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Year: 1874

Contrary to the expectation of his
friends, Mr. John Mitchell, the we'll
known Irish patriot, was allowed to
land in Ireland without interference
from the authorities. 1t will be re-
membered that twenty-seven years
ago MIR. Mitchell was sentenced to I'M
prisonment for life on account of the
part he took in an attempt at insur-
rection. Not liking life in the penal
colonies he escaped to America and
has ever since maintained an untlinch-
ing attitude of hostility to the govern
ment of Great Britain. His return TO
Ireland in defiance OF sentence natu-
rally produced a deep sensation, aud
the welcome which he received on his
arrival in Cork expressed truly enough
the esteem in which this unfiinching
opponent of English rule in Ireland
is held by his comp2triots. The
streets of Cork were illuminated by
bon-fires, and a torchlight procession
in which nearly five thousand persons
took part, accompanied 10y bands OF
music, serenaded the returned "felon."
1t was characteristic of the man that
the first words spoken in public were
fierce denunciation of the govern
ment. He admitted that he might be
cast into prison at any time, without
even a pretence of a crime, but con-
soIed himself with the reflection that
every one of his hearers was in the
same predicament. He took occasion
TO Inform all whom it might concern
that he had returned i'm the hope of
being able "to do something effective
in the struggle of his country against
foreign domination" There mEst be
something heroic in the nature of
man who stands thus boldly forward
in defence of what he conceives to be
the right. The indifference to his per-
sonal safety and devotion to his cause
shown by Mr.. Mitchell in voluntarily
placing himself in the power of his
enemies. because he conceived that it
was right that he should dpsO, must win
for him the respect even of those who
cannot share either his hopes or his
aspirations.
Year: 1874

Charles Willoughby, formerly
Of this vicinity, but latterly of the
Office of the PULASKI PEOPLE, has
become one of the editors and
proprietors of the Lee County SEN
TINEL. We arc glad to hear him
everywhere spoken well of and we
wish him all the success on the
SENTINEL which his most sanguiue
friends have predicted.
Year: 1874

to 18th May Of each year.


Any violations of the provisions
of this ordnance shall be punished ID
the manner precribed by the laws of
the State of Virginia for like offenses
except the penalty in each such case
shall be one half of the penalty
designated in the Revenue laws of the
State.
Year: 1874

A GOOD deal can be told of the work.
ings of the mind Of the average human
male by observing the manner in which
ha wears his.hat. He who draws his hat
far down over his head is revolving a des-
perate idea in his mind, he who pitches
his hat forward, low upon the forehead
and high upon the back, is indulging in
self-conceit and oyerestimating his own
importance considerably he who allows
his hat to fall back so that its brim touch
es his coat collar, is Indifferent to the
opinion of others he who cocks his hat
upon one side of his head is bursting with
vanity and wants taking down trihe ;
the man Of good common sense seldom
wears his hat in aLy of these positions,
but carries it lightly upon his head in a
horizontal position. The close student of
human nature can read his man by these
signs and not fail to arrive at very COR
rect estimate Of his individuality.
Year: 1874

A London correspondent thus writes of
q noted swindle of that city: " Boyle
says these fellows often steal whole boat
loads and train loads of coal, and the de-
tectives can't get a clue to them. The
statement appeared TO me so ridiculous
that l supposed my companion to be jok-
ing. He was, however, in earnest, and
he told me the way they did 1t. In the
first place. said he, you know that these
chaps have regular organized society
for purposes of mutual assistance in car
rying out their plans of robbery, or as
sisting each other when they fall into
the hands of justice. Each man is as
signed to particular district, and when
he has made haul there be is transferr-
ed to another. They are all rich, and
VIII never large sum is needed to carry
oat their knayish plans, the money is not
wanting. For instance train of coal
comes into tie city for sale. One of the
gang disguised as a respectable coal deal
er, approaches the man who has the coal
In charge, and after some talk bargains
for it. The same afternoon he comes
with perhaps a hundred coal carts, un-
loads the entire train, whisks off the whole
cargo in two or three hours, and the pur-
chaser, taking the precaution TO be little
late for banking hours, gives his check
in payment, which, of course, on present.
alton the next morning is found to be
worthless. The coal and purchaser is
gone, and it is as difficult to trace the one
as the other. The same thing is done
with boat loads Of coal, for the thieves
have their own barges and employees on
the river as well as on the land. We
have not yet been able to break up this
swindle, though the whole department
has been at work at it,


The whole thing seemed so incredible
to me that l took the next opportunity of
asking another detective about it. yes,
said he, that coal swindle is one of the
biggest things in London. We can't
get at the ringleaders yet, but we're lay
ing our plans for grand haul. 1t may
take two or three years to mature them,
for it is an exceedingly big thing, but
we must thoroughly mature our plans.'


Good heavens = | exclaimed, lis it pos
sible you allow people in London to be
robbed like this for two years before you
break up the gangof swinders p


Yes said he, London is a big town,
and such things go slow, but, / think, in
about two years we shall mature our
plans and make grand haul"
Year: 1874

THEY occasionally get hold of tho
wrong man in Kansas when they're hunt.
ing for horsethief, but they do the fair
thing by the widow. They give her a
lot in the graveyard, buy the coffin, and
march in procession. singing John
Browns body" After that they mako
up purse, buy her a shot gun and two
dogs for her to make living with.
Year: 1874

Has made the most astonishing cures so quick
SO rapid are the changes the body undergoes
under the influence of this truly wonderful
medicine, that


Every Day an Incrense in Flesh and
Year: 1874

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. | Our enemies are outward consciences.

 The great artist is the slave of his ideal.

 Morality is but the vestibule of re- ligion.

 Purity is the feminine, truth the mas- culine of honor.

 What is virtue but medicine, and vice but wound? | There appears to exist greater de- sire to live long than to live we'll.

 We take greater pains to persuade others that we are happy than in en- deavoring to think so ourselves.

 The wheel of fortune turns inces- sanity round, and who can say within himself, shall to-day be uppermost?

 Light as a gossamer is the cireum- stance which can bring enjoyment to 8 conscience which is not it's own &C., cuser.

 Secrecy is for the happy-misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil under thousand suns it dares act openly.

 In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grind ing tyranny by calling himself the people.

 Memory is not wisdom idiots can rote volumes yet what is wisdom with cut memory? A babe that is strangled in it's birth.

 The way to conquer men is by their passions ; catch but the ruling foible of their hearts and all their boasted vir. tues shrink before you.

 The best of lessons, for good many people, would be to listen at keyhole. It is pity for such that the practice is dishonorable.

 Emulation looks out for merit that she may exert herself by victory i; envy spies out blemishes that she may have another by defeat.

 He who freely praises what he means to purchase. and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up partnership with honesty.

 So much are men enamored of their miserable lives, that there is no condi- tion so wretched to which they are not willing to submit, provided they may | 1ivo
Year: 1874

Sleepless people-and there are many in America should court the sun. The very worst soporific is laudanum, and tho very best is sunshine. There fore, it is very plaln that poor sleepers should pass as many hours of the day in sunshine, and as few as possible in the shade. Many women are martyrs, and yet do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses and hearts, they wear veils, they carry parasols. they do all that is possible to keep off the subtlest, and yet most potent, in- fuence which is intended to give them strength, and beauty, and cheerfulness. Is it not time to change all this, and so get roses and color in our pale cheeks, strength in our weak backs and courage in our timid souls '? The women of America are pale and delicate; they may be blooming and strong. and the sunlight will be a potent influence in this transformation. Will they but try it year or two, and rsoblige thousands of admirers :?
Year: 1874

Say what you will, it's human nature to favor those who favor you, and to do it honestly. A liberal advertiser, in reputable business, is always @ good fellow, as mean men never advertise. When you hear 0 man express contempt for the newspapers, set him down as 8 fool. If you want to test him, and prove that he lies, puff him, and see how pleased he will be, and how cordial he will be, and how he will pat you on the back. There is nothing that you could do but what would be forgiven and forgotten sooner than little un- complimentary squib in a newspaper. You may go on all your life saying good things every day about some person without one word of credit; but the first item of reprimand, and all you have ever done is forgotten at once, and you have bitter and relentless enemy from that time. Every person who wants to purchase any kind of merchan- disc will read on advertisement of that merchandise whenever it appears before him. While we believe that every per son engagep in a respectable business should advertise, we also believe it to be the duty of the publisher, everything else being equal, to do what he can, whenever the opportunity offers, to favor those who favor him. For our selves, we always stay by our friends {; and never yet. heathenish as it may seem, forgot an enemy.-Boston Courier.
Year: 1874

This pernicious habit, which unwlse

 parents permit their children to form, is one prolific cause of dyspepsia Tn

 middle and mature life. Every organ

 of the body requires rest, and if this

 demand is not compiled with, derange-

 ment and disease inevitably result. The

 brain and nerves must have rest in

 sleep, tho heart rests between its beat

 ings the muscles cannot work all the

 time, neither can the stomach endure

 perpetual motion. The entire system

 in each and every part is greatly lntiu-

 enced by habit, which, when formed,

 becomes second nature hence the child accustomed to constant nibbling

 of some sweet, demands it, and IS un- satisfied and uncomfortable without it.

 The meals of children, no less than of grown people, should be so regularly served, so skillfully compounded, and there should be such blending of heat producing and muscle-making food, that, after full meal, the appetite should clamor ior nothing until the hour for the next meal comes round.

 Most children love sweets, and, unless restrained, eat too freely of them. Sac charine substances of all kinds contain only heat-producing elements. Persons confined to sugar as their sole diet, perish from hunger almost as soon as those who eat nothing. A child fed upon cake and other sweet foods, which generally contain very little nitrogen ous or muscle-making substance, will soon after eating become hungry again and clamor to be fed. Let the child be gradually and judiciously starved into a normal appetite, and then fed upon bread or oatmeal mush, and fresh milk from healthy COW, with the ordinary vegetables and fruits of the season, and what he eats will be all he needs till meal time comes again.

 Stomach digestion is only part of the process of assimilation. In from two to three hours after hearty meal the stomach should be empty. Mean time bowel digestion is going on, and the blood is being reinforced, not from the stomach, but from absorption by the lacteal glands of those clements of nutrition not eliminated from the food until after it passes into the duodenum and is mixed with the bile and pancre- atic juice. While bowel digestion is going on, the stomach is given chance

 For children about five hours between meals is proper interval, and not un- for grown people, though a longer time may elapse between dinner and supper. The breakfast, many writers on health say, should be the heartiest meal of the day, the dinner less hearty, and the supper light, so that the hours of sleep shall find the entirely at rest.
Year: 1874

This story is from the Worcester (Mass.) Gazette: "Messrs. Clark,

 Sawyer & Co.,, of this city, are much annoyed by the depredations of col ony of large gray wharf rats, which were probably imported ill crates of crockery. Some days since they set trap for them, the trap being of wire, in shape of hemisphere, and holding @ peck or more. Next morning, on go- ing to the trap, it was found entirely filled with bits of straw and paper, which Uttered the floor of the room so full that nothing else could be seen. On examination, however, six large rats were discovered in the trap, and it was apparent that after they were cap tured those outside had thus filled the trap for the purpose of concealing them. The parties in the store sus- pected trick, and the trap was clean ed and reset, and all the litter was re- moved from the floor and piled at one end of the room. The next morning five more rats were found in the trap, and it was packed full of rubbish as before. The straw and paper were broken in small fragments, and it was apparent that the rats had gathered it and crowded it through the openings in the trap until it was full, and the captured ones wereentirely concealed"
Year: 1874

King Caucus, says the New York Herald IS Q very powerful potentate, whom nobody likes. but whom every body endures. He is to a very great extent that source of power which is supposed to reside in hepeople. When a nomination is to be made, whether it be for President of the United States or 8 town constable, it is the caucus which dictates the nomination. How the eau GUS came into existence or how it is composed nobody seems to know, nor very much to care. Indifferent people take no part in the primary political work of a campaign, and the "active, !" politicians, of whom there are never more than two or three in each party late matters to suit themselves. It is not difficult to understand that sys- tenn based upon the will of few men among the many should be sham, and that it's operations, whether in county, State OF national convention, should be very far from expressive of the real will of the people. The caucus system is an irresponsible ty ranny, which is cor rupt as we'll as arbitrary. All this is admitted even by it's friends; but in the practical workings of our politics, it seems impossible to find anything bet ter. The press occasionally takes up the subject, and while the corruption and wrong and tyranny of the system are made plain enough, the way out of the evil does not so clearly appear. Now and then we hear a suggestion which is valuable. For instance, the Taunton Gazette in discussing this sub- iect remarks that |" it is as easy to reg

 ister party voters for a primary as for a regular election, and the party which first adopts this plan will certainly save itself from the imputation that 8 grocery store clique or curbstone gang can throttle hundredfold its number of citizens and compel them to vote for unworthy men or throw away their votes." But before any system like this can come into general use, the cau

 GUS must consent, through county and State conventions organized under the dictation of the caucus. And even then we are not sure that the results would be found to differ in any great degree from what they are at present. The indifference of the best men in both parties would still continue. Po- litical expenses would be largely in- creased, and corruption is always in- creased by the profuse use of money even for legitimate political ends.
Year: 1874

To PURIFY A RooM.-Set pitcher of water in room, and in few hours it will have absorbed all the respired gases in the room, the air of which will become purer but the water filthy. The colder the water is, the greater the capacity to hold these gases. At ordinary temperature a pail of water will contain pint of carbonic acid and several pints of ammonia. The capacity is nearly doubled by reducing the water to the temperature of ice. Hence, water kept in room awhile is always unfit for use. For the same reason the water of pump should always be pumped out in the morning before any of it is used. Impure water is more in- furious than impure air.
Year: 1874

AN APPEAL TO THE WHOLESALE MERCHANTS OF


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS OF A HALF-HoLIDAY.


TO the Editor or The Tribune.


SIR: As the time approaches for the aban-
donment the OF the o'clock closing Sat-
urdays. general among our Wholesale houses
during the months OF June, July aud August. would
strongly urge upon the attention OF all wholesale
merchants the proprety OF continuing this Saturday
early closing during the entire year. for their relief
as we'll as that OF their employees. Merchants
more liberal regard to holidays than in times past
and this will certainly be decided advance toward
practical carrying OF the ofexpessed idea that
Americans need more rest and recreation Certain 1t is
that 10 many tired brain ana weary body these few
hours OF relaxation week would be blessing OF
Incalcuabe benefit. The time has now come
for the effort to be made IN order to carry
ont this idea. Business is stagnant, and
although tue business OF Saturday after 8
o'clock does not usually pay for keeping open
even in busy times the effect OF this new move would
be felt less now than az any other time The strictly
fnancia banking. aud insurance departments Of the
commerce OF this city transact business between the
works from 70 g. and last of ALL we find the clerks In
our mercantile houses working from TIL o. This " "A
very strong poiut in favor OF this movement, word
as TO the character OF this movement. Ii will have
nothing Of the nature OF strike, that natural
OF idiots nor Will there he any attempt to coeree
any one II the merchants can be persuaded 90 unite In
this thing, then will t attain TO ultimate and abundant
manifested the closed doors OF whole
sale house this city Saturday afternoons the
round Furthermore, nothing will be done toward the
accomplishment OF this purpose unless ENCOURAGEMENT
is given by some OF the merchants Themselves, no
matter how few; for 10 would be unwlse 20 attempt
~ proceed without voluntary and kindly
ZION on the part of the employers Cooperation needed
and to this snd woud all who favor the project
10 come forward publicly by card expressing their
agreement with It. and their purpose 10 fall Ia with 10 II
made general Tue few or many names thus nven Will
be taken as "a commencement and committees IN every
branch OF wholesale trade Will call upon every firm aud
epdeayor 70 Obtain their cooperation.


Merchants OF New-York, who will respondf You
merchants who have always said that you would like
do hs could not because OF competitors who would
not viii be afforded opportunity TO prove
sincerity. Let hear from you OF ths results OF this
plan have said nothing. They will amply repay the
Investment; and here let that should
crown our efforts my reward will consist in the
scousness OF great benefit conferred upja my fellow
men through my humble suSoestiols Acs


Nsp- l0rk, Aug, a, ISIS
Year: 1874

The Farmers Convention, which met
at Springfield last week, adopted a long
series Of resolutions and nominated a
State ticket. Ex-Governor Palmer is
said to favor the movement.


The resolutions demand immediate
reform Of abuses in the civil service
oppose any further grants of the public
lands or loans of public credit and Ma
tional, State or local subscriptions in aid
of corporations; demand the repeal OF
the National Banking law, and that the
government should issue legal tender
currency direct from the Treasury, inter.
changable for government bonds bear
ing the lowest possible rate Of interest
the existing railroad legislation of the
State must be sustained and enforced
until thoroughly tested before the courts
and oppose any legislation by Congress
Under the plea OF regulating commerce
between the States which shall deprive
The people of their present. control and
influence through State legislation
They repudiate the claim of the railroad
companies TO the right to FIX freight and
fares independent OF the people, and de.
clare that the right of the Legislature
TO regulate aud control the railroads oI
the State must be vindicated, establish.
ed and maintained as an essential attri.
butte OF State government. The resolu'
tons also condemn the practice Of pub


lie officials accepting free passes from
railroads.
Year: 1874

The day following that which Blaine
lost his temper in the House an Illinois
Congressman said to him "Mr. Blaine.
| am not very familiar with you, aud so
| can not speak as freely as would TO
an old friend. But 7 feel ought to
tell you that you mado n ad--d fool OF
yourself Yesterday" Blaine answered,
with sigh, 81 am afraid did forget
myself Then, breaking into chuckle,
he added; "What kind OF Language
do you use when roproving n man with
whom YOU consider Yourself thorough
ly intimate"
Year: 1874

If your seat Is too hard 20 sit upon,
stand up. II rock rises up before you,
roll it away or climb over it. If you
wish for confidence, prove yourself TO
be worthy of il. 1t takes longer TO skin
an elephant than n mouse, but the skin
is worth something. Don't be content
with doing what another has done; sur
pass il. Deserve success, aud it will
come. The boy was not born man.
The sun does not rise like rocket, or
go down like bullet fred from gun
slowly but surely it makes its round,
and never tires. II Is as easy to be a
leader as q wheel horse. IL the job DC
long, the pay will te greater; If the
task be hard, the more competent you
must be 10 do It.
Year: 1874

The best education one can obtain is
the education experience gives. In pass
ing through life learn everything YOU
can. II will all come in play. Don't be
frightened away from any pursuit be.
cause you have only a little time to de-
vote TO it. If you can't have anything
more, a smattering is infinitely better
than nothing. Even slight knowledge
of the arts, sciences and languages
opens up world Of thought. A little
systematic endeavor, one hour, or even
day, and man may be considered
learned before he dies. Learn thorough
ly what you do learn, be IL ever SO little,
aud you may speak OF II with conf.
dence. A few clearly defined facts and
ideas are worth library of uncertain
knowledge.
Year: 1874

II is a beautiful sight to attend an
Arizona wedding. The bride in white,
the happy groom, the solemn minister,
the smiling parents and twenty-five to
forty shot.guns standing against tho
wall ready for use, make up panorama
not soon forgotten.