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Year: 1869

Cultivate an agreeable temper /;
many a man has fallen dead in a fit of
passion.


Eat regularly, not over thrice day,
and nothing between meals.


Go to bed at regular hours. Get up
as soon as you wake Of yourself, and
do not sleep in the day time, at least
not longer than ten minutes before
noon.


Work always by the day and not by
the job.


Stop working before you are tagged
out"


Cultivate q generous and an accom-
odating temper.


Never cross a bridge before you
come TO it. This will save you one
half the troubles of life.


Never eat when you are not very
hungry, nor drink when you are not
thirsty.


Let your appetite always come un-
invited.


Cool off in a place greatly warmer
than the one in which you have been
exercising. This simple rule would
prevent incurable sickness and save
millions of lives every year.


Never resist a call of nature for a
single moment.


Never allow yourself to be chilled
through and through ; it is this which
destroys so many every year, in few
days sickness from pneumonia, called
bysome. lung fever or inflsmation of
the lungs.


Whoever drinks no liquids at meals
will add years of pleasurable existence
to his life.


or cold or warm drinks, the former
are most pernicious; drinking at meals
induces persons TO eat more than they
otherwise would, as any one can veri-
fy by experiment, and it is excess in
eating that devestates the land with
sickness suffering and death.


After fifty years of age if not a day
laborer, and sedentary persons after
forty, should eat but twice a day-in
the morning and about four in the af-
ternOOn; persons can soon accustOm
themselves to a seven-hOur interval
between eating, and thus give the
stomach rest; for every organ without
adequate rest will soon give out.


Begin early in life to live under the
benign influence of the Christian re-
IigiOn, for it "has the promise of the
life that now is. and of that which is
to come. ."-HdlPs journal Of Health.
Year: 1869

A white man met 'green" negro on the
wharf yesterday and asked change for TWEEN
ty dollar bill. The negro expressed himself
unable to change a twenty dollar bill, bat
would be most happy to change ten dollar
bill; which accommodation the white man
accepted. While the change was in view,
another negro, Archie Irwin, came up, no
doubt in pursuance Of an understanding
The white man took the negros ten dollars,
and, instead OF closing the Transaction by
handing over the ten dollar bill for which the
change was given, drew from his pocket
speculiar kind of lock, about which he COM
menced an animated talk, commanding for
the time the monicd negro's 'rapt attention.
During this interval he secretly conveyed the
ten dollars change to the hands Of Archie r.
vim, and that black rascal made of with il.
The green negro recovering himself de-
manded the ten dollars for which he had Civ
en- change and was informed by the graceless
white scoundre that the "other negro had il
and was making off with it. In due time Ar
chic was arrested and lodged in the caaboose |;
but the white man escaped.


At noon to-day, Archie, escorted by the
City Marshal, was on wild hunt for sixteen
dollars to pay the fine and costs Squire
Shannessy had imposedupon him for breach
Of ordinance. Whether he will be held to
answer for violation of State law we cannot
say. He is a shrewd negro an expert conf
dsnce man no doubt, and should be got rid of
in some manner.
Year: 1869

It's scarcely necessary 70 urge upon par
tiss indebted to the Bulletin office that our
circumstances require, upon their part, can
collation. Of their indebtedness. A quick in
gathering OF the amour, due US on book ac-
count, will greatly assi.; Us in re-establi king
ourselves on our original footing. We In
tend to recover from our setback, and that
right speedily. Our debtors know how to
aid Us in this purpose, and We shall expect
them TO be prepared for the call Of our col
iectOr
Year: 1869

Everybody should bear it in mind that the
ball Of the st. Patrick. Benevolent Society
comes off at the ST. Charles Hotel tonight.
a large crowd will undoubtedly be present,
a'plendid supper will be spread, and good
cheer and uncondned pleasure will be the or
der Of the night Buy ticket and 20.
Year: 1869

About IL o'clock last night the sharp howl
of dog answered the report ofa pistol, on
Eighteenth street; the passage of angry words
between two men followed the howl of the
dog, and the quick shutting of feet and tho
noise of scuffie followed the angry words.
= Lying at our ease within hearing distance,
We copjectured that some body bad shot |.
dog for biting him, and that the owner of the
perforated animal had made apersonal matter
out Of the affair, We accepted this solution
ofthc noises as satisfactory, at all events, and
went to sleep
Year: 1869

Atthc close OF q stormy March day
of this year two soldiers were cross
ing from Newport to Fort Adams In
sail-boat managed by an inexperi.
enced lad. When they were partly
across blast suddenly struck the
craft; the boy was confounded, the
boat eapsized, and for half an hour,
Icfinging to the keel, the hapless men
and boy struggled with the waves.
Then the hold of the boy relaxed,
and he sank but boat had put of
from the Lime Rock Lighthouse,
about half a mile away, and before
the men were saved. The persons
who saved them wero Ida Lewis and
her brother Hosea, children of the
keeper of the light.


Ten years ago in the same harbor
four young fellows were upset in q
boat, and the same girl fastened in
her skif to rescue them. A little
later three drunken soldiers stove q
hole in their boat not far from the
light. Two swan ashore, the third
was saved by Ida Lewis when nearly
exhausted. Two years ago somemcn
were driving sheep upon the wharf
In Newport. The animal plunged
into the water, and three men rum
ming along the shore in pursuit at
length found a skiff and put out into
the harbor. A heavy sou'westcr was
Year: 1869

The New NNSS%= syo-k Herald, of Mon.
day, in its financial article, says:


Now that the Southern States
are about to commence a new cot
ton year, they ought to transact
the whole of their cotton business
on a gold basis, Just as the foreign
bankers have always done in their
dealings in bills of exchange. In
this way the whole Southern States
might gradually place themselves
on a gold currency basis precisely
the same as practiced in Califor-
mia, thus ignoring the Legal.Ten-
der Act Of Congress, just as the
loyal State of California always
has done, from the beginning until
now. The Southern States, by
following the example OF Califor-
MIA in buying and selling only for
gold, would then accumulate gold
aud silver currency. which would
bring about a practical resumption
OF specie payments and protect
them from danger Of loss from any
fluctuations that may arise in the
market value Of the greenback
currency. Cotton commands gold
in every market, at home and
abroad, and il is q better basis for
the practical immediate resump-
tion of specie payments in tho
Southern States than the gold and
silver mines Of California. Every
Southerner is interested in the
question, and every journal in the
South ought to exert its influence
to bring about this result without
delay. Let the South sell its pro-,
ducts for gold, and gold only, and
let them keep their surplus in gold
as the only currency to use, Just as'
California always has done. This
will be some progress on the road
to specie payments, and it will
tend to keep gold in the country!
Year: 1869

NEW York, December 9.-A Rich
mond dispatch to the Herald says that
the Presidents recommendation to
Congress for the early admission of
Virginia and the prospects of its be-
ing speedily carried out, caused a gen.
eral feeling Of rejoicing, the exceptions
being a few factiOus Radicals whom
the Republican party left to run the
last convention by themselves, and a
few sore headed Democrats who eX-
hibit cheap pluck by swearing that
they would rather be under Candy
than Walker. The great mass OF the
Republicans and Conservatives are
rejOiced at the prospect Of an early
admission. The talk about the Leg
islature undertaking 10 upset the pro-
visions of the new Constitution or rem
der them imperative, is unfOunded.
The only parties interested in keeping
the State out OF the Union are the
nOn-residents who have been ap-
pointed to civil offices be the military.
All the Northern people who have
come here as farmers or business
men are rejOiced over the approach
ing adm IS on, no matter which' side
they are on in politics, and all the
oficehOlders are opposed 10 it.
Year: 1869

Mrs. Abbie Sage Mcfarland Rich
ardson, according to the New YORK
Commonwealth, is TO have a fund
raised for her by subscription, and i
is said, also, that she is TO have an
editorial position on the New York
Tribune, and a sinecure in the Sub
Treasury at Gotham.
Year: 1869

The revolution which has been in progress
for some months in Spain, and which on ac-
count of its comparative bloodlessness has
called forth not little admiration, does not
appear after all TO have accomplished much
Isabella and her favorite have been got rid of,
and the clerical party has been humbled but
that, if IL be good, is about all the good which
has been accomplished. Montpensier may
prove himself a wiser and better ruler than
Isabella; the tyranny Of the army may be
more beneficial to Spain than the tyranny Of
the Church; but we must wait to see. We
were not without hope, for time, that tAe
impulse of the first vigorous effort would
have carried Spain forward into the freer
regions of republicanism; but the result has
been somewhat disappointing. The first squirt
over, Spain does not appear to have much of
a purpose or to know well what she wants
The future government of the country, as de-
termined by the new constitution, is to be a
hereditary monarchy. Spain is thus to be left
very much as the revolution found her-polti-
cally and religously- better than
before and financially more crippled than ever.
The hour of Spain's final deliverance is, as
vet we fear, far of.
Year: 1869

The mock auctions of Chatham street can
not boast of larger element of humbug than
certain auction safes of furniture, books and
pictures in more fashionable thoroughfares.
An auction sale at private dwelling often
affords chance of getting rid not only of the
furniture belonging to the family, but of mass
of rubbish that has been long accumulating
dust in half dozen stores. A bibliophile
who attends the sale by auction of the library
of some noted collector not unfrequently loses
time and patience while the auctioneer secures
the opportunity of smuggling in and selling a
lot of trash from several book stores. A still
more grievous abuse of the very honorable
occupation of an auctioneer is occasionally to
be seen at the sale of the small collection of
some amateur. The collection may comprise,
like most private collections in this country, a
few really valuable works of art, together
with q greater proportion of inferior works.
But transferred to the auction rooms it is mi
and its ten or dozen passable or inferior ones
are multiplied until they number a total of two
or three hundred, including all the unstable
masterpieces" and ''originals" manufactured
to order by some window-shade painter or
foreign copyist, and that have been knocking
about for years in different salesrooms. A big
and flaming catalogue is of course prepared,
and although no connoisseur is taken in by
this old trick not few of those poor shoddy-


ties, or railway contractors, or stock gamblers,
who have walked UP some bright morning and
found themselves millionnaires, are sufficiently
innocent of knowledge and taste to be taken
in egregiously by it, to their own cost, and
what is worse, to the detriment of meritorious
American artists and of true art.
Year: 1869

THE CONNECTICUT ELECTIoN.- State
election of Connecticut for Governor, Legis-
lature and Members of Congress comes Off
tomorrow, and from the decided stand taken
bv the administration on negro suffrage and
the equal rights Of negroes to hold Office Il is
supposed that the democrats will make q
vigorous fight to recover the ground they lost
In the Presidential November election At all
events, II they fail in this Connecticut fight, as
they most probably will, they are gone, and
the sooner they hold national convention
for new departure the better Il will be for
them.
Year: 1869

COMBINATION vs.. COMBINATION. As the
season approaches in which the building trades
are likely to have increased activity the NUT
terings of the strikers are heard. Strikers OF
course only appeal to their desperate means
of raising wages when their services are
most in demand, and 1t is sign of the times
that the employers in all the building trades
are this year agreeing among themselves on
a combination in advance. Combination on
one side is as good as combination on the
other
Year: 1869

THE HEIGHT OF OFFICIAL CooLNEss-To
Danish man to Alaska as collector, and after
a few months service appoint some one in his
place, leaving him out in the btterest kind Of
cold, with liberty to pay his own expenses
home to New York--a short uruey of only a
few thousand miles
Year: 1869

Cooling MILK.-N u, from
Bracebrldge, writes: In perus-
ing the reports of the Dairy
mems Convention, | see it re-
commended that milk for max
inc butter should be cooled by
artificial means. l always un-
derstood that cream will not
rise after milk becomes cold
gradually. Perhaps you can
inform me which is the better
way


In recommending the cooling
10 milk, it is not intended that
it should be made cold. The
utmost that can usually be ac-
conplished in summer time is
to reduce the temperature some
what below sixty degrees. 1T is
not likely that any practical diff
ticulty will arise from cooling
milk too rapidly. A free expos
ure to air, and the removal of
animal odors are essential
points, which will perhaps be
secured, where separating the
cream and making butter are
the objects, by gradual cool
ing; but for making cheese on
the factory plan it is generally
necessary to reduce the temper
ature as quickly as possible
Ex.
Year: 1869

1t is 4 standing rule in my church,
said one clergyman to another ipr
the sexton to wake up any man that
he sees asleep" II think, replied tho
other, that it would be better tor tho
sexton, whenever man goes to sleep
unfer your preaching 70 wake yon
up
Year: 1869

From the Frtrmont West TIr0inidn.





The citizens OF Wheeling were, at that
very time, we believe, endeavOring to
relieve the State OF a proposed heavy
expense, and to keep it free from that
expense for several years to come. We
refer to removing the location of the
Capital. A committee of citizens were
in conference with a committee from
the Legislature, and the two commit
tees had under consideration what
seemed to US fair proposition as made
by the Wheeling authorities, and the
adoption of which, in our judgment,
would have been both wise and prudent
much more than that which may be
enacted in the matter ere the week
closes.


1t must be very plain, we will add by
way of further explanation, that the
location of the Capital at Parkersburg
cannot be permanent. 1t is sure to
create dissatisfaction upon the part OF
more than nine -tenths of the citizens of
this State, simply because Parkersburg
Is so far from the centre of the State.
Parkersburg is not and cannot, in any
respect, be n better point for the Capital
than Wheeling, and the people know IT,.
AS II natural result, the very next ses-
sion of the Legislature will repeal the
action of the present session, causing
dissatisfaction, trouble and expense
whore ii can be avoided. We have
nothing against the city of Parkersburg
other than as a contestant for the Capt.
tai, and we should as certainly oppose
the permanent location of the Capital
at Wheeling, or Charlestown, or any
place as distantly situated from the
centre of the State. But we are oppos-
ed to Pnrkersburg as the case now
stands, most asSuredly. We say, let
the seat of government remain where it
is by adopting the proposition of the
city of Wheeling.
Year: 1869

The Board of Overseers of Harvard
College, have agreed to the creation of
new officer for the under graduates
department with a salary OF not less
than four thousand dollars per an
mum, who shall be one of the instruc.
tors of the college and member Of
the College Faculty.
Year: 1869

Remains Of Confederate Soldiers UneRrthed-


Twenty Acres of Human Bodies.


From the Richmond Dispatch, Monday.


While our ladies are mounding and decorating
the graves in Oakwood, and while the massive
stone monument to the memory of those who lie
in Hollywood is gradually approaching compile
tion, ii is distressing to hear OF the neglect OF
the bones of those who are buried where they
fell--on the hillsides and valleys in other parts
of the State The reports that reach us of the
sacrilegous conduct of many Virginia farmers
are so shocking that we hesitate TO give them
credence, although our duty as journalists re-
quires us to lay them before our readers A few
weeks ago we published an account of the state
of affairs at Fort Harrison, which subsequent
Investigation. proves too true. Now comes
most narrowing story from Malvern Hill, where
somany of our best and bravest with their last
drops of blood sealed their devotion to the
Southern cause. On the northwest side of the
fort most terrible scene presents itself. Thou
sands of Confederate soldiers having been buried
where they fell twenty acres or more have just
been ploughed up by the owner of the field, and
the ploughshare turned to the surface all the
skeletons Over the whole tract the bones are
strewn in prOfusion, and grinning skulls stare
the visitors in the face on every hand. When
the farmer was questioned he said the land was
now the richest piece he had, and, in justifca-
ton of the sacrilegious act, stated that ''he
didn't put 'em there nohow." The writer
learned afterwards that the bones had been
taken away by the caTt-load and sold to fertili-
zing mills In Richmond. Two humane men, too
poor to do anything else, came one day we were
there. and attempted to burn some of the bones
to prevent the wretches from earting them off.
Year: 1869

A HAPPY FIIEsIDE.-H0 Home is
the residence, not merely Of the body,
but of the heart. 1t is tie place for
the atftc!i ms to unfold and develop
themSplveS-fo children to love and
learn, and play in-for husband and
wife to toll smilingly together, and
make life blessing. The object OF
all ambition should be to be happy
at home. If we are not happy therr:


we can not be happy elsewhere. IL
is the best proof Of the virtues OF II
family circle, to see a happy tireslde.
Year: 1869

The only people can restore the
State to its old position and ensure
her prosperous career in the future,
is the pId Union element, Wing and
Democrat, OF the State, They are
the men who should now step for
ward to lead-they are the men who
should be made standard, bearers.
They have the confidence of the peo
ple-they have the best interests OF
the State at heart, and can restore
her to prosperity.
Year: 1869

MEN are stoics in their early years,
epicurians i'll their latter; social in
youth, selfish in old age. In early
life they believe all men honest, till
they know them to be knaves in lat
er life they believe all men to be
knaves till they know them to be hon.
est. Thus, somehow or other, men
pass from one extreme to another.
Year: 1869

DID YOU EvER.-Ever What Why, when the good old Democratic party was in power, did you hear of spies nosing about your pri- vate goods to see if you have compiled with the provisions of an unknown and unpub- lished law

 Did you ever hear of stampsl

 Did you ever have to swear as to how much money you madel

 fla manufacturer, did you have to make a monthly report to some lazy official at five or ten dollars per day7

 Did you hear men Gas you now dol advo- cate the policy of paying the laborer with paper rags and the money shavers with godl

 Did you hear of a tax on everything you eat or wear, in addition to State, county and municipal tax l-S. r. EzamiBer.

 The above questions are home-thr,ists, and cannot fail to elicit the serious consideration of all thinking men.
Year: 1869

A writer in BritaRid, who went through the sick mill, and tried both amateur and regular physicians, ridicules the former and pays the latter the following well merited tribute:

 "For genteness courage, endurance, per severance, true benevolence, commend me to a [regularl doctor. know no profession go crowded with brave, noble natures ss the medical profession. They are the confessors of Protestants. They are the repositories, and in nearly all cases the faithful reposito- ries of terribly delicate secrets. They have greater power than any Catholic priest can have, to blast the happiness of many men and women. Bound by no sacred VOW, like the priest, their own consciences, their own high sense of honor-ay, if you will have it SO, friend Lizard. their self-interest-keeps them faithful 10 their trust. No class in the world have more opportunities of doing good, and avail themselves of those opportunities more assidionsly than doctors. In the hour of doubt, of fear, of despair, how we fly Co them! In the bangs of sickness, in the agony of death, how we cling to them In the hour of health, of joy, of hope, of confidence, how we slight them, how we abuse them We serve them as we too often serve our God iu distress we cry to them, in prosperity we neglect, we insult them. Oh, that had mil lions of readers, who would listen to my words when say, Before you abuse doc tors, before you insolently arrogate to your self knowledge of the most difficult and tho most useful science which man can learn pause, and think what mankind owes C them, what labor they have taken to gair their skill, and how you yourself, boisterOui though your health be now, may some day need their help"
Year: 1869

Our aims are all too high: we try

 To gain the summit nt a bound When we should reach it step by step

 And climb the ladder round by round. He who would climb the heights sublime, Or breathe the puTer air of life, Must not expect to rest in ease,

 But brace himself for toll or strife. We should not In our blindness seek To grasp alone for grand and great, Dlsdalning every smaller good;

 For triies make the aggregate And if cloud should hover OCT

 Our weary pathway like pail, Remember, God permits it there,

 And his good purpose reigns OCT all. Life should be full of earnest work,

 Our hearts undashed by fortunes froyn {; Let perseyeranee conquer fate,

 And merit seize the victor's crown The battle Is not to the strong,

 The race not always to the fleet. And he who seeks 10 pluck the stars

 Wnl lose the jewels at his feet.
Year: 1869

That excellent agricultural paper, the
Dinie Farmer, has the following time
ly advice:


Up to the present writing, there has
been, this winter, no spell of weather
to make the farmer complain of wheat
freezing out. 1t is not to be expected,
however, that there will be no such
spell. The late fine open weather, now
going off with cold rains, is almost sure
to be followed, during the last of this
month and the first of next by one or
more cold snaps that will spew up the
ground, and throw out much of the
wheat that has been badly put in. In
the absence of any preventative, the
next best thingisa cure. We therefore
recommend each farmer to provide
himself with good, heavy roller, and
when the freeze comes, go at once over
his wheat fields with the roller, pres-
sing the ground closely and almost en-
tirely replacing the wheat. The pre-
scription is simple, and is certainly
worth trying. Fs ,..,.f.t
Year: 1869

M France must be u happy country, ac-
cording to the late speech of the Empe-
ror Napoleon to the Legislative body.
Public order having been preserved, he
says "the nation is now ready to meet
all the events of the future" Perhaps
so, and yet there is one little event which
the future has inevitably in store, which
it would be interesting TO know how the
nation is going to meet; and that is, the
removal of the Emperor himself by
death. Over-confidence rs to the future
was always a weak spot in the Napo-
leonic brain, and the spot seems to grow
bigger and bigger as he grows older.