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Year: 1874

ANts esMel fl cad Of ours heard much Of the
medical properties ct The water OF a certain
spring some distance from where she resided.
diseases for which it was specific, among
which she recognized at least half dozen with
which she was afflicted. Much TO her JOY she
was told that her son had call at the very town
where the spring was located, and five gallon
keg aud strict injunction were laid up him to
bring back some OF ths water.


The keg was pnt into the wagon and. slipplng
under the seat, was quite overlooked. The busi
ness was urgent and took some time to perform,
and the water was quite forgotten. He had got
near home in the evening when, feeling down
under the seat for something, he felt the keg
To go back was not TO be thought of, and to ad-
| nit his stupidity was impossible.
lie therefore drew his horse up by the side oil
wall near which the was old sweep we'll from
which the family had dfank for century, and
filling the kss, went home.


/ The first question was--


"Dd you get the watet?"


| "Yes," said he, "but cant see any differ
ence in il from any Other WATER" and hs
brought in the Eeg.


A cup Was handed The invalid, who drank
whilh infinite relish, and said she Was surprise,
at her soa's not seeing any difference. Their
Was undoubtedly medical taste about it, and i
did not fll her up as other water did, which Oh,
had always head OF mineral water.


Her SOU hoped il would do her good, and b,
the time the keg was exhausted she Was read,
TO give a certificate Of the value Of the water,
having relieved her of all her ails.-Houshold
Year: 1874

Action OF tho Senate ON tho Hoosac Tun.


mel Question.


BOSTON, June IS, 1872
In the Senate this afternoon Immediately after
assembling. the vote was taken on the Hoosao
Tunnel question: and Mr. Bacon's bill was substi-
tuted, 80 to H. The bill that OF last year, put
ting the tunnel and the Troy and Greenfield Rail
road into the management OF the Governor ana
Council for the present. A discussion was then
begun on Its passage to be engrossed.
Year: 1874

O@1HssHUSeUs ANUVUHHoU 70 HcuSo 1HcEHs
selves to support the Eight Hour
Law.


BOSTON, June Is, 1874
At q meeting Of the State Central Committee OF
the labor reform party yesterday It was finally de-
cided to make no nomination OF candidates for
State oflicers this year. IL was also decided to
draw up Eight Hour law for all classes OF labor
ing men, women and children, and to present 1t
to every candidate Tor once this fall for an ex-
plict answer as to whether he will support it.
The sense Of the meeting was that, instead Of
making Independent nominations, the party
should use the balance OF power which IL claims
TO hold for the election Of such men only az are
favorable 10 Its principles.
Year: 1874

1t is said that some of the hogs in Iowa
have become grangers in principle They are
in the habit of deliberately walking up and
sucking the cows when they lie down at night,
thus, getting their supplies from first hands,
and entirely ignoring the middle men.
Year: 1874

One of the saddest sights at this season of
the year, is a young man who has waited out
side the church of an evening until he is chill
ed through, only TO see his girl walk off with
some rascal who has been inside all the time
toasting his sinful shins at the stove.
Year: 1874

Another remedy has been discovered for
rheumatism in London. 1t is hot sand bath
This makes 1884 remedies-all infallible.


1t is a sure sign of an early spring to see a
cat intently watching small hole in the wall.


When lady faints what figure does she needP
You must bring her 2.
Year: 1874

the city had become disgusLed with the inhu-
manity of their own race, and were disposing
Of their goods and property as fast as posi-
BILE to escape from the island. All persons
suspected of sympathizing with the patriots
were drafted into the army without law and of
course without redress. The whole country
for several leagues was one vast waste many
OF the sugar plantations having been burnt by
the insurgents There were two thousand
volunteers and regulars in the city The com
mandants were afraid to venture outside the
stockade to fight handful Of Cubans and
put an end to the work of destruction. The
Spanish officers appeared disheartened, and
dreaded the approach of the sickly season
now nearly at hand, which brings with it the
dreaded black yomt.
Year: 1874




The crop statistics attainable thus
carly in the season indicate that all sec
tions of the country will be blessed with
bountiful haryests. Of course such sta
tistics are very far from being absolutely
trustworthy, for the crops depend main
ly on the future character OF the season,
and the season will be made by the
weather, which is a by-word for tickle
ness. But the fact that crop statistics
are regularly collected tends to place
the trade in the produce of the earth on
n much securer basis than it occupied
some years ago when the grain mer-
chants of western Europe got nothing but
temporary affiuence andcertain ultimate
bankruptcy for their speculations on the
weather, and the grain merchants OF the
Levant by mysterious sort OF weather
wisdom got possession of the grain mar
Iets of London. The old dangers and
uncertainties of grain specnlations have
not by any means been removed by the
publication of such crop statistics as are
now collected, and they are not likely
to be effectually diminished until the
international system of crop reports ad'
yocated by many eminent meteorolo'
gists shall be established. But, barring
accidents, this will prove a prosperous
wear for American farmers. The whea
crop is in many sections as well assured
as a wheat crop can be before harvest
ing. The west will have a good surplus
OF grain to export, and the south, witt
the promise of a good cotton crop, vii
also have an unusually large quantity
of grain for home consumption -Ne'
| York World
Year: 1874

the very reasons for which West Point
has rejected these boys, because they
can not SPELL they can not write, and


because they do not know what the rule
of three means. Aud thus we come
round again to the question, Would
it not be better to teach three things
thoroughly than thousand things i'll p
Year: 1874

Those nations who eat fish with one
meal each a day, are undoubtedly the
most active in intellect and the most
capable Of brain labor without exhaus-
ton or fatigue. Not only is such phos,,
phatic food conducive to the activity OF
The brain, but it promotes fecundity and
increases the ability to endure coid'
fatigue, etc, and while the facilities tcI
obtaining it are constantly increasing, II
would be we'll for the rising generation
realize it as second only in many re-
snocts to the staff of life and the hus'
hand and father who occasionally takes
half a day from his legitimate business q,
to to- fill Ills basket with delicious fish
should not be considered as "mer'
sno snortsman. :" but a "good provider tol
his family of those things which are o
vital utility.
Year: 1874

One of the owners of the Silver Lake
mine, situated near Walker River, in
forms us that lie last fall discovered, at a
point about ten miles this side OF We'll
lington's Station, very large and very
rich vein of antimony. The ledge is
from twenty to thirty feet in width, and
is nearly all solid ore. He says that the
ore contains considerable per cent. of
lead, but no silver. 1t is so easily
smelted that it is readily reduced to the
metallic state in q common wood fire.
Whether or not the mine is of any value,
situated where it is, is question; but
the mine is there, and any one who is
unhappy because he is not the possessor
of an antimony mine, may soothe away
his unrest by taking possession of this
father of mines.- Virginia Enterprise,
2lth
Year: 1874

they viii pay their own expenses by actual
services, and thereafter be Of some profit TO
the concern, so that by the end of five
years, By this and other means, the concern
will be profit as well as ornament to the
State, while its influence upon the rising
generation would be of a satisfactory ma
ture, and without such institutions, it is
not fair to expect the boys of the country to
rise to very high degree of usefulness.


ROBT. NJ. FRYER.
Year: 1874

a young man named Antoine Hole was
found in the Yomg Mems Home in this
city tonight under rather peculiar circum-
stances: when discovered he was uncOn-
scious, lying on a pile of clothes, with his
skull fractured ontIie left side. supposed to
have been done with a blunt instrument.
IL is not known whether it was an accident
or attempt at murder. Physicians say that
he will moi recover.
Year: 1874

From the chronological Journal.l


The Flower-Seller.
BY IDA wHIPPLE BENHAM.
Poor woman 10 now 1 wonder why
They call me sol


They do not know
How many treasures I've laid by!
am not poor! No poverty


Is there in love


And yet move
Sweet honest hearts to pity me?
poor-witn all that's gone beforeP
With all that waits


Beyond the gates
Till just this little life is DER.
Because do not wear my wealth
Upon my breast,


A public test,
They cast me pitying words by stealth.
Because they miss in all this strife
The songs hear,


They cry, How drear
Must be the echoes of her life
Ipoor? All, we1I-well, let it go
What did you say?


You want to-day
A cross of flowers all white? I know.
No doubt they'll say the same of you
As your black gown


Glides through the down
But then you know it is not true.
Their costly gems, however bright
And rare they be,


Seem cheap to me
Beside this little cross, all white.
Year: 1874




peror never received truthful account of the
affair as it really took place Bismarck, it ap-
pears, is afraid Of Arnim. knowing full well,
ss he does, that he has done him q grievous
wrong, and because Arnim is the only man
who has not only the courage and capacity,
but also the means to become q really danger
GUS foe. The key to the present situation is
simply that Bismarck tries to annihilate his
enemy forever. 1t LIS In exact keeping with
Bismarck's character to attempt thus to ruin
Arnim and to rob him of his reputation,
position, civil rights, fortune and health. If
he does not succeed in this he fears that his
own position will be jeopardized.


MIGHT BEFORE R1aHT.


Bismarck attacked Arnim at his most vuL
nerable point merely through abuse Of
power, legal justification of which may always
be found, and was in this instance furnished
by the Berlin City Tribunal, which has thus
become an unconscious accomplice Of Bis
marck. It has been repeatedly asked why
Arnim did not try to prevent such open
war by simply taking copies Of the docu-
ments in question and restoring the originals
under protest to the Foreign Office The
case, from q legal point of view. is just
this-that Arnim rightfully considered these
papers as his private property, and never
thinking for a moment that the attempt would
ever be made to compel their restoration by
criminal prosecution, made no copies Of them,
nor had he a right to make any, as his
ownership of the documents might have been
denied in the civil suit


OUTRAGEOUS TREATMENT OF ARNIM
Added to this legal grievance is one of
actual occurrence-namely, the shocking man.
ner in which Herr Bulow preferred the demand
for the documents in question. Btlow is said
to have subsequently expressed his astonish-
ment at Arnim's persistent REFUSAL as he could
have easily taken copies and then surrendered
the papers. However, Bilow ought to express
no astonishment at Arnim's refusal, as he had
made the demand for the delivery of the pa
pers in a manner which stamped it not only as
judicial abnor1nity, but also as specimen Of
that brutality with which he had become &C
customed to treat high and obnoxious officials.


IMpossrBrLrrY OF A sURRENDER.
Bnlow's letter rendered the surrender Of the
documents positively impossible, unless Arnim
wished TO plead guilty to the commission of 9
felony. Arnim had no cause to abandon his
right to property Of his simply because the
Foreign Office desired to obtain it by means
of criminal prosecution. He was deprived
of every decent chance of yielding without
humiliating himself. Bulow's letter threat
ened him with criminal prosecution for
felony.


TILE R1GHT VIEW.
Arnim could easily have been witness to
the falsity of the charges on which this threat
was based, and every impartial spectator must
admit that this attempt to give the prosecu-
ton any but its real political and personal
ooloring is void of all justice. Only knowl-
edge of all the political motives Of Arnim's
enemies, and mora especially of those of
Prince Bismarck, who will stand behind the
Attorney General and influence the tribunal,
could enable one to form correct opinion of
the case Of Count Arnim.'
Year: 1874

Three ladies, mother and two grown
up daughters, recently committed suicide
together in Vienna. They had taken a
room at hotel, and in consequence of
an unusual noise having been heard in
their apartment, the door was broken
open. when oil three were found lying
dead upon tbs floor, each with pistol in
her hand. The lsdys husband was
ruined BY the late financial crisis, aud
the family reduced to abject poverty.
Year: 1874

Wash for Fences and Out-Buildings.
Take barrel and slack one bushel OF
freshly-burned lime in it by covering the
lime with boiling water. After it is
Stacked, add cold water enough to bring
it to the consistency of good whltewash;;
Then dissolve in water and add one pound
of white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) and one
quart of fine salt. To give this wash a
cream-color, add one-half apound OF vel
low ochre lin POWDER. To give il fawn
look, add pound of yellow ochre, and
one.fourth of pound of Indian red, To
make the wash u handsome gray,stone
color, add one-half pound of French
blue and one-fourth pound of Indian red /;
drab will be made by adding one-halt
of pound of burnt sienna and one
fourth pound Venetian red. For brick
or stone, instead of one bushel of lime,
use half bushel of lime and half bushel
! of hydraulic cement.
Year: 1874

IT seems lake waste of time for a
young man to pass five years at west
Point that he may be called Lienten-
anti when a weeks residence in Texas
entities everybody to be called Colonel
Year: 1874

Lord. open the door, for falter,


faint in this stiflcd air,
In dust and straitncss lose my breath;
This life of self is living death;
Let me in to Thy pastures broad and fair,
To tho sun and the wind from Thy noun
tain free!
| Lord, open the door to me
| There is II holer life aud trucr
Than ever my heart has found.
There is II uobler work than is wrought within
These walls so charrcd by the fires OF sin,
Where toll like captive blind and bound
An open door to II fieer task
In Thy nearer smile, ask
Yet the world is Thy field, Thy garden
On earth art Thou still at home.
When Thou bendest h ither Thy hallowing Eye
My narrow work room seems vast and high,
Its dingy ceiling II rainbow-dOme.
Stand ever thus at my wide-swung dsor,


And toll will be toll no more!


Through the rosy portals of morning


Now the tides of sunshine flow.
Der the blossoming earth and the glistning
The praise Thou inspirest rolls back to Thee :
Its tones through the infinite arches GO;
Yet, crippled and dumb, behold me wait,


Dear Lord, ut the Beautiful Gate.


Iwait for Thy hand of healing


For vigor and hope in Thee.
Open wide the door,-let me feel the sum-
Let me touch Thy robe! l shall rise and run
Through Thy happy universe, safe and Free
Where in and ont Thy beloved 20,


Nor want nor wandering know.


Thyself art the Door, Most Holy!


by Thee lot me enter in
press toward Thee with my failing strength i;
Unfold Thy love in its breadth and length;
True lie from Thine let my spirit win
To the saints fair City, the Fathers Throne,


Thou, Lord, art the way alone.


From the deeps of unseen glory


Now feel the flooding light.
o rare sweet winds from Thy hills that blow
o River so calm in its crystal flow!
o Love unfathomed, the depth, the height
What 10y wilt Thou not unto me impart


When Thou shalt enlarge my heart!
To be joined unto Thee one spirit


Is the boon that lingering ask.
To have no bar 'twixt my soul and Thine
My thoughts to echo Thy will divine
Myself Thy servant, for any task.
Life life! l may enter, through Thee, the
Door,


Saved, sheltered forevermore
Year: 1874

ARABS PERFUMING THEMSEL YES.


In the floor OF the hut or tent, as it


may chance to be, a small hole is
excavated sufficiently large to con-
tain a champagne bottle. A fire of
charcoal or simply glowing embers
is made within the hole, into which
the woman who is about to be seen.
ted throws a handful of drugs. She
then takes off the clothes or robes
which form her dress, and orouches
naked over the fumes, while she ar
ranges her robes to fall as mantle
from her neck to the ground like a
tent. She now begins to perspire
freely in the hot air-bath, and the
pores of the skin being open and
moist, the volatile oil from the burn.
ing perfumes is Immediately absorb
ed. By the time the fire is expired
the seeming process is completed
and both her person and her robes
are redolent of incense, with which
they are so thoroughly impregnated
that I have frequently smelt aparty
of women strongly at full hundred
yards distance, when the wind has
been blowing from their direction.
This scent, which is supposed to be
very attractive to gentlemen, is com.
posed of ginger, cinnamon. franklin.
cense, myrrh, a specie of seaweed
brought from the Red Sea, and last
ly the horny disc which covers the
aperture when the shell fish with
draws itself within its shell,
Year: 1874

Bishop Gregg, We are glad to learn,
had left the stage at San Marcos. and
was not Of the party robbed few
miles east OF San Marcos recently.
This was b narrow escape, and wa
hope the eminent preacher will be
long in falling into the hand OF the
cavaliers of the road.
Year: 1874

We are delighted to again welcome
our esteemed friend, the Galveston Ci
william, after an absence Of some length.
We had supposed the recent influx
Of heavy "quills" had sent our modes,
afternoon friend TO grass. We are
glad to know that this is not the case,
and hope the evil day is still afar of.
Year: 1874

Every days experience confirms the
statement of the American Journalist
that you eau reach the country trade
and public much cheaper and far more
etfectually by advertising In the stand
ard papers Of the country than bv
other means. The money invested 10
expensive cards and costly cir
culars Is capital sunk, and we
entertain serious doubts of any oae
ever having secured acustomer by the
newfangled giye-aWays, or gIitterinR
gewgaws, SO lavishly distributed by
flash tradesmen.


The weekly newspaper is after all
the most advantageous medium for the
city dealer to reach the country custo-
mer; 1t is read from the topmost line
IN the left hand corner of its title-pape
to the end letter Of the final word on
the last page, and we would observe
that the advertisements are rs CAREFUL
ly read, and not unfrequently longer
borne m remembrance than the more
edltying contents Of the paper. II Is
safe to assume that the country parer
Is read by an average of ten persons TO
each subscriber il is retained in the
house OF the economic farmer or me-
chanlc from week to week as a matter
OF reference, unless loaned to the less
thrifty neighbor, who is too mean to
take paper, and too sensible to do
without it when be can obtain il by
loan or theft.
Year: 1874

We are glad to notice that Messrs.
Charlton and Maxwell, of the State
Grange, and j. b. Killebrew, Secre-
tary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture, are taking renewed interest in
the subject of immigration. This il
as it should be. Within the next two
years much can be done to induce a
heavy immigration to Tennessee, if the
Legislature and people who own large
bodies of land in the State will only
co operate. 1t is useless for us to at
tempt to compete with the Western
States for immigrants unless we have
the land to settle them upon. That is
the first reqisite. We suggest, there
fore, that the State Board acquire By
purchase or donation, or both, unoc-
cupied lands to the extent of not less
than one hundred thousand acres in
one neighborhood. which lands should
be divided so that one-half might be
settled by immigrants free, the re-
mainder being held for such apprecia-
ton in value as would reimburse the
State for the WHOLE and all attending
expenses. By this means immigrants
through an immigration agent, TO be
stationed at New York, could be had
in numbers, and of such character to
satisfy the want we feel of labor and
population. We have the soil and the
climate, and only need the energy of
skilled and willing labor to realize for
us everywhere in Tennessee all the
blessings of steady growth and perma-
nent prosperity. Will Mr.. Killebrew
not give our suggestions his attention,
and press it or its equivalent upon the
Legislature so soon to assemble P
Memphis Appeal, Nor. 22.
Year: 1874

This man has been slaughtered In
the general wreck. He is buried under
majority of about fifty thousand.
He was defeated in his own ward, in
his own city, county and Congressional
district, where he never knew defeat
before. In Knox county and the
Second District he has always been in
vineible. Up to the late election he
has been regarded as the strongest
man in the district of any party. Yet
he lost the district on the Governors
vote, and Thornburg, Republican, was
elected to Congress-the only Republi-
can that was elected in this State, and
he only by the skin of his teeth. Why
was it? Simply because Horace May
nard did not take the strongest ground
possible against the Civil Rights bill.
He haggled over the question; said he
was opposed to the mixed school clause,
but intimated that some of the other
features were not so terrible that the
country need go distracted on the sub
ject. 1t was enough. Horace May
nard was defeated where he was never
defeated before, and is covered up
under a larger majority than perhaps
any man ever had heaped upon him in
Tennessee.
Year: 1874

"As my wife at the window one
beautiful day stood watching a man
with a monkey, a cart come along with
broth of boy, who was driving .
stout little donkey. To my wife then
| spoke, by way Of a joke, There's a
relation of yours in that carriage To
which she replied, when the donkey
she spied, 'Ah yes q relation By mar
riage'"
Year: 1874

CERTAINCUREFoR A RATTLEsNAKE
BITE OR SPIDER STING.-A physician
in Oregon writes: Take the yolk of
a good egg, put in teacup and stir in
as much salt as will make it thick
enough not to run off, and spread a
plaster and apply to the wound. Do
this when bitten or stung, aud ] will
insure your life fora sixpence. have
tried this remedy in a number OF cases,
and have never known it to fail"
Year: 1874

Six and half feet Of bride stood
before the altar in Parish church the
other day, aud promised TO love, cherish
and obey three feet and quarter Of
bridegroom; and that's the long and
short of it, Worcester Press.