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Year: 1872

An old bachelor, pickingup book,
exclaimed, upon seeing q wOodcut
representing a man kneeling at the
foot of q woman, Before would
kneel to a woman I would encirele
my neck with q rope, and stretch it,"
And then. turning TO young woman
he inquired: do you not think il
would not be the best thing l could
do?" "It would undoubtedly be the
best for the woman, was the sareas-
tic reply.
Year: 1872

The champion mean man who daily
pssses over one Of our most prominent
Railroads, stauds on the rear platform
Of the last car on the train In order to
draw the full benefit Of the interest
on his money while the conductor Is
paasing through for the fares.
Year: 1872

It matters little what vocation 8
man chooses, hewill find little leisure
If he works well, outside of his even.
ings.


The farmer, the teacher, the bust.
ness man, are more nearly on an
equal here than is often thought. We
have never half understood what God
gave us evenings for, and so haven't
got half the good thought and life
from them that we ought. Almost
the most helpful winter we ever lived
was while working in woods and
feeding the stock, we read "Plutarch's Is
Lives" and studied Shakespeare until
we somewhat appreciated merry
Wives of Windsor, F" Hamletn - and
liking Lear" For the highest, and
sad to say-for the lowest flights OF
mortals the evening is the best part
Of the day.


1t has seemed to-day as though
winter had begun to let go its icy
clutch. It has been q winter of iron
nerve, and ought to teach US a lesson.


As a rule we make too little PIE
paration for cold weather. Unless
sickness and death are blessings it
hardly pays to try the burdening
process" A celebrated German SAYS:
" Only fools and beggars suffer from
cold the latter not being able to get
sufficient clothes, the Others not hav-
ing sense to wear them.n


Let Il be set down that before
another winter our homes shall be
made more snug, and the outdoor
conveniences better arranged. And
let us who love the farm be little
more merciful TO our beasts. II would
be hard TO measure the amount Of
dumb brute suffering that goes on in
our midst every winter. II the past
season has only taught Us that winter
Is tCfnter and ueedS to be prepared
for, it has not been wholly in vain.


Glancing over to-day's daily one
sees little but reports Of conventions
Uneasy rests the head that wears
a crown" and heads without crowns
don't seem TO rest at all.


We who are to honor and to fame
unknown y can take savage delight
as we look at our politicians. No
citizen of this great republic, as far as
heard from, ever held an Office that
was not doubiy and trebly paid for in
anxiety, abuse, or pangs Of defeat.
The highest damning that was ever
done land for that matter the lowest
slso) resulted from the most foolish
desire q soul ever had Yet it is vain
to say so. Sweet is yox pOpuli.


CLEMENT.
Year: 1872

NORFOLK, Va, December lO.-A fire
was discovered this morning issuing
from the cabin of a small sloop lying at
the dock foot of Roanoke street. John
French, Captain of the sloOp, was found
dead on the cabin floor with his face and
hands horribly burned and deep wound
on his right breast, supposed to have
been made with a dirk-knife. It is
thought that the Captain was murdered
for his money, and that the vessel was
fired TO conceal the crime.
Year: 1872

An unknown man was found hanging
to a tree about two miles from East st.
Louis yesterday. He had evidently been
killed by a blow on the temple, and
afterward suspended to limb Of syca-
more tree, only four feet from the
ground. The perpetrators Of the deed
are unknown.
Year: 1872

OF ophidians, the great anaconda SER
pent is unquestionably the most terrific
in character of all the reptiles on the
American continent.


Under the name of cuLebra de aqua, the
anaconda of Venezuela (E,mectes m,ri
nus) not unfrequently attains the length
of twenty, thirty, and even forty feet.
1t actually swallows animals larger than
its own body. The throat may be put
upon a stretch to admit a deer or q
cow, and the stomach is sufficiently
elastic to receive the mass. In gorging
a tall stag with antlers, they stick cross
wise at the angles of the mouth until
decomposition in one direction and pro-
digious muscular action in another sep
arate them from the skull, and then
the remnants of an engulfng carcass
slide down for digestion. They only
feed occasionally. After successfully
swallowing a crushed victim they can
go seven months or more without fur
ther food. Their skin is used for straps
when tanned, on account of toughness
and durability, in that country. Ser
pents inspire feeling of horror, large
| or small. There is an instructive dreao
of them in all human beings. And ye


they fulfill an important mission in the
economy of life, indispensable, viewed


by the law of equalization-or check


and balances in the domain of nature.
Year: 1872

In the district of Champagne the cul-
tivators have made good some of their
losses by the warm the rearing of snails
for the Paris market, where they bring
from two to three franks per hundred,
and which are known by the name of
Champagne oysters, as famous in their
way as the Ssrasburg Tates de foie grGs.
During the summer, after heavy dew
or rain, the peasants catch the snails as
they crawl out, with house on back, for
a promenade; contractors buy up the
mollusk, inclose them in a kind of park
fatten them on salads, thyme, mint,
parsley, etc. When large enough not
to pass through ring of a certain size,
they are fit for the table-or are sup
posed to be.
Year: 1872

By MARY C. BARTLETT.
I'm thinking of a night, love-


A year has since gone by
Whom side by eide we stood and gazed
Out on a winter sky.
The whole earth lay in shadow,


No star could yet be seen,
But whore the setting sun had burned
fingered a golden sheen.
Out on that clear, calm light we gazed,
Till but as things of naught
Seemed darkened earth and starless sky
And the life with sorrow fraught.
In all the universe there seemed.
That night q year ago
But two hearts full of untold love,
And golden sunset glow.
The sun has set tonight, love.


And golden are the skies,
And between these two bright sunsets
A year of suffering lies.
But forsetting All tonight. love.
1 revel IN the memory


Of that night one year ago.
Perchance thou too. tonight, love.
In this little lapse of rest,
Art looking out with weary eyes


Upon the glowing West;
And thinking of our deep. true love,
Thou dost rebellious grow,
That there's left us but tn e mem,ry
Of that night year ago.
Our way is hard. beloved.


Rough the ascent and steep.
And round US as we toll, apart,
The twilight shadows creep:
But looking up with eyes of faith,
A golden light serene
Is shown us. from the glorious Sun
Of Righteousness, unseon.
Then upward let us struggle.
Regardless of the pain,
Until at last, together,


The wondrous height we gain
Where nevermore q twilight,
Through all the endless days.
Can draw the Sun of Righteousness
From our enraptured gaze.
Year: 1872

CURIOUS FREAKS OF LIGHTNING
FITcHBuRa, MASS. July Is. A severe
thunder storm passed over this city
Yesterday afternoon, during which, the
lightning struck the house of Mr.. Geo.
c. Cady, doing considerable damage
The lightning struck one of the rods on
the house, melting off the point and
then passing down the rod to a level
with the windows of the second story,
passed directly through the side of
the house into a small cupboard
under the sink and from there to the
ground floor, entering closet where
crockery was stored and broke all the
crockery and glass in the room, Thence
it went out through the side of the
house and entered the large pipes of
the city water works and burst them in
several places, one piece being more
than 600 feet from where the fluid first
struck. The family of Mr. Cady were
away at the time and no one was in the
house The damage is estimates at
$500 to Mr.. Cady. and the same to the
water works.
Year: 1872

SupERsTITIoN.- a recent meeting
of the Polytechnic Club of the American
Institute, Mr.. Boyle told the following
incident:


At newly-erected lighthouse along
the New Island Sound, an old sailor was
recently appointed as keeper. On one
of the first evenings, when trimming his
lamp, he neglected his instructions to
draw the curtains down, and the setting
sun, shining through one of the large
lenses. had, of course, its rays concen-
trated in the focus, and as here the lamp
is placed, the heat was sufficient to light
it, to his utter amazement. He put 1t
out, but had become SO nervous for the
whole night that his own image fright
ened him as he saw it reflected in the
plate glass of the lantern, with the dark
sky outside and the strong light inside
The next morning at daybreak he put
out the light, when at sunrise the sun
lit it up again, for the same reason as 1t
happened the evening before. This was
too much for the old salt. He immedi-
ately packed his trunk and left, without
notice to any one, and was only missed
when at night the lighthouse remained
dark. When found in the neighboring
village he declared that the lighthouse
was bewitched, that satan had lighted
his lamp twice, and that he had seen
him IN propria persona during the whole
night outside the tower, looking at him.
1t was, of course. his own image that ne
had seen. His supposition was, to De
sure, not complimentary to himself IN
regard to his own appearance, but ne
was not to be induced to return at any
price, and another keeper had to be
provided,
Year: 1872

The San Diego Union of July 31 has this item:

 It appears that the Legislature of the State of Sonora has recently, by decided vote, ratified the concession for this line of railroad lately made to San Francisco company, granting lands, right of way etc. The special correspondent of The San Francisco Bulletin, writing from Guaymas, says that the United States Counsul at that port has already proceeded to the Capital to secure the final approval of the Supreme Government. As soon as this is obtained, the immediate commencement of the work is promised.

 In our conversations with Agent Eldridge, as well as in the perusal of many articles upon the subject, we have been impressed that the company is an English one, and we shall regret if it prove as stated above. We would prefer company of, Amer jeans, but from the excessive talk and little practical action on railroad build ing, lately and now indulged in by San Francisco, we must moderate our hopes of a railway to Guaymas if it's construction depend upon men of that city. We can only think of one San Francisco man who amounts to much as an actual railroad builder, and he is now in South America and likely to remain there. There may, however, be some enterprising day laborers in San Francisco who are perfecting this Guaymas franchise and mean to build the road. As the State of Sonora has probably given enough means to build it, it don't seem necessary to have capitalists in the Company especially any of the San Francisco sort. As wonders have not ceased to occur, San Francisco may yet astonish the world and her many friends by building railroad, and it is just pos sible they may go into foreign coun- try to do it-Sonora for instance.
Year: 1872

FOR the benefit of the many soldiers in Arizona, we this day publish the full instructions of the General Land Office, regarding the mode of obtain ing titles to the public lands under a recent law giving them certain rights over citizens generally; but it will be observed that in no event can title be secured without at least an actual resi- dence upon and improvement of the land for one year.
Year: 1872

AN effort is being made to obtain executive clemency in the case of R. M. Hargrave, under sentence of death in Prescott, for the murder of Ignacio Rubio. The ground upon which the application is based is the common one of insanity. We are advised that the excuse of drunkenness is also urged. Whatever weight is due to the insanity plea, it ought to have, but the drunken plea should be treat ed as an aggravation of the crime.
Year: 1872

The Fouse Committee on Post
Offices and Postroads have over
ruled the Postmaster General in re
laiion to the charge os Gouble post
age upon prepaid matter, and hav,
decided that his IS a strained con
st uetion Of tho law. They will re
port a bill to settle the matter anC
get around his decision.
Year: 1872

No one remedy is louder
called for by the necessities
of the American people than
a sure and safe cure for
Fever and Ague. Such
we are now enabled to offer,
with q narfact certnfnfv flIrt
Year: 1872

IN reply to correspondent, Chi cago journalist says that he is not quite certain whether his supply of original poetry is sufficient for the Winter, as it is yet uncertain if he will need an extra stove in the office. That newspaper mans "head is level"
Year: 1872

/ To succeed at Grant, the agent must

 be the dictator and not suffer the In

 dians to control, snub and insult him

 He must by precept and action show them that their murderous and thiev- ling raids on the settlements are terri lble crimes, and endeavor to quickly bring to punishment any that are en- gagged in such raids. If he has any doubts that the Indians do leave that Reservation for theft and murder in the ;settlements, the quicker he wholly re- moves them from his mind the better,

 and the more hearty will he receive

 the support of the people in his diff cult duties.
Year: 1872

As soon as Horace is inauguratcd he
proposes to enforce his new plan for
paying of the public debt. Every Of
fice-holder will be required to own a
patch Of ground and devote so much
time each year to the raising Of crop
Of cabbages, the proceeds Of which are
to constitute an agricultural Re
demption Fund.-" whereby he promises
to wipe out the debt before the close
Of his administration. y
Year: 1872

AN enraged fisherman in the south
part Of Hinsdale, Mass, recently at
tempted to shoot one Of two men near
him, but failed, whereupon they caught
the would-be murderer each by boot,
quickly reversed his perpendicular po-
sition, and dipped him gently, candle
fashion, twice in the Connecticut river
up to the ankles, and then laid him on
the bank to dry. In due time there
was resurrection, and the fisherman
does not feel so murderous as he did.
Year: 1872

The object OF Red Cloud in visiting
Washington Is to apologize to the
Great Father for the killing of man
aud stealing some horses In March by
some of his unruly subjects. There Is
10 doubt the apology will be at once
accepted. The Great Father may de-
mand an Indemnity for the stolen
property, but Red Cloud may feel
assured that no claims will be pre-
sented for indirect damages.
Year: 1872

The ruin of most men dates from
some vacant hour. Occupation Is the
armor OF the soul. There Is satrical
poem IN which the devil Is represented
as fishing for men, and fitting his bait
to the tastes and business OF his prey
but the idlers, he said, gave him no
trouble, as they bit the naked hook.
Year: 1872

The Brownsville Ranchero relates the
following:


On last Wednesday a serious row took
place near Boca Chica, during which a
Mexican received a dangerous wound in the
breast. 1t seems that two Mexican women
who were out in the sand hills picking up
wood found a small earthen pot filled with
money, which they were afraid to take
away at that time on account of some men
who we're near, SO they replaced the money
and agreed to return for it together on the
following day, but one Of the women re-
turned that night and removed the money.
When this was discovered, the husband of
the other woman got two Mexicans to assist
him, and visited the woman who had hid
the money the second time to make her tell
where it was, but both she and her husband
refused to disclose it to them, whereupon
row occurred and her husband was shot
in the breast His assailants, becoming
alarmed, escaped to Mexico.
Year: 1872

LATEST NEWS FROM ALL POINTS
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, AND BANKERS
TENNESSEE AND OCEAN CANAL
FORTHCOMING REPORT OF SURVEYOR
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS FOR A WEEK
Steamship COnfscated for Smuggling
INSTRUMENTATION IN LONDON POLICE
Motion to Censure Gambetta
THEIRS In STATE OF AGITATION
EXCITING DEBATE IN ASSEMBLY
THE ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
MarengO Delegation Released
ARREST OF A GARROTER
PASSENGER TRAIN RUN INTO
FREIGHT CONDUCTOR CULPABLB
Year: 1872

About the Representatives elected in ST.
Landry parish, the OpeIousas journal says:


Two candidates for the Legislature ON
the convention Sicket, Messrs. CAN'T and
Estilette, were elected, but not by the
strict convention or Bourbon vote. Mr.
CAN'T always declared his independence of
the convention, and stated at all times and
places, publicly and privately, that he did
not seek or care for the nominations; but
that if the convention choose to support
and vote for him it could so. without any
obligation on his part to support the tlcABet.
Mr. CAN'T received large cOlOred vote, as
well as a large independent white vote;
and his election, like that of Judge Morgan,
is due not to the convention, but to his own
influence and personal popularity.


MIR. Estllette also received a considerable
independent white vote; and at some poll
ing places he was run on the regular Re-
publican ticket the Republicans having
only three candidates Of their own. He
does not owe bie election therefore to the
convention, bus to his own and other in
huences. Mr. EStilette, we understand
was very senRibly advised by friend not
to rely solely on the Bourbon or convention
vote, it he wished TO be elected and he
followed the advice.


Tho other two candidates on the Bourbon
or convention ticket, hessrs Gardiner and
Webb, who had 10 outside combinations,
but relied solely on local and convention
strength, were both defeated Away from
their own neighborhoods they received but
small vote, considering the importance
that was attached by some to the power
influence and strength of the convention
and the unterriried Bourbon Democracy.


The Liberals have elected the clerk
sheriff, recorder, coroner police iury and
nearly all of the magistrates and cons5ables
They nave, in word, gained all the parish
offices, except that of parish Judge, for
which there was no opposition.


We have been citizen of this parish more
than thirteen years, and during that time
we have never seen any local party here SO
Overwhelmingly defeated as the Bourb0ns
were in this election. We have been trying
to make them understand that the Demo
cratic party was dead; but they hugged
their own illusion, or tried to deIude the
people into believing, that the dead was
still alive; and their organ, the Coar5er,
abused us for telling the truth, and persu-
aiding the people to believe the trutl,
Year: 1872

The Cork correspondent of the Bos-
ton Plot says that more people are now
emigrating from Ireland than at any
previous time. Not less than four
thousand leave the country every week,
and two thousand go from Queenstown
alone. Whole hamlets and villages are
left with only the old and decrepit in
them, and some cities, such as Limerick,
are going to decay. In the opinion OF
the Pilots correspondent the United
States should discourage the Irish from
coming here, as they are at least as well
off at home as in this country.
Year: 1872

Arnold Martin, who recently died
near San Diego, CAL, though only fifty
two years of age at the time Of his de-
cease, is said to have started since his
twentieth year not less than eighteen
different newspapers in New England,
the South, and the Northwest. He vas
never successful in single enterprise,
but those to whom he sold out often
made money. BY an extraordinary de-
gree of rowing energy he managed to
keep very poor all his life long.
Year: 1872

There are more applications than one
for the familiar metaphor about a hu-
man life hanging on single hair-at
least, a very few hairs recently caused
man in England to lose bis life upon the
scaffold. A doctor, who was somewhat
of an enthusiast on the subject of the
microscope, had made special study of
all kinds of capillary teguments, and at
length made bold to announce that
upon the inspection of tuft he conld
tell from what animal it was taken, and
from what part of the animal. Not
long ago he received number of hairs,
which he was requested to examine. He
did SO, and the result of his inspection
was q report that they were from hui
man eyebrow, and that they had suffer
ed confusion. Soon after hewas required
to attend the trial of man who was ac-
cused of murder. The victim of the
crime had been killed by heavy blow
upon the eyebrow with blunt instru-
ment, and there had been found in the
possession of the prisoner a hammer
to which there clung the hairs which
the doctor had examined under his mi
croscope. Upon his testimony the man
was convicted-forming a notable in
stance of science assisting justice. But
one of the jurors, though agreeing in
the verdict, was haunted by doubts as
to the reliability of the process by which
it had been reached. To test the doc


tors skill, he called on him one day
with a lock of hair, and asked the sci


entist's opinion as to the original wearer.
The doctor replied after brief inspec
ton that it had been taken from the
back of Norway rat. And such was
the fact Probably there are few ladies
who would care to submit their supple
mental locks to the examination of this
unpleasantly accurate microscopic.
Year: 1872

By the following from the Visalia
(Cai.) Delta it would appear that
the business of oranges and choice
grapes in Tulare county is about to
be entered upon largely:


"a gentleman we'll known in this
county is prospecting along the
foothills for suitable place to
establish an orchard and vinyard on
a large scale, the specially to be
oranges and choice grapes. The
scheme emanates from a San Fran
cisco capitalist, the land not to he
less than 160 acres. The location
will be chosen, if possible. where it
will be absolutely safe from frost.
and the whole tract will be planted
once after the location is decided.
1t is an enterprise that will prob
ably. if at all successful, lead to
others similar, and SO promises to
be productive of material wealth.
The gentleman has found a locality
that was not touched by the late
frost, though they were more severe
than has been known for many
years 1t seems that there is a
thermal belt along the line of the
foothills at an altitude of 400 or 800
feet above the bed Of the valley,
where frosts are seldom or never
met with \ slight frost is by no
means fatal to orange Culture Any
climate where the thermometer
always ranges above % degrees
Fahrenheit is we'll suited for that
business"
Year: 1872

in the South are rapidly hOaling. Look
at your Territories-examine for yonrseli
its industry in all its branches-run over
the table of your recent national census
the taxes that have been
repealed-the debt that has been paid
the promptness TO expose and punish
public OffendeTs-the fidelity with which
the taxes are collected and accounted
for-look at these, and then let US count
up. the petty personal charges against
the President. Now, if General Grant
was as much Of a politician as he might
have been, if, instead Of fighting our
battles and winning victories without
number over the enemies of our cOun-
try, he had been training for the Presi-
dency, he would have known better
how to have managed the minor details
of his administration, especially the Of
ficial Intercourse indispensable between
himself and the members Of