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Year: 1869

1t does not appear from our latest news that
the Sultan has yet given up his complaint
against the Viceroy. Rumors are as yet con-
fcting. By some 1t is said that compromise
will be effected with the aid of the great
Powers BY others it is said that an ultima
tum has actually been sent to the Khedive,
and that several vessels of the Turkish
navy are ready to sail for Alexandria. That
trouble exists and that storm is brewing
is nowhere denied. 1t is the prevailing
sentiment at the Porte that the Viceroy
is now and has for some time been
doing too much on his own account. The
authorities at Constantinople cannot close
his army, his splendid steamships, his Suez
Canal and his vast personal wealth, is putting
his nominal master very much in the shade.
This feeling is aggravated and famed into
flame by certain bitter enemies of the Vioeroy
who are prominent in the councils of tho
Sultan. By changing the order of succession
in Egypt and by other acts the Viceroy has
not only grevously offended and greatly
wronged a brother and an uncle, but has
forced them into exile. These two Egyptian
princes-Mustapha, the brother, and Hahn,
the uncle-have found home in Constani-
nople; and the former is not only one of the
most able and active of the Young Turkey
party, but prominent member of the Sultan's
Council of Ministers. All that these men and
their friends can do is being done to foment q
quarrel between the Sultan and his nominal
vassal, the Khedive.


That Turkey and Egypt will go to war we do
not believe, The great Powers will not permit
1t. They cannot afford to permit it. The
worst that can befall will be another European
Congress on the Eastern question. This
Congress may have some hard work to accom-
plish; but it will not be difficult for it to
effect compromise and maintain the peace Of
Europe for a little while longer. There is but
one Power in Europe that would be likely to
stand by the Viceroy if he refused all advice.
The Viceroy, however, is not in the present
instance the aggressor, and the chances are
small that he will refuse advice II is the Sui
tan who threatens; but we may rest assured
that even though Russia should stand alo0f
Europe will still be strong enough to hold
Turkey in check. We apprehend trouble; We
think European Congress probable; but we
do not apprehend war.
Year: 1869

ALMOST A TRAaEDY.-The Belmont
Chronicle says that few days ago, a
man returned to his home in Belmont
county after an absence of several years
In the West, and found his wife as n
good wife should not be who has been
separated from her liege lord for two or
three years. Being placed on the stool
of repentance, the wife acknowledged
her guilt and criminated as her partner
in shame gay and festive man of fami-
ly living in the neighborhood. Where
upon the injured husband with sup
pressed fury in his eye and loaded re-
volver in his hand, started out in search
of the destroyer of his domestic peace.
The destroyer WAS soon found and the
avenging husband presenting the re-
volver at his breast gave him short
five minutes to settle his worldly affairs.
But, he didn't shoot. He compromised
it, Two hundred dollars WAS the patch
that was plastered over the wounded
honor. and with which the injured man
returned to the distant West.
Year: 1869

From the Lynchburg (va.l Republican, Oct 1871


About six O'Clock yesterday morning the down
mail train of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad
met with an accident, three-quarters OF mile west
OF Lisbon, which came near being attended with the
most tragic consequences. While the train was
moving along at its usual rapid speed, there being
no suspicion OF any danger impending the ladies'
aad the sleeping car were suddenly and violent
ly thrown from the track by the breaking OF rail
under the wheels OF the ladies' car. The accident
happened at time when the train was on the crest
OF a steep embankment One end OF the ladies' car
was thrown over the verge of the emoankment, but
make the perious descent. The sleeping car made
one revolution. Strange to say, though seven or
eight persons were more or less painfully and Sc
verely Druised serious injuries sustained by
any Of the passengers or railroad hands, The lamps
winch were buyning In the two were put out by
the concussop, leaving the dsordered scene In dark
The stove IN the ladies' car. being OF the
pateBte secured to the door and roof OF the car
did not slip from Its place and its doors did not
open, thus saving the terror-stricken passengers
from the possible additional distress and danger OF
IRE.


The following is list OF the persons whose bruises
are most considerable None OF these even, are
considered seriously hurt


Jonn Llggan, conductor Of the sleeping car bruised
about the face ana body.


Mrs. Beattie, Of Glade Spring, who was on her
way to Richmond.


Judge Biggs, OF North Carolina, who was return.
Ing home from the Louisville Convention.


The two damaged cars were left near the track
where the accident occurred. The passengers were
transferred to the other cars and the train reached
the city with only hall hours detention beyond
the schedule time.
Year: 1869

THE TENURE OF OFYIcE AcT.-Thc radical
ship, which was stranded by the election OF
Grant, is rapidly going TO pieces. The most
dangerous and destructive rock, as we long
ago warned the ill-fated vessel, is the Tenure
of Office act The radicals are in sore strait.
They cannot go ahead, and 1t is not probable
that Grant will allow them TO back out by any
manGuvre Of suspension. Already the rats
are leaving the doomed craft, as may be seen
in the withdrawal OF Senators Morton, Grimes
and Sprague from the caucus and their re-
fiisal to be bound by its action. Grant has
now an admirable opportunity to settle the
question as to whether he Is President or only
an appointment clerk to the Senate. If he re-
mains true to his record, firm, consistent and
just to his prerogatives and the rights of the
people he will win the day. But let us have
no four years suspension OF the obnoxious
enactment. Either the law is good one or it
is bad one. Ifit is good one II is just as
good for General Grant as any President to
come. Ifit is bad one, now that the neces-
sity which provoked It's enactment has passed.
away, let II be repealed.
Year: 1869

PROFESSIONAL MANNERS. Some days ago a
city physician exposed some peccadilloes OF
the men about the Coroners' Office, and the
replies made are from two Of the Coroners'
doctors. One wanted to cowhide the exposing
physician, but did not and the other consoles
himself with the reflection that the name of the
adversary Of Coroner's ways is not in the
register Of respectable physicians" What is
the ''register Of respectable physicians ?"
Something they keep at the Corouars o1acea
Year: 1869

FREE SoHooLs.-We believe In free schools
to the most liberal extent; but we sympathise
with those who object to certain studies in our
schools as not the most useful. Every one
does not want Latin and Greek. But this Is
nothing against those languages, or In favor If
driving them from our free schools. Leave
them for those who want them, and extend the
plan to take in the more strictly practical
studies. Teach architecture and the builders
art, surveying, engineering and 50 on. Civ,
public instruction In all the mechanic arts.
Year: 1869

HONOR WHERE HONOR rs DUE--We have
beheld with a good deal of interest the efforts
which Senator Stockton is making in Congress
to prevent the telegraph monopolists from
fastening their chains upon the country. In
the matter Of the landing Of the French cable,
States left open to that enterprise, and offers
Of similar character, merit the appreciation of
the entire community, and more particularly Of
the commercial portion. We need another
cable to Europe, and must have it, and We
trust Senator Stockton will not pause in lis
laudable exertions until success has crowned
them with full fruition.
Year: 1869

"'TIs SWEET TO HEAR THE WATCH Docs
HONEST BARK. Ben Butler is like one of
those. useful, if not comely, dogs so much
priced by the Western hunter and known as
''bear dog" He will lay hold Of anybody
or any thing, in season or out Of season, badger
or grizzly, Indian or skunk. Buffers latest
foray in the underbrush Of Congressional
thickets unearthed Schenck, of Ohio, who
came out snarling, but very reluctant to do
battle. s'Thrice is he armed whose cause is
just and the taunting audacity Of the
member from Essex was in strong contrast to
the surly reluctance of the usually beligerent
Schenck. Have it out at once, gentlemen,
and you will certainly amuse il you do not
benefit the country. Let us know exactly
what relation the honorable chairman Of the
Ways and Means Committee is to Sam Pike,
the great distiller, and how it is that only the
clauses Of important bills which are most
intended to enrich the revenue are accidentally
omitted in the enrolment. Not that We
imagine satisfactory explanation from the
honorable gentleman from Ohio would at all
squelch the inquisitve and irreverent Butler.
He would be sure to break out in fresh
place, and one Of these days he'll find some
thing.
Year: 1869

II is lamentable fact that the United
States, although far ahead of the rest
of the world in railways, telegraphs,
printing presses, sewing machines and
thousand and one appliances of modern
civilization, should be almost as far in the rear
in reference to its lighthouse system. One OF
the most urgent demands Of the reform which
we have often advocated in this system Is the
substitution of the electrical light for the oil
lamps which so dimly illuminate our extended
and dangerous coast The Fresnel lenses and
reHectors were indeed welcomed as vast I'm
provement when first introduced, but their
Intellectual fires pale utterly before the splendid
electrical light which is visible miles and
miles away, even during a fog, and which has
been SO successfully tested on the French
steamer the Vile de Paris. This electrical
light should at once be put in use In every
lighthouse along our coast, and particularly
in the harbor of New York. Shippers and in
surance companies are alike interested in the
speedy adoption Of the new and marvellous
light produced by electricity. II would be
well II the impulse which Admiral Porter has
already given to activity in the Navy Depart
ment were also to quicken activity In that
branch of the Treasury Department to which
the lighthouses directly belong. The change
which we recommend would then be promptly
made.
Year: 1869

THE KNG's JEsTER.-In the good old times
Of the kings jester he was fellow of some
Importance; for frequently with timely joke
he brought laughter from the fellows Of royal
council board ready for a row. So il appears
the Senate caucus of Monday last was turned
from discord TO harmony among its fellows by
the Senator from Oregon rising in his place
and protesting that he was not fellow, nor
was be to be called fellow by any man. This
set the table in roar, and the Senator from
Oregon carried off the prize from all his fellows
Of the caucus, though not himself fellow.
Year: 1869

SCHOOL DIsorPLINE.-It is said that one
thing against the Free Academy is the social
inequality. Poor mems sons are ruled o,t by
their pride, because there are SO many rich
mems sons who wear broadcloth and gold
watches. II would not be unrepublicaa in
spirit, and would have a Spartan flavor, II the
school discipline forbade gold watches and
required certain uniform dress that might be
within the reach Of ell.
Year: 1869




General Grant wants second term; he
knows he can be reelected only by getting the
republican nomination, and the power of re-
moval during the last year or two Of his pres
ent term is his chief reliance for packing and
controlling the Republican Convention.


This is o copperhead view Of General
Grants policy. 1t covers, too, the old demo-
cratic game which smashed the party into
flinders under poor Pierce and Buchanan and
yet our copperhead Bourbons win learn moth
ing. They are firm in the fallacy that the
President with the spoils at his command can
buy another term as President, and that herein
lie all the objections of General Grant to this
Tenure of Office law. We presume, however,
Haunting these views of the Manhattan ring
before the public will consent to the reported
compromise as agreed on by the republican
majority of the Senate, because it still denies
to the President decisive voice in the matter
of removals from Office; so the Senate may
still checkmate him if they catch him sspacking
the Republican Convention" of 1872. But dis
missing this absurdity In regard to General
Grant, the question recurs, why is the Senate
SO tenacious of this appellate jurisdiction
over removals from Office? There may be
few Presidential candidates among the con-
script fathers who desire to retain check
upon General Grant as dangerous rival, but
we apprehend that the Influences operating
upon the radical majority in behalf Of this
proposed compromise have very little to do
with the Presidential succession.


General Grant contemplates q searching
diagnosis of retrenchment and reform. He is
evidently in earnest in this business. But the
Affiliations of the whiskey rings, the tobacco
rings, the various other internal revenue
rings, the Custom House rings, and the
Indian treaty and railway land and bond
specializing rings and their mercenaries Of the
lobby, encompass the President on every side.
This powerful coalition of Treasury leeches
have their allies in Office, who have, we fear,
their friends in the Senate, and if so General
Grant must be careful in treading on the toes
of these favorites, or the Senate may check
him in his mad career. Here we suspect, at
all events, may be found the solution Of this
proposed compromise. Where hundreds of
millions of money in lobby jobs and whiskey
frauds, &C., are at stake retrenchment and re-
form must not go too fast or too far, for, after
all, what is the government to the powers that
be without the spoils9


Of the law in controversy we still trust that
General Grant will insist upon an absolute re-
peal. Fresh from the people, with the House
of Representatives, he directly represents the
will of the people. Only one-third of the
Senate represent directly the elections of 1868.
The other two-thirds, excepting reconstruction,
were elected upon other issues. The House
therefore should not yield to the Senate upon
this ofice-holders' law, but hold fast to the
ultimatum of the administration.
Year: 1869

THE IRISH CHURCH BnL.-The debate in
the House of Commons on the Irish Church
bill concluded with a speech by Mr.. Glad
stone, and the division on a motion that the
bill should be read second time resulted in o
triumphant majority Of one hundred and
eighteen for the liberal government. This
result is an earnest of the final triumph of the
measure
Year: 1869

on to single trees, and in this way consid
cradle fruit may be grown at little ex.
pense. Low headed, spreading trees are
best for this purpose, like the apple or
butternut The vine should be planted in
good soil several feet distant from the
trunk, and single cane led up pole to
some strong limb, whence it will soon
spread over the entire head of the tree
The stem of the vine should be protected
against injury from stock. Vine covered
trees would add to the picturesqueness of
many landscapes, and repay the cost aside
from the fruit, but we wouldn't advise any
one to grow less vines in his garden or
vineyard on account of covering a few
unsightly trees with them-Erchange.


A FEW days since little girl in Newark,
N. j., was missing from her home, and
all efforts to find her proved unavailing
1t was finally suggested that she might
have fallen through crevice in the walk,
down distance of forty feet into the
vault of neighboring brewery. Lights
were lowered through the aperture, and
afterward a man descended. Strange to
relate, he found the little one lying asleep
upon high bed of dirt and stones, hav-
ing become weary with crying for assist
ance. When taken out and examined by
leading physician of that city (who at
the same time vouches for the correctness
of this story, she was found to he per-
fectly we'll, and to have suffered no bodily
harm by her perilous fall
Year: 1869

PRoCHAsKA, the eminent physiologist,
used to mention in one of his lectures
how, travelling in Bavaria, he put up at s
small inn at Tetschen Brod, where, being
weather bound, he passed his days in
writing. Not liking the meager accom-
moda ton of little village inn, he begged
a comfortable arm chair. After some de-
throne was placed in his room, with many
ipjunctions to treat it carefully. He well
coined the annexation with delight, and
at once proceeded to avail himself of its
comforts. Scarcely, however, had he been
seated in it half an hour, when he was
seized with pain in the back of the neck,
which extended gradually down the spine.
These pains left him after he went to bed,
and returned when he resumed his place
in the chair next morning Sometimes
they came spasmodically, and forced him
to cry out; sometimes they began slightly
and then increased in severity, gradually
engaging one nervous center after another
and causing intense suffering But all the
symptoms would slowly subside on re-
moval from the chair, instantaneous
ly returning when he went back to
it. There was scalcely form of neural
gia he did not experience. The facial
nerves were constantly the seat of suffer
ing, and his sciatic agonies were terrible
He examined the chair carefully and
thoroughly. He rippid open the leather
covering, and he investigated the hair
stuffing beneath. He tested the varnish
on the wood, and, in fact, left nothing
undone that might throw light on the
curious influence of evil this antique
piece of furniture possessed, but to no
purpose. Nothing came of all his perqui-
sition, and he was driven to seek if the
history of the chair could afford any ex-
planation of these phenomena. To his
amazement he learned that his landlady
had borrowed the chair from doctor in
the village. He had used it for years in
his study, and in it some hundreds of
patients had undergone the various oper-
atiOns of surgery. The well-worn arms,
showing where agonized hands had
grasped conyulsively, the patched leather
attested the violence which had attended
these struggles. 81 bought the vicious
old seat, and had it hacked up before my
eyes, and the fragments thrown into the
Elbe," said the Professor, but the lesson
it taught me l have never forgotten.-
ST. PdaTs Magdzine
Year: 1869

her lover, real African gorilla from his
his chin downward, but possessing very
resolute, yet anxious human head-very
like Jack Gales with the scalp and grin
ming jaws of the defunct monster hanging
behind his ears.


This was an extraordinary situation a
nice young lady in a strange garret, con-
fronted by an erratic young man in semi
gorilla costume his countenance flushed
with excitement and exercise; his eyes
wild with anxiety and alarm his whole
manner that of person who is in state
of utter quandry. The truth of history
cOmpels me to record the fact that Miss
Clara Corisnder threw up her hands and
laughed as if she would die. She was a
sensible girl and liked a good joke. Old
Coriander's plans were laid bare to her
clear vision in one moment; she saw
through the whole trick and laughed in
the face of the astonished Mr.. Gale.


ooh, jack said she, as soon as she
could recover her breath, "how could you
be such a fool? where am L? How shall
l ever get home? Oh. oh, oh" To all of
which Jack could only reply in install
ments But, by secluding the young lady
on the stairway, he succeeded in preparing
for their return to the Coriander mansion.
Through the half-deserted streets the young
couple went in different guise from that
in which they had before astonished those
who saw them flee The gorilla delivered
up the old mans daughter, and was glad
to be told that the menagerie, not quite
ruined, must needs be closed for few
months for repairs.


The show opened again in due season
with new attractions, under the manage
ment of Coriander and Gale. But in all
the lines of cages of rare beasts, no Afri
can gorilla was to be found. In lieu
thereof they showed a handsomely stuffed
skin of the much lamented beast which
came to an untimely end in consequence
of a cold caught by exposure at the great
menagerie fire. Coriander's heart re-
Tented when Jack saved his daughter from
the burning building, and he found his in
ventive genius invaluable in the show
business


have seen the only young gorilla born
on the American soil, of which there is
any account.


1t has pink cheeks and blue eyes, and is
learning to answer to the name of Clara
Gale.-ODerLd7ad MoRt1Lu
Year: 1869

THAT they are made as perfect, if the
right materials are furnished, there can
not be doubt


But are the necessary elements fur
nished to children as they are the young
of the other animals? And do we not
subject our teeth to deleterious influences
from which animals that obey their natu
raj instincts are exempt?


The forming young of other animals,
while dependent on the mother, get lime
aud phosphorus, and potash, and silex,
and all the other elements of which the
teeth are composed, from the blood or
milk of the mother, and she gets them
from the food which nature provides con-
tanning these elements in their natural
proportions.


But where can the child in its forming
state get these necessary elements, whose
mother lives principally on starch, and
butter, and sugar, neither of which con-
tains particle of lime, phosphorus, potash
or slick? Nature performs no miracles.
She makes teeth as glass is made, by COM
biniDg the elements which compose them
according to her own chemical principles
And this illustration is more forcible be-
cause the composition of the enamel of
the teeth and of glass is very nearly iden-
tical; both at least requiring the combi-
nation of silex with some alkaline princi-
pie,


If, then, the mother of an unborn or
nursing infant lives on white bread and
butter, pastry and confectionery, which
contain no slick, and very little of the
other elements which compose the teeth,
nothing short of a miracle can give her
child with good teeth, and especially with
teeth well cnameled.


But what article of food will make good
teeth? Good milk will make good teeth,
for it makes them for calves. Good meat
will make good teeth, for it makes them
for lions and wolves. Good vegetables
and fruit will make good teeth, for they
make them for monkeys.


Good corn, oats, barley, wheat, rye, and
indeed, every thing that grows, will make
good teeth, if eaten in their natural state,
no elements being taken out; for every
one of them does make teeth for horses,
COWS, sheep, or some other animal. But
starch, sugar, lard, or butter will not make
good teeth. You tried them all with your
child's first teeth, and failed and your
neighbors have tried them, and indeed all
Christendom has tried them, and the
result is that man or woman at forty
with good, sound teeth is q very rare ex-
ception.-Dr. A. j. Belloaos.
Year: 1869

THE following is voluntary tribute
TO modest worth aud unobtrusive gentle
ness of character "The wheelbarrow
for simplicity of construction strength,
courage, and general moral excellence, II
is the superior of the veiocipehe, and
ought TO be encouraged"
Year: 1869

MoRE settled in his mind. Captain
Dorney walked up and down his room.
Suddenly the fire-bell of the town-hall
resounded through the still night. and
the cry of Fire fire Y struck his ear.
He hurried t. the window To ascertain
where the fire was, but nobody paid
any heed to his questions.


Without delay he seized his overcoat
and run into the street. The first en-
gine was just rafting over the pavement
in the direction Of the upper town. Fol-
lowing it, he met patrolman, who in
formed him that Doctor Eckert's mousse
was in q blaze.