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Year: 1871

Small pOxiis a disease which inspires a
feeling of dread in the mind of every per-
son. Not only is it lOathsomein its char
acter, but generally fatal to life. Aeon
tury ago such was its effects that it threat
ened to depOpulate the European cOnti-
nent. The discovery by Jenner of the
efficacy of vaccination as a preventive of
contagiOn from small poX very soon effect
ed a revolution in regard to its ravages.


1t has become an established fact,
that vaccination is as effectual a pro-
lection from it's contagion, as small
pox is itself. 1t has been decided
by those who have devoted much
attention to the subject, that a thorough
vaccination during infancy, and revac-
cination at about the age of twelve or four
teen, will, as a rule, protect a person from
contracting the disease if exposed. Now,
let us consider how many children in this
city have never been Vaccinated at all.
Then, when we know that, if any unprO-
tected person of any age, sex or condition
in life is exposed, there is danger to life,
and, if life is spared, the face pitted for
life, how strange that people should neg
lect so small matter. Parents owe it to
their children, as an act of sacred obliga-
tion to place them in circumstances be-
yOnd danger from what we all will admit
to be an object of dread.


In some of our large cities small pox is
raging most fearfully. Hundreds are dy
ing every week in Philadelphia at the
present time Before this community is
aware the epidemic may be in our midst.


Besides the obligation of personal and
direct nature, we owe it to the business
interest of the city, to avoid any such
contingency. A small pox panic will be
as detrimental to business as any other
Imaginable. PHILATHROPO.
December 3 1871.
Year: 1871

One of our citizens went to the cars to
see his daughter off. Securing her seat,
he passed out of the car, and went round
to her window to say parting word, as is
frequently done on such occasions. While
hewas passing out the daughter left the
seat to speak to a friend, and at the same
time prim looking lady who occupied
the seat with her, moved up to the win
dow. Unaware of the important changes
inside, our venerable friend hastily put his
face up to the window and hurriedly ex-
claimed: lone more kiss, sweet pet.n In
another instant the point of blue cotton
umbrella caught his seductive lips, follow
you gray-headed wretch ~ and he seated.
-Ddnbury NeUS.
Year: 1871

A dressing which
is at once agreeable,
healthy, and efectual
for preserving the
hair. Faded or gray
hair is soon restored
to its original color
acih the gloss and
freshness Of youth.
Thin hair is thick
Year: 1871

The PICTURE OF LIFE,-In youth we
seem to be climbing up hill on whose
top eternal sunshine appears to rest.
Howl eagerly we pant to attain its
summit! We sigh as we contemplate
the dreary waste before us, and look
back with wistful eye upon the flow
cry path we have passed, and may
never more retrace. Life is like q
portentons cloul, ,fraughtwith thunder;
storm and rain; but religion, like those
streaming rays of sunshine, will clothe
it with light as with garment, and
fringe its shadowy skirts with gold.
Year: 1871

been better for her after ALL. And
then to know his name was clear"


And so that is the story of our stone
vault; and, strange as it is, it is quite
true. You may see his grave close
beside Lucy's any day. And Mrs.
Humphries-she's romantic woman,
sir-says she thinks the violets and
roses grow there of their own accord
under the white monument. s
Year: 1871

The case of H. G. Scott, tried yesterday in the
Criminal Court, is one illustrating the evil ef-
feet of family feuds. A house divided against
itself cannot stand, and beside the unpleasant
ness and modification of such occurrences they
are morally wrong, and frequently the casus
bclLi is handed down from father to son, and en-
genders feelings akin to those animating the
Corsican in his remorseless vendetta.


The Scott family, we are told, have divided
their property and even the chldren, some re-
naming with their father and others with the
mother, and the difficulty in question grew out
of trihng matter. One of the girls went to a
spring to get bucket of water and in passing
her brother accidentally spilled some of the
water on his foot. ra .fsg


This enraged him to such an extent that he
seized the girl and beat her severely, and held
her head in the spring until she was in danger
of drowning. She then took out warrant, and
he was fined for the offense and required to give
bond to keep the peace as she was afraid toilive
at home without he was restrained from violence
by law.


In order to prevent such occurrences, the
amenities and courtesies of good society sh ou}d
be taught and practiced in the family circle As
well as away from home. If good behavior is
habtua it is easily told and sits moro gracefully
on person than when 1t is simply acted for the
restraint are plainly manifest to the most casual
observer, and the true standing of the individ l.
ual is correctly set down in the mind. r. ~ ?
Year: 1871

We are informed by a gentleman just from
Memphis that the telegraphic account of the
accident on the Memphis and Charleston Rail
road, near Lafayette, mentioned in yesterday
dispatches,i is incorrect. Thenewsboy was on the
passenger train going east, and falling between
the cars was run over and killed. When the
freight train was met his body was placed on
board. and the freight train afterwards ran of
the track, by which accident two brakesmen
were killed. ioJ
Year: 1871

"What can 1 do for you, my boy?"


"Speak kind word to me some
times, "replied the boy, as the tears gushed
from his eyes. 81 ain'tgot q mother like
some of them"


A kind word? Think Of it, That far
mer had it in his power to give. that boy
money, clothes, playthings, but the poor
boy craved nothing so much as a kind
word now and then. If the farmer had
ever SO little heart the boy must certainly
have had the wish gratified.


A kind word? You have many of them
spoken to you daily, and you don't think
much of their value; but that poor boy in
your village at whom everybody laughs,
would think that he had founda treasure
if some one would speak a kind word to
him. Suppose you speak it next time you
meet him, instead of laughing at him.
Then watch him and see how he looks.
Year: 1871

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-Mr. Newton
Borth has been nominated by acclamation
for Governor by the Republican State Con-
vention on an anti-railway subsidy plat
form, which is almost Identical with the
platform adopted by the Democratic state
Conyention. Tt demands from the nation
al government the abrogation of the treaty
with China, and the prohibition Of further
Chinese immigration, and fully Endorses
President Grant and his administration
Year: 1871

READER, if you have sick horse do not
dose him with "Condition Powders" con-
tanning antimony, which is just as useless
and injurious to him as is the constantly
swallowing of poisonous compounds to the
humsn system. II is more humane to knock
horse on the head at once than to kill him
by inches through the action of antimony
which accumulates in the system, and thus
sooner or later produces death BY antimonial
poisoning. Remember, reader, there is nc
antimony, nor any other poison in the "Eq'
uine Condition Powders" Their action,
under all circumstances, is physiological
therefore they can be safely used in all form'
of disease whether acute or chronic) will
decided benefit to afflicted animals


Send to the nearest Druggist, or to LORI
SMITH & Co., So Wabash Avenue, Chicago
for copy OF the Horse and Cattle Osoner'
Guide, giving valuable information ON tn
treatment Of all kinds Of stock.
Year: 1871

A man who has just got out of q lawsuit,
wants to obtain large framed picture OF
q COW, with one client at the head and the
other at the tail, pulliug, and the lawyers
meanwhile quietly milking.
Year: 1871

AT sheriff sale, last Saturday, a tract of land situated about one mile from Tucson, brought $50 per acre. Those who think lands in Arizona are worth nothing, may be convinced tc the contrary by an effort to purchase some where farmers can live in safety. We take no pleasure in irritating our friend Col. Green, and have no such motive in publishing this item.
Year: 1871

A LARGE amount ot government property will be sold at the Tucson Depot on the 10th of May. There are many farming utensils, entirely new, and we would specially direct the at- tention of rancheros to this as a rare opportunity to supply themselves with good implements. There are many articles, of daily use, to be sold which are not named in the posters sent out.
Year: 1871

THE legal voters of Tucson are off cially notified that an election will be held on the 17th day of May, for city officers. This movement is mainly intended to secure title to the town and subsequently, that each person may perfect his title to his own prop erty.
Year: 1871




Peter" This saying, addressed to the sue
cessors of st. Peter had never failed until
now. For over eighteen hundred years,
through persecution and through peace
dying as martyrs or ON the bed of Tranquil
ity, surrounded by love and reverence, one
after another, every Pope has passed away
before the prophetic day, not one has
reigned twenty-five full years except the
present Pontiff. Plus TX. in one sense in
augurates second era in the Church. In
rivaling the period of Peters sway he be-
comes, as it were, second cor ner-stone
upon which the Divine Builder POUNDS His
Church.


In the Church there is a peculiar and
mystical sig nificance about events that ap-
pear to be ordinary accidents, and we ASK
ourselves what can be the sacred design OF
the great Ruler in permitting this extraor-
dinary coincidence. Has it anything to do
with the definition of Infallibility so
recently made 1t may be indeed a divine
confirmation of that decree. So wonderful
q dispensation from fate that has become
a historical certainty may have been re-
served to this day as gracious sign of the
divine pleasure in the great and primitive
act offaith which the Church has just made.


What else may it signify Z May it not
prefigure a renewal of the first ages of the
Church in their trials and triumphsf We
must remember that this great event of
the Lateran Council is like second birth
of the Church. The Church was nothing
and is nothing but an idle name without
the powers which Christ conferred upon it,
and chief among these powers is Infalli-
bility. When it was born its birthright
was infallibility, but IN the course of time,
men began to dispute about the seat of that
infallibility. This was virtually disputing
it's existence. The world attacked it.
Ridicule, heresy, statesmanship, national
power, all were arrayed against it. Some
of these would consent that it existed, but
not where it really belonged. So, as it
could not possibly exist nywhere else than
where it was placed, that is, in the head of
the Church, this was virtually warning for
it's destruction.


But the Church has triumphed signally
over all the powers of the world, and the
intrigues of the devil. She has defined her
birthright and proclaimed her true consti-
tuition and under circumstances which as
simiIate this re- enactment of her charter to
it's original grant. We may then suppose
| that the prosecutions and martyrdoms OF
the first ages are not an impossible Sc
quence.


To-day, then, all Catholics have an op-
portunity of making public profession Of
faith in the face of the world. Devotion
to Plus TX. is now acceptance of the
Primitive Christianity. 1t is taking issue
with the seoffng incredulity and the iaten
ferocity of the age. Let every Catholic to
day wear q badge.
Year: 1871

We are indebted to the charming young Ia
dies of "The Morning Star" tahle-at the
Ladies Fair for the benefit of st. Stephens
New Church, Napoleon Avenue, for kind at
tentions. The fair will close tomorrow night,
and if any of our readers desire to escape from
the twitches of conscience always felt for "op-
portunities of pleasure lost, we would ad-
wise them to avail themselves of the chance
now offered to pass a pleasant evening at the
Parish Hall.
Year: 1871

To OUR SUBSCRIBERS of our
subscribers, either in the city or country,
who do not receive their papers regularly,
are requested to make their complaints
direct to us. A note through the post
Office, or a complaint made at this Office
will receive immediate attention.
Year: 1871

THE Press and Herald comes to the de-
Tense of the Public Printers, but offers no
other argument than that the CHRONICLE
is John Baxter's organ. This will not
satisfy the minds of honest men. If Col.
Baxter's charges can be disproved, let it be
done. If they can not, they certainly lose
none of their force from having been pub
before stated, we are the organ of Col.
Baxter or any other man who wishes to
expose corruption.
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases Gravel, Diabetes, Drop
ria and in cases where there are Brick dust deposits
the water is thick cloudy mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk or there
is morbid, dark bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is pricking burning
sensation and pain in the small Of the back and along
the lons In all these conditions, Railways SarpaT-
liam Resolvent, aided by tbs application of Radways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back and
the bowels regulated with one or two Of Radways s
Regulating Pills per day will, soon make complete
cure In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1871

Verify this is so. The Senate Of Vir-
ginia has maintained its higher prestige,
and has to-day shown that though for the
moment, it may have been led astray,
yet upon reflection 1t has assumed its
true position as the defender of the rights
of the people, and the true supporter OF
every legitimate scheme which will tighten
the burthens Of our people.


On yesterday the bill to extend the
Alexandra and Fredericksburg road to
Richmond, was defeated--many of its
friends being absent--and, upon the motion
of the Senator from Amherst, the vote de-
feating the bill, was to-day reconsidered
by the decided vote of FL to Is, and was
made the order of the day for tomorrow
by vote of 20 to 49,


Earnestly and sincerely desiring the
passage of the bill, we indulge the hope
that it will be put into such shape as will
afford the largest benefit to our people.
Year: 1871

The Senate and House of Representa-
tives having concurred in the conference
committees report upon the bill and
amendments providing q new mode Of
government for the District of Columbia


the act now wants only the signature of
the President, who is understood to favor
the change, to become a law. The act
vests the executive authority in governor,
who shall be appointed by the President,
with the advice and consent of the Senate,
and hold office for four years. Provision
is made for secretary of the district, by
appointment in the same as the governor.


The legislative department includes
council and house Of delegates, the council
to consist of eleven members, of whom two
shall be residents of the city of George
town, and two residents of the county out
side of said cities of Washington and
Georgetown, who shall be appointed by
the President, to serve two years. The
House of Delegates will consist of %
members, to serve one year, the members
thereof to be elected within 60 days from
districts, to be hereafter prescribed. The
sessions Of the legislative body are limited
to 60 days in one year. The charters of
the cities of Georgetown and Washington
are to be repealed on the first day of June
next, the present mayor and officers of
Georgetown to hold over until that time.
Year: 1871

A HORRIBLE story of suffering is revealed
in the fate of the crew of the schooner
Nelson. She sailed on the Sd of January,
from Darien, Ct., for Oyster Bay, and was
not heard from until the 18th of the pres
ent month, when the inhabitants of Hog
island were puzzled by the, actions of a
schooner which drifted listlessly between
the cakes of ice which filled the South. A
party was organized to 60 to the vessel,
and, on reaching her, a ghastly spectacle
presented itself. From the rigging large
icicles were pendant, and the entire vessel
was cased in ice. Two of the crew lay on
the deck frozen to death and covered with
snow, the captain was almost dead, and
with the cabin boy, was found in his cabin
stolidly awaiting his doom. The story
almost reproduces the terrors of the
"ancent Mariner" who was doomed to
journey on with his dead companions.
Year: 1871

THE HAIR COLORING PREPARATIONS
DeoMED.-Beware of bottled dyes in the shape of
silver hair dyes and sediment fluids. They are all
pestiferous and dangerous. pHALON'S vITALIA
OR SALVATION FOR THE HAIR a perfectly pure,
transparent harmless and agreeable preparation, is
the only agent that will change grey hair to its
natural color without risk of any disgusting conse-


usDces.
Year: 1871

Language Of Signs. Prof. Covel will
lecture this evening in the hall of the House of
Delegates, on the antiquity and universality of
sign languages. He will make most interest
ing and Instructive exposition of the subject
one which has long engaged his most earnest
attention and daily effort.
Year: 1871

Colonel Jack Watrous, of the Fond du
Lac (Wis.) Commonwealth has experienced
religion. If religion can make man any
better than Jack was before it struck him,
all We have to say is, we endorse it. Why,
he actually lent US money once, and it
seemed then as though he must experience
a change of heart before he could ever lay
up anything.
Year: 1871

The committee of privileges and elec-
tions reported that they had examined a
number of witnesses under the resolution
charging them to investigate into the al
legged sale of copies of acts of the assembly
by members of the Legislature, and that
they found no facts to warrant them in tho
belief that books had thus been disposed
Year: 1871

We have no OLD Goods so mean
that Junk Dealer would be
ashamed of. We do n0r sell some
kinds OF trash at one half its first
cost and sell other kinds OF Goods
for four times their value.
Year: 1871

Mr.. Frank Buckland writes as follows
upon this subject:


''Mr. Thomas Hughes, NJ. P, has been
kind enough to give very fine specimen
of the rattle of rattlesnake. 1t is two
inches and a half long, and is composed of
nine joints. This piece of mechanism is
one of the most wonderful in the animal
world. It is composed Of a horny mate
rial, very thin, and is almost as transpa-
rent as the sheets of gelatine in which
bon-bons are wrapped. 1t is difficult to
explain its ultimate structure in words.
The rattle before me is formed of nine diff
ferent sections, fitted one into the other in
a more ingenious way than any puzzle
made by human hands, even those of the
Chinese; they fit one into the other so
that it is impossible to get them apart
without breaking them. Number one
(say the lowest) passes right through a
hollow in number two, and then bulges
out, forming kind Of projection, around
which number three holds on firmly, not
unlike the ball-socket joint. The rattle
is rather more than half an inch across.
The snake does not carry it with its broad
side to the ground, but with one edge up
snd the other down; when shaken with
the human hand, the noise it makes is
very like the noise from a child's rattle;
but when the snake plays upon his own
instrument, its sound is quick and sharp,
like shot when dropped upon a tin plate.
There can be no doubt but that this curl
ous musical instrument, is given to the
snake in order to enable him to get close
to his prey.


Imagine a blazing hot day on the desc
late prairie, no noise, everything is silence
ITSELF The whirr- whirr of rattlesnake's
rattle would, under these circumstances,
attract the notice Of bird or small ami
NAL, who could easily escape from his en-
emy by flight if he knew where his enemy
was. He remains however, still to listen
to the unwonted noise, and gives the snake
time to get up, glide noiselessly up to him,
and strike him with his deadly fangs.
Some time since an American gentleman
to be talking with me at my
museum, when I suddenly played upon a
rattlesnake's tail. My friend, traveller,
who knew the sound well, Immediately
jumped aside in great alarm, thinking
that might have rattlesnake loose in
the room.
Year: 1871

A law in England prohibits the paint
ing of advertisements on the walls, and
the punishment for the offence is heavy.
One day a fellow was discovered in the
act. He had written WARREN'S B,
when he had to beat a hasty retreat to es-
cape arrest. Charles Lamb, who was
passing at the time, and reading what
had been painted on the wall, remarked
that the rest was evidently lacking.
Year: 1871

Z a PLURAL DIFFICULTY. Some time
since variety merchant in the country
wished to order from hardware store in
the city something for his tailor customers,
and wrote as follows:


Please send me two tailors' gooses."


Not liking the grammar, and fearing his
New York friends would laugh at him, he
destroyed that order and wrote:


Please send me two tailors' goose"


After the letter was sealed, he was trOu-
bled in his mind lest they should send him
a couple of live geese, purchased from some
tailor when he took the document from
the post office, destroyed it, and for two
days thought of nothing except how to
word his order so it could be understood,
and according to grammar. At last he
gave up in despair, and wrote: ~ x~a


g Please send me one tailor's goose-and,
d-n it, send me another one just like it,"
Year: 1871

The circus performance yesterday was large
ly attended by young and old, and the general
expression was one Of unqualified qualification
This is accounted for in the fact that the Man
agement of this establishment are constantly
adding to their attractions, and the exhibition
yesterday was decidedly the best of any COM
pany that has performed here since the war and
even better than what the old veteran himself
ever exposed to the public gaze in our city.


The monster Sea Lions from the Pacific
Ocean, were all and more than represented, and
were the great feature of the museum and men
agerie, not forgetting the beautiful Sea Leop-
ard, the den Of monster Pythons, from Africa
and South America, the miniature bsons, the
diminutive horses from the Shetland Islands.
The grand menagere and the colossal circus,
the magnificent wardrobe and trappings, all
went to make one of the finest exhibitions ever
witnessed in America
Year: 1871

BARLEY FOR SwINE.-I know of no feed
except peas perhaps-which if ground
and cooked with apples, potatoes or pump
kins, or even mixed with cooked corn
meal, equals barley as a feed for swine. i
am satisfied that where soil and climate
are adapted to its culture it is one of the
most profitable food crops for stock that
can be grown.-An Old Farmer, Jefferson
IN NJ Y
Year: 1871

Twenty families from Ireland have ar
rived at Washington Island, at the en-
trance of Green Bay. They are said to be
the pioneers of heavy immigration esti-
mated at 25 900 people, who expect to set
tie in the region about Green Bay, and
that bordering on the line of the Northern
Pacific Railway and the Red River of the


North. ..'
Year: 1871

The price of hemp is said to have ad-
vanced decidedly since the latest develop
ments respecting the Tammany ring: and
if Tweed, Sweeny and Connolly get their
deserts, there is likely soon to be lively
movement in cordage in New York. aGF
Year: 1871

Some rash fellow says that the giving of
the ballot to women would not amount to
much, for none of them would admit that
they were old enough to vote until they
were too old to take any interest in poll
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