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Year: 1868

am young man still, but l was several
years younger when made my first and only
offer. first loved my love at small tea
party at Highgate. She was an angel of the
name of Simmons, and fioated about on white
muslin which was pervaded by soft faint
radiance of pink. AT that period Of my life
love was a daily necessity of my existence.
was forever meeting with peerless maidens,
each one of whom always eclipsed every one
who had been seen before her; and was gene
rally true to the last-found divinity as long as
was in her company, or until met with an
other still more divine. My last love, Clara,
was not at the party in question; and as my
affection had somewhat cooled towards her of
late, on account of q cold in her head which
had filed her Dyes with water instead of fire,
and had made her nose red and unromantic
of course looked around the room to decide as
to who should be the object of my undying
affection for the evening. Miss Simmons was
there, and Miss Simmons was selected without
hesitation or delay. But for her, indeed be-
lieve | must have fallen in love with Miss
Corker of the spiral ringlets who, as racing
man would say, ran bad second; but Miss
Simmons being peerless among the company,
! fell so desperately in love with her that
Clara was at once utterly and entirely ban
ished from her throne as queen Of nay soul,
and Miss Simmons reigned in her stead.


AT this tea-party there were but two nice
young men present, reckoning myself as one.
/ do not mean to say of the other that he was
at all nice in my estimation, but that he was
the only person present beside myself from
whom could be expected the various polite
attentions which form the duties OF young men
at small tea-parties. Indeed, there were but
four men present altogether on this occasion,
two of them being old fogies who dropped in
after tea in precisely the same costume which
they had worn at business throughout the
day-a free and easy style of going into society
which made me think almost with shame of
the hour of misery had endured in donning
my cold clean shirt, adjusting my white neck
tie, and squeezing my thinly -stockinged feet,
cOrns and ALL into those too finely fitting
patent. leather boots. One OF the fogies, fat
solemn man of meditative disposition, soon
withdrew to smoke pipe with our host, who
never appeared in society; and the other, who
at first seemed to be of joking, jovial turn,
was shortly afterwards quenched in a ruboer
of whist with three old ladies'. Mr.. Tinker
and myself alone remained; and little did |
think, when we were LETT the only representa-
tives OF mankind among 30 many girls, and |
chung to him as my sole rock of support amidst
waves OF muslin-little did imagine then how
intensely should hate him before that even
ing drew to close.


Let 1t not be supposed that because was
ready to fall in love on the slightest provooa-
tion, was equally prompt in declaring the
passion which consumed me to its object for
the time being. No: to the Clara before mem
toned had made no nearer approach TO an
avowal Of my love than by sending her very
tender pOetical eHusiOn (nOt Originally, cum
Year: 1868

The GAINESVILLE Gazette talks very sensibly upon
this point, and says there is class OF well mean
ing but 1thoughtless persons who regard n news
paper as a sort Of benevolent enterprise gotten up
by some lberal-minded gentlemen for the sole
purpose of doing all the good possible, and who
has selected the million-tongued press to accomp-
lsh it, They are the regular pOachers upon the
press--men who always want their fayors inserted
gratuitously, and are always ready to inform the
publisher that he is engaged in publishing ne'cs
paper, and they are always sure to have some
thing of business nature that they believe to be
good news which ought to be given to the public
at once. One man has just patented a new heat
ing apparatus that will save half the fuel now
used and Of course ii will be great favor to the
poor if the editor will just tell the people free of
charge, where'such apparatus can. be bought,
| "A man engaged in the manufacture OF reapers,
recently sent the editor q communication of two
columns solid matter, setting forth the saving his
| machine would be to farmers over the common
reaper, which he wished inserted gratis, it would
| be helping the farmers, don't you see2 Then
there are numbeess organizations and associations
of individuals that clamorous for free rides in
| the publishers wagon. The different religious
denominations want all their notices of meetings,
| conventions and festivals published free: first,
because they are too poor to pay, and second, be-
| cause they are engaged in doing good and it is
the business of the publishers to help the noble
work Firenien get no pay for watching the
property of citizens, and must have their notices
of elections, meetings, &c., given them pro bono
pubHco. The temperance organizations are busy
in the noblest work that can engage the effort of
men-that Of uplifting the fallen and ruined OF


our race. 51p ae. .,s


John Doe takes a weekly paper for which he
pays two dollars year and gets five dollars


worth of reading. His wife and he asked the ed


tor to print an obituary notice that costs at least


two dollars TO get it put in type. John might as


consistently ask the undertaken who furnished
the coffin for his poor wife, to throw in small


one for his youngest child simply because he was


patron of his, as to ask such favors of news


paper without pay.


mean man is nominated for Office and he


expects the editor to put the best possible face


on his fitness for the position, whitewasb his


character, print his tickets and vote them too all


for the good of the cause and the success of cor
rect principles. tr'


We beg all whom it may concern 10 remember
that no good newspaper can be made without il
has the whole time and industry Of those engaged
on it, and its expenses are comparatively larger
in proportion 10 its gross receiots than almos


any other sort of business. If you read paper


pay for it; ifyou need its facilities for getting
, your business before the public and increasing
your trade, pay for that, but don't sponge.
Year: 1868




til bad plan to grease the upper lea
ther Of shoes for the purpose of keeping
them soft it rots the leather, and admits
the dampness more readily. 1t is better
to make varnish thus Put half a
pound of gum shellac, broken up in small
pieces, in quart bottle or jug, cover it
with alcohol, cork it tight, and put it on a
shelf in warm place +; shake itwell several
times day, then add a piece Of gum
camphor as large as hens egg; shake it
well, and in few hours shake it again and
add one ounce of lamp black; if the alcohol
is good, it will be dissolved in three days
then shake and use. If it gets too thick,
add alcohol-pour out two or three tea
spoonsful in saucer, and apply it with a
small paint-brush. If the materials were
all good, it will dry in about five minutes,
and will be removed only by wearing it off,
giving gloss almost equal to patent lea
ther. ..-,. ii .... .mI..s ~


The advantage of this preparation above
others is that it does not strike into the
leather and make it hard, but remains OF
the surface, and yet excludes the water
almost perfectly This same preparation
is admirable for harness, and does not sol
when touched, as lamp-black mixtures do
Year: 1868

We are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do; there
fore, never go abroad in search of your
wants, if they be real wants, they will
come in search of you for he that buys
what he does not want, will soon want what
he cannot buy. ..


A little girl, walking one day with her
mother in church-yard, reading one after
another the praises of those who slept be-
meath, said Il wonder where they bury
the sinners?" u p Il4t0


A revengeful knave, will do more than
he will say grateful one, will say more
than he will do.
Year: 1868

Exceed those OF any other establishment
or the nd,-proof of this can be found in
com parlng our premiums with those of
others FOR u BIS oFTHE SAM d SIZE, in au-
ottlon 10 which we claim to give better
goods of the same character.


WE WILL SEND TO AGENTS FREE OF
Year: 1868

One night last week squad of dis guised men on horseback dashed through the streets of Corinth--they were said to be the disreputable Kuklux gang.

 Cars are now running regularly on the Port Gibson and Grand Gulf Railroad.

 The Aberdeen Examiner records the death of Colonel Peyton T. Manning.

 There issome excitement in Vicksburg on account of attempt to put the hospital under Roman Catholic management

 The Charleston Tallahatchiap com plains that last fall the planter had to sell his cotton at low price, and now he has to buy his spring supplies at high price. '5 The same paper says the wheat is doing we'll, and wishes more had been planted.

 Fruit promises to be plentiful about Charleston.

 The Panola Star expects full fruit and vegetable crop in that neigbborhood.

 The Panola Star says: "There is just one thing that we are in hurry to know, and that is, if certain of our subscribers ever intend to step up like men and pay us ? Do they think we can sleep on the fence and eat our uusalted gumbo with a splinter always, just for the privilege of sending them paper for nothing!

 A Holly Springs writer says notwith standing the advance in cotton, they will put in less this year than last.
Year: 1868

RTAOur Washington special says "it is not believed in well-informed cir cles that the Senate dare convict the President" on any such charges as those preferred against him. That, we think. depends entirely on circum- stances. If the Jacobin majority in the Senate arc of opinion that the people of the United States will quietly ac- quiesce in the removal of Andrew Johnson on the ground that he did not yield implicit obedience to the nncon- stitutional tenure of office bill, they are certain to do it, for the Radical leaders long to see all impediments to Congressional absolutism put out of the way. The impeachment trial will not be decided until an opportunity has been had of feeling the popular pulse, and the decision will be in &C., cordanoe herewith. He who looks for justice, patriotism, or \ regard for their oath of office from Radical Con- gressmen has observed the course of national legislation te little purpose during the last few years. If the peo- pie show bold front for liberty and the Constitution, the President will not be removed otherwise he will.
Year: 1868

Gated to learning and religion, shall cover
this mountain like crown of glory, you
will depict with pride to your ohildren's
children how that it was your high privi-
lege to participate in the opening exer-
cises Of the University Of the South"
Year: 1868

ARsoLUr1sM SoFrENINe.-T Kaiser is
finding the way to his peoples hearts. He at
tended shooting festival recently In Vienna,
and tossed off mug of beer, took j few shots
with the rifle, scattered pleasant compliments
right and left, put everybody in good humor,
and went away with the admiration of the
crowd following him. Being asked to drink a
goblet Of wine after his mug of beer, he merely
slipped the more aristocratic beverage remark.
ing that if he drank all that was handed to hlmS
the natural consequences would follow, When
he had made a couple Of close shots with the
rifle. he gaily laid the weapon aside, observing
that he must stop there. or he would not do.so
we'll. He expressed pleasure at finding the
women taking part in the shooting contests,
and offered hearty praise to q crack marksman
from Norway, who was using a gun OF his own
invention. These little intimacies between
modern Emperors and their people it Is pleas


ant to record as aflorling evidence that, while
we of the Grand Republic are going up into
Despotism, they, by a sort Of international


seesaw, are going down into Democracy. :
Ricl,moa0 lFhy. a
Year: 1868

Weisbaden is not merely aplacc of summer
resort. The proof cf that is known by the fact
that the gambling tables are kept open for eight
months in the year. There are many people
who reside here in the winter months III the
hotels, when they reduce their charges, or live
en- pension, or have q floor of rooms and keep
houses for themselves. The climate is plea
SAINT one the hot fire below continually kept up
to keep.the spring water boiling having posi-
bly, some effect upon the atmosphere. Winter
and summer the temperature OF this water
never changes, and when the outside tempera-
ture is low: cloud of smoky steam covers the
surface of the bubbllng mass. 1t is not alone
to drink the water or to take the baths that
people reside here. If you do not like this
treatment there are plenty OF other cures"
which yoI can resort to- Near the boiling
spring, which is appropriately called the Koch
brunnen and opposite the verandah. there is
shop from which are served all the mineral
waters of Germany. You can take them there
before breakfast or at midday or In the after
noon. Close by the spring is woman with
buckets full Of whey, which you can swill
until you are filed with whatever is left of
milk after every particle Of nutrition has
been extracted from it; and 4 little way
up the Neroberg is a cold water cure, where
you can be packed and scrubbed and drenched
and drowned and then drenched internally
until you would think that any disease not
more obstinate than an evil spirit would give
up in despair aud depart from body where it
was allowed to have so little rest. Then close
BY there are other cures. In fact one never
knows how many Ills flesh isreally liable to, un
til one comes to Germany and hears OF the
cures which seem indeed to be more abun-
dant and of tener much worse than the diseases.
Not far off there is a pine cure for consump-
tives, then there is cure of pine cones, the
former cule consisting iii drinking, the latter
in bathing then there is a mud cure, where
you are half buried in slime and filth; and a
wine cure, which disgusts you even with the
best Of liquors; and starvation cure, where
YOU are put on cold bread and allowed to drink
nothing but light wine until your throat par
ches your tongue gets thick, and your body,
having nothing to feed upon, devours the
tumors which fill the inside Of your system and
create pustam 0isease-so say the peasant
doctors. Finally there is the grape cure, which
lasts for about six weeks, when you consume
your time in masticating fresh grapes and sep
arating stems and skin from the pulp. You


learn to eat six or eight pounds easily, by way
Of flyer" and this cure has this advantage,
that, like Rryon's Turk, who was asked to eat,
and did eat, two large partridges by way Of au
appetizer, though you actually ieel no hun.
grier than when you began, you have still
force enough left to take in what IS actually
necessary to the support of life.
Year: 1868

A FEAST OF FAT MEN--A curious gather
ing Of portly men took place at Gregory 3
Point Connecticut, on the Goth ult. The
occasion OF this gathering was clam bake to
which no guest was invited who did not cause
the scales to kick the beam at two hundred
pounds averdupos. And these heavyweight
champions were all to be from Fairfield county.
There should certainly be something remarka-
bic III the air, the diet, and physical conditions
oil lie generally in this county, since it furnish


cd to the clam bake no less than thirty mine
meu. the lightest Of whom weighed 200, and
weight the thirty mine was ,766 pounds.


The number of clans eaten by this formida-
bIepary is unfortunately not given in the ac-
count from which the foregoing particulars are
Year: 1868

END or THE WoRLD.-A German savant
has discovered that this globe we live on is
gradually shrinking by the process Of cooling,
which has been going on since its creation. In
the lapse Of time, the contraction will draw a Il
the continents below the water level except q
Very few high points, which will be the resi-
dences Of such few human beings as may be
able to get on them. These human beings will
be modified and transformed to suit the changed
condition of things


But, for the satisfaction of the present gene
1atlon, 1t IS stated that these changes cannot
be effected in less than five hundred millions of
centu1ies \ .
Year: 1868

The following waif, afoat on the " sea
Of reading, We clip from an exchange


We do not know its paternity, but it con-
tains some wholesome truths, beautifully
set forth


"Men seldom think Of the great
event of death until the shadow falls
across their own path, hiding forever
from their eyes the traces Of the loved
ones whose living smiles were thesunlight
of their existence. Death is the great
antagonist of life, and the cold thought
of che tomb is the skeleton at all feasts
We do not want to 90 through the dark
valley, although its passage may lead to
Paradise and with Charles Lamb, we
do not want to lie down in the muddy
grave, even with kings and princes for
our bed fellows.


But the fat of nature is inexorable
There is no appeal Of relief from the
great Law which dooms US to dust. We
flourish and we fade as the leaves of
tie forest, and the flower that blooms
and withers in a day has not Trailer
hold up9n life than the mightiest mon
arch that eyer shook the earth with his
footsteps. Generations of men appear
and vanish as the grass, and the count
less multi tude that Thongs the world
to-day, will tomorrow disappear as the
footsteps on the shore.


In the beautiful drama of Ion, the
instinct of Immortality, so eloquently
by the death devoted Greek,
finds deep response in every thought
full soul When about to yield his
young existence as a sacrifice to fate,
his beloved Glemanthe asks if they shall
not meet again, to which be replies
+" have asked that dreadful question of
the hills that look eternal-of the clear
streams that flow forever-of the stars
among whose fields of azure my raised
spirit hath walked in glory. All were
dumb But while l gaze upon thy liv-
ing face, feel that there is something
in the love that mantles through its
beauty that cannot wholly perish. We
shall meet again, Clemanthe."
Year: 1868

The latest process for making women
{" beautiful forever" is that invented by
Madame Maniquet, of Paris. An oint-
ment, the secret of which is known only
to the inventor, is spread upon a stiff
linen, which is applied all over the face
and takes the shape, forming a mask ad-
justed to the features. This mask re-
mains on until the skin rises in thick
pustules. 1t is then Withdrawn and a
certain salve rubbed over the face, when
the patient must remain entirely motion
less, not being permitted to speak, laugh,
or cry during the formation of the new
skin, which operation generally takes
about week to accomplish. This new
skin is soft and tender as that of an in
fant, delicate in the extreme, and must
be maintained by the daily use of the
softening compound manufactured by
Madame Maniquet. The first sensation
on taking off the mask is one of horror
The visage is swollen and tumefed ex-
actly as if subjected to severe scald or
burn. Many of the patients swoon at
the first sight Of their own deformity, as
reflected in the long tranleau looking
glasses which adorn the apartment. But
Madame Mapiquet points to her own
blooming visagc, and hope replaces
alarm. As matter of course, this skill
ful renovator of faded charms has hosts
of customers. and it is limited that the
Empress of the French desires to become
one of them.
Year: 1868

The CongregatioRahst contains the fol-
lowing story A good minister had
long preached to congregation of aY-
erage culture with little apparent good
result Thinking the matter over, one
Saturday morning, after he had finished
writing his weekly sermon, the thought
occurred to him to 90 down stairs and
read it to his pious, simple-hearted do
mestic. perhaps" said he, q 1 shoot
too high" Calling her from her work


he read few sentences, selected as con-
tanning the clearest announcement of the
trIth which the sermon was intended to
convey, and asked her, -" Do YOU under
stand that ? "No, sir" was the reply.
He then extemporized the same idea in
simpler language, and asked her again,
F." Do you understand that?" "A little,
was her answer-kindling with an inter
est which proved the truth of her words
"but please, sir, plain IL little more. ="
Once more he expounded his original
thought in the most lucid manner and
with the fewest and shortest words he
could think Of, when she exclaimed with
great delight see it all now, sir, and
| like it very much" He went up
stairs, re-wrote his discourse as nearly
as possible in the same style as he. had
used in his experiment, and went to
church next morning, almost trembling
lest his people would be disgusted with
his preaching. To his amazement, the
very first sentences seemed to awaken a
listening, such as he had never before
been able to secure. And, as he went
on, he could see one eye after another
moistening, until almost his whole con-
gregation were visibly touched as he had
never seen them before, and as the result
of that service more than one came to
him to inquire, "What must 1 do ?"
The effect upon his own mind was such
that he changed his style of preaching
from that time thoroughly; declaring
that as for him-let others do what they
maybe would speak so as to be under
stood By all whom it was his duty to
address.
Year: 1868

Geneneral H. Carver, ''the father of
the Pacific Railroad, as he offers to
prove, writes to an Omaha paper of his
future intentions


Il mean to 60 right on, propose and
establish, if live, as nearly as possible,
an air line route between the Atlantic
an3 ps~ifie ceesRs fon the surface of
which float nine-tenths of all the com
merce of the world for a railroad, with
track eight or ten feet wide The pas
senger ears on this road will be travelling
hotels, whereas Pullman's cars are only
substitutes, and first described them in
my pamphlet written and published at
Washington twenty-one years ago last
January. These passenger ears viii be
large and splendid, accommodating from
three to four and even five hundred pas
sengers with all the comfort of any hotel
of this or any other country. l will say
to the public, call this Utopian, vain,
visionary, if you please. My first plan
of my present Pacific railroad was called
so and laughed at for four or FIVE years
after l had begun to recommend it, write
articles for it, and in all ways to labor
hard in its favor Further, mean, if l
am alive when the road is completed and
all things in order, to travel from the
city of San Francisco to New York in
side of forty-eight hours. We have got
a model car in New Jersey built of cedar,
with each wheel running by itself ike
wheelbarrow, and small engine about
as large as barrel in the bow of the
car, and have run it at the rate of over
two miles minute With perfect safety
aad ease"
Year: 1868

FATAL ACCIDENT. T.-Yesterday morning
at about 3 o'clock young man named John


Brady, employed as brakesman on the York


River railroad, was crushed so badly that
he died. The freight train was preparing
to start for the White House, and the engine
was switching from another track to that
upon which was thetrain. Young Brady was
standing on the front portion of the fore
most car, and as the engine approached
stepped towards it for the purpose of
coupling. He missed his footing, and fell
under the engine. His right leg was broken
in two places, his left leg below the knee,
and his body very badly bruised: He was
taken to the depot, and everything that
physicians skill could devise for him was
done, but he died, after lingering in great
pain for an hour. Brady was an unmarried
man, aged about nineteen years, and ma
tive of Richmond. He was o fine looking
young man, and is spoken of as having been
4 sober, industrious, and steady young man.
His father was burned to death in the
Rockets distillery couple of years since.
The deceased will be buried by the I'm
proved Order of Red Men, of which he was
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