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Year: 1870

A reporter for New Orleans paper made
visit 10 the Insane Asylum, when a young and
handsome female inmate rushed up to him and
implanted showers of kisses on his frontplece.
All the reporters and EDITORS III louisiana now
visit that asylum to write it up There is not
a shadow of doubt that the girl was insane.
Year: 1870

RESULT OF REFUSING A KISS. "A few weeks
ago ii merchant OF this city Was married L.
the secand week of the honeymoon. business
required his presence iD St. Louis. He mott
fed his wife of his intended departure and
made his preparations for the trip. At the
moment of leaving. his wife approached him,
put up her mouth aud asked him to kiss her
good bye. A he intended rel urning to the
house before going to the depof, he p'ayfully
refused saying that he had not time to walt
Unfortuna ell, he was prevented from gong
home again, aud left The city without bidding
his wife goodbye. After absence of about
two weeks, he re ufned and hasened t. his do
mestic bower, where he expected to fnd his


lIle wife waiting with open arms TO receive
him. But what was his atnazeuent to find the
house deserted, the furniture sold, and the wifi
absent on visit to her relations. And what
was his horror soon after to learn that she had
sued for divorce. An interview followed,
mutual ex explanations were made and q reconcll-
ia,ion was effected the sole cause OF young
wife S singular proceeding being Jealousy and
the refusal of her husband to kiss her good
bye Cincinnati Gazette.
Year: 1870

FLIRTATIoN. The proxmate cause of firta-
ton is said to be wish to please, to be polite,
and to make the party pass off well; but the
primary one is, we fear, nothing but selfish
wish to shine and to attract praise. It may be
all very pleasant, but it is certainly exceedingly
wrong and being wrong, it is stupid and un-
wise. 1t goes against true proprieiy in both
sexes; with a'woman it is uneminine as well as
injudicious; with man il is unmanly. With
only one class.of people can it be excused, and
that class is large one, formed Of those light,
facile, agreeable persons, who have neither rea
heart nor feeling, but who fancy they have
penty of BOTH who are mpounded of grace
ful desire TO please, and continual and selfish
wish to be pleased, and who Autler about from
one person to another. saying tender nothings,
and amusing themselves in butterfly way, to
the best of their ability, and to the utter forget
fuloess of anybody else The only thing that
we should wish to do with these pleasant little
parties is that which Sam Weller did to the
Fat Boy. when he tried to Aut with pretty
Nary ''Oi, Sam, said be, slowly, ''shouldn'
| like to give her kiss u Upon which it il
related that Sam, with a long whistle, took hin
into a corner, and dismissed him with a que
kick.
Year: 1870

ssM We are offering our goods at the lowest
CASH PRICES, and we are determined to
give satisfaction to all who may need anything
in our line of business.


We solicit the citizens and Farmers gener-
ally who have not tried US TO do so. We thank
all our friends for their past liberal patronage,
and respectfully request continuance OF the
same Do not forget the place. BE sure to
go RICHARDSON & WHEAT.
Year: 1870

Memphis has come very near hav-
ing q second Nathan tragedy. Mon
day morning about half past two.
some of the inmates of a boarding
house were awakened by a noise of
persons being engaged i'm a scufiic in
an adjoining room. They Immediate
ly procured a light, and on entering
the room found young gentleman,
the occupant of the room, sitting up
right in bed, his shirt torn almost


from him and bloody-bioed in spots


on the bed clothing and mosquito bar.


lie gave incohcrent replies on being


Questioned, and all that could be as
certained was that he had been at


lacked and had defended himself as


well as possible, and his assailant or
IHssailants had fed on the approach of
Year: 1870

DIR. Hall, i'm his JGsraal Of Health,


says: If you have walking or riding to


do, ride first, because IL you walk you


may get overheated, and then, when
you ride, ycu may be exposed to an
open window or draft Of air while
you are i'm a still position, to be follow
ed by . chill, pleurisy, or lung fever,
which Is pneumonia.


II on any occasion you find yourself
the least lit noticeably cool, or notice
the very slightest disposition TO chill
running along the back, as you value
health and life, begin brisk walk In
simultaneously, and keep :tup until per-
spiratiOn begins to return; this will
seldom fail 10 ward off q summer cold,


which Is more dangerous than q cold
taken in winter 10 all persons having
the slightest tendency to consumption.


DRINKING WATER.-If very thirsty
and warm, take but a swallow at a
time, taking the glass from your lips,
with adozen seconds between the swal-
lows, then you will never fall dead
while taking a drink, as many have:
in this way half the amount of water
will abundantly satisfy the thirst.


Soda water Ean agreeable beverage,
but half q glass of cold water will bet
ter and more safely satisfy the thirst
and cost nothing. Besides, in taking a
glass of water, you stop when you feel
you have had enough; this you never
do with glass of soda, but keep ON
drinking after 4 Is positively Disagree
able; and you hate to stop, but drink
OH again, to prevent wasting Il.


Never sleep in the daytime uncoy-
cred, i'm summer; II is always danger.
Gus, even if it be but half an hour on a
bed; lace shawl is better for n cover
ering than nothing. Many Lie down
coming from walk, viii, or shopping;
they do not intend TO 60 to sleep, Just
TO rest minute or two; but many
times they go to sleep and wake up
with an indistinct chilly feeling, follow
ed i'm many cases by serious illness.


When you reach home tired and
weak, and may be accompanied with
an indefinabIe feeling Of sadness or de-
preston, without being conscious of
any adequate cause for Il, don't take a
drink of ice water, however Thirsty,
nor q glass of soda, nor 4 drink of wine,
but cup of hot tea, as hot rs you can
swallow comfortably; the heat Is Of
more value than the tea itself, but both
are of incalcplable value; II
you are sitting down to . meal I'm this
tired condition of body, aud mental de-
some hot tea, taken before
is eaten, will rouse the circu-
lation, exhiierate the stomach, rally
the spirits, and make you different, n
better, and u happier man In less than
ten minutes, because the iecreasing
debility and downward progress Of the
system is arrested by the warmth of
the water and active quQllty Of the
tea, until strength begins b be impair
ted to the system from the 5bod taken.


1t is safe to cool oneself 0T by dab
bling the hands i'm cold water; safer
and more natural II the water Is warm,
by the rapid evaporation every time
the hand is lifted out of the water. But |
it is positively dangerous to wash the |
face in cold water when much heated. |
1t is not dangerous but pleasantly en-
eacious if warm water Is used.
Year: 1870

The republicans Of Kings county held Judiciary
Convention Al their rooms, the Post ONCE, last
evening, for the purpose OF nominating candidates
for the once OF City Judge in accordance with the
act passed at the last session Of the Legislature.
was full delegation present. George II. Fisher
received the first nomination unanimously aud
a Wrange ensued for the other place on the ticket,
some OF the delegates advocating the nominate OF
a democrat. Sam Morris stood outside III the hail.
puttng up JOBS with Archy Bliss for the purpose Of
beating the ring, but Bliss could not be caught for
the reason he stated that the ring would endorse
any democrat the Convention might nominate
After several ballots Henry Hayner, a democrat was
nominated for the second place On the ticket and
the Convention adjourned.
Year: 1870

secret meeting OF the young democracy was
held yesterday morning In the sherirs private Office,
at which were present number OF the chiefs OF the
young democracy, who met there TO receive q dele
CATION from the General Convention which mad
assembled The day before 1t was 10 consult on the
concerted action for the next campaign. There
were present also delegations from the two
branches Of inc Democratic Union Association, the
Geymans and the Mozart Hall party. Discussion
ran very hgh but II was proposed thai these various
parties should unite on one tickeia list OF candi-
dates and pledge themselves not to go back on any
OF the men put in nomination. This was finally
unanimously agreed on, aud The meeting adjourned
to meet tomorrow III general committee at Masonic
Hall and nominate candidates for the coming cam
paign. II has leaked out that the general opinion
among these men h not tnat tey VIII be successful
In electing their men, but tlat they may defeat
Tammany.
Year: 1870

The body OF lady about sixty years OF age
dressed decently In deep mourning, apparently Q
German, was found yesterday afternoon in the river
Al the foot OF Filth street, Hoboken. Coroner notified
Year: 1870

For some time past the officials Of tho Board OF
Education were aware Of systematic course or
robbery being perpetraied by which large amounts
Of property were made away with. A watch was set
FOR the discovery Of the thief thieves, but without
success. Finally detective was put on the watch
met, one oil the clerks Of the board. He confessed
having stolen several books and stationery. Yes
terday afternoon he taken before Justice Hogan
AT the Tombs Police Court and held TO answer for
larceny.
Year: 1870

On the east bank of the North Riv-
er, In Hampshire county, West Vir-
ginia, Is, perhaps, one of the greatest
curiosities in the State. 1t is literally
an Ice mountain, from four hundred
to five hundred feet high. The west
ern side of this mountain is covered
with loose stone of light color from
base to summit. BY removing the
stone, pure, solid, ice can be found in
the warmest days In summer, and 1t
has been found there as late as the
middle of September. 1t may exist
throughout the entire year, If the
rocks were removed to u sufficient
depth. What seems strange, Is that
the side of the mountain where the
ice is found, Is exposed to the sun all
day, and IL Is said the sun does not
have as much effect In melting the
Ice as continuous rains. At the base
of the mountain Is spriug of water,
very clear and cold.


Some years ago the owners of the
property removed the stone and erect
ed small log dairy or spring house,
In which meats can be Kept at any
season of the year as safe as theyc an
be preserved in an ice-house. Flies
and snakes sometimes find their way
into the spring-house, where they
become chilled and torpid. On being
removed they soon recover life and
motion. The mountain is situated six
miles northeast of Winchester, and
sixteen miles from ROmney, in Hamp
shire county, West Virginia.
Year: 1870

FooD FOR YOUNG TURKEYs.-"The
most suitable food for young turkeys
from two to six days old, is boiled
eggs. Insects of all kinds and cooked
livers of animals are also good. A
cheap aud excellent food for young
poultry may also be found In fresh
curds, provided the whey is drained
out. 1t Is not until the turkey Is two
or three weeks old that II will natu-
rally take TO eating grain, and then
only very small seeds. 1t first needs
to build "a digestive apparatus before
1t can dispose of the Kind Of food 1t
eats in after life. When the young
chicks first manifest an appetite for
starch food, be careful and furnish
them with sand or powdered brick II
they are not on the ground, as 1t Is
necessary to swallow this with the
first grain they eat"
Year: 1870

Once upon q time there lived among
the hills an old gentleman whose en-
tire personal and real estate consisted
of wife, well-ventilated log cabin,
half an acre of not very productive
land, and n violent fondness for what
Is sometimes called 'tangleleg' whis-
ky. One spring morning the owner Of
all this property was struck with the
conviction that his land must be
ploughed. But he had no horse, and
found 1t impossible to borrow one
Nevertheless, the ground must be
broke up horse or no horse; and it
was finally determined that the 'old
woman should hitch up the old man,
and hold the handles and drive, while
he drew the plough. This was ac-
cordingly done, and the plough went
bravely on, until the plough share ran
under aroot, and the team brought to
IA dead halt. But the 'critter' had be-
come warmedup by this time, and the
old lady gave him IA rap with the rens
and cried get up therep he threw his
weight upon the harness with "A heavy
jerk, and he shot forward against the
fence, his head striking the end of a
rail with the force of a maui 'Thun-
deration, old woman he exclaimed,
AS he wiped the blood and dirt from
hlseyes, 'why didn't you say w-h-o- a?'
Year: 1870




Says the New York Financial
Chronicle:


"The effect of the war upon this
country cannot now be of firstimport-
ance. Uncertainty of any kind
makes capital timid, and depresses
securities; and our bonds have suffered
in European markets, in company
with those of other nations. But this
result is temporary (; and there is no
reason to expect that any lasting dis
trust of our credit can be produced by
q broil which merely makes its excel
lence more prominent, In view of the
fact that we are TO remain at peace
whoever fights beyond the seas. In
all other respects, the war can only
add to the immediate prosperity of
trade and industry in the United
States. While Europe fights we
must send her food and clothing at
our own prices, as well as bonds and
stocks in which she may wish to in
vest little of her savings at a dis
tance from the storm. After the first
furry Of disturbance Is over, the course
of the exchanges and the value of all
our securities which depend on active
trade can scarcely fail 10 improve"
Year: 1870

COOP ADvICE.-Ask no woman her
age. Never joke with widow.
Never contradict a man that shutters.
Be civil to all rich uncles and aunts.
Your oldest hat, of course, to an
evening party. Always sit next to
to the carver II you can, ut dinner.
Keep your own secrets. Tell no hui
man being you dye your whiskers.-
Wind up your conduct like your
watch, once every day, examining
minutely whether you are fast" or
slow" Make friends with the
steward on board steamer there's
no knowing how soon you may be In
his power. Write not one letter
more than you can help; the
man who keeps up large correspond
ence is martyr, tied, not to the stake,
but to the post.
Year: 1870

WORTH KNowISG.-Place bone
in the earth near the root Of grape
vine, and the vine will send out a
leading root directly TO the bone. IN
its passage IL throws out no iibres,
but when II reaches the bone, the root
will cover II with the most delicate
fibres, like lace work each one seek
ing n pore of the hone. On this bone
the vine will feed AS long as nutri-
meut remains To he extracted, and
thisgreatly increases the quality of
the grape.
Year: 1870

WooD ASHES FOR STRAWBERRIES.
There is no better fertilizer for straw
berries than ashes. We remember
that one of the best crops we ever
had was raised when the only manure
used was wood ashes. All soils will
not alike be benefited by such appli-
cation; but 1t is always safe to use
ashes In connection with other ma
nures. If ashes only are used, there
are fewer weeds, as no seed can be in
troduced by the manure.
Year: 1870

Asa rule, farmers are much more
ambitious to get big prices than big
crops. There are few farmers whose
average production could not be
doubled In a very short time by more
capital and labor. IL Is safer to use
capital in farming than in almost any
other business. The credit of the
pillow Is quite as good rs that of the
loom and anvil and the capital will
come IL 1t h called for. Use more
manure; get thirty bushels Of wheat
where you now get fifteen, and eigh-
ty bushels of corn where you now
get forty. The quantity of grain per
acre is mainly question Of manure
and tillage. With high manuring the
soil needs deeper string and u gradual
bringing up the subsoil tothesurface.
With the present horse harrows and
cultivators nearly all the cultivation
can be done by horse power, ut "
great saving of expense and great
iBcrcese OF the crops. Exchange.
Year: 1870

Court Of Oyer and Iermlner-Judges Allison and


Pd6SOH.


This morning the Court resumed the trial OF VIII
liam Atkinson, cOlOred for the murder of John Til
man, colored. The testimony so far adduced by the
Commonwealth goes to show that the prisoner was
lover Of young mulatto named Annie Miller, who
had declined proposition that he had made to sup
port her in ease If she would consent to live with
him as his wife. Her refusal angered him. and he
threatened 10 murder her If ever he caught her in
company with anybody else.
Year: 1870

About one o'clock, yesterday, the solem-
mites of Good Friday were disturbed by the
remarkable sensation which was created by
the successful vindication of lady's honor,
in cowhiding her traducer, whom she sought
in business house on Camp street, in the
immediate vicinity of the newspaper offices.


The assailant, who, we understand, Is
respectable widow lady, had been slandered
by the party cowhlaed, who refused to re-
tract the asperstons on her good name. She
notified HIM that if he did not do her JUS
tice she would cowhide him on sight, and
tie result was the lashes well laid on yes
terday. The lady was twice. if not thrice,
armed as she carried a cowhide and an IN
Loaded pistol. the latter to more eifectually
intimiiate him who had been her slsnderer
and was At last her victim No arrests
were made, and we give no names.
Year: 1870

Captain Schrieber. of the Metropolitan
Police, is bold man. Likewise, he is a
bad man, for, a little more than year ago.
he disturbed the slumbers of the writer of
this, on Canal street. at very early hour in
the morning, by firing two or three shots IN
the air from revolver, to compel fugitive
from the police to halt. The man was
halted, but not hit.


Yesterday morning at five O'Clock, some Of
Captain Schreiber's first precinct patrolmen
awakened drowsy slumbers by firing two or
three shots behind feet and fleeing fugi-
tive about the corner of st. Charles and
North streets. AS Captain Schreiber is al
ways on hand when there is anything
exciting on the tapis, we hold him RESPONSE
bic for these shots and our awakening.
After the shots came cries of stop him "
stop him !" and patrolmen and early rising
citizens joined in the chase, till the fugitive
became captive, and he was borne, strug-
Cling and vehemently yelling, cursing, i'm
ploring and threatening, by four strong
policemen, who carried him by his crossed
arms end legs to the First Precinct Station.


it seems that the fugitive was free lodger
at the police station, and being one Of the
Irishmen opposed to social equality, when
ne discovered by the light of dim gas and
breaking day, that among the free dodgers
IN the came spacious and elegantly furnished
sleeping cell. there was a colored boy, he
was so enraged by this attempt to force
social equality upon him, that like the man
who gets his living by selling cake and soda,
who declared that something desperate
would occur if any man with 'kinky hair"
came into his establishment, he drew his
Jagged knife and made desperate attempt
to cut the colored boys jugular.


The turnkey, opportunely for the boy, in
terfered lust in time to spoil this little bit OF
desperation, and the enraged Irishmsn
dashed out of the cell and into the street.
Hence the race, the shots, the shouts and
the capture.


But. please Captain Schneider, reserve
your fire till later in the morning.
Year: 1870

The battle of life is still fought with q
great deal of tenacty by many who fail n
the struggle, to obtain more than barely
enough 10 meet their daily wants. This
comes in part from bad management. for q
person may be industrious and yet not
save penny for rainy day. There are
always SO many useless expenses to be met,
in the way Of trt1ing amusements and re-
freshments, that are anything but refresh
ing or wholesome expenses that might bet
ter be done away with-that there is moth
ing left to make an investm ent with. A few
dollars saved monthly, by persons that have
been in the habit of spending as they 60,
and invested in tickets in the Louisiana
State Lottery, might secure not only
a penny for rainy day, but might be the
means of securing fortune for many who
can never expect it as long as they con-
tinve to spend their money for whisky,
cigars, tobacco and in other trifing ways that
can never be of service. This is plain
enough to all who will think for q moment.
The very idea of possessing ticket in the
Louisiana State Lottery, makes some men
feel like "soiid men, but when they come
20 realize that they have drawn prize. they
know they are "sohd men," particularly if
they have drawn fifty thousand dollars.
But no sensible man, would turn up his
nose at even one Thousand dollars. Secure
tickets at once then.
Year: 1870

BY TELEGRAPH.


LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
TEN CENTS POSTAGE TO ENGLAND
INCREASED INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS
Coupon Books for Wholesale Liquor Dealers
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA QUESTION
Two judicial Districts in Louisiana
GRANT on THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT
His Reply to Colored Gentlemen
CONSUL Of THE SWISS CONFEDERATION
Year: 1870

The DEMANDS of the war on the Ger
man population are thus stated BY
correspondent:


One requires to be in Germany to
have brought home to one the full prac-
tical working of system that so sharp
", without distinction of persons, gath
ers in all alike to compulsory service.
The result is that at present in Prussia,
all men between twenty and thirty, not
disabled or for special reasons other
wise employed, are in the field.
1t is painfully impressive to see
the deserted aspect of German
cities. Who does not remember the
busy crowds in the narrow streets OF
Cologne? Now they are dead and
noiseless, with none but boys and old
men 10 share their space with women.
What saw in Cologne | also saw in
other towns. Everywhere the thews
and sinews OF the male population are
gone to the war, and everywhere
| found they did so with admira-
ble readiness. OF course such a
wholesale summoning to arms strikes
heavily, not mere individual existences,
but also the country, through the in
calculable disturbances it creates in in
dustrial establishments. | have one
instance to hand which is we'll calcu-
lated to exemplify this public loss. 1t
is well known to every one what an
enormous foundry is that Of NJ.
Krupp. at Essen, in Rhepish Prussia.
Nearly eight thousand workmen are
employed in it, and am informed on
unexceptional authority, that of these
no fewer than one thousand four hun
dred and lightweight have had to join
their colors to the indescribable loss O
the foundry, as these men comprised
the skilled and absolutely indispensable
artisans; and yet there is no murmur
ing and no replning among the Prus
sian populations at what is being i'm
posed on them.
Year: 1870

No QUoRUN.-A special meeting OF
the Board of Education was called for
last night, but, as we understand, there
was no quorum, and the Board adjourn
ed without transacting any business