
man on this side of the Atlantic that did
not have a tough time in his boyhOod, did
not fish awhile with beardless hook and
of all the boys now in the country, those
only will arrive at eminence who do the
best they can with what they have to do
with never complain, but push cheerful
ly and resolutely IN in the path that leads
upward to noble and good and grand
manhOOd.-Hcdrth and Home.
Year: 1869

"THERE, / did mean to sew these but
tons on Frcd.'s jacket before night |
have thought of it just in time, for he
must have it early in the morning. do
forget so many things | have to do" said
Lucia Warren 10 good Aunt Patience,
who was visiting her for a day or two.
" YOu can wait few minutes for me,
can't you, aunty? | will not be longs"
and Lucia went to get her work, taking
off her gloves, and throwing back her
veil 1t was troublesome TO stop Just as
she was going out, but the work must be
done Indeed, it was nothing so very
unusual, as Lucia seemed always forget
ting things, as she said.


81 will tell you an excellent plan have
followed for years" said Aunt Patience.
Z" 1t is that of keeping little slate with a
pencil attached, hung up in some con-
venient place, and noting down on it all
the things / wish to do. If You like,
we will buy such slate while we are out,
and l will get you started in the same
system"


Lucia entered into the scheme with
great enthusiasm, and that night saw one
side of her little slate well covered with
items she wished to remember. She did
not attempt to classify them, but noted
them down in just the order she happened
to think of them. Aunt Patience
did not wish her To undertake
too much at once. The classilica-
ton would come afterwards The other
side of the slate had been reserved for to-
morrow'S duties \ regular plan WAS not
laid down for the whole day, with the
hours set to them; for aunty knew that
no house mother could bring all the rest Of
her household to time in such matters,
even if she could herself BY undertak-
ing too much, young hOusckeeperS are
often discouraged, and give up all efforts
at systemstizing. 1t was the ground plan
only of her work which was laid down,
but it helped her wonderfully all through
the day. 1t was such n satisfaction to
draw line through anything which had
been completed; and then, by glanclng
her eve down the list, she was sure not to
forget Just the thing she ought most 70 re-
member.


I'm time, the little slate came to be re-
garded as one of the most useful articles of
furniture about the house. 1t saved hours
of time and dollars of waste, besides add
ing fully third to the family comfort and
convenience If you are sceptical, hang
up one i'm your own home, and consult 1t
as Lucia did, and | DO not doubt but You
will arrive at similar conclusion.


If the youthful reader will begin early
the practice of making a memorandum of
the duties to be performed each day, and
discharge those duties in their proper
season, a habit will be formed whth will
prove of incalculable benefit in after years.
= EEchdnge.
Year: 1869

1t is common practice of nurses and
parents to grasp children by single hand
or wrist, and lift them bodily, as in step
ping over cutters, streams, etc Occasion
ally a child is seized by the hands and
swung around with great force, the body
being held nearly at right angles. This
feat is not always followed by immediate
i'll effects, but it is liable to result in most
serious injury. AT this period of life, the
ends of the long bones are united to the
shafts by cartilage, which renders them
weak and very liable to be distorted by
force There are three of these bones in
the arm one between the shoulder and
elbow, and two between the elbow and
wrist The arm of the child is, therefore,
very weak When extension is made at
he hand, the force is not expended upon
long, firm bones, but rather upon bones
broken at several points, and very loosely
united. A small force, far less than is re-
quired to fracture fully formed bone,
will separate the cartilaginous portions, or
permanently bend them There is also
another form of injury which may occur
at the instant. OF this have seen several
examples 1t consists in a slight dlsplace-
ment of the cartilages in one of the joints,
either the wrist or elbow, attended by pain,
swelling, and tenderness. The joint is
fixed in semi -lexed position, and the
little sufferer will not allow it to be moved
or even handled 1t can be easily rectified
by surgeon, by forcible flexion and ex-
tension Finally, by lifting child in this
manner the ligamenis about the joints may
be extended, and this will weaken the
Joints and this weakness may remain as a
permanent disability-An Eminent Ply
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