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Year: 1871

Cause Of the Hudson River B!


r. Disaster.


The New York Tribune gives the
following in regard to the recent hor-
rible disaster on the Hudson River
Railway.


The train was lured to destruction
by a false signal, for. which, it is said
the Parsimouy Of the company was
directly responsible. The signal posts
upon which the lights were hung at
night stood at the draw, and until this
winter man has always been on du-
ty at that point, with instructions 10
mind the bridge and signal the trains.
Two months ago, for the sake Of econ
omy, this watch was removed and the
care Of the bridge was added to the
duties of a man stationed at the wa
ter tank, nearly a quarter Of a mile,
below. Trains were to be tagged
from the tank instead Of the bridge,
and at night the white light, indicar-
/ ing all right, was lett permanently
hanging at the post, seventy rods
from the nearest watcbman. The
road curves somewhat at Wappingsr's
Creek, but for nearly two miles south
of the bridge there is nothing to OBJ
struct the view of the signal post
The express seems, from the most
careful accounts, to have been about
mile and half distant when the oil
car fell across the track, and if the
danger signal had been displayed in
stantly the train could easily have
been stopped. 1t was almost directly
under the white light that the acci-
don't happened. If the signal man
had been within reach Of his signal
where be ought to have been, be could
probably have shown the red light in
time to avert the disaster. According
" l0obltHOuy IL was a. iodob tuAOO
minutes after the fall of the oil car
before the engine struck it. Tue
freight conductor testified that the
brakeman who tried to carry the dam
ger light forward from the cabooss
was unable to make his way over the
obstructed trestle-work, and a man
from the freight engine consequently
got down upon the ice and hurried
toward the bank. How many pre-
cious seconds were lost in this scram-
bling back and forth is not certain,
but in all probability enough to make
the difference between life and death
plain. The fact is, that when the
fraction of minute was precious be-
yond calculation, the false beacon in-
dicated safety, and the guard whose
duty it was to change it was placed
so far away that be could not reach
Iit
Year: 1871

CURE FOR FEVER AND AGUE.-Ths
following is said to be a certain cure
for fever and ague Take one table
spoonful Of common chalk, pulverized,
and one wine-glass of vinegar. Stir
briskly, and drink while in an effer-
vescence, when the first effects of The
chill is felt. Get into bed and wrap
we'll in fannels. When the patient
perspires freely, the cure is effected.
Year: 1871

To Cook ToUGH MEAT.-All kinds
Of poultry and meat can be cooked
quicker by adding to the water they
are boiled in little vinegar and a
piece Of lemon. By the use ofan acid
there will be q considerable saving Of
fuel as we'll as shortening Of time. It's
action is beneficial on old tough
meats, rendering them quite tender
and easy to be digssted.
Year: 1871

The delusive chance of getting some
thing for nothing, seems always a greater
incentive to exertion than the certainty of
fair equivalent for fair value. Though the
lottery, pure and simple, was long since
abolished by law in all, or nearly all the
States, more gambling of a popular and
specious kind is going on to-day than ever
Before. Go right into our most refined
and moral communities and advertise some
sort of worthless public entertainment
negr minstrels, slight of-hand feat. no
matter what-and append promise to dis
tribute among the audience bushel of
cheap jewelry or a lot of fancy goods, and
you will be sure of a crowded hall, when
perhaps first-class lecture, or really val
liable entertainment Of any kind would fail
of enough patronage to pay for room and
lights.


Put two cents worth of candy into a
twenty-five cent package, and proclaim
prize in each package, and in few hours
you may sell enough to sicken a whole
township. Get up worthless publication
daily, weekly, monthly. no matter which
and offer to all subscribers mammoth
steel engraving of the death-bed of some
body or other. or promise piano to every
thousanth name added to your list, and you
will obtain an amount of patronage that a
really valuable periodical might toll for in
vain.


But all this is gambling. and gambling
of very mean kind, for it is an attempt
to get something for nothing, and yet to
quiet the conscience by such poor shift
as substituting the word scheme or gift"
for the true word-lOttcry.
Year: 1871

With hoary locks visage grim, Time.
the skillful weaver of the sepulchral robes
OF buried centuries. is .reading with quick
and noiseless step, up to the couch of the
dying year. finishing, with his mystic
touch, its shroud of alternate folds of light
and shade of crimson and of gold.


List upon the midnight air comes its
death-knell. Gone to lie amid the relics
of its predecessors. with all the ashes of
our pains, leaving some sweet memories
that come stealing through the soul like
angel whisperings from the spirit-land, and
seem to mock our sense of Earth's vain
and unsatisfying joys and lead the soul to
worship. Gone with record, true and
faithful, of all impcrfections of every hu-
man heart. freighted with souls mounting
either upward to realms of eternal light,
or descending to the regions of une1ding
night. Gone with whirlwind resting in
its bosom, with the record of nation its
altar dripping with blood and Gods holy
altar wet with tears. Gone to rest until
the great day of reckoning comes. then to
a separate feature of the Infinite scheme.
that the Sovereign Ruler of heaven and
earth devised to reveal and prove an Om-
nipotent Being.


Hail happy New Year! We gladly
welcome and fain would hope that thou
art born with a leaf in thy hand plucked
by the radiant and white-robed angel
Peace-from the tree of life. to enshrine
in the temple of the everything God.


SJc%A
Year: 1871

An old negro woman. one of the an
cient regime, living in Il family on upper
Curch street, and who lives in a very old
kitchen adjoining the residence, dreamed
for several nights in succession few weeks
ago of finding concealed treasure about
the house. She paid no especial attention
to the dreams, but did not speak of them
TO any one.


During the present week the dream was
repeated, and more vividly than before.
On Thursday she was sitting before the
fire smoking, when the dream occurred to
her mind, and she determined TO search
for the treasure. Taxing up several loose
bricks in tine hearth, she commenced dig
ging in the earth beneath, and in "a few
moments she was rewarded by finding u
very much decayed' wooden box. On
taking this up she found that il contained
u quantity of paper money. supposed to be
some of the old .'Continental' currency,
a gold watch. the works of which had been
destroyed by rust, and number of gold
and silver coins of English and Spanish
money.


The paper was almost destroyed, the
writing and printing being illegible, but
the coins were in an excellent state of
preservation. This is given TO us as IL
fact, and if true is one of the most singu-
lar events of which we have ever written.
We leave to spiritualists and believers in
supernatural agencies to solve the conuec-
tion between the dreams and the finding
of the treasure. As there can be no liv-
ing claimant for the watch and money,
the latter which is said to be worth several
hundred dollars, the old woman will re-
main as the legatee Of the one who earth
ed his treasure.
Year: 1871

A correspondent of the Denton Monitor
says handsome, dashing woman rode into
a village in that region few days ago and
alighting from her horse, went rapidly to
a drinking saloon where number of ''sov-
ereigns'' were having "high time She
singled out the finest looking man in the
crowd, and, walking up to him, seized him
by the arm and ordered him to put down
the glass he was about to drain. He DASH
ed down the glass and rushed away the
lady followed, and finally cornered him in
the billiard-room. She told him in firm
determined voice that the place he was in
and course he was pursuing would not an
swer for her husband that he was vast
ING her property. and that she would no
longer consent to be disgraced and impov-
erished by him. She demanded his pis-
tol He refused. She took it from him,
cooked it and presented it at him and told
him he must leave or die He concluded
to leave. She marched him ont as prls-
oner of war to where his horse w. S hitch
ed. ordered him to mount. and III few
minutes the two were leaving town, the
wife riding in rear of her captured lord
with his six shooter in her hand.


If more of the wives of drunken hus-
bands would act with like determination,
the evil would be abated.
Year: 1871

A ROASTING young fellow having joined
without invitation a party dining at
restaurant, and indulgeg as usual in his
egotism, one of his party said to him
"You have told us enough of what you
can do; now tell us something that you
can't do" Faith, said he, z" that's easy
enough can't pay my share Of the bill.
Year: 1871

AMONG the ancient Germans it was
death for a woman to marry before she was
twenty pears DID, BY the laws of Lycur-
gus the most particular attention was paid
to the physical education. and no delicate
or sick women were permitted ever to
marry
Year: 1871

Tho tug that drew eleven canal boats
doun the Hudson. Friday, was said to have
accomplished great feat. The Importance
Of tho feat was probably determined from
the length Of the tow.
Year: 1871

A dandy Of twcnty-six having been
tsrmsd an old bachelor, appealed to an ell
dsrly gentleman to decide whether he
should be called old or not, giving his age
"Twsnty-six." said the elderly gentle
man, sit is owing to how you take it
Now, for man il is young enough but
for goose it is rather old"
Year: 1871

A dressing which
is at ouce agreeable,
healthy and cHcctual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair Is soon restored
to It's original color
wiM the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1871

feeble, | believe you will be satisfied
until you can come yourself"
Her cheeks were 1osy enough when
she concluded, and if Edgar Thornton
felt a momentary desire to press his
lips to them, no man in his senses
would be Opt to blame him.
1t was all arranged before old Han
nah had put the breakfast on the table
and then he sat down with them and
pretended to eat But he was so busy
watching Barbara that he quite forgot
that he had walked two miles, and was
very hungry.


AS for Barbara, she was joyous as a
child; her first great trouble was for.
gotten, and bright smiles dimpled the
fair face, as she thought OF the pleasant
days to come, when she could bury
care in bed of flow ers, under splep-
did skies, such as always hung over
their garden at Reubank.


Shy and yet trustful, she could wait
now, and not worry about misfortune
until it Knocked at her door again. This
time misfortune had been an angel in
disguise.


How sunnily the weeks slipped by
after that-every one happy idyl in
the sweet old poem, Life!


Edgar Thornton came and went, un-
til at length his step brought the
bushes to Barbara's cheeks, and his
voice woke something in her heart that
was sweeter than music.


And then, one day, he came with a
serious face, and told Barbara that he
had learned to love the old place so
well that he thought he should take up
his abode there altogether--if his wife
would consent.


81 thought" began Barbara bravely
81 mean we did not know you were
going to be married"


And she smothered down a sob.


81 am not, little Barbara, unless you
can love me we'll enough to be my
wife,"


And then she gave way to burst OF
impetuous sobs, but they ended, like
the April showers, in sunshine.


"Don't cry, little love?' he said,
smoothing back the brown hair, and
leaning over her led lips. inlay l
kiss you, Barbara :"


When he had taken not one, but
twenty kisses, she said softly:


"The dear old home will always be
mine, then ?"


And he smiled as he said:


"Always oprsn
Year: 1871

A clear bright eye


That can pierce the sky
With the strength Of an eagles vision
And steady brain


That can bear the strain
And shock Of the worlds collision;
A well-knit frame,


With ruddy flame,
Aglow, and the pulses leaping


With tho measured time


Ofa dulcet rhyme,
Their beautiful record keeping;


A rounded cheek,


Where the roses speak
OF o soil that Is rich for thriving,
And chest so grand


That the lungs expand
Exultant, without tine striving;


A breath like morn,


With the crimson dawn
As fresh in its dewy sweetness;


A manner bright,


And spirit light,
With Joy at its full completeness;
o, give me these,


Natures harmonles,'
And keep all your golden treasures;
For what Is wealth


To the boon of health
And It's sweet attendant pleasures!
Year: 1871

A recent traveller in Palestine thus
describes an cxperienc which those who
have shared in il are in little danger of
forgetting.


Bathing in the read sea produces as
q ovel sensation as if you found your
self suddenly endowed with wings, and
emulating the feats of tumbler pigeon
in mid air. You become clumsy float
a top heavy buoy, swollen cork, the
instant you get in its waters, and arms,
legs, and body are apparently endowed
with the strangest qualities. 1t is as il
heavy weights were affixed to each di.
rectly as you attempt to move; and ex'
perienced swimmers fail in their best
strokes, by reason of the unnatural
buoyancy with which they have to con-
tend. Your limbs are on the surface
and you cleave the air with your hands
the moment you try to swim; and the
man who would be drowned as soon
as he is out of his depth in any Other
sheet of wafer in the world, is the one
best fitted for bathing in the Dead Sea
He cannot sink in it, let him do what
he will. 1t is as if he were encased in
life belts, or sprawling on a feather
bed. If he lean back and throw his
feet up, it is exactly as il he were rest
ing in peculiarly well stuffed easy
chair, with leg-rest to catch.


He may fold his arms, turn on one
side, lie flat upon his stomach or back,
clasp his knees with both hands, OF
draw toes and head together, in the
shape the human body would assume
il crammed hastily into jar with its
eXtremities left out, and with no more
possibility Of sinking than if he were
in so much soft sand. Woe to him il
he be tempted by these unusual facili-
ties to stay long in the water with his
head uncovered The bare and lCcky
walls of the low lying cauldron which
holds the Sea of Death, reflect back
the burning sun and concentrate lis
rays, aud coup de solid will be the all
hut inevitable consequence of his i'm
prudence. Two Of our party entered
the water and remained in it for some
seconds before they recovered their
heads, and the result was severe shoot
ing pains, sickness and dizziness,
which lasted until their immersion, an
hour later, i'll the refreshing waters OF
the Jordan Woe, too, to the lnexpe-
rienced stranger whv, following his
rule in other bathing, dips his head, as
we'll as his body, into the Dead Sea.
Inhamed c, $ and nostrils, together
with hair aid beard laden with acrid
salts are among the penalties of his
rashncss; while if he tastes its waters,
he becomes acquainted with a greater
concentration of nastiness than had en-
tered into the Imagination before. In
buoyancy and bitterness the Sea of So
dom exceeded all we had heard or read
respecting .t; but in some other par
ticulars our anticipations were falsified
surprisingly. We looked for gloom
and we found brightness; we had i'm
agined turbid waters, and We found O
lake exquisitely clear and delicately
blue; we expected perfect silence ano
IN unbroken waste, and we found the
birds singing sweetly among the tama
risks and oleanders, which sprung VI
wherever stream finds its way from
the mountains to miugle with the mys
terious inland sea.
Year: 1871

Count Won Noltks, one of the first
men of the age perhaps one of the first
men of the world Of every age, was
candidate, as it seems, for the Geaman
Parliament in the recent elections. His
name was up in eight districts, and he
was beaten in seven Of the eight. So
SAYS the newspapers.
Year: 1871

The County Court of Sequatchie
county at its last meeting made an al
lowance Of six dollars to each Reve
nue. Commissioner tor taking list OF
the taxable property in their respective
districts.
Year: 1871

YUKON RIVER, AL >sKA.-The re-
port of Captain G.. W. Raymond S
reconnaissance of the YOkon river,
in Alaska. has Just been published,
and to say the least it does not show
that the Yukon ever promises to be a
very valuable stream. Although the
largest river emptying on the coast
of America. trip of a thousand
miles toward its source does not de-
velop anything of importance so far
as it is concerned. The country on
either side is low and sandy, except
in places where fiat, swampy, and
filled with standing pools. The
vegetation is occasionally little
willow and poplar, but generally
nothing. and the entire prospect by
no means calculated to excite the
cupiditv of any unprincipled land
grabbers or sharp spectators. The
chief object of the reconnaissance
was to establish the fact of the own
ership of Fort Yokon by the United
States, and that being established
the expedition will probably have to
be set down as Il success.
Year: 1871

INsENsIBILITY.- When a man is
asleep his pulse beats and his lungs
play, but he is without sense, and
you can easily wake him up. In
sleep the face is natural. If a man
is asleep let him alone; nature will
wake him as soon as he has got sleep
enough. If a person ''faints, he
too is without sense, but he has no
pulse. and does not breathe. In a
fainting fit he has the pallor of
death. When a person faints all
that is needed is to lay him down flat
on the floor, and he will ''come to
in a double-quick time. He tainted
because the heart missed a beat
failed for an instant-failed for only
once to send the proper amount of
blood to the brain. Apoplexy is be
tween the two. The heart beats, the
lungs play as in sleep, and there Is
no sense as in fainting, but you can't
shake man back to life. In apo
plexv the face is swollen, turgid,
and fairly livid. As there is too
much blood in the head, every one
can see the best position to set man
up, and the blood naturally tends
downwards. as much SO as water will
come out of a bottle turned upside
down. if the cork is out.
Year: 1871

A large stock of Groceries-BUTTER HONEY, CHEESE and DRIED FRUIT which we offer for sale; wholesale and retail We adhere to cash system and sell our gosd remarkably low for cash.

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Year: 1871

tell what had become OF him and in the spirit Of
Egyptian hero worship, they demanded gods which
should go before them and lead them into their own
land.


And now, TO apply this incident and those thoughts
to our own times, said the rabbi, we have voice In
our camp. but It Is not the voice OF power Israel Il
not united in opposition to the common foe. 1t is
not the voice or weakness, because we should
not then build such beautiful and magnii.
singing and shouting, noise OF self
praise and graduation, in which we drown
the voice Of duty ana OF praise. We are no longer
the Jews OF the Bible Our law is broken; our SAP.
bath days violated throughout this CITY, and until
we see greater respect for these we cannot believe
that we are In the path OF duty. We may he Jews
at heart but In practice and In life we are not
Stores are kept open on the Sabbath, and business
Is transacted AZ II the day had no more sanctity
than other days. We have something to boast OF IN
this fair land, where


WE ENJOY GLORIOUS KIND OF HAPPINESS,
and yet we are ashamed OF being Jews. Let IL not
be said we neglect our duty. else In due time
Judaism will become thing OF the past Let us
serve God in word and IN deed and let not our chill
dren learn from our bad example TO forsake the
God OF their fathers and TO desplse the holy oracles


An earnest prayer was then delivered for saliva
ttOn from the fashionable ldOatry OF the age and for
purity OF heart life, and greater respect for the
Sabbath day and the ordinances and precepts OF
Judaism,
Year: 1871

COLLISION ON THE HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD.


HUDSON, Sept. 2-The Saratoga special
train ON the Hudson River Railroad, due ct ths city d
go this evening, into coal train Of the Hudson and
Boston RAILROAD ut the crossing Of the Hudson River
Railroad The engine and tender Of the Hadson River
train were demolished, and the bsggagecar badly dam
aged One coalcar cut IN two, and the whole coal
train thrown from the track; No person was injured
The accident through Of the rule
which requires all trains to como to stop before cross
Ing the tracks at this station.
Year: 1871

at their last meeting adjourned TO meet s tho can Of the
President would request that said Board be convened
from this Department trsnsmted 10 the Clerk Of the
Board OF Supervisors yesterday relating to the levyng
Of taxes for the ye< 1s yssy respectfully yoars


Mayor Hall msde no reply, because, - 1t said, he
refused to recognize Mr. Green ~ Deputy Controller.
When questioned relative TO the letter, Mayor Han said;
az did not answer this letter because-having taken
steps to convene the Board before received itn my
opinion 1t did not require an answer and not because
refuse TO recognise Mr. iGreen - Deputy Controsr.
People do not seem to understand this matter
what I complain Of II, not the appointment
Of Nj. Green - Deputy Controller, but the
virtual abandonment Of the Controership by Mr.. Con
molly. The Supervisors arc now signing Q call for .
meeting, and they will probably convene nextveek Mon
day. sha AK the Board when It convenes to confer
power under the statute, upon the Joint Committee to
subpoena witnesses and In fact, to mako 1t regular
Court Of Inquiry, for want matters most rgidy In
vestgated. have already advised counsel to induce
Hageerty, possible to turn States evidsnce, for
satished that persons high In power and influence had
great deal to do with the stealing Of those vouchsra"


The sub-committees Of the Joint Committee on the
City and County Accounts hard at work al day
yesterday The Joint Committee will hold another pub


lie meeting soon Is any one Of the subcommittee 10
ready to report, which will probably be next week
Wednesday.


LOAN TO THE NEW DEPUTY CONTROLLER.


Acting Controller Green visited tho Clearing House
Association yesterday and requested loan Of
enable him to meet payments now pressing. It was
readily anked although legal Obligation be ssued
by the city while Judge Barnards injunction remain in
force
Year: 1871

l.. D. Herman, Clerk Of the Department OF
Public Instruction. asked Deputy Controller Green yes
terday, reputation from that Department for funds
to pay tho teachers for the month of August would be


nett Mr. Green said that he had referred tho matter to
Corporation Counsel OGorman for his OPINION ana tnat
when it vas received he would determine what course
to take in gard to acquisitions from the Department OF
Public Instruction. and from other departments The
question s Does Judge Bsrnards Injunction restrain the
controller from meeting these requisitionsi
Year: 1871

The following anecdote has been as
sociated with the name of well-known
clergyman's helpmate in the north of En-
gland. The minister had been entertain
ing at dinner clerical friend from some
distance: The evening was unpropitious,
and the friend was invited by the clergy
man to remain during the night, and he
accepted the invitation. They walked
together for some time in the manse gar
dens. At dusk the minister asked his
visitor to step into the manse while he
would give directions to his man servant
to get his friends conveyance ready in the
morning. AS the stranger entered the
manse, the minister's vile mistook him for
her husband in the twilight; she raised the
pulpit Bible, which chanced to be on the
lobby table, and bringing the full weight
of it across the strangers shoulders, ex


claimed emphatically: Take that, for
asking that ugly wretch to stay all night. ="