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Year: 1866

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/. IF man faints, place hin
fiat on his back, and let him alone


2. If any poison is swallowed
drink Immediately half a glass Of
cool water, with a heaping tea
spoonful each of common salt anC
ground mustard stirred into it
this vomits as soon as it reaches
| the stomach; but for fear some of
the poison may remain, swallow
the white of one or two eggs, or Q
cup of strong coffee. These two
are antidotes for greater number
of poisons than any dozen other
articles known, with the advan-
tage of their being always on hand
If they cannot be had, a pint of
sweet oil, lamp oil, "drippings, .
melted butter, or lard, are good
substitutes, especially if they vom-
it quickly.


3. The best thing to stop the
bleeding of a moderate cut instant
ly, is to cover it profusely with
cob-web, or -four and salt, half and
halt.


4. If the blood comes from a
wound by jets or spirits, be spry, or
the man will die in few minutes,
because an artery is severed; tie a
handkerchief loosely around near
the part between the wound and
the heart; put a stick between the
handkerchief and the skin and
twist it around until the blood
ceases to flow; keep it there until
the doctor comes; if in a position
where the handkerchief cannot be
used, press the thumb on spot
near the part between the wound
and the heart; increase the pres
sure until the bleeding ceases, do
not lessen the pressure for an In
stant, until the physician arrives,
so as to glue up the wound by the
coagulation or cooling of the hard
ening blood.


5. If your clothing takes fire,
slide the hands down the dress.
keeping them as close TO the body
as possible, at the same time sink
ing to the floor by bending the
knees; this has asmothering effect
upon the flames; if not extin-
guished, or great headway is
gotten, lie down on the floor and
roll over and over; or better, en-
velope yourself in carpet rug,
bed cloth, or any garment you can
get hold of, always preferring
woollen.


6. If the body is tired, rest; if
the brain is tired, Sleep.


7. If the bowels are loose, lie
down in a warm bed, remain there,
and eat nothing until you are well.
Drink small dose of blackberry
wine or brandy three times a day.


s. If an action of the bowels
docs not occur at the usual hour,
eat not an atom until they do act,
at least for thirty-six hours; mean
while, drink largely of cold water,
and take a dose of Red jacket
Bitters three times q day, exer-
cising in the open air to the ex-
tent of a gentle perspiration. and
keep this up until all things are
righted. This suggestion, if prac-
ticed, would save thousands of
lives every year, both in city and
country.
Year: 1866

Oh! faith, and would like to hug


My darling little Junie Bug,
And kiss her little rosy cheek


Three hundred thousand times week;
But heavens that would make me sick,
And send me 10 bed very quick,


But I'd kiss the crItter often,


If it sent me to my coffin.
She's the loveliest bug that flies
Beneath the great heavenly skies,
Her voice is SO soft and mellow,
That it nearly kills fellow;


Becausa he's sure to hold his breath
Until he nearly meets with death,
For fear he'll make an ugly noise,
And make the critter lose her voice.
Oh. if had golden string
Tied round her arm, I'd make her sing
Like other June Bugs try to do,
Who love to be both kind and true;
And if had heavens power,
She should never again look sour,
But then, instead, I'd make her give
Her word with me to ever live. ALoNzo
Year: 1866

A friend who has tried it, says
the following preparation will cure
Chicken Cholera:


Take one pint of Water and
dissolve in same oneounce Of Al
nm and one tablespoonful of Mad
der. Make up corn meal dough
with the solution and feed your
chickens plentifully.
Year: 1866

Mr.. About says of an avaricious
man, that 'it had been proved that
after having kindled his fire, he
stuck cork in the end of the bel
lows to save the little wind that
was left in them"
Year: 1866

Every youngman is eagerly ask
ing the best way of getting on in
life. The Bible gives a very short
answer to the question: "Walk in
the way of good men, and keep
the paths Of the righteous. A
great many books Of advice and
direction have been written, but
here is the gist of them all.
Year: 1866

I


recent date, makes the following


sensible hit: ,n dr s-,,


We areItold that all must bt


equal before the law; that the


same penalties for crime inflicted


on a white must be inflicted ON {


negro, and no other. Nothing


could be severer on the race to be
regarded as free. Take the vices
of stealing and piliering. All
know the habits of the negro, and


the opportunities he has had and
temptations. He knows little of
the right of property. He has
been accustomed to pick up what
he wanted. The utmost penalty
was a little whipping, and mostly
a rebuke and a release on promise
not to do so any more. Now, APP
ply the law to the negro which is
made for the white man. Is it
just? How many penitentiaries
will it take to hold the number
that will be incarcerated? What
we have said of stealing is appli-
cable to other crimes that might
be mentioned.


1t is zealously urged that the
negro be allowed to give testimo-
ny in court. Shall he be subject
ed to the same pains and penalties
as white man if he swears false
ly? Where the negroes are few
and have long been free in the
states, an enormous proportion of
them get to the State Prison.
How will it be where the numbers
of this class are very large, as it is
in the South When races are so
different physically, Intellectually
and morally, is it not absurd to
consider them as alike responsible
to law, and subject to the same
penalties for crimes? In a state
Of slavery the mites OF this
race were overlooked and forborne
with. They suffered but slight
punishment for crimes that would
lave sent white men to the peni-
tentiary. They are no more fit
for the responsibilities that the
criminal law imposes on white
men than they were before, and
the law that makes them SO is
more cruel than just.


The following is q certain cure
for collie in horses. | have seen
it tried dozens of times, and al
ways with success. / am sure it
will save any horse, if my direc-
tions are followed: Dissolve one
pint of salt in a pint of hot water
then add a quart of good vine
gar, and pour half the mixture
down the horses throat. If the
horse is not well in half an hour,
give him the remainder, and you
will soon find him all right.


Anintelligent farmerinforms us,
says the Index, that within an
area OF eight or nine miles in a
section of prairie not far from Co
lumbus, Ga. there are between ten
and twelve thousand acres of land
to be left uncultivated by owners
this year. Farms that before the
war could be kept in operation
with twenty hands. now require
fifty laborers to dc the same work.


The Athens (Ga.) Watchman
of the 18th inst. says although the
very cold snap some weeks ago
killed everything green, the wheat
crop of this section now gives
promise Of doing well. The "stand'
appears to be good, and notwith-
standing its backwardness, we
think there will be a heavy yield
this year. 9zs Te asoi'
Year: 1866

Keep where moderately warm, and add at
each N king Tor once day. littleliot milk
Heat the milk iii almost 20 the boiling point
heit IT fresh from the COW. The quantity is
about a pint to paloful at each milking.--
Tie effect Of this IS 10 prevent the cream from
turning bitter the buttermill, will he as sweet
and fresh az in summer. and The butter ia con-
sequence will be better than without this treat
ment. We have this FROM an Old, experienced
dairyman, who has practieei It for maay years,
and we are personally known to tlIc excellence
Of the practice. 1t is point hat should be
known-for there is much bad butter made in
winter and butternilk unfit for use.
Year: 1866

In order TO Judge of the qualities Of good
mich COW, the shape and size of the animal in
whole and detail should be considered, the tenn
perament and disposition, also the strength of
the constitution. If these points are well de-
veloped the cow will generally prove to be
first class mixer. Cows that "hGndle well I"
are always to be preferred for the dairy, as it
indicates good milker in a cow, whose skin
is somewhat loose, and that will spring when
pinched with the forefngcr and thumb. The
thigh veins should be large, easily felt with the
hand. and the udder should be capacious. 1t
makes great deal Of difference in amilch COW,
whether She be mild and gentle or not, for the
milder COW is the more milk will she give;
therefore. in Judging COW, look out for mild
eye, and placid expression Of face.
Year: 1866

"That seat is occupied, said a bright eyed girl
at the hotel table to n man who was about to
take it. OCCUPIED !'he growled; "wheres his
baggagep With a saucy upward look at him,
+" I'm his gaggage," she said. And this brings
me to say that if you are going on long jour
ney in the regions where it is ''frst come first
served" the most desirable piece of baggage
You can take with you is not a hat-box or
blanket, but a woman. If you have none,
then marry one, for You are not thoroughly e.
oupped for the road till you do. When din
ner is ready you follow in her blessed wake,
and are snugly seated beside her, and exactly
opposite the platter of chickens, before the hir


suite crowd ,womanleSs as Adam was till he fell
into a deep seep,are let in at all. There you
are and there they are. You twain-one, with
the two best chairs in tie house, served and
smiled on. Look down the table at the unhap-
py fellows some Of them actually bottoming
the chairs they occupy, and the arms and
hands reaching in every direction across the
table like the tentacula Of q gigantic polypus.
When night comes and with a border tavern,
it is not you that shift uueasily from side to
side on the bar-room floor. If there is any
best bed she gets it and you share it. You


follow her into the best car she is first in the
stage coach and you are too. More than that,
a woman keeps YOU "upon your honor you
are pretty sure to behave yourself al the way.
Year: 1866

UNIoN OF CHUGCurS.-The two Methodist So
cictics in Harrisouburg, Va, have been merg-
ell into one body,and have placed themselves
under the pastoral care of the Baltimore Con-
ference Of the Episcopal Methodist Church
This union was fully accomplished last week,
when the two societies met together in spirit
of cordial fraternity and blended in one. The
interview between these brethren of the same
family who have 50 many years been separated
and eStranged from each other, although liv-
Ing in the same town, was full Of touching in
tprpSt
Year: 1866

If we would have powerful minds we must
think if we would have faithful hearts we
must love; if we would have muscles we must
labor: and these ethree-thought love and labor
include all that is valuable in life.
Year: 1866

DR.. La Force, of Agency, married Miss
Dudley. last Thursday, and the happy couple
started on their bridal tour. They arrived at
Burlington, and tool, dinner at the hotel


The fair bride never looked so lovely, and
the heart OF the husband was joyful. While
they were seated at the table, the face of the
bride suddenly underwent a change; the
checks grew pallil, and the eyes stared wildly
around. The Doctor Immediately noticed the
horrible transformation, and caught her in his
arms But affection was powerless to rescue.
The poor man soon discovered that he was
holding in his embrace a maniac wife. With
out a prcmonitory symptom, she had thus sud
denly become insane. The Doctor returned to
tie Agency the next day, bearing with him
the wreck Of his own beautiful young wife,
OHUmua lb,cG) HercHy.
Year: 1866

Sir Peter IAly made it a rule never to look
at bad picture, having found by experience
that when ever he did his own pencil took
hintfrom it. Apply this 70 bad books and bad
company.
Year: 1866

OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE INVESTMENT OF CAP,TAI-
1t should not be supposed that mines and mining offer
the only opportunities for making rapid fortunes in
this Territory. There many other WAYS of invest


ing money which should be noticed There are now
excellent opportunities for starting foundries and
machine shops at Virginia, Helena, Blackfoot and
Bannack and any such establishments would have
all they wanted to do and very high prices for their
labor A plumber would find constant work. and
material is now pentifully produced in the Territory
Agriculture and stock raising offer huge profits.
Droves of cattle, young specially will Weld
large return, to Western farmer where beef sells
readily at twenty cents per pound and pasture of the
hnest kind Is to be had for nothing As for the
raising of grain and vegetables it need onlv be
said that wheat will surely fetch $40 per bushel that
the SOIL is very rich, and irrigation matter of little
labor Potatoes, cabbages and turnps fetch bv the
pound, about as much they do by the bushel in
Illinois and the rural parts of the Western States
and the profits on cargo of good seed wheat, oats
barley or peas, from Iowa, Canada or Minnesota.
would be a fortune. The manufacture of agricul
tural implements would also pay amazingly we'll.
and for such articles there would be a constant
demand. few men understanding chemical tan
ming, and coming provided with the necessary tools
and drugs would make money as fast as they wanted
These are only few of the ways of amassinc wealth
out there are millions of dollars in them beyond
perae'enture The only thing to be- noticed is that
the first corners will make the most money
Year: 1866

THEATsIcAI.--We see that Edwin Booth has again
appeared upon the New York Boards, trusting that
the discriminating justice of free people will not
visit upon him the guilt of his brother. crowded
house greeted his appearance No stain attaches to
his personal character, either for opinions which he
did not share, for crime in which he had no par
ticpation, and which was abhorrent to his nature
The members of the theatrical profession in this
city feel deeply the subject and resced that
the public verdict justly frees their profession from
the stigma cast upon it by the act of unworthy
member. As it is not customary to blame the eleven
Apostles for the sin of Judas so should no disgrace
attach to the rest of the profession to which Wilkes
Booth belonged.
Year: 1866

ROAD re THE STATEs-Our readers will n,,cb
rJoice at the news conveyed by the dispatch which
appears an our telegraphic abstract to-day,


Ing the intended opening of the road from Minnesota
TO tMs Territory, and the rebuilding of the military
posts now dts,nantled destroyed. We expect that
our neighbors of Minnesota Iowa and Illinois
especially, will be gratifed at this announcement
market for their surplus grain Is being opened up
tnat VIII lse their prices to degree which no pos
ioie improvement of Eastern lines of communica-
ton could effect 1t is clear that Britain will always
draw her main foreign supplies from the Western
states. The price will depend on the competition
ana demand In the Western market. Now for all
tne TO come, no such ridiculous figures as ten cents
ouShel for corn need be thought of, with n good
road to place where it will readily bring from
twenty to forty times that price, clear OF eypensa
according to season. As far as we are ourselves
concerned the opening of the road is of incaculabe
Importance. An emigration, of the kind wanted
Will be certain to follow the short and practicable
route by which the troops will move; and, before
next winter, we expect to the mails running ON
thls lne General Grant, the author of this pIan is
well named Ulysses, for wisdom and vaIor are both
combined In the mental organization of this EXTRA
ordinary man, who having won his laurels in the
contest for freedom and the Union, now seeks to
Keep them ever green In the sight of grateful peo
pie, oy providing the means for paving the cost of
victory lie points no longer with his sword to SER
lied ranks OF opposing enemies but his eve is fixed
on the setting sum- he bids his soldiers follow the
path to those rugged mountains. the inexhaustibla
Treasury where lies the golden remedy for the ills
that attend and follow national war.
Year: 1866

I


Newspapers from one end Of the coun-
try to the other, villifed him, and their
editors at the same, time were holding
public office. They were now keeping
out loyal APPLICANTS from the Souh; they
are pursuing the exact policy which Mr..
Lincoln said would distract and unhar-
monize their friends in the South. What
right would they have to appeal to the
South for assistance in case of difficulty
with France or Austria ? This Mexican
complication will have to be settled and
our own differences should be settledfirst
The Committee on Reconstruction have
brought in plan which is not recon-
struction. but obstruction. The people
want peace, and are resolved to have 1T.
e THE TAX ON CoTToN.-Referring to
paragraph in this paper on yesterday
in regard to the tax upon cotton, gen
tleman has said to us that the tax would
not ultimately come out OF the pockets
of the planter, but out of, those OF the
consumer, and therefore would not in
lure the former. This would be the
true view of the case if no cotton were
raised outside of the southern States,
and if all persons who raise cotton could
be made to pay the tax. But under the
circumstances which actually exist, the
planter will be very much injured by
the tax. He has to compete with the
planters in other cotton countries, and
the tax of five cents per pound levied
here is protection to these competitors
to that extent. Moreover, the increase
of price caused by the tax diminishes
consumption, and diminished consump-
ton, in its reaction, brings down prices.
Besides these results, there are thou
sands of men who will manage to buy
cotton tax free and never pay the tax.
They will compete with the honest plant
er, and they, too, assist in reducing his
net profits. The tax, too, will stimulate
production outside of the United States;
while if there were no tax the Southern
planters could soon monopolize the mar
kets ofthe world. With the same chance
they had before the war, they would
soon distance all competitors /; but with
so heavy tax bearing upon them they
will not be able even to "hold their
own"
Year: 1866

ALEXANDRIA, May 18.-The Episcopal
Convention to-day adopted by vote of 90
against 18, a preamble and resolution that
the Diocese of Virginia do now resume its
former ecclesiastical relations as a, Diocese,
in connection with the General Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the
United States
Year: 1866

Hence intelligent and reliable men are sought
to be designated in those acts They are ex;;
peeted by the Legislature to exercise sound
discretion as to whether the charter can safely
be carried into effect They are not compelled
to be the unwilling assistants Of city sharpers,
but are the protectors of the business and fair
name of their town and community. As such
they will be sustained in che bold and manly use
of their discretionary power. A CITIZEN.
Year: 1866

A NUIsANCE.-Th New York Board of
Health, in their chOlera-preventive researches,
have discovered that one of the citizens Ofthat
place, who resides near fifth street and Seventh
avenue, asks for no better accommodation than
is afforded by barrel and few pieces of old
carpeting, spread upon the rocks in that re-
gion. He also subsists upon dead rats and
cats, and does many other unusual things, the
whole Of which have so astonished the Board
Of Health that they have proclaimed him a
after this fashion was thought to be emble-
matical of superior intellect in the olden time,
but it seems the New York Board of Health
does not recognize its merit when the cholera
is about.
Year: 1866

What pleasant smile lights up the counte-
nance of both ladies and gentlemen when the
thought flashes across their mind that they can
get such goods as they desire for dress by step.
ping into the Dry Goods store of Baggs& COttoni
Year: 1866

Salt water trout, or weak fish, have been re-
tailed in Milford the past week at Is cents a
peck, or GO cents per bushel The price of
them at the beach, just as they are taken from
the seine, has ranged from Is to 20 cts per
bushel
Year: 1866

DECEAsED.-Captain Wilmon Whilldin died
suddenly at his residence in Philadelphia, OF
an attack of Apoplexy, last Wednesday even
ing Capt W. was well known in our State,
having been engaged in the steamboat bust
ness on the Christiana and Delaware up to
within the past few years, for a long time
The flags on the shipping in the ports of the city
of Wilmington were placed at half mast as q
token of sorrow at his decease. He was in the
63d year of his age His funeral took place OF
last SATURDAY..
Year: 1866

On our route homeward, we halted at
epot where novel scene once occurred, and
which was described by an individual who
witnessed it when boy Near very small
fountain, which was shown to me, stood
camel thorntree 1t was stiff tree, about
twelve feet high, With fiat, bushy, top
Many years ago, the relater, then boy,was
returning to his village and having turned
aside to the fountain for drink, lay
awoke by the piercing rays of the sun, he
saw, through the bush behind which he lay,
giraffe, browsing at ease on the tender shoots
of the tree, and, to his horror, lion, creep
ing like cat, only dozen yards from him,
preparing to pounce on his prey. The lion
eyed the giraffe for few moments, his body
gave shake, and he bounded in the air to
seize the head of the animal, which instant
ly turned his stately neck, and the hon, miss
ing his grasp, fell on his back in the centre
Of the mass Of thorns, like spikes, and the
giraffe bounded over the plain. The boy in
stantly followed his example, expecting, as
matter of course, that the enraged lion would
| soon find his way to tho earth. Sometime
afterwards, the people of the village, who
| seldom visit that spot, saw the eagles hover
| ing in the air, and as it is almost always


certain sign that the lion has killed his game


or some animal is lying dead, they went to


the place, and sought in vain, till coming


under the tree, their olfactory nerves direct


ed them to where the lion lay dead in his


thorny bed. still found some of his bones


under the tree, and hair on its branches to
convince me of what scarcely could have
credited. The lion will sometimes manage


to mount the back Of giraffe, and, fixing


his sharp claws into each shoulder, gnaw
away till he reaches the vertebre of the neck


when both fall, and oftentimes the lion Is
lamed for his trouble. If the giraffe hap


pens to be very strong, he succeeds in bring


ing his rider to the ground. Among those
we shot the healed wounds of the lion s


claws on the shoulder, and marks Of his teeth


on the back of the neck, gave us ocular dem


onstration that two Of them had carried the


yet come off triumphant