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Year: 1875

Crissey Hooker, a religions fanatic
burned herself to death at Whites
Valley, Wayne county, Pennsylva
MIA, last week. She was young and
! accomplished woman, the daughter
Of William Hooker, wealthy farmer
OF the above place. She had for five
or six years labored at intervals un.
der the hallucination that she had
committed grevious sin against what
she termed cher Immanuel,' and
was in the habit of building altars in
her fathers fields and sacrificing
lambs as burnt offering to appease
the wrath Of her offended deity.


Mr.. Hooker went to Carbondale
after a load of coal. His daughter
having manifested signs of a recur-
renee of her insanity, he left a hired
man to look after her, her mother be-
ing dead. The man went away at
noon and did not return to the house.


Mr.. Hooker came back at about 2
o'clock in the afternoon. Entering
the kitchen of his house, he was hor-
rifed to find the body Of his daugh
ter lying on the Goals and ashes of
what had been one of her affairs, and
burned to a crisp. Her face and the
upper part of her body alone had cs-
capped. She had constructed the al
tar, or pyre. out Of a set of quilting
frames. She had torn up a portion
of the carpet, and laid it on the al
tar, and made a pillow for her head
She reclined on her right side, and
her cheek was resting on her hand.


Notwithstanding the intense ago.
ny she must have endured, her face
wore a calm and peaceful expression,
and there was a smile upon her lips.


In the family Bible, which was
found lying on the parlor table open
at the Book of Job. was the follow
ing note. addressed to her father:


Dear Father: My Emmanuel ap-
peared to me to-day. He reveals to
me that have committed the Un-
pardonable Sin which I can only OBJ
tain forgiveness for by passing
through the cleansing of fire. l will
intercede for you, my dear Father.
You will find my purified blood in
the northeast corner of the house. /
wish to have my ashes buried in my
Immanuers ground at the northwest
corner of the house. Goodbye.
Meet nae in the Eternal Ground.


CRIssEY.


Mr.. Hooker went to the corner of
the house indicated in the note as
the spot where the remains were to
be buried, and found that his daugh-
ter had staked out a space for her
grave.
Year: 1875

Yesterday morning early while Will
liam Heath was blasting rock at McMil-
lan's Station, in the eastern end of this
county, piece about the size of his fist
struck him in the forehead and almost
instantly killed him. He seems to have
been prudent about it, for after having
charged the blast he ran behind large
rock some distance off. 1t is supposed
that he raised his head above the rock
to watch the effect, for the piece that
struck him came in direct line from the
blast It smashed his skull, from the
effects of hich he died in about an hour.
He was unfortunate before in blasting,
as last May we chronicled loss of an
arm from a similar cause while at work
at Caswell's. The deceased was about
twenty-six years ole, and leavesa wife and
three children. He lived near CaswelPs.
-R9a0rvSNe Chronicle, f9tA.
Year: 1875

70 1t is becoming a noticeable
feature that indignation is being uni
versalIy felt and expressed by the
good law-abiding people over the en-
tire land against the usurpation of
the Grant Sheridan-Kellogg Admin
istration. Grant urges the military
reign in Louisiana, Notwithstanding
an opposition to the same by a re-
spectacle majority of both Demo
Gratis and Republicans. The milder
Radicals are becoming fast disgust
ed and are asking for a speedy re-
turn to republican form of govern
ment. Grant has, doubtless, fixed
in his mind a strong determination
TO remain in the White House q
third term, and to make q sure point
il is manifest that the now pending
crisis in that State is but a fOrerun-
ner to feel the minds of the people
and to see to what extent they will
submit themselves. To the present
time, Grant is as stern and unchang-
able as he can be, with little hope
for a change, and it is evident that
he has point in view. There must
be a change made in the program
me, for the people positively will
not submit to such base imposition.
Grant may dictate iR some things,
but he dare not turn a deaf ear to
the voice of the nation; he can go
just so far and no farther-and when
he attempts otherwise he will find
himself as powerless as q child.
Year: 1875

The German princess imp eFial
visited the telegraph Office in Berlin
lately. There are many women en-
ployed there, and numbers have re-
ceived their positions upon the re-
commendation of her royal highness.
She went to see them and Gid not
like their toilets. Next day they
received circular directing a less
extravagant style of dress and for
bidding them to wear their hair fow-
ing in the sloven fashion.
Year: 1875

God bless the cheerful persons-man.
woman or child, old or young, aliterate
or educated, handsome or homelv. Over
and above every other trait stands cheer
tulness What the sun is 10 nature


aad what the stars are TO night, are cheer
ful persons in the house and by the way
side. They go unobtrusively, uneon-
sciously about their silent mission,
Frightening up every scene with the
happiness beaming from their faces.
We love TO sit near them-we love the
glance of their eye, the tone OF their
voice; the little children find them out,
oh, so quickly amidst. the dense crowd,
and passing by the knotted brow and
compressed lip, glide near, and lay
contiding little hand ON their knee, and
lift clear young eyes TO their loving faces
Year: 1875

Recent events have called public at
tention to the intimate relation of morals
and manners. 1t may be said that there
is no greater peril to morality than much
that Is called merely free and easy man
ners. Young men, and even young wo-
men, permit themselves freedom and
license of manner which, having all the
aspect OF ImpropEiety, may very readily
acquire its substance. Edward addresses
Emily with loud and testing intimacy
of tone and conduct, which might be eX-
pected In the sailor saloons on Water
street or Mapping, but which is repul-
sive and odiOus in.the drawing or
among refined and gentle persons. Ed
ward and Emily would be amazed to be
told that they have not the manners of
a gentleman or of lady, and have the
air of the demimonde. They think that
they are especially CONNIE il taut, and that
above all others they know what is the
rule of high society. But they are
merely vulgar, and have the manners of
those who are worse than merely vulgar.
Coarseness cannot be gilded into refine
ment. The young woman who habitu-
ally calls her young friends Of the other
sex by their Christian names, or who
suffers anything that can be called fa-
miliarity, although it fall short of actual
indecorum, should reflect carefully
" Sir" said lady to a policeman who
took her elbow to pass her over the street,
if | wish you to touch me | will ask
you" No woman of high sense of
personal dignity wishes any man to lay
his hand upon her thoughtlessly or un-
necessarily. Nor will such woman
permit any kind of rudeness in the tone
or manner of men.
Year: 1875

Some farmers make it practice to
keep their poultry in their orchards from
early spring until cold weather sets in,
and they find that it pays. A picket
fence should be built around the orchard
high enough to prevent their flying over,
with suitable building, in one corner of
the yard to shelter them mt night.
Thus situated the poultry will thrive
and prosper, keeping themselves in good
condition, and the increase Of eggs will
be greatly augmented and their useful
ness enhanced to their owners, at least,
on account of the myriads of insects and
worms they destroy, and which will more
than repay the cost and labor of building
the fence. BY keeping them enclosed in
this manner, large number Of fowls
may be retained in the orchard, and the
continual scratching which il done by
them will prove advantageous both to the
soil and trees themselves, - Colonial
Farmer.
Year: 1875

Why are farmers so liable to rheuma-
tism? Because they wear wet clothing,
heat and suddenly chill the body, over
eat after very hard work, and because
they DO not keep the skin in a vigorous,
clean and healthy condition. If farmers
would avoid suddenly cooling the body
after great exertion, if they would be
careful not to 90 with wet clothing and
wet feet, and if they would not overeat
when in an exhausted condition, and
bathe daily, using much friction, they
would have less rheumatism. The same
rule applies to others than farmers. The
Turkish bath is the best remedy for rheu-
matism. Science of Health
Year: 1875

In answer to a correspondent who asks
for whtewash that will stand exposure
to the weather, we give the following,
which we know to be good: Take hale a
bushel Of freshly burned lime, slake it
with boiling water cover it during the
process to keep in the steam. Strain the
liquid through fine sieve and add to it
seven pounds of salt previously well dis
solved in warm water three pounds of
ground rice boiled to a thin paste and
stirred in boiling hot; one-half pound of
powdered Spanish whiting, one pound of
clean glue, which has been previously dis
solved by soaking it well and then hang
ing it over a slow fire in a small kettle
within Il large one filled with water. Add
five gallons OF hot water to the mixture,
stir it well and let it stand a few days
covered from dirt. 1t must be put on quite
hot For this purpose it can be kept in
a kettle on a portable furnace. About a
pint of this mixture will cover a square
yard.
Year: 1875

All carpenters know how soon the butt
ends Of chisels split, when daily exposed
to the blows of the mallet or hammers
a remedy suggested by Brooklyn man
consists simply in saving or cutting off
the round end of the handle so as to
make it fiat, and attaching by few
small nails on the top of it two round
disks Of sole leather, so that the end
becomes similar to the heel of a boot.
The two thicknesses of leather will pre-
vent all further splitting, and if in the
course Of time they expand and overlap
the wood Of the handle, they are simply
trimmed off all around
Year: 1875

No trait of character is more valuable
in woman than sweet temper. Home
can never be make happy without it.
1t is like flower that springs up in our
pathway, reviving and cheering US. Let
q man 90 home at night wearied by the
tolls of the day, ard how soothing is q
word dictated by good disposition: Ii
is sunshine falling on his heart. Study,
then, to acquire and retain q sweet tenn
per it Is more valuable than gold ; il
eaptivates more than beauty, and retains
all freshness and power.
Year: 1875

Washington Correspondence Cincinnati


Gazette


The colored servants Of Washington
are awaking to the new times, a lady
just beginning housekeeping engaged a
cook. In due time the former dropped
into the kitchen to see how its new
mistress was suited with the place, and
whether she had been able to make any
progress with the dinner. She found
the cook at work over pan of -four, with
plentiful frizz of dusky black hair
hanging loose over her shoulders. The
lady mildly suggested that it should be
tied up, at least while she was cooking.
At this the owner of the hair dropped the
flour-pan and stood up in her majesty,
and thus unburdened her mind


"Nebber duz dat, missus, any more.
In de ole times colored folks was made
to wear de turbaps. But de ole times
done gone now, and we's all one people. y


There was a vacancy i'll that kitchen
before dinner.
Year: 1875

General Colquitt, of Georgia, in a re-
cent address said: To remove stumps from
field, all that is necessary is to have one
or more sheet-iron chimneys, some four
or five feet high. Set fire to the stump
and place the chimney over it, SO AS to
give the requisite draft at the bottom. 1t
will draw like a stove. The stump will
soon be consumed. With several such
chimneys of different sizes, the removal
of stumps may be accomplished at merely
nominal labor and exPense.-Maryland
Farmer
Year: 1875

Examiner


Monroe is already beginning to reap
the fruits of her great victory, in the
way of increasing her white agricultural
population. Two farmers were III our
office on Thursday, who informed us that
they would remove to our county next
month. and had several ueighbors who
were making arrangements to follow suit.


Old Monroe will increase her white
population at least five hundred, wlthin
the next twelve months.
Year: 1875

The returns from the country precincts


are, with the exception Of one or two, at
the County Clerks Office, and the count
will probably be begun this evening. 1t
is thought it win be completed BY to-
morrow night.
Year: 1875

COLUMBUS Oct. 16.--The Executive
Committees have received no further
definite information than was contained d
in my last dispatch OF yesterday after
noon. Wood and Carroll counties are
still to hear from, and the reports from
several other counties need verify ing.
Republicans charge that an attempt Is
being made to perpetrate fraud in the
returns from Wood. They claim that a
telegram was sent to Thompson asking
him il majority of 1000 in Wood county


would help out, and that he replied that
| 1t would do much good. Hayes MAJOR
ity now stands 5000. Republicans hold
that fair count in the two counties to


hear from will run this up considerably,
while Democrats claim that what is to


come can alter the present majority but
a few hundred at least.
Year: 1875

-'1ernany IS getting uneasy
about the immense emigration to
America and will strive to prevent
it by opening a way by which small
estates may be purchased by the
industrious and enterprising. In
the mean time the Government is to
investigate the cause of this desire
to leave the father land. We should
think that it might not take the
German sages and statesmen long
to discover that making all the peo-
pie subject to compulsory military
service and keeping up an immense
standing army is not generally con-
sidere>! the best thing in the world.
Year: 1875

Some one is complaining: about
the great profusion of flowers in the
Brooklyn Court Room. The idea
Of man with boquet in his hand
suing man with a boquet in his
hand, for seducing his wife, with
boquet in her hand, IS considered
scarcely tragic enough for the occa-
SION. 1t is IN fact, only a striking
instance of the refinement of the
times. And a good hearty laugh all
around, is a good deal better for the
nerves than pistols and coffee for
two.
Year: 1875

Our Legislators are worrying
their brains over the subject Of a
new railroad law We hope they
will succeed in getting up something
more than a mere excuse and sham.
We expressed our opinion of the
present law at some legth in our is
sue of April 29th last, and we have
seen no reason to change our opin-
ton as yet. 1t was an lily advised law
gotten up in a hurry near the close
of the session as an excuse for not
doing anything else, providing for
three commissioners who should
stand between the people and the
LEGISLATURE and bear the odirm of
the failure. 1t may have been the
best that could be done, and we will
not say that it has not accomplished
any good. We hope that our legis-
lators will not imagine that there
is any class of people who desire to
make war on the railroads but only
on their abuses. All the people de-
mand, IS fair play and equal rights
exemption from extortion, but moth
ing to cripple or hinder any legiti


mate business or industry.
Year: 1875

A few months back, we had
some hope of the permanency of a
republic in France, and even IN
Spain, but it now looks as though
France might almost any day 60
the same road that Spain has gone.
The Imperialists are plotting deep
ly and recklessly, and to hear that
Prince Napoleon had been crowned
and the Empire proclaimed, would
not be at all surprising.
Year: 1875

Senator Brownlow is again in the
newspaper business, having pur-
chased an interest in the Knoxville
Cyouifze and assumed the place Of
editor in chief, giving the paper the
name of Tie IVHIs and CH1ouirle.
Brownlow has enough fire and gun
powder in him for half a dozen
young men, and just enough to
make a lively ,nappy paper.
Year: 1875

\ California man pounded his
wife, was fined 500, and sold her
silk dress to pay the fine.


Representative Helling feels flat
tered at the frequent use of his name
by the office-holders-only they say
the ling" up their noses.-IM1yv0r.


They have determined by expert
ments, in France, that trees are
killed with great rapidity by very
small portions of common gas es-
Gaping from the pipes and affecting
the soil.


Leaks in the gas pipes at Red
Wing have taught the inhabitants
the same fact without any scientific
experiments.


\ rich old widower of Oswego,
told a young girl there, to drop her
other beaux. She obeyed. He Of
ten took her out riding, and assured
her that "when we get ready we can
go off sudden like, and surprise the
gossips." The young lady did not
denlur. Then the rich old widower
popped off very sudden like, and
married a rich old widow about his
OWN age. The jury has been asked for
$4,000 danages.-Denot Free
Press.


Prof: Tyndall has invented fire
mems protective hood. The hood
is supplied with a respirator, consist
ing Of valve chamber and filter
tube about four inches long, screwed
on the outside, with access to it
from the inside by wooden mouth
piece. The respiratory agency con-
slsts Of cotton wool saturated with
glycerine, and lime and charcoal.
The glycerine acts on the saoke
particles, and the charcoal on the
hydro-carbon developed in vapors,
and Prof: Tyndall declared that af-
ter putting them together he
found he could go into an at
mosphere Of the most atrocious
character, and could Give for half
an hour in place where he could
not, unprotected, have existed for a
single minute" The Professor
limited that the invention or adapta-
ton might admit Of "practical" de-
velopment, and this is really the
point of most Importance.


We advise some of the young
men Of our city to supply themselves
at once with these hoods. They
would then be able to make sure of
withstanding the smoke until they
could smash the last window out of
a burning building. At the last fire
that occurred in our city we noticed
one young man who courageously
stuck to the work of pulling out and
handing down the old windows in
the second story, until the building
commenced falling in behind him
and he was compelled to run for
his life and leave an old half sash
with three whole lights Of glass to
the destructive flames. We shall
never forget that young mans sad,
mournful look of chagrin and hope
less disappointment as he turned
away from that window; and he
was not a fireman, either. Now.
had he possessed one of these hoods
he might have ripped out the sash,
hurled it to the ground and waded
through the smoke and flames in tri
umph.
Year: 1875

A child lies sleeping in calm repose,
AS sweet and fair as dewy rose;
Her little white hands are laid at rest
Over her gently heaving breast.
Sunny smiles on her red lips play.
Linger moment, then pass away
Forms and faces of earth and air
Fit through her mind as.she slumbers there
Amid the misty and mellow skies,
Their white wings dazzle her dreaming eyes
Until she wakens in mute dismay
While her fleeting fancies fade away.
She sleeps again-in her last repose;
She lies like withered and faded rose.
Over her forehead, pale and fair,
Ripple her tresseS of golden hair.
Her little white hands are laid at rest
Over her tranquil and lifeless breast.
Her voice is silent, and, come what may,
No smile will gladden. her lips of clay;
For the happy dreams she dreamed are


through;
How sweet to hope they all came true!
Year: 1875

In the region Of Lost Greek, between
New Market and Strawberry Plains, the
waters of which became damned up dur
ing the late floods, and have not since
fallen, there lives a thrifty farmer who,
some years ago, selected for his home
handsome tract Of land lying in the form Of
a large basin or amphitheatre, on the gen.
tie slope Of which be built his house and
surrounded it with barns, cOOps, gardens,
etc. In close proximity he dug a well,
there being no running stream on the
place. And now the pleasant home is
desOlate, the chicken rOOst floats the
sport Of the winds and weary waste Of
waters surrounds and covers the grounds
and flow in and out Of the doors of the
dwelling, and this widespread ruin is the
result Of a strange freak Of the well the
farmer dug some time since. During the
heavy rains, and whilst so much water was
standing on the ground, the we'll began to
rise rapidly and soon water commenced
pouring pOuTth from its mouth with the
force of a mill race and has continued TO
do so ever since, so that the basin in which
the buildings stand is now a lake. As to
where the water comes from is a mOOted
question, but the most plausible theory is
that Lost creek IS making the old well
available for a new outlet. The water is
on the railroad track in the vicinity, in
some places two feet deep. The phenOm-
enOn is certainly strange one, and excites
general interest
Year: 1875

braeed men supposed to be respectable, and
all men Of property.


In the list OF cOunterfeiters Of his gang
arrested is one Methodist preacher by the
name Of Corn. He was a thrifty parSOn,
who eked out his ministerial salary by
keeping q country store, where he also dealt
in counterfeit coin. His congregation de-
cline to stand by him in his present
troubles. and, although he is upon the rag
ged edge Of despair since his arrest, he does
not crntemplate the publication Of any
statements explaining the cruel cOmblna-
tiOn of circumstances that have cOnspired
to put this special agent Of the Lord for
the salvation Of souls in the attitude Of a
shower Of the queer. A hOtel-keeper by the
name Of Burt Anderson is also among the
prominent ones on the list. There are
three or four men who have not yet been
arrested. but they are so surrounded that
their capture is only a question Of time.


Fears are entertained for the safety Of
Special Agent COnant, who has been
among the cOunterfeiters for the past three
months, working up the case. He was
sent out alone, to bring in the most prOmi-
nent counterfeiter, next to Jack Mullen.
Conant was to pursuade this cOunterfeiter
to come into some rendezvous, where the
deputies could pOunce upon him. No
word has been since heard from COnant,
and fears are entertained that he may have
been fouly dealt with. He is not so far
from means Of communication that he
could not find some way of sending in a
message. He left Arlington on Friday
last, and has not been since heard from.


The people in that section Of country
are greatly rejoiced over these arrests. The
United States District Attorney for the
Western District of Virginia, W. S. Curly,
says that this raid upon the cOuDterfeiters
of that locality is worth $4,000 to that
section of country, at least. a species Of
terrorism has been for a long time exer-
cised over the law-abiding citizens, and
these arrests afford them immeasUrable re-
lief
Year: 1875

THE scare about the yellow fever at
Key West appears to have had but
slight foundation. The Collector Of
that port telegraphed to Washington
that there have been only three spO-
radio cases, and that there is no real
cause for alarm.
Year: 1875

THE Catholics Of New Hampshire are
making strong efforts to secure the repeal
OF the clause in the state constitution
which disqualifes them from holding the
office of governor or legislator. The law,
so far as it relates to members Of the leg
islature, has been imperative for many
years.
Year: 1875

1t is rumOred that Superintendent Al
bert Fink, OF the Louisville, Nashville and
Great Southern Railroad, while in this
city a few days ago, perfected arrangements
by which the above company will run the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad. By
the terms Of the contract we understand
the earnings of the Little Rock Railroad
will be applied to its repair until it be
placed in first-class condition. This az
rangement does not change the official
management of the Little Rock road, and
will be Of much benefit to it, and of great
advantage to Memphis.