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Year: 1866

THE HUMANE ASSOCIATION OF UNION AND
CHrRcH HILL. like the Relief Association OF
Richmond, will soon have al empty treasury
1t has distributed between three and four
thousand dollars. Its benefciaries are believed
TO have been real sufferers, or, 1T any rate, its
benefactions have been as nearly confined TO
such as the diligent and careful visitation OF
the association could make them. Many OF
those who have looked 10 this society for
their daily bread have 40 other resource on
earth and no prospect of relief. The opening
of spring in various ways takes many families
off the hands Of charity, but not few are yet
helpless and entirely dependent.
Year: 1866

A NEW MATERIAL.--Itis said that an ar
iiicial ivory is now made in Franco from u
paste of pdpio mache and gelatin. Billiard
balls formed Of this material, though barely
a third of the price OF those made of real
ivory, are yet so durable and elastic that
they can be thrown from the'top of the house
on to The pavement, or violently struck
with hammer, without injury. With this
same paste, to which the nam, of Partisan
marble is given, among other things, the
finest and most complicated moutdings for
ceilings can be made. or capitals orcolumns
can be constructed in any color so 'as'io re.
scmblc the most valuable marbles.
Year: 1866


throw himself upon me, as | found l was
not heavy enough. He did SO, and the
additional weight was of great service. l
had now got firm hold of his tail and after
violent struggle or two he gave in, feeling
himself overpowered. This was the moment
to secure him. So while the first negro con-
tinued to hold the lance firm to the ground,
and the other was helping me, contrlved to
unloose my braces, and with them tied up
the snakes mouth. The snake, now finding
himself in an unpleasant situation, tried to
better himself, and set resolutely to work !;
but we overpowered him. We contrived to
make him twist himself round the shaft of
the lance, and then prepared to convey him
out of the forest. [ stood at his head and
held it firm under my arm, one negro sup
porting the belly and the other the tail. In
this order we began to move slowly toward
home, and reached it after resting ten times !;
for the snake was too heavy for us to sup
port him without stopping to recruit our
strength As we proceeded onward, he
fought hard for freedom, but it was all in
Year: 1866

A young German recently married to
handsome lady of very respectable parents
age was taken suddenly i'll at his place OF
business last Friday. He was placed in
carriage and taken to his residence on Erie
Street, where he lay in great agony until
Sunday, when the disease SO Frustrated his
physical powers that he lay motionless upon
the bed, while weeping friends surrounded
the couch. To all appearances he was dead,
and it was SO decided.


Arrangements were about to be made for
the interment, when the young wife feeling
she could not give him up SO soon, insisted
that the funeral be postponed until Tuesday
morning. To CRAFTY the woman thus
brought so speedily to mourn the loss of her
husband the funeral was postponed. The
disconsolate wife spent most of the day on
Monday in the same room with the corpse,
weeping as though her heart would break,
and still clinging to the idea that he could
not be dead.


About twilight on Monday evening, when
everything about the house was perfectly
quiet, except when the stiffness was broken
by the sighs of the .bereaved widow, there
being but few persons in the room, the body
seemed to move. 1t was but slight mo-
ton, yet sufficient to arrest the attention of
one fearful eye.


| When the wife insisted that life was not
extinct, that the body did move, her friends
became anxious about her reason, and tried
to divert her mind from the sorrowful scene
Two long hours were spent in conversation,
the friends urging that she was deceived,
possibly by the Pickering light, as the shad-
ows it cast might have produced the effect
that she ascribed to vitality.


The feeling of that little circle of devoted
friends is known only to themselves and Him
whose all-seeing eye visits the inmost recess
ses of our hearts. During the conversation
all eyes involuntarily rested upon the habili-
ments of. the grave and the features of him
whom they supposedwould soon become one
another slight movement was perceived by
all the party The scene which followed can
; never be described.


The wife clung to the motionless form of
her husband, alternately weeping and beg
ging of him to speak just one word, while
the friends wept for joy, hastened for ply
sician, alarmed the servants by thier strange
conduct, and presented scence of confusion
generally. When the physician arrived, they
assembled about the Hring man, suggesting
and applying all the restoratives ever heard
or dreamed of by any of the party, while the
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worn out with excessive excitement, had
swooned away and was lying at the side of
her husband, in the same death-like stiffness
that had embraced his form but a few mo-
ments before


The physician took the necessary steps to
restore the woman and resuscitate theman,
which was speedily accomplished. in both
cases, and as we write to-day the woman is
joyous and happy; while the man thinks his
escape from the grave a living one of the
marked features of his lfe.-Cleueland Her
Year: 1866

The question ''What becomes of all the
pins?' now sinks into insignifcance beside
another inquiry of more serious moment
What has become of all the gold watches !?
This country has been famous for those gilt
tering time pieces. Not well-to-do gentle
man in any part of the land but had his gold
ticker; they were an indispensable portion
of young lady's daily attire; and even
beardless boys were eager to possess the COW
eted treasure, and could not wait for it until
they came to mans estate. But, unfortu-
nately for the owners of these elegant arti-
cles, the eye of the greedy tax-gatherer was
caught by their glitter, and they were to be
made to contribute to the national revenue
Any gold watch in use, worth less than one
hundred dollars, was to be charged one dol
lar, and when valued at over one hundred
dollars was to pay two dollars tax per annum.
At this precise moment, by singular coin
cidence, large part of the gold watches in
many States disappeared from record. The
sudden vanishing of so much valuable prop
erty should be a matter of public concern,
and we desire to direct toward it the atten-
ton of all who are interested, in the hope
of obtaining some meexplanationo of thisremark-
able phenomenon. The following, from the
latest official return of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, exhibits the extent of
this startling loss, and may partially aid in
its recovery:


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Year: 1866

SPRISG AND ITS FLowERs.--A friend sends us
this extract and requests its publication. 1t
is taken from the columns Of the New York
News:


Flowers, like music, are Indispensable 10
the existence Of cultivated and refined peo-
pie, and mind:that cannot enjoy the beau
ty and frangrance Of flower loses much Of
the higher and exquisite pleasure Of life. To
these beautiful things Of earth we are in
debted for many of the best poems in our
language, and the blind god Of the divine
passion has coined the sentiment Of flowers
into the language of love. Oftentimes bou-
quet is the vehicle in which some passionate
lover conveys TO his sweetheart those te nder
thoughts which can be expressed in no other
way. Flowers mingle with our sad as well
rs our gay thoughts and reflections. When
we lay away the last loved ones, and they sleep
the sleep that knows no waking, what is so up.
propriately beautiful as to wreathe the body
wi III sweet fiowers2 They seem like tender
links between death and that undying love
we cherish Tor those who have gone before
Year: 1866

A HISTORICAL IScIDEyT.-The New York
correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger
writes:


Preston KIyG.-It is not generally known
10 the public that this man was for time an
incubus at tie White House, and he was
made the Collector at New York Harbor to
get him out of the way. But few under
stand why he committed suicide; but there
are those who have an an idea why he COM
mitted the act. 1t was no doubt, his con-
science. 1t was Preston King who kept Miss
Surratt from seeing the President on the
morning of the execution of her mother
The President knew nothing of her being at
his door-steps, in agonizing tears to ask the
stay of the law for one short day. Old King
kept the President from knowing what was
going on, and after the execution, It becom-
ing SO apparent that the condemned was in
nOceat Of completely with the real murder
ers, that il narrowed up his soul. In fact,
he had no peace after her death, and becoming
desperate, under the lash of conscience, he
committed suicide. Have the others who
bounded this poor woman,on to the galows go,
consciences? We believe they have, and they
must suffer bitter stings."
Year: 1866

w ATTEND TO THE BUYING AND


w selling of REAL ESTATE, aud pur-
chase and sale Of all descriptions ofproperty
lie will attend to the hiring Of house servants
and farm hands Persons wishing to employ
laborers will be able to procure them by
communicating with him. lie will be ready
at all times to attend to any business in the
departments mentioned, either here or else
where. Having been twenty years engaged
in the business and enjoying an extensive
acquaintance through the country, he feel:
confident of his ability to advance the inter.
ests of all who may call for his services.


=. S. He will make il to the interest o
those wishing situations, in the city OIL
country, 10 call on him.


August Is, lS65-N
Year: 1866

The property this Powder possesses in In
creasing the quantity of Milk in Cows, gives
1t an Importance and value which should
place it in the hands of every person keeping
a Cow. BY actual experiment it has proven
that 1t will increase the quantity of Milk and
Cream twenty per cent, and make the Butter
hrm and sweet. In ftttcnng Cattle it gives
them an appetite, loosens their hide and
makes them thrive much faster.
Year: 1866

The hour up to which FREIGHT for this road will be
received at the Depot in Manchester, is extended TO
FOUR O'CLOCK P. NJ from and after this date. As Is
necessary enable the clerks to make out the proper
way bills to have fixed hour to stop receiving, notice
is hereby given that freight will be received after
the hour named.


The Freight on goods for Danville and Greensboro
may paid at destination at the option of the ship
pers but the freight all goods for way stations must
be prepaid.


shippers will please pay their freight bills by four
ward. THOMAS D0DAMEAD,


mh5 superintendent.
Year: 1866

THE SENTINEL is an independent newspaper,
warm supporter of the Union AND the Constitution OF
Andrew johnson, our magnanmous President, and his
policy and devoted especially to the recuperan and
prosperity OF the South and Of North Carolina.
II iabors to promote harmony, good feeling and equal
rights among all the States, but will rebuke all un-
founded expressions against the loyalty and integrity
Of the Southern people.


Special attention will be paid to the news and market
departments.


Full proceedings of the Legislature and all important
State papers appear in the SENTINEL.


Its circulation is believed to be equal TO any in the
State il not the largest Its advertising patronage is
large and growing.


The Daily and Weekly issued. The Semi
Weekly will appear in shoit time.


TPpMc.
Year: 1866

FrG8TIxG rHs DzvIL.-The Chinese


have an annual slime" Of fighting
the Devil, occupying about q week


Of night and day. As q specimen
OF how they do it. we quote the Sac
ramente Unions account OF 8 day
and nights performance by the Chi
nese residents in that city:


At-midnight on Monday night a
new feature in the programme was
introduced, in the form of an out
door Illumination. The moon was
assisted 10 the work of lighting up
the streets by an immense number Of
joss sticks lighted and placed in two
lines along the street, from Front TO
Seventh. Tie most of these sticks
had been dipped in wax, and formed
a species Of wax candle, which ans
wered well the purpose of illuminat-
ion These sticks were stuck into
the ground or placed sleng the rail
road track. While these lights were
burning three or four high priests,
proceeded by two or three musicians

marched with solemn step up and
down the street, chanting mysterious
words in their own narve tongue,
and waving fsg TO aid in driving
away the spirit Of the evil one
fester day afternoon the priests en-
oarked in boats upon the slough,
where some two hours were spent in
burning incense, beating gongs, in
carnations, etc., etc. Last evening
the usual programme was followed
at headquarters. At two o'clock in
the morning the grand fineal took
place, and consisted of burning the
two or three gigantic men Of iinsel
and tissue paper who have figured
so conspicuously in the ceremonies
of the week.
Year: 1866

frugality, and gaineth as well upon his
mind as upon his estate"


Other advisers tell us that our lands
must be divided into small farms the halls
of ancient hospitality must be abandoned
the elegance and refinement of manners
that have heretofore distinguished the
families of the country must retire to the
cities and towns, and the race of country
gentlemen become extinct. If such senti-
ments had been uttered by enemies abroad
we might afford to pass them by unnoticed,
but when they are sincerely entertained,
and eloquently expressed by friends at
home whose talents and position entitle
their opinions to respect, it becomes us
carefully to consider them--to expose
their ruinous tendency, and to enter an
earnest protest against their adoption.


The question Of small farms must be re-
garded as already settled. They are un-
suited TO this age, and especially to this
country. The inventive faculties OF man
have been taxed to the utmost TO provide
labor saving machinery in every depart
ment of art, and in none more so than IN
the art Of husbandry. The horsepower,
th6 thresher, the drill, the reaper, and
large and combined ploughs for three or
more horses, are Indispensable 70 large
operations, but would be entirely out o.
place on small farms. Not satisfied with
these rreat improvements upon old instr,l-
meptalities, modern science has yoke,d
steam to the thresher and breaking plough,
and various implements are now In use by
which luxury may be combined with labor
Ibaye lately seen young gentleman driving
his snlky plow, and tprnipg the glebe quite
as much at his ease q if he had been riding
TO court, with his green bag filled With the
bonds Of unfortuusts debtors. Win these
Year: 1866

weapon, with Anglo Saxon for weight, Celt
for edge, and Scotch for temper, that to at
tack If would be simply to strike at a rapier
with a crowbar, which might destroy, but
not in time to prevent mortal wound
Nothing in all that is impossible, once a
generation is fully educated, and we shah
educate the next,


Rapid intereommunicatIon is already bind
ing the nation into one great family. till
hind cannot be horsewhipped on a remote
moorland without a national roar Of AMER
and the House of Commons becomes for all
purposes the conselde Ja0laie Let but the
spirit Of loealism, or. as ne call It, self gov
ernment, decay a little more, as it always
does under education, and England will be
welded as we have described, win present
such an aspect Of Yagieaated, hnt not nm
happy life


This dream seems to us as br;rht as the
other, though not as vast, as the lawn may
be as beautiful as prairie, Windermere as
Erie, a garden as a wilderness of wild flow
ers. The element Of vastness is only want
ing and ne can find that in our purposes and
our tropical possessions. Palissy's life was
noble, though the end of that toll and en-
deayor was only a pretty enamel and the
work Of Athens was vast, though she never
covered the space of the Duke Of Suther-
land S estate.


All that man knows of the ideas which
should regulate human organization was
worked out by nation Of less than 10000
freeuien, SO worked out that Europe has no
words for policy save those the Athenians
used, and in eighteen hundred years has in-
vented but one new political idea. the pos
sibllty of rule by representation. VastneSs
Is nothing, organization everything, the
smallest entity with life and potentalities
greater and more than the biggest, if it pos
sesses neither. Grand as the mountain is,
as Kingsley puts it, and oppressive to the
spirit, men who could scarcely be seen on its
sides, tunnel through it at their leisure.
But then we want the fixed idea that Eng
land, which cannot be the mountain, is to be
the man. London Spectator.
Year: 1866

\ clever and sprightly female writer
refers 10 certain structures in sthe Roatd


Table on female extravaganza: and denies
that the sex dress for one another Wo
men do not dress for one another we dress
for yoa gentlemau-for you alone, Fur
thermore Hagar leclares that woman
can cheat man ont Of his eyes with the
deceits Of dress. You do not know the
difference between natural and artificial
beauty I ou DO not know whether the
pretty flush on the face is natural or put
oG. You do not know whether the soft
ness or fairness of a pretty face is nature 5
work or liquid pearl --thefashionable name
for whitewash. Indeed, you do not. To
use your own words, gentlemen, YOU only
know when a woman looks well You
may biltk you know apainted face, but YOU
do not. | could not detect it myself if |
had not seen the paint put on, and were not
familiar with this branch of high art. And
as long as you think the pretty which we
made up a genuine one, what is the differ
ence whether it is or not Heighp well,
Jenkins, of the Leader reioices with cx-
ceeding great joy that he got safely mar
ried before the age Of cosmetics, laughing
gas and the German dance Wen Ha-
gar is right after ALL On the laddi.r Of
civilization women are always just one rung
below men. AS they ascend Or descend so
do their mothers wives and dau ghters tt
is for gott we spend ourlast dollar for dress.
exclaims Hagar, and so half starved and
comfortless in consequence. 1t Is for yoa !;
we are just what you make us Moral by
jenkins The women viii run after the
men.
Year: 1866

Ar the time of the explosion of the nitro
glycerine in the yard of Wells, Fargo & Go
in San Francisco. a lad was sitting at his
desk writing, while plastering and timber
fell around, without so much as hurting q
hair on his head, The same boy was sitting
on the paddle box of the steamer Yosemite
when she was blown up, on a trip to Sac
ramento, and was blown entirely across the
river, when be coolly swan back to the
wreck to offer assistance to the less fortunate
passengers
Year: 1866

THERE is paper at Columbus, Ca,
which has for some time been urging, as thc
true policy Of the South that 20 cotton be
planted for several years, until the Yankees
driven BY necessity, shall, on their knees.
beg the South to accept all tleir rights aud
save the Union from bankruptcy Few If
any planters viii be inclined to adopt such
policy It was tried early in the war,
when to their great surprise the Southern
people learned that cotton was no longer
king.
Year: 1866

LEARN TUE SSANcTfqY OF DUTg 1T Is TO
be feared that thousands even Of intelligent
persons, and persons who are Supposed to
be religious beings, have no conception Of
the greatness of the idea of duty. or moral
accountability, Of the meaning Of the word
ought But id is certain that nothing is
done well until it is done from the sense OF
a controlling principle ofinherent and essen
tial rightness. Duty is the ehild'of Love,
and therefore there ! power IN All its teach
jngs and commands
Year: 1866

THE New WooL CLIP Sandusky
Register of the Goth says The wool sea-
son was inaugurated yesterday by the sale
of two thousand pounds at fifty cents The
wool was in very fine condition. Prices are
ruling from forty to fifty cents At the con.
yention yesterday. buyers manifested little
disposition to settle upon prices for the new
clip on account Of the unsettled condition Of
the market.
Year: 1866

\ RECEIPT FOR HAPPINESS. 1T is SIM
ple, when you rise in the morning, form a
resolution to make the day happy one to
a fellow creature. 1t is eesily done-a left
of garment to the man who needs it !; a kind
word to the solrowful an encouraging ex-
preston to the striving -triaes in them
selves, light as air,-will do it, at least for
twenty four hours and if you are young
depend upon it. it viii tell when you are
old and if you are old, rest assured it will
seud you gently and happily down the
stream Of time to eternity. Look at the
result Yen send one person-only one
happily through the day that is three hun
dred and sixty five in the course of the year
and supposing you live forty years only
after you commence this course, you have
made fourteen thousand six hundred human
beings happy, at all events for time Now
worthy reader. is this not simple +? and is it
not worth accomplishing We do not often
indulge in moral dose-but this is SO small
a pin, that one needs no red currant jelly to
disguise its favor, and it requires to be ta-
ken but once day, that we feel warranted
in prescribing it. 1t is most excellent for
digestion, and a producer of pleasant slum-
Der. London AtlaS.
Year: 1866

THE PUnE HEART. THE springs of ever
lasting life are within. They are clear
streams gushing up from the depths of the
soul and flow out to enliven the sphere of
outward existence. But ike the waters of
Siloah, they go swift. You must listen
to catch the silYery tones Of the little rill as
it elides from its mountain home: you may
not witness lis silent march through the
green vale, but its course viii be seen in the
fresh Yerdure and the opening flowers: its
presence will be unknown by the forms of
ever thus with the pure You may not hear
the still small voice, or heed the silent
aspiration, but there is moral influence and
a holy power which you will feel The viii
deruess is made to smile flowers of new life
aud beauty spring up and flourish while an
invisible presence breathes immortal frag-
rance through the atmosphere.