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Year: 1869




THE PULSE The pulse of healthy
grown prison beats seventy times in min
ute; there may be good health down to sixty ;
but if the pulse also exceeds seventy there
is diseise, the machine is working too fast !;
it is weaving itself out. There is fever and in.
fammati'n somewhere, and the body is feeding
on ITSELF as in consumption, where the pulse
is always quick, that is over seventy, grad
ually iuc'easiug with decreasing chances of
cure, until it reaches one hundred aud ten,
or one hundred and twenty, when death
comes baore many days When the pulse
is all the time over seventy for months, and
there is,aslight cough, the lungs are affected
Every Intelligent person owes it to himself
to learn rom his family physician how to
ascertain the pulse in health, that by eom>
pairing 1t with what it is when ailing be may
have some idea of the urgency of his own
case, and it will be an important guide to the
physician. Parents ought to know the health
pulse If each child. as now and then person
is born with peculiarly slow or fast pulse,
and ths case in hand may be that peculiarly
An iufnt pulse is one hundred and thirty !;
child of seven years about eighty; from
twenty to thirty years it is seventy beats a
minute, declining to sixty at four-score.
There are pulses all over the body; but
where there is only skin and bone, as at the
temples, / is more easily felt; the wrist is
the most convenient point. The feebleness
or strength of the beats is not material, being
modified y the fingers pressure Compare,
tive rapidly is the great point, near death it
is one Kindred and forty and ever A
healthy plse imparts to the finger feeling
as of a wolen string; in fever it feels harder,
like sill thread if there is Inflammation,
which is always dangerous, it beats fast,
spiteful aid bard, as it a fine wire was throb-
biug against the finger. When the pulse
beats irrgularly as if it lost beat, then
hurried : make up, there is something the
matter viii the heart. But however unnat-
ural you nay think the pulse is, do not worry
about it, do nothing, take nothing, except
by the adice of an intelligent physician
HaA's JorndI of Health.
Year: 1869

APPLE ROLL. OR APPLE PUDDING. Make
a paste with onefouEth of a pound Of butter
to one of -four mixed with water, not very
stiff. Peel and slice rather thick, tart ap.
pies; roll the paste very thin, or as thin as
the bottom crust Of a pie, spread the apples
on crust so as to cover it, dredge on little
-four and roll it as tightly as possible. Cut
the ends even and put it in the steamer, or
wrap it iR thick cloth and boil it. 1t will
take one honr steady cooking. Serve with
butter and sugar. Cat it in thin slices from
the end when serving
Year: 1869

The last rays Of the setting sun linger as
if 10th to depart, and elothe in golden tints
the tree-tops and the cold marble pillars.
The clouds float in the heavens here and there
relieved BY patches Of blue, and the gentle
evening breeze plays with the fallen leaves,
and sighs through the leaAess trees a dying
dirge for the lost season.


We tread our way carefully among the
many little mounds, humble monuments to
the sleepers, and pause a moment to read the
inscriptions on pillars and shafts erected to
the memory of the dead. Varied are the
thoughts that crowd upon us as we wend
our way through the silent city Of the Sleep
ing. How many bright hopes have here
found burial how many weary hearts have
yearned for rest; how many dreams of life
here seek their answerl


Truly is death a common leveler. The
rich and the poor, the proud aud the humble
peer and beggar, priest and soldier, the joys
of household aud the friendess outcast, here
rest side by side, and miuge their mOulder,
ing dust together. Death is no respecter Of
persons, is the one lesson which all this
teaches us.


We have come to the object Of our search
"a little grave marked by a marble head
stone. A single ray of golden light iIlu-
mines it as we read the simple inscription
which it bears: "Our Minnie, Aged eight
gears" The grass and Towering vine lie
withered, and the fallen leaves carpet the
little mound. Everything denotes the part
ing season, except lonely evergreen at the
head of the grave. 1t lives, aud, ah, do we
not know that she, too, lives, but in the
better world


When the earth was freed from its icy
fetters, and the flowers put forth their teuder
petals, aud the robins returned to their old
familiar perch to twitter their notes of praise,
we folded her little hands over her lifeless
tresst The sunken eyes told how deep her
suffering had been, but her pale lips gave
back no complaint. Through the solemn
hours of that last night we watched by her
bedside, pressing her fevered head to our
bosom, and Wetting the parched lips, listen
ing with tear.wet eyes and cheeks to her
childish pratte, as in her fevered imagina-
tiOn she was playing by the pebbly stream,
or romping in the garden with doll and
kitten All, too well we saw the coming of
the dreaded messenger, yet feared his
arrival


He came at last, and with him came peace
to one troubled spirit. We saw the change
coming on and gathered around the bedside.
She opened her eyes, and looking around,
saw our tear wet face. Don't cry" she
said, Minnie won't be sick any more !;
she's going away, but you'll come and see
her after a while. Kiss Minnie"


A happy smile illumined her face, the
loving eyes closed, and quietly, peacefully,
she passed to the other side. Yes, our little
one was al rest.


The gave-digger with his pick and spade
made home for the dead. Meath the pro.
tecting shade of friendly tree we laid her.
where the winds gently sigh requium, and
where the birds sing all day long. In this
quiet spot she rests in peace and when far
distant, We love to dream ofthat little mound
Of affection in the humble village graveyard.


CHERRY Blossom
Year: 1869

BLEEDING AT THE NosE.-An excellent
remedy for bleeding at the nose, never known
to fail: Take piece OF brown paper, fold it
several times until it is the size of small
penny, then wet it in cold water and apply
it to the little string under the upper lip,
holding it there until the blood ceases to
Gov, which will be almost Immediately.
Year: 1869

ARREST OF A HARD CAsE.-Some time ago Sheriff Burns received notice from two coun- ties above, to look out for a man who had fled to escape arrest. It appears that the man, whose name is J A. Smith, went to Prescott, Arizona, and while there beat man nearly to death with double barreled shot gun he resisted the officer who tried to arrest him.

 Or examination for this offence he was re- quired to give bail in $l 500. When released on bsil, he again moved off, and next made his appearance in Los Angeles. Tuesday he was taken before Squire Gray, for making a violent assault on an old man named Petit.

 On trial, it appeared that the old man was thought to be in the way at a restaurant, by Frank Mordsy, and that he told Smith that if he would beat the old man he would pay the fine. Smith accordingly beat the old man cruelty. Justice Gray reserved his decision till yesterday morning, when he gave Smith his choice of fifty dollar fine, or thirty days in the county jail Frank Morday was fined S25. Meantime, Sheriff Burns had telegraph ed to the Sheriffs above. Smith yesterday gave bail to appear before Squire Gray, and afterward went to Fl Monte Becoming sat isfied of his identity. Sheriff Burns and Dep uty U. s. Marshal Dunlap pursued him in the afternoon, but he was probably returning by a different road while they were going out, for he was arrested here by Deputy Wiley be- tween and s o'clock in the evening He will be taken up to Sonoma county today, to an swer to the charge of assault with intent to murder.-LOs Aogles Repntiean July Sth.
Year: 1869

talists and money market adventurers throng the
reception rooms Of the Ministers Of Finance ana OF
Ways OF Communication. Contractors are going
crazy at the prospect Of overwhelming work anu
operations on an unexampled SCALE Nineteen con-
tractors had presented for the Llebau line alone
fortnight ago there may be more now, for aught
know. or course fortunes viii be made aud lost;
specuators OF every kind will have vast field open
inc before them but still we may fairly expect tnat
the eIect on the whole win be beneficial by giving
a strong lit tn private enterprise and industry anu
at any rate may consider as exaggerated, 10 say
the least the prediction Of o foreign paper-not
hostile one--wnich calls the railway fever' LEI
loose by the imperial decree q sbanefu malady,"
which NAV before long produce as great rayages as
the South Sea bubble or the Mexican loan. The dii-
ference is SO obvious not to need any comment.
Year: 1869

whose energies run now in dry channel
can, if he will, turn them into one more
fertile and if he is making but a poor
business out of meal, il is his own fault If
he docs not try to make n better out Of malt
Where the shoe pinches hardest is in places
which we cannot protect, and with Il grip
which we cannot prevent; but we cannot
say this of poverty as necessary and in
alionablo condition, ,andsympathy is wasted
when circumstances can be changed by on
crgy or will.-SdtTddy Rcricw.
Year: 1869

1t was our fortune to attend man slowly
dying with consumption, who, while hope
lessly and helplessly i'll, was devotedly car
ed for by his wife, who at the time felt her
self, or seemed to be, in perfect health,


Years after her husbands DEATH and when
she was bravely battling against the disease,
which commenced its insidious attacks inn
mediately after his death, she related to me
Year: 1869

BY TeIegraph.l NEW YORK, Jan. 28.


The most important feature in the dry
goods trade is a reduction IN the price OF
spool cotton, in the face of a rising market
for NV material ard the continued high
premium on gold. All imported spool
thread is now reduced to soc, and Hadley
thread, which is a domestic article, IS sell
ing at SOC; hut for other staple styles of
cotton thread prices are generally well
maintained. although the demand IN gem
eral Is very limited.
Year: 1869




Salnave.


Port au Prince Correspondence Nassau Herald.


The grand excitement here since the arrival OF the
steamer from New York is the news that a colored
gentleman Is to supersede the present American
Minister, T. II. Hollister. AS there is no other
Minister Residenhere and as he Is the CHIEF OF all
the foreign representatives in rank, the charges
d'A1aires fromiEngland, France and Spain, who are
gentlemen of high social position, do not feel COM
plimented with the news. The American consul
and other officers representing us here DO not wish
to have colored man for a chief. We have had
visiting and stationed at this port during the last
ten months six American ships OF war The COM
mapdants and the officers under them like the other
gentlemen of navy, are persons OF culture, and
would not relish this change. Rumor says that
President Salnave was heard yesterday TO remon-
strate with the American merchants in town against
this measure and that the parties present all agreed
in sentiment The President remarked, SO the story
goes that he already had more black men here than
he could take care Of He considered the black race
equal to the white race, but asked very pointedly
whether our Government entertained such sentl-
ments? If So why did we not send black men to
represent us in England and France? He said the
question was not what he thought about the equality
OF races but that he did not consider this dscrlmi-
nation in favor of Hayti TO be complimentary. The
question might occur TO patriotlc mind why the
present minister should give place to anybody. He
Is universally respected here by the Government ana
| by all respectable Americans The abuse heaped
upon him by the rebels, and made public in the New
York newspapers by hired agents OF these adventu
rers have grown out OF the simple discharge of his
o1icia duties His great oifense that he treated
Salnave as he would have treated the chief OF any
| other nation.
Year: 1869

The stringent look OF the Money market is gradu-
ally giving place TO more normal condition, and
the prospect OF very easy market until the first OF
the next month is encouraging. There is good deal
OF the disseg fare disposition among our merchants
and business men generally and the indifference to
new enterprises or the expansion OF old ones con-
tracts the operations OF the loan market within un
usually small mits even for this OF the year.


The banks are fully able and quite willing TO ad-
vance all the currency necessary, at the rates so
often quoted. For call loans even on stock colate
rails, borrowers are indsposed to pay more than
per cent whilst on pledge OF Governments the ave-
counts are COS per cent. for the choicest notes


The market in Government loans is quiet, and
sales are unimportant The gold market has literally
'gone to smash !" the break is complete, and the
'fbeaHs" have sole control Of the stock and gold
markets. The sales are moderate here, but in New
Year: 1869

We tell all those Southern people and
all those Eastern people who are raving
about their particular king, that the
Northwest keeps the king of all earthly
kings. Bread is king, and will be till the
last recorded pulsation Of the human
stomach. lie rules everywhere, and his
royal home is in Illinois, Iowa, Wiscon-
and Minnesota.
Year: 1869

The last time I saw the Duke of Well
lington was the day Of the dissolution of
Parliament by William w. / was at the
window on the route Of the procession,
and gorgeous show it was. The Duke
was not in it, but he made his appearance
on horseback soon after it had passed,
threading his way with great difficulty
through the densely crowded streets. His
popularity at that time was at its nadir
and the noises with which he was saluted
were not as fattering as those which
greeted him on his return from W Waterloo.
Just opposite my window he was brought
to II stop bya coal cart, in which was
sooty wretch, who began shaking bag
at him with stentorian shouts and cover
ing him with dust. Several minutes must
have elapsedcwhilst he was thus ignomin-
iously enthrallled. What he said | could
not hear, but could see the expression Of
his face, and it was certainly not the same
as it wore when he cried, "Up, Guards,
and at them - The spectacle was so
re;nful thatei heartily wished somebody
would heave the HEAVIER from his dirty
eminence. Tbe sympathy, however of
the mary headed, to my amazement, was
with the blackguard, who was evidently
an exponent Of the then popular voice.
Had l been older, would have been less
astonished. 1t is quite en- reg'e that. the
path of glory should lead to coal dust.
Year: 1869

A highly exciting scene transplred
few days since at one OF the Partisan
churches. A number of fashionable
euuipages halted in front of the portal F.,
and bride and bridegroom stepped
from the first carriage to be married IN
the church. AS soon as the bridegroom,
surrounded by his friends and relatives,
reached the door he was suddenly met
by well-dressed young lady, who had
evidently been waiting for him in the
interior of the church. Stretching ont
both arms she held up before him a
lovely little girl, six or eight months
old, and said in a piercing voice: This
is your child, but you are not worthy of
bringing her up; am going TO ke ep
her. AS for these portraits of him
who has basely betrayed me,
/ will give them back to
YOU" SO saying, she flung two
photographs at his feet. The relatives of
the bride and bridegroom interviewed
immediately in order to put stop to
the painful scene. They surrounded the
young lady, trying to calm her and take
her away. She consented to leave the
church, but in doing so, she fixed her
eyes on her little daughter and exclaim-
ed, Your father has deserted me; but
this day will be an unlucky one for
him; God will curse him, and heaven


will not desert you" The young bride,


who had already been married to the
faithless fellow at the Marie, tainted
away, when she reawoke to conscious.
ness, she allowed herselfto be led to the
altar, where the bridegroom in a falter
ing voice and with a livid face, amid
the scornful sneers of many of the by


ISLANDERS, plighted his troth to her.
Year: 1869

A correspondent of the Detroit Press
is responsible for the following:


As the day express going west on the
Michigan Central railroad was nearing
this station, Saturday afternoon about
three o'clock, the passengers waiting
the train were startled by the frequent
whistling of the engine, indicating OBJ
structions on the track. 1t was soon
found that Mr.. Saigon, of Sherman, was
driving at a furious pace to get his
horses and wagon across the track be-
fore the engine reached the crossing.
The engineer did his best to stop
the train, but it was too late, aud
the cowcatcher struck just between the
wagon and horses, separating them in
stanter and consigning each place on
opposite sides of the track, little or none
the worse for the collision. But the
strangest part of the story remains to
be told. Mr.. Saigon and his wife (ooth
about sixty tive) were caught up on tne
platform above the cOwcatcher ana Just
in front of the engine, where, instead OF
losing presence of mind and throwing
themselves off, they settled themselves
composedly as though nothing had hap
pened. The old lady put her hands
in her muff, while the old man, with
one hand extended as though grasping
the reins and the whip raised in the
other, assumed an attitude that Dan
Mace might envy, and thus the old cou'
Die rode up to the station in triumph
amid the cheers of the bystanders. A:
soon as the train stopped number
rushed to their assistance; but they de-
clined all aid, manifesting no concern
for themselves, but considerable for the
fate of the horses and wagon. The for
mer were uninjured while the damages
of the latter were found to be verJ
triaing.
Year: 1869

Mr.. SCHENCK's bill, declaring the
principal and interest of the fve-twen-
ty bonds payable in gold, was smother
ed TO death in President JoHNsON's
deep pocket, but we suppose that twill
be revived and put through at once by
the present Congress. No law, how
ever, of this corrupt and swindling Con-
cress, almost as corrupt and swindling
q Congress as that whose nostrils have
lust grown still and cold, will be worth
one farthing for any practical purpose


The bondholders are perfectly welcome
TO all that it can do for them. If they
are willing to take its resolutions as
pay for their bonds, gazing at those res
lutions through yellow spectacles to
make them look like gold, we say, let
them be INDUCED by all means. The
promises of swindling Congress,
though piled sky-high, do not involve
an honest and just peoples fultllment
of them. How much will the country
care twenty years hence, how much
will the bondholders themselves care at
that time, about resolutions of the For
ty.frSt Congress in regard to bonds
which the Forty-frst Congress had
nothing to do with negotiating and will
have nothing to do with paying The
Forty y.first Congress might az well KEEP
its breath to cool or warm its pOrridge
Year: 1869

After a long CESSATION, the secret OF
which was communicated 20 nobody,
President Grant was at last delivered OF
the persons who are to compose his con-
stitutional advisers in the Cabinet. The
country had long, anxiously expected
the delivery. Bat, after all, 1t appears
TO have been premature birth. Al
ready reports are in circulation that the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Attor-
new General, with the Secretary of
STATE, will retire. In the very COM
mencement the nurses and attendants
upon the new administration appear to
have brokea down, and the infant they
have ushered into theworld lived but a
few hours. We deeply regret, Of course,
this unfortunate accident. Our hope
was that the offspring of the General
and the Senate would survive to take
many hearty rebuffs in the great con-
teGt of life. We deeply regret TO hear
that the child was Of such Ticketty
and diseased character that, in order to
avoid future mOnstrosity, it had 20 be
strangled to death in its birth.
Year: 1869

There is pending in the Legislature Of
Ohio a joint resolution providing for
the reading of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence in all the public schools, and
to have it put in all the school reading
books, together with the Constitution
of the United States and the Constitu-
tion of Ohio.
Year: 1869

Four years ago the Radical leaders
had far more confidence in JOHNSON
than they have in GRANT now. Four
years hence, they may probably have
more confidence in JOHNSON than they
will have in GRANT then.
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use Of this BITTERS, or the TONIC, an
elixir that will instil new life into their veins,
restore In a measure the energy and ardOT of
more youthful days, build up their shrunken
forms, and give health and happiness In their
remaining years.


NOTICE.


It 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 we'll"
They are languid, devoid Of all energy, extreme
ly nervous, and have no appetite.


To this class of persons the BIrTERS, or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.


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.
Year: 1869

land and 70 see the waste places
'blossoming as tho roscn"


"Your pure faith comforts me,
dear" said Lionel with smile, draw
ing his wife closer to him, 81 thank
God for giving me such a hopeful
little co-laborer. Let us be brave
and patient, looking always upon the
bright side-the future may indeed
have much in store for our beloved
country, Of which We do not even
dream. Shall we 60 in I II is tiue
for the evening prayer"
Year: 1869

1T HAS BEEN STATED quite positively WI hin
q dav or two that Col. Webster OF General
Grants staff was to be- the Marshal of this
District. and this morning it has been reported
that Col. W. had been notified Of his appoint
ment. We have satisfied ourselves that the
appointment has been made, but that Col
Webster is not the man. Illinois will furnish
the coming Marshal for the District of Co
luInbia
Year: 1869

IT 4e THn CUSTOM Of the Senate TO elect a
President pro tenn. TO preside IN the Senate in
case Of the illness or absence OF the Vice.
President. Mr. Fessenden is named as the
probable President pro tenn. in the Senate dur.
ing the Forty. first Congress.
Year: 1869

A DISPATCH is published here announcing
that the Kansas Legislature has ratified the
new Constitutional amendment regulating
suffrage. The Kansas Legislature is prema-
tnre in Its action. The amendment is not reg.
ularly out Of the hands Of Congress yet, and
official ratification of the adoption of the Joint
resolution cannot reach Kansas until the latter
art of next week
Year: 1869

/ find myself called upon, by letter
and through the newspapers, TO define
my position on the suffrage question
now being agitated throughout the
State. / have never held an equivocaI
position on any great public Question
and never will. Nor have the vAnity
to suppose that my opinions will infl1.
ence those of any considerable numbrr
of men on this or any other question,
and certainly have no purpose to die.
tate to any of them how they shall vote
at the coming election. 1t is from an
sstirely different motive that / shall
state what follows:


In my Judgment, the existing fran,
chise law was an absolute necessity to
Year: 1869

PERSONS ADVANCED IN LIFE,
And feeling the hand Of time weighing heavily
upon them, with all its attendant ills, will find
in the use of this BITTERS, OF the TONIC, an
elixir that will nstil new life into their veins,
restore in measure the energy and ardor Of
more youthful days build up their shTunken
forms and give health and happiness in their
rernaiDinp
Year: 1869

1t is a we'll 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 or the
TONIC, is especially recommended.