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Year: 1874

A RanaSvay Aeeialent--N Marrow Escape
and Remarkable Rescue.


From the Richmond Enquirer. March


Yesterday evening a runaway occurred on
Governor street. which appalled, every one who
witnessed II. While Miss Matte Ould, daugh-


ter Of Judge Robert Ould, was riding out on


horseback 10 company with Judge Lacy, her


horse took fright ct the head of Governor street,


and dashed of toward main at fearful rate OF


speed. The lady had no check upon him, ex-


cept single snsfle bit, and though she kept


the reins in her hand and sat him like Cen


taur, she was virtually attempting to bold the


wind, the animal being frantic with terror.
Hwoever, she was saved, probably, from hol-
rible death in manner that may not occur
again in thousand year. Just as the animal
dashed into Main slieet hack, driven by


white man name Lowe. crossed his course. aud
the runaway horse reared to leap the carriage,
coming against II with force that broke one OF
the wheels. The driver, comprehending the sit
uation at glance, with presence OF mind we
have seldom seen equaled. sprapg up in the box,
and as the horse struck the carriage threw his
arms around the lady, and as quick as fash
jerked her from the saddle to place beside him!
SO quick was the action that he came very near
being thrown from the box. Miss 0uld was TAX
en- into the Bank of Commerce, when the graf
flying discovery was made that she had not sue
tanned the slightest injury. 1t is the opinion of
every one, had loves carriage not beer in the
way, the horse would have dashed himself to
pieces against the front of Putney and Watts
shoe store. We saw the animal afterwards, and
be does not appear to be injured.
Year: 1874

Never lose heart or stop praying because
ycur boys are a little wild. While you
S l'y clu to mind the things they have
forgotten, YOU arc ignorant Of the things
they remember. 1t is the fashion for boys
% appear indifferent to the counsels Of pa
rents. They have an idea that it is rather
the manly and handsome thing to take good
advice in a dogged sort Of way, just as they
take medicine, and a very brave thing to
dare your threat. All this is written in
the code Of boyhood. We can't quite say
with Emerson, that it is the bad boy who
makes the good man; and yet We have a
great deal Of sympathy with that overflow
Ing spirit Of youth which is sometimes a
little reckless, and which frequently leads
into mischief.


Just sit down, if you have such son,
and recall your own early days. 1t may
be difficult for you, just now, when you are
in the middle of life, to see the fun which
the boy finds in what appears to you to be
utterly foolish or perhaps wantonly evil
but if you will turn to the early chapters oi
your own biography, you will find yourself
stopping up the spouts of the old country
house, Just to see the rain pour over like
a waterfall, and you will recall the fun o
the old rentloman's embarrassment, as h'
rushed out into the rain bareheaded, to fine
the cause of the trouble, and thereby 60
an attack Of therheumatism which laid hin
up for couple of weeks. Well, your bo.
is going through the same experience, an'
by.and-by he will regard it as you do now
as an uuutterably foolish thing, and wonde
where in the world the fun was. Th
truth is, that all these pranks are as neces
sary to boyhood as the measles. They ar
the result Of natural animal spirits, whic


can no more be repressed, than can tn


waters which come bubbling up out Of tn


sand.


We remember when very wild col


presented his heels to US in such forcibl


manner that, before our surprise had var


ishod we found ourselves in a little dis


rusted heap on the other side Of fiye-ra


fence. At the time, we thought it an III


horsely thing to do, and felt exceedingl


like pelting the creature with stones. Br
he came up to the fence with such d.
mure and abashed look, and put his hea
between the rails, and snuiied at US in sue
repentant mood that we concluded
,; was part Of the necessary experience
the animal, and cheerfully forgaye hir
Now, boys are cotish They never thin
Of consequences. They only have the fl
: Of the thing in view. BY keeping close
the boys heart, and trying to apprecia
his side of the matter as well as your ow
! you will keep control of him.-Worki'
Church.
Year: 1874

room that was the nursery. He had not
entered that room since his wiie's depart
ure. lie felt that the place where his
baby had died was too sacred. too near
heaven for him. with all his anger, passion
and suffering to approach. Il seemed as
if his Wild anguish and bitter thoughts
might in some way disturb the peace and
innocence Of his child 1t was simply one
Of those morbid and unhealthiul impulses
arising from human suffering horne only in
human strength. He believed that his
wife was lost to him but the most tortur-
ing feature Of his suffering was the growing
conviction that he might have kept her
love With painful minuteness his mind kept
going over every day of the time that had
elapsed since his chid's death, and he saw
how he had been drawn deeper and deeper
into speculation in order by its excitement
to drown the memory Of his loss. He re-
membered how the gossip and semi.dissipa.
patton Of his club had gradually grown es-
sential for the same purpose, and in bitter
ness of soul he confessed that her charge
was true, and that he had, in his selfish ef-
fort to heal his own wound and blunt his
own pain, and at last on the ground Of his
perverted idea Of enjoyment greatly neg
ected her and left her to her own re-
sources. She was therefore not so much
to blame that she had found 10 the society
Of others--yes, other men-the society,
sympathy, and appreciation that woman's
nature Graves. Thus anger gradually passed
M nd l,t
pride with marble face kept its relentless
grasp upon his heart. Each day saw him
sinking deeper into dependency, with less
moral and physical strength to resist. Bat
as time passed on his thoughts showed a
tendency to turn away from his wife and
follow his lost child, and he regarded this
as evidence that he was going to die.


And he probably would had not voice
from the outer world aroused and given
him chance to escape from the damp and
mildew Of bis morbid life. A mercantile
house, knowing well his business ability,
asked him to 60 abroad as their agent. At
first his spirit, so depressed and crushed,
prompted him to decline, but his better an
gel whispered that new life amid new
scenes was his ouly hope, and with sort
Of blind instinct of self.preseryation, he ac-
cepted. This was on the Both of Decem.
Der, and he was to sail early in January.


This purpose did him good, and came
into his life like an outer wholesome wind
blowing through vault. The first of Jan.
uary was the last day that he could spend
in his house, and he felt that he could part
with all in it now save the little crib This
he could not put in the lumber-room Of
some great storehouse. A friend must
keep it carefully and almost reverently for
him.


He also felt that he must spend the last
evening in his own home at its side.
Year: 1874

1t is not ,0lat is said, but iolea it is
said, that gives a word half its weight so
the best way to be sure of saying cheering
words at the right time is to say them all
ways.-Crookei Places.
Year: 1874

The few who hold it,usc it 10 make more,
and they often look upon the farmer as
their laborer, servant, slave. 1t cxempts
itself from all taxation wherever it can.
and the farmer pays the expenses of the
which are constantly IN.
creasing. The products ~ the farmers
hard labor should be the means cf hap.
pness to him, but it is grapiied, iilched
and legislatcd away from him. The
maker should rule, and not that which is
made the farmers own most OF the coun-
try, and of course should rule it. BY II
union of farmers we can exercise more
than blank opinion as to the value Of
our butter and cheese, aud tan protect
ourselves better from public aud private
plunderers We have been patient till
it is no longer virtue. The farmers Of
the West are moving as one man and we
ought to here. But some old togics may
say that nothing can be done, or that
these wrongs will right themselves or
In other words, that the monopoies will
repen: aud adopt liberal policy. This
is about as reasonable as it is to suppose
that large fish will quit eating small ones.
Some say these societies do no good. |
say they do all sorts OF good it we attend
to them. We are willing TO 90 our part
if others will do theirs, and treat US well.


In some sections there is much opposi-
tion to the union of farmers. The mon
opolist fears for his craft; politicians cry
out, what are you farmers trying to do ?
You naughty things, you. You ought to
be satisfied. You can make your butter
and cheese, raise corn, hogs and hominy.
You ought certainly to be satisfied with
such privileges as we grant you You
will hear other brainless fops say that the
people Of the rural districts have not
sufficient intelligence to do anything that
would hurt the better class Of society.
better class ~ Even our little village


politicians arc terribly exercised to think


that common clod-hoppcrs should have


The presumption to claim any rights that


they should respect. But the ball is in


motion The cry is heard from mountain


top to mountain top and will pour through


the valleys like the voice Of many waters


Great applause.)
Year: 1874

many can read and write. They usually
look clean and tidy and | have not yet
seen one with a torn or ragged garment
upon him. And when they are dressed
in their peculiar costume, in fine clothes
with their wooden shoes and white stock
ings and siken cap, with their hair braid.
ed in a single braid which with the silk
hanging to the end of it, reaches nearly
to their ancles, they seem to me quite
otherwise than an uninteresting race.


j. Il. G..
Year: 1874

\ fellow, who is Dearly as big bore
as the lloosac tunnel, was telling in our
Office the other day Of a song that always
carried him away. Quadrat, looking
around gently inquired if any one pres.
cnt could sing that song.
Year: 1874




We learn that the immaculate Il. n.
Gates said in one of his speeches, recently.
down in the eastern part of the District to
some ten or twelve anxious listeners, that
the reason he ought to be sent to Congress
was that he had been farming for num-
Der of years, and that he needed rest
Poor soul, who never was known as any,
thing else but "one-horse" pettifogging
lawyer that never plowed ten acres of
ground in his lifetime, and don't know
half as much about farming as did Horace
Greeley. E. N. Gates a farmer who
ever heard Of it? He never was known to
do anything on his farm but to oversee
his poor tenants with the tyranny of the
devil, and in the end scoop them out of
their just dues. These are facts, and facts
too that can be shown up, yet he wants
rest which he undoubtedly will get this
Fall, when he is eternally laid on the shelf
with other defunct politicians gone be-
fore him-to eat the corn off the cobs of
disappointment raised on his own farm
This farm story will do to tell away from
home but it won't do to tell near home
Year: 1874




Z. n. Gates, whom many of our people
became somewhat acquainted with as
draft Commissioner in war times, is anti
monop., or Democratic, candidate for
Congress in the 9th district. He recently
made speech at Cincinnati, Appanoose
county, in which he said:


Fellow citizens, to illustrate the corrup,
ton of the Republican party, I will call
your attention to the fact that under the
soil of the United States there is iron
enough to girt the globe at least eight
times, but it lies there dormant and use
less. And why? Because the Republican
party has put SO high a tariff on the i'm
portation of iron from England, that the
American people cannot afford to develop
our iron mines"


There is specimen of the intelligence
with which our opponents propose to re-
form our statemanship. Iron enough in
the U. S. to girt the globe at least eight
times. We suppose that would depend
upon the size Of the girth, but no doubt
it would encircle the globe thousand
times with very substantial band. But
then our high tariff prevents us from us
ing it What profundity! What legisla-
tive capacity Gates is certainly the most
stupid man on that subject we ever heard
of. We think no enemy of protection
ever before thought of that effect coming
from it. We supposed the most stupid
of them admitted that protection devel-
oped our iron interest. The objection
they make to it is that it costs too much
But it was left for Gates to discover the
true effect of protection upon our iron. 1t
compels the use of foreign iron Profound,
wonderful Gates! You will-when you
get there-be bright and shining light
in our halls of legislature.
Year: 1874

When you see fellow mortal
Without fixed and fearless views,
Hanging on the shirts of others,
Walking in their cast-off shoes,
Bowing low to wealth or favor,
With abject, uncovered head,
Ready to retract or waver,


Willing to be drove or led;
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your mortal shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow,
Just the things which his must lack.


A stronger word


Was never heard


In sense and tone,


Than this, backbone.
When you see theologian
Hugging close some holy creed,
Fearing to reject or question
Dogmas which his priest may read,
Holding back all noble feeling,
Choking down each manly view,
Caring more for forms and symbols,
Than to know the good and true,
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow
just the thing which his must lack.


4 stronger word


Was never heard


In sense and tone,


Than this, backbone.
When you see politician,


Crawling through contracted holes,
Begging for some fat position,
In the ring and at the polls,
With no sterling manhood in him,
Nothing stable, broad Or sound,
Destitute of pluck or ballast,
Double-sided all around,
Walk yourself with firmer bearing,
Throw your moral shoulders back,
Show your spine has nerve and marrow.
Just the thing which his must lack.


\ stronger word


Was never heard


In sense and tone,


Than this, backbone.
I modest song and plainly told,
The text is worth mine of gold;
For many men must sadly lack
noble stiffness in the back.
Year: 1874

The rottenness of the State of Ken
tucky, "the dark and bloody ground" is
the subject of much solicitude by the


Courier Journal, paper that generally


shows up crime in all its varying phases.


If the following facts are true, and we see
no reason to doubt them, the State had
better be put under martial law until
social reconstruction of some sort be assur-
ed. Bullock at the picture it paints: 'The
law against the carrying of concealed
weapons is dead letter. Every coward
and bully goes armed. Every case of
manslaughter goes unpunished. Every
case of shooting with intent to kill passes
by as an amusing episode, provided there
is no funeral. Even the most atrocious
cold-blooded, deliberate malignant, das-
tardly assassinations have left no mark on
the statute books except the mark of ac-
quittals purchased by money or intimida-
ton. Red-haaded murderers roam at
large among respectable people Red
handed murderers occupy places of re-
spectability and trust. There
are at this moment fifty eases of homicide
on our criminal docket, which onght to be
recorded as murder cases, where the de-
fendant is at large on bail, with the least
possible danger of an adverse result.
There are five hundred cases of petty
shooting, with intent to kill, which will
never come to trial. In a
word, there is no security for life, because
no law for those who take it, in Kentucky,
and has not been for years"
Year: 1874

Here is the political situation in the
south, compressed into nutshell. The
Republicans are contending for the funda-
mental principles of civil liberty, free
thought and free speech, and individual
freedom; while Democracy would crush
out all these, with all who will not become
Democrats. They design to create an
oligarchy, in which the few shall rule the
many, nor do they intend to stop at any
thing short of armed interposition on the
part of the Federal Government, in carry
ing out their nefarious purposes.
Year: 1874

Give me an eye to others failings blind
Miss Smiths new bonnet's quite fright


behind:
Take from my soul all feelings covetous-
(I'll have shawl like that or make


fuss }
Wake in me charity for the suffering poor
There comes that contribution box once


more
Let love for all mankind my spirits stir
(Save Mrs Jones III never speak to


herD
Let me in truths fair pages take delight
1'll read that other novel through to-


night y
Make me contented with my earthly state
Il wish I'd married rich. But it's too


lateD
Give me heart of faith in my kind
Miss Browns as big a hypocrite as you'll


find ,
Help me to see myself as others see
This dress is quite becoming unto me y
Let me act on no falsehood, | appeal
Il wonder if they think these curls are


real y
Make my heart of humility the fount-
How glad | am our pew's SO near the
'front.'
Fill me with strength and patience to wait
i know he'll preach until our dinners


late
Take from my heart each grain of self
cOnceit-


I'm sure the gentleman must think me
sweet
Let sanity wisdom be my daily food
Il wonder what we'll have for dinner


good!)
Let not my feet ache in the road to light
Nobody knows how these shoes pinch


and biteD
lnthis world teachme to deserve thenext-
Church out Charles, do you remember


the textD
Year: 1874

From st. Louis Republican.


Iowa is healthy State. There is
something in the atmosphere, in the ex-
halation from the soil, and in the clear
water of her streams that induces sound
physiques and you will find no deep
squallor, none of that degradation which
comes from over-crowding in great cities,
and which also so banefully affects the av-
erage conscience and manhood of the peo-
pie. L have often thought of the mental
and moral health of this State, superior
as it undeniably is to that of any other
Western State, was due to the absence
from its borders of any large city. A
State of a million and a half of people and
no city within her borders of
twenty-five thousand-no county entitled
to more than fifteen delegates in a total
representation of six hundred and thirty
That is to say brawny, symmetrical,
strong-limbed young giant who was never
afflicted with rush of population to the
head who has upon him no fostering
plague spots, but whose vigor is equitably
distributed through his whole system, no
extremity being weakened that the other
may be made strong


The strongest illustration that [ can
think of to set forth the popular mind of
Iowa, is the fact that the Republican
party, even with majority of sixty thous-
and to harden its cheek, has not been able
to debauch its administration, nor deaden
the conscience of the people There have
been indeed, steals That there have
been is not wonderful But that in all
these years, to an unchecked exultant Re
publican supremacy, the steals should
have been SO pitiably small and few, is a
phenomenon that can be explained only
upon the theory just advanced There is
not much danger Of great political or So
cial corruption or Generalization among a
people who live in white frame cottages
with green blinds, with maple trees and
rose bushes in the door yards, and with
back gardens full of cherries and singing
birds.
Year: 1874

"No flag alien to the sources of the
Mississippi river will ever float permanent-
ly over its mouth till its waters are GRIM
soned with human gore; and not one foot
of American soil can ever be wrenched
from the jurisdiction of the Constitution
of the United States until it is baptized
in fire and blood A government that
cannot command the loyalty of its own
citizens is unworthy the respect of the
world, and government that will not
protect its loyal citizens, deserves the con-
tempt Of the world"
Year: 1874

nance, che has sent out to the world series OF
homilies on the great topics Of the hour. which
strike direct to the heart, and leave an Impress
there by the might OF their genius and truth.
Year: 1874

A Leavenworth man told lie and
then said al hope to be struck dead
if have not spoken the truth 7" He
had scarcely ceased speaking when he
fell to the floor-a man having knock
ed him down.
Year: 1874

ADULTERATIoN TEA.-The British House of
Commons Committee, in their report on the
working Of the act relative 10 the adulteration
Of food, state the following conclusion with re-
gard to tea.


1t appears that since the report Of 1856 GER
tain grossly prepared tens have been imported
from China, some being largely mixed with
exhaustedleaves and ferruginous sand, aud others
much too highly faced or colored; the ingredi-
ents used for cooring being chiefly Prussian
blue or indigo powdered gypsum, and turmeric;
but the total amount of such teas has been
sm ALL and is kept in cneck mainly by the low
price of pure teas. , he impor, of green teas
has recently fallen considerably in consequence
il is stated, fo the operations OF the act. Facing
tea after the duty ID paid was prior 10 the act OF
1872 practced to a small extent in thia country,
but, whether in China or at home, the evidence
is conclusive that in coloring tea no deleierious
matter is used to such an extent as 10 be absol-
utely injurious TO health, at the same time facing
may be employed to conceal tea Of bad quality.
Your committee have reason 10 believe that very
! little adulterat:on of tea is paciiced in this
country. They would further observe that de-
facing tea removing artificial color seems now
much more commrn' but this process does not
appear TO extract the ingredients which form
the base of the coloring matter, it simply removes
the color, leaving all the other materials on the
tea. 1t is proved that the bright green teas Of
China are always faced, aud that the natural
green teas of Japan, India, &c. are frequently
| of a color hardly disinglshable from some quail
| Ities OF black tea. While condemning the prac-
tice OF highly facing tea, your committee cannot
recommend that fairly. faced green tea should be
condemned as an aduterated article. Sugges-
tious have been made that certain percentage
should be allowed for coloring matters aud other
impurities in tea but your committee consider
that the limitation TO a very small percentage oi
foreign matter would exclude from the country


some wholesome ow-priced teas, which are


largely consumed by the poor, aud il a less
stringent limit were adopted, it might have the


effect OF increasing the amount OF facing laid
upon the better descriptions OF green teas.
Year: 1874

From the Phlladelphla MAIL


The newspapers in many parts o: the coun-
about the child stealing case in this city. The
Rochester Democrat is especially severe II pom
our detectives. Here is what might be called
a crushing paragraph from that paper: We
hear of Philadelphia detective whose hat
was crushed over his eyes by one Of those
kidnappers. See here said the indignant
man frantically pulling his hat above his eyes
il YOU do that again I'll call upon my fellow
citizens TO have you arrested" We have
every reason to believe this to be slander
made up out OF the same cloth. Here is an
other and yet severer hit from the same Witty
journal: 1--WE pray the Philadelphia kidnap-
pers to take up and carry OFF all the detectives
they can find, thereby doing some sort OF JUS
tice in reparation of their irreparable injury
TO The Ross family. And IL they kill them W e
hereby garantee that they shall not be hanged
for murder"