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Year: 1869

A BABY STABBED TO THE HEART
On e Of the most singular accidents we
have had to record for many year oc-
Cured at the residence Of Mr.. Vinage,
near Jones Station, on the line Of the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Rail
road, last Tuesday night.


A married daughter, who lives in
Kentucky, was on u visit to the old
homestead, with her child some seven
teen months old. The little one being
hungry asked fora piece of bread, which
the mother ordered the servant girl to
get.


: The latter picked up the child in her
arms, took long carving knife from
the cupboard, and started down the
cellar steps to where the bread was kept,
In going down her foot slipped, and as
she fell the knife stood point upward
on the steps, the blade of which pene-
tratod the heart Of the child, producing
almost instant death. The pen fails to
depict the grief of the almost heart
broken mother when the corpse Of her
darling babe was brought into her pres
ence. The house, which only amoment
before was scene Of JOY and festivlty,
was, by the singular accident, turned
into place of mourning and sorrow
Gin. Times, 10th.
Year: 1869

gay~ Queen Victoria has set the style
in favor OF riding habits as short as the
ordinary walking Dress, but gered on
the inner side exactH to fit the conior-
nation Of the saddle, and SO heavily
shotted as not to rise.
Year: 1869

District Attorney Pierrepont has caused a new
libel to be fled against the steamship Columbia,
formerly known the Quaker City, and which Is
once again in the custody OF the Marshal


The libel recites that she is ready to sail TO some
places unknown, with intent TO cruise and commit
nostiites In the services OF some persons unknown
against the subjects, citizens ana property OF the
republic OF Hayti, with whom the United States are
at peace which is In violation OF the third section OF
the act Of Congress approved April 90 ls1s entitled


An act for the punishment OF certain crimes against
the United states and 10 repeal the acts therein
mentoned.r


The vessel is lying at the foot Of Thirteenth street.
East river. Yesterday she had steam up and was
preparing 10 start for Kingston, Jamaica when the
United states Marshal boarded and seized her.
Year: 1869

A young parson thus leelingly describes
his bachelor experience in the first village
in which he settled after entering the min
istry Old ladies' gave me tracts and tor
mentod me in every possible war. One
gave me cough lozenges because a fy got
down nv throat in church; another sent me
her late husband goloshes TO wear when |
went cut on wet evenings the late hus-
bands feet were about FIVE inches long
third sent wonderful kidd Of India rub-
Der bag which she said could be applied
wherever a chill was felt. Not till my sis
ter came to stay with me did | know that
bot water ought to be put into the creature
| before using; had thoughtit a sort of mat
to lay-over my feet, and very useless Of its
| kind. A Miss Thompson was the most dis
agreeable Of the old maids. She actually
one day ran her fingers under my collar to
see if | wore flannel During the year ]
was at Littlebsck, | had thirteen pairs of
| slippers, twenty-five sermon cases and three
smoking caps worked for me One young
lady embroidered Day initials on handker-
chief in shiny looking black thread My
sister says.it was done in hair; and perhaps
that accounts for Miss Rudge being so Of
Tended when said I thought Lester red
marking cotton as good as any other.


Three. young ladies declared that had
trifed with their affections; two, on the
contrary affirmed that they had rejected me;
while the village school mistress assured the
rector that L had tried to press her hand
[ certainly never had such hard work as
while at Littleback played at least three
hundred games OF eroquet, went to an ar
cherry meeting every week, and at any spare
moment | was liable to be sent for by Miss
Anna Phelps to practice an Italian duet.
bore my trials with christian fortitude, till
one morning the rector sent for me and said
that my conduct disgraced my profession.
| took the hint. and at the end Of one year
and three months my career at Littieback
was over The young ladies' cried when
went; they said | was such darling.
Now, ask my impartial reader whether it
was not hard that | should be blamed for
the ladies Of Littebaek? My life is bhghted,
and all that is left of me is thirteen pairs of
slippers, twenty-five sermon cases, three
smoking caps, one handkerchief marked
'T. g., and bad character from my late
employer.
Year: 1869

DON'T WORRY ABOUT YOURSELF. To
retain or recover health, persons should be
relieved from anxiety concerning diseases.
The mind has power over the body. For
person to think he has disease viii often
produce that disease. This we see effected
when the mind is intensely concentrated
upon the disease of another. 1t is found in
the hospitals that surgeons and physicians
who make a speciality of certain diseases are
liable to die of themselves; aud the mental
power is so great that sometimes people die
of diseases which they have only in imagina-
ton. We have seen a person sea sick in
anticipation of voyage, before reaching
the vessel. We have known person to die
Of cancer in the stomach, when they had no
cancer or any other mortal disease. A blind
fold man, slightly picked in the arm, has
tainted and died from believing that he was
bleeding to death. Therefore, well persons,
to remain well, should be cheerful and hap
py; and sick persons should have their at
tention directed as much as possible from
themselves 1t is by their faith that men
are saved; and it is BY their faith they die.
As man thinketh so is he If be wills not
to die he can often live in spite of disease;
and if he has little or no attachment to life,
be viii slip away as easily as a child will
fall asleep. Men live by their soul and not
by their bodies. Their bodies have no life
Of themselves; they arc no receptacles of
hfe-tenements for their souls, and the viii
has much to do in continuing the physical
occupancy or giving it up
Year: 1869

The acquisition of riches seems, from the
beginning Of time, to have been one of mans
universal passions. Many causes have
tended to inspire it. In the hands of the
good, riches have been a blessing but who
viii say that, in the hands of the majority,
riches have not been a corruptcr and a curse?
The maddest and The saddest lives have
been spent in the accumulation of riches.
Yet there is no evil in wealth. II is not
money but the love Of money that is the
root of evil When the pursuit of fortune
does not curtail humanities, and its posses
sion enlarges rather than diminishes mans
aspirations to do good and be useful among
men, riches are fair and lovely as the wings
OF ministering angels 1t is a noble feeling,
aud worthy of his exalted character, that
man should desire to surround himself with
comfort and independence. This feeling
" be cherished without undue selfshness
/ 81 hardening of the heart, and the more OF
this worlds goods the true man possesses
the more suffering and want he can relieve.
/ Sought rightly as a means, riches are no.
bic pursuit; sought and honored as an end,
they are base and contemplate.
Year: 1869

TIE New YORK Sun tells the story of o
deacon who lived in the good old days
when everybody on the easterly side of the
Hudson drank New England rum. - This
deacon was accustomed, for the space Of
fifty years, TO take his IL o'clock aud A
o'clock refresher Of that orthodox bever-
age At these precise hours he was wont
to go to the well. and with an old oaken
bucket that hung from the antique sweep,
dIaw a pail Of water to cool and mollify his
morning and evening dram In process Of
time, full of years and honors, the deacon
was gathered to his fathers. But this well
sweep still lived; and such was the force of
habit upon it, coupled with its incapacity
to forget anything 1t had once learned, that
fGr long years after the deacon was dead
the wen sweep continued to 60 up and
down SO so'regnlaxly at II and O'clock that
all the fools in the neighborhood set their
watches by it.
Year: 1869

Jim Wicker was q comical-lookine fell
low, with very young face, but by reason
of having no hair he looked very old
from his eyebrows all The way round to the
back of his neck. He was very sensitive
nbout the defect, and was somewhat cela-
brated, from n fight he had had with trav-
cling agriculturist, who, upon being asked
by Jim, 'What would cause the hair to
grow upon his shining poll, was advised
to cover the top of his head with guano,
and plant it down in crab grass" But Jim
wouldn't quarrel with Capt. Wild, for that
gentleman was not only the host of the
Fairy Queen. and also had the KEY of all
1.-THE refreshments" in his possession: no
without hesitation he enlighted his auditor
after this fashion.


''Yon see the har always did grow rath-
er scarce bout my scalp and 1 was always
rubbing one thing and another to fotch it
ont, though thar was little to be seen above
ground. I'd heard Of bars grease, aud
bought gallon in bottles, but believe il
was nothing but hogs lard, SO l thought 1
would have the genuine article, and 7 got
old Dan to 90 out and kill something Tor
my especial benefit. Dan told me 1t was
I'm the spring, and that the bar WAS in bad
health and out of season, but believed he
was trying to quiz sme, aad wouldn't take
no for an answer. A short hunt fotcbed a
critter 70 bay and Dan by shot in the
vitals saved the varmint, but the bar was
in bad condition, for he looked as seedy
as an old Canadian thistle, and he had
hardly enongh in him to keep his joints
from squenlzing and what he did have got
and used, and stranger, said Jim, looking
sorrowfully round on the company,in q
week was as bald as q gunbarrel. Dan
was right, the varmint was shedding him
SELF and nothing in him but hor-sLetiiinq
lie, and the consequence Is. | cant in the
dark tell my head from a dried gourd, If /
depend on feeling - Z
Year: 1869

Thirteen years ago when Peter Noyes
carried the mails from Patten to Fish Riv-
er, Maine, a woman one day requested him
to bring her back half pound of tea
Peter was removed before he could comply
with the request. He was recently reap
pointed, and carried the woman the tea on
his first trip.
Year: 1869

Hfoin tue layton lOhlOl Ledger, Aug. IL.


Yesterday afternoon. about 3 o'clock,
while Bryant's menaperie and circus was


in full blast, at the corner of First and


Webster streets, there came very suddenly
furious gale of wind, followed by heavy


shower of rain, which for short time
seemed as though it would scatter every
thing before it. The performance was
about half over, when all at once the guy
poles inside were lifted from the ground,
and considerable creaking was heard thro'
the entire canvas, which spread great con-
sternation among the vast number of peo-
pie gathered under the pavilion. 1t was
evident that the pavilion would instantly
fall unless great force was applied outside
ito hold ON to the ropes Some fifty men
took hold of the ropes on the south side,
and attempted to hold it from blowing
over, but it was utterly impossible. In
another instant the ropes snapped, the
center pole came unfastened, and with a
terrible crash the large pavilion was dash
ed to the ground, upsetting at the same
time two OF the wagons containing wild
animals.


AT this point several voices cried out


"The animals are loose" This terrific
alarm, added to the intense excitement
caused by the falling of the canvas and
breaking of the seats, and screaming of
women and children, made confusion more
confounded, and tho srene one of the Wild
est disorder and the greatest danger we
ever had occasion to witness. The people
were now all terrified, and fed everywhere
IN the widest confusion. Amid the
screams of at least thousand women and
children, who were trying to extricate
themselves from beneath the broken
benches. and crawling out from under the
canvas, mothers and fathers seized their
children and frantioally rushed their way
ont as best they could. Many of the
children were pressed down in the excite
ment and trampled in the dirt; some were
very much bruised. Many men and women
fed to adjacent housesand closed the doors
behind to escape from being overtaken by
the wild animals, which they imagined
were in pursuit of them. But two persons
We're seriously inJured-W. II. Mitchell,
who was flung across bench while at
tempting to support a guy, and little girl,
whose name We did not ascertain, had her
arm broken and received severe wound
on the head.
Year: 1869




''THE Day OF SMALL THINGS. "A tall
chimney had been completed and the scat
folding was being removed. One man re-
manned on the top to superintend the pro-
cess. A rope should have been left for him
to descend by. His wife was at home
washing, when her little boy burst in with
Mother ! Mother they've forgotten the
rope and he's going to throw himself
down - She paused-her lips moved in
the agony of prayer-and she rushed forth
crowd was looking mp to the poor man
who was moving round and round the Mar
row cornice, terrified and bewildered. He
seemed as If at any moment he might fall
or throw himself down in
despair. His wife from below cried out.
"Wsit a bit, John"-the man became calm
-"take off thy stocking unravel the wors-
ted" and he did so. '.Now tie the end to
a bit Of mortar and lower gently" Down
some the thread and the bit of mortar,
swinging backward and forward. Lower
and lower it descended. eagerly watched by
many eyes. 1t was now within reach, and
was gently seized by one of the crowd.
They fastened some twine to the thread.
snow pull up." The man got hold of the
twine. The rope was fastened on. Pull
away, again" He at length siezed the rope
and made it secure


There were a few moments of suspense.
and then, amid the shouts of the people,
he threw himself into the arms of his wife,
sobbing: ''Thou has saved me Mary. -
The worsted thread was not despised-it
drew after it the twine, the rope the res
cue! Ah my friend. thou mayest be sunk
very low N sin, but there is a Thread of Di-
vine Love that comes from the Throne of
heaven and touches even thee. Seize that
thread. 1t may be small bat it is golden
Improve what you have, however little. aud
more shall be given you. This thread of
love, if you viii not neglect it, shall lift
you up to God and glory. ''Who hath de-
spised the day of small thingsf"
Year: 1869

Corn FODDER falling off in milk,
and the neglect to provide food for soiling.
induces many to turn stock into the mead
ows early, and before they have become
thickly coated with aftermath. II is very
pad economy, very INJURIOUS to meadows,
while the seemingly '.fair feed is swept
away in q few days, and scanty yield of
milk is the result for The balance of the
season. There is no crop, therefore, that
pays the dairyman better, one year with
another. than the few acres devoted to
corn fodder Corn fodder should be fed in
the stalls, as there is no waste, besides the
stock thus fed are more quiet and less dis.
posed to hang about, waiting for their feed.
as they do when the fodder is given them in
the open field Each COW in the sta.l gets
it's proper share of food, and there IL no
hooking or soiling OF the fodder by master
cows. The herd should be fed regularly at
stated hours, and they soon become accus-
toned to the time, coming of their own ac-
cord 10 the stables, and during other Dor
tons of the day they win feed more in the
pastures.


Corn fodder for soiling should be wilted
before feeding. 1t is good plan to cut in
the morning and let it hay in the sun till
afternoon, and then feed. In this way some
of the external moisture will be got rid of.
and the food viii be preferred by animals
and produce better results Corn fodder is
very succulens, and-does not need to be
further diluted by feeding when the dew or
water is adhering to 1t. Better reduce the
water in it by wetting and partially drying.
Year: 1869

A DISCREPANCY. - We find In
Mayor WALKERS r 3port the state
ment, repeated two or three times,
that he took charge of the Mayors
Office April 18th, 1868. We were dis
posed to accept this statement as cor
rect, though 1t occupies a prominent
place among other statements which
are very incorrect But among the
allowances made by the Council
Jjtne s, 1868, (see page 122 Record
Book,) we notice $3.50 for Mayor :
salary, being the amount due for one.
quarter or three months. Now We are
perplexed over this matter. 1t seems
to Us that either The Mayor Is mistaken
by more than month Us to the time
he took charge OF the office, or he de-
liberately presented a bill aud drew
over one months pay in advance of
services rendered. If the latter be
the correct solution of the difficulty,
it would indicate that His Honor was
somewhat in a hurry. This seems to
have been the first display of fnan-
cial acumen made by the Mayor We
dare say he was prompt in presenting
his orders TO the Treasurer and having
them endorsed, so as to draw interest.
This would present the novel speeta
cle of a city paying interest on a note
for work not yet done. We did not
discover this item in the Mayors re
mort -
Year: 1869

Have the Radicals Elected a King7


THE Cincinnati Enquirer Of last
Friday says that the first number
of The Impsrialist, the forthcoming
of which has been pretty generally
advertised, appeared in New York
on tho 9Th inst. Its publishers
arc understood to be prominent
members Of the Union League, and
the object Of the publication is, if
we are not misinformed, to create n
public opinion in favor of the as
sumption ofthe imperial purple by
Gen. Grant. Thepaper has not yet
been openly indorsed by its candi-
date, we believe, but there are not
wanting indications that he would
be moro easily persuaded than was
Cesar, or tho amiable RICHARD
III, to let his friends buckle royal
fortune ON his back. We incline
to the opinion that Ulysses is not
exactly the sort of material that
kings are made Of and that the
American people will not readily
aaccpt the ideas Of tho new organ
of the Loyal Leaugue, or an at,
tempt to reduce them to practice.
But IL no thinks differently, he may
very easily obtain positive informa-
ton on that point by trying q coup
d. etat. There seems 10 be, indeed,
but q single stop between his pres
ent position and imperial power;
but there is, also, tits said, no great
or distance between. the sublime
and ridiculous, and the brief legs Of
the aspiring General will perhaps
more easily span the narrow guilt
which separated these latter than
scale even the moderate height
which intervones between the
Presidential chair and a throne.
Year: 1869

In order to best obtain truthful
selfappreciation, we must ap-
proach the subject in a spirit of
humility. Earnest self-examina-
tion will develop enough of what
is discouraging to prevent any
one from being puffed up with
vanity. Indeed we shall ever find
the man who most thoroughly
knows himself to be the most tru.
ly humble. He will never despair
or be Indifferent to future ad-
vancement. Whatever spark of
virtue he discovers, he will fan
into a fame; whatever germ of
goodness he recognizes, he win
rear into life and beauty; and
whatever emotion Of love to his
fellow-men, or devout reverence
to his Creator he may experience,
he will cultivate and carry up
until it becomes the abiding habit
of his mind.
Year: 1869

A few years ago a large drug
firm in this city advertised for
a boy. Next day the store was
thronged with applicants, a.
mong them, a queer looking
little fellow accompanied by a
woman, who proved to be his
aunt, in lieu of faithless pa
rents, by whom he had been
abandoned. Looking at this
little waif, the merchant in the
store promptly said: "Can't
take him; places all full; besides
he is too small" II know he is
SMALL" said the woman, "but
he is willing and faithful"
There was u twinkle in the
boy'seyes which made the mer-
chant think again. A partner
in the firm volunteered to re-
mark that he "did not see what
they wanted of such a bOy-he
wasn't bigger than a pint of
cider" But after consultation
the boy was set to work. A few
days later a call was made on
the boys in the store for some
one to stay all night. The
prompt response Of the little
fellow contrasted well with the
reluctance Of others. In the
middle of the night the mer-
chant looked in to see ifall was
right in the store, and present.
ly discovered bis youthful pro-
tege busy scissoring labels.
"What are you doing?" said he,
81 did not tell yeu to work
nights II know you did not
tell me SO, but [ thought I
might as we'll be doing some
thing" In the morning the
cashier got orders to "double
that boys wages, for he is will
ing" Only a few weeks elaps-
ed before a show of wild beasts
passed through the streets, and
very naturally all hands in the
store rushed to witness the
spectacle. A thief saw his op-
portunity, and entered at the
rear door to seize something,
but in a twinkling found him
self firmly clutched by the di-
minutive clerk aforesaid, and
after a struggle was captured.
Not only was robbery prevent
ed, but valuable articles taken
from other stores were recover
ed. When asked by the mer-
chant why he stayed behind to
/ watch when all others quit
their work the reply was, "You
told me never to leave the store
when others were absent, and
I thought I'd stay" Orders
were Immediately given once
more: Double that boys


wages ; he is willing and faith
full" To-day that boy is getting


a salary Of $4,000, and next


January will become member


of the firm Republic.
Year: 1869

If a well bred woman is sur
prised in careless costume, she
does not try to dodge behind the
door to conceal deficiencies. nor
does she turn red or stammer con
fused excuses. She remains calm
and self-possessed, and make up
in dignity what she may want in
decoration.
Year: 1869

A RARE SIGHT.-0n Monday last, rare
sight was witnessed in the streets of Homo
lulu, even an intoxicated Chinaman. 1t is
but due to him and his compatriots to say,
that he had resided for considerable time
in California, and had thus apparently attain
ed to more advanced stage of civilization
than most other children of the Flowery
Kingdom. BE was arrested and released on
bail, but did not go to court.
Year: 1869

20 raise the United States to an elevated above
Engand-in the esteem OF the bulk of the people
throughout the whole OF the West Indies For my OWE
part In prospect being made already feel myself
moro than half an American. ....t