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Year: 1873

SENT TO JAIL FOR NEGLEcTING HER CHILD.
In the Hastings Court yesterday, Sophia
Turner (colored) plead guilty of abandoning
her child, and was sent to Jail by Judge Gui-
gon for three months. The child, it will be
remembered, was found some time ago in an
alley south of Main street running from
Sixth to Seventh streets.
Year: 1873

PROFESSOR YOUNG, the renowned magi'
clan, continues to draw good houses nightly
at the Virginia Opera-House. All who have
not secured prize will have to go this week
and try their luck, as the Professor leaves
the city in few days.
Year: 1873

THE NEW POSTAL CARDS-very useful for busi-
ness purposes. Cards or announcements of any
kind printed OH them win pass through the mail for
one cent. Printing for these cards neatly and
cheaplY done at this office.
Year: 1873

Boy 16 or ~ years Old is want
ed at THIS OFFICE to learn the
Printing Trade. Nome need apply
unless they have been one or more
years i'm the High school or have
served one or more years at the
trade.
Year: 1873

Another rise in insurance premiums has
been decreed in Boston by the underwriters,
who in their business capacity regard the
Hubs Fire Department as wholly inefficient,
although in their private and unoficial char
acter as solid men they wouldn't for moment
allow anybody else to say SO.
Year: 1873

offer forsale the four lots designated on the
Plat as l, 2 3 and 4, in Miller's Addition. They
oil front on Portsmouth Street. and run back to
an alley, and each has an alley on one side,
thus rendering them most convenient for build
ing purposes. They are the most beautiful lots
in town, in good locality and in a part of
town where much improvement is in progress.
Those lots embrace the lower side of my or
chard, near my residence. They all contain
choice bearing fruit trees, and are in n high
state of cultivation. The price is five hundred
dollars each. Call and see them soon, as thoy
will undoubtedly go Off rapidly at that price.


D. MACKLEY.
Year: 1873

"Anolhof view which the people may as well
consider once more, is the simple fact that West
II he had been a colored man, would haze been
hung months ago. He would never have escaped
as West who is white, is dong. How long wall
We thus mock insticc2 - Commercial.


1t is very silly in the Commercial to continue to
draw its distinctions in this case. The mass Of our
people believe that West should be hung, and II
10 NO fault Of theirs that he was not executed long
aaO. II the Commercial is dissatisfied with the
jury system, let it say SO. II West had been ne
gro, and his victim . white man, Te believe be
would never have had trial in Court. He would
have stood about a. much chance of this as q
sOulhsh white man would with jury OF negroes,
OE men whose minds were as greatly prejudiced
aPainst them as that Of the editor OF the Conner
rial
Year: 1873

prices correspond
ing the
We have concluded reduce immense stock which laid early
the half


Call and bargains fail suited either in style
price, at the old stand, 2O6 and 20S Market
Year: 1873

New YORK, August 16.-This morn
ing's mail brings full detailsof railway
disaster at Wigan England, On the Lon
don and Northwestern railroad, on the
morning Of Saturday August the second
the leading features Of which the cable
gave summary, and in which Sr
John AnsOn lost his life. The number
almost instantly killed, or taken out
dead in the course Of the forenoon was
ten; number Of wounded was twenty
six, Of whom one, John Foster, Of Ok
ford, died the same day, and
Robert Goodman is another reported
to have died next night. A little boy
died on Monday afternoon. At eighteen
minutes to one O'Clock the tourist train,
speeding nOrthwaTd, came dashing on,
drawn by two engines, at the rate OF not
much less than forty miles per hour
when a sudden wrench shook all the
carriages from the first to the last, and
while eighteen of the number kept
the rails, the others in the real
parted suddenly from the foremost
portion of the train and took the siding
at the points where the down line Il
crossed obliquely. The ditehed carriages
veered over against that portion OF the
platform which abuts on the siding, and
plowed the flags and earth up for 8
length Of twenty or thirty yards. The
leading carriage, which was Of compact
construction, leaped the metals and
bounded upon the platform, throwing
itself up in mid-air and alighting bot
tom uppermost. This ear was smashed
into a thousand splinters. The two
succeeding carriages sprang from the
metals TO the platform and fell over
with a terrific crash upon their sides,
and one or two others turned almost
completely over a few yards beyond,
blocking the siding, smashing them
selves into indescribable W ecks. One
corner Of the wall from which springs
the roof Of the station was struck and
knocked out of plumb for several yards
along the length Of the track. A brick
wall adjoining, built between the
railway and Queen, street which
is five or six yards below the level OF
the railway, was partly knocked down.
and large fragment of one Of the ear
riages, as well as the mangled body OF
female passenger, was hurled over a
wall, falling upon and through slated
roof, portion of Walkers foundry; 9
number of men were working, but none
of them were injured.
Year: 1873

Special to the Appeal


HUNTSVILLE, ALA, August 16.-
The committee of investigation Of the
Memphis and Charleston railroad re-
turned from Stevenson last night, and
left this place for their home this morn
ing. The trip was without bitch from
the beginning to the end. The investi-
CATION was in the highest degree salts
factory. The charges brought against
the Security company were refuted by
solid facts. The committee expressed
themselves as highly pleased with the
condition of the road, rolling-stock, and
general management of the same.
They find the eastern division of the
road equal in every respect to the west
ern.


The crops of corn and cotton in North
Alabama are, on an average, fair. The
health of Huntsville is perfect.
Year: 1873

THE capitalists of Chicago and New
York who have undertaken 10 build q
rRilrOad-a through line-fro the form
er city TO Savannah, Georgia, are
moving in the enterprise with all the
earnestness that usually eharacterizes
them. The people Of the west are tired
of the mOHOpOlies and schemers who
now control the only lines Of travel from
the west 10 the Atlantic seaboard, and
viii have shorter. cheaper and quicker
routes if they are to be had. Where
there is plenty of competition there is
always sure to be at least a measure OF
justice for the producers who bear nearly
all the burdens of the republic.
Year: 1873

spRING-STYLE SILK HATs.-The style of silk hat
cold by tho lrst-class retailers In New York city s
the same style that P. WEIsIGER & Co. are selling
now. This hat is light and stylish, ana decidedly
the ueaest hat that has been brought out for long
Year: 1873

The disaster was so soon over that hun
dreGs could know nothing of the danger Of
300 women and children. A majority were
swept out of the steerage and drifting be-
yond the vessel on tue immense waves,
were carried seaward and seen no more.
Year: 1873

THE SPIDERS BRlDGE.-One


chilly day was left at home alone,


and after | was tired of reading


Robinson Ctasoe | caught a spider


and brought him into the house to


play with. Well, I took a wash.


basin and fastened up a stick in it


like a liberty pole or a vessels


mast, and then poured in water


enough to turn the mast into an


island for my spider, whom | named


Crusoe, and put on the mast. AS
soon as he was fairly cast away he
anxiously commenced running
around to find the road to the
mainland. He'd scamper down
the mast to the water, stick out 9
foot, get it wet, shake it, run round
the stick and try the other side,
and then rua back to the top again.
Pretty soon it became a serious
matter with Mr.. Robinson, and he
sat down to think it over. And in
a moment he acted as if he wanted
to shout for boat, and | was afraid
he was going to be hungry, SO |
put a little molasses on the stick.
A fly came but Crusoe wasn't hun
cry for flies just then. He was
homesick for his web in the corner
OF the woodshed. lie went slowly
down the pole to the water and
touched it all around, shaking his
feet like pussy when she vets her
stockings in the grass, and suddenly
a thought appeared to strike him.
Up he went like rocket to the
top and commenced playing circus.
He held one foot in the air, then
and turned round two or
three times. lie got excited and
nearly stood on his head before |
found out what he knew, and that
was this-that the draft ofair made
by the fire would carry a line ashore
on which he could escape from his
desert island, He pushed out a
web that went floating in the air
until it came on the table. Then
he hauled on the rope until it was
strong enough to hold him and
walk ashore, | thought he had
earned his liberty, SO l put him
back in his woodshed again.
Year: 1873

only see thousands of glittering uni
forms and superb horses dashing
madly toward the crowd. Nearer
and nearer they come, and ever at
the same terrific pace. 1t will be
death for the Imperial party who
are on the ground below! Sud-
denly the Grand Dukes sword flies
up again in the air; the officers pass
the word along; still the $4,000
horsemeu shake the earth. The
Grand Dukes sword falls and the
mighty mass comes to a stop as if
transfxed by an electric shock.
Perfect silence reigns. The long
line Of cavalry is as calm and steady
as the marble pa ACE itself, and far
back through the centers all is
tranquil.
Year: 1873

A correspondent Of the Daily
Ne'cs, in writing Of the late review
of the Russian cavalry in honor of
the visit of the Emperor of Ger
many, says:


In what other country can one see
horses like those which dash along
the NeveSka 50 free, and fresh, and
graceful? In what other country
do they have such a glossy skin,
such swan-like necks, such delicate
limbs? And III what other country
do they offer such material for cav
airy?


The sleek and muscular beasts
had evidently been selected as care
fully as the men themselves. For
each battalion they were all of one
color-now a glossy black, now a
rich brown, now a light gray, aud
the uniformity seemed to extend
even to their shape and motion.
The effect was singularly striking.
There were probably $4,000 men
in all-the cuirassierS with their
white coats and heavy black horses,
the husSars with their pixies, the
mounted greladiers and dragons,
at the wings the reckless CosSacks
again. The Grand Duke Nicholas
waved his sword and the entire
force moved toward the Emperor
and the spectators, AT first it was
= light trot, then an easy gsllop,
then faster and faster, till one could
Year: 1873

-


about the streets in this city, ragged


dirty and penniess, subsistirg OF


free lunches and the charities o


gamblers, has not slept IN bed fol


months, who, during the war, was


one of the most daShing cavalry


officers in the Union army, and


promoted from the rank Of first lieu
tenant to full brigadier and brevet


major-general for brilliant exploits
on the field of battle, and who for
a long time had a large and impor-
tant command.


lie has been here for two Or three
months under an assumed name,
being ashamed to dim the brilliancy
OF his record in service Of his degre-
dation under his former honored
name. He is generally very reti-
cent, having little to do with any
one, or talking but little, save when
''engineeriug" for a drink, at which
he is remarkably successful.


A few weeks ago, while lying
heipleSsly drunk in the rear part Of
a Third street saloon, some men
thought to play a joke on him by
stealing his shirt, aud proceeded to
strip him. Underneath his shirt
and suspended by a string around
his neck, was a small canvas bag,
which the men opened, and found
it to contain his commission as Bre-
vet Major General, two congratu-
latory letters, one from Grant and
one from President Lincoln, pho
tograph OF a little girl and a curl of
halr-"a chestnut shadow" that
doubtless one day crept over the
brow of some loved one.


When these things were discov-
cred, even the halt.drnnken men
who found them telt respect tor
the mans former greatness and pity
for his fallen condition, and quietly
returned the bag aud contents to
where they found them, and re-
placed the sleeper's clothes upon
him Recently anews reporter tried
to interview the man and endeavor
to learn something Of his life in the
past few years, but he declined to
communicate anything. lie cried
like child when told his name
and former position were ascertain
ed, and with tears trinkling down
his cheeks, said: "For Gods sake,
sir, don't publish my degradation,
or my name at least, il You are de-
termined to say something about it.
1t i enough that | know myself
how low | have become. Will you
promise that much? 1t will do no
good, but will do my friends great
deal Of harm, as fortunately they
think | died in South America,
where I went at the close Of the
war"


lntemperance and the gambling
table, he said, had wrought his
ruin.-Kansas City Nail.
Year: 1873

The heat during the past week
has been very oppressive, and those
whose business did not call them
out in the sun were glad to remain
within door and sing
"Oh, for lodge in garden of cucumbers.
Oh, for an iceberg or two to control!
Oh, for vale which at midday the dew


cumbers!


Oh, for a pleasure trip up to the pole!"
Year: 1873

The local editor Of one Of our
exchanges has buStling paragraph
as follows: Delinquent subscribers
should not permit their daughters
to wear this for a hustle. There
being so much due on it, there is
danger Of taking a cold"
Year: 1873

JESUS MORENO was not long since a sick man at Florence but is now healthy and quartered for six months in the county jail. He consulted a doctor in his aff1ic- ton, and the doctor in advising him to take something, neglected to say what he should take, therefore he took another mans horse. For this error he was arrest ed, taken before Justice Summers and by him found guilty of petit larceny and sen fenced to six months in the Territorial penitentiary. l.. Dupuy escorted him to his new quarters by stage on Tuesday. The medical Fraternity should be very careful in making their prescriptions and try and not have suffering patient take a horse when blue mass would suit him better.
Year: 1873

pD- About forty gentlemen have been seen on the streets this week wearing new OTercoats. Upon inquiry where the fire had been, the answer was that there had been none but that ZeckendOrf Bros. were selling goods at such low prices that it was no advantage to attend fires. The new firm promises to undersell every merchant in this Territory for the reason that their goods cost them 9 per cent less than those of others, which assertion they will eX- plain more explicitly next week. %
Year: 1873

SALMON SPAWNING ON THE SACRA-
MENro.-lf you visit this region during
the last of June or in July. you may
watch the salmon spawning, a most
curious and remarkable sight. The
great fish then leave the deep pools in
which they have been quietly lying for
some weeks before, and fearlessly run
up on the shallow ripples. Here, ami
mated by kind of fury, they beat the
sand off the shoals with their tails, un-
til often female salmon thus labors
till her tail fins are entirely worn off.
She then deposits her eggs upon the
coarse gravel and the greedy trout, who
are extravagantly fond of salmon eggs,
rush up to eat them as the poor mother
lays them. They are, 1 believe, watch
ed and hatched and beaten off the male
salmon, which accompanies the female
for this purpose. When the female
salmon has deposited her eggs, and the
male salmon has done his part of the
work, the two often bring stones of
COllSlueTdUlt Size III licll AlOutHo "
cover up the eggs, and protect them
from the predatory attacks of the trout.
And thereupon, according to the uni
versal testimony of the fisherman of
these waters, the salmon dies. was
assured that the dead bodies often cum
Der the shore after the spawning season
is over; and the mountaineers all as
sert that the salmon, having once
spawned up here, does not go down to
the ocean again. They hold that the
young salmon stay in the upper waters
for year, and 60 to sea about eighteen
months after Matching; and it is not
uncommon, l believe, for fishermen
hereabout to catch grilse weighing from
two to four pounds. These bite some
times at the fly. The salmon bite, too,
when much smaller, for l caught one
day young salmon not more six inches
long. This little fellow was taken with
bait of salmon eggs, and his bright
silvery sides made him quite different
from the trout which I was catching
out the same pool. His head also had
something of the fierce, predatory,
hawk-like form which the older sal
mons has.-Harper's Magazine.
Year: 1873

Mr.. G. Gerard, now of Philadelphia,
but formerly American Consul at Cape
Town, Cape of Good Hope, communi-
Gates to the press of the former city the
following amusing Renaissance OF his
African Consular experience: There
is very singular custom among the
farmers-how to get wife. If you
desire to get married you should first
make inquiry whether the lady you love
has horse if so, you must ask her
whether she has horse for sale. If
she says No. then you had better
quit the house at once. She does not
like you. But if, on the contrary, she
says Yes,' it is a good sign, but she
will ask you a very high price. If the
amount named is paid on the spot, the
engagement is concluded as fully as if
the marriage was consummated by the
parson.


"On my arrival at the Cape, l did
not know of this custom. | wanted to
purchase horse, and | was informed
by an old Dutch resident that widow


had one to sell. l followed
the address given and soon arrived at
the door of the widow (who by the way,
was not bad-looking). l asked her
whether she had horse to SELL She
looked at me very sharp; then asked
me whether l had some letters of in
PRODUCTION. I said that l was the
American Consul, and would pay cash
for her horse In that case,' said she,
letters are not necessary paid
down the sum demanded then, after
taking cup of coffee, she sent her
horse by her groom, and both accom-
panied me home. On the road the
groom asked me thousand questions,
Master said he, "will my mistress
go live with you in town, or will you
come live with u.s. You will love my
mistress, for she was very kind to my
old master (laughing). Where will the
wedding be- docking at me and laugh
ing). Truly thought the poor fel-
low has drunk too much or he is an i'm
becile.' l felt sorry for him. When |
arrived home l found many people at
my door congratulating me, not for the
horse, but for the acquaintance of the
widow. Truly said one, you have
been very successful She is very rich,
said another. | really did not know
what it meant, and l began to be very
uneasy, when, to my very great surprise,
lady alihgted on my steps, and at
once recognized the widow. She very
coolly asked me when desired to have
the ceremony of the wedding performed.
Then, indeed, l fully perceived the
scrape in which l was, and told her
frankly that it was a horse l wanted,
and not wife. What said she, do
you mean to act thus to lady like me
If so, | shall send back for my horse,
and will repay you the money In a
few hours her groom was at my door
with the money. l gladly gave back
the horse, thankful to have thus escap-
ed. A few weeks after, however, the
widow was married; more ambitious
man had bought her horse"
Year: 1873

LAZY FARMERS.-LaZlneSS prevents
a man from getting off his horse to put
up the first rail that gets knocked off
the fence, and through his lazy neglect
a whole field of corn is seriously dam
aged.


Laziness keeps man from driving
one nail when one would do, and final
ly costs carpenters bill for extensive
repairs.


Laziness allows gate to get off the
hinges and lie in the mud or stand
propped by rails-or stable or barn
to leak and damage hundreds of dollars
worth of provender.


Laziness, in short, is the right and
proper name for nine -tenths of the ex-
cuses given for bad farming. By far
the most prolific of the many wastes
that are due to laziness is the waste of
ignorance. But this waste is in itself
SO great, and has so many ramifications
that we shall have to defer its discus
sion for another time.-Dirie Tenn.
Farmer.


FATTEN1NG HoGs.-I experimental
five years in fattening hogs, three with
meal well scalded and cooked before
feeding, and the other two in feeding
corn boiled. l shelled the corn from
the cob, and boiled it slowly in boil
er, and fed eight quarts per hog, daily,
keeping the boiler well covered all the
time, so as to have all the heat possible.
The hogs that fed with boiled corn
fattened fully one-fourth faster than
with meal, and the pork was well pack
ed with leaf lard and was solid and de-
licious enough for the most fastidious.
One of my neighbors has fattened his
hogs for several years past on dry meal,
giving two quarts to each hog three
times day; for drink he gives them
cold water. He claims this to be the
cheapest and best way. Certainly
there are no better than he raises, for
their age, and no cleaner, handsomer
pork.-Cor. The People.


THE GARDEN-Where the soil is
heavy, or where there is liability to
change, very little advantage is gained
in early sowing in the open air or early
transplanting, excepting with few
seeds or plants that endure the frost.
Late sown seeds, with unchecked
growth, will soon overtake and leave
behind the plants that have been re-
tarded and often checked in their
growth by cold.
Year: 1873

The colors of candy often excite re-
mark. Some are supposed to be poi
sonous, and on this subject the Ma'a,.fGc-
taSreT and Builder remarks: Litmus,
indigo, and aniline blue are harmless
blue colors, while chlorophyl, or the
green coloring matter of leaves, is
harmless green /; aniline green may also
be used. The idea that aniline colors
are poisonous is erroneous. 1t is true
that the aniline oil itself "a colorless
fluid from which the aniline colors are
made) is poison but the antidote is
to add something to change it into an
aniline color, when it becomes compare
lively harmless. The aniline colors are
also SO very powerful a coloring material
that only very minute quantity is
needed to color very large amounts OF
candy; SO that even if somewhat pois-
onous or injurious, it would be necessary
to consume several hundred pounds OF
candy at once in order to produce any
poisonous effects of the coloring matter. "
| This will interest young children and
schoolgirls, who would gladly run the
risk of danger could they banquet on
such a liberal scale. Another good
authority, however, maintains that all
aniline dyes are at least suspicious, and
should be avoided for all culinary pur-
poses.
Year: 1873

Here is a specimen of Jamaica negro
literature, in the shape of q love-letter
from colored school-master to his
sweetheart: "Dear Eliza I take the
liberty of myself to inform you this few
few lines hoping you may not offend as
often is. I had often seen you in my
hearts. Their are myriads of loveliness
in my hearts toward you. My loving
intentions were really unto another fe-
male, but now the love between and
she are very out now entirely. And
now his the excepted time I find to ex-
plain to my lovely appearance (pre-
sumably apparent love), &c but whether
if their be any love in your hearts or
mind towards me it is hard for to
know, but his I take this liberty to
inform you this kind, loving and affec-
tionate letter. :. Your affectionate
lover affraied. P. S.-Dear Eliza,
wether if you are willing or not. Please
to send me an ansure back. Do my
dear"