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Year: 1873

1t is well to follow the mandates of
Dame Fashion to certain extent, when
they are not injurious to health or
absolutely opposed to good taste. 1t
does not show good sense to persist in
wearing garments so old-fashioned rs
to attract attention neither is it sensi-
BILE or in good taste to adopt the exJ
treme of fashion, especially if that
fashion is, to say the least, Of doubtful
beauty. For example, many ladies are
apparently unconscious OF the ridicule
to which they expose themselves by
their absurd use of monstrous paniers.
This addition to dress can scarcely he
called ga thing of beauty" in itself,
and when affixed in its appointed place
it sometimes produces most ludicrous
effect, and often positively deforms the
human figure. Why can not ladies OF
really good taste show it by following
fashion in such moderation that they
can be distinguished from those who,
destitute of taste themselves, are forced
hlindly to adopt every style, or to follow
the dictates of their dress makers
Especially for the street should such
costumes he discarded rs will render
one conspicuous. A true lady never
desires to attract the gaze of rude eyes
in public places.
Year: 1873

We laugh at that lower order of peo-
pie who believe in the supernatural,
and boast that we are free from the
shackles of superstition. But, after
all, how few there are who are wholly
free from these shackles Who is not
ambitious to commence new year
well, for instance? must be at my
office early tomorrow morning says a
year" CT have met with loss" says
another. Had it occurred yesterday
I should not have cared so much but
on the first day of the new year 1t is
bad omen" And so the wheel turns.
Again, when our grandmothers told us
that that the dropping of table-fork,
or the falling of a dish-cloth, or the
passage of person through the house
going in at one door and out at another,
or the Growing of a cock on the door
step. is "sign" that the family is to
"have company" we have often laugh
ed in our sleeves and said nothing, for
fear that we might be set down as
heretics in the good old lady's memor-
andum-book. Yet we have puzzled our
brains not little to prove that none of
these things were "signs." We have
felt little delicacy about winding a
ball of yarn through knot-hole after
hearing how the old maid felt the yarn
pull, and on asking who was there was
answered by gruffvoice, "The Devil. "
Nevertheless, we had some faith in the
testimony of others, and thought that
if our neighbors did not see tho shade
of friend coming across the field on
the very hour that he died in q distant
city, nor did not see blood on the door
step. nor hear the death watch" tick
in the fireplace, then it was equally
strange that they should say so. If no
one was talking about us when our ears
burned, and no good luck awaited us If
we sneezed before breakfast, and no
crying was done before night on the
day when we sang tune in bed before
rising, why, we might be exceptions,
and the signs hold good as a general
rule. To be sure, we had sat on the
dining table, and had carslessly placed
three lights in row, before we thought
of getting married, yet, as we afteI-
ward did so, our theorizing favored the
signs. Our dog howled toward the
east on the night our dearest friend
died, and SO he did in every other
direction, for we had given the poor
animal no dinner nor supper yet we
felt that we had somehow made a mis-
take when an old lady said that if she
had been present she should have look.
ed ont and ascertained if he faced
toward the east. Nowone would think
it an easy matter to provo that all these
things are not signs but it is not 80,
because so many people testify IN theu
favor. Yet there is necessity for tins
proof, for the trouble borrowed on
account of signs" has been the cause
of death in many a household ; and
when we think of the weary, wan faces
which flushed at every "sign," and
then suddenly dropped out of life's
pathway, we begin to hate superstition
with keen intensity. Still their lives
proved the signs to be true, as the
monomaniac who thinks he has con-
sumption is sure to die Of it. Here,
again, the weight of the evidence is on
the side of superstition. Now we ap.
peal through this mere suggestion OF
the subject, to all readers, are these
signs we talk of every day, true? OF are
they not true? Who can prore either
proposition
Year: 1873

A Peoria man arose the morning after
a storm and found his dog kennel buried
under drift as high as church. He
worked for half an hour to dig his dog
out, and then went down town and told
his clerks what he had done, adding,
ga merciful man is merciful to his
beasts" But after he had left home
the neighbors saw his wife and daugh-
ter shoTeling paths through the snow,
and carrying in coal.
Year: 1873

to die in the jail while defending him.
self rather than die by the rope An
other blow from a missile struck him
on the temple and stunned him. Sew
eral of the mob here sprang forward
and grappled with him. He strug-
gled with desperate and superhuman
strength, once or twice freeing himself
from the hands of the vigilants. He
was finally overpowered, and, still
struggling, was bound hand and foot.
He was then dragged from his cell out
into the jail, and from thence out on
the street. About two squares from
the jail stands railroad bridge built
over a creek. The bridge is perhaps
twenty-five feet above the water It
has no frame work above the track.
He was taken to this bridge, and while
on the way there asked:


"What are you going to do with
me?"


'.rhe mob replied : eve are going
to hang yOu p


Heffren answered quietly, as if it
was q matter of no great moment to
him:


81 will go along with YOU"


When they arrived at the bridge a
rope was placed around his neck. He
then seemed to realize his fearful posi-
ton, and begged for time to pray.


All of his courage here left him, and
with tears in his eyes he pleaded for
time to offer up prayer to Him whose
laws he had SO often violated. He did
not then remember tn 1T he gave his
two victims, johnson and De Halstead,
no time to pray, but sent them before
their Maker with all their crimes upon
their souls. Men like Heffren never
think of these things until they are
themselves placed in such terrible po-
sitions. The mob answered his appeals
for time to pray by telling him that he
should have thought of that before
that they had no time to wait, and he
had to 60"


All then was made ready for the
hanging. His hands and feet were
securely bound, and the moose proper
ly adjusted. He begged and pleaded
hard for mercy, but there was no
mercy in the hearts of those who sur
rounded him. They had done the
same awful work before at the tall tree
near Seymour, in Jackson county, in
New Albany, and near Chariestown,
Indiana. The self-constituted regula-
tors of law, the vigilance committee OF
Southern Indiana, here held him firm
ly in their grasp, and he might as well
have been in the power of the most
savage beasts that roam the forest as
of those bold and determined men.
| The end of the rope was securely fixed
| to one of the outside timbers of the
bridge. Delos HefIren, a man who al
one time had every fair prospect il
life, a man of fine talents. and who
had held positions of honor and credit
in his State, was then lifted up In the
stalwart arms of the avengers, anl
thrown from the bridge, and his body
left dangling between heaven and
earth.


Delos Heffren, the last victim O.
tragic violence, is about 40 years O.
age, is fine looking and powerfully
built, as are all of his family. He was
man of considerable talent and, haG
those talents been employed in differ
ent and more useful channel he NIGH
have risen to high position in the
State. In 1860 he was deputy Secreta
ry of State under his uncle, Judge
Cyrus d. Durham. When the wa
broke out he joined the F'iftieth Indi
ana regiment, and was second lieuten
ant of Company l.
Year: 1873

There is evidently money in the
newspaper business in Gotham, and
the Times has it's full share of it. At
least it would seem so, from the fact
that it has paid out $4,000 for new
outfit, including engines and Walters
Press. The Times now appears in
new and exceptionally handsome type,
that for clearness, taste and elegance,
is rarely equalled.


We can truly say that in its new
dress the Times is almost as handsome
in appearance as it is offensive in its
politics, and that about exhausts the
subject,
Year: 1873

MENTS.


We trust the people will bear in
mind the Importance of the election SO
soon to take place.


u Independent of the election for
county officers, the fact that the peo-
pie will also be called upon to declare
whether or not they desire to have the
Constitution altered in many very inn
portant particulars, makes the coming
first Thursday in August day that
ought not to be forgotten.


The Amendments now before the poo
pie and that require only the express
sion of popular appreciation at the
polls to become part and parcel of the
Constitution, are eight in number and
have already been agreed to by two
different Legislatures.


Each Amendment is to be voted on
separately, so that there is nothing to
hinder the freest expression of opin-
ion on the part of every voter in re-
gard thereto. Indeed, every thing that
was possible, has been done, to give
each voter an opportunity to express
his preference for the Constitution as
it stands or as changed by any or all of
the proposed Amendments.


There are those, doubtless, in the
State who desire no change to be
made, especially those who have an
interest in the so-called special tax
bonds of the State. These men desire
nothing so much as that every one of
the proposed amendments shall be
voted down, in the hope that the Fed
eral Courts will come in, and by
forcing the Legislature to levy tax or
by some other process, compel the
State to pay the interest on these
fraudulent bonds.


Other men too, for other reasons,
will oppose the adoption of the amend
ments; some will do so secretly and
some will do so openly.


It behooves every man, therefore,
who has the good of the State at heart
and who has his own welfare at heart,
to go to the polls on election day and
vote for the amendments.


The changes they will effect in our
laws promise to be too beneficial to us
for us to permit them to be lost by
apathy or Indifference.


We how have one last opportunity
to throw off the great burden that is
crushing us to the earth. Let us re-
solve to take advantage of it.
Year: 1873

The Pacific Oceata is to be sounded
with view of laying down at st,,laGe
future time submarine cable, Several
schemes for ocean cables across the
Pacific have already been laid before
Congress. One of the reasons for the
failure to act upon them was the alb
sence of precise knowledge as to the
soundings. The line to be sounded is
between California and japan and
the vessel will go by one route and re
turn by another, soast to furnish sound
ings for two tracks
Year: 1873




Mrs. Nottingham, respectable wild


owed gentlewoman Of Sheffield, England,
while recently upon a visit to some friends
near Durham, in northern county, was
taken to hear the eloquent defamation of q
noted dissenting exhorter who had become
particularly celebrated for his exaltation Of
the efficacy Of prayer. This favorite topic
OF his was the one he had chosen on the
occasion in question and his earnest, vivid
manner of explaining that, in addition to its
supernatural value, devout invocation was a
benefcent, magnetic energy, capable of the
most wonderful natural effects, induced
the Sheffield lady to seek an introduction
to him after the "meeting" for the special
purpose of relating q striking illustration
from her own experience. The preacher, a
man Of refined and intellectual appearance,
and with a curious timidity in his manner,
heard the anecdote with an interest nerv-
onsly dsproportionate to its apparent conse-
quence, and then after an awkward pause
begged that its narrator would not again re-
late it in that place until he should first have
had opportunity to use it ip the pulpit, In
some surprise Mrs. Wintringham acceded
to the request, ultimately attributing it to
the good mans eccentricity, and the two did
not meet again until they were once more
speaker and hearer in the sanctuary, Upon
tie latter occasion the subject ofexhortation
was again "the souls sincere desire, uttered
or unexpressed," and the principal illrstra-
tion was as follows 1" Four or five years
ago." said tina preacher, with marked intensi-
ty Of manner, ga lady living in an old
fashioned house in one Of our suburban
countries discovered. upon retiring to her
room at about midnight, that there was q
concealed man under her bed. Almost alone
in the house, aud quite alone in that wing Of
it, the lady knew not what to do. She
feared to go to the door and unlock it lest
the burglar should suspect that she was
about to summon help, and should intercept
her. To gain time she sat down and took
her bible from her dressing'table. Opening
the sacred book at random, it SO happened
that the chapter lighted on was that contain.
ing the parable of the prodigal son, KneeI
ing down when the chapter was ended, che
prayed aloud-prayed earnestly and fer
vently. She besought. safety for hersel
during the perils Of the night, and cast her
self in supreme confidence on the Divine
protection. Then prayed for Others who
mighthAve been tempted into illdoing-tha
they might be led from evil, and broagb
! into the fold Of Christ that to such nigh
be youehsafed the tender mercy and kind
ness promised to all who truly repent thei
SINS. Lastly she prayed that, if be wille'
it, even tonight some such sinner might b
Year: 1873

EDITORS CHRONICLE: Some time ago,
well written article made the rounds OF
the papers, complaining of the scarcity OF


good butter and insinuating, that unclean-


illness in making, was the prime cause of it.
Of course, cleanliness, is absolutely neces-


sary in butter-making, as well as all diary


operations. There may be some butter


spoiled by carlessness in that respect, but


I do not believe, that farmers and farmers


wives generally are such dirty slovens, as


to spoil 95 per cent. oft by uncleanliness.


No doubt good butter is scarce, but think


we have to look in another direction for


the cause Of il. I have found it utterly
impossible to make good butter at all times


without using thermometer in churning
and 1 know that very few farmers use
one. I have found by experiment that
butter will not come unless, the tenn
perature of the cream is so de-
grees.s I have also found. that
If the temperature of the buttermilk, after


butter has come, is above IS degrees, the


butter is almost ruined at least it will


not keep any length of time, because it is


too soft to work out the buttermilk thor
roughly, which, by-the-by, is the main
cause for bttter turning rancid. Besides,
it will not have good color, nor will it
show any of that tough, ,waxy appearance
which butter dealers call grain" AS the
scope of proper temperature in churning is
so very limited, it is impossible to hit it
always by guess work. / therefore would
say to every farmer who intends to make
tgeod butter, to get a thermometer and use
it. And if you do, you will find that it
will save you or your wife great deal of
worry and hard work next winter, when
the cream brought from the spring house
is considerably under 60 degrees. Never
start the dasher until you have
got your cream up to that temperature,
by setting one of the crooks with it in
vessel of hot water, but never under any
pour hot water into the
churn. 1t will spoil the butter completely.
1twill drive off those highly volatile ethe-
rial oils which give the butter that fine
desirable flavor, besides destroying it's tex
ture and color. Whenever you commence
to churn, while the temperature of the
cream is too low you waste your time and
strength. Your butter will not come until
you have brought it up to that point some
way or other, even if you do it by the mo-
tion of the dasher, which takes an hour
sometimes. At present, June 22nd, great
care is necessary to keep from churning
too fast, for fear of raising the temperature
above $50. A good plan is to set the churn
into tub of cold water. Some cold W alter
poured into the churn will not injure the
butter, and is even desirable, if there is
signs of the butter coming too quick. 1t
ought and will take about 40 minutes to
make butter, if the temperature has been
kept at the right point. E}1C


~ East TENNESSEE DAIRYMAN.
Year: 1873

EDITORS CHRONICLE: A few thoughts
engendered by perusal of your article in
regard to the "Ryderville swindle" in
Scott county, and the generally loose way
in which our mountain lands are decided
may, perhaps, not be out of place:


1t is conceded by all who have examined
the subject, that the great obstacle to ad-
vaneement in our State lies in the fact that,
while sending forth large numbers of peo-
pie yearly to settle and cultivate other Sec
tiOns of the country, we receive hardly
any of that emigration from the Eastern
States, and from Europe, to which We
should be entitled, on account of our geo.
graphical position, our great agricultural
and mineral advantages, and our admira-
BILE climate. Now, undoubtedly, there is
reason for this, and to show partially what
that reason is founded on, is the object of
this letter.


I The great trouble is the insecurity of
titles. AS matters now stand, any one so
desiring can make an entry of land COW
ering the ground on which the city of
Knoxville stands, and get grant of the
same from the State of Tennessee, signed
by the Governor. Now, in the North and
in Europe, where titles are carefully guard
ed by statutory enactments based on care
1uA elau pCOu1otC 6u1f fCyS3 q uCCu vi RIdut
from the State would be considered to
be absolutely good in every respect.


Now what do we find to be the cause
here? The State of Tennessee not only
grants that she has previously granted,
perhaps two or three times before, but she
will even give grants to land that under
the compact of 1928, belongs to the State
of Kentucky; and as far as can see there
is no reason to doubt but that grants can
be obtained from our land officers on lands
covering the capital city of Kentucky. 1t
may be argued that the State grants only
that land, vacant and unapprOpriated.
that may be within the boundaries named
in the patent, but how are the innocent
purchasers in the North and abroad to
know this?


Sales have been made within the last
twelve months, in Scott and adjoining
counties, to my certain knowledge, to par
ties in the North of lands to which there is
no shadow of title. What made the pur-
chasers invest? Simply because they were
shown grants from the State of Tennessee.


How long is the fair fame of our State to
be used for the furtherance of these swim
dies Can we not have some legislation
toremedy these evils?


Every sale made of land to which there
there is not a good title is serious draw
back to emigration, for everyone who loses
by purchase of this nature becomes
at once a denunciator of the State ;
its laws and it's people. Can not the
CHRONICLE be counted on to bring this
matter before the people, and agitate and
keep agitating the subject, until the masses
know the fact, that in order to secure the
immigration they so much desire, and
consequently develop the country they
possess, they must first, last and all the
time, make titles secure. c.


Jacksboro', II June, 1873.
Year: 1873

That RusH.-Thero is quite rush at Grif-
fth'- for these fancy boots and shoes. They
have fine stock and are closiug out for cash at
remarkably low rates. II ycu want bargain
now is the time TO call He is clearing cat to
get Ioom for his new spring stock
Year: 1873

Action was taken yesterday in reference to tho
employment OF unemployed laborers by deiega-
tion from the Common Council. who waited upon
the Commissioners OF Docks, OF Public Works and
ofAParks, TO inquire whether the resolutions
passed by the Common Council by which day labor
into effect and they were told that Mayor Have
meyer had not yet signed these resolutions
Year: 1873

"STRENGTH but not impatience," is the very
apt motto adopted by the Prince Imperial,
OF course it don't mean anything in particu-
lar but the now Count Pierrefords will have
ample test for his patience before he arrives
to that degree of strength that will enable
him to re-establish the Napeolonic dynasty
in France.
Year: 1873

THE general impression seems to be that
the House Of Representatives will not pass
tie bill to abolish the franking privilege as
passed by the Senate, but will adopt some
amendments to which the latter body will
not agree.
Year: 1873

Rrropr tbe hearing in the Lin'ins'on-
Limerick csse had been completed a special
desnatcb to this paper stated tha' 1t was evl-
aeat that the petitioners would have leave to
a ,p;thdraw. When the eminent counsel came
~ make his argument he read the despatch
and denounced it as an F'unrighteous'' at
tempt on the part of his opponents to infu-
ence the action of the Committee, and de-
manded that the reporter be brought in as
witness. Inquiry was made for him, but to
no avail; yet rumor hath it that a small but
excited individual left the capitol at that mo-
ment, making frantic attempts to propel a
pair of number ten boots at railroad sped
towards his lodgings. We grieve to learn
that the veteran attorney lost his temper and
his case; but beg leave to assure him that on
the whole he will find that $S year invested
in the PRESS will afford him more informa


ton and real satisfaction than it is possible t(


obtain from similar amount otherwise ex
| oI
Year: 1873

GARvEY, the Tammany plasterer, is
spreading it pretty thick on Tweed in the
trial now going on in New York. IF he usu-
ally does his plastering as we'll he will never
be sued for sighting his contract.
Year: 1873

Mr.. LYNCH secured the passage Of his sec
end supplementary bill to the shipping COM
mission act Wednesday, which exempts from
the operation OF the law the shipping of sea-
men between the United States and Domin-
ion provinces and the West Indies. This
very radicel modification of the law if it re-
ceves the favorable action of the Senate will
divest the shipping act of the most Of its hard
ships and at this point relieve the officer OF
the greater part of his duties.
Year: 1873

NEXT to railroads, the most protracted
fights before the legislature, are those arising
from the division of towns and the setting off
of the part of one town 10 another. Gener-
ally the most persistent party succeeds: and
the fact that party has been defeated five or
six times is no bar to his appearing before ey-
cry successive legislature with his PRAYER. 1t
would seem that the legislature should place
limit to the number of hearings that such
cases may be entitled.
Year: 1873

THE defeat of the bill to promote Ameri-
can commerce in the House, indicates that
no measure of this character can secure the
favorable action of Congress. The most
that can be expected is the passage of the
bill advocated by the Maine delegation ex-
tending the time which vessels built for for
eign trade may engage in coast wise business
during the year, so that the builders may
avail themselves of the drawbacks authorized
on materials used in building ships for foreign
commerce.
Year: 1873

THE proposition now before the Educa-
tion Committee at Augusta to raise the en-
tire school fund by laying tax of five mills
on the dollar of the entire valuation of the
State, is most unjust. The present tax of
one mill draws heavily upon the cities and
larger towns which on fair valuation are
more heavily taxed than the most of the
smaller municipalities. Already the State
has assumed large part of the municipal
war debt which has drawn very heavily upon
the cities. It's claimed that a majority Of
the Committee are in favor of the measure
but we are not prepared to believe that
majority of the Legislature will adopt meas
ure so unjust and which will have a tendency
to drive capital out Of our cities.