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Year: 1872

There is not a man on the Democratic
ticket to be voted to-day more deserving
the fullest strength Of the party than
him whose name heads this paragraph.
For years he has been one of our hard
est and best working Democrats, giving
freely Of both time and money, and has
done, perhaps, more to keep the party
together, intact and perfect, than any
member of it. We owe him much
more than a reelection TO his present
Office viii repay-and We hope every
Democrat viii realize that it is incum-
bent upon him to vote for him, and la
bor in his interest. His opponent on
the Radical ticket has no claims on the
white people Of this cOunty-the fact
that he Is associated with Curry is suffi-
cient to wipe out all that he ever had.
The man who gives a vote to Foley is no
Democrat, and might as well make his
bed with Curry and Barbour Lewis and
all the supporters of Grant. The cleo
tiOn OF our ticket to-day is all-impOrt-
ant. 1t should not be scratched. Dem
oerats should vote "plump" every time.
Vote the whole ticket.
Year: 1872

THE names Of merchants who do not
close their doors to-day at noon and suf-
fer their employees TO vote, should not be
forgotten. There was never an election


that involved more deeply the pecunia-
~ fortunes Of the people, or one that
will exercise a more lasting influence
upon the destinies of this city and coun-
Year: 1872

The old Manassas battle field was sold q
few days since TOR eight dollars an acre.
When the war commenced it was snder
high state of improvement, and the dwell
ling house upon it was one of the tinestin
that section OF the State; but then scourge
devastared it. and the open fields, and young
pines, and shattered mansion-all now bear
evidence to The bloody conflicts of which it
was the scene.
Year: 1872




While glancing over one of Ten
nessee's county Journals Lot long
since my eyes fell upon a piece enti
tied Novel Reading" 1t was writ
ten by one who, Unexpectedly to me
and unusual for one of her sex, took
grounds opposing the reading of these
commonly. supposed, air-castIe books.
While we admit that in particular Ca
ses there are such evils as was clear
ly portrayed by her gifted pen, We ad-
NIT it in particular cases only. We
are not like those who take the broad
grounds that such reading is altogcth-
er detrimental, and denouEce the
whole field of fiction as trash. The
reasons they advance for sustaining
this unrestricted condemnation are
unsafe. Let us notice their mode of
showing how novel reading is delete
rious. They are quick o seize upon
the most trifliug books of fiction, such
as Beadie's or Monroe's Dime novels,
picture their baneful influence to the
world, and with this partial consiac-
ration, they classify with the above
the matchless works of Dickens and
Scott. But they must remember that
there are grades in all human works.
We might with equal consistency Sc
lect from the numerous histories that
form so great a part of the literature
of the day the most imperfect and
partiai-which would be but book
Of falsehoods written under the guild
ance of a burning prejudice-ahd
within this narrow view condemn his
tory reading as altogether detrimeu-
tai. With such false logic we could
condemn all human works and make
them out objects of lasting injury.
But the fact is fiction works, like all
other productions of man, have their
beauties and faults. their truths and
errors, their benefits and injuries.


Again it is said that Novels elevate
the mind above its ordinary level,
and so condition it. as never to be
satisfied unless under the bewitching
influence Of some exciting story
Year: 1872

This may be true with an inferior
order of inte!lects who are by nature
devoid of a sense of propriety anC
reason, but with the majority we con
| fidently assert that this is not true, Ir
fact we know from tic very DISPOSE
tion Of our nature that it is not true.
The mind like the taste loves change.
However much we may appreciate the
peculiar favor of some iaporite diet
we know that if it is constantly set
before us We become tired of it and
long for something else. SO it is
with the mind. By the constant
reading. for length Of time of any
particular kind of literature, the
mind grows tired of the sameness and
calls loudly for change. 1t wants
and It's nature demands variety, Bat
perhaps it may be said that Novels
are full of variety. This is true, but
the effect on the mind IS all the same
Spring, 1.-the most delightful season
in the yearly round" " is full Of varie,
ty. 1t has its green verdure and &C.
NAL sunshine. its flowers of every hue
redolent with sweet perfume, and all
that is calculated to give life pleasure,
vigor and vivacity; and yet the poet
has beautifully and truthfulIy said
that


"Spring would be but gloomy weather


If We had nothing else but Spring"


As Spring. Summer, Autumn and
Winter give variety 10 the yearly
round. so Novels, History and Poetry
constitute the great and pleasing va
ricty in the literary circle. TO con-
fire the mind Of the reader eXclu-
sively to any one of these great de-
parLments would be TO fetter a por-
tion Of it, and thus destroy, in a
great measure, the love of reading.
But as We have all the grand depart
ments of literature, the mind after
growing tired of storing away the
solid facts Of history, can relish more
pleasantly a feast of fancy. The I'm
agination longs for it and must have
it. Il is gift of God as well as rea-
son, and must be equally cultivated,
and its wants gratifed. But novels
are not always mere books of fancy.
They more frequently portray the
real picture of life and thus human
nature in all It's strange phases is
laid open for our inspection. We
have pictured with cxactness the
strong passions and strange motives
by which men are everywhere urged
to do their acts Of infamy or deeds of
honor and purity. We are, in fact
introduced by the careful study of re.
nowned fiction works INTO a new
world full Of wonders. They clearly
set forth in elegant language all the
singular effects brought about in hu
man nature by the love Of money,
ambition. pride, envy and all the pas
sions to which man, 1.-The monarch
of earth bows submissivcIy. With
such facts plainly in view. we would
certainly arrive at the conclusion that
there is inestimable good to be de-
rived from the stndy of Shakespeare,
Scott aud Dickens. There is undoubt-
edIy pleasant path through these
authors to a rich field Of informa ton.
To gain this information would be to
gain a knowledge of human nature.
which few ever possess in a sufficient
degree. Then not only read novels
but study them. and learn the imper-
fectiohs of human ways and shun
them; learn a lesson from them acts
of the noble and good, accept them
and be prOfitcd.
Year: 1872

1 am ready to negotiate on very
favorable terms, the sale Of the most
valuable water power within the vi
cinity of Bristol. 1t is within one
mile of Main Street and furnishes a
fall of IL feet with room above that
point for more than one Factory with
fall of twelve or more feet. The
property is peculiarly valuable and
can be had at price low enough to
entice manufactures to our locality.


|. c. FOWLER.
Year: 1872

CoLCMBUs' CLAIMS TO THE DISCOVERY OF


THIS CONTINENT CoNTESTED-The Ameri-
can Geographical Society held meeting at
the Cooper Institute last night tor the purpose
of listening to q paper on Martin Behaim's
Globe, with reference to the claims OF Column
bus to the discovery of this Continent" by the
Rev. Mytton Maury, of Fordham. After the
regular order of business was gone through
Mr.. Maury was introduced to the society by
Judge DAILY. In opening the paper Mr..
Maury made brief remark about the BIRTH
place of the subject of his sketch. Of the or
iginal globe, which is now in Paris, he gave
a graphic and detailed description Behaim
mixed with the real geographical feature of
his work much of the romance of his time.
The coast of Zanzibar was represented as
golden land. and astrde the top of one OF Its
mountains was represented missionary ex
horting the heather around its base to join him
under the banner of Christianity. When we
consider that each of these heathenS are said
to possess the strength of four ordinary Euro
peans we cannot but admire the moral courage
of the noble missionary. A little way to the
east of an Island in the Indian Ocean is rep
resented sea monster of exaggerated dimen-
sons, with his head just above the water and
his laws wide open. In the Atlantic Ocean,
on the Globe, is seen ship in full sail, and i'm
mediately behind it, in its wake, is huge
green marine monster with open mouth just
about to swallow the ship. The water is
painted green, and the land brownish color,
with here and there green spots representing
the fertile spots on the earth. while that col
ored brown is supposed to be sterile The
tops of the mountains are painted white to
represent the perpetual snow covering them.
When we consider that Behaim's globe was
finished in 1892, and that it took years of
thought and then years of labor to finish it,
we cannot believe that Columbus was the sole
believer in the worlds rotundity, or of the
fact that the Indies could be reached by sail
ing westward On the globe of Behaim the
West Indies are represented as the East Indies,
and what is row the United States is called
Asia. The reverend gentleman concluded by
summing up the facts which go to prove that
Columbus was not the only mathematician of
the fifteenth century who believed that India
could be reached by sailing westward or that
the world was round.-Ne,c York Herald,
March goth.
Year: 1872

FINGER MARKS. short time ago gen
tleman employed a mason to do some work for
him, and among other things to " thln-whiten'
the walls Of one of his chambers This thin
whitening is almost colorlrss until dried. The


gentleman was much surprised on the next
morning after the chamber was finished to
find on the drawer of u bureau standing IN his
room white fiuger marks Opening the drawer
he found the same on the articles IN it, and on
pocket book An examination revealed the
same ON the contents of a bag. This proved


clearly that the mason, with his wet hands,
had oped the drawer and searched the bag,
which contained no money, and then closed the
drawer without once thinking any oae would


know it. The "thin-whitening which hap
nened to be on his hands did not show mt first,
and probably he had no idea that twelve hours
driving would reveal his weakness. Beware


of evil thoughts and deeds! They will leave


their finger marks which will one day be re


vealed They may be almost, if not quite, invls-
ible at first But even If they should not be seen


during any of your days on earth, yet there is a


day coming in which all will be made manifest.
Year: 1872

The following is from late issue of the
Chicago Republican,: @


Young True was bitten in the center of the
inside of the right hand Being in the country
at the time it was some twelve hours before he
reached surgeon who cauterized the wound
with nitrate of silver. The wound healed andre
mained SO until between two or three weeks
since, when it became irritable and broke out
again.


Soon the first symptoms Of hydrophobia
showed themselves, commissions. "barking like
dog" frothing at the mouth, and making
strenuous efforts to bite everything that came
near During these c0nvulsiOns the patient
would seize the pillows from his bed in his
teeth and shake and rend them with all the
seeming ferocity of an angry dog. An intense
dread of water also exhibited itself, the sight
of which threw him into the most terrible con-
vulsons, at these times requiring the united
strength of FIVE men to keep him under SUBJ
lection; in fact, every symptom of bydropho-
bia made itself conspicuous. The patient was
attacked on Friday evening, January 10Th.
On Saturday night, his physician, DIR. AFFORD,
reached him, and at once was convinced OF the
the terrible nature of the disease. Having
had similar case some seven or eight years
since where the patient recovered under his
treatment, ana mas renamed Wen ever Slice,
after consulting the physician present, Dr.
Mccall, it was decided to place the patient un-
der the same treatment which had been sue
cessful in his former case, which, for the reas.
on that it may help others who suffer from the
disease, we give as follows: The Injection uD-
der the skin of large doses of morphine, and the
administration Of large doses Of castor, which is
powerful spasmodic. About one grain of the
sui phate of morphine was injected under the
skin once in four hours, and a half drachm
of the powdered castor, mixed with syrup given
internally.


The effect was to produce sleep in about haF
an hour, which lasted about an hour and half
when the convulsiOns returned again, and re-
turned at intervals of an hour to an hour and
a half until about 9 o'clock Sunday morning,
when the last CONFUSION occurred, after which
he suffered severely from obstinate vomiting un-
til Monday at 10 O'clock, when that also ceased,
ieaving the patient comparatively easy but
very much FRUSTRATED. Since that time he has
gradually improved, and is now, to all appear
ances, quite well. In addition to this treat
ment small quantities of chloroform were in
h4led at times and on Sunday morning the pa
tent was wrapped in wOolen blanket wrung
out of a warm solution of muriate of ammon-
ia, eighteen to twenty grains to the ounce.
This was the treatment that checked the fear
full nalady, and which DIR. AFFORD, for the
sake of humanity, is anxious should be pub
lished to the world and thoroughly.
Year: 1872

THE Michigan liquor law has had the effect
to bring out the following scheme for the sale
of the popular beverage: You put your ten
cents on a spot marked whisky the apara-
tus revolves, and directly you see glass of
whisky standing before you, and you don't
know, of course, who gave it to you. or how
it come there"
Year: 1872

IT is to wine drinking we owe the origin OF
the kiss After M9ctnas caught his wife suck
ing his finest wines through the bung hole OF
the barrel with the straw, the custom became
general in Rome for the husband to kiss the
lips of their wives. shat they might discover
the quality of their good ladies' stolen libatons,
and Cato, the elder, recommends this plan to
the serious attention of all careful heads OF
families.
Year: 1872

A GRIM JOKE, "A couple of medical
students disinterred a subject on cold
winters night, and having dressed it,
placed it sitting upright on the seat of a
covered wagon and started home Com
ing to a tavern and seeing the bar.roem
lighted up, they left the wagon and went
in for drink. The ostlcr observing a
man sitting in the wagon, attempted some
conversation, but receiving no answer,h
discovered how the affair stood, and in
stank resolved to have little fun This
own on this occasion. So, taking the
corpse iato the stable. he seated himself
in the wagon The students soon re
turned, and took their seats by the side
Of the supposed dead man, when one OF
them remarked TREMENDOUSLY to his com
panion: "Hc is warm, by Heaven J"
SO would YOU be warm. replied the
corpse, If You had been where | have
been as long as have. Both students
holled, and never returned to inquire for
the horse and wagon.
Year: 1872

TRENTON, November l3.-The appli'
cation made to the Supreme Court by
the Police Commissioners Of Jersey
City, who received their appointment
from Governor Parker, for mandamus
to compel the Clerk Of Jersey City to
administer to them the oath OF Office,
was granted this morning by the Court
unanimously. 1t was also held that
any ministerial officer refusing TO swear
in police holding commissions Of un-
doubted authority thereby lays himself
liable to indictment. The Court said
that the application for the mandamus
d id not at all involve the question Of the
Governors right to make the appoint.
ment of the Commissioners. In conse-
ouence of the above decision, proceed
ings in the mandamus applied for by a
Police Sergeant Of jersey City to COM
pel the Mayor to sign warrant for a
half months salary were stopped for
the present.
Year: 1872

there was not, under the circumstances,
the most remote hope Of relieving her
from its effects, and within two hours
from this time it was found that she had
passed in a state Of stupor into the
realms OF death. Why she had COM
mitted the fatal act is plainly developed
by sundry sentences entered in a note
book which was found on her person.
Many Of these acknowledged the receipt
of valuable presents from Fred. Pilot,
who was theatrical agent for Madame
Janauschek, with whose party Miss
Liembeger is supposed to have travelled.
Among other entries which throw light
upon this sad ending of what should
have been bright Young life are the
following, all written on leaves of the
notebook referred to, and evidently
penned more as part Of diary than
with the intention of sending them to
any particular address:


" ] have gone to rest; you shall never
see me again, for | am in happier land
than you. could not live any longer,
for would die OF grief to know that |
love the man that does not love me, and
so / had to make an end with me. Bet
ter to die quiet than to die for grief and
trouble. You will never see me again in
this world, but you will see me in another
world, and that world is Heaven. Keep
this as secret, and never let any one at
all get this book, for it is from poor,
dying sinner; but take this little book
and keep it, if you will do and observe
a dead persons wish; so keep this little
book. l will kiss you thousand times.
Goodbye. God bless you and Madame.
Hoping you will live happier together,
and will always remember a poor sinner
like me. EMILE"


Then on another page - probably
written but a few short moments before
she concluded to take poison--are the
following sentences;


II took my life on this 9TH day of
June, 1872, for the man love. love a
dear man. and nobody can tear him from
me, and this man is Mr.. Fred. Pilot.


Some forty dollars were found in the
trunk; also some very fine jewelry and
fashionable, costly wardrobe.
Year: 1872

IT is said that Bismarck's i'll health
imperatively demanding his immediate
relief from the cares of the Chancellor
ship, and the probability of his receiving
lengthy furlough, suggests the probs-
bility that he will pay visit to this
country. An officer of the Administra-
ton at Berlin writes that the Chancellor
has expressed an earnest desire to make
a tour Of the United States, and that it
is not improbable he will take advantage
Of this opportunity to do so.
Year: 1872

The Wall street syndcates are said TO
favor the reelection Of Grant, and will
spend a large amount of money to
secure that result. On the contrary, it
is reported that the wealthiest four men
in New York are for farmer Greeley, and
they say they will see the Wall street
pile and 90 few thousand better.
Year: 1872

A New Orleans editor said he counted
one hundred and seventy-three alligators
in a sail Of six miles along a bayou.
That editor had probably taken too much
Mississippi water, and sailed around the
same alligator one hundred and seventy
three times.
Year: 1872

SENATOR SUMNER is being visited every
day by prominent colored men from the
Southern States, who are using their in
auence to prevent him from declaring
for the Greeley ticket The Senator
abates none of his bitterness towards
Grant, but he is as yet undecided wheth-
er to pronounce openly in favor of the
Cincinnati nominees.
Year: 1872

To be paid Immediately after the Distribution


takes place.


The Board of Directors, in commencing this
Second Scheme to the public, promise that 1t
shall be carried out in as good faith as the an
nexed certificates prove the former to have
been. The high character and standing of the
Managers selected will also be an additional
guarantee that perfect justice and fairness
will control this Distribution.
Year: 1872

Don Z tell me Of tomorrow!


If we look upon the past,
How much that we have left TO do
We cannot do at last
To-day IL Is the only time
For all on this frail earth:
1t takes an age to form life
A moment gives q birth.
Don't tell me Of tomorrow


Give me the man who'll say.
Whene'er good deeds to be done.
Let's do the deed to-day;
We may all command the present.
If we act and never wait,
But repentance is the phantom
OF the past that comes too late.
Year: 1872

The profit of manufacture is no
where better shown than by the facts
that England paid the United States
last year for cotton $I84, 100000,
and by making this cotton up into
fabrics she cleared $188, 100000 of
net profit. This statement of the
immense profit growing out Of the
manufacture of the great Southern
staple should stimulate every com
munity in the South and North IA
vorabIy located to turn it, attention
to manufacture, as a means Of al
most doubling the value of the cot
ton crop.
Year: 1872

A fashionable mothers advice TO
a newly married daughter: 'tDO not
get in the habit Of taking your bus
band with you TO evening parties.
Nothing is so stupid as a husband
at a party, nor so everlasting in the
way"
Year: 1872

Human beings are the only ones
that crave and contract love for
stimulants. 1t is hardly possible to
make any animal take spirit of any
kind. If compelled to do so, NOR
bid appetite for it is not developed
as in man. However thirsty, the
will resist the finest artificial drinky
Water is the only fluid which they
demand, and fond as some of them
may be of milk, water is with them
positive necessity.


Brain excitement-something that
quickens the nervous system-has al
ways been found with every race of
people. If they have no ingenuity
in any way that betters their condi-
ton physically, they have a way of
exhilarating themselves. They fer
ment the juice of fruits, the sop of
plants, make teas of an Intoxicating
quality, or lastly like the Tartars on
the borders of the Caspian Sea, who
have no vegetables that meet that
morbid demand, make themselves
mere savages by acidifed mares
milk.


It is marvel in the constitution
of humanity that his propensity for
excitement by artificial means should
be SO general all over the world.
Civilization does not overcome it;
laws only hold it slightly in check;
moral suasion is a feeble instrumen-
tality and the question mooted is
what is the next move to be2
Year: 1872

Alexis thus expressed himself to :,
correspondent at Havana relative to
his tour through the United States:
.'If had any thing unpleasant to say,
I should remain silent, and not answer
your question, but my stay was so
pleasant, and the people We're so kind,
that can only regret that ! could not
remain longer; and if | did not have
my path in life laid out for me, should
like to live in America alt ogcthcr,
dividing my time from May to Janua-
~ between New York and the Ir;tiries,
and spending the remainder in New
Orleans. | may go back there if I
CAM
Year: 1872

Bory st. Vincent states that the time
is coming when the Mediterranean sea
will be nothing more than Il chain of
lakes and then mighty river. The
sea of Azof is already into a stream,
it's shores constantly approaching near
er together.
Year: 1872

They tell ofa woman out in Wisconsin
who has done her family sewing for
twenty years with a single paper OF
needles presented to her on her we'd
ding day, and they say the supply has
not given out yet. The inconsideratc
papers out there commend the ccOnO-
my and care of the old lady, but if all
housewives were like her what would
become of the cnccdic-nlakcrs? 1t would
require but 4 small amount of :lrgu-
mcnt to show that wear and tear and
waste are what support the industries
of the country.