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Year: 1874

We hear of q dreadful accident
which occurred at Cerro Gordo, on
the Wilmington, Columbia & Augusta
Railroad, yesterday afternoon, by
which colored boy. only some fifteen
or sixteen years old, was injured to
such an extent that he must have died
shortly afterwards. The boy, whose
name we could not learn, had crawled
under one Of the cars Of Capt. Reid S
freight train, which arrived here yes
terday afternoon, for the purpose of
stealing ride by concealing himself
on the truck of the car. Before he
could get himself securely fixed, how
ever, a sudden jerk was given to the
train by the engine and the boy was
thrown off. He fell on the track and
was frightfully cut, his right thigh
having been frightful!y Taugled and
his left foot cut off at the ankle. He
managed, however, to crawl from
under the train and sprang up and for
a moment balance himself on the
stump of his left leg. He then fell to
the ground, asking those around il
they, thought he would die aid pitiful-
ly moaning for the surgeon who had
been hastily sent for but had not then
arrived. He was IN this situation when
the train left Cerro Gordo.
Year: 1874

We are glad to learn that the track
of the Carolina Central Railway will
be completed to Beaver Dam, which
is within ten miles of Monroe, by Sat
urday next, and we presume that the
schedule of the train will be extended
to correspond with the increased track,
in few days. The Intervening ten
miles will soon be bridged over, the
greatest obstacle being some heavy
trestle work to be laid, and we hope,
before long, to hear that the trains are
running into Monroe.
Year: 1874

Will some one in every county
please send us by mail the election re-
turns Immediately after the election ?
Give the vote for each man and name
the Office for which he was a candi-
didate. In regard to county officers,
saw whether the Conservative or Radi-
cal ticket is elected.
Year: 1874

CATERS with monogram clasps are
now all the fashion with pretty girls.
The style is said to be convenient and
elegant. and we hope to see more of it.


The lemon crop is said to be poor
this year. The public will, therefore,
please be sparing of lemonade in Or
der that enough may remain for punch.


Wars, comets, pestilence and top
ping dynasties may fill the world with
fear or wonder but nothing goes
down to the marrow of mans soul SO
much as the announcement of his
first baby's tooth.


Cotton in New York held higher at
II to 17a cents. ...
Year: 1874

The very decided vote-l4i to 29-by which the Amnesty Act went through the House is an indication that it will pass the Senate without much opposition. Should the bill pass the Senate and become a law, all the rebel leaders will be restored to the full rights and privileges of American citizens. and Jefi Davis himself may again tread the halls of the National Capital as a member of Congress.
Year: 1874

Prof. Horsford, of Harvard Univer-
sity, has published receipt for in i'm.
proving and preserving cider, by
means of which the progress of the
vinous aud acetic lamentations may
be arrested at pleasure, and the cider
preserved in Just such state as may
be desired. 1t is this:


"Put the new cider into clean casks
or barrels, and allow it to ferment
from one to three weeks, according. as
the weather is cool or warm. When
it has attained to lively fermentation
add to each gallon three-fourths of a
pound of white sugar, and let the
whole ferment again until it possesses
nearly the brisk pleasant taste which
it is desirable should be permanent.
Pour out a quart of the cider and mix
with it one quarter of an ounce of
sulphite of lime for every gallon the
cask contains. Stir it until it ia in
timately mixed, and pour the emulsion
into the liquid. Agitate the contents
Of tho cask thoroughly for few mo-
ments, then let it rest that the cider
may settle. Fermentation will be ar.
rested at once, and will not be resumed.
1t may be bottled in the course Of q
few weeks, or it may be allowed to re-
maia in the cask and used on draught.
If bottled, it will become sparkling
cider of surprising excellence"


Professor Horsford was the first to
use the sulphite of lime for this pur.
pose, and to him is due the credit of
first calling attention to its usefulness.
1t is in no respect deleterous, as the
sulphate, into which the sulphite is
changed by the liberation Of sulphu-
rous acid, is entirely insoluble, and re-
mains at the bottom of the vessel.
Remember, it is the sulphits of lime,
not sulphate, must be used.


The quality of the cider will remain
unchanged for years.
Year: 1874

Some one who has tried it says: 81
discovered many years ago that wood
could be made to last longer than
iron in the ground, but thought the
process so simple and inexpensive that
it was not worth while making any
stir about it. | would as soon, have
poplar, bass wood, or quaking ash as
any other kind of timber for fence
posts. After having been set seven
years, they were as sound when taken
out as when they were first put in the
ground. Time and weather seem to
have no effect on them. The posts
can be prepared for less thantwo cents
apiece. This is the recipe Take boiled
linseed oil and stir in it pulverized
charcoal to the consistency of paint.
Put coat of this over the timber,and
there is not u man that will live to see
it rot"


Did any of our RAIDERS ever think
of the amOut of travel it takes to raise
a crop of corn on twenty-acre field
To break this up would take one hum
dred and sixty-six miles; narrowing
about forty miles; furrowing out nine.
ty miles, planting forty-fve miles, il
with a planter, and if dropped and
then covered, ninety miles. And for
each plowing of two burrows in row
ninety miles. Thus you will see il
takes about eight or nine hundred
miles travelling to raise twenty acres
of corn, not counting going to and
returning from the field. Besides
there is replanting, thinning, rolling
etc.


Peter ii, of Brazil, is said to be the
richest monarch in the world, ano
there are many who would like to be
Peter two.


"Young in years, but an old eloper,
is the description of runaway wifi
left at an Indianapolis station-house
Year: 1874

A man named Taddles, in Virginia,
has got his wife in proper subjection,
and means to keep her SO. "Oh," :"
says he, in telling about it, "there
amt many who know how to rule q
wife properly. Now, my old woman is
one of the best-natured women in the
world, but she's got deuce of tenn
per. Whenever I see she's got her
madness up, if it's dozen times day,
1 just quietly say nothing, but rather
humor her, and she comes around all
right after a while. Even when she
throws things at me or gives wild
dash at me with the broom or rolling
pin, 1 just dodge little, and she never
hits me third time before l get my
eyes on her, and let her know I disap-
prove of such actions on her part.
Perhaps I have to leave the house to
show her this, but she sees the point.
Then, by being careful not to irritate
her, and letting her have her own way,
1 manage make her do as please. And
you bet make her understand and ap
preciate my discipline. Oh, I keep
her under perfect control A man
has, you know, got to be master in his
own house, or your wife will ride you
down as if you wasn't nobody. My
wife's a perfect angel in her natural
disposition, but any other man but me
would spoil her."
Year: 1874

wondered what peculiar taste could
have induced either the designers or
decorators 90 tho craft 70 have clapped
such a prepos;erous thing rs flower
basket on the stern OF that ship. Twas
seated on dock uear Hunters Point
watching the loading OF q petroleum
q vessel--a queer, oId-fashioned bark.
Had the owner or skipper any floral
proclivities? Perhaps some practical
hand in ship-yard-a master in the
art of hacking figure heads of dolphins
or cornucopias all out of solid oak
some one who might have been a
Thorswslden but for the want OF op-
portunity, had eliminated that flower
basket from his inner consciousness.
just as likely it might have been the
production, SO far as the poetical con-
ception of it went. of some captain
through whose composition there ran a
latent vein of romance. Who could
tell but that in years long gone by the
woman the captain had loved had been
associated with basket of flowers !?
So he might have gone straight to the
ship-yard, all aglow, inspired for the
moment, and in a CHEEKY voice said,
"Here, carpenter, cut me out basket
of flowers. Do it good. I amt par
ticular about the kind of flowers, SO
that there is plenty of them, and that
the basket is all right. Put two han
dies on the basket" And SO to work
fifty years ago went the carpenter, who
had followed the sea in his younger
days, and the artist, with adze and
gouge in hand, had possibly got into
a quandary over the job, for quite likely
he was more familiar with tangled sea-
weed than with the primmer garden
flowers. So in great mental travail he
must have solved the quest ton by
taking as q pattern his mothers old
fashioned sampler, on which in cross
stitch was depicted floral Offering,
and copied it all ont in wood and stuck
it on the stern of that vessel, and felt
satisfied with it, though sitter or
more impossible flower basket never
was made. Undoubtedly once it was
colored with hues as bright and varied
as a rainbow, and shown out re-
splendantly as the ships stern and was
reflected in summer seas, and was the
envy Of other shippers. But when I
saw it all its bloom was gone, for it
had been painted all over a glaring
yellow, and was as ugly as sin. Orna-
menting the stern of petroleum ship,
odorous with the most villainous of
smells, that poor old flower basket
seemed horribly out of place.


Captain, sir ?" made bold to say
to a man in the dock, who was giving
some instructions as to the moorings of
the vessel.


I /" just so, sir" was the reply of
fine, hearty looking man. :" Here, Mr..
Mathias"-this was to person evi-
IDENTIFY the mate-"have this hawser
eased. Take out the double hitch, and
don't jam the knot. It's too tight. It
would take as much as Ave minutes to
unreeve that knot; aiu't you got sabe
enough to know that when you are taking
on board this kind of dangerous stuff,
alongside of the factory as makes it,
the whole place is just as likely as not
to be on fire any minute2 Tell that
hand forard at the fall to watch the
capstan and them spiles here, and to
loosen the hawser with the tide. She
can't chafe much. It amt O bad plan
co have an ak, and q sharp one, always


ady, 80 that fellow can cut his
Year: 1874

THE WAT TO "MAKE MoNEY."-Upon the

 whole, the thing to do is to give your note. "Promse to pay" is money; how easy to make it. The absurd notion that anything of necessity follows the issuance of promise except its ac- ceptance and adoption as a medium of exchange, themselves and making themselves unhappy long enough with the rediculOus notion that pertor

 nance must necessarily follow promise. It is re- served for this glorious Republic and the eminent financiers and statesmen of this period to discOv

 CT that promises to pay money are not only as good as money but absolutely better, since they can be much more easily made, are lighter and

 more compact and can be more widely diffused.

 Give your note. Government does it. Why may not the individual citizen And when any mis-

 chef-making enemy of free institutions brings to Government its promise and says, twill you

 please redeem this promiset ;" Government there's nothing mean about the Government takes it up without a word and-gives him anoth- CT. Why may not the citizen do so, and expand

 his credit to the full capacity of his inkstand: And if the malignant foe of free institutions, in that fiendish passion for investigation and inqui- " which has brought to grief some of our pur- est and best pursues the subject, holding up the engraved promise between his thumb and finger, with "may ask when the United States will pay?" the Government looks him squarely in the eye and says, This is the greatest and most growing country the sun shone on. The business

 we do and expect to do is so immense that we

 have to keep making new promissory notes to do ! it with. The question 1rheH shall pay shows a bad heart, well as indecent and prying curios- | ty. The promises to pay infinitely better | than the pay; everybody takes them and wants

 more of them. If you are dissatisfied you had

 better move away" Why may not the citizen

 say his business is increasing, and keep putting ! out promissory notes to do it with in the same

 way Government does ?-[N. Y. Tribune.
Year: 1874

It would appear, from reading that part of our Yuma dispatches relating to the unfortu- nate prospectors of Castle Dome, that two of the dead bodies have been found, which being the case, leaves no sort of doubt as to the sad fate of the other, as he, too, must have perished of thirst.
Year: 1874

How TO KEEP BUTTER Cool. Get large flower pot, plug mp the hole with a sound cork, and seal it. Now put quarter brick, or other square, heavy body, in the bottom, to serve as a support for a second, but smaller pot, which must be plugged up in the same manner. Place a dish under the other pot, and cover with any cover you please, providing it is not metallic. Now fill the space between the inner and outer pot with water The butter will keep as firm as a rock as cool as a cucumber.
Year: 1874

A "friend" of ours recently advised us to procure an appointment as Indian agent, just as if he looked upon us as man who could, if necessary, pray and steal. But, thank God, he was mistaken in his summing.
Year: 1874

There are no diseases SO de ttatng in their eff
fccts upon the constitution til, above, and none
difficult to cure by the usual mt des of practice
The FEVER AND AGUE POWDERS will effect
cure in eases Of the longest standing well as
prove preventive IN the forming stages Of the dis
ease. Being purely Vegetable, they act with Ger
tainty the disease totally eradcatlng 1t from the
system, and prevent Il return at any future period.


Why waste yourmoncy and health in trying every
medicine you hear of, when TIIOMPSON'S FEVER
AND AGUE POWDERS have never failed to cure
Year: 1874

[FoR THE TINES.


MY MOTHER.
Who taught my little feet to stray.
Along the soft and grassy way;
Who taught my infant lips to pray?
My kind and loving mother.
Who when sickness fell my lot,
SO closley watched my little cot:
For days and nights she slumbered nots
My kind and loving mother.
Who ere at night sought my rest,
So closely held me to her breast.
And gave to me her kind caress?
My kind and loving mother.
Who when the radiant God of Day,
Had chased the mists of night away.
Would make me kneel and with me pray?
Ny kind and loving mother.
Who ere went to school each day,
Would hear me all my lessons say,
And instruct me In her gentle way?
My kind and loving mother.
Dear mother although far away,
think of thee each nipht ard day,
And fervently to God pray,
God bless my loving mother.


Ed. A DoLAy.
Year: 1874

We have been kindly furnished by friend
with series Of very interesting and ably writ
ton articles With the above heading, published
in the National Inteliigencer 10 September,
1867, which we shall publish in short numbers,
satisfied that they will be read with interest by
all of our citizens.
Year: 1874

name of another person with the intent to have the said claim after location inu,e 10 his benefit, Is void as made in fraud and evasion of the said law of the United States." There Is no evidence that the claim in contest In this ease was intended to inure to the benent of anyone but Linn in whose favor it was located by French. Thls point has been disposed Of as far the court has power to do so, under a former one.

 The following Is the Judgment iu the case "Thc judge of the district court o the third judi cla district was right in setting aside the verdict in this case, and ordering new trial, and his or. der mn.t therefore he allrmed.N
Year: 1874

The arduous duties devolving upon Gov
ernor Kellogg during the session of the
Legislature-the continual wear and tear
of physical and mental strength necessarily
exercised to cause those things to be done
which ought to be done, and to prevent
those things being done which ought not to
be done-have had their effect upon him
and for the past few days he has been con


fined to his residence with painful though
by no means serious illness. Within the
past two days, however, he has improved
so much that he IS able to transact such
business as is necessary to be done, at his
residence, and in few days he promises to
be again at his post of duty, at the State
House. He is perfectly willing to receive
all who call upon him in a purely friendly
way; but let visitors beware how thev in
trude claims for Office upon him. They will
be apt to 60 down to the bottom Of the
Governors black list, unless, indeed, they
fare worse. and summarily make the
acquaintance Of the athletic youth who
superintends the door bell.
Year: 1874

Our reports of the river this morning in
dicate rise Of four inches yesterday, and
the water in front of the city now standing
nine inches below high water mark of 1871
This is the highest point the water has
reached since that year of overfows and
crevasses, and unusually early in the year,
at that. The highest water in 1871 was on
the nineteenth of April. The highest water
of 1872 was two feet ten inches less than
the preceding year, and was on the eighth
Of May.


On the first of April of that year the
water stood ten feet five inches below high
water mark. In 1873 the highest water was
on the third Of June, and was two feet
three inches below high water mark of 1871.
On the first of April Of that year it was five
feet two inches under the mark There is
no Disgusting the fact that the unusual
height Of the river at this time is significant
Of danger to our city; but we are assured
that Surveyor Bell and his able corps of
assistants have taken every precaution
against disaster, and we hope and believe
it will be averted.
Year: 1874

We learn that on Saturday last quite a
severe storm was experienced at Southwest
Pass. during which one of the buildings
connected with the customs station at that
point was struck by lightning and almost
entirely demolished. The building was used
as sleeping room and Officers White and
1ngham were inside, lying in their hunks
st the time. Both officers were badly
stunned, as were Officers Cooney and Par
ker, who were in an adjoining building.
Year: 1874

The Pennsylvania Legislature wisely
resolved that if compulsory taxation was
not sufficient to keep up the common
schools, there was no use in sending around
the police to fill them by force. There are
some things which cannot be accomplished
by mandatory enactments. Better try
moral suasion and prayer.
Year: 1874

1t may be said that such return of
fractional currency for redemption is i'm
possible, but let steps be taken for a re-
turn to a specie basis, and it will be found
that silver will take the place of fractional
currency as rapidly as it can be supplied.
When the premium on gold reaches a suf-
iciently low point, with the amount of
United States notes to be issued perma-
nently within proper limits, and the
Treasury so strengthened as to be able to
redeem them in coin on demand, 1t will
then be safe to inaugurate system of free
banking, with such provisions as to make
compulsory the redemption of circulating
notes of banks In coin or United States
notes themselves, redeemable in, and
made equivalent to coin.


THE WAY TO FREE BANKING.


AS measure preparatory to free bank
ing, or for placing the government in :
Year: 1874

condition to redeem its notes in coin at
the earliest practicable moment, the rev.
enues of the country should be increased
so as to pay the current expenses, provide
for the sinking fund required by law, and
also a surplus to be retained in the Treas
ury in gold am not believer in any
artificial method of making paper money
equal to coin, when coin is not owned or
held ready to redeem the promises to pay;
for paper money is nothing more than a
promise to pay, and is valuable exactly in
proportion to the amount of coin it can be
converted into. While coin Is not used
as circulating medium, or the currency
of the country IS not convertible into it
at par, it becomes an article Of commerce
as much as any other product. The sur
plus viii seek foreign market, as will
any other surplus. -.e7
Year: 1874

has nothing to do with the question. The
duties on imports, being required in coin,
create limited demand for gold, and
about enough to satisfy that demand re-
mains in the country. To increase this
supply see no way open but by the gov
ernment boarding through the means
the national banks to aid.
Year: 1874

Practically it is question whether the
measure under discussion would give an
additional dollar to irredeemable paper
currency of the country or not, and wheth-
er by requiring three-fourths of the re
serves to be retained by banks and pro-
hibiting interest to be received on the bal
ance, it might not prove a contraction.
But the fact cannot be concealed that,
theoretically, the bill increases the paper
circulation one hundred millions of dol
lars, less only the amount of reserve res
trained from circulation by the provisions
of the section. The measure has been
supported on the theory that would give
increased circulation; it is a fair inference,
therefore, that, if in practice the measure
should fail to create the abundance of
circulation expected of it, the friends of
the measure, particularly those out of
Congress, would clamor for such in
aatIon as would give the expected re-
lief
Year: 1874

The first act passed by the Forty-frst
Congress, on the 18th day of March, 1869,
was as follows


'tAn Act to strengthen the credit Of the


United States.


abe u enacted &c, That, in order to
remove any doubt as to the purpose of the
government to discharge all its obliga-
tions to the public creditors, and to settle
conflicting questions and interpretations
of the law by virtue of which such obhga-
tions have been contracted, it is hereby
provided and declared that the faith of the
United States is solemnly pledged TO the
payment in coin, or its equivalent, Of all
the obligations of the United States and of
all the interest-dearing obligations, except
in cases where the law authorizing the is
sue amy such obligations has expressly
provided that the same may be paid in
lawful money or in other currency than
gold or silver; but none Of the said interest
bearing obligations not already due shall
be redeemed or paid before maturity, un-
less at such times as the United States
notes shall be convertible into coin at the
option of the holders, or unless at such time
bonds of the United States, bearing low
er rate of interest than the bonds to be
redeemed, can be sold at par in coini and
the United States solemnly pledges ITS
faith to make provision at the earliest
practicable period for the redemption o.
United States notes in coin.
Year: 1874

HOW PLANTS OBTAIN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on


THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR sYsrEM-LIFE IN


CAVES EVOLUTION BY JUMPS AN ANCIENT


INDIAN FORT.


FROM TIE SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNEI


HARTFORD, Aug. 13.-Thereis no question now
this being of the great meetings OF the Amer
can Association. The attendance Of notable members Is
largely increased by new arrivals to-day The morn
ing session devoted some time to consider
ing the changes in the constitution Of the Asso-
citation, and 10 the requisite alterations In
that instrument with view to placing the chemists on
an agreeable footing All these difficult subjects were
at length happily arranged TO the satisfaction OF large
majority OF the members and after the usual routine
work the Association divided into sections, when the
reading of papers was promptly begun. The following
were among the papers announced for the day.