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Year: 1871

but also those they do business with or for.


How many men, from badly cured diseases.
from the effects of self-abuse and excesses, have
brought about that state of weakness in thets
organs that has reduced the general system 70
much as to induce almost every other disease-
Year: 1871

wealthy are now worse tnan penniiess, being Jeff


WITHOUT MONEY AND HEAVILY IN DEgr


What the loss OF life has been It Is impossible to
guess IL VIII probably never be known. That it
was large cannot be doubted. Several instances
are reported or persons barely escaping
from the lower stories OF burning buildings.
when the four or five stories above them were
packed with seepers, the greater part Of whom 1t il
supposed, must have perished. The fire spread so
rapidly. breaking out in places


SUPPOSED TO BIZ ABSOLUTELY SAFE


that 1t was impossible for all to have escaped A
man undertook TO cross Ia front OF burning build
ing; the heat was so intense that he fell and
up In an instant. The scarcity
OF water. added TO the insense heat, increased
the misery or the h0useiess and fo0dless peo-
pie. Water was sold By the glass; and hard
to get at that the latest report from Chicago, by
way OF st. Louis, on Tuesday forenoon Is that heavy
rains on Monday nipht drowned out the fire. which
had already nearly exhausted itse.r for lack or
material to feed on. But what OF the poor exposed
people who were out 10 that drenching rainp
Year: 1871

ship.


Before Judges Ingranam, Barnard ond Cardozo.
In ne Edtcards and Collns.-lnside and about the
entrance OF the court room was TO be seen an
unusual display OF gentlemen whose sporting pro.
cllvlties incline specially In the direction Of the
nstic arena. The occasion was the expectation
that IN argument would be heard upon the ap.
plcatlon for review OF the case OF Edwards and
Collins the light weight pugliss, rs tried recently
before the Court OF special Sessions. To the dsap
pointment OF the crowd, however the argument " as
pos poned TIL Wednesday.


slipping ON the Ice and Slipping Up on


Getting Damages.


Aiettd Bro,cn rs. The mayor, dc.-The plaintiff
slipped the Ice IN the street, and brought
suit against the city for damages. In The
lower Court the complaint was dismissed, on the
ground that the city had passed an ordinance requir
Ing The streets TO be kept clear of ice and therefore
was not responsible tor damages in this The Court
affirmed The ruling OF the lower Court.
Year: 1871

THE THREE KITTENS.
In an old brick oven not far from here,


All cuddcd up in heap,
Are three little kittens, so eunningly DEAR
Their story know you wcud like to hear


While they a.e fast asleep.
Two are spotted with white~-onc is soberly gray
Save the paws SO soft and white,
Which with ashes and coal 70 frequently play,
And into all mischief SO constantly stray,


And oft are as black as the night.
They are not the kittens Of whom you have heard
Who "lost their mttcns" one day;
For they are so wise they think it absurd
To put g'oves on the claws of kitten or bird,
Who has only time to play.
Round m round they run in the funniest Style
After each little ones gray tail;
But the tails whirl the faster, and once in a while
They ay round so swiftly that, all in pile.
They hudilc like leaves in a gale.
There's nothing they like SO well as a ball


OF yarn all evenly wound.
Over, over they go, with a rush and fall;
One has it this time-then another, then all
1arn anu Kittens ike tops spinning round.
The old Mother Gray, with face quite demu c
Sits winkiug at their droll play,
And once in a while she says with a purr
"My dear little kits you must ever prefer


Al home with your mother to stay
"Bc gentle and kind to all other cats,


And loving to one another
Bo faithful in looking for mice and rats,
And always to dogs give spitefu spats--


Respect and obey your mother"
Vow what will become of these kittens three
I'm sure cannot be told.
If with. friends and each other they ever agree,
Then, purring and mcwing, their lives will be
Very happy as they grow old.


Hearth and Home
Year: 1871

CUTTING OFF THE WRONG HEAD
An old farmer was out one day looking
over his broad acres, with an axe on his
shoulder and small dog at his heels.
They espied woodchuck. The dog
gave chase and drove him into stone
wall, where action Immediately COM
meuced.. The dog would draw the wood
chuck partly out from the wall, and the
woodchuck would take the dog back.
The oil gentleman's sympathy. getting
high on the side of the dog, thought he
must help him. So putting himself in
position with axe above the dog, waited
for the extraction of the woodchuck,
when he would cut him down. So an
opportunity offered and the old man
struck, but the woodchuck gathered up
at the same time, took the dog in far
enough to receive the blow, and the dog
was killed ON the spot. For years after
the old gentleman in relating the story
would always add: And the dog don't
know to this day but what the wood
chuck killed him.
Year: 1871

Any amount and every class of Insurance required
can be placed at this Office in the best Companies,
and at as low rates at any agency in the country.


Expiration Notices Promptly Given.
Year: 1871

One OF Mr.. GILL's JOKES The
late Mr. Gill was noted for his love Of q
good joke. He was reporting dinner
given on the 9th anniversary of the
battle Of Bunker HILL The dinner was
splendid affair, and everybody was very
patriotic. Gill when the excitement was
at a boiling point, whispered to a friend,
one of those gentlemen who are always
happy in speechmaking, that his fa-
ther was engaged in the battle of Bunk
er Hill The orator rose, made a brill
liant speech-alluding to Gill's father
and Gill, in the highest terms, and pro-
posed GilI's health, which was drunk
with the usual honors, and one or two
more. There were loud shouts of
Gill! Gill" and he made speech,
returned thanks in the usual manner,
and said /: But my friend omitted one
fact, one very important fact, of which
he might have been unaware. My father
was in the battle Of Bunker Hill, but he
unfortunately fought on the British side I"
There was not so much excitement after
that.
Year: 1871

A farmer, who recently had his but
ter seized on by the clerk of the market
for short weight, gave as reason that
the cow from which the butter was made,
was subjected to the cramps, and that
had caused the butter to shrink in
weight.
Year: 1871

To BE SET AsIDE-Leslie, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of Ken
tucky, in reply to Gen. Harlan, the Re
publican candidate, lately said that the
Democracy did not propose to oppose
the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, or to disturb the rights oi
the colored people under them; but when
the opportunity was afforded for their re
peal, or their being set aside by the prop
er tribunals, they would Jaror such action
Year: 1871

The Pilot, true to its promise, came


out on the first of June in an enlarged


form; new patent outside and show


ing much Improvement in literary as


well as IN mechanical execution under


the sole proprietorship of I. 6. Olmsted


We hope it may pilot itself safely


through the ups and downs Of its fnan-
cial life. but politically we beg to be ex-
cused from expressing any congratulatlon


for its success, although the new editors
fully endorse the late Vallandingham


democratic platform, publishing 1t In


full y which they could hardly avoid do


ing, after their fairly and squarly step


ping out of the old party ranks by getting
up and supporting to the best of their
ability the so-called Peoples Ticket"
in opposition to the regular Democratic
nominations at the election last fall in
our county. Although their surrender
to Republican principles is as complete
as any rebel submission of the last war,
we have serious doubts that their Illus
trious leader;V Vallandham, or they them
selves, assuming the leadership of the
Democracy of Manitowoc. can compel
the rank and file of onr Democracy to
surrender with them all they have fought
for during the last twenty years. Such
professions of repentance for past mis-
deeds, and feigned pledges Of future sup.
port of Republican principles are not
compatible with the political prejudices
and passions heretofore instiiled on the
minds of the men who do the Democrat
ic voting; and such confessions of a
n,isspent political life are very dubious
indications of real reformation in thought
and deed. Still gladly and with increas-
ed faith in the glorious truths OF our
Republican principles, dc we accept their
of the same political dog
mas and hope with all our heart that
their future action will prove their un-
faltering sincerity and a complete refor-
nation from the old dark Breckenridge
Democracy, in whick they have been
cropping for SO many years, to the pure
light of the glorious principles OF the
Republican party which is conquering
and to conquer till time shall be no more.
Year: 1871

THE Green Bay Adcocate in an ably
written article on the advantages which
will result to that city by the building OF
The New London Railroad and thence
connecting with the great Northern Pa
cific. closes its arguments as follows
Year: 1871

'sThe answer, then, this long agitated problem,
is this-as given by that authority which has tho
greatest contrary solution 1t Is that the
products of the West must find their nearest and
cheapest way navigable water If any point on
the Great Lakes abide by that proposition Green
Bay The country Northwest W est, anu to some
extent Southwest of here finds its nearest and best
harbor which is the same time the nearest and
safe by the line of water travel to the East
Year: 1871

This is all very true, but IS Green Bay
the nearest and cheapest way to naViga-
BILE water all the time2 Is its navigation
not closed entirely from one quarter to one
third of each year? and where is Green
Bay then? Will the products of the
West be left there for three or four
months during every winter :? Green
Bay may try to ignore, but it cannot
overcome this defect. Then why not do
the next best thing and build road to
Manitowoc, where navigation never closes
and whence in the worst season for navl-
CATION steamer to Manistee can and will
connect with the most direct lines to all
the norts of the Atlantic?
Year: 1871

Their goods and their prices speak for them
selves, and only need examination for full
continuation OF these statements


Buyers alive 70 their own interests should
not fail to cali on OF address
Year: 1871

The Russian press generally Is now
vigorous in its attacks upon Prussia.


The italian press are dealing each
other some terrific blows upon the
pros and cons Of the Papal question.


Authoritative advices from ZaBzi-
bar announce the receipt of positive
intelligence of the safety of DR.. Liv-
ingstOne. A party of Americans are
hurrying to his rescue.


A dispatch from Shanghai says that
it has been announced that the
French diplomatic representative in
China has received a telegram from
his Government directing him to
make common cause with the Ameri-
cans in the war with Corea.


The Dutch States General were
opened at The Hague yesterday, by
the King in person. The royal speech
promises reorganization of the army
and reform in taxation, and felieitates
the Chambers upon the condition of
the foreign relations Of the kingdom.


The proposed demonstration in Lon
don in favor of the strikers at New
castle has been abandoned. Many
foreign workmen are daily arriving
at Newcastle and Gateshead. At a
mass meeting of the Newcastle work
men yesterday it was resolved to con-
tinue the strike.


A letter from Paris received in New
York yesterday furnishes the infor-
nation that Theirs is beginning to
show the effects of the heavy work
accomplished by him since his acces-
sion to the Presidency of France. His
eyes have become very weak, and he
is subject to periods of prostration
(Which are said to invariably follow
the fits of anger produced by the con-
tunacy of the Chamber) which lead
his friends to believe that he will soon
be compelled to retire from active
ls6o
Year: 1871

WASHINGTON, September 16.-The
attempt of the Pay Department to
fOist upon the Treasurer's Office the
responsibility Of Hodges defalcation
is regarded by the Treasury officials
as entirely unwarranted by the facts.
The most complete refutatiOn of the
allegations of the Pay Department is
furnished by the fact that for some
time a gentleman connected with the
PAY Department, who is now engaged
in the investigation of Hodges ac-
counts, has been in the habit of call
ing upon the Treasurer's Office for the
balances reported to the credit of the
paymasters, and has, in several in
stances, at his request, been furnished
with a statement of balances held by
the Treasurer to the credit of Hodge.
The officers Of the Treasury claim,
with much apparent justice, that their
functions in the matter of disbursing
officers funds are confined to the safe
keeping of money deposited, and to
the payment of a genuine and proper
check, and that they are in no wise
responsible for the misapprOpriation
of funds which have been withdrawn
from their custody by any of the dis
Dursirg officers, who render no ac-
counts to them and are not, in the
slightest degree, under their control.
The Secretary of War today notified
the Treasury officials that it was the
intention of the Treasury Department
to proceed against the New York
bankers engaged with Hodge in his
late transaction in Wall street; that
the Paymaster General has a mass of
evidence concerning the relations be-
tween the bankers and paymasters,
which is at their disposal.
Year: 1871

Can challenge competition, and cannot be ex-
cslled for completeness in deCal and compre-
hensiveness in conception Every Mechanic
and Manufacturer Of Memphis should be
proud to compete in such a list, and should
send his best fahrics for exhibition


The Directors OF the Agricultural Society
are happy to announce that they have had
the hearty and jealous aid of the Memphis
Mechanics Institute in preparing this Lit,
who will have charge of that Division Of our
Fair, and from whom, under their ennglt-
eued management and personal su upervisiOn, +,
the Mechanical Division cannot fail to be the
most complete suecess ever attained, at
Steam motive power will be provided to
drive machinery, and ample tests Will be
made before awarding premiums.


The grounds are being set in complete or
der and every facility in the power Of the III
rectoIy, will be provided for exhibiting
articles at the fair. Ample guards viii be
provided for he safety OF articles and ami
mails, and feed for the latter viii be furnish ed
at market rates.
Year: 1871

Bought, NOT from second hands, but directly
rom the manufacturer, and on cash terms.


They are therefore both able and willing to
offer all the Inducements which can attrsct
the patronage of the good and solvent deal
ers OF the Southwest.
Year: 1871

The virtues of this root are not sufhcien-
tly known, whether for contributing to tho
strength and endurance of tue we'll horse or
the rapid recovery of the sick one. To the
healthy they should be sliced in chdh.
Half bushcl will be q fair daily allowance.
There is little provender Of which the
horse is fonder. The following account OF
the value of the carrot is not exaggerated
This root is held in much esteem. There
is none better nor perhaps so good. When
first given it is slightly diuretic and laxa.
tive, but as the horse becomes accustomed
to it these effects cease to be produced.
They improve the state of the skin. They
form good substitute for grass, and a'i
excellent Alternative for horses out OF con-
dition, To sick ard idle horses they rom
der grain unnecessary They are beneficial
in all chronic diseases connected with
breathing, and have a marked influences
upon chronic cough and broken wind.
They are serviceable in the diseases OF the
skin, and in combination with oats they
restore worn borse sooner than oats
| alone. ."-YOu0H.
Year: 1871

nually), is struck off in such numbers,
that, when piled upon each other fiatwlse,
like the leaves of book, the thickness Of
them is sixteen miles. In addition, it
] takes some seven millions Of pamphlets
and twelve millions of circulars to meet
the public demand for this kind of infor-
nation. Our annual issue of pamphlets
alone, laid solid upon each other. make
pile eight and one-quarter miles high.
The circulars measured endwise reach
! lS49 miles, and these assertions are mat
ters of mathematical certainty. What
ever the estimation in which these publi-
cations may be held here, they reach tie
fresides of millions upon millions of msn
who do treasure and regard them, aud who.
in their trials. do heed the counsel they
bring.


Not only over these great Western con-
tinents, but throughout that other land so
little known to you. under our feet, the
Australian continent, there are few villages
as large as this which are not familiar with
the name you have chosen, and employing
the remedies that bear it.


Thus, gentlemen, have striven in my
humble sphere to render some service to
my fellow men, and to deserve among the
afflicted and unfortunate some regard tor
the name which your kind partiality hangs
on these walls around me. We may look
forward with confident hope to the renown
you will gather under it, and the prosperity
which there is reason to trust, the future
has in store for you. Situated as you are
here on the main arteries between the West
and East, between the great Industries of
the plough and the spindle, ycu must aid
in their exchanges and thrive with them.
Soon these channels will be opened wide
and pouring through your precincts streams
of men and merchandise that will need
YOUR furtherance and must contribute to
your growth.


Located here in the centre Of New Eng
land, to what doarer spot can you turn that
men inhabit? Beginning life rich with the
honors of your mother town, whose infiu-
ence through her schools and her scholars
is of itself an INTERCHANGEABLE such ex-
amples of Lawrence, Boutwell, and Hoar
what may you not hope for Of useful
ness in the councils of the State and ma
tion $40 lI


Contrast our condition with that of the
European nations, alternately torn and
IMPOVERISHED with wars, credit it as you
may to the better education of the peo-
pie, and you will realize the value OF the
example old mother Groton has set you,
so worthy of your ambition to follow:
Build schools for your children and find
talent to teach them then intelligence
and integrity, in prosperous and happy
homes, will be your sure reward.


Associated as you have made me with
your veal and woe, wish | might be al
lowed to contribute from my means, such
as they are, something towards this first
foundation of the public good.


Gentlemen, have detained you too
long. Oppressed with the fear, that do
not deserve the distinction you bcstow, |
pray God to make me worthier, and to
smile upon you with His perpetual bless
ings.
Year: 1871

The habit of giving much foodin short
space of time is u very bad one. If you
notice their habits you will see that the pro-
cess of picking up their food under ordinary
or what may be called the natural condl-
ton. is a very slow one. Grain by grain
does the meal get taken, and in the ag-
crecatc no small amount Of sand, small
pebbles and the like, all Of which passing
into the crop, assist digestion greatly. >
But in the ''henwifes" mode Of feeding
poultry, great heap is thrown down aud
the birds are allowed to peg away at sach
a rate that their crop is filed too rapidly.
and the process of assimilation Is slow.
painful and incomplete. No wonder that
50 many cases Of choked crops are met
with under this treatment. Many oshcr
diseases which affect chickens might be
obyiated by amateur breeders. were a lit-
tie precaution taken in so simple thing
as feeding. Regularity in feeding IS al
SO essential.
Year: 1871

Horace Mann was once seated in all omni-
bus with young man who cody took out
a cigar, lit match. and put the cigar,
in his mouth. Mr.. Mann stopped tho
coach and insisted that tho young
man should be elected for disobcy-
ing the rules. lie was not pacifed until tho
owner of the cigar touched the indignant
reformer's hand with the uncharred end IN
proof that the cigar had never been lighted
and Mr.. Mann, 10th to lose an opportunity
to impress moral truth upon wayward
youth, turned around and lcctured him
severely upon the vice Of deception.
Year: 1871

Is the great remedy that physicians appeal to
and use almost entirely in all diseases of the
Liver. There are thousands at the present time
that suffering with the rheumatic ins In
the joints, caused by the use of CAlomel which
has created disease of its own worse than that
whicn it was intended to cure. There is
drug that leaves its mark more prominent In
the system Yet, perhaps, there are times uhen
it can be given, and have benifcial effect, but
Ihould not be dealt out as it has been, and 10 81
the present time, by those that pretend to know


what they are doing, but in reality do not. The
Liver is more liable 10 disease than any other
| organ in the human system, and when that fails


to do its duty it leaves the weak points of the
| body expoIed, as the bile 10 not thrown OF, but


taken up by the blood, as it passes through this
great filter of the system. and becomes impure
| Then follows train Of diseases, whose name is
Legion. There are many that suffer from ptin


in the side and across the body, dull, heavy {,


drowsy feeling, headache, pain in the right side,


often pain in the bowels, eostiveLsss, fat


ulence diarr hea or less igeftion, loss Of
appetite, sallow skin, white of the eyes yellow,
sinking Of fe-h, depression Of spirits, at other


times a great craving for food. Some Of these


symptoms are caused only By torpidity of the
Liver. 1t is Impossible to give all the symptom
J Of dersnged Liver, and they are all cureable


without t5e aid of Calomel.
Year: 1871

How TO GET RID OF ,RATs.-A


San francisco man saturated a


rat with kerosene oil, set him a


fire and let him s loose, thinking
he would convey certain valuable


information to other rats, and
that they would leave the premises.
The FIRE department were prompt
.lyfonlt lthe ground, but could not
save the house. 2 The man says it
occurred to him. whata mistaae he
had made as soon as be saw the
fire coming up through the cracks


in the floor. -ai1s9ih .'9h1so4 Z.
Year: 1871

!. The Supreme Court of Califor-
MIA has recently decided that when
"a Railway ComPanylruns its road
through a field without building


fence to prevent animals from get
ting on the track, it is bound by
an implied promise to pay the
owner of the land for any of his
cattle that may be killed on the
road through want of a proper
fence, The Court says that it is
the right of the owner of the land


to pasture his cattle and horses IN
his fields, and that the law does
not regard it as negligence on his
parttit he pastures them in field


tyaVersed by a railroad.7,r,,.;y i,q,
Year: 1871

Sperm oilnow brings so small
a price that it does not pay. to
go whaling and many Province
town vessels have withdrawn
from the9business, while Those
of NewburypeEt have relin7
quished it altogether. q There
are now twenty per cent. less
whalers at sea than there were
one year ago. the number being
215 against 260 at that time.
Year: 1871

A year ago a Boonville; Ind.y
couple were to be married, but
the lady. q crawfshed after the
company had assembled and the
minister, was ready to begin
The trouble was made up, and
the 10Th all. fixed for the we'd
ding.y Everything nwas ready,
bat the groom did not appe ar
To get square with the lady he
had left for parts unknown,