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Year: 1873

Coldsalways come from one causc-some
part of the body being colder than
natural for a time. If person will
keep his feet warm always, and never
allow himself or herself to be chilled, he
or she will never take cold in lifetime:
and this can only be accomplished by
due care in warm clothing and avoid
ance of draft and exposure. While
muItitudes of colds come from cold
feet, perhaps the majority arise from
cooling off too quickly after becoming a
little warmer than is natural from cxer-
else &C work, or from confinement to a
warm apartment.
Year: 1873

Scarcely day passes without the oc-
currence of an accident arising from a
bit breaking while in the horses mouth


There are three ways of making these
bits one is to forge them throughout
of the toughest iron or of soft steel; the
other is to use cast checks and forge
the mouthpieces while the third is to
cast them throughout The first is the
only method that should be followed,
but buyers viii not pay the price asked,
and manufacturers cannot afford to sell
them for less. The wrought mouth
piece is the next best, and if the check
has been properly annealed it makes q
serviceable bit cast checks, however,
are not always reliable, and the manu-
facturcr is as likely to be deceived in
this respect as the buyer. The cast bit
is one that ought never to be used :;
harness makers should inform their
customers of the quality of the article,
and leave the responsibility with the
buyer. If for the sake of the difference
III price between the two kinds, a man
chooses to risk his life by using the
poorer bit neither the harness maker
nor bit manufacturer should be blamed.
The bit and reins should always be of
the strongest kind, no matter what the
merits of the rest of the harness.
Ual1tcSS ola CUriogc Jommal.
Year: 1873

Glass bonncts are among the novel
ties of the Vienna Exposition. These
articles come from Bohemia, and speci-
mems have been sent to Paris and Lon
don, and some also to this country, in
the hope that they will become popular,
and be all the fashion " this fall. The
bonnet is described as made of loose
pieces of glass, fastened closely together
by a gutta-percha band, which allows it
to conform to the head. Inside there is
a lining of silk, and the trimmings are
various. Birds and flowers are chiefly
used for ornamentation, colored 50 nat
urally that in appearance they are far
superior to the ordinary artificial goods.
A bonnet of glass weighs but few
ounces they are very durable rain will
not spot them, ard the cost is said to be
small
Year: 1873

The confidence Of the European press
in the stability of our financial condi-
ton is one of the most cheering features
of the present trouble. They are agreed
upon all hands that the country is in a
most prosperous condition, and that the
excitement is the result only of spon-
taneous effort to throw off the excres-
cences of our rapid growth.
Year: 1873

This is the season of the year when
colds most do prevail, and the following
interesting item on the subject is given
for the benefit of those who desire to
avoid catching cold. We tind it floating
around without credit Ii cold settles
on the outer coverings of the lungs it
becomes pneumonia, inflammation of
the lungs, or lung fever, and in many
cases carries the strongest man to the
grave within Il week. If cold falls upon
the inner covering of the lungs, it is
pleurisy with its knife-like pains, and
its slow, very slow rccovcries. If IL
cold settles in the joints, there is rheu-
matism, with the agonies of pain, and
rheumatism of the heart, which in an
instant snaps asunder the cords of life
with no friendly warming. 1t is of the
utmost practical Importance, then, in
the wintry weather, to know not so
much how to cure cold as to avoid it.
Year: 1873




Each measure thus far introduced that is of
any public importance is in great jeopardy.
The bill repeating the Attachment Law SUM
bers In the Senate chamber, and unless Sena-
tors change their views regarding this bill it
VIII be killed when called up for final con-
slderation.


The bill repeating the law taxing Loan Asso-
clatlons, at one time during the session, was
considered favorably, by the Senate; but a
reaction has lately set in, and now it is posi-,
lively asserted that not a single mamber-ex-
cept Mr.. Riddle-woud vote for the passage
Of the BILL


1t is almost useless to speak of the proposed
modIhcatiOns in the Usury Law, for the pro-
position to modify it has but about eight
friends in the House aud not more than one i'll
the Senate


1t would hardly be worth the time required
to notice the bill increasing the number OF
Senators and Representatives for New Castle
The New Castle county delegation would, OF
course, vote solidly for Mr.. Riddles bill, but
it would be folly to think that a single member
from either Kent or Sussex would give it any
support whatever.


1t is well understood here that large dele
cation of ward politicians from Wilmington
will soon arrive and direct legislation for
awhile. They have recently held caucus and
|
the Democratic party of the city of Whining
ton, to repeal the Attachment Law. This
visit, however, is not wholly in tie interest OF
the bill repeating the Attachment Law. They
propose to demand while here, two commits
sions for the city of Wilmington one to look
after the policemen, and the other to take
charge of the water department. As all the
| Democratic members are enthusiastic advocates
OF local selfgovernment and deprecate all
measures thathavea tendency to Capitalization,
these commissions will not be created, if con
slstency is adhered to. The Republican mem
berS will fight the proposition to the bitter end.
They argue that because the City Council OF
Wilmington, in its wisdom, refuses to act favor
ably upon the appointment of worthless men
to office, is not sufficient reason why the Legis-
lature should take out of the hands of compe
tent men the power given them by the City
Charter.


The business transacted yesterday afternoon
Is OF little importance. n large number oil
bills were read second time by special order
and several divorce bills were read third time
and passed the House.


Not single measure of any great import
ance was introduced during the whole of last
week, and unless the bills relating to the city
OF Wilmington, referred to above. are intro
duced, this week bids fair to equal in dullnes,
its predecessor.


The Educational Committees of both Houses
hold frequent meetings, and it is understood
that first class public school system will be
the result Of their deliberations p
Year: 1873

On Thursday evening Ito morrow there will
be meeting held at the Town Hall, which
will decide the future prosperity of the Town.
Capitalists, men of means, you are respectfully
invited to be present We look now to you
You are more interested in this movement than
the mechanic and the merchant. What little
money they have, it is true, is invested, but it
is only in their stock but yours is invested in
real estate. They can readily sell out and leave
if forced to, land if nothing is done soon,
they will certainly have to do so) while you will
have to stay and see your wealth 60 from you
by degrees. The committee will report on
Thursday evening what branch Of industry
they think it will be best to start with. The
question IS, will our capitalists be there and
say yes? Gentlemen, We hope you will go,
and prove by your actions that your hearts and
souls are in the work. Go, and prove to our
neighbOrS that SMYRNA tour prde) is not dead.
Prove that We have only been sleeping, and
that now we are awake-that we are aroused
that We are going to work in earnest and il
you only do So it will not be long before We
shall be noted far and near as a prosperous and
thriving community, and, then, gentlemen
up will go your real estate. Remember the
night Of meeting, Thursday evening, Jan. Both
at the Town Hall


MECHANIC AND MERCHANT.
Year: 1873

A GOVERNMENT BUILDING FOR DOVER =
On Monday, in the United States Senate


Senator Merrill, chairman of the Committee on
Public Buildings, presented a report favoring
an appropriation of $4,000 to erect govern
ment building in Dover, to be used as a post
Office, &c. A strenuous effort was made last
winter to get this appropriation through Con-
gress, but it faed-failed even to get beyond
the pigeon holes Of the committee room. But
now that the Committee have reported it to
the Senate it is presumed that it can be ''got
through all right" Dover is, of course


jubiant. We hope Congress will allow the
appropriation and that Uncle Sam will adorn
our neighbor with as neat a building as
$4,000 can pay for. A handsome post Office
ought to be erected for that sum, if Uucle
Sam is not feeced too badly, as he sometimes
is in these government jobs. We do not know
that Dover needs building of this kind as
badly as Smyrna, or some other towns in the
State, but that is no reason why it should not
be favored when the other towns are not. Let
the earnest labor and persistence of its citizens
be rewarded and let Smyrna fall in its wake.
Year: 1873

TIE ATTACHMENT OF WAGES "A strong
pressure is being brought to bear upon the
Legislature both for and against the repeal of
the law attaching the wages of labOring men in
the hands of their employers. There Is
evidently a strong public sentiment in vii
mington (where the principal interest seems TO
be manifested) in favor of the law. There is
also strong pressure against its repeal, which
has sprung up since the bill for repeal passed
the House, but it does not seem to be of that
general, disinterested nature as the former.
The argument for the repeal is that the
''labOrer is worthy of his hire, and that it is
against public policy to withhold from him the
money which the labor of his hands has justly
entitled him; that the employer should not be
made responsible for the debts of his employ
ees that the creditor should look to the man
himself, just as he would have to do if he did
not labor, and had no wages to attach, and
that such process is annoying to employer and
discouraging to personal industry.


The creditors claim, however, that they
are entitled to the money which laborer,
owe them, and that they should be allowed tc
secure it by attachment, if necessary. Under
this plea it is said that laboring men in Viii
mingtOn, who, becoming sick, were unable tC
pay their bills, have had their wages attached
after they we're able to work again, and theil
fAmiliest thus reduced to want, while the labors o.
their hands brought them no relief.


Since the law has been in force it has greatly
increased the business of the Justices of the
Peace, and last week three Justices of Viii
mington went to Dover to lobby the Legisla
ture to continue the law.
Year: 1873

man knows how to handle his reins, and
the Vienesse have very quick ears for
his cherry who.o-p, and make way with
good nature that's only equalled by its
nimbleness The restaurants in Vienna
are numerous, and the fare excellent.
The bread is probably the best in the
world; deliciously crisp and as white as
snow. A peculiar feature-not of
Vienna alone, but OF Austria generally
--is the sharp distinction drawn between
cafes and restaurants. A cafe is what
its name purports, place TO sip d cup
Of coffee aud read the papers and meet
ones friends. The only drinks are coffee
aud liquors, and the utmost that one
can obtain in the eating line is roll or
a cake, or a sandwich. The eating
places are the restaurants Here every
thing is, so to speak, extra. You pay
for every roll. for butter, in some places
even for mustard, extra. When you or
der from bill of fare, you get
what is put down and nothing more.
Another feature that strikes the
stranger in Austria is the circum-
stance that all payments are made to one
waiter, called the Zahl.kellner. When
you have finished your meal and wish
10 pay, the modus operandi is to pound
on the table and cry, Zahlen, (pay).
The pay-waiter makes his appearance,
asks you what you have had, and figures
up the amount either in his head or on a
slip of paper, but in either case with the
rapidity and exactness Of bank clerk.
1t takes sometime to accustom one 8 self
to this practice of paying even for bread
extra. With the most honest intentions
one is apt to forget the exact number of
rolls he has had. In the table dhote of
the hotels, Of course, bread is discre-
ton.


Vienna is hot city in summer wealth
er, but there are many towns and villages
in the neighborhood that are cool and
pleasant. / should advise those who in
tend remaining during July and August
to obtain rooms in Dorning or Hietzing,
or some other place even farther re-
moved, and to 90 to and from the city
in the cool of the morning and evening.
In this way they will probably save
money and enjoy a good nights rest;
free from the turmoil and heat of Vienna.
Year: 1873

The conviction is deeply riveted in the


public mind that no legal election was


held in this State on the 4th instant, and


that consequently no officers can be le-


gally installed in virtue of it. The vote


in the State has fallen off at least fifteen


thousand in consequence of the prevalent


belief that the election was forbidden by
the Constitution, and that voting would


be an empty performance signifying
nothing In another column we have
published a number of extracts from
leading newspapers, approving the inten-
ton of the Governor to maintain the ex-
listing status of the State government,
and to treat the election as a nullity, in
accordance with his construction Of the
Constitution upon the opinion of the At
torney General and the most eminent
lawyers in the State, until it shall have
been decided by the judicial tribunals
that this opinion is erroneous.


Nothing could be fairer, nor more
proper, than this course of the Governor.
He notified the Registrars, in advance,
that no constitutional election could be
held. He appealed to the Legislature
to settle the question in extra session,
after calling in vain the attention of that
body to the subject. when it assembled in
regular session, in his Message of Janu-
ary last. But the Registrars disregarded
his proclamation, each party fearing that
the other would take advantage Of its
failure to act, and the Legislature did
though the popular branch, by
| nearly two-thirds vote, sustained his
opinion. Consequently, he has nothing
o do but to hold his position firmly and
o abide the decision of the Courts, if his
opponents should display confidence
nough in their presensions to test them
'efore the legal tribunals of the State.
Year: 1873

We surrender 50 much of our space
this week to the awards in the different
departments of the State Fair, that we
have but little room for special comment.
The exhibition was a decided success.
The weather could not have been more
favorable. The attendance, especially
on the last two days, was perhaps greater
than ON any former occasion. That the
people of Mississippi desire the State
+ air To be maintained, and to be enlarged
in it's operations, is now clearly demon
strated; and this fact should encourage
the infringement to persevere IN the good
work which they are engaged. The
experience they have already acquired,
and the assurances of cooperation upon
which they can now rely, sheuld stimu-
late them to keep up with the exPecta-
tions of the public in making the Missis-
sippi state Fair equal to any similar ex-
hibition in the South. oef
Year: 1873

Hon. J. S. Hamm, of Meridian, form
erly of the Bench of the State, was in at
tendance on the Federal Court last week.
He is clear in the opinion that the law
under which the election was pretended
to be held on the 4th, was unconstitu-
tional and void and that the Courts
will so decide when the question is sub
mitted for adjudication.
Year: 1873

The question is, was the election con-
stitutional? If it was motif the
Governor thinks it was not-as his law
adviser, the Attorney-General, thinks it
was not-as the Legislature refused to
decide-as a majority of the intelligent
people of the State repudiate it-there is
certainly nothing undignifed or i'm
proper in an appeal to the High Court
for a decision of the matter.
Year: 1873

This question was ably discussed and
calmly considered by the Legislature, re


Gently assembled at jackson, and in its
deliberate opinion the law directing an
election to be held this fall was pro-
nounced both constitutional and proper.
Year: 1873

There is higher power in the State
than either the Attorney General or the
Governor or the Secretary of State. We
mean the Supreme Court. The issue
will probably be made up and submitted
to that tribunal, and upon its decision we
have every reasotf to believe that Gov.
Powers and all holding Offices with him,
and so with Gen. Ames and all elected
to hold office with him, will cheerfully
abide its decision.
Year: 1873

The following rare bit is from the
Saturday Evening Post We shall
never forget that evening we spent at
Magruder's year ago. We admired
Miss Magruder, ard We went around
to see her. 1t was summer time, and
moonlight, and she sat upon the piazza
The carpenter had been there that
day, glueing up the rustic cbsirs on
the porch, SO we took a seat en- the
step on the front of Miss Magruder,
where we could gaze into her eyes
and drink in her smiles. 1t seems
probable that the carpenter must
have upset his glue-pot on the spot
where we sat for after enjoying Miss
Magruder's remarks for couple Of
hours, and drinking several Of her
smiles, We tried to rise for the pur-
pose Of going home, but found that we
were immovably fixed to the step
Then Miss Magruder said: Don't be
in hurry" and we told her we believ :
ed we wouldn't. The conversation
had sadder tone after that, and we
sat there thinking whether it would
be better to ask Miss Magruder to
withdraw while we disrobed and went
home in Highland cotume.or whether
we should urge her to warm up the
poker, or whether We should give one
terrific wrench and then rsmbie down
the yard backward. About midnight
Miss Magruder yawned, and said she
believed she would go to bed. Then
we suddenly asked her if she thought
her father would have any objections
to lending his front steps few days,
because we wanted to take them home
for pattern. We think Miss Ma.
gruder must have entertained doubts
Of our sanity, for she rushed in, called
her father and screamed. Magrudet
came down with a double -barreled
gun. Then we explained the situation
in a whisper, and he procured n saw
and cut out the piece of step to which
we were attached. Then We went
home wearing the patch, and before
two o'clock crushed out our young
love for Miss Msgruder. We never
called again, and she threw herself
away on dry goods man. There il
a melancholy satisfaction inrecallipg
these memories of youth, and re1ec'
tion upon the influence of glue upon
the emotions of the human heart.
Year: 1873

The following originated we believe
with the Montpelier (VD Journal: A
certain marble dealer. residing not
hundred miles from this village, re-
Gently received an invoice Of grave
stones, upon some Of which were in
scribed touching sentiments of sym.
pathy and eulogy ready made for the
fortunate person whose stomb they
were intended to designate. Among
them was one with an index finger
pointing heavenward, and under il
the motto, "No graves there" One
evening this dealer received an order
for grave stone, the style and decor


alton of which were left pretty much
to his own judgment, the price only
being fixed AS he had to leave tho
city the next morning, he hurriedly
selected the stone bearing the above
motEo.-The Indignation Of the suryiy-
ing relatives Of Mr.. Graves, for whose
cemetery lot this stone was intended,
when it was received. can he better
imagined than described.
Year: 1873

Life insurance means honesty for
come men and policy for many more.
In no other way can they pay their
debts, or obey the apostles charge that
a man provide for his own and es-
pecially those of ais own house."


But good us is the life insurance, farm
insurance in the shape of lands sold on
ten years credit is better.


Both give great prize in retu.n for
a number of small annual payments.
But farm insurance gives that boon
in the midst Of life, insurance only at
the end oft. One gives for man him
self to enjoy, the other emily for his
heirs. One performs, the other prom
ises.


"Death," said an Irishman, sis no
great curse for it always comes just
where we would have it, ct the end of
life and never at the beginning" But
this is more than can be said Of life in
surance, for its blessings come at the
wrong end of life, not, like death aud
farm insurance, at the right end.


Besides, in farm insurance the pay.
ments are nine or ten, but in life insur-
ance they may be SO multitudinous
that they will amount to several times
the value of the prize drawn at last.
The one is lottery, the other square
dealing.


Again, farm insurance gives you in
! the outset mine which pays for itself
for out of it you can dig net only a
living but gold for all payments. Life
insurance makes no such pretentions.
/ It is all post mOrtem- and nothing Gin
the living present" In this aspect life
insurance resembles the patent Tanta
lus of Sidney Smith. That reverend
joker had bag of oats hung before
the tongue of his carriage. The horse
! hearing the oats rattle just ahead,
would rush forward with all his legs,
yet could never quite thrust has nose
into the dainties. On the other hand
farm insurance gives a mess of grain
before the journey begins, and all
along manya batting to prepare fer
each hard pull before the home stretch.


Nor is this all. What life insurance
promises is a fixed sum. But the land
given by farm insurance is always
growing in value. Less than forty
years ago the whole area Of Iowa could
have been bought for forty millions ol
dollars. 1t was sold by the United
States for less than that. To-day il
would bring more than ten times that
sum.


Give me then first farm insurance
and then life insurance.


Within thirty-three months, the
Great Western Farm Insurance Com
pany, alias the Burlington q MissOu-
ri River railroad company, have sold
along their line, in Iowa and Nebras-
ka, AIS 988 acres to 4, 525 purchasers.
on ten years, credit, and six per cent.
interest. They now require no pay
ment en- the principal till the end OF
four years after purchase. Farmeri
are you Insured?
Year: 1873

look of a second alternative between
marriage and starvation. For the gen.
erous law, which takes the widow and
the fatherless into its gracious care, gave
her n lChOLe third of her husbands
estate, while the other two thirds went
to distant cousins, already burdened
with over richness. Her first act after
Col. Allston was covered with the sod,
was to take out guardianship papers for
Blossom, then to receive her "Babie"
again to her arms.


Some of you who were of the con-
course of women that went up TO our
State House day after day, short time
ago, to add the argument of your pres
eHce to your earnest beseeehings for the
right OF self-gOvernment, may have
seen q pale-faced woman who never
failed to be there while the debate went
on. She was one whose footballs had
lost all the elasticity of youth, whose
brow was furrowed with deep lines of
care, whose mouth had a pathetic
droop, yet whose earnest eyes took in
the significance of the scene, with fer
vent, prayerful desire that the wisdom
of God would illumine these councils Of
men. And when that Honorable spoke
who gave the last utterance against our
cause, he who brought the blush of
shame to pure cheeks by his assertions
that woman and virtue would be forever
divorced if universal suffrage prevailed,
| saw her write brief note upon bOr-
rowed bit of paper and send to him.
know that the bit of paper carried in
dignant protest against that mans lying
prophesies, for | know by her own sad
face as we'll as by the golden-haired girl
by her side, that she was no other than
Babie Blossoms '1ittle mammal
IVOmdIfs Journal.