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Year: 1873

of France, then occupied by LIE Vener.
To this Maury replied he must first re-
turn home and see his kindred and
people, and would send final and de-
finite answer from Virginia. On arriv-
ing in his native State he felt that he
might yet contribute to aid in her re-
storation to prosperity; that he could
not leave his people forever in their
prostration. He gratefully declined the
offer of the great position in Paris, and
accepted a modest place in the Faculty
of the Military Institute of Virginia,


where he has ever since been occupied
in labors of grand utility to his people,
and to the whole country. Death
struck him down in the very execution
of what he considered the greatest
work of his great and useful life.
Many years ago, before the war, he
urged the establishment all over the
land, of a system of meteorological OBJ
servations like those he had caused to
be made over the seas, from which such
vast results have followed The war
and his exile interrupted his work, but
he was deeply impressed by it's impor-
tance, and has for more than year
dedicated to it all his energies. In
October last he returned from ST.
Louis, where he had delivered the
opening address to the Agricultural
Congress upon this great subject. He
was i'll when he reached his home in
Lexington, and has continued to sink
until Saturday, the 1st instant, when his
great intellect was quenched forever,
and another great Virginian went to his
rest. But none can tell the desolation
which now bears down that united,
'oving family circle of which he has
been the honored head for so many
years. While the world knows his
genius and its works, only his friends
and kindred can measure his goodness.
He was one of the tenderest, most
genial, kindly gentleman in all the re-
lations of life ever known. And his
family cling around him to the last
moment with the devotion his wisdom
and goodness had engendered in them
during their whole lives. He leaves
his widow and their seven sons and
daughters. The great sorrow of his
life was the mysterious loss Of his son,
Jorn Herndon Maury, who was cap
tured near Vicksburg in 1868, and
about whose subsequent fate no certain
history has ever been given Vicks-
burg Herald.
Year: 1873

Last summer / put about five tons of
hay in one sack, composed of about one
third each of timothy, clover and weeds.
Iput it up the same day it was cut, and
was quite green. sprinkled it pienti-
fully with lime, about half air slaked !;
it commenced to heat Immediately, and
got so hot that thought it would burn,
but in twenty-four hours it had cooled
off, 1t kept remarkably well, nodded
only where there were large stalks or
weeds. The cattle ate it but did not
like the lime. put the same amount
of hay in barn; this hay was better
cured and drier than the other. To this
1 added both lime and salt, but it dill
not keep as well as the other. The salt
appeared 20 take as much dampness as
the lime took up, which rendered it use
less. In another barn / put hay that
was we'll cured 1 added lime to it also /;
the horses did not relish it as well as
as that which had no lime, but the
horses appeared healthier, and have
less cough than when fed on hay that
was not lined.


would advise the use of lime only
in a freestOne country. 4 certain
amount of lime is necessary to make
bone for all animals, but in 4 limestone
country they often get too much, which
causes diseases of the intestines and
bladder. Ohio Farmer.
Year: 1873

English experience during the past
twenty years proves nothing more con-
clusively than the absolute feasibility
of consuming smoke in the furnaces OF
locomotives. More than two hundred
trains per day pass the Kings Cross
station of the London Underground
Railway, and yet no one has ever beer
heard to complain of smoke in the tun.
mel
Year: 1873

SAUSAGE MEAT.-To thirty pounds of
meat put nine ounces OF salt and four OF
pepper, or to ten pounds OF meat gill
of salt and a gill each OF sage and pepper,
or half gill of sage and the same of
summer savory. Another rule is For
each pound of meat three teaspoonfuls
of powdered sage and one and II hall
of salt, one of pepper. The fat in sau-
sage should be about one-third of the
| lean meat.
Year: 1873

DISTRICT CouRT. Judge Tweed has about finished the business of the present term, and will soon adjourn bis court. Tue principal item Of court news is that Gabriel has been admitted 10 bail in the cum oi e. 0O0
Year: 1873

Plants have commonly been thought
to differ from animals in the gases which
they secrete; the animals parting with
carbonic acid, while the plant gave out
oxygen. DR.. J. @. Draper, Of New
York. however, maintains that all living
things, whether animal or plant, abSsrb
oxygen and give out carbonic acid; and
that the life of the plant is one continu-
Gus drinking in of oxygen gas. Having
grown plants similarly nourished in the
dark and in sunlight, he found that all
the same parts were produced in both
cases almostat the same time, and that
the slightly slower evolution OF the
series grown in the dark is marked'by a
slightly smaller weight, while the same
plant measured by night and by day
grows slightly faster in darkness than
in sunlight. The roots of plants grown
under both circumstances throw out the
same kind of excrement. Therefore, as
the evolution aud weight and root-secre-
ton agree, he urges that the carbonic
acid has been in both cases thrown off
as consequence of growth, and has
never been absorbed by the roots and
then given out as vapor from the leaves.
In conferve and fungi, which, like
seedlings grown in the dark, never give
out oxygen, he appears to think that the
carbonic acid they seem to give of Is
really only the carbon of the air left
around the plant as a consequence OF
the rapidity with which the oxygen is
absorbed; and when plants are produ-
cling their flowers and seeds, the rate at
which they seem to part with carbonlc
acid is greater than with many animals
at any time. Oxygen is given on only
from the green parts Of plants and trees
the leaves, twigs, and young shoots;
and only when the sunlight is falling on
the leaves. Dr. Draper's argument
might have been made even more con-
vincing If he had availed himself OF
Boussingault's experiments, which show
ed thnt carbonic acid is deOomposed day
and night, by green leaves, in the ratio
of one part by night, to about sixteen
parts by day.
Year: 1873




There is no day so dark
But through the murk slime ray Of hope may stea
Some blessed touch from Heaven that we might fee


II we but chose to mark.


We shut the portals fast,
And turn the key and LEI 10 sunshine in,
Yet to the worst despair tha! comes through sin


Gods light shall reach at last.


We slight our daily JOY
Make much Of our yexatioIs, th!ekly set
Our path with thorns Of discomfort, and fret


At our fine god's alloy.


Til bounteous Heaven might frown
At such ingraiitude, and, turning, lay
On our impotence burdens that would weigh


Our aching shoulders down.


We shed too many tears
And sigh too sore, and yield us mp to woe,
As if God had not planned the way to 60,


And counted out our years


Can we not be content,
And lift our heads from the ignOble dust
Of these complaining liYes, and wait with trust,


Fulfilling Heavens intent?


Must we have wealth and power,
to indifferent hearts and cold
With delicate touch, striving TO reach and hold


Our hidden cOnsciOnsness.


And see how everywhere
Love comforts, strengthens, helps and sayes u'


all;
What opportunities Of good befall


To make life sweet and fair
Year: 1873

WATERsoN, of The louisville Courier
Journal, acquired military promptness
in taking advantage of circumstances
during the war, in moving out of range
Of the cohorts of abolition. One is
pleasd to find this element of his nature
still prominent. Finding the subscrip-
ton clerk useless appendage of the
establishment, he supplied him with a


package of lottery tickets, a blunt pencil,
and a schedule of advertising rates, and
shipped him to the Sandwich islands as
Year: 1873

THE LIBERAL REPUBLICAN CoNyENTIoN-sPECULA-
TIOHs on THE CANDIDATEs-LEADING DEMOCRATS
PRESENT.


COLUMBUS, July 29.-A large number Of
delegates TO the Convention tomorrow have already
arrived and good attendance from all portions Of the
State will here. All the counties will be well
represented. Tue active movers favor the nomna-
ton OF full ticket and the adoption OF a
platform. A thoroughly organization. free from
any attempt at OF trading with any ex-
ising organization is their ardent desire. Cen Brnker-
hoR says the party will advocate free trade, aud ne
thinks that If they nominate ticket and issue proper
declaration Of principles, they are certain OF the
support Of such papers as The Nation and
Chicago Tribune, and that their platform will
be accepted and indorsed by leading men in other
parts OF the country. Since the positive with
drawal of Judge Caldwell attention has centered upon
Chiffon A. White OF Brown County aud Judge Collins as
candidates for Governor. A s. Pratt Is mentioned as
Farmers candidate and NJ s. Townshend is also talked
OF, but the strongest the last two named above
number of leading Democrats are present,
among them Senator Thurman, Messrs Van
trump Dodts, and Caring, but they are look
ers on. Many here are holding back
TO await the result. The Convention will be called
to order by Mr.. Cunningham Of Allen County. Geefge
Z. Pugh will be temporary Chairman, and possfsly
Chiffon A. White viii be made permanent President.
The Liberal Republicans held informal meeting to-
night at which an unanimous sentiment prevailed In
favor OF the formation Of party and the nomina-
ton of a full ticket.
A CAUCUS HELD-TIIE ALLEN COUNTY MOVEMENT
NDoRSED.


COLUMBUS, July 29.-The Liberal Republi-
cans held a caucus tonight Most OF the evening was
spent in an interchange Of opinion to the prospects


for SUCCESS in this party movement, and while all
the speakers hoped for success several OF the most
prominent among them declared they did not expect
success this year. but willing TO wait for the future
resolution indorsng the Liberal State Executive
Committee in changing the time OF the Liberal Conven-
ton from the time first selected was after long discus
siou laid on the table. number Of speakers argued
that the time had when the Liberal Republican
party as distinct organization, should be abandoned
and the following resolution finally adopted;


Resored That we heartily JOIN with the Democrats OF
Allen County and all Others VINO choose TO participate
IN the formation of party Ia deal with living Is
sues and unite with them in the adoption OF platform
and the nomination of "A ticket.


Col Lowe of Dayton, in the Of remarks favor
ing this party movement said that he was fully
satisfied personal knowledge, that Senator Thur
man was at heart In favor OF this party but did
not openly say So because he felt he impotent to
bring up the masses Of the Democratic party TO its sup
port. Col Lowe said he hoped some highmnded Demo-
crat would he chosen head the ticket TO be nominated
tomorrow. The sentiment was heartily applauded.
Year: 1873

persuade the President TO restore him. left yesterday
with his family, for Switzerland He will return TO
America in the Fail. and Congress meets he
will demand investigation of the charges against
him by committee OF the House of Representatives
Minister jay has taken such an active part in working
up against Gen. Van Buren and in securing his
removal that the affair has become a personal Issue
between the two men, and the defense OF the Commits
soner necessarily be attack upon tho Minister
The investigating committee will not only be called
upon inquire into the conduct OF Gen. Van Buren,,
but also into that OF Mr. jay, provided the evidence
fails to establish the guilt OF the former


No matter how many instances Of incapaclty may be
proved how much dishonesty on the part OF his sub
Ordinates unless IL is shown that Van Buren, HIM
self guilty Of malfeasance in Office had knowledge OF
the rascaty Of his assistants he Will in the end get the
better quarrel Minister for nothing but
gross want Of integrity his part fully proved by
credible testimony can justify the he has
ceved at the hands of the President and Secretary Fish
at the instance Of Mr. Jay. That this treatment
justiabe Mr. Jay is bound in honor to prove. II he
fails he will himself be seriously compromised in public
estimation. 1t is believed here that Mr.. Jay
Will be recalled in November and will thus have an
opportunity of appearing before the investigating COM
mttee. would surprising If the Vienna scandal
revived in Washington should be Of the chief
features OF the coming Of Congress An inquiry
into the OF the American department, once
begun would certainly extend beyond the acts Of the
first Commission and Of Minister and would develop
"iuegularities" of which reports have yet got
into the newspapers. Already there complaints
from exhibitors about the makeup of the jures, and 1t
Is alleged that the American jurors on several
groups the relatives secret representatives OF GER
tain exhibitors in those groups
Year: 1873




HEARTS CONTENT, Newfoundland, July 90
The seventh anniversary OF the opening Of eegraphc
communication between America and Europe cele-
brated yesterday board the Great Eastern and on
shore.


There very spirited race between three boats OF
the Great Eastern. twelve each. Then followed
race between the officers of the Great Eastern and the
Hearts Content telegraph staff which won by the
former. The stewards of the Great Eastern challenged
the short and we're defeated. Other boat races sue.
ceeded and tub in the harbUr with foot races on
shore made the day pass pleasantly.


In the evening, concert given on board the
Great Eastern creating great enthusiasm. The weather
was superb thing passed OF without accident
Year: 1873

MEMPHIS, July 29.-Notwithstandlng the YER
dict Of the Coroners jury last evening" aud the preSa
lent suspicion that Mrs Moore and her nephew Joseph
Manson had connection with the murder Of Frank
Moore there is no evidence 10 connect them with the
assassination They are oat on 5000 bail each but I'M
less some further clue obtained by morning,
when the examination takes place, they will undoubtedly
be discharged as there Is general opinion that the
verdict Of the jury at the inquest was premature and
without evidence TO substantate it.
Year: 1873

Owing to the large proportion OF the interest the
public debt maturing July l. the amount paid on that
during the first quarter of the year than
hat much will be required tor the next nine
months and although enters into the expenses OF this
quarter II is properly chargeabe to longer period
time. Many other expenditures arc greater also during
the rst tnan any subsequent quarter by the
necessity OF supplying dsbursng officers with money
der appropriations which became available the
ist OF July.
Year: 1873

citizens of Boston, appointed by order Of
the City Council to investigate the cause
Of the fire there, made a lengthy report,
giving few facts not previously pub
lished and commented on. A majority
Of the Legislative Committee on the
Liquor Law have reported bill to re-
peal the beer clause.
Year: 1873

THE excellent President Of the State
Senate, Colonel A. T. Lacy, and Messrs
Brown and 0yertOn, Of the House o.
Representatives, have spent the two
last days at their homes in this city
They left yesterday for the capital.
Year: 1873

A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY AND ITS MORAL
When woman puts three mackerel to soak
over night in a dlsh-pan whose sides are eight
inches high, and leaves the pan on stairway
she has accomplished her mission and should
go hence. This is what Division street
woman did, Friday night. Filled the pan at
the pump, and then left IL standing on the
steps to the stoop, while she went into the
next house to see how many buttons would
be required to go down the front OF reding-
cote. And mighty important affair tnat
was, to be sure. And there was her husband
tearing through the house in search Oh
handkerchief, and not finding IL, Oh course.


And then he rushed out into the yaru, won
derinp where on earth that woman could be,


and Started down the steps without seeing
the nan. or even dreaming that any one could
ha az idiotic as TO leave it there. OF course
he stepped on it; or, at least, that is the sup
nosition, s.s the neighbors, who were brought
out by the crash that followed, saw horri-
fed man, and high dishpan, and three very
demoralized mackerel shooting across the
garden and smashing down the shrubbery.
And he was nice sight, was that unhappy
man, when they got him on his feet. There
wasn't dry thread on him, and his hair was
full of bits of mackerel and one of his
shoulders was out of joint, and his coat was
split the whole length of the back, and he
appeared to be out of his head. He was car
ried in the house by some of the men, and
laid on bed, while others went after the
doctor, and sixteen women assembled in the
front room, and talked in whispers about the
inscrutable ways of Providence, and what
warning this was to people who never looked
where they were going--Ddnbuy Ne'1s.
Year: 1873

Grace Greenwood relates, as an instance of
the extravaganza of New England humor,
that when a young farmers wife made her
first boys pants precisely as ample before as
behind, the father exclaimed, Goodness, he
won't know whether he is going to school or
coming homer' 1l
Year: 1873

One OF the magazines reiterates the truth
that it is great mistake to purchase flrni-
ture too good for general use. The house
should be especially prepared for the family,
not for occasional guests.
Year: 1873

A candidate for clerkship in Washington,
when asked to state the distance of the planet
Saturn from the earth. answered that he was
unable to state the distance in miles, but did
not think it was sufficiently near to interfere
with the performance of his duties as a clerk,
or to get him in any of its rings.
Year: 1873

Speaking truth is like writing fair, and comes
only by practice; it is less matter of will
tnan OF habit; and doubt if any occasion
Eau oe Trivial which permits the practice and
formation of such habit .-Ruskin.
Year: 1873

PROOF READING.-Proof reading is one OF
the most difficult and laboriOus things c0nnec-
ted with making books and newspapers. We
have rarely read a book without detecting
in it some typographical error An hour ago
we were reading the one hundred and sixteenth
Psalm from the Bible of the Wolf Greek
Church. The type-setter had turned "pains'
into ''gains" and made David to say, The
gains OF hell got hold of me, instead of The
pains Of hell. We have seen other blunders
of a similar character in the Scriptures.


There are few men who ever can become
expert in proOf-reading. Every man who
can willingly allow himself to be careless about
his writing must make poor proof-reader.


Every column of newspaper contains from
ten to twenty thousand distinct pieces of metal,
according to the size of the paper and type.
The displacement of single one makes an
error. Is it any wonder that errors occur? In
the large offices professional prOof-readers are
kept whose practiced eyes, passing twice over
every line of proof, detect most of the errors
boy is also kept for that purpose, at the same
time reading the copy aloud.


Still mistakes are frequently occurring after
coming from such hands, and probably no
book or newspaper was ever published without
errors that might be detected by the merest
novice. In book printing it is estimated that
prOof-reading costs half as much as compost
ton. In country offices, the editor is generally
foreman, printer, book keeper and everything
else, and if the same care should be exercised
that is deemed indispensable on the city sheets
the country newspapers could not be published
at all, because of the expense.-Ec.
Year: 1873

A MoTELY PREACHER-A Virginia paper
reports that during the exhibition of travel
ing menagerie and circus in a town Of that
State, where there was at the time, some re.
ligious cOnvocation in session, the painted
jester of the equestrian ring illustrated his own
serious capacity and greatly affected an audi
ence, in which many church members were
present. by delivering the following homily:


My FRIENDs We have taken in six hun
dred dollars here to. day; more money, | ven
ture to say, than any minister of the gospel in
this community would receive for whole
years services. A large portion of this money
was given by church members, and large
portion of this audience is made up of mem
bers of the church. And yet, when your
preacher asks you to aid in supporting the
gospel, you are too poor to give anything.
Y ct you come here and pay dollars to hear me
talk nonsense. | am fool because | am paid
for it; make my living by it. You profess
to be wise, and yet you support me in my
folly. But perhaps you say you did not come
to see the circus, but animals. If you come
simply to see the animals, why did you not
simply Look at them and leave? Now, is this
not pretty place for Christians to be in? DO
you not feel ashamed of yourselves? You
ought to blush in such a place as this.


The sensation following a speech like this
in such place. from such speaker, may be
imagined. The local clergy availed them.
selves of the spirit thus produced and re.
liglOus revival was attempted.
Year: 1873

before an Iowa Justice charged with assaulting
and battering maiden. Investigation showed
that the defendant had merely saluted tho
damsel against her will She was in court,
and gave her testimony looking so very beau
tifully that the Judge was compelled to make
special ruling. He could not, he said, in
conscience fine the man for doing what was
done; for said his Honor, Il have been
obliged to hold on to the arms of my chair to
keep from kissing the complainant myself"
Year: 1873

HEALTH UNDERvALUED. Such is the power
of health that, without its corporation, every
other comfort is as torpid and lifeless as the
powers of vegetation without the sun. And
yet this bliss is commonly thrown away in
thoughtless negligence or in. foolish expert
ments on our own strength. We let it perish
without remembering its value, or waste it to
show how much we have to spare. It is some.
times given up to the management of levity
and chance, and sometimes sold for the ap-
plause of joity and debauchery.
Year: 1873

The mania for 6ashy imitation jewelry has
broken out among or bellies again with great
virulence. There must be trace of semi bar
bersm in American society, to account for this
Hottentotish taste.
Year: 1873

There is young lady on Fifth Avenue who
is puzzling all her acquaintances as to how
she colors her hair. She changes its color
every other day: one day it will be auburn,
another brown, another golden. another jet
black. How on earth she does it we don't
know, but she does.
Year: 1873

An exquisitely dressed young gentleman,
after buying another seal to dangle about his
person, said to the jeweler that he would-ah
like to have-ah something engraved on it
ah Ito denote what he was Certainly,
certainly" said the tradesman, "Ill put a
cipher on it. "
Year: 1873

CONsOEATION.-A lady visited her husband
confined in Jail in a neighboring town. After
tears were shed and sympathy expressed ON
both sides, the lady said There is one con-
ISOLATION left me in my afliction, Edward: l
know where you spend your evenings"
Year: 1873

One of the bluest of Bostoniaus on being
requested by a rich and vulgar young fellow
for permission to marry lone of his girls"
gave this rather crushing reply, Certainly;
which would you prefer, the waitress or the
cook ?"
Year: 1873

A minister out West advertises, in the hope
of making young people come forward, that
during the warm weather he will marry them
Tor "a glass OF whisky, dozen eggs, the first
KISS OF the bride, and quarter of pig II