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Year: 1871

An important resolution, introduced in
the House yesterday by Col McGhee, Of
Knox, in regard TO the Agricultural College,
will be found in our columns elsewhere.
The object of the resolution is to procure
free transportation over thevarious railroads
in the State for the students nominated to
the East Tennessee University from the
various counties in the State.


Gee This is a timely and weIl considered prop
osition, and, we believe, will fully attain the
object in view. We cannot doubt that all
the railroad companies in Tennessee will,
at once and cheerfully, comply with the
very reasonable request conveyed by the
resolution, especially as they have been, in
so large a degree, the recipients Of the
States bounty. They win no doubt gladly
avail themselves of the opportunity thus
afforded of making graceful recognition of
the States liberalty by bestowing so hand
some and yet inexpensive benefit upon
her deserving children.


While upon this subject We will say
further that the chief objection that has oc-
CURED to our minds, and which has been
urged by others, against the location of the
Agricultural College at Knoxville, was the
cost to the students from the Middle and
Western divisions, in getting to and from
the college. We have always felt that the
fund should not be divided, but as an
original proposition, We preferred more
central location for the institution. When
the object sought to be attained by the resO-
luton of Col. McGhee is accomplished, we
shall feel that no serious objection can
hereafter be urged on the ground of loca-
ton merely; and in view of the provision Of
the law forbidding the removal of the fund
by the Legislaturei We feel that the best
we can do is to unite in an earnest effort to
make the college, as located, such an insti-
tuition as viii be an honor and lasting
benefit to the State.
Year: 1871

There is to be a funeral cortege in New
York next Sunday in honor Of the executed
Communist ROssel.


Wendell Phillips finds the panacea for
the poor in aJapanese law by which each
mans property and accommodations revert
TO the State on his decease.


a copper cent of 17T9 sold for sixty-seven
dollars in New York yesterday.
Year: 1871

small arms. Though, may mis-
Judge the much married prophet,
and the wall may have only been


built to keep his children in, of
which he has a good many. Tho
exact number cannot be given,
as they have not been counted
latelN
Year: 1871

The completion of the railroad
and the ingress of "Gentiles"
threatens to soon drive ont Nor


nonism. Gold has been uiscov-
cred in the surrounding noun
tains and many mines are now
successfully worked and the Gen
tiles are pouring in to the harvest
bringing with them prejudices
against the system of Mormon
and a purpose to uproot it.
Year: 1871

In the last issue Of the Union
Record we find a very Interesting
letter from the editor, Judge
Tompkins, who is now travelling
in the far West. Tho letter is
written from Salt Lake City, and
embraces three days observations
among the Saints. It will inter
est our readers to see what one
of our own people has to say of
the Mormons, and we therefore
make liberal extracts from the
Judges letter:
Year: 1871

The public are requested to give their attention to the above circular. of s J. GOLD, who has been so long engaged in the business of Heating, and manufacturing apparatus for it.

 The plan upon which this new ap- paratus is made and operated is entirely new and novel.

 It is constructed upon the most sim pie and yet the most effectual principle of Heating yet discovered.

 There are number of them now in operation in different parts of the coun- try, and the results of the trial have been very gratifying to both the invent or and manufacturer.

 The economy in the use of fuel and it's heating capacity is t,uly wonderful, no such results having ever before been achieved by any previous invention. It is only designed in this notice to call the attention of the public or any who may wish to secure what the in- ventor says in his circular above,- sample warmth without injury to health,' ,''-to this new invention which probably will come into general use in all our country homes, as we'll as in the homes of the wealthy who live iu the large cities and towns. It is subject of interest to all who have homes where health, comfort and pleasure are sought after.

 Any person who may wish par ticulars about the size. price or descrip- tion of the apparatus, or any informa. tion whatever, are requested to call and see one in operation, or address
Year: 1871

TWVHE INVENTOR, who has been actively engag-

 A ed for the past twenty years in introducing to the public his several systems of Warming Build ings with Steam and Hot Water. by methods well known throughout the United States and Canadas, has, at the solicitation of numerous friends, finally produced a more economical Heater, which em- bodies all the excellent qualities of Steam and Hot Water heat, with the simplicity of Hot Air Furnace construction.

 Notwithstanding the large sale and universal approval of "Golds Steam and Water Heating Apparatus" its responsiveness has impeded its general introduction and use. To remedy thie de- feet has long been the study of the inventor, who is now satisfed that in this new Heater he has secured the only plan whereby persons of moder- ate means can enjoy in their homes, the comfort of ample warmth without injury to health ; and that his new method meets Q demand long felt. and must when well known, aupersede all other Heaters. No one desires if it can be avoid ed, to put into his home heater which will cer- tainly impair the health of those who inhale the air vitiated by contact with highly heated surfaces All other Hot Air Furnaces DO heat the air too hot because of the very limited amount of superficial surface expoRedto the fire, so that much of the surface is often heated to redness the proportion of surface to the same size of fire in this new System, is TEN TIMES GREATER than the common Hot Air Furnace, and no part is overheated; in- deed it is adjusted such correct scientific prn- ciples, that every part of the surface is equally warmed.

 In the new Furnace the valuable result is secured of an apparatus with all the merits of Steam Heater, with the simple construction of the Hot Air Furnace, avoiding all the deleterious efects of that kind of heat
Year: 1871

The great Blood Purifier and Delicious Brink

 WARNERS VINUM VTTE, or WINE OF LIFE, is free from any poisonous drugs or impurities being prepared for those who require stimulant. It is splendid appetizer and tonic and the finest thing in the world for purifying the blood. It is the most pleasant and delicious article ever offered to the pubic, far superior to brandy whiskey wine, bitters, or any other article It is more healthy, and cheaper. Both male or female, young or old, can take the Wine of Life. It is, in fact life preserver. Those who wish to enjoy good health and free flow of lively spirits will do well to take the Wine of Life It is different from anything ever before in use. It is sold by all druggists Price $1, in quart bottles.
Year: 1871

TO have the imploring hands of her


Clasped on his shoulder, and his check
Brushed over slowly by the stir


Of thrilling hair, and not to speak;
To see within the uplifted eyes


More than the fallen fringes prove
Enough to hide, to see the rise


of tear-drops in them and not move;
Would this he strange: As yet at last
What weary man may not do this,
Seeing when the longer pursuit is past.
To only cease how sweet it is:
To only cease and he as one


Who, when the fever leaves him, lies
Careless of what is come or gone,
(which yet he cannot realize;
For all his little thought is spent


In wandering what it was that gave
TO be so quiet and content


While yet he is not in the grave.
Year: 1871

ugIon Is to die ont altogether. We DO not be.
lieve that the pulpit possesses all the religlcu
Of mankind, as DR.. Hall would have us sup


pose nor that if the press should supersede
the pulpit religion would be any nearer ito
death than it has been repeatedly in the his


tory of the Church when the pulpit had no
press to contend against. We do not believe
the pulpit" and religion" are synonymous
terms any more than the ''press" and ''re-
ligion" are. We believe the press is doing the
Masters service as faithfully and as effectually
as the pulpit, and we believe, furthermore,
that the purity and piety of the ministry to-
day is very largely due to the elevating and
stimulating influence Of the press. And we
believe, also, that as many tears have been
shed and as much true sympathy manifested
by audiences who have witnessed the presenta-
tion of ''Uncle Toms Cabin" or the ''Old Curl
osity Shop" on the stage as by any who have
listened to the Doctors thrilling eloquence or
wholly spiritual then the pulpit might have the
pre-eminence; but as we are intellectual and
material beings also the press and the stage
are as necessary and each in its sphere as
serviceable as the pulpit. We remember that
while the pulpits of this land, North and
South, were quoting the law and the prophets
loudly and long in defence of slavery and in
proof of its great antiquity and divinity, the
press and the stage were holding it up before
the light of day as ''the sum of all villanies"
and they created that sublime public sentiment
in the North which, rising like mighty flood,
swept it away from the land. The press, the
pulpit and the stage, we repeat again, are CO.
ordinate agencies in the elevation of humanity,
and it will not do for one, and that one in
these days not the most useful or effcacious,
to slander the others. At least before it does
so it should be certain that its own record is
pure and clean.
Year: 1871

In continued explanation or the sentiment and
feeling which animate and move the democracy and
Revolutionary sReds" OF Spain against King
Amad eus and toward another change OF govern
ment, it is proper to refer to the contents Of q
republican circular, which mas been republished in
different cities of the kingdom and which made Its
appearance first at the moment OF PRINTS death.


The political authors say:-Doubt and hesitation
in the state TO which public affairs have arrived are
true national Crimes Is there any Spaniard who
would doubt and hesitate before the coup d'6tat OF
petty dictators II so that Spanard is coward,
al base and. unworthy citizen, degenerate and
miserable mana wretch. Are there any aI weak ana
comfort and that OF their family sustained and shell
tered in gnominy amt humiliation; to the dangers of
souls are already judged by the revolutionary con-
science. There are those who hide their cow
conscience, spelling the best projects, expecting
everything from the gun OF the soldier and nothing
VIII be swept away by the popular hurricane. The
country Is IN DANGER Are there any OF its sons who
win deny It's glorious origin Who IS the son who
does not feel his brow and mis- heart ache on looking
In the face or his mother, spit upon and 6uneted her
loftiness Inundated, and ner honor DETAINED by an
lntrudcr--a foreign tyranta What shall we do9
Shall we waltz Shall we permit that a tyrant from
Italy shall ensave the valorous Spanish people, and
the apao con no nSna free and "a
and cOwardy, VINO by their IN Inference and their
cowardlce make themselves accomplices and par
the country Is IN danger ITO arms Down with
the existing order OF things VtU1 the nonored
spanish army Viva the national sovereignty
V,Ua the revolution ~ To the republicans or
Madrid-It Is Necessary to fix the proper moment
for the armed struggle The republican party OF
revolutionary movement, which, TO the cry OF
"DOwn with the existing government Away with
the foreigner !" Will conclude the unworthy farce
which dishonors and imp0versnes US. The men OF
the Con.b0te recommend 10 their brethren in Madrid
subOrdination and energy. and will give them due
warning OF the fitting moment
Year: 1871

LONDON, March II, 1871.
received brief, but very significant and
important special telegraph letter from the
HERALD correspondent in Madrid this morning,
and proceed to forward its contents to New
York by cable report.


The HERALD special writer dates in the
Spanish capital on the 11th instant, in the
evening, and says The political agitation is
extending and becoming more fierce in differ
ent portions Of the kingdom.


/ have to announce to-day the preva-
lance Of serious riotous disturbances
in the provinces. In the city Of Alicante
the insurgents, for they may be classed very
fairly as such, have come into direct collision
with the authorities. The members of an
armed mob have just fired on the Mayor OF
the town when he was, at the head of the
municipal officers, engaged in the dispersion
of tumultuous assemblage.



counter.


The candidates of the electoral opposition
who are seeking for seats in the Cortes are
obtaining triumph in many of the parla-
mentary districts in consequence of the ex-
istence of this condition of affairs.


THE KING ANXIOUS; OR INUNDATED?
His Majesty King Amadeus remains in the
capital having suspended his preparations
for the purpose of making trip to Alassio to
meet the Queen Maria Victoria, who is now
conyalescent from her recent attack Of illness,
but awaits the advent of her husband before
she journeys onward towards Madrid. -.~
Year: 1871

Sleep is much modified by habit. Thus
an old artilleryman often enjoys tranquil
repose while the cannon are laundering
around an engineer has been known to
fall asleep within boiler, while his fel-
lows were beating it out on the inside with
their ponderous hammers; and the repose
of miller is nowise incommoded by the
noise of his mill. Sound ceases to be
stimulus to such men, and what would
have proved an inexpressible annoyance
to Others, is by them altogether unheeded.
1t is common tor carriers to sleep on horse
back and coachmen on their coaches.
During the battle of the Nile, some boys
fell asleep on the deck amid the deafening
thunder of that dreadful engagement
Nay, silence itself may become a stimulus
while a sound ceases to be so. Thus,
miller being very ill, his mill WAS stopped
that he might not be disturbed by its noise;
but this, so far from inducing sleep, pre-
vented it altogether; and it did not take
place until the mill was set agoing. For
the same reason, the manager of some
vast iron works, who slept close to them,
amid the incessant din of hammers, forges
and furnaces, would awake if there was
any cessation ofthe noise during the night.
To carry the illustration still further, it has
been noticed that person who falls asleep
near a church, the bell of which was ring
ing, may not hear the sound during the
whole of his slumber, and be neverthe-
less aroused by its sudden cessation. Here
sleep must have been imperfect, otherwise
he would have been insensible to the sound.
The noise of the bell was not stimulus; it
was its cessation which, by breaking the
monotony, became so, and caused the
sleeper to awake NdcniSh.
Year: 1871

On the 18th of Sept, lGys about o clock,
the guarded litter passed the draw bridge of
the Bastile, and the prisoner was placed in
one of the rooms of the tower of La Ber-
taudiere. Here, for five years, the Man in
the Mask is lost to sight Yet tradition has
thrown a faint and doubtful light upon the
singular story. II is said that the prisoner
was always treated with unusual Difference;
that his jailer mover sat down in his pres
encc; that G was supplied with every lux
ury; that he was clothed in the finest linen
and the costliest laces, for which he showed
an oXtravagant iondness; that his table was
abundant; that he amused his leisure by
playing ON the guitar. But from all inter
course with the world around him he was
sternly cut of. His mask was never raised
even when he took his food, and orders
were given to kill him should lac attempt
to remove il.


An aged physician of the Bastile, who had
often attended him, stated that he had new
er seen his face, although he had examined
his tongue. lie was finely formed, said the
doctor; his complexion was dark, his voice
low and soft. Yet he never complained of
his condition, nor gave the least indication
of who he was. A perpetual terror had
probably broken down within him every
thought of resistance to his royal prosecutor.
A doubtful story is told that Mt st. Marguer-
ite the prisoner one day wrote with knife
on n silver plate which he had used at din
ner, and threw II out of the window toward
boat that lay on the shore near the foot of
the tower. A fisherman, the owner of the
boat, found the plate and brought it to the
governor. He asked the fisherman, in as
tonishment and alarm, "Haye you read
what is written on this platter" Has any
one seen IL in your possession" Tho man
replied that he could not read and that he
had shown 1t to no one. The governor de-
tanned him until he had made sure that he
spoke the truth, and then dismissed him,
saying; at is happy for you that you can
not read" Another legend relates that the
prime minister of France, Louvois, visited
the masked prisoner in his cell at st. Mar
guerite, and during the interview refused
to sit down in his presence. He evidently
treated the miserable captive as if he were
his superior.


For five years the Man of the Iron Mask
survived his removal to the Bastile. Win
ter and summer his narrow cell in the lone
ly tower echoed to the note of his mourn
ful guitar, almost the only sound that awoke
! its utter silence. His youth and manhood
passed away, and he had never heard the
sweet voices of sympathy, of friendship, of
compassion, or of love. The suspicious
| tones of the cautious Saint Mars, and the
stealthy tread of his spies, were the only
sounds with which he was familiar. Around
him he might here the murmur Of busy
Paris; at 81. Marguerite he may have caught
the roar Of the tempest-tossed waves. But
he must have forgotten, in his endless cap
tiyity, the cheerful sounds of his childhood,
] or perhaps lancied them revived In the gem
Year: 1871

CHRISTIAN BELIEF.-The Christian Un-
ion has an article on this subject-probably
by Mr.. Beecher-from which we condense
this little sermon "That belief is virtue,
and doubt sin, is general and strong
feeling among men of religious education.
On the contrary, belief in the sense Of in
tellectual assent TO religious truth, has OF
itself no power whatever to make the life
right or to bring man into acceptance
with God. a man is under no moral OBJ
legation to suppress the honest workings OF
his own mind but let no man who Is sim
cerely and earnestly trying to reach the
truth, feel that he is SHINING because he is
questioning beliefs that to others are sa-
cred. Wherein lies the virtue of 'beliefT
We answer, without belief man is without
working force. There is not Il more un-
natural and pliable sight than the man
who believes nothing. Skepticism is the
parent of weakness. But-and here is a
point of supreme importance-it is how we
believe quite as much as what We believe,
that settles our character and our fate. 1t
is quality rather than quantity. Not over
how wide Il field of subjects our spiritual
convictions extend but how vivid they
are. II is only in the higher forms that re-
ligious belief has any value. 1t must be,
in some degree, realization. And the
best test of realization is fruit"
Year: 1871

newsboys. They came to be so kind and
chivalrous toward him that not boy a.
moDg them all would go noar little Bens
beat, not boy of them would take Gus
toner from him. am glad to write that
Of them. They were glad to remember 1t
too, after that happened which did hap
pen. f..gI


So for months that weak little boy earned
supper for himself and his mother Peo-
pie were very kind TO him mostly. Ladies
and gentlemen bought papers of the pretty
golden haired child, even when they did
not want them. Car drivers often Stacked
up little when they saw him coming, so
that he might climb on safely, and even
the big policeman used TO watch him care
fully across the street. Little Ben learned
more of the big world than he ever thought
was 10 be known more than was goodfor
a child to know, perhaps. lie used TO look.
at the fine carriages and wonder whether.
he could ever sell papers enough to buy
carriage Ho wondered what he would do
when he was a man. He would not be a
newspaper editor, he thought because ed
itors were always so cross, and in such n
hurry, anu didn't seem TO have much mon
ey he noticed. May be he would be u
street car driver. He liked that better. Or
may be he would even have TO go and be a
Legislature, and have to be hauled about
in II hack and gaped at. lie would not like
that at all. On the whole he thought he
would be a millIman, he told his mother,
because a milkman could ride all day in



than anybody else. And little Ben learned
some bad words and rough ways from the
other boys, too. But he never said the bad
words before his mother, never. And he
always gave her every penny of his little
earnings, not even keeping enough TO buy
a pocket knife with two blades though he
wanted it more than anything else in the
world.


At last a terrible thing happened.
hardly know how to write it down. for
when go to write of that my hand shakes
and the tears come in spite of me, and
somehow seem to be writing of one who
was very near kin to me.


One afternoon little Ben went out merri-
ly TO sell his papers, his SLENDER delicate
hands and pale face very clean, and his
long, bright curls shining in the sun. His
mother watched him ont of sigbt from bor
window. lust as alwavs. That was tbo last
time she ever curled little Ben's long bright
hair the last time she was over to watch
her darling from the window. Poor LITTLE
Ben!


He had sold three papers. and the little
fellow climbed into n street car and sold
another. He meant TO stem off at the
crossing. but the child was very LITTLE very
weak, and missed his footing and fell mn
der tbe car Tn an instant tho hooyv ,yhoo1


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Year: 1871

A VERIrABLE FIRE-EArER.--They
have in Caroline county, Maryland ver~
liable FIRE eater named Coker, colored
man. The Eaton journal says of him:


Cocker the negro ire-eater from Caroline
county, was in Easton aud was induced
to give an exhibition of his fre-proof
qualities, of which so much had been
said. He Tapped his tongue several times
on red hot shovel, rubbed tho same hot
shovel on the bottom of his foot, and pour,
ed melted lead into his mouth, where he
let it remain until il hardened. There
was no legerdemain about tit was
done in the presence of a number of gen.
tlemen Immediately around him, and by
whom he was closely watched to prevent
imposition. A physician examined his
mouth but could fnd no evidence 81
burns, or that the heat had any affect
upon him. It is certainly wonderful,
and an examination Of his skin worthy
the attention of scientific men,"
Year: 1871

| greatly fear that evil has bcfallen Mar
garet."


They found the closet door locked and
to their repeated knockings there came
no response from within.


Algernon then applied the key and the
opened door revealed q fearful sight.


With fearfully distorted, purple face,
the robber lay on the floor, stone dead,
and little removed from him pale and
quiet, lay Margaret.


Algernon bore her down stairs and in
TO the open air, but it was very long be-
fore she gave any sign or token Of lite
And it was week before she was able
to give 4 detailed account of what had
happened during the night of horror in
the oak closet


But she had saved the money, as she
undertook, to pay the debt Of gratitude
owed by her to the father And before
the winter was over Algenon married
Margaret, and together they dwell in the
old homestead, and on stormy nights
they tell their children the story y OF the
old oak closet