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Year: 1868

THE WILD WoMAN.-In the Grand Cane neigh
borhood in this country, short time ago, gen.
tleman in the depths of the forest suddenly came
upon woman, as wild and almost as feet aud
untamed as a deer. After brisk chase of some
distance, the gentleman on horseback, overlook
the wonderful creature. when she halted, and he
found her 10 be a medium sized, midde-aged,
well formed woman, with long dark hair, with
clear blue eyes. She was in a state of nudity,
save a girde Of gray moss about her loins Her
body and limbs we're covered with a beautiful
coat of hair about four inches in length. She was
much frightened and seemed unable TO talk, but
must have comprehended signs, as, in reply to
motions of the gentleman by which he sought TO
induce her to accompany him out of the woods,
she constantly pointed to her forest home. Fin
ally, the gentleman endeavored to compel her to
90 The way be desired, by getting before her. and
by threatening gestures with his gun, and, she be-
coming enraged, seIzed club and turned upon
him with the fury Of demon, aud II was only by
the speed impaired to his steed by liberal use
of the spurs that he kept out of her way. After
driving of her pursuer she resumed the directions
sbe had so constantly pointed, and was soon out
of sight. The gentleman followed, and, after GO
ing some distance, came upon her home. Three
trees, standing near each other, in triangular
form, with the spaces between them walled up
with brush and moss made her moss bed between
them, secure from the rude blasts of winter, and
comparatively secure from the pitiless rain. The
only stores discovered were q few nuts and some
four or five bushels of corn.
Year: 1868

tain at last rushed down into his cabin.
For the safety of themselves the crew
were obliged to leave the ship with the
Captain aboard. Every time they came
within hailing distance they called on
him to leave his ship. He came up on
deck in state of apparent intoxication.
His vessel was then nearly level with
the sea, and the unfortunate man was
heard exclaiming, II am good man
and can not be drowned" At last the
vessel gave lurch and went down head
foremost, and the captain disappeared
with her. He leaves a wife and family.
Year: 1868

reflect that sound mind and body are the IL os!
necessary requisites to promote connubid hap
piness. Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes n weary pilgrimage; the
prosp ct hourly darkens to the Wow, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness q
another becomes blighted with your own
Year: 1868

A man by the name Of Wilson was caught
in the machinery OF the Rising Star mill lust
week and had his foot bailly crushed. He
was taken to Qaackenbush & Ushcr's Pacific
Hotel, where he is receiving the medical at
tention OF Dr. Burgi


Blacks Mill Is doing good work on
Rising Star ore The result of the first ton
crushed was 3Tk pounds oF dTy amalgam
without cleaning the pan. This may be con
sidered very satisfactory. This mill works
about three and a-half tons daily.


A desperate affray occurred on Fri
day morning last between D. H Simmonds,
of Simmonds' Hotel, and A. b. Frank, a
butcher in Flint, in which the latter was
struck over the head with mahogany cane
and his skull probably fractured. is re
ceiving the medical attention of Drs. webber,
Burgi aud While, VINO entertain but slight
hopes of his recovery We will not lorestall
public opinion by commenting on the affair,
but hope it may receive a fair legal investi-
CATION.


We are glad to be able to announce that
the Rising Star mill is about completed. The
problem Of saving the metals of Flint will
soon be solved so lar as present enterprises
! look TO such a consummation, and we hope
the company may be richly rewarded for
their untiriag energy and lavish expenditure
| of money in the County. II was their inien-
tion to start up the mil on yesterday and the
roasting furnaces on Thursday morning next
We suppose thirty of the forty stamps are
now hainmering away, and as they have a
thousand tons OF ore on the dump and in
the mill, that they will not stop for the next
six months.
Year: 1868

st. Andrews Church.--We were
present on sunday at the dedication Of the
new Catholic Church, on Court Street, to St
Andrew the Apostle Father hesplie, pastor
of the Church, oficiaied for the blessing and
in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Father
Coll preached the sermon, explained the
Mystic Symbols and why Holy Water was
sprinkled inside and out Of the Church, which
was TO exercise the evil spirit and render the
ediice sacred to the worship OF God, and con
graduated the members OF the Church on
having a house where they could repair in
distress away from the earnal annoyances Of
the world, and commune with the ever
living God.
Year: 1868

The W0od st0cA MING mas DeeH
bonded to Dave Meek, who now has out
about one hundred and twenty five tons OF ore
estimated to be worth six or seven thousand
dollars. They are working through a tunnel
only eighty feet IN length but which at the
end is some two hundred feet from the sur
face. The ore is TO be worked at the owyhee
mill and. everything considered, the pros
nerts for the Woodstock are improving iilster
than al any previous time In It's history
Year: 1868

Chanse q Of the Democratie Electoral Ticket.


NoSreoxKRY, Oct. lS.-The executive commit
tee of the Democratic party Of this State has
withdrawn the present electoral ticket aud substi-
tuted one composed Of men who can take the
United States oath. At least one-half OF them
were officers in the federal army during the war
who have settled In the State since its close.
Year: 1868

and wholesale denunciation of Tennes-
seeans as rebels and former slave-hOld-
ers by promising negroes confiscation,
lands and mules in return for his votes.
His family, either remains in the North
or boards ut hotel till he gets an Office
or job. If he fails he returns North,
breathing curses and imprecations upon
the people of Tennessee, and giving an
account of our social condition calcu-
lated to deter honest men from coming
among us. This class of men do not add
to the productive wealth of the State
nor improve our social condition; on
the contrary they corrupt our society,
produce discord and sometimes subtract
from our wealth when they leave. They
are as much detested by the genuine
settler from the North as by the native
Tennesseean. 1t was against this class
in Nashville that l directed some re-
marks in public speech in September
1867, which they affected to construe in.
to an attack upon Northern men gener.
ally. To shield themselves from the in
dignation Of the community they affect.
ed to consider themselves the represen-
tatives of the Northern element, there
by raising false issue. The conduct OF
these men has, to some extent, brought
discredit upon our adopted citizens
from the North, which no man more re-
grets than l. These men have formed
themselves into office-seeking and job
bing rings in Nashville and Memphis,
and if my friend, Judge Patterson, as
pires to be their champion and leader,
he can have the honor.


Asking the public to pardon me for
appearing before it in this manner,
have the honor to be their humbls SER
want, A. j. FLETCHER.
Year: 1868

A correspondent who is spoken Of as
well posted, writes to the Cincinnati
Gazette of the I'd:


The packing season has just opened,
and the old contest between buyer and
seller is fully inau9urated. Packers
are using every means to induce pro-
ducers to believe that prices are already
high enough. IF prices are high enough,
producers ought to accept and be satis-
fed but if there is anything in pork
outside of the packers regular profit,
the farmers ought to receive it. Let us
first take theoretical view of present
prices. Last year packing was very
remunerative, and that alone would
stimulate prices this year, even grant
ing that the present crop is as great as
the last was. But there are not SO
many hogs this year as there were last.
Corn being very high last year, farmers
were anxious to get rid of their pigs,
consequently many young hogs that
had been fattened Oh mast and offal were
| butchered and sent to market, thus ma
terially reducing the resources for this
year. Then many hogs were permitted
to perish during the winter for want of
sufficient food, making another drain
upon the present crop. And to increase
both these evils, no one devoted their
attention to raising pigs, as it was
thought the sale of the corn would pay
better. The above reasons long since
induced me to conclude that the pres
ent years crop of hogs must fall short
of last years, and to confirm this have
accumulated some statistical facts
From actual inspection of the Audi
tors books in eighteen of the heaviest
hog producing counties in the State,
eighteen counties that produce upward
of one-fourth of all the hogs produced
in the State) find that the actual num-
ber returned by the Assessors falls near
ly twenty-five per cent. short of the
number returned last year. From Iowa
we have the same report. In Illinois
one hundred and twenty-seven points
report decrease while only forty-sev-
ell report an increase in the number Of
hogs. Indiana falls short. And so
does Tennessee. From review of the
facts, have concluded that hogs are
selling, Notwithstanding the apparently
high prices, too low, and that the crop
of this year will fall short. not less than
fifteen per cent in numbers from that
of last year. That would make hogs
worth, at the present time, in Cincin-
natl, eight dollars gross weight. And
this l think will be something near the
price that will be established when all
the facts that govern the market are
made known. Producers can act ac-
cordingly.
Year: 1868

State Debt and Railroad Bonds.


The Nashville Press anG Times is op-
posed to increasing the State liability
OH account of Railroads. 1t says in an
article on the subject:


The Comptroller of State, in state
ment of our finances recently submit
ted to the Legislature. estimates the ex-
cess of expenditures over receipts for
this year at about SSS7,0OO. Yet in the
face of these official figures it is con-
tended by some that the public inter-
ests will be promoted by making the
State liable for nearly three millions
more in bonds issued to unfinished rail-
roads. We are curious to learn by what
ingenious arithmetic this result is reach
ed. 1t would appear from it that the
prosperity of the State will be increas-
ed by increasing its embarrassments,
and that the shortest road to public
wealth and an overfowing treasury is
through ilimitable debt and endless in
terest. The logic which proves that be-
cause the State may wisely aid one rail-
road, it ought therefore aid score or
more, seems akin to the logic which
reasons that if one stove will save half
the fuel, two stoves will save the whole.
1t is time to call halt in the increase OF
State Indebtedness. Let every member
Of the Legislature give the statement OF
the Comptroller careful and thorough
study
Year: 1868

A New York paper states that SOL
diers who have gone into the hand Or
gan business will not claim offices un-
der the incoming administrations they
cannot make so much money by work
ing for Uncle Sam, as by peddling Of
fenbach, &C., in box. One of these
soldier organists is said to have cleared
$50 in one day at the corner of Fulton
street and Broadway.
Year: 1868

Horace Greeley announces that he
will give no aid to persons seeking Of
flee from the President elect, and adds


Gen. Grant will in due time choose q
Secretary of State, whose duty it will
be to see that the needed cOnsulates are
properly filled; but, if Gen. Grant al
lows himself to be troubled with appli-
cations for office, he is not nearly SO
wise man as we believe him, and not
likely to live so long as the public good
requires. At all events he will never
read any office seeking letters from u.s.
Year: 1868

Chief Justice Chase said to the mana
gers of the present Boston Woman
Suffrage Convention: ~ have for
twenty years, in public and private,
urged woman's right to suffrage. You
may say for me everywhere that think
there is no end to the good that will
come by woman suffrage"
Year: 1868

Baa When you see lady nowadays
with "lovely curls," the best you can do
is to say nething about them. AT least
don't ask for one, or she might tell you
where you can buy the whole thing.
Year: 1868

A lady who had two children sick with
measles wrote to ftiend for the best ren,>
edY. The friend had just received note
from another lady, inquiring the way to
pickle cucumbers In the confusion tho
lady who inquired about the pickles re-
ceived the remedy for the measles, and
the ANXIOUS mother of the sick children
with horror read the following: "Scald
Them three or four times in hot vinegar
and sprinkle them with salt. and in very
few days they will he cured
Year: 1868

ing all the conservative element and
all who desire to support the Consti-
tuition and restore the Union, forget
ting all past differences of opinion, to
unite with us in the present great
struggle for the liberties of the peo-
pie, and that to all such, to whatever
party they may have heretofore be.
lOnged, we extend the right hand o1
fellowship and hail all such CO. opera


ting with us as friends and brothers
Year: 1868

A young man asked an old gentle
man for his daughter in marriage.
The answer was go into the or
chard aud bring in a number of APP
pies. Give me one half Of The whole
number, and the mother one-half of
the balance and half an apple over
and to the daughter oRe-Aaif Of the
remainder and half an apple over,
and have one left for yourself, witha
out cutting an apple and then if
my daughter is willing, you can have
her." The young man solved the
question. How many apples did he
bring p?
Year: 1868

a late New York Independent in
its market article says choice brands of
Minnesota and Wisconsin Extras are
scarcer in demand, and better; and we
find this description is growing in favor
every season, and it is now felt that
they cannot be dispensed with.
Year: 1868

AN EvIDENCE.-As an evidence of
the feelings entertained for the St
Paul Press, We would mention the fact
that at one post Office near this city
where twenty copies of that paper used
to be taken, now only one copy is re-
ceived. Verify, the people are not
with that concern.-W Wobasha HeruLl
Year: 1868

A REMARKABLE SroRY.-A gentleman. in
whose credibilitY the most implicit confidence
can be placed, relates the following singular
story, the parties to which, and the material
facts involved, are personally known to him (:


young lady named Helen Hunter, living
between Dyensburg and Princeton, KY,
during n protracted religious meeting held
during the month of November, under the
influence of religious excitement, fell into a
trance, aud remained in a state of apparent
unccnsciousness for a period of FIVE days.
When she was aroused from the state of
iethargy into which she had fallen, she
related the experience of the FIVE days, during
which she professed to have passed into the
other world and witnessed the glories of Par
adse as well as the horrors of the bottomless
PIT. But the remarkable feature of the story
Is that she predicted that three young men,
then apparently in the most robust health,
would die before the year was out. A week
after the prediction was made one Of the
young men took sick and died in few days.
A week or ten days later the second died,
and on the first day of the new year the third
one expired.-Ecansuifle Journal.
Year: 1868

How TRUE lRIsHMAN TALKs.-From a
leading editorial in the Irish Republic, a
paper published at Chicago and devoted to
the cause of freedom in Ireland, we find the
following noble sentiments:


All who would secure the freedom of Ire
land, and OF America-of every land and
race of men that dwell beneath the heavens
have hut enc resource left them. And
that is, to fall back on first principles. Let
them take their stand on the glorious Dec
laration of American Independence, and
insist that every man-that all men" have
a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of
happiness" The men, or the party, who
are opposed to these principles. let us meet
with firm unbroken front. The fight may
be long, and sometimes apparently doubtful.
But truth and justice and God-the God of
freedom-are all with US and therefore our
cause, though baffled and betrayed and be-
lied ten thousand times, must and shall pre-
vail. Above all things, let US not be guilty
of the fatal betrayal of country and liberty
which inevitably results from the action of
men who, in their criminal inconsistency, are
the champions of freedom for one land and of
slavery for another, who to day worship the
Lord, and tomorrow kneel at the shrine of
Belial, who are for Republic in ireland
and monarchy in Italy, who would deck the
brow of the white man with the garlands Of
the free, and rivet on the limbs of the black
man the chains of the slave.
Year: 1868

A young man lately struck his mother a
blow with club, which almost broke her
back, beat his father horribly. and then bit
OH his brothers nose. It is needless to say
that this happened in Chicago
Year: 1868

G ONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY


- you. You have tried every remedy but the
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit, to supercede
all similar preparations. it is not surprising yea
should be reluctant to try something else after the
many experiments you have made of trashy COM
pounds foisted on the public a certain cure but
Year: 1868

and with one accord give it their unqualified appre-
bation We now address ourselves to all who are
unacquainted with this the greatest Panacea of the
age, for the healing of all diseases of the Throat
and Lungs, assuring you that
Year: 1868

SNAKE BITTEN.-Hiram Callahan,
of Nc Henry township, Lycoming
county, was bitten by a rattlesnake
under rather peculiar circumstances.
He was moving in a field when the
snake came in contract with the
scythe and was cut in two. They
went on round the field until they
came back to the same point, when
they went TO move the snake out of
the way. One of the men attempted
to lift It with the point of the scythe,
but failing to do so, Hiram took hold
of the piece on which the head was
attached, intending to Jerk it away,
but as quick as lightning the head
came back and the faags fastened in
bis thumb so firmly that he could
not pull it of, except by bringing the
piece with it. They then put n
bandage around the thumb in order
to prevent the flow Of the poison to
the heart But in short time the
swelling caused the band TO burst.
They then tied it around his arm and
again il burst. As soon as it could
be procured whiskey was admins Or
ed, but it was thought he would not
live.
Year: 1868

The madmen in Congress expect 10
abolish by act Of Congress, negro in
feriority and negro insubordination.
They can no more be abolished by
act of Congress than the eternal laws
of gravitation can. The positive and
and negative poles of a battery can


Just as eaily be abolished as the natu-
raj relation between positive and neg
ative races of men. 1t is something
that can no more be reached by act
Of Congress than the color of the ne
gro's skin can be changed by legisla-
tioD. Brains can neither be legislated
out of the white ruvv or into tho ne
gro race. 1t is God who hath made
these races TO differ, and the hand of
man will seek in vain TO make them
alike. The brute force of despotism
may Tor the moment throw these ra-
ces upon political level, but they
can no more remain there than water
can remain fixed either above or be-
low its level. The political equality
of the two races implies nothing less
than the wiping out of the white
mans civilization. And that can be
done only by the everlasting destruc-
tion Of the superior race through the
amalgamation of its blood with that
Of the negro's, as in Mexico and Cen
tral America. Wherevera a large pop
ulation Of negroes exist 10 connection
with the white race they must be Ia
ken care of by the superior race
must be directed, controlled, and com
PEELED to labor, or they must be sups
ported by tax upon white laborers.
Twist and turn the matter as you will,
there is no other side TO this question.


Before the so-called emancipation of
the Southern negroes their enforced
labor was a source of vast revenue TO
our country, while at the same time
it employed, directly or indirectly, a
large share of the capital and industry
of the North. But now, since the glo-
riouS emancipation, instead Of being a
source of revenue, they are an almost
incompatible expense to The country,
and instead of creating basis for the
superior skill of white Industry, they
cost the white laborers several hun.
dred million Of dollars year in taxes.
Results which prove that the negro is
not to be benefited by any circumstan-
ces which emancipate him from the
perfect control of the white race 1t
is as cruel TO turn him out upon his
own resources as it is to drive the
child from the door of its parents, and
force it out in the world TO shift for


itself at the tender age of ten years.


The attempt to bestow upon him a
political brotherhood with the white
race is like building a vast tmple up
on no other foundation than the shif-
ting sand. 1t cannot stand. Moth
ing but perpetual tumblng and crum-
ling can come of such an unwise
undertaking. What a mad dream
of thinking to base political equality
upon foundations of natural and eter-
nal inequality. But that is ihe dream
of fanatical politicians No scientific
naturalist, no profound student of his
tory, no man claiming any acquain-
tance with the natural history of the
human races ever in lulges in such a
crazy dream.-Ph PHILADELPHIA Herald.
Year: 1868

PRENTICE SPEAKs-A spontaneous
meeting was held in Louisville, Ken
lucky, Immediately after the reception
of the news of the nomination.
Speeches were made by Govemo
Bramlette, Geo. ID. Prentice, and
other prominent gentlemen. Geo ID.
Prentice closed his speech as follows:


alt is fitting that we rejoice 1t is
proper that we thank God for our
prospective deiverance. That we are
TO be delivered | know and feel rs
well as il the spirit Of prophecy w,re
upon me. j see victory upon us as
plainly as | ever saw star in heaven.
But victory pre.supposes battle. To
win we must fight. And are we not
prepared for the strife Our country
has long been filled with gloom and
dcsolatiOn aud woe. A Government
MS horrid as a nightmare or an earth
devil or hell-devil sits upon her bo-
som. The most beautiful portion OF
our broad land is swept by a sea of
tyranny worse than lake OF fire and
birthstone. Let us, then, all of us, 20
forth TO our work If by our own
fault we fail in the mighty cause in
which we are now engaged, God s
curses and mankind's and our own
will rest upon us"
Year: 1868

Dante was asked by the Prince of
Verona how he could account for the
fact that, in the household of princes,
the court fool was in greater favor
than the philosopher. similarity Of
minds" said the fierce genius, sis
over all the world test of friend
ship.N