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Year: 1870

An exchange says that rations
to the extent Of eight or ten thou.
sand daily, are being issued to
the poor Of Washington. All
very good, if it were not for a
suspicion some. people will have
thst Congress is keeping a few
thousand darkies at the capital
to vote the Radical ticket.
Year: 1870

young man in this town took Il into his
head TO circulate stories about one OF our most
respectable young ladies'. Coming to the ears
OF the father he went to the slanderer and ask
ell him to prove Il or retract it. He would do
neither. The matter was put into the hands Of
Mr.. Hubbard Of your city who gave the young
man gentle reminder, when he FASTENED TO
sign paper that he was liar and slanderer,
and by paying costs further proceedings were
stayed. SO be, only worse, to all slanderers.
Year: 1870

On our second page we print, this
morning, an article from the Louis
vile Commercial on tho Port Of En-
try matter. It shows clearly the
aniable and courteous spirit in which
our Louisville friends are disposed to
regard the efforts Of Evansville to inn
prove hel business facilities. At the
very time the editor was writing his
'tirade against our city, Louisville had
been included in the Port Of Entry
bill with the other cities. We hope
tho Indiana Congressman will stand
firm and see to it that no contempti-
bic jealousy on the part Of any cities,
in other States be allowed to
exclude Evansville from the benefits
of the bill. TIE friends of the meas
ure cannot well do without the eley-
en- votes from Indiana, and we believe
our. Congressmen know their rights
and will fearlessly maintain them.
The meanness which character,
ICES the article in the Com.
nlerctGl, is as eontcmptible as
many Of its statements arc false.
Evansville never sought to supplant
Louisville, and if the editor Of the
Commercial had known anything at
all concerning the matter, he would
have known that cur city only did
her best to increase her own business
facilities. without in the least attempt
ing to iDjure any Of her competitors.
Year: 1870

A story is circulating in the papers to
this effect: A young lady i'll Boston or
its vicinity had set her heart upon going
to a public ball, and expected her lover,
who is designated asE"J. -" and who
boarded with her parents, to accompany
her. Her parents objected to her going
to the ball, especially in company with
j., but she said she was determined to
60, and chat if she could not so with j.
she would accept the company Of the
devil should he offer 10 attend her"


On the night Of the ball she slipped
out of the house in proper trim except
that she had to buy boots for the occasion
and having procured these, she was re-
turning "a put them on, when she met
-, as she supposed, and he persuaded
her to 90 with him to the ball at once,
and change her boots I'm the ladies dres-
sing room. iJ.'was her partner in the
first dance, but afterward disappeared
until supper time, then suddenly presen-
ting himself, with rather frivolous eXcu-
ses for his absence, and invited her
down to the supper room, Offended by
his neglect, she said she would return
home 81 once, and he attended her
thither. Very little was said by either
party until they had nearly reached the





was not going in; and presenting her
with q beautiful pearl handled pocket
knife, and asked her when she .Usedit to
think Ofhim, he suddenly left her. The
girl on telling her mother all that had
passed, was astOunded at learning that
u, had net been out of the house since
early nightfall, and had gpue to bed Ge-
fore the hour al which she ball began.
The girl refused to believe If, but after
some discussion, her mother took her to
j. - room, and there he was seen calm |
ly and profoundly stepping. Nothing
more COutd be said, and the daughter re- !
tired for the night. A strange sound
shortly afterward brought the mother TO (
the girls chamber, and she was found I
with ner throat cut with the penknife
given to her by her companion at the
ball. She fingered until noon, and then
died, declaring that remembering what
she had said in her determination to 90
TO the dance, she used the knife because
she was overwhelmed by horrible suspic- /
ions as to who 10 was that, personating
y - became her partner Ihe English
journals copy this story with due gravi-
ty, and the Pal Nal Gd-effcc saws
Whether il is true or not, it will or
ought to make young ladies i'm future
more catinus in their language; nor is
it half so strange or horrible as an event
which Is stated TO have occurred at
country ball in England a few years ago
which we have no reason to believe is
a pure fiction. A young lady being
blamed by her mother for refusing to
dance with q gentleman possessing vast
Year: 1870

It may convenient 10 know q ready
method Of closing up cracks which are
not uncommon in cast iron stoves, and
we are assured that the following reeeiut
Is reliable one: Good wood ashes are
to be sifted through a fine sive, TO which
Is added the same quantity Of clay finely
together with a little salt.
the mixture is to be mOisteEed with wa
ter enough to make a paste and the
crack Of the stove filed Wit, il. This
cement does not peel on or break away.
and assumes "a extreme degree Of haTl.-
ness after being heated. The stove
must be cool when the application Is
made. The same substance may be
used in setting in the plate of q stove,
or in fitting stOve-pipes, serving TO rem
der all the joints perfectly tight.
Year: 1870

wealth, but who was personally disa-
greeable to her remarked that She
would as soon dance with the devil
She had hardly uttered the words when
a gentleman clothed in black stood be-
fore her, and offered her his arm. With
a reprOachful glance toward her moth
er, which the latter forgot, she accepted
the invitation Of the stranger, with
whom she commenced the waltz. The
other couples, by some strange instinct,
ceased daneing and all eyes In the room
were turned on the young lady and her
mysterious partner as faster and faster
they whirled to the sound of the music
still faster-until they almost became
invisible in their unnatural activity.
Then cams a noise like a clap Ofthunder
then a sulphurOUs smell; the gentleman
in black was missing, and the young Ia
dy lay dead on the fiOOr.U
Year: 1870

Circumstances seem to me to justify
the publication of certain documents in
my possession, which have reference to
my management of the affairs of the
Knoxville and Kentucky Railroad.


| submit, first, extracts of letter from
one of my counsel under whose advice l
declined to answer some of the questions
of the Legislative Committee:


JoxEsBoRo, April, IL, 1870.-Colonel
Joseph 4. Mabry: DEAR SIR:-In con-
sequence of ny apprehension that the
train might leave me, our conversation,
on yesterday, was brief, and unsatisfac-
tory, and TO prevent any misunderstood
ing, on your part, of the views which l
hastily expressed, / have concluded to
address you this letter.


Armed, as the Legislative Committee is,
by the resolutions under which they act,
with unusual and extraordinary powers to
compel the attendance and the examina-
ton of witnesses, it would be as useless
as impoliiic to undertake, in any manner,
either to defy or evade their powers1
They should be treated, of course, with
all the respect and Difference due the Leg
islatlYe Department, IN whose behalf they
act.


After much reflection on the subject, l
am still of the opinion that the most
proper course for you to pursue is to OBJ
tain full and complete transcript of the
record, duly certified in the case against
YOU and submit the same to the commit
tee, with request that they shall judge
and determine for themselves whether it
is proper for them to make any inquiry
touching any of the matters involved in
the suit. The comfy which is due and
generally observed by each of the co-or-
dinate departments of the Government
toward the other, would, as it seems to
me, preclude the Legislature from inter
fering in any way with the pending ju-
dicial investigation. At any rate, | think
the committee could, with great prOprie-
ty, report the fact, and await further and
more explicit instruction as to the Knox
vile and Kentucky Railroad. The ques-
ton could then be distinctly discussed and
considered in the Legislature whether it is
proper for that body to interfere with the
action of q judicial tribunal, or do any
thing that may affect the rights of pri-
vate parties, now lawfully under course
of investigation before an appropriate jul
diCatiOn.


1t has always seemed to me that there
is and must, of necessity, be some consti
tutional limitation upon the unlimited
powers of investigation usually exercised
| by Congressional and Legislative commit
| tees, and that there must be some poin
at which the rights of private parties car
be protected, and private transactions
shielded from the prying gaze of excited
curiosity; but where the precise boundary
line is, l am not prepared to say, nor dC
know that it has been defined either by
judicial decision or Legislative enactments


The spirit of our institutions, however
looks to fair play in every species o


trial and investigation, and, unless l an


greatly mistaken, you will find that
! firm, but temperate appeal to the commit
tee, or the Legislature, will prevent tina


body from throwing its weight into th


scales of justice and attempting to tur
Year: 1870

From the Assistant Marshals engaged in
taking tie census in the several wards Of
the city, we learn that, though the work is
not thoroughly completed yet, enough is
known to insure population in the city
proper of near 10000. This does not in
clude the suburbs, which are very expan-
sive and populous, and which in most such
cities are embraced in the corporation.
Counting these residents, the population
of the city and immediate surroundings
would foot up to near $4,000. The census
of the city will develop large increase Of
business in every department as well as an
expansive population. 1t will also show
that this increased business is very widely
diffused among all classes of people, and
that vast amount of capital and energy
are engaged here in building up one of the
largest and most prosperous cities of the
Southwest.
Year: 1870

PARIS, June 16-The following authen-
tic news has been received here from
Rome under date of June Is: The discus
sion on Infallibility dogma chapter by
chapter began to-day. The more ultra
supporters of Infallibility intend to renew
the scene of June 80, ri if debate prom
ises to last too long.


Thirty-two of the Fathers who have de-
layed their departure in order to support
the intalibility dogma, announce that they
will leave the city directly after the festival
of st. Peter, whether the discussion is
ended by that time or not. There will
be no session of the Ecumenical Council
tomorrow. The Bishops will assist at the
solemn procession which is to take place
in the Square of St. Peters.
Year: 1870

1t was announced on the street yester-


day that the Lame Miller, late proprietor


of the jackson Mills, was about to take


charge of the Spring Brook Mills in Spring
field, Tenn. II this be true, we shall re-
gret to lose the smile Of his genial coun-
tenance in our sanctum, and the inspiring
presence OF his enterprising spirit in ouI
city. But our comfort is that he will still
furnish us the best of flour. We wish him
unbounded success in his new field oi
labor, and congratulate Old Robertson on
his becoming one of her citizens.
Year: 1870

The continued cool and rainy weather
of the past two or three weeks, has been
very bad on the ice cream establishments
and soda founts, which opened in full and
elegant blast, and with such fine prospects
some time since. The atmosphere has
been of such an unseasonably cool tenn
perature that cooling draughts and iced
Injuries have not been in demand. July
is close at hand, however, and our friends
may cheer up.
Year: 1870

a Texas jury having found a prisoner
not guilty, in defiance of the evidence,
the Judge gave them his opinion of them
in the strongest terms, telling them that
such verdicts had brought Texas into dis
grace among the other States.
Year: 1870

From those engaged in taking the cen
sus in our neighboriIg city, across the
river, we learn that the complete returns
will exhibit her population at between
4. 800 and 5000. This exhibit shows an
increase of highly gratifying character
and it is too among the best class Of popu-
Iation to be found anywhere.
Year: 1870

There is q bit of romance connected
with Spotted Tail, the Sioux chief 1t is


said that his daughter, when dying, clasp
ed her arms about his neck and made him
swear never to take the life of a white
man, Since then he has often averted the
hand of rapine and murder from falling on
the defenceless settler.
Year: 1870

A Boston minister hired servant girL
nj 81. so per week, and deducted ninety
cents from her wages because she hSu an
other servant girl stay with her one
night. That coon will want to pay her
the balance of her weges In praying OF
| sOme other counterfeit
Year: 1870

1t is not generally known, even by
those who wear kids almost cxclu-
sively, that the durability and set OF
these articles depend very much upon
how they are put OH the first time.
Two pair may be taken from one box,
of exactly the same cut and quality,
and by giving them different treat
mcnt when first putting the hand into
them. one pair will be made to fit
much better, and to wear double or
nearly that length of time longer than
the other. When purchasing gloves
people are usually in too much of q
hurry they carelessly put them OH,
and let them 20 in that way then,
thinking to do the work more COM
pletely at another time. When this
is the case Il person is sure TO meet
with disappointment, for the glove is
made to fit never after, no amount of
effort will make satisfactory change.
Never allow Il strctchCr to be used.
for tic gloves will not be likely to fit
well Tor il. All of the expansion
should be made by the hands; if the
kids are so small as TO require the aid
of stretcher, they should not be pur-
chased, as they prove to small for du-
rability, comfort, or beauty. When
selecting gloves, choose those with
fingers to correspond with your own
in length take time Ia put them OH,
working in tic fingers first, till ends
meet ends; then put i'll the thumb
and smooth them down until they are
made to fit nicely. "A glove that fits
well will usually wear well, at least
will wear better than ono Of the same
kind that docs not fit well. When the
end of the fingers do not come down
right, or when they arc SO long as to
form wrinkles upon the sides of the
fingers, they will chafc out easily !;
where the stretchcr has to bc used to
make the fingures large enough, the
body part will be so small IS to cramp
the hand, so that it cannot be shut
without bursting the seams of the
kids. Some recommend putting new
kids into Il damp CLOTH before they
arc put on, and allowing them to re-
main until they are nOistened. With
this treatment they can be put oil
much easier than otherwise, and will
fit very nicely until they get dry, but
OH second wearing therc will be an
unnatural harshness about them,
wrinkling in spots, and they will not
lit SO perfectly as at first.
Year: 1870

Young men and boys rarely realize,
We fear, how much their success in life
depends upon their present deport-
ment. Their conduct Is more general
ly observed than they are ready to be-
lieve, and frequently discussions take
place among business and influential
men in regard to their fitness for places
for which young men are wanted, of
which they never Know.


We were made to think of this the
other day, on hearing one of our best
business men, who will have no one
about him who is not above suspicion,
point outa half dozen young men in
Reading whom he would cheerfully
and confidently recommend for any
position, however responsible, that any
young man could fill. They are young
men whose general conduct recom>
meuds them. They are never seen
rowdying ON the streets they are nev-
er seen hanging about restaurants;
they are never seen making themselves
conspicuous by boisterous behavior;
they are never seen "takin a state"
with a cigar i'm his mouth and hat cock
ed to one side of his head they are
never heard shocking the sensibilities
of decent people by profane or indecent
language; in short they have none of
the characteristics of the self>indulging
loafer or rowdy. They are the pride OF
their parents and an honor to the COM
munity i'm which they live, and des-
tined to be the leading men of the
country. .


All young men should be ambitious
to have such regulations 50 that when
positions of trust are to be filled, their
friends can, with confidence, recom-
mend them.
Year: 1870

Oxygen is q colorless and transparent
gas; without edor or taste; little
heavier than air, its specific gravity
being 1.1056.


A lighted taper lowered into jar of
oxygen burns with surprising brillian-
cy. A glowing spark upon the wick is
all that is needed; the oxygen instant
ly and with slight explosion, kindles
il into q vivid flame. Experiments like
these illustrate the fact that bodies
which burn in air, will burn with
greater vigor in oxygen.


Again: let an iron wire or steel
watch spring be tipped with n bit of
wood. Set fire TO the wood and at
once plunge 1t into a jar of oxygen |;
quickly the metal takes fire and burns
the iron with steady and beautiful
light, or the steel with a multitude of
star-like sparks. Experiments such as
this illustrate the fact that substances
which do not burn in air may bum
with great rapidity in oxygen.


1t not only supports combustion; it is
also necessary to the life of animals. 1t
is in the air, and animals breathe il; it
gees into their blood and purifies it.
And yet were an animal TO breathe
pure oxygen, death would surely fol
low. BY being mixed with nitrogen
its violent action is toned down so that
the most delicate organ may not only
Withstand it, but be invigorated by its
presence.


Oxygen is the most abundant ele-
ment in nature; minerals, plants, and
animals alike contain large quantities
of it. One-fifth part of the air by
weight is oxygen, eight-ninths of all
the water Oh the globe, and about one
half of all the solid rocks. Besides
this, it forms about four-fifths of the
weight of vegetable bodies, and about
three-fourths of that of animals. 1t is,
perhaps, not too much to say that one
half of all the matter of the world, as
far as it has been examined, is oxygen.
And yet when freed from its prisons i'm
solid and liquid bodies, oxygen is a gas,
invisible as air and but little heavier.
-C0oleys Chemistry.
Year: 1870

Advices from China state that on


the 1st of March remarkable dust
storm was witnessed Oh the Yang-tze
for a distance of quite GO miles, during
which steamers were forced to anchor.
The atmosphere was so filled with par
ticles of dust that it resembled thick
fog, and objects were not visible the
length of steamer in any direction.
The Chinese hail these dust storms with
delight, as benefactors of their land.
They say they come all the way from
Tartary, and are sent by joss to enrich
the soil, 80
Year: 1870

EeIlOW.DeiDSs Asieep.


From the Louisville Courier Journal, May II.


A man who gave his name as Charles
Watkins, and who turns out to be Charles
Livingstone, once respectable mer-
chant IN this city, was arrested while
trying to enter the house of Mr.. Schaeffer,
on Portland avenue, before daylight
yesterday morning This man has a
strange mania, for which name is yet
to be invented. He will break into a
house at night just for the luxury of
standing by the bedside Of a person and
looking at him or her, as the case may
be, as they lay asleep He has been
known to do this ON several occasions
and, after standing there and gazing for
hours, leave without disturbing anything
and close the doors carefully after him.
Z About six months ago he got himself
into serious trouble in this way being
arrested as burglar and held to answer.
He entered the room of young lady
after she had retired and gone to sleep.
Taking his favorite position beside the
bed, he stood gazing at the beautiful
sleeper till, perhaps, conscious of the
presence near her, she awoke and was
frightened terribly. By the faint light
of the moon as it shone through the
lattice, she saw this stranger standing
still and motionless at her bedside. She
screamed and tainted, and the inmates
of the house, aroused by the noise, came
running in just in time to catch the in
truder. The affair caused good deal of
excitement, and no little gossip al the
time, but subsequent facts have proved
that the man was harmless, and went
there just to satisfy this singular longing
of his He has been caught in several
such places since then, but at no time
has he ever disturbed anything or any
body. He was presented to the court as
a suspected felon, charge hardly iusti-
fed by the facts in the case, and held in
$500 to be of good behavior for twelve
months. His case is a strange one
indeed ~ NY .Ah 81k&
Year: 1870

The Journal de Genere gives the follow
ing account of terrible accident upon
Mont Blanc =


Three travellers, an lrishman and two
Amerlcans, with three guides and five
pOrters, left ChamounIx on Monday
morning, to arrive that day and sleep at
the Grands-Mulets. The weather was
fine, but the next morning there was SO
violent storG that the inhabitants of
Chamounix naturally supposed that the
travellers would have given up the idea
of an ascent Of Mont Blame, and would
not have quilted the Grands- Mulets.
There was, therefore, no 1isquet res
pecting them i'll the valley. News came,
1t is true, III the evening, both from the
Croix de Flegere and from Il 3revent
that they had been seen starting for
Mont-Blanc IN spite of the tempest. and
that they had arrived upon the Drome-
darys Hump, an hours march distant
from the summit ; that they had been
seen suddenly to collect together and to
hold fast one to another, and then to dis
appear i'll the snow wreaths raised by the
wind. l., spite Of this, however, people
persisted IN believing that they must
have sheltered themselves against the
wind III some nook or crevice of the ice,
and therefore there WAS no great occa-
sion to hear of the result However.
when the next day the proprietor of the
Pavilion de Ia Pierre Pointue arrived,
expressing his astonishment at finding
that 10 one had redescended, people be-
gan TO have serious apprehensions regard
ing the fate of the travellers The day
was too far advanced to render it posi-
bic to make any immediate search but
on the following morning thirty-two
young men of the valley went off in
search of them. Unfortunately the
shocking weather which prevailed pre-
vented them from passing the pavilion
Of Plerre-Pointue, situated at two hours
journey from Chamounix. They had
to retrace their steps without being able
to do anything. On the following day
new attempt WAS made by twelve cour-
ageous young men; but again the rain
and the wind would not permit them to
scale the mountain. At the hour 81
/ writing there remains no hope that these
unfortunate people have escaped death
1t is probable that at the moment when





together on the top of the Bosses du
Dromadaire, they were making u supreme
effort to withstand the tempest, So terri
bic on those heights that their efforts
Were of no avail, and that they were pre-
cipitated together upon the Glacier du
Mage which spreads out on the side of
the Alec Blanche We have been fur
nished with the names of two of the
guides, Jean Balmatek and Joseph Bre-
ton, who were well known ON account OF
their numerous aScenSions One of the
porters was IA young Garde Mobile, who,
on account of being the support of his
family, was excused from service and
sent home few days previously. His
father was killed some years ago on the
Grands-Mulets by the falling of stone
detached from rock. This terrible
drama has produced at Chamounix an
emotion which we shall not attempt to
describe. The whole of the valley is
literally in mourning,