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Year: 1874

An old Scotchman was taking his grist to mill in sacks thrown across the back of his horse, when the animal stumbled, and the grain fell to the ground. He had not strength to raise it, being an aged man, but he saw a horseman riding along, and thought he would appeal to him for help. But the horseman proved to be the nsbleman who lived in the castle hard by, and the farmer could not muster courage to ask favor of him. But the nobleman was gentleman also, and, not waiting to be asked, he quickly dlsmounted, and between them they lifted the grain to the horses back. John-for he was a gentleman too-lifted his Kilmarnock bonnet, and said: My lord, how shall I ever thank you for your kindness ? Every easily, John, replied the noble man. Whenever you see anothe, man in the same plight as you were in just now, help him, and that will be thanking me-"
Year: 1874

A reclaimed victim of opium sends to the Cincinnati Commercial his pre- scription for the cure of the dreadful habit. Arguing that the average vic tim uses of the drug what is equivalent to twenty grains of morphine day, he counsels the preparation, by compe- tent physician or careful druggist, of 270 grains of morphine, p grains of belladonna, and 45 grains of quinine Divide this into ninety pills, each of which will contain three grains of mor- pbine, and begin by taking three pills a day. The nine grains of morphine thus taken, with their admixture, go as far with the patient as did his previous 20 grains day, owing to the peculiar effect of the belladonna in the combi- nation. Lower the quantity of mor- phiue in each successive batch of the pills until two grains per diem are reached, and then lessen the proportion of belladonna and, perhaps. add a small portion of nux vomica. The cure is said to be almost certain, but too much care cannot be exercised as to the quantity and quality of the belladonna, which is a deadly poison in anything over cautiously small doses.
Year: 1874

This is the way in which an English magistrate administered the law against curelty to animals. Henry Blundell was recently charged with ill-treating a cat at Churchtown. He was seen to seize it by it's neck and put it into 8 hole he had dug in the earth. He then covered it with soil, stamped upon it with his feet, and beat the soil down with a spade. Happily for the cat, some boys who had witnessed the scene dug it out of the hole, and poor wo- man took 1t b ter house, and washed iG aud gavs it some milk. Ths cat only had one leg broken and one eye mutt lated. and having, like all other cats, nine lives, is stated, to be in fair way to recovery. The other brute was actually fined the enormous sum of one shilling, and is said to be utterly crushed by this awful penalty.
Year: 1874

A letter in an exchange tells how to find the Comet as follows "At about nine or ten o'clock the Dipper is seen the horizon. The two lowest stars in the bowl of the Dipper furthest from the handle) are called the Pointers, because they point to the Pole star :; the one nearer the Pole star being called Dubhe. Now. the Comet forms nearly an equilateral triangle with Dubhe and the Pole star, being situ- ated below them. The tail is above the nucleus and inclined toward the Pole star. had no difficulty in seeing it few nights since, although the moon was half full.
Year: 1874

A Wilmington (Del paper tells this story con the morning of the drown ing of officer Wirt his wife tried to per suade him from going fishing, when he took from his finger his gold ring and placing it upon hers told her to wear it until h1s return, and that he would not be gone long. When he was leaving his residence his dog, 8 Gne animal, caught him by the pant leg, Gan act he was never known to do before, ) when he drove him off and as he start ed off tae dog seized him by the leg again and could not be driven off, seem ingly trying to prevent his master from leaving his home, when Wirt, to get clear of him, took his revolver from his pocket and shot him."
Year: 1874

BEE STINes.-Dr. Danverne recom- mends the use of lime water to relieve the burning sensation produced by the sting of wasps and bees. This remedy is frequently at hand when ammonia is not te be had.
Year: 1874

1t is a general impression that
the comet is Oh a pleasure trip,
and people seem to think that
comets are planetary bummers
that go swinging round their
erratic orbits just for the fun of
the thing. Now | stood on
the head of barrel the other
night and made a close exami-
nation of the heavenly visitor
through a piece Of windowglas
and the conclusion [ arrived at
I think worthy of public con-
sideration.


l believe the purpose Of COM
cts is to gather up the poison
Gus gases Of our planetary sys-
TEN and destroy them by the in
tense heat of a near approach to
the sun-gases which would
become so dense as to destroy
all human life, if it were not for
these great ETHEREAL sponges
which absorb the poisons by a
peculiar attraction.


[ also believe that their infiu-
ence upon the planetary system
is magnetic and electrical, pro-
ducing frictional electricity by
the regulation of the seasons by
their intense heat, and | believe
that the failure of a single COM
ct to make its round would re-
duce our earth to the glacial
period again.


The question is certainly O.
pen for argument, and perhaps
some Of our scientific men who
believe comets to be more use
full than ornamental will. give
us their opinions.


JOEL SLoPER.
Year: 1874

The editor of the Presbyteri-
an Banner being on a ramble
last week, visited Niagara, and
thus relates his experience at a


prominent hotel:


"The intolerable nuisance of
Niagara is its great hotels
Two of us arrived at the station
about half past 12o'clock, PM,
gave the check for our trunk to
the man representing one of
them and walked to that estab-
lishment, about one-eighth Of
a mile distant. The fext day,
when we went to the desk to
pay our bill to the dignifed par
ty who presides there, we found
a charge of one dollar and fifty
cents for an omnibus ride. We
told him we had not enjoyed
the luxury of a ride in that in
stitution, and did not propose to
do so. Putting on a courtIy
smile, he replied, Have you not
a trunk?' We acknowledged
ourselves guilty of that ofense.
oh, then,' said he, you see how
tits; we charge every one who
comes to this house with a trunk
just as much for bringing and
taking away his trunk as if he
rode in our omnibus Then
said we, there are two Of us,
and you charge for one trunk


Just the same as if both Of us
had ridden in your vehicle; or,
III other words, you compel
guests to ride;;' to all of which
he assented. In plain words we
told him that such conduct was
exactly the reverse Of honest,
and that a hotel that would act
in this way was defrauding the
public. But so accustomed is
he to hear such talk many times
every day that he did not give
the least evidence Of annoy
ance. The owners of hacks
give as one reason for their high
charges, that they are compelled
to pay certain percentage to
the clerks of this house or fail
to get employment"
Year: 1874

Nearly four hundred addi-
tional post offices have just been
established, distributed over all
parts Of the country.


Parties are warned against
sending money in letters unless
the same are registered. The
experience Of the Postoffice De
partment is, that an expert in
handling letters can tell in a
moment whether money is con-
tanned in them.


Advices received by the
Comptroller Of the Currency
show that there are many par
ties desiring to start national
banks under the new currency
law, who are waiting, before
taking the step, for Government
bonds to fall in price, SO that
they will not be compelled to
pay so heavily for their bonds to
be deposited as security for their
circulation.
Year: 1874

Some one has been sending
postal cards through the mail to
citizens of Atlanta, Of which
the Herald says:


The cards written to Judge
Hopkins are stated by him to
be obscene and daring beyond
measure, and to attack infa-
mously the highest circles of
our Atlanta society. Over one
hundred of our leading citizens,
male and female, are beslimed
by the foul and secret SANDER
ers. The Judge wisely refuses
10 let the cards be read in or
der that no publicity may be
given to the scandals.


As a specimen of the feeling
we may state that the highest
officer of the State said that a
shot gun would be the proper
arbiter Of the matter.


Since writing the above some
terrible facts have come to light
duplicating the wife of a well
known merchant. We suppress
the names for the present, and
olive the facts.


One was addressed to wor-
thy lady Of, on the Georgia
railroad, charging her with in
trigue with a prominent gentle
man in Atlanta, giving time and
place. This lady had a month
or two ago received a letter from
the merchants wife, charging
her with Sights on a festive oc-
casion, and saying she would
be revenged. A comparison of
the two letters showed that the
handwriting was the same.


The lady came to Atlanta
yesterday, and employed law
yer to prosecute the Natter
The merchant was sent for and
the suspicion against his wife
told to him. He said if the
charge was true he would repu-
diate her.


Among the testimony against
the lady charged, is the state
ment of a leading business
man who received one of the
cards, who recognizes the hand
writing, and who says the
merchants wife told him a week
or two ago that she had received
some Sights and meant to rev.
olutionize society in Atlanta
soon.


We have not space to give
all the evidence against the m-
fortunate lady 1t is a terribly
conclusive array Of circumstan-
ces. There is a deep feeling a.
gainst her. A more painful
case never happened. What is
to be the end remains to be seen.
As it now stands, the city is
absolutely horror-stricken at the
most unnatural matter.
Year: 1874


-INN0NNo-%~NNNIN~N
The Plow and the Press.
We envy not the princely man.


In city or in town,
Who wonders whether pumpkin vines
Turn up the hill or down.
We care not for his marble halls,


Nor yet his heaps of gold;
We would not own his sordid heart


For all his wealth twice told
We are the favored ones Of earth,
We breathe pure air each morn,
We sow, we reap the golden grain,


We gatherin the corn.
We toll, we live on what we earn,


And more than this we do:
We hear Of starving millions round,
And gladly feed them too.
The lawyer lives on princely fees,


Yet drags weary life;
He never knows peaceful hour,


His atmosphere is strife.
The merchant thumbs his yard-stick o'er--
Grows haggard at his toll
He's not the man God meant him for,
why uon't ne tllI the SOIL!
The doctor plods through storm and rain,
Plods at his patients will;
When dead and gone he plods again
To get his lengthy bill.
The printer-bless his noble soul
He grasps the mighty earth,
And stamps it on our weekly sheet
To cheer the labOrer's hearth.
We sing the honor of the Plow,


And honor to the Press,
Two noble instruments of toll,


Each with power to bless;
The bone, the nerve of this fast age
True wealth of human kind
One -tillS the ever faithful earth,
The other tills the mind.
Year: 1874

"Never marry for wealth" I"
says contemporary, "but re-
that it is just as easy to
love a girl who has a brick
house with a Mansard roof and
a silver plated door bell, as one
who hasn't any thing but an
auburn head and an admirable
disposition"
Year: 1874

A Mississippi doctor gave a
Memphis man a box of anti-bil-
iOus pills the other day, with
directions written on the box to
take one pill five times a day"
The pill thus to be taken was
made, we presume, Of cast iron.
Year: 1874

PoisoNs IN SUGAR AND STRUTS. The sugar
and sirup refners Of New York were made
uneasy on Wednesday by the announcement
that the grand jury had found indictments
against many fthe trade for using poisonous
and other deleteriOus substances iu putting up
their siIups. This Is an old complaint, but this
Is the first time ii has come before grand jury.
The principal sugar refinsrs deny the charge,
and declare that it grows out of mlsconceptiOn
Of the business of refining, and of the chemical
substances which have always been employed
In 1t. The grand jury have instructed the
health commissioners, however, to begin a
thorough Investigation.
Year: 1874

Gentlemen who are familiar with
the country lying to the northeast of
this city report that good wagon
road may be constructed between
Los Angeles and the Panamint mines
at q comparatively trifling cost. They
have been over the ground and are
confident a direct road from here to
the new Ell Dorado may be built which
will shorten the time now occupied by
teams in making the trip at least four
days and save the expense of shipping
to Spadra by rail. The desert to be
crossed is about seventy miles in
width, and hitherto it has been sup
posed that the entire stretch must be
made without water, or only that car
ried with the teams. This is now
found to be mistake. According to
report a good spring of water has been
found on the edge of this desert, lake
or well is known to exist fifteen miles
out on the desert; low place, where
water may be had by digging a few
feet is discovered between the lake
and the eastern boundary of the desert
and just on the eastern edge there is
another spring. These discoveries re-
move the hitherto almost insurmount-
able difficulty of crossing the desert
with heavy loaded and consequently
slow moving teams. The Chamber of
Commerce will hold a meeting this
evening to consider the propriety OF
Immediately building this road, and
we hope both the report on the practi-
cability of the route and the action of
the Chamber will be favorable.
Year: 1874

DAILY RoUTINE.-To those whose Daily
Routine is more or les imperatively dictated
to them by circumstances, it is matter of
extreme difficulty to secure those various
conditions under which alone the full
amount of nutrition can be got out of food.
And yet such persons form the overwhelm
ing majority of mankind What are peo-
pie to do? They either must put them
selves in training to borrow phrase from
the fstic brotherhood, or else, finding this
to be utterly impossible, they must en-
deavor to find something which will act SC
far as substitute as to enable the system
to appropriate the nourishment which food
alone is capable of affording. Such sub
stitute is DR.. Gottlieb Fisch's Bitters A
wine glassful of this taken after each meal
will enable man, in very short time. tC
get from his food the proper nourishment
and will thus fit him to perform cheer
fully, nay, even joyfully, his DAILY RoU
TINEl


This subject continued next week under
"Nature Greater than Art"
Year: 1874

IT Runs LIKE PRAIRIE FIRE DIR,
WALKERS VINEGAR BIrrERs runs like a
prairie fire. The fame of the Temperance
Tonic is, however, but poorly exemplifed
by this figure of speech; for prairie fire
runs only in one direction, whereas the
reputation of the Bitters spreads toward
all points of the compass. There is not a
square mile of inhabited territory in the
United States where this meritorious
preparation is not appreciated. If any
theoretical gentleman thinks he is prepar.
ed to show that there is nothing in it. y
we advise him to go to the Prairie States
in the Mississippi Valley, to the deltas Of
the Southern rivers, to New England, in
fact anywhere within the limits Of ''Uncle
Sans real estate, and ventilate his views
By so doing he can raise heartier and
more general laugh than has ever ye
shaken the sides of an intelligent people
Persons who have been cured can't helr
laughing at other people who tell then
that the medicine which saved their live.
| is failure.
Year: 1874

THE proceedings of the general coun-
Gil last night, elsewhere reported, are
without special interest. The resolution
from the aldermen, rendering Market
square TO the county as a suitable site
for a courthouse, was laid on the table
by the councilmen, much TO the disgust
of most of those present, and no doubt
to all who read of it to-day. We hope
the resolution will be revived and
,oorsaI
Year: 1874

nation, and personally urge congress not to
pass the Territorial bill. They repudiated the
Choctorian contract under which seVenty-hve
thousand dollars have already been advanced.
This action does not reflect the sentiment of
the intelligent portion of the nation. A ma
gorty of the legislature is ,composed.of full
blooded Indians from the mountain districts,
with Carr at their head, who publicly
every white man in the nation: il he could
separate the little white blood in himself, he
would open his veins and let it out. The CIV
iIized Indians in this Territory do not want
TO be transferred by the war department, but
they do want a Territorial government, with
courts of ustice, and a delegate in congress
70 speak for them. They do not need govern
merit agents, but they want citizenship, and
equal rights with all
Year: 1874

Da- The tide ofinmigration is steadily set.
ting in, and the first thing eastern people dc
is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
new one OF DESMOND. They say there is nc
comparison between the two. 25bo
Year: 1874

Here is m old toast and o good one. To
1902 the Bostonians were celebrating the
unfortunate lending Of the Pilgrims--the
most disastrous occurrence in our National
history--when the following capital toast
was drank: The Constitution: May Il
govern those who govern us This ought
70 be painted in golden words 10 both iiJus-
es Of Congress.
Year: 1874

A little knot Of ladies we're discussing
the subject cf marriage. One Of the party.
a single young lady. said. Matches are
made in heaven Very likely was the
quick rejoindcr Of a married lady, and
they are often dipped ii The other place.
Year: 1874

knowing as do. the circumstances of
the CASE, though his own character would
seem to demand that he should tell the
public what they have absolutel no right
To know. There is curiosity abroad to
know every detail of this disgusting bus
mess. which is absolutely. shocking. Mr.
Beechcr has held his tongue out of re-
>pcCt for the feelings of Others. Why
look :at this Hooker exhibition. Mr.
Beccher tried to keep that quiet to spare
the feelings of his family and friends;
and mark YOU there are others, but their
case is different from hers. She, it was
very well known. was weak-minded. and
the Woodruff people got hold of her and
proved on her weak intellect, hut if Mr..
Beecher opened his mouth and told his
story that


There are Distinguished Persons


who have been Mixed up in this


Matter
who would suffer in his silence, and he has
spared their feelings.


Reportcr-W hat do you mean by that!
Mr.. Shearman-I mean that this W Ood-
hull cotcre isa nest of fblackmailers. That
is the sole object of their lives. They
have inveigled into their tales distinguish
ed men and women. and they have sought
out Mr.. Bcecher aS a target for their ope-
rationS because he was a shining light. l
tell YOU he can make this thing as clear as
the MONDAY sun. and if be should there
will be some people suffer whose suffering
he has shared for a long, long time at the
cost of his own ease of mind and bastard
" persecution. When Irefect on what
would be the consequence of his telling
out what he knows about the whole busi-
ness. would advise him even now to
keep silent and explain away what is ,only
necessary TO the committee.
Year: 1874

one no longer. Who, therefore, can say TINT his
safe is burglar-proof


The most forcible Lesson conveyed by tho
Quincy robbery is the necessity Of watchmen.
It does not appear that any watch Was Kept IN
the bank after business hours- Consequently,
thera Was M one to hear the blows Of the ham
mers or the noise pecessariiy made in removing
the bricks and mortar. Even the explosion xas
undiscoy e:ed until some hours after the money
was gone If the bank had been provided with
g yatc1man the burglars would probably never
have made their attempt upon it. Even good
dog would have gwen them more trouble than
the brick vault thoy had to go through.
Year: 1874

A man may be hurled from the pinnacle of
greatness into the duck-pond of abasement,
and it won't hurt him half so much, in the
long run, as stocking that gets doubled up
at the heel.
Year: 1874




In the Next Life.


Rxtract nom recent sermon.)


1t Is only a human religion such as that
Of Buddha, or Thor, Or Jupiter, that may
fear the growth Of intelligence, and that
may fade as the light Of reason dawns;
but of a religion from God, given by In
spiration, the first distinguishing principle
must be that 1t will reveal its reasonable
ness as fast as man unIolds his own intel
ligence, and still become most glorious
where there Is the most culture. The
mediGVal Christianity having been dis.
figured by Ignorance and superstition, the
subsequent growth OF religion had to ex-
press itself in infldelity. When a Dante
describes hell to mankind and his fright
.tul pictures become the theology OF the
Church, sweeping through RomAnism
over into Protestantism until Edwards
says God will dash the sinner down on
helrs floor and stamp upon him, then inf
deity must follow not simply to save man
from such horrors, but TO rescue Gods
blessed name from such unspeakable
infamy. In such a he'll as Dante's, it Is
not man that is punished-it Is God that
Is destroyed. From such ideas we must
fly to more reasonable religion, carrying
the cross and our holy faith away from
such q degradation. We must, indeed,
separate forever the righteous and the
wicked; but, as the drunkard Is punished
in this world, and as the murderer ac-
cepts OF his arrcst without blaming God,
as the soul frees its own wickedness and
does not reproach the Creator, so the last
world is place, not where God Is seen
as cruel monster, but where the human
lree.will stands forth in all its divine
powers, and reveals selt-punishment
over which we can almost Imagine the
Heavenly Father Himself to shed tears.
Such is the perdition of reason-a place
not where the Savior and God become an
inquisttion, but where the sinners own
will and own heart have woven them
selves garments Of perpetual sack. cloth,
and where the tears Of sorrow fall not
from q malicious decree Of God, passed
from eternity, but fall out Of the sinners
own wretched soul and misspent life.
Year: 1874

tFrom the Wilmington, N. @, Journal)


The money power Of tho country is To-
Gated in the New England and Middle
States, and the people Of those States are
naturally very 10th to see it depart from
them, and for this reason oppose all pro-
jects that have for their object the cheap.
ening Of money. They contend that there
is already money enough in the country
Let us sec, therefore, how the amount Of
money in that portion Of tho country in
which we are specially interested COM
pares with that in other countries.


The average amount Of circulation to
each person in the countries and States
named below Is as follows:
Year: 1874

COLUMBUS, May 18.-The Executive
COMMITTEES Of the State Board Of Agricul


ture met here to-day to consult with the
Franklin County Agricultural Society in
relation TO buildings for the coming State
Fair. They will speedily announce the
time when they willpay the outstanding
premiums. The Board have received 2t
per cent OF the money which was in The
bank at Mansfield at the time of the sus


pension, and expect shortly to receive an
additional 80 per. cent.
Year: 1874

ERIE, May 1s-Tllson R. Way, q well
TO do farmer, near this city suicided this
morning BY tying shirt around his neck
and TO a bed post and then bracing against
1t TIL suffocSted. The face was within
six inches Of the floor when found.
Year: 1874

The Commissioners of the Central Lu.
natic Asylum met here today. A large
force OF workmen are engaged on the
building and the Commissioners announce
that they will get the main building un.
der root before winter.
Year: 1874

In one shape or another, the Radical
party must move on, under the pressure of
800, 600 negro votes and the new issue is
likely to be made up We are
not afraid of the issue. Let it it come. 1t
is the dying struggle of Radicalism.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first
make mad.