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Year: 1870

ToBAcco.-Tobacco possesses only to
a very limited extent the narcotic power
SO conspicuously displayed by opium.
Its food-action, however, is corresponds
ingly prominent. 1t retards, as is sup
posed, the retrograde change which is
constantly going on in our tissues. The
nutritive forces of the economy thus gain
an ascendency, which results in an in
crease of the bulk of the body. Wheth-
er or not this be the correct explanation,
tobacco and its congeners undoubtedly
do promote nutrition when used proper
ly; and this, indeed, is one Of the bene-
fits attending their judicious use.


The habitual consumption of this drug
however, is incompatible with full mem
tai energy. The noblest function Of the
body--that of ministering to spiritual
and mental growth--can be performed
only by the brain; and it is on this or
gan, as we have seen, that the effects Of
tobacco are first and most powerfully
felt.


BY its sedative, benumbing influence
active work is retarded, and after time
condition of approximation is induced
by its use, in which the brain is as slow
to respond to its stimuli as was Dickens
fat boy, Joe, to the calls of his master,
Wardle.
Year: 1870

An Irish girl in Harrisburg, who
was in the habit Ofsoaping the dirty
clothes before putting them to soak,
on being told few days since by her
mistress to get dried Goldfish and
put it to soak for dinner, did SO, after
il over smartly with a good
Quantity of hard soap. -


A Richmond, (Va.) police justice has
decided that tavern keeper has no
lien upon the effects of bOaders, though
he does have lien upon the effects of
travellers, to insure compensation.
Year: 1870

The Ku.Klux business is all settled
now. The last remaining shadow of a
suspicion of a doubt we may have had
on this subject has been removed. The
Charleston papers do not seem to be
worried over the insecure tenure by
which they hold their soalps, but Ben


DILLON has told the skeery old lady oI
the InteiIigncer that he heard JOHN
SMITH say that Tom BROWN had told
him that he had heard ZEKE JONES say
that his sister-in'law's aunt was known
70 have said that she shouldn't wonder
if there was likely to be something
wrong at Maiden. BEN was perfectly
satisfied of the correctness of this story,
because he peeped through keyhole OF
a lock of the Charleston Jail. The Gov
ernor MUST send troops to Kanawha.
Year: 1870

The Secretary of the Interior express
es a wise and humane, not to say Chris
tisn opinion, when he says it would be
cheaper to feed during their natural
lives all the lult Indians we are now
overrunning, and await the growth OF
their children brought up to agricul
ture, than carry on genera! war with
them for single year in their own
fierce and exrerminstirg manner. II
does not we'll become great nation,
which has done so much to hberate the
African race in this country, to tyrannize
over the remnant of the red men--the
aborigines of this continent.
Year: 1870

NORTH CARoLINA.-The Conservatives mem
Der Of the North Carolina Legislature which ha.
q journal sine die, are ont i'm an address to the
people. In alluding to the action Of the Gov
ernor in declaring Alamance county in q state
Of insuIrection and asking for the suspension OF
the habeas corpus the address reeites. The
Chief Magistrate of this State, the head and
front OF Raiicalism, has seen nit to declare one
of our counties in state Of insurrection, and to
call upon Congress to suspend the writ Of habeas
corpus throughout the3State. They declare there
is no SUFFICIENT canse for this extraordinary
action Of Gov. Holden. There is and has been
no armed assistance, no uprising Of the people,
no outbreaking to disturb or hinder the full ad-
ministration OF the civil law. We assert that
there Is not county In the State in which any
sheriff or other peace officer may not 20 un-
attended and with perfect safety, and execute
any process upon any citizen Of the State. 1t Is
true that murders and other outrages have been
committed, but they have not been confined to
any particular locality or to any political party;
and when Gov. Holden represents to the Presi-
dent and to Congress that these acts are
evidences Of disloyalty he is guilty Of q willful
libel upon people whose rights he has sworn
TO prOte CT, "a .e.t
Year: 1870

Miss JULIANA MAYS CONCERT, tomorrow
night, at the Masonic Temple, will certainly
draw a large attendance of our music lovers
who have not had a recent opportunity to hear
this distinguished vocalist. The programme of
the concert is very fine one, and the attrac-
tions altogether are OF high order.
Year: 1870

The CoLoRED BOY appointed by General
Butler as cadet at West Point has been declared
ineligible by the War Department authorities,
being under the requisite age, seventeen years
General Butler says he will try again, and has
no doubt he win find colored boy who will be
eligible.
Year: 1870

WICKED BEN,


THE CELEBRATED EDUCATED HOG,
Will open on the corner Of 9TH and d Streets


WEDNESDAY EVENING
Will continue every DAY. from o n m To 10 n m
His performance is great mystery m2g-3t-
Year: 1870

STATE TAXATION OF NATIONAL BANKs.-The
Supreme Court of the United States, i'm the case
of the First National Bank of Louisville against
the State of Kentucky, has decided that the
property in a bank called share was distinct
from the capital of the bank, and that such 2
share, as the property Of the shareholder,
could be taxed by the State, notwithstanding
the fact that all the stock of the bank was i'm.
vested i'm Government securities.
Year: 1870

We have no interest whatever in the c1-
listing quarrel between the opposing DEM
ocratio factions in Chicago. We have
very deep interest, md so has every
other citizen who lives by his labor
and not by his knavery, in the
election Of good Judges. Whatever
may be the result Of the election next
Saturday, We earnestly hope that no such
calnrnity mny be inflicted upon this COM
munity as the election of E. r. Runynn
to the Office Of Circuit Judge. Let the
people Of the West Division look at the


mapof their proposed parks and boulevards,
and ask themselves whether they suppose
for an instant that that zig -zag contrivance,
as crooked as Virginia worm fence, was
the product of honesty and fair dealing.
Let them inquire whether the projectors Of
tho WORM fence are working and spending
their money TO elect one uf their own nnm-
Der launyan) to the Office Of Circuit
Judge? It will be found that they
are. It will be easily conceived TINT they
nre not doing 80 with an eye single to tho
public veal, especially when it is understood
TINT tho candidate has no cla1ula to the
ofice above those Of q Police Court shystcr.
:. The fact is, TINT Kunyan could never have
been nominated in q regular party minority
on u full vote, and, knowing that
they can elect only one Judge,
they will not talse the risk of helping sec
ond candidate. Neither cnu Mr.. Rogers
friends, for the latter reason, afford to vote
for Runynn. They are bound to knife
each other wherever they can, Mr.. Tree's
friends, very sensibly, vote for only one
candidate, knowing that every vote cast for
a second candidate diminiahes his chances
OF election to that extent
Year: 1870

I WISH ALL MY CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE BOUGHT
ae through me OF b. sb9msn Co. to pay to that hrm or
their authorized agent the balance OF their accounts
have nothing more 10 10 with that establishment


EDWARD EARLY.
Year: 1870




troops were, asked Jack
son Hill forward to take the
advance, andSperTnit the first and Sc
cOnd lines to be. reformed. While this
was being done, Jackson, accompanied
by some officers and cOuriers, rode for
ward to reconnoiter. He advanced as
far as the Federal pickets, and then
turned t. come back TO his own line,
when his party, mistaken for Federal
cavalry, were fired into by the COnfed-
crate line of battle. The fire was pro-
bably from troops who had just been
placed in position, and who did not
know that Jackson and his party were
in front of them. I think this was the
Generals impression in speaking of it
afterward Several Of his party were
killed and wounded by this fire, but
the General escaped, and turning to
the left entered the forest and continu-
ed to approach his own line When
within thirty or forty yards of it Sc
cOnd volley was fired, which wounded
him in three places. One of the wounds
was in the right hand, the other two
in his lett arm. The ball causing the
first two lodged under the skin upon
the back Oflhis hand. 1t was a round
ball, such as was Used for the smooth
bore Springfield muskets. The wounds
in his left arm We're believed To have
been made 10y the same kind of bullets.
The Confederate troops who fired the
VOlleys at the General and his escort,
zWere armed with -mOoth-bore mus
Year: 1870

.... The race of the Newmarket Oaks on
Thursday was won by Wheat Ear.


THE ship Merrimac has stranded in the
Bay OF Jahde in the North sea. The saved,
but the vessel is considered total loss.


THE Bank of England statement is
scarcely favorable this week The amount of bullion
hand Thursday evening $4,000 less than at
the corresponding time last week.


....The bark MacLaren, which arrived Mt
Shields yesterday obliged 10 throw overheard nearly
the whole OF her cargo consisting Of chemicals fire
had broken out and IL became necessary to sacrifice the
cargo TO save the vessel


LIN the Church Congress in session at
Southampton yesterday, Earl Nelson moved for and
gued in favor of a intimate union with nonCOn-
forts the basis OF recognition Of kindred points Of
belief and disregard OF points OF dissent The tendency
Of the discussion which followed was favorable to the
proposition,
Year: 1870

into the zendnd, and there makes great
coughing and shuffling with his feet
Instantly every woman, except his wife
and mother, draws her chuddah. over
her face, and flies to her own room,
shutting the door. His wife draws her
veil close over her, and covers down
like frightened dove. When he goes
out he bangs the door with tremendous
slam; and then the women one by one
come out of their holes. 1t is the in
variable custom for each woman to cook
the food for herself, her husband and
her children. They may have plent;
of servants who do other work; but.she
must do the cooking, as it would break
their caste to eat food which had been
touched by person of lower caste than
themselves. They have two regular
meals day. These consist of rice and
different kinds of curry. The first meal
is about half past ten The morning, the
other at ten at night. Between times,
however, they eat various kinds of fruit
and sweet meats. When the food is
ready, it is sent into the mems apart
ment, where he and his unmarried sons
over fourteen, sitting on mat on the
floor, devour such portions as they like,
all eating with their fingers from one
dish. The remainder is then sent to
the mother and the rest to the children.
Their cooking vessels generally, and
also those from which they eat and
drink, are of brass, kept well cleaned
and bright.
Year: 1870

The follow ing most eloquent "Apos-
tropbe to Water" by Paul Denton, a
Methodist preacher, is used by John B.
Cough, in his temperance lecture as
argument. It is, indeed, a consecutive
uurst of the beautiful, thrilling and
truthful passages, such as can rarely be
found in such words:


Look at this, ye. sons of earth! Be
hold it, 1t is a beverage that was
Urewed by the hands of the Almighty
Himself! Not in q simmering still of
smoking fires, chOked with poisonous
gases, and surrounded by the stencil of
sickening odors and rank corruption,
does our Father in Heaven prepare the
precious essence of life, the pure cold
water, but in the green glade and grassy
dell, where the deer wander and the
child loves to play, there God brews it:
and down in the valley, where the foun-
tains murmur, and the rills sing, and
high upon the mountain tops, where
storm clouds brood and the thunders
crash, and far away on the wide sea,
where the hurricane howls music and
the big waves rolls the chorus sweeping,
the march of God, there he breWs it
that beverage of health-giving water.
And everywhere it is q thing of beauty;
glimmering in the summer rain, shining
IN the ice germ, sill the trees all seem
to be furued into living jewels; spread
ing living veil over the setting sun, or
in white gauZe around the midnight
moon; sporting in the cataracts, sleep
ing in the glaciers, dancing in the hail
showers; folding its curtain softly
around the windy world, and weaving
the many colored iris-whose warp is
IN the rain drops of the earth-whose
wool is IN the sunbeams of heaven; all
checked over with celestial flowers by
the mystic hand of fraction, still al
ways it is beautiful-that blessed life
water. No poison bubbles on the
brink; its foam brings no sadness or
murder.
Year: 1870

DoN'r EAT Ar NIGHT.-A touch of
the DYSPEPSIA, growing out of pigs foot
swallowed at midnight has changed a
mans whole life, and an irregularity Of
the bile has many an angel almost
tiend If the gastric juice is all right,
and the blood in swimming order, the
world is nice, bright, pleasant place,
and from which nobody is in hurry to
move; but if in that queer, mysterious
fluid there is any alloy the sky of life is
all cloud. the winds howl, and every
thing is dark and dismal. If you want
to feel happy, look after your digestive
and circulating systems.
Year: 1870

An old bachelor says that giving the
ballot to women would not amount to
anything practically because they would
keep denying they were old enough to
vote until they got TO be too old to take
any interest in politics.
Year: 1870

rHE SOUTHERN CENTRAL RAILROAD is now com
pleted the entire distance from Owego TO Auburn.
popular and prosperous agricultural and Nianuiac-
turing district is thus efficiently provided for. The
local business of the Southern Central will he very
large both in freight aud passenger traffic. The rich
Agricultural country through which it runs will
afford constantly increasing business. The great
manufacturing establishments at Auburn, whose
waterpower is the best in the State and the enter
prisng towns along the line will always secure 10
this road good income


VEEMIiyE & Co., the Financial Agents of the
Year: 1870

DID STANTON COMMIT SuICIDE?-Thc
LaCross Democrat still persists in its assertion
that Edwin NJ. Stanton committed suicide
1t says:


He died in the third story of house.
No one was allowed to the corpse. He
was not laid in state, as the head Of the War
Department should have been-as other men
of prominence are. He died. and was kept from
sight. And none Of those who called to see
the remains of the great statesman" could
obtain view Of the corpse. In vain did his
friends urge that the body be laid in state in
the War Department. His grave clothes were
made to cover up his face. He was member
of the Episcopal Church. and that church
denies to suicides graves under its prayers
and protection. And to have made known
the manner of his death would have been
the casting him out from church rites and
Christian burial. And this would have
had great political effect, and so con-
sultatou. called at II o'clock at night, was
held, and it was decided that 1.-The truth must
not be known"


"And again. why was his body taken up
quietly the week after intermeDt, and another
put in its place? Simply that the manner of
his death might never be proven"
Year: 1870

A letter from Jacksonville, Illinois, under
date of April 18th, says


On yesterday thrilling scene occurred at
the insuue asylum. \ woman who had been in
the asylum for several years escaped from her
ward and went through the halls and up the
stairway that leads out upon the roof of the
building. She wandered around upon the
roof of the building until she came to the edge
of the cornice. After looking down for SONIC
time she swung herself over the edge OF the
cornicc by her hands, and swinging there she
could just touch with her toes the cap above
the window of the fifth story, which was just
below her. Having gotten foothold thereon
she let 90 her hands and, strange to say, pre-
served her bulancet and stood upon the cap,
which is about twelve inches wide. While
standing there she was discovered in her
pcrilous situation. immediately several men
went upon the roof and let down u rope, and
tried 10 persuade her to tasten it around her.
She would take hold of the rope, then laugh
at them, but refused to use it. Meanwhile
beds were brought out and placed on the
ground five stories below her, and in breath-
less suspense all who were on the ground
awaited her fall. Nothing dauntcd after re-
manning on the wudow- cap for nearly Il half
hour, all OF sudden she grabbed the rope
held in the hands of the men above and
jumped off They let the rope run through
their hands, and she held ON until within
thirty feet of the grou"d, when she let 90,
and fell upon the b0dS uuhurt. During all
this timo there was the most thrilling sus-
pense TO all the behulders, and glorious relief
at her escape from such peril
Year: 1870

- Medical students at Louisville, who have
a dissecting-room on the fifth floor of a build
ing, have fun in inviting countrymen up
stairs, and making believe they are going to
cut them up. They made mistake the other
day, their victim picking up mans leg that
had just been cut off, and cleaning out the
ranch. They arc not playing the game as
much as formerly.
Year: 1870

RECEIPT FOR FfSDISG HUSBAND
More common sense and less wit f


More useful occupation and less Duslc.


More study of the Mysteries of the kitchen
and less of the Mysteries of Paris.


More proof to men that they will find in
their wife helpmeet and not an embarrass-
ment.


This receipt. if thoroughly tried, will
greatly lesson the number of bachelors.
Year: 1870

We plead for the beautiful, even in
farm life That sentiment Of Goethe:
we should do oar utmost to encourage
the beautiful, for the useful encourages
itself should TO q certain extent be
the watchword Of every farmer. A well
kept barn with neat buildings, and a
yard in which flowers and trees are
more conspicuous than broken crockery
and cast of hoop skirts, is worth more
to keep or to sell than one where no
attempt at beoutifying the premises has
been made, Some years ago, gentle
man Of our acquaintance purchased a
farm in the front yard Of which, put
out by former owner were several or
namental trees that had attained quite
a growth, some flower beds, shrubbery,
&c. Almost one Of the first acts OF the
new occupant was to tear away the fence
cut down the trees, and turn the pretty
yard into the common highway. We
never pass that place but we are pain
ed blythe thought Of the vandalism that
has given barren and cherries as
poct to a home that might have rejoic-
ed in refreshing shade and a wealth Of
floral beauty.


We counsel more attention TO the
beautiful Plant trees and shrubs and
vines, make your home surrounding al
tractiye by the help Of rustic structures


-arbors, seats, gateways- by the artis-
tic forming Of land and judicious dis
position Of the various objects employ
ed. Don't hope to do il all at once +
and don't get discouraged. DO little
this summer and fall, and the remain
der another year. A tree grows slowly
but before you are aware Of IT, Il has
out grown your expectations. Set out
your trees thereiore-ior they will not
grow where you want them II you do
not put them there, How the odd
hours Of one summer even can be made
to improve and adorn ones home with
beauty that viii never fade, bnt be
more and more delightful with each re-
turning spring. time. Maine Farmer.
Year: 1870




A young man who carried q collec-
ton plate, in service, before starting
took from his pocket a FIVE cent piece.
as he supposed put il on the plate. and
then passed it round among the con.
gregation, which included many young
girls The girls as they looked at the
plate, all seemed astonished and ANUS
ed, and the young man, taking glance
at The plate, found instead Of a nickel
five cent piece be had a conversation
lozenge, with the words will you mar
ry me : in red letters, staring every
body right in the face.
Year: 1870

SWEET On ron PoisoNs A plain
farmer says II is now twenty years
since learned that sweet oil would cure
the bite of rattlesnake, not knowing
that II would cure any other poison,
both on man or beast. think no farm
er should be without bottle of il in the
house. The patient must take a spoon
full Of il internally and bathe the wound
for cure. To cure a horse it requires
eight times as much as it does for q
man. Here let me say, OF one OF the
most extreme cases Of snake bites in
this neighborhood years ago
this summer-where the case had been
thirty days standing, and the patient
had been given up by his physicians. =
heard of it and carried the oil, and
gave one spoonful, which effected cure.
II is an antidote for arsenic and strych-
nine. 1t will cure bloat in cattle caus-
ed by eating too freely Of fresh clover,
1t will cure bites Of bees, spiders or
other insects, and will cure persons who
have been poisoned by low running
vine in the meadows, called ivy.
Year: 1870

To CuEr fuox, To cure this pain
ful thing, or rather 10 check Il or nip i
in the bud, The London Lancet high
authority, says there is nothing like the
following As soon as the palsahon
which indicates the disease is felL put
directly orerthe spot fly blister about
the size Of your thumb nail. and lc. Il
remain for SIX hours. at the expiration
Of which time, directly under tho sur.
face Of the blister, may he seen the fol.
on, which can be instantly taken out
with the point Of needle or lancet
Year: 1870

Two centuries ago not one In a
hundred wore stockings. Fifty years
ago not one boy il a Thousand was al-
lowed to run at large at night. Fifty
years ago not girl ia thousand made
a waiting maid Of her mother Won
derfal improvement in this ageL
Year: 1870

Messrs Rosewood & Walnut, with
their lawyer, who had drawn up the
motgage were in Mr. Hathorne's parlor,
Will stood gloomily by the window,
wishing the day were not SO fine, OF
that SO many people would not pass the
house.


Mrs Hathorn came down the stairs
and bowling to the gentleman, placed q
parcel in his hands.


If you please, sir, see Y that is all
correct. En-


Mr Rosewood openedit; it was pie
thorio roll of greenbacks. VIII step
ped forward in supreme amazement,
but Hattie laid OBTAINING hand on his
arm


Quite correct, Madam. Just bring
me pen and ink, while / give you re-
ceipt in full on this instrument.


VIII produced his pocket pen. The
receipt was given, and the gentlemen
left the house.


Hattie


Will


What does it mean


Only this; l sold my watch and chain
to your sister for two hundred dollars.
Pa paid me the one hundred and fifty
did not take for spending money on my
wedding tour. | have saved fifty dollars
out Of the bountiful supply Of money
You gave me- And now Will our home
is our own.


He strained her to his heart.


You are my good angel, Hattie. Here
after | shall gladly abide by your iudg-
ment; and never again do you see me
spend cent that have not in my
pocket
Year: 1870

How TO TELL THE AGE or HoRsEs. "A
short time ago we met gentleman from
Illinois, who gave us piece Of informa-
tion in regard to ascertaining a horses
age, after he or she has passed the
ninth year, which WAS new to us and
will be We are sure to most OF our read
ers, 1t is this; after the horse is nine
years old, a wrinkle comes on the eye
lids at the upper corner Of the lower lid
and every year thereafter he has one
well defined wrinkle for each year over
nine. II, for instance horse has three
wrinkles, he is twelve if four, he is
thirteen Add the number Of wrinkles
to nine and you will get it. SO says
the gentleman; and be is confident it
will mover fail AS good many peo-
pie own horses over nine, II is easily
tried II true the horse dentist must
give up his trade.