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Year: 1871




The Great Falls are at the head of one
of the most remarkable canons in the
word-a gorge through volcanic rocks
fifty miles long, and varying from one
thousand to nearly five hundred thousand
feet in depth. In its descent through
this wonderful chasm the river falls al
most three thousand feet. At one point,
where the passage has been worn through
a mountain range, our hunters assured
us it was more than vertical mile in
depth, and the river, broken into rap.
ids and cascades, appeared ne wider than
a ribbon. The brain reels as we gaze in.
to this profound and solemn solitude.
We shrink from the dizzy verge appalled,,
glad to feel the solid earth under our
feet, and venture no more, except with
forms extended and faces brrely protrud-
ing over the edge Of the precipice. The
stiffness is horrible. Down, down, down,
We see the river attenuated to a thread,
tossing its miniature waves, and dashing,
with puny strength, the massive walls
which imprison it. All access to its
margin is denied, and the dark gray
rocks hold it in dismal shadow. Even
the voice of'its waters in their convu-
sive agony cannot be heard. Uncheered
by plant or shrub, obstructed with mas.
sive boulders aud by iutting points, it
rushes madly on its solitary course, deep
er and deeper into the bowels of the
rocky armament. The solemn grandeur
of the scene surpasscs description 1t
must be seen to be felt. The sense of
danger with which it impresses you is
narrowing in the extreme. You feel the
absence of sound, the oppression of abb
solute silence. If you could only hear
that gurgling rievr, if you could see
living tree in the depth beneath you, ifa
bird would fly past, if the wind would
move any object in the awful silence
that reigns there, it would relieve that
tension of the nerves which the scene has
excited, and you would rise from your
PROSTATE condition and thank God that
he had permitted you to gaze, unharmed,
upon this majestic display of natural arch
itecture. As it IS, sympthizing in spirit
with the deep gloom of the scene, you
crawl from the dreadful verge, scared
lest the firm rock give way beneath and
prccipitate you iuto the horrid gulf
Year: 1871

The editor of the Lowell Courier longs
for the time when the curbstone opera.
shall be itinerant in that city, and espe,
cially for the hour when the sound oi
the grinding shall be low-on his corner


Those who hold that croquet is vicious
leading to checkers, from thence tc
backgammon, and from thence to card.
and tigerish faro, will rejnice to know
under the head of "warnings"-that q
daughter Of Mayor Belden Of Galesburg
ILL.,, broke her arm while playing croquet


on Thursday last, being thrown to ths
ground BY catching her foot in an arch
Year: 1871

Phoebe Cousins of St. Louis recently
gave her views of the ideal marriage
thus "A molecule of oxygen roaming
through space, seeking for its mate, but
finding none, when of sudden in some
hideous nook it discovers q molecule of
Of hydrogen, when 10 therc is a rash, an
embrace, and there is neither any more
oxygen nor hydrogen, but a diamond
drop of dew reposing on the bosom of the
lily" After which she added that she
herself was a molecule of hydrogen. but
the only responsive crush" was toward
the door,
Year: 1871

Bishop Clark of Rhode Island, speaking to
the Episcopal Convention on the 9th instant,
strongly recommended the laity to procure life
insurance for the families of their rectors, be.
cause, he said, not one clergyman in fifty is
abe to save anything for the support of his
family after his death" 1t is all very we'll to
say that the Lord will provide but the same
suggestion might be used for abolishing cler-
gymen's salaries altogether. We think, con-
siderng the enormous stipends paid to some
pastors, that they might themselves pay their
own premiums without much inconvenience
but as a general rule, ministers no more know
how to save money than to make it and the
best paid of them live we'll and die poor. The
fact is, there is a public prejudice against
pinching, gripping, penurious cergymen, for
there are some of this kind: although we have
known highly respectable gospeler who made
a good deal by trading in horses, and another
who lent small sums to his parishiOners, at q
tall rate Of interest. But it is notorious that
while some OF the clerical incomes arc unneces-
sariy large, the average is absurdly small yet
there is no point upon which sensitive pastor
likes less to speak TO his congregation, and
none upon which generally congregation less
likes to be spoken to. Yet generous mind
ed and truly religious society will be sure to


remember that if anything is worth paying for,


at fair rate, it is precisely the service of q


pastor, not upon Sunday alone, but upon every


other day of the week.
Year: 1871

RELIGION IN DAILY LIFE.-SpurCeOn says:
We mnst come back to our point, which is not
to urge all OF you to give yourselves up to mis-.
sion work, but to serve God more and more in
connection with your daily calling have
heard that woman who has mission makes
poor wife and a had mother. This is very
possible, and at the same time very lamentable
but the mission would urge is not of this
sort. Dirty rooms, slatternly gowns, and chill
dren with unwashed faces are swift witnesses
against the sincerity Of those who keep other
vineyards and neglect their own | have no
faith in that woman who talks of grace and
glory abroad and uses no soap and water at
home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let
the children's socks be mended, let the roast
mutton be done to turn, let the house be as
neat as q new pin, and the home as happy as a
home can be. Serve God by doing common
actions in heavenly spirit, and then, if your
daily calling only leaves you cracks and creyioes
Of time, ill these up with holy service.
Year: 1871

SUPPORTING TOMATO VINES This popular
vegetable can be made to bear much larger
and yield much better fruit, by having them
properly supported so that the sunlight and
rows at least six feet apart, and the plants four
feet apart in the row. The rows should run
north and south, SO as to admit the air; and
after the vines have grown foot in length
let four scanting or poles six feet in length be
set up around the plant, and hoops from an old
barrel be nailed to them one foot apart. This
not only forms a good trellis, but makes a
handsome frame, and the tomatoes will grow
and bear well until frost. We have known the
frames made ten feet high, and the vines run
to the top. When stuck with brush, the brush
is apt to give way in wet weather, and let the
vines fall to the ground.
Year: 1871

A Western lady who had been deserted by
two consecutive husbands has contracted a
third matrimonial alliance, which she hopes
may be permanent, with gentleman whose
legs have been amputated.


There was never more beautiful reply than
that of good man in aflotiOn, who was asked
how he bore his sorrows so well " 1t lightens
the stroke to draw near to him who handles
the rod.


When Daniel Webster was advised not to
enter the legal profession because it was al
ready crowded, he replied, There is room
at the top"


A young Philadelphian, threatened with q
tracts made on Sunday amt legal"
A Dentists Office is not improperly called
his drawing room.
Year: 1871

WHERE Do THEY CONE FRoM?-A recent
pension bill has run up the roll of veterans for
the war of lSl2-l5 to over 6,000 aud the cry
is still they come. Before the year is out they
promise TO Outnumber those in actual service
ffty-sx years since when the war ended.
When the bill was before the Senate it was
stated that there were not more than 5000 to
5000 soldiers of the war of 1912 surviving.
Year: 1871

HIaH-The New York World entertains
its readers with cock and bull story of the
probable marriage Of son of General Grant
to the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria.
We shall next hear that the venerable Jesse
Grant, father of the President, is about to form
40 alliance with the Queen herself. :.
Year: 1871

Roderic O'Connor, of the ancient line
of Connaught, was the last king who
sat on the throne of Celtic Ireland.
His character and exploits are painted
with no iiattering hand by the monkish
writers, who longed for his destruction,
or later historians, who have written in
the interest of the Roman Church. All
the crimes and woes of fated Edipus
are attributed to the unhappy king who
ventured to strike last blow for the
freedom of Ireland, who resisted with
obdurate patriotism the steel-clad le.
gions of the Pope and Henry H., and
who more than once seems to have been
on the eve of final triumph. 1t is
said that Roderic was thrown in chains
by his father, who feared his savage
temper, that he put out the eyes OF his
two brothers, and that he wasted in
civil fueds the forces that should have
been turned against the foe. He seems.
indeed, to have wanted prudence, and
too often to have been deceived by the
treacherous arts of Dermot and priests.
Yet one can not avoid reviewing with
sympathy the story of the unhappy
monarch whose disastrous reign was at
least marked by sincere patriotism,
and whose misfortunes were never
merited by his treachery or his servile
fear. Amidst his savage and ancestral
wilds the O'Connor, terrified by novel
dangers, assailed by the most powerful
monarch of the age, exposed to the
anathemas of the Italian Church, sur
rounded by traitors, and scarcely safe
from the intrigues of his own sons or his
ambitious rivals, still maintained spirit
not unworthy of that long line of patri-
otic chiefs of whom he was destined to
be the last; and it is a graceful trait in
the character of Roderic that he strove
once more to revive, by liberal endow
ments, the famous college of Armagh,
as if concious that Ireland could only
hope to secure its freedom by general
education of its people.
Year: 1871

A Miss Taggart, of indianapolis, who
was in Paris during the war, pursuing
her musical studies, had opportunity
also for testing the uality of the differ
ent kinds of meat resorted to during
the siege. She says that about six
weeks after the first siege had COM
menced, the lady of the house at which
she was boarding, with some thirty 9TH
ers, remarked to her tenants" that
they soon would have to eat horse and
other animal flesh, as the supply of beef
was rapidly decreasing. They all begged
her not to tell them when they began
to eat it, as they feared they would not
be able to overcome their repugnance
at the idea of such food. The landlady
gratified their wish, and it was not until
a week or ten days had passed that they
knew that they had been living on
"new meat" Miss Taggar found it not
only palatable, but pleasant. Mule
meat was very nice, tasting like fresh,
juicy beef; horse flesh was good, but
not SO tender cats were really excel
lent, and when served up with rabbit
could not be distinguished from it. For
dog meat, however, Miss Taggart ac.
quired distate which she could not
overcome.. Her fellow boarders said it
was because her first piece was not q
tender one, as they had developed


partiality for it.
Year: 1871

A CORRESPONDENT of the Providence
journal attempts to show the origin of
the cant phrase "put head on him."
In 1868, he says, he was corporal of the
first relief on a certain cavalry picket,
and in posting his men heard from the
corporal of the relief then on post a
queer story, to the effect that the senti-
mel on one of the posts, which happen
ed to be near an old grave, had been
horribly perturbed by the appearance
before him in the dead hour Of night of
u man on horseback without a head.
To Jones, the man whom the Journals
corporal correspondent was to station at
this post, the tale was duly told, and
then the correspondent added: 'Look
out for the man on horseback without
any head on p Jones was just firing
up his brierwood'' for company, and
replied between whiffs: "Well (puff),
if a man (puff, puff on horseback
back (puff') without any head on lputf(
comes around me (puf, puff, puff, I'll
put a head on him 7"
Year: 1871

As it is evident from the small amount
Of School money apportioned this year,
that the fund of this District will fall short
of the amount necessary to keep the
Schools open the usual time, it has been
suggested by number Of our citizens that
the requisite, amount could be raised by
means of a Ball on the I'D of February
We understand that it is only necessary to
raise about 500 or $125. Of course
everybody would purchase ticket to a
ball given for the benefit of the School
children of the town.
Year: 1871

The Grand Jury system appears to be a
regular humbug, and great expense to
the county There is butte one trivial case
on hand to call grand jury for the pres
ent term, which will cost at least ST 900,
and it is doubtful whether the person s
case will justify an indictment. There is
no case ever touched by Grand Jury.
but what Justice of the Peace can inst
as well attend to, and in fact do more
Justice to in an indict mept for .rial-Yre-
ka Journal .api
Year: 1871

1t is great mistake to suppose that the
cause Of rheumatism, neuralgia or gout exi
sts where the pain is experienced. The
source Of these diseases is generally urea in
the blood, and it is one Of the special proper.
ties Of Or. Walkers Vegetable Vinegar
Bitters to neutralize this deposit. while it
renovates the relaxed kidneys and thus pre-.
vents them from permitting portion of their
secretion to escape through improper chan.
nels. Torpidity Of the stomach has also
much to do with the vitiation OF the blood
and upon this organ the Bitters act directly
as stimulant and invigorant.
Year: 1871

The case of Sheriff jackson Of Trinity
was dismissed from the U. s. Court at
San Francisco on account of q flaw in the
Indictment The question of the legality
of his acts in collecting Foreign Miners
Licenses was therefore nos decided by the
Court, and the white officials who are
pimping for the Chinese in this State will
have to 60 to work and get up new
indictment before he can be again arraigu-
ed for doing his sworn duty under the law
of the State. of California. ,a ~
Year: 1871

A lady writes from the seaside: The
only way to be well dressed at a fashion
able watering place, is TO restrict ones
self to black and white Two white
morning dresses, one Of lawn, the other
of pique, trimmed with embroidery, one
long evening dress Of muslin, one hand
some short dress Of grenadine, another
of black silk, and long dress Of black
silk or grenadine, will carry any lady
through the season, and give her the
reputation Of beingalways better dressed
than the majority. There is an advan-
tage about white and black dresses
all colors may be worn with them"
Year: 1871

was at once raised, and the cry was in
stantly answered by big bunch being
thrown upon the stage. The package
was opened, and a man was about TO
light the lot when the property man of
the theater intsrfered, saying they would
set the building on FIRE. Had the crack
ers gone into the den, the chances are
that both bull and bear would have come
ouf
Year: 1871

The undersigned, late. principal business
manager of the very successful Mercantile
Library Gift Concert Of San Francisco, CAL.
has been appointed agent and manager of the
Gift Concert in aid of the Public Library of
Kentucky. The drawing will take place in
puslic, and everything will be done to satisfy
buyers of tickets that their interests will be
as we'll protected as if they personally super
intended the entire affair.
Year: 1871

The eccentric H. II. Breckinridee. one of
the Judges OF the Supreme Court of Penn
sylvania, when young man, was challenged
to fight duel by an English officer, whom
he answered as follows:


81 have two objections to this duel matter
the one is lest / should hurt you, and the
other lest you should hurt me. do not see
what good it would be to put ball through
your body L could make no use of you when
dead for any ordinary purpose, as / would a
rabbit or turkey. / am no cannibal, to feed
on the flesh of men. Why, then, shoot down
human creature, of whom could make no
use? A buffalo would make better meat; for
though your flesh might be Young and ten
der, yet 1T Wants the firmness and consisten-
cy which take and retain salt. At any rate
II would not do for a long sea voyage.
ou might make good barbecue. il Ia
true, being of the nature of a raccoon or on
possum; but people are not In the habit Of
Fbarbacueing anything that is human now.
As to your hide, it is not worth taking of.
being little better than two year old calf


$50 much for you. As for myself, do not
like to stand in the way of anything that is
hurtful | am under the impression that you
might hurt me. This being the case think
It the most advisable to stay at distance.
II you meant to try your pistols, take tree
or barn door, about my dimensions. If you
hit that, send me word, and will acknowledge
that, If had been in the same place, you
might have hit me-"
Year: 1871

The operation of "cornering" as the term
is, is played by brokers in the following man
ner: -Four, five, six, or ten las the case may
be) brokers enter into an arrangement to buy
and control the entire stock of some compa-


ny. They commence by depressing the stock


as much as possible To do this, they must
all appear to be sellers, and cry down tho
price, representing it to be worthless and
themselves heartily sick of everything per.
tanning to it. While they are publicly selln.,
lots of one or two hundred shares. their
agents or tools are buying all that they car,
get hold of. As soon as they can buy all tha
cash stock they find in this way, they turn
suddenly around and begin to buy on time.
Parties not in the secret, of course, are will
ing to sell on thirty, sixty or ninety days
even though they do not possess the stock
thinking that before the expiration of that
time they would be able to buy it at less
price than they sell it at. In this way thou,
sands of shares are sold, to be delivered at "a
future day, to the very men who own every
share of the stock that has ever been issued.
When the time arrives for delivery, the SELL
ers discover that there is no stock to be had
but of the men to whom they sold it. OF
course, they must pay whatever the owners
choose to demand If the game is well play
ed, the corners will make as much in selling
as they do in buying in. Should every one
Of the party prove true to his comrades, they
viii manage to get rid of the whole stock to
outsiders at high price. 1t will be readily
seen that this is very danger-game unless
well played; for should any of the parties in
terested ''let fly" without letting the others
know it, the game Is up, and although he
may make a fortune, 1t will be at the sacrifice
of all the others.
Year: 1871

TUBERosEs.-''Daisy Eyebright'' in the


Country Gentleman says that tuberose bulbs


that have blossomed one year, are usually
considered worthless, as they rarely if ever
bloom second time; but they produce off
sets which will become fine Towering plants
in two years. These should be separated
from the parent bulb, put into sand and kept
in warm, dry place; closet shelf in din.
mg-room is none too warm for them. The
Year: 1871

BARBECUE AT MANCHEsTER.--Th
Democrats of Manchester, gave barbecue
to their friends on yesterday, which is said
to have been a grand affair. Chesterfield
Democrats have high appreciation of the
potency of such modes of electioneering,


We heard of barbecue recently given
in that county by Democrats, who kindly
invited all the colored people present TO
participate, and to eat, drink and be merry !;
but, with this condition: that before either
tasting or smelling, each man should sign
paper pledging himself to vote the Demo-
cratic ticket this fall.


We are informed number of colored
men signed the precious document, and
then filled themselves. We have a little
spare change left which we are willing to
bet that out of the large number who
signed that paper not single one will vote
the Democratic ticket, unless, perhaps, A be
Hall or some of bis associates were present.
We always except Abe and his party when
we bet, as nothing would induce us to VEN
ture even a bad penny on him. A darkey
has no objections to being fed and treated,
but the Democrat who puts his money on
his vote had better invest in prize candy
box-you bet.
Year: 1871

MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
meeting Of the stockholders of the Virginia
Steamship and Packet Company was held
at the Exchange Hotel, yesterday. David
j. Durr, president.


The chairman gave an account of his trip
to New York in the interest of the company
and informed the meeting what will be ne
cessary to complete the iron ship now on
the stocks at Rockets. He also detailed
his plans for the future, which were calcu-
lated to encourage highly the friends of the
enterprise.


Col. Mal!et, agent of the company at
New York, gave an account of the work.
ings and prospects of the line of that city,
and assured stockholders that aid would be
given them by its business men.


The disposition evident among all who
spoke was that all the money necessary for
present exigencies can be raised in Rich
mond, and measures were taken looking to
this object. Never did enterprise APP
peal more pointedly to the patronage and
support of a people than does this project
to the citizens of Richmond.


What was done last night places the sue
cess of the line beyond the contingency Of
doubt, and assures the speedy completion
of the new iron ship now on the ways here.
Under these circumstances, we, in common
with many others, are at loss to know
what the Dispatch means when it says the
meeting last night transacted no business
ofpublic interest"
Year: 1871

The citizens of Fort Monroe have
raised $3.50 for the Chicago sufferers. 1t is
probable that some forty or fifty dollars
more will be raised there, which, for the
size of the place, we consider pretty good.
The Masonic lodge of that place intend
holding meeting, and will no doubt con-
tribute in their usual liberal manner.
Year: 1871

LOOK HERE, DEMoCRATs!- If you
would know what your party is, and what
will become of it, be sure and 60 to Broad
street, in front of City Hall, next Tuesday
evening at Z o'clock.


We give you our word you will see your
selves as others see you.


Look at the advertised order of the CITY
Central Committee, and you will find that
a number of the big guns of our party will
open fire on your dirt works, and demolish
them beyond repair.


We address this to the Democrats. be-
cause we know every earnest Republican
will be there, and while many good things
will be told them, we are after sinners now
and want them called to repentance. Red
Hot Red Hot!! Red Hot!!!
Year: 1871

.JTHE THEATRE NEXT WEEK-Mss
Lille Eld,1dge-W What is Thought Of Her.
We congratulate our citizens that they are
to be treated next week to something ex-
cellent and rare at the theatre. Miss Lille
Eldridge will make her debut before the
Richmond public, and we have no doubt
she will sustain the high reputation which
is given her by many of the impartial
critics of the North. The New York
Herald thus speaks Of her and the beauti-
full new play Of "Alma," in which she will
appear Monday night:


ALMA, OR Held IN BoNDAGE.-It is refreshing,
in this day of the blazing gunpowder drama, 10
witness performances like the one Miss Lille
Eldridge gave an audience last night. The ac-
tress and the role she assumed are so closely
identified that one springs naturally from the
other. The embodiment of the artistic is the
realization of the idea, and few authors indeed
are so happy as Ouida in finding as Il u an expo
nent of their creations The play of "Alma'' is
eminently an aristocratie one The audience are