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Year: 1873

offer for sale the four lots designated on the
Plat as /, 2, 3 and A. in Miller's Addition. They
all front on Portsmouth Street, and run back to
an alley, and each has an alley on one side,
thus rendering them most convenient for build
ing purposes. They are the most beautiful lots
in town, in good locality, and in n part of
town where much Improvement is in progress.
Those lots embrace the lower side OF my or
chard, near my residence. They all contain
choice bearing fruit trees, and are in high
state of cultivation. The price is five hundred
dollars each. Call and see them soon, as they
will undoubtedly go of rapidly at that price.


u MACKLEY.
Year: 1873

The late Bishop of Winchester was one
of the most remarkable men in England,
and his death will cause far greater sem
sation than usually happens in such cases.
1t is said of him:


"Probably no man in Europe, not even
Bismark or Moltke, ever led life of such
extraordinary and continuous activity for
so long q period. After debate in the
house Of lordshe would hurry off to be the
life of dinner party. for as diner-out
he had scarcely competitor in London !;
would then look in at the athen9um and
write a dozen letters or two, and then,
having by special permission obtained leave
from the Great Western railway to be
permitted the privilege of travelling down
in freight train, would start off at live
a. m. to be in time for a confirmation or
conservation in some out-of-the-way nook
of his diocese, and the man who the pre-
yious night had been the delight of duchess
es and brilliant iterati at Lord Stanhope's
or the Duke Of Cleveland s would be dining
alone with some poor incumbent and enter
ing into all his hopes and fears as parish
priest with parish priest.


It was this which caused his popularity
in his diocese to, be unbounded; and hii
kindness of heart and ardor in the service
of the Church were so evident that the
feelings of annoyance engendered by wha
some deemed an insincerity Of mannol
were in the latter part Of his life almos
entirely effaced by the recollection of hi
noble career. .t.
He will be long and fondly remembered
here as well as there, for Episcopal church
men in this country are just as familla


with his career as their brethren across tn
! Atlantic. The manner of the Bishop
/ death is remarkable, and recalls the obser


walton how often it has happened tina


military and naval mem ellington


Washington, Marlborough, and Farragut-


die in their beds after running thousan
| risks, whilst eminent ciyilians-Lincolr


Huskisson, Perceval, Peel-meet a


accidental end. y ~ pa
Year: 1873

THE STEAM WHISTLE NUISANCE. =
Under this heading correspondent speaks
his mind as follows:


at is wrong that the SICK citizens should
be disturbed by the internal noise made by
engineers blowing their steam whistles
every morning, soon after daY-break. 1t
is a perfect nuisance, and should be
stopped if it is in the power of the author
tiles to do so. If an engineer wants to-
blow his whistle for signal, there is no
use of letting full head of steam on,
waking up everybody in the city, sick and
well. A morning or two ago some engi-
neer blew continued whistle for over five
minutes. Now what could be the sense in
that unless he did it for his own amuse-
ment. There must be in q city as large as
ours very many sick persons, and it is a
hard case that they should be disturbed in
this way"
Year: 1873

WASHINGTON. July 26. The manufac-
turers Of the postal cards have discovered
that they can comply with the requirements
to furnish cards equal to the official stand
ard by certain process of printing, and
the department has authorized them to do
SO. The total demand up to this time is
sixty million, and nine hundred thousand
will be turned out daily.
Year: 1873

The hour has now arrived when stronger
and steader if not quicker pulse begins to
beat in the wrist Of the year. The heats of
summer are over and all that we can now ex-
pect to be troubled with in that line is the
slight and sensuous relapse known as Indian
summer. But now there is gathering cool
ness in the air. The nerves begin to suspect
frost We should scarcely be surprised some
morning to find ourselves drawing arabesques
with our finger nails in the film of congelation
on the window pane. With the leaf that red
dens in the forest the cheek of the pedestrian
begins to lose its pallor The russet Of ar-
tumn is imaged in those who seek her sun and
air


We would wish that everybody could enjoy
to the full this inspiring season. Without going
to the extent of the preacher who recently as
tonished metropolitan congregation by wish
ing that all the newspapers could be sus-
pended and all the places Of business closed
for one month, we yet heartily approve of any
means by which the great body of the people
could be given the opportunity of enjoying
the autumn of the year--that American au-
tumn which is as much household proverb
the civilized world over as an aphorism by
Shakespeare. 1t may, perhaps, be difficult to
devise many ways of doing this, but there is
one way by which at least large number may
be reached-namely, the throwing open
of the grounds in general OF Cen
trail Park and the annulment Of those
restrictions which now limit the police to
few thoroughfares therein. Central Park is
for the health, pleasure and accommodation
of the people. 1t is not dainty toy intended
to be looked at askant and handled fastidi-
for beauty, and one OF the most practical and
beneficial uses to which it can be put, during
the autumn season, is the throwing open of
the grounds to croquet parties. The plan has
been followed with success at Prospect Park,
where, every afternoon, scores of happy Gro
queters may be seen, inspiring health, enjoy
ment and exultation with every Whit of that
oxygen which the benefcence of the Prospect
Park Commissioners enables them to inhale
so literally. We should like to see the
same policy adopted at Central Park Croquet
is q game which holds perfectly unique
place among out-of-door sports. 1t is the
feminine of base ball, and yet retains enough
of the virile nature of that game to be capable
of being indulged in with spirit by the mascu-
line sex. The opportunities it affords for
Irritation are unrivalled and the Irritation it
renders possible is of less morbid and more
moral and elevating kind than Irritation in
general The coquetry is like the foam on
the crest OF wave, momentary, spontaneous,
evanescent, ever repeating itself beautiful to
the eye and natural outgrowth of natural
conditions. Central Park is generous and
noble creation, not, as we have already said,
q frail toy to be kept under glass case. Let
its level fields and green, expansive CON-
mons, be free to the public, instead Of being
virtually shut W. apd then the great mass Of
Year: 1873

The PUBLIC WORKS IN WASHINGTON are
stopped for the want of funds. The certifi-
Gates Of Indebtedness, which have been the
only resource for months cannot be converted
into money at any price. The bonds Of the
District cannot find purchasers at fifty cents on
the dollar. Yet many of the principal streets
are in deplorable condition. Altogether the
seat Of the federal government has been
brought into fearful state Of debt, discredit
and Generalization by the radicals who have
had control Of its affairs. Worst Of all, these
plunderers have been supported and petted by
the administration and the majority in Con-
gress. The next thing, we suppose, will be
an appeal to Congress to assume the debts of
the corrupt and extravagant Washington gov
ernment and to furnish the means for keeping
the streets and works in decent order. Let us
hope there will be found some honest men in
Congress to expose the frauds and absurd de-
mands Of the radical District authorities.
Year: 1873

The Equin0ctial' Storm-The Equinoc.
tial Gales on the Atlantic Coast.
The storm which prevailed here on Monday
seems to have been part of an extensive
Equinoctial gale, exhibiting itself as well
marked cyclone on the Florida coast. 1t was
attended in the Gulf with the well known
autumnal 'Norther," while the depression off
the Atlantic seaboard gave impetus to the
northwesterly and frost-bearing winds. This
Equinoctial has not been SO severe as usual,
but it is followed by important results. The
southwark advance of frosty weather in the
cold high pressures from the Northwest was
facilitated by the presence of the low pressure
in the Gulf OF Mexico, and, consequently, the
frost which the HERALD in yesterday issue
anticipated for Memphis was verified. The
progress of the cold wave across the Alle-
ghanies will be felt in its effects on
the tobacco crop, perhaps not without
slight disaster but the Virginia
planters and farmers have had timely caution
airy notice of its approach. Indeed, we may
hope that the several recent official predictions
Of frost, which were 50 signally verified in
Northern sections forewarned the Southern
sections, rs a very slight study OF the weather
map daily published in this and other cities
would enable the merchant or townsman to
forewarn his rural correspondents Of such
changes, and thus largely extend the already
great utility of these meteorological forecasts.
So far as the present indications warrant an
inference, it appears we are to have our early
autumn develop into an early winter, and
speedy provision should be made for it.
Although we have escaped the usually severe
Equinoctial storms this year the phenomenon
has not been wanting in the atmospheric
disturbances of the two days past and, per-
haps, also, in the great storms of the last of
August it was present prematurely. Tho storm
warnings which were displayed at most of the
Atlantic ports yesterday were doubtless fully
justified by dangerous Winds felt especially
some distance off the immediate coast. Sail
ing vessels and steamers leaving New York to-
day will do well to keep o sharp lookout lest,
after leaving Sandy Hook, they should come
up with the Florida cyclone of yesterday
morning.
Year: 1873

A CONNECTICUT QUESTION SETTLED. The
good people of Connecticut have determined
that there shall be but one capital for the
State in future, and that its name shall be
Hartford. New Haven has been laid out in
the cold by decisive vote of the people Of
the whole State, which is scarcely large enough
to sustain two capitals, with their usual ex-
tensive lobby surroundings
Year: 1873

The following record will show the changes in
the temperature Tor the past twenty-four hours in
comparison with the corresponding day OF last
year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnuts
Pharmacy, HERALD Building:--
Year: 1873

Hay at two dollars per hundred
pounds Who can stand this expense?
Lei us get rid of it for another year.
How ?. In the absence of permanent
meadow and for this years use by
sowing corn for fodder for cattle and
horses.


Make piece of ground very rich,
either with barn yard manure or
commercial fertilizers. 1t will be of
little use to attempt to sow corn for
fodder on land in ordinary condition.


1t must be madevery rich. Break
it up deeply. Lay off the ground in
rows three feet apart. Sow the corn
in the burrows at the rate of three
bushels per acre. Cover with a fur
row and roll. Keep the ground clean
by one or more workings with the
plow if necessary.


Four tons of good dried fodder
may be expected. On very rich land
a good deal more than that amount.
Allowing one ton to the horse for the
working season, one acre should give
fodder for FIVE horses, or cattle.


We advise this expedieHt for roug IA
ness by all means. With a good cut
ting knife, horses and cattle viii eat
the whole Of the stalks, which should
be cut down and cured as soon as
they are in tassel.


Ten acres in sowed corn ought to
keep we'll fifty head Of horses, mules
and cattle during the winter, allow
ing for the cost es manure. The ex-
pense n is trife compared with that
Of fodder, which is the least remun-
erative product Of the farm.


Those who have never seen corn
sowing for fodder carried to perfec.
tion. and who live within reach Of
Atlanta, should visit Governor ]. E.
Browns 8 corn patch, within the limits
Of the city and adjoining his resi-
dence. From fragment OF an acre
he annually raises fodder enough to
support pair of horses and cow,
usually with a surplus left. The
amount of fodder which he obtains
from this little spot is incredibly
Year: 1873

A most touching stery oemes-to us
in Western exchange, concerning a
lady in Kentucky, who was stricken
with a sudden failing Of the optic
nerve, and was told that she could
not retain her sight more than few
days at most, and was liable to be-
totally deprived Of it at any moment.
She returned to her home, quietly
made such arrangements as would
occur to any one about to to commence ,?n
SO dark a journey of life, and
then had her two children, attired In
their brightest costumes, brought be-
fore her; and so, with their little
faces lifted to hers, and tears gather
ing for the great misfortune they
hardly realized, the light faded out
of the mothers eyes.
Year: 1873

.. GhAxr AT Lone BnAxoH.--The
sls.,g - eSrfes.enn ert of tho Tribune
writes: Here his manner Of living is noted
only for its lack of extravaganza and ostenta-
ton His life is as quiet and unprctending
as that of the most modest cottager. His cot
tage is by no means the grand affair that was
too often described during the heat Of politi-
cal contest. 1t sets back from the road some
distance, and is of asubdued order OF architect
ure, a sort of mixture of English villa and Swiss
chalet Its colors are dingy, and its general ap-
pearance by no means as attractive and costly
as is generally supposed. Nevertheless, while
it would be taken for the residence of quiet
gentleman of position and taste, it does nota
pear to be unbecoming the President whose life
here is so quiet and unobtrusive. Nobody
would know, from his manner of living and his
personal intercourse with the citizens of the
Branch, that General Grant occupies higher
station in the world than his neighbors. What
ever may be said against Gen. Grant and his
administration of the Government, it cannot
be said that his manner of living at Long
Branch is unbecoming or ostentatious. The
family of the Presidenthave placed themselves
upon the same social level as other cultivated
and respectable families There is no exclu-
sion whatever. The carriage of Mrs. Grant is
frequently seen before the cottages OF other res
idents, and there is no indication of differ
ence in worldly station. When it is remember
ed that the rigid social etiquette of Washing
ton precludes the families of the President and
Vice President from returning calls, it will be
seen that the position which the Presidents
family have seen fit to take here is one that
cannot but be approved as the most sensible
and judicious that could be followed.
Year: 1873

BEAUTY OF OLD PEoPLE.-Men and women
make their own beauty, or their own ugliness.
Lord Lytton speaks of a man who So3 ugier
than he had any business to be-" and, if he
could but read il, every human being carries
his life in his face, and is good looking, or the
reverse, as that life has been good or evil. On
our features the fine chisels of thought and
emotion are eternally at work. Beauty is not
the monopoly of blooming young men and of
white and pink maids. There is slow grow
ing beauty, which only come to perfection in
old age. Grace belongs to no period of life, and
goodness improves the longer it exists.
Year: 1873




TERRoRs OF PHARMAoY.-The Boston Globe
meditates in this vein: We see it stated that
there are fourteen thousand drug stores in the
United States, and that the number of persons
employed in the various branches Of the drug
business is estimated at one hundred and thr-
ty five thousand. Goodness, gracious! What
dreadful thoughts does this piece of statistics
give rise to. Imagine the fearful quantity of
pills, castor oil, rhubarb epson salts and mag
nesia the country daily indulges in. What a
perplexng array of corks, walls, seillitz pow
der boxes, ugly white bottles, with glass stop
pers and gold labels, pale clerks, sponges and
cologne bottles, dart before the minds eye in
connection with fourteen thousand drug stores.
What would be the effect of exhibiting, all at
once, those mysterious bottles containing red
or green liquids that are seen in the windows
of these establishments What a perfect Hi
maylaya of pills there would be, if all those
stores contain were to be emptied on some vast
plain and piled up. What vast cemetery
could be filled by the bodies of those who have
been druged to death by the blunders of one
hundred and thirty thousand people, said to be
concerned in the trade The party who is so
fond of calculating useless statistics ought to
be set to work on this subject at once, as it Of
fers him a splendid field for the exercise of his
ingenuity. Suppose he were to begin by cal
culating what the effect of concentrating the
strength of all the ammonia in these fourteen
thousand drug stores would be upon that
thoughtless mortal who should venture to re-
move the stopper and put his nose to the mouth
of the bottle.
Year: 1873

A BUSINESS CHAP.-Tbere is an air of business
in the following which one cannot fail to admire.
1t is from a Detroit merchant whose wife died
the other day "Dear sir : take my pen in
hand to let you know that am well, but my
dear wife, insured for five thousand dollars in
your company, is no more. She died to-day.
Her policy is No. -. l can truly say that she
was fond wife and good mother. I have the
doctors certificate, so that there will be no trou
Dbie about the policy. She was sick only a short
time but suffered much Do you give a check
in advance, or must wait sixty days for the
money"
Year: 1873

@a-An observing woman says she was never
so much inclined 10 laugh at church as Sunday,
when, walking down the broad aisle after service,
she saw that every woman ahead of her was using
her left hand in arranging that portion of her
dress adornng her back, and before she was
aware of it found herself similarly employed.
Year: 1873

@-A Baptist paper in Ohio was sent for nine
years to subscriber who never paid cent for
it. The other day the newspaper was returned
to the patient and long-suffering publisher with
the affecting pencil note on its margin "Gone
TO better world" The editor is a very pious
man, but it is reported that his faith is terribly
shaken in regard to the accuracy of the informa-
ton.
Year: 1873

The gentlemen among the weather. class Of
Vienna are remarkably fine looking, being gen.
orally tall, well-formed and graceful in their
movements They also dress with excellent
taste and elegance, and are wholly different in
appearance from the American idea of German
characteristics. Not one of your fair readers
would be able to decide from their appearance
whether they were Germans or Boston Yankees,
except that they have more ruddy compilations,
and are generally more robust in their physi-
cal development. The officers of the army of
whom there are thousands in Vienna, are sell
dom less than six feet in height, and are, as a
body the finest formed men that can be found
in any part of the globe. They dress in tight
fitting uniforms, and, as we once before remark
ed, move along the streets with the air of men
who know themselves to be objects of admira-
tion At the Reidhof to night about thirty of
them were taking their suppers, and every one
of them would be classed in New York or Bal
timore as handsome men, of more than ordina-
ry good physical development, fine form and fea
ture, and all the other requisites of perfect
manhood. The men in the lower stratas of life
are, however, neither handsome, we'll formed,
nor graceful in their motions. A considerable
portion of them are, on the contrary, short and
ungainly in appearance, with the exception of
those who come from Hungary, from which
country comes the brains, muscles, and sinews
of Austria, as well as most of the food consum-
ed by the people of Vienna.
Year: 1873

The ''stout, red-faced German women who ar
rive in the emigrant steamers" come from the
rural districts and have been raised to life of
toll, which has hardened their muscles, and
made them short and shapeless specimens of
humanity. Most of their mothers for several
generations back have hired in the same daily
routine of masculine labor, until the female has
lost all her traces of graceful form and feature.
They are, however, sober and industrious peo-
pie, simple in their tastes and wants, and are
free from the vanity which is attributed to the
sex of most other countries. There are very
few of these to be seen in Vienna, except at the
markets. The laboring women of the cities are
of an entirely different class, and though strong
and muscular, have none of the healthy COM
plexion that the country women carry with
them. Men who do coarse, laboring work at
home become rough and coarse, and these wo-
men, from constant exposure to the sun and the
hard lives they live, become even coarser in
their features than men. Before they are "out of
their teens" they look like rough and dirty boys
in female attire, though they all wear long
boots, and many of them old and ragged coats.
They climb up ladders to the tops of fve-story
buildings, with buckets of mortar and brick
balanced on their heads, wheel wheelbarrows,
and handle the shovel and pick with all the
on the curb-stone, and sleep in cellars and
sheds. They have never known any better life,
and seemed to be contented. The rest of the
community pays no attention to them, regard
ing them rather as beasts of burden than spec
linens of humanity. "What's the odds so we
are happy" is the Viennoise motto, and the
general impression is that these people are as
happy in their way as those in the higher
grades of life.
Year: 1873

From the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer, July 12.)


The NEW YORK HERALD as newspaper assuredly
stands unrivalled by any Journal in the world.
To-day it circulates in every part Of this Continent
that mail can reach, and In its columns the miner
OF Arizona and the trapper OF Manitoba can read
the worlds history for day 1t is found in every
court OF the Old World and it goes out or to the
ships Of every land that whiten every sea. Its
correspondents are TO be found in the land OF the
Aodocs, with the insurgents in cuba and in the
prisons OF Spain. To-day you find intervie wing
q Carlist CHIEF In Northern Span and tomorrow
another sends news to the world from the
heart OF Africa, where the intrepid Baker
established the southern boundary OF the Khe-
dives ever-increasng domain. Now 1t Is
a description OF the semi-barbarlc Persian and his
suite and the Jetes OF kings and emperors In mis-
honor and then a report from the OASIS of Kbiva
and Kaufmann's column, announcing the impris-
onment Of the Khan and the release OF ten thou
sand Persian slaves. From the alleys where death
and crime are welded the HERALD men bring to
the world stories that new and that give us an


idea OF the worlds wrctchedness; and from the
churches hospitals and charities they bring us
records Of the worlds goodness. Cali II Yankee
enterprise you wil say it is to make dollars and
cents, and we will grant IT. sneer at the s0called
sensation" and we will not object, but answer by
pointing to the magnificent enterprise that sent
Stanley alter the lost explorer and gave him back,
as 1t were, to the world, and to that un-
paralleled news achievement which printed
In the NEW YORK HERALD the fall OF Mag
dala in Abyssinia and the death OF King
Theodore before Europe had the news and Eng
land received the first knowledge OF the success OF
her troops in Africa from cable despatch sent
from New York. The NEW YORK HERALD spends
more for correspondence than any ten papers in
the world. and numerous and widely located are
they. and OF class so daring, that fire in Mel
bourne, an earthquake in Costa Rica or revolt in
Majorca would find HERALD correspondent at
the scene OF action, with his note book in hand,
ready for the operations to begin. The last exploit
OF this remarkable journal Is the securing Of .
special train, which flies South before day each
morning laden with the NEW YORK HERALDs, and
the people in New Jersey cities ana in Philadelphia,
nearly hundred miles away, can now read the
NEW YORK HERALD at their earlv breakfast, to the
neglect OF their own less enterprising journals