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Year: 1871

CINCINNATI, Nov. ia special cores
pOndence to the Gazette says that the old
canal at Louisville will be open for boats
next Tuesday, but that it will be about three
weeks before the new canal will be ready for
passage, that time being required to remove
the mud from the locks and elsewhere.


The Cumberland and Ohio Road.


There was a warm discussion in the City
Council tonight ON the proposition TO sub
scribe twelve hundred thousand dollars to
the Cumberland and Ohio Railroad, on
condition that it is made Louisville road.
Action is postponed till next Thursday
night. The proposition win probably carry
despite the strong opposition of the Louis
vile and Nashville Railroad.
Year: 1871

An exchange says that it has known of a cancer to have been cured by the following course of treatment:

 "A piece of sticking plaster was placed around the cancer Ca little larger than the cancer), so that the cancer and small circu- lar rim of healthy skin next to it was eSpused i; then plaster made of chloride oi zinr, bloodroot and wheat flour and water, was spread on n piece of muslin the size of this circular opening, and applied to the cancer for twenty y-four hours. On removing it the cancer will be found to be burned into, and appear of the color and hardness of an old shoe sole, and the circular rim outside of 1t will look white and parboled, as if scalded by steam. The wound is now dressed and the outside rim soon separates, and the can Ger comes out in a hard lump, and the pace heals up. The plaster kills the cancer and it sloughs out like dead flesh, and never grows again. THis remedy has been carefully test cd and proved successful.
Year: 1871

The NsU N-zicaH of July 2s, has come to hand, containing the first of series of ar ticles upon "Stock Raising in New Mexico" from the pen of Governor Army. This intro ductory article is we'll written, and pregnant with valuable information to stock raisers:

 ' In my travels over large expanse of country within the limits of New Mexico and the eastern borders of Arizona, have found growing wild clover, and several vari- cities of grass which indicate that they can be produced in this country by cultivation.

 IL Is only question of time ani the con struction of railroads when this country in addition to it's native grasses, which may be greatly increased, will have large meadows and pasture grounds of cultivated grasses, and 1t has been for nearly forty years favor ite theory of mine, confirmed by my practi- cal observation, that so far as the quality and relauve coar~eness and tineness of wool is concerned more depends upon the character ot the grass than upon any one thing except 1t may be, the constant change of the breed ing animals. A stock raiser may determine by judiclous selection of his breed and the character of gra's he allows them To use for feed, the quality and quantity of the wool his flock of sheep will produce, and of course the quality of his wool will regulate the price he will get in the market, and deter mine the profit arising from the investment of his capital.
Year: 1871

EMPTY WORDS. Grants "Let us have peace" Arizona has had no peace since bis inauguration as President, and it now looks as if Grant and the Indian Ring had deter mined that General Crook must not let Us have peace, We fear Grants policy towards Indians and whites pays the blood sucking ott ;as of his administration too we'll for him or them to permit General Crook or any other army officer to stop the blood bought income of the leeches by putting stop to the war, and it seems that Arizonans must not expect peace short of the next world, where about 500 of them have been sent in the past seven years, by Grants red pets
Year: 1871

To FRAME A PIcTugE.--Cut out Of
pastcboard an oval frame, about three
quarters of an inch broad, and cover with
brown paper, Cover the glass edge with
strip Of paper extending beyond 1t, and
fasten it bythis means 70 the back Of the
pasteboard edge; then take an oval pressed
picture edge, (such as would do for pho
tographs, and gum il under the glass
place loop u hang Il up by, and cover
the upper part of the back with brown
paper The under half must be covered
after the picture Is put in. Put 8 row Of
fine roasted coffee berries around the outer
edge, and row of smaller ones not roast.
ed, inside, all previously coated with a
thin coating Of gum water The berries
must be gummed to the frame with thick
gum. This done, the whole ID complete
--Erohangs.
Year: 1871

demi-toilet black silk, with point lace collar
and sleeves, and bright colored ribbons.


The Grand Duke is rather prepossessing in
his appearance, tall and erect, of robust build
and quick step. He is of light complexion,
wears quite a nObby little moustache and side
whiskers. His hair is cut short after the fash
ion of the Russians


Mrs. Sharpe wore pale green silk, with train
As soon as the Duke and his suit reached the
blue parlor his highness took a position be-
tween the ottoman in the centre of the room
and the door leading to the red parlor, with his
face towards the door entering the blue parlor
from the hall, with Minister Catacazy near him
on the other side, and Admiral Pcrsset near
him on the other side, while members of the
Senate took positions in the rear of the Duke.
The President, accompanied by his Cabinet
and Secretaries, then entered the parlor by the
door leading from the hall. Minister Catacazy
then presented the Grand Duke to the Presi-
dent, who addressed each other in English, each
expressing his pleasure at meeting each other,
but no formal speech was made by either. The
Duke then presented the members of his suit
and the President in turn presented the mem
bers of his Cabinet. The usual handshaking at
tended the introductions. The President then
escorted the Duke to the red parlor, where the
ladies were assembled, presenting him first to
Mrs. Grant and then to the other ladies.


Secresary Fish followed and presented each
member of the suite of His Highness to the la
dies. Conversation was then entered upon and
introdGctions between the members of the cabi-
net and the suite of the Prince and the Presi-
dents secretaries. The Duke Admiral Possiet
General Garrloff and one or two others Of the
visitors spoke English fuently and conversed


in that tongue, while the conversation with some
of the other visitors who did not speak English,
was carried on in French. After a very
pleasant conversation of about fifteen minutes,
the Duke babe the President adieu, and then
the ladies and members of the Cabinet, The
members of his suite followed, and the distin-
guish visitors withdrew, and entering car
riages they returned tc Minister Catacazy's.
The Prince and his suit leave tomorrow morn
ing in a special train for Annapolis t. visit the
naval school there, and goes from that place to
New York by rail tomorrow evening.
Year: 1871

1t is so easy to overdO good thing, and
the slip" between the cup and the lip"
is so readily found. a mechanic rejoicing
in the name of Dubois, and a resident of
the city of Detroit, took to drinking, and
was speedily transformed from hard
working man into a drunken sOt. His
good wife scOlded, entreated, diminished
the thickness of his beard without the use
of a razor, but could make no change. One
night Dubois arrived home and found that
his wife and his coat had changed places
the latter lay on the floor and the former
was suspended from the hook. Up rushed
Dubois to the rescue, took his wife down,
and after much labor brought her to her
senses. The attempt at suicide completely
sobered him, and like Obadiah Oldbuck,
he turned over new leaf He promised
never to drink again, and probably would
have kept his word if his wife had been
able to keep her own counsel. But she
was just smart enough to inform several
of her neighbOrs that the apparent hang
ing was a put-up job, the rope being tied
under her arms. The knowledge of this
little practical joke coming to Dubois
ears he first thrashed the whole family,
then performed some extraordinary feats
of furniture-smashing and finally left the
premises, and has not been seen since.
Year: 1871

Tonight the Knoxville Thespian Corps make
their first appearance this season at Hoxsies
Hall, in Goldsmth's great comedy Of She
StoOps to Conquer" followed by the farce of
''Slasher and CraSher." The cast of characters
is excellent and we hope a full house will greet
the Thespians. The proceeds of the perform
ance will be donated to the Ladies' Memorial
Association
Year: 1871

CORNED BEEF.-In cooking cOrned beef,
at this season of the year so delicious, it
should be put into boiling water when put
on to cook and when it is done it should
remain in the pot until cold. This is the
whole secret of having corned beef juicy
and full-favOred, instead of the contrary.
Year: 1871

Sncer not at old clothes. They are often
made holy by long sacrifices, by careful
foldings away, that they may last until the
dear ones are provided for If many an
old coat could speak, what tales it would
tell of the noble heart beating underneath!
Year: 1871

1t is such graceless scamps as the one in
venting this false story that contribute
very largely to keeping up the unhappy
differences between the Northern and the
Southern people, which all good men are in
terested in healing. 1t is not improbable
that this fellow came away from Chicago
without paying his honest hotel bill
Year: 1871

Urinary and Womb Diseases, Gravel Diabetes, Drop
sy( IncOntinence of Urine Brights disease Albuminu
ria and where there Brick dust deposits or
the water is thick, cloudy, mixed with substances like
the white Of egg threads like white silk there
morbid, dark, bilious appearance, and white Bone
dust deposits and where there is preking, burning
sensation, and pain in the small of the back and along
the oins. In all these conditions Railways Sarpari


liam ResOvent, aided by tbs application of Railways
Ready Relief to the spine and small of the back, and
the bowels regulated with or two of Railways
Regulating Pills per day will, make a complete
cure. In few days the patient will be enabled to hold
and discharge water naturally without Dan and the
Urine will be restored to its natural clear and amber
or sherry color.
Year: 1871

with painfulsensation ofhav-
ing left undone something
which ought to have been
done. Often complaining of
weakness, debility, and low
spirits. Sometimes many Of
the above symptoms attend
the disease, and at other
times very few of them; bu
o organ most involved. Cure
Year: 1871

The symptoms of liver COM
plant are uneasiness and
pain in the side. Sometimes
the pain is in the shoulder,
and is mistaken for rheuma-
tism. The stomach is affected
with loss of appetite and
sickness, bowels in general
costive, some alternating with
d with pain, and dull, heavy
Year: 1871

For about week past a few rough
looking sharpers from New York have
been operating in the country, an ex-
change informs us, swindling the farm
ers by what is known as the cloth dodge
They went around by twos, and played
their game in the following manner :
One of the two would go to house and
offer for sale piece OF cloth at very
low price If he sold the cloth there,
his pal would reach the house soon after
he left it, and ask the inmates whether a
man had sold them any cloth. When
the cloth was shown to the second conner
he would instantly claim it, saying that
1t had been stolen frol4 him, and the
purchasers, to avoid being implicated III
any trouble. would of course surrender
the CLOTH and lose what they had paid
for it. 1t is said that these sharpers
made Newburg, n. Y, their headquar-
ters, but carefully refrained from prac
tising their little game there. Police
officer Andrews has been watching them,
not liking their looks, but not being able
to bring anything directly against them
until now But they left town for
New York the other night, leaving, it is
said, some unpaid bills behind them. If
exchanges will refer to the dark ways "
of this gang of New York gentlemen,
who live by their wits at other peoples
expense, farmers in other sections may
be put on their guard against the swim
dlers
Year: 1871

The Literal Chriaian has the follow
ing anecdote from gentleman who was
an eyewitness of the circumstance mar
rated:


The thermometer often stands for days
at from 100 to III degrees ia the Red
Sea, and vhen the vessel is with the
wind, and travelling about with the speed
of the air, the lack of any breeze or
ventilation makes life on the steamer
almost insupportable. On this occasion
four men and two women among the
passengers were so overcome with the
heat that the ships doctor reported that
they must die if the ships course were
not changed and breeze created by
travelling against the wind. The cap
tain very reluctantly, and in dire fear of
company's orders. yielded to the cry of
humanity and steamed one hundred
miles back on his course. He thus re-
duced the oppressive temperature TWEEN
ty degrees, ventilated his ship, and saved
the lives probably of six passengas
The Government fined the company
who excused the captain, although not
without warning not to do it again
thousand pounds for going out of the
prescribed route with Her Majesty's
mails.
Year: 1871

A RAILWAY BRAKE.-A good and eff
cient railway brake is 50 great desid-
eratum that the number of invention,
claiming to meet this important needs
in the most perfect manner, is almost
beyond estimate, and new devices are
constantly brought to public attention.
Latest of these is what is termed the
air brake-operated by small air
pump attached to the engine, and
worked by steam from the boiler This
pump forces air into the receiver, and
when the pressure is sixty or seventy
pounds to the square inch, valve opens
and relieves it. Under each car is a cyl
inder in which works piston connected
with the receiverby pipes and couplings.
The brakes are applied by raising lever,
which admits the air from the receiver
to all the cylinders instantly and stimuli
taneously, stopping the train very quick
ly. In case OF the breaking apart of the
train, IA valve closes the end of the bro
ken pipe, which keeps it under the con
troll of the engineer, 1t IS stated that
by the use of tins arrangement the en-
gineer can bring his train to full stop,
when travelling at the rate of thirty-hve
or forty miles an hour, i'll less time than
it takes to sound the alarm whistle, and
apply the old style of brakes.
Year: 1871

SHEET IRON. The production of sheet.
iron plates coated with copper and brass
is new branch of industry in England,
which has excited considerable attention
among manufacturers, 1t is claimed for
this product that the plates present
greater advantage to the makers of fin


ned goods, compared with timed or
galvanized plates, as they can be an
nealed as much as requisite during the
process of stamping, without injury to
the copper or brass coating and that
they are also superior to sheet copper or
sheet brass, because articles manufac-
tured from them are not so readily bent
or dented as when they are made OF
brass or copper, and they can be burn
ished, planished, or spun, and so brought
up to any required degree of finish. On
this account the material is specially
adapted to the manufacture of lamps,
candlesticks, and all kinds of goods hith-
erto made by stamping from brass or
sheet copper, and at greatly reduced
cost
Year: 1871

Fashions i'll crime as well as in dres,
seem to come round periodically. For 4
time homicide appears to be the prevail


ing style this is frequently followed by
a season of suicide then arson is the
rage then street-robbery, and so Oh
through the dismal catalogue, which is
repeated again and again with striking


regard for sequence. The quiet but not
altogether satisfactory fashion of shoot


ing air-guns at people, has turned up re-


Gently in New York. 1t was II very pop


ular pastime i'll that city several years
since, as the writer well remembers, hay
ing been an inoflenslve and reluctant
target on two occasions for some anony-
nous almirer. The writer had not an
enemy i'll the world, unless it was "A GER
tain lame man who depended almost
wholly upon him for a weekly supply of
tobacco. Yet the writer was twice shot
at in the open street. There is II peculi-
arity about the air-gun assassin, he is
never influenced by any of those feelings
of revenge, animosit, or covetousness
which give the spur to other murderers.
1t is mere sportiveness. The temptation
to safely and noiselessly wing fellow
creature at II distance seems too much
for him. 1t is the gun. There is a GER
tain smooth fascination in its silent
working that corrupts the possessor. We
can imagine mild harmless man inher-
iting one of these guns, fooling with it
day after day, and finally nursing, un-
consciously, an irrepressible longing to
try it on somebody. 1t appears to be
such an annocent thing, "A fat walking
stick, nothing more. A puff of air
and brother citizen has bit of lead
through his lungs. IT'S as easy as lying


easier; it is as easy as pressing spring.
The heaviest penalties should be inflicted
on people found with air-guns in their
possession.
Year: 1871

A DIFFERENCE. "A teacher one day,
for want of better thing for the class
to parse, took up temperance paper,
intending to have them parse temper
ance story but rs the story was long
one, he told them to stop at the "grog
shop" and not parse it, He, of course,
had reference to a portion of the story.
Imagine his surprise, next morning, to
receive note of dismissal from the
school committee for his Incorporate
ideas in advising his pupils =" to stop at
a grog shop, and not pass it. " An ex-
planation ensued, in which it was found
that parsing and passing are not the
same.
Year: 1871

A Louisville girl, whose lover dis
graced himself by some unlawful deed,
told the unfortunate youth that she copld
never marry him, but that she had
81, 800 in her own right which he could
take and go away and try to redeem his
character. He took the money and left.
That girl loved ardently and unselfishly.
Year: 1871

A tree will transplant worry much
better and grow with moro certainl,
if lug when the ground is very wet.
and If it is valuable trecit pays well
to wet tho ground tho day before
digging.


Almost any evergreen will bear
transplanting, and will do we'll if
shaded the first summer. NJ one
would believe the difference till they
try it.


There is no trouble about trans.
planting largo trccs, If you take two
or three years for it. We have tried
it on pear which is the hardest to
move. Dig threc-fourths up, and
fill up tho plnco till another year or
if very big tree, take still another
year. This saves labor, for then not
80 much digging is necessary.


Plants started too early in the
spring get check or kind of chill
from which tbey will rot recover the
whole season.


Tree should hardly be watcrod at
all unless they are mulchcd, not simp-
~ because Of the waste in evapora-
tion, but the cold produced by the
evaporation, doos about as much
harm rs the water does good. IVo
often bear persons say they wonder
why watering trees does so little good.
Tho reason Is that the evaporation
produces so much cold TINT tho tree,
stop growing. Aud then it takes
very much more water to reach tire
roots of a tree than the inexperienced
are aware of, 80 that tho single bucket
of water only makes cold place
around the collar Of tho tree. If the
tree was in strong growing state it
could bear it, but it is in US much
need of warmth as wator.


Mulch prevents evaporation and
holds tho water till it has time to
reach the roots. But when We consider
that barrel Of dry earth will nearly
hold barrel of water, we must not
think that q single bucket of water
will DC Of much usc.-Garaners
Monthly.
Year: 1871

There is no crop that the farmer
can put in tho ground which pays him
better than tho turnip. We are
aware that with some persons it is
looked upon as Of littlo account ;
but it has never received the consider.
alton to which it 10 really entitled ;
and those who turn up their noses at
it are not genuine farmers.


1t is CT 'p moroovor'that is put in at
IL time, when the hurrying work of tho
season is over and it occupies ground
that has been used for something olse.


The cultivation also, say Of from
ono to two acres of turnips, involves
comparatively little labor. The crop
too, is harvesed in November. when
there is almost no other labor on the
farm to interfere with it.


AS to the variety Of seed to SOW, wo
believe their is no turnip equal to
the purple top. a top dressing Of
bono manure is almost indispensable
to an abundant crop.


For an early Drop tako tho Early
Flat and SOW broadcast early in July.
lhe TurPle lop 1or inc regular farm
crop. This should be sowed in drills
thirty inches apart, and when tho
turnips are the size of hickory nut,
thin out to eight or ten inches apart
in the row. They seldom fail in
allording satisfactory crop. The
crop can be put in tho latter part of
July or first half of August.


When the land is little short, SOW
among the corn at tho last working.
They will not interfere in the least
with that crop, generally, and very
little when it is harvested.


BE sure always to procure seed from
established seed houses Of reputation,
and use that grown here instead Of in
Europe, if you wish the best and
safest article. = Germantown 7ele-
graph.
Year: 1871

Once there was a man whose house
was burned down. lie had plenty o.
land, and stock, and appliances fo,
work left, but OH revie wing the situa
tion he made up his mind that he was
ruined Now he was rather obstinate
old chap, and would listen to no ar,
gument which was opposed to his
own convictions. "Why, my friend
you arc not ruined," his many
friends would say "you have u
bright prospect before you all you
have to do is to quit whining about
the past, and look only to the future. )"
But ruined he would be, and nothing
would insult him more than to say
there vas a chance for his reviving ;
aud sure enough he was ruined ho
let go all holds-cvcrything went to
the dogs, and he died paupcr.


That's the condition Of our country
to-day. The fanatioal persistenoy
with which some people cling to the
idea that wa arc ruined. is perfectly
marvellous. The fashion is to recur
to the past, think over how many Mig
gers we used to have, and sigh tive
are ruined" And if a man attempts
to argue against the suicidal notion
he occupies the position Of u strange
lrishman at fair ho has got to
strike hard or wear thick skin, OF he
suffers pretty badly. 4


And the whole press keeps up tho
whine from one end of tho land to
tho other. In 1865 the whole world
was looking towards our sunny fields
for homes: and were rcpellcd by the
cry eve are ruined.' Of course the
world didn't want to 60 to ruined
country, and so the world and his
wife staid at hone. Pick up paper
and we'll bet you that half you read
goes to show that we are ruined.


Well SO far as we aud our houses
arc concerned we don't believe we
are ruined. We think tho road TO
prosperity is plain Cease absurd re-
sistance to an accomplished rcvolu-
tion-abandon tho sentiments and
methods which are rs foreign to our
era as the Vishnu philosophy. Get
the car on the track-put steam on
cry call aboard" and down the
grooves Of time we'll drive the train
into future where flowers bloom,
and birds sing, and men 90 about
with pockets full Of rocks Gin ton
(La) Democrat.
Year: 1871

The large crop of grapes grown ib
the vicinity of Richmond is a great
public benefit. They arc so healthy
and such an important addition to the
variety of summer diet. by turning
back few years and recollooting the
limited supply then brought to the
oity-how they wore only placed upon
few tables, and wore but little ussd
as rare fruit, VIC can apprcoiuto the
rapid manner in which the fruit o T.
turists have enlarged the crop
Grapes arc rapidly boing introduced
into every hou'e as e p.rt of the sub
stance Of the season.--Ricnmond Dis
patch.