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Year: 1873

The nominations made ut the
Grange Convention, and particularly
the great harmony which prevailed
in the making Of the nominations,
caused the greatest terror to prevaii
in the camp of the Radicals, and the
leaders were seen moving In every
direction, like rats seeking escape
from a sinking ship. On Saturday
they were disconsolate. The best
men OF their party had left 1t, and
Joining with other good men from
the Democratic party had taken in
dependent action which promised
certain and complete overthrow to
the Radical party--the party OF plum
der and the tried and true friend Of
monopolies and Rail Road abuses up
on the rights Of the people.


Something must be done. Two or
three Democrats We're found VINO
were dissatisfied for insufficient rea.
sons, and one or two old bolters-the
men who sold part Of our ticket last
year-and these under the direction OF
Gov. Stone, who mas all at once dis
covered that Secret Political Socie-
ties are repugnant to the Americas
people, entered into negotiations
with the LEA DEas Of the Republican
party and formed or attempted to
form q coalition with the declared
object Of defeating the Grange In
their effort to elect ticket, and with
the real object Of turning the Demo
Gratis who would be thOnRhtiess
enough to join with them Orer 10 ne
Radiui parry! and have Called ..
Peoples Convention to meet IN this
city on the 28d inst, AT which time
the transfer il To be made
Year: 1873

THE JAMES RIVER BRIDGE.-Despite
any opinion to the contrary, this structure
is a handsome one, and from all seeming
will be durable one. On top the plank
flooring of oak is laid smooth and evenly,
and there is room for two vehicles to pass
each other. On each side of the bridge
there is a four-foot walk, hedged in by an
exceedingly neat iron railing, for foot pas
sengers. This bridge is pregnant indica-
ton of the growing prosperity of Rich
mond. We are glad that it has been
built.
Year: 1873

BANKRUPT DoINGs.-Some months
ago couple of parties in this city who are
alleged to have attempted to sequester to
their own use larger portion of their
goods than the law allows when seeking
the benefit of the bankrupt law, were
recognized to appear before the next
United States grand jury for indictment {;
and now we hear that an impecunious femi-
nine is to go through the same ordeal, or
rather that the attempt will be made to put
her through course of legal sprouts, for q
similar reason.
Year: 1873

A SUDDEN Yesterday and
last night were blistering hot occasions,
but those who walked up this morning in
good health found an atmospheric change
as agreeable as unexpected. The mercury
had gone down in the bulb number Of
degrees, and crisp GOODNESS made linen
busters wear an out-of-the.season aspect.
The robustious manhood of Old Sol was
unequal to the task of piercing the sombre
masses Of cloud that draped the face of the
sky, so there was sunshine above, showers
below. About ten o'clock dubious. un-
certain sort of Aprilish rain commenced to
fall, and the streets which would otherwise
have been densely populated, only re.echoed
the footballs of that class whose motto is
8 business before pleasure" A change in
the weather would be thing to be appre-
cated.
Year: 1873

THE FALL TRADE.-Our merchants
are looking confidently forward to a
lively trade the coming fall. The country
merchants are expected to come to Rich
mond in full force to recruit their failing
stocks. The wheat and tobacco crops are
as fine upon the whole as they have ever
been, and soon will bring into circulation
the currency so much needed by the trade
Year: 1873

WATERY ToPICs.-The Richmond and
Manchester free bridge has had the effect of
causing reduction in the tolls at Mayo's
bridge. No doubt the latter will ultimate
ly become a free bridge, as the necessities
of the community require that there should
be no restriction upon trade between the
north and south sides of the river.


The late break in the James River and
Kanawha canal has been repaired, and
boats now pass through unimpeded to
Lexington.
Year: 1873

THE FAN.-Fashionabl young ladies
have discarded long chatelaine chains for
fans quite as rapidly as they adopted them
a few weeks ago. Now it is the correct
thing to have your fan suspended at the
side by black velvet or string of ribbon
of a color corresponding with the dress.
This is far prettier and more genteel.
Year: 1873

Boy DROWNED THE BODY RECov-
Erred. The body of "a youth named David
Signiago, aged about sixteen years, who is
supposed to have been drowned in the river
below Drewry's Bluff, was found to-day
by fisherman, who was hauling a seine
at the time. The body was divested
of any clothing at the time, which leads to
the supposition that he met his death while
bathing. He was employed on schooner
plying up and down the river. Saturday
he asked permission to take boat and 20
ashore after some peaches. He did so
and was n t seen alive afterwards.
1t is thought that he got where the fruit
was and that the waves of passing steamer
carried away the boat and he lost his life
in attempting to regain it. The boat was
found on the opposite shore from which he
landed. The deceased was native of this
city. Ills father was drowned about a
year since. Parties have gone from here
after the body. Justice Atlee, of Henrico,
will hold an inquest this evening. The
mother of deceased resides on Cary. be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets.
Year: 1873

A CRYING Whose duty
is it to attend to the nuisance on CANDLES
Hill? It is crying evil. This most
beautiful promenade is being fast converted
into pig-stye. Piles of ashes, brickdust,
and other rubbish are deposited daily upon
the brow of the hill, to the evident dis
gust of all who visit this delightful ground.


Soon the little croquet ground that is
left the ladies will be overwhelmed with
filth, and the dear creatures will be COM
PEELED to emigrate to Oregon Hill, or some
other country further west Whilst
thousands of dollars are being lavished
upon unimportant localities, this lovely
prospect is left to the tender merces of the
cartman and scavenger.


Whose business is it to attend to the
police of this hill?
Year: 1873

A RARE EDITION OF THE BRITISH
SPY.-A gentleman of this city bought at
auction the other day copy of the British
Spy, which we are assured by bibliomanico
is quite unique. 1t is from the press of Au-
gustine Davis, and of the date of 1904. 1t is
evidently the first rough edition of that


charming and interesting work, and is pro-
baby the only one in existence, as no other
Of the same imprint and character is men
toned in any of the catalogues Of "Ameri-
can" ~ wv
Year: 1873

1t Is an important consideration
that you are permitted' if at all to &C
into your business occupation by re-
ally divine call Not many, I suspect,
ever think Of such possibility, for a
merely secular employment, or for any
but that perhaps Of the Christian min
istry. Whereas the real and really
grand truth is that God has place for
every man. in what is to be his partic-
ular employment, as he has place for
every rock, and tree, and river, and
star. And exactly this we assume,
perhaps without knowing It, wher we
speak Of this or that mans employ
mcnt as being this or that mans cnlt-
ing We use the word az in smothered
meaning, to signify only his engage
ment cr life-occupation but there lin
gers in It, we may see, certain divine
recollection, as 1T were his privilege
to be, as by Gods personal and par
ticular cali. He may not so believe,
himself, but just as surely as he is in
his own right place, he is in that to
which he is called, whether he has
ever Thought of it that way or not.
Some are not in their place, and it is
their intclicity that they never can be.
But the great majority of men [ do
think are led, drawn, beckoned, whis-
pered into their calling, some pushed
in by stern necessities, some by urgent
wants or incapacities, some crowded IN
by Providcntial circumveutions. Mean
time blessed few find their places By
goin. to God for them. And this
most sublime and really glorious priv
ilige is for all, and for all kinds of pla-
ces and employments. There is such
thing as spiritual guidance for men.
You can form some Judgment OF your
calling by finding what others think Of
you by considering also your tastes,
aud tempe, and capabilities what
kind Of loads YOU caa carry ; what
kind of annoyanccs You can bear also
by considering what opportunities Of
good are afforded and where yoU can
make yourself Of greatest consequence
to mankind, and the salvation given to
mankind hut then, when all such in
quiries are enlod, you can be absolute
ly sure Of your calling, by seeking un-
to Cod oracle for 1t, Tided inwardly
by his divine Spirit, AS you may be,
YOU will flow in sweetly, as by silent
DRIFT, into the very thing which is to
be yoasr calling; whether it be trade,
manufacture, or any other calling.
And then having foun@ your occupa
ton, and come into it by the calling of
God, what satisfaction will yon have in
it , How reverently. lovingly, safely,
will you invest your life in it.-Dr.


BushneU.
Year: 1873

How shall we BRING cur religion


to have and keep It's due place and


prominence amid The affairs of this


busy, toilsome world? The answer is


BY the faithful use Of Gods own means


of grace, and hi-h among these is the


Lord's Day as q day of entire rest from


worldly toll and worldly pleas


urc It was designed to break up the
all-absorbing care for business into
which men are prone to fall. and to
preserve to God the throne Of the heart
while VIC are engaged in the affairs of
life. Therefore, keep the Lords Day
holy, ard the more pressing your busi-
ness and the harder your work, the
more need there is 50 to keep the Lords
day holy. As the Christian Sabbath
draws on, let all thoughts Of the led ger.
the shop, and the farm be thrown off,
and al talk of business, trade and week
day toll, and of gains and losses, and let
Gods day be given to the great ends
for which God gave it. EobbinS God
will never enrich any one. If any
work so hark through the week as to
plead Chat they must have Sundays at
home for sleep and bodily rest or recre-
alton, they break the Sabbath and rob
God AS much, virtually, as if they had
kept on ploughing or reaping and SO
do they also who think and talk about
their worldly business on Sundays. Let
US keep the Sabbath right, and It will
keep US right.


And to this there is to be added great
faithfulness ia private devotions. Tho
worlds business calls men as soon as
they rise in the morning, and there is
barely time for meals, and then to
hurry away to work, aud there are no
closets for prayer III the shop or the
store or the fields, yet all the
day long men are called to stay there.
They leave toll at night too wearied
for anything but sleep, and where is
then the place or the season for private
prayer: Yet they need it more than
any others, and there should be at
least the lifting Of the iieart to God in
silent ejaculations at intervals, for this
attracts no scof from the worlilinS at
our side, al, :h:s will help US to keep
the itetrt right with God. There must
be, moreover. some season OF retire
ment for secret prayer every day. 1t
may not be ncedfal to set apart very
long period for this pnrpose daily, We
read of son.e who spend an hour or two
in morning devotions before entering
or the duties of the day. 1t may be
well enough tor those who can, to do
50, but this is no pattern for US all to-
follow. The benefit Of our devotions-
depends more upon the heartiness than
upon the length. We want to feel
when we leave our closet that we have
prnyed, not tina. we have gone through
a mere form, but that we have heartily
prayed, and SO prayed thai it has given
US strength and comfort, NeChristian
is safe amid the cares and temptations
Of the world if he neglect daily secret
prayer.-Reu. W, Il. LevS. in Cha4cks-
man,
Year: 1873

Good words do more than hard
speeches, as the sunbeams, without any
noise, viii make the traveller cast off
his cloak, which all the clustering
winds could not do, but only make him
bind It closer to him.
Year: 1873

"YoU OUGHr TO KNOW. "-Almost
all of US can remember the friend who
upon various occasions has said to US:
"Now you mus. not be offended if I
say something to you tihat I feel it my
duty to speak about The most prop
er thing to do, as a rule in such case,
is to knock the man down-if he is not
too large for after he has finished
there can be no doubt but that YOU will
want to do so, and propricty, or con-
science, may then prevent. There is
another form of friendship quite as
common, especially among women, that
leads one to tel! the other some nea.
little gossip about herself or family, not
that the relator believes word Of it.
but because the victim ''ought to know"
These customs among our friends are
so common that We accept them IS
matters Of course, and even when we
are most exasperated by them, we know
we shall forgive them in time. 4 sad
experience teaches US that much
,ScriJner's.
Year: 1873

Often have | thought with my
self, | vii! sin but this one sin more,
and then [ will repent Of it, and of
all the rest of my sins together SO
foolish was | and ignorant. As if |
should be more able to pay my debts
when | owe more or as if I should
say | will wound my friend once
again, and then VIII lovingly shake
hands with him; but what if my
friend will not shake hands with me !?
Besides, can one commit one sin more,
and but one SIN more ?-Fu'ler
Year: 1873

A hanging garden Of sponge is one of the
latest novelties in gardening. Take white
sponge Of large size and sow it full of rice,
oats. or wheat. Then place it for IA week or
ten days in a s!ia low dish, and rs the sponge
will absorb the moisture the seeds will begin
to sprout before many days. When this has
fairIy taken place the sponge may be stls'
pended by means Of cords from hook in
the top OF the window where little sun
will enter. 1t will thus become like mass
Of green, and can be kept wet by merely inn
merslng it in bowl of water.
Year: 1873

There's q pathway that leads from my cottage


Through the old, through the dim shaded wood,
To the clearing which lies over yonder;


And often at evening I've stood
Till the stars gan to glisten and glimmer,


And the flower bells rang to the tune
which the wild summon zepbyrs were playing


Under the light Of the moon
stood watching afar down the pathway


For one who would certainly come,
When the shadows grew long in the forest,


BY the old mountain path to our home.
There was Joy in our dwelling at evening,


when toll for the long day was DER,
In the dear little house in the valley,


Where the moonbeams danced Ger the floor.
But the pathway that leads to the forest


No longer watch as before.
Ono day in the lonesome October"


They carried him out at the door;
Away from cur home In the valley


To the ehurch-yard their burden they bore;
And tonight all in vain I am watching,


whlo the moonlight falls soft on tho floor.
The pathway which leads to that village


Which "ieth so white and STILL"
Where slumber the loved who have left us,


Meath the shade of the church on the hill,
Is the path am watching at evening.


There is sadness where joy was before,
For the shadows are long in the forest,


But he comes to our cottage no more.
Year: 1873

fuller, from year to year; and, in the
course of time, the poor farmer became
a rich and prosperous one. He worked
all day with his men as if the whole
world depended upon it; but in the even
ing, when the vesper bell sounded, he
was always to be seen sitting, contehted
and well to-do, at his threshold, to be
wished "Good evening" by the passers-by.
Now and then, when they were quite
alone and no one near to hear, the woman
still reminded him of the ring, and
made all sorts of propositions to
him. He always answered there
was time enough to think about
it, an that the best ideas always oc-
Cured TO one last So she gradually fell
into the way of mentioning 1t less often,
and at last it rarely happened that the
ring was ever alluded to at all. The farm
er, 1t is true, turned the ring on his finger
twenty times day, and examined it close
ly, but he took good care never to express
the slightest wish at the time.


And so thirty and forty years went by,
and the farmer and his wife grew old and
their hair snow white, and still the wish
remained unspoken. At last it pleased
He took them to Himself both in one
night. Children and grandchildren stood
weeping round the cof1ins, and, as one
of them tried to withdraw the ring from
the dead mans fingers, the eldest son
said:


Let our father take his ring to the
grave. There was some mystery about it.
Probably it was some love token, for our
mother often looked at the ring too; per-
haps she gave it to him when they both
were young"


So the old farmer was buried with the
ring which should have been a wishing
ring, but was not one, and yet had brought
as much good luck to the house as man
could desire. For it is strange, as regards
the true and the false, but bad thing
can be turned to better account in good
hands, than good thing in bad.-Good
Things.
Year: 1873

There La absolutely no safe way to carry
pistol except to carry it without q
charge. A young man lost his wife, re-
Gently, by trusting to the directions of
friend who told him how he should carry
q pistol without danger. -


His Mary Jane resided some distance
from the city, and he had great horror
Of dogs, 30 he put his revolver in the hip
pocket of his Sunday clothes, one even
ing, when he started to see her. The
prospective motber-in-law met him at
the gate and told him to take the rocking
chair, and, as he did so, the report of fire.
arms caused the old lady to scream and
fall to the floor, while fire in the rear
claimed Charles Henry's attention, and
consumed portion of his best doeskin
''smalls" The old lady swooned; the
girl ran in, forgetting her disordered dress
and hair, and followed her mothers ex-
ample. The old man and his double
listed boys ran in, and, seeing mother
and daughter lying on the floor, went for
that young man, and he went through
the window, carrying sash and glass
with him as he went. A big dog aroused
by the noise, make for the fugitive, who
in his turn made for the city, about Q
mile and half or two miles distant,
emptying his revolver at the dog as he
went. The dog was dead for that young
man in more than one sense; for he dares
not approach the ouse now, lest the old
man may revenge the loss of his dog on
him. The old man says he will never for
give the murderer of his dog. If any one
asks that young man how he likes Mary
Jane, he says that her nerves are too deli
cate for a country girl, and be.rays an
anxiety to drop the subject; but he con-
fided to a friend that. in sitting down, the
hammer of his revolver caught upon the
rocker, and it was In that way discharged,
whereupon that house and his clothes be-
came too hot for him.-EpdnsUiUe (lnd9
Journal
Year: 1873

A bill incorporating the Loomis Aerial
Telegraph Company was recently passed
by Congress. This aerial telegraph
scheme is novel thing. The plan of DIR.
Loomis, the inventor. is to telegraph from
a high point of the Rocky Mountains to
the highest attainable peak of the Alps,
at which point a tower is to be erected,
on the top of which huge mast is to be
placed. An apparatus capable of collect
ing electricity is to be put upon the upper
end of this mast, by means of which, at
such elevation, it is claimed that strata
of the atmosphere will be reached which
is charged with electricity. Ground cou-
nection, the same as is used in ordinary
telegraphy, will be erected. This electri-
fed strata of the atmosphere will, as with
the ordinary single wire and ground con-
nection, make complete circuit, and It
is claimed that the slightest pulsation Of
electricity at one tower will produce SINH
lar pulsation at the other. The company
is to have capital stock of two hundred
thousand dollars with the privilege OF
increasing it to two millions If the inter
est of the company shall require it. The
business and objects of the corporation
are stated in the bill TO be to develop and
utilize the principles and powers OF nat
ural electricity, TO be used in telegraph
ing, generating light, heat and motive
power. and otherwise, and operate any
machinery, run by electricity, for any
purpose.
Year: 1873

THE New York World makes the serious
charge that few days ago not less than
twenty car loads of diseased Western
sheep arrived in that city from Chicago,
and many of them were killed as quickly
as possible and sold to consumers The
senders were Immediately telegraphed to,
and warned that if any more diseased
sheep were shipped they would be imme-
diately returned or seized by the proper
authorities. Sheep whose fleece showed
evident signs of the pestilence when alive
it was found could be detected by COM
petent butchers after they had been


filed with sluggish blood, along the back
visible when the pelt was stripped off,
was sufficient indication that the disease
permeated the system, to say nothing of
the general leanness and thinness of the
mutton.
Year: 1873

Next to being married to the right
person there is nothing so important in
ones life as to live under ones own
roof. There is something more than q
poetical charm in the expression of the
wife.


1--WE have our cosey house; it is
thrice dear to us because it is our own.
We have bought it with the savings of
our earnings. Many were the soda
fountains, the confectionery saloons,
and the necessities of the market We
had to pass many a time my noble
husband denied himself of the comfort
of tobacco, the refreshing draught of
beer, wore his old clothes, and even
patched up boots; and /, o, me made
my old bonnet do, wore the plainest
clothes, did the plainest cooking !;
saving was the order of the house, and
to have q house of our own had been
our united aim. Now we have it /; there
is no landlord troubling us with rails
ing the rent, and exacting this and that.
There is no fear harbored in our bosom
that in sickness or old age we will be
thrown out of house and home, and the
money we haye saved which otherwise
would have gone to pay rent, is suffi-
cient to keep US in comfort in the winter
days of life"


What q lesson do the above words
teach, and how well it would be if hun
dreds of families would heed them, and
instead of living in rented houses,
which take large share of their earn
ings to pay the rent, dress and eat ac-
cordingly, would bravely curtail ex-
penses, and concentrate their efforts on
having " a home of their own" Better
cottage of your own than q rented
palace.
Year: 1873

In his "Getting on in the World,
Professor Matthews says there was
never, probably, q time in the world s
history when high success in any pro-
fession demanded harder or more IN
cessant labor than now. Men can no
longer go at one leap into eminent
position. The world, as Emerson says,
is no longer clay, but rather iron in the
hands of its workers, and men have got
to hammer out place for themselves
by steady and rugged blows. Above
all, deep and burning enthusiasm is
wanted in every one who would achieve
great ends. No great thing is or can
be done without it. 1t is quality that
is seen wherever there are earnest and
determined workers-in the silence of
the study, and amid the roar of cannon ;
in the painting of a picture, and In the
carving of statue. Ability, learning,
accomplishment, opportunity, all are
well; but they do not, of themselves,
insure success. Thousands have all
these, and live and die without benefit
ing themselves or others. Men, on the
other hand, of mediocre talents, often
scale the dizzy steps OF excellence and
fame because they have firm faith and
high resolve. It is this solid faith IN
ones mission-the rooted belief that it
is the one thing to which he has been
called-this enthusiasm, attracting an
Agassiz to the Alps or Amazon. impel-
ling Pliny to explore the volcano In
which he is to lose his life, and nerving
Q vernet, when tossing in fierce tenn
pest, to sketch the waste OF waters, and
even the wave that is leaping to devour
him,-that marks the heroic spirit and
wherever it is found, success. sooner or
Later, is almost inevitable.