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Year: 1873

We are happy to announce that
the fever has continued to abate in
Mcmphis since our last Issue, and
Thursday mornings Appeal at last
announces the fact that no new cases
were reported on the previous day.
OF the one hundred and seventy
eight cases reported Of those now
i'll with tho fever, ninety four are
eonvalescent, leaving but eighty
four that are at all doubtful. "This'
continues the Appeal, SIS a most
gratifying exhibit, and proves that
we are ut last in n fair way to be
freed OF the scourge. Thank God,
we say most sincerely and devoutlv


The deaths yesterday, according to
the mortuary report elsewhere pub


lished, were only four from yellow
fever, three from other causes, and
seven altogether. In view Of these
facts we uIga cur people to return


home and resume their duties.
They may be assured of Il heartfelt
welcome. We want to see our
streets resume their wonted life,
and we anxiously desire that the
stream of business shall again flow
deep and strong in lis usual chan
nels, and TO see country customers
thronging the stores of our mer-
chants. Memphis has suffered
much. Every man who prctends
10 be her friend, who owes any OF
her people n cent, cannot better
prove that friendship than by pay
ing promptly in cotton or money


Oar dry-goods. hardware, grocery
and other merchants, have large
stocks of goods on hand and are
ready and determined to sell rs
cheap as any of their more favored
brethren OF other cities. Try them


and SO extend us helping hand in
thc great work of reeuperation."
Year: 1873

Harris, whose commissions were
revoked. Col. Borum returned
home on the Chester yesterday
morning from short trip to Missis-
sippi aad we understand that steps
will be taken TO have an immediate
meeting of the Board. The sooner
the better, MS the interests OF the
county have suffered already too
long from the failure of the former
board to meet and transact bust
ness.
Year: 1873

A TOUCHING Incident. A short
time since, in this city, a brilliant and
much admired lady, who had been
troubled for some time with an affection
Of the eyes, was led to fear a speedy
change for the worse, and Immediately
consulted her physician. An examina-
ton discovered a sudden and fatal failing
in the optic nerve, and the information
was impaired, as gently rs possible, that
the patient could not retain her sight
more than a few days at most, and was
liable to be deprived Of it at any mo-
ment. The afflicted mother re-
turned to her home, quietly made such
arrangements as would occur to one
about to commence so dark a journey OF
life, and then had her two little chill
dren, attired in their brightest and
sweetest costumes, brought before her,
and SO, with their little faces lifted to
hers, and tears gathering for some great
misfortune that they hardly realized,
the light faded out Of the mothers eyes
leaving an ineffacable picture Of those
dearest TO her on earth-a memory OF
bright faces that will console her in
many a dark .hour.-CoriHgtOn n.y.
Journal
Year: 1873

SENT HoME.-A Washington paper
tells of an elegantly-dressed young lady
who went into one of the dry goods
stores on Pennsylvania avenue, bought
spool of cotton and requested the pro-
prietor to have it sent home. Over
whelmed with the important duty so
suddenly thrust upon him, he imme-
diately procured an express wagon and
detailed 4 clerk, who, lifting the spool
into the wagon, drove with it to the
residence of the young lady, and, dis
mounting, rang the bell, and, when the
door was opened, placed the spool upon
his shoulder and carried it into the hall,
and gently placed it on end, rs il it had
been barrel of flour, and then retired.
The CONSERVATION of the family can be
imagined. The head of the house has
been dOdging i'm and out of the dry goods
store during the past week trying to find
that clerk.
Year: 1873

a SAD STORY.-It is not hard TO be-
lieve that Dickens early hard expert
ence was a grief even in memory. The
despair of children is keen-as keen as
their innate sense OF justice. Here is 4
sad little story from Germany, the
moral of which is applicable to any civ
ilized country: In MuiEenburg n boy
only ten years old lately hung himself
i'm his schOOl-room, leaving letter i'm
which he placed his death ut his teach
er's door, bequeathing his small prop
erty to his sister, and asked pardon of
his father and mother for the sin he was
about to commit. Inquiry showed that
during the mornings lessons the boy
was inattentive, and his teacher, in
stead of suspecting fatigue, could think
of no better remedy for this than CEN
suring and furnishing him, in spite of
his being usually a willing and indus
triOus scholar, and of a constitution not
strong. Taking exhaustion for laziness,
the master struck, threatened, and at
last locked him alone in the school
room, where the unhappy and tired lit
tie fellow, utterly hopeless, scribbled his
pathetic letter and went out OF the
world.
Year: 1873

GREAT HoPE.-The setting of a great
nope IS like the setting Of the sun. The
BRIGHTNESS OF our life is gone, shadows
OF the evening fall around us, and the
world seems but n dim reflection itself,
broader shadow. We look forward
INTO the coming lonely night, the soul
wlthdraws ITSELF Then stars arise, ana
the night is holy.
Year: 1873

PICKPoCKETs.--A colored woman had
watch stolen from her person in tho
police court to-day, and white man had
his pocket picked Of $l5. SO dame rumor
saith.


Since the above was in type we find
that the watch affair is genuine, as George
Robinson, colored man, has been ar
rested charged with stealing the watch
from the person of Emma johnson, of the
value of about ten dollars. The public is
indebted to the vigilance of policeman
Samuel Michals and Dan Wren for the
promptness Of his arrest.
Year: 1873

IT is said that there has recently been
discovered among some papers at the treas
ury department the original contract De-
tween the Marquis DeLalayette and some
merchants of Baltimore, whereby the form
er made over to the merchants his entire
fortune as pledge for the sum of el 300,
with which he raised a regiment for the
Revolutionary army.
Year: 1873

Our correspondent CITIZEN" talks very plain


ly ON the question growing out of the improve.


ment OF our water works He is evidently fully


impressed with the necessity of taking some steI 8
toward securing economy in tho expenditure Of
the fue hundred thousand dollars which the City
Council has asked the permission of the Legsla-
ture to grant them the right TO borrow.


It will be seen that he states that the debt Of
the city the first of the year was elght hundred


ttoE'aad doiiSrs. This is certainly startling news
70 as, We knew the expenditures the last year had
ossa Of an extraordinary character Bot we had
not supposed the city debt had exceeded Eve hun
dred thousand


Itis now SS0QUO0, and IL We add 100000 moro,
We shall have need to use economy The people
Of the city should know what has been done with
ell this money. We have no doubt tha. the gen.
tisnen of the City Council are honest in all their
intentions and endeavoT to use economy and care in
The expenditures. But nevertheless, they may
nos1 assistance. The estimated expenses are
quite ehsaTy-reaching we think, about $500, ,0c0'
Il maJ be asked whether this sum is not enough
b impose upon the members to disburse and should
We not turn the new loan over responsible gentle
men selected from own citizens Certainly none |
bat responsible na who able 10 give the requir
d soeanty should bs allowed 10 eKpend the mon
y which tAs toiling taxables have to Iefund.-
TAXATION is now very heavy and care should lie
AIKEN to prevent its increlse.
Year: 1873

WE are very much gratified to learn
shat the affairs of Chrisman, Stewart
& Co. have been settled in = way entire
" satisfacty to the creditors Of the firm,
who lose not more than ten cents on the
dollar. The promptness and direetness
of this settlement is what we had q
rightto expect from house that stood as
high as the highest until the day when
its failure was announced. We con-
graduate our friends and their creditors
on the result OF q conference, the dis
patch of which Is a sign that our people
are beginning TO realize that time Is
money, and good sense superior TO VIM
Il Z i've lawsuits
Year: 1873

AtSan Francisco yesterday party of
dredgers brought up from the waters of
the bay the body of an unknown man,
respectfully dressed, with his throat cut
from ear TO ear, and about fifty pounds
Of pig-iron attached to his body.
Year: 1873

The House Judiciary Committee have
not yet met to consider whether there


is sufficient cause, from the evidence
before the Poland Committee, TO pre-


fer srticles Of impeachment against any


public officers. According to the report
Of the Committee, with one or two ex-


ceptions, they will report adversely to
any such proceeding.


A sharp Discussios on Our Foreign
Year: 1873

\ charming young lady Of eigh-
teen summers, named Carrie L., Of
Warren paid visit to this city i
short time since, aud on Saturday
afternoon last she went to the de-
pot Of Warren and Venango
Road, intending to return home,
but arrived just in time to see TIE
train disappearing round the curve.
Beat on reachiug Warren that
night: she started out along the
track with u view Of walking the
entire distance. On Miss Carrie
sped at the rate Of four miles an
hour until seven o'clock in the
evening, when she arrived at New
t0a. which is twelve miles from
the city.


Upon reaching the middle of the
trcstIc work at this point she saw
the night train approaching; to 90
OF or reccde, Or step to ooe side,
was impossible, so she Jumped
down into the chasm, twenty feet
below. Fortunately the ground
was covered with a snow drift,
into which she sank up to her arm
pits: thus breaking her fall and
saving her life. Carrie did not
scream or cry for help, Or any
thing Of that sort, but quietly dug
herself out, and after half an hours
work rcgained the track and re-
snmed her journey. Two or three
miles further On still more Sc
rious obstacle presented itself; the
track was under water as far as
the eye could reach. Upon look
ing round she discovered light in
the woods and concluded that it
must be house. This proved to
he the case, and the hospitable
family. after hearing her story,
took her in and did everything in
their power for her comfort. Tho
next morning she took the train
from Newton for Warren and ar
rived there in time for dinner.


1THusrile Herald.
Year: 1873

AN EYE TO THE MAIN CHANCE"
A Michigan exchange tells US Of q
strange sect which has its abiding
place at Battle Creek, in that State.
It is called the Seventh Day Adven-
fists, and its members look for the
coming Of the Savior very soon, but do
not fix any precise date-wherein
they are wiser than the Millerites.
They are wealthy as a community and
noted for strict integrity and the
scrupulous cleanliness of their dwell
ings. They believe in the water cure,
and their establishment at Battle
Creek is the resort of invalids from all
parts of the country. They have a
publishing house, tract house, and
are as fond Of making money as if they
did not expect to 60 to Heaven for
sone time.
Year: 1873

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connubial
happiness. Indeed without those the journey
through life becomes q weary pilgrimage, the
prospect hourly darkcns to the Wow, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that the happiness OF
another is blighted with our own.
Year: 1873

@The last number Of Appletons'
Journal is highly revolutionary. In an
able editorial article it urges women to
demand the privilege of womanhood
and the right of support from man, and
insists that men who won't marry should
be taxed for their benefit. This il sound
and sensible. We have always thought
that women ought to do greater share
Of the courting than they do. They
have rights; let them demand them


But we don't know SO much about the
taxes. ''
Year: 1873

Jacob Wall, white man, and


VIM. Cooper, a negro, were
hired on a farm near Detroit,
They did not like each other Az


fellow-labOrers, and tried to set


tie their dislike by fight. The


white man whipped the negro,


and the latter was more dissat-.


isfied than ever before. One


day lately the farmer sent the


two to clean out and deepen an
old well, about three-quarters


of a mile from anybOdy's resi-
dence. The negro let his fel-


lOw-workman down the we'll,
which was thirty-tive feet deep,
drew up the bucket and tore
away the windlass. Cooper rc-
minded Wall Of the fight, told
him his turn had come now, and
that he would not come up
alive. Wall expected Cooper
would Immediately commence.
filing up the we'll with heavy
stones, but he simply walked off.
He went to the house and told
the farmer that Wall had quit
work and gone to Detroit. The
farmer started after him in the
hope of Overtaking him before
he arrived in town and got
drunk. In the meantime the
negro left the farm with his bum
die and has not been seen since.
Of course the farmer did not
find Wall, and the disappear
ance of the negro began to ex-
cite his suspicious. After
it over for a day or
two, it occurred to him to visit
The well, and Wall was very
glad indeed to see him. He had
shouted himself nearly to death.
before he commenced starving,
md was standing waist deep in
water, and was very weak. In
few days he will be strong
enough to have another inter
'iew with Cooper if he can find
lin.
Year: 1873

The story of the DEGRADATION
of the North Carolina University
IS thus told in the Hillsboro Re
corder: "SOme Of the young la
dies called upon Mr. Pool to OBJ
tain his permission to use the chap
el for the s1btath-s chooi celebra-
ton. MIR P replied that he had
no objection, provided the chapel
was restored in as good order as
when the permission was granted
One # the young ladies replied
that on examination Of the chap
el they found it filled with cows.
"She supposed it would be an easy
matter TO drive them back into the
huilding when the exercise was
over"
Year: 1873

AS an illustration of the wide
spread use Of a certain popular
title, it is related that a gentle
man recently stepped into a sa-
loon in Denver, and cried ont in
a loud and CHEEKY tone, "Hello
come, Professor, take drink. .
Six men sitting in the saloon at
once arose and came forward,
while a bootblack, whose stand
was just outside the door, and a
passing corn doctor, smilingly
accepted the invitation, and
stepped in.
Year: 1873

On the first day of June last I COM
menced cutting clover for one cow con-
fined in a yard enclosed by high,
tight, board fence, with stable attach
ed in which she has been fed. She
had no feed but freshly cut clover from
the first of June to the fifteenth of
October, and all taken from one-fourth
of an acre of ground. She has aver
aged eighteen quarts of strained milk
per day, from which my wife has made
eight pounds of butter per week, dur
ing the four and half months. The
cow is five years old, and a cross of the
AYRSHIRE and Durham. She has CIV
en- more milk, more butter, and of a
better quality, than she has ever done
on pasture. On one eighth of an acre |
have raised $50 bushels of sugar beets
and carrots, which with the two tons
of hay will keep her handsomely the
balance of the year. The labor Of cut
ting clover for the COW is less than the
driving her three-fourths of a mile to
pasture; besides, the manure saved is
quite an item. In the dairy districts,
the usual estimate is four acres to the
cow, on the hay and pasture system,
whereas by soiling and raising roots
FIVE eights of an acre is found to be-
sufficient. I will state further, what
/ believe from nearly thirty years ex-
perienee, that there is no crop so many
pounds of which and of equal value for
milk and butter, can be produced from
an acre of ground. Sweet corn is a
good crop for late feeding where clc-
Yer will not grow, but not profitable
for winter feeding.
Year: 1873

at the present date and yet the preparation is only
in the infancy of its usefulness The great defect
of all EXpectorants introduced is that they
simply expulsory Hence they are useless; for, un-
less the causes Of the acrid secretions which are
coughed up removed and the ruptured nfarned
or materated surfaces healed and restored to their
natural tone q cure Is imDosSible.
Year: 1873

The surfeiting we sll undergo this
season OF fruit brings into action the
family pill box. 1t is little singular
how much hunting has to be done to
fad that box. The party who last
needed its services doesn't remember
where he left it, and doesn't care TO
think OF it at all, while he whose turn
now occurs isn't exactly tortured to
death by anxiety. We are not quite
sure but that there is faint hope down
somewhere in his breast that it may
not be found at all. He feels Jumps
forming in his throat as be peers among
the bottles and boxes which constitute
the pharmacy at his house, and when
the box finally appears, and he feels it
in bis hand, there is sensation at the
pit OF his stomach as il somebody was
trying to turn that organ over with an
old brass candlestick. Some people
swallow dose of pills without squalm
and afterwards 60 round looking as
proud and overbearing as boy whose
father plays in band, but the most OF
us are more dellcately constituted, and
counting cut dose Of pills while some
one else gets the water, and observe
that he doesn't see how any one can
swallow the awful things, is about as Sc
rious an undertaking as can be found
on record. There is something too
awfully solemn about it to describe.
And it is a little singular that while
man can swallow whole whortleberries,
cherry pits, and even buckshot. without
any uneasiness at all, yet single pill
will catch in his throat, at a particular
ticklish spot, and hang there four
hours, and make faces at his stomach.
And man in fix like that is not ex-
actly the party we would select to con-
coct notices for a festiVal.-DanblTy
.NtN8.
Year: 1873

It must be remembered that these
people are not going tc travel in Pull
man dining car They have no stoves,
for fire is q dangerous thing in the
windy ways they are 10 traverse. Their
coffee is warmed only by the heat gen.
Grated by Stacking lime. They cannot
even smoke. They cannot exercise.
They havs to sit wrapped in overcosts
with gloves on, and cannot play cards.
They can only talk with chstteripg
teeth and blue lips, and Sigh for land,
and wish they had not come. Is it,
then, worth while to expose oneself to
all these discomforts and perils for the
sake OF little money and little tenn
porary reputation? And if they die,
on sea or shore, there will merely be g
paragraph in the papers that the several
IDIOTS, names given in full, who under
took the foolhsrdy enterprise OF going
TO Europe in a balloon, died, as might
have been expected.
Year: 1873

1t is we'll known that different kinds
OF wood will ignite at different temper
atures, pine and poplar more easily than
beech and oak; but that the combus,
tibility OF any given variety will vary
very much, even when ofuniform dry
ness, according to the conditions under
which it is desiccated is not 80 well un-
derstood. For example, q piece OF bass
wood might be dried in the sun until
the whole of its moisture Was elimina- =
ted. Another piece Of the same wood
might be brought 10 the same degree
OF dryness by lying near a steam pipe
The former would require a much
higher temperature to ignite il, because
the molecules OF the latter have been
brought into state of unstable equili-
brium by heat just falling short OF
that required to produce combustion,
aud Whit Of flame or a slight in-
crease Of temperature that would be
harmless in the one case, might pro-
duce conhagraticn in the other.


The combustibilty ot wool also
varies according as the sourss Of igni-
ton is presented in contact with the
eide OF the grain, or the ends thereof,
the latter taking fire much more readi-
ly than the other. The reason given
for this, is that active combustion is
preceded by the evolution Of infam-
mable gases from the ligneous material,
and theae pass out lengthwise Of the
fbres through the sap ducts or pass
ages, and make their exit at the ex-
trenlties.
Year: 1873

A New MODE OF CoUNTERFEITING
"A teller in one of our banks, says
Boston paper, discovered the other day
very ingenious mode resorted to by coun-
terfeiters to make profit by little
manipulation Of genuine bills. The
plan is in this wise Take, say, ten FIVE
dollar bills. Lay one on the other
quarter OF an inch below the top, some
thing after paper bags. When they are
thus neatly laid off a knife is run through
them, and of course, from the first bill
quarter of an inch will be cut off,
half inch from the second, three-quar-
ters from the third, an inch from the
fourth, and so on to the tenth bill, from
the bottom of which there is taken
very small portion, nothing more than
the border. This bill is left as it is,
but to all the others the parts taken off
are neatly pasted on, and the result is
that there will be eleven bills, perfect,
except small reduction in the size of
each. OF course the operator makes five
dollars in every ten. The amount taken
from each is so small and the bills being
generally all of one kind, it is a very
difficult matter to detect them The
bill detected by the teller referred to was
bunglingly done-the top being part
of an Ohio bill, while the bottom was a
part of Baltimore bill. TIE names of
the places are prominent, and conse-
quently bills on the same bank or place
are preferred.
Year: 1873

THIS AND NoTH1NG MoRE.-An emf
nent citizen of New York died, leaving
a fortune of three millions to be divided
between one son and three daughters.
The merchant was regular old SKIN
flint, and denied himself the common
of life that he might amass a
fortune. His great leading passion was
to have his boy wealthy and leave a
name among the rich men of New York.
The boy understood thing or two, and
as his bread and butter were sure, he be-
gan early to play the role of the fast
young man. He married young and
made his wife as miserable as a woman
ought to be who marries man she does
not love and cannot respect, for his mon.
ey. His father died and the youngstel
entered upon his possessions. His in
come was $4,000 year. After a ca
and dog life for season, in drunker
brawl, the man killed his wife aud ther
killed himself. He left his large prop
erty to be squabbled over by doubtful
heirs. Had this wealthy father giver
his boy good business education, indus


trial habits and a sound constitution
then left his money to some college o,
some missionary society, and bequeatheC


the boy saw and wood-horse, he woulC


have left him much better off than b,
did when he died and made the son


millionaire.
Year: 1873

The mistakes Of my life are many,
The sins of my life are more;
And | scarce can see for weeping;
But knock at the open door.
am lowest Of those who love Him,
am weakest of those who pray
But come as He has hidden,
And He will not say me, Nay.
My mistakes His love will cover,
My sins he will wash away,
And the feet that shrink aud falter.
Shall walk through the gates OF day.
II turn not from His whisper.
If let not go his hand,
/ shall see Him in His beauty
The King in the tar-of land.
The mistakes of my life are many,
And my soul is sick with sin
And scarce can see for weeping,
But the Lord will let me in.
Hymn for a Little Child.
God make my life little light,


Within the world TO glow;
little flame that burneth bright.


Wherever l may go.


God make my life little flower,


That giyeth joy TO all,
Content to bloom in native bower.
Although its place be small.
God make my life little song.


That comforteth the sad;
That helpeth others TO be strong,


And makes the singer glad.
God make my life little staff


Whereon the weak may rest.
That so what health and strength have
May serve my neighbor best.
God make my life little hymn


Of tenderness and praise
OF faith-that never waxeth dim,


GOOD Words.