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Year: 1869

A MODEL JURY CHARGE.-'If
the jury believe from the evil


dence that the plaintiff and de-
fendant were partners in the


grocery, and that the plaintiff


bought out the defendant, and


that the defendant paid the note


by delivering to the plaintiff q
COW, which he warranted not
breachy; and the warranty was
broken by reason of breachness
of the COW, and he drove the COW
back and rendered her to the de-
fendant, but he refused to receive
her, and the defendant took her
home again and put a heavy yoke
ON her to prevent her from jump
ing fences, and by reason of her
yoke she broke her neck and died;
and if the jury believe that the
defendants interest in the gro
Gerry was worth anything, the
plaintiffs note was worthless and
the COW good for nothing, either
for beef or milk, then the jury
must find out for themselves how
they will decide the case; for the
Court-if she understands herself,
and she thinks she does-don't
know how such 4 ID case should
be decided"
Year: 1869

Advices from Knoxville say
that Senator Brownlow is confin-
ed to his bed by sickness, and
fears are entertained he will not
be able to take his seat in the
Senate at the opening of Congress.
Year: 1869

To the newborn year, all hail' As it is ushered into life we feel new hopes and aspiration. while "Antici- nation forward points the view In the grave of the old year should bc buried the fcude and apimcsities which have so long separated those who ought to be fast friends, while with the birth of the new year we should brighten all the links tn the chain of friendship, and moving for ward from this relay house on the road of life, pursue our journey with the hand of reconciliation and charity extended, giving and receiving all the pleasures of imaginatiop. The great end of our existence is happiness, and with this recurring epoch, whfie new and generous resolutions are being formed, let us notserals loo nsJfowly the every action VG ! peiks6or, but give the best impulses the sway, rather hiding than laying open to inspection that which may more properly belong to thoughtlcss mind rather than to a perversc heart. It is by such noble means as these we may eunoble our selves, and in never-ending regenei F ,ntion place still nearer tile creature 10 the Creator.

 We have all turned over our new leaf, but let us ponder well and mark with wisdom the rules we inscribe thereon. Let justice poise the scales of right and wrong, and with firm re- solve to lead follow in the paths of virtue and honor. He who goes not astray from these finds the sanction oi a clear conscience, the first attendant in the train of ihappincss and content ment.

 Many of the hopes and fears that have risen with the beginning of inc new year will be realized before it's close. Let us prepare ourselves to meet alike the good or evil fortune that may attend us, not suffering the one to exhilerate or the other to de- press. And now may the blessings oi peace, contentment and good govern inent be the portion of all our people, and wishing them happy new year. may all things work together for iheir good.
Year: 1869

shrieks of all those around rent the air.


The serpent was loose and crawling
on the ground, but before it had time
to go far, long pole came down upon
its back and broke its spine, and in less
time than l take to write 1t down, the
monster was killed.


To the French doctor who had charge
of the little colony the man went (hap-
PLY he was just at hand); all the reme-
dies were prompt and powerful the
man suffered intensely, his body be-
came swollen, his mind wandered, and
his life was despaired Of; but at last he
got better, and though complaining of
great pain near the heart, he was soon
able to go out again. A short time af-
ter this accident, having an ak in his
hand, going as he said to cut wood, he
suddenly split his own head in two.
He had become insane!
Year: 1869

SPRING is at hand and the change of
temperature will necessitate new clo-
thing. DO not fail to secure comfort
and style in the selection of your gar
ments, but go to Lowenberg where you
can hardly fail to be suited. He is so
we'll and favorably known to the conf
manity, that it is unnecessary to. men
tion that his word can be implicitly re-
lied on. Whatever he sells will be found
of the first quality.
Year: 1869

An exchange Youches for the truth of the
following curious circumstance, which re-
Gently came under the observation of the
editor. A clerk, after washing his hands IN
the store, left gold ring on the wash sand.
The next day he went to get it, remember
ing that be had lef, it there, when he dis
covered that large spider had spun bis web
through it and had actually lifted it frac-
ton of an inch above the stand, and was
gradually working it up to the ceiling.
Year: 1869

James Bell pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny.


Philip Kiker, German butcher, was tried upon a
charge of cruelty to animals The complaint against
him was that he had been known to cut the arteries
of calves and them to bleed almost to eXhaus
ton before he would kill them. The defendant eX-
planned to the jury ii the custom among the
butchers to bleed their calves before killing in order
TO secure good veal for the market, and that the
animals were always quite dead before he proceeded
to quarter them. Verdict not guilty.


The remainder OF the morning was taken up with
the tilal OF William Halfman upon the charge OF
weapons 1t was alleged that on the 10th of June,
about O'Clock, Policeman McDermot arrested the
prisoner at Eleventh and Sergeant streets, upon
charge preferred against him. and while on the way
to the station house the prisoner struck him several
knocked down by his captor. The ofricer called
several others to his assistance, and they were at
tackled and severely beaten by gang OF the pri-
soners friends who had come to his rescue. On
trial.
Year: 1869

4 NOVEL DEVICE FOR SAVING Rus
TED torrON.-Onc of the effects of rust
on cotton is to dry up the half grown
bolls, and contract and harden the shell
or case which covers the, lint, 1t rarely
occurs that this outer covering is SO
much hardened and contracted as TO
prevent the boil from cracking or open.
ing a little This year, however, the
rust has been SO bad that these rustcd
bolls do not "crack." .ga.2s9-


ABlrke planter came to this city last
week and pun chased lwenty-three little
hammers, one for each of his pickcrs,'
and a gentleman from that nei ghborhood
informs us that lively ham,nerins Of
cotton bowls is now going on there The
hammer is carried in case hung at the
picker's side, and when hard boil is
encountered a smart tap forced the
casing open, and the cottou is thus Sc
cured. As strange as this may appear,
VIC. are informed that this is literally
truc.-Angusta Chronicle and Sentinel.
Year: 1869

SToRING PoTAToEs.--Cellars or root :
houses are generally as good places IA one
can get for storing away potatoes, if they
are frost proof, aud can be well ventilated
Put the potatoes in large boxes-empty
dry goods cases arc best, holding from fif-
teen to fifty bushels eacll-or divide the
space into bins like those of granary, so
that each kind can be kept separate, and
no great amount Of heating can take place
where there is space for ventilation. A
board floor is better tEan bare earrl,.
Choice kinds it will pay to sort over in the
field, barrel the best for sale and delivery
as required, and keep The Others for seed.
When frost-proof room ina building can
not bo had, select piece Of dry soil, whcro
water will readily flow off, or can be drain
ed away. Store the potatoes in small
round heaps, Of il(ty each, set IN rows, each
to be covered first with reversed sods or a
very little clean dry straw, and then with
earth, putting on a little al first but few
inches, and adding more as the weather
gets colder, till hard freezing takes place.
About two feet Of earth will keep out frost.
~ good ditch is to be made round tie lot
ot heaps, so as to carry off quickly all
water that may fall. The heaps when COW
cred should be somewhat cone-slaped, with
sides high aud slcping enough to carry of
rain quickly. The main point in storing
potatoes is 10 have them put away dry
and in such manner as will keep out
moisture, and at tho same time run little
risk Of the whole ro'ting, should rot Sc, in
at any point, or with any kind, some being
more liable TO rot than Others Canada
Farmer.
Year: 1869

After the butter has como and is
we'll gathered in the churn, if not
cool enough to be a little hard, put a
pail Of cold water in the churn, and
let it stand in a cold place an hour
tako tout with u short latlle into a
largo wooden bowl, press out all tho
milk and water you can, wash it q little
10y stirringit around tho bowl in cold
watcr, pour OFT this and salt with fine
pure salt, about one ounce to the
pound Of butter. This must be well
washed in with the ladle; let it now
stand two hours in Il cold spring house
Oh cellar, and then work it over well
again, after which give it another rest,
and thcn repeat the working for the
last time. 1t is better TO work it thus
little at time, than one long work
ing, rs it keeps the butter harder, ard
gets out all tho butter milk and brine.
The butter should be packed in astonc
crock or tub after tho third washing.


Set the newly-strained milk in large
shallow tin pans, which should be
scalded, washed and dried bofurc tho
milk is strained into them the pans
Of milk should be set on a shelf or
shelves; open Slated shelves are best,
i'll q cool well ventilated collar, or in
q spring house, if you have ono in q
well shaded spring grove near by.


The most successful buttcr-makcr
we have here in this warm dry grain
region, sells over $1,000 worth Of fan
cy butter yearly. Tt goes in fancy
tubs to the fashionable up town hotels
in New York city, by express and the
tubs arc returned. The butter is
made from the milk Of thirty COWS,
pastured and stopped daily in summer,
and fed on; cut and steamed food in
winter and through the spring months,
and corn is sown in drills, for soiling
during the summer droughts when
our pasturage fails; tho present sea-
son is All exception, rs wo have been
blessed with timely showers weekly
through the summer.


The profit on the butter Of these
COWS is only one item, the manure
made rich in phosphatcs and nitrogen
is another; and the butter milk aud
sour milk fed breeding sows and pigs,
increases both the manure and the
profits. With SO much manure Of: the
bcst Quality the farm. is kept "scm-
per fertile, ;" and the tile undertll;ains
has enabled this farmer to get a max
imum crop of corn this wet season,
when 80 many have less than half .
crop.-Southc,w Cultirator.
Year: 1869

FANNY FERN says: 81 remark that men's
dress is to the full as absurd in its way as
womau's, and l am only reconcled to the
idea that msn was intended for human
being when see an athlete of a gymnast, OF
glorious chest and calves, and splendid mus
cular arms. skimming the air as gracefully rs
a bird, and as POLITICALLY then l know how
civilization has ruined him! | know that
man, if be jumped, and ran and wrestled and
walked, instead of sitting stupidity in chair
in the house, or creeping into an omnibus
when out of it, and smoking and going to
sleep in the intervals, would not be obliged TO
creep into these ugly tailor's padded fashions
to hide his DEFICIENCIES, but could wear what
he chose, knowing that the beautiful outlines
of his form would glorify any decent vest
ment" What a pity that Fanny did not
marry circus man instead of Jimmy Parton.
Year: 1869

the fund as proposed would at once
increase the expense and lessen the
efficiency of our common school
system, necessitating the employ
ment of two teachers or more where
before only one was necessary.


Any division of the funds be-
tween Catholics and P1otestants, in
the ratio of population, would be
manifestly unfair, as the Protestants
pay ten times the tax, in proportion
to their numbers, that the Catholics
do. This proposition to tax Pro
testants for the support of Catholic
schools, where the Catholic religion
is taught, and the attendants are
instructed to look upon the people
who pay for their education as
heretics, is one of the coolest affairs
on record. Those who support it
are stopped from any further com
plant against the injustice of taxing
Irish Catholics for the support of
the Protestant Episcopal church OF
Ireland.
Year: 1869

In breaking the bread he dropped
some crumbs into the water. These
were eagerly seized and eaten by tho
fish. That circumstance suggested
to the negro the idea of dipping the
bread into the whisky and feeding
them. He tried it. Itworked we'll.
Some of the fish ate of it, became
drunk and floated helplessly On the
surface. In this way he easily
caught large number. But in tile
stream was larger fish very unlike
the rest. It partook freely of the
bread and whisky, with no percepti.
BILE effect. 1t was shy of every eff
ort of the negro to take it. He re-
solved to have it at all hazards, that
he might learn its name and nature.
He procured a net, and after much
effort caught it, carried it to a col
ored neighbor, and asked his opin-
ion of the matter. The other sur
veyed the wonder moment, and
then said: 'Sambo, I understand
dis case. Dis fish is a mullet head;
it amt got no brain!' In other
words, added the Judge, "alcohoI
affects only the brains, and of course
those having none may drink with
out injury"


The storm Of laughter which fol-
lowed drove the moderate drinker
suddenly from the house.
Year: 1869

Moral suasion for the man who drinks,


Mental suasion for the man who thinks,


Legal 81 aston for the drunk ard maEer,


Prison suasion for the statute breaker,


G. w. BUNGAY.


The boy came in drunk. 1t was
the first time. Often before had he
taken his s'bitters," when hurrying
down his lunch at the eating house
near the store; but this was the first
time he had been sensibly overcome
by any strong drink His father
had brandy and wine in the closet,
never on the table, always under
lock and key-never supposing that
the boy had key, too, to the same
closet. Boys are pretty sharp
sharper than some excellent fathers
suppose. The fable of the old crab
who told the young crab that he
ought to go straight instead of side
wise, and who met the response from
crab junior, ''why do you go side
wise yourself?" has it's echo in the
household life of many father and
son to-day. 1t was the case in this
instance. The good old man want
ed the boy to do we'll. He did his
best to conce.:l from him and the
rest of the family his own appetite
for strong drink. He would not
openly and willingly have set him a
bad example; but when the paternal
tongue moves thickly, the paternal
eyes blink and grow bloodshot, and
the paternal nose becomes rubicund,
there is no lock SO strong, no key
so complicated as to shut the secret
from the family and from the world.
Tom not only knew that his father
drank, but he drank from his father S
bottles.


It was bright September after
noon. Tom had been playing base
ball with some of his friends; or
r her, he had been trying to play !;
for there was an unsteadiness about
his gait, and a wildness in his eye,
which made it as probable that he
would hit somebody in the head
with the ball as that he woulh send
it as balls ought to be sent. He
was excused, and his place filed by
somebody else. Feeling badly, he
wanted to lie down on the grass
but couple of kind friends perceiv-
ed what was the matter with him,
and thought he had better go home
while he was at least partially able
to work his own passage. "Come,
Tom, we will go home with you.
Stand up like a man, old fellow.
Here's an arm on each side of you.
Year: 1869

From Demorest's Magazine.
aUSHALINA BENDfBUS, VICTIM OF FASHION


BY FAvoRITE CONTRIBUTOR.
Poor Cushalina Bendibusl
In pain she drew her breath:
Her mode OF life was sad. as was
The fashion of her death.
She lived among the very cream
So dreadful was her fate
The uppercrust, mean; she dined
From off fashion plate.
Poor child! when first to take the air
They carried her about,
They took great pains to vail her close
And keep the air all out.
Cute, rather than cutaneous,
And firm upon her pegs
She looked; yet had breading out
Upon her lower-l-legs,
She could not bear to have them dressed,
You might have thought she'd freeze;
The only thing that she could bear
Was just to bare her knees.
And when she grew, her trouble grew,
Her head produced Wen;
And soon it took another link,
And kinked her hair up then.
AtSaratoga Springs she drank
Her cup of bliss each year;
Some said it was her merry hops,
That brought her to her bier.
To lie till late, and scintillate,.
These were her greatest sins;
She made herself quite inn famous,
By coming out at inns.
Soon her disease assumed new form,
1t changed about so fast:
The weakness just above her eyes
Got into them at last.
She held her parasol in such
A dainty attitude,
She had to have an arm support;
But all would do no good
And so, to shield them from the light,
a little cap she chose;
The back upon her forehead hung,
The front upon her nose.
And folks remarked, that saw her cap
Arranging o'er her face,
Capillary attraction twas
That kept it in its place.
Next, her disease went to her waist
Now you may smile and scoffI
But here it took another shape,
And nearly cut her off.
Folks shook their heads who saw her pass
Some laughed, and some grew wroth,
To see so great waste of health,
So small waist Of cloth.
And how she could so-lace herself,
I'm sure can not say;
But she, with wider corset, might
Have made longer stay.
And now she took another turn,
Among her cranks and quips;
She got the hypo, and she got
Enlargement of the hips.
The doctors called her new disease
A panier, SO I've heard;
She looked beast OF bird-un, but
I think she was bird.
OF good physici ans-and advice,
Poor girl! she had no lack;
They tried to drive the evil out,
But only drove it back.
Itwas not catching, some believed,
Because no men were took;
Some said that she contracted it
By seeing the Black Crook.
They gave her first some peppermint,
Then brandy, and then schnapps;
They treated her just as they do
The last stage Of collapse.
And while they bent their energies
To save her from her fate,
She, sad to say, seemed doubly bent
On going from them straight.
One day she in the street grew worse,
And fast began to droop;
While taking steps to get her in,
She died upon the stoop!
Poor Gushalina Bendibus,


By all the world forgot,
Is buried in oblivion now


That was her burial lot.
Year: 1869

LEISURE HoURS.-Ihere IS room
enough in human life to crowd al
most every art and science in it. If
we pass no day without line-visit
no place without the company of 4
book-we may with ease fill libra
ries, or empty them of their con-
tents. The more we do, the more
we can do; the more busy We are,the
more leisure we have.
Year: 1869

The Commissioners of Pike County
have ordered an election to be held
in that county in October for the pur-
pose of deciding whether the county
viii consent to a tax of two per cent.
on the taxables of the county for rail-
road purposes. IF the tax is voted
the amount will be divided equally
between such roads as may be built
through the county. Two roads are
talked of. the old Evansville Straight
Line, and the New Albany and st.
Louis Air Line. There is not, in our
opinion, the slightest probability that
the Straight Line road win be built;
and the friends of the New Albany
and ST. Louis Road, we think, may
certainly calculate that the total
amount Of the tax will be applied to
this road IN 4. Commercial.


The Commercial is very much mis-
taken. The Straight Line Road will
be finished long before the Louisville
and st. Louis enterprise. Let the
people vote. the assessment with the
understanding that the first road
finished through the county shall
have it, and we will soon see which
of the two routes will get the money.
Year: 1869

HoTEL and clearinghouse keep
ers in Indianapolis, are preparing to
hash and pack an immense number
of people next week. In connection
with this fact the reports of mad
dogs killed in that city lately excite
horrible suspicion-1erre Hdute
E'rDresS.
Year: 1869

is slowly uniting his acres to grow paying
crops of wheat 1t may be true that crops Oh
corn or potatoes pay better, but there is vice
somewhere in system that units surfacs
for yielding the prime requisite of a good SOIL
bread Ever since the Pequod war the line
of profitable wheat culture has been moving
westward AT the time of the second war
with England, Western New-York showed
more acres that could be trusted for 80 bushels
of wheat than she can now of acres that VIII
give, one year with another, Is bushels. In
this respect England, not safe to follow IN all
she does, is good example. She keeps up her
wheat acreage by deep and fine tillage' py
thousands of tuns of bone dust and guano, and
with unstinted application of the dropplngs OF
root fed and grain-fed animals.
Year: 1869

William Cumback is to replace Thomas


A. Hendricks as the United States Senator
from Indiana. He is comparatively a young
man for the Senate, being only in his fortieth
year; and he does not bring to that body so
wide reputation for ability as Mr.. Hendricks
will carry away; but his Republcanism is
vigorous and his service for single term in
the House was such as to give him excellent
standing in the party. During the late canvass
he was the candidate for Lieutenant Governor,
and his exertions for the ticket were probably
more continuous and laborious than those of
any other politician In tho State. Gov. Cum
Year: 1869

The spirit with which the election of the
Union League was conducted last night sutti-
ccntly attests the estimate placed upon that
organization by its members. 1t was never
more active, never more patriotic, and never
more useful, than now. In these words
wo pronounce eulogy beyond that to
which any previous political body of its kind
in this city has ever been entitled. The Off
GERS chosen ole every way worthy of their
positions, and give assurance--if assurance
were needed-of long life and continued
prosperity to the Club with whose interests
they have been charged. 90 cf
Year: 1869

We see it stated that the son of Senator
Mattoon has been denied the clerkship of an
Albany committee.


This is prodigious mistake. The services
of Senator Mattoon to the Drew and Wander
bilt parties last year. the impartiality with
which he supported one side and another,
showed an amount of complaisance on his part
that can only be recompensed by giving
committee clerkship to his son, and to every
son that Providence may have given to him.
Year: 1869

The sixteenth annual ball of the Lindsey
Blues was given at Irving Hall last evening, and was


The rst of tho Aron Carnival meetings was held last
evening at their headquarters, the Gernsnia Assembly
Rooms These reunions noted for the mirth W.T. ana
humor that always characterize them On entering the
hall. each member and guest Is furnished ith wlth
"A carnival cap OF very fantastic design. 70 which
ara attached q number OF small bells. The khmer
Rath or Executive Committee OF the Society are seated at
the head OF the hall platform with eanoptod cover
ing over which Is a number OF carnival paintings The
fosrum from which tho speeches are delivered huge
heard and ruby coored Is smiling on the entire
sembage. After tho band had performed the Arion


for the beginning Of the festiyea which were continued
TO late hour ...''
Year: 1869

There may be wisdom in the proposition
presented yesterday, to cut down the Territory
of Utah to the bare limits of the present
Mormon settlements-thus leaving 1T too small
to be ever erected into State. But we have
faith in another and simpler mode OF abatlng
the Mormon trouble We mean the Pacific
Railroad. With the world brought to their
doors, Momons must either yield to the
civilization of the age or betake themselves to
q new Wilderness.
Year: 1869

The country has been niggardly and unjust
in its treatment of the terribly y-bereaved widow
of our murdered President. The bill intro
duced yesterday to award her an annual pen
sion of five thousand dollars may be an IN
direct and unsatisfactory way of recognizing
an overdue obligation. but the spirit that
prompts it is not so much one of generosity as
g