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Year: 1874

The meeting yesterday of the clergy Of the
city interested in the cause of Temperance was
very well attended, and methods for promot-
ing the progress of the Temperance revival
were fully discussed All present were very
much in earnest in the work, and impressed
with the necessity of harmonizing conflicting
views and theories upon common basis OF
action, and of prosecuting the undertaking
with the utmost discretion. The resolutions
adopted were reasonable and conservative in
tone, well calculated to unite the Temperance
sentiment of the community in the enterprise.
Temperance revivals in large cities must
be. from the nature of the case, entirely dlf-
ferent affairs from the crusades which have
done so good and 80 extensive work at the
West. No one in his senses will dispute the
fact that intemperance is one OF tho crying
evils of the time, and that any effort to sup
press or mitigate it deserves the sympathy aud
cooperation of all good citizens. The encour-
aging feature of this undertaking is the ap-
probation of the obstacles iii the way, aud
the thoughtful discretion with which the first
steps are taken.
Year: 1874

Republican he should vote against it, good many Of
MS colored constituents had favored Ii at first and
| many still demanded it, but the more intelligent
among them were arriving at the conclusion that
the law has done about much it do for their
| race. The laws already on the statute book are
ample; what is really needed is their enforcement.
The passage of the pending bill might benefit few
while it might also indirectly deprive the
many of the educational privileges they now
| enjoy under State laws. Besides, the
mere agitation Of the question will drive from the
Republican party large number of white men in
the South who have either co6perated with it in the
past or are about ready to do 80 in the future As to
the colored people in Virginia. Mr.. Smith said they
are well-disposed and law-abiding, and their rela
| tions with the whites are very pleasant. Here at


least there is no danger of War of Races, and any
outbreak of either Whites or Blacks with that intent
would be looked upon with disfavor by both polIt
ical parties. and promptly punished by the State
authorities


MIR. Smith was inclined to think there is good
deal In the talk about third term for Gen. Grant
| but said he found the President non-commttal on
the question Of his denomination by the Republican
party. In his district and throughout Virginia
public sentiment is not at all unfavOrable to Gen.
Grant. and if he vetoes the Civil Rights bill, as
there is good reason to believe he WILL his strength
VIII Do greatly increased. AS to his own views on
this question, Mr.. Smith went far as to say that
If the people ever Opposed to give o President
three terms, they will not find more worthy recp-
lent of the honor than Gen. Grant; and he felt
assured that Gen. Grant would not decline such an
honor if properly rendered.


find North Carolina as quiet as May morning.
The recent great success Of the Democrats thrilled
them with enthusiasm, but their rejoicing seems to
have been tempered with discretion The successful
party maturing their plans for retrenchment and
REFORM and if they do half that is promised by their
leaders, nobody will have cause for complaint. The
defeated generally accept their fate with calmness
although there are one or two notable exceptions in
the Of candidates for county officers. The new
Congressional delegation, with perhaps single ex-
ception, is composed Of honest men who enjoy the
confidence of both parties, although it embraces
none of distinguished ability. have been unable
to hear of any outrages In the Old North State and
hence conclude that here as in Virginia the War of
Races has not yet begun Prior to every election the
negroes have been told that a Democratic success
would result in their reinstatement, and they have
been somewhat apprehenslve lest their old masters
should make descent upon them and claim their
labor without wages but as there has been demon
stration with that intent yet they will doubtless
soon see the absurdiy of their fears and return to
the enjoyment of their "hog aud hominy" with
none to make them afraid.
Year: 1874

SUIT FOR DAMAGES DEcIDEp.-In the City
CiIcuit Court yesterday in the case of Tai
bott cS. Richmond and DanyiiIe Railroad
Company the jury, under the instructions
OF the judge, found verdict for the de-
iendantS. An appeal was taken. The suit in
one phase involves the title to the alley run
nlng from Seventeenth street to Shockoe
creek, parallel to and between Cary and Dock
streets, BOW occupied by the track Of the
connection railway laid by the Dunyille Com
pany between their depot and the York River
railroad depot. The damages claimed are
500 GOn
Year: 1874

IT COSTS ALMOST AS MUCH to make fashionable
dress as It does to buy the material So, II you use
BuTTEnIcK's PATTERNS and cut and make Your
own you can dress much more stylish for the sapo
money than in any other way. Gfice Ninth and
franklin streets, .tf
Year: 1874

How THEY MEAsUREp THE FLAGSTAFF.
The following suggests that many
studies dreaded by the young. and com
monty supposed to be hard and unintcr
essing, may be made as easy as fun


told the boys to 60 over and measure
the height of the flagstaff on Georges S
Hill, in Fairmont park, and they looked
at me in astonishment, asking at the
same time how they could do it--for
both they and l knew they could not
climb to the top. So Iexplained to them
how they might do it, without going to
the top-and they made the instrument
themselves with which to do it.


They got square rail, about four feet
long then, at one end, they nailed to it,
at right angles, straight stick three fee,
high; exactly one fec. distant, they
nailed another straight stick four fee,
high, then another, one foot dis ant, five
feet high.


The instrument was complete, and
they all started over to the flag pole with
it. When they got as near to the pole
as they thought the pole was high, they
plumbed it, by holding a string, with a
stone tied to it. at the top of one Of the
sticks; the stick was made to stand JUS;
as straight up and down as the string.


Then they sighted, or looked along
the tops of the upright sticks, at the flag
pole. BY moving the instrument just to
the right place, they made the sticks
range with the top Of the pole; that
is, while looking over the top the three
sticks, their eyes, seeing the end of the
sticks all the while, saw also the very
top Of the flag pole


BY measuring them, from that spot to
the dag pole, along the ground, they
were able to tell me that the flag staff
was one hundred and tselve feet distant
from them, and so the flag staff was one
hundred aud twelve feet high,


Now, this was simple application Of
geometry, lesson that looks lawful >"
hard to boys at scIool. but was only fun
learned in this way.
Year: 1874

warranted not to cut in the eye--not head
ache in a hhds. of tit is no sooner in your
belly than IFS on your back in pound of beet
and it carries bead like necklace; for
sale by


GEORGE AUSTIN.
Year: 1874

Charles Warren Stoddard writes to the
San Francisco Chronicle: at has become
a custom to speak of the Italians as 'lazy'
or 'shiftleSs,' and to apply to them several
other unpleasant epithets; l am afraid
have indulged in this pernicious habit my
self, and here, before it is too late, wish
TO do what | can to reetify the error.
Probably in no country in the
world are the people more uni
versally industrious. Begging, the
most disaereeable feature Of their civili-
zation, is also the most Obtrusive, yet there
may be some excuse for this. Begging is
kind of industry; the vast multitude of
lame, halt, and blind in Italy cannot work;
the people are for the most part miserably
poor; where nearly every able-bOdied man,
woman, and child is employed in some sort
of industry there is nothing left for some of
the willing hands TO do. In Naples, the
city of the idzzarOni, who are the embOdi-
ment of all that is provokingly amiable and
boplessly indolent, nearly every woman one
meets of the poorer class is either spinning
with an antique, primitive distaff, or knit
ting, OF busying herself about something;
the men are off at work; even the children
are occupied in some way. l have
seen a youngster of six Yeas running at the
heels Of a donkey nearly as small Ss his
driver, and beating the beast with an en-
thusiasm worthy of better cause, while
his little brother, three or four years his
senior, shrieked at the top of his lungs a
catalogue of the wares these little timer
ant merchants had to sell. There was late
" a work Of excavation going on in the
neighborhoOd of my hotel at Naples, and
the whole work was done by a company
of ten or a dozen boys, the eldest Of
whom could not have been more
than sixteen years of age. All along
the road to Castellamare women are in the
field doing mems work; women hoe the po-
tatoes and reap the grain with sickles;
women draw water from the shallow wells
with their buckets hooked TO old-fashioned
cranes. have seen them at work by the
hour dipping water and pouring il into the
trenches that feed the cutters in their gar
dens. This seems to be the only
method Of irrigation known to them,
and it is very slow and fatig-
uing work. In all the factories you
find large proportiOnof young boys. The
little girls, knit string beads, sell flowers
and bundles Of grass for fodder; and one
might almost say with truth that the Ital-
ians are the most industrious people in the
world. If the children have been denied a
schooling in books, they have all learned
how 20 make themselves useful, and are,
therefore, comparatively independent at
the age Of twelve.
Year: 1874

The Dramatic Company which supported
Edward Adams at the Opera House last
week, give performances al Masonic Hall
tonight. The popular play of ssMeg's
Diversion" is the selection, and will nc
doubt be well rendered, as a careful re-
hearsal Of the piece was had yesterday.


We hope our citizens will turn out in
force and give them the patronage they
should receive under the circumstances.
It will be remembered that Wallace, the
manager who succeeded Edwin Browne
drew the wages Of every member of the
company and skipped away with the whole
amount, leaving them in the lurch.
Year: 1874

PARIS, Nov. PA strong effort viii be
made in the Assembly for revocation OF
the state of SIEGE The Left have hopes of
securing the assistance Of many members
Of the Right, and thus strengthened they
will make vigorous attack on the min
| isfry
Year: 1874

Thirlwind swept by. The rain was falling
in such torrents as to blind the engineer,
or else this accident would have been avoid
ed The train was moving slowly, how
ever, and didno 60 entirely into the creek.
1t now lies there partially buried in the
mud, the postal car lying crossswise and
bottom upward just above. The engineer
and fireman were both caught between this
car and the engine, and the wonder is that
way was cut for them to be recued be-
fore getting scalded to death or burnt to a
crisp.


A train from Florence toward Tuscum-
bia, on the branch road, ran into a tree
that had been felled across the track, but
with no other damage than breaking the
pilot of the engine Of.


Passing on In the waste, the dwelling of
Mrs. Hart, widow lady, occupied by her.
self and family, was blown to atoms, and
the occupants left clinging to each other in
huddle, unhurt. A house occupied by
Mrs. Bennett and family was blown to
pieces, with only a slight bruise to one of
the inmates. These are mentioned as speci-
mems of numerous instaneesof narrow es-
capes.


The dwelling of Martin Patterson, who,
with little child, was the only person in
the house at the time, was literally blown
away. Mr.. Patteson received injuries in
the back and spine from falling timbers,
from which it is feared he cannot recover.
The little child was picked up in drown
ing condition afterward, on the opposite
side of the street from where the house
stood
Year: 1874

SCIENTIFIC investigations have re-
Gently been co-ordinated in Paris for the
purpose of a single experiment, and
that, too, with very interesting results.
A balloon was constructed to test the
effect of proper supply of oxygen upon
the human system at great hight. To
secure the desired altitude without in
convenience, the airship was kept in
readiness for a moment when the atmOs-
phere was in perfect repose. The storm
signal-pOsts Of Europe were on the alert
for such an occasion, and when they
unanimously predicted a calm of some
duration, the vessel was freed from her
moorings and rose perpendieularly over
the city. The car was furnished with an
apparatus for generating oxygen, and
this was freely used at hight of twenty
four thousand six hundred feet. The
spectroscope at this point indicated the
presence of no aqueous vapor, and the
solar rays were nearly invisible. The
point of interest was the discovery that
the blackness of the sky at great alti-
tudes was not actual but apparent.
When not using the oxygen-respirator,
the sky appeared a. black as a pail.
When freely respiring oxygen, the blue
color was restored. This discovery will
probably be made the foundation of
many practical results of great benefit
in sanitary point of view.
Year: 1874

Now comes the terrible man from Il
linois who owns marble mine in Wiz
ginia, and offers to give rocks enough to
finish the Washington monument if
other people furnish the funds to pile
them up. The proposal is enough to
make the average mortal exclsim,
chow is that for high?" But engineers
do say that the base of the monument is
so basely designed that it will not stand
for tie Shaft to he completed. 1t does
look so, certainly.
Year: 1874

BAYoNNE, May l2.-The Carlists
claim q victory in a recent engagement
between Don Alfonso and force of re-
publicans. They say that thee hundred
and fifty of the republicans were killed
and wounded, and three hundred taken
Year: 1874

A large lot will be Set apart for each relig-
tous denomination. A block will also be
given for the erection of alarge hall by the
different Fraternal, Grange and Temperance
Societies. l-e-r
Year: 1874

EGGS are now so cheap that they
are hardly worth eating, Probably
this fact led that young man in
Bloomington, Grant county, who
had just eaten half dozen, to state
that he was ashamed to look a hen
in the face.
Year: 1874

CEoPs.-Reports received from
different parts Of the country are to
the effect that the Spring wheat crop
promises well, and is advancing
rapidly, Notwithstanding the unfa-
vorable season. The acreage of this
crop is estimated at one-Gfth greater
than last year. During the past
seven or eight days the soil and
weather have been favorable for
corn planting, and the farmers gen
orally have improved the opportu-
nifty for planting. Grass is held in
check for want Of rain, also the
garden stufs. Now that the corn
is mostly in the ground drenching
rain is the prayer Of all.
Year: 1874

PAY AS You Go.-The Southern
papers are descanting on the ruin
sure to- follow getting in debt to
carry OIL farming operations One
farmer who stopped giving and ask
ing credit few years ago records it
as his experience that he can now
buy more than he ever bought be-
fore, and sell more. The case is
mentioned of the French, who never
90 in debt, and who, having been
saving money since the days of the
first Napoleon, have become the rich.
est nation ih the world, which prov
ed by the fact that the German in
demnity of a thousand million of
dollars which they were obliged to
pay has been all discharged in two
years, while we have been struggling
for eight years with twice as much.
Perhaps the wealth of the French
farmers arises as much from the
small farm system and the high cul-
tivation they give the soil There
is a vast difference between farming
in a loose way and having all work
done in the best manner.
Year: 1874

The letter of. Senator Brownlow
printed elsewhere, is bold and plain
spoken. Our colored readers should
digest his reasoning carefully, and
give himan impartial bearing. There
is much force in his claim that the
colored people, in demanding the
eo-education of the races, are con-
tending for a mere abstraction, the
realization of which would be follow
ed by the sacrifice of more substau-
tial benefits to the race. Both races
are now absolutely equal in the en-
joyment of free school privileges in
this State. The privileges and the
restrictions work equally upon them.
Aswhite child is just as much re-
strained from attending a colored
school as colored child is a white
school, and the abstract right of one
race, in the premises, is abridged
just as much as that of the other
Chat. Commercial.


We are informed that number o f
the leading colored men of Nashville,
who are as. sensible as they are hon.
est and patriotic. have under consid-
Grafton the propriety of calling a
public meeting at an early day to
express the dissent of the masses of
the colored people from the action
of the late Sc called ceIored conven-
tion. They feel that great injustice
was done by that convention to the
true interests of their race, and they
desire not only to repudiate the SEN
timents expressed by that body, but
also to ask Congress to pass the
Civil Rights bill, without the clause
providing for mixed schools. There
is evidently very great danger that
in its present shape it will not be
passed, and that in asking too much,
the colored race will not only fail in
receiving what they ask for, but they
are in danger of losing much of the
ground already gained. The pas
sage of this bill in a modified form
should be secured as speedily as
possible. and it would no doubt have
been passed long ago had it not been
for the indiscreet efforts of it's pro-
fessed friends and the chicanery of
the political gamblers, white and
colored, who are striving to turn the
measure into n vehicle which shall
promote their own personal interest
and advantage -NdSh. Bulletin.
Year: 1874

A hardshell preacher had New
England family move into one Of his
circuits. AS he walked forth once at
eventide. his ear was caught by
concord of sweet sounds borne upon
the breeze. He stopped to listen,
and exclaimed with rapture: Was
ever such a set of sheep-bells heard p
He was listening to piano-forte for
the first time.
Year: 1874

Detective McAuley tells rather strange
story, which he has kept locked up in his
bosom for seven years. He couldn't hold
it any longer than yesterday, when he
unraveled his little yarn in this wise: He
was informed that boy had slipped into
store on State street, near Eighteenth,
and, while the proprietor's back was turn
ed, made an indiscriminate grab in cash
box in safe, the door of which was left
open. The haul consisted of large roll
OF United States 500 bonds, registered
and issued but a short time before. and a
small sum in postal currency Mack learn
ed that the boy lived in an old house with
widowed mother at Haas Park, and went
out there in search of him. On entering
the shanty he was astonished at the pecul
iarity of the paper on the wall and was
more struck on beholding that it was the
identical pile of 5-2Os that he was in ouest
Of all nicely matched and pasted tightly
to the wall. Here was Job. and Mack
pulled off his coat, and prepared for the
work of stripping off the paper 1t took
him nearly all day, but he recovered every
bond, while the old lady looked on in ming.
led fear and wonder, and calculated. What
are they good for? Sure, and me boy
brought thin here long time ago, and /
thought they was only bits of old paper
But if yere an officer | suppose it's all
right


Mack moistened, pulled, and slowly
worked away until he stripped the wall of
every bond The whitewash came off
freely with them, but they were all there,
and Mack took them to their owners and
received their earnest thanks for his
arduous task in their behalf The lad
who stole. them was not at all aware of
their value
Year: 1874

Never pick or scratch the canals of the
ear with pins, pencils, or scoops 1t will
eventually cause troublesome inhamma-
ton and subsequent deafness.


Do not try to wash the canals of the
ears with so-called aurilaves or end of the
towel, or even with the fingers. Such
treatment produces impaction of the wax
and is not necessary to cleanliness.


DO not try to remove the wax with the
ear-scoop. There is danger of injuring
the drumheads or of causinginfammation
Have some competent person inspect the
parts with the ear mirror and remove the
wax with the syringe charged with warm
water. This is the best way to remove
any foreign body from the external audi
tory canal Only occasionally other
means are required. The parts should
always be under inspection.


A discharge from the ear is always
fraught with danger. 1t should never be
neglected. Occasionally it stops itself,
but frequently leads to dangerous COM
plications, such as inflammation of the
brain, disease of the surrounding bone,
and may set up Inflammation in other
parts of the body, as the lungs, bowels,
etc.


The middle ear, from which the dis
charges generally comes, is small but ex-
ceedingly vulnerable. 1t is surrounded
ON all sides by vital organs, the partition
wall being very thin. Swinging with
warm water in such cases is absolutely
essential and unaccompanied by any dan
ger whatever


Under proper treatment there is no
danger of driving in the discharge, which
is neither "healthy sign" nor safety
valve"


Never keep the canal blocked up with
cotton or anything else while discharge is
present


The ear requires fresh air and is not
likely to become more infamed by its ad-
mittance, unless exposed to direct draft,
which should be avoided.


Black sleeps wool has no healing vir-
tue.


Wetting the hair, especially when it is
long, and allowing it to dry slowly often
produces deafness and aggravates it when
already present.-JiedicaI Investigator.
Year: 1874

A stranger, about as broad across the
shoulders as an extension table, says the
Detroit Free Press, was eating a free lunch
in Randolph street saloon yesterday,
when three roughs came in. They SEEM
ed to take an antipathy to the stranger at
first sight, and it wasn't long before one
of them said he could lick any man who
who ever wore red hair. The stranger
glanced over that way, but said nothing.
"And can whip any man with wart ON
his nose," said the second. The stranger
chewed away on his crackers as if he did
not hear, and the third man said: "Tm
just aching to knock the head off of some
country galoot." Even that didn't move
the stranger, and finally one of the trio
walked over to the table, looked at him in
contempt and deliberately spat upon the
strangers boot. He waited to drink the
rest of his beer, then got up, gave himself
shake, and knocked the roughs down
one after the other, striking with both hsts
and awful blows. He waited for them to
get up, and as they dropped themselves
into chairs to analyze their feelings, he
quietly remarked, allow do you like it as
far as you've gone" They hadn't word
to say, and he walked out.