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Year: 1867

BooTs AND SHoEs-Market exceedingly brisk
during the week at HALBERr & NRGAFFINs,
To accommodate the rush Of customers, gentle
men are allowed to do their trying on at the rear
end Of the store. whence they can escape by q
side door, to avoid crushing through the food of
crinoline pouring in from the front Convenient
arrangement.
Year: 1867

DANCING BOoTs.--Bslls and dancing parties
are again coming largely into fashion, and young
ladies a we'll as gentlemen should be careful not
to ruin their feet by the use Of unsuitable foot
gear on such occasions. Something especially
suitable in that line can now be found at CHILD
& BROS. for both ladies and gentlemen.
Year: 1867

MORE TRoUBLE.-Thousands of our people
are weekly dying from the ravages of indiges-
ton, dyspepsia and various diseases of the ston-
ach and bowels. The value of Goes Dyspepsia
Cure should be known to the world. 1t has
saved thousands from an early grave.
Year: 1867

! The assassin Berezowski, wht


attempted to kill the Gar, was ia


ken to Toulon on the 18th ult., tt


serve out his sentence. A letter


writer says:


Gas soon as he entered the pre-


oincts of the bagne the gray and
yellow dress of a cellular prisoner


was taken off, and the red jacket


and green cap worn by those con


demned for life was put on. The


unfortunate young man was then


taken to the prison forge-his feet


were already swollen and painful
from the long march he had just
come off. A heavy chain was
fastened to his left leg by a mas
sive ring; he did not appear to
suffer by the operation, and quietly
arose from the recumbent posi-
ton in which 1t Is always perform
ed, taking up the chain in his
hand, which otherise drags on the
ground. The head was shaved,
as it is the custom, in squares
that is, one square perfectly bare,
and on the next the hair is left a.
bout half an inch long.


Gin spite of this disiguring pro-
cess and the green cap, it was re-
marked that young Berezowski
had certain look of distinction,
and even a gentle, intelligent ex-
preston of countenance. One of
the jailors who was not aware that
his fingers had been injured, asked
him what was the matter with
his hand. 1T was the pistol, he
replied 4 was cured in three
weeks by the application of cold
water


"While his ten companions
were having their irons riveted on,
Berezowski remained quietly in a
corner of the forge, and spoke to
40 one. He will not be chained to
another convict, as is usually
he case, but will remain in one
If the convict's rooms chained to
triangle Of iron, which is fasten-
ID to the camp bed Of the prison
RS, and through which a bar is
dipped, thus preventing their mo-
1ing beyond the length of half
heir chains. In a month, unless
he wretched young man first turns
mad, he is to be sent to New Gale
|onia."
Year: 1867

The New Orleans Crescent gets


the following from one of the Sis


ters of Charity at the hospital in


that city:


Sister Mary gave an account of
a singular marriage that took place
during the morning in the chapel.
Some time ago the newspapers an
nounced that a young man had at
tempted to commit suicidein town
by shooting himself. He was ta-
ken to the Hotel Dieu, to die,
but with the care he re-
ceived he was out of danger in a
few days. The cause of his at
tempt to destroy himself then be-
came known. He was in love-
His inamorata had promised three
times to marry him and disappoint-
ed him every time. The last time
was too much, and a bullet aimed
at the heart was the end of his
misery. The cruel lady visited
him at the hospital and there she
pledged herself to him again
The ceremony was to have taken
place at s o'clock the next morn
ing. The lady again failed. The
groom was in a wretch.
ed state of mind, until he receiv-
ed a message from her that she
nad oversight herself, and would
be with him at IL o'clock. At
hat hour she was there, and the
ceremony took place.


"Only think" said Sister Mary,
'of a bride sending word that she
lad oversight herself!"
Year: 1867

was written by the young clerk,
who had taken this method Of re-
turning the money forced upon
him by the young lady. (He had
not given her his address, think
ing the matter was ended.) He
was not likely to have returned to
his former employer. Ultimately
she learned he had taken in an
other house situation far inferior
to the one he had formerly occu-
pied. Probably till then she was
undecided as to her course, for
when she heard this her mind was
made up, She wrote; he came
at once.


They will be married soon.
Year: 1867

Some years since, Mr.. John


Johnston, of the State of New


York, a man of worldwide cele-


brity, as a su ccessful farmer, used


the following language for wheat


growers: cit has always appear


ed to me that different course


would be better-that if farmers


would only dispose of, say one


third or one-fourth of their wheat


by the middle of November, an.
other fourth or third by the mid


die of February, and the balance


by, the opening of navigation,


they might be better rewarded


for their labor, while the cost to
the consumer would be little if
any more"


We used the same kind of adj
vice, years ago, to our brother
cotton planters, and were we to
do so now, doubtless some of the.
wise men of Radicaldom would
accuse us of folly, or disappoint-
ted ambition, yet Mr.. Johnson
can advise his brethren of the
plow to hold their grain until
consumers would needSso that the
"Jew and Gentle traders" would
not pocket more profit than the
farmer and miller. There can be
no question but what cotton plan
ters would make largely more
than the interest of the money
by selling a portion of the crop
Cotton is generally sold
from say first of October to the
first of March, and so much being
on hand the price falls and the
planter bears the loss, of course.
Suppose Illinois, Missouri, Missis-
sippi, ETC., were to crowd all their
corn and hay on to New Orleans
m three or four months, what
would be the result? We opine
hat the "Jew and Gentle traders
would require some of the farmers
o pay freight and leg their way
lome. Yet cotton planters, at
east, will continue to force on the
market all they have for sale
They will not lend an ear to rea-
on, they must walk in the foot
teps of their fathers Southern
Farmer.
Year: 1867

CURE FOR FELoNs.-As there is
much needless suffering from fel-
ons, we deem it duty to give a
remedy which we know to be per-
fectly reliable: Take a portion
of the bark of sweet elder, or hops
will do, put it with some sweet
cream in cup, and boil short
time; then put in lump of salt
peter twice as large as pea; let it
slowly dry away to the consisten-
cy of 9 salye, which apply to the
felon. The saltpeter is the cure,
but the elder bark and sweet cream
aid in easing the pain. AS felons
sometimes make it necessary to
amputate a finger or hand, (if left
alone,) they should be attended
to at once.
Year: 1867

A NEW CoUNTERFEIr.-A new
and dangerous counterfeit five
dollar national currency note has


just appeared at Detroit. On the
left end of the note the wrist of
the left arm of Columbus is scarce
ly visible, whereas in the genuine
it is distinct. At the top read,
"This note is secured by bonds, y
the letters b and y are too far apart,
and o in 'sbonds" is under the y,
whereas the b in the same word IL
Immediately under the y in the
genuine. The general appearance
of the bill is a close imitation OF /,
the genuine.
Year: 1867

A verdant couple were married
IN Shepardstown, West Virginia,
a few days ago. The Register
says that when all things were in
readiness, the couple on the floor,
the preacher proceeded with his
work, asking the groom if he
would take this woman to be his
welded wife ; and before anything
more was said by the preacher,
the happy groom exclaimed, II
will in the cool ?" The question
was then asked the blushing bride
if she would take this man to be
her welded husband, to which she
instantly answered, "You bet ]
will p
Year: 1867

Physicians recommend mutton


as the most wholesome meat, the


easiest digested, and best suited to
invalids; while pork, as every


body knows, is the most unwhole-
some flesh eaten. In England
mutton is favorite dish, and we
apprehend it is to this, rather than
to roast beef, that the Englishman
owes his robust health and rosy
complexion. Our people eat too
much pork and too little mutton.
And yet, as cotemporary we'll re-
mutton can be produced
pound for pound at less than halt
the price of the pork; yields more
when eaten and
keeping sheep does not exhaust a
farm to the extent that feeding hogs
does. Sheep can be kept during
the winter on hay and turnips or
mangel wurtzel, or sugar beet,while
hogs will not do without at least
some corn. We would like to see
in the papers fewer accounts of
big pigs and more fat sheep.
Year: 1867

CURE FOR QUINsY.-Make a
strong tea of the five leaved poison
vine or poison oak; let it cool a
little and mix a little bran and
meal with it, SO that the hog will
eat it; if this is given before the
hog gets so bad that it will not
eat, / will warrant cure. 1t
will relieve the hard breathing in
a short time after drinking. It
will also cure .quinsy in a person; /;
but the tea should always get
cold before giving it, as the warm
steam from the tea will poison
some persons.
Year: 1867

CHEAP AND EXCELLENT CANDLES.
The following receipt | have
tried twice, and find it all that ii
is said to be. | have no doubt
that it would have been worth
more than $40 to me if / had
known it twenty years ago. Many
farmers have a surplus of stale,
fat and dirty grease, which can be
made into good candles at a tri-
fling expense.


l kept both tallow and lard
candles through the last summer,
the lard candles standing the heat
best, and burning quite as well
and giving as good light as the
tallow ones. Directions for max
ing good candle from lard -
For IL Tbs. Of lard, take ] ib. of
saltpetre, and ! fb. of alum in a
gill of boiling water; pour the
compound into the lard before
it is quite all melted; stir the
whole until it boils, skim off what
rises; let it simmer until the wa
ter is all boiled out, or till it ceas-
es to throw off steam; pour off
the lard as soon as it is done, and
clean the boiler while it is hot
If the candles are to be run, you
may commence Immediately; if
to be dipped let the lard cool first
to cake, and then treat it as you
would tallow.
Year: 1867

1t is published thai a scientific
Scotch farmer has succeeded in pro-
ducing grain that partakes equal
ly of the nature of rye and that of
oats. We should think that eat
ing bread made of the hybrid
produce would make q fellow cross
grained.
Year: 1867

The dead body of a man was
recently found in San joaquin
county, California, with rope tied
about his arm and then to the
neck of a horse, every indication
showing that he had thus been
dragged on the ground for 2 long
distance.
Year: 1867

A California correspondent gives a
brief account of a curious religious Or
der in Mexico called the "Pretonists."
This Order, with its curious customs,
has been handed down to the old Fran
ciscan Friars of Spain. Every Friday
during Lent, and the whole of the last
week, they 60 through this penance; An
indefinite number, generally from twen-
ty-five to fifty, divest themselves of all
their superhuous clothing, excepting
pair of drawers rolled up to the knee,
with a red handkerchief thrown arouId
the head. Officers are elected (who do
not disrobe themselves). all furnished
with a peculiar kiud OF whip, made
very pliable, except those who hold the
post of honor, to the number of five OF
six, who carry large heavy cross,
hewn out of rough timber, which
is so heavy and uuwieldy. that when
the cross is upon the shoulder,
the long upright pieces drags upon
the ground. All leave their place of re-
sort, sing a melancholy sort of chant,
ard going to certain place where u
large cross is firmly planted in the
ground, they drop upon their knees in
circle around the cross; then begin to
beat themselves alternately over each
shoulder, according as they think their
sins deserve. This whip strikes in the
small of the back, keeping time to the
chant, while shuffling around the circle.
The cross bearers, who have their hands
full, are kindly provided for by the Of
ficers, who take it upon themselves to
whip those who have not the ability to
whip themselves. Their backs, as we
saw them, resembled u mass of raw
flesh, with the blood not tickling from
one place, but hundreds. The blow
could be heard for full half mile, fill
ing the bystanders with an indescriba-
bio horror, while the cold chill runs
over his frame iu thinking how 1t is
possible for human beings 10 be so lg-
norant and degraded as to do this. The
penance is over with the last of Lent.
Year: 1867

stern words, such as might come from
the heartless and the soulless, find their
way into print, and straightway the
nations idol falls, and the first place in
our military history is made vacant.
GRANT can no longer have home in
the American heart.
Year: 1867

RENovArING WORKOUT LAND.-A a
recent agricultural meeting at Boston,
one of the speakers remarked that ION
tract of land which was overrun with
wood box, briars and other shrubs, he
turned $50 sheep. At that time cow
could not have lived on the whole tract.
The sheep were kept there several
wears, and so killed out the wild growth
that the tract now affords good pasture
for fifteen cows"
Year: 1867

KEEP A WRENCH AND USE TT.-Those
who keep their wagons and carriages in
good order should place q wrench on
every nut at least once q month. This
will save nuts, save bolts, and prevent
rattling and wear and tear, There is a
good deal depending upon hooking after
the running gears of vehicles as we'll as
the harness. For want of little atten-
tion, accidents have happened and dam
age been sustained.
Year: 1867

A quaint old gentleman, in speaking OF
the different allotments of men by which
some become useful citizen and others worth
less vagrants by way of illustration remarked:
$50 one slab of marble becomes useful door
step while another becomes lying tomb
stone. -
Year: 1867

In matters of great concern and which must
be done, there is no surer argument of a weak
mind than irresolution to be undetermined
where the case is so plain and the necessity
so urgent, To be always intending to lead
a new life but never to find time to set about
this is as if man should put off eating and
drinking and sleeping from one day and night
to another till he is starved and destroyed.
Year: 1867

How ESGLIsH AccogSTs ARE KEPT.-The
following anecdOte will show with what nice
precision the accounts are required to be kept
in the great prits banking houses Of the En-
glish metropolis LITER closing the doors to
customers every clerk makes up his accounts
and general balance is struck which must
tally TO the veriest farthing before the clerks
separate. 1t happened, on the occasion in
question that in one Of these great establish
ments, there was two shillings and tenpence
minus in the balance. Every clerk was or
dered to revise his accounts the silver and cop.
per money in the vast vaults was recounted
bu. still there was no solution of the deficit.
This was repeated again. still there want
ed two shillings and tenpece the resident
partner would not let the clerks depart with
out correct balance; gladly would each CLERK
have paid the difference ten times out Of his
own pocket The affair remained unexplain-
ed until the next morning when on the arriv-
al of one of the non resident partners he re-
collected taking that exact sum from the till
for the payment of the postage OH foreign
letter but without making the usual memor.
andum of the same.
Year: 1867

How FALSE REroRrs MAY ORIGINATE
A curious illustration Of this Is found IN an
anecdote told in the lecture by Spurgeou. i
minister lived opposite one OF the deacons ol
his church. A report got abroad thrt the
minister had been seen to beat his wife, and
the matter was brought before deioons
meeting. There the minister said he had
traced the spreading of the report 70 the dea.
cons daughter. The good man, tae deacon.
said that he would not have spoken. bu. III
daughter name having been mentioned. ne
NUT then state that when he vas going 10
bed ON a certain night, he did see, through
the window blind Of the lighted room. the
minister beating his wife and heard her
scream. The minister was nplussed but
he requested here that his wife might be sen,
for and questioned. When she arrived sbe
explained the whole matter. She said, "Dun;
you recOllect there was "a rat IN the room that
night; that it got up my dreEs; that You got
frightened aud took up the poker; that could
not stand still, and run round the room. you
running after me with the poker? This Is
the explanation of the whole aiair." Then
the lecturer would remark to his hearers ihe
next time they heard story againstA good
man let them say at once, There is ras q
the bottom Of il know and that some -impls
explanation may account for the whole thing
Year: 1867

The way to meet sally of wrath is to
turn it away by "soft answers" as the
heavy blows of the ancient battering ram
were deprived of their force by bags of chaff
and beds of down skillfully placed to receive
them.
Year: 1867

True elevation of mind does not take q
being out Of the circle of those who are below
him but binds him faster to them and gives
advantages for closer attachment and con.
formity to them
Year: 1867

In late number of the Lacrosse Democrat, we
find {" Brick " Pomcroys letter from Corinth, from
which we copy the following extract, embracing a
tribute to of the bravest Of men, the first officer
whose sword waved the captured works of Mon
terey, when Jefferson Davis and Alexander McClung
ordered the charge:


The battle of Corinth terrible one, more
bloody than people knew Of at the time This two
days fighting here was no chiIds play, and the Con-
federates would have most glorious victory but
for the laundering Of an officer who suffered third
of the troops under him to remain all of the second
day in sight of the BATTLE and in hearing of the cries,
without moving man striking blow


You that line of earthworks to the west Of the
town, on our left we stand here? On that point of
hill in that temporary fort the most terrible fighting
was done. The trees feed by troops to
clear the range. In that swae to the northwest, like
quals under cover, for hours lay the gallant Missou-
rans who fought so terribly when the time came.
They marched through the marsh-across the railroad
trackup the rise Of ground in front of US as face
the nOrt-took red-hot battery of on the hill
by that low house mile away, drove our folks down
the lines to this spot, where stood the old bote-drove
the Federas ont OF it, and at Of the second day
took possession there.


BY this time the Federal forces we're nearly ali in the
earthwoks and fort to the left fighting like devils for
here was their last hope. Had General Lowell lanked
III here, as he should have DONE to have battle,
he would have turned the tables But be did not and
the Confederates were repulscd. From the fort the
iron fell like hail


Do YOU see that little enclosure to the left, half
mile away? Twas there, at the edge Of the earth
works, was buried the bravest man that fell that day.
Col Rogers, of TEXAS. He had led his men over the
logs and distractions to the ditch in front of the works
had crossed the dtch-had gained the earthw orks-
was rushing on, followed By his men. He was as
brave as lion. There came an order from the Fed
eral commander" Don't shoot that oifcer-take him
prisoner!"


But the order was unheeded-hc fell pierced by
rife balls his face to the foe almost inside the works
he was endeavoring to take by storm.


The shot and shell-the musket-balls, grape and
canister hailed down upon and through the advancing
columns Of the Confederates-no troops could with
stand the helish rain they repulsed the FEEDER
ais won the day If you wish pocket full of Coned-
crate lead take spade to any part Of those earthworks
the outside, and in five minutes Olga hundred rifle
balls from the earth there thrown up, fred there by
the Conederates they sent their whizzng seet into
the crest of the embankment, and into the heads of
the Federals fighting behind the same.
Year: 1867

COOP FOR NEsMlrH-A friend Of ours says the
Placer Herald who in Washington last winter
tells the following good one as got off by Senator
Nesmith of Oregon:


''You see, took part in my election as Senator
was up home attending to my farm and mill when
one day rumor came that was elected. That night
went to bed, and in the morning when l got up 7
thoughtit was dream. | had awaysa very exalted
opinion Of the United States Senate but enough
in the course of few days here came my papers as
Senator elect. | wondered how the people of Oregon
could elect me as their representative. Well went
on to Washington and took my seat, and after had
been there about month was surprised than
ever to see how many ID fools there were in the
hndv u
Year: 1867

A Coon HAB1r-When Spaniard eats a peach Or
pear by the road side, wherever he is, he digs hole
in the ground with his foot and covers the seed Con-
sequenty, all Spain, by the road sides and else
where fruit in great abundance tempts the taste, and
is ever free Let this practice be initiated in our
country
Year: 1867

DEATH OF A FAMOUS FEMALE BRIGAND-The Italia
of Naples announces the death of the famous "br-
gandess" La Gizzi who for some time the terror
of the Voturara district La G;zzi tall, muscu-
lar woman, with beetlng brows, covered with a thick
mass of black shaggy hair that fell her shoulders
and breast, and so bloodthirsty that she volun-
tarily performed the Office CT executioncr On every
captive doomed TO death by her band 1t is stated
that occasion, after stabbng three of her cap
tiyes, she collected the blood that flowed from their
wounds in jar, and then poured it the head of
her lover, telling him that it should be his baptism of
blood. Being sharply pursued by the troops her con-
sort took refuge in the cottage Of peasant of Petrosa
and scompelIed him, with frightful threats, to give
them food The peasant laid some provisions before
them; but while they busted with their meal he
seized an and attacked them with such fury that
he struck both La Gizzi aud her companion TO the
ground before they could defend themselves He then
to the neghboring vilage of Ricigano collected
the national guard Of the district and returned with
them to his cottage. Here they found two dead bod
les and after decapitating hem carried the heads of
La Gzz and her lover together with their eonqueror
in triumph through the district.
Year: 1867

The Southern colored vote will, no doubt, be divi
ded and hereafter it may be lestmatey sought by
rival parties. At present we have electioneering
to do If the who bitterly oppose universal suf-
frage are now desirous it, content that
they should succeed, provided that they accept the
principles on which it is based. The duty of the
country is now to make sure that the reconstruction
law is faithfully executed that the negroes shall vote
and shall rejoice in that triumph of principles,
even if every coored man in the South should vote
the Democratic ticket. We do not degrade a princi
pie by advocating it as policy. N. 7. Tribune.