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Year: 1874

The apprehensions of those who had expected from
the gloomy outlook at the close of last nights mar
ket continuation of weakness and depression To-
day, were agreeably disappointed, and the day has
been quite the antipodes of yesterday. The opening
pnces were to per cent (the latter on Western
Unon) in advance of last nights latest official fig
ures and with the exception of break Of Il per cent
in Telegraph to GS, and quick rally to 40,
a general improvement at once began. AT
the First Board the advance was in part
lost. and the market became heavy but IL
quickly recovered, and continued on is upward
course The buyers at first those who had sold
the market short yesterday, but there were evil
dences of new accession of capital and new buyers
who appreciate the fact that the financial question:
80 far as Congress is concerned is for the time out
of the way; that we have S26,COOOO0 more legal
tenders than we had few months ago, and
that prices of stocks are from Is to ~ per
cent lower than they were in December. So
we may add of the market to-day there was
more genuine buying than we have seen for
many a week The closing prices were buoyant.
Operations are gradually settling down to the be-


lief that the manipulations of the Wall Street wire
puIlers have more to do with the changes in the quo
tatOus of speculative securities than acts of Con-
gress or Presidential vetOes. They are also making
not very slow approaches to the conviction that
Congress Will do nothing to harm single
hair on the head of the chief manipulator
Given. therefore, that the aforesaid chief
intends to retain control Of the speculative stock
corporations with which he has heretofore amused
himself it is safe to conclude that soon as he has
repurchased his shares prices will advance, partly
in consequence of such repurchases and partly
because Congress shall have stepped in and kindly
lent helping hand. The opening, highest, lowest
nnh nInainn nricns wnre as fnllOMs;
Year: 1874

WISCONSIN, AND THE RAIL WAYS.


The State Of Wisconsin is about to enforce
the law recently passed BY the Legislature reg
ulating the freight charges of the railways.
The latter intend to contest the constitutional
ity of the law, and the matter will doubtless
be speedily brought before the Supreme Court
Of the United States. That IL will be decided
in favor of the railways is generally expected,
but such q decision will only be the beginning
of the struggle between the railway monopo-
lists and the States. Il will create feeling
scarcely less intent than that created by the
Dred Scott decision. The decision will be be-
lieved to be due to the presence Of judges on the
bench, who were formerly in the employ Of the
railway companies. As the Dred Scott deci-
sion led to the formation of the Republican
party, so decision against the constitutional
ity OF the Wisconsin law will give birth to the
anti-railway monopoly party. Public opinion
will either rally to the support Of some of the
schemes Of water communication reported upon
by the Congressional committee, or win de-
mand the construction by the Government of
freight railway from the Atlantic to the Missis-
appi. The effort to enforce the law in wiscon-
sin brings the dispute between the railways and
the people to q definite issue, and henceforth
the railway question will take It's place as the
great political question of the country.
Year: 1874

THE MINERAL WEALTH OF VIRGINIA


There is no section of our State that offert
more inducement to capitalists, or greater
promises of reward II developed, than does
Culpeper county. An abundance of mineral
wealth Of almost every description underlies q
greater portion of the county, and has remained
In its undisturbed condition for ages. It was
known to the inhabitants of this region almost
as long ago as the settlement of Virginia itself,
that copper, iron, coal, tin and some gold ex-
listed heresbout; and, singular to relate, no
man or body Of men have ever had sufficient
enterprise to investigate the subject fully. It
may have arisen from the fact that the original
soil was so rich and productive that the yield
from it was sufficient to satisfy all the wants
and comforts necessary to the happiness of the
people, and make them contented, without
looking below the surface, or caring q fig for
the inexhaustible mines of wealth known to
exist, upon which their farms, and even their
dwellings themselves, rested.


We are constantly crying hard times, scar
city Of money, and an impossibility to get any
thing to do. We are waiting for something to
"turn up" to make Us rich. The thought has
never entered the brain of most Of our youth
that labor is honorable, and that it is the sure
road to prosperity and fortune, and that enter
prise directed towards the development of our
vast and rich mineral wealth is q sure and GER
tain fortune. We beseech you to throw of
that apathy and lethargy that now envelopes
you. Wake up to the great wealth now wait
ing for you to harvest, and learn that iron is
more valuable than gold, and that millions of
dollars can be brought here by working the
many mines that exist in o uicounty.-Culpspsr
Times.
Year: 1874

A correspondent of the New Orleans PGea-
guns had an interview with Governor Ames, Of
Mississippi, upon the subject Of dueling IN
that State, and this is what the Governor said:


81 am determined to put an end to the bust
ness. When Colonel Rhett killed Judge Cooley,
though strong pressure was brought to bear
against me, thought that could not inter
fere, believing as the harm was done 1t might
be preventive for the future. In short, If g
man grossly insulted another and was killed,
had an idea that people would be rather
chary of how they did such things in the future,
and therefore took no stand. The people Of
Louisiana, however, did not seem to appreciate
this at all, and 10 and behold! the very next
difficulty they had among themselves they
came over here and fought. I grew q little
angry, but as no one was hurt took no action
again. But when the difficulty took place be-
tween Phillips and Bienvenu, and the latter
was killed, I determined to put a stop to this
bloody work at once, and telegraphed to arrest
all persons fighting duels in this State, and to
prosecute them to the full extent Of the law.


'tNow, as ifto add insult to injury, here comes
along Q whole crowd Of people to engage in
another affair. They are fully equipped. They
bring wine, cigars, aud eatables, and then go
coollY to work to try and kill each other, with
newspaper correspondents to chronicle events.
Fortunately, no one Is badly hurt; but the
whole crowd is arrested and locked up. Now,
propose to have them all indicted and pun
ished, Is an example. I am going not only to
find true bills against them, but also against
the participants in the others; and If cannot





and have them brought here and tried. They
need not think, because 1t is the custom in
Louisiana, that it is or is going to be the Gus
tom in this State. If I can't get witnesses
against them, 1 will have some one Of the num-
Der to turn States evidence, and will convict
them on that. If they all refuse to testify,
then I can, under the laws of this State, send
them to jail until one does"
Year: 1874

A Canaan correspondent of the Salis- bury News gives the following fact for the benefit of those who indulge in the use of intoxicat ing liquors:

 We had good illustration the other day, in our village, of the evil of intem- perance. A man who a few years since moved in good society-a lawyer of some note in New York city-now in scanty clothing, associating with drunken ne groes, and passing from one place to an- other begging for rum. And yet in the light of such sad scenes, not few of the young in our midst are found daily at some places here taking their beer, and often found quite the worse for liquor; and no one is interested enough to in- quire where such minors obtain liquor in violation of our license law.
Year: 1874

Mrs. William Norton hereby tenders her thanks to the friends who recently presented her with an elegant set of parlor furniture in kind remembrance of her thirty years service in the Congregational choir; and she sncea ely hopes many successors will be found more competent and just as willing to maintain so long and so pleasant connection with that branch of the services of the church.
Year: 1874

NIT. Dawes thinks that the income of the government will be large enough to meet it's expenses. A marked revival of business within few months is indicated by an increase of receipts from customs.
Year: 1874

Many of the recent emigrants from Ita- ly arc working at a considerably lower price than is demanded by Irish laborers. Hence the latter insult and abuse them on every opportunity, and murder was one of the recent results of this persecution. So it isn't the ''heathen" peculiarity that is objectionable in the Chinee but his ''cheap labor !"
Year: 1874

Few People unacquainted with physio- logical chemistry are aware of the quantity of Iron in the blood. but all should know the importance of keeping up the supply, for debility, disease and death are sure to follow when the quantity becomes too much reduced. The Peruvian Syrup Ca protoxide of Iron) supplies this vital ele- ment, and has cured many chronic disea- Sna
Year: 1874

AccuENT.-A Frenchnan employed ln tue
paper mill of Jessup & Moore had two or three


ribs broken and was otherwise injured, q few days
ago, by falling from The elevator as he was being
holsted to the upper story
Year: 1874

A Buenos Ayres paper says An


important discovery has just been made


For some time past well-known resi-
dents in San Isidro have frequently dis
appeared without anything being subse-
quently heard of them. A train from
the north recently left case at the San
Isidro station, aud the persons to whom
1T was consigned Immediately applied
for it, and left for farm in the neigh
borhood, on which there is a solitary
house. Rumors of revolution which
had been current led the Justice of the
Peace to be on the qui viUe, and, hap
pening to notice the case, he imagined
it might contain arms for the use of
some of the suspected rebels. He there
fore ordered some policemen to follow
the case and examine it on its arrival
at its destination. 1t was carried into
the house through doorway so narrow
that entrance even one at time was
difficult. They found themselves in a
narrow and short hallway, and, pushing
on, entered a room about five yards
square, in which were a number of
skeletons and bones, and other human
r,mains. On the wall in the end was
an inscription in Italian, meaning So
die all traitors Another small room
was then examined, aud large cellar.
Nothing remarkable was found in the
first, but in the cellar large number
of stilettoes, daggers, knives, pistols,
and other murderous weapons, were
found. On many of these instruments
the same inscription, SO die all trait
ors, was found, and it may not be out
of place TO remember that the same
words were found on the dagger which
some years ago caused the death of the
Italian Consul in Buenos Ayres. The
cellar was also full of bones, and among
them the head of woman was OBJ
served to which the hair still adhered" F"
Year: 1874

Don't slander. Don't gossip. Don't
lie. Don't steal. Don't swear. Don't
spit tobacco Juice where decent people
are obliged to walk. Don't imagine
that you know it all, and more, too.


Don't think you are all wisdom and
goodness, and the rest of mankind a
compound of villainous stuff. Don't be
silly and vain of your beauty, if you
possess any. Don't be a fop. Don't
stand on the street corners and in door
ways and shrug your shoulders and
blink your eyes at your comrades when
ever a comely female chances to pass
by. Dent try to see how meanly and
contemptibly you can deport yourself.


Don't see how cross and sour and dis
agreeable you can be. Don't be one
thing to your neighbor's face, and an
other behind his back. Don't make
calls to see what you can find out. Don't
think you are slighted because every
body is not always bowling and scraping
to you. Don't get mad at nothing, and
spoil your disposition. Don't be q
knave. Don't be fool. 1t don't pay.
Year: 1874

The only thing that Earl Russell ever
did greatly was to sneeze. His achieve
ment in that line was thus decribed by
biographer: "This remarkable man
seemed to concentrate himself for pi-
gantic effort, would be bent nearly
double by the force of the explosion,
and would then dive down into the
flaming banner of red silk, from which.
after several minutes obscuration. he
emerged with a countenance as vivid as
the back of scalded lobster" The
late Lord Clarendon said, "When
Lord John takes snuff the consequence
brings down the House."
Year: 1874

On Rampant street stands an unpre.
tentious store whence hangs a plain
sign bearing the inscription, "Haman
Hair Repaired" Hair restorers have
grown frequent of late years, invented
and patented all manner of drugs and
medicines that promise to make hair
grow on the baldest head-even on a
pumpkin. Yet with all these capillary
improvements, one looks down from his
seat in the peanut gallery on sea OF
bald heads-shining pates.


How modest this sign appears
There is no boast of restoring hair
which has gone; but the hair dresser
simply offers to repair ones hair, as
carpenter would repair ones leg or a
doctor ones head.


This repairing is an old art OF great
success, but seldom practiced in this
country. Hair being vegetable, can
be planted anywhere, and if the soil be
fruitful will grow luxuriantly. Thus, If
one can get a bushy headed boy to share
his locks, one can bid defiance to old
age and badness.


This art is used in Paris by old French
dandies. Our people, however, have
not generally received it for the reason
that the operation of grating hair is
rather painful, it being necessary to SOW
the new hairs into the head with
needles.


The artists in this hair-planting busi-
ness can produce the most astonishing
results. To give a person any colored
hair is, of course, easy enough bru-
nettes may have red, or blondes black
hair old persons black, and young gray
hair that is the simplest work.


A person may in like manner have
his head terraced, laid out in patches of
various colored hairs, red, white, black,
and brown; and in almost any sort of
pattern or design. This style always
produces a profound sensation, giving
Its owner the appearance of an animated
lamp mat.


If human hair be not found the pro-
fessor will supply horse hair, which will
be found quite useful and able to stand
good deal of wear and tear, in addi-
tion to the fact that it never requires
combing or brushing. Altogether we
must regard the introduction of this art
here as highly beneficial. 1t will give
our colored fellow-citizens here an OPP
portunity of getting rid of one of their
bug bears, wool, and thus it them for
the duties of American citizens, and it
may introduce new fashions in the hair
line. Certainly it is preferable to
chignons and ramie.-Ne,O Orleans
Pic0yune.
Year: 1874

On one occasion Highlander sailed
in the packet from Aberdeen to Gran
ton. 1t was the first time that Donald
had been on board ship, and the novel
scene interested him greatly. So long
as the vessel was in smooth water he en-
joyed the sail very much, but ere long a
squall came on, causing the ship to
pitch and roll in manner which to
Donald was very alarming. Irritated
by being bumped about, and suffering,
beside, from certain disagreeable sensa-
tions, he made his way to the deck to
find out the cause of the ships bad be-
havior. Arrived there, he was taking a
survey OF the scene, when his eye light
ed on the steersman. The latter did
not work by the wheel, but by the old
fashioned, long handled, rudder, and,
after cycling his proceedings for min
ute, the cloud of wrath on the High
lander's brow grew black as night.
Ho advanced toward the steersman in
stealthy way, and the instant he was
within reach knocked him down by O
blow with his fist, exclaiming, as he
did SO, "Tak' that, you villain, fol
kittlin' her tail wi that stick, and
maxim her Jump !"
Year: 1874

Wrinkles are the first tell-tales of
lost youth, and the wrinkles make their
way i'll q very stealthy manner. AT first


there comes faint marking of one little
line about the corner of the eye, and one
at each side of the mouth. Assuredly
it is the sign of approaching age, we
say complacently, looking at ourselves
in the glass, conscious of our attrac-
tions in perfection of their maturity.


That little line, indicative of the fur
rowed future, is no more age than the
one scarlet leaf of the maple in the
midst Of the green wood in autumn.


1t is the shadow of the herald if you
will but it is not the real thing. And
so on with all the rest. But it is not so
with our friends. The gap made be-
tween the past and present by years OF
absence is abrupt, unexpected. You
left o blooming, sleek-haired, slim
WASTED girl you find a faded, hollow
eyed, gray haired woman, the mother
of children, afflicted with bad health and
and horid matron whose bulk IS a bur-
den to herself and matter not for .ad-
miration to her friends whose early
shyness has worn off and gives place to
q free-and-easy good nature that may
be genial but is vulgar whose girllsh
seutimentality has gone with her bushes,
and who now openly proclaims her de-
votion to champagne and lobster salad
as among the few things in life worth
taking trouble for, and talks of the
pleasure of the palate as superior to
every other enjoyment. To be sure,
pairing away in your minds eye those
superfuous layers of flesh, you can
make out the nose of the past, and the
lips have the same curve as hers had in
the days when you would have given n
months salary for kiss; the eyes are
the same color, but what has become of
their sparkle Where is that roguish
twinkle that made your heart leap when
it flashed upon you, giving point to a
girlish sauciness that was so innocent
and she thought so naughty? Where
is that dewy, downcast look that was SO
conscious where there was nothing to
blush for? Is it that ugly leer which
tells of less tenderness of sentiment
than you would like to see IN man
You must accept this as the survival;


it is all You will have of the sweetness,
the bashfulness that once seemed t.
you the most exquisite grace on earth
Year: 1874

The thliftiest people in Central Amer
lea are the smallest-the ants. Some
of them are wonderful workers. There
is one kind, sort of wee, wee truffie-
growers, who live together in immense
swarms, and do such deal of cutting
up, that it is almost as much as the for
ests can do to stand against them. They
are called leaf cutters for the reason
that they send ont armies of thousands
and thousands to bring in leaves, which
they cut from the trees in such quanti-
ties that whole plantations of mango,
orange and lemon trees are sometimes
stripped and killed.


Do they eat the leaves? Not at all.
They live on funny little trufnes, or
fungi, of their own raising. They use
the leaves only to make hot-beds for
their dainty plants in chambers under
ground. One colony of leaf-cutters will
have a great many of these cellar cham
bers, all united by tunnels for quick
transit, and we'll supplied with what
builders call ventilating shafts for the
ants are very particular about having
plenty of fresh air. These shafts reach
to the surface of the ground. Each
chamber is about as large as q mans
head, and is kept little more than half
full of cut leaves, overgrown with small
white fungus which the ants cultivate
for food.


There are three kinds of ants in each
colony : the workers, who go off to the
woods for leaves, and have all the out
side work to do some very small ants,
who stay at home and spend their time
cutting up the leaves that are brought
in, and taking care of the baby ants and
few gigantic fellows, who manage
things, and do all the fighting in time
of war. Let any enemy disturb the
workers going out for leaves or bring
ing them home, and instantly the sol.
diers will run out in force, with their big
jaws wide open, and settle things in
order. The little nurses come out
sometimes, too, but only for fun or ex
ercise. When they haven't anything to
do, and the weather is fine, they like to
take run out with the workers. but
they do not bring any loads back
When one of them gets tired, he lust
climb up on leaf that q worker i,
bringing in-as you might climb up OF
load of hay, and so enjoys nice rid,
home.-,S. Nicholas.
Year: 1874

He was q remarkable looking old gen.
tleman, and ne sat in the waiting-room
of the Central depot with an old-fash-
ioned gun across his knees. To one
who passed him by, in casual way, he
seemed to be a hunter on his way to
some wood or field where game was TO
be found. But he who tarried mo-
ment learned that the old gentleman
was one whom the nation had honored
for his assistance in its time of need.
On the stock of the old gun was plate
bearing the words:
Year: 1874

REMOVAL OF DRY PUTTY.
to an English journal, the difficulty of
removing hard putty from a window
sash can be obviated with great readi-
ness by simply applying piece of
heated metal, such as n soldering-iron
or other similar implement. When heat
ed (but not red-hot), the iron is to be
passed slowly over the putt thereby
rendering the latter so soft that it will
part from the wood without any trouble.
Year: 1874

responsibility. 1t will supply a need
that was beginning to be felt by this
community, growing out of its general
prosperity and increasing business.
While our commercial banks are of
first-class standing, and carried on with
ability and fairness, still there is a
large class of persons accumulating
moderate sums. perhaps too small at
any one time to make it desirable to
open an account with our commercial
banks; still they are the class that fur
nish the main deposits that aggregate
many millions now on deposit in the
savings banks of this State. To this,
the laboring classes of the community
generally, we say: Do not hesitate to
place your small surplus funds in this
bank. Do not wait until you can make
large deposit. Start with small
deposit, and the fact that you have
made beginning will stimulate your
efforts to increase the amount, and
make you the more industrious and
provident, and in little while sum
may be laid up in reserve that will
enable beginning in some business
or investment of Importance, or secure
you an independence in days of sick
ness or old age. Not only will you
thus benefit yourself directly, but you
will benefit the community of which
you form part, by bringing together
all your small sums and placing them
where they may be used by persons
wishing money in larger sums.
Year: 1874

ALMOST with the laying of the first
rail of the Truxton road will COM
mence the construction of hotel
which will cost a quarter of a million
dollars, and by the opening of next
season the seaside seekers will begin
to assemble at the place which is des-
tined to become the Newport of the
Pacific. Truxton possesses all the
natural advantages requisite to make
it great watering place. The beach
could not be finer for bathing purposes.
The air is soft, balmy and invigorat-
ing, neither hot nor cold. But for the
rains of Winter, one might live there
from January to December and forget
that there were seasons and changes.
Even down to the surf-washed bank
the soil is rich and we'll adapted to the
growth of trees and shrubbery. A few
years hence, the visitor to Truxton
will see hundreds of cottages surround
ed and shaded by groves of semi-trop-
ical trees, and he will meet people
from all parts of the world who have
come to enjoy a climate more exhil-
arating than they could find at any
other watering place.