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Year: 1871

HAMMERED BrsCUIT.-With a quart
of -four rub thoroughly q heapcd.up ia.
blespoonful oil lard, add cold water or
sweet milk enough to make very stiff,
dry dough work and beat it on hour
and half Some people say give three
hundred blows with mellet When it
blisters or pops il is ready for tho oven.
Bake carefully until tho biscuit are light
brown. ...
Year: 1871

LOOK And then take warning from
these lines. Come and settle your
bills before it is too late. Persons in
dcbted to me will find their bills in the
hands Of an officer unless they are settled
Immediately.


JOSEPH HART.
Year: 1871

WINE SAUCE. Ono and half cups
sugar, half cup butter beaten we'll to-
gether, then add glass of wine, two
table spoonfuls Of -four, wet with cold
water to prevent Jumping then add q
tea cup Of boiling water. and let it stand
few minutes on the stove, then pour In
it the butter and sugar and beat it up /;
crate some nutmeg in it and serve hot.
Year: 1871

THE TICHBoRNE CASE MATCHED. "A
correspondent of the Times says the state
ment that the length of the Tichborne case
will be exampled is not well founded. Some
few hundred years ago there arose dis
pute regarding the bearing in the coat of
arms of the Rutland family and the right
of another great house to its adoption. On
this trial Chaucer gave evidence. 1t last
ed through one whole century and the
latter part of the proceeding and former
part of the succeeding one.
Year: 1871

The New York Times says: However
incredible and startling have been the ex-
poses which have been made during the
past week, we repeat, what we have SAID
before. that we have barely made an open
ing in the mine of fraud and rascalIty
that lies concealed in COnnOlly's office"
Year: 1871

MORTALITY AMONG CHILDREN.-The
mortality among children i'll New York is
again very distressing this year. The last
returns of the board of health show that
344 persons died of diarrhea affections last
week, of whom 80 were children under
two years old. Dirty streets close rooms,
bad milk and unripe fruit are among the
most active causes of this great mortality,
but some share of it is undoubtedly due to
the climate
Year: 1871

IT must appear little singular to every
honest democrat, to see with what una
NINETY the democratic papers Of the coun-
try defend the corruptions of the New
York City government. They either have
nothing at all to say, or come out openly
in defense. There is a reason for it, and
honest men of all PARTIES are no doubt in
uuiring what it is.
Year: 1871

Among the many compounds now offer
ing to our lady friends, there are few that
we can so readily recommend as those
emanating from the celebrated house Of
JOSEPH BURNETT & Co. They possess
two qualities to which we would specially
call attention, viz, the entire absence Of
all deleterious compounds, and the GER
tainty that they will perform all they are
said to do. The unpleasant and often
times painful results upon the skin at
tending exposure to our most changeable
climate, may be entirely Obviated by the
use of BUTWettS KalIistOR, which has now
become 50 useful an auxiliary to the
toilet that no lady considers her dressing
table complete without it, G0lUessORN Meas
Year: 1871

PRESIDENT GRANT has been invited to visit
New Brunswick on the occasion of the opening
of the European and North American Railway
from ST. John, N. b., to Bangor, Me-, but he
has declined, on the ground that he is reluctant
to leave the United States during his term of
Office, and thereby establish bad precedent.
But why should he not leave the United States
for a call SO evidently neighborly as this? We
are on unusually cordial terms just now with
Canada, and visit from President Grant
would serve to enhance the cordiality greatly
And considering that it is only across the
border aud the occasion is that OF the opening
of railroad which is of immense commercial
Importance to the United States, and which
besides is great step towards further cement
ing the cordial relations between ourselves
and the New Dominion, we think that really
the President ought TO 60. Besides would
like to see what the Canadians would think OF
our Man Of Appomattox on personal inspec-
ton.
Year: 1871

CAPTAIN VANDERBILT, the President Of the
Staten Island Ferry Company; Braisted, the
Superintendent, and Matthews, the United
States Inspector, who certified to the fitness
of the boiler of the Westfield, have all been
indicted by the Grand Jury of this county
for completely in the mismanagement that
brought about the Westfied disaster. 1t has
been just month since the occurrence Of that
calamity, and the law does not seem to have
acted very promptly in their case. But the
law is always slow-much slower than sure.
If we could rest assured that another month
would find these men just indicted working out
severe sentences in some Of the State prisons,
or paying heavy fines for their criminal mis-
management, we could wait cheertully on the
law. But will that ever be the case!
Year: 1871

TIE INQUEST ON THE BODY OF ALICE
BowLsBY has been concluded The evidence
was so well arranged and covered every point
so conclusivcly that there was no necessity
for spinning it out. The verdict rendered
finds Rosenzweig guilty of the girls murder,
and that fend has been committed to answer.
1t was shown beyond cavil on the inquest that
Rosenzweig and Ascher were identical; that
the girl came 20 his place on Wednesday, and
that RoseVwcig assisted in sending her re-
mains away'in the trunk. These points appear
to be SO fully covered as to leave no doubt OF
his conviction but the police are still on the
alert for any additional evidence that may
tend yet more conclusively to saddle him with
the guilt and the punishment
Year: 1871

reign of peace and order. There are, perhaps,
exaggerations in both directions, yet there is
enough in these Ku Klux outrages to make
some action to suppress them a necessity.
Many parts of the South are as peaceful and
prosperous as before the war. Why is it that
of all the Southern States South Carolina is
reduced to the humiliating attitude of chronic
disorder? Is it because her dominant black
population, under her reconstruction system,
absolutely rule the State, or are they, with all
their vain concets, so utterly incompetent
and ignorant that they have brought all these
troubles upon the Commonwealth with their
fantastic tricks" in the State administration?
1t would seem SO; for surely, with anything
like just, honest and reasonable administra-
ton, the State authorities, black or white,
would be able to take care of themselves and
their followers in the maintenance of law and
order even in South Carolina. In any event
''let us have peace" and let us still hope that
in order to have peace, even in South Caro-
lima, it will not be necessary to resort to the
instruments and the laws of war.
Year: 1871

Weather Bureau.


That delicious fish, the pompeneau, which
the gourmands of New Orleans and the Gulf
coast delight in and feast upon, has appeared
on our coast and in our markets. This is the
first season, we believe, this fish has been
caught on our coast, at least in such numbers
as to be marketable, common as it is along the
Gulf of Mexico. The same remark would
have applied to Spanish mackerel few years
ago. This last named fish was a stranger, like
the pompeneau, except stray one occasion
ally on the shores of the Northern States, up
to recent period, though abundant now. The
question is. what brings these fish of the
warmer atitndes so near to us? Intelligent
old fishermen say it is the unusual proximity
fortfy their opinion, they call attention to
the fact of the peculiar Gulf Stream
weather, with southcasterly winds, which
we have had for some time past. Then,
again, sea captains who have sailed
along the Southern coast for long time re-
mark that the Gulf Stream is coming much
nearer the coast than formerly-that, in fact,
it almost invades the land at Cape Hatteras.
Here is an exceedingly interesting subject,
and one that may prove useful for both the
Weather Bureau and naturalists to investigate.
The recent appearance of Spanish mackerel
and the coming now of the pompeneau may
promote scientific knowledge. Who will enter
upon the investigation of this piscatory immi-
grafton TO our coast and the causes of il?
Year: 1871

The IRISH REPUBLICANS in Boston have re-
fused to commit themselves in favor of any
of the candidates for Governor now promi-
nently before the public This is where the
Irish republicans in Boston are sound. But
are there enough of them to make it any ma
terial difference who they go for?
Year: 1871

Some people suffer, and their friends suf-
fer, from severe PAIN, while they spend
more money foolishly than i, would cost to
cure them, if they used Reune's PAin-Kill-
ing Magic Oil. Take our advice and use
this popular and certain cure for such ills as
q esh and bone are heir to.
Year: 1871

A good anecdote is told of the captain OF the
ON Fort Fisher his ship took fire from a shell ia
the room next to the magazine. One of the
little messenger tugboats was plying. about the
ship, and finally coming alongside, Captain
Temple hailed her. "Aye, aye, sir, said the
tho captajn. 'sWe are on fire." said Temple,
;ipext 10 our powder magazine, and thought it
miSht possibly interest you to know that we are
likely to blow up in about three minutes unless
we Set the fire under" The suddenness with
Whicn sae tug captain rang four bells and the
ing plunged away on a bee-line was laugha9le,
In spite Of ihe critical nature of the situation.
Year: 1871

Some thief without a conscience has stolen
several rare shells from the Cornell University
Museum.


"A student in the High School at Springfield,
Mass, has been expelled for refusal to conform
TO the regulations concerning the study of
music. He declared that he wouldn't study
music, and that he wouldn't leave the school,
but when the committee, backed up by a
policeman, made their appearance, he picked
up his books and left
Year: 1871

Gallileo said "Still the world moves" ="
So do the citizens of this ancient town. "
A lively enquiry is made for good mules
down South. Corn is active, and small
lots are being moved. The people are pay
ing up their taxes promptly, and nOgrumb-
ling is heard. Our county was injured
during the late unpleasantness more than
any other in the State, still the peOpleha
borne heavy taxation, built new public
buildings, purchased new books and COM
planned less than any community [ know
of. The county is out of debt, and the
citizens prepared to enter upon the bus
mess OF the new year with alacrity, and
now look like getting up a good agricul-
tural fair this coming year.


You would have to travel some distance
to find q more orderly law-abing and moral
people, or those who endeavor to serve God
with more honesty of purpose. They may
be slow, but they will not weary in well
doing. Her fine productive lands will be
sought for, and we will have live men
among us. They are invited by our peo-
pie to come, and self interest and fine
climate will make it to reasonable they
should come. So mote it be.
Year: 1871

The following correspondence explains itself;


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. y, 1871.
Hon. Horace Maynard


DEAR SIR-As you are member of the very
important committee of Congress on Ways and
Means, intimately connected with the machine
ry of trade and commerce Of the country, the
members of the Committee on Lectures and
Library of the Knoxville Board Of Trade have
thought it very appropriate to call on you to
address Us on some subject connected with the
commerce of the country, or any other. subject
you may select l am instructed by the COM
mittee to request you to deliver the opening
lecture of course which we propose to have
this winter We beg that the request may meet
your favorable consideration, and that you will
set time as early as may suit your convenience,


Very respectfully, your obt serv't,


CHARLES SEYMOUR,


Secretary of Committee on Lectures.
Year: 1871

T HAVE LEASED THE HOTEL LATELY KNOWN
i as the Stacey House, and will henceforth cOnduc
it in the most approved style.


The patronage of the public generally and of my old


friends particularly, who have stood by truly in
the past, is respectfully solicited promise them
cordial reception and comfortable home at the Battle
House. JOEL A BATTLE
Year: 1871

with painful sensation of haV-
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
e organ most invoIHed. Cure
Year: 1871

! It Is not generally known. says the Ian.
caster (P:I) IntclIgenee, how easy matter
il is to explore the bottom of a well, cistcrn,
or pond Of water by the use of common
mirror. When the sun 10 shining brightly
hold mirror SO that the reflected rays of
light will fall into the wafer. A bright spot
will he seen at the hottom, so light as to
show the smallest object plainly. BY this
means VIC have examined the bottoms OF
wells fifty feet deep. when half full Or more
Of water. The smallest straw or other OBJ.
jects can be perfectly seen from the surface


In the same way one can examine the bot
toms of ponds and rivers, ii the waters be
sOmew hat clear ard not sgitated by winds
or rapid motion. II a well or cistern be
under cover, or shaded by y buil,:ing so that
the sunlight will not fall near tho opening,
it IS only necessary to employ two mirrors,
using one to reflect the light 10 the opening,
and another to reflect it down into the water.
Light may be thrown fifty or a hundred
yards to the precise spot desirable. and then
downward. We have used the mirror with
success, to reflect light arOund the house L,
. shaded well. and also t0 carry it from q
south window through two rooms and then
into u cistern under the north side Ut the
house. half = dozen reflections Of light
may be MAKE. though each mirror dimin>
ishes the brilliaDcy Of the light. Let any
one not familiar With the method try il, and
he will not only find it useful. but very
pleasant experiment It will perhaps rcveal
Z mass of sediment at the bottom If the we'll
that has been little thought OF. but which
may have been frightful source Of disease
by lis decay in the water.
Year: 1871

The Empire Parish Register says of the
cane prospects:


We have to again report the continued
promising condition of the cane of Plaque
mines parish. The weather has been warm
and showery, and the labor of cultivation
has kept step to the growth OF the plant
1t is certainly a beautiful sight to look upon
one of these fields of cane, as the green
and luxuriant blades ripple in the sun and
rustic to the soft touch of the reveling
winds.


The same paper says of the rice crop;


This crop is rapidly maturing, and will
soon be ready for the sickle. The recent
showers have been highly beneficial to the
plant, and the prospect now is that there
will be an excellent yield. The weather
the past two weeks has been all that the
sugar and rice planters could wish. The
sun has shone with royal summer warmth
and the rains have been constant with their
refreshing visits.
Year: 1871

WANTED-BY THE FIRST OF OCTOBER
w large room a suit of rooms suitable for
the use of the AMERICAN UNION CLUB. Rent
must be reasonable, and locality near Canal street
bappHiSeations can be made to Colonel William Roy
Year: 1871

Men over 35 may see danger ahead as to
the black chimney-pot hat. During long
time this article has had nearly as levelling
an effect on all ages out-of-doors as the white
wig used to have indoors. We do not say
quite so. The powdered wig was fashion
despotically in favor of age; and it may be
said of the tall, black cylindrical head cover
ing, that if is decidedly in favor of middle
aged and elderly men when showing out-of-
doors. The one respect in which there was
a shifting disadvantage was as to the brim.


Now and then a jauntiness of curl has been


introduced which gave to old men an ap-
pearance of affecting Juvenile pertness. A
level, rather broad brim served the elders
best. But absolute change Of the whole
shape now seems setting in; and some of the
forms are so audaciously light and trivial that
age at all advanced could not possibly venture
on them. A classification of ages out-of-
doors by the style of the head-gear is threat
ened. This is bad for men about 40. As to
the fashion of the other garments, it is only
in one or two points that age is unfortunate


just now. The close-fitting walking coat


lends itself little too conspicuously to exaS-


gerated stomachic development; rotundlty Is


made strikingly spacious, but to the spacious


ness is given a gentle selfexplaining appear
ance. II is style vastly to be preferred TO
tbat Of the full-dress garment now seen only


in doors during a portion of the day but
which once was the common wear; for mid


dle-age to have got rid of the swallow tail
coat with its abrupt disclosure of corpulence-


UNEQUAL and grotesque, is decided advan-


tage. The respect in which age is mosttried


by lhe existing style is certain scantiness in
the upper garment. Middle-aged and elderly


men are best suited by decent expansive


ness of skirt. But things here might have
| been much worse; there have been the day
| of the spencer" Still, it is odds that ife


middle-aged male has the daring to prese,


himself in short-tailed coas, he betrays hi
Year: 1871

To a limited amount, upon a railroad which is well
located for business, and which has been already


largely constructed with the funds of its Stoekhold
ers cannot be otherwise than safe. This security is
increased if the Constructing Company is composed
of men of high character, and of ample means for
successfully carrying through any work that they
dertake.
Year: 1871

The following communications from the Com
missioner Of Internal Revenue make some important
changes in the method OF assessing the Income tax 1t
viii be that of the most obnoxious features OF
the tax removed:
Year: 1871

LATE AT CHURCH.-One of the papers tells
the story of man coming into church after the
sermon had begun, whereupOn the preacher
said to him, Glad to see you, sir ; come in
always glad to see those here who can't come
early" To which salutation the stranger,
taking seat, as coolly replied, "Thank you
Would you favor me with the text?' Ger
tainly," was the answer, which was done, and
the discourse moved on as before.


This recalls Missouri incident One cold
night Rev. DIR. Ezra S. Ely, of Presbyterian
fame, was preaching in prairie farmhouse.
When about one-thrd through the sermon,
two latecomers rode up to the door and enter
ed. The doctor stopped and said that as these
friends were very cold with their ride, the
meeting would sing hymn while they were
warming themselves; which being done, he
observed that as they had taken so much
trouble to come, he would begin his discourse
again for their benefit; and, taking his text
accordingly, he commenced once more at the
beginning and repeated his sermon, rather
more to their edifcation than to that of the
rest of the audience, perhaps.
Year: 1871

How any young fellow can have the face to
walk into your family, and deliberately ask for
one Of your daug hterS, passes me. That it
is done every day does not lessen my aston
ishment at the sublime impudence of the
thing. There you have been, sixteen or sew
enteen, or eighteen years of her life, combing
her hair and washing her face for-hina. 1t
Is lucky the thought never strikes you while
you are doing it, that this is to be the end of
it all. What if you aoere married yourself?
that is no reason why she should be bewitched
away into a separate establishment Just as you
begin to lean upon her, and be proud of her !;
or at least it stands to reason, that after you
have worried her through the measles and
scarlet fever, and chicken-pox, and whooping-
cough, and had her properly baptised and vac
clnated, this young man might give you short
breathing spell before she goes.


He seems to be of different opinion he
not only insists upon taking her, but upon
taking her Immediately, if not sooner. He
talks well about livery we'll you have no
objection to him, not the least in the world ex-
cept that.


When the world IS full of girls, why couldn' t
he have his eye on somebody else s daughter I?
There are some parents who are glad to be rid
of their daughters. Blue eyes are as plenty
as blueberries why need it be this particular
pair Ism sne happy enough as she Is
Don't she have meat and bread and clothes
enough, to say nothing of love2 What is the
use of leaving certainty for an uncertainty,
when that certainty is a mother, and you can
have but one? You put all these questions to
her and she has the sauciness to ask if that is
the way you reasoned, when her father came
for you You disdain to answer, OF course, it
is mean dodging Of the question. But she
gets around you for all that, and so does he
too, though you try your best not to like him ;
and with well if must, | must" you Just
order her wedding clothes muttering to your
self the while" r-dear-what sort of a
fist ,oW that child make at the head of a
house ; how will she ever know what to do in
this, that or the other emergency she who is
calling on mother" fifty times day to settle
every triaing question? What folly for her to
set up house for herself


How many mothers have had these fore
bOding thoughts over daughters wedding
clothes; and yet that daughter has met life,
and its unexpected reverses, with heroism
and courage as undaunted as if every girlish
tear had not been kissed away by lips, that
alas may be dust, when this baptism of wO-
manhood comes upon her. FANNY FERN
Year: 1871

A CALIFORNIA OBITUARY Y.-Boddlepop
is dead The bare announcement will plunge
the city into unspeakable gloom. The death
of BOddlepOpster was most untimely; he
should have died twenty years ago. Probably
no man OF his day has exerted so peculiar an
influence on society as the deceased Ever
foremost in every good work out of which any
thing could be made, an unstinted dispenser of
every species of charity that paid a commission
to the disburser, Mr.. Boddlepopster was
model Of generosity, and weighed at the time
of his death one hundred and ninety odd
pounds.


Originally born in Massachusetts,, but for ten
years a resident of California and partially
bald, possessing cosmopolitan nature that
loved York shilling as we'll in proportion to
its value as Mexican dollar, the subject of
our memoir was one who it was an honor to
know, and whose close friendship was luxury
that only the affluent could afford. 1t shall
ever be the writer's proudest boast that he en-
jOyed it at less than half the usual rates. Mr.
B. was the founder of the famous BoddlepOp-
ster Institute, and, for some lyears preceding
his death, suffered severely from soft corn,
which has probably done as much for agricul-
ture as any similar concern in the foothills of
our State.


In 1863 he was elected an honorary member
of the Society for the Prevention of HUI
mainly to Mongolans, and but for the loss of
an eye in carrying out it's principles, would
have been one of the handsomest whites that
ever resided among us. There is little doubt
that he might have aspired to any Office in the
gift of the people, so universal was the es-
TEEN in which he was held. His last words,
as he was snuffed out, were characteristic OF
the man: he remarked: Fetch me that
catnip tea Il" The catnip consolation arrived
too late to be of any use; he had gone to the
devil. Farewell noble heart, pure soul, bright
!. - elect! We shall meet again.