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Year: 1874




MAIL STEAMERs.-P. D. Moore, Esq !,
the new mail contractor, has chartered
the steam Favorite, and is having her
fitted up for mail and passenger boa
on his route. He has also made ar
rangements for. the Zephyr to run in
connection with the Favorite. These
are both neat and lively little steamers.
but are an immense falling off from the
North Pacific and Olympia, both of
which we understand will run npon the
route. mail or no mail; which will make
lively times in steamboating on the
Sound, and test the length of the purses
of the several proprietors.
Year: 1874

What is the natural antagonist of dis
case? 1t is the vital principle. From
the moment that disease is developed in
the system, this champion fights the in
truder until it either conquers or is con-
quered. Which side should medicinal
science espouse in this life and death strug-
gle? Should it depress and cripple the
physical enemies Of the patient, thereby
helping the disorder, or should it reinforce
the vitality Of the patient, and thereby as
sist in quelling the ailment? OF course
the proper answer to this question must
be obvious to every one above the grade
of an idiot or lunatic, and hence it fol-
lows that the weak and broken down in
valid who chooses to dose himself with
depicting slops, instead of toning, invig


Grating and vitalizing his enervated frame
with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, must
be either feeble minded or deranged.
Surely nothing short of imbecility or in
sanity could induce a person laboring un-
der bodily weakness and nervous pros
tration, to take day after day powerful
doses of some drastic purgative in the
hope of gaining strength thereby. AL
though charlatans may advertise prepa-
rations of this character as tonics, people
in the full possession of their reason can
not, one would think, accept them as such.
If they do the penalty Of their credulity
may be the shortening of their lives.
The rheumatic, the dyspeptic, the bilious,
the debilitated and nervous, and all who
are subject to intermittents, or other dis
eases brought on by the inclement weather
which prevails at this season, will do we'll
to strengthen their nerves, tone their
stomachs and regulate their bowels with
the Bitters. The two-fold operation Of
the restorative as an invigorant and an
aperient, in addition to its direct and spe-
cifc effect upon the disordered liver, rem
ders it most efficient remedy for COM
plants of the digestive, secretive and ex-
cretive organs, at present in use, This
fact is conceded by eminent members Of
the faculty whose testimony to that effect
is published in Hostetter's Almanac for
1874. 3mar.
Year: 1874

HAY FoRK.-Bob Large came in from
Hay Fork Valley last Monday and re-
ports plenty of snow on the mountains
between here and there. 1t was expected
that the road would be cleared so that a
wagon can get through next week. VIM.
Ruch, who was also in town this week,
informs us that the miners there are all at
work with plenty Of water and are gener-
ally doing we'll.
Year: 1874

Work PRoGREssING.--Grading was
commenced on the West Weaver Ditch
on Monday last and is being pushed as
speedily as possible. Snow, to the depth
of four feet is found in spots, but there is
also considerable bare ground along the
line and the body of snow is gradually
diminishing.
Year: 1874

SHELRYvILLE. September THE
first annual fair of the Shelby County
Joint Stock Agricultural Association
opened here to-day, with fine prospects Of
a GOOD fair The entries in the live
stock department far exceed the eXpecta-
tions of all. Some of the finest stock IN
the State are now on exhibition. The
entries in all the departments are larger
than expected. The grounds are all that
could be desired, being in fine sugar and
maple grove, and there Is also q splendid
half mile time track on the ground. This
will be- one Of the best county fairs in the
Year: 1874

Attorney General Williams leaves to-
night for Long Branch, for an interview
with the President in regard to the al
legged southern outrages. During the abb
sence of the Attorney General he will
visit his parents in western New York.


Secretary Belknap will return to-mor-
Year: 1874

INDIAN HEAP-About three.quarters Of a
mile from the village of MillsborOugh, Sussex
CO., on the line of the new railroad from
Georgetown to Frankford, was, until about ten
days ago, when it was destroyed by rairoaders,
pile Of brush which had been there ever
since the country was inhabited by the Indians.
1t was known as the Indian Heap. We learn
from a very reliable gentleman the history of
this old relic 1t is said that an Indian chief
was killed by one Of his subjects and buried at
this place, and whenever one of them passed
by the place, through respect for their
chief, they would throw a piece of brush
on it. The custom became universal at that
time and was transmitted to their successors
who kept it up to such degree that the pile
has never been known, at any time, to be so
small as not to mark the spot. Persons
passing, from habit, and, in some cases.
superstitous belief, would not allow themselves
to go by without conforming to the old custom


1t is also said that Benjamin Burton had q
clause in his will that the heap should not be
destroyed, which doubtless had much to dc
with keeping up the custom.-Deld,odrean
Year: 1874

Broad street is our only thorougnfare of
proper width, and when the railroad is re-
moved will be one of the most elegant
streets in Richmond. There is room enough
for double row of trees throughout its en-
tire length, which will add 10 its beauty and
TO the comfort OF those who use it. But
Broad street as it is is anything but plea
SAINT street for pedestrians, especially about
6 O'Clock ?. NJ; and more especially at that
hour on Saturday, crowds OF negroes, male
and female, of every hue and variety, from
the regular "ebo-shin" to the genteel mu-
latto, crowd the street, the females chatting
with each other and with their dusky beau,
and the males putting their cigars and TAX
ing up greater part of the sidewalks. On
no other street in Richmond can The negro
he seen In such numbers, and the visitor is
struck with the immense number of persons
absent from industrial pursuits.


The ninth census discloses the facts that
our negro population is coming en- mGsse to
town, and leaving the country where their
training in country pursuits might make
them very useful; that the general impres.
sion that they are grariiating toward the
South and likely to form black States is un.
true, and that only one woman in five or six
of the population in the South. engages in
auy pursuit away from home. Weare there
fore likely TO have them in our midst until
removed by natural causes; exactly, as the
negroes live now, crowding together in
houses and cellars, feeding on improper and
insufficient food, aud accumulatipg filth
around them and, may add, voting almost
in solid line against the whites. What SHALL
we do with then? OF course, no law can be
passed to prevent negroes from coming to
town, but is there not some plan somewhere
in the brain OF some Ango-Saxon which can
accomplish the same results! The country
is languishing for 4 kind of labor that IS IN
great excess in towns. Last winter thou
sands of rations were issued to negroes who
could have lived without charity in the
country, and assisted materially In asricnl'
ture, and during the coming wiBter these
same negroes will be persistent applicants
for any aud that may be dispensed.


No plan can be adopted except refusal
on the part of real estate owners to reht to
them) to lessen the number Of blacks very
soon and the town Councif should save al


the work of the city for winter employment
of labor. Opening and grading streets, put
ting down pipes, indeed, everything that
breaks the surface, should be done in win.
ter. Your health fficers have already said
this, and the continuance OF such work and
the absence of cleanliness have raised the
mortality of Richmond equal to, if no!
higher, than that. Of New Orleans. Tows.
Year: 1874

The EXCURSION AND PICNIC tomorrow,
under the auspices of the Executive Com
mittee of the Boptist Sunday-school Asso-
citation. promises to be a decided success.


The committee, composed of some OF our
best citizens, guarantees that every arrange
ment will be made to insure safety, comfort
and pleasure to all who may participate in
tine festivities of the excursion. This affords
an excellent opportunity for a Gay OF pure
and healthful recreation at tri6ing expense.
Year: 1874

An Ann Arbor lawyer was logged, the
other day, by an actress. of whom he had
spoken disrespectfully. Those who wit
messed his feats, during the progress of this
acrobatic exhibition ever given in that place.
Year: 1874

n PLEASANT two story dwelling House, in good
"A repair, suitable for Two families. situated on
the southerly corner of Pearl and Lincoln Streets
Enquire at the House any time after 10 A. M.


my20 If
Year: 1874

The Left has begun vigorous pamphlet
warfare against the Bonapartists in the
French Assembly. But the first thing they
know, the Bonapartsts will be sending the
pamphlets back at them in the shape of gun
Wads
Year: 1874

The West Point cadets will put on their
white trousers in fortnight. ht.-Boston Post.


A fortnight is too long time. They
ought to get them on in two minutes and a
half at the very most.
Year: 1874

This is the weather to break in new shoes
No other pleasure in life is equal to that of
pulling them off at night and putting a pair
of feet, that feel like dropsical toad with a
high fever, into bucket of cold water.
Year: 1874

The girls of Vassar college are reported to
have given three cheers and tiger recently
or perhaps we should say a tigress. This
won't do. Speaking between the sherry and
the champagne, Vassar matter with them?
Year: 1874

The Sussex Journal-Democratic organ OF
that connty-favors the nomination of New
Castle county man for Governor by its party, and
deprecates the fact that no one person seems to
be united upon here. 1t says sit is generally
conceded that tho Democratic nomination for
Governor il due to New Castle"
Year: 1874

CHICAGO, Aug. lin the circuit
court this afternoon Judge Williams
rendered his decision in the famous
Whitehouse-Cheney case. Applica.
ton was made to Judge Williams last
spring by the counsel Tor Whitehouse
side of canoncy, for an injunction re.
straining Rev. Chas. f, Cheney from
preaching in Christ's Church, and
the organization from the further use of
the church property. The case was
argued for several days, and was taken
under advisement by the Judge. The
court decides that the objections
to the form of the original bill were
not we'll taken, and, therefore, it was
overruled. This decision embodies
the following points That the prop
erty, although it was originally taken
in the name of the trustees, was in
fact taken for the benefit of all who
should be attached to the discipline and
worship of the Protestant Episcopal
the benefit of the Protestant
E )iscopal Church, and not for
tie Low Church party that
I'll the churches in the United
S ates are regarded in law only as vol
untary societies, The laws and rules
of church organizations are regarded
as stipulations existing between the
parties that existing canons were the
stipulations by which Cheney agreed
60 be tried; and that the church court
more nearly resembles a court of arbi-
ration than civil tribune, and that,
| by a law governing similar arbitra
tiOns, all arbitrators must he present
at the hearing that court for the
| first trial of Mr.. Cheney consisted o.
five assessors, and four only being
present at the trial and final decision
it was not court within the meaning
Of the church canon, and its actor
was void that upon second trial tn,
court had no jurisdiction over the sub
iect matter, and that its decision was
also void; that the Bishop had no pow
er to sentence, except in pursuance o


the finding of church court, and sucl


finding being invalid, his sentences


were also void and Cheney was neve


legally desposed from the ministry


The bill is therefore dismissed for wan


of equity.
Year: 1874

We always believed in tomatoes the
year round, and it is with pleasure
that we find our faith justified by an
eminent physician. He claims tor
this excellent vegetable the following
properties:


l. That the tomato is one of the most
powerful aperients of the materia
medica. and that in all those affections
of the liver and organs where calomel is
indispensable, it is probably the most
active and least harmful remedial agent
known to the profession.


.. That chemical extract pill can
be obtained from it which will alto
gether supersede the use pf calomel in
the cure of diseases.


8. That he has successfully treated
diarrhpa with, this article alone.


4. That when used as an article of
diet it is almost sovereign remedy
for dyspepsia and Indigestion.


5. That the citizens in ordinary life
should make use of it, either raw,
cooked, or in any form of catsup, with
their daily food, as it is most healthy
article
Year: 1874

gregsitOHalh


The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached
yesterday sermon derived from III. Corinthians W., Is


While we look not at the things which seen but ut
the things which are not for the things which
temporal but the things which not
eternal"


We living in time, said he, In which science is
doing very great work, and yet 1t is Uniformed its
genius has not been develOped that find in many
directions strong impulse toward msterIalism back
ing ard matter II there nothing that had any
rght claim existence unless 1t could prove itself in
tho court Of mems senses doctrine Is prevalent
which declares that only that truth Is true to or
be made to appear true to which be reduced
TO the test OF the and the that belongs TO
mans Is said that all the rest Is unknown
and unknowable. That part OF man which lies lowest
which IL not only opposite but most remote from the
spiritual element IL called knowledge We can weigh
It, aud test 1t IN various relations but the
rest Is imaginary invisible, and cannot be reduced 70
the line or limit OF investigation. Now Paul declares
that all such knowledge pershes, and that IL Is only
real and permanent In Pauls words he be correct
We have a solution OF the mystery, ana OF tho most
subtle and tho saddost or the difficulties which men or
rtncctOn nave fclt IN regard 70 the moral order OF
things In this life for Ia every ago men OF orethOught
and wide ciTcumspectiOn have been troubled 80 the
actual condition OF things. at the flow OF facts az the
revolutions OF the righteous God IN moral gOyernment
discriminating between right and wrons, virtue and
wee, sin aud holiness.


Now, If tins state OF being is only step In
1OIdlng series We have solution OF the diculty All
the nOWers that to-day DOssOming are ON their way
10 something better than they themselyers on their way
10 fruit When In the of few hours they begin
To fall and strcw tho with Whiteness would any
man-lf he had never seen them m-fOrOear exelamlhs
upon the waste OF much beautyf Why does it bios
som and 40 come To naught Tho perishableness
VI tue lVNer has been tae p2es theme IN every asa Oh
Year: 1874

How many, when meeting with suffer-
ing and want, have regretted that they
did not possess the means to relieve the
distress Of unfortunate fellow mortals.
A ticket in the Texas Gift Concert Asso-
citation at Denison, may make the poor
man wealthy. At least the cost is but a
triAe and no one but can spare dollax
to buy ticket without any inconvepi-
ancn
Year: 1874

How do we know what hearts have
yilest sin.


How do we know?
Whose outward garb Is as spotiess
as the snow.
And many may be pure we think
not 81.
How near to Godthe souls of such have
been.
What mercy secret pcnitence may win


How do we know?
How can we tell who sinned more
than we:


How can we tell?
We think our brother walketl guiltily,
Judging him III self-rigllteo.ls. All,
we'll!


Perhaps had xe been driven through
the he'll
Ofhis untold temptations, we might be
Less upright in our daily walk than
he


How call We tell?
Dare we coAdenn tie Ills that others
do?a.


Dare we condemn?
Their strength Is small their trials not
q few,
The tide of wrong i difficult to stem.
And ifto Us more clearly than to
them
Is given knowledge Of the good and
More do they need our help and pity,


Dare we condemn?
Gold help us all, and lead US day by
day,


Cod help us all.
We can not walk alone the perfect
way,


Evil allures us, tompts us,ssand we
fall.


We are but human and our power
il small /;
Not one Of lis may boast. and not Q
day
Rolls DER our heads but each hath
need to say,


God bless us all?
Year: 1874

Fat beeves are sold 9t Fulton,
Texas, for three cents . pound net,
and the largest portion OF the cattle
are slaughtered there merely for
their hides and tallow. The hide
is removed ID q unique fashion,
The animal is knocked down, the
skin cut around with 3 knife, o
horse is hitChed to the edge Of the
hide and in d minute it is whipped
of, and the whole CaTcase thrown
into an immense steam cauIdron.
It is boiled into . seething mass
and the fat skinned of. This u
then poured into hogsheads and the
bones and flesh are thrown out
About six hundred animals per
day are boiled at Fulton, meat
enough being thus wasted to keep
q good portion Of New York city
supplied
Year: 1874

that they may be trapped into matrimony,
which, BY the way, 10 q most remote contin-
gsncy, their husbands shall only have the sec
ond place in their affections is their declaration.
They care about no one but each other, and
this they render evident by attempting to snub
or treat with supercilious indifference nine out
of every ten people with whom they are
brought in contact. One cannot have q thought
without the other being made acquainted with
it; one cannot get new shawl or a new dress
without the other longing to procure one OF a
precisely similar pattern. Of secrets they pos
sess a countless number, and of each secret
they are C O. posssssors. Traces of these secrets
are ever coming to the surface. You cannot
be in the company of the fair damses for one
hour without being uppleasantly informed that
some people do not think so much of you as
you are in the habit of thinking of yourself,
aud that there are many mysteries in circula-
ton which must be left mysteries SO far as you
are concerned. The love the fair creatures
bear towards each other is often bubblng up,
and a Thousand Ettle endsarments and caresses
are INDUCED in which very quickly enable
people to form an opinion as to the state of
the case. A large portion of the friends"
time is spent In selecting gifts for each other.
The brooches, the charms, the earrings, the
rings, the bracelets they year are ell marks Of
the intense affection in which they are mutu-
ally held. They cannot be separated without


experiencing the keenest pangs and inhicting
an immense amount OF labor Rpon the post


Office officials, for which those fuuctionaries


are, no doubt, sufficiently grateful. All this


would be very beautiful were it not for several


important facts In general was the display


of affection, in its most exuberant develop


ments, is nothing more or less than simple
affectatou 1t is one of the crazss to which
young ladies of sentimental turn of mind


seem to be addicted; and which is invariably
| generated by reading of mawkish books or


some flaw in the system Of education which


has been pursued in reference to them. For


tunately, it does not last long
Year: 1874

Nine persons out of ten ignore the golden
secret OF content; they are constantly striving
after something different from what they enjoy.


We do not deprecate enterprise, but it is the
habit OF constant change that we protest against
the habit OF shifting from one pursuit to
another.


There are thousands of almost penuiless and
disappointed men, picking up q precarious
living at the very extremity of life, because
they have, in the course Of their existence,
tried hundred different things, and aban-
doned all in turn, simply because they did not
succeed at once.


To few men is IL given to do more than two
things WE'LL There 10 scarcely any pursuit
that ii followed out with singleness of pur.
pose. will not yield rich return
Select some useful occupation, stieb TO it,
and success must crown your efforts at last
Choose it now-maks no delay. Don't waste
your time and your strength sad opportunities
by always meaning 10 do something-do iti
Only weakness comes of indecison.
Why, some people have so accustomed them
selves TO this way of dawdling along from one
thing 10 another, that il really seems impossi.
BILE tor them 10 squarely make up their minds
to anything.


They meyer quite know what they mean TO
do next, and thsir only pleasure seams 10 con-
sist IN putting things of as long as possible,
and then Dragging slowly thro Ahem, rather
than begin anything else. 'te


Don't live single hour OF your life without
doing exactly what ia TO be done in il, Qoina
straight through ID from beginning 30 end.
Work. play, study, whatever it is, take hold
at once and finish it up squarely and cleanly
and then do the next thing without letting the
moments drop out between.


1t is wonderful 10 see how many hours these
prompt people contrive to make Of q day: i'll
as IT they picked up the moments that ths
dawdlsrs lost.


And if you ever find yourself where you
hardly know how to begin, let me tell you
secret take hold Of the very first one tha
comes to hand, and you will find the rest al
fall into file and follow after like company o.
we'll drilled soldiers; and though work may b.
hard to meet when it charges in a squad, it il
easily vanquished when brought into line.
Year: 1874

A San Francisco church having lost the COB
let used in the communion service, the sexton
applied to one of the ueighbors for the loan of
beaker After the service, a church mem
ber looking closely at the vessel found that it
had been awarded at at county fair for the
best stallion"
Year: 1874

A young lady from Georgetown came to the
city the other day to have her picture taken.
When the artist showed her the proof and
asked her how she liked it, she placidly re-
marked that he put too darned much mouth
on it to suit her."
Year: 1874

A fellow, who is nearly as big bore as the
Hoosac tunnel, was telling in our Office the
other day OF song that always carried him
away. Quadrat. looking around, gently in
quirsd if any one present could sing that
song
Year: 1874

Harrison county, in common with the
people oil Virginia, had voted by q ire.
mendous majority to reier back to them.
selves any action the convention might
take on the question Of secession, or any
other question before 1t. By more
than one hundred thousand 10 lorty.iVe
thousand the people OF Virginia had or
dered the Convention Of which Colonel
Ban WILSON was 0 member 10 send back
all their acts for final judgment by the peo.
pie. Andyet the people werenot allowed to
vote on the most momentous question that
could be submitted TO them until after the
State had been bound hand and foot, by
Colonel WILSON and others, and placed
irevocably in tho power OF tho rebellion.


Now suppose an emergency was to arise
in Congress, and that our destinies were
in the keeping of such an uncertain guar.
dian as Colonel BEN WILSON, what Sc
curity have the people that he would not
deal with them in the same crafty, calcu-
lating and self seeking manner in which
he dealt with them at Richmond in 1861,


Let no such man be trusted.
Year: 1874

One moro change having been mado in tho
personnel Of the District Of Columbia InvoBti-
Kating Committee, by tho substitution OF Repro
sentative Bass for tho ovorworked Roberts, of
New York, the Committee hold its first mooting
Yesterday. Nothing .was done beyond tho up
pointment OF subcommittee to prepare plan
for the direction Of tho investigation.
Year: 1874

Infallible mad-stones for the cure of mad
dogs bites and also for incipient hypro-
phobia are becoming quite numerous. The
latest one discovered is in Paris, Iowa, and it
Knoxville, Illinois, who was bitten by a
mad dog some fifteen years ago. This mad
stone is said to have already cured five hun ,
dred persons who have been bitten by rabid
dogs. The owner OF such a treasure as this
ought not to hide it in such an out of the
way place as an Iowa country town.