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Year: 1873

On Tuesday night Of last week Easton had a
regular summer guSt-rolling thunder, vivid
lightning and heavy rain.


A school house in Kent county, known as the
Forest School has been three times entered
and had Its furniture torn to pieces within the
past few months.


Except for the timely discovery, the new
Methodist church at Port Deposit, built bv
Hon. Jacob Tome, at a cost of sixty thousand
deIlars, would have been consumed last Thurs
day, the floor having caught fire from one of
the large heaters located in the basement. The
floor was entirely burnt through


a man near Denton. who moved to Phila-
delphia the first of January, took a favorite
old dog with him. The dog did not like city
lite and soon left. Last week he arrived on
the old farm again nearly used up by hunger
and fatigue and now old Fife" is the sensa.
ton in Caroline county. He was twenty days
finding his way back.


DEATH from Bnming-A daughter of Mr..
Starkey, aged ten years, who resides near
Church Hill met with horrible death last
week. During the absence of her mother,
who had ridden out in a sleigh for few
minutes, she had occasion to lit a vessel
containing water from the fire, at which time
her clothes took fire, and she was SO badly
burned that she died in few minutes. No
one was with her but younger sister.


Sad End of an Unfortunate Woman.-
Mrs. Annie Fountain. formerly Miss Thawley,
of Queen Anne's, and wife of Marcy Fountain,
Jr., (sOn of the late Georgia slave trader OF
that name) formerly of Caroline, committed
suicide in Baltimore last week, by taking
arsenic Mr. Fountain had become dissipated
and spent his own and her property, and con-
sequently they frequently suffered for the
neccssaries OF life, and it was to escape the
troubles OF life amid the stings of poverty that
induced Mrs Fountain to rush unbidden from
this to another world. Mrs Fountain had sup
ported herself for some years by sewing She
leaves three children, two of whom are at an
Orphan Asylum in Baltimore.


The Ice Gorge at Port Deposit still continues,
and last Friday night the people were consider
ably alarmed. The river began to rise about
five o'clock in the afternoon, and, by midnight,
the prospect was so gloomy that several fami-
lies moved out of their houses as soon as the '
Year: 1873

ON Our FIRST PAGE is fullacccount of the
Presidents visit to Wilmington, also a letter
from China giving an account of high life in
that country, together with comprehensive
description of the Platter case. now being tried
atCambridge. This is most remarkable trial
Platter, man of good family living near
Easton. went South during the war, married a
Virginia lady whilst in the rebel army and
deserted her, and when she came to him at
his home in Talbot county he murdured her it
is charged, and left her on the roadside.
Year: 1873

THE SUP CANAL.-The Hon. James Earle
ot Mary land, was in Dover on Wednesday last
and by invitation made a brief address in the
Representative Hall just after the afternoon
and Maryland Ship Canal. He favors the
project and says that if the Company now in
charge of the movement will give reasonable
assurances of building such a canal, he thinks
they should have every facility the States can
give them, but if their plan does not cover an
enterprise so comprehensive, it would be better
to rely Tor its constructions upon the General
Government
Year: 1873

The Medical association did not hold
it's meeting at Auburn last Saturday
The physicians at this place we're all EN-
ployed with important cases the season
being a very sickly one and it was i'm
possible for them to attend. In view OF
this, the meeting was postponed until
Saturday, the 17th, when it is hoped
there will be large attendance. The
meeting will be held at Auburn on that
day.
Year: 1873

The Novelty Cash Store announces
that goods will be sold cheaper there
than snywhers else, and persons who
don't believe the statement are invited
to call and examine for themselves.
Year: 1873

A JERSEY CrTY wife had a sharp
quarrel with her husband last week as
to what they should have for break
fast on Sunday morning. The lord OF
the household insisted upon sliced 6a-
con. The woman finally gave in.
She had her revenge. When the bacon
came to the table hot from the frying
pan she took the stove-lifter and stuff
ed three slices of the dead hog down
that mans throat and at the last ac-
counts he was drinking sweet oil by
the pint under the advice Of three ply
sicians.
Year: 1873

kins, colored man, residing at No i6


Twenty fifth street, was found in his room


yesterday evening in an apparently dying


IN, but medical aid was unavailing, and he
expired about IL p. m.
In The morning he was seen moving


about his room apparently in his usual
health. The deceased was a respected and
worthy citizen, and by the exercise of in


dustry and probity had accumulated some
property.
Year: 1873

HOME AGAIN.v-The iron steamer
Of Richmond built here sometime since
has been temporarily placed on duty here
by the Old Dominion line, and will cavort
between this place and New York for sew
eral times in succession.
Year: 1873

The Technologist says: The best
time for painiing the exterior of build-
ings is late in autumn or during the
winter. Paint then applied will en-
dure twice as long Us when applied in
early summer or in hot weather. In
the former it dries slowly and becomes
hard, like glazed surface, not easily
affected by the weather or worn of by
tho beating of storms. But in hot
weather the oil in the paint soaks into
the wood ut once as into n sponge,
leaving the lead nearly dry and nearly
ready to crumble of. This last diff.
Guilty, however, might in measure be
guarded against, though ut IN increas.
ed expense, by first going over the
surface with raw oil. BY painting in
cold weather one annoyance might
certainly be escaped namely, the col.
lection OF flies on the fresh paint.
Year: 1873

Hogs often show great Intelligence and
aptitude to learn. A forester had a
Chinese pig, which folio we'd him like q
dog, came at call, ran up and down stairs
and from room to room. 1t learned to
bow, and performed several tricks. 1t
was very expert in bunting mushrooms !;
and, when told to keep watch, it would
remain at its post until called away.
When its owner said "pm going to kill
you," it would lay dowa on its back and
stretch out its legs.


1t is said that when Louis XI. was sick,
every means was taken to divert the sad
ness of his mind, but, do what they would
he could not bo made to laugh at length
q nobleman thought of teaching q pig to
dance, and bringing it before his majesty.


1t was not long before a pig could hop
about very we'll at the sound Of baSpipe,
they theu dressed it with soat, pantaloons,
hat, sword: &C.. in short, all that the
court gentlemen Of the times were accus.
toned to wear, and introduced it into tho
presence Of the king. The animal bowed,
danced, and followed all orders in the
most artistic manner, until, getting tired,
it became 50 awkward that the king roared
with laughter, to the delight Of his
courtiers.


An English gentleman carefully trained
Q hog for hunting. "Slud," for go the
hog was called, was very fond of the
chase, and was ever on the alert when the
huntsmen were preparing to start but the
dogs could not endure its company, aud
their owner was never able to make use
Of both at the same time. "Slud could
scent bird from great distance, AID
would dig in the ground to show where it
had been. When the bird hoped it fol-
lowed like dog.


Hogs have been trained for draught A
countrylnan was in the habit of riding to
st. Alban's market in small cart drawn
by four hogs; another countryman won q
wager on y bet that his hog could carry
him on his back four miles in one hour.
These facts are cited to show that the hog
is more intelligent animal than We give
him credit for. However, every kind
hearted person will disapprove of teaching
dumb creatures to perform tricks.
Year: 1873

Tho Belleville Intelligencer says:
sSome American spectators arc said n
have brought up all tho Thousand Island
group in tho River st. Lawrence that lies
within the United States boundary, and
two or three of those belonging to the
Dominion. 1t is farther said to be their
intention to obtain by purchase control Of
the Canadian group, = design to which
the Canadian people on tho adjacent main-
land arc strongly opposed. Dr. Brouse
has moved FIR information in the House."
We may add in this connection that few
people have any idea Of these islands or
what is tr~nepiripg among them. Tho
day il not far distant when they are to be-
come tho most popular resort in tho
world. In view Of this fact there has been
manifested by many parties u desire TO
secure the purchase Of one, more, or all
Of them. Many have already been pro-
vided with summer cottages, and the limo
is coming when all will be; and this 70
mantic spot will Ee known as tho City of
tho Isles" whereto our future nabobs will
resort to enjoy the cooling breezes always
to be found there, even in the heated term
of summer.
Year: 1873

Men Of the highest repute and of tho
incest sense Of honor get their notions Of
right and wrong sadly confused under
the temptations Of the race course. A
more chivalric, high-toned, and gallant
gentleman than General jackson did not
live among bis contemporaries. And yet
y story was current in Tennessee some
fifty years ago and-whether true or false
am not able 80 say-which goes to show
that even he was shrewdly suspected of
playing his game with the aadvantag ges,"
in the dainty phraseology Of sporting men,
The story ran in this wise:


The general became discontented with
a malatto boy, who had been bis tavorite
rider, and sold him to q neighbor, who
was his great rival on the turf. The boy
was to ride IN very important rnce
against tisV0rite horse Of the generals.
jackson had heavy bet pending on the
race, and he WIS overheard remonstrat-
ing with his latter rider. "You black
rascal, mind what you are about. None
of your old tricks with mo. If l catch
you squirting your tobacco juice in my
boys eyes iii cut your heart out"


This may have been pure fabrication :;
but if sharp practice on the turf had not
been tho rule rather than the exception, ,an
anecdote Of this description could not have
obtained currency as applied to General
Jackson.


have quoted it not rs reaecting any
discredit upon man who stood above re-
proach among his neighbors, but as indi.
eating the general moral tone which pre-
vailed among turfmon half a century ago.
Whether there has been any great i'm
provementin that regard since that timc l
shall not undertake to decide. That the
tendency Of gaming Of all kinds 10 to low.
or tho tone Of the public morals is pro.
position that few retiect;ng men will be in
clined to dispute.-AH OLD SrAaER, in
Harpers Magazine Of June:
Year: 1873

A TENNESSEE paper of recent date
states that locomotive struck the
wagon of a farmer of that state, and
himself, wife and child were deposited
on the other side Of the fence, some.
what hurt in spirit, but not in body.
The womnn's first act was to knock
John down for running into the "loco-
motive" and to shut up both eyes for
insisting that he didn't.
Year: 1873

JACK CARTER, a counterfeiter who
has spent about twenty nine years in
Sing Sing Prison, but whose last SEN
tence of ten years expired last Satur-
day, bewailed the loss of his situation.
His good behavior while in prison had
gained him the confidence of the keep
err, and he had for some time been
clerk in charge of the time-books OF
the convicts, and, it is stated, had
made something handsome by shorten
inp terms of service at 800 each. The
average shortening was half the sen
|tence.
Year: 1873

A glass goldfish globe, filed with water,
set fire to the sleeve Of lads dress In New
Haven, the other day, by contracting the
rays of the sun. Quite large hole wss
burned before the fire was found.
Year: 1873




CoNPrRoLLER's OfFIcE,


NASHVILLE. November o, lai5.J
To the Tax-Collectors and Chairmen Of the
County Courts Of this State;


In answer to inquiries from different
parts of the State, issue this circular:


1. II is the duty Of each tax collector
to indorse upon his tax books the date
of the payment Of each tax therein, "
whether that payment be made to-day or
a year hence.


2. It is the duty Of each tax collector
TO make to the Judge or Chairman Of the
County Court monthly statement show
ing the aggregate taxes which have been
paid during the month, and an abstract
Of the report shall be furnished to the
Comptroller by the County Court Clerk.
/ would suggest that each tax collector
make his first statement up 10 the first
day of the month next after he receives
his tax books, though full month has
not elapsed; then afterward up to the
first day of each succeeding month This
will give system to the reports Of the tax
collectors Of the State.


3. The sum Of ten per cent. upon the
amount collected during the month by
any tax collector will be imposed upon
him for eact month he fails or refuses to
pay over the money collected by him.


4. As the poll tax is levied exclu-
sively for school purposes, it must be
returned so that it can be credited on
the books of this Office to the school
fand separate and apart from the gem
eral State tax. II the tax collector
makes his payments TO a State deposl-
tory, his receipts should state distinctly
what has been paid on poll and what On
State tax.


5. With the ten per cent. tax on
property for school purposes, the Comp
troller has nothing to do. No report Of
it should be made to him. 1t is paid to
and distributed by the County Trustee.


JOHN G. BURcH, Comptroller.
Year: 1873

The cultivation of Egyptian corn has
been tr,e5 With marked success in Cali
fornia. The San Ffsnciaeo Chronicle
saws: 1.-THE manner OF planting It is
similar to that employed with broom
corn, which the stock somewhat resem-
bles, while the bead in shape is more
like that of the sorghum bT Asiaile
suEar-cane. Instead of growing straight
up, as that does, the Egyptian corn
always crooks at the ne ne ana turns
a0gS when maturing The grains in
shape and size bear some resemblance
to broom corn seed, but on crushing a
grain it is found to be more Of the
nature of Indian corn than anything
else. The seeds from which this corn is
grown we're taken from the vrappings Of
Egyptian mummies, and that they grew
after being thus laid away for two thou
sand years, shows that this variety Of
cereal possesses wonderful power Of re-
production. 1t has been suggested that
it might be found to advantageously re-
place barley for the use Of maltsters and
brewers. Doubtless the experiment will
soon be made
Year: 1873

The present style Of wearing the hair is
to.have q single, narrow chaielAine braid
down the back Of the head, with two or
three soft puts on top and . crown
braid in front The back hair is still
conbed up from the nape Of the neck,
but its bare look is taken away BY the
chatelaine braid.
Year: 1873




One of the powerful features in-
separable from metropolitan life is
the degradation of women. do not re-
fer here to anything of vicious ma
ture, but simply to the results of eX-
treme poverty. Women suffers here
from dire want much more than man,
because his strength and general re-
sources are superior. You see the
most pitiable women here, because
the sex is forced to unfeminine en-
plOyment. Some might be amused
by the facile exercise of the grass hook
or sickle with which this class cut
fodder for their cows and goats, since
they do it with great rapidity. have
seen it i'm the vacant uptown lots,
where, if the labor was worth any
thing, the stock of weeds thus gather
ed ought to be worth one hundred
dollars n ton. Coming down town
lately | saw woman carrying coal
from the sidewalk up stairs in pals.
She had been lucky enough to get Il
load of this article, and was thus stor-
ing it i'm her room in the tenement
house. You see women carrying bas-
kets of peaches, or drawing hand carts,
and in other ways engaged in very
severe toll. 1t is, of course, better
than idleness or crime, but at the same
time it is not u pleasant sight. AS u
contrast with this wretched degrada-
ton, / may mention statement made
to me by a dealer in fashions that
there are 800 women in this city, each
of whom spends S25, 900 n year in
dress, and that there are also ten times
that number who spends $4,000 q
year in the same manner. 1t is very
difficult to imagine the feelings of one
of this fashion wOrshipping clique,
and perhaps still more difficult to enter
into the experience of the poorest
class. Let us look for Il moment upon
the woman whose entire capital is
invested i'm basket of peaches. These
must be carried to the place favorable
for their sale. They must be counted
in order to know the cost, and to fix
the price which will give Il reasonable
profit, and then they are sorted in
heaps, and labeled so as to attract the
purchaser. If you will place yourself
in position for Il moment, and then
watch the eye of each passer-by, in
order to observe how he notices your
stock and terms, you may have an
idea of the life followed by thousands.
Many OF them make a miserable liv
ing, while others try it and are driven
off by the severe competition which
prevails even in the lowest branches
of Trade. Taking it in its general
view, the city is certainly unfavOra-
BILE to women. Among the rich the
idle luxury Of high life wastes its vie
Tins into effete helplessness, while
among the poor the sex suffers a dis
proportionate degree OF hardships.
One of the results is that the female
countenance developed among the
last mentioned class is fearfully ugly.
You can find the most repulsive look
ing creatures here that can be imagin-
Some of these creatures may be q part
of the poverty of the Old World,
while others may have descended from
respectable, and even noted families
which have fallen into poverty by
such revulsions as are even now in
prOgress.-['rroy Times, N. y.
Year: 1873

By general observation spiders are
considered by entomologists to have q
specific office-viz. to keep down the
dangerous multiplication Of winged in
sects. They occasionally seize worm
or stray caterpillar, if they happen to
encroach upon their webbed territory.
But entrappipg flies is their forte. In
significant and solitary as they are, we
could not dispense with their quiet
services. Let spiders strike, and for q
single month in summer refuse to set
their traps, We could hardly defend
ourselves against armies of noxious in
sects that would take possession Of our
dwellings,. But useful as they are, un-
obtrusive and vigilant as sentinels in
cellars, garrets, under the floor, in the
hiding-places of strsying bugs, moths,
and creeping things, they have their
enemies, and are subject to the rigorous
demands of the same law under which
they act, otherwise there would be too
many spiders in the world, especially in
Van Dieman's Land.


just in the busy season of spider
activity, when they are slaughtering
their thousands like Cincinnati butchers,
a peculiar fly is let loose by nature to
limit their multiplication. 1t is about
the size Of wasp. In fair weather
they may be seen constructing their
cells Of mud against walls and sunny
dry places. They are really prison
dungeons. In company or alone they
hunt whatever spiders are found, seizing
them adroitly, and away they fly with
their prisoners, which are forced into
the cells, sometimes three or four in
one. When secure, they drop in an
egg and then plaster over the top Sc
curely. When the egg matches the
young worm has an ample supply of
food all ready for consumption.
Year: 1873

Beech, which is much kinder to me
than you are. Yesterday was resting
beneath it and fell asleep. 1t wished to
console me, for dreamt that you were
kind TO me again, and had forgiven
everything. But it is not true. The
good old beech, though it is noble
tree, knows nothing about the future" :"


The wife gazed at him, and it was as
if ray of sunshine had crossed her
face.


Husband, did you really dream
that?"


"Yes," he answered, positively.


"And 1 was really Your wife? ?"


"Really my own, true wife"


Thank God !" she said !; "now it is
all right again. 1 love you SO dearly
how dearly you can never know. And
all these long, weary days, have been
in such dread lest was wrong in loving
you, and that God meant me to have
another husband, and you another wife.
For you certainly did steal my heart,
you bad man! and there was deception
at first-yes, you stole my heart, but it
did not do much good, for you know
things must have happened just as they
did, whether we would or no. But, my
husband. promise me never again to
speak slightingly Of the Dreaming
Beech"


81 never will, for believe in it as
much as you do. depend upon it, though
in different way, perhaps. And now
let me paste the leaves in the beginning
of our hymn-book, SO that they may
not be lost"
Year: 1873

Civilization makes sad work with our
teeth. Savages are rarely troubled with
a defect or ache in their dental appara-
tus. 1t is not hot drinks which destroy
them prematurely, nor warm food, so
much as acids too concentrated in vine
gar, pickles, etc, which acts directly
upon the lime in their composition, and
thus crumbles them.


The foundation for sound, fra, white
teeth must be laid in early life, by SUBJ
sisting on food that contains the ele-
ments which the teeth must have. or
they will be imperfectly formed, feeble
in structure, and fall early into decay.
II wheat flour were never bolted, but
eaten with the bran, as We find it par
TALLY in graham bread, then the system
would be abundantly provided with
phosphate of lime, the essential ingre-
dents for the formation os the teeth.


Butter contains q good proportion Of
the phosphate of lime. and hence those
who consume much Of it furnish from
that source a supply for keeping their
teeth in good condition. Children are
usually lovers of bread and butter,
especially if they are habituslly fed on
white-bread. In that way they obtain
something for their teeth, but by no
means enough. The coarser the food,
especially bread, the better for young
people. The soundest teeth belong to
persons who have not been reared on
delicacies.
Year: 1873

Has he call to be q husband who
thinks more of his horse than OF his
wife?


Has he q call to be husband who
spends six evenings out of the week
away from home, and complains because
his wife will go Thursday evening to
prayermeeting


Has he call to be husband who
spends 50 week for cigars and an oc-
casional glass, but can't afford to take
newspaper for his family?


Has that man a call TO be husband
who comes home with face as sour as
the last of the pickles, and expects his
better half to be sweetness personified?


Has he a call to be q husband who
makes elegant presents to other ladies
and prumbles if his wife wants a new
dress?


Has he a call TO be husband who
swears if the one hundreth button Is
missing and never speaks word IN
commendation of the ninety and nine
that remain immovable?


Has he 9 call to be husband who
never buys book or picture to make
home attractive and still wonders why
a woman can't be contented to stay at
home seven days out of the week and
ever singing. There's no place like
home"


Has he call to be husband who
comes to the table with tobacco-stained
lips Chose lips for which sweet kisses
should ever be in wsiting) and turns
away in disgust from grease spot on
his wifes apron?


Has he 8 call to be husband who
loses money by betting on elections and
horse races, and when he becomes in
yolved attributes it to his wife's extrava-
gance.