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Year: 1871

REMEMBER THls.-Burke & Heenan still con.
tinue to take the lead in selling fashionable
dress goods at very low prices. They keep fully
up with the ch.nges of fashion, and receive new
goods every day, and on the question of low
prices they allow no one 20 beat them on the
same quality of goods.
Year: 1871

FEED GRINDER, &C,-Reed u Gibson have an
advertisement of u celebrated feed grinder in
This paper. 1t is one Of the best yet invented,
and costs less than half the amount usually
charged for other kinds They still continue
the manufactory Of the Foy reaper, and recon.
mend it to tho public.


Read their card
Year: 1871

NEW QUARTERs.-Stiefel & Co., the popular
clothing merchants OF this city, fading the store
at present occupied by them much too small for
their extensive business, have been obliged to
seek more space, and accordingly have leased the
cornor store in Nattinger's block, at the south
west corner of t square


In their new ia-ters they will be advantage.
ously fixed, as IL as to room as to location


They have lered An ,dditonal supply of
summer goc- and will crry the hand-omest
stock of read made clothlas in Ottawa They
extend a cordial invitation to their old friends
and customers, and to the public generally, to
call and see them at their new store


They will not move until about the 18th of
next month. as they ARE putting the new store
in order.
Year: 1871

oil MOnuhan.


In the case or Mrs. Ann Monahan, who was found
dead In her bed rear OF 23l Bowery sunday last,
Coroner schirmer Yesterday made an investigation.
IL was suspected that sylvester MOnahan, the hns-
band, nadinnicted violence upon his wife, from the
effects OF which she died, but no evidence to that
elect could be procured by the Coroner Both Mona
han ana his wife were OF Incorporate habits, and
had been on drunken debauch on Saturday night.
They lived somewhat unhappiy together, and
lie had been known TO beat her, but not lately.
HemOrrhage from rupture OF the spleen was the
cause OF death, which may have been caused by
fail. DR.. Cushman, VINO made post-mortem ex-
animation Oh the body, OF course could moi tell In
what manner the injuries were received. In their
verdict enc jury found that deceased came TO her
death from rupture Of the spleen received In some
manner 10 them unknown. Monahan was there
fore discharged from custody
Year: 1871

captives they say Get them back for us
our little boys will grow up slaves, and our
girls, as soon as they are large enough, will be
diseased prostitutes to get money for whose
ever owns them. Our women work hard and
are good women, and they and their children
have no disease. Our dead you cannot bring
to life, but those that are living we gave to you,
and we look to you, who can write and talk
and have soldiers, to get them back. "
The writer adds:


Unless some action is taken to convince
| them that our government means kindness and
justice, and they are driven away desperate
and disappointed, blinded by ignorance, rage
and superstition, assure you | could hardly
command men to fire on them, and if fail tC
| do for them now everything in my power,
should expect it to be remembered against mC
when | am finally called to account, as my grav
est ofiense and my greatest life responsibility.
The matter has been referred by the lndial
commission to the War Department, with tn


request that these citizen murderers Of Indian


may be arrested with the promptness shown il


the case Of the Indian chief Santanrs.
Year: 1871

We have sometimes complained that the
advanced women who clamor so earnestly for
social regeneration are unwilling or unable to
tell us precisely what they want We know
what one class of the female reformers want /;
for some of them at least are quite clear in their
own minds, and certainly frank enough in
speech; but when a ady like Mrs Davis cries
out for Free love, and then shrieks with horror
because the only possible definition of Free
Love is explained to her, or when two such
philanthrOpists as Mrs Henry b. Stanton and
Miss Susan b. Anthony take pains to demon
strate an ELUSIVE sympathy with a notorious
representative of the yiest variety of Free
Love principles, we are puzzled for an expla-
nation, and would beg the ladies (if there were
any use in begging) to come down out of the
clouds and talk plain English. Mrs. Laura
Fair, we believe, never spoke at conventions


but she practiced in the concrete, the same
liberty of love which the advanced women ad


vocate with so much eloquence in The abstract


Her life was a course of vulgar lust, crowned
by cruel and s:ckening murder Therefore
Mrs. Henry B. Stanton and Miss Susan B
Anthony feel it their duty TO visit her in iai
and offer her the hand of sympathy, and Mis-
Anthony attempts to defend her in a publ


lecture, until the Kisses of the audience oblig


her to change the subject. Pray, ladies, wha
do you want?
Year: 1871

An old negro woman in accounting for lack
of discipline among youngsters, insist that it is
because their mothers wear CATERS. You see
when we wore low shoes, and the children wan
ted whipping we took off shoe mighty quick
and give them good spanking, but now hows
body to git gaiter off in timer So the
children gifts no whipping nowadays
Year: 1871

At a juvenile party, young gentleman,
about seven years old, kept himself from the
rest of the company. The lady of the house
called to him, Come and dance and play, my
dear Choose one of these pretty girls for your
wife Not likely cried the young cynic.
No wife for me Do you think | want to be
worried out of my life like poor papa?
Year: 1871


A man in his carriage riding along,
A gayly dressed wife by his ade:
In satin and lace she looked Ike a queen,
And he like king in his pride.
wood saver stood on the street he passed;
The carriage and couple he eyed,
And said as he worked on a log,
Il wish was rich aud could ride"
The man in the carriage remsr rksd to his wife,
"Ono thing would do if could;
I'd give all wealth for the strength and the health,
or the man who is saving the wood
pretty young maid with bundle OF work,
Whose face as the morning fair,
Went tripping along with a smile of delight,
While hummiRg love breathing air.
She looked in the carriaEe-the lady she saw.
Arraysd in apparel SO fine;
And said in whisper, " l wish IN my heart
Those satns and lsces mine"
The lady looked out on the maid with her work,
So fair In her calico dress.
And said. Z" I u relnqush pOtitiOr and wealth,
Her beauty and youth to possess"
Thus it is in this world. Whatever our LOT,


Our mind and our time employ
In longing and signing for lat we have not,


UnSrateiul for what we enjoy.
Year: 1871

1t is not work that kills men, it is worry.
Work is healthy you can hardly put more
upon man than he can bear. Worry is rust
upon the blade. 1t is not the revolution that
destroys the machinery, but the friction.
Year: 1871

A Pennsylvania recently asked one of the
striking miners how they managed to live so
long without working. The reply was: eye
see, when we don't work, we live as we used
to live in Ireland, and when we do work, we
live like Americans, and that's Jest the expla-
nation of how we get along at all.
Year: 1871

WE would call attention to the advertisement Lost elsewhere iu this issue The seventeen hundred-dollar receipt would be Of no value 10 any man other than the owner; and it Is 10 be hoped that the pocketbook has fallen into honest hands that ~ill not detaln t after .Le publication Of tbi. notice
Year: 1871

The world is full OF people who are
perpetually snateting At occasions for
informing the one with whom they last
talk trey ",tlways thought So" No Sab
bath school superintendent can become
n bank doiaultor no Clergyman turn
out to be a reprobate Of unmontonable
crimes no public officer proved to have
accepted brlbes, without the chattering
of II swarm of gossips who swear that
they suspected the thing from the first
No enormity surprises them ; for their
malignant omniscience protects them
against surprise. The intuitions of the
scNndal-menger are wonderful intel
lectual phenomenon. He is sort o.
malignant moral surgeon, who, indifIer-
ent to the agony he causes probes the
wound in order to extract the bullet
not of truth, but Of Misrepresentation.
It is verbally striking a man when he is
down, and helping to kick him to death
with scandel's lamest spiders.


No doubt it is a rare gift to know, by
intuition, that certain man Is villain,
yet utter no word against him until he
is proved to be so, The gift is so rare
that we would not like to run the risk
OF being unjust to humanity by c"Scula-
tlnp the SeIdOmneSS with winch 1t Is
Year: 1871

81 never wrote n letter before, md
don't know just how to begin it but
know lots of boys who do write letters
to the girls, and I'm most rs big as
they are. Tommy Jones said he had
got letter from somebody; l asked
him to let me see it in taking from his
pocket it fell into mud-puddle. never
so tickled in my life but lie cried like
everything. I like you real well, for
you are Democrat, and Old School
Baptist, and have been to the city.
saw you at church last Sabbath. You
have o new bonnet. Ilkenew bonnets ;
and some time, you know, I shall get
You new bonnet almost every day. I
shall learn to build houses, and you cen
wash the dishes and make pancakes.
like pancakes; don't you? I don't
like nolasses bit ; it is real nasty stuff.
hope you don't like it either, for shall
not have q bit in our house, and it
wouldn't look well to'quarrel about mo-
lasaes and l wouldn't strike girl when
she's woman when l get some money
I'm going to buy you some cologne !;
I shall turn some out for me, so when l
come to see you 1 can perfume my
handkerchief. l can't write any moro
now The school man is looking this
way. You see, size don't know what
true love is. Ifyou haven't any paper,
I'll give you leave out of MY new read
en- "WILLIE DRowN."
Year: 1871

DIR. Bush said the reason why Ger
mans die so seldom of consumption is
the fact of their singing from their ear
liest childhood. Another medical au-
thority says that the reason why SO
many Germans die of consumption is
because they SNAKE so much. The
reader Of these can take his choice.
Year: 1871




Many people think newspapers dear
that five cents week for food for the
brain is too extrayagant but glass Of
whiskey is manufactured from about
seventy grains ofcon, the value of which
is too small to be estimated. A glass Of
this mixture sells for dime, and, if a
good brand, is considered worth the
money. 1t is drank in q moment OF
two. It fires the brain, deranges and
weakens the physical system. On the
same sideboard on which the deleterious
beverage is served lies a newspaper. II
is covered with half a million types, ii
brings intelligence from the four quar-
ters Of the globe. The newspaper costs
less than the glass of grog, but it is not
less true that there is large number
who think corn juice cheap and newspa
pers dear North Carolinian.
Year: 1871

The stock market was more active, wtn perhaps,
the largest business for day noted for consid-
cradle period. The speculation ran chiefly on
Wabash, Rock Island, Lake Shore, Northwestern and
St Paul. which were quite strong. The unfavorable
bank statement and rumors OF a riot at the City
Hall attending the arrest OF ex-Comptroller Con-
molly produced a sudden counter movement and
the market broke down and closed weak, but hold
ing some OF the days improvement in few OF the
list. The following table shows the highest ana
lowest prices OF the principal stocks during the
daV.-
Year: 1871

IL Tic DoulOureGx, rdb Rsnns's Pain
Killing Magic Oil all around the ear, and
especially on the prominent face bone above
tho ear. You thus reach the fifth pair of
nerves, which go to the face" and if you
use it faithfully it soon cures.
Year: 1871

A carefully prepared article on New
York life, in the Courier des tniS, con-
tains the following statements:


There are not less than ten thousand
families in New York whose annual
expedtures for mere livelihood are at
an average of $4,000; that there are
one thousand who spend from S25r 900
to $4,000; that from sixty to seventy
families 90 TO the extreme OF from S4O,-
900 to 100000. The inain motive
prompting this extravaganza Is the
everweening ambition for notoreity, as
is seen in the fact that so many live IN
hotels in the winter at New York, and
in summer at popular resorts, amid
every form OF discomfort, at an expense
greater than is requisite TO keep up the
most princely palatial establishments Of
European noblemen. Of all the thou
sands thus living, the writer estimates
that not more than one-third have any
nermanent, reliable business on which
TO depeud; the remainder consisting OF
speculators and adventures, who may
in a week be left without resources.


AS a specimen OF the contrast which
thus builds up a city OF luxury rather
than OF fortune. the editor gives this ex
ample: People truly rich-and there
are some very rich-are not those who
live the most extravagantly. To be
and TO appear to be are two things; and
as it is necessary to appear at any price
to be what one is not, it is only those
whose fortune is established, as the
Astors and the Stewarts, who can afford
themselves the luxury Of a simple style
Of living. When q man owns sixty
millions of dollars be has no need OF
wearing in his shirt. bosom brilliants
worth ten thousand dollars, and have
himself dragged about by six horses.
He has right to have only PLAIN white
shirt.bosoms, and to take his walk Oh
foot after dinner without fear OF passing
for a stingy man, or OF sponglng on his
bootmaker. When Prince Arthur was
at New York he went every evening on
foot cane in hand, from the Brevoort
House 10 the Central Park. and no one
would take him for a splurge. If an
agent on Change had done this he
would lose the confidence Of his GUS
toners, and, what is worse, the esteem
of his wife and the respect Of his ser
wants" = r-
Year: 1871

that Monroe and Hop Martin were


out in the mountain that day, Friday


last, hunting sheep. This Bill denied


upon examination. Monroe was then
first seen and his tale heard. He was
not allowed to see Hop until his story
was fully given. They agreed that they
left the house, one OF them about one
mile from where the murder was COM
mitted, and that they went up the
mountain and stayed together until they
returned. But one said they came back
before sundown and the other that they
returned one hour after dark.


Without being formally arrested,
these men were kept until the next day,
but not allowed to talk to each other.
Soon in the morning Colonel Colyar
started with one Of them to show his
trip through the the mountain, which
he did, climbing and clambering until
they reached a point on the noun
tain, between three aud four miles from
home, then returning by a different
route. Immediately afterward the
OlucE was ldheu anu ulEcClcu W tIaNel
over the route which they both agreed
they had travelled together only
last Friday evening, and he reached
the mountain by road at least two
miles from the point W here the other
reached it. The two routes, going and
returning, were totally different, and no
man ever took q walk with more trepi-
dation than did the last one, knowing
the other had first been over the ground.
These two men were born and bred at
the foot Of the mountain, and knew
every path.


This was regarded as the strongest
sort Of evidence, but on examining their
shoes it was found they exactly con-
tirmed to the measures. The tracks
in the field showed one shoe to be
about a number nine, broad heel, and
the right shoe run down. The other
was a small shoe, and the shoes OF both
parties suited the tracks exactly.


Both of these men lived on an adjoin-
ing farm to Mr.. Hooton, in sight of his
house had long been hostile to him,
and had threatened his life
Year: 1871

From the Nashville Banner.


Two men were arrested in Franklin
county, last Tuesday. as the murderers
OF Elmore K. Horton.


The facts of this rather extraordinary
case are, that Mr. Horton, who lived
about fourteen miles below Winchester,
and near the mountain, was shot from
his horse by some persons from a con-
cealed place il the corner Of fence.
Several persons heard the guns, and the
dead body was found few minutes after
ward. Upon examination 1t was found
that two men had been concealed in a
corner OF the fence just where the road
made a sudden turn into a little branch,
and from the horses tracks and the
place where the BODY was found, it was
clear that he was shot when the horse
was drinking The cracks OF the fence
had all been stopped with weeds except
the one through which the guns were
put. This was just before sundown last
Friday evening. Horton was returning
from town and was within a mile Of
home, in thickly settled neighborhood,
there being several houses in sight


The coroners jury gave verdict that
the killing was done by two unknown
persons.


The death OF Mr.. Horton was tele-
graphed TO Colonel A s. Colyar, Of this
city, who at once commenced TO make
inquiries, but found that no one had left
the settlement. Taking two or three re,
liable men with him, Colonel Colyar
went rapidly from house to house, to
hear the story OF every man and his
family, interrogating each separately,
as to his whereabouts on the day oi
the murder, and at the school house
where the children were all examines
separately. One boy stated that g
boy named Bill Martin told hin
Year: 1871

How beautiful the following gem
from the pen of Prentice, and how happy
the heart that can see these beauties as
he portrays them;


"Why is it that the rainbow and the
cloud come over US with beauty that
is not of earth, and then pass away, and
leave us to muse on their faded lovi,
ness2 Why is it that the stars which
hold their nightly festival around the
midnight throne are placed above reach
oil our limited faculties, forever mock
ing us with their unapproachable glory
And why is it that bright forms OF
human beauty are presented to our
view, and then taken from us, leaving
the thousand streams Of affection to
flow back in Alpine torrents upon our
hearts2 We are born to higher destiny
than that of earth. There is a realm
where the rainbow never fades
where the stars will be set out before
US like islands that slumber on the
ocean, and where the beautiful being
that passes before US like q meteor will
stay in our presence forever.
Year: 1871

tho part of the almost distracted pa
rent, the snake would entirely change
the tone of his rattle and swell to al
| most twice his natural size. During
all this time the child tightly grasped
the snake with his chubby little hands
and jerked and twisted him about in
very rude and unceremonious man
ner, laughing and talking to her hor,,
rid plaything in perfect ecstacy OF
delight. This state Of things was
finally ended by movement of the
parent, which so enraged the snake
that be drew himself up into tight
coil, lcapcd ont Of bed, and would
have buried his fangs into tho far,
mer's face had he not quickly lodged
to one side. AS it was, the serpent
went over his shoulder and out at
tho door, where he renewed his sig
nal for battle, but was quickly stretch
ed out stiff in death by u shot from
the rifle. The child cried immodcr-
atcly for her pretty playtbing, and it
set down in any part of the yard
would Immediately toddlc toward the
dead reptile.


A party Of young men in the same
ncighborhood, only q few years ago,
had a very interesting adventure with
rattlesnakcs which may be briefly
stated. Early in the Fall of the J ear,
and before the snakes had housed up
for the Winter, this party went out
one night on raccoon hunt. About
midnight the dogs 'trced' q family of
coons in one Of the largest trees in
the neighborhood. 1t was decided to
wait until daylight to capture them,
with the hope that the cutting down
Of the tree could he dispensed with.
The young men laid down upon the
ground, and were amusing themselves
with telling stories, when one Of the
party, who was thoroughly acquain-
led with the habits and peculiarites
Of the rattlesnakc, suddenly called
out, Lie still, boys; don't move for
anything. There's rattlesnalcs here !;
I heard ones rattles hit a rock He
had scarcely spoken when an enor-
nous rattlesnake came crawling over
his foot, and following his. leg to the
body, crossed over his breast, striking
his next neighbours face, and crawling
over his mouth. The. third party was
not touched by the snake, except
that his rattles tapped lightly against
his cap-brim as he passed. The fourth
buntsman heard the rattle, sprang to
his feet and asccnded u tree with re-
markable agility. This snake was
Immediately followed by another, not
quite so large, and then by four very
small ones, all Of which travelled pre-
c;sely the same path. When day
light came the raccoons were shot,
and then the search for the snakes
commenced. They were found IN
hollow stump, but few steps off, and
,unrn oil l.iIlru
Year: 1871

The Lynchburg Republican publish
es the following "snake storics," and
says they can be substantiated by in
disputable testimony. They are only
some Of the trifling experiences. Of
the mouutainecrs with tho rattle
snakes:


"Therc are in the Blue Ridge two
distinct species-the yellow and tho
black. The yellow was formerly sup
posed to be tho male, and the black
the female; but the fallacy of th:t
opinion is demonstrated by the fact
that in many localities only one of
these kinds is ever seen and also by
the great difference in size and form
the yellow b"ing very thick and
short, and the black long and slender
But both of these species are bcauti-
fully ornamented with flowers, which
in the sunlight, partake Of all the col
ors Of tho rainbow. The yellow
snake is much less liable to rat, e than
the black, and therefore most to be
dreaded, though no dependence need
be placed in either, as it depends alto
gether upon the caprice Of the mo,
ment when they retreat, advance,
rattle, or "play possum." The par.
tiality of this snake for the company
of children has been frequently no.
ticcd among the mountaineers, one
instance of which is familiar to some
Of our Bedford readers.


A few years ago q farmer whose
cabin stood in one Of the widest To-
calitics about the mountains. on com
ing into the house one day discovered
his little daughter, two years old, sit
| ting up in bed, where she had beer
placed when asleep by her mother
The child was laughing immoderate
| Iy, and showing by it's every actor
and expression Of countenance tina
it was greatly pleased. The father
approached, when to his horror HI
I discovered that an enormous yellow
| rattlesnake, the largest he had eve
seen, was in bed with the child, ant
actually coiled around her body. Hi
presence instantly wrought chang
in the conduct of the snake, whicl
| dexterously uncoiled. itself from
around the child and assumed an at
titude of battle. The mountaineer'
rife hung uron rack over the door


he grasped it in his hand with feel
iugs which cannot be described, an
awaited an opportunity to shoot. Ii
~ had no sooner done 80 than the snak


commenced caressing the child b,
rubbing his head fondly against he


cheek, and darting his forked tongu


almost in her eyes. Then be woul


raise his tail and rattle so rapidly d
To make one continued sound, a
= which the child was greatly delight
ed. But upon the least movement o