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Year: 1874

Thanksgiving for physicians usually
comes after the festival observed, according
to National, State and municipal proclama-
ton, by other good people. The malignant
turkey, the cynical cranberry sauce and the
sardonic sardine wreak their vengeance ON
their too admiring friends. Those who
loved them so much that they could have
eaten them, and did manage to worry no
inconsiderable share, are afflicted by the
COLLINS of the gobblers. Even the persna-
sive pumpkin pie has perhaps to be follow
cd by the pills and seclusion which are fire.
quently advisable after the oysters or the
lobster salad with which, in 'sthe wee, small
hours parties returning from the theatres
wind up the festive day For some little
time the pestle and mortar win daintily
wave. Thanksgiving comes but once
year, but hard on its heels, to console doc
tors and druggists, are Christmas and New
Years. Then again will noses grow red
from the nipping and eager air, and the
steps unsteady from fatiguing admiration
of beyies OF fair damsels, and again the
doctors buggies or sleighs drive merrily
about.
Year: 1874

After the conviction and sentence of William
T. sharkey the murderer Of Robert J. Duan application
was made by his counsel for writ OF error but he
escaped from the Tombs soon after the General Term
Of the Supreme Court decided that hs appeal could not
be heard until he returned and submitted TO the urs
dicton OF the Court Notwithstanding this his counsel
Mr. Beach, applied to Judge Donohue, in the suprime
Court some time since. and obtained By default In the
absence Of the DstrictAttorpey mandamus directing
the Clerk Of the Court OF General Sessions 10 make re-
turn OF the In the The matter came up
again Yesterday before Judge westbrook 10 Supreme
Court Chambers, motion IN behalf fthe District At
torney 90 open the default Mr. Beach consented TO tins
but argued that the te the Clerk was found 70
make q return to the writ and then the ease could 20
General The Judge said That looking ct the
prima fsoe, and without further confederation
he ineaed the opinion that the Clerk had no dis
cretion but shonld obey the order given oy Court OF
competent Jurisdiction. However, ho would look into
the Dsstss tastsss. sad FsssSye hs deeisea.
Year: 1874

An exchange says: Compare the
publisher oil newspaper who has 10 go
all around the country TO collect his pay,
10 farmer who sells his wheat on credit
and not more than bushel to any person.
Ii any farmer will try the experiment ol
distributing the proceeds of his labor over
two or three counties, with an additional
one in two or three distant States for one
year. wo will guarantee that he will
mover, after that years experience, ask
q publisher 10 supply him with paper
year or two without the pay for it.
Year: 1874

The San Francisco Bulletin of the 18th, gives an interesting account of the busi- ness of reducing various kinds of ores in the city. Following is an extract from the article and many of our readers will find it of interest to them:

 The leading sampling establishments Of the city are those of the California Quartz Crushing Company and c. F. Knicker. The process of sampling ore for sale neceS- Sitates nicety that may readily be imag- ined. The purchaser relies solely upon the sample in estimating the value of the ore The ore is sampled in this manner: A certain amount is taken at random from a shipment and spread upon the floor. From this the WOrkmen gather a goodly quantity and run it through a French burr mill. After the ore has been pulverized as fine as meal it is spread out again, and samples are taken up here and there in miniature shovel, which holds about a tablespoonful. A large phial IS then filled and sent to the assayer, who determines the sum the ore wlll yield to the ton. Some ot the ore at the California Company's works has sampled as high as S4,000 per ton in silver. Copper ore sent from a mine in Shasta county is actually metallic, having been precipitated through a solution of water in the vein. The cop per ore generally comes from the mines of California, Montana, Nevada and Ari- zona. Copper is given special promin- ence because it is in active demand. But it would appear that the demand for other ores is increasing, and promises to be per manent. The gold. silver, cinnabar, and lead interests are all looking up, and inn portant shipments have been made from a number Of new mines within 8 few months.
Year: 1874

At several places along the Gila river, road, and the wire hangs so low that the larger freight wagons cannot pass under without coming in contact with it. When one man is with'a large freight wagon, he cannot raise the wire and drive the team, too, and in some of these places it is inn possible to drive out of the road. This is true of place but few miles below Mo hawk Station, and we believe also at Me Gowan's Camp. One day last week a teamster could not drive under the line nor around the place named below Mo hawk, and was obliged to go through it. The next morning, MT. Monroe, stage driver, with some assistance, succeeded in connecting the broken wire but then it hung within three feet of the road ready to be broken by the next teamster who should attempt to pass alone. It is our opinion that the best and only effective way to fix the line at those places, is to put an extra pole on both sides of the road, or putin much taller poles than those in use. Probably the whole line from Tucson to Yuma could be thus put in safe order with twenty extra poles. Of course. a team and a few men would necessarily have to pass over the whole line. We are informed that the line from Prescott to Maricopa was so built with reference to the crossings of roads that not a break has yet occurred at them. A few men with a team could in two weeks so repair the line from here to Yuma that it would never again be brok- en by teams passing under it. From all we could hear along the line, the team sters do what they can to avoid damage to it, and are very anxious to have the sug- gested repairs made. If made, time would in future be saved and the working of the line not be nearly so often interrupted.
Year: 1874

Having full faith in the country, they mean to stay by it until the day of general jubilee shall come, when all can rejoice together in it's peace and prosperity.

 Drop in and examine our stock.

 Exchange sold on all parts of the world. Photographic transfers made with any section of the country.

 A few more of those Don't mention them lea, .'-. ,i, @ r.-.
Year: 1874

Is always supplied with an ample variety of well-coOked food. No exaggeration in this. Stage passengers and travellers by there understand It, and to them all un- acquainted with the fact are respectfully referred for information.
Year: 1874

WASHINGTON, June o.


FIRAECIAL FLUTTER


quite a sensation was created late to-day by
Senator Jones, Of Nevada, making public a
Presidential essay in favor of the Immediate
resumption OF specie payments and The virtual
reputation of the entire legal tender issue In
one year hence AT first no credit was given
to it, and it was set down as hoax got up to
alarm the currency conference committee but
when 1t was further examined into all doubts
OF its genuineness disappeared, and the official
announcement that the members of the con-
ference committee had been to see the Press
dent to get his views upon what he would al
ow to become law, the surprise increased
till at a late hour tonight. 1t is generally
conceded that all hopes of any compromise
are gone, and that there Is no use in further
waste OF time by Congress upon the currency
question,


coEOREsTIoNAL ACTION.


The conference committee met 10 day and
formally agreed to the bill as sent to THE In
QUIRER last night, and were to meet to-mOr-
row 10 have II formally signed allhaying con-
Cured except Mr. Clymer. What will be done
now Is uncertain, but the more currenay men
will probably pass the best bill they can agre o
to- and let the President take the responsible
ty OF vetolng 1t, as he undoubtedly will do any
bill which either house will pass.


POLITICAL PERTURBATION.


Among the earnest Republicans there is no
little alarm at the political situation, now so
greatly imperiled by the Presidents course,
50 surprising to nearly all Of his friends, and
as TO the end no one here can form any con-
lecture.
Year: 1874

INTEREST ON VIRGINIA STATE UEBr.-The
treasurer OF Virginia will be prepared on the
LIST OF July next to pay two per cent. interest
on the public debt. This Is about as much
as has been paid at any one time since the
war
Year: 1874

IPuDllshed by AuthOr1ty.l

 LHOuse Bill No. 15Gl-CHAPTER XVII.

 An Act concerning Tax Liens Bo it enacted by tho Senate and House of Represen tatives in General Assembly conVened:

 Section l. Whenever tho selectmcn in any town shall be of tho opinion that the tax lien upon any real estate shall not be enforced within year after becomes due, thoymay the to be continued for period not exceeding ten years, by recording the land records of the town where the land es with in the year, certificate describing the real estate the amount of the tax, and the time when 1t became due and thereupon such tax lien shall remain upon said real estate and shall draw interest at the rate of seven per cent per annum, and shall take precedence of all mortgages mechanics liens, transfers, attachments cvics of executions that may be made subsequent tO the making of the list upon which such tax is aid and said land may at any time during said period be sold for said taxes ill the same if sold within one year after such tax was made payable.

 Approved, July 8, 1874.
Year: 1874

Paul does not tell exactly what
was the trouble with Timothy's
stomach. He may have had the
dyspepsia, or a cancer, or have
been afflicted with ga goneness."
But old John Pierpont once said
that he never appreciated the rea-
son and wisdom of Paul's medical
advice to Timothy until he travelled
through that part of Asia and tried
to drink the water found there. Il
was so bad that wine was positive
necessity.
Year: 1874

the dead; the one thought of every
man was to get away beyond the
reach of the rebels bayonets and
balls.


When the carriage reached Fair
fax Court House the old man got a
surgeon to attend to his brave boy.
The ball was taken out. The op-
Grafton was very painful, but the
hero did not finch, and when he
was told that he would die from his
wound, "no shadow" it is reported
by those who saw him, "overcloud-
ed his pale cheek, no cloud marked
the serenity of his boyish brow I;
but there, surrounded by the
wounded and dying whose piteous
groans were heard through the
room, with his aged father near to
soothe and comfort him; the white
robed herald claimed him, and
without murmur or reproach his
spirit winged its flight to eternity"


Soon the surgeons and their aids
fed in panic before the rebels; and
the father was left alone with the
lifeless body of his boy. But plac.
ing him on a musket-box lid tn,
bereaved old man lifted the corpse
into his carriage and drove on with
his dreadful load to the Capital.


Those who had seen the brave
hoy in battle had already spoken o.
his courage; and when it wa:
known that the young captain was
dead, a company of the Zouave'
marched to the Long Bridge, ant
escorted his remains to his father
house.


He was buried with military hon
ors in the Congressional cemetery.
1t is added that five of his broth
ers remained in the army, and it il
said that during the war "his white
haired father never permitted al
occasion to pass without being seel
in the van of the fight with hi
death dealing rife"


But the war is over; and there i
no need now of avenging the deatl
} of our brothers whom the rebel
slew. Yet the words of McCool
are a good motto still.


And, in the spirit of young Nc
Cook, let your motto be


81 will never surrender to ,
rebel ~
Year: 1874

A writer in the New York World
says this is the way down east lum-
bermen cook pork and beans, who
eat them twice day for four or five
months each year; Take one quart
of beans first soak, If pea beans,
until they are swelled full; it will
take over night certain; !; if yellow
eyes, parboil until the skins crack
open when blown on with the
breath /; drain off the water, put
about two-thirds of the beans in
the pot; put in about one and one
half pounds of salt fat pork, then
the rest of the beans bake not
less than twelve hours, first cover
ing the beans with hot water. These
are genuine Yankee pork and beans.
The way they are cooked in the
Year: 1874

None but a fool is always right.


We should have more music if
all men were in tune.


Hope lives forever, but her child
rem die one by one.


Honest, plain words best pierce
the ear of grief.


Never turn a blessing around to
see whether there is dark side to
it.


He who makes an idol of his in
terests, makes q martyr of his in
tegrity.


Silence is the safest course for
any man to adopt who distrusts
himself.


Do not neglect doing a thing i'm
mediately good for fear Of remote
evil.


Some men, like pictures, are bet
ter for corner than full light.


Look out for the best aspects of
a man as you do for views in the
country.


Avoid a contest if possible, for
you can never be sure how a con-
test will end.


The last act of baseness-the
tasting of joys that were wrung
from crushed hearts.


A man may be great by chance,
but never wise and good without
taking pains for it.


I've never any pity for conceited
people, because / think they carry
their comfort about with them.
1t always seemed to me a sort o
clever stupidity only to have one
sort of talent-almost like carrier
pigeon.


If there is past in which men
have done i'll, let them have hope
for there is future in which they
may do well.


Great minds, like Heaven, are
pleased in doing good, though the
ungrateful subjects of their favor:
are barren in return.


Difficulties are placed in our way
that we may overcome them, an(
pass through conflicts to victories
and through victories to triumphs
The worst of all hobbies are thos,
that people think they can get mon
ey at. They shoot their money out
like corn out Of sack then.


The world isn't made of pen, ink
and paper; if you're to get on in
the world, young man, you must
know what the worlds made of.


Since the generality of persons
act from impulse much more than
from principle, men are neither so
good nor so bad as we are apt to
think them.
Year: 1874

When a man milks COW, he
should not attempt to smoke CT
gar at the same time. A young
man out in the country tried it
and got along we'll enough until
he lowered his head and toched the
cows flank with the weed. The
next instant, himself and cigar
were dreadfully "put out" The
COW introduced about two tons
wheight into one of her hind legs,
and passed it under the mixers
left jaw. When he ceased whirling
around, and myriads of stars had
disappeared, he said farming was
the hardest work a man could put
his hand to.
Year: 1874

The late John Stewart Mill used
to read Greek when he was three
years old, but there are thousands
of Americans unknown to fame
who could read Greek as well at
three as they could at forty.
Year: 1874

Twelve of the students Of the Augusta
High School-six young ladies and six young
gentlemen-will compete for prizes at pub
lie exhibition in Meonian Hall this evening
Music will bo furnished by Berry's Band
The exercises are free to all and all are in
yited
Year: 1874

The result in New Hampshire IS no
choice of governor by the people but the
democrats have Il majority in the leglsla-
ture and will have the governor and con-
troll of the State next year.
Year: 1874

The spirit manifested toward Governor
Ke,nper of Virginia, by the people OF
Petersburg, because of his veto of their
charter discriminating against colored
people. is an illustration Of the pro-slavery
spirit vet in existence in the South
amongst the white democracy. We hope
the governor will be sustained, but it is
not a pleasant thing to consider that the
legislature sanctioned the wrong. The
eolored people of the southern States must
look to it how by their course in State and
national governments they strengthen All
enemy that would bind them in slavery
again if it were able.
Year: 1874

1t was a surprise to Judge Titcomb that his
name was used in the caucus, on Saturday.
in connection with the Office of City Solicitor.
He knew nothing of the matter until he saw
the report in the Daily.
Year: 1874

Although it is believed that the fam.
inc in India will not be as severe as
was at first feared, yet the public
works are still carried on. The work
men, however, are disposed to take
things easily. A London newspaper
correspondent, writing from Hatee,
says that the people generally had a
haggard, worn and hungry look.


walking along a dusty road, I came
upon a company of about dozen fam
ishing men and youths filling up the
ruts of . well-worn road, under the
superintendent of fine, gentlemanly-
looking Punjaub Sepoy, having on his
breast silver war medal and by his
side sword. These men earn about
ten pice day, equal to about SD. of
English money. With this the lads
might do well enough, but men with
families would have very bare sub
sistence. spoke to one of these men,
who told me he had at home q wife and
two children to support. The prevail
ing prices of food just enabled this man
to provide two very scanty meals for
himself, and one only for his wife and
children. AS L approached Hatee 1
came upon mass of between eight and
nine thousand men, women and chill
dren at 'relief work, which was q
newly made road or bank of earth.


Some of the men who were employed
in cutting the earth for the embank-
ment were in fair condition as compared
with the majority. They were earning
from ten to twelve pice day. For the
purpose of consolidating and leveling
the road, the great majority of the peo-
pie I saw here were squatted on the
bank and beating the road with small
sticks from fifteen to eighteen inches
long. The people sit in rows, being
divided into small gangs numbering
from twenty to thirty. The work they
do is the least possible, and though the
pay given to these people is barely
sufficient to provide food for an adult,
the work done by the people is not
worth one-fourth of the pittance re-
ceived. This has been the fact, be-
lieve, on all the so-called public works."
Year: 1874

A writer in John O'Groaf8 Journal,
describing the exploits of gigantic
Highlander noted for his agility and
strength, winds up his account with the
following adventure in which he (the
writer) took part when boy:


The most astounding feat, however,
remains to be told; but it is no easy
matter to tell it so as to give any idea
of the reality. At the lower end of the
valley of Braemore the river struggles
for some hundred yards through a
rocky gorge of Alpine sublimity. Here
the whole stream is confined between
two rugged rocks in channel some
eight or nine feet wide, just at the point
where it falls some forty feet in one
whole sheet into deep, dark and hide
GUS gulf below the rugged and awful
precipice.


At this place ono cold winter evening
Neil and 1 found ourselves on the wrong
side of the river. It was deep, roar
ing flood that no man or horse could
swim or wade. We had gone far, and
my strength was exhausted, so that
Neil had to bundle me on his back.
How we should cross now was the
question. My Scotch giant proposed a
way. It makes my flesh creep as re-
member it.


"Ill leap the gorge ov8r The falls, if
you won't be afraid"


"I'll not be afraid if you'll keep hold
of me-" said.


Neil scrambled down the rocks till he
came directly over the cascade, which
roared beneath us with the multiplying
echoes CT the precipices around, like
the believing of thousand lions let
loose. Little did L know the nature of
the spot, or else would not have been
carried there by SAINT or sinner.


At last Neil is standing on the very
verge of that laundering cascade, and
meditates leap to the other side! But
first he made sure of his hold of me,
and then, selecting the most likely spot
to alight on the opposite rock, which
was rather lower, he took step or two
back, and then, with all the spring
power of Bengal tiger, shoots across,
and we both alight on the opposite side,
and begin our scrambling exit from this
never-to-be-forgotten scene.
Year: 1874

The other evening two gentlemen
paid visit to a young lady in San
Francisco. When they were about to
take their departure one of them mis-
took an overcoat hanging on the hat
rack for his own, and was about to put
it on, when he felt something in the
outside pocket, which he drew out and
which proved to be a revolver. His
friend was talking with the young lady
and did not notice that the revolver
was being handled. Suddenly loud
report reverberated through the house.
The young lady tainted and was carried
into the parlor by her father, who came
from an adjoining room on hearing the
report. They at first thought that the
young lady was killed, but she revived
before the physician came, and COM
planned of her leg hurting her. On ex-
animation it turned out that tie ball
had struck her IN the left leg, below
the knee, inficting quite On ugly but
not dangerous wound.
Year: 1874

About one hundred and fifty persons,
with dogs, guns, &C., met in the public
square of Union, KY, organized under
the leadership of Mr.. Clarkson, and
proceeded to the farm of J. d. Smith
on Gunpowder, which a vicious wild
boar had visited the night previous.
Here Medoc, noted dog, found the
trail, and the entire pack was soon in
full cry.


After run of more than an hour
through the dense thickets and among
the bluffs, the boar broke cover toward
the open country, with the dogs in hot
pursuit. Here the hunt grew very ex.
citing, the pursuers being frequently
in full view of the chase, and using
their guns whenever they could, and
the dogs (fox hounds) pressing the
game closely, but as yet unable to bring
him to bay. In fact, it was almost cer-
tain death for one to approach him, his
formidable tusks proving such fearful
and deadly weapons of defense that he
had up to this time killed eight out
right and wounded four.


Finally, as he was crossing the Big
Bone. road, powerful bulldog was let
loose, and Immediately attacked the
furious beast. Then ensued desper-
ate struggle. The boar fought as if he
knew that his life was in the balance,
and the dog was equally game. The
latter seized the maddened animal by
the right fore shoulder, and in spite Of
stabs and gashes from the sharp tusks
held on with the tenacity for which the
breed is noted. The hunters coming
up joined in the battle with pistols,
clubs, and stones, and under the at
tack of the combined forces the boar
was at length stretched on the ground,
conquered only in death. On examina-
tion it was found that during the chase
he had received fourteen shots, all in
flicting severe wounds. He weighed
about five hundred pounds, and his
tusks were eight inches in length by
actual measurement.


The chase lasted about four hours,
and q notable feature of the closing
scene was the fact that though the dog
was nearly torn to pieces and his an
tagonist was covered with wounds,
neither uttered a cry during the fierce
death struggle, but both were grim,
silent, relentless, and game to the very
last, and not until the boar was dead
could the dog be induced to release his
hold,
Year: 1874

DR.. Hunt said at recent meeting of
the Warsaw Horticultural Society that


'an absence of fruits implied doctors
bills" We have urged for many years
the Importance of a regular supply of
ripe fruit to prevent disease, and in
sisted that the best medicine-chest
which an emigrating family could carry
to newly settled country would be
box of early bearing fruit trees, cur
rant, gooseberry, and raspberry bushes,
and strawberry plants. We knew a
family who moved West, and took with
them a very large supply of dried fruit,
which lasted them throughout the first
summer. None of them were sick, al
though disease prevailed all about them
that year but the next year, with more
comforts and less privations, but with
no fruit, they suffered much from sick
ness. Other Western residents have
told us that so long as they could have
ripe fruit they have been free from all
disease resulting from malaria. South
ern Farmer.