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Year: 1870

mits Suicide in His Cell.


On last Monday, says the Toledo Blade, Of the
I'd inst, a German shoemaker named Frederick
Werner was arragned in the Police Court on the
charge of assaulting and abusing his wife.
On hearing the story of the wretched wife,
Judge Penfield imposed penalty upon the hus-
band of twenty days imprisonment in Jail The
prisoner received his fate with brute-like indif-
ference, and being handcuffed was marched,
with the rest of the prisoners, to the jail


After being securely lodged within his narrow
quarters the husband brooded over his conduct
and the sorrow and disgrace which he had
brought upon himself and his family.


Last night was the appointed time for the
consummation of the rash deed, and amid the
darkness of the dreary Jail, when no sound but
the deep drawn breathing of the slumbering
prisoners broke the weird silence, the man put
an end to his earthly troubles.


The means by which the man killed himself
are somewhat singular. At the customary hour
in the evening for locking up prisoners, Werner,
who exhibited nothing unusual in his appear
ance, was locked in his cell like the rest. This
morning shortly before seven o'clock, the turn
key proceeded to let the prisoners out of their
cells, when that officer was startled at finding
Werner lying cead upon his face on the floor of
the cell, with his head towards the door. A
towel with firm knot tied in it, through which
which was secured a barrel stave, was twisted
with great tightness around his neck.


He doubtless had these articles secreted in his
cell when he was locked in. 1t is evident that
the man tied the towel about his neck, and then
inserted the stave through the loop and per-
formed the slow process of strangulation by
twisting the loop to the necessary tightness
around his throat by turning the stave round
and round.


Mrs. Werner, it seems, at the instance of her
friends, soon after the imprisonment of her hus-
band, resolved to leave the latter and had re-
tanned an attorney to procure bill of divorce.
But death has anticipated the wished-for decree
in a court of justice.
Year: 1870

would win the race, and every man, woman,
and child on the ground was wrought up to the
highest pitch of excitement. Sedate old Judges
lost their dignity, and hurrahed at the top of
their voices, the ladies waved their haudker-
chiefs, children screamed, and young Coker
gained on his time every round. Finally the
Marshal tapped the bell as the last mile was
made, and announced "sixty miles in twohours
and ffty-three minutes At this young Coker
exclaimed: "Let me give them another mile for
good measure, and with an eye as clear as an
eagles, and limbs as 1.-THE as the mountain does,
he mounted fresh horse and made his sixty
first and last mile in two minutes and fifteen
seconds.


1t is safe to say there never was such a con-
course of people, or such q scene in Western
Texas. Men wanted to carry him around on
their shoulders-wanted to treat him-give him
coffee, ice water-anything. Finally, he was
taken up into the judges stand and introduced
by the marshal; and that the crowd might have
chance to do something for him, prominent
banker of this city pulled off his hat and called
out, "All who wish to do something for the
young man, here's chance" The last we saw
of him, his hat was well laden with gold aud
silver, which was given to Coker, in addition to
the premium of the association.
Year: 1870

has rightly taken possession of the public mind
l meet with difficulties which present a most
striking analogy with those that showed them
selves in the past. i now declare that, inn
turn of fortune, which will be due 70 the great
work of resistance summed up in the siege of
Paris, will not cede to the pressure of the
public impatience. Animatlng myself with the
and of the responsibilities that no one shares
with me, l shall pursue to the end the plan
which have traced ont, without revealing it,
and only demand of the population of Paris
in exchange for my efforts, the continuance of
that confidence with which it has hitherto
honored me.


Receive Monsieur lie Marie, the assurance of
my high consideration. General TRoCHU.
Year: 1870

The Norkmen are arranging to build ferry
houses at weehawken Cove. for the new ferry from
Twenty third street and Chambers street. II Is In
tended TO have the ferry running within three
monthr. Two ferrytboais have been purchased, aud
are to lie put upon the line Immediately after the
completion Of the slips the Jersey shore. In the
meantime. the company will have two large boats
built and ready TO put on the route In the fall.
Year: 1870

MADRID, April ia large number Of arrests
have been made In Barcelona since the revolt, and
The police are actively hunting up all the prominent
actors In that outbreak council OF war is in sss-
sion there.
Year: 1870

A new sensation in social recreation Is
what is termed pillow case and sheet mas
querade. Ladies and gentlemen envelope
themselves in sheets pillow cases, and mask
themselves SO that by reason Of the sameness
of apparel one person cannot be distinguish
from another. Sev eral ofthese parties nave
recently been held in Syracuse, and have
afforded great amusement to the participants
Year: 1870

There is likely to be famine among the
lawyers of Indiana, owing to the decision Of


the United States supreme court that divorces


obtained by people who go to that state
SOLELY to obtain them are void.
Year: 1870

A Gentleman'just from Roane county gives
the particulars OF most heart. rending calami-
ty that happened last week on Spring creek
in that c6unty, and by which one family was
bcreft of four children in less than an hour.


A lady, whose name our informant had for
gotten, residing upon the above named creek,
had gone down to it in tho morning for the
purpose OF doing ''the weeks washing" taking
with her the youngest child, an infant about q
year old. leaving her other three Mt the house.
While engaged at her work she heard sup
pressed screams Mt the house; taking up her
little child from the sOiled clothes upon which
il was sitting, she placed IT in empty wash
tub to keep it from crawling into the creek
during her absence, and hastened to the house
where she met her eldest child with it's head
frightfully disfgured and swollen. She has
tily cleaned from this one that the three chill
dreu had crawlei under the house in search
of eggs; that while under something hurt
them. and that the other two were still under
the house. The mother upon looking under
the house found them dead, with several moe.
casin snakes Ca very poisonous and deadly
species) drawling around their bodies. Tho
neighbors were alarmed, aud by their assist
ance the snakes were killed, and the unfor-
tunate children taken out, their bodies pre-
sentiug frightful and sickeniug appearance.
BY this time the elder was corpse. The
mother in her despair and agony had forgot
ten until now her little one at the creek, and
upon going down to the creek for it, it was
only to find it also corpse in the creek. 1t
is supposed the little child climbed up in the
tub and was holding to the lower edge of
it when the tub upset, rolling the child into
the water beIow and drowning it. Ii is said
the mothers grief was so great that at last ac.
counts she was a raving maniac.


Point Pleasant journal.
Year: 1870

a State convention of colored men is called
to meet at Saratoga on the 10Th inst. AS one
who wishes well to their race in common with
all other men, we volunteer the following
hints to said convention and its constituents


l. Never resent nor deprecate the applica-
ton to yourselves of the term negroes. 1t
means only that you are in contradistinction
to your fellow citizens black; aud that is the
literal fact. 1t is in your power to make the
designation one of honor and pride by simply
behaving better than other men-which can
not be very difficult. Let who will call you
negroes in welcome, so that you prove your
selves true men.


H. Be far more anxious to give your sons
good trades than to push them into Office
Office is unstable and feeting, while trades
are enduring.


III. Don't waste your scanty means in
starting distinctive organs or getting up negro
churches. where you are allowed equal priv
ieges with others in existing Journals and
churches. If you are excluded from these,
you must of course act and speak for your
selves.


". Warn your people against spending
too large a share of their earnings on tiue
clothes, dancing, drinking and other modes OF
sensual qualification If they had saved half
the money they have thus wasted, they need
now ask tavors of no man.


V. Turn your attention largely to the cui>
tivation of the soil. 1t is your fathers CALI
ing; and you can succeed in that if in any
thing. Earth air and water are as free and
as bounteous to you as to others; you might
settle whole counties if you would, and thus
choose your own neighbors and manage your
own schools Don't say you lack money for
nine-t tenths of the pioneer settlers of all lands
have been quite as needy as you are; but take
hold and hew out for yourselves farms and
homes from the public domain or elsewhere.


VI. Wait and serve, shave and black boots
while you must, and never doubt that any
kind of useful though humble industry is
preferable to idleness and dependence; but
do not accept this as your inevitable destiny.
Plan and save while you are in it to getout
so soon as possible, and never rest till you live
in your own houses and till your own farms.


As. 4 saddle for sale at this Office.
Year: 1870

RECIPE FOR HAPPY HoME.-Six things
says Hamilton, are requisite to create hap
py home. Integrity must be the architect,
and tidiness the upholsterer It must be
warmed by affection, and lighted up with cheer
fulness and industry be the ventilator. re-
newing the atmosphere, and bringing in fresh
salubrity every day; while over all protect
ing canopy. of glory. and nothing will suffice
except the blessing of God
Year: 1870

When the Ninth Cuirassiers charged at
Worth. Lieutenant Billet. the Coloners son,
charged four times after his jaWbone had been
broken by ball. His father bad him car
ried off the field By force at the fifth charge,
he himself being killed in the same.
Year: 1870

One exceeding warm day in June,
neighbor met an old man, and remarked that
it was very hot Yes" said Joe. lift wasn't
for one thing I should say we were going TO
have tbaw" What is that y inquired
the friend ''Thcre's nothing froze. said
Joe
Year: 1870

The superintendent of the coffin trim ming department of the Merlden Britan- ma was caught by his beard in the machin- cry. lately, and only saved himself by tear ing out his beard by the roots
Year: 1870

In consequence of the lOng-cOntinu-


ed depression i'm the price of the finer
grades of wool, nearly every owner OF


McrinO flock of any considerable
| size, within our knowledge, is prepar-
ing to reduce the number of his sheep.


So far rs these parties are cOncern-


&c, such n course may be the best one


open TO them, as circumstances have


undoubtedly rendered the handling Ol
large 1lOcks Improbable i'm many To-
calitics where, Il few years ago, u diff


ferent result was realized. The en-
hanced value of lands, the occupation
and improvement Of laTe proportion
of the prairie lands that were used for
/ Summer ranges-thus forcing the
grower TO own or hire his Summer
pastuFe-and the high wares demand
ed by labOTcrs, have combined Ia


bring about such result. And to the
above may be added the loss result
ing from, and the expense of hand
ling, those twin ScOurges -scab and
foot rOt-nOw quite too generally dis
seminated among the ilOclls of the
Mississippi Valley.


In view of these facts, we are not
prepared to deny that the reduction of
the large fIOcks is the best course open
to the owners of them, and for two
reasons: First, because the handling
of sheep, where not made speciality,
bat pursued rs part of mixed hus-
bandry, can be made profitable, even
upon high priced lands; and second,
because the eradication of contagious
diseases from large fiOcks of sheep,
I Of On poftTriroEs
more labor, and involves a greater eX-
pense, than most men are prepared or
willing to devote to it.


What is most to be deplOred in this
connection, is the fact that many
good animals-and their number is
already too small-are sent to the
shambles that should find purchasers
in the owners of the many farms up
on which is annually wasted enough
10 feed p TO 100 sheep the year through.
Every farm should have its flock of
sheep, in numbers and kind accord
ing to circumstances and the taste of
the owner. They will be found To Oc-
cupy a place that no other animal
can so well fill, and can be made
profitable, even at the present low
piices Of wool and mutton.


There is not much room to doubt
that the day for large fiOcks OF sheep
10 be made profitable in localities east
of the Mississippi rivers over. But we
would not have the number of sheep
reduced. Rather would We increase
them, appreciating as we do how in
dispcnsable they will be to that sys-
TEN of judieiOus husbandry that will
be demanded at no very remote day,
to make amends for the empirical
style of farming that has so generally
Obtained.-T Western Rural.
Year: 1870

\ Connecticut fisherman one day
baited his hook with n living frog
After patiently waiting some time for
bite, rs he ehatted with a friend, he
found that his lively bait had swum
ashore, and was sitting quietly on the
rCck by his side. He wound up his
line and went home.
Year: 1870

THE PLATE for the coo legal tender, COM
Pitting the new series. will be finished at the
Treasury Department this week. An oval por-
trait of De Witt Clinton will ornament the left
hand side, while on the other will be yignette
IF Columbus.
Year: 1870

1T Is SAID that q man who was ssayins at
one OF the Cape May hotels last week, woke up
one morning and couldn't find his pillow any.
where. just at he was about giving up the
search, he put his hand to his head and found
that the pillow had got jammed into his ear.
is one feather for pillow and two for q bolster.
Year: 1870

Till we have reflected on ii, we are
scarcely aware how much the sum OF
human happiness in this world is In.
debted to this one feeling-sympathy


We get cheerfuluess and vigor, we
scarcely know how or when, from mere
association with our fellow.men, and
from the looks reflected on us of glad
ness and enjoyment. We catch insplra.
tion and power to go on from human
presence and from cheerful looks. The
woman works with additional energy
having Others by. The full family cir
Gle has strength and life peculiarly Its
own. The substantial good and the Of.
fectual relief which we extend TO an.
other is trifling. 1t is not by these, but
by something far less costly, that tho
work is done. God has insured 1t by q
much more simple machinery. Hehas
given to the weakest and the poorest
power to contribute largely to the COM
mon stock of gladness. The child's
smile and laugh are mighty powers In
this world When bereavement has
left you desolate, what substantial ben-
eft is there which makes coincidence
acceptable" 1t can bestow upon you
nothing permanent. But a warm hand
has touched yours, and its thrill told
you that there was living response
there to your emotion. One look, one
human sigh, has done more for you
than the costliest present could.
Year: 1870

There is fault which does not get it..
self called by the name of "lie," but
which is dangerous close relation to
it, and is the habit Of exaggeration. A
man hears thing, true enough in its
original shape, but he passes it on with
little addition of his own. The man
to whom he passes it adds his touch of
exaggeration, until at last the statement
is so swollen and distorted as to convey
everything but the facts of the case
Like many statements that have gone
forth and obtained credence in the
world, and yet, thoug h they are in their
final state grossly false, and do sore in
justice, it is difficult to charge any one
with full grown lie, in the share he
has had in propagating the deceit. The
result is sort of accumulative lie made
by successive persons contributing a
little touch of exaggeration to the story
as it came to their hands.


The worst of it is that this mischief
is caused by the exercise of power that
is sometimes useful mean that crea-
tive imaginative power which lends life
TO description. A man hears thing,
and then gives it the color of his own
thoughts almost unconsciOusly yet, |
fear, this may produce great, mischiev.
Gus, perhaps disastrous, results. And
who is to blame? Why every one who
has share in the additions which the
story or statement has received. See
no. responsible we may be for the ef-
iects of a lie, even when we do not wish
to deceive. How careful we should be
not to add TO what we hear. If we
must repeat it, or help circulate it, let
us leave it as it came. Let us pass il on
scrupulously unchanged, with no twist
or increase of our own.
Year: 1870

London Saturday Revlewl


Marriage, which most girls consider
the sole aim Of their existence and the
END OF all their anXietios, is often the
beginning of set of troubles which
none among them expect, and which,
when they come, very few accept with
the dignity of patience or the reasona-


bleness Of common sense. LIitherto the
man has been the suitor, the WOOer /;
1t has been his meter to make love, to
utter eXtraVagant professions, to talk
poetry and romance of an eminently
unanswerable kind, and to swear that


feelings which by the very nature of
things it is impossible to maintain at
| their present state of fever heat will be
as lasting as life itself, and never know
subsidence or diminutiOn. They be.
lieve in the absorption of the mans
whole life in the love which ct the most
cannot be more than part of his life;
they believe that things will go on for.
ever as they have begun, and that the
fire and fervor of passion will never
cool down to the more manageable
warmth of friendship. And in this be-
lief of theirs lies the rock on which not
few make such pitiful shipwreck Of
their married happiness. They expect
their husbands to remain always lovers.
Not lovers only in the best sense, which
of course all happy husbands are to the
end nf tin1n hut Inunr- In, n1
fond, foolish. courting days. They ex.
pect continuance of the romance, the
poetry, The exaggeration, the petiS Soins,
the microscopic attentions, the absorp.
tion of thought and interest, the CEN
tralization of his happiness in her soci.
ETY., just a, in the days when she was
still to be won, or, little later, when
being won, she was new in the wearing.
And as we said before, wife's first
trial, and her greatest, is when her hus-
band begins to leave off this kind Of
fervid love. making, and settles down
into the tranquil friend instead.


1t is in the nature of most women to
require continual assurances, Just as it
is with children; and very few believe
in love which is not frequently ex-
pressed while the ability to trust in
the vital warmth Of an affection that
has lost its early feverishness is the
mark of higher wisdom than most of
them possess. To make them thorough
iy happy man must be always at their
feet; and they arejealous of everything
even of his work-that takes him
away from them, or gives him occasion
for thought and interest outside them
selves. They are rarely able TO rise to
the height of married friendship; and
If they belong to reticent and quiet
going man, man who says II love
you" once for all, and then contents
himself with living life of loyalty and
kindness, and not talking about it
they fret at what they call his coldness,
and feel themselves shorn of half their
glory and more than half their dues.
Year: 1870

TIMID PEoPLE.--It is the habit of
some people to laugh at the terror
which is experienced by others at the
heavy thunder crash, or the flashing
Lightning. This is both cruel and wick
ed, since the victim is no more TO blame
for it, than for the color of his eyes and
hair,-in fact, like them, it is often her
editary. Such persons should be pitied
and soothed, and allowed during these
periods to be always near some one
whom they love and confide in. More
especially is this true of children, some
of whom suffer more than words can
tell from this, as well as from other
causes of fear. Deal gently with such I;
ii is the only way to eradicate their
fears rdicule and harshness will only
confirm them. The child "afraid of
the dark" should never be enforced TO
encounter it unatten ded and unmatched.
ldiocy has often been the sad relult of
a contrary treatment. Let parents and
teachers then, be thoughtful in these
regards.
Year: 1870

MAXIMs FOR MERCHANTs.-As short
advertisement four times is better than
a very long one once. "Brag is Il good
dog, but Holdfast is better"


Don't fear to have a small advertise.
ment by the side of large competing
one The big one can't eat it up.


A prominent advertisement once or
twice will be effective, if followed up
by steady card giving your busint
and address.


If business admits of it, severaIs small
advertisements with your name repeat
ed every time, will avail more than the
sane collected, with your name in only
once.


Don't take your sign down in duh
times. People read newspapers all times
of the year


There is nc instance ON record of a
well sustained system of judicious
advertising failing of success.


When people see man advertise,
they know he is business man, and
his advertising proclaims that he is not
above business, but anxious to do it.
Year: 1870

THE influence of the mind in accel.
Grating or retarding the approach of
death is exceedingly remarkable, and
in some instances account for those pre-
sentiments Of fatal termination of their
disease, which some persons seem pro
phetically TO ascertain. A case is recor-
ded Of a person who had been sentenced
to be bled to death, but instead Of the
punishment being actually inflicted, he
was merely induced to believe it was so
by water, while his eyes were blinded,
being trickled down his arm. This
mimicry, however, OF the operation so
completely depressed the action of the
heart, that the man lost his life as ire
coverably as if the vital fluid had been
distracted.
Year: 1870

1t has been said of evil speaking of
another: "The philosophy which could
bear it, we would despise. The relig-
ion which can bear tive dare not de-
spise, but we would be compelled to
say, its origin is not of this worldn


And so it is. That man never breath
ed whose heart did not wither under
the baneful influence of slander. 1t is
a mean, cowardly thing, BY the aid
of philosophy, the face may be smiling
though the heart be breaking. The
man conscious of rectitude may be too
proud to let the world know that the
arrow from the bow of the ambushed
moral assassin is fostering in his bosom,
but follow him into his retiracy, and if
he be a mere man of the world, you
will find him invoking heavens bitter
est ban on the head of the slanderer.
II he be Christian, he will, on bended
knee, imi itating the example of his Di-
vine Master, "pray for those who de.
spitefully use and persecute" him.
Without any exception, slanderers are
poltroons. They never pour on the
head of the victim the "vials of wrath"
unless they are safely in some safe re-
treat. The slanderer would as soon at
tempt to scramble up the side of vol
canic mountain amid burning streams
of lava, as to face the man he is seeking
to ipjure.


There is another sort OF slander-the
man who stands by, and knowing the
truth, fails to correct the false report.
Is he not more guilty than the skulking
sneak-thief of character, the prowling
miscreant who strives to injure Others
for his own selfish purposes?