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Year: 1869

An odd and amusing incident recently
occurred in connection with the Gentle
opposition to Mormon authority. A man
coming from the West stopped at the
Hot Springs, just outside of the city,and
having heard much of their medicinal
properties was about to bathe in one of
them. After he had disrobed, and just
as he was about to plunge in, stranger
approached and told him that be could
not bathe in that spring The Western
Gentile's ire became aroused at once, and
thinking that it was another instance of
Mormon despotism, he Immediately re-
piled: "The h-ll l can't dixie to see
old Brigham or anybody else stop me,
aud in he plunged, bat he got out sooner
than he got in, for it was boiling spring.
His anger against the Mormons had not
permitted him to ask the stranger why he
could not bathe there, but he was deter
mined to show Brigham that he could not
stop him from bathing.
Year: 1869

An Incident on Board the Great Eastern.


The accident to the French steamer
Pereire reminds a correspondent of the
Albany Argus Of an incident ou board of
the Great Eastern during her last west
ward voyage two years ago Il says:


The consumption Of Goals haJ. on the
eighth day out, brought her bulwarks to a
height Of thirty nine feet above the sea
ION level keel). One morning, before
daybresk, l was awakened BY being
tossed in my berth, which happened TO be
athWart ships / got up aud went on
deck, and found the most terrific sea that
/ had ever seen, though an old sailor.
Just at daybreak we shipped a sea for
ward, which killed one seaman and
severely wounded three more. They
were hurt by being dashed against the
anchor slowed on the upper deck.


The wave, in this instance, must have
been no less than tweniy-nine feet from
trough to crest, and perhaps more; for
Year: 1869

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Year: 1869

On Wednesday evening last Henry
Steward and another young man left the
scity for home II seems that when tw 0
or three miles from town that Steward
and his friend were riding along horse
back, unarmed, when a party Of young
men composed of one Frank Steel and
some of the Meadows came riding up on
q gallop--shouting and hallowing. Steel
when close up to Steward fired his pistol
at Steward and shot him through the leg,
making a bad, but we believe not dan
gerous wound after doing this he fired at
the friend of Steward and then rode of
with shout. Officers have been out to
arrest him, but he had taken TO the brush.
sNe would not advise Steward or his
friends, to waste their time and money
to obtain justice, at law, in these days.
for they will find it but time and money
thrown away This was malicious and
cowardly attack, as not word was pass
ed between them
Year: 1869

The river commenced rising again last
week and is now. as shows by the guagc at
the wharf, 1s feet above low water, and rising
fast. The annual or June rise no doubt COM
ing down.


The only arrival from below since our last
Is the GIBSON from Little Rock. She arrived
on Friday. discharged good lot of freight
here and left for Fort Gibson. She will be
down and leave for Little to-day.


The Van Buren, returned from Fort Gibson
last Wednesday and left for Little Rock.


The Fort Smith from Little Rock and the
Economist from New Orleans arc due.
Year: 1869

is" The Van BureA, on her last trip
up to Gibson took up large lot Of con
tract corn for the government The corn
proved to be damaged and the parties to
whom it was shipped refused to receive
it and the boat stored it on the bank.
This was the cause Of the delay Of the
Van Buren at that place two days over
time We believe Mckee d Co. were the
successful bidders to bill the contract
Where the loss will fall we are not in.
formed
Year: 1869

EE Methusalch did not liveso long rs
he might have done, had he attended to
good advice; for it is written that as he
was sleeping on the ground, when well
stricken in years, an angel came to him
and told him that if he would rise up and
build him house to lie in, he would live
hve hundred years more. Methusalell
made answer that it was not worth while
to take house for so short time. And
so he died before he was thousand
years old.
Year: 1869

CONE DowS-The Everett House and
Metropolitan Hotel, in New York, have
backed down on the question of receiv-
ing colored guests. The former took in
a dark skinned hunter for quarters, and
the latter suffered Lieutenant Governor
Dunn (dun colored) to grace the register
with his name, whereupon he was given
a room with walters, etc, to make him
at ease in his inn These hotels are in a
fair way to increase their custom in the
dark linc--if they do not charge too much
But they have set out in direction
which, from the strong prejudices exist
ing in New York, will render reduction
of fare inevitable The Astor bravely
stands by its resolutions, announced with
unsurpassed brevity, thus: Impossible" "
1t will be found that there are other
things "impossiblc."
Year: 1869

money on demand, or at time designa-
ted, the separate contract Of each should
be stamped at the same rate as . promis-
sorry note.


When an attested copy Of writ or
other process is used by sheriff or other
person in making personal service, or in
attaching property, five cent stamp
should be affixed to the certificate of at
testation.


A marriage certificate issued by the Of
ficiating clergyman or magistrate, to be
returned to any officer of State, county,
city, town, or other municipal corpora
tion, to constitute part OF public record,
requires no stamp; but if it is to be re-
tanned by the parties, tive-cen stamp
should affixed.


A bond to convey real estate requires
stamps to the amount oftwcnty- cents.


The stamp duty upon the probate of a
will, or upon letters of administration, is
based upon the sworn or declared value
of all the estate and effects, real, person
al, and mixed, undiminished by the debts
of the estate for or in respect of which
such probate or letters are applied for.


When the property belonging to the
estate Of aperson deceased lies under diff
fcrent jurisdictions and it becomes neces-
sary to take out letters in two or more
places, the letters should be stamped ac-
cording to the value of al the property,
real, personal, and mixed, for or in re
spect Of which the particular letters in
each case are issued.


Letters de bonis non should be stamped
according to the amount Of property re
naming to be administered upon there
under, regardless Of the stamps upon the
original letters. ......... .


A mere copy Of an instrument is not
subject to stamp duty unless it is a certi-
fed one, in which case five-cc stamp
should be affixed to the certificate of the
person attestiug it; but when an instru-
mcnt is executed and issued in duplicate,
triplicate, etc, as in the case of lease Of
two or more parts, each part has the
same legal effect as the other, and each
should be stamped as an original.
Year: 1869

previous to its discovery by Columbus, 10
have been inhabited by.


At present the strictest vigilance is OBJ
served at the cave-no person being
allowed TO enter it without permission
i ON one or more ot the explorers. Du
ing the interval, we understand it to be
the intention Of the party having the
relics 10 their possession to ship the NOV
able portion OF them st once to New
York, if permission from the War De-
partmeut for their removal can be OBJ
tanned
Year: 1869

1MPRovEMENT.-The old back building ad-
Joining the house at the southeast corner OF
Hth street and Pennsyl vania avenue, is bsing
demolished, preparatory to the erection of a
new and commOdious office on me saIae site for
the Franklin Telegraph Company.
Year: 1869

For the next - days We will sell all Of the above
goods at prime coat for cash. We prefer selling
tbem at cost rather than remove them. Nov is
the time. and No. 56s 7th street. between and
they must be closed out By February uth.
Year: 1869

We had an ancient Greek professor
among our instructors. I am not sure
about his age within century or two,
bit | am prepared to solemnly affirm
being of Quaker proeliyities-that he
had taught Greek for at least sixty years.


This Aged Brick was the sweetest
tempered old soul that everi lived. Moth
ing could disturb his serenity. A whole
pack of fire crackers tied under his chair,
and lighted with slow match, didn't
move him hairs breadth. We tried it
once, and until his coat-tail took fire and
blazed up, he never moved a muscle
Even then he only said, very quietly, r.
Emeral will put me out, while the class
goes on with the recitation" l confess
that was so touched by the old boy
gentle ways, that kept the silver snuff
box that fell from his pocket before
| had thoroughly extinguished him, as a
souvenir.


But wasn't he up in Greek, though
He couldn't talk orthink about anything
else. | remember that once we had a
scarcity of elergymen in the village -
The Aged Brick, who had been educated
as clergyman, was called On to supply
the vacancy He got himself into diff
culties, though, for he had no sooner ia
ken his text than he wandered off into
an account of the second Peloponnesian
war, and so entirely forgot where be was
that at the end of the sermon he announ
ced that she would request those pres
ent to hand in written synoposes Of the
lecture to morrow; and would now pass
on to the lesson Of the day, which was
the eighth, ninth and tenth sections oi
the book of Thucydides. The two
deacons carried him out Of church i'm.
mediately, and he was afterward regard.
ed by half Of the congregation as an in
fidel joker.


AS for conversation, the Aged Brick
couldn't talk with man, woman, child OF
member Of the Sorosis, more than two
consecutive minutes, without bringing
in something about the Greeks. The
way he would sling the Greek names al
his listeners was adapted to utterly con
found and stun any ordinary minds
The names Of Pelopidas, and Agamem
mon, and Methusaleh, and Emmett, and
Wolf Tone, and Confucius, and Herod
and all the rest of the Greeks mention
ed by Homer and cotemporary old files
would be sluug around with the mos
profuse recklessness. And he hadn't
any idea Of time either, had this Aged
Brick I've known him to take fellow
by the button-hole, on some Saturday
morning, when the unhappy victim had
intended to celebrate jolly holiday by
going to picnic, or to his maiden auntE
funeral, or to some other merry making
end to entertain him with Il new theory
of the Amphietyonic Council, until the
church bells rang for mo. ming service
the next day.
Year: 1869

EMen often lose opportunities by
walt of self confidence. Doubts and
fears in the minds of some rise up over
every event, and they fear to attempt
what viii most probably be successful,
through mere timorousness, while q
brave, active man will, with perhaps
half the ability, carry the enterprise to a
prosperous termination.
Year: 1869

The late NJ. Troplong commenced life as
a violin player, and yet before the close OF
his career he had been made peer by King
Louis Philippe and president of the Senate
by the Emperor Napoleon. 1t is not to his
credit that he never referred to his fddhng
days after he became peer. Many man
who began life as peer has been glad to
end it as a fiddler. Louis Philippe started
as prince and rose to be a school-teacher.
He afterward turned out badly. got into
bad company, turned King. and finally
sunk into oblivion as Mr.. Smith. Thomas
Jefferson fddIed as young man, and is
said to have cut out mis- rival by his per-
formances on the violin. The world how
ever draws this distinction between Top
long and Jefferson one played for money
and hence was only a fiddler the other
played as an amateur for the amusement of
himselfand friends he is, therefore a vio-
linist, which sounds better, and is never
applied by the world to the wretch who
saws for gold.
Year: 1869

The Montgomery papers say that corn is
very scarce in that section, and hundreds
of bushels will have to be brought from
the West before new corn is made. The
Athens Ala. Post ventures the assertion
that no. half enough grain will be raised in
Limestone County to feed it the next year.
Why will our people persist in neglectiug
10 raisA grain
Year: 1869

A WEsTERN paper states that the young
Indians up about Toledo dress cool The
Republican of that city saw one of them
bravely clad in a red flannel string abont his
neck Only this and nothing more
Rather more airy than the Georgia costume
"a standing shirt collar and pair of
snuFs
Year: 1869

How TO DE MISERABLE Think about
yourself-about what you want, what you
like, what respect people out to pay to you,
wha: people think Of you. and then to you
nothing will be pure. You will spoil eve
rything you touch you will make misery
for yourself out of everything; you will
be as wretched as you choose on earth, or
in heaven either. 10 heaven either. say;
for that proud. greedy, selfish, self-seeking
spirit would turn heaven into hell. 1t did
turn heaven into hell for the great devil
himself. 1t was by pride, by seeking his
own glory, that he fell from heaven to hell.
He was not content to give up his own
will. and do Gods will, like the other an
gels. He would be master himself, and
set up for himself. and rejoice in his own
glory and SO. when he wanted to maks q
private heaven of his own. he found thar he
had made hell. And why ? B. cause
his heart was not pure, clean, honest, sim
pie, unsel6sh.
Year: 1869

If a young woman wishes to have her.
self published as ''facinating. beautiful and
accomplished, let her pack up her best
clothes in dirty towel, crawl out of the
back upstairs window some dark, rainy
night, and elope with the man that feeds and
curries her fathers horses. It's big price
to pay for compliments, but it will bring
them just as certain as dirty barrel will
beget mosquitoes. 10 fact, We never knew
a woman to make very decided TOOL of her
self, in any way, without enhancing her
charms two or three hundred per cent. by
the time the case goes into the papers.
Year: 1869

A DESIRABLE FARM SITUATED IN "A the town of Morris about one mile west of the centre on the main road from Morris to Wash ngton containing 90 acres under good state of cultivation; it is well fenced and well watered with never failing brooks&springs There are 100 grafted premises; house is new,with two good large barns. COW house and horse barn. It is well divided into meadow, pasture and plow land, with good wood lot, to go with the farm if desired. Said farm is so situated that it can be divided in good shame and will be sold altogether, or in part, to suit the buyer. Terms of payment can be made to suit the purchaser. For further particulars enquire of the subscriber.

 HENRY J. PECK.

 Morris Jan. 25th 1869. tAp1
Year: 1869

A Touch CASE. - In Arkansas
Elder Knapp, while baptizing" con
verts at a revival meeting, advanced
with a wiry, sharp-eyed old chap into
the water. He asked the usual ques
ton, whether there was any reason
why the ordinance of baptism should
not be administered. After a pause
a tall, powerful looking chap, with al
eve like a blaze, who was leaning OF
a long rife and quietly looking on, re
marked:


Elder, | don't want to interfere
in this yere business any, but | wan
to say that is an old sinner YOU have
got hold of, and | know that one diE
won't do him any good. If you wan
to get the sin out of him you'll have
to anchor him out in deep water ovel
night"
Year: 1869

God is marshaling His army
For the rescue of His truth,
He is calling now to battle


Both the vet'ran and the youth.
You can hear His mighty summons
In the thunder of His word
Let us then be valiant soldiers
In the army of the Lord!
Let the watchman on the tower
Keep his post with sleepless eyes;
Let the private out on picket
Guard against the least surprise.
For the order is forever


To be ready at a word.
There must be no sleeping soldiers
In the army of the Lord.
'Tis a war that lasts forever,


'Tis conflict with the world;
There can be no furlOugh granted;
There must never flag be furled.
We can never cease the conflict,
Till the summons home be heard.
We have all for life enlisted


In the army of the Lord.
Let us not be weary, comrades!
Let us faint not by the wayl
Though the night be long and dreary
Soon will dawn Miilenium's day.
Let us keep the camp-fires blazing,
Let us sound abroad His word;
There are glorious victories coming
To the army of the Lord.
As we think of home and heaven,
OF the dear ones gather ed there,
OF the mansions builded for us
And the glories we shall share
Let us buckle on our ormor,


All the zeal within us stirred,
Let us vow heroic service


In the army of the Lord.


Tile Adrdnce.
Year: 1869

for polishing and Can furnish work at prices
that no man can live and pay his help, who does
his work by hand. Now is your time to pur'
chase in winter when we have more time to fin


ish and we will set up next summer to
Year: 1869

A number of leading republican pa
pers express themselves entirely salts
fled with the election of Governor WAL
ker in Virginia. The republicans are
just now in condition to be satisfied


with almost anything, and there is no
wonder. they smile grimly at the defeat
of their regular candidate in Virginia.
Year: 1869

Senator Sprag,ie made a speech re-
Gently at Scituate, Rhode Island, in
which he thus referred to Vice-Prcsi-
dent Oolfax, ... gsH


4 "But cannot close without pointing
to the recent exhibition, in the presence
of the whole people. of the Vice-Pres-
ident of the United States travelling and
speaking in the interest of the powers
Icondcmn. lie reminds me of the ass,
who stole the habiliments of the king
of the forest; for when he asserts that
the country is prosperous and content
ed he but shows the ears which prove
his true character. He came among us
more especially as the representative of
the mighty West, a people not yet hide
bound to the dictates of the moneyed
aristocracy, or to customs and institu-
tions founded upon it. But he joins
counsel and cooperation with those
powers which in themselves and in
their representative capacity are so in
hostility to the independence and grow th
Of the West. Let him aud those who
have induced him to degrade his high
Office to their level, be prepared to meet
on the floor of the Senate, for the in
formation of the people from whom he
comes. his true character, and that of
the alliance he has made"


This is pretty severe upon Colfax.
Wonder what he will say in reply to it.
Year: 1869

WheWyou want n stamp on your let
ter, tell the postmaster to put it. on; if
he don't lick it, you lick him. In case
you put the stamp on yourself, soak it
in your mouth long enough to remove
the mucilage, it will then stick till it is
dry.
Year: 1869

There are thirteen candidatca in Da-
wilson county for places in the lower
branch Of the Legislature, and four for
the upper And it amt very good
season for candidates either.. 4 4 ID
Year: 1869

There is a negro woman on Long Islasd
los years DID, Rnd the tough story s added
that, from extreme age. her skull has be-
come sohencd 50 that her heal appears to
be bu, a mass Of pulp, physician stating
that he could squsezs it with his hand the
sans as he would a piece Of sponge. We
know any number Of people. not century
old, whose heads are nearly as soft as thus.
Year: 1869

One man asks us If we advocate
specialties in farming, and we reply


Yes, Another asks us Tie same ques
tiou, and we say No, and we answer
both correctly. The difference lies in
the different ideas which these two
persons attach 10 the expression spe.
cialties in farming. by it the latter
understands system oil. farming where
all the attention is devoted to single
crop, as on the plantation at the South
where nothing but cotton, or rice OF
sugar cane is cultivated. Such a sys.
TEN Of farming we do not advocate al.
though as general fact, it may be
quite profitable. 1t should be the am
biion Of the farmer to be as indepen-
dent as possible; but by adopting this
system he is dependent upon Others for
everything needed for the support OF
his family except the one crop that he
raises and even that may be mate
rial that he must sell TO the manufac-
turer before lie can use il, like cotton
or it may be an article of which lie
consumes almost none at all, as hops,
or broom corn.


The cotton-planters at the South
formally( and some Of them practice
the same this year, we are told, bought
all the meat aud flour needed by their
families and the families Of their labor
ers also the corn and hay needed for
their teams. all these articles were
shipped long distance at heavy
cost. Aud when we add to this the prof
its of two or three middle men, we can
very easily understand that farmers of
this sort are not only not Independent
but that they pay for many articles
nearly double what ii would cost them
to raise the same on their own farms.


And then the business to which the
farmer devOtes himself exclusively may
be overdone, and the price of the crop
fall far below the point of profit, or
even of remuneration, as with tue hop
raisers of Michigan. We remember
that many years ago, some man in one
of the Eastern States raised two or three
crops of saffron and sold at great profit
He published the facts and great mum.
Der of farmers rushed into the business
The market was oyerstocked, large
quantities of the article was left in the
field, and the farmers soon learned
that all the world did not propose to
goito drinking saffron tea for the pur-
pose of encouraging the cultivation Of
the plant. H.. ..


There are certain products which are
Year: 1869

The mission TO Hayti is a ten thous-
and dollar appointment. There being
no white man in the republican party
sufficiently qu;diIied for the Office Grant
was forced to give it to the negro. SO
we infer from the fact that no di,tinc,
tions are made by him on account of
color.
Year: 1869

The Boston H6rdtG says:


Only day or two before the robbery
of the Boylsion Bank in this city, q
Young man who for number of years
has been in the employ of large whole
sale house in Duane street, saving q
large portion of his hard earned wages,
got married. This was on Saturday last,
at which time he had on deposit in the
b nix seven thousand dollars in bonds.


Of course plans had all been mstured
DAYS before for a wedding tour. The
necessary funds for this excursion were
in the vaults OF the bank. About 10
o'clock Oh Monday the young husband
called at the bank to obtain his funds,
when to his great CONSERVATION be was
informed that every dollar of his money
had been appropriated by the skillful
burglars. Who can portray bis feelings
No funds for the wedding tour-and no
surplus means for the support of a young
wife. However. it appears that the
young bride was a girl of more than or
diuary good sense. She was iu every
sense of the word heroine, came 10 bis
rescue, and frankly told him that she
alone was enough for the emergency.
She said they had taken each other for
" better or for worse" and il was SO or
dered that the worse had come first, and
they must be courageous enough to en-
dure it. This was consolation et the
right time aud In the right spot.
Year: 1869

and treated. The means applied against
the hydrophobia were those of
so-called "wonder DOCTOR" whose spe-
cifc for this disease is said previously
to have always been successful. The
dogs and swine which had been bitten in
the villages were Immediately shot
Cattle and horses are now under veter-
mary treatment. One horse was shot on
the day following the wound, and elk
others on the day succeeding that, after
showing distinct signs of hydrophobia.
The greatest excitement prevails among
the entire population. Nobody will ven-
ture into the fields or in the forest in the
neighborhood where the misfortune oc'
Cured. Nobody will tend the cattle.
God grant that the misfortune may not
become greater, but that the poor
wounded human beings may be re-
stored to health