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Year: 1870

In January, 1864, ,!Abraham DeBond,
of Washington county, Kentucky, was
shot in the forehead with a minnie
ball in q skirmish at Fair Garden, i'll
East Tennessee, and was taken from
the battlefield to the hospital. The
ball entered the forehead just above the
right eye, and, as there was an open
ing in the temple, just in front and
slightly above the right ear, it was sup
posed that the ball had passed entirely
through.


The man did not die, and he soon so
far recovered as to be sent home. The
wound did not heal up, and there had
been continual discharge from it ever
since its infiictiOn. Recently his suffer
ings have been so intense that he con-
suited a physician, who said that the
pain arose from the dead bone, and
that it would have to be removed be-
fore he could obtain relief. BeBOnd
went to Cincincinnati and placed him
self under the care of physicians, who
decided that it was necessary to per-
form the operation of trephining, and
a day or two since undertook the Ope-
ration. During the progress of this Op-
Grafton they detected the presence of
lead, and with the fOrceps extracted
minnie ball, flattened into the shape of
a chestnut, from the mans. skull. 1t
had entered the lateral sinus and frac-
tural table, and was resting upon the
brain. It is supposed that a fragment
of the ball had been Clipped off the
ball and passed out through the tenn
pie, leading to the belief that the ball
had passed entirely through the skull
The removal of the ball gave great aD
immediate relief, and DeBond is n
at st. Johns Infirmary, on Fourth
with every prospect of a speedy


perfect recovery.
Year: 1870

The proposition to build a great air
line railroad from Columbus via La
Grange and Rome, Ga, connecting at
thus making the shortest route from
that section of the country to the sea-
board, extending down by Bainbridge
into Florida, is creating unbounded in
terest among the intelligent people
and capitalists along the whole line.
Year: 1870

The Journal de Geneve gives the ac-
count of terrible accident on Mont Blanc:
"Three travellers, an Irishman, two Ameri-
cans, with three guides and five porters,
left Chamounix on Monday morning, to
arrive that day and sleep at the Grands-
Mulets. The weather was fine, but the
next morning there was SO violent storm
that the inhabitants of Ohamounix natur-
ally supposed that the travellers would have
given up the idea of an ascent Of Mont
Blanc. and would not have quilted the
Grand Mulets. There was, therefore, no
disquiet respecting them in the valley.
News came, it is true, in the evening that
from the Croix de Flegere and from Bre-
vent they had been seen starting for
Mont Blanc in spite of the tempest, and
that they had arrived upon the Dromedary's
Hump, an hours march distant from the


summit; that they had been seen suddenly
to collect together, and to hold fast one to


another, and then to disappear in the snow
wreaths raised by the wind. In spite of
this, however, people persisted in believ-
ing that they must have sheltered them
selves against the wind in some nook or
crevice Of the ice, and therefore there was
no great occasion to fear for the result.
However, when the next day the proprietor
OF the Pavilion do la PieTre-Pointue ar
rived, expressing his astonishment at find
ing that no one bad redescended. people
began to have serious apprehensions re-
garding the fate of the travellers. The day
was too far advanced to render it possible
to make any immediate search /;
but on the following morning, early,
thirty-two young men of the valley
went off in search of them. Unfortunate
ly the shocking weather which prevailed
prevented them from passing the pavilion
of Pierre-Pointue, situated at two hours
journey from Chamounix. They were
obliged to retrace their steps without be-
ing able to do anything. On the follow
ing day new attempt was
made by twelve courageous
young men; but again the rain and
the wind would not permit them TO scale
the mountain. At the hour of writing
there remains no hope that these unfortu-
nate people have escaped death. 1t is
probable that at the moment when they
were seen for the last time grouped to-
gether on the top of the Bosses du Droma-
daire, they we're making supreme effort
to withstand the tempest, so terrible on
those heights; that their effort was OF no
avail, and that they wore precipitated
together upon the Glacier du Mage,
which spreads out on the side of the Al
lee Blanche. The travellers were Mr.. Co
hendal, Scotch; ]. Bean and j. O. Kendall,
Americans. We have been furnished with
the names Of two of the guides, Jean Bal
matek and Joseph Breton, who we're well
known on account of their numerous as
tensions. One of the porters was young
Garde Mobile. who, on account of being
the support of his family, was excused
| from service and sent home few days
previously. His father was killed some
years ago on the Grands-Mulets, by the
falling of stone detached from rock.
This terrible drama has produced at Cha
mounix an emotion which we shall not at
tempt to describe. The whole of the val
4 lev is literally in mourning"
Year: 1870

beam-to-mOrrow an ieicle-wheD, one
afternoon. inst as l was concluding brief
visit, the General was summoned to the
door below. i stood, looking. from the
window a momeRt-not liking to go down
just then, yet exchanging no words with
ademoiselle-when a pleasant little muir
muir struck my ear Jaqueline was singing
to herself, as if there were not another soul
in the room, as though half under her
breath, yet with voice as rich as that of a
June thrush. 1t was only an air from the
opera that we had heard together. turned,
and going down the room, stayed before
the embroidery-frame.


"Tell me, ,mademoiselle, what Il is
have done TO offend your"


She looked up for moment, intending
to be severe and digniied. But it would
not do. The lips pursed up and quivered,
and there came the old peal of laughter.


"The small cousin marries next month, "
I whispered. $3.50


There came blush like a crimson rose
The head bent low oy.r the embroidery,
and--the General came back again. .a-'f


Some days went on. Mademoiselle's
moods were variable as the weather. NV
constitution would not stand it longer, and
determined to put my fate to the test.


She still sat behind her lace-frame like a
fixture, tracing as exquisitely ss a winters
night traces them on the pane her pattern
of fern-leaves and wild roses there. The
General had gone out this day, and came
in. had been greeted with an inclination
of the head, simple sentence, and then
silence. l went 20 the rug, and warmed
myself before the fire. She sat at the 9TH
er side, one step away. But the inclination
of her head had given finishing stroke to
the hair that loosened as she bent over her
work. Down it all came, falling ground her
like nuns vail She lifted her two little
hands to part it from the face, over which
a flush was streaming like an aurora; and
/ stood before her. -


'sHow long de you imagine 1 shall put
up with this, Mademoiselle Jaqueline? Do
you suppose that / can 1.-Two under sky 70
variable-this hour, June; the next. jan
uary? Henceiorth, it is to be all summer
do you hear2 Iput this seal upon it,"
and bending across the frame, kissed her
red, warm mouth.


She grew as white as she had been rosy.
Her head fell forward. thought she was
about to faint, and dashed the frame aside
to take her in my arms. Bat she only hid
the white face there, sobbing out: For
give me, o monsieur-fo-givel l had
thought for SO long that-it was the
small cousin"


''But told you it was not She mar
ries the husband of her choice. She is
like my sister.


No reply. Only the face hidden from
ne.


''You are goose, Jaqueline." And the
sweet face was got to at last.


Monsieur, said the General, when it was
all explained to him, after he had entered
to find us side by side in the ruddy glow of
the evening fire, 81 had once the idea that
it was you yourself, after all, who stole my
daughters bracelet"


"Well sirl-and now?"


''And now you have stolen her heart"
Year: 1870

he had practiced on the cabman, he
laughed heartily at the ingenious way in
which he had got home for nothing.


A story is told of very good elderly
gentleman, an affeetionate husband and
father, who, upon fire breaking out in
his home, rushed across the street and
earnestly begged friend who lived oppo-
site to take care of-his nightcapl


People have been Known to throw glass
and eTockery out of first or second floor
window in order to save it, when human
life and real valuables were in jeopardy.
An old servant was dragged fainting from
hoUse in flames. When she came TO, she
said, ".Thank goodness, I've saved this y
Now. what she had saved was parlor
broom. 1t is not everybody who can be as
cool as the Scotcham, who flung himself
out of the sixth story on hearing the cry OF
"freT When he had got half way down,
he found there was no fire at all, but seeing
friend in the third story looking out Of
the window, said contemplatively, "'Eh,
Sandy, mon, sic a "a as will haeP


A milknan on the line of the Harlem
Railroad was seen lately driving Jehu-like
with his milk-wagon on four-miie heat,
thinking he would be too late for the
train. The villagers stared as he rushed
through the streets. The train was al
ready standing at the depot. he dashed
across the track, backed up his empty wa
gon with end board out, turned around.
held up his hands and exclaimed, "By
jukes ! thought that Pete had put them
cans in y A four-mile race with an empty
wagon-so much for the mind wandering.
Per contra Stanislaus's wife never forgot
herself in any momentary ft of enthu-
siasm- She could count the clock amid his
kisses, and look to see whether the pot was
boiling with her eyes full of tears, he had
, wrung from them by some moving story.
While he was listening in rapture to hsr
singing, she would break off in the middle
Of a verse to ask him what she should cook
for supper; and he could never forgive her
having once interrupted him, while she
was listening with deep emotion to his
very best sermon, to tell him not to put on
his left stocking the next morning till she
had pnandad
Year: 1870

b ILLIANT REPARTEE. - One morning
after the campaign of Dresden, Napoleon
observed TsllyTaud st his levee, and bade
him remain, as ne wished to talk privately
with him. After the company had gone,
he went up to Tallyrand and bawled:
''Wbat have you come here for2 To show
me your ingratitude? You give the public
to believe that you belong to a party in
opposition You think, 1 dare say, that
were I to die you would be President Of
the Council OF Regency. Now, mark my
words. Were 1 so much as dangerously
ill, the first thing l should do, would be tc
have you shot" Tallyrand with the grace
and quiet of courtier who had Just re-
ceived new favors. bowed low and respect
fully as he replied: Il did not require,
sire, such a warning to address most fer
vent prayers to Heaven to vouehsaft
health and long life to your Majesty"
Year: 1870

One Dr.. DuvaD who sin the Wisconsin State Prison
Cor life he murdered his wife, has presented to the
authorities rather singular petition. BE sets forth
that be has become extremely pious, and also that
ho is person of ability; he therefore respectfully
asks that he may be appointed chaplain of the insti
tution in which he is incarcerated. 1t certainly
bounds TO the credit Of any prison that it is able to
grow Cso TO speak it's own chaplains but we think
here should be pretty good evidence of the Doctors


personal piety before he is ntrusted with these deli
cate functions. Should he only be wearing moral
sheep-skn he might as chaplain, do great deal Of
mischief
Year: 1870

We like extremely well that women should discuss
Che question of Female Suffrage" upon both sides.
There are great many women who hold strong
opinions against the projected reform; but they are
mostly engaged in domestic duties nor do their
tastes and habits lead them to public discussion.
Miss Murdoch Ia sister Of the wel-known elocution-
tst, considering Woman's Duties to be incompatible
with Female Suffrage" is TO lecture in support Of
that view in Philadelphia, and perhaps elsewhere
We wish that there were some way of knowing the
exact state Of woman's opinion generally upon this
point. With us the platform and convention demon
stradOns go for very little.
Year: 1870

We wish Religious Conventions would not be
childish OF worse Here is Methodist Conference in
Wisconsin denOuncingthe game of crOquet las evil,
10 be avoided by all good people, because it does not
lend to the glory of Cod" OF course the answer is
that il just much tends to that "glory" as a
hundred things which the very members of this Con-
ference do every day of their lives with good con-
science. 1t would be well if religions men and wo-
men would try to comprehend the mischief which


hey do to the cause of which they to be the
champions and examplars, when they condemn that
which equally good people believe TO be, if not prac
dcally useful, at least harmless.
Year: 1870

MIR James T. Murdoch, the well-known elocutiOn-
ist' has addressed letter TO several gentlemen of
Cincinnati, setting forth the importance of scien
thG culture Of the voice, based upon the system Of
Or Rush and Mr. NJ is 20 deliver a course of lee
cures upon the subject We oheerfully admit that
there no better teacher of the science of eocution
in the country than Mr. Murdoch; but we must in
sst that the point Of primal Importance is that
public speaker shall have something tosay This Sc
cured it is next desirable that he should say it as at
51actvely and audibly as possible but there is no.
body IN tins world less to our taste than some gentle
men we have heard with a most finished delivery
and no brains worth mentioning.
Year: 1870

met with an accident which proving fatal and
which occurred under curious circumstances. He had
requested the captain OF the vessel which took him from
CostantnOple to Odessa not 10 hoist the Embassadors
FLAG on entering the latter port, he wished TO avoid
public reception from the city authorities, which would
have DELAYED him for a day For some unknown reason,
howeyer his request dsregarded, and the vessel
was entering the babOr he happened to see the prohib
tied flag flying from the masthead In rushing precip
taty forward 10 order the captBn to lower IT, his mill
tary spurs entanged In some loose eordage that
was lying about, and he fell from where ne had been


standing 10 the main deck The violence OF the fall pro-
dced conclusion OF the BRAIN and for some tne his Life
was despalred VI but ho "a now out OIL danger,
Year: 1870

We read of an odd enough larceny in Cincinnati.
One of the Medical Schools there had secured fine
6resh subject; but before single scalpel could be
brought to bear upon it, the students of a rival
school broke through and stole it, 1t is stated that
Che purveyor of the bereaved institution immedi-
atey started of for another body;" but it is not
stated from what source he gets his supply 1t is
interesting legal question whether an indictment
could be sustained for stealing corpse from dis
secting room, the same having perhaps been orig
mally stolen from some cemetery. At any rate, it
isn't matter about which the young Sawbones
would DO likely to make much fuss, except among
themselves.
Year: 1870

refuse to make win in their favorf-thcy being the
children Of his second wife, with great appetite for
his real estate in Mobile. Watching his chance the
prisoner broke JAIL and fled for safety and 10
a police station where little questioning showed
him as entirely in his right mind as person mall
treated could be- His responses were prompt and
distinct and his memory not at all at fault He was
given in charge of friend who will properly care
for him. This is by no means, the first case Of the
kind which has come, within The last year, TO
knowledge. We wish il to be distinctly Understood
that families have no legal night 10 restrain Of their
liberty those of their members who are supposed to
e,e insane and ell who venture upon this stretch of
authority render themselves liable TO indictment
Year: 1870

The Prairie du Chen Courier says -
Crawford county is suffering severely from
drouth. The grass in the woods and valleys
is dry, Drowned and crisped. Corn was
whitening and dying. The creeks and
streams are almost dried up.


The Grant county Witness of the lst
reports that but little rain has fallen, and
vegetation and she crops generally are suf
fering greatly on account of the drouth
The wheat and oat crops are nearly ruined
The corn crop still looks pretty we'll, but it
cannot hold out much longer.


The Lancaster Herald say the heat con-
sinues almost insuffersbe, and the crops are
near drying up for want Of rain. Corn is
doing generally better than the small grains
because worked. But the other crops, with
grass aud potatoes, are at a stand or failing
for lack of rain.


The Kilburn City Mirror, in an article on
the hop crop, thinks 1t will be failure
The grub, out worm and louise, together
with the great heat and lack of rain. is the
cause.


The Janesville Gazette reports the corn in
nearly every portion of Rock county looking
we'll, and with fair amount Of rain, the
crop will be good one-


According to the Sheboygan county
Herald the crops in that county ard along
the lake shore are splendid. Our great lake
has attracted copious showers, and wheat
and cora fields are vieing with each other
in their luxurisnce and greenness. There
is but one shadow upon this pleasant picture;
the thought of the complete destruction Of
the potato crop.


The crops in Fond du Lao county are
looking passably we'll, promising an average
all around except hay.


The Waushara Times report that wheat
on old land will be almost q total failure.
Rain may help it some but the crop must be
light.


The Shswsno Journal of the 3O.h says
ave hear good reports of the grain crop
throughout the county, particularly from the
southern part. At Belle Plain, the pas
week, a piece of corn belonging to Mr.. Ly
man Dodge had silked out"


The Hudson Democrat says: "The ligh
showers Of last week we're, Of course, bene
fcia but the droush is becoming serious
throughout the Croix valley, and, unless
soon relieved by rain, must result. at best
in a light wheat crop. Even with immediate
rain, the yield would not be up to the ex-
psctations awakened by the favorable sprinf
weather"


The Dunn county NeUs complains of thu
want of rain. Ga heavy aud rich soils thu
growth of straw is quite large enough. an'
the filing will be good if the dry time is no
protracted The same may be said OF "a s
Of which a large breadth was sown this yea
than usual on account of the low pric
received for wheat during the winter AM
spring Corn looks we'll this season, tn
weather suitinp it exactly
Year: 1870

AN ABANDONED ExPERIMENT.-The social evil"
policy adopted from the French and other conti-
mental examples by the city OF st. Louis "petered
out" the Galena miners used TO say, IN the first
case to court--nothing higher than the police court
and 1t was there held that the tax imposed upon her
and her class was without any warrant whatever,
and virtually that the whole matter was q farce
and a fraud. The decision, doubtless. was In the,
interest of law and common sense. Probably the
world will sooner or later learn that prostitution
must he attacked In Its sources not In its last mani
festations; thar its origin and growth are mainly In
the unjust and unequal legislation by which OppOs-
ing classes in society are created, and by which,
Also the poor made poorer and the rich Are made
richerthe general result being luxury ana goddess
ness one side. and poverty, ignorance and misery
on the other.-ChicaO0 Post, Sept. 10.
Year: 1870

DESCENDANT OF AN ILLUsTRIOUs FAMILY IN
DIsTREss.-A man applied for lodgings at the
Bridgeport station house. Monday night, who gave
a relative of John Randolph, OF Roanoke, and son.
fn-law OF Ex-Governor W1se He was born on the
10th OF August 18O0 attended school at West Point,
and Graduated In 1926 He was true son OF the
South and at the breaking out Of the rebellion he
earnestly espoused the cause OF his native State,
and cast his fortunes In the southern scale AT that
time. he stated he was worth at least 81, 100000,
consisting principally in real estate ana negroes.
He entered the Confederate service in 1851 for
active duties In the field, and was assigned q com.
mand. At the battle Of Roanoke Island he COM
manded the Seventeenth South Carolina regiment:
from the island to the main land. He spoke with
much warmth and apparent intelligence or the un-
happy diffculty between his renowned relative and
Henry CLAY, and Notwithstanding the defeat of the
south in the late rebellion he still Clings to the idea
that it was right. HIS story was told with so much
straghtfOrwardness that II 1t were not true 1t was
wen mt up.-Nes0 Haven, ,Pnllndtunh
Year: 1870

REMOVAL OF OLD LANDMARKs.-Tha old elm tree
Which for l29 years has stood IN fronLof the Watson
House, In Spencer, Mass, was so bgdly damaged at
the recent fire that it has been cut down The tree
was nearly six feet IN diameter and the trunk was
could easily stand erect inside OF the tree; and ave
years ago pair or foxes used it as home through
the entire summer. With. this and tbe1 old hOIei
will never be forgotten,
Year: 1870

In the Laura Woodruff case, dismissed on Thurs
day by Justice Ingraham Justice Coulter denies thas
he had been summoned as was stated by her counsel
and Judge Ingraham. The girl was committed BY
him at her special request to the House OF the
Good shepherd In order IS she said, that she might
learn to become good. The Judge feels consequent
y Justly indignant that she was discharged without
even consulting him about the matter.
Year: 1870

The Department of Public Parks announce that.


Il the weather be fine. there will be music by the
Central Park Band IN Central Park this afternoon.
commencing at half past three O'Clock.
Year: 1870

The Davenport Ga-ette is down on
big Senatorial lobby's.


We hope that the lobby which the
editor of that paper was able to rally
to tho support of its candidate for
Senator, as we'll as the vote that dis
tinguished individual received in the
caucus, was sufficiently small to
como within therange ofthe Gasettes
ideas Of propriety.
Year: 1870

Kentucky is Clrding up her Ions for the guberna-
toral election. Among the prominent democratic
candidates for the ONCE is General u. G. Buell..


In the Arkansas Legislature the republican
majority on JOINT ballot is thirty-fve. Senator
McDonald's reelection is therefore rendered certain


The Florida democrats made the fur fly or the old
republican coon at the late election. The republican
majority in the Legislature on JOINT ballot is only
three


The Anti-Secret Society Convention which met In
Syracuse last week has effected State organization
with Gerrit Smith as president. The srate Is to be
organized into districts and lecturers are to be sent
to preach the new crusade against secret societies
The greater number OF the members of the conven-
ton and OF the State society TO be clergymen
who doubtless are az present out OF employment and
sadly in need Of something "for idle hands to do''


The republican party has more thorough and
efficient organization in Iowa than, perhaps in any
other State 1t has never lost State election since
the party was organized, and it carries every Con.
gressonal district, and out OF 100 counties all but
sx Its usual majority in the State is about 49, ooO