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Year: 1867

bad is not by any means conclusively
proved. 1t is said she had been dis
charged from several places, owing to
her lack Of chastity, but the report comes
from no responsible source.


To be sure, some photographs Of nude
woman, bearing the likeness Of Isabella
Roy, were found in the suicides pocket,
but il is said that they were counterfeits
that is the face Of the murdered girl
had been pasted upon the nude portrait
of another woman; and it is further con-
jectured that the wretch made the coun-
terfeits that he might, through their
medium, poison young Vests mind
against his betrothed. Gregory, It is
known, had frequently, but unsuccess-
fully, tried to induce the young girl to
run away with him hence his object in
poisoning the lovers mind.


But it is all conjecture and surmise !;
the why and wherefore of the whole
tragedy will probably never see the light.
-Cleueldnd Pldindealer, Nou H.
Year: 1867

of islands into which the coasts Of Wash
ington Territory, Vancouver Island and
British Columbia are broken.


There are traditions that on the coast
OF Africa and in the Asiatic seas they
are sometimes met with big enough to
hold a small craft aud take the unhappy
natives out Of their junks The northern
Indians Of our coast declare that their
light canoes have been capsized by these
creatures clasping their arms over the
gunwale, or even fastening their suckers
on the bottom and anchoring themselves
by their arms to the rocks aud drawing
the canoe under water. Then woe betide
the poor fisherman. for instead of catch
ing the fish, the fish would inevitably
catch, crush and devour him.


The specimen in question is furnished
with arms not over seven feet in length,
and each arm is covered underneath
with discs the size of half dollar, and
which operate as boys leather squeezers
Tor suckers) when the brute clasps his
prey. The arms are two oKthree inches
in thickness next to the body, and gone
is the poor crab, craw6sh, mussel, or
what not which comes within its hor.
rible embrace; for not only is the life,
but the very substance, hugged out
of it. This Indigenous fellow has
eight arms, all pure muscle and no bone,
aud horrible looking, devilish red eye
The body is about seven feet across,
round, pulled and pulpy, and the eight
arms all radiate equi.distant from the
body like the spokes from the hub Of the
wheel. There seems to be no crustacea
or moluscacea about it-not even the
beak, which is as hard as ivory and as
sharp as a condor's.
Year: 1867

I6- A Washington correspondent re-
ports, on the subject Of revenue frauds,
that a careful estimate by one of the
most experienced revenue collectors in
the service shows that one hundred mil
lions Of tax due under the present law
viii be lost TO the Government during
the fiscal year, and that while many OF
the present appointees remain in Office
no laws can be made stringent enough
to stop the fraud. One Of the measures
that viii be proposed to Congress is to
prohibit the manufacture of whisky from
molasses This will, it is said, break ur
all the small illicit stills, and give the
monopoly to the large establishments,
which can be more easily watched.
Year: 1867

Ray A rats tail has been made the
subject of scientific investigation. A
savan in Paris amputated one, and hav-
ing dried it under an exhausted receiver,
and again in an oven for about ten days,
he united it to the freshly cut stump of
another rat, and at the end of three
months, if he is to be believed, beholds it
the healthy adopted tale of rat number
tuyn
Year: 1867

Visiting the city would greatly consult their own
interest by purchasing a supply Of this never
failing King Of ChHis. Much time can be
This medicine uproots the disease and so
destroys the cause that II viii not return, as 1t
does when cured with quiuine.
Year: 1867

4 CURIOUS PLACE FOR ,BIRD's NEST.
The Salem Gazette relates that blue
bird built a nest in one of the venti-
lator boxes of a car on the South
Reading Branch Railroad, which
travels regularly fifty miles every day,
but is laid up every night at South
Reading. The bird in due time de-
posted her eggs, sitting upon them
regularly at night, but not, Of course,
when the cars were in motion. Last
Thursday three young birds were
hatched but, unfortunately, a picnic
on the following day required the use
of the c&r, which did not make its
customary stay at South Reading on
that night, and two Of them died IN
consequence of a lack of attention
from the mother. The third, how
ever, is living and doing we'll, al
though the employees on the road
have occasion to turn the ventilator
with slam many times daily. The
old bird has been seen. perched on
the branch of a nelghboring tree in
South Reading, with a worm or insect
in her mouth, awaiting the arrival of
the train with her lonely child on
board. The little Hedgeling is now
called "a bird of passage" and is
thought to be. the most interesting
and welcome dead head" that now
rides over the road by the season.
Boston Journal.
Year: 1867

sib'y, however, they may be here
The necessity for full attendance is
apparent, and it will not be well for
those representatives Who, preferring
their own pleasure to the interests of
the land, fail to lend their aid in the
accomplishment of such measures as
alone can secure peaceful solution
of the vexing question Of reconstruc-
ton,
Year: 1867

We give an abstract of the returns
of ali the armies of the Confederacy
for nearly every month, from the be-
ginning of 1862 down to the begin
ming Of 1964-the entire active period
of the war, saving a few weeks at the
close. The greatest number actually
borne at any one time on their muster
rolls was $4,000, and this was only
when by robbing the cradle and the
grave every male from seventeen to
fifty was enrolled in the army. Half
a million is the utmost nominally en-
relied al. any other period. The great
est number present for duty at any
one time, and that for only brief
period, was 100000; to which should
probably be added a few thousand
rangers, partisans and bushwhackers.
There were not three periods of
month when they had 100000. The
Army of Northern Virginia, under
Lee, was the great strength of the
Confederacy. At only three periods
did it for a month number 100000
men present for duty.-N. T. Tribune.
Year: 1867

UNANIMOUS yERDrcr.-The most rigid
analysis by good chemists have failed to dis
cover nything in the Best Chemical Saier>
atus which can, when properly used, be in
the least degree detrimental to health. While
the women Of our country entertain senti-
ments widely ditreren. upon ether matters,
all concur in verdict that the Best Chemical
Saleratus is the only infallible article in use
for light and sweet bread.
Year: 1867

the new taxes with surprising alacrity and
good humor. How is the change to be ac-
counted for, from the turbulence which pre-
ceded the massacre to the peace which now
regns throughout the country The explanation
is given by our correspondent in his letter. Gov.
Grants administration is rule of justice The
blacks feel that they are safe under has govern
ment which makes no distinction between the
negro and tho white man as citizens. lie Is
determined, he says, to make justice accessible
to all, and to keep all classes in order. lhat
is sufficient for the Jamaica freedman, who has
all along been accustomed to hear that only
niggcrs" required to be kept in order. GoV'
Grant is true man of the right stamp;
like our own noble Sheridan, he evidently pos
scsses a strength of will equal to the task OF
upholding the authority and power of the law
by administering it fcaressly in the interests OF
all. without regard to the color of mems SKINS
or the shape of their heads
Year: 1867

conservatism. lie grOans with reason over the
establishment of Manhood Suffrage; but what
couse of distress have New York men--we do
not care whether they call themselves Repnbll-
cans or Democrats-at that natural, inevitable
consummaton9 If Rebels, with the smell OF
battle still upon their garments, please to side
with the President in his usurpati0ns, and his
prescriptions, and his fawning upon Rebel rem
nants. there is no cause of wonder; but why
should those who profess to be still loyal bow
down and kiss his feetF If the President
hates the Republican party, why
should those who have called themselves by our
name and claimed with us fraternity, desert
us at the very moment OF our m0rtnynS al
Fiction? There can be no answer to these


questions honorable to those concerning whom
they are propoundcd. Mr.. johnson is taken up
or abandoned rs suits their convenience.
Their side of the fence is that side upon when
the crops look the most promising Their con-
seryatism means cash. Their principles have
all pccuniary squint.


We know what we mean when we "ruo
ourselves Radicals, and we are quite prepared
70 take the consequences OF dong so. Meh
who call themselves Conservatives should be
ready to tell us what they desire to conserve.
Is it the old Democratic party with which they
were so scandalously ready to strike hands
That we understand. Is it the tendency OF the
public money to their own private pockctsF we
comprehcnd even that. Is it the management
of n great party by handful OF men who expect
to be roundly paid for their aifectionatc carer
Even this is not inscrutablc. Is it the forgive
ness of sinners before fthey have repentedy
Is it the embracing, and kissing, and crying OF
thc PHILADELPHIA ConventiOnq Is it making
private bargains with our bittcrest opponents
for personal purposcs7 Such conservatism, we
confess. is a little too delicate and metaphys-
ical for us, and it may prove in the end a
trihe too potent even for its professors. The
people Of this State are not in hlim0r
TO be played with for the satisfaction
of any mans greed and leaders
who are missing when they are most wanted,
may do very well as Conservatives, but must
not expect to be rated IA Republicans. Thus
far they have done nothing except make
blundcrs. The Philadelphia Convention was q
blunder of more than IIbernian proportions.
The timid support given to the President was
another The league in this State with the
Copperhcads was "a third, the pretense oil being
this year Republicans, even Conservative
Republicans, is n fourth. At this rate the time
for weeping and wailing and gnashing Of teeth
cannot he far distant. Let 1t come!
Year: 1867

We notice that a Connecticut agricultural
society has been urged by tcmpcrance-loying
citizens to forbid the sale of intoxicating liquor
within its grounds at the approaching fair. The
fact that last wear rum-selling was admitted,
and was one of the features of the occasion, is
so damaging to the Association that no reput-
able citizen should aid or cOuntenance this
years exhibition unless the management is in
this particular radically changed. Instituting n
fair for mutual Improvement, and then putting
the whisky bottle before the sons and daugh-
ters of the county is mild but eiiectual serv-
ing of the devil uner the pretense of progress
and morality.
Year: 1867

The Norfolk newspapers register a most re-
markable circumstance No less than twelve
of those heretofore known as persons of color"
in that city are actually turning white in the
most reckless and anti-Scriptural way. No ex-
PLANTATION is given of this unprecedented trans
mogrifcation. Some suppose that by special
Providence the curse of Canaan is to be taken
off. Others think it q pOrtent indicating the
general upsetting of everything. Others trace
in it an occult effect of registration Mean
while, the twelve are growing whittier and
whittier every day; and if it were not that they
remain unchanged as to their hair and gen
eral physiOgnOmy, this dscOOring phenOme-
non might occasion great embarrassment. 10
is, doubtless a comfort TO the former owners of
these dechrOmatized wonders that the bleach
ing did not begin when they were worth fifteen
hundred dollars apiece, for to have found ones
chattel fading into human being would have
been as provoking as if Mr.. Bonner upon going
TO his stable some fine morning should discover
his recent equine purchase metamOrphosed into
n saw horse When the skin was a commodity
OF commerce, fast colors were of consequence:
and we can imagine a poor patriarch retouch-
ing his expectations with black paint brush
before they started for New-Orleans and
market. But now it is of no importance, and
the cmancipatcd may turn blue if they please
with perfect impunity.


There is, however, one consideration k
which we tremble. Suppose, as the blacks are
turning whites, it should be found that the
whites are also turning black! The one
is quite as likely to happen as the other
Fancy the feelings of Mr. Helper as he looks In
the glass of a morning, and sees himself grow
ing dusker and dusker, with the aggravating
assurance that presently some bleached Ethiop
will be writing book about him! How he
would wash himself, and resort to all the patent
soaps and popular skin medicines. There is no
reason why it might not happen Nature, having
tried her prentice hand on the dark, may ex-
pertinent the light next We advise MIR.
Helper to consult his doctor.
Year: 1867

70 be sure was chokcd with something stronger
than any fsh-bonc. but he is quite as dcau as
ever the Hunchback was, and III u eondlton
that makes it quite as desirable to get rio oi
him. Accordingly, ever since his 22d Oh rep
ruary speech in which he swallowed very large
fish bone indeed. and was carried off insensibic'
thc leaders of the Democratic party, who leit
ipstinctively that he was their peculiar charge,
have been Juggling this unfortunate body from
house to house, depOsiting it with chuckling
laughter on innocent door-stcps, giving IL Il
vicorous punch or two to make 1t stand mp
straight. and fall in handsomely as soon as the
hell was answered, and then running around
the nearest corner as if the devil were altcr
tbcm. The World, in whose house he was be-
inc entertained at the time he died, set the
bodv I'm against Tie Herald Office, but the
edtor. coming in from early morning prayers,
Immediately took the SCENT and sent the thing
by its night porter to The journal Of Commerce,
who was as much shocked to find it there as IL
it had been telegram with news OF RcpuDn-
can victory. Without more ado he dragged
il as quickly as his age and infirmitics would
permit to the door of The Express. the editors
of which. after good many snivehng tears'
ana u lew lCtDlc


balming it, quietly thrust it up the chimhoy'
where. if there were any wit IN the party IL
would be suffered to remain forever. But there
are those who fOolishly think it will get so
thoroughly cured in the chimney that 1t may be
pulled down in time to serve for another cleo
ton. We think no better of their brains than
TO believe they may try it, but we think good
deal better of the brains of our people than to
think any success can attend the efforts oil Il
dead party TO set up dead candidate.
Year: 1867

The indignation of the Italian people at tho
baseness of its Government is bursting forth
in all parts of the Peninsula. There have been
outbreaks in Genoa, Udine, and number OK
other places. The Government begins to feel
alarmed, and the King will issue another proc
lamation convening an extra session OF Par
lament Condign punishment follows sooner
than was generally expected the mean act OF
the Government and fair warning is given to
the coward to whose hands Garibaldi and o
too hopeful people confded, few years ago,
the task of consolidating Italy, that if he
chooses to initiate the policy of the Bourbons
he must prepare himself TO share their fate.
Year: 1867

Queen Victoria has ordered collection Of
all the reviews of the biography of Prince Al
bert. They make a huge volume of incense.
grateful to royal pride and devotion. If the
President might be induced to make n similar
collection of the comments which his Admins
taton has undergone, he would find the task
of reading it just now not so bothersome as
wholesome. 1t would not bo a bad idea col
lect the worlds eulogies of our late President
for his successors especial study.
Year: 1867

The town meetings in Connecticut will be
held in a few days, and the Democracy are
already preparing to carry enough gains to
give them a chance to hurrah. 1t should be
the business of every Republican to see that
they are not gratifed.
Year: 1867

According to a Cable dispatch, the Republican
party in the Kingdom of Greece wishes to
overthrow the rule of the king. establish a
republic under the protectorate of the United
States, or annex her as three States
Year: 1867

This is the last day for enrolling voters IN
Pennsylvania. To be entitled to vote persons
must have either paid a county tax within two
years or be assessed ten days previous to the
day OH which the election is held.
Year: 1867

Arizona papers say the only question OF
pressing interest for the next Legislature will
be the location of the Territorial capital. The
strife is between Prescott and Tucson, and one
OF two other places are ambitious.
Year: 1867

The Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania
has determined to open its doors to women,
provided sufficient number offer to make it
desirable as a test of its benefits. We record
the fact as an evidence of progress.
Year: 1867

A REMARKABLE CLIPPER RACE
The San Francisco Times says: "This
city is the terminus of one of the most
remarkable nautical events on record.
Two first class ships-the Governor
Morton and the Prima Donna-sailed
together from the port of New York on
the 18th of February. They were tow
ed outside Sandy Hook side by side, so
near to each other that conversation
was maintained by the two comman-
ders. Large sums were wagered by
the friends of these ships, on their res
pective favorites reaching this port first.
The racing vessels crossed the equator
in the Atlantic on the same day, al
though not in the same longitude.
They entered the Straits of lie Maire
the same day, and came out of them on
the same day. They crossed the equa-
tor in the Pacific on the same day and
in the same longitude. Both ships ar
rived at this port on the same day,
within three hours of each other, after
a race of sixteen thousand miles. These
facts demonstrate the accuracy that has
been attained in the science of naviga,
ton, and also prove the reliance which
may be placed upon the wind and cur
rent charts prepared under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Maury"
Year: 1867

BUTTER RMAKING.-The Revue d Eco
nomie Rurale states that recent expert
ments made by a French farmer, it ap-
pears that the last milk drawn from a
COW contains ten times more milk
and butter than the first milk
Hence it follows that if, after drawing
eight or ten litres of milk from q COW,
the operation is stopped, and about a
litre left in the dugs, nearly one-half of
the cream and butter is lost. The best
way of making butter, according to the
same authority, is to pour cream in to
a linen bag, then tie it up, and put it


into hole dug in the ground, which is
afterwards covered with earth. There
it must remain for twenty five hours :;
after which, on being taken out, the
cream it found to have became quite
hard. 1t is then crushed in morter
with wooden pestle, half glass of
water being added to separate the but
ter, an operation which does not last
two minutes. No other system of max


ing butter is now employed in N or,
mandy, for there is not only saving
of time and labor, but large quantity
of butter is got out of the cream, and
it's quality is excellent. Some people
put the first bag into the second one,
in order to avoid bringing the earth too
closely into contact with the butter.
Year: 1867

ma. One Of the best things done by the
Board Of Supervisors, was the appropria
ton Of $500 to the Soldiers Monumen,
fund, by a nearly unanimous vote. No acl
Of the Board will be more heartily approved
by the patriotic citizens Of the county. The
Monument is sure to be success. Sub.
scriptions are being taken, and it is note
worthy fact that only few Of those ap
piled to thus far have been found so lost .c
generous and grateful impulses as to refuse
to contribute. Nearly every man in the
county will doubtless give somdAing.
Year: 1867

THE WOODEN MILL.-The stock for the
WOODEN mill is nearly all taken, so nearly
that those desiring to invest in this popular
enterprise would do we'll to make haste in
their application for stock. The mill may
now be considered sure thing, which
should be the occasion for congratulation to
every citizen of the county. It will be
noticed that = meeting Of stockholders has
been called for next Friday at Fireman $
Hall. at 2 a clock p. NJ
Year: 1867

A NEWSPAPER At JEsUP.-We understand
our enterprising neighbors at Jesup are SER
iously agitating the question Of starting
newspaper for the benefit of their progressive
town. We are glad to see this evidence Of
vitality. Nothing gives such character to
rising--or risen-town as a good newspaper /;
nothing contributes so much to its prosper
Year: 1867

CusrsE-Gooi cheese is a rare article in
this market Durham has Just received a
large lot which is pronounced firS class, and
will be sold a, the lowest figures. This is
an excellent opportunity to lay in supply
of really good cheese.
Year: 1867

How TO GER RID OF THE NATIONAL
DEBT.-There are twenty millions of
people IN the North. Ii each one of
these would destroy five cent cur
rency note daily it would amount to
million of dollars in a day towards
the removal of the national debt
If this were done every day for
year it would diminish the debt by
three hundred and sixty y-five millions
Of dollars yearly, which is more than
the whole internal revenue produces.
We know man who thinks 1t is his
duty to burn five cent bill every
day on this account 1t is less than
the tax on a glass Of Whisky.-N.
y Post.
Year: 1867

A COOP ILLUsTRATIeN.-A cores
pondent of the Milwaukee Sentinel
says that the following colloquy oc-
cured between noisy, brawling
Democratic politician and a quiet
observing Republican. 1t hits the
nail on the head, and is too good to
be lost:


Democrat demand to know, sir,
if the States lately in rebellion are in
the Union or out of the Union? just
answer that, if you can.


Republican-The question is well
illustrated in your own personal his
tory. Four years ago you united
with the church here; and, if am
rightly informed, you have been
rather hard member to manage;
and, lately, charges have been pre-
ferred against you for downright
misconduct, and you have been sus-
pended until your case can be ex-
amined, and your fitness for the
membership determined Now sir.
/ demand to know whether you are
in the church or out of the churchi


The Democrat appeared to see the
point and left.
Year: 1867

CARE FOR THE FEET.-Many are
careless in the keeping of the feet
If they wash them once q week they
think they are doing well. They dc
not consider that the largest pores
of the system are located in the bot
tom of the foot, and that the most
offensive matter is discharged
through the pores. They wear stock
ings from the beginning to the end
of the week without change, which
become completely saturated with
offensive matter. Ill health is gene
rated by such treatment of the feet.
The pores are not only repellants,
but absorbents and this fetid matter,
to a greater or less extent, is taken
back inte the system. The feet
should be washed every day with
pure water only, as well as the arm
pits, from which an offensive edor
is also emitted, unless daily ablution
is practiced. Stockings should not
be worn more than a day or two at
time They may be worn for one
day, and then aired and summed and
worn another day if necessary
Scientific American.
Year: 1867

1t was leap year, and she nestled
close to him; daring his fate, he
poured out the full feed of his love
in strong, burning words, and the
merry heart was bound to his, the
tiny form was clasped close to his
arms, The words Of love were echoed
at the ball given in LEAP YEAR.