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Year: 1874

pay was insufficient to justify him in
taking a wife, and so matters went no
further. Early in the course of last
month the young lady heard that her
lover was about to leave Messina. !" On
what day do you start, she asked him.
He told her, inquiring at the same time
why she desired to know. That / may
give you keepsake you will never for
get, she is reported to have replied. A
few mornings before that fixed for his
departure Captain Geneva was walking
on the sea shore, when he was suddenly
stabbed in the side. He turned upon his
aggressor and pursued him till he took
refuge in modiste's shop, when he was
captured. The captain, covered with
blood, was taken to the hospital, where,
after few days, he expired, his poor
mother, who was looking forward to his
return, telegraphing three times a day
for news of his state. The assassin con-
fessed to having received only twenty
five lires for his work of blood.
Year: 1874

From Once Week.I


An American relates: Four years
ago | came over from New York to su.
perintend the English business of the
firm | belonged to. AS my residence
was likely to be long one, / looked out
for house within convenient distance
of London, for | am a family man and
like my children to have the run Of the
fields when ! can manage it. | hate to
see them dressed up fine; and what s
one of those squares to play in? Well,
| got just the thing to suit me-nice
garden, farms all round, half an hour s
railway ride from my Office. The rent
was stiff for yearly moderation, which
was but so so--two hundred for yearly
tenancy, one hundred and fifty if | took
a seven-year lease. ! reckoned that
should want it for good ten years, so |
decided for the lease, especially as the
agent told me | should be sure to under
let it if | wanted to. When / got to
know my neighbors and compared
notes / found that was paying at
a much higher rate than any of them
we're. However, that did not vex me, so
long as / could live there. But after
two years certain changes took place
which made it necessary that | should
60 live at Liverpool. So had to move
again and tried to underlet my house. |
could not do it for some time, because |
stood out for the rent paid myself, but
at last grew tired of the dead loss, and
told the agent to get the best he could.
So he let the place for ninety, and that
has been going on for four years, so that
the lease is nearly up, But never knew
till last year who my tenant was. Who
do you think2" Il cannot guess"
why, my landlord. l have been pay
ing the cuss sixty pounds a year for
living in his own house all this time. It's
a fact -
Year: 1874

MAYOR LOAGUE has made nOmins'
tiOns for almost all the offices in Iii:
gift, and only two or three of those
offered 10y him to the general coun-
ell have been rejected-among them
that of Droescher for chief of police.
The mayor, in making this nomination,
took the board, and the city for that
matter, by surprise, for it was expected
that so astute a gentleman would not,
under any pretense, be drawn into
opposition to the will OF the community
generally, and refuse to present Chief
Athy for reelection. Those he has so
far nominated are his partisans. There
is not one Of them all who can, in any
sense, be regarded as a propitiatiOn to
the strong minority that voted for Bus
by, and the three thousand that
did not vote at all. There
is something due to these, and
We hope Mr.. League will remember it,
especially since, by the nomination of
Mr. Athy, he will be en- rapport with q
majority Of the council, and we believe
of those who elected him. This is not a
mere question Of the popularity OF Chief
Athy, but a conviction, a profound con-
viction, on the part of nearly all the
citizens Of Memphis that he is, above
zlI other men, the best man for the
place he has so long filled, and so well.
We hope Mr.. League will yield this
much to general public sentiment.
Year: 1874

" LILLIAN w I AIKEN,
Chairman Committee Relief Association.
But for the rain yesterday the wagons to
gather up clothing for the poor would have
been out. Should the weather be favorable
to-day they may be looked for.
Year: 1874

MIR. Kyle was at a near neighbor's
house raising, and Mrs. Kyle, with
the smaller of her two children, went
to spring near by to do her wash
ing. After being engaged some time
she heard scream from her little
girl whom she had left at the house,
and, fastening to the house, it
was her horror to behold huge
rattlesnake lying there, with its fangs
fastened in the child's arm. She
succeeded in killing the snake, and
then thinking of her child which she
had left at the spring. she fastened
there, onl Y to find that this one had
climbed up onto the tub of water.
fallen in and was drowned. This
nearly crazed her, and she ran with
all her might to the neighbor's where
the house-raIsing was, and, scream
ing with excitement called to her
husband, who, at the time, was upon
the building, and he, through ex-
citement, in trying to get down, pull
ed a piece of timber off upon him
and fell, killing himself instantly.
The friends then went back to where
the child and snake were, only to find
each dead, lying upon the floor. This
all happened within thirty minutes.
East Wdyae County Tenn Citi-
zen.
Year: 1874

Costly apparatus and splendid cab
inets have no magical power to make
scholars. As a man is in all circum-
stances, under God, the master of his
own fortune, so he is the maker of
his own mind. The creator has so
constituted the human intellect that
it can only grow by its own action,
and by it's own action it will certain
ly and necessarily grow. Every man
must therefore educate himself His
books and teachers are but helps; the
work is his. A man is not educated
until he has the ability to summon,
in an emergency, his mental powers
in vigorous exercise to effect its pro-
posed object 1t is not the man who
has seen most, or read most, who can
do this: such an one is in danger OF
being borne down like a beast of
burthen, by an overloaded mass OF
other mems thoughts. Nor is it the
man who can boast merely of native
vigor and capacity. The greatest of
ali warriors who went to the siege of
Troy had not the pre-eminence be-
cause nature had given him strength
and he carried the largest bow, but
because discipline had taught him
how to bend it.


DANIEL WEBSTER.
Year: 1874

Donaldson has added another
frightful trick to his evolutions in
the clouds on the trapeze bar. He


says the regular drop is uninterest-
ing now. Now he does something
worth doing, he says. The ring to
which the trapeze is attached affords
him an enlarged opportunity. He
hangs on his toes on this ring, and
when away up half a mile above the
house-tOps he lets go entirely and
drops headlong down and again
catches himself with his toes on the
bar. This dropping act is pro-
nounced the most frightful and
blood-curdling act ever witnessed.
The eronaut hangs down his full
length, straight and stiff, and all of
sudden he drops and comes swOOping
down only to catch himself nicely at
the proper time. A wave of the
hands and a graceful salute from the
man hanging head dOwnwards bids
the we-stricken multitude below
quiet their fears, for he is all safe and
sound.
Year: 1874

THIS is from speech delivered by
Hon. c. W. Rowland, at Cincinnati,
last week:


But, cries out the liquor interest,
prohibition does not prohibit. Well,
to just the extent that it fails to do
so it suits you. If prohibition is
necessarily failure, then you want
nothing better than that. You sure
ly can't ask sensible men to believe
that you want to restrict your bust
ness-the natural laws of business
are in the line of freedom-the less
restriction the better for it. Let it
expand indefinitely, bounded only by
the laws of supply and demand, of
production and consumption. You
want your business put under re-
straint and the volume diminished.
Bosh! If saloonists believe their
trade to be an honorable and useful
one, let them stop this nonsensical
cry about desiring stringent license.
Let them take away their screens,
rub the paint off their windows, take
down their obscene pictures, let in
the light of day and the gaze of hon
est men-then demand free trade!
Aye, but you yourselves write the YER
diet against you by screening your
business from the public gaze, and
demanding special legislation. Lii
cense is composed of.two elements:
Prohibition and MOnOpoly-prohibi-
tion to all until they comply with
certain forms, and pay certain as
monopoly by SO much as
it gives those having capital an un-
due advantage over those who are not
so fortunate.
Year: 1874

"bangle" or golden ornament was
said to have been found in its stom-
ach, but this may have been the in
vention of the Shikaree. True or
not, the skin Vsas and is handsome
one, but it does not need to be spread
as a hearthrug constantly before my
eyes to recall the terrible memories of
that night / spent in the Jungle
Chambers journal
Year: 1874

The large number Of experienced,
valuable, and distinguished, Repre-.
sentatives of the House who have de.
clined denominations within the past
month has become J matter of much
comment. These gentlemen are not
confined to either party, but are
propOrtionately divided between tho
two; and while some of them MAJ
not he counted among the leaders Of
either, We venture to say that with
scarcely single exception they are
men who were useful to their cOnstit-
uents, energetic in the performance
of their legislative functions and faith
full to the interests Of their particular
party. In a word, they were valu-
able members, whose positions the
people will find it hard to acceptably
ELL.


We will not at this time give any
names, for there are many of them
that could not in moment be re-
called but most Of onr readers can
count a half-dozen CT so who have
declared that they will not come back
to Congress. They were not dealing
in balderdash, but were in downright
sober earnest in their refusal Of a re.
nomination. The causes assigned for
this determination were various, ami
as good as they were varied. Some
few who accepted the position for its
accompanying honor, and had " done
the State some service" had come to
think with Sir Charles Coldstream that
s: there's nothing in it0-nothing in
the distinction and the name. A few
others have had enough OF it on gen.
eral principles, but the great majority,
in all sincerity, put in the plea of flat
footed, square-toed poverty-in all
honesty confessed that they could
not afford to come TO- Congress any
longer.


Now we have no donbt that there
aye many who eagerly wait the chance
to jump into the vacant shoes-no
doubt OF that-but, perchance, they
are the very ones who, after serving
as many terms as their worthier pre-.
decessOrs have done, can better af.
ford than ever to keep coming to
Congress. These are not the servants
the people want +; they need the older
and trustier ones.


W. submit that there is some food
for thought in the remarks thus hur-
riedly made. The question it devel.
opes is akin to that OF the Iaborer be.
ing worthy Of his Washington
Chronicle.
Year: 1874

SALT LAKE, July "A horrible dis


covery was made here yesterday upon


exhuming the body of young man named


William B. Lackhurst who was buried in


the cemetery on the 22d of June last. On


the Goth of June, Lackhurst attended


picnic here, and while there concluded to
take bath After coming out from his
bath, Lackhurst went back TO the picnic
grounds, and getting into a swing, began to
amuse himself All at once, while in the
swing his head dropped, his muscles relaxed,
and he fell heavily to the ground. He was
picked up and every effort made to revive
him, but in vain. The senseless young
man was placed in carriage and driven
home, where restorative agents were again
employed, but to no purpose. After some
hesitation, the physician in attendance
pronounced the young man dead, and
preparations were made for his interment.
The body presented singularly life-like
appearances much so, indeed, that the
friends felt uneasy about going on with the
funeral until more positive evidence that
life had wholly gone had been obtained.
The funeral was indeed delayed one day,
but finally the physicians reafirmed their
previous conclusion that Lackhurst had
died of heart disease, and the body was
therefore inferred on June 23d. But one
or two friends of the family seemed haunted
by the recollection of that life-like face.
They went about whispering their fears,
and finally these haunted doubts spread
throughout the city, and led to a proposal
to exhume the remains and settle the ques-
ton forever Permission was granted by
the authorities and yesterday number OF
the friends Of young Lackhurst repaired &c
the cemetery and opened the grave. Upon
! lifting the lid of the coffin a sickenins and
horrible sight met their gaze. The body
was turned over ON its side. The skin and
great pieces of flesh had been torn from thC
face the hair pulled out in huge patehe:
from the scalp, the grave clothes and coffir
] lining torn into shreds and two finger nails


worn down to the quick by the frantic
efforts of the man TO burst the ceremcat:
Year: 1874

Dr. Edward s Smith, an old and expert
enced veterinary surgeon, has given the fol-
lowing opinion about hydrophobia, its causes
and its preventives:


when a person has been bitten by
mad dog it is generally thirty or forty days
before any development of the disease is
perceptible, or he becomes affected with the
disease. The first symptoms of hydrophobia
are as follows the bitten part becomes very
painful, and the whole system begins to be
affected The wounded part becomes hard
and elevated and sharp pains shoot from
it through the entire system to the brain.


''The terror of having it is altogether
out of proportion to the danger of taking
it. The actual danger, in fact of having
hydrophobia, is not fiftieth part so great
as of being struck with lightning, about
which people have, comparatively, but very
little concern And our advice to all who
may be bitten by dog, and who wish to
avoid all bad results therefrom, is to have
the bitten part laid open by the knife to
the very bottom as soon as possible after
the accident has happened, and to
thoroughly cleanse the parts with a strong
solution of table salt and water. After
drying the parts well, cauterize the wound
with nitrate of silver, and be sure you get
to the bottom of the wound with your
caustic. Wet the diseased part several
times day with strong solution of crude
carbonic-acid. The sooner this is done,
the safer the patient and if properly done
soon after the bite, the success will be
almost certain, and the patient need have
no apprehensions of the consequences.
Having been bitten by dogs myself several
times during my veterinary practice, and
knowing of several other persons who have
been-bitten by dogs when sick, L have
treated them in the manner here described.
No bad results whatever have ever occurred
therefrom.


ssProf Butler, | believe, did not die of
hydrophobia, but Of lockjaw, or tetanus.
Tetanus is generally developed in from
eight to twelve days after the wound Is
received, or the injury which is the cause
of it. 1t may, however, arise from lrrltat-
ino substances in the stomach, and
exposures to cold while the pores are open
and the body is in a protuse persplratlon
| The locklaw is much more frequent IN warm
! than cold weather.


'sIf we set apart one case out of every
hundred of cases reported as canine mad
ness. we should over-estimate the number
of animals suffering from this form and
| character of disease. The animal is suffer
inc from mental arrangement of tbs
brain. The cause of this abnormal state OF
the. brain is the want of proper hygieni'
care; their food has been scanty and IL
most cases putrid, or else the dogs have
been unable to procure water, and they
must suffer at the hands of street rough'
of all ages. What can we expect from thl
Year: 1874

Mothers, you stand at the fountain. with
the lightest trace of your finger on the WELD
ing soil, you can give direction to the IN
fant stream, you can send it gliding down
through verdant fields and fowery lawns.
imparting new fertility and beauty. and
anon contributing Its strength to propel the
complicated machinery of industry a: or YOU
can send it dashing, foaming over preci-
pices, to join with other impetuous head
long streams, carrying devastation in their
course; or you can suffer it to roll It's slug
gish way into some stagnant pool afford
ing refuge for loathsome reptiles, and poison
ing the atmosphere with Its pestilential va
pors. In infancy and at home the deepest
and most lasting impression are made :; Your
children may have had able and faithful
instructors but there are many lessons of
practical wisdom which are not taught in
schools. The mind of your child is con-
stantly busy-it viii be learning lesson
of you when you least think of it.


To your child, your remark is wisdom
your opinious, sound doctrine; and your
word a law-your child Is learning les
son from every look and action-but. most
of all, your example is educating your child:
lay a book constantly open before it which
it is constantly studying. Be careful, fond
mother, that you insert no page which
hereafter you may wish to tear out no line
you may wish to bolt be careful that you
admit into that much read volume no senti-
ments which you are unwilling chad should
transcribe on the fair tablet within its own
| innocent bosom.
Year: 1874

In Switzerland there is certain dish, at
the sight of which we have seen British
matrons shudder and a bronzed pater-
famt2iGs turn pale, perhaps from peculiar
parental instinct, for it cannot be denied
that marmot, when served at table, is
rather suggestive of plat which is now,
we believe, the exclusive privilege of some
South Sea Islanders and few curious gour-
NETS in the interior of Africa. But this
feeling of dislike, however it arise, should
certainly be overcome, for your marmot is
most excellent creature. 1t is vastly like
sucking-pig, but has gamey flaver, and is,
of course, more mature. In the reign Of
the great landlord-chef, Herr Wellig, at
the Eggischorn, marmot was almost al
ways to be obtained if due notice was given,
and one of our last recollections of that
most excitable gentleman connects itself
with a specimen which had been procured
for our special delectation. Certain letters
arriving, rendered it necessary to leave
some two hours before the pretty beast
could be served. Though our grief was
great, we knew how to practice resignation !;
but Herr Wellig placed no control upon
his feelings He raved, he tore his hair,
he cursed the letters, cursed the postman,
cursed, we fear, the poor marmot himself,
while with the next breadth he lauded him
to the skies rs the finest, the fattest, and,
altogether, quite the most perfect marmot
he had ever seen. But alas the separ-
ton was inevitable ; we left him bathed in
tears, ourselves with saddened hearts. He
probably consoled himself eventually by
eating the luscious dish intended for us ;
if so, he must have forgiven us for what
he denounced as a base desertion. Noman
could eat abundantly of roast marmot with
out feeling profoundly benevolent to all
mankind. Another strange and delightful
dish once fell to our lot in the land of
glaciers, but it was and remains shrouded
in mystery. We were staying at a noun
tain inn in the neighborhood of the ST.
Gothard, not very remarkable for the good
ness or the abundance of its supplies, when
one day dish was handed around which
met with the loud approval of all, though
none could put name to It, We appealed
to the grotcsque hoyden who waited, and
who went by the name of Chfgnon from
her once having begged a member of the
Alpine Club to bestow upon her his wealth
of beard, to supplement her own scant
locks we appelaed to the fair young mis-
tress of the house, but no intelligent ans
wer was obtained. The animal had GER
tainly four legs the whole body was clothed
upon with delicious fat at last the word
ciiea was whispered, then boldly suggested
to the attendants, but neither assent nor
denial followed, nothing but shrieks of OBJ
streperous laughter. Two facts are Ger
tain One, that the plat was simply perfect
the other, that pet dog of extreme obesity
belonging to a hostile establishment had
disappeared two days before, and was never
again seen alive. Possibly the Chinese are
wise in their generation after all-Fraser'


Magazine.
Year: 1874

cruel and inhuman treatment other than a
crazed brain and great excitement of the
nervous system


II should mention one point. Many
female dogs are said to have hydrophobia.
In an experience of twenty-five years de-
voted to veterinary service | have never
seen female dog afflicted with this disease ;
nor have seen a well-authenticated case
recorded by any authority And l can in
truth assert that in forty-nine cases out of
every fifty where persons have been bitten
by dogs, and have died, the disease has been
lockjaw and not hpdrophobia"
Year: 1874

of his grave. The sight was the most
terrible ever witnessed, and the stoutest-
hearted of the party nearly tainted when
the lid of the coffin was removed.-DiSpatch
to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Year: 1874

covers great deal Of ground, the
houses being very far apart, and fruit
trees set out ayound the houses. have
been in the Tabernacle twice, and heard
Brigham Young preach. / don't think
much of him, or his followers, either. l
have number of Mormons working
under me, and every chance they get
they will get drunk and spend all their
money. only have one out of six that
can write his own name. ALI they can
think OF is to talk vulgar or do some
mean trick. have talked to them
great deal about swearing and talking
the way they do, but they say BRIG
ham says it is not wrong, and he is a
good man." and what he does they will
do. l discharge a great many
and hire new ones, blrt they are
all alike talked to one to-day about
being drunk. He did not think it any
harm to get drunk. He said that the
Bishops got drunk and most of the girls,
and it made them feel happy to get on
a spree once in while. 1 can't make
anything out of them, and have got
about tired of trying to teach them any
thing.


Mining camps are rough places. 1
find all kinds of men-broken-down
merchants, drunkards, thieves, and
most any kind of men. Nearly every
house in camp is Il saloon and gambling
house. A great many of the men, as
soon as they get their months wages,
will gamble it away, and they are
around the next day begging for work,
and because they can't get it,. complain
OF hard times.


We managed to get Union Church
built last season in Alta, and every
chance | can get l go to church. It
was impossible to go at all last winter.
For three months l did not see the face
Of female. We have John Cinnamon
for cooks They are very hard work.
ers, and will not allow bit of dirt
around the kitchen. 1t is very hard work
to climb the mountains, and | do not
get to Alta very often. My brother has
charge of the Mickey mine at S24O per
mOnth. Yours truly, A. j. WOOD.