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Year: 1869

Stock GAMBLING AND THE CABLE TELE-
GnAMs.-On Thursday, when our bonds took
sudden heap Of one or two per cent in
London, the dispatches to the Associated Press
were curiously SILENT The blame cannot be
attributed to the wires or cable this time; for
the foreign bankers and private spectators on
Wall street knew it, and made use Of their
knowledge very advantageously, several hours
before the information reached the press. As
Artemus Ward would inquire, ''Why is this
thing so thusly" every time there is chance
to speculate by suppressing the kilograms ?
The Western Union Company ought to insti-
tute an inquiry as to the cause of the delay.
Year: 1869

ANOTHER STooK BOARD, in the shape or .
Free Exchange, Is proposed by certain sore
heads who cannot gain admission to the pre-
sent Wall street boards. This move Ia made,
not In the interest Of the pubIc--for the boards
already In existence are moro than sufficient
TO transact all the legitimate business OF tho
ciiy-but to crafty the stock gambling mania
OF those who 30 are excluded.
Year: 1869

Let's have the old bend and not have the


new;
Let's have the bend that our grandmothers


knew;
Over the wash tub and over the churn,
That is the bend that our daughters should


learn.
Let's have the bend that our grandmothers


knew,
Over the cradle like good mothers true;
Over the table, (the family round,)
Reading the good book mid silence pre-


found
Let's have the bend that at church taey did


wear,
Not sitting erect, with the modern-miss air,
With the ''loVe of bonnet just perched


on one hair.
Leave the camel his hump-he wears it for
Leave the donkey his pannier-and cut


yourselves loose
From fashions that lower, deform and de-


grade
To hide some deformity most of them made.
Let our heads of false hair and hot yarn


skeins be shorn
Don't shake in December and swelter in


June,
And appear like uhfortunates struck by the


moon.
Let's spend the time in things higher. than


dress
Time that was given us to aid and to bless;
Time that is fleeing and passes away;
Q let US work right aloLg while we call it,


to-day !
Let's have the old bend instead of the new;
Let's have the old hearts so faithful and truel
Away with all fashions that lower and de-


grade
To hide some defornity most of them made!
Year: 1869

took place. The man became
bolder and bolder, more and more
careless, and the snake probably
more and more accustomed to the
mode of warfare of his antago-
mist, and just as the monster stood
erect the man attempted to seize
its neck as he had done many and
many a time before, but grasped
the body too low, and before he
had time to let it go, the head
turned on itself and the man was
bitten. l was perfectly speech
less, the scene had frozen my
blood, and the wild shrek of all
those round rent the air. The
serpent was loose and crawling
on the ground, but before it had
time to go far, a long pole came
dewn upen its back and broke its
spine, and in less time than l take
to write it the monster was killed.


To the French doctor who had
charge eff the little colony the
man went (happily he was just at
hand); all the remedies were
prompt and powerful; the man
suffered intensely, his body be-
came swollen, his mind wandered
and his life was despaired of; but
at last he got better, and though
complaining OF great pain near
the heart, he was soon able to go
out again. A short time after
this accident, having an ak in his
hand, going as he said to cut wood,
he suddenly split his own head in
two. He had become insane.
Year: 1869

see a friend on business Was that
the reward she was to have for con-
senting TO stay at home?


All these reproaches were moistened
with tears. Finally, Mr.. Halle was
allowed to speak, and he told her all
n knew-he had found himself in
the Bridewell with his money, watch,
&c, stolen. How, why, or where
fore, he did not know. She declined
to believe him, and called upon her
maid to bear witness that her husband
had said he was going to see a friend
on business. The maid did so. Mr..
Halle protested his innocence, and
was finally believed. The next day
he was able to find out, by inquiring
at the Armory and the substation,
that he had been picked up dead
drunk in the street. Beyound that
he could find out nothing, and the
whole matter was mystery to him.
But for one little incident it would
probably have remained so forever,
and he would never have known of
his wife's treachery and wickedness.


The incident was this: On his way
to his place of business. on Saturday
morning, he passed the paWnbrokers,
where his watch had been sold by the
maid. He happened to notice pret-
ty chain in the window, and entered
the store to inquire the price. While
the pawnbroker was getting it from
the window ne saw his lost watch in
the case on the counter. He asked
who had brought it there, and the
pawubFoker described the maid.


Mr.. Halle could not even imagine
how Jhe maid got it, but daterm ned
10 have her arrested al JOnce. He had
never liked her, believing that she
e1erted a bad influence on his wife
She was immediately arrested, and
was taken before a Justice of the
Peace at the corner of Randolph and
Canal streets, who heard the case
Mrs. Halle went there with the maid,
and earnestly besought her husband
not to prosecute. He would not COM
ply with her request. The pawnbro-
ker identified the maid as the person
who had sold him the watch.


Then came the tableau. The maid
confessed everything, telling Mr..
Halle that if he doubted her he could
look in his wife's trunk, or inquire
whether she had not attended the
party. Mrs. Halle denied nothing,
but she stood there trembling, crying,
confused. What her husband felt is
not easy to describe. At his repeated
request she acknowledged the truth
of what the maid had said, acknowl-
edging that she herself had taken the
watch and the other articles.


At the request of Mr.. Halle the
magistrate then discharged the maid,
and the party left his Office, What
the result will be is not known, ex-
cept that Mr.. Halle declares his i'll
tention of living no longer with his
wife.


Thus ends, for the time being, this
domestic drama.
Year: 1869

GoD INTHE CoNsTIrUTIoE.-There
is some talk about Congress recogni-
zing the existence of God In the Cen
sLitution OF the United States by sub
mitting an amendment to the States
to that effect. If our fundamental
law ever acknowledges the being Of
the Great Jehovah, the initiafOry
ought to be taken elsewhere than
congress, for we can say of it what
in England. that God had not been
there, to his certain knowledge, for
many years, either in person or by
spirit.
Year: 1869

THE Springfield Republican, a lead
ing Radical organ, says: ''The suf-
temper on the part of the House VIII, n
the Presidential vote was counted
are neither of them certificates oi
good sense" We concur, and add.
that we know of no act done by this
Congress to entitle it to a certificate
of that character.
Year: 1869

A lady having the misfortune
to have her husband hang himself
on an apple tree, the wife of a
neighbor Immediately came to
beg a branch of that tree, to have
it grated upon one in her orchard
''for who knows" said she, "but it
may bear the same kind of fruit .
Year: 1869

la our last, We made a slight mistake in
speaking Of the enormous taxes which the
tax collectors are wringing from the poor
laboring masses Of the people.


We said that the taxes were double this
year what they were last. We should have
said nearly four times more. Last year the
people paid 30 cents on the 500 of proper
ty. This year, they are required to pay
81 O7s on the 500 of property so that
it will be seen that the amount is over
three times as much as it was last year.
Next year, it must necessarily, under the
present system, be largely increased and
soon from year to year, until many of our
small farmers will have to sell thei. lands
to raise money with which to pay their
taxes.


If any one doubts what we say, let him
compare his tax receipts this year with
he will find that what we have told him
about this matter is true.


To say nothing of the many other wrongs
and outrages incident to Radical misrule,
which our people have suffered and are
suffering, we think the tax arrangement
the most lovely, because the people are
obliged to consider it and yield to it that
devotion its beauty and loveliness de-
mands. tits of all the bantlings of Radi-
calism, the fairest. 1t only requires that
the people shall devote oil their time and
extra change toward settling up with the
Sheriff each year.


How long will the people submit to this
outrageous mortgage upon their bones
and muscles ? How long will they consent
to be slaves for q set of corrupt Radical
rulers


There is no way to get rid of these onor-
nous taxes, except in the way we have
heretofore intimated. We must get rid of
the Radical party we must call State
Convention to frame new Constitution
Oh repudiate the scalawag State debt. We
must co these things or make up our
minds to work the remainder of our days
for the Tax Collectors.


Salisbury ErNn7;aer.
Year: 1869

Underthis head Justin Mccarthy, editor
of the London Star, thus illustrates I" The
Nullity of Queenly Power in England"


can only recollect one instance during
my observation, in which Queen Victoria
put her veto on a bill passed by Parliament,
and that was on an occasion when it was
discovered, at the last moment, that the
Lords and Commons had passed a bill
which had dreadful technical blunder in
it, and the only way out of the difficulty
was to beg of the Queen to refuse it her
sanction, which her Majesty did according
ly, and the blunder was set right in the
following session. If Prime Minister
were to announce to the House of Com.
| mons, to-ihorrow, ti.as the Queen had box
ed his ears, it would not create whit more
amazement than if he were to say. no matter
IN what.graceful and diplomatic periphrasis.
that her Majesty was unwilling to agree to
some measure which her faithful Commons
desired to see passed into law.


Nothing did Mr. Disraeli more harm.
nothing brought greater contempt on him,
than his silly attempts last session to in
duce the Commons to believe, by vague
insinuations and covert illusions, that the
Queen had personal leaning towards his
policy and himself. So long ago as the
time of the free-trade struggle, the Tories,
for all their hereditary loyalty, complained
of and protested against the silent presence
of Prince Albert in the Peers gallery of
the House of Commons, on the ground that
1t was an attempt to influence the Parlia-
ment improperly, and to interfere with the
freedom of debate. No one has anything
to say against the Queen which carries any
weight or is worth listening to. She is
undoubtedly'a woman of virtue and good
sense So good a woman, | venture to
think, never before reigned over any people,
and that she is not great woman, an
Elizabeth, Catharine of Russia, or even
an Isabella OF CASTLE, is surely rather to
the advantage than otherwise of the mon
arehlcal institution in its present stage of
existence. Here, then, one might think,
II anywhere and ever the principle of per-
sonal loyalty has fair chance and full
Justification. A man might vindicate his
loyalty to Queen Victoria in the name of
liberty itself; nay, he might justify it by
an appeal to the very principle of democra-
cy. Yet one must be blind, who living
In England, and willing to observe, does
not see that the old, devoted spirit of per-
sonal loyalty is dead and buried 1t is
gone! it is memory! You may sing
poetic lament for it if you will, as Schiller
did for the gods of Hellas you may break
into passionate rhetoric, if you can, over
its extinction, as Burke did for the death
of the age of Chivalry. 1t is gone
Year: 1869

MoLLIE, THE WICKEDEsT WOMAN IN
THE WEsT-Everybody in Kankakee
knows Mollie. To those of our readers who
are so unfortunately circumstanced as to
be compelled to live away from Kankakee,
we will say that Mollie had no other name.
She never had father nor mother, nor
brother or sister, that anybody ever knew
of. She never had home outside of the
county Jail. She was brought here in 1861
from New York. She never knew what a
school was she never heard sermon she
never was inside Of a church; she never
heard of a Sunday School she never heard
kind word spoken she never was sober
moment when she could get whisky, and
she could always get whisky when she could
get out Of Jail and she was always out of
Jail when she made so much disturbance
that the jailer could not keep her in and
she was always in Jail when she made so
much disturbance out that she could not
be endured. She was Republican by
profession and Democrat by instinct
She swore the most terrific oaths with
greater volubility of tongue than could be
done by any person who lived outside of
| Chicago. She talked the vilest, and sang
the worst songs she was filthy as the low
est, and slept out doors more nights, and
in doors fewer nights, than any other be-
ing who ever lived. When it rained the
fastest and froze the deepest, Mollie would
getthe drunkest, and was then the happiest
The police feared her; the Police Court
detested her; the Common Council made
ungallant remarks when they audited bills
marked +" Diet for Mollie in County Jail"
and these bills they audited at every meet
| ing; and the jailor was known on several
occasions to make use of downright pro-
fame language when he saw the police and
the irrepressible Mollie marching arm in
arm up to the jail door, What she lived
for nobody knew. That she would not die
everybody knew. Mollie was not the only
wicked person in this. There was "Jim,'
an aboriginal of Momence, of whom but
little is known here but unless nature
lied in Jim's face, head and general make
up, he was worse, wickeder and lower than
Mollie. He made the acquaintance of
Mollie in Jail, while confined on a charge
of stealing nine drinks of whisky from an
Alderman in Momence. That they courted
is true whether they loved or not is not
known. She begged to be released from
Jail, and promised to marry and emigrate
to Cheyenne. The Common Council voted
Mollie new dress and the happy couple
sixty dollars to pay their fare on the mat
rimonial trip; and Mollie and Jim took
their departure-Kankakee (M.) Gazette.
Year: 1869

A MYSTERIOUS masker appeared at party
in Nashville the other night, and received
many compliments for the fidelity with
which be sustained the character of a negro.
When the time came for unmasking, the
secret of his success was discovered In the
fact that he was in truth what be seemed to
be.
Year: 1869

THERE was a quadruple marriage in In
diana the other day. A man married his
third stepmother, who had three children by
his father, and three of his cousins and BRO
theirs married three of his wife's sisters. AT
last accounts the parties were trying to find
out what relation they were to each other.
Year: 1869

placed as an aigrette. This hat has
a rather high sloping crown and mar
row pointed brimS coming down very
much upon the forehead infront.


A cold spring Is succeeding to a
mild winter, and the consequence IL,
no great change is as yet discernible
in walking toilets. The doubfetskfft-
ed, looped-up dress of silk or fancy
material is worn with the tight-fit-
ting paletot, and very wide sash, ar
ranged into q large bow at the back.
A new style of sash, called ceinture
cascade, falls in an abundance of loops
of ribbon, with fringed lappets of
wide ribbon. The fringe is formed by
unravelling the ends of the ribbon.


One of the new short walking cos
tunes has short under-skirt of col
0red serge, trimmed with a deep
fiounce, headed by cross-strip of
black velvet. The dress is of the
same material as the underskirt; the
front part Is plain and very short at
the back and sides; Is long and full,
and trimmed with q slightly gath
cred flounce and a velvet strip. This
trimming is continued In braces upon
the bodice. The tight sleeves have
no ornament Puff bonnet of black
lace and satin, ornamented with red
roses and foliage. black lace lappets
falling at the back.


Long looped-up skirts are still gen.
orally preferred to short ones, and
considered more elegant, even for
walking-dresses. A new style of
porte-jupe Is i'm great vogue this spring
lit is called the pOrte-jupe Trianon.
1t forms an ornament upon the skirt,
and throws 1t back, looping 1t up
just in the way that the youthful
Marie Antoinette lOoped up her dress
when she played at being milkmaid
in her little mimic farm of Triaf1on.
The porte-jupe forms double clasp,
taking up the material of the dress
folds. 1t is Ornamented in different
ways with passementerie Ovals of
rosette, satin bows or velvet puffs.


Circulars will be worn this spring !;
they generally are i'm the denai-sdison,
taking the place of shawls, which
are gone quite out of fashion; but we
believe the tight-fitting paletot, form
ing at once bodice and second skirt,
will be the favorite mantle Of the
summer.


Some of the new spring toilets seen
at Longchamps were partly striped
and partly plain-thus: skirt of green
silk, with stripes of black satin, trim
med round the bottom with fiounce
cut on the cross, and headed with o
cross-strip; this skirt is puffed out on
either side at the top. Dress of plain
green silk. The skirt Is open on each
side, showing the puffs of the striped
skirt, and itself forming a third puff
at the back; i'm front it has the shape
of a small rounded apron. High
bodice; tight sleeves trimmed round
the top and on the outer seam with a
quilting of black satin.
Year: 1869

Nor pleasant to pbycisn for the relief n,
these vsriOu delicate Affections sgaOpy upon the mos.
urgent necessity will true .r sacrifice her great
eat charm as to do this The y then thank MS for
placing In their hands simple SPECIFICS which will be found
eneAeOus in relieving and curing almost every one of those
Troublesome complaints peculiar tOtbs sex
Year: 1869

PH1LADkLPHlA. Feb. l6-The annual report
OF the PennsylvauEa railroad, adopted by the
company, authorizes the issue of twenty five
per cent additional stock at par to stockhoId.
3Uth day Of April next The object of this new
issue OF stock Is to Increase the rolling stock
the road and otherwise com plete arrangements
for the through line to the Pacific.
Year: 1869

WE HHAR that General and Mrs. Grant are
about issuing cards Of invitation to a large re.
ception 10 take place within a few days OF
inauguration. This, il Is understood, will be
the only occasion on which the General and
Mrs. Graz. will receive previous to the install.
lation Of the General as President of the United
States.
Year: 1869

Cur THIS OUT AND KEEP IT.--Frank-
lin Dyre, a highly respectable and in
telligent farmer Of Galena, Kent Co.,
Nd, gives the following as a sure cure
for the bite of a mad dog. AS will
be seen, he has tested it with the most
gratifying results:


Elecampane is a plant well known
to most persons, and is to be found
in many of our gardens. Immediately
after being bitten take one and hall
ounce of the root of the plant-the
green root is perhaps preferable, but
the dried will answer, and may be
found in our drug stores, and was
used by me-slice or bruise, put il
into a pint of fresh milk, boil down tc
half pint, strain, and when cold drink
it, fasting at least six hours after
wards. The next morning, fasting
repeat the dose prepared as the last
and this will be sufficient. 1t is rec
commended that after each dose moth
ing be eaten for at least six hours.


l have a son who was bitten by ;
mad dog eighteen years ago, and fou
other children in the neighborhooC
were also bitten; they took the abov,
dose and are alive and we'll to thi
day. And have known a number o
others who were bitten and applied
the same remedy.


It's supposed thatth root contain
a principle which, being taken up b.
the blood in its circulation, counter
acts or neutralizes the deadly effect
Of the virus of hydrophobia.


| feel so much confidence in thi
simple remedy that l am willing yo
should give my name in connection
with this statement.
Year: 1869

When the moon across the mountain
filings the shadows in the sea;
When the FLASHING of the fountain
Sings a lonesome melody;
When the night is full OF music
Lady, then l dream of thee.
By the river when the billows


Kiss the pebbles on the shore,
And the wild bird in the willows
Sings his love-song DER and DER,
In my heart there swellS chorus
T will love thee evermore."
will love thee; and the shadows
Linger longer by the tree,
And the mock-bird from the meadows
Trills his notes so glad and free;
Oh the land is full of gladness,


And my heart is full of thee.
Year: 1869

Agent for the Orleans County Marble Works at
Barton, would return his thanks to the public
tor their patronage the last eight years and would


say that he is now prepared to finish
Year: 1869

tor polishing and Can furnish work at prices
that no man can 1--we and pay his help, who does
his work by hand. Now is your time to pur-
chase in winter when we have more time to fin


ish, and we Will set up next summerto to
Year: 1869

r OOK OUT! I'M CUM1NW.-JOHN
HADAY, House Painter and Paper Hanger
y informs the citizens Of Staunton and
Augusta county that he has resumed business
substantial style as any other painter in the va-
ley of Virginia His long experience in the bus
mess he thinks will enable him to give satisfac-
tion to all that may patronize him. He has been
a citizen of Staunton 25 years. and was engaged
at his business up to the breaking out Of the war
He would say to the farmer that he will take a
large portion OF his work in produce. e1


june29-3m ~
Year: 1869

So fit and useful is morning devotion it ought
not to be omitted without necessity, if cir
cumstances will allow the privilege, it is a bad
sign when no part Of the morning is spent in
prayer. If God fnds no place in our minds at
that early and peaceful hour he will hardly
recur to us in the tumults of life If the benefits
OF the morning do not soften US, We can hardly
expect the heart to melt during the day. Ifthe
world rush In and take possession of US, when
We are at some distance and have had respite
from It's cares, how can We hope TO shake it off
when we shall be in the midst of it; pressed
and agitated by it on every side?


81 Let part of the morning, if possible be set
apart for devotion and to this end we should
Tx the hour tor rising, so that We may have an
early hour at our disposal. Our piety is suspi-
clous IT we can renounce, as too many do, the
pleasure and benefits of early prayer, rather
than forego the senseless indulgence of unworthy
sleep. What {! we can rise early enough tor
business We can ever anticipate the dawn if
a favorlte pleasure or uncommon gain require
the effort But we cannot arise that we may
bless our great Benefactor, that we may arm
ourselves for the severe conflicts to which our
principles are opposed. We are viking to rush
into the world without thanks offered or bless
ing sought. From day thus began what
ought We to expect but thoughtlessnes IS and
guilt? .
Year: 1869

BLACKBERRY JAM. the fruit In dry
weather; allow half pound of good brown
sugar to every pound of fruit; boil the whole
gently together for an hour, or until the black
berries are soft, stirring and mashiug them we'll
Preserve it like any other jam, and it will be
found very useful in families, particularly for
children-reguaiog their bowels and enabling
you to dispense with catharties. 1t may be
spread on bread, or on puddings instead of
butter; and even when black berries are bought
it is cheaper than butter