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Year: 1869

It twas stated at recent convention of
working women in New York, that a
majority of the girls employed to ope-
rate on heavy sewing machines in shops
last only one to two years, although few
stand the labor little longer time.
Their backs give out, their spines give
way. 1t is that ugly motion of the foot
that spoils the spine" We shall have to
ge: up society for the prevention of
cruelty to working women.
Year: 1869

If o lady wants TO touch the feelings of
a gentleman in tender spot let her sit
with deliberate csrelessness il she can
continue SO to do-upon his new silk hat.
simultaneously with its crush will be the
emotions of It's terrified owner.
Year: 1869

An Iowa woman experienced relig-
ionv at a revival meeting, but when she
got home she was so much in fear of fall
ing from grace that she killed herself
Immediately in order to prevent any
such calamity.
Year: 1869

PHILADELPHIA, October 22.--High
Constable Clark has been removed by
Mayor Fox. He has been connected
with the police fifteen years..


The Brooks case was resumed this
morning. Mr.. Brooks testified to the
fact of the assault He recognized
Morrow as being in Keenan's store
previous to the assault, and believed
James Dougherty to be the man he
saw struggling to get into the ear
riaee at the door when he reached it
in pursuit of his assailants. On ac-
count of the disappearance of wit
ness for the prosecution, the Court
adjourned till to- morrow. Judge Lud-
low invited the efforts of the United
States authorities and the State and
city officers to endeaVor to find this
witness, and said he would exhaust
the power of the Court IN the search,
and If the witness was in New Jersey
he would request the Governor Of
that State to deliver him to the Court.
Year: 1869

The Convention has been a decided
success.


Thirteen States and five Territories
were represented by some of their
ablest and most practical men, and
there was an earnestness of purpose
and unanimity Of sentiment among
them rarely manifested in delibera-
tive body. All seemed to be salts
fed that great and growing move
ment has been inaugurated, which
will culminate, IN reasonable time,
in the successful carrying out Of the
object sought for-the removal of the
capital of the Republic to some point
in this great valley.


In the United States Circuit Court
to-day, Annie and Joseph Cappina
and George Fanni Cambeleni were
found guilty Of having counterfeit
money in their possession.
Year: 1869

WAS not the Fifteenth Amendment
submitted to the voters of Ohio and
Pennsylvania, and did they not endorse
it? We have seen but few express
sions Of opinion on this point by
Democratic contemporaries. Why do
they remain silent? Speak out.
brethren. speaking may relieve you.
Year: 1869

of the vital fluid to turn its undershot and


overshot wheels.


The vocations of the thinker, the ath-
lete, and the feeder must be, therefore, to
a certain extent, specialties. Yet he who
thinks-were he Plato, or Newton or
Kant-must eat and exercise; be who
lights in the ring is not without his ideas,
such as they are, and certainly must have
his dinner: and there are great lovers of
the table who cannot be called wanting in
the bodily and mental activities. There
| is no need of instances to prove this. In
fact, most healthy persons pass from the
| life of thought to that of muscular exer-
else and to that of digestion. without show
ing any manifest incompetence for either
Another important point is this: what
wears men out quickest is strain on the
will-the exercise of perpetual intellectual
balancing, followed by new voli;ions.-
All habitual labor, not excessive, soon be-
comes to a great degree automatic and in
wolves vastly less expenditure of the vis
viva of the system than when it is done
| by sustained series of conscious efforts.
The kind of labor, then, as we'll as its
amount, must be considered in estimating
the amount that can be done.


Shall we condemn our farmers to intel
lectual inactivity because they use their
muscles in steady farm work? Shall we
say that if they work hard ten hours a
day there will be no force left to turn the
blood into the channels of the brain when
their days work is over?


It is absured for well-constituted man
to make such a pretext for intellectual
sloth and self-neglect. We recognize the
principle of blood-waste and blood-supply
in him to it's full and fair extent. We do
not ask of him the same intellectual feats
which we expect of the professional stu
dent. After hot July days moving we
can excuse him if he goes to bed without
reading his paper or his book-uuless,
indeed, he finds it refreshment to change
his mode of waking though in which case
be will not ask to be excused.


But take his common days work: cit
is the pace that kills"-and think how
quiet his working pace is. His gait is
that of an OK, not of the fast trotting
horse. Steady, wholesome outdoor farm
labor is luxury to those who are bred to
it, rather than wasting toll. How little
call and strain upon the nervous system
-
Year: 1869

what is meant by instructive sympathy
toward God, toward immortality. The
lower orders of the human race exhibit
this instructive religious feeling. Rude,
barbarous, though it may be, still they
yearn for God and Immortality; and as
true as the needle points to the pole, so
true does the heart of man, in spite of ig-
norance on other subjects, point toward
Creator and an Immortality. 1t is part
of mans being to be religious as it is
part of his being to love; and as love to
God and love among the human race are
emotional instincts not originating in or
measured by reason, we would thank
those gentlemen who undertake to reduce
everything to an Intellectual standard to
remember that all things can not be prov
ed by that standard. This instructive
feeling when duly exercised leads one to
60 to his Lord and Redeemer in child
like manner, and say. "Here I am,-do
with me as thou wilt;" and thus find
peace
Year: 1869




There is good reason for not expecting
tho greatest iuteiievSa.lSo :..4--vurs
achievements from the farmer who works
all day with his hands. There is no rea-
son to condemn him 70 ignorance and to
declare him incapable Of mental culture.


The reason why we must not. expect
him to be the intellectual rival of the man
who lives in his study, is physiological
one. 1t is fair to him that it should be
stated.


There is one great fountain from which
all the living organism gets its sustenance
and its stimulous, the heart, with its vi
vifying and kindling outflow. There are
three principal fields to be irrigated and
enriched-the low-lands Of the epigastrium
and its dependencies; the scattered domain
of the muscular system; the imperial realm
of the great thinking centre, the brain.


The supply of blood is limited, and il
one part gets more than its share, another
part must hare less. It follows that the
glutton is not likely to have muscular OF
intellectual activity, that the athlete is
pretty sure to be temperate in his calls on
the digestive organs, and little developed
in his mental faculties. and that the pow.
erful thinker is not often a great feeder
or man of excessive muscular develop
ment.


There are exceptions, as we all know,
but this is the rule. Here is head o.
| Vinellius from an ancient bust; here is a
full length figure Of Tom Cribb from
Borsa'aa, and here is side-face of Pasca
on French medallion. You have only
to look at them to see that the crapulous
despot would outfeed the boxer and the
thinker; that the champion of England
would knock his imperial majesty out O
time with single blow, and kill the fra.
gile, hypochondriacal philosopher with
one clutch of his iron fist, as an eagle
squeezes the life out of rabbit; but you
feel that the thinker will live immortal il
his thought when these others are botf
become mere clods with the dead brute.
they most resembled..


These extreme cases illustrate the doc
trine that great development in one range
Of powers draws away the sustenance
more or less. from the rest. The we'll
known method of medical treatment callee
derivation or revulsiom proceeds from th'
same principle. When great write1
used to put his feet in hot bath afte1
hard mental labor, it was to get back tht
blood to them of which they had been rob
| bed bv the brain.


The principle holds true in the case o
each days efforts in each individual, as i
does between one man and another. Th'
brain is at its maximum of efficiency whel
the digestive powers are moderately taxe(
and the muscles have not been recent,
exercised to any great extent. Their
must be food of the circulating curren
to supply the enormous quantity of gas
tric-juice required to digest hearty meal
There must be rush through all th
channels that reach the muscles to suppl,
them while at work, they suck up th
blood like SO many sponges. All thi
must be at the expense of the brain, which
if it is to work hard, must have torrents
Year: 1869

t3esl,-t--E-s s,.s- -2.s--.1--~
moves as he guides the share through the
furrow, or handles the hoe or the rake!


Are not two hours or two and half
enough for his meals in the busy season?
Are not eight hours enough for his sleep?
Frederick the Great was busy man, and
found five enough; John Hunter was an
unwearying worker with mind and hand.
and asked no more; General Pichegru
left the record of busy life, and managed
to get along with four; and cannot the
steady-going cultivator of the peaceful
fields, with no kingdom to govern, no liv-
ing universe to reduce to system, no foes
whom the blunt weapons and the inexplo-
sive compounds of agriculture will not
subdue, find rest enough in third of the
whole twenty y-four hours? There remain
three and half or four hours, portion
of which may we'll be given to mental cul-
ture. The man who wants it will find
time enough, with such programme as
we have given. The man who does not
want it will not find it any better if he
has six vacant hours instead Of four.


What shall the farmland do when his
days labor is over? Smoke and bouse
and play checkers with corn and beans on
the top Of the bellows? Talk, with moth
ing to talk of but the days little accidents?
We know too we'll what the social con-
verse of vacant minds soon comes to-
The pipe and the mug and the checker
board were all very well-no, not very
we'll, but in keeping with his other condi-
tions-when the farm-laborer was a serf,
a boor, but he is here and now the lord of
creation, if any man is, and it is time for
him to remember that noblesse oblige.-
Every hand with vote in it is thrust
from sleeve of purple, if we could but
see its color.


That farmers Of any vigor or ambition
are going to work less than ten hours a
day on the average is not very likely, un-
less some Jack Cade shall decree it to be
felony for the almanac makers to give us
fourteen and fifteen hours of summer sun
light. Who, then, shall condemn that
great body of citizens, whose intelligence
is the safeguard of the land, to the curse
OF idle brains because they enjoy the bless
ing of busy hands? We do not ask of
them to make our literature for US; though


Burns. following his plough upon the


mountain-side-a frst-rate farmland, if
we may trust his own testimony-sang
the songs which we might almost say Gre
ated nation out of a province and a Ian
guage out of a dialect. We do not look


to them to form science, though Fergus
son, long honored in the Royal Acad emy,


after working all day on the farm, used,


when youth, to 60 out into the fields
and lie on his back, and take the apparent
distances of the stars by sliding beads
upon string. SO as to lay them down on
paper and thus map the heavens. But


we do say to them that they are just as
much bound, and just as able to use their
brains in thought and study as scholars
are bound to keep their muscles from
wasting or turning into fat by taking a
reasonable amount Of exercise. To force
Year: 1869

in the county. There is no far
mer in the county who attends
closely to his business, who
does not in any ten years,
clear more money on the capi.
tai and labor invested, than
any furnace man does in the
same period. Some years the
iron business pays; then some
years the business will sink
money. What iron men need
most, in the way of protection,
is a settled policy, Fluctuation
is their greatest enemy. To
make it profitable, it is a busi-
ness that must continue
through a series of years.
Year: 1869

FRANK BLAIR gives the bulk
of the Democratic press q
heavy blow, in q remark to a
Democratic Club in New York
a few days ago. He said ssany.
body who thinks Grant is fool
is more likely to be fool him
self" II
Year: 1869

lCJ VI luO OdChSOll OlduudIu'
We have transacted considera.
BILE business with the iron men
of our county, and without one
solitary exception We have
found them prompt, liberal
high minded gentlemen. Our
money has always been ready
exactly according to. contract
as soon as the bill was pre-
sented. To be sure this is no
more than was right between
man and man; but it is at
variance with the wholesale
charge of avarice and rascality
which is hurled at the iron
men by "free trade" journals.
And what we have said of iron
men is true of a majority Of
their employees, who are in
telligent well read persons;
but of course in such a mass
of men as they employ will be
found some trifling rogues
whose constant study it ap.
pears is how to sponge a liv>
ing off of the furnaces. They
are too lazy to work, and too
cowardly to steal directly, but
by dint of lettering, begging
and lying manage to run into
debt to the furnace companies
in various sums Of ten to one
hundred dollars, according to
the amount of sympathy they
can excite by their lying, dole.
full stories, and then to run away,
taking with them the tools en-.
trusted to their keeping by the
furnaces, and pawning them
for whiskey at the first grocery.
These men seldom stay a full
season at any furnace, but play
out their hands, then cut fer a
new furnace to play the same
game. 1t is a wonder to us
that the iron men do not form
a union, and keep each other
posted as to-these individuals,
for hundreds OF dollars are lost
in this way every year in ev-
cry, furnace in this region.
Here is the extract from the
Standard referred to above: .-


The Cincinnati Gazette says
that the manufacturers Of pig
iron make very large profits.
! have had the very best OPP
portunities to know something
about the pig iron business in
Southern Ohio. l commenced
cutting cord wood for the fur
naces in the year 1880, when a
mall boy. | was engaged in
that business partof the tim o
during several years. Then |
was clerk and salesman for a
company engaged in the pig
iron business from March 1,
1854 to July 1856. Then from
Oct. 1856 to March 1857. l
have practiced law in this fur
mace region more or less, since
Nov. Is, ,1S49, when | was ad-
mitted to. the Bar | was AS.
sistant Assessor for this county
from Nov. 1862 to Sept. 1865;
So that | have had, ample opr
portunities to- become # ac-
quainted with the pig iron
business in Southern Ohio, and
with the men who are engaged
in that business. And right
here, | wish to say that the
charges so often made against





the manufacturers Of pig iron,
that they are selfish, grasping
towards the men who labor for
them, is most unjust. There
are no more high minded, lib
eral or honorable men in South.
ern Ohio than the iron men. In
all my intercourse with them,
during a period Of forty years,
l never found but one who was
not an honorable man and q
gentleman. That solitary ex,
ception was a man who once
had charge of Eagle Furnace
in rVipton county, And my
business relations with the fur,
mace men, especially in the ca
noo;ty of attornav far than ond
Year: 1869

Are two Of the most common and viruent dis
orders prevalent on this continent. to these the
Ointment is especially antagonstic, its modms op-
erondi is first TO eradicate the venom and then
complete the cure
Year: 1869

A MAN from the country invested five
cents in the purchase of an orange, and
preparatory to getting himself outside of
it threw the peel on the sidewalk. Soon
after young woman came along, slipped
upon the peel, and fell upon the walk,
breaking her leg. The young woman was
to have been married the next day, but
wasn't. The man who was to have mar.
ried her had come from st. Paul, Mime
sofa, and was obliged to return on account
of business, to await the recovery of the
girl. On his way back he unfortunately
took train on the Erie railroad, which
ran off the track. and his shoulder blade
was broken, forcing him to stop at Dun
kirk for repairs The Travellers Insur-
ance Company. in which he was insured,
had to pay $3.50 in weekly installp ents
before he recovered. On getting back to
st. Paul, he found that his forced absence
had upset a business arrangement which
he had expected to complete, at pecu-
MARY loss to him of $4,000. Meantime
the injured girl suffered relapse, which
80 enteebled her health that her marriage
was delayed, which had a bad effect upon
the young man, and he finally broke the
engagement and married a widow in Min
nesota, with four small children. This 80
worked upon the mind of the girl that
she is now in the insane hospital in Mid


dletown. Her father, outraged by the
conduct of the young man, brought suit
for breach of promise, and has just re-


covered $4,000. The anxiety and ex-
pense of the whole affair thus far has
been enormous, as anybody can see
Similar cases are likely to occur so long
as people will persist in throwing orange
peel around loose Hartford Courant
Year: 1869

A VERY singular case of somnambulism
recently occurred in Chicago. A young
man was found walking the streets of the
city In somnolent condition. He was
taken to the County Hospital, where he
was awakened after having been in q
somnabulistic state for four days. He
states that while in that condition he was
cognizant of what was transpiripg around
him, and several times attempted to make
signs to be provided with pencil and
some paper 80 as to write out q communi-
cation, but was unable to make himself
understood. Chicago medical men pro-
nounce this one of the strangest cases of
somnolence that has come unde- u
supervision.
Year: 1869

Ice is now manufacture in New Or
LEAKS so abundantly that it can be afforded
to families all over the city at one cent p
pound, and to large consumers at three
quarters of cent. II has been tested
with ice from Boston, and is found to be
more compact and slower in melting
Made from filtered water, 1t is clear as
crystal, and pursr than ice naturally
formed is apt to he.
Year: 1869

POPULAR ERRORS. That editors keep
public reading rooms. That they are de-
lighted to get anything to flll up the paper
with. That they are always pleased to
have assistance in selecting copy for the
paper That every mans own private act
is matter of public interest" That it
doesn't make much difference whether
COPY be written on both sides. That the
editors always return rejected manuscript.
Year: 1869

An UNNATURAL MOTHKR.-The Rutland
Herald records q case In Ludlow, Vt, OF the
cruel c onduct Of the wife OF Charles Robbins
towards her own children, and which the b US
band, poor, shiftless fellow, is powerless TO
stamped upon and broke the arm OF small
child as II lay upon the floor, and the poor
thing actually crawled under the bed to hide
away from its monster mother. At another time
she stripped the child and immersed il in the
cold brook and then washed its clothes in the
same and put them on again, undried and un.
warmed. During a snow storm, becoming en-.
ragged, she threw it out OF the house, and let the
deformed and helpless creature lie till, exhaust.
eu, IL sank 70 sleep on the snowy ground. The
authorities have taken the matter in hand, ana
il the charges against her are substantiated she
will be dealt with TO the severest extent Of the
of the law, as she Justly deserves.
Year: 1869

A STRANGE, SAD TALR.-A very singular
but sad story comes to us from Illinois. A
few weeks since, Mrs. Dorcas L. Smith, the
wife Of one o the wealthiest men in the west d.
vision OF Chicago, was found lying in her cell
lar, on bright Sunday morning, with her
throat cut from ear to ear. A knife by her
side told how II was done. The only cause
for this dreadful act was harsh treatment on
the part Of the lady's husband, who, with
his acquired wealth, had not succeeded In
acquiring the habits Of society or civilization


The sudden and awful death Of her mother
made deep impression upon her daughter
Jennie, the only one remaining at home so
much so, that 1t is thought her mind became
affected. For several weeks past her health
has perceptibly declined, and quite recently
she became almost completely paralyzed. In
dlcatlons pointed TO a system OF poisoning,
and, after much persuasion, the poor gIrl
confessed that this was the case. Not caring
to live, after the decease Of her mother, the


unfortunate girl had, ever since that sad event,
been taking different preparations OF arsenic
and other poisons, with the object Of ultimately
killing herself, and the continued use of the
drugs had finally induced paralysis. Her con-
dition Is now very precarious one, and it Is
considered very doubtful whether she can
long survive. As she states, the only motive
for the commission Of this system Of slow
suicide, was desire to join her mother, from
whom she had never be fore been separated
Year: 1869

DAVIS PAIN KILLER has won for itself n
reputation unsurpassed in the history Of medical
PREPARATIONS Its instantaneous effect in the or AL
lcafion OF pain, and the verbal testimony of the
masses IN Its favor, have been and its best
Advertisements Every family should keen il In
their homes in case Of sudden attacks OF many dis
eases in which it 10 ntidote- NV 22-lw
Year: 1869

CLERKS TO BE DIsMIssED.-The force OF
clerks in the Ordnance Department having
been reduced by the late law Of Congress, six
out of the twenty five now employed in that
office will be dismissed on the LIST OF July. The
Secretary of War will approve a leave OF alb
sence until that time Of such as may tender
their designations now.
Year: 1869

DESTROYING THE CURRRNCY PLATRs.-The
committee appointed yesterday by the Sscreta-
~ Of the Treasury, to destroy the plates used
heretofore in printing he national currency,
will enter upon the discharge Of their duties
Tomorrow or next day. The plates have all
been packed, ready to be sent to the Navy
Yard, where they will be examined by the
committee and consigned to the blast furnace
Year: 1869

SENATOR GEORGE E. SPENCER will leave
here for Alabama in tie early part of next
week TO take part in the campaign for the con-
gressional election, which will occur in Au.
gust next in that State.
Year: 1869

cannot carry passengers. And SO on
in every relation Of business in life,
government interferes whenever the
public good shall require it. This IS
he true principle OF government
That government is best which governs


most ,cisely. and does not interfere with
individual liberty except whenever


the public good requires some direction
or restraint"


The higher the general average of
any people in education, refinement


and civilization, the greater are the
number OF laws required to prohibit,
restrain and cheek individual lust for
power, wealth, and self aggradlzement,
and the greater also the number OF
laws required to foster and encourage
that which becomes the strength and


secures the prosperity Of the whole
people.


Commerce is the trade or business Of
land and ocean carriage of freight
The more it fourishes, the greater the


omount CT capital employed, the more


numerous the persons engaged, the


greater the tax upon the producing
class to sustain it. When 1t is the


natural and necessary offspring OF ex-


change, it is a positive good; but when
it is tostcred at the expense OF more
solid and enduring industries, it is a
|postitvee eevil, will weaken and impoverish
any people. suck out internal vitality


and when wars assail the nation, nothing


but disaster ensues. China and Japan


were the most fourishing and stable


of civilized nations without commerce,


and 1t is very questionable whether


their new relations TO commerce will


not prove fatal experience. II.


DAVENPORT, July -, 1860.