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Year: 1873

CAIRO, Sept. 70, 1873.
Considerable uneasiness Is manifested at tho
prevalence in this city Of what has hitherto BEEN
denominated congestive form OF bilious fever,
but which some physicians now pronounce to bo
yellow fever, modified BY Northern climate.
Only six or eight fatal cases have occurred. and
these are confined to those whose business kept
them on near tho river There IL more sickness
here than this city has experienced for years. and
in the majority OF cases the symptoms are similar
to and resemble those Of yellow lever in q mild
form
Year: 1873

The young Ladies' and gentlemen of Grand
Coteau have formed Il Musical and Dramatic
Association, for their mutual improvement
and amusement, and have begun giving Sc
Fies of entertainments for the benefit of the
INDECENT people in that town and vicinity.
Their next entertainment, as will be seen by
u notice elsewhere, will come off next Thurs
day. They should by all means be literally
encouraged. and if the residents of Grand
Coteau and vicinity rightly understand their
duties and interests, they will certainly lend
them n helping hand and cheer them on in
the good work they have undertaken.
Year: 1873

CARBON FOR STocK.-There is a growing i'm
preston among stock-owners that the health
of sheep as well as cattle suffer from absence
of carbon in their food and it was suggested
by a correspondent a few weeks since tnat
the worm disease of sheep had greatly in
creased of late years because the pastures
are not burnt as formerly. The ash or char
of the grasses, it was asserted, gave the car
bon of which they stand in need That the
carbon Obtained in this way does the sheep
good is undoubted. because the animals go
licking about a burnt place while there is
plenty Of good grass around, and they are
not at all likely to choose what is not good
for them under such circumstances. But If
carbon is the ingredient sought after, it can
be given to sheep in other and less expensive
eidal to the man dependent upon his grasses.
--P5-Hirie Farmer.
Year: 1873

SiIas Wegg. the adroit villain described by
Dickens, in g Our Mutual Friend whose
schemes of robbery had all worked out so
gloriousiy up to a certain point had Fortunes
tide to turn at last against him and as that
tide usually runs ont very swiftly when it
starts, the destruction of sisas eliminated
with great rapdity-aud the keen perception
of the great novelist is probably nowhere
better shown than in the fate he gives to this
hero. Some one, who had been dreadfully
oppressed by silas during the days Of his sue
cessful rascality, is represented in the last
act of the drama, land after the villain had
been stripped OF his power, as taking him on
his back and carrying him to d street, and as
scaveuger cart happened to be passing at
the moment, Silas wound up his career by
being slid under the contents of that cart.


This city and State-indeed the whole South
is full OF political Siases, i'll the shape of
carpet-baggers and seallawags whose schemes
of villainy have prospered wonderfully But
is there nothing suggestive in the history OF
siIas Wegg2 Do they not experience, ms
tinetively, dread at the sight OF q scavenger
cart !-Near Orleans PicayuHe.


Or when they hear OF the formation of a
Vioilanee Committee, eh
Year: 1873

To make the local columns of country
newspaper interesting, every subscriber and
friend Of the paper should report everything
of public interest that transpires in his neigh
way many interesting items might be reported
fhat World otherwise remain unrecorded.
Year: 1873

The clause embodying the provisions here
alluded to reads as follows: Each State shall
be divided into as many districts as a State is
entitled to representatives in Congress, to be
composed of contiguous territory. compact in
form, and as nearly equal in population as pos


sible, and the person having the highest NUM-
Der of votes for President in each district
shall receive the vote of that district, which
shall count one Presidential vote; that each
State shall be entitled to two Presidential
votes at large, which shall be counted tor
the person having the highest number of
votes i'll the whole State
Year: 1873

An old bee keeper says that coal oil sprin-
kled about the entrance of the hive is D sure
remedy to drive away robber bees. lie says
he has tried it many times. and never failed
II, get tue hest resuits from its use.
Year: 1873

How neatly and loving in the follow.
ing verses, has some one expressed the
thought that springs daily from many
heart while waitingApatiently foI
''The Step on the Stair"
Twilight is coming, and work is DER,


And am free from all care
silently, patiently watch, and wait


For the sound Of the step the stair.
Tis welcome sound to my listening ear
And my heart beats quick and fast;
For know that my darling's returning to me-
And the toll Of the day is past.
Baby is sleeping within his w2rm nest,


The Tea Kettle sings with loud glee;
Nearer the sound ofthe step on the stars


husbands come to his tea.
He comes and I'm happy: my heart is st rest


I've no trouble, nor shadow of care,
How he II laugh when tell him watch and wal
For the sound Of his stop on the stair.
God grant that We ever may thus happy be;


All trials we'll equally share,
II were called first to that bright home above,
I'd still list for his steep on the stair,
Year: 1873

MIR. Editor,-It has been my lot occasion
ally to be present when the Sacrament Of
our Lords Supper was administered in a
close communion Baptist church. Of course,
being professed follower of Christ, [ desired
if permitted, to obey his dying command
but l was forbidden. In this condition /
must recognize the Holy Sacrament, and
endeavor to improve the occasion. | cannot
look away from this solemn ordinance, nor
can l sit listless and Indifferent spectator
My duty and inclination lead me to devo-
tional exercises. | endeavor to unite in the
prayers of conservation; | unite in the pre-
paratory hymn, look upon the Consecrated
bread and wine as the broken body and shed
blood of my Redeemer, and by faith, en-
deavor to feed upon his body and partake of
his blood for strength and the cleansing of
my soul. make self-examinatiop and con-
fession of sins, and ask for grace, just as if
| was admitted to handle the bread and wine.
In all else than the manual use of the ele,
ments, 1 do commune with every Christian
at the table.


In rejecting upon such occasions and such
exercises of my own mind, have been led
to enquire, do 1 not essentially commune
with my close communion Baptist brethren,
and l wonder how Christian heart could
feel, thus excluding me, while he was enjoy
ing feast from which l was excluded only
in form and not in substance?


Do not our Baptist brethren, deceive them
selves, when they thus allow other followers
of Christ to witness their communion sea-
sons, and exclude them only in body, but
not in spirit? Is not close or exclusive
communion an impossible thing, among true
Christians? These reflections Ofmy own mind,
are presented for the consideration of others,
and with the prayer that the sweet COM
muniOn of saints may be promoted in despite
of human theories derived only from SeCta-
rian views. FREE COMMUNION.
Year: 1873

sends many letters-sendS letter to every


city and every street and every house. A
merchant, who is disciple of Christ, goes


to India or China. He sells manufactured
goods; he buys silk and tea. But all the
time he is a letter, living epistle, sent by
Christ to the heather. A boy becomes an
apprentice in warehouse or factory; but
before he is bound to master on earth, he
had been redeemed by Master in Heaven.
He is now, therefore, letter from the Lord
to all his shopmates. In his truth and love
and gentleness and fairness and generosity,
they should learn the mind of Christ. l
confess that this thought is fitted to make
us afraid. How shall we fulfill such func-
ton? The solution is, it is the Lords own
method. He has chosen earthen vessels in
order that the glory may be of God.-ArnOt
Year: 1873

THE Cost OF A CoSGREssMAS's DEATH
Washington letter.]-The death of i mem
Der is something Of a perquisite, custom
having established the usage of maintaining
i sort of professional mourning on the part
OF the House, something after the style OF
the hired mourners Of England and Scot
land. lf a member dies ut Washington, the
scrgeant-at-Arms may pay the landlord OF
his hotel 800 for having granted the prlVl-
le"e of Il death in his house. Six stalwart
men must then watch, with two reliefs,
by his bed during the period that the
body is in the custody Of the House. Better
tor some of the dead that they had been
more closely watched before they left the
legislative halls . Deputies must attend the
body to its destination in the State OF the
deceased, unless the friends claim the right
of burial in the Congressional Burying-
Ground. Altogether, and have definite
case in mind, it costs about $4,000 to bury u
CONGRESSMAN dccently who dies in Washing
ton. The funeral expenses cost u little more
than the back pay Tor one year. Perhaps
the back pay will serve as funeral expenses
for some.
Year: 1873

SUSPICION OF Foul PLAY.-Joe Watkins, 4
negro man, lett his employer, few miles
below the city, on Friday, to sell load of
hay and invest the proceeds in coal He did
not return that night, but early Saturday
morning the mule was found at the barn and
the cart at the tol-ga:e, near the city, where
the mule had been stopped and unhtched
about 6 O'Clock the previous evening, the
mule breaking loose from the hitclIing-poSt
some time during the night. 1t was ascer-
taincd that the negro had sold the hay and
received the pay for it. Thc latest heard
from him by his employer was between !
and 5uclock on Friday, at which time he was
looking for the yard to which he had been
directed to so for coal. As he has hereto
fore borne good character, was sober and
industrious, ii is supposed that hc has been
the victim Of foul play.
Year: 1873

CoEoHER'> IHQrEsT.-On Saturday after
noon Coroner Taylor caused jury of in
quest to be summoned upon the body OF the
white female infant that was found floating
in the river on Friday. The Coroner made
pOS.-m01fem examination, but the body
was too much dccompoScd to furnish any
evidence as to whether it had been born
alive or dead. The jury rendered verdict
of death from an unknown CstllSc.
Year: 1873

A fashionable young Partisan, dur
ing his last summers shooting, be-
came intimate with the pretty wife
of a gamekeeper and has continued
to visit her. Quite recently the
husband became aware of his dishon-
or, and contrived to be near on the
occasion of one Of these visits. He
approached the house singing and
whistling, and the terrified wife con-
cealed her lover in q closet, and that
closet had been prepared for his
reception by the gamekeeper. En-
tering, he ordered his wife to light
the fires and get breakfast. She
obeyed, at the end of few minutes
thick smoke issued from the closet.
The husband had disconnected the
stove funnel, which ran through it.
He affected not to mind this, nor to
hear tho groans Of the suffocating
man within, and when his wife faint
ed at her work from fright he coolly
got breakfast himself, ate it and de.
parted. The poor woman soon re.
covered and dragged her lover from
his place of confinement, but the
husbands revenge had been conn,
plete,-hs was past human aid.
Year: 1873

''She never told her love,
But let concealment like worm in the bud,
Feed on her damask cheek she pined In thought,
And in a green, and yellow melancholy,
She sat, like Patience, on monument,
Smiling at grief"
Year: 1873




and classical, but give me my ra.
dient brunette These bleaohed out
beauties don't correspond with my
ideas of perfection"


1t was alovely spring night as I
entered the wide graveled path that
led up to the wide porch of the old
fashionable Vernon mansion.


Squire Vernon sat there smoking
his meerschaum.


"Won't you sit down and have q
smoker" he demanded Hospitality.


eIts real luxury to be able to
take Whit out doors, after being
shut up in the house all winter. Or
may be you prefer going in to see
Cecilia"


Sensible old gentleman he had
not forgotten his own young days. l
intimated, not without considerable
awkwardness, that the special object
of my visit had been to see Cecilia. "


"Well she is in the parlor, all by
herself" said the squire good humor-
edly, motioning me in. "Walk in,
walk in she'll be glad to see YOU"
Cecilia was sitting in the parlor
alone, as her father had said, the
bright center of a cheerful circle of
lamplight. A bit of crochet work
was lying in her lap, and an open
volume of poems-poems l had sent
her-was on the table.


Cecilia Vernon was always fair to
look upon, in my sight ; tonight,
however, she seemed more than or
dinarily beautiful.


| I sat down, and begun hesitating.
ly upon the never failing topic of the
weather. A proposal had seemed
the easiest thing In the world as
walked along the peaceful starlight
Year: 1873

The Cotfeyville (Kansas) Courier rec
ommends itself after this fashion: The
Courier is printed nearer the scene of
the late Bender horror than any other
newspaper. Those wishing to subscribe
for good live newspaper should make a
note of this fact
Year: 1873

CRY PARE.-Wo have always been an advocate
for city PARK, but II is questionable whether we
are not now ehAsGedtos much fur play ground
which tAOusands Of cur children will rarely ever
visit. 1.-THE property that the Park Committee
have proposed were offered at public sale buiIl-
ing lots. we doubt whether it would bring the
price asked for it. portion OF it might bring
more But as the price would amount 10 about
" foot after deducIlng the street, we very much
doubt il more could bo realized from it by our
most skillfuI operators.
Year: 1873

For tnildinS inverted CulVert in tho Bed of Pom
lar Street, including six nets and traps at the cor
ners 81 Second Third and Foul tI streets as may be
required; also, three ManhOes required; the said
ManhOle to DO two feet in diameter and to extend
TO the crown Of the street, the CulTert to commence
az the Christliana creek. summing street 70


about seventy five or one hundred eet above Fourth


street, the CulVeFt 10 be four feet in diameter in the


clear the walls to be nine inches thick and to be


made Of the best quality Of hard brick lail in ce-
mene
The Contractors 70 do the exeaVating and to re


move the earth and to relay the pavement leaving


the street in as good condition it is furnish
ing all the material required for the completion OF


the work the excavation for the Calvert 10 be eght
feet deep below the grade OF tho street.


The Committee reserve the right to reject any or
all bids.
No bid will be received unless it bs from resPon-
kslbie party. WILLIAM CANBY
| mylO3t Chairman Of Street Committee
Year: 1873

vaGrants.


For the last few days our town has been
visited By number of men, who seem to
be strong, hale and hearty, and who have
made it their business to go from house to
house. begging for "something to eat
These peraDbulating characters are entire
strangers to this county. If they were moi
able to work for something to eat" ther
it would be different thing altogether
but no encouragement should be given "a
such characters. II there is a law in forcs
applicable to ysgrAnts it should be put into
operation, aud we would soon be rid o.
such pests.
Year: 1873

A WASHINGTON dispatch says that the
condition oI Senator Sumner at the present
time is such as to cause frequent express
sions Of opinion that he will never again
take his seat in the Senate. He says his
suffering is precisely similar to that which
followed the injury inflicted by Preston
Brooks, with his walking stick, about twen-
ty years ago.
Year: 1873

Found Dead.


We have been informed that Zed MCGEE,
colored, was found dead, on the side Of the
road, somewhere near bonneville, one day
this week. An inquest was held over his
body, and the verdict was that the deceased
came TO his death by intemperance.
Year: 1873

OF highly important character is furnished
10 reference to the Arctic exploration of the
POlaris by some members of the Buddingion
plrty, lately arrived at Dundee in a whaIer
1t seems that the vessel encountered compare
lively little difficulty in the latter part Of its
northern voyage, making the distance from
Cape Shaekelton to latitude 92,O6 in five DAYS
only. And only did il thus easily penetrate to
point nearer the North Pole than ever yet
reached civilized man, but the ice was found
to be 30 soft that a stronger vessel could have
gained much higher latitude. This intelli-
gence shows two things-that the Polaris was
not proper vessel foe the purpose, and this is
borne out by all the other facts fthe expedition
and that the climatic conditions in the region
are very fluctuating if not actually moderalIng.
That the Polaris was not well suited for the
task imposed upon it is shown by the unsea-
worthy condition in which il had been for
months, and by its eventual laundering not
Withstanding that it was tenderly than many
vessels have been in Arctic exploration. IT,
with such a vessel the intrepid Hall could
penetrate further than any previous explorer,
may not the final solution Of the problem be
within our grasp? And the advantages Incl
dent to the solution who would undertake 10
estimate?
Year: 1873

The MARKET FOR IRON.-Relerring to that
smarkable sale Of 100 tons Of American iron"
in Liverpool, the New York Journal of Com
merce thinks that whatever may be the history


Of this particular transaction, nobody need look


for any serious business in the expectation Of
American iron 10 Great BrItian. We can
scarcely manufacture enough for our own
use, and it is probable that the increased de-
mand for domestic consumption will keep peace
with any increase likely to occur in our capacity
to turn out the raw material 1t will take
considerable time, probably, to convince the
proteclionisls that the industry can prosper
without high tariff aud as the counlenance OF
the protective policy uncertain, capitalists will
hesitate for while perhaps to extend their
investments in that direction. But that the
iron industry can stand we'll and thrive with
out high tariff we have no doubt whatever.
Year: 1873

The Cristian Union, whose editors
are all honorable men, vouches for
the truth Of this story: 1t concerns .
terrier and cat. The dogs part was
chiefly passive. but he must have pos
ses sed remarkable qualities to away.
ken the affection which the cat had
for him; SO we record with honor the
name Of Pip. We do not know the
cats name, which is pity, for she
deserves whatever Immortality news.
paper can bestow. Thus, then, 1t fell
out: Pip fell sick, aud for several
days lay languidly in one place, eat
ing nothing. Again and again the cat
brought to him bits of food given to
her. and tried to coax him to eat, but
all In vain. At last, one day, . wo-
man sitting In the room where they
were, saw the cat who had been
watching Pip with evident anxiety.


dart suddenly out of the window and
rush across the street. In . moment
she came back carrying something in
her mouth, which she brought to Pip
and laid it down. Pip got up, shifted
at it, aud then turned away and lay
down again. The cat dragged It close
to him and thrust it under his nose.
Thus persuaded, he tasted 1t, and ate
half of 1t. Puss then carried tho re-
mainder to the grass-plot and herself
fel! to work on it with good appetite.
1t proved, on examination. to be . hot
mutton chop! The person who watch
ed the affair went TO tho house across
the way, and asked In the kitchen II
they had had mutton chops that day.
EYES," was the answer; land as the
dish stood before the fre, In rushed


your cat, and before we could stop her


she carried off one Of the chops!" We
are happy to add that Pip got we'll.
Year: 1873

Captain s. II. Mills, of New York
city, was drowned, or, as 1t has since
turned out, merely supposed to be
drow ned, at Lewes, Del. He fell over
board from his schooner. Upon the
body being recovered, aud after at
tempts to restore life had failed, it was
placed in coffin, aud then again In
the usual outer box, and shipped by
Adams Express to the friends of the
unfortunate man in New York city.


1t remained in Philadelphia from 8
o'clock in the evening to l o'clock at
night. Upon its arrival IN New York,
the certificate Of the Lewes Del.
doctor was discovered to be somewhat
informal, and the advice Of the Board
of Health was asked. 1t was at last
concluded to open the cases, and when
this was done the man was found to be
alive.


The best medical aid was immedi-
ately called in. aud it was ere long
thought possible to remove the Cap
tain with safety to the Bellevue Hos
pital, where he now is. He is not
only doing well. but there 10 every
probability Of his speedy and perma-
nent recovery. How he existed. con-
fined within these airless cases, passes
comprehension. He was boxed up for
thirty-five hours, length of time
very few persons would care to at
tempt existence merely without food
or drink.


perience. The would-be novelist will
find here mine. Was he unconscious
the while, or was the terrible fate
which seemed inevitable present to
his understanding? are questions
which 1t would be interesting to have
answered. We trust that in mercy he
was not permitted to know aught un-
til his awakening, for if he was con-
scious during his journey, the mental
torture may have so worked upon him
that he will live his term with dark.
ened mind.


His case is certainly most extra
ordinary one, and should have the ex-
animation of medical experts. Doubt
less the officers Of the Adams Express
Office in this city will give any addi-
tional information to those who wish
to study and are capable of studying
the affair. the beauty and pleasure
Of death by drowning has time and
again been written Of, and II there are
any capable Of giving their personal
experience of such an occurrence clear
ly, Captain Mills can do SO, for be was
SO nearly drowned that he must have
known all but the final gasp Of death.


How narrowly he escaped being
buried alive may be imagined from
the fact that up to the time Of opening
the box there was no idea that he
lived. Even then he might have been
sent to his grave had not the peculiar
flush upon his face attracted attention.
One might we'll shudder, remember
ing how difficult it sometimes Is to
tel, the living from the dead, and that
the Imagination can picture nothing
more horrible than breathing man
consigned to tomb. We have heard
| of other incidents where the living
have been all but buried, and indeed
buried, bat we do not call to mind q
case as wonderful as this in all its de-
tails. AS bearing upon the affair, the
intense cold about March IL should be
remembered.