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Year: 1873

A curious story of the bringing to life of 8 man who had committed suicide by hanging at Valdez Grace, Canton Fri burg, is told by the Confedere. On the first diagnosis the doctors affirmed that asphyxia was complete the body gave not the slightest sign of life, it being blue and rigid. One of the physicians present, however, would not leave the corpse without making final experiment. on 1t. He uncovered the breast, and attempted for some time to induce respiration by artificial means, but without result. He then applied the hole of an electric battery to the passage of the pneumo gastric nerves, and caused strong current to pass at intervals of four seconds. Almost i'm mediately feeble signs of respiration reappeared. Five minutes afterward the radical pulse and the cardiac pulse again become perceptible. The epiglottis was tumefed, and it was necessary to pull the tongue out of the mouth by means of a pair of pinchers in order to render the respiration freer. A few ounces of blood were then drawn from the mediocephalic vein. The dilated pupils contracted gradually, and the signs of life became more and more manifest. The patient was then able to swallow small quantity of alcohol Finally slight muscular contraction was perceptible without the intervention of electricity; the sensibility of tht cornea reappeared then the feet be | came warm again, and soon after tht regular pulsation of the carotid arterie

 were easily perceptible.
Year: 1873

The report from the Maine hay crop is to the effect that the quantity will be a good average, and thatthe quality has never been surpassed in the Knowledge of hay-makers in the State,
Year: 1873

Mr.. Griswold is writing a series of BIZ
ographical sketches of eminent women,
which appear in regular succession in
the Fat Contributors Saturday Night.
The following is sample


EMINENT woMEN-LoT's s WIFE.


Mrs. Lot was chiefly remarkable in
history as a woman who turned into
pillar Of salt. Women turn into salt
nowadays, but its salt and battery. This
misfortune overlook her while fleeing
from the doomed city OF Sodom in COM
pany with Mr.. Lot, and lots of little
Lots. She was required not to look
back, but true to the instincts of her sex
she did. Tell woman she mustn't do a
thing and she is very apt to do it. She
probably met some women going. to
Sodom to see the fireworks and couldn't
resist the feminine impulse to turn
round and see what they had on. Lots
of wives would have done what Lots
wife did. Enforce such an ordinance
now and pillars of salt would stand so
thick on the streets pedestrianism would
become impossible, and the Syracuse
salt works be abandoned Lot seems to
have pushed right along as though moth
ing had happened. What did he want
of salt wife when it was so easy to get
a fresh one2


How long Mrs. Lot remained stand
ing advertisement of the salt business
we do not know. No mention of her
subsequent career is anywhere found.
Whether she opened refreshment stand
and catered to the curious crowd who
flocked to see the ruins of the fated cities
Of the plain-because caterpillar, as 1t
were--we are unable to say. A woman
who could turn into pillar of salt ought
to be able to turn her hand to almost
anything. If she had anything about
her she would have rented little room
(shall we say little salt rheum p and
gone into the show business. She would
have been great card and made good
deal more than her salt. Relics of So
dom, GomoSFah, Chicago, Boston, etc.,
would have sold we'll to tourists, although
they would be compelled to take the
histories of them with grain of salt.
Mrs. L. could have retired after a few
years with competency, for of course
every nickel she took would have been
salted down. i


She would have been well preserved
woman to good old age, and eontented
With her lot, no doubt, although LOT don't
seem to have been very well contented
Will her. Growing rich from exhibiting
herself as the "Salt woman" Snd having
invested her funds judiciously in corner
lots. greedy adventurers would attempt
to corner Lots wife, casting lots who
should have her.


The case of this unfortunate woman,
turned into o pillar of salt, was a very
sad one. II fact it is about as bad a
pilIar-case as we kRpV Of (Sixty days
and costs.
Year: 1873

at least talked Of, nothing else. If a
thing was not very well worth telling he
would not tell il. The consequence Of
all this was that he soon obtained the
reputation Of liar. The common mind
could not comprehend how he could be-
come acquainted with so much that was
unusual, and so, whenever he opened his
mouth people instinctively looked for
stretcher," to say the least. Had he
mingled his strange experiences and OBJ
servations with n good deal Of matter Of
an ordinary kind he might have been a
great conversational success.


Another set of bankrupt takers owe
their ill-fate to their bad habit of offer
ing counterbalancing experiences. No
enc can even relate an incident but
these folks can metch it, and, what is
worse, can often tell something better.
Nothing is more discouraging to well
organized talker than one OF these peo-
pie. No matter how much pleasure we
anticipate-and ought to realize-in
telling something novel and interesting,
a man Of this class will hardly wait un-
til we have finished before he COM
mences to relate the story of which ours
has reminded him. Our. statement or
narration is not only deprived Of oppor-
tunity Of consideration and apprecia.
tion, but is crushed and humbled beneath
the better story of this inconsiderais
person. And it is melancholy fact
that the stories of these people is gen.
orally better than ours. 1t is in fact this
fatal excellence which starts them on
their road to their ruin.


There are other divisions of the great
multitude of society people who have
failed as takers, but we have not room
to discuss them here. 1t is curious,
however, to note that there are very few
women among these bankrupts. Women
are generally not only economical in the
use Of the odds and ends Of converse
ton, but they make very good show of
them, and often astonish you by pre-
senting you with some of your ewn
ideas, warmed up and served so nicely
that you scarcely recognize them. And
then, besides the fact that most women
have an extensive sinking fund " on
which to draw in times of temporary
conversational embarrassment, they
would always rather borrow than fail; if
they can't talk about a subject them
selves they will make others talk, and
no one is so successful as a conversa-
tionalist as one who makes other people
talk.-Scribner s for June.
Year: 1873

From the British Army and Navy Journal


A remarkable old woman named Vir-
ginie Chesquires has just departed this


life close to Issy, near Paris. She had
almost attained her huEdredth year, and


had behaved with remarkable heroism
during the war of the first empire, at


which period she fought as soldier in
the twenty.seventh regiment She went
through the peninsular campaign, and
gained the rank of sergeant for gallantry
and good conduct, and on one occasion
she carried off the dead body of her
colonel under fire. While trying to lift
up the corpse of her commander, two of
the enemy approached, upon which she
made signs pretending to be wounded !
they hurried forward to secure their prisF
oner, but when they were near, the SER
geant shot one of them, seized his horse,
flung the body over the saddle bow, and
rode back to the French lines. The other
trooper fed on seeing his comrade fall.
The sergeant, however, had been
wounded, and blood was flowing from the
breast. The surgeon insisted on un-
dressing the sergeant, and then it was
discovered that the gallant non-csmmis-
stoned officer belonged to the fair sex.


We do not find the name Of Virginie
Chesquieries among the Military Wo.
men of France" although the list is
long, and the author has accepted far
more curious stories. Take the tale of
the Countess of Saint Baslemont, a
French lady, who married an officer in
the service of the Duke of Lorraine.
She had hardly espoused the count when
war broke out, and the lady Joined the
army of Louis XII, while her husband
fought on the opposite side We are
told that the countess remained faithful
to her lord and master, and, disguised as
Q man, disarmed in duel young cav
alier who had importuned her too freely
when dressed in the garb of her sex.
She is said to have killed more than 490
men; and when General Jean Louis
Erlach marched through Champagne,
all alone she attacked three German
troopers, who were seizing some farm
horses, and held them until her people
arrived. She afterwards entered cha
teau, by an upper window, and, though
abandoned by her comrades, pistol in
hand, jumped into room where there
we're seventeen men, whom she managed
to disarn.


Talking of these warlike women re.
minds US that at the commencement of
the French revolution a corps of ANA
IONS was raised who offered up prayers
to Bellona, an extract of one of which
has been handed down to us. 1t runs
And we also, we know how to die or to
conquer; we know how to WELD other
weapons than the needle and distaff o
Goddess, companion of Mars, following
thy example, all women ought to march |
in rank With the men. Goddess of
force and courage thou shalt never
have cause to blush for French women"
This corps never saw service, and was
succeeded by the Tricoteuses, and then
by the Lecheuses, who used to lick the
blood stained posts of the guillotine.
Year: 1873

The following important decision was
recently rendered by the circuit court Of
the United States for the western district O
Tennessee


CIRCUIT COURT. OF THE UNITED


STATES FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT


OF TENNESSEE.
W. E. TAFT ct al, Heirs of Doctor Samuel Bond
deceased, us. Neio FORK Life Insurance Company
Commons, J.


A policy of insurance which indemnifes
. public enemy against loss in time of war
is unlawful; and where entered into
before hostilities, is abrogated when they
occur. The relations it establishes are
illegal between belligerents.


Where life policy provides that it shall
be void upon the non-payment of premiums
within the time prescribed, such payment
is condition precedent; time is of the
essence Of contract, and there can be no
recovery if punctual payment is omitted.


Where the performance of condition
precedent becomes unlawful, or by the act
of God, impossible, this will not authorize
q recovery upon the contract without per-
formance. Such case distinguished from
those in which subsequent iinpossibility and
illegality are relied upon as defence.


A contract of insurance, the continuance
of which depends upon the election and
acts of the insured, ls not like debt, the
obligation of which is absolute, and which
is suspended only by war.


The relations between the members of
corporation for mutual insurance present
all the evils and are dissolved by war for
the same reasons as those between ordi-
nary copartners.


The reasons for the dissolution of execu-
tory contracts by war are not alone that
such contracts involve inter-communion
across the hostile lines, or that they relate
to property liable to capture but more
especially because their execution increases
the resources of the enemy,


A court of equity has no authority to
decree the specific performance of an agree
ment in favor of party who has failed to
perform condition which is of the essence
of the contract, although prevented by its
becoming subsequently illegal or impos-
sible by act Of God.


A court of equity will not relieve party
from the effect of omitting to perform an
act, although the omission was caused by
subsequent illegality or impossibility aris-
ing from the act of God, where such act
was merely optional, and the other party
had no right to enforce its performance.


The agency of one representing an in
surance company, authorized to receive
premiums and renew policies, becomes un-
lawful when the insured and insurer be-
come public enemies.


Humes & Posten, for plaintiff; Ran
dolph, Hammond & Jordan, for defend
ants.
Year: 1873

short and mild, necessitating the storage


Of but little forage for stock, and
giving early and late pasturage. Our
waters afford the finest fish and
oysters, and our cities excellent
markets for every kind of farm produce.
And it is with the confident hope that
many strangers in quest of new and better
places for settlement may be induced to
come there. We cordially welcome and
encourage all enterprises in our midst
which, like the Upper Potomac Steamboat
company, propose to Increase our facilities
for transportation, stimulate our varied in
dustries, develop our valuable resources
and especially reclaim the impoverished
wastes which the thriftless, ruinous system
Of slavery has entailed upon the otherwise
favored domains Of the south.


And in this important connection we do
not hesitate to affirm that if the hundreds
of thousands of dollars which the capi-
talists Of Washington and Alexandra in
their mistaken anxiety for high rates of
interest foolishly squandered on Utopian
railroad projects in the wildernesses o. the
northwest had been judiciously invested in
the purchase and improvement of real
estate, and in railroad and steamboat
enterprises nearer home, our general
prosperity would have been immensely
and the investors far better
satisfied with their investments.
Year: 1873

REAssEssMENT OF PRoPERTY.-A
singular fact came under the notice of a
gentleman in this city few days ago in
reference to piece Of property on Third
street. 1t has not advanced nor retroceded
from the year 1882 to 1873, from So per
front foot; and yet this same property is
in-you might say-the heart Of the city,
between two o! its principal streets;
caused perhaps by an oversight of those
entrusted now and heretofore with the
assessment of property.
Year: 1873

DIR. FOSTER, Of Boston, grieved beyond
measure at mistake he had made in Civ
ing an old lady opium when he should have
seen that she already had full dose of
the drug, the mistake causing the person 8
death, ''withdrew to his own room without
word, and, with perfect calmness, sew.
cred the fermoral artery as neatly and
completely as the most experienced sur
geon could have done it, and bled to death
at once.'
Year: 1873

ASSEMBLY HALL.-The second grand
ball of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
will be given at the above hall on Thurs
day night. McCann's band will furnish
the music: The grand march takes place
at eight O'Clock.
Year: 1873

There are some people, yes, many people, always looking out for sights. They can. not carry on the daily intercourse of the fam. fly without thinking some offence is designed. They are as touchy as hair triggers. If they meet an acquaintance in the street who hap. pens to be pre-occupied with business, they attribute his abstraction in some mode per. sonal to themselves, and take umbrage accor. dingly. They lay on others the fault of the durability. A fit of indigestion makes them see i'npatienee in every body they come in contact with. Innocent persons who never dreamed of giving offence are astonished to hnd some unfortunate word, or some momen- tary taciturnity, mistaken for insult

 To say the least, the habit is unfortunate It Is far wiser to take the more charitable view of our fellow beings, and not suppose slight Is intended, unless the neglect is open and direct. After all, too life takes it's use Tn great degree from the color of our own mind; if we are frank and generous, the world treats us kindly. If, on the contrary, we are suspicious, men learn to be cold and cautious to us. Let . person get the repu- tatIon of being touchy, and everybody is more or less under restraint; and in this way the chances of an imaginary offence are greatly increased.
Year: 1873

BOstOns.


The exhibition game between the Mutual and
Boston base ball clubs on the Union Grounds yes
terday afternoon was but poor affair. neither
club playing up to its usual standard. Some
excellent work was done by Gedney in left field, he
capturing no fewer than seven fly balls, some of
which were very difficult to get hold OF.
The following is the score
Year: 1873

A stuffed eagle, seated on a
ballot-box ditto, is reported to be
the most conspicuous object in
the American department of the
Vienna Exposition. The eagle
does not scream much at Vienna.
Year: 1873




may not be the cheapest charity that can be devised
that can do the same amount of material good to so
large number


A small market has been added TO the restaurant,
during the present year, that has proved great
help to the finances Buying meats at wholesale
and selling large part of them at retail prices,
reduces the cost of meats consumed at the coffee
house to about onethrd Of the former cost for the
same supplies. Many meats are bought at the coffee
house to be taken to the homes of the poor and the
rich.


AT all events, the mechanics and people Of
moderate and very limited means have found the
Hartford Holly Tree Branch very great blessing,
of which the projectors would be very 10th now TO
be compelled to deprive them. In larger cities in
more central situations such an establishment
might perhaps be made self-sustaining. At any
rate, with good management it be made so great
blessing to the poorer masses, at so light tax
upon their weather. neighbors that those who seek
to help their needy brethren IN this way will find
themselves amply rewarded by the blessings they
confer.


A UNION OF WOMEN TO AID WOMEN.


But il is not in q cofee-house alone that the
charitable people of Hartford have been content to
rest in their efforts to help and uplift the poorer
classes. Soon after the opening of that institution
eight or ten ladies gathered in private parlor
TO consult to the best way IN which TO DO some
thing for the welfare of their in this city.
At a second meeting. at which fourteen ladies were
present, it was determined to open a reading groom
and evening school for young girls, in an upper
room in the coffee-house, which had been
rendered free of rent and TO employ Mrs. Sluyter,
wife of the coffee-house manager, as ,amoner
of the ladies' society," This lady, who had given
her who lie life to helping Others threw so much sou
into her work that the Society speedily felt the need
of essaying larger fields Hence legislative charter
was obtained, and under the name of the /" Union
for Home Work. with membership swollen to 90
now increased to 800 the ladies OF Hartford set ont
ON their great work of doing all IN Their power to
elevate and to improve the condition o all those in
tbs city who really needed assistance


I'm March, 1872, Mrs. Sidney j. Cowen' lady who,
as President of our Soldiers Aid Society during the
war, had won On envisble reputation and acquired
valuable experience. elected President OF the
Union. Mira Chas. b. Perkins. Viee-Presldent ME-
Year: 1873

We publish in another part of this


issue a handbill now in circulation


which indicates that whether the press


will or not, the municipal canvass will


not be allowed TO flow in a smooth and


unrufiled current. Many somebodies


over the signature Of "Many Republic


cans" in this document have given


earnest of a resolve that it shall be a


turgid and dirty stream into which


shall be injected the pent-up, Shiny
filth that has been accumulating since


the last political struggle. All that has


ever been hinted or suspected of men


who are now, or may become, promi-
ment as candidates, is to be raked to-


gether, heaped up and thrown to the
public in abusive epithets, regardless of
our protest that the day forethst SOFT


of thing has passed. In default OF a
place in the columns of the dailies
it is to be put forth in hand
bill form, and worst of all, is to be sent
out with avague, indefinite parentage Cf
a. Many Republicans" Now, we object
to this, as we object TO the introduction
OF politics in the municipal canvass.
The time has passed when dirt-throw-
ing or abuse can avail anything, AID
the time has come when men, WIZ, are
before the public as candidates
for any Office are TO Je treated
simply IS their merits deserve, We
must deal with them, for or against
them, with and in reason, and not as if
they, or We, were blackfIISrds, and could
only eject Billingsgate and blasphemy.
We do not know who the mass meeting
of Monday night may nominate
whether John IIOsfue, who has never
been anything else than a Republican,
or General Smith, or even Ed. Shaw
nor do we care. So strong ale
We in the belief that Major Dusty
will be elected, We do not cale
who the unlucky.individual may be; we
have no war to make on him personally
and shall only review his record as it
proves his unftness for the office to
which he may aspire. We have, in this
snirit Of decency and fair play, invited
Investigation into the character of
Msjor Busby, whom we believe to be
the choice Of the people of Memphis, IL
respective Of party, and have challenged
those who have carpingly put them
selves in opposition to him to tell the
public, even al our expense, in the col |
umns of the APPEAL, wherein and in |
what he falls below the high standard |
that our ueXt mayor must reach. But
we have had no response. The peo-
pie are satisfied, and there is no objec-
tion to him. This is the conclusion
fOrced upon US by the continued
failure to respond 10 our ques-
tons. We also, therefore, not un-
reasonably conclude that the mass
meeting OF tomorrow ill be an un-
necessary labor, that can result only
in the defeat Of whoever it may put
forward as its nominee for mayor. No
matter by whom manipulated, it is des-
tined to end in good for J. J. Busby,
who daily grows stronger with all
classes in Memphis. The people see in
this movement only the unity of old
politicians for purpose not merely per-
tinent to the municipal, but, possibly,
to other csnvasses to come, and they ]
will EIOst heartily oppose it. They will
vote for J. J. Busby for mayor.
Year: 1873




For the HERALD.


THE NICE YOUNG MAN.
A little hair upon its chin
A smirk upon each feature;
In truth II was n very in
Teresting little creature. H
He had q little hat to wear,
And played upon the fiddle;
He smelled of musk-his scented hair
Was parted In the middle.
He had a most engaging smile,
A lip as sweet as honey.
His coat was of the latest style
And cost heap of money.
The ga,idy little vest he wore
Set many hearts to aching;
His trowsers spoiled yard or more
or broadcloth In the making.
With little patent leather boots
His little cane q twisting;
His mhstache like q bold "piroot's"
Waxed, upward fiercely curling. >
His studs were of the purest gold,
He wore Byron collar,
His tie was gorgeous to behold,
And cost at least dollar.
His little hands, with little rings,
Cleaned bright with gems assorted;
And many precious little things
This little creature spOrted.
And when he held a lady's fan
And made O love confession,
He did 1t like little man
And made deep impression. r. X.
Year: 1873

OUR NEW IMPROVED MACHINE


Stands without Il rival, and should find its
way into every family. 1t has reached the
highest state of perfection of the Sewing Ma
chine yet produced, and its sales are constant
ly Increasing throughout the world.