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Year: 1866

car .celed during the month, leaving tie out
Standing volume Of lawful money $3.50, 1876, 785, |
against s899, 165, 200, ,292 q month ago.


This all looks very we'll, but the process by
which this seemingly rapid reduction is
effected must soon come to an end, and the
country will then be brought face to face with
the problem which is finally to besolved-the
payment of the consolidated, OF what will
then be the consolidated debt and the redue-
ton of the paper currency to an amount no
greater than is necessary for the demands Of
| business. Such reduction would, if conf
dence in the government be maintained, be
equivalent to putting the currency on par
| with gold, But the manner in which this is
to be accomplished is not very discernible.
The policy of converting the whole volume OF
the interest bearing debt into bonds bearing
interest, is very questionable even were it
practicable 1t is difficult to see how the
country would be benefited by paying taxes
on four hundred millions more of debt-that
is, to say, on an amount equivalent to the
volume Of currency. 1t would be very
good thing to return to a specie basis, but
such price might be too much to pay for it


The cash reserve in the treasury, according
to each of the last two monthly exhibits, com
! lpares thus
Year: 1866

The Fair Grounds frmerly known as the Creole
Race Course" They situated in the Third District be-
tween Espanade street the side, and the GENTLY
Road on the other.


The principal entrance for foot passengers will be at ths
EsJana street gate


The carriage entrance will be at the main gate on the Cen
tilly Road.
Year: 1866

rhave positive information that during the continuance of
the coming fair city will be visited by unusual congrega
ton of thieves and burglars As these will be unknown
to the Detective Police deem duty to warn the public
to be more than usually of their vaaables whether at
their dwellings or upon their persons Every eSerton will
be used by the authorities detect such persons and bring
them to Justice but all who visit the air. and other public
PLACES should use more than crdnaly caution for their
protection,


THOS. +. ADAMS,


Chief of Police.
Year: 1866

The City Railroad Company will fifty cars-startng
from Canal steet-during the Fair Each will be desig
mated with small flag with the word Far' upon it.


Lines of omnibuses will run every - both from Canal
and Esplanade streets.
Year: 1866

FARMERS WIvEs.-The following advice to
farmers is published in the Old Farmers
Almanac of 1896:


'' Husbands, be mindful of your wives
Dutiful wives need watching as much as any.
Not because they are liable to all sorts OF
improprieties which characterize miserable
or Indifferent wives. but because they have
frequently one fault. which works their ruin.
They are liable to work too hard. Women
are impulsive. Whatever their hearts lead
them to do. they do with all their might,
and without knowing it, many work them
selves to death. Perhaps your farm is mort
gagged. Your wife is quite as anxious about
the debt as yourself, and is willing to work
early and late, and to endure privations
from which you would shrink again and
again. If you are not mindful she will one
day fall in the midst of her work, like an
over-spirited horse that has just been driven
to death. Study to ease her burden. Above
all things don't underrate a woman's work.
Make every arrangement about the house as
convenient as possible. In short, you must
take care of her, for she will not take care of
berselfD
Year: 1866

EXTRAORDINARY DOMESTIC TRADITION
TIE following extraordinary domestic tra-
dilion is extracted from new book which is
much talked of in Europe" The Duke of
Alba" The brother.in- of Napoleon
Ill, is a short. little man who has something
icy about his whole manner. Small and
weak, his face displays an alabaster hue,
which gives him a CHASTITY aspect. In Spain
the report is current that the Duke was
buried before he was born. When his moth
er was enciente with him. she was taken so
desperately i'll that all the attempts to restore
her remained fruitless The Duchess died
far from Madrid. at a chateau which had
always been her favorite residence She was
buried in the family vault and, as it is the
custom OF the Spanish nobili y, several val
uables, among others her rings, were put
into the cuffin. The treasures which had
been left to oblivion with the dead aroused the
cupidity of some rufians they broke into
the vault on the night following the funeral,
robbed the dead woman. and would not leave
the coffin till they had plucked a flashing
diamond from the finger of the corpse. The
diamond was on the little finger, and would
not come off. This gave the body snatchers
the truly cannibal idea of cutting the finger


The pain aroused the apparently dead wo-
man she came to her senses, sat up IN the
coffin. and. by her unexpected wakening, put
the robbers to flight. When they departed
they forgot to close the vault. The Duchess
found sufficient strength to quit her cofhn
and return to her chateau, where she was at
first taken for ghost, and priest called in
TO exercise it, but as he was unable to Danish
the spectre, the people in the chateau grad


ualIy began to believe in her corporal exis
tence. The Duchess recovered, and gave
birth to a boy. who has never lost the deadly
pallor which he brought into the world viii
him.
Year: 1866

EXIT BoNNErs.-The Partisan ladies have
made new and startling invention in dress.
They have made bonnets smaller and smaller
and beautifully less, until at last they consist
of nothing more than ribbon round the
head with veil attached to it. The veil
generally black.
Year: 1866

A very simple and inexpensive pro-
cess has been lately discovered by
which the medical profession, BY secu-
ring Lemons during the season Of plen-
,y, may lay up, by little care, a.store
of fresh lemon juice for the feverish pa
tient at all seasons Of the year. All
that appears to be necessary is to pre-
vent the access of air and moisture, by


vanishing them with solution of shel


lac in spirits Of wine. We need hardly
say that lemons so preserved arc as APP
to the manufacture of punch
as 10 the production of n febrifrgc.
Year: 1866

Now, that truth is not falsehood is
evident enough; but it may be nicaner
and more malicious than falsehood,
when used in attacking neighbor. In
fact, the truth may be, practically, the
grossest of lies. Nothing is more
truthful than the outline Of a man as
given by his own shadow; but you
may set your face in such position
toward the sun that your shadow shall
make You ort ra 'ening wolf or a
grinning ape; and one may tell the
truth about you so adroitly as to be-
smear you with the very foulest Sian.
ders.
Year: 1866

simple Mode OF Computing I'M


tCrCSt.


A new method OF computing interest
on any number Of dollars at 6 per cent.
appears very simple Multiply any
given number Of dollars by the number
Of days Of interest desired, separate the
right hand figure and divide by six :;
the result is the true interest of such
sum for such number Of days, at 6 per
cent. This rule is SO simple and so
true, according to al business usage,
that every banker, broker, merchant or
clerk Should post it up for reference
and use. There being TO such thing
as fraction iii it, there is scarcely any
liability to error or mistake BY no
other arithmetical process can the de-
sired information be obtained with so
few figures,
Year: 1866

1g-Judge J. W. Davis, passed up to
Fort Smith on the Traber. The Judge
has fine stock of goods, which he will
spread for the inspection Of the citizen of
that place. We think he will be found
a gentleman in every sense Of the term.
Year: 1866

for the purpose of procuring funds to
fence in and improve the old Burying
Grounds. n.


The object is most worthy and com
mendable one, and we trust that all will
feel it pleasure, if not, at least duty,
to give it universal patronage.
Year: 1866

A cold winters night, several years
since, found stage load of passengers
gathered together around warm fire
of tavern bar-roem of New England
village. Shortly after we arrived, a
peddler drove up and ordered that his
horse should be stabbed for the night
After we had eaten supper we repaired
to the bar-room, where conversation
flowed freely Several anecdotes had
been related, and finally the peddler was
asked to give us story, as men of his
profession were generally full of adven-
lures aud anecdotes. He was short,
thick-set man, somewhere about forty
years of age, and gave evidence of great
physical strength. He gave his name
as Lemuel Vinney, and his home was
in Dover, New Hampshire. -l a ifol 2


well, gentlemen" he commenced,
knocking the ashes from his pipe and
putting it in his pocket, suppose l tell
you the last thing of any consequence
that happened me You see, | ain now
right from the West, and on my way
home for winter quarters. 1t was dur
ing the early part of last spring, one
pleasant evening, that | pulled up at
the door of small village tavern in
Hancock Co., Indiana. l went in and
called for supper and had my horse ta-
ken care Of After l had eaten l sat
down in the bar-room. 1t began to
rain about eight o clock, and it was very
dark out of doors. Now l wanted to be
iu Jackson the next morning, for 1 ex-
pected a load of goods there for me,
which l intended to dispose of on my
way home.


The moon would rise about midnight
and 1 knew if it did not rain 1 could
get along very well after that. So |
asked the landlord if he would see that
my horse was fed about midnight, as. /
wished to be off about two. He ex-
pressed some surprise at this, and asked
me why 1 did not stay for break Efast. !
told him had sold my last load out and
that new lot of goods was waiting for
me at jackson, and I wanted to get
there before the express agent left in
the morning.


There were number of persons sit.
ting around while l told this, but l took
little notice of them; only one arrested
nv attention. l had seen that week a
notice for the detection of a notorious
robber. The bills gave description
of his person. and the man before me
Year: 1866

Take hands and part with laughter:
Touch lips and part with tears
Once more, and no more after,


Whatever comes with years,
We twain shall not remeasure


The ways that left us twain,
Nor crush the lees of pleasure


From sanguine grapes of pain.
We twain once we'll in sunder,


What will the mad gods do
For hate with me 1 wonder,


Or what, for love, with you!
Forget them till November,


And dream there's April yet.
Forget that I remember


And dream that I forget.
Time found our tired love sleeping,
And kissed away his breath;
But what should we do weeping,
Though light love sleep to death
We have drained his lips at leisure,
Till there not left to drain
A single throb of pleasure,


A single pulse of pain.
Dream that the lips once breathless.
Might quicken if they would;
Say that the soul is deathless;
Dream that the gods are good;
Say March may wed September,
And time divorce regret: h'
But not that you remember,
And not that I forget.

We have heard from hidden places
What love scarce lives and hears
We have seen on fervent faces


The pallor of strange tears
We have trod the wine vat's treasure,
Whence, ripe to steam and stain,
Foams round the feet of pleasure
The blood-red must of pain.
Remem brance may recover


And Time bring back to time
The name of your first lover,


The ring of my first rhyme;
But rose leaves of December


The frosts of June shall fret,
The day that you remember,


The day that forget.
The snake that hides and kisses
In heaven we twain have known;
The grief of cruel kisses,


The joy whose mouth makes moan
The pulses pause and measure,
Where IN one furtive vain
Throbs through the heart of pleasure
The purple blood of pain.
We have done with tears and treasons
And love for treason's sake;
Room for the swift new seasons,
The years that burn and break,
Dismantle and dismember


Mems days and dreams Juliette
For love may not remember,


But time will not forget.
Life treads down Love in flying,
Time withers him at root;
Bring all dead things and dying,
Reaped sheaf and ruined fruit,
Where, crushed by three days pressure
Our three days love lies slain;
And earlier leaf of pleasure,
And later flower of pain.
Breathe close upon the ashes,


1t may be fame will leap;
Unclose the soft closed lashes,


Lift up the lids and weep.
Light Loves extinguished ember,
Let one tear leave it wet,
For one that you remember,


And ten that you forget.
Year: 1866

sue rose from her deIlcI0us Sleep,


And put away her soft brown hair"


The maiden must have lived prior to
the advent of the waterfall. At present
the maidens put away their soft brown
hair before going to their delicious sleep
Year: 1866

! Just cut her up into joints, ta-


king care to 60 by the joints, so
that you don't get in any splinters


or bones. Pick up all the bits of


meat you have in the house, bones


too, if there is any meat on them,


any odd pieces of ham or bacon, les
or shoulder of muttol, and slice
of salt pork, and cut a few slices of


fat bacon and some bread. Take
an earthern vessel with an earth


ern cover, with a bit of a hole in
1.-THE cover, we mean-and put
a layer of bread at the bottom of
the vessel, then a layer of bacon,
and then fill in with all the scraps
and joints you may happen to
have (they must be sweet and
clean OF course) till-the vessel is
full. Then fill up the hollows
and cracks with water and tie
down the lid. Put it at night in
a very warm, not hot oven, and
and let it stay till morning. Take
it out at your leisure and put it
in a cool place, and when perfect
ly cold you will eat with gusto,
either for breakfast, luncheon, dim
ner or supper, and you'll find it
not only tender, but juicy, and
delicately favored and highly nu-
tritious. The water that you put
in will have turned into jelly, and
the whole will cut like a red-vein-
ed marble. There is no way in
the world you can work up an old
fowl SO economically or SO splen-
didly. We should like to sit down
with you to that dish.
Year: 1866

AGE OF SHEEP--How DETERN-
INED.-The age of sheep may be
known by the front teeth. They
are eight in number, appear all Of
size. In the second year the two
middle ones fall out, and their
place is supplied by two large
ones. In the third year small
tooth on each side. In the fourth
year the large teeth are six in
number. In the fifth year the
whole front teeth are large. In
the sixth year the whole begin to
getworn. In the seventh year the
whole fall out or are broken. 1t
is said the teeth of ewes begin to
decay at FIVE or six; those ofweth-
ers at seven. s.a
Year: 1866

| % - =
! Most kinds of farm stock can


be confined all winter to one kind


of food and not suffer materially


from it, but such is not the case


with the sheep. During their


summer pasture they will tire of


the best clover and leave it for Bit


ter white weed, and if during the


winter they are kept exclusively on
good clover or timothy hay, they


will soon gladly leave it for the
coarsest wheat or rye straw, and
eat the latter with an evident rel
ish.


These facts should show us that
of all our domestic animals the
sheep, of all others, requires a
constant variation in the kind and
quality of its food. There are
few farmers SO situated that they
cannot give their sheer. the requi-
site change of food, and none who
should keep them, if they cannot
give them this necessary change.


Many of our practical men diff
fer as to the amount of food re-
quired by sheep. As far as my
own experience goes, | am salts
fed that one pound Of good clover
hay, half pound of corn and two
pounds of oat straw per day will
keep sheep in good breeding or
stock order during the winter
With a flock averaging one hun
dred pounds l have found that du-
ring warm days in mid-winter |
they would not consume the above |
amount, but in very cold weather |
they would consume a little more. |
| often vary the feed, but give
the above as the average daily
feed, and sometimes feed tive
pounds of hay instead of one
pound, and half a pound of corn,
and sometimes substitute one
pound of timothy hay for two
pounds of straw.-Gernaantouon
Telegraph.
Year: 1866

How TO CURE A FELoN.--As we
often see friends suffer with these
very troublesome things, we pub
lish the following cure, which
we have heard highly recommend
ed. AS soon as the parts begin
TO swell, get the tincture of lobelia.
and wrap the part affected with
a cloth saturated thoroughly with
the tincture and the felon is dead.
An old physician says he has
known it to cure in scores of cases.
and it never fails if applied in
season.
Year: 1866




If you should ever get married, John,


I'll tell you what to do
Go get little tenement,


Just large enough fortwo!
And one spare room for company, I1
And one spare bed within it
And if you'd begin loves life Alright,


You'd better thus begin it.
In furniture, be moderate, John,
And let the stuffed chairs wait:
One looking glass will do for both,


Yourself and loving mate;
And Brussels, too, and other things,


Which make a fine appearance,
If you can better afford it, they


Will better look year hence.
Some think they must have pictures, John,
Superb and costly, too,
Your wife will be picture, John,
Let that suffice for you.
Remember how the wise man said,
A tent and love within it,
Is better than splendid house, -.,.
With chickering's ev'ry minute.
And one word as to cooking, John
Your wife can do that best.
For love to make the biscuit rise,
Is better far than yeast.
No matter if each day you don't
Bring turkey to the table;
Twill better relish by and by,
When you are better able
For all you buy pay money, John,
Money that every day
If you would have your life run smooth,
There is no better way.
A note to pay is an ugly thing,
Of thing you choose call it,)
When it hangs DER man who has
No money in his wallet
And now when you are married, John,
Don't try to ape the rich;
1t took many toilsome year,
To gain their envied niche;
And if you'd gain the summit, John.
Look well to your beginning,
And then will all you win repay
The care and toll of winning.
Year: 1866

KEEPING CABBAGES IN WINTER.
In keeping cabbages through
the winter, succeed well by hang
ing them over head in the cellar.
l leave them on the stump, and
break off the outside leaves, and
hang them or stick the roots into
the branches that are put between
the joists thus, x. | put mine
up last fall, after they had begun
10 rot badly, and they soon dried
over and kept well,
Year: 1866

A great many surmises have
been formed about the oil that is
being found below the surface of
the earth in Pennsylvania. An
exchange supposes it has been put
there by nature to grease the axis
that the earth turns upon.
Year: 1866

W hen DanIeI WeDSter was a
young man, about commencing the
study of law, he was advised not
to enter the legal profession, for
it was already crowded. His re-
ply was, "There is room enough at
the top"
Year: 1866

The Daily New Era. Atlanta, Georgia
tells this story at the expense Of provost
marshall there


A gentleman in this city, who we will
call Mack for short, had well pretty muck
filled up with rubbish and trash of differ
ent kinds, which he wanted cleaned out.
lie spoke to a freedman about the job, and
in very confidential way intimated that
there was a treasure hid in that well he was
anxious to exhume. He imposed profound
secTesy upon his sable help and sent him
off in search of another one of his hues
that could be trusted. The upshot Of The
matter was that about one hundred ne
groes soon knew that an iron safe, beon-
gng to the express company, and which
contained an almost invaluable amount Of
gold, had been precipitated into this well
when the city was evacuated. The affair
was speedily brought to the ears ofthc pro-
vost marshal (not the present one, howev-
or, for the thing of which we write occur
red some time ago J, and Mack. on going to
see about his well, ole morning, found it
guarded by strong provost guard, who
forbid any one coming on the premises
Mack protested against any such proceed
ing, and persisted that everything on that
lot, in the well and ont of it, was his in.
dinidual property. The assistant provost
marshal gave him an official wink, ard in
timated that call was right" Mack thought
if it was not it twould be in the end.


A strong posse of freedmen was sent
down into the well to work. BueketTul af-
ter bucke;iul of mud and rubbish was
drawn out. But no treasure as yet, made
its appearance. Occasionally the officer Of
the guard went down on Prospecting tour.
In punching away with his bayonet he Int
upon something which had the true metal
ic sound. They had the treasure now sure.
Again the negroes went to work, and after
working some hours, succeeded in bring
ing out the TOP Of a ten plate stove. At
last the firm bottom Of the well was reach
ed, but no iron safe Mack said he presu-
med the safe was about ten feet farther
down. Whatever may have been the opin-
ion Of the provost marshal on the subject,
he concluded he had not time to prosecute
the search further, he withdrew his forces,
leaving Mack in possession of the thor
oughly cleanscd well, and at liberty to hunt
up the safe if he wanted to. Mack didn't
want to.
Year: 1866

EDITORIALS, "A hotel chap once went
into the sanctum Of an editor, and in.
duIged in TRADE against a citizen with
whom he was on bad terms"


II wish said he, that you would
write very severe article against b., and
put It in your paper


VERY well,' was the reply. and after
some conversation the visitor went sway.


The next morning be came rushing in.
to the Office in a terrible state of excite.
ment


What did You put in your paper? I
have had my nose pulled aud been kicked
twice


.! wrote severe article as you de-
sired, calmly returned the editor, land
signed your name to it,"
Year: 1866

1t is now said that General Grants re-
cent order relative to disloyal newspapers
is intended to apply only to papers pub
lished in the late rebellious States, and
not to those published in the Northern
States. Our Democratic cotemporary of
this city will breathe freer.