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Year: 1869

SMALL CAPITAL. The Internal Revenue
Assessor of New York reports that Jay Cooke
the wealthy banker who amassed several mil
lions by the Government Agency for the sale
of L. S. Bonds during the war, returns capi-
tai of only $4,000, while he transacts a busl.
ness of millions as banker and broker. Mr..
Jay Cooke is the individual who undertook to
prove that National Debt is a National bless
ing and having made his gigantic fortune out
turn, that it is kind of blessing which the
rich should thrive on, while the poor man shall
become poorer by paying not only his own but
also the rich mans share of it,
Year: 1869

PoRr CoLBURNE, G. W, April 22.-
The Northern Transportation Com
pauy's propeller City of Concord left
here at noon to-day. When about
mile out she became surrounded with
ice, and is now stuck fast: Three
other boats belonging to the same
line have been in sight in the ice all
day. and have got close to the City
of Concord. 1t is not probable they
will get through it to night. There
are large quantities of Ice in the lake.
but it appears soft. ~
Year: 1869

Says the Pittsburg Commercial of yesterday


A horrible murder occurred Monday forenoon,
about eight miles from West Newton, Westmoreland
county. well-knOwn farmer, in a moment OF sud
den passion or insanity fractured his wife's skull
with huge club.


1t appears, from all the information we were able
to obtain that the murderer, whose name is Samuel
Morrow, is a resident of South Huntington township,
WestmOreand county. On Monday afternoon he
was at work in field near the house with his sou,
who is young man about eighteen years of age.
Mr. Morrow left the field and went 10 the house
about ten O'Clock, and soon after the young man
heard his mother screaming "murder." On
rushing intg the house he found her lying
on the kitchen floor, and his father beating her in
a terrible manner with large club The young
man interfered and endeavOred to wrest the club
from the hands Of his enraged father but
cessful, the old gentleman being a powerfuy-built
man, while the boy slightly built and was
obliged to retreat before the attacks of the huge
club He for assistance but before he returned the
cries of the poor woman had ceased, and she
found lying on the floor, life being extinct. There
large number of bruises on her body, and her
skull was fractured by terrific blow in the back of
the head.


The murderer had escaped, and it is supposed fed
across the fields to the woods The affair produced
a great excitement in the township, and twenty-five
men turned out to hunt the murderer, but yet he
has succeeded in eluding arrest. He had no hat or
coat on at the time he left the house.


Mr. Morrow was man about tifty-tve years of
age and it is stated about two years ago showed
symptoms of insanity, but was supposed to have
entirely recovered. No motive, unless be insanity,
is known for the commission of the horrible murder.
Year: 1869

GRANTS CABINET-The visit of the Hon. John
G. Breckenridge to Wisconsin is to look after land
which he owns in the northern counties OF the State
and in considerable quantities. Mr. Breckenridge
appears to be afiabe gentleman, and was the
centre Of attraction at the Newhall recently
Several of the old Democratic wheel-horses visited
him at his room and had talk with him. One gem
tleman asked him what he thought Of Grant and his
administration, and the reply was that the President
was smart enough TO take care OF himself. His Cab-
net. while none OF the best, was just such one as
Grunt needed, and was better for his purposes than
one OF more talent would be- 10 was not designed TO
ambition was TO make it everyday sort Of useful
afiair He was studying the best way TO do this and
MIR BrecknridRe believed he would succeed In a
degree sutficient to make the people feel easy,
although they would be by no means satlsned'-Aa-


oaukee Wisconsin.
Year: 1869

ARTIFICIAL ICE.-One OF the industrial activities
Of New Orleans is the artificial production Of ice in
large quantities. The process is of French nven-
tiOn and the success which has attended the opera
tOns of the mandatory has exceeded the eXpecta-
tiOns of the propretOrs. The ice is said to possess
many advantages over Northern ice. IL is more
wholesome, they say, because made of Mississippi
water 1t is colder That is to say, machinery out
does nature in making ice that is long in melting.
The secretary of the ice company lately made
wager with the largest Of the ce-shippng houses OF
Boston to the superiority OF their respective speci
mems, and the experiment was made with blocks Of
the same size under equal exposure. The manu-
factured ice Outlasted the imported article. We
not informed what the test was but as the parties


adjourned to the Peerin Restaurant" we may
reasonably infer that wine was the solvent The in
Cident was gratifying, and it may be hoped that
the good people OF New Orleans will hereafter keep
cool,
Year: 1869

Don Piatt says If there Is any one thing
more than another your free American
born citizen of the age of eighteen and
upward feels himself competent To do,
without note Of preparation or any stndy.
II Is to edit n newspaper. Take tho men
rs they come, upon the streets, and offer
each one the position Of editor, and nine
out of ten will express regret that his
other engagements prevent his acceptance
of your tempting offer. The tenth man
will probably suggest that, not being able
to read and write, probably he had better
not try. Poor fellow, he is 50 ignonnt as
not to know that few editors read, and yet
q more limited number can write.


Whether am competent to edit or pub
lish n paper or not, there are few who have
had moro experience, and therefore moro
right to express an opinion on tho subject.
began at an age when ought TO have
been Mt school. In 1910, Judge Warden,
then familiarity known rs Bob Warden,
turned up on tho Mac-a-Chcek. with the
identical press the late Ben. Franklin
learned his trade on. How Bob became
possessed Of this complicated wonder of
wood and iron don't know, but do
know that It Is now on exhibition rs the
identical press Of Franklin's apprentice
ship, for I saw Il SO exhibited, and assured
the amazed individual who had Il in charge
that l too had served nm apprenticeship,
on tho same Internal machine. Robert
had. with his press, just enough typo to
set up ono side of an eight by ten news
paper. As the political excitement waxed
warm we were drawn in, and soon aston
ished the valley Of the Mac-a-Chcek wi'n'
Year: 1869

1NHE great difficulty which physicians have


L been lahoring ior centuries to overcome, ba :
at length been obviated. II Vegetable Caihartic
and Alternative more efficient than any mineral
preparation of the same class, and as agreeable
TO the taste as ordinary candy. is now offered TO
the sick in the form of a LoZenge.
Year: 1869

Whether in the Young or old, married or single
at the dawn Of womanhoo1. or the turn of life
these tonic medicines display so decided an infu
ence that marked Improvement is soon rprccpt-
bic in the health of the patient Being purely
vegetable preparation. they a"e n safe and rela
bic remedy or all classes oi Females in ever
condition OF health and station of life.
Year: 1869

We do not offer single alticle of merchan- disc, that can be sold by regular delaers at our price We do not ask you to buy goods of us unless we can sell them cheaper than you can obtain them in any other way,-while the greater part of our goods are sold at about
Year: 1869

The Louisville Courier gives an account
of destructive hurricane that swept across
Kentucky above Wickliff's landing, thirty
i've miles up the river, on Wednesday
afternoon. While the Leonora was moored
at the landing, about 43 O'Clock, the pilot
on duty saw two immense clouds come to-
gether short distance off. In few min
utes hurricane, rendered still more awful
by deafening thunder and binding light
ming rushed with indescribable fury across
the river just above the landing. Imme-
diately on reaching the stream the fierce
tornado lifted a great body of the water
and hurled it along over the bank, delug-
ing the vicinity and exciting the utmost
terror among the people.


The path of the hurricane was about O
hundred yards in width. Throughout this
track for miles on both sides of the river
the devastation was complete Houses,
trees, fences, &C., were uptorn ard scatter
ed like straws in all directions. The air
was densely filled with huge limbs of trees
ana other fragments, and the whole region
OF the storm was IN q state of chaos. In
the general destruction the dwelling of a
Mr.. Goeshler was blown down, and that
OF David Hogan was completely razed. In
the latter house were four or five persons,
all of whom were more or less Injured
SID. Lees barn and new dwelling near
by were unroofed. A lookout station at
the landing was blown entirely away,


Although the Leonora lay some distance
below the line of the main hurricane, all
Of her skylights were shattered and the
glass hurled into the cabin, creating wild
panic among the passengers. If the boat
had been within full range of the squalI
she would have gone up the spout teetotal-
ly. The most skilful pilot could not have
saved her. This terrific blast was followed
by rain that fell in torrents and flooded
the whole region around. It is difficult to
estimate the extent of the injury suffered
by the victims of this storm, but it is GER
tainly very great.
Year: 1869

The reading public have recently been
made acquainted with Mr.. Hembold-the
Buchu man" as he is called-throuDh
his generous donation of forty thousand
dollars to the Democratic campaign fund,
and still further by his offer to bet q mil
lion dollars on the election of Seymour
and Blair. An exchange asks and answers
the question, "Where did this mans mo-
ney come from ?" and says:


"Five years ago Hembold was poor
man, but full of business tact and shrewd-
ness, and resolved not to remain poor. He
cast about and found the philosophers
stone in tho barrels of printing ink there
was turned out from the manufactures of
the north, and distributed to every portion
of the country. This he availed himself
of, and, by a judicious but most liberal
system of advertising, chiefly in the ne VS.
papers, has, In a very brief period, amass-
ed fortune. The more he spent the
greater his gains, until his bills now
amount to hundreds of thousands, and his
receipts. perhaps, millions. Nor was it
mere experiment with him. He gathered
wisdom from the experience Of others. In
casting his eye over the business world
where he saw q meagre few who had amass-
ed fortunes in q quiet sort of q way, he
also saw that in nearly every instance
where man had anything worth having,
and advertised it freely, he had grown to
wealth and influence in the world. He
had, therefore, only to follow in the foot
steps of his predecessors, and he did it
wisely and WELL"


Our Cincinnati merchants have yet to
learn the value and importance of judicious
advertising; they have yet to be taught the
truth of what Horace Greeley said long
ago, that the man who paid more for store
rent than for advertising was ignorant of
half his business. This is a reading age and
country, and people expect to find every
thing worth knowing in the columns of q
tirst.class daily newspaper.-Cincinnati
CO1n7serCiU
Year: 1869

The Ohio Cultivator says the following
recipe is worth $1,000 to every house
keeper:


Take one pound of sal soda and a half
pound of unslecked lime, and put them in
a gallon of water, boil twenty minutes, let
it stand till cool, then drain off and put in
a small jug or jar, soak your dirty clothes
over night, or until they are wet through.
then wiring them and rub on plenty of
soap, and in one boiler of clothes well
covered with water, add one tea cup full
of the washing fluid boil half an hour
briskly, then wash them thoroughly with
suds, rinse, and your clothes will look bet
ter than by the old way of washing twice
before boiling. This is an invaluable re-
cipe, and every poor, tired woman should
trv it.
Year: 1869

Says the Louisville Courter-,J ,JouenQL Of Jan. 7:-
We learn from parties in whom we believe we
may place the most implicit confidence that a
great cOnfagration is now at the height OF it's
progress in the celebrated Miller coal mines, on
the Monongahela river, at the mouth OF the
Youghiogheny, fifteen miles southeast of Pitts
burg. Tue fire began some time since, aud
great efforts have been made to eXtinguish it,
but to no purpose. An attempt to check its
fierce career was made by the erection OF mud
walls and The pumping in of large quantities of
water, and by this means the fire was partially
smothered, but the heat became SO ln.ense
and the pressure OF gas so great that the
walls were burst, and the flames are nov
sweeping onward with greater force than ever.
The fire is spreading through the old mines
at the rate OF sixty yards per day, and 1t Is
feared the entire field may be destroyed. So
much progress has been made by the flames
that it is estimated that the cost of eXtingush


ing them before they have spread over a space
of 1000 acres will not be less than $3.50 000
Twenty. 1.-TWO loaded wagons and all the tools OF
the miners have been lost thus far. The Miller
mines are carried on by A. Miller Co., of which
firm Mr.. Charles Miller, OF this city, was formerly
a member. The coal field over which this great
subterranean deluge OF FIRE is sweeping Is one
OF the most valuable on the Monongahela, and
extends a distance OF eight or ten miles. 1t is
difficult 10 say what Will be the result of this
underground conhagraton if it is not checked
very soon. Wherever a vein OF coal extends the
fire must follow it, and the whole PIttsburg coal
region may yet be endangered.
Year: 1869

An apparatus for giving an alarm in
case Of the presence Of carbonic oxide
or coal gas in a room, it is reported, has
recently been invented by Prussian.
II consists Of q galvanic battery with q
bell and glass tube filed with liquid
chloride of palladium. This metallic
salt is extremely sensitive to the carbonic
oxide gas A small quantity Of the gas
will at once throw down some Of the
metal from the solution, and this precip-
itate, collecting in the bottom Of the
tube, at snce essablishes q connection
with the current CT electricity, and the
violent ringing Of the bell will warn the
sleeper Of his danger.
Year: 1869

"The circulation of the Times is over
double that of any paper in the South. p
-Su'eed Of the Tunes. l.


The Influence of the Times was pretty
clearly developed at the election on Tues
day, when its utmost efforts failed to call
out one-eighth of the voters in support Of a
ticket which possessed in itself some ele-
ments of popularity. Some Of the "old cit
izensn declare that their vote would have
been larger if the Times had thrown its tre-
mendous influence against them. This is
regarded by the friends Of that paper as an
admission that it has some influence,
Year: 1869

We are specially destined to keep up ae'
active ana increasing intercourse. IL II with
satisfaction that l INFORM yOn that every
where have met with the warInest sympathy
FOR our Fatherisnd and It's future Rave taken part
IN the EMANCIPATION oil a Work which does honor to
the enterprlsng spirit and perseverance, OF its au
ti0r-a work which promises In It's development to
open up new field 10 our trade and manufactures.
Tor that progressive and creative commercial acti
Why the furtherance OF which recommend Co your
most earnest consideration. This is task To which
all who are qualiHed may give their undlsturbed at
tentiOn. since they are summoned thereto most une
quivocally by the peaceful situation abroad. our
relations Oh all sldes where passing aIp-
pearances seemed to cloud the horizon, have
now assumed friendly and peaceful aspect.
supported by these peaceful circumstances.
took forward to the future with stout heart aud
expect, honored gentlemen, chat similar sentiment
VIII animate you IN your iabors anu bring them To u
happy terulinatlOl
Year: 1869

Count do Chanbord and the CoancNs


We learn from Paris that Count de ChamDord had
intended to join his numerous relations now ut
Rome and remain there during the session Of rhs
Ecumenlcal Council but he thought It expedient
first to ask the Pope whether he saw any objection
TO tile visit. The precautiOn was not vain one for
his Holiness has now written u very "affectlonute
aud paternal' letter to the Prince. recommending
him by all means to stay away, lest his presence In
Rome during the grand assizes OF the Catholic
Church should serve rs u ''preteXt for conflicts or
diyiSl0ns." The Count. OF course, accepls this ad
vice rs command aud Is expected to pA.a tho
greater part OF tnis winter ut Vienna
Year: 1869

Many the writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of st. c for their health experienced and witnessed surprising and
beneficial effects the Rum there produced nvads who e
ouves) seeking health; and inquiry and investigation obtained full history
Of It's medicinal virtues He delighted and surprised and after his recovery
which occurred determined possible to the sole right
and sell the United States


The result Of his hs glorious himself suffering humanity
for the celebrated PLANTATION BTTERs thus made the
TAN BTTERs being article real merit founded principles and
relying wholly the vegetable wd for its medicinal effects worked
ton in the history medicine and became household word all the civilized
world The cabas Tlseo Iman Of health and the demand for
the PLANTATION BERS far exceeded the abilities the rs supply


Notwithstanding the large importation Of St. crz Rum made expressly for the
pounding these rter the quantity inadequate therefore became necessary
that extensive scale abroad should made and agent
dispatched St. Thomas for that he fortunate in securing and
leasing several plantations the largest and mes: productive estates the
island Houses stills and crested asif By mas which utterly aston


d the natives The services experienced and natives the island
cured and very the rss the PLANTATION ETz25 in position
supply their laboratory with ali the perfectly St. cr nu needed anuia
turing the GREAT DysEEI5 TONIC AND DaAT The above
the natives crushing the and otherwise preparing for the stills and
As andu Fever and Ag Intermittent and Mar Fevors Dy and
unsurpassed
history the world Over FIVE million bottles disposed c. annually. They
adapted old and young male and female gy agreeable TASTE and always
produce immediate beneficial result.
Year: 1869

Many the writer these lines and invalid physician while visiting the
Island Of st. x for their health experienced and witnessed surprising
beneficial effects the Rum there produced
oeves seeking health and inquiry investigation
Of Its medicinal virtues He delighted and recovery
which occurred determined possible procure sole right manufacture
and sell il in


The result
for the celebrated PLANTATION known the world PLAN
TATIoN BTTER being merit upon principles and


relying wholly the vegetable world for its medicinal
ton in the history medicine and became household all
world The cabasc Tls6oX for
the PLANTATION BTERS soon far exceeded the abilities the prort supply
Notwithstanding the large importation Of st. iz Rum made expressly


pounding these B the quantity inadequate therefore
that arrangements extensive scale abroad should made
dispatched st. Thomas for that He fortunate securing
leasing several plantations Of the largest and most productive the
island Houses stills and erected if by which utterly aston
ished the natives The services experienced and natives oftheand
cured and rroprs the PLANTATION BTTERs position
supply their laboratory with all the perfectly St. z Rum needed manutac
turing the GREAT DYsPEP TONIC AND
the natives crushing the preparing presses
As an anadote Fever and Ague Intermittent and Maiaus
other kindred Diseases the the PLANTATION
history the world Over five million bottles annually
adapted old and and female They agreeable always
result
Year: 1869

A COOK in New York, gave notice in the
family in which she is employed, that she
has made up her mind to go to Newport
this summer, and if the family will go there
she will stay with them; otherwise, she
will leave.
Year: 1869

FISHING FOR MoUsE.-Among those who
attended country district school was lit
tie boy of perhaps four years of age, but too
young to speak plain. One day. while the
others were at their studies, he got posses
sion of pin and string. He bent the pin
into the form of fish hook. tied the string
to it, and put on it a small piece of cheese.
he bad seen mouse come up through
hole in the corner of the hearth, and set
himself u bob for it, as though it had been
q hsh. He was observed, and asked by the
teacher what he was doing. Fishing for a
mouss." was the reply. As this pastime was
not allowed in school hours, the teacher. by
way OF punishment, ordered him to continue
boobing for the mouse. So the little fellow
sat, as brave as judge, bobbing away. un-
til soon the seitook strong hold of the
cheese. and the boy. giving a sudden pull.
sprang into the middle of the room, and !.
swinging the mouse round bis bead, aston
ished the whole school with the exclamation !:
y thwar I've got him."
Year: 1869

LIFE UNDER GRoUND-Another great col


liery near Nottingham has this week been
flooded with water. drowning, happily. but


five or six persons. The battle for coal,
from 500 to 1000 feet below the surface, has
its returns of killed and wounded like any
other. The workmen are used to it. and do
not eeem to mind it, Men who work in the
deep bot bowels Of the earth. lying on their
sides and picking the coal out of an Is inch
seam cannot find life so pleasant as to have
much dread of explosions or inundations.-
So they light their pipes in something worse
than a powder magazine, and are liable to
be drowned at any moment. The deep
mines are kept free of water by powerful
Cornish engines. which carry economy OF
consumption of coal and power generated
about as far as it can go. so that on an aver
age ll2 pounds of coal raises SO. 100000
pounds of water one foot--a force inconceiv-
able in a basket of coal. But even these en-
gines can deal but slowly with the subter-
ranean lakes which at these times burst into
the oollieries London Letter.