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Year: 1879

A TYRoLIAN CoURTING CusroM--
The Tyrolese observe a singular custom 10
making proposals Of marriage. The first
time young man pays visit as an
avowed lover, he brings with him bottle
of wine, Of which he pours out in glass,
and presents to the object Of his desires.
If she accepts il the whole affair Is settled.
Very often the girl has not yet made up
her mind, and then she will take refuge
in excuses SO as not to drink tho wine, and
yet not refuse him point blank, for that is
considered gross insult, proving that she
had been merely trifing with the affections
Of her lover. She will, for instance, main
tain that the wine looks sour, or that vine
disagrecs with her, or that she is afraid of
getting tipsy, or that the priest has forbid
den her to take any. In fact, she makes
use Of any subterfnge that presents itself
at that moment The purport Of these
excuses is that she has not yet come to
decision, and that the wine offering Is pre-
mature. Shy lovers find this custom
singularly happy institution,
Year: 1879

TnE NOISE OF THE FIsaER.-In the
current number of the "Medical Record .
Dr: Hammond says when you poke the
end OF your finger in your car the roaring
noise you hear Is the sound Of the circn.
lation in your finger. Which is fact
which anyone can demonstrate for himself
BY inst putting bis fingers in his ears, and
then stopping them up with some other
substance. Try il, and think what won
der Of a machine your body is, that even
the points of your fingers are such busy
workshops that they roar like small Mia
CARA. The roaring is probably more than
tho voice Of tho circulation cf the blood.
IL IS the voice Of all the vital processes
together--the tearing down and building
up processes that are always going forward
in every living body, from conception "a
death.
Year: 1879

Parents cannot he too careful in guarding
the health of their babies. Only good and
reliable medicine should be given to them.
DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup is known not to CON
tain ANYTHING ininrious.
Year: 1879

There are three things which
nobody can do without--money,
buttons and the baker.
If the'sm strikes you on the
right check say nothing about il
i'm other words keep shady.


When two girls meet, they
kiss. When two young men
meet, they don't. That shows
who likes kissing the best.
The young lady whose lover
wrote that he was doing duty on
the tented field, afterward ascer-
tanned that instead of fighting
Indians he drove a team for q
circus.


According TO medical author
tiles, kissing is dangerous. And
never more so than when the old
man pops into the parlor and de-
Itects an obnoxious young man
and his daughter in the act.


A loud crash in the suburbs
the other night, which awakened
and frightened the neighborhood,
was ascertained to have been
caused by the fall Of All editors
pocketbook from the bureau to
the floor
Year: 1879

Never exaggerate.


Never point to another.
Never betray a confidence
Never wantOnly frighten 9th
ers.. %
Never leave home with an un.
kind word.


Never neglect to call upon
your friends.


,sNeyer laugh at the misfor-
tunes of others.
Never give a promise that you
do not fulfil.


Never send a present hoping
one in return.


Never speak much of your
own performances.


Never fail to be punctual at
the time appointed.


Never make yourself the hero
of your own story.
Never pick the teeth or clean
the nails in company.


Never fail to give a polite an
swer to a civil question.


Never question a servant or
child about family matters.


Never present q Gift saving
that tits of no use to yourself.


Never read letters which you
may find addressed to others.


Never fail, if a gentleman, of
being civil and polite to ladies.


Never call attention to the
features or form of any one



Never refer to a gift you have
made ora favor you have rem
dered.
Year: 1879

A lightning rod peddleP was
struck by lightning in Indiana
while seated on his wagon, dll-
ring a thunderstorm, talking TO
a farmer through his window try
ing to induce the farmer to let
him rod the barn. It was the
largest funeral ever seen in In
diana. People went miles to see
the deceased. They couldn't be-
lieye it until they saw it with
their own eJes.
Year: 1879

One of the disagreeable feat
ures about being near-sighted
is that a man is in danger of TAX
ing his wife for another woman,
and being polite to her.


A prohibitory liquor law is en-
forced SO rigidly in Worthington,
Ind, that a communion service
was lately celebrated with cider,
the sexton having been unable
to procure wine.


"It is for you TO say" said
Judge Butler of the United
States District Court to a Pfila-
.delphia jury, whether q man
who plays poker for money can
have a good character"


A Michigan girl coaxed her
lover to take her buggy-riding,
and the horse ran away and kill
cd her. Showing this paragraph
to the girls viii be thousands of
dollars in the pockets of our
young men.
Year: 1879




A dignitary of the Church was din
ing out. Of the two ladies between
whom he was seated the one on the
right-hand side was an intimate &C
quaintance, and noticing that her dis
tlnguished neighbor was silent and
preoccupied, said to him, sotto voce !:
81 am afraid you are not very we'll
this evening you do not seem in your
usual Spirits "Well, said the digni-
tary, II am in rather a nervous state
of mind about my health, and have a
sort OF presentiment that a serious
illness is hanging over me. l am
conscious of peculiar numbness all
over my right side, which seems to
forbode an attack of paralysis" His
fair companion expressed her hope that
such, fears were i'll founded. "Ah,
ro,' he replied, ''Pm afraid there's
no doubt of it, for have been pinch :
ing my right leg all diDnerStime, and
can elicit no responsive feeling what
ever. The limb seems quite dead to
all feeling" ''Oh,' exclaimed the
lady, briskly, and with an expression
of intense relief on her face, ''If that
is all which troubles you, I think
I can at once relieve your mind from
anxiety, for the leg which you have
been pinching all the evening is mine
Year: 1879

Shelbyville Commercial Savage


crat.


The Tobacco. Leaf wants to know If
''the Democratic party of Tennessee will
shoulder the result of the late election"
AS a matter of course it will. The
Democratic party hy an overwhelming
majority, with all it's former leaders
arrayed against it, effected the result,
and they intend to enjoy the fruits
thereof. They are not going to fold
their arms in mastery inactivity and
sit down and see these men take pc
session of the State government and
enact laws that will grind them in
the dust The Democratic party will
see to it that the next Legislature will
be composed of men who will repre-.
sent majority, not only of the Dem
ocralic party, but of the people of the
State.


The Democracy of Tennessee have
been ruled and governed by few men,
they are now going 10 take the matter
into their own hands and make their
own selections Of men to represent
them. They will not submit to the
dictation of heretofore promin-
ent men, who in the late con.
test arrayed themselves on the side
of the mOnied power Of the land.
They will have to stand aside until
they have brought forth fruits meet
for repentance.
Year: 1879

Is Knoxville to follow the lead of
Memphis AMI have her creditors sue
out a mandamus in the United
States Courts, or will she levy special
tax to pay her obligations now due
In the end, the result will be tue
same, aud it will be much more to her
own honor to pay them without COM
pulsion. The time has come when
the matter must be decided, and there's
no use of standing idle. It's not q
popular thing to levy special tax, but,
nevertheless, it must be done.
Year: 1879

WHAT have we come to when q
crowd of roughs, claiming to be the
representatives OF political party can
90 into the White House and insult
the President and into the Treasury
Department and threaten its spolia-
tjOn
Year: 1879

WE regret to hear of the death OF
Gen. Jno. B. Hood. The death of his
wife was announced several days ago
A large family Of orphan children are
left to the tender mercies Of q cold
world. Two more Of their daughters
are seriously i'll and will perhaps not
recover
Year: 1879

WE failed yesterday to speak Of Gov.
Marks proclamation calling upon the
people of Tennessee for aid to the yell
low fever sufferers in Memphis. The
voice Of humanity calls and the people
will respond. Something should be
done in Knoxville at once. We do
not deem 1t necessary to enter into any
lengthy appeal to our people. We
know that they are ready to do
all in their power to relieve suffering
humanity.
Year: 1879

The fight between Sam TiIden and
Tammany goes briskly on. 1t is
everything for Tilden, because if he
does not carry his State he is left out
in the cold in the Presidential race.
If he nominates and elects his man
Robinson the thing is settled, and
''Tilden and reformn will once more
be among US.
Year: 1879

demand no less than this on the part of every
citizen, according to opportunity.


The Advocate suggests that inasmuch as
the federal government is powerles' TO
protect these preachers and teachers from
the mobocracy of the South, but can pro-
tect the citizen of a foreign country. it Is
proposed to obtain preachers and teachers
from Canada and England. who can inss
woke the protection Of a foreign flag and
secure safety thus indirectly by the inter-
position of the federal government. In
this connection it may bc suggested to
Senator Hill. who claims that the demo.
cratic Congress did so much for lhe liber-
ty of the people by refusing to make APP
preparations TO enforce the laws. if il is
not time that such Influential men in the
South as himself should take some means
to 90 enforce the laws that citizen shall
be secure in exercising the right of suif-
rage and in teaching and preaching what
he believes to be an essential truth.
Year: 1879

From the Albany journal.


The first six months of resumption
make good showing at the clearing
houses, the total volume of exchanges as
compared with the same period last year
being one-fifth larger. The increase in
New York city is even one-f fourth higher,
Boston standing next best. As the Pacific
Coast adhered to the coin standard during
the long period of imitation of course re-
sumption made no special impression up
on exchanges there. Southern repudia-
ton checked any revival in New Orleans
and other Southern cities. Disastrous
grain speculations have also had bad eff
feet upon some of the Western cities. To
Judge, however, from the turn of affairs
since the first OF January, I'VE are entering
upon more prosperous times in which the
great grain growing States and New York
city as the financial centre and leading
enterpot of Western products will reap
the greatest benefits But as what helps
one section will by the reciprocal action of
commerce help other sections the benefits
must become general Prosperity in the
West means greater demand for the man.
ufactured products of the East and hence
greater activity all along the line of trade
and business.
Year: 1879

There is not a little talk here among the few stay at-home fash ionables, those who either have not the means or inclination 10 leave the capital, about the failure of Carl Schurz to win one of the eleven daughters of Secretary Evarts. Schurz has been very devoted all winter to the fair one. and 1t baB been the much talked of coming event in high fife, but 1t seems that 1t is not to come after all. There IS all ugly rumor that Carl has been too devoted to one of his far country women. a sweet singer who, 1t is said, has been provided w;th a sine enre in one of the departments, and that this story coming to the ears of Miss Eyarts the secretary of the interior was asIsnubbed.
Year: 1879

s'We have quit tryIng to sympa- thize with the man who takes ten- cent cigar out of his mouth to teil us that the weather has ruined his wheat. that be don't suppose corn will be worth anything, shat taxes are all-fred high and nmes toe hard for 8 man to pay four cents per week for a newspaper.
Year: 1879

WE present TO our readers this
morning the mes essage of Gov. James
d. Porter to the FOrty-first General
Assembly. II treats Of a great many
questions OF interest to Tennesseeans,
but the question of paramount inter.
est, IS be says. is that of the State
debt. The general remarks of the
Governor on that subject breathe the
true spirit. There Is no question about
the ruinous effect Of reputation upon
the material welfare of the State. 1t
will damage our reputation for honesty
and bring loss in collars and cents,
amounting to many times more than
the sum repudiated.


The Governor states that PROPOSE
ton has been made for COM
promise of the debt ut fifty
cents on the dollar. The source
from whence this proposition came,
has never appeared clearly, and
we have never been convinced that it
came in 3 way which commends it
to the consideration Of the Legislature.
The Governor throws no new light
upon it. If it is bona .fds PROPOSE
ton from an authoritative source, it
ought to be accepted, as 1t is certainly
as liberal as could be expected. The
proposition for compromise st sixty
per cent, we are satisfied, came from
an authoritative source, and we have
always favored its acceptance. Let
the matter be carefully investigated
Dy the Legislature, but whatever we
do' DO not let it be said that we have
OulIdozsd our creditors into q compro-
mise at low figures, which they accept
because they think it is that or moth
ing.
Year: 1879

CAPT. COTTRELL, the new Chair
man of the County Court, was Union
soldier in the late war, served one
term as County Register since the war.
and is a worthy gentleman in every re-
spect. He will make an efficient
Chairman.
Year: 1879

1t was predicted by some, and the indica-
Autumn, but the facts so far do not bear out
the prediction. To this date the affections
arising from Malarial influences are less than
usual. In conversation a few days ago with
member of the manufacturing house in
of quinine manufacture we were told that the
demand for that product has been less this
year than for a long time. The great Objec-
ton to this certain antidote for malarial
diseases has been the high price, but this is
being g SPyPSd S5 not Ga5y Ry the The Tang Of


few manufacturers, but by new and less ex-
pensive preparations. Cinchonidia, which has
| four ffths the strength of quinine and only a
| little over one third the cost has almost sup
planted the latter in its use in febrile diseases.
| There is still another preparation, Quinidea,


but it is much less used than the above.
Year: 1879

THE New JURY LAVAL the extra session of Con-
gress the Democrats did a good thing in changing
the law for selecting the urymen for the L. s. Courts
so that both parties be represented in the Panel
instead of the jury being made up from tho Republi
can party, as was formerly the In accordance
with this act passed June S0th. Judge Bradford on
Friday appointed Henry r. DUPONT, Esq, of Will
mington Democratic commissioners for the District
of Delaware. By the provisions Of the Act the COM
missioner and the clerk Of the Court each drop q
name alternately in the box from their respective
parties number o9O0 from which the jurymen are
drawn. By this mode neither party can complain of
improper political influence by the other And the
action Of Congress might well be initiated by our
Legislature in regard to our county courts. They
need fully as much fixing up the U. S. Courts and
as managed the past twenty years have been mani.
festly partizan. And the same principal might be
carried down to Levy Courts if there is desire
for justice and fair dealing.
Year: 1879

The greatest peculiarly of the peach is the
mystery attending its habits, growth, &c, viz:
why an orchard OH one side of road may
be roping full, and the one on the other side
entirely bare and i'll the same general quality
of land one farmer may have very superior
and the other very poor fruit. This is strikingly
manifested in the case of d. James Price, who
ships by odds the finest fruit sent from Bren-
ford Station. Mr.. Prices farm, or rather his
father Moses Price, is just on the South side of
Hoffecker's mill pond and for the last twenty
years has been noted for its good fruit, and
quite as much so as a successful bearer always
having fruit if there was any anywhere in the
country. Mr.. Prices neighbors do not under
stand why this farm should produce better
fruit than theirs, while they admit the fact


One feature of the fruit selling so well is the
fact that the fruit is year in and year out care
fully handled-no inferior or imperfect being
| allowed to go in. In the midst of the ''glut'
that sent down the prices, his held up through
out, the brand sold them. 1t is said that Mr..


Prices fruit will net him rs cents per basket,


while the average will be only about 40 cents.
Year: 1879

The State Fair at Dover is now less than a
week off and every indication leads to the ex-
pectation of most successful exhibition. We
do not hear so many notes of preparation as
last year, but that may arise from the fact that
then it was newer thing and consequently
more of a novelty AS the most attention has
been given by the Directors in the preparations
for the races, much the larger part of the
interest of the visitors will centre on this de-
partment. 1t is stated that there are 80 entries
of race horses some of them of fine speed.
The display of fancy work, and also cereals
and stock was very creditable last year, and
there is no reason why it should not be as good
or better this year. The railroad company
have built a platform at the grounds for the
accommodation of the visitors 200 feet long.
A grand Tournament for which 30 horsemen
have entered will be one of the features for the
amusement of the spectators
Year: 1879

The following from an editorial of the New
York Herald has been handed us for publica-
ton


Nearly all the railroad men thus far called as wit
Saratoga seem to be inspired with the common idea
that it is their interest to ObSruct and defeat the pur
poses of that inquiry and not to assist them If there
abuses in railroad administration if there evils
that are detriment to the public and which deprive
the people of some of the advantages which pre-
sumed would be derived from the existence of those
great corporations when they created, they are
not desirOuS to expose Them but to hide and instead
of wishing to give every facility to public officials
they do their utmost TO impede inquiry in which
all are concerned. There can, we believe be no
man like Mr.. Vanderbilt Mr.. Vanderbilt answered
many important inquiries with the simple statement
that he did not know" and the fact that man at
the head OF such concerns as he is understood to
direct direct them with so little knowledge is one
of the most notable facts that the investigation has
brought out. 1t appears that the first recOmmen-
daon that the committee might make TO the LegiSla-
road presidents to be reasonably well acquainted
with the concerns of their companies. Ali of these
gentlemen put themselves in an attitude of Opposi-
ton toward properly authorized investigation on
the ground that the inquiry relates to their private
affairs" and touches facts that the public have no
right to know and which il is impeTtinent in the
Legislature TO attempt TO get at. The sooner any
man. railroad president or any one else gets over the
delusiOn that administration of great machine like
the Central Railroad IS his concern. and that the
public have no rights i'll regard to it, the better il will


be for his tranquility for If we are not mistaken in
the signs of the times the public mind has at last


reached the definite conclusion that this very theory
| of railroad managers which pretends TO shut ou


supervision is the first If not the greatest evil il


regard to those great corporations and is of the
/ first that must be overcome. Vanderbilts may come
/ and go; but the Central Railroad and other road


like IL will remain, and the public will remain, anC
| the relations of the two must be established on


basis that will make them mutually and permanently
| serviseable to one another.
Year: 1879

BAD PREcEPT.-It looks rather strange for a youth
ful and generally fair journal like the Morning Herald
in these days Of advanced liberal thought and feeling
to defend the persons who guilty of such gross
violations Of law at the late election in Wilmington,
and condemn those who wish to purify the ballot
1t is no excuse that the Republicans did the same
thing as 1t asserts. The whole machinery of justice
from the highest court down to the lowest officer of
the city or county was in the hands of the Democrats
and they should have brought every culprit to
justice, and to do it would have been to them an
easy matter. The Herald as a champion Of good
morals and good law is pursuing very strange
in aiding and abettng criminals.
Year: 1879

This is the season of fruit canning and our
industrious housewives have been in pother
and they in turn have bothered the grocery
men. The difficulty is a short supply of fruit
jars. The stock run short week ago or more.
On Friday last T. B. Megear succeeded in
getting fraction of an order filled, Is dozen,
and they were all gone in about three hours
after reaching his store. On Monday j. B.
Cooper had similar invoice which was wiped
out about as soon. The demand must be heavy
this years as the manufacturers in a late letter
say that they are 300 cases behind in filling
their orders.
Year: 1879

BUSINESS IN CHIcAGo.-Business in commercial cir
cles is active almost beyond precedent Certainly
autumn was never before signazed by such activity
in all leading departments of trade The city is full OF
merchants and business men from nearly every part
of the country west of the Alleghenies.
Year: 1879

The little town of Eppng. N H., has lost its champ
ion foOl-the man who won bets that he could eat
moro in given space of time than any other three
in the country His latest and last effort was to
bet and had thirty seconds to spare. In wentyfour
hours he was dead.
Year: 1879

merchant in New York city recently received an
answer TO dispatch sent 10 Shanghai, China, hours
previously. Shanghai is $4,000 miles distant from
New York by telegraph so that the message travelled
at the rate of 100 miles minute quite contrast
with the good old times"
Year: 1879

The working men Of California have elected q
majority of the new board OF Railroad commission
ers proyded for I'm the new constitution and these
the most important officials in the State. The new
constitution makes them complete masters OF the
railroads
Year: 1879

Special Meeting of the Stockholders of the Dels-
ware and Chesapeake Railway will be held at the
Station House of said Company, at Easton, Talbot
county. Maryland, ON Wednesday, the LIST day of
will Mortgage its property also to see if the Company
Will Lease its property any part thereof and for
the transaction OF such other business as may come
before said meeting.


By order of the Executive Committee
JNO. W. SCOTT, Secretary.
Year: 1879

What Zulu discipline and rule was,
says correspondent in South Africa,
is clearly indicated by story told by
Cetewayo himself while ON his way
down to the place Decentralization. Point
ing to bush which he designated by
the name of the Coward's bush, he in
formed his conductors that in front OF
that bush Chake used to sit after battle
had been fought in order to hear accu-
sations of cowardice against any of his
soldiers. If man was convicted on
what seemed sufficient evidence he was
expected to stand still with his left arm
high above his head, while an assegai
was slowly and by degrees thrust down
ward from the armpit till it pierced the
heart.
Year: 1879

One cricket would stand poor show
trying to stop a railroad train, but
millions of them can do it. A Western
bound railroad train met an army of
crickets at Clarke's station, about fifteen
miles west of Reno, New, and was de-
tanned two hours and half trying to
get through. To make the passage the
train men were finally forced to take
brooms and sweep the insects off the
rails. The crickets covered the track
for about three miles, and when the
driving wheels of the engine would
strike them they would whirl around
without Reing forward an inch,