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Year: 1867

N Experiments are in progress
in New York with a new electric
light. The apparatus was stationed
in the battery, and SO brilliant was
the light that passengers on board
the ferry boat leaving Staten Island
ferry could sec to read their news
papers. The rays directly eminat


ing from the lamp are so intensely
bright that the eye cannot long rest
upon the focus without being daz


zled from their intensity. The
agents employed 10 receive and emit
the light are two spiral crayons,
composed of coke made from anthra-
cite coal, eight inches in length and
one third of an inch square. Sup
piled with electricity, these crayons,
with the positive and negative points
almost touching each other, burn
with a steady, undiminished light for
four hours, at the trifing cost of
eight cents, and when burned out are
Immediately replaced by anew set
in another lamp. On seashore this
newly discovered light can be pro
jected with a third class lens dis


tance of forty miles at sea, and can
be visibly seen by vessels at that dis


tance. In foggy weather the light
penetrates the fog, so powerful is its
propuisive strength from the point
where it is emitted. 1t is estimated
by the proprietor of this electro
magnetic machine that four of these
lamps placed at four different quar-
tiers of large city would be sufficient
to light every part of it, the four
lamps being supplied from one bat
terry. One battery will also supply
every house in whole block with a
light cheaper and superior to gas.
Year: 1867

E% A Milwaukee orator recently
remarked that there were in that city
.'one hundred young men studying
law, who had not brains enough to
wheel wheelbarrow straight, nor
common sense sufficient to know
how to cross street without getting
in the deepest and muddiest hole"
Year: 1867

w A wealthy Cuban recently
died in New York, leaving all his
property to his widow, who was his
second wife. One of his sons by
his first wife has now married the
widow and the fortune.
Year: 1867

We have been unable 10 devote much
attention to the educational work for
several months. In our opinion, the
great work now is, to properly recon.
struct the State. If the Republican
party shall control the State, common
schools will be established and support.
ed by the State. If that party IS de-
leated, we fear that the cause of edu.
cation will, as before, receive but little
attention from the State Government.
Thus believing, We consider It our duty,
until our State is restored to its practi-
cal relations with the general govern
ment, to devote particular attention TO
the political department of our paper.
We shall, however, devote more atten-
ton, IN future, to the Educational
Department than we have heretofore.
Year: 1867

The waste of good material is remark
ed by all foreigners as the distinguish
ing feature of American housekeeping.
With the finest of -four, the juciest
meat, the sweetest butter, in short, the
best of all things necessary for good and
wholesome food, we fail, it must be
confessed, as a general thing, to pro-
duce that which is really ,appetizing
and dIgestible. We have great feasts
and a luxurious style of family living
such a. no other nation can boast of (;
we pride ourselves on the number and
cOstliness of our dishes; but it is quanti-
ty rather than quality that we are
anxious for. Everybody knows how,
even at our best hotels; all the meats
havesthe same flavor; how the vegeta-
bles appear to have been on intimate
terms before reaching the table; how
every constituent of the repast is apt to
have merged its individuality in a COM
mon character which we term "hotel
taste"


At large establishment, where we
stopped last summer, everything tasted
one day of tomato. at another time
onion had the predominance, and still
ofLener bad butter gave the prevailing
flavor to the feast. There was an
abundance of everything, even the
most expensive Viands; the original
quality of each, except the butter, was
unexceptionable; yet we cannot recall
a thoroughly satisfactory dinner during
our stay. After a week or two Of such
feeding, one is glad to come back to
mis- own less sumptuous table, where he
can tell by the sense of taste alone
what he is eating. No abundance or
variety can compensate for bad cook.
ing. But even in our own homes there
is much to be desired. A French cook
will concoct a savory meal from msteri-
ais which most American housekeepers
would pronounce quite worthless
Patience and q soup kettle will do
wonders. But patience is not an in
habitant of American kitchens and the
soup kettle is not at home there. Our
national habits of haste and careless
ness crop out in our housekeeping as
well as in other things.
Year: 1867

Education should consist much more
than it does in learning to do, to act,
to perform. The successful men of the
world are those who can accomplish
the ends of life, who can by their own
energy and skill bring about grand and
useful results. Our educational insti-
tutions make US learned, cultured, but
not sufficiently actors. One reason why
very often the young men vino have
have but little education from the
schools surpass those who have lived
for years in college walls, is becau Sc
they have been trained to action. Ac-
ton gives health and strength. Gull
ture gives ease. grace and finish. They
belong together but have separated
Let them be brought once more into
some grand scheme Of education, and
we shall have men and women as the
result who can not only accomplish no
BILE work, but have at the same time
fine scholars, with cultivated manners,
with grace and dignity OF demeanor.-


Herald of Health.
Year: 1867

One mSn complains Of wants and def
ciences from which his nelghbor is ex-
empt, while the latter sighs for .advanta-
ges which the other is supposed 70 possess.
The poor man eats his corn bread and fat
bacon with a relish caused by hunger,
which the rich man Sighs for at table
covered by dainties. A banker, one day,
was approaching his door at dinner time,
when he was accosted BY beggar, who
cried out that he was hungry. .What q
happy rogue" replied the banker, ''tO
have hunger % A more familiar Anec-
dote is that of an English nobleman, who
in the midst Of q violent attack Of asthma,
hearing a chimney sweep in the street ut
tering his customary cries to attract no.
tiee, exclaimed, ''Mhat an e1traVsgant
rascal he is lie wastes more breath in
i've minutes than would last me for the
day" when l was young man" said
an eminent English surgeon OF the last
century, II had good teeth, but wantsd
meat for them to chew now l am old
and have an abundance to eat, but not the
teeth to enable me to chew it" This is =
somewhat fgurative way of expressing
the fact that in early life man mas q keen
sense of enjOyments without the desired
means for their fuh qualification; and
that in old age this sense is blunted, while
the incentives to pleasure abound, The
helpless paralytie fnds large compensation
in the tender care and unceasing atten-
tionss Of family and friends, whose kind
her feelings and affections have been
brought out by the occasion 20 an extent
alike grateful and unexpected to him and
to themselves.
Year: 1867

The Bishop of Cork, in preaching at
the opening of new church in his di-
ocese, made the following plea for
beautiful churches


81 feel personally, of course, as a
bishop, very much gratiied at what l
see, and / am very glad that this pleas
ing specimen of architecture is by one
of our own communion and an archi
tect of our own town. The Almighty
Creator himself, we may say without
irreverence, delights in beauty. All
the forms of nature are beautiful. The
shape of the heavens is beautiful; the
midnight sky is beautiful the moon
walking her brightness is beautiful; the
sun sises and sets in beauty. All crea-
tion is formed in beauty; and, my
Christian friends, there Is no reason
why we should not use beautiful forms.
What is architecture Nothing but
the beauty of order, shape, and the
beauty of size, the beauty of proper
ton. What is music? Nothing but
the beauty of sound. What is paint
ing The beauty Of color. What is
oratory? The beauty of speech What
are the higher sciences? The beauty
of reason. 1t is contrary to Gods de-
sign and contrary to our nature that
we should not make use of those things
that God seems to delight in"


He added: ANY new church erect
ed in the united diocese must be sub
mitted to before it can be opened for
divine service, and would cut of my
right arm before 1 would sanction
anything that would lessen benefits to
be conferred upon the people commit
ted to our ministers charge; but five
desire to have, as we have, our houses
not only sufficient TO protect US from
the weather, and convenient, but well
furnished In every part, and beauti-
fully arranged, are we to except the
house of God! If we would build q
house to God with stupendous archi-
lecture, we ought to do so-with the
loveliest shapes and forms and colors.
l would l could have all our churches
beautiful, and l would 1 could have in
them all the beauty of sound. The
house is for Gods honor. and the ben
eft of his people, and the pleasant
sounds uttered in it whether formed
by instruments or that host exquisite
of all instruments, the human voice,
are dedicated to the service of God.-
l think it is exceedingly desirable that
we should have such churches as this." "
Year: 1867

CONCEIF.-Hardly anything is more
contemplate than that conceit which
rests merely upon social position, the
conceit of those who imagine they are
thus divorced from the common class
of men, of those who shrink with hor-
ror from the idea Of work as something
which degrades by its very contact,
and yet who, very likely owe their po-
sihon to some remote ancestor, who
recognizing his call to work, lived more
honestly in the world than they do,
and was not afraid of soiled thumbs
1t is one of the meanest Things for peo-
pie to be ashamed Of the work from
which they draw their income, and
which glorifed their ancestors more
with their soiled aprons and black


gowns than themselves with their fine
ribbons and flashing jewelry. Itmight


be fine thing TO be like the lii


les, more gloriously clothed than Solo


mon, and doing nothing. if we were on
ly lilies. Advantageous position is on
" more emphatic call to work and


while those who hold the advantage
may not be compelled TO manual
drudgery, they should recognize the


fact that manual drudgery may be per-
formed in the same spirit that chsrac-
terizes their own work, and therefore
is equally honorable.-Rse. Ds. Ckapia.
Year: 1867

An amusing incident occurred in one OF
the churches of Philsdelphia, last Sunday
evening. An old lady, whose failing eyes
demanded an unusually large prayer book,
started for church little early. Stopping
on the way to call on friend, she laid
her prayer book on the centre table
When the bells began to chime she snatch
ed what she supposed to be her prayer
book and started for church. Her seat
was in the channel end of the gallery
The organ ceased playing, The minister
read, ''The Lord is IN his holy temple, let
all the earth keep silence before him" In
the effort to open her supposed prayer
book, she started the spring Of the music
box, which she had taken instead. 1t
began to play-in her CONSERVATION she
put it on the A0or. 1t would not stop
she pot it on the seat, it sounded louder
than ever. Finally she carried it out,
while it played the Washing Day." an
Irish jig tune
Year: 1867

A Jerseyman who removed with his
household gods and gofdesses to the
prairies Of Illinois, last Nay, took along
q dog who was not willing emigrant,
but being tied to the tail board had 70
90. The morning after his arrival
among the prairie flowers, the dog was
missing, and in due time the ex-Jer-
seyman received news from from his
old home, to the effect that the missing
dog had resumed possession of the door
steps of the old Jersey home just four
teen days from his departure from Ilh-
nois.
Year: 1867

A FAMILY WITHOUT \ NEWSPAPER. Moth
lag presents sadder commentary upon the
present unhealthy condition Of our once loved
and prosperous country than the large number
o! families both in the city and country, but
more especially in the latter, that subscribe to
no paper of any kind. Hundreds and thous-
ands Of families are thus growing up IN utter
ignorance OF what is daily transporting ID The
world around them-ignorant OF the mighty
events Of to-day r=a#


But who can tell the vast amount OF INJURY
that is being inflicted upon the rising genera
tlon-those who are to take our places III the
busy world at no distant day-growlng up
without any knowledge Of the present. the
past, or any study of the future-and this
ignorance, too, being imbuel into them by the
sanction OF those who should and doubtless do
Know better, did they only think OF the nju-
nous effects of their insane course. Let the
mead Of every family think Of this and place in
,le hands of those for whom he is RESPONSE
Ole, the means of acquiring thorough knowl-
'uge OF the moving panorama IN which we
Enact our parts NORTH Cnolnna.
Year: 1867

GREAT Cay AND LITTLE WooL.-The
New York bay Book says: There never
was such loud cry made out of SO littls
wool as in (what is called) the SHERIDAN
demonstration" To make all this noise the
mongrels have not even "sheared hog"
but only small pig. There has nowhere
been the least enthusiasm after Sheridan
except that which was gotten up to order in
the Loyal League lodges. The class of wo-
men that disgraced themselves in this city
by calling on him, were the same set who
four years ago assured a regiment of negroes
of their '1ove and admiration" So Door
Sheridan only received the Glove and admira
ton" of small mob of woman who had
lavished the same thing upon a squad of ne
groes four years ago. 1t is said in New Or.
leans even the Infamous women snubbed him
SO that he found it difficult to get into any
kind of company, good or bad. Butt New
York he was more lucky, for he slid into
bad company heEe as easily as pigs feet slide
into mud
Year: 1867

The mougrel paperS are in dilemma about
accounting for their recent election reverses.
the "manhoUd suffrage" wing contend that
the real cause Of the democratic gains grew
out of the financial troubles of the country
burthensome taxation, etc. On the other
hand the more conservative republicans are
laying the burden altogether upon the shoul-
ders Of the radical wing, and say, the negro
suffrage issue done the work for their party.
We imagine that both wings are partly
right in their conjectures, and each partly
wrong. 1t is undoubtedly fact that the Fl
nancial condition of the country helped to
defeat the radical mongrels quite as much as
the negro suffrage issue. 1t is pleasing
enough to know that they were badly defeat>
ed in the late elections without iDquiring
much about the cause that led to it. But
taking the mongrels at their word, that the
two issues uamed composed their defeat, it
would appear the part Of wisdom that they
should endeavor to bridge over these issues,
and let them become obsolete. Not so how,
ever, with this party of great moral ideas, !
Negro suffrage must be made an issue in the
next fall election. the people shall have this
great blessing forced upon them in some way
or another. So it is with reconstruction
after their plan so it is with their financial
policy; and so it is with all the rest of lheir
abomiuable ideas and issues. For all which
democrats are feeling jubilant-knowiug
that all this miserable work of the radicals,
will put the glorious old democratic party
into power.
Year: 1867

GENERAL GRANT.-The radicals, since
the recent elections, are forcing Genera
Grant forward as their most available can,
didate for the presidency. Like drowning
men catching at straws the thousand and
one little rump>radical papers, are all cry.
ing out Justify for Grant, as their last
chance. If this renowned General and DO
litical nobody, should desire to be let alone
to rest on his laurels the mougrels will have
nothing else to do but sink Even if Grant
should be bedeviled into accepting a noma
tion from this forlorn crew it will suffice
them nothing, he will sink like straw--light
weight as be is-and they will go down to-
gether to political perdition.
Year: 1867

THE Pacific Christian Advocate appears
to think there is something about to turn up
in the future, judging from the following
luminous paragraph taken from its editorial
columns:


1T is believed that great majority of the
people are deeply sOlicitous in regard to the
fuIure.'


Here is another beauty from the same
column


The public men Of the nation cannot well
afford just now to commit GLunders. They
are making history


Putting this and that together, we may
infer, perhaps, that rump Congress and a
republican President are about to engage 10
a warlike conflict for the edi6cation Of the
people. Let the public men make haste
with their history, for old Andy proposes tc
make short work with the impeachers this
winter in the event Of hostile demonstra.
tions.
Year: 1867

The New York Tribune declares emphat
ically that if "manhood suffrage" is not made
prominent plank in the next national re,
publican platform. Valandingham could
easily beat Grant in the contest for the Pres
dency!


That is as true as preaching, if not more
so; and if the "manhOod suffrage" plank is
put in, the meanest democrat in America
could beat Grant, two to one,-as witness
the elections where negro suffrage was an is
sue. But whether that plank goes in or out,
a democrat will go into the White House
Year: 1867

a gentleman in a New England
town buried his sixth wife last week
Shortly after the funeral he met the
minister who otticiated and offered
a .hree dollar greenback. The min.
lister declined to take it, saying he
was not accustomed to receive pay
for such services. The gentleman
coolly replied, "Just as you say; but
that's what I've been in the habit OF
paying"
Year: 1867

The Southern press have general
ly put Butler down. and he is indebt-
ed for present attentions mainly to
Northern editors. Here is one of
the last. which we take from the
New Haven Register:


How brave soldier Butler was,


Let this one fact reveal.


That even silver spoons and forks


Were worthy OF bis s'fgl7
Year: 1867

a day or two since q coroner Jury held
an inquest in the city Of Louisville upon the
body of an abandoned woman namen Kate
Carrigan, who was strangled to death by
falling from fence, upon which por-
ton Of her wearing apparel had caught. The
wretched woman was in n state of beastly
intoxication at tho inc, otheIw SO he could
have discngagcd her garments and suffered
no harm whatever.


a few months ago this woman was frc-
qucnt delinquent at tho bar of the recorders
court ip this city, being arrested almost week
ly in some Of the low dens of Smoky Row"
where, under the influence of liquor, she
had become reckless and uproarious She
had once been beautiful girl and tie Inca
ments Of most fascinating loviness we're
ncvercflaced from her countenancc, although
she sank repeatedly into depths Of drunken
ness and dissipation seldom seconded by fel-
low sisters, and among whom she ranked
lowest of the low. Amidst all the exccsscs
to which the poor girl was addicted her soft
blue eyes never lost their lovcliness, and we
remember more than once to have seen un-
feeling men look upon her with saddencd
faces, at thoughts of what she once was, as
they behcld her pae an wretchcd at the
bar Of the police court


Kate Carrigan was or C an accomplished
and respected young lady. We recall
scrap or two Of the history Of this poor fe.
male, which reads sad lesson. She was
the only daughter Of wealthy parents,
Virginian by birth, and at the age of four
teen was left fathcrless. Two years later
she was seduced by some fiend in human
shape, and in few weeks after, ct of re-
morse, which could not have been far from
actual insanity abandoned luxurious home
and plunged into the widest vortex of dis
sipation. She wandered from city to city,
sinking lower and lower, and about year
after the close Of the war came to Nashville
From this point her heart-broken mother
heard the first news of her crring daughter,
and sent an uncle to bring home the lost
child. He was unsuccessful, is all that we
know. The poor girl afterwards went to
Louisville, and the end we have already
seen.


Oh cursed and broken life, sad and mex
plicable Oh blackened and filth bcgrim-
med spirit wall of bitter anguish runs
through the annals of thy short earthly his
tory. A bit Of charnal house clay in
rough pine coffin, above which is heapcd
the rude earth Of pauper's grave, is all
that remains tQ. tell Of thy career in this
dark, cruel world.


A year and half ago the mother, heart.
broken and despairinr, lived isolated and
alone, sorrowing with an mconsolable sor-
row over the angel which had once blessed
the desolate household. We know not if
she survives the daughter NashriNe Rrsss
and Times. " ''''F
Year: 1867

On Saturday last. some Of tie
ladies Of tha Union Mission Asso-
citation visited a family in whose
house they found a little boy
sr2nding up in beer keg. They
asked how he came there, and
were told that he had nothing to
wear ard did not want to lie IN
bed all the time He was there
fore put in the keg 50 that he
could sec what was going on
around him.
Year: 1867

THE ANTHRACITR COAL TRADR.-The trade
still continues in the most depressed condition.
The inactivity in the man ufactu ring interests
Is seriously affecting the coal business As there
appears to be no demand at present for the
quality and sizes generally used for such pur.
poses. None but the choicest coal now finds
market, OF which 1t Is believed there will De q
who are furnishing that class of coal are about
stopping their coDiteres, being compelled 10
do SO for want OF better prices. Well prepared
coal canno. be furnished at the prices now
prices advance or considerable red elton is
made in labor, which is already very low,
even many OF those who produce q cheaper
and inferior article will find it more prof, able
to stop ihan TO continue at these prices
IhtIdGelghia Gdsetfe.
Year: 1867

Scarcely day passes in which we arc not asked this question. The farm CT has staked great deal on cotton, and lost not one in the whole country that has made a dollar this year on the staple. Day by day the product of their toll is brought to market; and when their expenses are proven more than their profits they ask in all seri- ousncss what shall we do-we answ CT ; let cotton alone. It is now settled there is no money in it, and why waste time and labor for no profit; let every farmer prepare to raise corn, wheat and other products which are equally adap- table to our soil; and when this order of things is established, it will be pro ven that the farmer shall do we'll.
Year: 1867

@-At session of tho Maryland Baptist Union Association, the quss- ton of negro equality was discussed, and some of the white members said they would never admit the negro to social equality; that they would never sit down to the same table with them, but would willingly extend to them the hand of religious fellowship. This declaration was meckly received by the colored brethren present, one of whom said the colcred people did not desire social equality with the white, and that equality, like water, would find it's own level.
Year: 1867

gss~ Keep it before the people, that on the 2lst of December, the election for District Court at Des Arc will be held. Let every body vote, and sec that his neighbor vote, for in this mat ter we are all interested.