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Year: 1871

To YOUNG GIRL-You think YOU love the
man who is coming this Sunday night to visit
you And he acts as if he loves YOU!
Suppose he declares himself" and asks YOU
to become his wife. Are you prepared to saw
to him, Il love and will trust you through life
with my happiness, and the lives and veal Of
our children?"


He is Jolly, gay and handsome, and all the
darts OF Cupid are twinkling and sparkling in
his eyes; but will those eyes always find
expression from the love of true soul?


Tonight he says many pleasant things, and
draws pretty pictures for the future.


Does he go tomorrow to work which gives
promise of the fulillment of your desires 10


life?


Does his ambitions and achievements satisfy
you?


Does his every day life shine with the noble
endeaVOrs OF a trustworthy man?


If you think and desire a companion in vour
thinking-one who can unlock the deepest
depths of your mind, to what strata Of human
lty. does he belong in the Scale of excellence
and morality? Is he doing all he can to build
up future usefulness and happiness in which
you can share and feel blessed? These are
questions which the experience of after years
make many women weep in bitterness of soul
that they bad not thought of before they
answered Yes. Mrs Stoce-
Year: 1871

week "a or two ago When he got t to m iei and i the
clergyman undertook to talk with him, he
displayed good deal of penitence He said he
was very sorry that he had permitted his anger
to obtain the mastery of him, and to suffer
him to do such an act, because it was a good
chair, one of those old fashioned chairs, which
was an heirloom in his family, and he was sure
he could never replace it.
Year: 1871

The New England Medical Gazette says:
An old lady followed up an Episcopal Bishop
as he travelled through his diocese, and was
confirmed several times before she was detected.
She wished the ordinance repeated because she
had understood it was good for the rheuma-
tism l''
Year: 1871

WHAT THE FLIRT SAID,
ii made you think me yours,
1t was only TO be kind,


l did not mean It,
I'm engaged to all my wOoers;
And if YOU had not been blind,
You would have seen it.
am to much for one
SO you see, must divide,
And take dozen.
Now with you what shall be doneg
Be a twelfth, or else decide
To be a " cousin"
Come. don't let my words offend,
And your angry heart relieve
And say" You firt you =
Take my hand aud be my friend.
While tell you that grieve
My folly hurt you
Year: 1871

1t having been determined to enforce the
city law against the two common practice of
playing at games of uncertain eventuatiOn,
the chances to win or lose money in that
way are not near as extensive as they were
before this new departure by virtue of an
old legal requirement. The prohibition, it
seems, is to be general in its application,
and not against any particular grade or class.
In evidence of this fact, it may be stated
that since the new enforcement commenced,
all the uptown sporting houses, both of
rich and low degree, have been closed as
tight as a wedge, and that they no longer
give hope to the Respondent, or promise to
the newIbeginner. Play,,not at all seems, to
be the inexorable mandate of the town, and
acting in accordance Herewith policeman
Sunday last arrested party of six festive
CHANDELIERS" at house on Cherry street,
south of Broad, where they were assiduously
plying their vocation. They were arraigned
before the Recorder yesterday morning,
and each received practical illustration Of
the fact that the law, which negroes as well
as white people must obey, could not be
violated with impunity.
Year: 1871

Last Saturday a gentleman by the name
of Samuel Dodd, fell from his wagon on
the corner of Fillmore and Carroll streets,
breaking his right arm very badly. The
wheels of the wagon passed over his foot
and arm, the latter ofwhich is shattered and
injured so severely that amputatiOn will
most likely be necessary. We learn that
one of his legs was also injured either by
the fall or wheels, and that he was suffering
much helm. We regret to hear of the aeci-
dent, and hope his injuries are not as seri-
Gus as reported.


The Mayor of Boston offers 5000 re
ward for the apprehension Of the murder
ers of Miss Ieehan.
Year: 1871

Our Capitol and State Library were
thronged by an unusually large number OF
visitors yesterday, many of whom was
ladies from Illinois, New Jersey and other
States. There were seven young ladies
from Kentucky in the library at one time,
causing divers members of the Legislative
corps to linger long and read much.
Year: 1871

Tho New, York is ungallant enough
to say hat one of the attractions OF
Frcemasonry and other secret orders
is no do,iirbt the fact that women are
mover omitted. The harmony, free
dom and general dcIightfulness which
result from this masculine exclusive
ness can be known only to the initia-
ted.
Year: 1871

A Warsaw correspondent of the Rus
sian st. Petersburg Gazette, says that
great change has come over the char
acter of the Poles of late: "The old
prejudices which prevented a nobleman
from engaging in industrial or COM
mercial pursuits have almost entirely
disappeared. 1 have myself seen the
descendants of old aristocratic families
working early and late In factories and
offices, and know an old nobleman
who has made his son apprentice to a
baker, and is now about to help him to
set up for himself, without the least
anxiety as to what his ancestors would
have thought on the subject. The care
for ones daily bread has completely
humbled the old aristocratic pride and
driven it from the minds and hearts of
the Polish nobility. I know a very
clever and wealthy landowner of
Lithuania, who collected the remains
of his property and founded here in
Warsaw a commercial house under his
own name, which furnishes him and his
family with the means of living very
respectfully. Everywhere, and in al,
classes of society, is to be seen a pow
erful desire for work and action of u
nature to improve the country"
Year: 1871

The first volume of Lord Brougham's
autobiography, just published in Lon
don, contains a rather ludicrous ghost
story, in which his father was one of
the principal actors. 1t is as follows:
On all such subjects my father was very
skeptical. He was fond of telling q
story in which he had been an actor,
and, as he used to say, in which his un-
btAeving obstinancy had been the
means of demolishing what would have
made very pretty ghost story. He
had been dining in Deans Yard, West
minister, with party of young men,
one of whom was his intimate friend,
Mr.. Calmei. There was some talk
about the death of Mrs. Nightingale,
who had recently died under some mel
ancholy circumstances, and had been
buried In the Abbey. Some one offer
ed to bet that no one of those present
would go down into the grave and drive
a nail into the coffin. Calmel accepted
the wager, only stipulating that he
might have lantern. He was accord
ingly let into the cathedral by a door
out of the cloisters, and there left to
himself The dinner party, after wait
ing an hour or more for Calmel, began
to think something must heve happened
to him, and that he ought to be looked
after; so my father and two or three
more got light and went to the grave
at the bottom of which lay the appar-
entity dead body of Mr.. Calmel. He
was quickly transported to the pre-
bends dining room, and recovered out
of his fainting fit. As soon as he
could find his tongue, he said, "Well.
have won my wager, and you'll find
the nail in The coffin but, by Jove the
lady rose up, laid hold of me, and pull
ed me down before 1 could scramble
out of the grave. Calmel stuck to mis-
story, in spite of all the scoffing of his
friends; and the ghost of Mrs. Night
ingale would have been all over the
town but for my fathers obstinate in
credulIty. Nothing would satisfy him
but an ocular inspection of the grave
and coffin: and SO, getting a light, he
and some of the party returned to the
grave. There, sure enough, was the
nail, well driven into the coffin but
hard fixed by it was bit of Mr.. Cal.
mel's coat i-tail. So there was an end of
Mrs. Nightingale's ghost. This grave
afterwards became remarkable for a
very beautiful piece of sculpture, by
some celebrated artist, representing
Mr.. Nightingale yainly attempting to
ward from his dying wife the dart of
death.
Year: 1871

In New Zealand, it is said, surface
water is entirely gone from large tracts,
sometimes covering 1000 square miles,
for months, and even for years. The
region becomes so utterly dry as to
forbid the possibility, apparently, of
any survival of frog life. And yet these
reptiles seem to beat the cat for tena-
city of life; for wherever rain falls
sufficiently to fill the water-holes they
are found to swarm with frogs, and this
when Immediately previous one might
dig for ten or twenty feet without
finding any trace of water. A recent
writer offers solution. His state
ment is that on a recent tour he became
alarmed for want of water. That a
native called in help, went Immediately
to dry water-hole, found a crooked
and indistinct track on what had once
been mud, and followed it up to the
shade of small bush. Here he COM
menced digging, and soon found ball
of clay, about eight inches in diameter,
and quite dry on the outside. But
when broken it was found to contain
ebout half pint of clear, cold water,
in which frog was biding his time,
awaiting the rainy season A number
of similar balls were exhumed, and the
travellers made free with both the wa
ter and the frogs This is marvellous
story, and one n ay well wait for veri-
fication; aid yet such display of pro-
tective instinct is not more marvel
Ions than many which are certainly
known.
Year: 1871

CONSIDERABLE excitement has been
created at Small Point, Me-, by the
appearance of stranger who recently
visited that place and desired the as
sistance of resident to disinter q
large quantity of money, which, he
said, was buried there. The resident
was not over-credulous, but at last
went with the man to certain point
marked out on chart, where, after
digging some two feet, large stone
was exposed to view, under which was
box containing $500 Peruvian coins,
all of the same date, and which had
evidently been obtained direct from the
mint. The stranger taking The larger
amount of the money, departed from
Small Point.
Year: 1871

A VALUABLE railroad train signal
light has been invented. In the centre
of the roof of the rear Car of the train,
over the rear axle, is placed square
lantern with alternate panes of red and
white glass. The lantern is connected
by means of a shaft with one of the
axles in such manner that eight rev.
olutions of the axle produce one of the
lantern. When the car stops the Ian
tern of course ceases torevolve. Upon
each side of this main lantern are two
others, also connected with the axle in
such q way that when the train is move
ing forward q solid red light is display
ed, and if backing, solid green light.
The engineer of q train coming up in
the rear can thus tell, by observing
these lights, whether the train before
him Is moving or at a stand-still and
If moving, in which -directions
Year: 1871

A LADY, thinking that the blue veins
upon the exposed skin would add to
her attractiveness, had some painted
upon her neck, at an evening party, and
was horrifed when q physician told
her that those veins were not painted
Within four inches of where they
should natural ly be, and advised her to
studyanatDmy before she painted any
more veins.
Year: 1871

The lnman line officially announces
that its captains have received positive
orders never to cross the longitude of
SO degrees west, north of the latitude
OF AZ degrees north. The object of
this is to avoid the danger of ice on the
banks of New Fcandland. This line is
the first to make this order public.
Year: 1871

THE Mississippi river is reported
within two inches of the high water
mark of 1862. Uneasiness is felt at
New Orleans in regard to the levees.


THE colored people of the District
of Columbia on the 18th celebrated the
annivers rry of the emancipation of the
slave by mass meeting and procession.
As the procession, in the line of its
march, approached the executive man.
sion, the President came out and stood
upon the portico, and was loudly
cheered
Year: 1871

Public speakers, or those that


have to go through with some ex-
misunderstanding, sometimes irnag+
inc that they can face the music


with a better face and say more
smart things with about a "quart
of The crathei" to stir up their
skull machinery than they can
without it. Now, that is a mis-
taken idea. They feel considers
bly, pulled up themselves, and they
imagine that they are looked upon
by outsiders through the same eye
glass. 1t is real iunny, sometimes,
to see a drunken man put on airs,
He gets about "half and halt as
the saying is, and feels like he
could buy out New York city and
pay the money down, and then
have enough left to run him on a
fast line, the balance Of his days;
and it is al>o equally funny to see
him when he gets sober, feeling
deep down in his empty pockets
for nickel to buy taperlng dram
with. He then feels as poor as
he felt rfchwhen drunk but poor
fellow, we should not laugh at his
condition. Let US ex-
tend helping hand and save him
from The ruin that awaits him.
Year: 1871

The Wilmington Oelaware)
Journal says: "There is a man
living in this city who is a con-
sistent member of a Christian
congregation. He expects to
go to Heaven, and such is the
fact for he is so unconscious
mean and close listed that if he
should go to the lower regions
he would economize fuel to
such degree that he would
have Hades cold in about three
months"
Year: 1871

A young gentleman of Chicago
fell in love with a hotel waiter
girl, but love fled from that once
fond heart when he found the
"sweet little thing cutting her
toe nails with a butter knife IN
the kitchen.
Year: 1871

Cross and Grown Oh sweet the story
That We breathe unto us now
Round we beams our Saviour's glory,


While before His throne we bow I
Lii G and light of all our living SloH
Comfort in our nights of woe
All our love and praise receiving -
All our hope and joy below
Cross and Crown We lead us kindly


In the ways of love and light
Where thou art we follow blindly,


Trusting in thy heav'nly might
Still on Thee we look while sorrow


Falls upon our earthly way
Faith shall wear the Crown tomorrow,
Thought bears the Cross to-day
Cross and Crown We bring before US


Visions of our SaviouTs pain
Round yesfalls the angels chorus, =.


In our hearts He lives again. sf
Still on Thee in grief frelying, 81
Tho the storms of earth may froRn,i
Inthe light Of heav'n undying, -e-.s &
Through the Cross we gain the Crown


tf - u -
Year: 1871

A correspondent who recently
visited the Chinese shOemakers at
North Adams, Massachusetts,
writes 81 learned one thing
that | do not remember to have
seen in print, that they are strict
ly temperate except on the lst
day of January, when they have
a grand drunk. Last January
they were given tour days for
spree of this sort, and they went
through it with magnificent sys-
TEN and success. omitted to en-
quire what their favorite bever-
age is !; hut somebody must find it
out, for after getting drunk ana
keeping SO four days they come
out refreshed and invigorated.--
There is no joke about this; for
the proprietor said that on the day
following their enormous 'bum' in
January they did larger days
work than before or since in sin
gle day"
Year: 1871

A Maysville, KY, 'schapP
went into a drug store in that
place and picked up bottle of
hair oil, thinking twas perfume.
He saturated his handkerchief
and the lapels of his coat with
it, and now wants to know
which is the best kind of soap
for removing grease spots.
Year: 1871

Edgeheld and kentucky Railroad.


To the Editors of the Union and American:


l see in your paper of this date (Nov. 11)
that the Justices of the County Court are
called to meet on Tuesday next. under
stand that the object of that meeting is to
take into consideration the sale of the
Edgefield and Kentucky road to a foreign
corporation. Through your columns l ap-
peal to the County Court to submit this
question of purchase or no purchase to a
vote Of the county, and let us have dis
cussion upon this subject before the
people. Every taxpayer in Davidson
has a right to be heard on this subject,
and there are voices which will be heard, if
the question is submitted. This negotia-
ton, thus far, has gone on Ue1y smoothly,
but now comes the time for action. If the
County Court refuses to give the people a
vote on this question, We ask some Demo-
cratic member of the Court, some friend of
the people, to call for the ayes and noes, so
that we may all know who is against giving
the people of Davidson 4 chance to vote on
this most important question. viz.
Year: 1871

The Supreme Court of this district will
tomorrow render a decision adverse to the
females who have entered suit to enforce
their claims to vote here. The court will
base its decision on the organic act creating
the new district government, which ex-
pressly restricts suffrage to males.


The court viii also dissolve the injunc-
ton of lower court against the S4,000,O00
loan bill passed by the new Legislative As
sembly to carry local improvements.
Year: 1871




MARRIAGES


Of which there are only eight brewing for
certain. One, the happy prelude to the
succeeding ones, will be Tuesday night
next; another will happen, and most do
usually ''happen," ON the 18th. Then there
will be a double wedding the parties being
widOwer, maidens, and, it is said, an old
bachelor. After this there yet remain two
'.others to hear from," since the '.tO be or
not to be" are at present away from home
making the necessary preparation in the
way of trOuSSedu, etc. Besides the above
official announcements, ''confidentially, of
course" others are expected to look at this
subject in a serious and religious manner,
and will doubtless comply with the iniunc-
tiOn "Go thou and do likewise"


The matrimonial fever is of a strong ma
ture here, and somewhat contagious; for on
ly a short while ago


A HOPEFUL YOUNG MAN,
whose name L could not learn, fell in love
with one of those magnificent and charm
ing creatures known as academy Girls"
the embodiment and reality of all that is
beautiful, cOnfiding and lovely in the
vision of affection itself. A plan was con-
cocted by which the parties were to con-
SulnlndJe IleH DFlShJ nOpeS III DllSSIul
reality. The moment the sound of a gun
shot was heard to break the stiffness of
midnight's pensive hour, the young lady was
to leave her room secretly, and meet ''the
lovyer," who would be near by.


The gun was shot, us sound was heard
and ere the echoes, each the sigh of hope
itself, had died away beyond the distant
hills that overlook the romantic Cumber-
land, the young lady softly descended the
stairs to the landing on the first floor and
as she opened the door, emerged out and
expected to be caught in the arms of her
faithful lover, she was met by the President
who had her remanded to a safe place. Dis
appointment followed Of course, and the
Year: 1871

We HOPE THE RECEPTION OF THE FRNlAN
ExrI.Es will not be made altogether political
affair. We must remember, while Tammany
Is taking the matter into its own hands, that
many republican Irishmen are heartily enlisted
in the welcome to be rendered them, and that
a republican administration finally secured
their release. Sixteen Of the liberated prison.
srs are on board the Cuba, and among them
the question of party politics, or of any politics
except the broad one of freedom and self-gov-
ment, is doubtless entirely ignored.
Year: 1871

FRANK BLAIR will most probably be chosen
United States Senator by the Missouri Legisla-
ture tomorrow or next day The constitution
Of the State, as interpreted by radical registry
officers, will not allow him to vote, but it can
not prevent his being voted for, and we are
likely to have the anomaly of man voting in
the United States Senate who cannot vote in
shis own precinct
Year: 1871

AN IRISH GENTLEMAN tenders residence
to his Holiness the Pope on his estate near
Limerick In the Green Isle. In this particular
instance Of devotion to the Pontif Ireland
cannet claim to rank ahead, as the use of a
magnificent homestead near New York was
offered to the head Of the Roman Catho-
lie Church long since, as may be seen IN the
ales Of the HSRAAp,
Year: 1871

TUE NATIONAL GUARD.-It appears from
the Adjutant Generals report that we have
eight divisions Of the National Guard in the
State, numbering "a, 2S5 men, officers and all.
This is very effective standing army in
time of peace and we can depend on all our
citizens in time of war;
Year: 1871

FURTHER SAFEGUARDS TO LIFE AssUR-
ANoE.-A bill has been introduced in the State
Legislature proposing to place it out of the
power of life insurance companies to make any
objection to the payment Of policies, on the
ground of misrepresentation in the sanitary
condition of the insured, after three annual
premiums shall have been paid. The justice
of such measure must strike everybody as
entirely evident. If the companies continue
from year to year to receive the premiums of
the insured it is eminently proper that when
the widow or other beneficiary shall come to
claim the amount Of the policy there shall be
no charge of forfeiture because of matters
which should have been the subject of investi-
CATION at an earlier time. The bill allows a
sufficiently wide margin-the period of three
annual premiums-and should pass.
Year: 1871

ONE OF Boss TwEED's SMALL JoBs.-An
act to incorporate the Real Estate Trust Com
pany, with capital of million dollars, has
been introduced into the Legislature by Boss
Tweed. This will prove nice little bureau
through which real estate jobs can be carried
on successfully in this CITY,
Year: 1871

Our STATE LEGIsLArURE.-The little agita-
tion about the formation of the principal COM
mittees in our Legislature was settled yester-
day by the Speaker announcing the standing
committees, as given in our usual legislative
columns. 1t will be seen that there is but
little change in regard to the chairmanships Of
the principal committees as before announced.
A rather important movement was made tend
ing to show the action of the democratic party
in this State in regard to the annexation of St.
Domingo. A resolution was introduced in the
House, and referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations, having this object in view.
Opposition to the measure on the part of the
democracy Of New York appears to be fore
gone conclusion. This is among the first
planks that will probably be spiked in the
democratic platform for the next Presidential
campaign.