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Year: 1874

WHY EARS SHOULD NOT BE BoXED.-In
Physiology for Practical Use" ID. APP
pletOn < Co we find the following There
are several things very commonly done
which are extremely Injurious to the ear,
and ought to be carefully avoided And
first chjldren's cars ought never to be box
ed. We have seen that the passage of the
ear is closed by a thin membrane, especi-
ally that adapted to be influenced by every
impulse of the air, and with nothing but
the air to support il internally. What,
then, can be more likely to inGre this
membrane than sudden and forcible COM
preston of the air in front of it? Ii anyone
desired to break or overstretch the mem
brane, he could scarcely devise a more
efficient means than to bring the hand sud
denly and forcibly down upon the pas
sage of the ear, thus driving the air vio-
lently before it, with no possibility for its
escape but by the membrane giving way
Many children are made deaf BY boxes on
the ear in this way.
Year: 1874

you are just ready to swear or speak harsh
ly, or use an improper word.


Hold on to your feet when you are on
the point of kicking, or running away from
study, or pursuing the path of error, shame
or crime.


Hold on to your temper when you are
angry, excited, or imposed upon, or 9TH
ers are angry about you.


Hold on to your good name at all times,
for it is much more valuable to you than
gold, high places, or fashionable attire
Year: 1874

A physician. on presenting his bill to the
executor of an estate of deceased patient
asked. DO You wish to have my bill
sworn?' No. replied the executor, the
death of the deceased is sufficient ausa-~
that you attended him Pi Occasionally
Year: 1874

PARIS, June St is reported here on
good authority that Marshal Serano will
soon order a general election in Spain and
if the monarchists are IN majority he viii
propose the Environment of the Prince OF
Astanias under his own regency.


LONDON, June 3.-Dispatches from San
tander report that town has been AZ
tackled by the Carljsis in force and IS in a
critical condition. Men-Of-war have been
sent to protect foreign residents. Reinforce
ments for the garrison are fastening from
the interior.
Year: 1874

THIS Utah business is such mix
ture of pagan practices and Radical
rascaIity that it is hardly safe for any
Christian to take sides in the present
csntest. The bill passed by the House
Yesterday has yet to run the gauntlet
of the Senate, but the conduct of the
members yesterday seems to indicate
that it is regarded as party measure.
OF course polygamy cannot be screened
under the cloak Of religion, be-
cause marriage is a matter that comes
under legislation in every State OF the
Union. On the other hand, Cannon S
protest that the pending bill is a
scheme of Radical carpet-baggers to
oct control of the territory, squander
the wealth accumulated by Mormon IN
dustry. and exhaust its credit as well
as resources, may be the warning OF
natriot as well as patriarch-of four
wives. The party of moral ideas have
an ugly habit of stealing the livery o.
heaven to serve the devil IN.
Year: 1874

HARTsvILLE has sold her calaboose
for s19, and proudly claims to be the
most ri shteous town In all Tennessee.
OF course, the fact that nobody had
ever been induced to stay in the con-
cern longer than was required to dig
out with a jack-knife had nothing to
do with its abolition.
Year: 1874

BENJAMIN III. BRIsTow, the new
Secretary of the Treasury. has for
years been ON terms of warm personal
friendship with Grant, and, as is the
case of Borie, Fish, Williams, Robson
and the rest of the Cabinet, this seems
to have been the moving cause of his
nomination, rather than any special
fitness for the important Office to which
he is called. A Courier -Journdlspesia
informs us that his financial views are
in accord with those of the President.
The latter, it will be remembered, were
so luminously set forth in the Annual
Message of last December that most
of people have concluded Grant has
no financial views, except such as he
takes at second hand from the money
and monopoly ring which bought his
last election.
Year: 1874

IT is proposed to hold a Congress at
Brussels next month, to consider the
subject Of international rights in time
of war. Belgium, Switzerland and
other little neutrels have a hard time
of it when their big brothers get to
fighting, and would like to know if
they have any rights that belligerents
are bound to respect.
Year: 1874

In the course of the recent civil war
in Arkansas we noted that Radical
Legislation had vested the Governor
with too much one-man power, and the
contest was really for the exercise of
this power in the coming elections.
The wholesale appointment of Su-
preme Court with several inferior
Judges yesterday by Gov. Baxter, is,
however. a matter that cannot easily
be avoided, as the former incumbents
are refugees from the State, and non'
action would amount to closing the
courts and denial of justice.
Year: 1874

FROM its non-appearance IN the
House proceedings yesterday, we pre-
sumo that Ben Buffers motion to sus-
pend the rules and refer the civil rights
bill, is still pending as unfinished bus
mess. We take it that the Democrats
are In full attendance, and Butler Is
waiting for his opportunity when half
a dozen of them may be absent, per-
haps unayoidably. If this pet measure
can be defeated, it will be a terrible
shock to the negro's implicit faith that
the Government and the Radical party
are almighty.
Year: 1874

In Knoxville, they are still hanging
JEFF Davis on sour apple tree. The
Press and Herald notes the following
incident in describing the decoration
of the Federal graves, last Saturday:


An unfortunate incident which occur
red on the return, marred the success
of the celebration, and gave rise to
much sharp criticism. The young girls
In the State car who represented the
States of the Union, were amusing
themselves by singing, and as the
procession turned out of Union and
into Gay street, the girls were singing
at the utmost pitch of their voices, the
ditty:


'we'H hang JEFF Davis on a sour apple tree"


The rude song so loudly sung, gave
shock of unpleasant surprise to all
who heard it, and some of the carriages
were Immediately driven out of the
line, while pedestrians looked up in
curious wonder Still the singing went
on as the car moved down Gay street.
Year: 1874

The delegation of gentlemen from
Murfreesboro, who were here yesterday,
looking after the interest of that town
in connection with the location of the
Southwestern Baptist University, stat
ed that the UNION AND AFRICANS
account of the little unpleasantness at
Murfreesboro was correct, there being
no foundation whatever for the absurd
rumors set afoat. No special excite
ment was manifested, and mob violence
was not threatened
Year: 1874

A WOMAN in Xenia, Ohio, made a
pointed reply to the crusaders who
visited her saloon, saying, III effect,
was poor and no one cared for me. l
went into business where l MADE
money, and now | receive attention
and favor. You ask me to give up the
respect of society when money VIII
enable me to keep it,
Year: 1874

JOSHUA BILLINGS. alias H. W Shaw, delivered
his first lecture in this State in the lecture-room
of the Congregational Church at Sacramento
last Tuesday evening, the subject "Buty
and the Beast" 1t was our misfortune to have
the pleasure of hearing him. Unfortunate in
the loss we sustained in the way of buttons
stitches and uncomfortable squeezes from an
overcrowded house. but pleasant from the reali-
zation of feast of text and flow of reason in
sea of vivacity and absurdity seldom expert
enced by mortal man. His lecture was on half
hundred subjects, and none were slighted. He
said, what Jonah thought when he was in the
whale les-socety knows" He advised
short sermons-especially on hot day. If
minister cannot strike lie after boring forty min
utes, he either has bad gimlet or is boring in
the wrong place. He said Job might have had pa
tience. but nothing to country school master


Jobs boils all one kind but every child
boil on the schoolmaster Of a different
kind and each needed different kind of poul-
tice to bring them to q head Mosquitoes he
said. are born of poor but industrious parents


though they have in them some of the best blood
in the land. They have many good traits-cour-
age the principal one, He had known one
musquito to fight man, and his wife and thre e
children all night and draw the first blood
They are all good natured-go singing as they
toll. When a man started down hill everything
seemed creased for the occasion A live man,
like pig, weans young and begins to root early.
The best way to bring up boy is the back way
If he tells the truth too much, put him in dry
goods ct Thprn 10 not co ,nuch risk in mar
ryine in gambling. If you win, you win a
great deal; if you lose, you don't lose much.
The best way TO be happy is not to want any
thing-until you get it. An honest man is the
noblest work of God. But he thought the work
di not pay, a large portion of the first tdi-
..on must still be in the authors hands.
Year: 1874

Coon FOR RosEvrLLE From time to time we
have urged upon our farmers the Importance OF
organizing themselves into oranges. We have
done 50 because we know it would be to their
advantage We not only have the testimony OF
Changers throughout the.~hole United States to
prove this but we have the philosophic truth
that combined interests in any pursuit secure
advantages not possible to be obtained other
wise. Our farmers and miners are the back
bone of our county--or State for that matter
and any move for their interest is for the inter
est of the county, and hence it rejoicss us to
note their prosperity or in any way to lend a
helping hand to them or their cause. Roseville
mas nobly led off in the grange movement and
organize the first Farmers Grange in the coun-
~ We wish it prosperity, and hope it will not
only result in benefitting its members, but prove
apower for good to the whole county. We
hope some energetic member will take upon
MIN or herself the task of keeping us posted in
regard to its actions and success. and while
thus hoping we shall wait with eager anxiety to
near Of the organization in Placer OF Grange
No.2 h't 9il
Year: 1874

WEATHER. The stormy lion which for mouths
has ho vled so continuously around our sanctum
by day and our couch by night, dashing against
our window and over our land the drenching spray
Of his foaming wrath, has taken his departure,
and the lamb Of sunshine and fair weather now
rests in quiet peace on every hill and dale
Year: 1874

MINING in the upper portions of the county
has been much retarded by the continued bad
weather and heavy fall of snow, which has
blocked the bitches and shut off all supplies of
water. All this loss of time, though, will be
amply made up as soon the snow begins to
melt We can safely calculate now that the
winter is pretty much over, and with the pres
ent prospect for an abundant supply of water
for several months. we will have such lively
times among the hydraulic and sluce miners as
have not been known for years. Plenty of wa
ter is all that is needed to insure this and that
we have in the form of srow in abundance,
which will wisely be dispensed needed.
Year: 1874

MINrNa.-Work, in the early part of the week,
was suspended on the Orleans Mine, for a few
days on account of water If the fine weather
continues, the suspension will be short as Cor
don has too bright prospect ahead to afford to
waste much time.


The Crater Hill Mine is working about 100
men, and every days work gives new encour-
agement to its owners. If this mine keeps up
its lick, it will soon be entitled place in the
front rank of mines in the State.


The new Quartz Mill, about mile below
town, which crushes on what is known as the
Penneman process, is now running steadily, on
rock from the Salsig mine. The rock, by this
mill, is crushed dry, and it is claimed they can
save a greater per cent of the gold than by any
other process. If the mill proves to be all that
is claimed for it, it will be grand incentive to
the quartz interests of the district.


At the Bellevue mine times are quite lively,
as they always are when J. H. Crossman and
plenty of rich rock are around.
Year: 1874

Allow one who is rot in the habit of writing for the public press few lines in your valuable journal. Although am not 'to the manor born am a citizen (by adoption) of Ore Hill, and as you were not present at the exhibition given by our dis trict school at Lakcville Academy Hall

 ast Friday evening, take the liberty of sending you brief sketch of it. It was considered by every one present, a com plete success. The declamations were good and the dialogues. tableaux and cha rades were received with great applause by the audience. The music by Prof. Lang dou's orchestra was far in advance of any thing of the kind ever before heard in this vicinity, and the accompaniment on the piano was remarkably well executed, which showed highly cultivated musical taste on the part of the player, and it made all levers of go cd music feel like tripping the light fantastic toe,' MICHAEL.
Year: 1874

consumed. Fortunately, the conductor was staunch friend of the engineer, and that terribly dangerous nap remained se- cret as far as the management was con- cerned.

 On railways that intcrsect populous dis tricts it is not an unfrequent occurrence for an engineer to run down and kill deaf, blind or drunken persons who are walking on the track. He sounds his whistle and expects them to leave the track Persons so frequently step aside at the very last moment that until that moment arrives the engineer gives himself no uneasiness. A pretty scene that must have been on the Pennsylvania Central, when on nearing Harrisburg the engineer of an express train discovered little girl at play on the track ahead of him. Her back was toward him, but he saw the golden curls, the little bare arms, and almost imagined he heard the joyous prattle of the unsuspecting child as the flying engine approached the cross-tle where she sat. Perhaps he thought of just such another child at home, fer he sprang from his cab-it was too late to stop the train-and leaning over the 'pi- lot reached out and caught the little girl just as she raised her head and saw her danger. Then the mother, who had seen the brave act, rushed from her house and took the child from his arms when the train was brought to stop.

 Last summer the eng inc run by William Baird, of the lightning express on the Hud- son River railroad, struck drunken man who was sitting on the trestle bridge at Plum Point. and killed hin, instantly. At the inquest the day after, the engineer told the writer that exactly year before on that very day he had struck his first man somewhere just above Yonkers. Said he: 'I was running the lightning then, and was making lively time past Yonkers, when saw young fellow with cane in his hand walking on the down track. Just as I got within hundred feet of him, he de- liberately walked over to my track. I whistled and jerked back my lever. The light was full Tn his face, and when he

 

 horror on his face, for he was blind and had thought was coming on the down track. He jumped, but it was too late and saw him throw up his hands-I even heard him shriek-as the pilot struck him. sat up that night and thought about that poor fsllow-no use trying to sleep with that on my mind. The next day I saw him laid out in the depot. all torn and mangled, but his face wasn't touched at all, and after I took one look at him I saw that face night and day for six months every minute was on my engine. I shut my eyes when passed the place where I struck him. managed to get another en- zine; l did everything, but all the time, es- pecially at night, in the glare of my head light saw that pale, thin, blind face. I saw the hands thrown up, and I heard the poor fellow scream when the pilot seemed to strike him."
Year: 1874

A WONDERFUL DoG.-The Carmel Cour-

 ter speaks of an educated dog named

 Knapp, belonging to MT. Williams, sta

 ton master at the Scarsdale depot on the

 Harlem railroad. It says She has been taught to assist his master in the perform ance of his duties around the depot. Knapp has learned to tell by the clock when a train is due and at night when the hand points to the proper hour Knapp takes lantern in his mouth and stands on the platform with the light guiding the engi- neer to the stopping place. Knapp knows an express train from mail train, and mail train from way train. In day time when the express train approaches the sta tion and the track is clear, Knapp shows a white flag, which signifies all is well. Not many days ago Knapp appeared with white flag as an express train hove in sight, but seeing two small children going down the wagon road ignorant of the approach of any train, he saw that the children would reach the crossing simultaneous with the train. Knapp dropped the white flag and seiaing the red flag in his mouth, he darted toward the crossing. The engineer saw the red flag and shut off steam before the animal reached the children, Arrived at the crossing he stood there and prevent ed the train from passing until the children were safely over the track, then he laid the flag down and the train went on. On another occasion Knapn snatehed a child from in front of way train just as it was stopping at the depot. The childs cloth ing was torn by the wheels of the locomo- tive, so narrowly had it escaped death.- Knapp consults the clock every day for the arrival of the mail trains, A few mo- ments before the mail is due Knapp sta tions himself at the mail rack. and when the bag is thrown from the car he carries it to the post office. and if it contains any letters for His master he takes them back to him."
Year: 1874

No other living thing can go so slow as boy on an errrand.

 There arc over 24, coo idiots in this coun- try who are acknowledged as such.

 Love is an egotism of two. The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

 The bee-keepers have failed to deter inc how much honey aslngle bee pro- duces in year This important subject should not be overlooked,
Year: 1874

An impecunious citizen said the only change he was allowed was that of the weather.

 An Iowa gentleman recently shot a pos'. master for refusing to lick postage stamp for the amiahle and accomplished wife of the sho oter.
Year: 1874

ALMOST A SERIOUS ACcIDEST.-Tbe cold
weather on Wednesday night had the effect
Of freezing the water on Twelfth street near
Bank. and yesterday morning as team of
mules attached to cart heavily loaded with
coal came along, the animal in the shafts
slipped and fell, breaking the shafts and
bruising himself. After some difficulty the
driver, with help from persons standing by,
succeeded in freeing the poor creature from
the tangle of the shafts and harness, and, re-
pairing damages, proceeded to deliver his
load Of coal. Can't Twelfth street be put in
good order?
Year: 1874

ALE FOR FAMILY USE-ESGLISH ALE, CREAM
ALE, AND PoRTER.-To supply demand from his
many countrymen here, HENRY BOWLER has now


an ale that he flattcrs himself will fairly compete


with their home beverage both In flavor and quality.


AMI with his universally-apnroved cream ale' and


porter will enable him TO please the paates of all.
Orders to Spring Park Brewery promptly filed
Year: 1874

VIRGINIA OPERA-HoUsE.-The real Dayen.
port Brothers seem to have been there last
night notwithstanding the incredulity OF
many who read the announcement.


When the curtain rose the manager of the
exhibition Of satanic power, or spiritual in.
huence, or whatever it was, asked the audi
ence to select committee to examine the
cabinet, and if there appeared TO be any
fraud about it to report it,. Two wel-known
members of the Legislature, who were Sc
lccted as proposed, went upon the stage,
examined the cabinet, and reported all right.


The Davenports then took seats within it,
and were securely tied with ropes by the
committee, and the doors closed In an in
slant sounds of a ringing bell, the tones of a
violin and guitars, and rumbling and clash
ing noises proceeded from within the box
like prison. A bare hand was thrust through
a hole in the upper part Of the door, and
then tamborine and tin horn thrown
through the same opening. The doors were
quickly opened, and there sat the brothers
tiea as before, and looking as sanctimonious
as II they had never even heard Of imps and


Neither the committee nor other GENTLE
men OF the audience We're able TO detect the
secret OF these and other tricks performed
They vary the exhibition tonight hv the
performance of other astonishing tricks and
they challenge any man in the city 70 lie
them so that they cannot unloose themselves.
Year: 1874

HUMAN HAIR-GIvING AWAY TO MONOPOLY.
Wishing to make a change In business will during
the next thirty days sell out my entire stock of
HUMAN HAIR at cost. Come and be convinced
that you will get the worth Of your money at Z. L.
GRASGER's, 627 Broad street.
Year: 1874

SMoTuERED IN ITS MoTHER's ARAs.-On
Thursday morning Rose Turner, colored
girl living near the corner of Second and
Grace streets, awoke and found her baby,
three months old, lying upon her arm dead.
Rose, who is only fourteen years of age,
was sleeping that night with her sister, and
as the child was between them it is supposed
to have been accidentally smothered.
Year: 1874

VALUE OF ASSESSED REAL ESTATE IN RIcn.
MoND.-The following is statement of the
value Of assessed real estate in this city,
made under direction Of the City Council,
and just completed:
Year: 1874

How To AyoID TAXING CODA cold is
simply developer of deceased condition,
which may have been latent or requiring on
" some favoring condition to burst out into
the flame of disease. That this is usually
the correct view Of cold as n disease proluc-
ing agent under all ordinary circumstances
may be made plain by reflection upon per-
sonal experience even to the most ordinary
understanding. When the human body is
at its prime with youth, yigor, purity,
and good constitution on its side-no degree
of ordinary exposure to cold gives rise to any
unpleasant effects. All the ordinary precau-
tions against colds, coughs and rheumatic
pains may be disregarded and no i'll effects
ensue' But let the bood become impure, let
the body become deranged from any acquired
disorder, or let the vigor begin to wane, and
the infirmities of age be felt by occasional
arrangements in some vital part, either from
inherited or acquired abuses, and the actor
of cold will excite more or less disorder o.


some kind, and the form of this disorder, oil
the disease which will ensue, will be determ


mined by the kind of pre-existing blood i'm


purity, or the pre-existing fault Of the organ
Year: 1874

JOB WORK.
Done at the RECORD Office in the best style
known to the art; and must be paid for on de.
livery, unless persons having the work done
have standing accounts with the office. No de
Walton from this rule.
Year: 1874

Attorney General, instead of calling
Fisher to account and dismissing him in
deserved disgrace, will applaud his infa-
nous conduct, and probable reward him
with increased favor. And when Benton
has got well out of the way, and his in
dictments are CALLED Mr. I.andaulet
Williams will certify that his efficient
District Attorney has exhausted all his
efforts to find him. If the worst comes
to the worst, the Ring will make up the
bail of $1,000 and find IL cheap invest
ment for Benton's enforced exile and ST.
lence.


There is q remedy. however, for this
rascality, and that is the impeachment
OF the Judge and District Attorney who
betrayed their trusts by one of the most
iniquitous acts that ever disgraced the
administration of law and justice They
deserve to be branded by the profession
and by society as infamous, and us fit
only to take the place of him whom they
have turned loose in order to shelter
robbers and rascals from punishment.
Year: 1874

The body of an unknown boy, about
thirteen years of age, WIS found on the
beach at South Seaville, 30 miles from
Cape May, on Saturday, and was buried
by the Coroner on the beach. 1t had
apparently been in the water several
days. The boy had brown hair and
large front teeth, and wore drawers.