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Year: 1874

Among the many phenomena
of the Colorado River are
"swirls," so called. They oc-
cur everywhere, but only at
high stages of water. A bub-
bic rises from the bottom and
breaks, with a slight sound up
on the surface. The water at
the point begins a rotary mo-
ton, so small that an inverted
teacup might cover it. Larger
and larger grows the circle, till
a surface of forty feet in diane
ter is in motion, spinning roun d
funnel-shaped hole in the cen
tre, two or three feet across at
the top, and coming to a point
in the depths below. Often
large tree, floating down the
stream, is caught, ard its fore
most end thrust up into the air
twenty or thirty feet, while the
other passes underneath-tbe
exposed end to be slowly drawn
down again and to disappear.
Three soldiers-deserters from
Mohaye = passing in a skiff
through the ravine Immediately
below the fork, suffered their
craft to run into a swirl. One
of the crew, at the first intima-
ton of danger threw himself
overheard beyond the charmed
circle; and. as ne swan away
he turned his head and saw the
boat spin round and round, un-
til one end being drawn into
the vortex and the other up
heaved into the air, it slowly
reyolved into the turbid bosom
Of the river, to be seen no more,
for the Colorado river does not
give up its dead-no corpses
lodge on It's shore,
Year: 1874

exists here could not exist in
Ohio a week; the whole gang
of government officials would
we swept out Of the capitol and
into the river. Yet the State
of Ohiois just ten times more
able to support a corrupt gov
ernment than South Carolina
This State lost in the war, actual
cash value, three hundred ard
fifty millions Of dollars, having
left only one hundred and eighty
millions. And that, from this
remnant Of their property they
should be compelled to support
the horde Of thieves that has
been fastened upon them, is just
a little too much for human en-
durance.


Moses lives in style here in
the old Preston mansion. He
is a spendthrift, and manages TO
spend about forty thousand dol
lars a year off from a salary of
thirty-five hundred. The town
is full Of scandals about him,
but he does rot seem to care
Neither does he care what the
newspapers say, and is as con-
tent to be abused as praised
He says that not one in ten Of
his constituents can read, so he
is quite Indifferent to newspa-
per criticism. And even should
the negroes get hold of an evil
repor5 concerning their adored
chief, they Immediately set it
down as a rebel lie, and keep
firm their allegiance to the mod
ern Moses.
Year: 1874

4 farmer near Conner's Creek,
Michigan, was cursed five years
ago, by an Old woman who
came to beg Of him, and was re-
pulsed angrily. He treated her
malediction with scornful laugh
ter at the time, and though 20
more about it; but oneday, while
working in his field he sudden
ly began to scream and shout,
and act like a voci1erous luna
tic. The old hag had taken
possession Of him, and especial
iyof vocalorgans. Eversince
he has continued thus to below
and to shrek, only keeping 81
lence when his exhausted voice
failed him. At last report he
was thought to be dying from
sheer weariness. Then he was
unable even to whisper, but still
''his chest rose and fell like a
pair Of bellows" His friends,
knowing the story of the old
Woman's curse, are as credulous
as he is, and have made several
attempts to find her, and to beg
or bribe q removal of the ban,
but she is not to be found.
Year: 1874

a North Carolina belle took
a horseback ride near Morgan
town in that State. She was
riding rapidly with a gentleman
down a long slope when the
gentleman's horse stumbled and
fell. The lady's horse cleare |
both him and rider at one leap,
and then became quite unman-
ageable. Two hundred yards
further on narrow lane was
blocka5ed by negro, mule and
cart across it. Her horse was
careering at full speed. To
pass round was impossible, to
stop equally so; but the agile
animal at one fearful bound
cleared negro, mule and cart.
The charming equestrienne new
er for a moment lost her balance,
and was laughing gayly when
her horse was checked two
miles further OH.
Year: 1874

ARRESTED FOR. FkLoNY.-YeSterday morn
Ing Sergeant Cbakley served a warrant ON
Peter Seldom, who was sent TO jail on Tues
day for four months for having in his pos.
session set of harness supposed to be
stolen, charging bin with entering in the
nighttime the house of Leopold Asher and,
stealing the said harness. He will come be-
fore the Police Court this morning 10 answer
the charge OF felony,
Year: 1874

In accordance with request conveyed in |
resolution adopted by the City Conserva-
tive Committee we publish the following |
official report OF its proceedings at its last


meeting:
Year: 1874

STATE L1CENsE-TAx.-The commissioner
of the revenue OF this city is now prepared
to assess persons or firms who are required


to obtain State licenses. Every person en-
gagged or desiring to engage in any business,
employment, or professionin Richmond, for
the prosecution of which license IS re-
ouired. must apply TO him to be assessed.
Wholesale and retail liquor dealers and Keep
ers of Grdinaries, under the new law, have
to appls airst TO the commissioner of the re-
venue, then pay the assessment to the State
collector, and upon the production OF the
receipt before the Hastings Court the license


will be granted. Until this is done no per-
SON is deemed by law to have liquor license.
Year: 1874

GOOD TEHPLARs.--A new lodge of the In
dependent Order OF Gsod Templlrs will be
Instituted among the colored people of this
city in few days. 1t will start with sixty
charter members.
Year: 1874

an ICE.CREAM AND STRAWBERRY FE asst is
announced for tonight and Tomorrow night
for the benefit of the Sunday-school, TO be
given In the basement of the First Baptist
church. r.e SER f
Year: 1874

quested to defer giving the notice for en-


trance to persons who are living beyond the
end of culverts, where they are temporarily


stopped except in cases of extreme uncIean-
illness. Agreed to.
Year: 1874

The Third Congressional District is
the largest in the State in point of ter
ritOry, embracing seventeen counties
on either side of the mountains. In
point of population it ranks fourth,
Outnumbering FIVE others. Yet the
representation at the McMinnville con-
vention was a full one, every one of
the seventeen counties being repre-
sented. This is a good omen, as show
ing that the people are thoroughly
aroused to their political interests.
Without good government We cannot
prosper as We should. The nominee,
Gen. Dibbrell, is a gentleman of
worth and public spirit, whose record
is well known to all. The resolutions
denouncing recent horrors were no less
than We have the right to expect from
every body of representative white men
who may assemble under present cir
cumstances. 1t may never occur to
the negroes to denounce the outrages
and rapes committed by their race, or
the infamous resolutions passed by last
Mays convention in Nashville. But
we expect more Of white men, because
we understand better the precious in
terests of life and liberty that are
jeopardized by lawlessness. On us de-
pends the maintenance of order and
society. If we do not vindicate them
our future is a diabolic chaos.
Year: 1874

We abhor lynch law, because it con-
demns without a hearing. The vilest
malefactor should have the benefit of
such defence as he can offer. There
fore we publish elsewhere, communi-
cation from Milan which attempts to
Justify the wholesale massacre at Tren-
ton, and presents the other side of the
story. After reading it and giving due
weight to its arguments, wecannot find
In it the least colorado excuse for
lynching men who were already under
the strong arm of the law. The now
ing down of utterly defenceless prison
ers, after the law has itself disarmed
them, cannot be justified. Such hor-
rors cannot be tolerated. When were
member that the whites outnumber the
blacks In Gibson county three to one,
and poll two Democratic votes to one
Radical, the resort to such desperate
remedies becomes atrocious. The laws
delay may be exasperating, but it is in
fnitely better than no law at all.
Year: 1874

Gov. BROWN, of Tennessee, comes
up to the scratch like a man. The re-
ward OF five hundred dollars a head for
the authors of the Gibson county
butchery will doubtless produce the
desired effect. The case is one demand
ing absolute firmness, and the firmness
the Governor Of Tennessee has display
ed. Whatever may be said of the ira
gedy, it can not be said that the officers
of the State are Indifferent to it. The
promptness with which the local au-
thority has asserted itself should carry
some lesson to the minds of those who
seem to think that there is no power
adequate to such emergencies but the
Federal power.-Louisrille Courier
Journal
Year: 1874

upon him, but the crowd was kept of by
police officers, who hurried him down the
alley way to where carriage was in wait
ing, into which he was pushed rather than
helped. and with a police officer standing
on each step Of the vehicle, it was driven
rapidly away. The audience then quietly
disnarSad
Year: 1874

The usual task of party editor is
superfuous this year. The gentle
man chosen as the Republican State
ticket are all 80 well and so popular
ly known over Iowa that any set or
elaborate introduction of them is un-
necessary and is made here simply
because it is the custom. There is
not one obscure or unknown man
upon ticket. There is upon it Meth.
er light weight nor dead weight.
Even in Iowa, where the party has
always chosen its candidates with 80
much care, aud exaoted of all nomi-
nees as the condition of their selec-
ton unchallenged worth and un-
questioned record, there has never
before been so long ticket made up
of such absolutely unexceptionable
and such really capable material.
The remark was common after the
adjournment of the Convention that
it was the strongest ticket which had
ever been chosen in the State. For
it is not only superior in the choice
of strong men and true men, but it is
also strong in that it is so admirably
balanced as to the home popularity
and geographical location of the diff
ferent candidates. There is not a
single person among the candidates
who will not run ahead of his ticket
in his own county, thus receiving
the best commentator any man can
have that of his own neighbors, and
through such home endorsement ad


ding TO the most certain success of
the whole ticket. The Convention
selected its men not merely for Ca
pacity and integrity. 1t chose those
who had beside their essential quail.
ties that Of personal and magnetic
popularity, men who are trusted by
the people as exceptions among
men. In the case of all the candi-
dates is this assertion true.


The denomination of Mr.. Young
for Secretary of State, and Captain
Christy for Treasurer, without vote
or a voice raised against them, and
by the hearty acclaim of the party,
show better than words can the
worth of the men and their popular
ity as public officials. These gentle
men receive their first nominations
largely from the endorsement OF
their home people, where both had
been tried and fonnd capable and
true. State service has added to
their local popularity an Iowa popu.
larity, and their unanimous return to
the ticket of the party is verdict Of
State approval, which in these times
of rigid scrutiny and unsparingjudg-
ment, is an honor of supreme com
pliment. As Republicans these
gentlemen have been with and Of
the party from its birth. Both were
soldiers during the war. Both had
gallant records. Their denomination
Year: 1874

pany he Is ln, and that Is saying
much. OF the younger men of the
Republican party none has gained
better name or better fame in the
State or among the people. In his
own profession, too, he has risen
early to rank, and holds the position
alike by the gift of native strength
and the force of superior culture.
From boyhood a close student he
has well improved every opportuni-
ty, and trusted never to fortune. A
graduate of Amherst College, he is
also a graduate of the academy OF
every day experience and of daily
routine of the business world, As a
lawyer, as we have said, he has ear
ly gained prominence, and as o
member of one of the leading law
firms of the State. During the last
sessions of the United States Courts
in Des M Dimes, the arguments made
by Mr.. Runnells in some of the i'm
portant cases were | ronounced as
being among the finest delivered
during the term. On the tribune or
stump he is an orator second to none


we have in Des Moines, and he Is
hardly second as speaker in the
State. We say this from what we
have seen OF him locally, confident
that he will in the coming canvass


prove himself worthy OF such dis
| tinction. No one who knows him
doubts his qualifications as a Repor-
ter. Tn addition to his requirements
as a lawyer, his experience as a
Journalist will prove of service to
him in work reportorial. His home
popularity was well attested by the
fact that the two factions in the Re.
publican party in this county and
district labored with equal zeal for
his nomination. His name can con.
tribute much to the ticket, and his
service in the campaign will add to
it and to the success and power oi
the party still more.
Year: 1874

Life lie not all one shadowless day of glory,
Life Is not ell one lightless night of gloom;
Checkered forever is our human story,


Checkered the time of fallow, time of bloom,
Sun never rose that did not cast shade,
Before, behind, oblique on either side;
Light were not light, If darkness lent not aid,
By darkness only light is denied.


Night never fell, engulfng in it's blackness
Lost creatures, but some little candle threw
Long light upon the path, to spread the slacknes
or hopeless footsteps that have lost their cine.
So light and shadow weave their mingled web,
Be life at highest flood or lowest ebb.
Year: 1874

The New York Bulletin is surprised at the temper with which our people endure the present temporary com rnercial dullness. We are now in the midst of convalescent process. '' '.|}s. ' The restoration cannot be instan- taneous .(the editor says);s but it is not therefore the less certain. The actual recovery will consist in the full em- ployment of the labor of the country in useful production. But certain things can be realized x Fk*t x * The owners of the capital must be sat- isfied that prices and wages have touched the nnininnm.A Merchants must feel convinced that there is to be no further shrinkage in values before they are willing to carry an average stock of fgoods. Bankers must feel sure that their customers are able to endure until the recovery is completed before they will discount and grant credits to the usual extent sand such assurance they can acquire only after long obser- vation and evidence. ...-----.--.- Men of business do not appear will ing to wait until the various parties l whose cooperation is needful to the recovery of industry and trades have been satisfied upon these points, and they nope and moan because trade is not restored by miracle.
Year: 1874

There are men in San Francisco meaner than any who have yet distln- guished themselves in this part of the country. They sink so far below the moral standard of ordinary robbers as to rob the dead. Their headquarters is the coroner's office, and theirmethods are being brought to light by an in- vestigation. Russell Card killed him. self, and when his body was taken to the morgue it was dressed in fine clothes. On the night of his suicide Card had taken usual pains to dress himself in his best. The corpse was at the morgue few hours, and was then delivered, upon the order of Masonic Lodge, to an undertaken for burial. In these few hours the good clothing had entirely disappeared. and when the undertaken received the remains they were naked. MT. Cards fellow Masons caused an inquiry, and the facts are coming out showing that the coroner's office is den into which the dead are systematically robbed. In one instance not only the personal effects but the real estate of dead man were seized. It is difficult to say what degree of punishment is adequate to such crimes.
Year: 1874

A retired physician writes :sHow does it happen that amid the everlasting cry of drunkenness we never hear . word against it's sister evil-gluttony ? I think I can assert with truth that, in long practice, three have died among my patients from over eating where one has died from drink. Whence comes apoplexy, paralysis, dyspepsia, and host of other diseases, but from too muehyrich food, taken under the most imprudent: circhmstances?A P And yet we hear of no society formed to prevent this growing vice: A man eats until he drops down and expires with apoplexyjby the roadside, when up comes the coroner with jury of twelve good men and true, who pro nounce verdict, Died from intern perance." So he did; but what kind of intemperance was it2 I have heard more than one minister in the pulpit expatiate with great vehenence against the sin of drunkenness, whose very ap- pearance was proof positive that he was pre-eminently guilty of glutSony.
Year: 1874

ed. So he tired himself and strapgled
himself with frantic struggles, and went to
the bottom before boat could reach him.
though it was near enough to have saved
one who could not swim at all, had he been
cool enough to keep perfectly still.


The morals is PLAIN. With all your swim
ming practice don't neglect to accustom
yourself to conditions such as you will be
pretty sure to find yourself in should YOU
ever have occasion to swim for your life.
When you can keep yourself ahoat with
heavy boots on, when you can tumble out
OF boat i'll ordinary dress and strip in the
water, and net waste your strength in sui
cldal attempts to overcome the resistance
OF clothing that cannot be removed. then
you can safely answer in the affirmative
the question: Can you swim?


There Is \ forceful proverb about teach.
ing old dogs new tricks. We do not imau
ine that many adults will act upon the sue-
gestions we have made. But the bows will
tthey have half chance. And we would
urge upon parents the propriety of allow
ing their sons to vary their watery sports
IN the way we have described They can
not put their old clothes to better use.
We can say from personal experience that
the boys will like the fun, and that thew
never regret the saving they will gain by it.


or course we would not exclude the girls
from such knowledge. if circumstances are
at all favorable. At least let them learn to
make the most of the temporary advant-
age their clothing offers for buoyancy, and
also now to relieve themselves of entan-
sling skirts IN case of emergency.
Year: 1874

Is The best drink for sedentary persons
is hot tea and coffee of moderate strength,
and that at meal times; it is the best drink
at meals for all who are past fifty years of
age; all such will live longer by the use of
these as a beverage than by the use of cold
water as a beverage. The fact is observ-
able with the naked eye, that glass of
cold water during a meal arrests digestion
instantly, which process can only be le-
sumed when the cold water, Of fifty de-
grees, has been long enough in the stomach
to absorb heat sufficient from the body to
warm it up to a hundred degrees That a
hot cup of tea at meal does revive per-
son who is old, or feeble, or cold, or tired,
is the daily experience of millions. If 4
healthy person greatly desires drink of
cold water during a meal, let him take it
by all means; it is only intended to incul-
cate the general idea for the masses, that
the habitual and large use of cold water at
a meal, or within half an hour before or
after, is not wise, is not safe, and that a
cup of hot drink is always safe, is always
reviving; if now and then there is an ex-
ception, it should be set down as a peculi-
arity OF an idiosyncrasy.


Journal of Health.
Year: 1874

They look very much like red squirrels,
with their ears cropped close as a hens,
and their tails cut off to three inches long.
They live III houses or holes in the ground,
and usually in f'towns," where large num-
bers are found


Each family has q house to itself; and
such houses! They dig holes in the ground
sometimes quite deep and very crooked,
and at the top they make mounds about the
size and 81 ape Of an inverted bushel bask-
ct, leaving funnel-shaped hole in the mid
die for the doorway. It is hard to get hold
Of them, for they always run to the mounds
at the first intimation of person approach
ing, and, if shot, they fall into the house
out of reach; but if not, they dive down in
a very amusing manner. Attimes they are
real playful and will chase each other
around for awhile, then set up ON their hind
legs and make a chuckling noise like laugh
ing, or stand on their hind feet and give
squeaking challenge for another race, and
off they go. have often stopped my oxen
and sat on the plow to watch them in their
antics, and always with increasing pleasure.
It took me some time to learn about their
ears, for they are hard to get acquainted
with. Sometimes | thought they had none;
at others that they did, but kept them laid
back like cross horse when was near.
But after awhile they seemed to lose their
fear, and would play all sorts of pranks
when | was within few feet of them
Cor. Prairie Fztrnser.
Year: 1874

Mr. Samuel L. Clemens, better known as


Mark Twain, made a little speech at a
dinner enjoyed by some insurance men in


Hartford the other night The Courant
thus reports him:


GENTLEMEN:-l am glad indeed to assist


in welcoming the distinguished guest of


this occasion to a city whose fame as an


insurance centre has extended to all lands


and given us the name of being quadruple


band of brothers working sweetly hand in


hand--the Colts Arms Company making
the destruction of our race easy and con-
yenient, our life insurance citizens paving
for the victims when they pass away, Mr..
PATTERSON perpetuating their memory with
his stately monuments, and our fire insur-
ance comrades taking care of their hereafter.
am glad to assist in welcoming our guest
first, because he is an Englishman, and |
owe heavy debt of hospitality to certain
of his fellow-countrymen and secondly,
because he IS in sympathy with insurance,
and has been The means of making MANY
other men cast their sympathies in the
same direction. Certainly there is no nobler
field for human effort than the insurance
line OF business-especially accident insur-
ance. Ever since have been director in
an accident insurance company have felt
that am better man. Life has seemed
more precious. Accidents have assumed a
kindlier aspect Distressing special provi-
dences have lost half their horror. | look
upon cripple, now, with affectionate inter-
est-as an advertisement. I do not seem
to care for poetry any more. do not care
for politics; even agriculture does not excite
me. But to NE, now, there is charm
about railway collision that is unspeak-
able. There is nothing more benefcent
than accident insurance. | have seen an
entire family lifted out of poverty and into
affiuence by the simple boon of a broken
leg. | have had people come to me on
crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless
this benefcent institution. In all my ex-
perience of life I have seen nothing SO
seraphic as the look that comes into
1IGSulg IudE lace witch lie 1e6lS
into his vest pocket with his remaining
hand and finds his accident ticket all right.
And have seen nothing SO sad as the look
that came into anothers splintered customers
face when he found he couldn't collect on
wooden leg. I will remark here, by way of
an advertisement, that that noble charity
is an institution which is peculiarly to be
depended upon. A man is bound to pros
per who gives it lis custom. No man can
take out policy in it and not get crippled
before the year is out. Now there was one
INDECENT man who had been disappointed
so often with other companies that he had
grown disheartened; his appetite left him;
he ceased to smile-said life was but a
WEAKNESS. Three weeks ago got him to
insure with us, and now he is the brightest,
happiest spirit i'll this 1and-has good,
steady income and a stylish SUIT Of new
bandages every day, and travels around on
shutter.