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Year: 1869

A curious case of mistaken
identity was tried few DAYS


since before a New Orleans Police


Judge. 1t appears that a couple


residing on Howard street of that


city have frequently had social
disputes, which time and again


have terminate in free fight


In such cases, the husband, while
temporarily victorious, generally
has reason to regret his success


1t so happens that the wife inva-
riably watches her chances, and
never forgets to pay back her lord


in kind. In recent dispute the
usual resort was had to blows, and


the husband left after administer
ing the customary castigation.--


Now next door lives a gentleman


In whom the sense of curiosity has


been highly developed. He is a


little weazGn-faced specimen of


humanity, slender and crooked as


a veritable Paul Pry. He had


heard the dispute next door and


was very anxious to know the re-
suit, and, for this purpose, had
crept into the alley-way and had
lain with his ear propped against
the crack of the door to hear what
was going ON. The wife, the mean
while, was proceeding with her
supper, grumbliDg at her husbands
brutality, and bewailing her own
Her attention was,
however, attracted by a sort Of
scrambling noise at the door, and
then she heard the suppressed
breathing which Mr.. Paul Pry, in
his anxiety to crafty his curiosity,
did not take sufficient heed to sup
press The wife at once conclu-
ded that it was her husband, come |
to listen to what she should say
in his absence. Angry at his cru
city, and wishing to he revenged,
she dipped up dipper full of boil
ing water, and before Mr.. Pry
knew what was the matter, the |
'calding liquid had filled his ear
md run over his face. With a
yell like that of some wild animal,
ne fed, crying murder y at the
.op of his voice. Or course, this
brought the police around him,
md very soon the whole party
we're in custody. The Court
'ailed to participate in Mr.. Pry's
'ense of injustice, and decided


hat lady had a right TO throw
lot water under her doorstep, if
The wanted to; and if prying and
persons were around
md got burnt, it was their own
With this decidedly /
uncomfortable opinion, the. COM
claimant was forced to be satisfied
,ut it may have the effect of re-
training his impertinent curiosity
n future, and compel him to keep
lis ears off his neighbOr's door
tep.
Year: 1869




A correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune writes from Sheridan,
Kansas


"Vast herds Of buffalo Craze a.
long the line of the railroad, and
are frequently seen from the cars
and not unfrequently SO near that
many are shot with rifles in the
hands of passengers while the cars
are in motion. Yesterday we saw
upwards of thirty, by actual count,
but about half a mile off. We
also saw several elk and ante
lope, and one wolf, and dined on
venison and buffalo steak.


"Sometimes a large herd has
been surprised near the track by
a train of cars. The shrieking of
the whistle and the rushing of the
train has produced such panic of
fear, that the herd has rushed
pell-mell along, and the same di-
rection with the train, and at al
most as great speed, thus affording
splendid opportunity for shooting
from the cars. In one case the
engine killed several which were
on the track. Numerous carcasses
are seen of the noble animals,
which have been slaughtered and
left to perish along the line of the
road.
Year: 1869

1t is no longer secret of the
chemists laboratory that clear
golden syrups can be made from
starch and sulphuric acid; that de-
licious wines and brandies can be
made from beet-root; that bar
rel of peanuts can be transformed
into excellent coffee; that lard
can absorb an enormous quantity
of water in certain conditions
that in fact there seems no limit
to the adulterations that an in
tellectual chemical cheat can prac-
tice upon his fellow-men.
Year: 1869

AZ
If our path were strewed with roses
That concealed no singing thorn;
Ii the hour when one joy closes


Saw another newly born
Ii our dreams were full of beauty,
And our walking hours of peace,
Would we feel for those whose duty
Never gives their hearts release
If our dwelling were palace,


Where we knew no pang OF pain,
Where the red wine in life's chalice
Bore no bitterness, no bane--
Would our sympathies awaken,


Would our velvet hands be spread
For the outcast, the forsaken,


Who has neither home nor bread
If our raiment were the fairest


That the Indies could afford
If the daintest food and rarest


Daily crowded our gltttering board.
Gould our full hearts know the sorrow
Of the patiently toiling poor,
Who tremble lest tomorrow


Bring gaunt famine to their door
If we knew no lack, no losses,


Disappointment, toll, nor care,
Would we succor him whose crosses
Are too wearisome to bear
If we slept on silken couches


Prankt with costly gems, and gold,
Would we pity him who couches
By the wayside in the cold ?
If the world were juster, truer,
In its censure and its praise
If our doubts and fears were fewer;
Fewer weary nights and days;
Ii there were no graves behind US
Where the loved and lost ones sleeps,
No sweet memories to bind US,
Would we weep with those who weep
If our hopes were never blasted
If our love grew never cold,
If our strength and beauty lasted
TIL a hundred years were told,
Would our hearts be humbly given
To the giYer of such bliss
Would we ever think of heaven
As better place than this
Year: 1869

NoNsENsE-To urge. o fellow
to eat when he doesn't want to.
"Do have another piece of steak.
have some more strawberries LET
me help you to something more,
can't 1? Why, you don't make
out half a meal-do have another
warm biscuit, / made them myself,
and l know they are nice" Such
and similar expressions one will
meet with at almost every house
he happens to take friendly meal.
Persons will urge visitors to eat,
even if they have stoutly refused
two or three times, until one must
eat In order to get rid of the coax
ing. We took such another teas
ing land the victuals too) the 9th
er evening, aud suffered with head
ache all next day, just to please
our friend, but we inwardly cursed
him, every time our temples gave
a throb and our stomach INDUCED
in twist. Don't urge your Wis
itors to eat; it is confouRded bad
manners, and you are rendering
them liable to headache and dys.
pepsia, two aflictions for which we
are sure they will not thank you.
Year: 1869

A few days since, young couple


just married at Waterbury, Conn, !,
got on board train on the Manga
tuck Road, bound for Bridgeport
They had a sweet time, billing and
cooling in proper style until the train
reached the junction. While wait
ing there, the groom took a stroll
on the platform, and the bride also
improved the time TO walk to the
forward end of the car. AS the
train started, she returned, and see
ing her husband, as she supposed,
she popped into the same aeat, and
lovingly rested her heal on his
shoulder, while the cars passed
through the covered bridge. Un-
fortunately she had mistaken her
man, and as the cars emerged from
the bridge trembling voice whis-
pered in her ear that he didn't quite


comprehend the situation. Look
ing up, the bride found an unkno wn,
blushing youth, while her liege lord
vas standing in the aisle, with a
look of blank astonisbment on bis
face, not knowing what to make of


"such conduct as those." The er-
ror was corrected at once, but the
fun was toomuch for the occupantsof
the car, and every sleeve contained
an enormous though quiet laugh.
Year: 1869

The New Orleans Times thinks
that sin political power the ballot
box is now being rapidly superce-
ded by the contribution box, if


we are to judge by the short his
toryo of the administration" +"
Year: 1869

The number and variety of sto-
ries which are told on old Jesse
Grant, the individual to whom we
are indebted for our present stable
government, are past computation.
Here is the last one: Ayoung man
over in Covington, the other day,
met and accosted old Jesse, al
though ignorant as to who he was,
and requested him TO furnish him
with change for a five dollar bill.
He acceded, and while making the
necessary transfer, being 10th to
lose an opportunity to make him.
self known, he took occasion to say,
"Young man, do you know that
you are talking to the father of
the greatest man in the coun-
try?" He was Immediately in
formed by the party addressed that
he was not aware that he stood
in the presence of one who had
that proud distinction. "Yes,"
resumed the garrulous Jesse, han
ding over the desired change, 81
am the father of the NEST illus
trious hero this country ever pro-
duced." The young man looked
at him for moment with an ex-
preston of grave astonishment on
his face and then exclaimed,
"What, you don't tell me you are
the father Of Stonewall Jackson
The parental author of our Presi-
dent turned upon his heel su


premely disguised.
Year: 1869

Mr.. Wood, a painter of West
Randolph, N. Y, met with a sin
gular accident recently. Havinga q
pipe in his mouth while in scuf-
fe with friend, his opponent hit
the pipe in such a manner as to ac-
tually force it through the under


Jaw, SO that it protruded out of
one side OF his neck.
Year: 1869

COMPUTING fNYEREsT.-The Chicago Journal
says it is so simple and true that every banker
broker, merchant or clerk should post it up for
reference. By no other mathematical process
can the desired information be obtained by so
few figures


Sir per cent Multiply any given number of
dollars by the number of days of interest de-
sired, separate the right hand figure and divide
by six, the result is the true interest such
number of days at six per cent.


Eight per eent.-MultpIy any given amount by
the number of days upon Y4heh it is desired to
ascertain the interest, and wide by forty-fve,
and the result will be the interest of such for the
time required, at eight per cent.


Ten per eenf.-Multiply the same as above and
divide by thirty-six, and the result will show
the rate of interest at ten per cent
Year: 1869

HrGuwANEN ARousp-Since the robbery per-
petrated upon a couple of teamsters at Van
Matre's ranch in this county, we have to
chronicle a series of bold depredations commit
ted in Shasta county On Wednesday, the goth
instant, William Dunn, of Shasta, while on his
way home from Red Bluff, was stopped by man
who came from behind tree with handker-
chief covering the lower part of his face and de-
manded his money. As he could not help HIM
self Dunn banded over all he had, something
over twenty dollars. Last Saturday two China
men had every thing belonging to them taken
uway near the Tower house by two men. Next
day, about dark, Peter Cusick, on his way 10
Shasta from Weavervile, where he had been
with a load of fish, stopped and compelled
to hand over his money Fortunately he had
but six dollars and twenty-five cents on his per-
son, the remainder of the proceeds of his load OF
fish being secreted where the robber did not find
it, although search was made in the wagon.
Cusck says he saw but one man. Last Tuesday,
Frank Thompson teamster, was met on the sum
nit of Trinity mountain by two men, who stop
oed him and said they wanted his money
Thompson said he had but three bits. He was
told to throw ii down and get out and stand at
the head of his team. While he did so
held shot gun pointed at him and the other,
who was armed with a revolver, got in the
wagon and after making search, found the rest
of Thompson's money, thirty odd dollars
These outrages, occurring rapidly and in the
same immediate neighborhood, are evidently
committed by the same persons. The great risk
incurred in so doing, when the small amount to
be obtained from that class o. robberies
sidered indicates the perpetrators to be novices,
and we are of the belief that their apprehension
will be speedy.
Year: 1869

FREIGHr--The quantity of freight brought to
this place this fall is astonishing, but it is to be
supposed that our merchants know their own
business aud have not purchased more than will
be required The trade of this place is valuable
to merchants below, and if competitor should
take place for it shall be apt to be gamers.
Year: 1869

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS The board of Super
vsors of Trinity county meets next Monday, I'd
November Generally there is more business
before the board at the November term than any
other Those who have claims against the
county should see that their bills are itemized
and filed with the Clerk the first day of the
term Such are the rules of the board.
Year: 1869

LAID OVER. - The Corral diggings, about
which there was some excitement the past sum
mer, have been laid over till spring, being too
high up in the mountains to be worked in the
winter. So far, they have proved to be good,
about three hundred dollers having been taken
out with a rocker while Prospecting them.
Year: 1869

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efiectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair as soon restored
to ats original color
aciM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1869

John w. Forney has gone to North
Carolina and purchased farm there
pretending to raise corn and potatoes,
but really to raise the devil in small
way among the reconstructed by run
ming as a Senatorial candidate against
one of the carpet-baggers whose term
of office" soon expires. He will be
sort of ubiquitous person-living really
in Philadelphia, and owning the Press
there and the Chronicle here-but claim
ing to be for electoral purposes citizen
of North Carolina. have never had a
great deal of admiration for John W.,
but he is a man of talent and ability,
and as a carpet. Dagger would be sue
cess, and a great improvement on the
average of that class ef miscreaats.
Ii is WORTH while to mention, in this
connection, that the carpet-baggers
from all the Southern States are becom-


ny alarmed for the safety of their seats


IN Congress. The field seems An inyit-
iug one to a great many, and l hear OF
several contemplated emigrations with
an eye to Congressional honors. "ln q
nation of blind men q one-eyed man may
be a king, says Rousseau, when he tells
how he, with very slight musical at
tainments, found a community where
he could figure as teacher of the divine
art. So in community of carpet bag
gers a mau who elsewhere could not be
elected to a City Council, may make
great pretensions to craftsmanship and
official fitness. MACK.
Year: 1869

No settlement of the everlasting Cap
ital question has yet been reached. The
Wheeling proposition, as reported by
the special committee in the House on
yesterday, was referred to the Judiciary
committee. We presume that commit
tee will report this morning.


The friends of Parkersburg attempt
ed to force the Capital bill through on
yesterday, but failed. The bill was ta-
ken from the table, but as 1t was known
that barrel of apples awaited the
pleasure of the members as soon as the
session should end, they yielded to the
pressure and adjourned without vote,
doubtless preferring something juicy in
the fruit line, To the stale and mOnot-
onous repast represented by House Blll
No. (. This is not the first time that
the future of humanity has been dark
eued by the Ominous apple question.
Eden was lost III a similar crisis. Like
Paradise, Parkersburg yesterday suffer
ed from the enticements of the frnit of
the tree.


The folks who favor the last named
locality didn't like the outlook after
the Wheeling proposals began to be
considered. Sundry frantic dispatches
were exchanged with the home depart
mrut, and list night it was understood
that Parkersbnrg stood ready to erect a
Capitol building, at cost of half a mil
lion, give it to the State free for twenty
years, and also TO furnish board, wash
ing, lodging, pay and perquisIte to the
Legislature and State authorities free
for the same period, only provided that
the State Government would make its
home in their midst. The sup
Elementary proposition TO throw
the town of Parkersburg, the
Little Kanawha River Improvement,
aud the Eternal Centre oil we'll into the
bargain, and to supply all the Governors,
Senators, Congressman and Federal
officers that may be needed in the State
for all time to come, is held in reserve.
If to all these, the Parkersburg folks
will add an agreement to complete the
Peuitentiary and Lunatic Asylum at
their own expense, and to literally en-
dow the Agricultural College and the
various normal schools in the State, we
think their proposition should receive
the most impartial consideration. The
slight donative enterprises We have
enumerated are of some consequence to
the State, but they are hardly apprecia-
BILE among the possibilities of Parkers-
burg, and we are satisfied that the lib
eral gentlemen " no speak for that place
will have no more reason for hesitation
on the score of ability, than if the ne
gotiations were limited to the simple
Quid pro quo represented by Capitol
bnilding to cost half million. The
suggestion that they should do nothing
nv halves, is needless.
Year: 1869

WEAK AND DELICATE CHILDREN


Are made strong by the use Of either Of these
remedies. They will cure every case of MA
RASMUS without fail.


Thousands of certificates have accumulated
in the hands Of the proprietor, but space will
allow of the publication of but a few. Those
it will be observed are men of note, and of such
standing that they must be believed
Year: 1869

1t is a well established fact that fully one
half of the female portion of our population are
seldom in the enjoyment Of good health, or, TO
use their own expression, never feel well.
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
" nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BIrTERS, OF the
TONIC, ia especially recommended.
Year: 1869

foot passengers and the other for teams.
Then old Fort Dearborn stood just south
of the mouth of the river now all traces
of the fort are gone, and spacious stores
occupy the site. just east of this saw a
vessel wrecked upon the shore in 1854 /;
but now many rods out in the lake beyond
this spot stand the Michigan Central and
Illinois Central Depots upon land that has
beon " made" in the lake.


1t has grown as if by magic, but the
growth has been of an enduring kind
Never was its growth of better type
than that of to-day. Hazardous and un-
principled operators have found more
congenial field for their wish along the
line of the Pacific Railroad Men Of
wealth and business, experience guide the
de,tinies of the city now. Aside from
those grain dealers who lately heard
something "drop" when wheat tumbled,
business men have generally been sue
cessful in their business.


And now the people of the city are re-
jocing at the completion of the Pacific
Rlilroad, and, with good reason, think
that this will prove another great sonrce
of wealth and prosperity to their great
oi-y
Year: 1869

Editor Of He1uld,-As the time is near
at hand when the people of the Green
Mountain State are again to select from
among her many eminent sons. one who
shall stand pre-eminently as their repre-
sentative among her sister States, it seems
beftting that few words be said upon
the matter of making the proper selec-
ton, and this especially, when there are
so many worthy and honorable gentlemen
in the field as candidates at the present
I think it may be truly said of it that the
Governors are for the people, of the peo-
pie, and especially By the people. for it is
characteristic of US that We canvass well


the merits of the several candidates, and
never ego it blind il our selection of
men to represent us; and this is all i'm


portapt when we consider that n0faiaa-
t0s, for instance, for Governor, is eauiva-
lent to an election : hence I think it au-
gurs well for US that we give the subject
of who is to be our next Governor little
attention at the present time. suppose,
in accordance with somewhat of an estab-
lished custom-whether from motives of
policy or courtesy, or both, it matters not
it is expected that the next Governor
will be taken from the east side of the
and in anticipation of such an
event, candidates are not wanting whose
merits and claims for the position may
appear SO nearly equal as to make discrim-
nation at first no easy matter.


We already have in the field, rs we un-
lerstand by the people and the papers,
three candidates from Windsor county,
riz: the Hon. Dudley G. Dennison, the
Hon. Peter T. Washburn and the Hon.
Year: 1869

WooD. The Green Bay Adrocate gives
the following advice to the farmers of
Northern Wisconsin, which We think they
would do we'll to heed:


Farmers, be careful of your wood. 1t
has been common practice in this county,
as well as elsewhere, in clearing land to
pile up the timber and burn it. We hope
that this waste will be stopped Immediate
ly, and every stick saved. When the
three iron furnaces 1.-TWO at Depere and one
here) are in operation, it will require sirty
thousand cords of wood per year to feed
them. There will be ready market for
wood of all sorts, and there is nothing so
valueless that it will not pay to save it.
Don't destroy your wood -
Year: 1869

New SCHOOL LAw-As some doubt ex-
lists as to The character of the act passed
b. the legislature on the subject of teach
ing foreign languages in our public schools,
we publish the act in full l.:


Section /. The district board of any
school district, or the board of education
in any incorporated village or city in this
state, may provide for the instruction OF
the pupils OF the common schools In their
districts, or such as may desire it, in any
of the foreign languages not to exceed one
hour each day !; prorided, the teacher OF
snch school is competent to give such IN
struction, or proper instructor for such
purpose can be obtained.


Sec. g All acts or parts of acts so far as
they are inconsistent with this act are here
by repealed.
Year: 1869

SpRIsG.-If spring has arrived at other
places south OF here. there is one thing
certain, it has not come along this way yet,
n we were treated to q snow storm on
Friday last, and few old fashioned cold
days since that time. Sleighing is yet very
good in the country and passa lie in town.
Year: 1869

THE RIyER-Notwithstanding the
Vare was cut out of the ice from above
the bridge, and has departed, yet it does
not seem as if general navigation is TO
commence yet a>while, as the river is now
{, ozca oyer solid from the harbor piers up.
skaters were enjoying this state of things
on Thursday, and seemed to hive the best
ice of the season for their performance.
Year: 1869

ED Farmers should let no maple trees
60 untapped the present spring, as sugar
and molasses are now very high in price,
owing to a revolution in Cuba and the high
radical tariff in this country.
Year: 1869

The work of the Freedmen's Bureau
is now almost wound up. 1t has but
one hospital under its control, ard
that is in the District of Columbia
lis officers are now dovoting their at.
tention to education and the collection
of bounty money due such colored SOL
diers rs served in the army during the
war. Over six million dollars have
been collected for these soldiers, and
there are many claims still unsettled
The total cost of the bureau has been a
little over thirteen and half million
dollars.
Year: 1869

Kentucky gives us bloody story ov-
cry now and then, and few OF the events
resulting from the present condition of
that State have so coolly outraged all
law and order as the fight just chroni-
cled in Pulaski county. All the parties
in u certain difficulty were assembled
at the comfy seat to witness u trial OF
the case, when, instead of waiting for
the settlement Of law, they proceeded
to fight the quarrel out in duel that
had the proportions Of a battle. In The
result we see what any genninc Ken.
tuckiau of the old style would perhaps
regard as the most shocking part Of the
story There were twenty on o side


they Gred onc hundred and fifty shots
and only three men were killed. Now
/ that is very bad shooting for Kentucky