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Year: 1874

George I. Long, of Tuscumbia, Ala,
will doubtless die natural DEATH 1t is
pretty well settled that he cannot be kill
ed. In several personal encounters he
has been severely wounded and given up
for dead. He carries bullets enough in
his body to very materially increase his
specific gravity. After every new load of
lead he lays up for repairs, and comes
out again in good season. Once on a
railroad train, going 20 miles an hour, he
fell between two cars-was caught and
held in such a position that he bounded
over the cross ties for mile or more be
fore the train could be stopped and he
was taken up terribly battered, but he
came around all right. Last spring he
was courting Miss SIoss, daughter of Con-
gresham Sloss, of Tuscumbia. Sloss
told him to get out of the house and stay
out. Long then began to tell bad stories
about Miss Sloss, affecting her character
for rchastity. The Congressman then went
hunting for Long with double barrelled
shot gun heavily loaded with buckshot
Long received the contents of both bar
rels at short range and fell 1t was sup.
posed he was sure enough dead this time
but he began to show signs of life, and il
was thought proper to do what could be
done for him and give him another chance
He recovered, and soon began to lurk
around the Sloss premises. After the
recovery of Long, Miss Sloss seemed tc
take an interest in him, and the girls
mother thought it advisable to watch her
In fact she has almost been kept prison
er in her fathers house. One day she
complained of her feet, and said she felt
symptoms of chills She asked permis
sion to 60 into the kitchen to get some
thing warm. She went and did not re.
turn. Her mother became alarmed, and
seizing pair of pistols, rushed out fran
ticly in search of her daughter. She saw
a crowd in and around a Justices Office
and dove in with her pocket artillery
Long was there, and she who was Miss
Sloss was there by his side; she was Mrs
Long now Mrs. Sloss was told it was
too late to make fuss now, but she at
tempted to draw bead on Long anyhow
She might happen to hit him where h
lived, so she was prevented from the ex
pertinent, and advised to go home, whicl
she did. Mr.. and Mrs. Long went to th'
house of the grooms father, where the,
received q willing welcome and proper at
tention. Congressman Sloss was out can
vassing
Year: 1874




When Bacchus was boy he journeyed
through Hellas to 60 to Naxia; and as
the way was very long, he grew tired, and
sat down on stone to rest AS he sat
there with his eyes upon the ground, he
saw a little plant spring up between his
feet, and was so much pleased with it
that he determined to take it with him
to Naxia. He took it up and carried it
away with him; but, as the sun was very
hot he feared it might wither before he
reached bis destination He found a
birfs skeleton, into which he thrust it
and went or. But in his hand the plant
sproated 50 fast that it started cut of the
bones above and below. This gave him
fresh fear of its whitening and cast he
about for a remedy. He found lions
bone which was thicker than birds
skeleton, and he stuck the skeleton with
the plant into the lions bone Ere long
however, the plant grew out of the lions
bone likewise Then he found the bone
of an ass, larger still than the bone of the
lion; Then he put the lions bone, con
tanning the birds skeleton, into the the
bone of the ass, and thus he made his
way to Naxia When about to set the
plant he found that the roots had inter
twined themselves around the birds skele
ton, and the lions bone, and the ass
bone; and as he could not take it out
without damaging the roots, he planted i,
as it was, and it came up speedily, and il
bore to his great joy the most delicious
grapes, froul which he made the first
wine and gave it to men to drink. But
behold miracle When men first did
drink of it, they sang like birds: next, and
after drinking a little more, they became
vigorous and gallant like lions; but when
they drank more till they began to be
have like asses
Year: 1874

An important decision has recently
been made by the Supreme Court of
Iowa. In 1872 fire broke out in Des
Moines, during which the mayor, (the
chief engineer of the fire department be-
ing absent from the city, ordered the de-
struction of two small buildings, belong
ing to DR.. A. G. Field, in order to stop
the progress of the fire. The city refus-
ed to pay for the buildings, and the doc
tor brought suit in the District Court
which was decided for the city. The
case was taken to the Supreme Court,
where the judgment of the Circuit Court
was affirmed. The points of distinction
in the decision are the law of self-preser-
walton, and that of eminent domain. The
Court says, that for the commonwealth. a
man shall suffer damage; for the saving
of town house shall be plucked down,
if the next be on fire; that the rights of
private property shall be subject to the
higher demands of public welfare; and
in case of imminent danger and public
necessity, any individual or public officer
may raze or demolish houses or other
combustible structures, to prevent the
spread of confagrations, and without re
sponsibility to the owner for damages
Hence, in the absence of any statute ere
ating responsibility, municipal corpora
tions, whose officers are by statute and by
ordinance authorized to order the destruc
ton of any building or fence when they
| shall deem it necessary to arrest the pro.
gress of or extinguish fire, are not liable
to the person whose property is thus de
stroyed. d.-Hawkeye.
Year: 1874

Fort Plain On. Y. (Register.


A story is told at the expense of an
somewhat experienced house-keeper in
this village, who found herself one morn.
ing without servant to cook or wash.-
A few hours trial convinced her that she
must have help, and she started out in
SCARF. i girl After calling at several
places without success, she was passing
one of the best residences in the town
and observed a tidy looking woman sweep
ing the yard. Hating, she inquired of
the woman whether she knew of a girl
that could be hired. The answer was in
the negative. The lady had by this time
become desperate, and had resolved to
hire the woman before her, although she
knew It was wrong to covet her neighbor'
servant. In a low tone Of voice, she be
gan to relate her troubles, and wound ur
by urging the woman to leave Mrs
Thompson and come with her, offering
her dollar more week than she was
then receiving. The woman answered
that she liked her place. and could not be
induced to give it up. And she added:


Besides, | generally sleep with Mr..
Thompson, and | don't think he would al
low me to go away"


The lady departed, utterly astonished
at what she had heard Her feelings can
be imagined when she afterward learned
that she had been talking with the mis-
tress OF the mansion, and the wife of one
OF our most esteemed citizens
Year: 1874

We were glad to see and read the
able leader in the Telegraph yester-
day on the Higher Manhood doctrine
of the Grange. We will endeavor to
find space for the article at an early
day, every sentiment of which will
touch responsive chord IN the breast
OF true manhood. II the Telegraph's
politics were only of this maaish
kind, how gladly would we second
them,
Year: 1874

The Statesman goes back on his
declaration Tor Grant in this way:


The EXAMINER is again at fault,
misses the whole subject, and let's his
imagination, or something else, lead
him INTO q miserable blunder. The
Statesman has never said that the
Southern Democracy would be
driven to the support of Grant. Is
the kxAMiNER SO Obt,tse that it can't
nee that the article was purely specu-
lative? Only spoke OF what might
take place, even against our will ?
Ii that paper can't see it, then we
can assure him that such is the fact.


Our ob,useness, we have the salts
faction OF knowing, is shared by the
press of the State, including the big
brother of the Statesman, the News.
"Purely speculative" Of course it
was. 1t was speculating to see how
much OF that third term" material
there was in the State, and how faI
Its advocacy could be carried by the
Statesman with safety. This is M1
paper that attacks q Democratic Gosv.
ernor Of 1saas. With Grant at the
masthead, the Statesman will be lis
tened to by the Republicans possi-
bly,, but by no sort of chance can hi
ever get the ear of respectable Demo
Gratis again. Some political mistakes
are in time lived down, but this il


one that would exhaust eternity ant
still leave the work unfinished.
Year: 1874

The Telegraph OF yesterday pub
fishes Governor Coke's message ex-
hortiDg the peace officers of the State
to greater vigilance in the detection
and punishment of crime. We will
publish the message entire to,mor'
row, and will reserve our comments
until then.
Year: 1874

Poor Galveston does seem to have
an immense deal OF trouble with hel
pitiful and dearly bought harbor ap'
preparation. They want now, those
appropriation tinkers at Washington,
to reduce the paltry sum to fifty
thousand. How much did the
entertainment of the Congressional
excursion cost the city. Nearly this
amount, not to say anything of the
headaches at the time, and the heart.
aches since.
Year: 1874

THR STANDARD FOR AMERICAN COTFOr-
The board OF directors OF the Mobile Cotton
Exchange yesterday agreed on and after tod ay
70 accept the standard American types Of cot
ton prepared and adopted by the committee OF
ehf9Its OF the National Cotton Exchanya.
Year: 1874

I ORR GENTLEMEN OR GENTLEMAN AND WIFE
4 cesring true home in strictly private family with
large front Room and Dressing Room, table the best
every comfort terms moderate. address WEST rHlR-
ONCE
Year: 1874

There are few things that we would
like to impress upon the minds OF those
whose fortune, or misfortune, necessl-
tates their sending correspondence to a
newspaper. Here they are:


Write plainly. Not to do so is to
make an item almost valueless, and
sometimes worse than useless.


If you write back" hand, learn to
do it with the left hand, that the COM
positor may not have to stretch his neck
to the left to dangerous extent to get
the run of word.


Don't underline every adjective in the
sentence after the style of lawyer S
brief.


If you have ever studied punctuation
at all, punctuate; but if you have not,
let it slide.


If you have occasion to make a CAPT
tai ], write it below and not on the line.


If John Smith or William McFaden
has purchased piece of property of
Hezekiah Hobbletop for S2000 say so,
if YOU desire to see the notice in print3
There is no occasion to say: Our
highly.respected and honored citizen,
John Smith, who for the last ten years
has been selling milk at ten cents a
quart, thereby realizing a muni6cent
profit, has purchased from his neighbor,
Mr.. Hezekiah Hobbletop, most estima-
Bile citizen and honorable vender of gar
den sass and sich, the beautifully located
piece of property known as Fools
Folly Plot and in that most salubriou1
location intends erecting a house there
on" Self praise is no accommodation,
neither does it pay the printer, but it
does disgust him.


Dot your is, cross your is, point your
us, aud make them distinct from the
rounded n.


Use ink. Lead pencil writing over
strains the eye Of the compositor when
deciphering it, aud also causes him to
indulge in "cuss words"


Be sure you spell names correctly. A
man wants his name given rightly, or
not at all.
Year: 1874

est hopes that their effort at selflibera.
ton may be efectual, when we say that
precisely the same arguments they use
here will be quite as applicable to any
form OF immortality or vice. Whether
drunkenness is or is not criminal is a
mere splitting of pathological hairs. 1t
depends entirely on whether the word
criminal is used in its positive or rela-
tive sense In the legal import Of the
word a criminal act is only that declared
to be so by the law, and made punisha-
BILE. But in broader, better sense, all
vice is criminal, and drunkenness is
generally considered vice. In Maryland
drunkenness is not crime, because
the law has not so declared it. A man
may steep himself soul and body in
liquor, and so long as he can keep out
of the gutter and offers no positive
offense to any one, be has committed no
crime. If he is quarrelsome, noisy, dis
orderly, he is arrested, not for drunken
ness, but for a breach of the peace. In
Rhode Island and some other of the
Eastern States he would be liable to ar
rest and punishment for the act of being
drunk. Blackstone defines crime as an
act committed or omitted in violation of
the public law, and Great White, in his
Words and their Uses" says, what
is crime in one country may not be
crime in another; what is crime in one
country at one time may not be crime in
the same country at another time" and
"vice is habit of action or course Of
life which is harmful to the actor and
wrongful to others. The viciousness of
an act is not dependent upon the codn-
try or the creed of the person who CON-
mits or OF the people among whom it is
committed" There can be no doubt
that drunkenness is vice; whether it
would serve the purposes Of reform to
make it legally criminal act is ques-
ton Of ethics, which, whatever way it
might be decided, would never add to
nor take away from the viciousness and
degradation Of the habit itself.
Year: 1874




A curious note, which comes from
Russia, is of visit which Humboldt
once paid to Iszym in Siberia. Garry
ing a letter of introduction from the
Governor General he went to the house
Of the chief government functionary of
the place, NJ Skotin, who was appa-
rently sort of Goodman Dull, of i'm
mense self importance and ignorance.
The first thing that the Governor Cen
eral heard of the savant was in long
letter from the wise Skotin:


Some days ago" he said, there
came here German named Gumbolt, a
dried up little man, looking anything
but respectable. AS, however, he brought
with him a letter from your Excellency,
in which | am directed to treat him with
politeness and consideration, re-
ceived him with all due respect. At
the same time must observe that this
individual seems to me very suspicious,
and even dangerous. From the first
time he did not please me; he gossipped
too much, and did not like the fare l
offered him, though | have cook, Fer
lissa, who makes excellent pirogs, and
would be most happy to offer some to
your Excellency. He seemed
to despise both myself and my hospital
ity, and he evidently looked down upon
the most eminent officials of the town.


On the other hand, he is continually
talking with the Poles and other politi-
cal criminals under my charge. Your
Excellency will forgive my boldness in
saying this, but these conversations with
political criminals could not escape my
observation, especially as a few days
since, after long conference, he went
out with them at night to the top of a
hill which commands the town. There
they took out of a case which they had
brought with them an instrument in the
shape of long tube, which seemed to
me and my colleagues like a huge can-
non. This they placed on a three
legged stand, and then aimed il straight
at the town. Each of them approached
the instrument, apparently to adjust it
SO as to rectify the aim. Seeing the
great danger which threatened the in
habitants of the town, which was built
entirely of wood, / Immediately ordered
the town guard, which consists of sub
officer and six men, to march to the
spot with loaded muskets and not lose
sight of this Germans proceedings. II
the mans treacherous designs prove
what suspect them to be, we are ready
to risk our lives for the Car and for
holy Russia"
Year: 1874


Hold closcr still my hand, dear love,


Nor fear its touch will soil thine ewn;
No palm is cleaner now than this,


So free from earth-stain has it grown
Since last you held 1t clasped so close,


And with it held my life and heart.
For my heart beat but in your smile,


And life was death, we two apart.
loved you SO. And you? All, we'll


/ have no word or thought OF blame;
And even now my voice grows low


And tender whispering your name.
You gagged my love by yours; that's all.
l do not think you understood;
There is point you men can't reach,


Up the white hight Of womanhood.
You love us-so at least you say,


With many tender smile and word;
You kiss us close on mouth and brow,
Till all our heart within is stirred;
And having. unlike you, you see,
No other interest at stake,


We give our best, and count that Death


Is bless'd when suffered for your sake.
Year: 1874

An eccentric genius has sent in q
petition TO the French National Assem-
bly asking for the passage of a law pro
viding that every newborn child shall
have its name and the date Of its birth
tattooed on its arm. The object is to
facilitate Identification. The school
teachers are TO perform the operation,
and parents negleeting to have their
children thus tattooed are to be pun
ished by q heavy 6ne.
Year: 1874

WASHING WHITE MER!Yo STOCK
INGs.-The following is the way to
wash white merino stockings so that
they will neither shrink, get hard,
aor loose color. Melt good quanti-
ty of Marseilles soap, or any viii e
soap that does not contain soda, in as
much boiling water as you are likely
to require; let stand till pefectly cold,
then wash your woolen things IN it,
and rinse them in clear cold water
with a little blue in it. You must
neither wiring nor squeeze them, but
stretch them into shape dripping on
line covering them with a cloth, in a
room where they will not he un'Ier
the influence of air, sun, or fire. If
your things are so soiled as to require
washing in two waters. both waters
must be prepared in the same way.
The finest merinos, both white and
colored, may be washed in this way !;
but if the color be delicate it is well
to pat the things lightly between two
cloths, in order to take off the super
huOus wet. Fine silk foulards treat
ed in this way and ironed while half
wet look like new.


PRUNE PIE FOR Dessert. In the
coming scarcity of pie material, the
following recipe makes wholesome
and nice dessert: Stew the prsnes,
take out the pits. Sweeten to taste,
and, if liked, add a little lemon. Gov
er plate with nice paste; when cool,
put the prunes in, and cover like an
annie nio
Year: 1874

CLEANLINESS IN THE DMRY.-Dr
Nichols, who makes farming pay in
Massachusetts,, and believes it can be
made pay anywhere, thinks the prof
its lies in the difference between the
prices of products of the best quality
and those of the other sort. And to
those who would make buttermaking
pay, he gives these suggestions:


With a herd of butter eotCs, it is ca
sy to make the "guilt-edged' butter
which always has commanded ready
market, and always will, at nearly
double the price of ordinary kinds.
How is this made? The first requi-
site is good rich milk, from selected
Jersey, or Short,Horn COWS second,
cleanliness and skillin manufacturing
A good, cool dairy room, properly
fitted up, is indispensable in order to
make this butter. In charming or
working, the hands should never
touch it. The salt should be OF the
cleanest and best quality, and the
scales must not be forgotten in the
use of the article. No odors of any
kind must be allowed in or about
dairy rooms. If the farmer comes
from the barn, he must leave his
boots outside of the room and put on
slippers. If necessary when coming
from the pig-sty or manure pit, he
must change bis clothing before ap-
preaching the delicate products of
the churn, so ready are they to alb
sorb everything unsayory to taste or
smell. This extreme care will pay,
and the more care, cleanliness and
skill brought into requisition, the
higher the price the butter will COM
mand.


FEED FOR HORSES. All horses
should not be fed in the same pro-
portions, without due regard to their
ages. their constitutions and their
work. Because the improperly of
such practice is self evident. Yet
it is constantly done, and is the basis
of disease of every kind.


Never use bad hay on account Of
its cheapness, because there is not
proper nourishment in it.


Damaged corn is exceedingly III
furious. because il brings on infama-
ton of the bowels and skin diseases.


Chaif is better for old horses than
hay, because they can chew and di-
gest it better.


Mix chaff with corn or beans, but
do not give the latter alone, because
it makes the horse chew his food
more and digest it better.


Hay or grass alone will not support
a horse under hard work, because
there is not sufficient nutritive body
in either.


TREAT YoR Cow KINDLY.-If you
neglect or whip her, she will spite you
in the milk pail. The boy who is
passionate in his herd, never did and
never will see his parents realize prof
it from the dairy.
Year: 1874

were unacclimated and too fat.
Some of his best horses also died,
but he expressed himself as fully sat
isfed with the result of his trip


Sir George spent a month at the
National Hotel, then chartered the
steamer Lizzie Baker and departed
for Savannah. He will pass the sum-
mer in Canada, but is expected back
here next winter to resume his shoot
ing and listen to the music of the
whippoorwills.
Year: 1874

TIE GRANGERs IN CALIFORNIA have already
undertaken grand scheme for fertilizing nearly
two million OF acres of land In that State by
means of q canal to cost thirteen million dollars
As matter Of course the Legislature Is to be ask
cd to supply the money. All this may be very
WELL but 1t seems n little remarkable that with
halfs continent waiting for emigration 1t SHOULD
be necessary already to reclaim waste lands on


the Pacific slope BY the aid Of the public money.
Year: 1874

The question may be asked Why so
much pains should be taken TO measure
the distance of the sun, and whether it


makes any difference to mankind what
orbit Venus describes. r Scientific in
vestigators never inquire of what use
knowledge is they leave its practical


application TO others. But a very little
consideration will show that astronomy


has, in a merely utilitarian way, paid


the world manifold for all the labor


spent In learning IT. Did it never 'oe-


cur to the reader that it is to Kelper,


Newton, and their successors that we


owe the means of navigating the ocean


IN safety? When a ship is out of
sight of land there is no way of de-
termining her position except by obser-
vations Of the heavenly bodies. But
observations could not be used for this
purpose unless the laws of motion of
those bodies had been discovered and
taught by mathematicians and astrono-
meFs. A striking example of this is
fresh in the memory of all. "A year
and half ago the spendid steamer City
of Washington sailed on her usual vOy-
age across the. ocean, but constant
cloudy weather prevented observations
to determine her position. In cOnse-
uuence, she was wrecked on.the coast of
Nova Scotia, and the loss of more
property than would pay for all the
expenses of observing the transit of
Venus paid the forfeit for failure to
make the necessary observations. A
large portion of the labors of astrono-
mers is devoted to fixing the. positions
Of the stars and planets with eOntinu-
ally increasing accuracy, and the OBJ
servations we have been describing are
one step in this work. --.RarpeT's. aa
Year: 1874

A man was brought into the wards of
surgery bellevue HospitaD, of which
DIR. Figeuro is house surgeon, having a
crushed foot and ankle, as the result of
being traversed by railroad car wheel.
Previous to his admission, the patient
had lost great quantity of blood, and
it was feared that he could never be
rallied to the amputatiDg point. Among
the measures adopted for his restora-
ton were hypodermic injections of
whisky, and these proved very efficient,
not only for their immediate assistance
in obtaining the stimulation of the al
cohol, but they seemed to tide the man
over point at which his stomach had
become vely irritable and rejected what
ever was put into it. An ordinary
dose administered in this manner is
from fifteen to thirty drops. This mans
pulse was raised sufficient to warrant
amputation of the leg, which was done,
after applying Esmaich's apparatus for
arresting hemorrhage. The apparatus
was particularly adapted to this case,
for the reason that it was desirable to
retain all the blood possible, for the
loss had already been too great. No
blood was lost, and but four turns were
given to the rubber cord.-NeaO York
Record.