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Year: 1874

Now the green apple doubles the little boys into quarto form.

 A Toledo woman muzzled her husband to keep him from kissing the chambermaid. Is it really necessary this time of year ?

 A lady recently applied 10 a fire Insur- ance company for a position IS agent. When asked what her qualifications were, she touched her unhushing check.

 A little boy was asked about the story of Joseph, and if he knew what wrong his brethren done Tn disposing of him, when he replied, I suppose they sold him too cheap.
Year: 1874

Temperance Meeting.-An adjourned citizens temperance meeting was held Tn the M. E. Church at Falls Village on the evening of July 18th. At neither of the two meetings held thus far, was the attend ance large, or did anything remarkable in the way of speech making occur, and yet as regards the kind and the amount of work accomplished, both meetings were eminent ly successful. Marked progress in temper ance has been made by this place during a year, if not for two or three years past i; and these meetings were in the line of progress. The resolutions adopted at the meeting of June 29th have already been made public in your columns. One of these,

 Reso1ced, That vigorous policy on the part of the towns committee will meet our hearty approval, and that we will do all in oul power to make endeavors for the sup pression of the liquor traffic effectua,

 was we'll received by the said committee and will it is hoped, contribute to wha may justly be entitled a vigorous temper ance policy At the second meeting some doubt was expressed as to the necessity for the committee of six. The following was the resolution for thelr appointment.

 Resogoed, That a committee be appointed to inquire and as they shall deem most ex- pedient to act, both in union with the towns committee and otherwise, for the
Year: 1874

Governor Moses visited the South Carolina
State Penitentiary on Sunday, but not to stay.
and shortly afterwards twenty.seven conyicts
were discharged They had no money and moth
ing to eat.


An absent minded merchant in tNew York
copied a love-letter TO his "hearts idol" in the
leter-book Of the firm, before sending it.


The Hanover Courier is responsible for the
statement that the present Incumbent of the
papal chair san ex-Freems SOD.


AN army officer in England recently committed
suicide, for the reason, as he stated that he felt
that he was losing has reason.


North Carolina tries to tempt emigration by
The statement that home in is pine woods is
fare cure for consumption.


Sea guils we're recently seen flying about
Memphis, having been blown inland by the late
gales from the South.


The fact being ascertained that the lady ate
onions, ruined her case in recent breach Of
promise suit in Iowa.
Year: 1874

N0TICE.-In compliance with the requreme tents
~ of the net of Assembly in such case made Nh 1
provided do hereby give notice that shall ap-
ply i'll writing to the Court of General Sessions Of
the Peace and Jail Delivery OF the State of Della
day the lth day of May next, A, D.. lS1t being the
first day OF the next May Term of the said Couit Tor
Ayoca House. the South side of the road leading
from Market Street Bridge 10 Jessup d Moores
Paper Mill one-half mile from Market Street
Bridge, in the Ninth Ward of the City of Will
mington, County OF New Castle and State of Della
ware. and TO sell Intoxicating liquors in less guam


titles than one quart. to be drunk the premises,
and the following ireehoders recommend the said
Year: 1874

Having engaged an experienced
Custom Shirt Cutter from one of
the principal New York Houses,
we arc prepared to guarantee y
perfect-fitting Shirt to all who
may favor us with their orders.
We call particular attention to
our FRENCH PRINTED AND
ENGLISH CHEVIOT TSHII1TING.
Year: 1874




The lodges and deceptions by which the
leading statesmen who manage parties and
invent platforms undertake to win favor and
votes are for the most part very shallow, and
the wonder is that they are not themselves
aware of their weakness and transparency
Here for instance is "a solemn asseveration on
the part of the Democratic party of Indiana,
made in q Convention and embodied In "a
platform, touching the most important issue of
current politics, to wit, the financial question;
and what is it2 Why simply that we are in
L" favor of return to specie payments y
very well, if it had even stopped there; but no,
they 90 on to say they are in favor of it-"as
" soon as the business interests of the country
"will permit" 81 am in favor" says the
crooked customer to his creditor, "Of paying
"my debts; | accordingly give you my note.
"When 1t becomes due | will take it up by
giving you another, and desire you to un-
"derstand distinctly that ! am in favor of
having the debt some time in cash as soon
cas- my business interests will permit"
"Business interests,n Nonsense. What sort
of talk is this for honest men, or even for
half-honest pOliticans7 There are no business
interests-there can be nOne-that stand be-
tween an honest man or an honest govern
ment and the payment of honest debts. The
people who say they are i'll favor of fulfilling
the promise of the Government some time, but
not now who say in this airy and nebulous
way that some time or other, when business
interests permit, they will pay cash, are simply
engrossing a lie. The men who mean to pay
never talk in that way. Business interests
always permit" nay, demand, that notes be
paid, promises performed. and contracts full
filled. The honest man to his creditor says,
Z" | will pay as soon as the money comes into my
hands, The skulking debtor says to his
dun, with the solemnity of platform, " Call
"next Thursday forenoon at half-past 10 o'clock
sharp, and will tell you when to call again."
And the Indiana politician. not daring to say
he is not in favor of specie resumption some
time, says, with q platform smiTk and his
tongue in his cheek that he is "in favor of
return to specie payments adding immed-
atey, for the benefit of those whose business
interests will never permit the payment of
their honest debts-"as soon as the business
" interests of the country will permit"


How long would any individual, firm or
corporation be able to carry on business upon
this plan giving notes for all their purchases
taking up old notes with new ones; expand
ing their business by extending what they call
their credit and answering all calls for cash
with the information that they were in favor
of paying cash as soon as their business in
Year: 1874

For a provoking mixture of sense and non
sense commend us to the Address of the Hon.
j. l.. Pugh before the Democratic and Con-
servative State Convention of Alabama, of
which he was the presiding officer Mr.. Pugh
and the party which he represents are sensible
enough to understand that an artificial .antag-
onism OF races is the one cause of the terrible
misfortunes in which the South is now gi0an-
ing. They deprecate this unnatural hostility
They acknowledge that it is fruitful of moth
ing but evil. They know it is this which has
brought uppermOst the ignorant and vicious
elements of Southern society. And yet they
deliberately adopt the policy of strengthening
the antipathy between black and white. IL is
their chief complaint of the Civil Rights bill
that it will ultimately destroy the natural
sepaIateness Of the two Iaces"-although it
is this very division which has given New
Orleans a Kellogg and Columbia Noses
and Mr.. Pugh adds, in the fine old style of
twenty years ago, that we hear the roar of
" the black wave that had its formation in the
overhowing bounty of the Federal Govern
"ment, and 1t has continued to increase until
"it has accumulated sufficient power to drive
cts mad surges against the mountain barriers
"erected by nature; but the glorious white
"ciffs of Caucasian supremacy, illuminated
"by eternal sunshine, will roll back this black
"sea and sink it forever from the face of this
"lovely land it threatens to desoate and de-
"strOy.o


We do not deny that the maladministration
of the Southern States under Northern adven-
turers and the ignorant and irresponsible null
titude of negroes whom they have trained to
vote at their order has been shocking beyond
description. But it cannot be cured by the
measures the Democrats of Alabama have
adopted. In that State the numerical superb
.oIity of tle whites is so small that Black
Mans Party, holding the election machinery
and the political patronage, could perhaps
overcome it without much trouble. In South
Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi the ne
eroes have q decided majority, and we all
know what the political separation of the
races means there. Natural separateness,n ~
as Mr.. Pugh calls it, can only result in con-
firming the rule of the unlettered, the de-
graded, and the dishonest, until by the slow pro-
cesses of general popular education and bitter
experience the mass of the colored men have
learned that good government and economy
are as necessary for them AZ they are for the
ruined planters. Whether there will be any
thing left in the South by the time the South
Carolina Legislature discovers that honesty is
the best policy may be an open question:


There is only one rational course for the
Southern whites to pursue. 1t is to admit
frankly that the negro can no longer be kept
in a subordinate position, and to make of
HIM friend and ally. 1t is a fatal mistake
to assume that tAe SQlQred people are al
Year: 1874

fools or thieves, or the foreOrdained TOOLS OF
tho carpet -bagger. Among them are many
honest patriots and intelligent citizens VINO
under proper influences would be not ohiy
sensible voters but useful politicians. Untii
these men are attached to the party OF reform
we have no great hope of improvement In
Southern affairs There is certainly good
sense enough in the South to recognize
sooner or later the fact which thus far seems
IN have been left out of consderation,-that
a great majority of both races, black as wen
AS white, will prefer IA good government to n
bad one whenever they give themselves inc
trouble to think upon the matter at ALL
Whenever reform comes it must be through
the union Of the honest men OF the two
races. How they are to be united Is not yet
clear: but the Democratic and Conservative
Convention of Alabama has done its best to
satisfy the world that the agency in TINS
alliance will not be thaC of the Democratic
party-whicll, indeed, we knew pretty well
already
Year: 1874

1t would seem from the statement of one
of the Health Officers that it has been GUS
tomary heretofore to give notice to persons
suspected of "baby farming" that they must
discontinue their inhuman business or they
would be refused any more certificates OF
burial Under such vigorous prosecution as
this il is not to be wondered at that the mur-
der of the innocents has developed INTO a
thriving business in the metropolis. Possibly
the police have terrors greater than this threat
in reserve; if SO it is time they employed
them.
Year: 1874

Extraordinary acts of violence seem 10 have
been general yesterday at the West The effort
Of an insane divinity student to assassinate
Bishop Whipple, murder by State Senator in
Kentucky, and election troubles in Utah are
the more prominent features.
Year: 1874

It is so much the fashion to talk OF the
West as being almost to man for intiatlon'
that the letter of our special correspondent In
Minnesota, giving the views of the people OF
that State upon the subject, and the reasons
for their being in favor of sound currency
NAV perhaps be read with some surprise. 30
far had this deluson extended before the ad-
iournment OF Congress that Senator Window
of Minnesota, though personally opposed 10
the schemes of the in1ationists for making
"money cheap" felt constrained, out OF defer
ence to what he supposed was the sentiment
of his constituents, to vote for some OF the
cOmpromise measures. He has been aston
ished since his return home to find how pub
lie opinion upon this question had been mis-
represented. There is doubtless very much
the same condition of feeling in other States.
The same demagogues vino credited the people
with the disposition to pay the debt III green
backs in 1853 have assiduously cultivated TINS
false impression concerning the popular de-
mand for initiation at the West. When the
| facts are reached they do not by any means
warrant any such notion.
Year: 1874

The Brooklyn Committee make the an
nouncement, at which all decent people will
rejoice, that they hope to close the taking
of testimony tonight. If now they can
render speedy and conclusive verdict. and
so clear the atmosphere of the poisonous
stencil we have all been forced TO breathe for
weeks past, they will have earned popular
gratitude.
Year: 1874

The practical results of the conference of
railway managers at Saratoga are set forth in
an article on our fifth page. There ap


pears to have been considerable reduction
made in Western bound frcights-a, reduction
compelled by the sharp rivalry Of five or six
trunk lines now in active operation. Shippers
are to be put on an equal footing by the
abolition of all rebates and special low
Year: 1874

Perforate the bottom of wooden box
with number of small holes; place
inside a piece of flennel, cover with
coarsely powdered charcoal, over
this coarse river sand, and on this
small pieces Of sandstone.
Year: 1874

READING, PA, June 1S.-owirg to the
depression OF the iron and coal trade the
hours Of labor in the shops Of the Reading
Railroad Company along the line will be
reduced trom nine to eight houra on and
after Monday next.
Year: 1874

Arriving at last In San Francisco
there remained only sufficiently long to
rest myself from the faugues OF the jour
ney and 10 get a fair idea Of the city, for
which l found that a stay of four days
sutticed, although greater number might
have been quite pleasantly spent in this
metropolis Of the Pacific coast.
Year: 1874

Meanwhile Halliday had had an in
teryiew with TiltOn, the result OF which,
as unsettiing the matter between Tilton
and BeecheT, was very anXiOusly
awaited by Beecher, who communicated
it to me and who was also quite as anx-
ious that Tilton should take no steps by
which the matter between them should
get into the newspapers or be made in
any manner a matter OF controversy.
With this view he stated the situation
on the same night of the interview with
Halliday and TiltOn, in the following
letter, without date, and which was
written with pencil and in great hsste'
Year: 1874

my pretended approval Of Mrs. woodruff 3
course. And yet people think me an honest
man. ! have lied enough about that to ruin
the character Of any average man, and have
probably damaged myself by it.


After Beecher had seen these letters
of his sister, Mrs. Hooker, he came to
me in trouble and alarm, and handed
me all the letters, together with one
under date of November 9th, with an
enclosure cut from the Hartford Times,
to which it alluded:
Year: 1874

New YORK, June 4.-London letters
says that the Duchess of Edinburgh DO
sition at Court has been settled. She is
to be called Her Royal Imperial or
Imperial Royal Highness and is to rank
next to the Princess of Wales, except
when the Princess Royal and Crown
Princess of Russia happens to visit
England. The rule has hitherto been
that the daughters of the Sovereign
took precedence over the wives and
IONS except in the case OF the Princess
of Wales. The Duchess of Edfnburg
however, is not only Royal by mar
riage, but imperial by birth and it is on
this ground that higher place has
been assigned to her in Russia. She
was after her mother who is invalid
and lives in retirement, the first lady
in the land and was raised high above
all nobility here. She is the only one
among the Princesses who apparently
has few striking qualities of her own
to win the commanding position of
Duchess. She is deficient in dignity
and style, and her sex are cruel enough
to say that che does not know how to
dress, however, in some other way she
may strike out line for herself.
Year: 1874

There is good deal of amusement
In the following magical table of fig
ures. 1t will enable you to tell how
oid the young ladies are. Just hand
this table to young lady, and request
her to tell you in which column or col
umns her age is contained; add togeth-
er the figures at the top of the columns
In which her age is found, and you
have the great secret. Thus, suppose
her age to be seventeen, you will find
that number in the first and fifth col
umns; add the first figures of these two
columns. Here is the magic table.
Year: 1874

PosT OFFICE RULEs.--Never buy
any stamps. Hand your letter to the
postmaster and tell him to put stamp
on it. If you are out of change tell
him you will hand it to him the next
time you are in. 1t won't be necessa-
ry to do so, however, as three cents is
nothing. When you hand in your let
ter do not forget to tell the postmaster
to "be sure and have it CO." If you
do not give this warning, he may keep
it in the Office. Always remember to
call the postmaster and hand your let
tiers to him, and do not put them in
the letter-bOx. If you don't the post
master will not have SO much to do,
and you will therefore encourage lazi-
ness. Remember that the postmaster
would consider it quite unkind to have
your letters stamped by any one but
himself. He will be pleased also to
put " rappers on papers and back them
occasionally, or Oftener, especially
when he is distributing the mail.
Year: 1874

For chafed shoulders in horses, wash
with warm soft water and CASTLE soap,
and then dress with crude petroleum.
! If liberated, wash them with carbolie
soap and apply petroleum aiterward.
If possible let the horse rest for q few
days.


Two ounces Of common carbolic acid
dissolved in three quarts of water, ap-
piled once a week through the aid of
a watering pot, viii rid fowls of all
pests in the way of veImin.


Mention is mado of q New Hamp-
shire man who keeps 500 fowls. all
healthy and good layers. He scatters
them oyer the arm-which is 400
acres in extent-in fiocks OF twenty
five to fifty, providing for each q cheap
house 9xl3 feet. Their broad range IS
the secret OF his success.


The swelling of the bars of the mouth
is sometimes caused in young horses
by the cutting of the teeth, in which
case scoring the swollen parts lightly
with sharp knife will cure it, or,
what is better still, touching them with
lunar caustic. In old horses it occurs
from over feeding with corn or other
grain, when a change of food and cool
ing medicine should be given.


A strawberry grower states that to
two barrels of rain water he puts one
quarter of pound of ammonia, and
one quarter of q pound of common
nitre, and with this solution he spriak-
led his strawberry beds when blossom
ing. The result was double the amount
of large strawberries to that just adj
joining not so treated.


The most permanent, agreeable, and
economical walks agound o dwelling
are made of gravel. The path should
be dug out one foot deep and the soil
removed. Eight inches Of coarse
broken stone should be laid In and
well rammed and rolled after every
shower.
Year: 1874

Henry Ward Beecher was recently
asked 'What can we do for friend for
whom we have prayed long time,
and all that we can say or do only
mskes him more determined to have
his own 'way?' And hs Ipakes this re-
ply: Nobody likes to live Ia "A At
mosphere of incessant repr0of. II yoa
want to win his heart and melt his op-
position, do not darken his life by
making him feel, even by your looks
of air, that you are groaning over him
as a miserable sinner. Make his life
cheerful to him; make your own love
for him a source of joy, let your piety
be full of sweetness and light; show
the utmost appreciation of his good
qualities, and be patient. The case, as
YOU state it, is nota very bad one.' 1t
is an entire sermon, and one of the
best that ever came from even Mr..
Beecher.
Year: 1874

Love, it is said flows downward. The
love of parents for their children has al
ways been far more powerful than that
of the children for their parents; and
who among the sons Of man ever love
God with thousandth part Of the love
God has manifested to us.
Year: 1874

The flashes of excitement produced by
the. stimuants in ordinary use are fol-
lowed by reaction that is always more
or less injurious. just as the darkness,
illuminated for moment by the light
nings glare, becomes apparently darker
than ever after the flash is over, so the
mental gloom and physical debility that
vanish temporarily under the influence
of dram, return with ten-fold intensi-
ty when the first transient effect ceases.
Yet physicians habitually prescribe the
liquors of commerce for patients suffering
from bodily weakness and mental de-
spondency. The true remedy in such
cases is pure stimulant medicated with
the finest tonics ard alternatives which
the vegetable kingdom affords, and Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is the only prep
aration at present known which thorough
ly meets the emergency. The effect OF
this popular restorative is continuous.
Each dose taken invigorates the vital
energies and the brain, and its prolonged
use will unquestionably cure any case of
debility, hypochondria, or mental torpid
ity that does not arise from organic
causes beyond the reach of medicine. 1t
is, in the strictest sense of the word, an
invigoratihg and regulating cordial. If
the nerves are tremulous and relaxed, it
braces them if the bowels are constipat-
ed, it relieves them if the liver is torpid,
it promotes activity in that organ If the
mind is gloomy, it clears away the clouds;
il the appetite is poor and digestion a
slow and painful operation, 1t creates a
relish for food and enables the stomach to
convert i. into healthful aliment. More
over, it is a specific for large number OF
ailments, some of which are particularly
prevalent in the damp and chilly weather
which we so often experience in mid win
ter. Among these may be mentioned
rheumatism, chills and fever and all the
morbid conditions OF the digestive and
secretive organs superinduced by sudden
changes of temperature and the inclem-
encies of the season. 4ap
Year: 1874

LOCAL OPTION, we are told, is not dead
IN Weaverville, but then it appears to be
sleeping very soundly and is net apt to
wake up very soon. At any rate, no
petition will be presented by the temper
ance people at the May Term of the
Board of Supervisors.
Year: 1874

Rich SPECIMENs.-He Engel came
in this morning, bringing with him some
rich specimens of gold bearing quartz
from his ledge on East Fork. They are
by far the richest pieces of quartz we
have ever seen here. Mr.. Engel also
had some ffty-odd ounces of retorted
gold, which he had obtained from thir-
teen tons of rock worked with an arastra
in rather a primitive manner. Trinity
county is full of quartz lodges, and there
is no reason why they canuot be made to
pay, as many of them are evidently rich
in gold.
Year: 1874

FIRE Another China house took FIRE
this week but was fortunately extinguish-
ed before any damage was done. The
Chinese have been the direct cause of the
burning Of Weaverville several times,
and it is only question of time as to
when they will do it again.
Year: 1874

DIsAPPEARING.-Snow on the route
between this place and Trinity Center is
rapidly disappearing since the pleasant
weather set in. George w. Blackwell,
the mail-rider, found four feet of snow on
the ridge this side of the Norwegian
ranch, in making the trip last week, but
now the trail is becoming very passable.