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Year: 1868

It makes wonderful difference whose OK
is gOred, So long as they believed the
colored people in the South would vote
en- masse las their interests certainly die
tstedl for the Republican ticket SO long
could Southern Democrats see nsught but
evils of the direst nature as the result Of
their grant of suffrage. But in the lower
part of Georgia, the interior of South Caro-
lima, and in the Red river section of our
own State it has been found that colored
voters may sometimes be deceived and ca
ioled into voting the Democratic ticket, and
total revulsiOn of sentiment has followed
the discovery. A Georgia editor, com.
mentng on the fact, comes out boldly and
says "We see no reason longer to oppose
negro suffrage" and we may expect similar
conversions farther South before long.
Year: 1868

HEAPoF TRUTH.-Therc Is cheap
Of truth" i'm the following from the
Rock Island Argue;


THOUSANDS of soldiers, all over the
land, begin TO see through the hypoc-
risy, wickedness and corruption Of
the Radical party, and are going for
a change. They are beginning TO see
that they have been used TO place the
negro above their own race, and TO
mortgage the white mans property
and labor ages to como In order To
carry out the wicked and tyrannical
and unconstitutional rule of the Rad
ical party. They will now show
that their love Of country and race Is
superior, they will throw off this cor
rupt Radical party and bring into
power once more the good old FASH
Ioned Jackson days OF honesty and
reverence for the constitution and
laws"
Year: 1868

Seeing that the Paschall House AS
sociation reserved considerable num-
ber of their tickets in the late draw
ing at st. Louis and carried of the
most valuable prizes held out to the
public as asinducements to buy, reminds
u legal friend of ours of a shooting
match at Gallatin some years ago, In
which he was interested. The match
lasted for two days, but the great fca-
ture of the occasion was to occur on
the second day, being trial of rifle
skill between Rube Payne and q
"White county squirrel Killer" two
of the most celebrated shots of the
time. Business requiring the presence
of our friend at home, he could not
stay for the second days shooting, al
though very much interested in the
triumph of Payne. Bill White, one
of his neighbors, was going to stay to
see the thing out, so he gave into
Bill's hands what money he had left
and instructed that individual to bet
Ii for him next day on Payne out
shooting the squirrel killer. Bill
faithfully promised to do as sinstructcd,
and our friend departed for home,
fully confident of doubling his money
on Rube Payne's fine shooting quail
ties. He was, however, doomed to
disappointment, for the squirrel killer
knocked out the ball of the bulls eye.
The day after the shooting Bill White
also returned home, and meeting with
the lawyer, the latter desired to know
how the match turned out. "Well,"
said Bill, hcsitating little, "it turned
out against you. Your man got beat
and your money was lost" Desiring
to know the lucky winner Of his mon
ey, the lawyer asked "who took the
bet ?" "Why, Itook IL myself" +" said
Bill, "for l know'd all the time that
the White county man would beat
Mr.. Payne" Tho lawyer tried to eX-
plain TO Bill that he could not him
self fairly take the oct under the cir
cumstanccs, but was never able to
satisfy him that IL was not a square
transaction, and therefore never did
recover the money Bill White bet for
him on the shooting match. He now
says that the Paschall House lottery
was carried on according to Bill
Whites idea of betting, the only odds
being the difference in the stakes
NdshpiNe Union e. American.
Year: 1868

Step out into the puIest air you
can find stand perfectly erect, with
head and shoulders back, and then
fixing the lips as if you were going
to whistle, draw the air through the
lips in to the lungs. When the chest
is about half full, raise the arms,
keeping them extended with the
palms of the hands down as you
suck in the air, SO as to bring them
over the head just as the lungs are
quite full. Then drop the thumbs
inward, and after gently forcing the
arms backward and the chest open
reverse the process by which you
draw your breath until the lungs
are empty. This process should b'
repeated Immediately after bathing
and also several times through th'
day. 1t is impossible to describe L
one who has never tried it. the gle
rious sense of vigor which follow
this exercise. 1t is the best expet
torant in the world. We know


gentleman the measure Of who's
chest has been increased by tbI


means some three or four incht


during as many months.
Year: 1868

. i. .STEERelEsoeIEyPING 4 TEERelEseIEyP NEWSPAPERS
that our principal morning JOURNALS
are not printed directly from the
type, but from stereOtypes taken
from the regular forms. The whole
time consumed in making the plates
of the four pages of the Sun is about
twenty minutes. 1t is accomplished
thus: Each page is made up in a
separate form on a table in size and
height expressly adapted to the pur-
pose; the legs of this table are fur
nished with castors, and soon as the
form is locked, the table is rolled
into the stereotype room. The form
is then removed to the moulding ta-
BILE; the latter has a hollow iron
bed, the cavity of which is filled
with steam, as heat is one of the re-
quirements in facilitating the opera
ton. After the right temperature
is attained the form is removed
to the imposing table, and two or
three sheets OF peculiar kind OF
paper is laid over the surface of tho
type and they are then beaten dowr
with a brush in the same manner
hat printers proceed in taking
brush proof.


The form is then again slid upol
the moulding table, another and
heavier sheet of paper placed owe
the first; this is covered with a we
blanket, the whole slipped under tn


press attached to the moulding ia


BILE, and the power applied. This i


done almost instantly, when tn


form is again run out, and the pa


per peeled off is complete matri'


of the whole form. A preparation


of French chalk is now applied t


the surface of this paper, when it i


placed into the mould, the hot me


al poured against it, and the plat
almost instantly formed. 1t is no.
moved to the palmer, is cut, route
and justified, and in q few moment
on its way to the press.rOOm. The'
plates are cast in the exact form |,
quired for cylinder press, and al
about half an inch in thickness


N. y. San.
Year: 1868

An old gentleman In Arkansas
recently presented himself for reg.
istratiOn with his two sons, and the
eldest Of the latter was asked by
the clerk II he could write. mo,
sir" chimed In the old man, " l am
happy to say my sons cannot write.
When ! was o boy my parents sent
me to school, and after ] had got q
little start In the world I endorsed
uots Tor . man, and II cost me all
my property. l then made up my
mind that no child Of mine should
learn to write"
Year: 1868

The reason some persons are left
handed is because the lett lung or
side is stronger than the right but
the reverse is the case with rev ex'
ceptions, and hence most people are
rieht.handed; SO also the reason
why one travels in circle wheh
LOST in the forest, is because the su,
ncrior strength of the muscles OF
the right side draw the body , round 10
unless the attention Is directed 10
some particular point
Year: 1868

Exceed those of every other establishment of the
klnd-proof of this can be found in comparing our
premiums with those OF others FOR CLUBS OF THE
SAME SIZE add tion 10 which claim 10 give bet
ter goods of the same character.
Year: 1868

FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS or THE UNION PACIFIC
RAILROAD COMPANY to the amount of Eighteen Mil
lion Dollars, have already been Sold and they ere
now in constant demand for home investment and On
foreign account. They pay six per cent in gold
and run for. thiDty years. AT lO2, they yield bs.
tween eight and nine per cent to the investor. and
soon as the issue is sold if not before. they win
doubtless command much higher rate. As frst
mortgage on the longest line of railroad in this coun-
try that is already earning than its interest s
bilites on its way business and which cost nearly
three times their amount the security is undoubted
Subscriptions will be received at the Company's Of.
fee. No. 20 Nassau-st. and by John j. Cisco Son.
No. SO Wall-st New-York and by most Of the leading
bankers throughout the country, wherea new psmph-
let. containing full description of the road aud iu
securities, can be obtained.
Year: 1868

construction acts continued tho Government and Courts
of Virginia though subordinatng them to the military
power for certain purposes and that they did not they
were unconstitutional as In conravenon OF the United
states Constitution in its requirement that republican
governments shall be maintained IN the States Decision
raga
Year: 1868

"The truth IS, many uf our ailments,
and those Of a most fatal form, are taken
In the house, and not out of doors Ia
ken by removing parts of clothing too
soon after coming into the house, or ~
ing down on Il bed or sofa when in an
exhausted condition from having engaged
too vigorously in domestic employment.
Many a pie has cost an Industrious man
Il hundred dollars. A humanlife has many
time paid for an apple dumping.
When our wives get to work they be
come so interested in it that they find
themselves in an utterly exhausted condi-
ton; their ambition to complete thing,
to do some work well, sustain them un-
til it is completed The mental and
physical condition is one of exhaustion,
when breath of air will give cold, to
settle in the joints, to wake up next day
with the inflammatory rheumatism, or
with feelings Of stiffness or soreness,
as if they had teen pounded in bag; or
Il sore throat to worry and trouble them
for months; or lung fever to put them
In the grave in less then week. Our
wives should work by the day, if they
must work at all, and not by the job ; it
is more economical in the end to see bow
little they can do in au hour insaead
of how much. 1t is a slow, steady, con-
tinuous labor which brings health and
strength and good digestion. Fitful
labor is ruinouS TO all.


XdWs Journal of hedHh
Year: 1868

Evils OF GossIP-I haze known &
country society which withered away
all to nothing under the dry rot of Cos
sip only. Friendships, once as firm as
granite, dissolved to jelly, and then rur,
away to water, only because of this;
love that promised future as enduringas
heaven and as stable as truth, evaporat-
ed into the morning mist that turned TO
4 days long tears, only because Of this
father and son were set foot to foo
with the frey breath of an anger thai
would never cool again between them.
only because Of this and husband AMI
his young wife, each straining at the he
ted leash which in the beginning had
been the golden bondage of Gods
blessed love, sat mournfulIy by the side
of the grave where all their love and all
their joy lay buried, and only because Of
this.-I have seen faith transformed to
mean doubt, hope give place to grim
despair, and charity takes on itself the
features of black malevolenoe, all because
of the spell of words of scandal and the
magic mutterings of gossip.


Great crimes work great wrong, and
le uetpeT tIdSeuieS Vi nntnan lie spring
from its larger passions; but woeful and
most melancholy are the uncatalogued
tragedies that issue from gossip and de-
traction most mournful the shipwreck
often made of noble natures and lovely
lives by the bitter winds and dead salt
water of SANDER. So easy to say, yet so
hard to disprove-throwing on the inno-
cent all the burden and the strain of de-
monstrating their innocence, and push
ing them as guilty if unable to pluck out
the stings they never see, and to silence
words they never bear-gossip and SLAM
der are the deadliest and the cruelest
weapons man has forged for his brothers
hurt.
Year: 1868

Among the noble projects of the lead
ing denominations is the establishment
of Homes for aged and INDECENT members.
In some of the leading cities of the East
these institutions have been organized
on q grand scale, and have received
liberal aid from the members of their re-
spectivc churches. Almost every church,
in cities, have the poor in their
membership. By the establishment of a
Home, the poor will receive more per-
manent aid, and not relief now and then,
as at present, and when the sympathies
of their churches are awakened.
Year: 1868

for, except as it may afford them capital tC
trade off for votes for their State candidates
Indeed, your New York leaders would not on
any account see Seymour elected. They are after
the State and local spoils, and would not desire
the election Of any Democratic President unless
they could use him as they pleased. You have
some twenty-five millions Of local taxation here,
and the handling of that and the State patronage
Is worth more to your Democratic leaders than
all the Federal patronage they could secure.


Reporter You think, then, that Seymour
has no chance Of an election?


General Butler-Oh. not the slightest and
it is very well for him that he has not If it were
possible that he could be elected he would not be
ninety days in Office The knife, the buttet. or
poison would remove him and make room for
Blair. Assassination has been introduced bv the
rebels into our political system, and they will
never hesitate now to avail themselves Of it when
their interests are at stake. Their experiment
in that line has been too great a success. With
them the ties Of blood, affection or loyalty will
no longer avail 10 prevent the friends Of the Sc
c0nd in power from removing the first out Of the
way when the opportunity offers. Nothing but
interest Will stay the assassin's hand. I should
have fallen a victim in New Orleans but for one
thing-if they had murdered me they would
have had Phelps over them, and that would have
been jumping out Of the fryingpan into the FIRE.
You may rest assured that if had been elected
Nicc-President in 1851, in place Of Andrew
johnson, Abraham Lincoln would have been a
living man to-day.
Year: 1868

lating wildly, standing upon an elevated
point in the valley below, apparently close Il
the edge Of the flooded stream. which wat
still going tumbling by. They had commenc-
ed to drag and carry Caroline along the path
before he Joined them.


- The mill-wheel has gone and the wall -
he said, in voice so hoarse the words could
hardly be distinguish. lie was shaking 81
from head to foot. that for Il minute or two
he could give them no help whatever. But
he madea violent effort at control, and, grasp
ing Caroline by the waist, he, in a kind OF
desperate frenzy, ran with her along the path.
almost dispensing with the help of the others.


KS they crossed the turnpike road with
their burden. shouts were 70 be heard at the
cottages whittier the NOISE of the catastrophe
had reached and hardly had they carried
Caroline in over the threshold Of the door.
when tue work-people, young and old, some
wrapped only in their bed-coyerings, came
streaming up the road to gaze upon the ruin
which had wrecked the mill, and with it
their prospect of work in that district. Some
bomoanel it, and others laughed, without
much merriment in the laughter


The flood, having done its work, was al
ready decreasing: the dam was becoming ex-
hgusted hat the destructive wave. all knew
was still rolling upon Its way somewhere be-
low and before long, the dwellers in half a
dozen valleys farther down the mojrs would
become aware. by the devastation Of their
own property, that the dam Of Lindon Mill
had huutl
Year: 1868

~ The MuscatIne (Iowa) Courier says: "A
day or TWO ago a raitsman by the name OF
Gore was struck by lightning. near New Bos-
ton, and instantly killed. He had remarked
several times on the trip that he would not live
through lt. During the storm he said ne didn't
care On for any lightning God ever made
Immediately the bolt struck him on The mead
and he was 4 dead man."
Year: 1868

Ward


Editor Star: The culvert on I'd street east
between T. street south and North Carolina
avenue, has been so much injured by the late
rains, that il has become dangerous TO travel
along there at night. Consequently some one
tprobably the COMMISSIONER has barricaded
the street on each side for safety's sake, which
is all very well; but why not repair the culvert
at once, before the whole embankment. with
pavement and roadway is destroyed, which
will evidently be the result of the next heavy
rain. SUBACRIBER
Year: 1868

MILITARY AID FOE THE SoUTH-The cir
cular winch Gen. Schofield is preparing on
the subject Of the requIsitions by the Southern
states authorities upon the Federal Govern
ment for troops to suppress violence will prob
ably be submitted to the Cabinet tomorrow
1t is understood that the document will be ai-
dressed to district and department command
ers, and Will call their attention to the terms OF
the various laws relating &c the subject
Year: 1868

A curious story is told by Trueba a modern


writer of reputation. The hero of the story was


feeble minded man prone to suicide The


priest in an argument with him upon the sub


ject, asserted that no man could take his own


life if God wiled that he should not do it, The


man whose faith in God was none of the strong


est denied the truth of the theory. Having care


lessly expended his patrimony, he became defect


ed, and resolved TO prove his own side of theargu


ment by putting an end TO bis existence. He ac-
cordingly procured strong rope and suspended


himself from tie beam of the house. But the


timber though apparently sound, was iDwardly
decayed. His weight brought it down, and with


it shower of doubloons, which some Of his an
cestorS had concealed under the garret floor
This good luck reconciled him to life. But,
having fallen in love with stout lassie, who
frowned upon him. be again undertook to dis
prove the priests assertion, by blowing out
his brains. In his earnestness TO make sure of
it, he pressed the pistol so close against his fore
bead that it burst and the explosion frightened
away robbers, who were entering the house in
search Of his doubloons. He began to query
whether the priest might not be in the right.
But when the handsome Amazon he was wooing
set the mastif upon him, while be was serenad
ing her. he again resolved to destroy himsf.
" This time will make sure of H. - thought he.
81 will show the priest that man can kill hm-
self, if he is determined upon it," Being thus
resolved to accomplish his object beyond a pre-
adventure, he fastened new rope to large bow
OF tree ; he then swallowed quantity of phos>
phorus matches, and put loaded pistol in his
belt. Having adjusted the rope round his neck
he swung himself off and fired The pistol at the
same instant. But the bali, instead Of entering
his head, cut the rope in two and he fell into
the river. The lass who had driven him to
this dire extremity, happened to witness the
plunge. She succeeded in drawing him out.
with her strong arms, and pity at last moved
her hard heart to love. Her efforts to resuscitate
him caused deluge of wafer 10 pour from his
mouth, and with il came the phosphorus match
es. Finding that the combined process OF shoot
ing, hanging, drowning and poisoning, all fall
ed to couneract the DEGREES of Providence, he re-
solved that he would never again try to resist
the will ofGod. So he married his lass, and
thenceforth behaved more like Christian.
Year: 1868

We all know that sleep is as necessary as food
ia The support OF animal life Our vital ma
chinery would soon wear out without it, and if


il were not for the intervals of healthfu insensi
hlity that it affords to the BRAIN we should al, 90
mad with too much thinking. Even plants sleep
and the cold lymph that flows through their We
nous systems would cease to circulate if the ac-
tive principles Of their existence were not recruit


led hy repose. Children are believed to grow


faster during their slumber than when awake :;
and although some very smart modern philoso-
pliers have advanced the theory that it is posi-
Die for man to live and enjoy life without sleep,
the doctrine, like the equally absurd dogma that
IT is possible 10 live without sustenance, is 80
manifestly absurd that common sense laughs il
TO scorn. But bed is not for sleep solely We
lie down TO slumber, but we pass many an hour
in bed calculating, planning, hoping, imagining
The course OF our lives is shaped, to some extent,
as we lie between sheets and blankets. OF the
still night and early morn are born mighty
schemes that are carried out in the stirring day
The mind awakes from a profound and dream
less slumber with all its faculties invigorated
and emboldened. Difficulties that appalled, US
when fatigued and overworn, lose half their ter
rors in the presence Of an intellect strengthened
by perfect rest Sleep is to the brain what pros
tration on the bosom of mother Earth was to the
Titans we arise from it ''giants refreshed" :"
Perhaps the myth which represents the flooring"
of those rebellions demi gods as having such a
genial effect on their muscular power, was in
tended to typify the uses of "tired Nature s
sweet restorer." There are both strength and
wisdom in the pillow, else why should the pro-
priety of consulting it have grown into proverb
Year: 1868

Fashion, after exhausting all the world of ma
ture and art, has now called science to supply
her with new charms For ornament, electricity
is coming into use You may see, at a fashion
able ball in Paris, lady, on the top of whose
head sits butterfly or humming bird. The
fly and the bird hutter their wings in tho most
natural way possible. How Is it managed ?
Why, within the chignon are concealed small
battery and minute Rhumkorff coil. On the
bosom of another lady may be brooch with a
head upon it, the eyes of which turn in all direc-
tons. This, too, is accomplished by the use of
q battery and coil so minute as to be concealed
within the brooch itself These small batteries,
easily carried about the person, are of zinc excl
ted by a solution of sulphate of mercury, which
is enclosed in vulcanite cells so that the exciting
solution cannot escape TO the damage of the
wearer. A little more, and the toilet-table OF
Beauty will be like a laboratory, with chemicals
in place of washes and sweet waters, and induc-
ton-coils supplanting hair-pins. What next
and next ?-Shal we not have electric telegraph
wires for confidential messages, and gentle
schocks administered in place of Natures telegra-
ply of a tender pressure of hands? The electric
light as an ornament place of jewels will OF
course follow and the phrase 81 am positively
electrified will be but an exact scientific descrlp'
ton of the condition of the fair speaker.