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Year: 1873

No beneficial revolution ever goes back
ward and this maxim is aS invariable in
medicine as ia politics. The advent of
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters twenty years
ago. produced a revolution in the treat
ment of a large class OF ailments, aud that
revolution has ever since been in ''the full
tide of successful experiment" Ii that tide
has borne the proprietors of the celebrated
vegetable specific ION to fortune" 1t has
also borne thousands of human beings, who
were languishing under the effects of dis
ease, weak and hopeless, out of the depths
of dependency into the paradise of health
and cheerfulness. 1t is no exaggeration to
say. that to the vigor, the regularity OF
habit of body, the good appetite and per-
feet digestion, acquired under the operation
of this unequalled tonic and corrective,
multitudes of people in every walk of lie,
who had been Yainly physicked in the usual
way, owe the blessings of renewed health
and the prospect of prolonged life.
Year: 1873

SMYLIE WILKINSON. - The many
friends of this young gentleman, who has
been so long connected with THE CLARION
in almost every capacity of usefulness, will
regret to hear that he has been for some time
in very precarious state of health, and has
been for weeks confined to his bed. We
sincerely trust that medical skill, affection
ate nursing and kind Providence may ere
long restore him To health
Year: 1873

We are informed that Cunningham
has made a full confession of his crimes
and will throw himself on the mercy of the
Court. In consideration of which fact, he
ought to be ought to be dealt gently with
say sentenced to the Penitentiary for not
more than twenty-five years. lie alleges
that he was mised bv Swan
Year: 1873

we have got and the name Bell has given Us
to lobster himself and in order to make the
world believe that he is a great detective.
Get to go with you to the
Penitentiary if you can; he can pass you
Year: 1873

New MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. 1t will
be seen that Doctors Ivy F. Harrington and
Wirt Johnston hfve formed an association
for the practice of their profession. OF DR..
Harrington it ID needless for us to speak
where he Is so well and favorably known,
further than to say that as a popular aDd
successful practitioner, he stands In the
forefront Of the faculty of this city, which
for eminence is unsurpassed by that of any
other community in the country. DR..
Johnston is the younger son of our much
respected townsman, Hon. Amos r. john
ston, and has been in the profession long
enough to make his mark as one of its most
talented and promising members. The as
sociation is combination of talent and
ability, and viii be gratifying TO the many
friends of both gentlemen.
Year: 1873

till they let you see me, and l want You to
let them know how Bell is acting. Though
perhaps the less you say the better-for
will get even with the scoundrel yee-this
letter you can even keep or destroy as you
feel most like. / want to see you. l am
treated like dog. MARY.


p. s. Office is on the same
street as the State House go to him and get
him to help you into the Pententiary, and
tell him to give you them extracts from the
newspapers that / want you to give Dun
ham. | want Durham to see
Year: 1873

Some years ago q young man pre-
sented himself To the United States
Secretary, Corwin, for a clerkship.
Thrice was he refused, and still he
made fourth, but futile efors. His
perseverance, and spirit of determin-
alton awakened q friendly interest in
his welfare, and the Secretary ad-
vised him in the strongest possible
terms to abandon his purpose and go
to the West, II he could do no better
outside the departments. MY young
friend he said, go to the North
west, buy $50 acres of Government
land, or, If you have not the money
TO purchase, squat on it get you an
Ak and mattock; put up log cabin
for habitatlon, and plant q little corn
and potatoes; keep your conscience
clear and live ike a free man your
own master with no one to give you
orders, and without dependence upon
anybody. Do that and you will be-
come honored, respected, influential
and rich- But accept clerkship here,
and you sink at once all independence,
your energies become relaxed, and
you are united in a few years for
any other and more independent posi- =
ton. l may give you a place to-day,
and can kick you ont tomorrow,
and there's another man over at the
White House who can kick me out,
and the people by-snd-by can kick
him out, and 50 we go. But if you
own an acre of land, It is your king
dom, and your cabin is your castle
you are sovereign and you viii feel
it m every throbbing of your heart
aud every day of your life would
assure me Of your thanks for having
thus advised you
Year: 1873

4 OF many Of our interior journals


We have the highest opinion /; for their
editors we entertain the highest re-


spects; from their editorials we
| gsther many ideas winch We utilize


and reproduce; from their columns


We take many interesting items which


we reprint. But in so great a body


Of pure gain we occasionally detect


. little smut where there is so much


fire and warmth there Is g little


smoke. Out of Sd many clever, in


telligent and excellent editors we oc-


casionally find an ingrained, native


blackguard, intensified by whisky,


poverty, ignorance, jealousy and all


uncharitableness. These men sre


natural politicians. Not decent enough


themselves to be available for Office,
they content themselves with drawing
.chestnuts from the fire upon COM
mission ; they live and loaf during
the legislative session at Sacramento,
doing the dirty work and acting as
listeners and retrievers for the more
respectable members Of the lobby.
The journal to which they are attach
ed can just pay their expenses .
place as Secretary 70 q Committee
and the occasional dollar earned by
their lobby assistance give them
whisky for the term aAd q biennial
suit Of clothes. During the inter
walls between sessions they write and
drink /; they earn their bread and beer
through country politics; their wri.
tihgs are drivel their polities-is-sf
the corner-grocery standard of states
msnship. These men are q disgrace
to journalism +; their especial delight
Is TO provoke 9 controversy with some
journal, and the hight of
their ambition is to be named by some
honorable writer. For this they will
lie and wriggle through whole col
umns, in the hope Of being metaph-
kicked in paragraph. The
greatest possible punishment that
can be inflicted upon these worms Is
not to step upon them. The only
that we know how to
infict Is not TO notice them. There
are about six editorial blAckgusrds in
his State to whom we refer in this
article, and when they answer il we
hope they will send us their reply
50 that we may know to just
shat extent they smart.-SGn Fran
iseo SEnGay Chronscls.
Year: 1873

is another desirable article, especially
in seasons like the coming one, when
summer fruits will be scarce. 1t is
more easily and quickly grown than
asparagus, and a dozen roots are
enough for a largefamily. The ground
should be made very rich and deep
nearly as directed for asparagus. But
the trench or bed tor a single row
need not be over two or three feet
wide. The plants can be had cheaply
at the nurseries, and should be set
two feet apart in single row, or three
feet, if a double row or square. The
roots should be taken up and divided
every three or four years The leaves
should not be cut until the next season
after planting, hence new bed should
be formed one year before the old ore
is destroyed.


Asparagus and rhubarb. beds should
of course be located next to the fence,
or in such position as not to interfere
with the planting of the main part of
the ground, where tie garden is de-
signed to be plowed each spring.


SHADE TREES FOE STREETS.


Now is the time for planting shade
trees foT sidewalks, and on this point
1 would suggest that little more
taste in the choice OF trees and little
more variety of kinds, would be quite
an Improvement.


A large majority of the trees planted
on our streets the past FIVE or six
years have been the soft maple, white
or red for the reason that these trees
can be more cheaply or easily obtained
than any others. But the growth of
the trees, on good soil, is too upright
and rapid, and the foliage is of a dull,
light green, not nearly az desirable in
either respect as the hard or sugar
maple. which was more commonly
chosen in former times.


But it would be better still If some
of our citizens would plant other kinds
than the NAPLES, at least for the sake
of variety, as our streets are too mo-
notonous. The elm, for instance, is
fine street tree, can be easily pro-
cured and will thrive well where the
soil is not too dry. The linden or bass
wood is also very good, where the soil
is not poor. The European species is
prettier and more compact in growth
than the native. It can be obtained
at the nurseries. The tulip and Gu
cumber trees also would make pleasing
variety, and if transplanted with care
from the wood or the nursery, seldom
fail, especially if the surface of the
ground is well mulched after planting.


II. B. BATEHAM.
Year: 1873

Asparagus and rhubarb beds should
of course be located next to the fence,
or in such position as not to interfere
with the planting of the main part of
the ground, where tie garden is de-
signed to be plowed each spring.
Year: 1873

Every family should have an aspara


gus bed. 1t is q most welcome and


desirable spring vegetable, and diff.


cult to be procured in our village


markets. Then, too, it takes so little


room and needs so little care and cul-


ture after it is once started, that there


is no good reason why every house


hold that has a garden should not


have asparagus. But somehow, most


people have got an impression that the


making and planting of an asparagus


bed is a very difficult and expensive


Job. For instance, one of my neigh


bors went to work, the past week, and
excavated the ground three feet in
depth, and filed it up mostly with
manure, then he was going to plant
on it lot of old asparagus roots from
a led that was mostly worn out and
was in the way of new building;
but this he found was not the right
way.


The true way, or all that is neces-
sary, is to dig out the ground about
eighteen or twenty inches in depth,
throw the bottom soil on one side to
be carted of, then take good manure,
or scrapings from thestreets, and mix
it with the top soil that was taken out,
filling the bed or pit even full, tread
ing it moderately. Now procure from
enc OF the nurseries good asparagus
roots, one or two years old-they cost
only about 81 per 100, and 200 will
serve for a moderate family. Set these
roots fiat on the surface of the bed, in
rows about one foot apart, and the
plants nine inches apart in the rows.
Then the 200 plants will need bed
our feet wide and thirty six feet long.
Now cover the entire bed with three
inches of good mellow earth, mixed
With old manure, if at all poor, and
read it moderately on the roots, then
axe the surface smooth and the Job
5 done. All that is required the first
-ear is to keep the plants free OF
Eeeds, and at the end of the season,
'efore winter sets ID, cover the bed
With old manure, which is to be raked
IF the following spring,


If the plants were two years old
Then set, and everything right, the
rowth will be sufficiently strong to
ear some cutting for use when the
ed is year old; but it is generally |
etter to wait till the second year,
hen it may be cut pretty freely, but
ot continued too long, or the growth
viii be weakened. After the third !
eason it may be used freely until
,reen peas come in use, only remem.
'er to give the dressing of manure !
ach winter, and if the crowns of the
oots appear within an inch or two of
he surface give a coating of fresh '
arth in the spring.
Year: 1873

II This is how a country exchange
puts it: The sad Effects of matrimony
were never more terribly depicted than
the other day, whea meek-eyed man
who had been married about a year
patroHed the village street all day try
ing to swap meerschaum pipe for a
second hand cradle"
Year: 1873

At the last meeting of the Town Council,
held this week, resolution was passed to
have Main street opened up to the Catholic
Church, and a committee appointed to assess
the damages resulting to the owners Of the
property through which the street will run.
Year: 1873

We ara reliably informed that gentleman
of this Parish was, few days since, called
upon and compelled to pay the poll tax on
eight laborefs whom he employed last year,
notwithstanding the fact that they are no
longer in his employ. and that he has no pros
pect of having the amount reimbursed by
them. If this is law, everybody, and particu-
larly planters, ought to know it, so as not to
be caught as the gentleman alluded to was


And if it is law, it should not long be allowed
to remain on the statute book. But we are
desirous to know if it really is law. Who will
volunteer the Information pro bono pubLicoa
Year: 1873

- Under the Grange movement no
impediments have been found to the
cordial CO. operation of the races in our
State. Both whites and negroes meet
together on basis of mutual interest
and common defense of the honest in
dustrial classes against the political
.jobbers, rings, monopolies and specuIa-
tors of allclasses. They are satisfied
with the constitutional and legal ar
rangements of all questions of social
and personal rights, and do not pro-
pose to raise any side and disturbing
issues on those subjects.


The colored men who are forming
this organization ask no special favors
or guarantees. They only claim what
the law gives them, and they will be
able to protect themselves in all associ-
alton with the white citizens by their
voting power. The Grange m ovement
is more practical one than the unfit
cation scheme.-N. O. Herald.
Year: 1873

Under the operation of the new law,
the exchanges heretofore existing be-
tween the various newspaper and Pc
riodicals of the country have been cut
off and diminished to a great extent,
and we are somewhat curious to know
what will be the result Of this postage
economy.


The same set of Congressman who
voted themselves back pay, white
washed the Credit Mobilier, and dou-
bled the Presidents salary, abolished
the franking privilege and included the
exchange lists, even prohibiting the
free circulation of papers in the county
Or parish where they are published
This is virtually tax upon knowledge
which we doubt if the people will en-
dure.


The country and weekly press of this
country is no mean influence that can
be set at defiance by an economical
pretense. The abuse Of the franking
privilege by Congressmen and political
parties was so fragrant and notorious
that there was good ground for the
popular demand for the stoppage of
that otfeuse and abuse OF the postotfice :;
but compared with the free circulation
of newspapers and periodicals, that
form the staple reading and public opin-
ion of the nation, the pretense of saw
ing the cost of distribution of these
prints is pitiful business that ought
/ to recoil on the Congressman who voted
for it.


We very much mistake the power of
the press in this country if the editorial
force do not make the repeal of this
provision question at the coming ses-
sion of Congress, and if they do not
put their mark upon any man in pub
lie life who has the audacity to claim
his back pay and dispute the passage
of a repeal of this obnoxious clause in
I the present postage law.


No one wishes or desires the return
of the old franking privilege with all
its abuses, but the return to free ex-
changes is a far different affair." 1t
only restores to the press the opportu-
nifty, to which they are fairly entitled
of knowing what is passing through
the country, and of informing their
readers of matters of Interest, and this
reason especially applies when we con
slider the weekly country press, from
which all items of local news of crops,
improvements, crimes, or other incl
dents, are gathered by the dailies, and
distributed by means of their large cir
culation over the cities, and by the tele-
graph.


As the matter now stands, every pa
per of any extended circulation is com-
PEELED to cut down it's entire exchange
list, and culiing out certain papers and
periodicals as the most important,
while the rejected papers are also de-
prived of many of their city exchanges
which they greatly want. The whole
Legislation on this point was either a
piece of negligence. or else deliberate
slap at the free press of the country for
their comments on Congressional cor
ruption and debasement. Taken in Ell
ther aspect, the sooner the law is modi-
fed, the better for the politicians and
the country.-N. o. Picayaae, 9Th.
Year: 1873

IT is said that the new Secretary of
Treasury has found it quite difficult to
retain his nervous equilibrium about
the operations of Wall street. There
is apparently a trial of strength
between the Wall street gentry and
the new Secretary, and it rather seems
the former have the advantage


Before Richardson got warm in his
seat, Wall street started gold on the
rise. The Secretary had some gold
on hand and some greenbacks, but
unfortunately Wall street could calcu-
late his resources as accurately as he
could himself.


If he drew on the forty-four mil
lions reserve i'll greenbacks, it would
only have the effect to send gold still
higher. And if he began to pay the
May interest, due in gold, amounting
to about SIT, 900, 200, Wall street could
get away with that sum without much
difficulty. The operators could safely
calculate on twenty or twenty-five
of gold going to Europe with
the tide OF tourist before the first of
June.


1T is said to be the general convic-
ton III Washington City, that Wall
street has taken the measure of Rich
ardson and his resources, and has
determined to bag him.
Year: 1873

In pursuance OF the decree of His
Honor, Judge Russell, made at the
last term Of the SuperiOc Court for this
county, the Wilmington, Charlotte
and rutherford Railroad was sold at
public auction on yesterday, as will be
seen by reference to our local columns


The road was purchased, We learn,
by certain preferred bondliulders OF
the Company, who are the principal
incorporators of the new Company
chartered Mt the last session of the
Legislature, under the name OF the
Carolina Central Railway Company.


We presume the new Company will
at once be organized and proceed TO
work, as we are reliably informed that
it is the purpose of the parties inter
ested to complete the road at the
earliest possible moment. Indeed,
proposals for completing the work
have already been issued.


We congratulate our people that this
great line of trade and travel ha
fallen into the hands OF men both
willing and abundantlv able to bring
il 20 speedy completion, The pro
perity OF the city OF Wilmington is
beyond all question wrapped up ii
that cf its great feeder stretching along
the Southern border of our State, and
up to its now far distant mountains.
We may now confidently lool, forward
to a new era of prosperity, inseparable
from an increase of trade and popiIla-
ton We do not feel that we are
extravagant in saying that we aItici
pate that the day will soon arrive
when the remembrance Of the losses
entailed upon us by the Wilmington,
Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad.
will ie blotted out by the enjoyment
of the wealth poured into o!ll "ity
i-Y the Carolina Central.
Year: 1873

SpRtSG-SrYI.E SILK HATs.-The style Of silk hat
sold by the rst-cass retailers In New York city IS
the same style that +. WEIsIcEn & Co are selling
now This hat is light and stylish, ana decidedly
the ueatcst hat that has been brought out for long
Year: 1873

Halls Journal Of Health says that cold
bed chambers always lmperil health and In
yite fatal diseases. Robust persons may
safely sleep in temperature of forty o., un-
der, but the old, tho infant and the frail
should never sleep In room where the at.
mosphere is much under fifty degrees Fahrcn.
heit.


All know the danger of going direct into
cold from very warm room. Very few
rooms, churches, theatres, and the like, are
ever warmer than seventy degrees. II 1t Is
freezing out of doors II Is thirty degrees, the
difference being forty degrees more. Per.
sons will be chilled by such u change In ten
minutes, although they may bc actively
walking.


But to lie still in bed. with nothing TO pro.
mote the circulation, and breathe for hours
an atmosphere of forty, or even fifty degrees,
when the lungs are always at ninety-cight
Is too great change. Many persons wake
up In the morning with Inflammation Of the
lungs who went TO bed well, and arc sur
prised that this should he the case. The
cause NAV often be found in sleeping In a
room the window OF which hld been hoistcd
for ventilation.


Tho rule should be, everywhere during the
part of the year when fires arc kept burning,
to avoid hOlstlng outside windows. II Is
safer and better to leave the chamber door
open, as also tho fireplacc-then there Is q
draft up the chimney, while the room Is not
so likely to become cold. II there Is some
are In the room all night, the window
may be opened M inch. II Is safer to
sleep In u bad air all night with temper
ature over fifty than In q pure air with
under forty. The bad air may
sicken you but cannot Kill you; the cold air
can and docs kill very often.
Year: 1873

REMARKABLE SAGAcIrY OF AN ELE-
PHANr.-In the Jardin des Plantes, at
Paris, an elephant had been turned out
of his house to allow OF chase OF the
rats that devoured his food. The rats
ran about in all directions, and while
the elephant was STOPPING to pick up q
morsel of bread which one of the crowd
had thrown to him, rat, fancying he
saw a means of escape, took refuge In
the interior OF his trunk. The elephant
made frantic efforts to relieve himself
of his unwelcome visitor. but in vain.
Suddenly he paused and seemed to re.
feet, then he went to his basin, filled
his trunk with water, and amid the
great excitement OF the 'lookers-oo,
elected the water and the unfortunate
rat with one sublime effort.
Year: 1873

A sufferer writes to the Sunday Her
aid, of Indianapolis, and complains OF q
quack dentist who recently come there
and took a large number Of orders for
good, sets of teeth at one dollar q set
His trade was lively and he "ysnked'
every old snag on the street, leaving q
large number of the residents toothless'
and, getting the money informed them
that several days would have to elapse
before they could wear the new teeth
as he would be obliged to make them,
and then he wanted their gums to get
well. For week they ate nothing but
cruel and spoon vituals, vainly looking
for the tooth carpenter. As he failed
to put in an appearance one old lark
became impatient, and whitfield set Of
teeth out OF pine board, and put them
in, but the first drink Of whisky he took
set fire to them, and before he could
spit them out the flames and turpen:
tine ran down his throat and kille d
him. All of which goes to prove that
the cheapest is not always the best.