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Year: 1867




Who're he will be in attendance daily to administer the
wants of all those who may require his services.


1t is impossible here to mention all the diseases with which
he is ailiar some perhaps will not he out of place. The
most formidable the most destructive to mankind is Self
Abuse. The brain being the of the disease the whole
system suffers in consequence will here
of the symptoms that those afflicted may be able form
opinion regard their complaints
time thereby saving themselves world of suffering:
debility, loss of memory pain in the limbs and back
palptaton of the heart trembling of the limbs headache
and aversion genial society," especially that females
There great many MORE but these sufficient,
should be suffering from any of thcm call
DIR. TOZER and he will you in short time without
interruption in your business; state your
ter and there will be occasion for calling the Office.


STRUCTURE OF TIE URET7fRi
Is another formidable enemy to health Send for of my
circulars that disease and inform yourselves Of its terri
bic results. The cured in few days.


Dr. ToZER has for the last forty years given his entire
attention to the Treatment and Cure of Special
Complaints, and will GUARANTEE a cure in all
His remedies purely vegetable, and positive in their
tion. Ills medicines for all FEMALE COMILALNTS have
with the greatest success.


His FENfLE PILLS unrivalled in tho cure of sup
preston of the monthly sickness Price, So per boxto be
had Mt the Office only Sent by Mail Express receipt
of price.


Eo-Al letters strictly confidential Address, through
mail express,
Year: 1867

R.sE IsGRATrrUDE-An editor who occupied a
room in a hotel not thousand miles from here
absented himself from town for a night The
house being crowded with guests, the obliging
landlord put a stranger in the editors bed. This
kindness the ungrateful fellow requited by
scrawling upon piece of paper, which he left
ON the table, the following rhymes:


81 slept in an editor's bed last night


And others may say what they please;


say there's editor in the world


Who certainly takes his ease.


When thought of my humble cot away


could not suppress "A sigh,


But thought as l rolled in that feathery nest


HoU EASILY editors lie."
A LOVE PoEM.-The author of the following
was eyidendy very far gone. Such love-lorn
wight, if he failed in his aspirations to be a
"court-plaster," was certainly spectacle, y
and if successful in his wooing would become at
least part of ''a pair ~


Were court-plaster, 1 would lc


patch upon her lip,


And spend my life in ecstacy,


And sip and sip, and sip.


Were a pair Of spcctacles.


How dearly would prize


situation on her nose,


To gaze into her eyes
The mustachc and goatee was first worn in
Spain to distinguish Christians from Moor, this
being nearly the form of the cross as the beard
can be cut.
Year: 1867

A resident of st. Louis, on the
25th anniversary of his wedding day,
thought he would do a neat thing
and SO was remarked to his wife,
from whom he had never been di-
vorced, but with whom he had some
difficulties. An enemy, hearing OF
his second marriage and not fully un,
derstanding the case, had him arres-
ted for bigamy and lodged in jail,
where he had to stay from Saturday
nigh: till Monday morning.
Year: 1867

Than ever was before brought to this town,
which he is prepated to make 10 order in the


--LATEST AND most IKPR o TED STYLE,
And in n manucr that will defy all competi-
ton. lie also still manufactures to order, all
Year: 1867

Will strive TO make the popular mind wiser by
conviction" rather than slavish by dictatiOn and
will labor TO disseminate only such views upon
current questions IA bear the stamp of reason
and the seal OF truth. =.
Year: 1867

ing once in each week, talk these matters
over, read newspapers and documents to
those who cannot read, and take such meas
ures as will result in conveying to every col
ored man the correct view of his duties at
this time. This is the Constitution of which
speak:
Year: 1867

ELECTION OF RADICAL MEMBER FOR TIE DIET


PEsrH. Sept. SIN the election for member OF the
Hungarian Diet, which took place yesterday in this
city the candidate put forward by the friends and
snnnorters Of I.opis Tossuth was successful.
Year: 1867

OF COURSE NoT.-Some days ago
a merchant of this city made a bar
gain with a country lady for two
Chickens. Yesterday the lady
brought them to his store, and he
being busy, she placed them on the
end of the counter. Our young
friend didn't think that the proper
place for them but didn't like to say


so plainly, so he remarked. as the
chickens werestrying jump abo1t,
They won't lay there, will they
meaning that they would likely
jump off the counter. His astonIsh-
ment may be imagined when The
lady replied, "Of course they wont ;
they're roosters !" Next time he
will probably speak correctly, and
not say Iay when he should say tie.
Year: 1867


This life is n queer onc-and checkcred at


best,
We are born, and we sicken and die
Without our procurement, without our con-


sent,
And we just as well laugh as to cry.
There is much in this world 10 sigh over and


fret
which we easily find, when we try,
But It's better, by far to seek the bright
... side
For, we just as well laugh as to cry.
Hope inflated, the bubbles that fancy creates
Maieslically soar in youths sky,
Delighted, we grasp them, they burst at the


touch
And, we just as well laugh as to cry.
The friends VIC most trusted, may treachcr-


Gus prove,
And all their professions belle,
But tears have no power to make the falsc


true,
So, we just as well laugh as to cry.
The heart sad and lonely, will sympathy


seek,
At the shrine of some fair one may sigh,
But, if she prove tickle, unfeeling perverse,
Well; we justas we'll laugh as tocry.
The great wheel of destiny, as it revOlves,
May pleasantly bear us on high,
Pcrchance it may crush us, down, deep in


the mud,
Still, just as well laugh as to cry.
Accept your condition, whatever it be
Not long, in the gutter you'll lie,
If you cling to the wheel and remember my


FRIEND
That you just as well laugh as TO cry.
Year: 1867

DEATH o. A FAMOUS FEMALE
BRIGAYD.-The Italia of Naples an
nounces the death of the famous
sbrigandess, La Gizzi, who was
for some time the terror Of tho
Volturara district. La Gizzi was Il
tall. muscular woman, with beetling
brows. covered with a thick mass of
black shaggy hair that fell over her
shoulders and breast, and was so
blo5dthirsty that she voluntarily
performed the Office of executioner
on every captive doomed to death
by her band i is stated that on
one occasion, after stabbing three OF
her captives, she collected the blood
that flowed from their wounds in a
lar. and then poured it over the head
Of her lover, telling him that 10
should be his baptism of blood
Being sharply pursued by the
troops. her consort took refuge in
the cottage of peasant of Pctrosa,
and compelled him, with frightful
threats. to give them food. Tho
peasant laid some provisions before
them; but while they were busied
With their meal, he seized an axe
and attacked them with such fury
tha. he struck both La Gizzi and
her companion to the ground before
they could defend themselves. He
then r n to the neighboring village
Of Ricigliano, collected The natioual
guard Of the district, and return
ed with them to his cottage. Here
they found two dead. bodies, and
after decapitating them, carried the
heads of La Gizzi and her lover, to
gsthsr with their conqueror, in tri-
unph through The district.
Year: 1867

The following, which we find


in the Meridian Messenger, touch


es the raw, but is good for one of


the prevailing diseases of this


country, which is regardless of
color. Col. Horn pitches into


lazy people like a unicorn:


ga great many people are
greatly exercised about the ne


gro's working. The way the ne


gro works (or don't work) is the


topic of conversation everywhere,


where two or three are gathered


together, The disposition of tile


negro to labor or not to labor) is


watched with intense interest, by


those who take no special inter-
est i'll anything else. We are


sick and disgusted with the ever
lasting talk about the short COM
ings of the colored population. In
Gods name, can't our people ele-
vate their thoughts above the ne
gro, or. bestow them upon worthy
objects? We claim to feel as
kindly towards the negro as he
deserves of US, and when we see
him about t1 be engulphed and
lost in idleness and vice, we feel,
we hope, a rational concern. But,
at the same time, we honestly
confess to the instincts which give
op own race the preference in all
our thoughts, If we are concern
ed about the disposition of the
negro to do or not to do, yet our
concern sinks into Indifference
compared with the concern we
feel for the conduct of the whites. |
While some are fretting and flu
ming about the lazy negroes they |
see in the towns and villages, who |
refuse to contract and engage in
regular employment, we are i'm
measurably more distressed at the
sight Of lazy white men and wo-
men. If the negro, as free man,
does all the work and earns all the |
wages, he will prove himself the
better man of the two. We are
anxious for the white man to as
sert the superiority in all things
by his works, and therefore our
anxiety for the white man to 60
10 work"
Year: 1867

MAKING BUTTER.-A correspon-
dent Of the Rural american says
she puts no water with the cream,
nor does she rinse the butter as


many do, considering that the
wafer destroys the sweetness of
the butter, and causes it to become
rancid much sooner. She also
thinks that she obtains more but
ter in cold weather by heating the
milk, removing the cream the
next day, and heating again, when
she gets nearly as much cream as
at the first skimming. The churn-
ing does not occupy over fifteen
minutes, and the butter comes out
in good order, and yellow even in
the coldest weather.


The sweetest, most delicious
butter we ever tasted is made in
the manner indicated by this cor
respondent, by a lady in Davidson
county. 1t is but very little more
trouble to make such butter than
the ordinary stuff usually found
on sale in market. Butter of
this description commands the
highest market price and always
finds ready sale.
Year: 1867

CURE FOR NEURALGIA.-Half a
drachm of sal ammonia, in an ounce
of camphor water, to be taken a
teaspoonful at a dose, and the dose
to be repeated several times, at in
tervals of five minutes, if the
pain be not relieved at once
Half a dozen different persons
have tried the recipe, and in every
case an immediate cure was effec-
ted. In one the sufferer, a lady,
had been affected for more than a
week, and her physician was una
BILE to relieve her suffering, when a
solution of sal ammonia in camphor
water relieved her in few min
utes.
Year: 1867

On this subject George Beaver,
writing to the american Agllcultas.
r'st says:


| consider the usual method of
giving medicine to horses by
drenching, as it is called, highly
Objectionable. In this process, the
horses head is raised and held up,
bottle introduced into his mouth,
his tongue pulled out and the liq-
uid poured down. In his struggle
some of the medicine is quite
likely to be drawn into his wind
pipe and lungs, and inflammation
and fatal results sometimes fol.
low. A better way is to mix the
medicine with meal, or rye bran;
make it into balls; pull out the
horses tongue, and place a ball as
far back in his mouth as possible;
then release his tongue, and he
will almost certainly swallow the
ball. Or the dose may be mixed
with meal and honey, or other
substance that will form q kind of
jelly, placed upon small wood
en- blade made of a shingle, and
thrust into the back part of his
mouth, when he will very easily
it.
Year: 1867

How TO GET OFF A Foul Gun
A correspondent of the Scientific
American says:


hand you the following as
reliable fact-the reason | leave
to others: In hunting, a gun of.
ten becomes foul from use, and the
exploding of cap will fail to ex-
plode the powder. With a knife
sharpen piece of dry pine wood,
or common match wood will an
swer; drive the splint right into
the nipple of the gun, cut off the
bruised part of the wood even
with the top of the nipple; put
on a cap, and it will not fail to ex-
plode the gun. Any one wishing
can test this by putting a little
powder in his gun, then driving
snugly the plug-it will go every
time.
Year: 1867

Our exchanges report the case
of II surgeon in the rebel army
who, after serving until the close
of the struggle, returned to his
home near Hopefeld, Arkansas,
to find his house burned and his
wife gone. Unable after long
search, to find the latter, and be-
lieving she had wilfully abandon
ed him, he procured a divorce,
and returned to Hopefeld to prac-
tice his profession. A few weeks
ago he received word that his wife
was in West Tennessee, and that
she was still faithful to him, but
had sought the home of a friend
after their house was burned down.
A correspondence ensued. Only
one result was possible;- and last
Tuesday the former husband and
wife met ut the Commercial Ho-
tel in Memphis, and were formally
remarked.
Year: 1867

A little sink near kitchen
doorstep, inadvertently formed, has
been known, although not exceed
ing in its dimensions a single
square foot, to spread sickness
through whole household, Hence
everything of the kind should be
studiously obviated, so that there
be no spot about a house which
can receive and hold standing
water, whether it be the pure rain
from the sky, the contents of a
wash basin, the slop:bowl, or the
water pail.
Year: 1867

The full text of Thad. Stevens
bill for confscation is now going
the rounds of the press. The
following is its substance


WHEREAS, Ii is due to justice
as au example to future times
that some proper punishment
should lee inflicted on the people
who constituted the Confederate
States of America" both because
they declared an unjust war
against the United States for the
purpose of destroying republican
liberty and permanently establish
ing slavery, as well as for the
cruel and barbarous manner in
which they conducted said war,
In violation of all the laws Of civil
lied warfare; and also to compel
them to make some compensation
for damages and expenditures
caused by said war.


The bill confiscates all the pub
lie lands ofthe ten rebel States, and
all the lands and other property
forfeited by the act Of Congress of
July Ii, 1S62-all of which is to
be seized, condemned and sold =
Out of the proceeds each adult
male freed slave is to receive for
ty acres, and each one who is the
head of IL family forty more
Out of the balance a sum of fifty
dollars for each household is to be
appropriated to the erection of
buildings for the use of the late
slaves $4,000 900 is to be in
vested in United States six per
cent. bonds and tie interest add
cd to the pension of Union sol
diers, and $500, 100000 is to be
appropriated to pay damages done
to loyal citizens by the civil or
military government.
Year: 1867




The Worcester Spyaboasts that
"the Republican party possesses
about all the wealth of the coun-
try" We agree with the N. Y.
Day Book that there is too much
truth in this boast, for it has swept
into its pockets nearly every
movable thing that it could lay its
hands on in the whole Southern
half of the country. Not a spoon,
nor a picture, nor gold thimble,
nor silk dress even, which it
could get at, that it has not stolen.
It ought to be a very rich party.
Year: 1867

Safe at last beneath the sod
Lies this bogus ''man of God"
In the State of Tennessee
None could swear as loud rs he;
While disappearing at a mark
Fate shifted out his vital spark.
Probably he's gone lowell.
One would hardly like to tell.
Year: 1867

A New Orleans woman recent
ly gave a thousand dollars to
poor man formerly her husband
who had deserted her ten years
before. After his Abandonment
she married again, and was made
very rich by the death of her liege
lord.
Year: 1867

This sepulchral stone below
Lies the South's malignant foe;
His unchristian, fiend like hate
Fen her ruin could not safe.
As she quivered in the dust
At her broken heart he thrust.
Gentlereader, know you why
He was thus her enemy?
Twas because of private ills;
Lees battalions burned his mills!
Year: 1867

SCRATCHES IN HORsEs.-In re-
ply to calls for scratches, we give
give the following:


Take a heaping tablespoonful
of powdered alum, an6 burn it
slowly. Fill a quart bottle with
one part beef brine, one part al
cohol and one part urine-into
which place the burned alum,
and wait for the latter to dissolve
thoroughly. Wash the fetlock
joints carefully with warm CASTLE
soapsuds, and then bathe the parts
with the above described decoc-
ton. We have tried it often,
and it never fails to effect a cure.
Year: 1867

The s4undersigned has purchased what is known
as the Cobb Il Whistler Store, opposite Court
Square, where he will be happy to see the public
generally and exhibit his great variety of new and
second hand articles too great TO mention in de-
tail. Call and see his museum OF all sorts OF
things. If you want anything go to JOB Ross,
and YOU will b pretty sure to find it. @ r-
Year: 1867

We do not suppose there is man
anywhere quite so stony-hearted that
he does not enjoy caresses from lov-
ing wife. 1t is a good thing to be
loved and petted, and no man is above
it. But some men think so much of
this that they get nothing more, when
they choose n companion for life. And
some women know the power of Ca
resses so well that they employ it art
fully, and neglect all other useful
The result of which is
any number of fill-assorted matches and
a deal of unhappiness.


1t certainly is a good tbing-the ro-
nance and poetry oflove. By "moon-
light and starlight" is not foolish
myth. The billing and cooling are
never to be despised, nor ought petting
and carcssing to fall into disrepute. It
is only stony heart that can affect
disgust at these things. But be not
blinded by such allurements. Soft
words are not all that will be needed.
Carcssing hands and flashing eyes will
not suffice to make a happy hope.
Look for accomplishments of mind
and the culture of refined thought
and education in practical matters,
without which the most romantic love
will in time grow dim and cheerless.--
New York Gazette.
Year: 1867

The burdens of newspaper life are
thus pointedly set forth in the Home
Journal.


1t is one of the hardships Of our
profession that its working wheels
brains and heart--are not allowed to
lag for sickness, or to stop for calamity
or sorrow. The judge may adjourn
his court, the school and the workshop
may close shutters, the mourner may
veil his features and turn friend and
strangers from the door; but the journ-
alist may forget before tomorrow the
sorrows of to-day, must write gaily
and freshly, as newsmonger on the
triAe of the hour, whatever burden
has been laid upon that same hour, by
Providence, on his brains as a man..
1t sometimes tries and mocks as the
world that reads what is thus written
would never dream Of The public
looks upon an editors labor as the In
dian did upon the man that was cutting
hay. He finally gave, in his opinion,
that it was "easy to see the white man
mow."
Year: 1867

The rebel planters of Tennessee, or
Conservatives, as they call themselves,
are discharging such colored men as
they had in their employ, for voting
the republican ticket at the late cleo
ton. They had better have a care
what they do, for there is a movement
on foot to confiscate the property of
every man who was a rebel during the
war, and who now abuses in this way
the clemency of the Government in
permitting him to retain his estate,
which was clearly forfeited, and who
now makes it an engine of oppression
to loyal men, by discharging them
from employment for such cause.
Slavery, as an institution, was swept
out of existence by one sovereign act
Of the nation, but the spirit Of slavery
fingers long, and can only be killed by
compelling it to strike its fangs into
its own vitak.-PM. Gazette.
Year: 1867

The Cincinnati Gazette refers to the
fact that the Democratic party is hob
bling along tied to the corpse of its
record of cowardice and trcachery,
grasping at any and every means to
keep itself from sinking out of sight
and paints what Democratic success
means, thus


Democratic success, as interpreted
by the doctrines of the party, means
to undo everything that the national
triumph over secession has done and to
restore the status of the rebellion, with
the South to dictate terms to the ma
tion. If it does not mean this, what
do they mean by going before the peo-
pie at an election canvass with the
doctrines that include all this, and that
have no meaning but this? If they
do not mean this, will they disown one
of the doctrines that comprehend it ?
They have either to admit that DEM
ocratic success means to restore the
status of rebellion, or else to admit
that the war of national defense was
just and constitutional; that secession
is a crime; that slavery is legally
abolished, and shall no more exist !;
that the States Governments by levy
ing war, lost their legal existence that
the legal tender notes and the bonds
issued for the public defenses are legal,
and that this public faith must be sa-
credly kept and in admitting this
now they confess an abominable, trai-
torous course all through the war of
national preservation.
Year: 1867

We often hear it remarked that there
is no profit in farming. Well, if there
be no pecuniary profit beyond good
living, Though this is seldom the case
now there is pleasure, and we know
of no more rational way of enjoying
the competency which man may have
obtained by his industry and enter
prise, than in cultivating and embel-
ishing the earth, improving and in
crcasing its products, and thus adding
to the aggregate of human happiness.
A gentleman farmer--and all farmers
are Or should be gentlemen-belongs
to an order of nobility, that is not in
debted to kings and and princes for its
institution, and may, if he chooses, be
ranked among the greatest benefactors
of the human race.
Year: 1867

The way that an Earl calls Duke
liar in the British House of Lords
was illustrated in a recent debate as
follows:


"I beg to call the attention of my
noble friend, the noble Duke, to an
observation which my noble friend the
noble Duke isrsported to have made,
and which my noble friend the noble
Duke will find spon reflection to be
inconsistent with strict veracity."
Year: 1867

ORIGIN OF THE TERN NEWSPAPER.
In Hadyn's Dictionary of dates, it
is said that news is not, as many sup
pose, derived from the adjective new.
In former times between the years
1895 and 1S30) it was the prevalent
practice to put over the periodical
publications of the day, the initial
letters of the compass thus:
Year: 1867

A TELEGRAM of twenty words, in
cluding the address and signature, can
be sent from any part of Switzerland
to any destination within the limits of
the country, for one franc twenty
cents.) The telegraph is a Govern
ment institution, as it should be all
over the world, and the tariff is fixed
by the Federal authorities. Next year
the ruling price is to be ten cents.
Year: 1867

Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
Love given willingly, full and free,
Love for loves sake-as mine to thee.


Duty's slave that keeps the keys,
But love. the master goes in and out
Of his goodly chambers with song and shout


Just as he please-just as he please.
Mine, from the dear heads crown, brown


golden.
To the silken foot that's scarce beholden;
Given to few friends hand or smile,
Like generous lady. now and while,


But the sanctuary heart that none dare win
Keep holiest of holiest evermore
The crowd in the aisles may watch the door


The high-priest only enters in.
Mine, my own, without doubts or terrors,
With all thy goodness. all thy errors,
Unto me and to me alone revealed


"A spring shut up, fountain sealed"
Many may praise lhee-praise nine as thine
Many may love thee-Ill love them too:
But thy heart of hearts, pure faithful and


true.


Must be mine, mine wholly, and only mine
Mine God, thank Thee that Thou has


given


Something all mine on this side of heaven.
Something as much myself to be
As this my soul which lift to Thee;
Flesh of my flesh, bone of my bone,
Life of my life, whom Thou dost make
Two to the world for the worlds work.
sake
But each unto each, as in Thy sight one