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Year: 1873




The surfeiting we all undergo dur
ing this season OF fruit brings into
action the family pill-box. 1t is a lit
tie singular how much hunting has to
be done TO find that box. The party
who last needed its services doesn't re-
member where he left it, and doesn't
care to think OF it at all, while he
whose turn now occurs isn't cxfctly
tortured TO death by anxiety. We
are not quite sure but.that there is a
faint hope down somewhere in his
breast that it may not be found at all.
lie feels Jumps forming IN his throat
as he peers among the bottles and
boxes which constitute the pharmacy
at his house, aud when the box finally
appears, and bo feels it in his 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 a
dose of pills without qualm and at
terwards 90 around looking as prouf
and ovorbcaring as q boy whose father
plays in band, but the most of us
are more delicately constituted, and
counting out dose Of pills while some
one else gets the water, and observes
that he doesn't see how anyone can
swallow the awful things, is about as
serious an undertaking as can be found
on record. There is something too
awfully solemn about it TO described.
And il is a little singular that while
a man can swallow whole wbortleber-
ries, cherry pits, and even bucksbot,
without any uneasiness at oil, yet n
single pill will catch in his throat, a,
particularly ticklish spot, and hang
there for hours, and make faces at his
stomach. And mon in a fix like
like that is not exactly the party we
would select to concoct notices for q
festival.
Year: 1873

PLANTING BABrEs.-A great many Gu
rious things happen to babies in this
world of ours, that readers in general
probably never heard of. One thing is
planting them. This is done by the
dark-skinned women of Guinea, and
isn't half so dreadful as it sounds. The
mother digs hole in tho ground,
stands baby in it, and then packs the
warm sand around him to keep him in
place, as you would set up rosebush.
It keeps him out of mischief, and he
can play in the sand while his mother
works. All day long he stays in his odd
crib, and at night, when she is dono
with her work, he is dug out. When
this agricultural mother wants to carry
her baby about she ties him into a chair,
which she straps to her back: If it is
some very grand occasion, he is dressed
neatly in strip pes Of white paint, and
ornanented with dozens of brass brace
let's and rings on arms and legs. A
funny looking baby he must be!
Year: 1873

In the expiring hours of the last
Congress, blow was struck at the
newspaper press which may yet rebound
and crush its authors. Some Of tLe
leaders in Congress, especially the Sen
ate branch thereof, became angered at
the persistent appeals of the newspaper
press Of all political shades, for re-
peal of the franking privilege, and
partly in retaliation, partly in the hope
of checking the agitation; the Senate
Committee surreptitiously engrafted the
following clause in the bill to repeal:


Prorided, That all laws and parts of
laws permitting The transmission by
mail Of any free matter of whatever na-
tnre, and the same are hereby repealed
from after June 30th, 1873.


With this appended the bill passed
both Houses, and not until after it's pas
sage was its object generally known,
even 10 those whose breath gave it the
force of law. This is shown by the
subsequent action of the popular branch
of Congress, which attempted to pass
an explanatory bill continuing the postal
freedom of the press. ',


A strict construction of the act as it
now stands compels subscribers, to
county papers, to pay postage thereon,
even if they receive them in the coun-
ties where published-and compels pay
ment of postage at the Office of delivery
on all newspaper exchanges. Else
where we give complete schedule of
the rates of postage on and after June
Goth, on all classes of matter sent
through the mails. 1hese rates with
the exceptions above named, are the
same as heretofore, but. careful re-
statement is needed to rid the question
of postage of the confusion which now
surrounds it.


Recurring to the changes effected by
the act repeating the franking privilege,
we assume this position and hope news
papers generally will impress it upon
the proper autho,ity-that under all
circumstances, the Postmaster Cen
eral, whose duty it is to construe acts
affecting his Department, should ut
once consider the validity of the clause
quoted, and if a reasonable doubt is
raised should give newspaper publishers
the benefit of it. The object of the act,
as stated in the title and throughout
the discussion, was simply to repeal the
franking privilege. No other question
was raised. It was not the intention of
other than few of the law makers to
impose new burdens upon the newspa-
pers of the land, and since at least one
branch of Congress attempted to rectify
the mistake, there is abundant ground
for sotting aside that clause Of the act
until the incoming of another Congress.
The Postmaster General has this pow
er; the question of intention is plain at
least in one of the component branches
of the government, and intention is af-
ter all the main ingredient in the cor
rect construction of the law. Here is
Creswell's opportunity. He should inn
mediately improve it, and when this is
done there need be no fear of the ac-
ton of the Congress which meets in
December next.-American Journalist.
Year: 1873

@ Walnut stumps are becoming
valuable as articles of merchandise at
the East. Some one has discovered
that the curly grain of the roots can be
used for vencering purposes with great
success, and the result is that they are
IN demand, and are worth $3.50 per
stump.
Year: 1873

sE The key to lock in the SPRING
field, Mass, Jail being lost an TIE e1-
pert blacksmiths in the town tried un-.
:-ailingly TO open it for several hours.
until burglarious inmate came to their
aid and picked it without dif6culty.
Year: 1873

A letter from Havana says the people
there would refuse to allow any order from
Madrid to deliver up the Virginius, or
make other reparation for her seizure, and
the execution of her crew is to be carried
n,,f
Year: 1873

A FAMILY named Peter, hail.
ing from Vermont, and OH their
way to Grand Rapids, were
seated in the Detroit and Nil
waukee railway station the
other day, when one of their
boys, a tow-heads1 lad about
eleven years old, slipped out OF
The room, wandered up the
street, and finally lost himself.
The mother groaned and wept,
The father turned pale, AMI
there was some lively getting
around until the boy was found.
Part of the anxiety arose from
parental love, but there was
another reason. The boy had
ON boots a size too large, ami
under his stockings was tha
sum OF S240, which he was
carrying for the family.
Year: 1873

WHEN your spirit is sad with
in you; when friends seem
false and all about you gloomy;
when hopes once radiant as
The rosy morn flee away as dew
drops before the sunbeam
when your sleep is brcken BY
horrid visions causing you to
yell out, it is sign your liver
is torpid, or that you have not
paid your printer the amount
you owe him.
Year: 1873

\ CITIZEN who went home
the other evening, and found
his house locked up, after in.
finite trouble managed to gain
entrance through a back win.
dow, and then discovered on
the table, inside the house, "a
iDote from his wife reading
thusly: 81 have gone out; you
will find the door key on one
side of The door step"
Year: 1873

A READING clergyman ma1s
use of The following strong
language In the advocacy cf
temperance on the occasion o
a recent speech IN favor OF 10.
ral option. He said: sGive
US the money that has been
spent in drink, and I will pur
chase every foot of land upon
the globe; / will clothe everv
man, woman and child in a.
attire of which kings and
queens would be PROUD | viii
build a school house on every
hillside and in every valley
over the whole earth, a college
in every State, and fill it with
able professors; | will crown
every hill with a place of wor.
ship consecrated TO the pro
mitigation of the gospel cf
peace; and will support in the
pulpit an able teacher of right
eousness."
Year: 1873

cause themselves to be reinsured against any or
all risks upon which they have made or shall
make Insurance. to establish agencies IN this State
and n the other States of the Union. A
Year: 1873




MARYsvILLE, Oct. %.
c. Hatch, formerly agent of the
Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
Company, was arrested here this
morning for embezzling property of
the company. He was bound over
to appear before the Grand Jury.


John Cochran pleaded guilty to a
charge of housebreaking, and senten-
ced to one year in the State Prison.
This individual made preparations
to leave his quarters at the County
Jail few nights since, by saving his
irons off with case knife, and dig
ging hole through the wall. He had
a rope made from blanket to enable
him to scale the outer wall.


A collision occurred to-day be-
tween truck and Il detached freight
train, which resulted in making q
wreck of five ears, and demolishing
the truck. The driver of the truck
drove on the track just as the engine
and forward part of the train passed
the crossing, without being aware that
the detached portion of the train was
in motion, and coming rapidly. The
driver was considerably hurt, and mar
rowly escaped being cut in two.
Year: 1873

The attention Of those interested is
directed to the very full, and reliable
telegraphic reports of the stock and
domestic produce markets of San
Francisco, that daily appear in the
HERALD. The figures are made up
by a competent reporter, and their
publication in these columns will
supersede the necessity of resorting
to the columns of the San Francisco
press, three days after date, for SINH
lar information.
Year: 1873

yards. on horse which stood fire but


would not stand buffalo, put shot into


his shoulder. Another which struck into


the thick neck OF the shoulder blade, near
the Joint, brought him to the ground. He
followed, all of which struck about the
shoulder, and going to the front l fired
into his breast for his heart This bullet,
found afterwards, exploded but was not
broken into fragments, and buried in the
outer muscles Of the great heart. At last
he fell on his side, and without struggle
or below gave up the ghost. We cut out
the tongue, and | passed my hand over
and admired the large and symmetrical
limbs, So we'll formed to carry the enor-
nous weight of the head and shoulders.
The soft and clean fur of the robe, free
from dirt or burs, looks like well
gr0Omed horse in color and cleanliness.
The head is immense. The horns, worn
by constant battles, and by turning up the


earth are ragged and blunted but of great
strength Our chase was only three or
four miles it was over a frozen country
full of ravines and breaks which it re-
| quired care to pass. and everywhere the
ground was honeycombed by the burrows


of the prairie dog.


Few sportsmen are hurt by the buffalo,


for the horse generally takes good care to


avoid his rush but many horses are killed


and many riders injured by falls due to
the traps set by these burrowing little
''varmints.' In the chase, not in the


game, is the danger. The gallop is ex-


citing. 1t requires always a fleet horse to


catch the buffalo, but owing to the inde-


cision OF my friend, a hard gallop kept me


near him, and easily closed the gap to


forty yards by pressing the horse; nearer


he would not 90 without = contest. which


would have unsteadied my aim. We rode
across the country to find our party, and
met the Major returning. He reported
that he was frozen, and that his buffalo
had outrun his horse. The soldier re-


turned after a four mile chase with the
tongue Of the bull we had followed We
sent Tor the wagon, the game bay, to
come up, and | took, with the aid of the
soldier, the robe from my bull. cut off the
hams and one tore-leg and the hump. |
opened the body to see the effect of my
shells, and we rode back to Fort Wallace,
where had the green robe and one ham
prepared to send by Xpresst to Washington.
They have arrived and have eaten buf-
ialo Of my own shooting, and have sent
the robe to New York to be dressed in the
best style.
Year: 1873

The COURIER quotes prominent
" the editorial criticisms Of the
Cincinnati COMMERCIAL upon Ex-
Gov. Henry A. Wise, who it says
is seeking the nomination of the
republican party of Virginia for the
Governorship. The article, after
stating that both before and since
the var he was the most radical oil
states rights democrats, says that
he would thus become the candl~
date of an administration which is
now riding rough shod over State
lines and employs its military arms
to pull down and set up at It's
pleasure.


We do not understand that Gen.
Wise is seeking the NOMINATION Of
the republicans, but that he "ouIu
be glad of their support we have
very little doubt. It is becoming
very apparent that Col. Hughes
stands DO sort of chance to be cleo
ted, and a failure to nominate
Hughes would give Gen. Wise an
opportunity to run as an indepen-
dent candidate against the conser-
vative nominee, and we regard this
as the danger now confronting the
Richmond nominee of next August.
The republicans stand not the shad-
ow of regular success and if Wise
can sail between the hostile forces
he VIII be pretty sure to do SO.
Year: 1873

laid down his pipe he spoke to bim-
self aloud


What fool I wasl Susan was all
IN good nature. and surely thought
herself correct when she spoke of my
lying a-bed after she had reused me.
What need was there of my contra
dieting her? Don't I know that it
always stirS my indignation to be
f1atly cOntradicted And don't I
know that she is far more easily and
deeply moved by her emotions than |
am? When ] found that she was
really impressed with the idea that I
had been late in rising, why didn't |
let the matter go with a laugh, Just a.
she was laughing as she pleasantly laid
the lmputation upon me? DON'T |
know that it is always these trivial,
n"nseESical matters, the decision of
which, one way or another, don't
amount to snap, that breed discord
and Ill-feeling ia the discussion? Upon
matters Of real moment matters in
volving anything Of OfinteTest-we never
disagree unpleasantly-never'


AS | live, l won't do it again.
Surely | ought to have learned by this
time. And l so stronG, and she so
weak Bless her! What should I do
withaut her%


And John LamsOn went downstairs.
and found his wife and he put his
arm round her neck and kissed her.
He waited until he saw a smile chase
away the cloud, and the gladness came
back to his heart and he repeated to
himself


Il won't do it again. Bless her dear
heart! how dark IL would be without
herr


1t is homely picture, and roughly
sketched; but many lie may find
reflection of its passages therein.
Year: 1873

Official notice is giyen through
the Washington CHRONICLE, that
on the 30th, the decoration Of the
graves of the federal dead in
Arlington Cemetery will occur and
that any attempt to decorate on
that day the graves Of the rebel
dead will be regarded as an inter
ference and viii not be tolerated.
Yet these people demand that we
shall forget the war issues Lest
we be accused of exaggeration, we
give the resolution in full:


20 ReSy'rsd, That we, the members
of the executive committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic, do
hereby give notice that the 30th of
May being set apart by the Grand
Army OF the Republic as 4 memorial
day to their comrades who died in
defence OF their country, and the
grounds of Arlington and other
national cemeteries being opened on
,aat special day by order Of the
OuartcrHlaster General of the army
To the Grand Army of the Republic
for the purpose of strewing fioTers
upon and decorating the graves of
the deceased Union soldiers any at
tempt by the friends Of the rebel
dead to sirew flowers on their graves
tcjU he regarded as an interference acjth
the programme Of the dag, and 1rjU
not IL tolerated."
Year: 1873

As everything relating to the gentle
men engaged in the late duel is of
interest We copy from the Lynch
burg UryiRjGn the following account
of the Masou- Carly duel oF 1919.
one party to which was an uncle of
Mr. Page McCarty.


In the FIST place, neither Mason
nor McCarty were in Congress at the
tmc of this occurrence the latter
never vas a member. Nor was Nc
CaTty, who submitted the desperate
proposition to jump off the summit
of the capitol with his adversary, or
to sit with him on a keg of powder,
which when. exploded, would send
them both into eternity, the challen-
ser The facts are briefly these:
General Mason was the challenger.
and pursued Colonel McCarty until
he consented to meet him, They
were hrst cousins, and the quarrel
was purely political. Mason being
Democrat and McCarty of the then
Opposite party. The latter, though
man of reckless courage. did not
want to fight his kinsman, but when
convinced that nothing less ,bar
blood would appease the wrath of
Mason sebmitted such propositions as
would, if accepted, result fatally to
both, and spare him the pain of she'd
ding a kisSman's blood. These prop
ositions being spurned. McCarty was
at length induced to yield TO the wish
es of Mason. and accepted the chal-
lenge to meet him with hostile weap-
ons He chose muskets and demands
ed that the combatants should stand
but twelve feet apart, so that the
muzzleS Of their weapons would al
most meet. In such a desperate en-
counter both parties expected, of
course to fall. McCarty was saved
by miracle, the ball from Mason's 5
musket striking the muzzle of his gun,
glancing along the barrel and tearing
of portion of the stock, which lac
Grated his arm severely, but produced
no other injury. Mason fell dead.


1t is due to Colonel McCarty to
say that though he survived many
years he never vaunted the fine quail
lty OF his valOr,' nor behaved other
wise than rs gentleman who was
deeply afflicted with the memory of
an act that he tried by every means
that he thought honorable to avoid.
lie was a man ofimposing appearance,
and when we saw him, many years af>
ter this occurrence, he was neither "a
one on, armed drunkard' nor a braggart.
lhe facts relative TO this melancholy
Year: 1873

Bad News For Baldheaded Men.


DR.. J. M. Toner, of Washington,
a physician of large experience and
a close observer Of facts, says that
according to his observation near
ly all persons Of both sexes who
lived to the age Of eighty years and
over retained a considerable if not a
complete suit of hair at the time OF
their deaths. He comedies that
there are exceptions to this rule,
but insists that large majority of
persons living at the age Of eighty
or upwards retain comparatively
good suit of hair, or are not bald.
His hypothesis is that a person who
retians his hair past the age OF six
ty five has a good prospect of liv-
ing to be over eighty. The rule
may be tested by any one calling to
mind the ages and condition Of the
hair of persons Of his acquaintance
of the ages indicated, the condi-
toin Of whor hair is known to him.
The vast majority Of persons who
become bald, Or lose their hair, do
so between thirty-fve and forty
five. and these rarely live to be
over sixty-fye or seventy years Of
age.
Year: 1873

Who expressly desired that these words of Goo
should be written on her grave for the comfort o.
whoever should come here repentant and sorrow
stricken:-


! "Who is God like unto thee? Thor
wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea-


"For the Lord shall comfort Zion: He will COM
| fort all her waste places, and he will make hel
wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the gar
den of the Lord: joy and gIadness shall be found
therein: thanksgiving and the voice of melody"


And the stranger bowed himself to
the ground, as if he had heard an an
gels voice. Perhaps he did. Here was
the love-type of that heavenly love
that he was wildly clutehing in faith
that was half despair!-the love that
survived sin and suffering and death,
and stretched a hand to save and soothe
from the very grave itself.


Oh, Barbara, Barbara, your tender
ness had taught you to lay sweet
snares for every possible opportunity !!
Oh, Barbara, Barbara! surely God
must have comforted you in your lonely
walkings in those green avenues by the
ruined abbey. He did not empty your
pure heart Of it's earthly love, but He
dropped into it balm which changed
its bitterness to celestial nectar. Up in
Heaven, where you are, Barbara, there
is only joy over the returning sinner


And still the stranger sat on the damp
winter sod with his face between his
hands. He was not wishing her back,
the dear love of his youth. Better
where she was, where no mortal soul
could ever touch thatgreat love, which
was long enough, and strong enough,
to stretch from Heaven to earth. Only
there he sat, shuttAg out flom his eyes
the sweet, peaceful scenes around him,
even as they Eoust be shut from his life,
and seeing far beyond the "waste
places" and " wilderness" that his own
sins had made, into that joyful country
where the ransomed of the Lord shall
return, where they shall obtain joy
and gladness, and sorrow and signing
shall fee away"


That night the stranger walked again
in front of that lowly house in the quiet
by-way. Christmas savors came through
the kitchen window, bright light gIeam-
ed between the curtains, even sounds
of glad young laughter and merry song
reached ths lonely watcher without.
And he could thank God dor them now.
Ha could even smile in sympathy with
the joy he might not share. He had
his own.


In that Iowly house, after supper,
when the young ones we're quiet round
the fire, cracking nuts and asking rid
dies, Aunt Mary fell into a soft sleep on
the sofa They saw her smile in her
sIumber, and when she woke she told
them in her subdued. pathetic voice,
that she had been dreaming of poor
Uncle Dick she saw him with dear
Barbara Heron, and Barbara looked
80 happy" And even in nay sleep,
Year: 1873

If ell the desirable qualities in pig,
vigorous appetite is of the first inn
portance. A hog that will not eat, is of
no more use than a mill that viii not
grind. And is undoubtedly true that
the more a pig will eat in proportion to
his size, provided he can digest and as
simulate it, the more profitable he will
prove.


The next desirable quality is, perhaps,
quietness of disposition. The blood is
derived from the food, and flesh is
derived from the blood. Animal force
is derived from the transformation of
flesh. The more of this is used in nm
necessary motions, the greater the
demand on the stomach, and the more
food will there be required merely to
sustain thoyital functions-and the more
frequently flesh is transformed and
formed again, the tougher and less
palatable it becomes.


This quality, quietness Of disposition,
combined with a small amount Of useless
parts, or offal, has been the aim of I'LL
modern breeders. Its Importance will
viii readily be perceived if we assume
that seventy-fve per cent. Of the food is
ordinarily consumed to support the vital
functions, and that the slight additional
demand of only one-sixth more food, is
required for the extra offal parts and
unnecessary activity. Such q coarse,
restless animal would gain, in flesh and
fat, in PROPORTION to the food consumed.
only half as fast as the quiet, refined
animal. Toassume that a rough, coarse,
savage, ill-bred mongrel hog will require
one-sixthmore food than quiet, refined,
well-bred Berkshire, Essex or Suffolk,
is not extravagant
Year: 1873

There WAS conference yesterday botweon tho
Senate Fiuance Committee and tho House Bank
ing and Currency Committee to discuss measures
of Legislation for the resumption Of spocio pay
mcnts. Nome Of tho plaus proposed for that
purpose mot with moro approval than Senator
shermans bill. As to tho precise date at which,
specie should begin to circulate in the place Of
paper. there WAS a difference Of opinion, hut
most OF tue members favored tho time ilxod by
senator Sherman, Jan. /, 1874.
Year: 1873

1t is aaid that the bill recently passed by tho
Stnto Legislature extending tho time for tho
only to counties under township organization.
II this yiow be correct, more than 80 couutios
will DO unable to avail themselves Of tho delay
Which it VAS tho object Of the Inv to grant them.