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Year: 1870

TIE latest European visiting card has
the upper left-hand corner turned down
fiat upon the surface of the card, and up
on the corner 80 turned down. the vignette
likeness of the individual is represented;
thus enabling any person 30 disposed to
present his name and phiz at one and the
ame tina
Year: 1870

saved my life as well as our money. The
love and pride with which he regarded me
and with which he always, to this day, re-
hearses my exploit, were of themselves
sufficient compensation for the horror
and agony of that long summer night.
Year: 1870

TIE London correspondent of the New
York Herald writes: 'Of ladies' dresses
and costumes have hardly anything new
to note this week, except that hear on all
sides that Mrs. Motley, wife of the Ameri-
can ambassador in England, is considered
one of the very best-dressed ladies of the
season. They say-even English women
say, and that is good deal-that her taste
surpasses in chasteness anything that has
been seen in London for many years, and
that her diamonds are simply perfection in
their setting. heard a dispute as to
whether Mrs. Motley or the Countess of
Seton was the best-dressed woman at the
last drawing room, but the general opinion
was decidedly In favor of the former"


In Germany, recently, little girl died
from injuries received by her clothes catch
ing fire while locked up in a room by her.
self, and the mother was sentenced to three
months imprisonment for manslaughter,
through carelessness.


AMKkIcAN MINISTER WAsHBURSR and
wife dined with the Emperor Napoleon
recently, and the Emperor lead Mrs. W.
to the table. We doubt not many woman
envies her this distinotion; but there is no
very great honor in it after all. But for
his usurped position there are few decent
ladies who Wsuld be willing to be seen in
his company.
Year: 1870

The basis of agreement for the debates
in the forthcoming Evangelical Alliance in
New York, will be the same as that of the
original society IN London, adopted in
1916:


1. The divine inspiration, authority and
efficiency of the Holy Scriptures.


2. The right and duty of private judg-
ment in the Interpretation of the Holy
Scriptures.


8. The unity of the Godhead and the
trinity of the persons therein.


4. The utter deprayity of human ma
ture In consequence of the fall


5. The incarnation of the Son of God,
His work of atonement for sins of mankind
and His mediatorial intercession and
reign.


6. The justification of the sinner by
faith alone.


z. The work of the Holy Spirit in the
justification and sanctifcation of the sim
Eer.


s. The Immortality of the soul, the resur-
rectlon of the body. the Judgment of the
world by our Lord Jesus Christ, with
the eternal blessedness of the righteous
and the eternal punishment of the wicked.


9. The divine institution of the Christ
ian ministry, the obligation and perpetuity
of the ordinances of baptism and the Lords
supper.


1t being, however, distinctly declared
that this brief summary is not to be re-
garded In any formal or ecclesiastical sense,
as creed or confession, nor the adoption
of it as involving an assumption of the
night authoritatively to define the limits of
Christian brotherhood, but simply as an
indication of the class of persons whom il
is desirable 70 embrace within the alliance.
Year: 1870

SUMNER CARE OF Young TREzs.-A writer
In the Germantown Telegraph makes the


following suggestions on this subject:
Please let me say one word for the young
and tender fruit trees. The season of trans
planting has passed, and many a man has
paid out his perhaps hard earned money
for trees, which he is in hopes m the future
viii either crafty his own palate or mem
bers Of his family, or perchanoe repay with
interest the money and labor he has ex.
pended on them. A goodly share of the
above described persons will be disappoint-
ed in their expectations. AS the writer cf
this has set hundreds of trees sx-
tending through a period of more
than twenty-five years, and always
with the best success and almost no loss.
he has perhaps on this account more often
noticed the failures of others than he 9TH
erwiss would. How many there are that
take pains to buyIand set trees, then, think
ing their part done, wait for Dame Nature
10 do the rest. Now, of all this class
would ask the question, why not do Just 80
by your corn2 Get good seed, fit your
ground, plant it well, then let the sun and
rain mature the crop. Why trouble your
self to cultivate and care for the growing
corn? Perhaps they may say, experience


teaches them that there is more in
cultivating and caring for the crop than
putting it in. Well, just 80 it is with
the young fruit trees. Have you set an
orchard of young trees either last fall or
this spring. Let me tell you that your
work is but half done. Don't wait another
week, if You have not done it, but see to it
that they are mulched Immediately. By
mulching mean the placing from two to
four bushels of coarse manure around each
tree, directly on the surface. Don't let it
quite touch the body of the tree, bat place
it In circle extending from two to three
feet all around the stem. If you have not
the manure, straw, leaves, or even muck
will answer. If your tree has been well
set this will almost insure its life and a
good healthy growth. Without this mulch
it may live, but it is almost as likely to die.
Year: 1870

Timothy Grcgan, East Twenty second street
station, was tried Tor not taking prisoner to Court
on Sunday morning His defence was that he had
ONLY been six days the force. and didn't know tho
courts were opened on Sunday. Had been In tho
country on'y six years, three OF which were spent
rurazing and three In the army. lie had only
baen In New York eight months.
Year: 1870

The sappho and Dauntess sail their race to-
day outside Sandy Hook The Dauntless was towed
to the Horse Shoe last night, where the sappho
already lying at anchor. The betting on the result
IL very heavy, and several hundred thous and dollars
have been planked up The betting Is even, but tho
Sapplo has IN q call
Year: 1870

had been at her father cabin few weeks
before and taken supper, and warmed him.
self before the fire, while he told wonderful
stories about Indians, and furs, and about
having many time had fifty mile O traps
out on one stretch.


She remembered, too, that her father had
told her the next day that trappers lived by
catching with traps all sorts of wild animals,
and selling their furs to the traders, and
that this particular trapper had been very
successful and had great influence among
the Indians-one of the big men of Colora-
do, as he said.


These thoughts running through her
mind now as she told how they had been
lost for three whole days and two nights,
and at sight of Nat falling peacefully asleep
on the trapper's shoulder made her feel so
happy that she suddenly broke forth with
20 MIR. Trapperl can run now Lets
go right home


The stars came out one by one that night,
and winked aud blinked at a strange figure
stalking through the forest. He had
sleeping child on each arm, and yet carried
his gun ready to fire at an instants notice


well, old Joe. you We bagged all sort O.
game in this ere forest, and trapped 'most
everything agoin, but you ain never had
such a rare bit o luck as this No wonder
| stood there on the edge of the timber
land, listening to | didn't know what Rec
on here's couple O. skins now'il be putty
popular at one market 'tany rate-fetch
most any price you could name-but L Il let
'em go cheap; all the pay l want for these
ere critters is just to hear the kisses of them
poor frightened-Hello there a light
What, ahoy! Neighbor, hello hellol"


Got EN- both - he shouted, as three
figures, tive men and woman, came in sight
through the starlight. ''All right, got EN-
both"


The children are awake now What sobs,
what laughter. what broken words of love
and joy fall upon the midnight air And
through all, Winnie, wondering and thrilled
with strange happiness, is saying to herself:
Il knew God sould show US the way
home!"
Year: 1870

CURIOUS THINGS TO KNOw.-Besides
the fact that ice i. lighter than water, there
is another curious thing about it which per
sons do not know, perhaps-namely, its
purity. A lump of ice, melted, will always
become purely distilled water. When the
early navigators of the Arctic seas got out
of water they melted fragments of those
vast mountains Of ice called icebergs, and
were astonished to find that they only yield
ed fresh water They thought that they
were frozen salt water, not knowing that
they were formed on the land, and in some
way launched into the sea. But if they had
been right, the result would have been all
the same The fact is. the water, in freezing,
turns out of it all that is not water-salt,
air, coloring matter, and all impurities.
Frozen sea water makes fresh water ice. If
YOU freeze basin of indigo water, it will
make it as pure as that made of pure rain
water. When the cold is very sudden,
these foreign matters have no time to es.
cape, either by rising or sinking, and are
thus entangled with the ice, but do not
form any part of 1t.
Year: 1870

short time ago in Delaware county a
Quaker lady, maiden who had reached the
age of sixty, accepted the offer of man who
belonged to the worlds people" and the
Presbyterian church, and began to prepare
for her wedding. As usual, delegation of
friends from her meeting waited on her and
demonstrated with her for marrying out of
meeting. The bride elect heard the visitors
patiently, and then said Look here I've
been waiting just sixty years for the meeting
to marry me and if the meeting don't like
me to marry out of it, aohy don't the meet
ing trot along its boysP The delegation
replied Farewell" and vanished.
Year: 1870

All the cities of China are surrounded BY


high, strong walls, whose massive proper
tions a stranger has no idea of until he see:


them. The walls surrounding the city o.
| Pekin are from twenty-five 10 twenty five


miles in length, and on an average fifty feet


high. This wall is sixty feet thick at the
bottom, and fifty four at the top, and once
IN few yards there are immense buttresses
to give it still greater strength. At every
fifth buttresS the wall for the space of one
hundred and twenty six feet in length, is two
hundred and fifty six feet in thickness. In
several places the foundation of this wall is
of marble, and when the ground is uneven,
Immense quantities of cement, as durable
nearly as granite, and about as hard, has
been used to level up the ground. The main
body of this wall is made of brick. each
twenty inches long. ten inches wide, and five
inches thick These bricks are burned very
hard, and have precisely the appearance OF
stone.


On the inside of this wall as we'll as on
others in other cities, are esplanades, or star
ways, with gates to them for ascending them.
And over all the gateways there are immense
towers, as large as great churches, and very
much higher, constructed of these great
burnt bricks. On the top of this immense
wall there is a railing both on the outside
and inside, coming up to mans waist,
which railing itself is a wall, thus giving a
sense of security to person walking on the
top. The outside railing is made into tur-
rets, for the use of cannon,in case of attack
The entire top of the wall is covered with
strong burned brick, twenty inches square,
resembling the Tagging of our sidewalk min
large cities, only, as have said, these walls
are fifty -four feet wide.


There is no way of getting into the city,
only to 90 through this immense wall And
wherever there is gate for the purpose Of
getting through, there is another wall built
inclosing 4 square space, compelling all per-
sons who go into the city to go through two
walls, by passages at right angles to each
other. The walls are so immensely thick
that these passages through them, arched
over cut stone, remind one exactly OF our
railroad tunnels in the United States. At
each Of these great archways there is an
enormous gate made of strong timbers, eve
rywhere as much as ten inches thick, and
covered on both sides with plates of iron;
Ike the sides of cur war ships. These
gates are shut early in the evening, generally
before sundown, and are not allowed to be
opened during the night for any purpose.
They are fastened on the inside by means of
strong beams of timber.
Year: 1870

A poor fellow begins to go down hill, and
as usual in such cases, he keeps on until he
reaches the bottom. Then people begin to
say, Gods hand is very heavy on so and
so,' when in fact God has no hand upon
him at ALL 1t is only the feet of hard
hearted rascals who ought to be his friends,
that have been kicking him from step to
step downward.
Year: 1870

The town of Muncy has poet. And the
particular difficulty with him at his moment
is that he is dreadfully in love with a red
haired girl who lives down near the depot,
and who was baptized Henrietta. A short
time ago he thought he would show how ar
dent his affection for her was. So he sent
to the village paper poem supposed to have
been written at tie tomb of Henrietta, who
was presumed to be dead. This poem was
entitled Thoughts by the grave of H"
The last line read this way;


We will hallow her love with our tears"
The author went to bed that night absolute
ly certain that Henrietta was his own. If
this poem didn wilt rer proud heart, then
the young man intended TO blow out his
brains with a horse pistol He made rush
for the newspaper just after day break the
next morning. The poem read smooth
enough until the last line was reached, which
had assumed this horrible shape:


'we will harrow her grave with cur steers
Mad! Why, he-went ''raring' around that
house ike concentrated lunatic asylum
and, what was worse, Henrietta's brother
called right after breakfast with a club, and,
learning that the poet had left in the early
train for the far west, he sent dispatch to
meet him at Omaha, stating that he would
burst him into vulgar fractions if he ever
came back to Muncy. There nothing hall
so steep in life as loves young dream. Nc
cards.
Year: 1870

rs he gong 10 die sue askeu.


''Not he, said the man hell come
through right end up yet. H5's got "a fever
on him, but we'll soon knock that under.
How you get here, little gal p


Winnie told her story, all the while feel
ing glad certainty at her heart that their
troubles were over. The strange man car
ried gun and he had a big pistol and an
axe and knife in his belt. He looked very
fierce, too, yet she knew he would not harm
her. She had seen many trapper before
since she came to the West, and though
| this man looked very grand and wore "a won
derful hunting dress all embroidered and
| fringed, and big hat and yellow leggins,
] she felt sure he was the very trapper who
Year: 1870

Boys, girls, can you bear to think that
you might bring sorrow on your dear father
or motherl If you would not, be on your
guard against the GIANT Intcmperance
Let. wine and intoxicating liquors alone
Never touch them
Year: 1870

There were fifty cases OF smallpox in the Eastern
District during the month OF May, twenty-five OF
which number were sent TO the County Hospital.
The Health Ofcer states that there Is no cause for
alarm, as the disease is confined to the Sixteenth
"
Year: 1870




At the commencement of the present cen
tury Il young man made his appearance in
Stratford, and spent Il few weeks ut the
tavern, which then existed to afford shelter
TO stage-coach travellers. Whence he came
and what his business none could guess.
Directly opposite the tavern stood the small
cottage and forge Of a blacksmith named
Folsom. He had a daughter, who was the
beauty of the village, and it was her for
tune to captiyate the heart of the young
stranger. He told his love; said he was
from Scotland that he was travelling iacOJ.,
but in confidence gave her his real name,
claiming that he was heir to large fortune.
She returned his love, and they were mar
ried. A few weeks thereafter the stranger
told his wife that he must visit New Ur-
leans. He did so, and the goSsips of the
town made the young wife unhappy by dis
agreeable hints and jeers.
In q few months the husband returned,
but before week had elapsed he received a
large budget of letters, and told his wife
that he must at once return to England, and
must 20 alone. He took his departure, and
the gossips had another glorious opportuni-
tv to make contiding woman wretched.
To all but herself it was clear case of de-
scrtion. The wife became mother, and for
two years lived on in silence and hope. AT
the end Of that time letter was received Dl
the Stratford beauty from her husband
directing her to 90 at once to New York
with her child, taking nothing her but
the clothes she wore, and embark i'll ship
for her home in England.


On her arrival in New York she found q
ship splenddIy furnished with 'Hyy every con; ron;
two servants ready to obey every wish that
she might express. The ship duly arrived
in England, and the Stratford girl became
the mistress of superb mansion, and, as
the wife of baronet, was saluted by the
aristocracy as Lady Samuel Stirling. On
the death of her husband, many years ago,
the Stratford boy succeeded to the title and
wealth of his father, and in the last edl-
ton of the Peerage and Baronetage he
is spoken of us the issue of Miss Fol.
some, of Stratford, North America"
When the late Professor Silliman visited
England, some years since, he had the
pleasure of meeting Lady Stirling at a
dinner party, and was delighted to answer
her many questions about her birthplace in
Connecticut.
Year: 1870

Nessrs. WATKINS Il BROTHER have on hand 4
large lot OF seasoncd oak and forest pine sawed
and split-said to he the best ever seen in the
city-at greatly reduced pr'ccs. South side Of
the basin between Tenth and Eleventh streets.
Year: 1870

ANOTHER NEW STYLE PHOTOGRAPH has been


introduced at the LEE GALLERY and what sur-


prises Is that the prices remain at the usual low
figure, bringing fine pictures within the reach Of
Year: 1870

JUST THINK OF Ir In tight times
like the present, which pinch everybody,
the country newspaper publishers are sub.
ject 70 the tightest pinches but a little re
Election will enable any one to understand
that they may be relieved by very little
strain on the part of their patrons; fer the
amount due trom each of them is so small
that it will hardly be missed, while the
aggregate of the small amounts is of con
siderable consequence to the printer, and
those he must pay for labor, rent, paper,
type, etc contra Costa Gazette
Year: 1870

LEGISLATIVE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ring to the fact that the Legislature has
entered upon career of ofice-making, the
San Francisco Call says:


':It is easy to obtain Office, even after an
election has gone against candidate, by
framing bill so as to GUST an incumbent,
providetf the Legislature will act favorably
At Sacramento there are pending several
bills designed to legislate men into Offices
in this city which should be elective, and
we doubt not that the precedent will be
applied to different portions of the State
Is it safe to enter on such course Of legis-
lation p


And in the same connection it says


at is uDquestionably true, that the
politics of San Francisco, for the next two
or three years, depend very much upon
what the Legislature may do during the
present Winter at Sacramento. If the
legislation designed for this city shall be
with view to benefting the people-to
tightening the burden''of -payers-there
Is no question but the Democratic party
Will control San Francisco But should
our legislators decide to follow blndly the
lead of few men who may desire office,
then the position is by no means certain" "
Year: 1870

APPEARANcE.-Upon the subject of
dress and appearance the New York Times
thus remarks:


A coat that has the mark of use upon it,
is recommendation to people of sense, and
hat with too much nap and too high
lustre is derogatory circumstance. The
best coats in Broadway are on the backs OF
penniless fops, broken down merchant
clerks with pitiful salaries, and men that
do not pay up. The heaviest gold chains
dangle from the fobs of gamblers and gen
tlemen of very limited means; costly orna-
ments on ladies indicate to the eyes that
are we'll opened, the fact of a silly lover or
husband cramped for funds. And when
a pretty woman goes by in plain and neat
apparel, it is the presumption that she has
fair expectations, and husband that can
show balance in his favor For women
are like books-too much gliding makes
men suspicious that binding is the most
important part.
Year: 1870

THE PENALTY OF Nor JOINING A So
ETy.-Saturday morning Henry Jones, a
colored man, living in Kelly's alley, be-
tween Jefferson and Madison streets, died
of acute pneumonia. Although there were
four negro men in the house, the wife of
the deceased could not induce either of
them to assist her in shrouding the corpse,
Nor was she able to prevail upon any of her
colored male neighbors to do the work.
Finally some women took compassion upon
her and performed the duty. The secret of
this neglect may probably be found in the
fact that the dead negro did not belong to
any sI society," and was not, therefore, con-
sidered entitled to Christian rites.
Year: 1870

GERMAN MASS MEETING.-The will be an
other mass meeting of the German citizens,
of Richmond at Schott's Monticello Hall
tonight for the purpose of taking such ac-
ton rs may be necessary to carry out the
resolutions in regard to the European war,
adopted at the meeting last week. 1t Is
expected that the meeting will be large and
enthusiastic. The Germans OF richmond
propose to show otherwise than by mere
Words their love for the Fatherland, and
their sympathy for those who tight It's
battles.
Year: 1870

THE SUGAR REF1NERY.-We are informed
that the Virginia State Sugar Refinery will
recommence operations in a few days.
Every arrangement, we understand, neces-
sary to the vigorous working of the estab-
lishment has been made. It is an import
ant branch Of manufacture to this city, and
it will be gratifying to the trade to learn
that it is about to be renewed.
Year: 1870

THE INDEPENDENT KENT TIcKET.-We
have waited to see on what basis the lea
ders of this movement would place it, and
it has turned out to be-opposition to the
Sdulsbarys. That they have belittled them
selves by combining to oppose a family
the measure of whose success has excited
their envy, must be the judgment of all
persons outside of their little ring. How
ever respectable these gentlemen may be,
individually, their respectability cannot
give character to their present movement,
which is evidently wanting in that quality.
Many of them attended the late Democrat
ic nominating convention, and we're in
honor bound to support its nominees. As
party men they professed to be governed
by party usage. But selfshness has got
the better of their party fealty, and with
fair protestations and pretentions of Gre
trenchment !" and reform" they seek to
veil their real designs, which is to elevate
and aggrandizs themselves at the expense
of their party. To do this, they have
compromised, the principles, to which they
professed devotion, in STOPPING even to
receive negro votes to accomplish their
ends. 1t has been said of military men
that when they have packed their baggage
for the camp of the enemy, they are not
long in reaching their destination. The
same thing is true of politicians, and these
gentlemen will nearly all be found in the
ranks of the Radicals. They are, even
now, associated with them coyertly, and
will ere long be so openly. The Della
warean af6rms that they have sold out to
the Radicals, and there can be little doub
that there is coalition between them ant
every consistent Democrat should trea
them as political enemies. There are saic
to be no less than five aspirants for tn
United States Senatorship, among them
and nearly all the rest are expecting t.
receive the smaller crumbs which fall from
the public table. If these things be true
it is with an i'll grace that they can com
plain of the Saulsburys.
Year: 1870

A negro poet of Memphis has reduced
the Fifteenth Amendment and the En-.
forcement Bill to rhyme as follows:-
1t is sin to steal a pin,


A crime to cut throat
But darned sight bigger to stop niger


From putting in his vote